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What would be the mass of a cubic centimeter of solid hydrogen? I ask because it occurred to me last week that the dry ice I was fiddling with weighed substantially more in solid form than as a gas (now there’s a groundbreaking scientific (...) (20 years ago, 16-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: [OT] How large would Executor-class SSD appear?
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(...) 10-11 Imperial Class Star Destroyers long has been my understanding, which would mean that the Lego ISD would be about the length of a SSD when compared to the Mini ISD Leg Godt Travis Matheson (20 years ago, 16-Feb-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: [OT] How large would Executor-class SSD appear?
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(...) According to starwars.com it is 12.800 meters: "The size of a Super Star Destroyer has vacillated in numerous publications, starting with an eight-kilometer length in 1984's A Guide to the Star Wars Universe. The latest measurements peg the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno, it sounds like it makes sense. I mean, imagine how big a Boeing 747 looks at 50,000 feet (I get about 1/8th of a degree, assuming 70.7m length for a 747). Actually, considering how crasily long many clouds are, I wouldn't be suprised (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | [OT] How large would Executor-class SSD appear?
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OK, this is WAY geeky, but I just thought I'd share... This was triggered by a cloud visible at sunset a couple of evenings ago. It was long and triangular, and took up about 5 "hand-widths" at arms length. I started thinking, how close (or far (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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(...) Some more Googling yielded this: -*-*-*- One thing you do not want to do is click on any of those fake popup "notices" about "spyware found on your computer" You may have the Windows Messenger service which apparently is where you are (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Another reason to avoid IE whenever possible. (Disclaimer: the following info was given to me by an IT pro friend of mine, he's smarter at this stuff than me, that's why I listened to him. Why? Because he can hack, and occassionaly, does) (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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I forgot to mention that the pop-ups occur even when I'm not online. Dave "Mark" <snowleopard@foxinternet.net> wrote in message news:IBqCty.MwB@lugnet.com... (...) woes. I (...) free, (...) windows, (...) does (...) reccomended. (...) have no clue (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Such is the invariable burden of a network connected Windows machine. Unfortunately, the only "fix" (I put that term in quotes deliberately) is to stay up to date with Microsoft's patches to the OS. The version of IE that comes with XP SP2 (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Using a good, non-microsoft web browser will help a great many of these woes. I personally like (URL) Firefox>. It's free, installs in seconds, MUCH faster than some other browsers, has tabbed windows, built in protective measures. Yeah. Just try (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A brief Google search yielded this: (URL) last post seems to blame Messenger which appears to be the cause of the above problem. -Orion (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey, I've been having a similar problem! All the popups come if I open MSN messenger, or IE. They also take me to some *&%#@& 'Kita-search.com' 'here4search.com' 'win-eto.com' and some more. I've run Norton, but even after it wipes everything (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey y'all, I'm hoping one of you super cyberpunks can help me out here. In the last few months I've been getting these pop-ups stating that my registry or something else may be infected, corrupted, etc. They want me to type in the web address (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: perl question
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(...) You can try this: od -c scriptfile.pl and look for \r chars (in addition to the usual \n chars) to see if that's the problem. (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Pointers to where to look in the perl docs or Faq on cpan.org gladly taken. I have a perlscript I want to run on both wintel and linux, and I want to invoke it from an outer script. (.bat on wintel and some shell script, sh, ksh, bash or csh on (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Remember also that in "Teahouse of the August Moon"(1)(2) Eddie Albert plays the investigator sent out by the army to see what sort of problems Glenn Ford is having... rather than turn him in for not getting the school built, he gets all (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cross platform GUI
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(...) Orion: In my quest for 3D cross platform independence, I decided to give GLUT a try. GLUT is a cross-platform window toolkit that Mark J. KilGard (who was at SGI at the time) wrote to demonstrate OpenGL programming. It is supposed to run on (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cross platform GUI
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(...) When I decided to use QT for the Linux version of LDView, I already had a Windows native version, and absolutely no plans of moving the Windows version to a cross-platform toolkit. Consequently, while I also felt that having the Windows (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The look and feel is one of the reasons why I rejected GTK (...) To me, compile times are a non issue. However the non-free nature of Qt leaves a bad taste in my mouth (and I not even a Open Source zealot). I can however develop a Qt based (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: CSS Problem, looking for ideas.
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"Rob Antonishen" <rob.antonishen@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:IAMK2z.KpL@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) inner (...) not (...) to (...) (URL) ie> and (URL) firefix> (...) and (...) I had some time last week when I was traveling to work on this (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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