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Posted: 18 March 2008 04:26 PM   [ Ignore ]
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provasive|harbinger|jedrzejak@promax.media.pl|06/14/05 at 16:53:05|harbinger|xx|0|193.151.96.18|Hi! I would like to know what
is the meaning of two words: "provasive" and "enstrong". Thanks!!!||
Re: provasive|Flaminius|flaminius@fastmail.fm|06/14/05 at 18:10:02|Flaminius|xx|0|218.231.194.172|Web search by "enstrong
" reveals little except that harbinger’s question turns up in several other fora.  Are you sure this is not a non-wo
rd?

"Provasive" looks like a misspelling of pervasive.  E.g., pervasive computing retrieves more than 2,
230,000 hits but provasive computing only nine.

Flam||
Re: provasive|Tim Ward|boonognog@yahoo.com|06/14/05 at 22:36:55|tcward|xx|0|65.7.244.19 12.21.160.190|Harbinger, perchance do
you have the quote(s) that introduced these words to your vocabulary?

-Tim

P.S. Welcome to the Agora!||06/15/05
at 11:14:38|tcward
Re: provasive|yurifink|yrfnkls@yahoo.com|06/15/05 at 16:42:16|yurifink|xx|0|82.80.233.167|What is quad?
a block of type met
al of the same belly-to-back size as the letters but not as as high and 1/2, 1, 2, or 3 or more ems in width that is used in s
pacing and blank lines.

What is en?
the set dimension of an en quad used as a unit of measure

What is em?

the set dimension of an em quad used as a unit of measure.

What does a type-setter say? "My quad is en strong!&quo;t;

‘Provasive, Inc.’ is a firm  http://www.provasive.com/Services.html
Its formal meaning: going forward.


Regards.

 

 


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Re: provasive|ferjll|ferjll@hotmail.com|03/02/08 at 06:17:27|ferjll|xx|0|72.43.174.70|here is a quote!!

(Bill Gates int
erviewed by Charlie Rose)

"I think NATURAL INTERFACE…. where we are provassive with speech…. and ink…. and c
ameras and things like that, I think thats actually the hottest way that we are going to make using computing and digital appr
oaches more mainstream than they are today"

i heard that word many times before and I always associated it with be
ing aggressive as a mixture between "PRO" and "AGGRESSIVE" or something like it!

PRO.- an argument
in favor of a course in action ??? ???|NS|
Re: provasive|douglang|douglang@batelco.com.bh|03/02/08 at 07:30:43|douglang|xx|0|213.42.21.61|Provasive sounds like an unauth
orised prostate examination…..

Enstrong might be a diminution of the characteristics of superglue, which is effenstro
ng.||
Re: provasive|bandito|lindlipp@aol.com|03/02/08 at 18:51:45|bandito|xx|0|192.236.50.204 206.209.9.92 192.236.50.205|Esoteric c
yberspeak "enstrong" with Engl. letter n clearly spelt out of negative adv. or particle "not" and t
herefore meaning "weak or effeminate" which should definitely rank among cardinal virtues in this post 9/11 w
orld of a software designer here program hacker there, however, somewhat technical "provasive" can only describe the
very precise smart end of any machine tool or delicate instrument put to certain use e.g. so much for "inv
asive surgury when provasive risk management" yet holds our vital key to exceptionally successful healthcare admin
istration!||03/03/08 at 15:59:08|bandito
Re: provasive|douglang|douglang@batelco.com.bh|03/03/08 at 14:58:56|douglang|xx|0|82.194.62.230|Is the other end called a Band
ito ?||
Re: provasive|bandito|lindlipp@aol.com|03/03/08 at 16:04:00|bandito|xx|0|192.236.50.205|Nay, usually some kind of linear algor
ithm!||
Re: provasive|douglang|douglang@batelco.com.bh|03/05/08 at 16:33:26|douglang|xx|0|82.194.62.230|So if provasive is perfectly s
harp and precise, convasive would be perfectly blunt, and improvisasive would be spontaneously appropriate ?||
Re: provasive|bandito|lindlipp@aol.com|03/05/08 at 18:21:50|bandito|xx|0|24.220.222.214 206.209.8.202 192.236.50.239|Rather go
ahead perhaps with "extemporaneously appropriate" but I still prefer more amicable "improvisive" m
uch like standard "exploitive" already without supine letter a that you would most certainly find in the verb
al noun "exploitation" and, by the way, your somewhat neologous "convasive" looks to be a fairly safe bet!
||03/09/08 at 14:22:58|bandito
Re: provasive|Vocifera|webriter12@yahoo.com|03/15/08 at 15:43:09|Vocifera|xx|0|71.115.144.151|[quote author=douglang link=boar
d=idiom;num=1118782385;start=0#7 date=03/03/08 at 14:58:56]Is the other end called a Bandito ?

you have him mixed u
p with a horse.  You know Ban if you didn’t try our souls with words like neogolous, you could almost blend in. [yes, Virginia
, he fancies himself a
sesquepedalian.]

V.||03/15/08 at 15:49:40|Vocifera
Re: provasive|Vocifera|webriter12@yahoo.com|03/15/08 at 15:51:22|Vocifera|xx|0|71.115.144.151|

Provasive sounds like an
unauthorised prostate examination…..

this was good.  but the visuals are upsetting.

