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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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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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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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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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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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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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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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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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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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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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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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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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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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