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(...) English. (...) He hooked up with a publishing company from Europe, actually, it might even be the Netherlands, but I forget. The publishing company is getting the book out at *their* expense, and he's getting a percentage of the profit (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've gotta ask the obvious question (or not so obvious?): Is he writing it in English or in Hebrew? Or both? As an editor myself I'm interested in how he's positioned himself and how the publishing process works outside the US and Europe. Is (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Very. Definitely. BTW, Larry, speaking of geeks of some sort, you're a system architect, right? My dad is writing a book (1) about system modeling, and I'm actually his editor (nobody (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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July 24, 1969 (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people)
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XFUT lugnet.people Hi all! Well, I'm sure the geeks of us all know that in a room with 30 people, there's a fairly large chance of having two people with the same birthday. (I can explain to the non-geeks if you really want... not now though.) Since (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people) !!
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(...) We would never do anything like that. (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey Chris, Isn't it nice to know that LUGNET folks are going to nag you to do your backups from now on, though? We're like a whole bunch of mothers, standing over your shoulder (say...a new LUGNET motto...). Don't make us have to tell you (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Selcuk/Steve Yeh everything has been backed up in several places. I've been slow to do backups of late for a number of reasons. Lack of PC zip disks and getting a new computer and not having the ambition to swap the cd-burner into it. rest assured (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm happy to hear that you recovered them...:-) Here are some advice: ** Make at least *two* *more* copies of any data you don't want to lost. ** Never Trust Floppies, they are volatile, literally. ** Make your HDD defargmented by using either (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, okay, this makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Without actually going through the efforts of looking into this, I must wonder about the nature of this software. Is it a self-installing ActiveX control, or is it instead a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And now you've backed up the data, right? More than once? Steve (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well-- Comet Systems Inc. is the manufacturer of the software... anyone who downloads it apparently has their history traced when using MSIE. (...) Well, no. AOL is actually a version of MSIE :( (...) Honestly, I don't know (nobody knows for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Seriously? You mean cometzone is putting trackers on the dude that use it? Oh crud, that stinks... phooie... hmmm.... oh well, I use the AOL browser( finally a good thing about AOL) so i have nothing to worry about, and plus as to how a company that (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ... (...) ... This is off-topic for .debate! FUT .geek ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow. GOOD. Take better care of it. Get another hard copy. -Shiri (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's GREAT Chris! I'm happy I could help. Matt (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks Matt.... I owe you one... I lost only about 10% of the total file set... I guess because of netscape caching pages and my searching for the files. It took me a while to figure out that I had lost them. Luckily, I had just copied some of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nah, it's long gone I'd bet. I just added tons of files to my computer this week, unknowingly... downloaded all my pictures from zing.com (they're closing their doors, unfortunately :-( ) plus added over 200 songs to my mp3 collection over the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "I blame myself." (Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters) Sorry, Shiri...you might still try though, you never know. Oh, and since I didn't think to say it, download the file and run it from a removeable disk (ZIP if ya' got it). DON'T DOWNLOAD IT TO (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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ooooh. Great piece of advice. Too bad I didn't hear about this about two weeks ago, I lost two very important pictures (group pictures of my parents' conference, they were *really* mad). I bet it's all gone by now... :-/ -Shiri (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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