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| (...) higher price? You can get them delivered for less than $70. The only shop I've found that carried Laetherman over here has the Wave at 300 guilders, which amounts to a cool $150 USD. Yes, you read that right. Well over twice. (...) Yeah.. I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) named? Oh, yeah, I've been meaning to implement BIND as a caching nameserver, but it works ok without one, so I haven't got round to it yet. Other than that, Yeah, it works nice. Jasper (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Mike Stanley (cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com) wrote: : Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote: : >Mike Stanley wrote: : >> 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Arg! I'm using it to extract the source from Cygwin32 20.1... This tool is *incredibly* slow! Does anyone else use it? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) The new Leatherman Wave fixes both these problems. At much higher price, of course. Anyway, with the old Leatherman tools, closing the handles after opening the knife blade gives some protection; the knife blade can't fold too much. But it's (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I don't like the Leatherman tools. Their handles in plier mode cut into my hand, and the knife blades don't lock open (!). I used to be a fan of Victorionox, but their blades don't seem to stand up to a lot of stress. I personally love my Buck (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yeah, I might see if it can play nice for a day or so. 'Course, bandwidth is more of an issue for me than processor power if the SETI client CAN play nice. But since I checked out (URL) last night and setup a website with CGI capability, I may (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Maybe, but I don't *want* a job playing with Unix all day. (...) Yep, definitely has its advantages. 'Course, I already have as many as I want, and a lot more than I could really use. I don't really like the thought of depending on a machine (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) As far as I can tell on my windows box, it only uses the not-needed-right-now cycles. Linux should _easily_ do that, as process prioritization is built into it. I know the linux rc5 client is permanently niced to 10, or something like that. (I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) True, unfortunately. linux experience will get you jobs in the genertal unix field as well, though. (...) 386DX/40, 12 meg, 100 meg, cheapass Netcard. And it runs sendmail for me, so I can have as many email addresses as I want ;) (...) kill (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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