 | | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) Well, not yet. I don't know that much about your plans for the future ;) (...) See email. One I'll mention right now is comp.risks. (...) Ouch. I mean, yes, nice machine, but $5.6k? In US prices, even. That would be around $7k if I wanted to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) ISP adminning? What do you mean? I don't work for an ISP. I don't know that you'd call the adminning I do corporate right now, though... (...) Contrary to popular opinion, I'm really a quiet guy. I read a lot of groups I never post in. But no, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!
|
|
(...) CVS? (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) That helps. In small-scale, single-in-house-platform, beefy-server, in-house-24/7-admin-...luescreens environments, it's not too bad. Talk to a few of the people in ASR who deal on a daily basis with Ericsson's Sexchange servers, though. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) Yep. Kinda funny, though. I talked to my local MCSE buddy, the one who got most of his experience in his current job doing OJT, and he had lots of really good things to say about Exchange. 'Course, his implementations are all small-scale, so (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!
|
|
(...) Yeah, we need better distributed filesystems. AFS works okay, but it's really pricy. And Coda just ain't there yet. In the meantime, you could use CVS to replicate things. (-> .off-topic.geek) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | (canceled)
|
|
|
| |
| | Re: What do you think?
|
|
(...) you (...) go (...) ultimate (...) Hmm...I would imagine you would have options on that, your recieve end would have a dialouge box as well as a microphone and speakers. (...) It would sorta be an ultimate Tomb Raider/The Sims/Midtown Madness (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: What do you think?
|
|
(...) Cool... Sounds a lot like 'The Sims'... (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: What do you think?
|
|
(...) Wow. Creepy. Sounds great. Would you talk in writing too each other, or your own voice, or what? Could you just do anything? How? I don't mean to sound over-technical, I know you just imagined this, but wouldn't the Makers of the game have to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: What do you think?
|
|
(...) Hmm.... it almost sounds like a holodeck or something. Sounds a little too realistic to me. I would rather have something interesting, like a movie or something (Matrix, Terminator, etc.). Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | What do you think?
|
|
Ok. I had a dream last night about a computer game called CITY ZEN (It is not a real game) . You would choose what you wanted to look like, your job (You would have to pick a job that the game thought it didn't have enough of, e.g. you couldn't pick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Transit Time to Mars
|
|
(...) Not to be nitpicky here, and I haven't bothered to look it up, but is it it possible that this treaty doesn't apply for either of the following two charmingly definitional loopholes? 1. The treaty bans weapons usage in these spheres. A drive, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Transit Time to Mars
|
|
(...) not (...) Detonating nuclear weapons in space was prohibited by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned detonating nuclear devices in the air, in the ocean, or in space. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Transit Time to Mars
|
|
(...) As far as I can tell, they are not banned...either the "lucifer" type, using multi nuke bombs to push you, or a constant nuke reactor type. However, the Lucifer type is -not- something I want to be on the _planet_ that they test it out on, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Transit Time to Mars
|
|
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:59:11 GMT, James Powell uttered the following profundities... (...) Weren't these banned under one of the START treaties? I seem to recall some treaty of some description banning most types of Nuclear rockets. It could, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) Very wise. Are the elevators in your buildinmg controlled by the network? How about the halon systems? "After a few hours the thumping dies down. I guess those [backup tape - ed] safes really _are_ airtight." (...) Well, yes, I knew that's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) No comment. (...) True, true. Not quite what I meant, thinking of single platform in-house, but I get what you're saying. (...) I've avoided Exchange because we don't use it anywhere I know of on campus and because I heard so many bad things (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) Well, not sure. But in *my* admittedly limited Linux/Samba experience trying to introduce Samba as an alternative to NT for file serving is a joke. File copies went from seconds to minutes on 95/98, and at increased dramatically even when (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
|
|
(...) Ah, that's OK then. (...) Awwwww... shucks. (...) I think it would probably be more suited in off-topic.people. But then, we can't really put it there. (...) You could call me ... "democrat" (Or, for that matter, "republican" or (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
