"These words did not originate with Abraham Lincoln, however -- they appear in none of his collected writings or speeches, and they did not surface until more than twenty years after his death (and were immediately denounced as a "bold, unflushing forgery" by John Nicolay, Lincoln's private secretary). This spurious Lincoln warning gained currency during the 1896 presidential election season (when economic policy, particularly the USA's adherence to the gold standard, was the major campaign issue), and ever since then it has been cited and quoted by innumerable journalists, clergymen, congressmen, and compilers of encyclopedias."
It's pretty basic. Check the credits on the "hillside"
Ever wonder why Microsoft applications become slower with each new release? Apparently the constant rain in Redmond has driven Microsoft to obsessive flights of fancy. Below are instructions on how to access a little flight simulator that was inexplicably hidden by precipitous programmers deep inside Excel 97.
1. In Excel 97, open a new blank work sheet.
2. Press F5 (go to function) and type X97:L97 in the 'Reference' box.
Then click OK
3. Now hit your tab key once (you should end up in cell M97).
4. Here's the tricky part: press CTRL + SHIFT while clicking once on the 'chart wizard' icon (the one at the top with the blue-yellow-red bar chart).
5. After a few moments, you should be flying.
6. Steer with the mouse, accel and decel with the left and rightmouse buttons respectively, and look for the monolith with the program credits. You can exit the screen by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
7. Steer with the mouse. Moving it sideways moves you sideways.
8. Acceleration depends on mouse acceleration. Left Click to zoom in, right click to zoom out. You can hit ESC to quit. But then, you must restart EXCEL and do it all over again to get back.
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"These words did not originate with Abraham Lincoln, however -- they appear in none of his collected writings or speeches, and they did not surface until more than twenty years after his death (and were immediately denounced as a "bold, unflushing forgery" by John Nicolay, Lincoln's private secretary). This spurious Lincoln warning gained currency during the 1896 presidential election season (when economic policy, particularly the USA's adherence to the gold standard, was the major campaign issue), and ever since then it has been cited and quoted by innumerable journalists, clergymen, congressmen, and compilers of encyclopedias."
Anyone seen Brazil?
Someone needs to copyright the DeCSS song
X11
Oddly enough, when I got polled about the X-Box a few weeks ago, 11X was the alternative name they asked me about.
Try Water Joe!
Also, Bob Dole is being considered to play the part of The Terror
Strom Thurmond would look more the part.
They want you to hook it up to your Sony TV through your Sony VCR and have all the Sony branded media stream right on through.
You could always play them on your Sony VAIO computer...
Speaking of patents and leeches,
The judge dismissed the Imatec patent lawsuit against Apple saying Imatec didn't own the patents and ColorSync didn't infringe on them anyway.
Got this from a mailing list a while back.
m l#excel97
Try it, it works.
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http://www.insanely-great.com/news/98/5/news04.ht
"FLIGHT SIMULATOR" HIDDEN INSIDE EXCEL 97
It's pretty basic. Check the credits on the "hillside"
Ever wonder why Microsoft applications become slower with each new release?
Apparently the constant rain in Redmond has driven Microsoft to obsessive flights of fancy. Below are instructions on how to access a little flight simulator that was inexplicably hidden by precipitous programmers deep inside Excel 97.
1. In Excel 97, open a new blank work sheet.
2. Press F5 (go to function) and type X97:L97 in the 'Reference' box.
Then click OK
3. Now hit your tab key once (you should end up in cell M97).
4. Here's the tricky part: press CTRL + SHIFT while clicking once on the 'chart wizard' icon (the one at the top with the blue-yellow-red bar chart).
5. After a few moments, you should be flying.
6. Steer with the mouse, accel and decel with the left and rightmouse buttons respectively, and look for the monolith with the program credits. You can exit the screen by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
7. Steer with the mouse. Moving it sideways moves you sideways.
8. Acceleration depends on mouse acceleration. Left Click to zoom in, right click to zoom out. You can hit ESC to quit. But then, you must restart EXCEL and do it all over again to get back.