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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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(...) Dave, you idiot! If you'd looked on any credible online math encyclopedia, you'd have seen immediately that the type of OVAL you're looking for can be constructed by joining together two arcs of different radii so that their centers lie on a (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is there a standard form for the equation of an "irregular ellipse"? I know that's an oxymoron, but I don't know a better descriptor, other than to say "sort of egg shaped" or "an ellipse slightly pinched on one side." Anyone? Thanks a zil. Dave! (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just uploaded a PowerMate Active Beta of BlueStarWarp. If any of you happen to have both a Mac and the USB Griffin PowerMate that is. LMKWYT (URL) I would guess to most of you but don't sleep in the subway come in please buzz wooop nee wong of Ulm. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Angelo Castellano" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:026701c1eb41$08...9rt100b... (...) From the original message: (...) name=border.exe Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Looking at the other message that made it to the newsgroup (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ancient and obscure hardware geekery (Was: Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac)
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(...) It's definitely a good thing to get one's employer to buy. (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, but the _cheap one_ is $250! I have a Lego habit to support! Seriously, though, one more reason why it wasn't a bad idea to replace the old 486 firewall with a hundred bucks worth of Linksys filtering router. :) On the other hand, I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It frightens me that you all have kept my subject line! well, it does say "low-end". (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Shuttle's motherboard manual is worse than most. Why can't these manufacturers hire at least one multilingual adolescent to proofread, who would end up working at Starbuck's otherwise? "If the beeps accordingly, fabricate the motherboard in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) that's too bad... I received SV25s as well and both survived my numerous mistakes. I used 1ghz P3s and Crucial 256MB. The BIOS startup on these things is superior to the ASUS P4 board I experienced. (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hadn't seen it, thanks. Worth the $900? hmm. Aside: I was told to put floppy drives in the Shuttles... one had a bad floppy (what do you expect for a $9 piece of hardware?) So I taught everybody how to use the CDRW and they've started to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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