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(...) In Israel, (in Hebrew, of course), it's "Kilometrage"... :) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Here in Canada we call it mileage. If you look at an Auto Trader magazine, the ads list the cars' mileage. A funny thing - I'm a programmer, and I developed a system a few years ago that required users to enter a "mileage" which was passed (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mileage, as in miles per gallon? We normally use litres per mile. That being metric miles. A metric mile is 10 km. Note that litres per 10 km is the inverse measure, compared with mileage. Fredrik (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When I was down burning through the last of my grant money in the form of a mileage reimbursement, I got to thinking... What do people who live in nations where the metric system is used call mileage? For english speaking countries is there a word (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Frank, I am had the same problem with netscape on an iMac. I was never able to resolve it no matter what i tried. I think i was using NCommunicator 4.7. Same exact symptoms though. -c (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow!! Those images are amazing!! =o Jeff (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi .spaceheads and .geeknoids, If you're lucky enough to have broadband and take a look at the "large pictures" on the slideshow...well, just wow. Wowowowow. (URL) The Universe is truly a magnificent place, and we've only begun to understand it. (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) System is Windows 95 which is configured to be PDT. Time is reasonably correct (and has been recently synched to a time server). DOS box shows correct time. The problem is that Netscape seems to believe that the time is EDT (in fact, an e-mail (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Frank Filz writes: Does your SYSTEM know what time it is? What kind of system is it? If it's Wintel, what do you get when you go to a DOS box and say "time"? My win 2000 box has awareness of what time zone it is in and you (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Let's try this in lugnet.off-topic.geek: (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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