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  Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
 
(...) Well, yeah. Though it might have been $50/test, I'm not actually sure. (...) MCSE always was 7 tests, since realistically you want +I added as well ;) (...) Not what I've heard, but employers and neighbourhoods vary. (...) Tempus fugit, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
 
(...) Just realized that might sound bad. Let me elaborate, and yeah, this may show how dumb I've been to stick around, or it may show, for those who know me, that I'm paranoid about going without insurance, and my wife only recently got her (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote: [snip] The things *I* care about. Sheesh. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) Yes, I know. Or "loose change" if you prefer. My father, b. 1918, Gostynin, Poland, grew up while Pilsudski was running things. only boy in a family of 7. In the resistance, captured and internned by the Germans, fought fires in Berlin on a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) Psh. Stupid entomologists. It's any little creepy crawly gross thing, probably invertebrate. "Insects" are a definite subset of "bugs". It's unclear how this meaning came about, but it's very likely a transfer from the other noun "bug" (the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) Doesn't mean 1. Or 0. Or -1. Probably also doesn't mean 2. Could mean 7, if they're distinct. Or 100, under some circumstances. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) And much easier to say! (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) Thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind when I read your name.(I always pronounced Todds name as Layman, and yours as Penzak. I used to think the word Several ment the number seven, until recently have I learned it means any number below seven) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) [snip] (...) Heh, that's pretty funny. "Larry Little Coin." (Well, it made *me* laugh....) as evah, John C. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dumb, stupid question
 
(...) Do you have some ancestors in Eastern europe? Your name means "little coin". That's what we used to call the pirate coins when I was a kid. "Penizek" (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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