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(...) Eh, only marginally. It's mostly like Lode Runner, with space references built in. Have a look at (URL)I love those old adventure games and lighthearted shareware arcade games. (...) What's cool nowadays is that people are starting to write (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) weigh a bunch of stuff tomorrow night anyway, I bring a 2x4 brick along. -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "looks like he's heading for that small moon" .....[snip some dialogue] "that's no moon... it's a space station (made out of a quadzillion lego bricks)." -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get (going by volume) approximately 22,029,937,442,631,307 2x4 bricks that would fit, which of course isn't accounting for air pockets or anything. Assuming that probably 3/4 of the Death Star is empty space, that's [only!] (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) heh, would that be enough mass to actually have it's own (significant) gravity? like a very small moon, or something? :) XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Worked for me when I just tried it again. This is way way cool, it's just the thing to access when trying to evaluate "clearance" at jackup places like KB if you don't already have the data on a Palm (which I don't have, too much stuff to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a long time user too! I used to use the phone book more than anything and it sucks that they removed it. Now I use the traffic keyword more than anything, but I drive more than I fly so that might account for our different focus. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi! I've been a TELLME user for ages, since they were in early beta actually. It's a neat idea (although not sure it's a moneymaking one), and I use it a lot to find out weather in destination cities or just to kill a little time in the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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so what? I am Danish, even that I live in Estonia. I don't give a damn. But what bothers me is that there were no films but sports in the evenings on the telly. FUT:lugnet.off-topic.geek Mani <manuelclara2@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Possibly the coolest bit of innovation I've seen in some time, saving a research satellite from oblivion with a clever hack! (URL) It's silly little things like this that prove, to me, that the space program really isn't wasting all those millions. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM voting for March is open
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdsn7kplob.fsf....uio.no... (...) I do this too - although I panic when it happens, as it's the alert that my web server is no longer visible to the internet! Dan (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I do this too, and I find it very useful. Especially when I'm abroad. I have a list of friends, and any mail from either of them is copied to my phone. I use compression of the mail, removing surplus quotes and so on to fill the 160 available (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Certain messages arriving in my mailbox are copied to my phone through a SMTP to SMS/GSM gateway. The status report from the program that updates the MOTM/SOTM voting pages is one of that kind of messages. Another example is the report the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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G'Day Both products work well (most off the time). Just make a backup of important data files. We use Ghost 7.0 at the office everyday. My method with Ghost, make a WIN98 boot floppy to boot with, flip in a diskette with Ghost.exe on it and run from (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:Gs6u4H.6KB@lugnet.com... (...) create (...) whatever (...) I tend to use it mainly to reconfigure that partitions on a new machine when our company buys one - I'd rather have 2 or 3 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yeah, I have used PartitionMagic for years and never had problems with it. It's a decent recommendation over the other products being discussed. The interface is straight-forward enough that one refers to the manuals only sparingly. One of the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs58o4.Hnv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Sorry, I should have explained that part. Partition Magic creates the boot disks - one to boot from, the other you insert when it asks which (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi! I've used both and they should be able to do what you want if you boot from a DOS-type floppy (make a rescue disk from a Windows '98 computer, works splendid and even starts most common CD-drives) and start Ghost or PQDI from there. Just make (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks. I wasn't sure I followed you on creating two boot disks, though. Could you elaborate on that a bit? Wouldn't one be sufficient? (assuming the boot disk enables Partition Magic to use NTFS formatted drives) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs3HBz.H0L@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) one (...) want (...) get (...) leftover (...) My advice - don't use Ghost or Drive Image. Get Partition Magic. I did this last year with my work (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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