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keesan
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response 125 of 365:
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Oct 15 23:53 UTC 2000 |
Try an ethnic food store. Alladin's Market or Jerusalem Market.
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goose
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response 126 of 365:
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Oct 16 00:21 UTC 2000 |
Try www.bigzoo.com for 3.9 cents a minute calling cards. It's saved me a
*bundle* of money. <goose thinks about the 155(!) minute call last night>
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johnnie
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response 127 of 365:
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Oct 21 06:56 UTC 2000 |
My 2-year-old, having discovered the joy of randomly punching keys on
the keyboard, has somehow managed to change my Windows95 clock settings
choices to "PM" and "IGBSZTOI". Maybe my brain is just fried because it
is now officially 2:45IGBSZTOI on a Saturday morning, but I can't figure
out how she did it or how to change back to the more traditional "AM"
(Adjust Time/Date only seems to let me toggle between "PM" and
"IGBetc.").
Ideas?
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bdh3
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response 128 of 365:
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Oct 21 08:30 UTC 2000 |
Well... If a two year old can hack Micro$oft OS's than what hope can
there be for the rest of us? If the 'client' of a secure connection
arbitrarily establishes that the password for a given server's 'share'
is one byte long and is able to try all 256 possibilities without
detection?
re#127: Call Micro$oft tech support. 'Reinstall the OS'... thats
the answer. Start out each new day as if it were a new day....
Microsoft ought to be eliminated not because they are a 'monopoly' but
because they are idiots.
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n8nxf
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response 129 of 365:
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Oct 21 10:47 UTC 2000 |
I rater like IGBSZTOI!
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tpryan
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response 130 of 365:
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Oct 21 13:24 UTC 2000 |
How many bushels in a peck?
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mcnally
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response 131 of 365:
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Oct 21 21:07 UTC 2000 |
I thought a peck was less than a bushel, but I think the ratio is 4:1
whichever way it goes..
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gull
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response 132 of 365:
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Oct 22 00:09 UTC 2000 |
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Regional Settings. Click the Time tab. It
should be fairly obvious after that.
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johnnie
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response 133 of 365:
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Oct 22 00:31 UTC 2000 |
Ah, there we go--Thanks. I knew it had to be something simple. I still
wonder how the little stinker managed to burrow all the way down there,
though...
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bru
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response 134 of 365:
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Oct 23 17:03 UTC 2000 |
4 pecks to a bushel is correct
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tpryan
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response 135 of 365:
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Oct 23 21:34 UTC 2000 |
thank you.
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keesan
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response 136 of 365:
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Oct 25 16:19 UTC 2000 |
"I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the
neck" (an old popular song). Our 4-gallon buckets are about half a bushel
so would that make a peck 2 gallons?
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jerryr
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response 137 of 365:
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Oct 26 11:01 UTC 2000 |
A peck is 8 dry quarts: a bushel is 4 pecks or 32 dry quarts; a barrel is 105
dry quarts; a heap is an informal unit meaning a lot.
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jor
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response 138 of 365:
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Oct 26 19:47 UTC 2000 |
a heap is a form of dynamic memory allocation
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mcnally
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response 139 of 365:
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Oct 26 19:56 UTC 2000 |
And a binary heap makes a great sorting structure..
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danr
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response 140 of 365:
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Oct 28 01:50 UTC 2000 |
How many heaps make a pile?
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remmers
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response 141 of 365:
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Oct 28 14:56 UTC 2000 |
Dunno, but it takes a heap o' living to make a house a home.
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otter
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response 142 of 365:
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Oct 29 18:11 UTC 2000 |
How many heaps in a shitload?
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swa
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response 143 of 365:
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Oct 30 02:04 UTC 2000 |
Re 122: Thanks Russ.
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jazz
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response 144 of 365:
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Oct 30 17:22 UTC 2000 |
Is that a metric shitload or an English shitload?
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keesan
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response 145 of 365:
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Oct 30 22:27 UTC 2000 |
I am designing a small database to keep track of companies I work for. Would
the following maximum lengths be adequate:
company name - 20 characters
street address - 25
city name - 15
email address - 33
Do you know of any longer names or addresses than this?
A sample database of this type had 26, 25, 22 (no email, old database).
What city names are 22 characters long including spaces and periods?
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mcnally
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response 146 of 365:
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Oct 30 22:44 UTC 2000 |
Will you be dealing with anyone in Wales or New Zealand?
Both have some impressively long place names, though the longest
names have fallen into disuse.
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keesan
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response 147 of 365:
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Oct 30 22:51 UTC 2000 |
US only, and I can abbreviate suite, street, and the like. I have names
rangging from NCY through Tulsa, Schenectady, to Palm Beach Gardens. Lots
of cities with two words in the name and several with three. Looks like I
will need 18 for city name, at least, unless I abbreviate Gdns. But I cannot
abbreviate e-mail addresses, so what is the longest one permitted by whoever
makes up the rules? The companies like to cram in their whole name.
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scg
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response 148 of 365:
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Oct 31 01:08 UTC 2000 |
I doubt you'll see any e-mail addresses as long as the "rules" allow, but
there are some impressively long ones. 33 characters is probably a bit short.
15 characters per city will be too short. In addition to Palm Beach Gardens,
you'll have problems with South San Francisco, South Lake Tahoe, and probably
many other cities I'm failing to think of that don't start with South.
The longest street name in my neighborhood is Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Addresses on it have mostly four digits. Many of the addresses probably also
include apartment numbers. Your 25 character street address limit would be
exceeded.
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swa
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response 149 of 365:
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Oct 31 05:19 UTC 2000 |
Re 144: A friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend once became enamored of the
phrase "a metric fucking shitload" to describe a large quantity of
anything, and I swear there was a discussion once in which it actually
made sense in context, if only I could remember it...
My street address in 1999-2000 was "941 Calle Mejia, Apt. 406." With
spaces that's exactly 25 characters, so if I'd lived in Apt. 1106 it
wouldn't have fit (unless you abbreviated "Calle", which most non-
Spanish-speakers don't.) Better to err on the long side, I would
think...
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