12/9    Al Gore or The Unabomber?  You decide!
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        \_ Spelling corrected by the motd spelling daemon
           \_ Sorry for spelling their names wrong.  I'm not up on every
              last detail of this generation's terrorists.
              \_ the public schools are failing us again!
              \_ If you can read well enough, check out _The_Real_Terrorists_
                 by Noam Chomsky, as a beginner course in reality.

12/9    I'm using cygwin and sed. I need to do a tolower. I can't rely on
        perl.
        \_ sed y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
        \_ save yourself from having to type the above and use
           tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
           \_ Or "tr A-Z a-z" which is several characters shorter and works.

12/11   anyone selling a used street/sports motorcycle of around 250 ccs?
        mail suzuki.  thanks.
        /- huh?

12/11   Stop inserting your comment at the top of the thread and
        indenting everyone else's.  Stop fucking it up.
        \_ and could people please try to keep their comments within 80
           columns?
                \_ And not tabbing so far to the right of the previous
                        thread posting.

12/11   I need to hang an outdoor light on a brick wall.  I drilled a hole but
        I can't use a nail or screw to secure it because the hole is bigger
        than the nail/screw.  Drilling a smaller hole won't help because I
        can't nail/screw through brick.  Is there a standard way to do this?
                -homeowner
        \_ Buy a new house
        \_ There are little plastic inserts you can get for just this sort
           of thing.  You can get them at walmart or a hardware store.
        \_ You could buy the small cements from home depot to fill the hole
        \_ Proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Damn it, think
            before you start drilling holes.
           \_ Screw first! Ask questions later. But wear (eye) protection.
              \_ eye protection is optional - Bill C.
           \_ How do you drill a hold on concrete that *exactly* fit your
              nail/screw?
              \_ You read the packaging for the "Plastic Anchor with
                 Screws" package from Elco, which can be purchased at
                 OSH.  It tells you the drill bit size that you
                 need.  Masonry bits make the drilling go faster.
                 \_ as does using a proper hammer-drill.