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(...) Andy Rooney allowed himself to be filmed on one for 60 Minutes tonight-- his mode of transportation at some auto show. It was excruciating to watch because it appeared as though he might keel over at any moment and break a hip or something. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Seen on The Reg
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(URL) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help: in den Materialien 1.2767?
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(...) The answers turned up. P20S, P576, Aluminum 7075. These are Werkstoff numbers used in Germany. I still lack an overview of this system... 1.2312 is P20S steel 40CrMnNiMo8-6-4 1.2767 is KE355 KE896 BS1407 P576 ISO4957 X45NiCrMo16 3.4365 is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A diagram from a German engineering company indicates plates "aus vergetetem Stahl 1.2312" -- tempered steel 1.2312. Other parts are available "in den Materialien 1.2767 und 3.4365 erhaltlich". What is the system of these numbers? I am familiar with (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Couldn't resist bringing this to your attention(s)
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(...) <sarcasm> For shame! That's TOTAL LANGUAGE LEARNING, don't you know? That's where it's about phonics and not about spelling or grammar. Grammar, pah, it's so passé--only people with NO LIVES care about others' grammar and spelling! </sarcasm> (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | New Windows OS???
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Headers indicate that this came from OpenBSD - and they would never lie. -- Forwarded message from Minister of Propaganda <do_not_reply@openbsd.org> -- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:38:53 -0700 (MST) To: announce@openbsd.org From: Minister of Propaganda (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: lego turing machine
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(...) I got to thinking, maybe this isn't so impossible after all. Imagine if you used 2x2 blocks with 2x2 tiles on top. Now you have something the RCX can lift. Run two pieces of train track parallel to each other, with four spots' width separating (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Brickset.com receives overhaul
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(...) You mean like one second before I send a request, instead of one second after I send a request? :-) Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi JDF, Thanks for the feedback. I know it's not a Turing machine in the true sense, but let me tell you what I'm trying to do. At the moment I realize that I have built a sort of binary adder. But what I am currently implementing is a change in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) An interesting idea, but the pedant and geek in me has to note that this isn't a Turing machine. Even ignoring Turing's original idea that the tape is infinite, the problem is that the Turing machine placed its output back on the tape. It (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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murphy's law at its best: due to bandwith problems, my server has cut off my page. it now 1:30 am., and i've finally got a mirror up on an old yahoo account. it should do fine. looks like 0catch.com had a very big catch. www.geocities.com/aatishb/ (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: lego turing machine
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I umm.. forgot to post the site along with the message. sorry. (smiling sheepishly) (URL) Bhatia" <aatish@mac.com> wrote in message news:Gtp1qJ.801@lugnet.com... (...) pics (...) technically (...) and (...) code (...) minimalistic, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I umm.. forgot to post the site along with the message. sorry. (smiling sheepishly) (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | lego turing machine
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I have developed and tested extensively a lego turing machine. Info and pics are up on my site if you're interested. Please note that this is technically not a turing machine as I have used a read only mechanism. I've spent the last hour or so (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Kinda long eBook thing...
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:GtLswC.Lx1@lugnet.com... (...) encryption (...) it (...) Cool, a subject I know something about :) I went on a training course at Microsoft in Seattle last year specifically on eBook (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Kinda long eBook thing...
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Hey Y'all: I had no idea where else to discuss this issue -- and this group seems gadget and technology interested enough to suit my purposes. Anyway, here it is... Of late I have become interested in eBooks or eTexts and have been looking at the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Empire's Age?
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(...) <snip> (...) Um, colored me confused, but I don't remember Earth importing any electronics?!? (...) -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) Store - (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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(...) Chris, Save the attached Perl5 program to a file (parse.pl) and try this: cat bynumber.txt | perl parse.pl | more --Todd -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 -w use strict; while (<STDIN>) { last if m/^_/; } # Skip document (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Anyone know of a free NNTP proxy that will run on NT/2K?
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrna9hens.8v9.....bu.edu... (...) Maybe (...) Cool, I'll take a look. I only need one connection - being the admin I'll be the only person who knows it's running ;) Dan (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Gallery cookies fixed?
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Netscape still won't let me remain logged in. Hasn't for over a month. And my software hasn't changed. Internet Explore will let me log in and stay, but Javascript Errors out every time I try to up load a picture. What happened to the browse and (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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