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| | | "Christopher Lindsey" <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote in message news:3A3EEF5D.84BF58...orn.com... (...) gives (...) as (...) just (...) You (...) looking (...) Ah, the SWF file is also so there so as long as you have an OS that Macromedia have (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | (...) That's odd... You're right, the system requirements page at (URL) that Flash 5 is available for Linux. But when I try to download it I can only get Flash 4, and the download page says the same thing: (URL) to be on the safe side I downloaded (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) I just rebooted my system into Win98, installed the Flash 5 player into Netscape, and the swf tells me I don't have Flash 5. So I guess I'll try the exe version... (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | A lot of the questions are very Microsoft-biased, or at least personal computer biased. What does ctrl-c do? Well, it sends sigint, yeah? What does ctrl-z do? It's EOF on VMS. "Supporting dynamic and static drives" is a bit weird -- I suppose Linux (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, I ended up just grabbing the Flash program and running it against strings to get the questions. I didn't know that your toothbrush is supposed to be a certain distance from the toilet, though. :) Chris (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) And DOS, and even Windows. If you're at an MS-based command prompt, and you enter COPY CON FILE.TXT, you won't get your prompt back until you hit ctrl-z. Steve (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) Oh yeah, that's right! I wonder what CP/M used.... Ctrl-C is the really stupid one -- I dunno what apple was thinking with that. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:fkj14t027aoqrer...4ax.com... (...) OK, maybe we should have put something up along the lines of "given the 3 available answers, which is the correct one". Did anyone find the one about my (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) In general, good to specify the operating system. Not all geeks are microsoft geeks. :) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn940c7m.spr.....bu.edu... (...) the (...) Try hitting refresh if you're looking at the SWF in a browser - there's something funky in Flash 5 where sometimes the version check we use fails (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I did that. Also closed the browser, and cleared the cache. No good. This is Netscape Communicator 4.76. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn941i9m.71t.....bu.edu... (...) We're still waiting for Macromedia to tell us why it doesn't work properly. How many times did you refresh the page? Our developer reckons you may have to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: So you think you know your stuff? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I did it more than that, even. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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