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(...) How are kids placed in different classes? Do the teachers nominate them? Is there a test? Don't be afraid to ask a teacher, guidance counselor, administrator, school board member, or even your parents about this stuff. It definitely shouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh. Well, often test taking skill is different from either intelligence or ability to get As. Are you doing really well in your current class (100% or above if you teacher believes in extra credit)? If so, you might want to talk to your (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jeremy: (...) Since they just use evolutionary programming to _design_ constructions, I doubt that they would ever need Mindstorms. Their claims about the lightness of the table[1] is most dubious. Alone the fact that it isn't symmetric. And just (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I saw this on Slashdot today. Seems some folks calling themselves the "Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization", and funded partially by the Office of naval Research, are using Lego bricks and evolutionary programming to determine optimal (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) one (...) of the year since 2nd grade (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And you're in the same school system? Did you take a test of some sort? (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When I was in 6th grade I was the 2nd smartest person in my math class and one of my friends got C's while I got A's and B's but when we went to Middle School he got Pre-Algerbra and I got general Math. Is there any explanation for this? and this (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: MI/X (Was: LeoCAD for Linux (Was: Compiling MPD Builder/Splitter for DOS/Win?))
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(...) (URL) program. A little slow the last time I tried it, but free. (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: MI/X (Was: LeoCAD for Linux (Was: Compiling MPD Builder/Splitter for DOS/Win?))
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[ FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Doc: (...) I don't get as far as connecting to _any_ Linux machine. (...) Where can I pick that up? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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This coming Tuesday, Tim Berners-Lee will be speaking about his book Weaving the Web at MIT, 7 p.m. MIT 34-101, Edgerton Center, 50 Vassar St. between Main St. and Mass Ave., Cambridge. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: MI/X (Was: LeoCAD for Linux (Was: Compiling MPD Builder/Splitter for DOS/Win?))
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(...) I have used the product under NT. It isn't very stable. But it works. The problem is that your apps are looking for fonts that you haven't installed into the X server on the Mac. There is a faq for MI/X on their site, which includes a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Mike Stanley: (...) Didn't work. There is some kind of font problems that don't make sense. (...) I am not a Mac person either. - And I would like to stay that way (but still get the d*** thing to work). No plain and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Novera has been acquired
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(...) c /pooling of interest/purchase transaction/ meaning dilutive to TSFW stockholders. (...) I'll say. PS to Eric and others. I hope so! Our product has already been integrated with Mercator behind the scenes and it will be a dot release or in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds a little more fun that just having your division's intellectual property purchased. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I use TSI's Mercator product all the time in my job at IBM. I actually like the product alot it is a very powerful and flexible extraction tool that we use for getting data out of SAP and loading Data Warehouses. Who know's maybe we will bump (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[ FUT lugnet.publish ] Matthew: [...] (...) Would you care to give a lazy web site manager a hint for doing this with Apache? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Heh. I used to work for Systemhouse... getting acquired begins to wear after the 4th or 5th time. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just as a "you might find this interesting", it was announced today that TSI Software has acquired us. (URL) (pdf version of release) (URL) (FAQ and html version of release) TSI Software is a leading EAI vendor, about 11 times bigger than us, and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you're the site admin, there's not a security problem. The security issue is with letting your _users_ use SSI, because those commands execute as the user which owns the web server. Which, if you don't trust your users, is a bad thing. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) My ISP (io.com) serves .shtml so they expire quickly (I believe but haven't tested), but .html files with the executable file attribute (using XBitHack) are served as if they were static, even with SSI code. I use the XBitHack approach. It's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Sproaticus: (...) I am not quite sure what security problems there are with SSI. My main reason for (mostly) not using SSI on published web pages is that I suspect that it means that the pages won't be stored by proxies. Is it possible to make (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Hey all, I use SSI (server-side includes) a *LOT* on my Web pages. They're extremly powerful and versatile. I'm almost a firm believer. But I recall some folks warning about potential security holes and other problems with SSI. Rooting around the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] [ Warning: Contains strong acronyms. ] Mike Poindexter: [...] (...) Yes. But it can be done in various ways. Some of them (PNG and HTML for example) are designed so you still can read the files with an old program, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(Got the idea from slashdot, some changes of my own) Put this in your ~/.Xdefaults: Netscape*toolBar.sea...isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.des...isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.mys...isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.vie...isEnabled: false (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anybody know of a cheap 10 foot USB extension cable? I specifically need two. Also, if anybody knows the lenght of the cable on a Logitech QuickCam USB (not the pro, nor the VC, but the one below that, the one you can get for opening an E-Trade (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If you want a non advertising place to put this I could host it at www.greenemyst.com (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I like this, but I think that it is hard to navigate. Is north always up, or does it change dependoing on your viewing direction? Some sort of "compass" would be nice. But it is cool anyway! Just like VRML! --Tobias Larry Pieniazek skrev i (...) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You find have found what you need already, but I've always been a fan of L View Pro. Not the newer (2 or above versions), but version 1d for win95. Its "footprint" (if that is the correct word) is very small on the screen, and it works (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ImageMagick is a good choice. Free, runs on most platforms, and it's command-line driven, so you can do tons and bunches of files in one go. See (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks, Daren. I've downloaded it but haven't tried it out yet. It looks exactly like what I need. Thanks again, John C. (...) then (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A simple way that I use is the image viewer program ( available at (URL) )ACDSee. You can open the image in one format and then save it as another... that simple. (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Calling all PC/Windows gurus .... Could someone point me to a cheap/free/fast/good utility that I (er actually my boss) could use to convert Windows bit-mapped files (.BMP) to JPEGs? Thanks, John C. (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, it's very messy. And until we see more tlds (I'm actually a proponent of allowing _any_ tld, with maybe a five-character limit), it's not like there's very much benefit for us involved. Ah well. Anyway, there does seem to be a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm. That's actually disheartening. Since NS is primary name service for .org, I had -hoped- that they kept their whois service up with their dns service. Large, global databases make searching easier. :-) (...) Yes, I see. I have used (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Nugator Company Update - LEGO piece and set sales
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(...) Ooops! Missed that when I looked at the page... Thought it said simply $5 an image... DaveE (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Nugator Company Update - LEGO piece and set sales
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(...) They do say "starting as low as $5 a image". Which sounds pretty fair for a lot of things -- I can make you some nice text with a few photoshop effects in about 90 seconds. (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Nugator Company Update - LEGO piece and set sales
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(...) For web pages, :) yep. You can pump pages out a lot faster with Front Page than coding by hand... The pricing they list for web pages is probably pretty reasonable given that they're probably wanting to do people's home pages, etc., rather (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Pavlovian behavior engineering meets the stock market
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(URL) I want to know is if the descendents of that organism, assuming there are any, would have the same growth patterns... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dude, you're ahead of me, I was going to suggest that as an optimization... so the more we pioneers explore these houses, the faster it will run for those who follow in our footsteps! Cool. Any chance for rendering slices of Datsville itself? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A UNIX directory/path question
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Todd Lehman: (...) This warning is only appropriate when you are working directly with a Unix file system. In URL's "../" always refers to the URL you get by cutting from the end of the current URL until you have removed two "/", and then adding one (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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