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Or try the old Legoland car base with a 2X3 plate in the bottom. Rob - getting awfully tired of turkey. (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Try one of those pirate crow's nest, with a 2x2 plate stuck in it. Impossible to remove, mine's still there. ~K@rl (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Me too, twice. Once coming into the company, and once internally, so I've seen it both ways. On the internal, IBM bought our house when we could not sell it to anyone else. Mixed blessing, but got us out of a jam. IBM may not pay as well as (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno... :) I'd have to say, separating a 6x8 plate from a stack of 10 tightly squeezed 6x8 plates is harder than that. You can always bend the 4x4 plate slightly to get the 1x2 grille tile started. --Todd [followups to lugnet.general] (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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(...) I would have to disagree. I can almost always get those off with my fingernail. I would have to say getting a 2x2 to a 2x4 cellular acetate plate off of an 8x16 cellular acetate brick baseplate. With the slight warping they have, they are so (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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(...) Que? Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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[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)
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The 8000 message!!!!! and I was the first to post it!! (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) Oops. Dang. Typo. Here's the fix: (...) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Erin -- (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) [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)
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(...) "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)
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(...) Two words: MP3 Server. I'm on my way over, man. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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(...) 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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(...) Yup. We backup approximately 2.5 TB from various servers/systems each month to our main backup server. (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No, not all factors. But having an ISP that wants to market its service to a population that sees full-color graphics, snazzy websites, etc from the competition expect you to make something similar for them doesn't qualify as being a prick, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whattya mean, 10 years. Terabytes is now. Just not on your desktop. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are yopu saying that _all_ factors in a job are klnown to you beforehand? I submit that it's damn hard to know, in advance, whether or not your boss is a prick.. but that aside. (...) I'm sorry, did I sound scoffing? I didn't intend to be. If (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I like to get paid, so if I can do it, I give the people paying me what they want. If I didn't want to do it, I wouldn't agree to the job in the first place. Playing with Linux and Beos and other stuff for fun is cool, and if some people (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) See, there's your problem. You work for people who think that "professional" equals "snazzy" and "graphics! Ooh, Shiny! Button-click! Click! Click!". Myself, I go for the "Ka-*Click*" style of dealing with those people, at least in my dreams.. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, that works, but for what I'm being paid and considering this is for a CD they'll be sending out to thousands of potential customers, I think something a wee bit more professional and snazzy is called for. :) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I think I took all of 20 minutes for the Workstation test. And if I hadn't forced myself to reread each question twice with my hands off the mouse I probably could have finished it in 10. I'll do TCP/IP after Net Ess, then Proxy to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) COMMAND.COM AUTOEXEC.BAT MENU.BAT CHOICE.COM A.BAT B.BAT C.BAT Q.BAT X.BAT [...] Hey, worked for me... Jasper (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) When Microsoft ends. I'm not sure whether I want that to be soon or in a decade or two... MS has driven hardware development _hard_ over the past 5 years. They've also made computers from a business tool to a home appliance [faster than it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You are on the downhill slide now! TCP/IP is a good workout, its the only test that I was anywhere close to using up all of my time on. Mostly due to rechecking my math on subnet addressing. Net essentials and IIS are pretty much slam dunks. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 3 up, 3 down. Had a work crisis interfere with taking Net Essentials over the last week - going to try to take it next week. So far I've passed Sever, Enterprise, Workstation. Scores don't matter, but I was close to perfect on all of them. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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(...) Not necessarily. Some harddrives think a kilobyte is 10^3, and a megabyte is 10^6, and a gigabyte is 10^9. Some harddrives think a kilbyte is 2^10, a megabyte is 2^20, and a gigabyte is 10^3 * 2^20. Others think a gigabyte is 2^30. Endless (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So, how far are you now? I've had a four book set of the core exams in my collection for a while now, but the whole allergy-to-printing-ink thing sorta put a big damper on that. Here's to hoping that air-tight forced-air-circulation box I'm (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is not an HTML tag, but rather an SSI (server side includes) directive. Well, the "<!-- -->" part is the HTML "comment" tag. But the #include part isn't. It goes something like this: <!--#include virtual="myfile.html" --> It seems like an (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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