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A guy I work with, whose job it is to be paranoid about such things, has sent us a red-hot intra-office Email warning us that a goofy little freeware game called "elf bowling" is a virus set to go off on Xmas day. All the usual bells and whistles, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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(...) The sysadmin, to be exact. UID 0 is the superuser account, which has auithority to do, essentially, anything. Usually this is called root. It is possible, but very unusual, to have the superuser account as another name instead of root (aka, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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(...) so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) log onto any UNIX system and go find out what a UID is (it's the unique number assigned to a userid on the system). Then go find out how to display UIDs of various users, and go find out what the UID is for root, and you'll get it. Assuming (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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(...) Just sounds like bad English, to me. I also am ignorant. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I'm never bashful about being ignorant so here goes: I don't get it. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) too, although I may just be obsessed about cool t-shirts as all of mine suck :) Richard (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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(URL) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Granite Grinder & Goliath
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Hi, Does anybody else think that set #4940 Granite Grinder looks like the Goliath from C&C Tiberian Sun? Just replace the large drill with a cannon of some sort. :) Bryan (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) Read the GNU Make How-to. That shoudl give you all the info you need =) -Earle ---...--- The Solution to the Bulk LEGO Problem ByTheBrick (URL) ---...--- (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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(...) 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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