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(...) MSPwM is more than just stupid Make tricks. It's a great book. Make may be a simple tool, like so many other unix tools, but you can do very very complex things with it which is why it's such a great tool... (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yah. Keeping my _sed & awk_ and _Programming Perl_ within reach isn't a matter of life and death -- it's much more important than that. But make is really a simple tool. I wonder just how useful an entire book for it would be. The last one I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) With enough memory (all my machines have at least 256, and that's enough) I'd rather run Linux and VMWare+NT and Office 2000 than Linux and StarOffice any day. Maybe if S.O. didn't suck I would feel differently, but I'll put up with the lags (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The fact that it runs like crap is the biggest part of it. I also don't like the all-in-one interface. Its user interface feels like an old off-bran Works-type program. And I don't think it will qualify as an alternative to MS Office for a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In other words it combines the most widely discussed features of the most common software packages of our time. Those words being marketing-speak. (...) I wouldn't expect it to be better... yet! :) Richard (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't you just love the semaphore system? It was ahead of it's time.. 20 years before the invention of the telegraph, they set up entire lines of semaphore stations. I've seen a minor one in France, part of the Paris-Lyon line. Tres cool. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, noting that I'm speaking mostly as a channel for other people since I have little experience myself: It leaks memory worse than Netscape 4, it crashes more often than Win98, and the user interface sucks (according to those who're forced (...) (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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(...) Semaphore flags would have been a faster means of communication earlier this afternoon! :) Richard (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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(...) Oh, I forgot to mention. Locating the server on triple DS-3's was getting too expensive. So we had so scale back a bit -- now it's on a 28.8 modem. ;-) --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I remember hearing about it around Thanksgiving intially, I think -- but I actually think it was even noted on their website a month or two earlier, before I really started paying close attention to the date. I received the announcement via (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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