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(...) check whether the file size has changed, which, although gross in theory, is perfectly fine in practice if there aren't a zillion copies of it running. Dunno how many Unix implementations have file-change events/signals like NT does, but I'd (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!!! (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It just occurred to me how useful a live tail util would be. How would you implement one in Perl? Would the one at PPT (1) be the one to check out? Cheers, - jsproat 1. (URL) Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com> (URL) the Force be with (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If you don't mind using javascript here are a few random text generators that I found. Each page includes an example, has the script, and how to install it. Hope this helps. This one pops up a random text in the form of a javascript alert when the (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well, I'm a half day into my 30 day trial of vmware for Linux and I'm almost certain I'll be buying a full version of it. In fact, I am certain I will for work, since it will allow me to run Linux full-time as my OS to work in and still allow me to (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I wouldn't bother with Wingate, although it is a decent enough package for two computers. If I do it I'll either use MS Proxy for NT Server (practicaly since I would be doing hands-on stuff that might help me with the Proxy class should I (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't bother with a proxy server - it's too much bother - I messed around with Wingate and everything needed special settings. The solution is a gateway - I use SyGate, basically all machines running through the gateway on a single machine can (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well PV = nRT only applies to an ideal gas - it just doesn't happen in real life - there is another equation for a real gas which escapes me right now. R = 8.31 the gas constant. (...) Dunno about that. (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, I do use AOL, but not for my websites. Those are on Geocities, whihc does not support crons. :( But thanks for the info (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My guess is this won't work for Ed as he uses AOL. Not to mention the fact that many places won't let you submit cron jobs. (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I hear you. I'm not too worried, tho. I have ghost images of all my important PC's. (...) Oh, I don't have that many at home. I have that many at work. I only have 4 at home. Couldn't have more than 5 without running a proxy server, (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you sure about what you're running? They purposely don't release the source code, under the explanation that they want to keep the analysis pure. Although I'd be inclined to trust them since they're at a university reputed for good (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Steve (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What about using SSI[1] or something like that to include a file with the quote, and then update the file one an hour with a cron job? You could also let the cron job put together the actual page people download if you don't want to use SSI. (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have a file of quotes (an HTML Table) that I want to use on one of my webpages. However, I want only one quote to display randomly when a page is accessed. Anyone have a Java or other applet for this they could share? (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Eventually you will get a plasma, composed of neucleii and some electrons. At that point it's not really relevant to talk about compounds, what you have is basically soup. From memory you can't dissociate most simple molecules before they (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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So is anyone else participating in the SETI@Home program? I have 5 computers running it right now. Will probably have it running on another 8 or 10 soon. (URL) Lego Shop at Home: 800-835-4386 (USA) / 800-267-5346 (Canada) www.lugnet.com/news/ - A (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey all, Just a quick question, or series of questions, but it'll keep me up all night if I don't find the answer. :-, If you take a sealed container with nothing but pure water, and you heated it enough -- assuming the container withstands the heat (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Awww, it's not _that_ much longer in perl: perl -alne 'print $F[3]' although it certainly doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely. (...) Can't columns be grabbed easily in Scheme/Lisp? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's in reference to the awk idiom: awk '{ print $4 }' which is much longer to do in perl. I personally use this as a shell command inside Emacs all the time. I'm not good at perl one-liners. -Tim (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "Boy, am I glad my IQ tests came back negative." Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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John Cromer wrote in message ... (...) Scarey experience the other day: in a shop, and the difficult customer says to the clerk "I've got a 180 IQ, explain it to me". Like, so what? I've got a size 13 foot. The only relevance is that it's about to (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Two guys are sitting at a bar and one turns to the other and says, "my IQ is 180. What's yours?" The other guy says, "Mine's 185! Say, did you know Fuchsian differentials have zero-integral solutions only if their monodromy representation is (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:50:40 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) That would be the apostrophe as "=bt4" person? Haven't seen a recent message to test that. But had always appeared as so with it off, so we shall see. The Uber (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 18:14:47 GMT, Thomas Main uttered the following profundities... (...) Unfortunately they don't carry the clari.* newsgroups. :( But thanks for the pointer, anyway. I shall check them regularly, should that situation change. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Do you get a problem with Thomas Möller's messages when this HTML is off? (...) It must have come from Space. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Richard, I'm not sure if i understand your question completely, but www.deja.com (formerly Dejanews) features newsgroups via e-mail. You might check that out. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 19:59:18 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... (...) I shall brave Linux soon. Had intended to do so on my current machine, but BIOS doesn't support my 8.4GB HD as the master. And, try figuring out what (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 20:13:23 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) Thanks. Expected to find it somewhere as its own, rather than as part of something else! (...) Discovered quite by accident, and extremely useful. (You know the (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A question: I have set myself up to receive the lsahs updates via e-mail, as I will be in the US for 2 weeks, and would like to take advantage of the offers, should any be of interest. But that isn't the question! The real question is related, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just a couple: Brikwars (URL) Hammer (URL) last one has links to some others as well. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm, I don't think I'm old enough for that yet. :-D I've just picked up Perl relatively recently. I'd hesitate to do a 100 Mb STDIO pipe on any MS platform. In DOS and Win16/95/98 (which are single-tasking OS's no matter what MS tells you), (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have, at various times, seen rules for using Legos and Lego minifigs to stage battles a la Warhammer 40k or other miniatures wargames. Can anyone point me to them on the web? I'm especially interested in sci-fi and fantasy versions, and not so (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Aha, here it is: perl -ane (...) FS is awk is the field separator, not the record separator. The record separator in awk is RS. Hmm, doesn't look like Perl has an input field separator -- only an output field separator $, and input/output (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm... I *think* a2p handles this by giving the perl script the "while(<>)" loop. I don't think perl will do that by itself. (...) Check perlvar, in the section on $/ (input record separator) -- in Perl, it can only be a regular string, but (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yup! It's a Perl world, but awk is still a great thing! It's hardly my favorite general-purpose programming language, but other than grep and sort and cat and uniq, it's by far my favorite command-line pipe. I think perl has a command line (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Global options - Article layout. 'Don't show HTML source' (...) I didn't know that - my brother is gonna use that function a lot now. (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm.... I can't see myself giving up slrn since it does almost everything I want a newsreader to do, but I might have to give Gravity another looksee. I know I thought it was not that great before, but I didn't give it much of a chance (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 4 May 1999 22:15:08 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) I can't find this option in the global options! Please where? Another great thing about Gravity is if you only want to respond to a small section of a message, (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <A HREF="mailto:radioti...t=Pre-made subject">mail me!</A> ^^^...^^^ BTW, you might want to experiment (or look up if there is an official use) with some browsers to see whether any of them convert '+' to ' ' in the 'subject=' portion of the (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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