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(...) That would be "admin-friendly", and if I had the time to get DOSEMU working, it'd be there, like, now. Minus KDE of course. What the hell are you thinking - this is a 486DX2-66/8M/420M. ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno if I'd count that as the dumbest ever though -- unfortunately, there's a lot of really bad patents out there. I think the dumbest would have to be something out of the "take a standard business model, add 'on the internet'" class. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm. I've been using this patented technique with my dog for a while now. It's gotten so popular, I am getting requests to exercise my sister-in-law's dog similarly. I was considering starting a business based upon this practice, but I now (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've tried this -- replacing the pnm: with http: doesn't work. Similar results with mms: protocol as well... Do you know if there is a download utility that understands the mms: and pnm: protocols? (...) Actually, Bob's my dad. :-, Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Speaking of which, here's the dumbest patent I've ever seen: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Anyone read Ursula K. LeGuin? My favorite is "The Lathe of Heaven". All her books make me kind of paranoid. Probably because of how she integrtates religion so seamlessly. But then, religious ideas do tend to hit you in a certain spot more (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I agree- my favorite author and onr of my favorite of his books. It seems that early on he was more about hard sf and moved later into social questions. I really liked "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"- he actually has a father sleep with his (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Have you read The Big U? (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Spider. One of my friends swears by him, I tend to find him somewhat blindly optimisitic. That being said, though, Calahan's (et al) is fantastic. James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Haven't read it, actually, so no opinion. (...) Of the Card books I've read: definitely. (...) Either _Dune_ or _The Dosadi Experiment_, in my opinion. (Yes, Herbert did write some non-Dune-series books. Most of them were _really_ bad.) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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