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  Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
(...) It depends on your e-mail software. What are you using? In Netscape Messenger 4.5, for example, you can do View/Headers/All from the menu. If your running a unix e-mailer, you can also just save the message to a file and look at it with a text (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  New URL for Ed Boxer sites
 
I now have an additional URL to access my sites: www.geocities.com/~edboxer This would replace: www.geocities.com/We...ywood/9172 (note, this URL will remain active) I have joined GeoPlus (an enhanced version of GeoCities). Its actually a very good (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Serial Connection Distance
 
Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) You should be able to get 25m, depending on the cable and speed. At 9600 in a clean environment I've seen two 25m cables in series working, but that is IMO pushing it. 115k will probably only go 5m or so (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Stunningly ignorant people
 
Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote in message news:37619503.B60145...ies.com... (...) full (...) How about "DMV Emplyee of the Year"? (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Serial Connection Distance
 
(...) hehe, uh, yeah, uh, that's it. :D BTW, nevermind the question. I found out that it's a 12V connection to be used so it'll go further than I thought. I was thinking it was only 5V. -Tom McD. when replying, note that anti-spamcake has never (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Stunningly ignorant people
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Stunningly ignorant people
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Serial Connection Distance
 
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)
 
  Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
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)
 
  Re: Podracers Guild?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Serial Connection Distance
 
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)
 
  Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
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)
 
  Re: http case sensitivity (Was: Dacta Sets For Sale - 15% Off - New Sets)
 
(...) 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)
 
  http case sensitivity (Was: Dacta Sets For Sale - 15% Off - New Sets)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Multi-purpose tools.
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
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)
 
  bzip2 and bunzip2 compression tools
 
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)
 
  Re: Multi-purpose tools.
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Multi-purpose tools.
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that. One thing I'm going to regret is having to stop the SETI thing from running on my full-time Linux box at home. That's where I plan on running the EveryAuction script for a good while, and I don't know of (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Bloody awful but also bloody useful. I'm actually going to get my boss to send me to a new Linux admin class I got an e-mail about, but, for the most part, MS certification (and experience) is a lot more valuable where I live than Linux (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Yeah. My Celeron Mendocino 450 Win98 takes in the order of 26 hours or so as well, but it definitely varies a lot with the particular unit I'm running. Jasper (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Yegh. Sounds bloody awful. (...) That works. Buy an old 386 with at least 8 megs and 100 megs, need no fulltime screen, keyboard, floppy, or CD drive. And it works quite well. barney:~# uptime 10:55pm up 43 days, 10:50, 1 user, load average: (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mailing gateways for newsgroups
 
(...) You'll need either shell access to a computer or authority to execute CGI scripts from a webpage. Neither of these generally come with an ISP or web-provider account. If you have a shell account somewhere, learn how to use the newsreader they (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Multi-purpose tools.
 
Ah! A new group, and _perfect_ for the question I wanted to ask. Leatherman Wave, Leatherman Supertool with Tool Adapter, Victorinox Swisstool with bitset, or Leatherman Wave with modified Tool Adapter? Anyone who thinks he (or, to be PC, she) knows (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lego miniatures wargames
 
Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) stage (...) me (...) in (...) the (...) Though you aren't so interested in it, I'll list it anywise for those who would be... Lego Pirate game, see Steve Jackson's (of GURPS etc. fame) home page: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Unfortunately, none of my machines can be allowed to connect automatically, so I have to deal with connection failures. (...) I'm guessing they developed the software under Linux, then ported to Windows. And haven't changed optimization to (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Nope, I just put up with it. Since most of the computers I have running it are not in front of me it doesn't bother me. On thing I have noticed - on the same hardware, the Linux version STOMPS the Windows version. On my P2-450 it takes me (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) turned my SETI@Home off for a couple of weeks. Once they release 1.1, I'll try that out. Steve (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) Well, it doesn't really matter until I get more than 5 machines at home. I have an ISDN router from work with 4 ports, connected to another 4 port hub. That gives me a current maximum of 6 machines connected at one time without adding another (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: flock() and <FH> in Perl
 
(...) That doesn't sound right. You should be able to read a file using <FH> whether you've flocked it with LOCK_SH or LOCK_EX. Do you remember where you might've heard that, or whether it might've been an OS-specific warning? (...) Hmm...what's a (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: SETI@Home?
 
(...) That's why I said use Sygate :-) (...) If I knew what you was talking about /-) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  flock() and <FH> in Perl
 
Probably a dumb question, but I can't find the answer at the moment... I *think* I read somewhere that a flock()'ed file handle, e.g. FH, shouldn't be accessed using the <FH> operator. Is this something to worry about? Also, can I use a FileHandle (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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