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Dear NASA, Two words. "aluminum condom". Steve (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | May have been posted already
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but (URL) this> is the first time I've seen this application of the archetypal science class demonstration. Neat-o! Dave! (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I have no experience with WS2003, but I do think that XP is the best version of windows you might run. I doubt any of the 'server' features would be useful on a personal desktop, like Active Directory, IIS and other such server software. (...) (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You've just spoilt my fun for the evening. Tim (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Windows Server 2003 vs. Windows XP Professional
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Are there any advantages to using Windows Server 2003 instead of XP Pro on a personal computer? ...and please don't tell me to install Linux...I need my Windows software. (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Computer recommendations
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(...) I've ordered a new case, mobo, cpu, ram, and dvd-r. If I can get the old computer working again, I can use it as a media box or something. (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Computer recommendations
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(...) Exact same thing my computer was doing, Bram. I took it to the computer repair shop nearby, they said they'd call when they figured out the problem, no call yet. ~Kevoh (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Computer recommendations
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(...) It doesn't beep at all. (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Computer recommendations
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Were there any beeps when you turned it on? Can you describe them. Kyle (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Computer recommendations
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Monday and Tuesday after leaving my computer on for a while, I came back and it had rebooted. I ran a virus scan with updated definitions and nothing came up. Tuesday evening, the computer turned off while I was using it. Wednesday, the computer (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LUGNET's code [was: Random thought of the day]
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--SNIP-- (...) Cool, sounds like PHP done right. Tim (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | take the MIT weblog survey
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There is a general social survey of weblog authors being conducted at the MIT Media Laboratory. For more information, visit: (URL) survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and we are asking anyone with a weblog to participate. The larger the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Doh! It looks as though, once again, you're correct. As it turns out, the old "file.bat" accessed a location on the network, rather than the internet. Darn it. Thanks for ending my wild goose chase, though. Dave! (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That works if the site is on your windows network, so you can access it as \\hostname\path\to\file... But if it's not available, I don't think it's doable... Say, if you try to copy (URL) to your local drive, I don't think it'll work. But I'd (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I wish I could remember or find it, but it was something dirt-simple like this: copy //www.doofus.com/dol...d/fool.txt c:\network\fool.txt but I can't recall the formatting, and that's the whole problem. Dave! (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Does that mean that XP provides an internal way to download files? How does that work? Can you show us that one line? :) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) After I left work last night I realized that my formulation of the question was really feeble, so here's some more info, if it helps. I guess it's not *really* DOS but is intead a DOS shell running on Windows XP. In my former department I used (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dave, I'm pretty sure you can't do it without an external program. If you have FTP access to the file, you can use the command-line ftp program included with most msdos versions, otherwise you will need a non-dos program, I would recommend GNU (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi All: I know next to zilch about programming, even in DOS, so this question is asked in ignorance and good faith. If I'm writing a .bat program to copy a file from a known, static location on the web, is there a standard format by which the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Falling thru earth revisited
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(...) Yeah, like do you have to fly at an angle to avoid hitting the sides due to the earth's rotation? (...) Isn't this the whole idea behind the gravity slingshot they use to accelerate spacecraft? It worked in "2010" and I think NASA uses it all (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Preposterously simple stat question
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(...) Then I can say with confidence that we've been picking the same numbers all this time. Dave! (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It doesn't matter what numbers you choose...as long as you don't choose the same numbers I do (you would be destined to lose if you did). -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Often, I'm told, birthdays and anniversaries are the source of a lot of lotto-style picks. If so, numbers 1-12 are very common, and 13-31 are more common. 32-40, not being easy date numbers, are thus more rare. (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Intuitively I sensed that numbers-is-numbers, but I couldn't logic it out enough to settle my brain on the matter. Thanks for the clarification! Dave! (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Statistically, assuming it's a fair draw, there should be no difference, as this is a draw with replacement (each time you start drawing 6 numbers, all 40 are there) at the start of the draw, between any 6 numbers. Non statistically, that is, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Assume a weekly lottery that draws six numbers from the series 1 through 40, with no duplicates. Statistically speaking, am I better off repeatedly playing the same six numbers selecting six numbers at random each week? It seems to me that if (in a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Thoughts?
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(...) Update - I don't know why this piqued my interest, but it did. Anyway, Googling for PIC16F876 and CD4066BCM brought up a couple of interesting pages. Some of the images came from (URL) this page> on DansData web site. There's also a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Working with Excel and XML?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar(at@at)miltontra...t.dot)com> wrote in message news:IHx8rs.1Er8@lugnet.com... (...) contents of (...) headers) (...) XML (...) Excel XML (...) into (...) put (...) if you (...) that (...) Thanks for the suggestions. I had (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Working with Excel and XML?
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(...) I use Excel to generate HTML tags all the time. But I'm not using the Excel XML process myself, I am just using formulas to get the contents of tables into tagged HTML One thing that bites me somewhat regularly is the fact that Excel wants to (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Working with Excel and XML?
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(...) Probably simpler to have excel save it as a CSV and use perl or somesuch to transform the CSV into XML. That's assuming the webapp couldn't be made to import the CSV directly... (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Working with Excel and XML?
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Has anyone done any work with Excel and XML? I want to save the contents of an Excel worksheet (a simple table of rows and columns will column headers) in XML format so I can use it as part of a web application. The Excel XML map process is (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Falling thru earth revisited
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(...) Sounds right to me. Acceleration adds linearly, so when you integrate to get the velocity, you have the integral of the thrust plus the integral of the gravitational acceleration. Assuming that the change in mass of the rocket due to depleted (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Falling thru earth revisited
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(...) One other thing to think about is the amount of time something's been exposed to something that increases its speed. For example: Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima have a race from point A to point B, and back to point A. Aunt Jemima stays at a (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Falling thru earth revisited
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'cause I've been ruminating about it.... So let's take this from the base model-- Base model ignores the following-- Rotation AIr Resistance you have the earth and a hole from where you are, going straight thru the center and right out to the other (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | View the movie trailer (was: Re: Firefly Fans?)
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(URL) show something that is sorta spoiler-ish, so viewer beware and/or enjoy! Julie (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: password management
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(...) That's kind of what I do - except that I started now using site specific strong passwords using a pretty cool mozilla extension (which even plans for what to do when you're not on your own browser!) - https://addons.updat...php?id=469 (...) My (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: password management
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(...) [snip] (...) I just have 3 or 4 each of what I consider "strong" and "weak" passwords. I use a randomly selected password from the appropriate list for each site[1], and sites with "strong" passwords get changed (to another on the list) fairly (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I run KeePass off of a thumb drive: (URL) an encrypted database app that will store user ids, passwords, urls, notes, attachments, etc. It also features a group/category feature which allows you to organize everything. A rule based pwd (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Going up
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(...) The plan sounds like Brad Edwards plan (here's the closest I can get to his website): (URL) He did a NIAC study on it, a well-written and researched one, *including* the economic aspects (something often overlooked). *IF* you can get carbon (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I should note, that site's content seems cribbed from the Wikipedia article on the same topic. I noticed that when I found ANOTHER site that had very similar phrasing and decided to look up (URL) Space Elevator> in the Wikipedia. Further, if (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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