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For those of you who felt the Cambria earthquake a while ago there is data collection link at (URL). Click on the "Did you feel it?" link. Maggie C. (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.la, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Population Density & Mapping Application?
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(...) Mike, Most of my experience is with software from ESRI. I have not used this specific program from them, but I think it is probably a good fit based on what you've described: (URL) have not worked with this software in many years, but I think (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Population Density & Mapping Application?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Hq2suJ.1Bs2@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) sounds (...) it's (...) instead (...) an (...) My mapping needs are "approximate", I don't need anything to any real level of (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Population Density & Mapping Application?
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(...) Can you explain a bit more what you want to do? Mapping from addresses sounds like a GIS application (GIS is what makes GPS work, among other things... it's the data that the program uses when it shows you where on a map you are, instead of (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Population Density & Mapping Application?
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With the cross section of people we have here on LUGNET I am hoping someone may have a suggestion for me for a project I am working on at work. I need to map some of our customers from a geographical and population perspective and am looking for an (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Reinstalling Windows XP & Formating your Hard Drive
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(...) "None" and "not too bad, finally", in other words. :) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Reinstalling Windows XP & Formating your Hard Drive
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(...) One more tid bit I'd like to add: turn on the firewall program XP comes with!! It's basic but it's something until you load a better one. Zone Alarm is my choice and it's free at Download.com ((URL) to get Zone Alarm) 1.) Open Network (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Reinstalling Windows XP & Formating your Hard Drive
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(...) 4a) Go to (URL) Windows Update> to download all the latest updates. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! Install at least all the critical updates, as these fix vulnerabilities exploited by many worms. (...) ROSCO (21 years ago, 7-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Reinstalling Windows XP & Formating your Hard Drive
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Today I have the wonderfull pleasure of having to reinstall Windows XP on my laptop. Don't ask why, I don't want to talk about it... =( In any case, begin that I don't reinstall Windows that often I had some trouble remembering how and all the stuff (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Opening COM port error
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(...) Tyler, Happy to be of help! Regarding Garbage Collection, I'm not usually one to criticise without being able to suggest a better alternative. In this case, I think most GC systems could be improved by mimicking the concept of "smart pointers" (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Zooming around
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A friend sent me this. It takes a while to load but it's pretty cool (URL) putting on the splash? You tell me! (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] PT-to-PN Authentication
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(...) What it means is say I include an image from peeron.com in my post on lugnet, using the FTX image tag. Now, when you view my post via the web interface, your browser will go to peeron.com to get the image and display it to you. When your (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) SNIP... (...) Huh? less usable enrgy than we can harness be cause of our technology or actually less enrgy to use (some may get instantly changed to unusable types of energy, etc.) is there an internet article about that? I always thought it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf poll
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(...) But now that you have steered the topic into off-topic.geek territory the problem is solved! (very clever Lar!) Maggie C. (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) I was reading the paper this morning and when this article caught my eye I thought of what I'd read here last week. The 'Matrix' movies show their biblical connections (URL) Just wanted to pass it along. Adr. (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Spot on. And then there's the reason the war started- the humans essentially blotted out the sun to cut off the machines from their solar power. Were they fundamentally unaware that they were cutting off the *only* source of food for humans? (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Hey! Dems fighting words! Shatner's Canadian! Well, that's the entirety of my arguement, really... So I got nothing. Dave K (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, but Shatner is a weinie. -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Well actually you get the same amount of energy out that you put in, just in a differnt form. In this case the heat (which is considered wasted energy that "disappears" into the void, for most things) is actually the desired form of energy. So (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) My problem with the Matrix is that they put (obviously) a lot of work into little easter eggs like that essay expounds on, and have done an generally quite credible job of hanging their mythology carefully - and then they hung the whole thing (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Uh... Yeah Trekkies do get into Star Trek that much. I have been told all sorts of scientific "facts" by Trekkies. Such as; heat is not a form of kinetic energy, mass has nothing to do with momentum, NASA wishes they could harness the power of (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) Think it's just the rantings of a fan... Yeah, he went a little overboard in some bits, like fans sometimes do :) Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | More hangin' in geek...
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(URL) Star Trek was brought up... :) Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Is it official in any way, or is it an imaginitive fan connecting the dots? I confess, when it got into the wacky numerology bit ("Hey, one has three letters and three is divisible by One") I got a little queasy and had to look away. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) Oh, I've met Trekkies. The movie 'Trekkies' is pretty much dead on. The imfamous SNL skit with Shatner--pretty much to a tee. "Get a life! Have you ever kissed a girl? Thought not..." Beyond that, I liked Matix and MR, and will see (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) snip (...) I have a C64 emulator on my laptop right now! Maybe the Matrix is just 'Impossible Mission' on steroids? Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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(...) **snip** (...) Very nice! My problem with the whole Matrix thang isn't Keanu (though he's awful in absolutely everything he does), and I don't even really mind that the writers cobbled their little is-it-real pastiche out of a hundred other (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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Gee, where have I heard all of this before...? A well-known philosopher once gave a public lecture on The Matrix. He described how The Matrix had existed many times before, how Zion was inextricably linked to the goals of the creators of The Matrix, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Matrix Reloaded explained...
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Taken from another NG I read-- ((URL) a long read, but if you liked the Matrix series--is a good one) Warning--may contain spoilers and plot elements that may ruin the series (though I didn't think so) The Matrix Reloaded Explained This may seem (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Grand Challenge autonomous navigation contest, 1M prize
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I just found this and I thought it was pretty cool. The vehicles being used here are on the scale of things like older SUVs, not LEGO bots... but it's still cool. LA to Vegas over rough terrain, autonomously... winner (of 100ish teams entered) gets (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Oracle of Bacon
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I just found this and I think it's pretty cool. (URL) then I knew someone who was a savant at playing back to Bacon so... besides I'm a sucker for totally frivolous uses of technology. It leads to some other neat places too, like determining what (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | What I've been working on since I moved to Portland
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Since we've finally announced, I thought I'd let y'all know what I've been working on for the past year and a half: (URL) lugnet.off-topic.geek Frank (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Top Five Geek Proverbs
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Courtesy of www.topfive.com October 14, 2003 The Top 9 Geek Proverbs (Part II) 9. if ( ! succeed() ) try { again() }; 8. Early to keyboard, early to mouse, makes a man divorced (and his wife keeps the house). 7. MasterCard is the root of e-commerce. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it isn't that simple in this case. My new image host, pbase.com, assigns names to each image that are unique 8-digit numbers. To direct link to an image, I have to use this sort of URL: (URL) old (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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(...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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XFUT: O-T:Geek (...) If you arrange the folders in the same manner on the new host it should be a rather easy task of "search and replace" all of the HTML-files at once. Dreamweaver, for example, has a function like that. I.e.; Search: (URL) with: (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Win 98 virtual memory
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(...) *cough* (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Win 98 virtual memory
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordi@erols.com> wrote in message news:HMEr5r.1yw@lugnet.com... (...) default (...) number (...) Thanks Mike. The problem is, that's what I do. Then after I reboot it's back to 'Let windows manage virtual memory'.... spooky eh? (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Win 98 virtual memory
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(...) Right click on the 'My Computer' icon. Click 'Properties'. Click the 'Performance' tab. Click 'Virtual Memory'. Click the circle point 'Let me specify my own virtual memory settings' For optimum performace you want to make the minimum and (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Win 98 virtual memory
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Every time I set virtual memory to be managed by me and use a particular partition, the next time windows boots it goes straight back to the default setting where windows tries to use my pretty full c-drive. Anyone an idea how to convince Windows 98 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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