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  Hardest Piece to remove?
 
I would say a 1x2 grille tile from center of a 4x4 or larger plate. Should be a contest. (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Anyone been relocated by an employer?
 
I've been relocated by an employer...IBM... With them, they paid for everything. Basically I submitted a special expense report (in IBM Acronyms it was an REA isntead of TEA) Even paid for mileage on vehicles while looking for a home, etc. Real (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Anyone been relocated by an employer?
 
A relo by a new employer and by an existing one are two different things. New employers will only rarely help with selling your current house. But this is the late 90s, anything is negotiable if your skills are hot enough. I personally would hold (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: 8000!
 
(...) Que? Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Anyone been relocated by an employer?
 
Greg, Yes, I have been relocated a few times. Expect the employer to pay for moving basic household goods. Depending on how hard up they are for your skills, they may also pay for... o temporary living accomadations (1 week - 3 months, it varies) o (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Anyone been relocated by an employer?
 
(...) Nope, all I can tell you is that there's a local lego group to VA. :) www.wildlink.com/wamalug congrats on the new job and good luck. :) =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= =-= jennr@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Anyone been relocated by an employer?
 
[Not sure if .geek is the best place for this, but I couldn't find a closer fit, and all us geeks may have been relocated due to a job] I'm being recruited by a former boss for a job in Virginia, just outside of DC. I currently live with my wife in (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  8000!
 
The 8000 message!!!!! and I was the first to post it!! (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  My ISP has just impressed the pants off me.
 
Wow. For me to change ISP's anytime in the foreseeable future would require a huge enticement, on the level of a free computer. I just got off the phone with my ADSL provider (who is also my dial-up provider) to cancel my dial-up as I finally, after (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: New Virus
 
(...) Generally speaking, if it says it's for real and not a fake, it isn't and it is. :) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: New Virus
 
(...) Oops. Dang. Typo. Here's the fix: (...) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: New Virus
 
(...) Erin --   (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: New Virus
 
I've seen this one before, it's a hoax, for more info on it, check out: (URL) Okay, some good friends of my family sent us an E-mail warning of a new (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  New Virus
 
I don't know if this is the right place to post this message....but... Okay, some good friends of my family sent us an E-mail warning of a new computer virus.....here is what the email said (...) that (...) Now I don't know if this is a joke or not, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) I mean on your desktop, not in Enterprises. I remember the first time a company produced a single-unit-terabyte sized HD unit. Size of a (large) fridge, ~$200k. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Idea for automatic Lugnet Set Database linking
 
(...) [snip] (...) [snip] Actually, you answered your own issue about the most convenient way to specify set numbers and eliminate false positives: check for "#" followed by two or more digits! This does, admittedly, still expose a false positive (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) "Did I say 'petabytes', IT Person? No, that array has 2 GIGABYTES capacity, see? Oh, a brand-new 2 gig array takes up two racks, because of the cross- threaded, full-duplex, multi-interfaced aggregate daughterboard, which has to be inverse (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) Two words: MP3 Server. I'm on my way over, man. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
Only 2? I'm working on about 25TB to 30TB under Intel boxes. Pretty Scary. Tom Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:slrn82mq6n.75t....utk.edu... (...) Janssen) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) Heckfire, we have a drive array that has 2 petabytes of storage capacity on it. We don't actually use that much data, but it's got THE CAPACITY, man! I know the MacOS can address out to 10 exabytes (that's two levels beyond terabytes, 1 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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