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Why does my address appear as part of my name 2498
Well, mostly because the problems you're wondering about aren't a problem outside of web-based services such as Google. "Faithful to Usenet...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2499
rpl Thanks a lot! I have already read through your answer, but I need more time. It sounds new to me as to perspective. I thought that the world was Google and that besides there...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2500
On 15 Nov 2005 01:03:25 -0800 Google is just a web site fronting a search engine, albeit a very busy web site with a well engineered search engine. The World Wide...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2501
Steve O'Hara-Smith Yes, I see. I have had a computer since June 5, 2001, and it took me some time to learn which side is up. To beginners it is...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2502
On 17 Nov 2005 01:39:43 -0800 Sure but if Google were to become the only...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2503
It's worth remembering that Usenet existed before Google, and all that's happened is that Google have decided to (a) archive publically available stuff on Usenet, and (b) make that archive easily usable...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2504
Jeremy C B Nicoll I began to understand that yesterday. Also, I gather that "Usenet" is a collective name covering initiatives of different origins, while Google is a rationally built commercial company...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2505
See now here's where I think you're a troll... while I have no contacts at the company, how do...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2506
If you view the source HTML for a particular page when you're viewing it ("at Google") what you'll generally...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2507
Jeremy C B Nicoll In its source code, the text is seen to be *surrounded...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2508
Scott Lurndal There isn't just one translation for "howdy" in German, simply for the fact that there isnt't *the* German spoken throughout the German-speaking area...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2509
You bet I don't -- but, alas, I've made the experience that more often than not the whole German-speaking area needs to be referred...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2510
were is the important word here. Germany was not an orderly state before 1990. Germany was the last major nation in Europe...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2511
Regardless of the fact that systems can cope with the extra amount of data in each post...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2512
Morten Reistad "In a newsgroup": but that is in fact your computer screen? See? I can only see that you are explaining...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2513
I don't know for certain what you mean by "on Google". Is that using some Google-supplied software? Or do you just mean that you've pointed a browser at some part of Google's...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2514
I open my computer and go to Google "search". There, I choose one of several options: web, groups, images...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2515
Jan van den Broek' Why is that a problem? Only a very small part of the spam isn't caught by the filters, in my situation. Pray your email addres never gets harvested by a...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2516
Nothing. I've been using this address in my posts since I registered goes back to '89 or '90. That's still a...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2517
Ours are hired, paid and monitored by the town, not the state. that...ROTFLAtMyself. I gave my library a book. When I saw her dumping clbuttics and...
Libraries was Why does my address appear as part of my name
Very interesting discussion so far.....everyone's remarks have been pretty much on target re: libraries & staff atbreastudes. I would like to find a library which has an "advisory board" (or boards) composed of interested...
Libraries was Why does my address appear as part of my name 2519
No, not at all. I would be very glad to pitch in and lend a hand on one or more advisory boards...
Libraries was Why does my address appear as part of my name 2520
That's what I said. You want tell other people how to do the work instead of doing it yourself. Your head event is counted. Libraries try to save money. If they have a staff...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2521
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:26:43 -0500, rpl Gunenberg need no defence, its free (less cost to access to Internet, of course), and only...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2523
Can anyone help? I have had to get rid of my former address and nick because I was getting too much spam, more than sixty a day. I...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2524
Phil Weldon Good. I will look. I am pretty sure at this point that the problem is...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2525
Good. I will look. I am pretty sure at this point that the problem is not so far back, but has to do with my...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2526
Phil Weldon This is only to let you know that I tried, but have not yet been successful. I thought that in addition to "Mozilla" I had to install...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2527
Carl Pearson I know, but I thought that on the folklore group there would be some understanding for people whose knowledge of computers is folk...
Plus ca change
Yesterday's issue (Monday, 14 November) of the Wall Street Journal had a page-one story that brought back...
Plus ca change... 2529
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC), Joe Morris The first "real" computer I worked on was a mbuttive tube machine, and it had to...
Plus ca change... 2530
writes: This could spawn a whole new thread, dealing with system "improvements" intended to increase uptime but having...
