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  UML +/-
 
(...) I work in the real world and I am usually at the leading edge where we are trying to get the basic concepts down. So UML is overly precise for what I typically need to convey. I am usually at the lines and boxes level and showing a mishmash of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) Heh, good idea, I just submitted it to quotes-r-us.org. If you go to "advanced fatures", set keyword to "mothers", the second or third quote should be this one. ;-) -Shiri (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) Wow, quite a "quote of the day", huh?..:-) Selçuk "We're like a whole bunch of mothers, standing over your shoulder" (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) Fifteen, but yeah, it does go by fast... sorta. ;-) I remember when you first found out how old I was (in that demented intern thread - gahh!). (...) Ahhhh, ain't no such thing as too old. If you're playing with lego, you can't be that old, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) Wow!.. Little Shiri grows too fast..:-) You were fourteen when we first meet you here, right? Time really rolls too fast. Congrats..:-) Selçuk (will be officially end of his 30 (i.e. too old) in a few months) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
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)
 
  Re: Find your Birthday Buddy
 
July 24, 1969 (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people)
 
  Find your Birthday Buddy
 
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) !! 
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) We would never do anything like that. (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
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)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
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)
 
  Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) And now you've backed up the data, right? More than once? Steve (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
 
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)
 
  Re: Why the sky is blue
 
(...) ... (...) ... This is off-topic for .debate! FUT .geek ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) 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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