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| | Question about HTTP cookies
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| Hey all, When looking in my cookie jar, I see 4 cookies for LUGNET: NEWSPOST=x, NEWSMAIL=x, NEWSGROUPFILTER=x, /=x However, when I trace an HTTP GET, the only cookies transmitted in the query are NEWSGROUPFILTER and / . e.g.: GET (URL) HTTP/1.0 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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| (...) started, (...) Following-up my initial post with some experience and recent findings. First off: CompUSA has a special on CD-Rs, today only. I don't have the newspaper ad with me, but the deal is a 5pack of 74min discs, free after rebate, 1 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) In core, yah, but wot about in packed data structs on tapes? --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) at least at the unix epoch, most of the code won't have to be changed - the assumption here is that we won't be using 32-bit boxes anymore, so a long int will be a lot longer :) :) Dan (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) Oh, but no one will *possibly* be using the same code in 29 years. We don't need to worry about that. *much laughter* The unix epoch rollover is gonna be another one.... (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) Yeah, the windowing/epoching/whatevering isn't a big deal. The thing is, they *hardcoded* the 29. They didn't even make it a constant, defined at the top of the code (or in a copybook). So in some number of years, someone is going to have to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)
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| Xfered from admin.general..... (...) Thanks a ton Matthew. I am now set at 1280x1024 with my browser fonts just where I want them and everything is most excellent. Re-installing ATI Rage did not help. However, the website for my monitor's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)
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| (...) Well, honestly, it's not the best monitor out there. But: (URL) has some specifications [1]: 17" (16.0" visible) w/ .28mm Dot Ptich VESA, XGA, SVGA, VGA Compatible VESA 85Hz Refresh Rate Preset [2] 1280x1024 maximum resolution So I'd say (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) Sure. That's a pretty typical Y2K fix. And it's basically what you do as a human when looking at a two-digit year. (If I tell you that the expiration date on my driver's license is 12-30-02, you assume 2002. If I tell you it's 12-30-98, you (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | Re: CGI question
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| (...) Scary bit of COBOL code one of my co-workers ran across today (he was given the code because it's the closest thing to documentation available for a file he has to deal with): IF FLD_XYZ_YR < 29 THEN FLD_XYZ_YR4 = 2000 + FLD_XYZ_YR4 ELSE (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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