Plus ca change... 2531
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:20:06 +0100, Tore S Bekkedal I've been involved in two similar cases. The first was at a large university in Europe where they had a large room full of...
AFC Book List
Remember last year when I was asking about books and articles related to this newsgroup? I kept the messages I got...
Arayna v0.035 alpha 2533
Stu George the easiest route for implementing an IF, but it can be done. Paul's game happened to be a good candidate for Kain and...
Arayna v0.035 alpha 2534
Poster I think the comment was that the game *user* is doing the focusing, not the game author. Emily's "ExpertGrammar.h, and other such extensions" can certainly help the programmer write a better parser (or...
Arayna v0.035 alpha 2535
Charles A. Crayne No, I wasn't complaining about Paul's "hell parser" or his sense of entertainment value - I've done enough of that in the past {REF: aoaprogramming & alt.lang.asm archives}. The above was an expression...
Arayna v0.035 alpha 2536
Charles A. Crayne Of course a drop-down list can't do anything as sophisticated as that in a single motion, but you can...
Arayna v0.035 alpha 2537
Charles A. Crayne If by common conventions, you mean the use of shift-click or ctrl-click to select...
Burroughs L9000 available to good home
Re: Burroughs L9000 Computer Accounting Machine First of all, I would like to thank all the...
AMD to leave x86 behind
ref: also in play in the late 80s was the whole installed terminal emulation product base: by the mid-80s, there was a big uptake in pcs in the terminal emulation market. for about the...
What is written on the keys of an ICL Hand Card Punch 2540
The top three rows are normally numbered 12, 11, and 0 (counting from the top). A punch in row 0 represents the numeral...
What is written on the keys of an ICL Hand Card Punch 2541
real green card gives the card punch combination for every possible 256 hex value (and therefor the ebcdic subset). 12-2-9 for x'02' is burned in my...
FULIST 2542
recent refs: big thing about fulist, browse, ios3270, ... were that they were small, compact, and extremely efficient. early on fulist...
FULIST 2543
for even more drift ... early on I was doing all this email stuff. I had a 15,000 entry nickname file that eventually grew to over 25,000. I was...
FULIST 2544
hmmm...I wonder if a checksum could have been used for an index. It would make a...
IBM System7use of Teletype as console 2545
PBX I first Jay, I guess it was a PABX. I have no idea what model it ws but I guess it was a 2750 or a 3750. It sat in...
IBM System7use of Teletype as console 2546
IBM did make PBXs - PABXs actually - but they were never sold in the US. I believe the 2750 was the only one that was even moderately successful, but there was...
IBM System7use of Teletype as console 2547
Not exactly a PBX (a good deal smaller than some, actually!)... But a small-town phone switch that I scrapped out had both a 2741 for conversational...
IBM System7use of Teletype as console 2548
Yes. That's the one. Enon Valley was based down state somewhere (Brookville, maybe?) -- they held the territory from W. Springfield (Extreme NW Corner...
IBM System7use of Teletype as console 2549
Jay Maynard I'd bet there were some politics involved, maybe even legalities too, having to do with the N.A. telephone monopolies in the 1950's and 60's...
non ECC 2550
Morten Reistad I've heard lawyers talking about how to get concise and precise wording in statutes where what is really needed is a mathematical formula - i.e where the...
non ECC 2551
English is the remnants of a high-speed collision between German and other languages. :-) We have historically-odd...
non ECC 2552
i've been working on drive code-names ... misc. ref: Was Re: Yamhill so far: 2301 fixed-head-track (2303 but r-w four heads in parallel) 2303 fixed-head...
non ECC 2553
on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:41:53 -0600: Those three used hydraulics, and the first two decoded the head position hydraulically. Fixed...
ZX81, THE DECEMBER PROGRAMS
Bonjour, The best of the season to you! The holidays, the parties, the new year... The (more) time to play with your ZX81 and TIMEX 1000-1500. So this month, I am offering you three...
XBOX 360 2555
Not only did I look outside, but I played in the the mud puddles, creating little trenches so that any liquid water would run off the driveway and road. I'm restly...