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(...) Apple *no longer appears to be a dead company* and now we are the snobs? (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Ok, I replaced Notepad with Notetab, and it is surprisingly fast and in all ways better than MS Notepad. All ways - except one: I also replaced one single .exe file with 129 files in 7 new folders, 3.37 Mb using 5,4 million bytes of disk (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I've been dealing with this issue my whole Mac using life. I can understand your frustration but not your insistence that everyone comply with your OS. When I've done that in the past I get laughed at. The very existence of the LDraw for Mac (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And Notepad.exe is 56 kb. Yes, I know I exaggerated. I think I had NoteTab or something very similar in my previous Windows installation due to the 64k limitation in Notepad. And before that, I hacked Notepad to suggest the .dat extension in (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) And, of cousre, the long filenames. :) I rushed together a DOS program called linefix.exe that takes care of the linefeeds while you uploaded the new version of the MPD. I never use MLCad even though it is installed. Browsing parts or models (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Last I checked, the Notetab light installation was 1.4M (yes it still fits on a floppy), and it loads in less than a second on my XP machine. I have been using it for at least 3 years, and I would also highly recommend it for Windows users. (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Then I misinterpreted the talk of Mac and Linux earlier in this thread. (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) I realised I may have been barking at a joke for which I would and should apologise. It would seem I'm not so I make no apologies. (...) I use a Windows XP machine. Tim (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) They still can last I noticed. The earlier version of the file will and does work perfectly well in MLCad (I know this because I opened it in MLCad to make sure before submitting it to ldraw.org for the challenge). It would probably work in (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) You apologize or... you don't? You keep bantering on the far most popular system in the world. Not because it is the best, I am very well aware of that, but because the vast majority of computer users around the globe don't find the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I expected that reply too from you. I once liked LDraw because anyone with almost any computer could use it. (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) PS. And I apologise if your tone in (URL) this post> was less serious than I read it. I really don't like the attitude that one should be forced to cater to every bit of rubbish programming by the folks at Redmond. (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) That's fine by me. But please don't complain if a perfectly correct text file doesn't display right in Notepad or expect me to help cater to your use of bad software. Tim (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Actually, if I remember correctly, Magic: The Gathering online lets you convert in-game cards into real physical cards (under drastic conditions, as far as I remember). Maybe it doesn't quite qualify as MMOG, though. (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(URL) me, that's tres cool. But here's what I have a problem with-- "Jupiter is imaged here from more than 11 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, or slightly farther than the average Earth-Saturn distance. As demonstrated by Pale Blue Orb, (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Although it would appear my terminology disagreed with my maths ;) So you are right in your reading and I am wrong in my concept but not my principal. So to keep the terminology the same just replace all 5s by 2s and the rest remains the same. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) It's still an integer number of plates (which was my condition). Tim (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Timothy Gould wrote: (snip) (...) I'm not so sure about that... If I understand correctly, the main issue here is to produce a flat square surface with a non-integer number of studs as side, right? Because that is certainly (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:JDw5Gp.LJ6@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks for the tip - turning on the Askimet plugin seems to have solved the problem. Mike (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Mike, From what I understand, that setting will not affect spambots. I think the only way to reduce the spam comments (especially pingback & trackback) is to activate the Askimet plugin (comes with recent WP) and possibly also install a (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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