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(...) stunningly (...) I'll pray for you. (...) Next time reply, "Yes you can, and you can be ignorant and paranoid, and be unwilling to change." (...) Would that be an arctic tern or a New York tern? (...) I thought I saw him at Safeway the other (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I am in software development. I just thumped one of our testers for forwarding me a warning message (obstensibly from AOL *and* IBM *and* Netscape) about an e-mail virus titled "It Takes Guts To Say Jesus" which, upon opening, will erase your (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Serial Connection Distance
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Once upon a time, (on Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:41:54 GMT, to be precise!), Tom McDonald uttered the following profundities.... (...) Shouldn't this be:"when replying, please ensure maximum spamcake/message seperation requirements are exceeded"?? (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
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Once upon a time, (on Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:30:46 GMT, to be precise!), Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities.... (...) It is the only time it has happened, in 18 months with this ISP. It went subscription-free on 1 April. To get any kind of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mmmmm, why can't you access *most* Geocities sites? Is it a browser issue? Can't you use Netscape or IE or Mosaic or something recent? Is it a routing issue? Why some Geocities sites but not others? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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How long can a cable be that connects serial ports together before it has to be amplified? I've heard parallel port cables shouldn't be more than 6' TIA -Tom McD. when replying, please wipe your feet on the spamcake before entering. (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That long of a delay is very unusual. Does your ISP have any thoughts on where it all was sitting stuck? They might be able to tell you by looking at the SMTP message headers. On a (marginally) related note, I wonder if NASA will ever drop a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Today, I had received 15 e-mails, originally dated between the 5th and 10th of May! Most e-mail I recieve very quickly. Is this very unusual? What happens if a mail bounces, due to my mailbox being full, for instance? Does it go 'round and 'round (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: http case sensitivity (Was: Dacta Sets For Sale - 15% Off - New Sets)
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(...) DNS *is* case insensitive (at least according to RFC 1035: (URL) that might have been superseded- I didn't like to page through all the supplements to the original). So the first bit will work whatever. The path is definitely case sensitive, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | http case sensitivity (Was: Dacta Sets For Sale - 15% Off - New Sets)
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(...) It's possible that the host name "WWW.GEOCITIES.COM" (which is resolved via DNS) is case-insensitive (1), and the directory path "/rodeodrive/mall/1994/" (which is resolved by the server's file system) is case-sensitive. The only (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) higher price? You can get them delivered for less than $70. The only shop I've found that carried Laetherman over here has the Wave at 300 guilders, which amounts to a cool $150 USD. Yes, you read that right. Well over twice. (...) Yeah.. I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) named? Oh, yeah, I've been meaning to implement BIND as a caching nameserver, but it works ok without one, so I haven't got round to it yet. Other than that, Yeah, it works nice. Jasper (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Mike Stanley (cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com) wrote: : Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote: : >Mike Stanley wrote: : >> Oh, I don't have that many at home. I have that many at work. I only : >> have 4 at home. Couldn't have more than 5 without running a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Arg! I'm using it to extract the source from Cygwin32 20.1... This tool is *incredibly* slow! Does anyone else use it? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The new Leatherman Wave fixes both these problems. At much higher price, of course. Anyway, with the old Leatherman tools, closing the handles after opening the knife blade gives some protection; the knife blade can't fold too much. But it's (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't like the Leatherman tools. Their handles in plier mode cut into my hand, and the knife blades don't lock open (!). I used to be a fan of Victorionox, but their blades don't seem to stand up to a lot of stress. I personally love my Buck (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I might see if it can play nice for a day or so. 'Course, bandwidth is more of an issue for me than processor power if the SETI client CAN play nice. But since I checked out (URL) last night and setup a website with CGI capability, I may (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Maybe, but I don't *want* a job playing with Unix all day. (...) Yep, definitely has its advantages. 'Course, I already have as many as I want, and a lot more than I could really use. I don't really like the thought of depending on a machine (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) As far as I can tell on my windows box, it only uses the not-needed-right-now cycles. Linux should _easily_ do that, as process prioritization is built into it. I know the linux rc5 client is permanently niced to 10, or something like that. (I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) True, unfortunately. linux experience will get you jobs in the genertal unix field as well, though. (...) 386DX/40, 12 meg, 100 meg, cheapass Netcard. And it runs sendmail for me, so I can have as many email addresses as I want ;) (...) kill (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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