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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 07:35:41 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 46 Message-ID: <324E26CD.7785@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> <01bbadcf$6ef66e60$8588b6cc@tzspc> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:132399 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28211 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44232 Tim Smith wrote: > > Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> wrote in article <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>... > > Hmmmmm....... On my screen, that looked like 70.000 with a period and not > a comma. > > Of course, I could be wrong. I'm using a d..n small font! :) > > The post that used "70.000" was from Europe. In Europe, they use period > where we in > the United States use comma in numbers, and they use comma where we use > period. E.g., > they would would write Pi*1000000 as 3.141.592,65358979323846264... where > we would > write 3,141,592.653589793238264... > > I know someone who got a discount on an HP calculator because of this. > Someone > had left the demo unit in European mode. Neither the salesman nor the > customer > realized that this was setable, and so the salesman was willing to let it > go > for a discount as being defective. > > --Tim Smith > > ps: sorry if this posting looks funny. I was curious to see if Microsoft > Internet > Explorer and Netscape Navigator still suck as news readers compared to trn > (they > still do). The only thing that looks 'funny' about your post is your use of too-long lines. If you'll keep your lines down to around 70 characters or less, you'll have a post that everyone can read easily. Incidentally, I an indeed using Netscape as my newsreader. Not because I think it's the best (I know better), but because 1) I have it handy and 2) if someone points to a URL I can just click on it and go there without firing up another program. It's plenty good enough for my needs, and it's convenient. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |