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The 1G for days is what's hard to believe, given current technology.... (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Basic physics word problem, which I thought of because of NASA's publicity about renewed Mars exploration, and putting people on Mars: If a spaceship could accelerate at a constant rate of 1G, how long would it take to get safely to Mars? Assume the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Xmas virus? Or a hoax?
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(...) Several hoax detection clues are: 1. It says "This is not a hoax." 2. It gives authoritative-sounding sources (IBM, CBS, the FBI, AOL, antivirus software makers) without giving references. Any real warning would give a pointer to a web page at (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, SOme friends of my family sent this Virus warning....I doubt very musch that it's real, but just to be on the safe side I'm going to post the message here. (...) Again I'm not sure this is real (and I doubt it is). Erin -- (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Brad Justus is real
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(...) Sure. But the issue isn't how it happened. The end net effect is the same -- it makes it easy to do something that's coming from someone else's box. (...) Again, true but probably not relevant -- such info certainly isn't in news server logs. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Elf Bowling--virus?
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(...) I agree, of course, but as I said it's the guy's job to be paranoid, and he's very good at it. I don't know where he heard about it in the first place, though... Thanks to all who've posted in reply! Dave! (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Darn, and I thought my 191 was a good score :) Adrian -- (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Elf Bowling--virus?
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I checked with both Norton's and Network Associates web sites and they both confirmed it is a hoax. From a system administrative point of view, I couldn't be happier that it is. You wouldn't BELIEVE how many of our people are playing that game... My (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Elf Bowling--virus?
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(...) I believe virus warnings from TWO places- my sysadmin at work and McAfee's site. I NEVER beleive anything that is "please pass this along to evreyone you know" Almost always a hoax. Chris (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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(...) This is very odd, as they're still there for me. Maybe because I'm in a European (.co.uk) domain when I'm surfing? Mind you, doing all those reverse DNS lookups must be costly. (Added .off-topic.geek for technical discussion, if it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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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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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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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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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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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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