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Well they still have issues. Right now, over a network, access to Lugnet is slower than it usually is for me when I am over dialup. Very unscientific but I have to get back to class now... Last time I did a trace/routed it didn't help shed any light (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) The NELUG site is also on Pair and they did give notice that there would be an outage. It was also not down for 12 hours. I am happy with their service and them having to move to a larger data center can only be a good thing because it means (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) Todd, can you tell me how much notice Pair gave you for the outtage and if you know if they sent word out to all their customers? I was always pleased with Pair when I used them and I see a fairly major website claiming that Pair just "up and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:384CFFDD.D08D21...ger.net... (...) yet) (...) $123.50 (...) which is (...) multiplied by (...) smallest one in use is 5000 TL coin..:-) and even it is about to be canceled soon. The greatest (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) Right. So who's got a 1 lire note Todd can use? (that's actually a little less... consulting: (URL) turns out to be about 17 lira, or 123 Vietnamese Dong, or (here's big money!) 1726 !! Angolan New Kwanzaas (pity the OLD kwanzaa...) Those were (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah? Bummer - I only ever played about with it for about half an hour before, and I found it miraculous to effortlessly load msword docs on my solaris box at work! Not that I needed to of course, as all the documentation I did was in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) <smile> It's not midnight yet, so I still have my sense of humor for the day, and on top of that, I know that Larry's joking because he told me yesterday. :-) But just for anyone following along casually, a LUGNET membership buys membership in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) I use Matrox G200 with X windows, and it works just fine. Dunno about G400, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FM8xJr.CyL@lugnet.com... (...) S3 (...) put (...) I (...) It just automagically disables the on-board video. So it's real easy to do that. Tom (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
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(...) "\n-- \n", actually. I don't think the practice actually goes back multiple decades - remember, in 1981, people were reading NETnews on 300 baud dumb terminals.. My guess would be the sigdelimiter convention dates to the middle 80s. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) You need to find the docs to turn off the onboard video, but yeah, it should be eminently possible. (...) Does it have AGP? I'm partial to Matrox, especially since they started working with the open-source community to procide drivers instead (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on Usenet as well. :-( This particular machine is an IBM 300PL. But can you just (safely) plop another video card into a machine like this with an onboard integrated video system?? If so, then, heck, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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I work for IBM in the Netfinity Server line, and my understanding is the S3 Trio 3d card doesn't work consistently with Xfree. Of course that's the chipset we use on a few of our systems. We 'support' Linux on the NF line and my main Linux guru (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
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(...) Oops, I shouldda posted that from a real newsreader. I posted it from the web interface, which strips trailing blanks from lines to reduce line wrapping problems. (...) It's a standard NNTP/Usenet sig thing going back decades (I think). Your (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) I had beaucoup XFree86 problems with the #9 Imagine 128 II video card -- it turns out that the ISA card is supported, but not the PCI card. Guess which one I have! >:-P You might find a similar incompatability with the Trio3D... Fortunately, I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone out there have any luck getting an AGP S3 Trio3D (86C366) to work with XFree86 & RHL 6.1? It's supposed to be supported by XFree86-3.3.5[1] but I'm running into a brick wall... --Todd [1] (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hit Counter Lego-Type
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(...) I'm not positive, but there -might- be some at cHRIS sPENCER'S website... (URL) to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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(...) And a follow up question- how many of our LEGO bricks have teeth marks on them? ;) Chris (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone have any graphics for a hit counter that is lego-like in appearance? I've not seen one that I recall.. Thanks Tom (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | I'm selling my PC Convertible
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Well, this clearly doesn't belong on market.auction because it's not Lego... but I decided I was going to unload my PC Convertible, which is a vintage piece of iron. I have every accessory that you could get for it, too. (1) This was IBM's second (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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