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(...) Oh, and: last I checked, they had a free two-connection-only license. Maybe that's changed. (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Get DNews. It's not a proxy, but it can be configured as a "sucking" news server, which won't require a lot of disk space. (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, $set gets assigned each element in the array, in order. so if your array is "1", "10", "20", "this-string", $set will get each of these values, then run the code block. (...) maybe I'm misunderstanding again... @array = split /\t/, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The example at (URL) suggested using : for (@lines) {do stuff} But that didn't seem to work. I'm looking at a simple tutorial on foreach, but I don't get what the $set means or does for the loop. In your example, is it doing something like (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) first of all, you're running an open ended loop on the array, when you can just run through each element: foreach $set (@sets) { (...) that trailing ']' is a typo, right? I'm not running this, but I think that would be a syntax error... (...) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I've discarded the first part...the explanatory text up through the big ________. Then I've read the rest of the file into an array where each item in the array is one line. So now I'm trying to split() the @array[items] by column, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ahhh, you said the magic word (perl) :) If you could explain to me exactly what you need, I'll give ya a script that will do it :) (...) you could use perl for that too, except that why load the server more then you need to? get the list file, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to learn enough perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array, but I think I'm giving up, for the day at least. I can't find a reference, tutorial, or FAQ that describes more (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm trying to find a free NNTP proxy I could run on NT and/or 2K. I have a home connection with an ISP that does not provide a news server for reading/posting, but at work my whole LAN has full read/post access via the ISP used there. What I would (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I knew I was above average. It seems that my height is as well. :) (...) Quite true. I wonder, does this hold true for women as well as men? I've noticed that men in the south are definately generally taller than men up north, but what about (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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| | Hacking the Satellite to Save It
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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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