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(...) Snip (...) I think a more accurate translation would be "zealously guards" which is similar to the other, but not quite. --Electro-- aka David M. (21 years ago, 6-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) My basic premise was that it's cheaper for me to visit Tobbe than to visit ROSCO. Iirc, Austrailia is the most expensive vacation spot, for airfare that is. But your idea's better. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Have you actually calculated what the point on the earth's surface that is the farthest away from you is (ignoring issues like imperfect rotundity of the planet, elevation above sea level and etc)? Presumably you can get it by just inverting (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the information, and for the insults as well. -Tim (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Tim: I ask stupid questions all the time, but this one was almost too easy to answer -- and I don't even care except that I thought it might prove challenging since you couldn't find it! ::sigh:: Join Associates (URL) Why Join? Link Up With the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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I am trying to get a link to be an Amazon.com referrer - to earn money on each click-thru I generate that results in a sale. I can't find it _at all_ on their site after a long time of searching text and using the search boxes. Can anyone help? (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Looks like it may happen: (URL) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks, Don! They've turned off mod_throttle and it appears to be working now. --Bram (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) According to Netcraft: "The site lego.bldesign.org is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) Chili!Soft-ASP/3.6.2 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.26 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.3.2 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.11 OpenSSL/0.9.6h on Linux." I'd look into that (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about what's going on with my website... (URL) it's working, it works fast. However, it often stops downloading the images halfway through through the page. It hangs for a while, and eventually a few more of (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) fancy. I've used it for a while now, and have had good luck with it. Hope that helps, Allan B. (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Almost time to open the website, so I am looking for a free hit counter? Any suggestion? Thanks. e. (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The service is pretty good. Problems are usually fixed within 24 hours or less, but the staff could use some grammar lessons. Seems like the speed of the site is pretty variable though. I've since paid for the next year, so I won't be (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, I agree. How's the service there at atlnetworks? :) (2 URLs) >> (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, in that case maybe it's not worth saving $10/year to change hosts... --Bram (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No good -- some of the listed sites have a firewall which blocks (normal) ping and traceroute. You could use a tool that does TCP "pings" using the http port, but probably actual file download speed is the number you want to measure anyway. (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Find decently-large files on each site and compare their download speeds. For me both at BU and on my DSL connection at home, the first two are blazingly fast and the third is pretty slow. The fast ones I get at over a megabyte a second (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you can find a traceroute server close enough to your location, I think it would provide a somewhat accurate representation of what you want. Go to Google and search for "traceroute" -Orion (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone know of a good way to compare the speed of website hosts that does not involve pinging? I'm particularly interested in comparing the speeds of: www.bldesign.org (currently hosted by atlnetworks.com) www.scibrick.org (hosted by (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Diamond Comics, why that's where I work! But we don't seem to have any new Mortar Headd items yet. That's not to say that it's not in the works (I'm too lowly to get the good dirt). Remind me and I'll look into it. Aaron S (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I don't think 6.1 would install without 32 MB of ram -- that's when they went to the python-based installer. And 8.0 and 9 require at least double that again. :) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In support of the LAST point (below), which strikes me as the most important point (why do hobby stuff it it's not FUN???)... I would suggest that all platform changes that others do be done using the equivalent of #IFDEF so that the .net (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ... This is very interesting, but I want to set expectations clearly: - I will not spend any time porting TrackDraw to another platform. - I will release sources with the executable so that others may do so. - I will not integrate changes made (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I suspect Derek isn't going to double the ram. The alternative is tossing the box which he seems inclined to do. (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, since I started one for you: (URL) .NET to Linux (?)> The people at (URL) Ars Technica> are always very knowledgable. And if they don't know something, they do know where you can go to find answers. (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Depending on the application. A Firewall/NAT doesn't need much of anything, especially if it's doing the logging to a network syslog server. 8M should be plenty for that :) Of course, my 486 is running RH6.0, because the newer versions didn't (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [snip] (...) And you'll probably want to at least double the RAM. (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ... (...) ... I replied directly to Amaury about helping, which I appreciate. But I'm curious: does anyone know of a online discussion on the challenges of porting a substantial application from Windows .NET to Linux? To keep this mildly on (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I did some digging, and mono indeed supports System.Drawing, with the help of the cairo library ( (URL) ) being a linux developer, I volunteer to test your application and send patches whenever they'll be needed. Sincerely Amaury (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have heard of people running linux on tired iron like this (there's even a linux on a floppy distribution, I hear, that's already set up to do this) and using the box as a firewall/dhcp server between the outside world and the rest of your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm looking for a good (free) DVD screen capture utility for Windows. I recall having success using Print Screen before, but this time around the window is turning up blank when I paste into Photoshop. I'm using an older verison of WinDVD that would (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is anyone familiar with this (URL) model?> A coworker is approaching the 5-year-employment milestone, and this is one of the tokens offered to comemmorate the event. I myself am not especially savvy re: digital cameras, so any feedback you can (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Uhhhh... no, I didn't know that. Being very, very poor (having been unemployed as often as employed the past few years), I have not been able to buy any of the larger sets for a painful number of years, now... :( Thanks for the info, though. I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm. Now that's an interesting theory. I see support in the Animatrix short Beyond: agents have to come in to fix the glitch in the "haunted house." Sysadmins would just fix it. OTOH, in the first movie, when Neo experiences deja vu with the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "Partly" for energy wouldn't even work. We're *really* inefficient batteries. But luckily, there's an even better possibility -- they're using the humans as a big biological computer. A supercluster of neural networks. They run the matrix to (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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John Riley's utterance expressed in news:HJ9AIv.22zx@lugnet.com: (...) This has been discussed a lot in the local danish movie-group on usenet and the general conclusion is that the machines enslave the humans partky for energy, but mostly for (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Die, spam, die
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(...) I continue to be surprised that people beleive it is possible for them to avoid being spammed. I don't mind that people contact me if they have something interesting to say, so I have never tried to hide my e-mail addresses. When it started to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The latest form of cockroach: the other day I used Google to find an etymology. Google took me to a page in some online dictionary. Now I am getting spam, with the word I looked up in the subject line. New meaning to the term "dictionary attack". I (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hate to be a bummer, but the only matter black holes "emit" would be Hawking Radiation, and scientists are unsure about what will happen when a black hole stops. X-ray are a type of light, and since, by definition, black holes don't emit (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) "infinite toilet flush" as you call it is using a three dimensional model to describe 4 dimensional spacetime. In the typical diagram, the x and y axis describe area, while the z axis (up and down) describes graviational warping of spacetime. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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