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    How a vanished Ice Age lake shaped the past and present of Missoula, Montana

    There is a 90 ton rock in Oregon, that was deposited from the Missoula floods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erratic_Rock_State_Natural_Site FYI
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    Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP

    Our internet provider (Wave Broadband) ran a 450 foot buried (horizontally drilled) connection to our house, at their expense. The local telephone company wanted $1,400 to trench a plain POTS phone line for an analog fax line and DSL. That was a quick no.
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    Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000

    Wow that sucks. We live miles away from the nearest city (just under 200K population), in a rural+farmland mix area. We use cable internet now, and they have installed Fiber. Even the DSL service is 100mb, for dual channel. When our connection was dropping a lot, the cable company (not...
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    Asus desktop’s embedded light bars tell you when rendering is complete

    WOW, that looks a lot like the dual system load LED bars on the old BeBox computers, circa 1995/1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
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    FDA authorizes booster doses for 12- to 15-year-olds, shortens interval for adults

    I cannot wait for a "You will not get it vaccine" and not a "You won't get as sick from it, but keep boosting, vaccine". The measles vaccine (and others) is a one shot lifetime dose. Even tetanus or mumps vaccines last for many years. Hopefully we will get a true Covid vaccine soon.
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    COVID surge in unvaccinated is pushing US to more mandates, masks, mitigation

    A SARS-Covid-19 particle size is 0.12 microns An aerosol droplet from our breath, containing a Covid-19 virus particle, 62 microns or more. Larger size droplets will fall to the ground sooner, the smaller ones will float in the air longer. N95 mask = 0.3 micron certification with 95%...
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    It’s the wombat’s strange intestines, not its anus, that produces cubed poo

    I think I would name a pet wombat "Lego".
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    SpaceX set to launch its next Starship prototype on Monday

    It is amazing watching them work through all the issues. I can't wait for the completed system to launch...
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    Two-year-old phone receives 15-month-old software update

    I don't own a smartphone from anybody, just a feature phone from LG. I think it is odd how most Android users are using a version several releases old and have little options in upgrading their OS, while more than 60% of iPhone users are on the newest version and even users with old 3GS models...
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    Website creation/mangement interface tool

    Thanks for the info, but I have another question.<BR><BR>Is there a freeware, open source, careware, donorware or other retail option?<BR><BR>This is not a big website, and the $199/$399 price for Dreamweaver is not really that practical. Her current website is perhaps 25-20 pages.<BR><BR>Any...
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    Website creation/mangement interface tool

    I don't really know what to call this... I am looking for a tool for my wife (non technical) to use on her website.<BR><BR>In setting up blogging software in the past, most of the management interfaces are very clean and straight forward. You type in 'content' and save it. The system creates...
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    fstab questions

    Thanks for the tips. I will be working on this tonight when I get home...
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    fstab questions

    I am trying to set this up for easier drive access in my 'user' account. Everything works fine logged in as root. Basically, the system has a couple NTFS drives, a FAT32 one, along with ZIP/DVD/CD-RW/Card Reader drives and the linux native drives. All non Linux drives have mount points under...
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    Use of GD Image functions - PHP

    I have a series of daily messages I would like to display embedded into JPG's daily on my website. Is there a good online reference (or prebuilt tool/script) for adding my text to my images. Being dymanic, the message could change while the background image stayed the same.<BR><BR>I have not...
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    User Accounts and Permissions

    I am sorry, perhaps I should have made my situation more wordy in my original question...<BR><BR>You are installing a software title, via a CD-ROM disc, to a workstation. That workstation happens to be on a network, but network access is not needed for the installations.<BR><BR>Is it best to...
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    User Accounts and Permissions

    Nope, just local user stuff. Local installation of software, etc...<BR><BR>Thanks for the info
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    User Accounts and Permissions

    I have been in a 'discussion' with co-workers about user accounts and permissions on Windows NT/2000/2003 servers and NT/2000/XP desktops. When logging in, is there a change in permissions between the following users?<BR><BR><UL TYPE=SQUARE><BR><LI>Local Administrator<BR><LI>Domain...
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    Distro Selection Tool?

    I was talking to a co-worker who wants to try Linux. I was explaining some of the differences to him and started thinking...<BR><BR>Has anyone written a little tool/webpage where a user can enter what they will use it for or what they are interested in (web servers, video editing, file server...
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    Parition/Drives/Mount Points during installation

    Lot's of info... Thanks.<br><br>This is an older system, dual Pentium II processors, 256 MB ECC RAM with (3) matching 9 GB Seagate 7200 RPM SCSI drives connected to an Adaptec 2940-UW controller.<br><br>I was trying to spread the information across mutliple drives to improve (at least a little)...