V.||
Re: provasive|bandito|lindlipp@aol.com|03/16/08 at 14:47:26|bandito|xx|0|24.220.222.214 206.209.8.136|Here I should gladly opt
for pseudo-intellectual "sesquepadalian" but you even failed to get elementary grammar "neogolous" absolu
tely correct—perhaps instead go with Ave Maria umpteen times before setting out!  Furthermore, the unmitigated joy[
/b] you so voluptuously expressed over chief insp. douglang’s unauthorized prostate exam strikes me as quite dumbfounded, if n
ot genderously spurious. ||03/17/08 at 12:16:15|bandito
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Posted: 18 March 2008 04:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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do we want more of these?
pm me. or something.

I see another 21 of them

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The creature was about fifty feet tall, with wide lapels, long dangling participles, & a pronounced gazetteer. 
“Aiyee!” shouted Legolam. “A Thesaurus!” “Maim!” roared the monster. “Mutilate, mangle, crush. See HARM.”

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Posted: 19 March 2008 05:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Not if they look like that, too hard to read.  The previous page setup was easier to navigate, has someone posted a guide on how to use this new one ?

did your photographer compose your tagline, or did he prefer soft focus to total carnage ?

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Posted: 19 March 2008 02:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Just like I maintained already: totally “repugnant” but a very cordial effort at lost data retrieval anyway—thank you so much!

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 19 March 2008 02:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Yes, that was a very coarse and off the cuff insert of just kinda raw post data from the old Agora forum .

Mr Lang, what might you need help with? You do seem to have logged in and posted successfully.

I think of most forum setups as allowing you to
1. read posts,
2.  preferably respond to other peoples postings
3. do searches on posts
4. setup a user profile,
5. maybe post semi-special stuff, Links, Html, photos, maybe audio or movies?
(don’t hold your breath for the video)

6. search posts and user ids and such.
7. report bogus/spammy/offensive posts
8. edit your posts

Some of the new features I am aware of that this forum software has that the older one did not include:
1. spell check
2.  limited support for UTF-8 (at least)and I think UTF-16,too,but I’m not sure how it is used,really,besides
just pasting it into the posting box, (dianevm,thinks,hmm,lets try that!).....
Ob Sie mit Ihrer Familie, Ihrem Partner oder mit Freunden verreisen: Mit dem DB Autozug genießen

<font size=+4I wonder if  regular html </font><font size=-2>works here?</font

I’m feeling like a rather polished writer today,so:
oza remontami i budowaniem jachtów zajmujemy się również ich projektowaniem. Aby mieć całkowitą pewność, że osiągi projektowanych jednostek będą bardzo dobre, korzystamy z pomocy profesjonalnego oprogramowania, dzięki któremu możemy sprawdzić, czy wszystkie obliczenia są optymalne. Wykonujemy również dokumentację przeznaczoną na obrabiarki numeryczne służące do wykonywania modeli 3d, a także na plotery, które wycinają gotowe elementy z arkuszy stali i sklejki.

Then we move to the levant:
וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְיָ | אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּכָל-לְבָֽבְךָ, וּבְכָל-נַפְשְׁךָ, וּבְכָל-מְאֹדֶֽךָ. וְהָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה, אֲשֶׁר | אָֽנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם, עַל-לְבָבֶֽךָ: וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ, וְדִבַּרְתָּ בָּם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ בְּבֵיתֶךָ, וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ בַדֶּרֶךְ וּֽבְשָׁכְבְּךָ,


Wow,m I’m feeling all multi-national!

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“Aiyee!” shouted Legolam. “A Thesaurus!” “Maim!” roared the monster. “Mutilate, mangle, crush. See HARM.”

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Posted: 19 March 2008 03:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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douglang - 19 March 2008 05:56 AM

..., has someone posted a guide on how to use this new one ?


I looked on the product site for a end-user guide or something that was specific tothe forums,but couldn’t
find anything.  As with any conversion,there will be different layout on the page of relatively standard functions.

If there is a specific issue,question or concern?
How to include an image attachment in a posting?
or that kind of stuff? (I’d really like simple ones like that).

I just went in and tried to allow “safe html” , so here goes the
test again:

Ahh, I see
This will allow “safe” HTML (<  b >, <  i >, < u >, <  em >, < strike >, < strong > , < pre >, < code >, < blockquote >,
< h2 >, <  h3 >, <  h4 >, <h5>, <h6>) to be kept so that they are interpreted by the browser when the entry is viewed. All other HTML is converted to character entities and the raw code will be seen upon viewing.

is

this <u>thing</u>  <strike>ON</strike>  ?  raspberry


EE docs page on this stuff

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Posted: 20 March 2008 07:50 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Wow,m I’m feeling all multi-national!

As you very well should, O all text protocol hypermaster, but wait until you go & try some Vulgate Latin with or w/o Patristic Greek, you may just begin to feel like a regular cleric!  Now I recognize the exceedingly familiar, quadratic “square” Heb. script of first Aramaic origin terminus post quem 586 BC then perhaps Stuttgarter Erneuerung at least two arduous millennia thereafter; such opulent luxury, however, as tragically debilitates so many American hopefuls who incline to venture plus ultra has thus kept me from comprehensively absorbing those several & various systems designed to convert the august, yet elusive Russian language.

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2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
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Posted: 20 March 2008 09:25 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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The previous page setup was easier to navigate, has someone posted a guide on how to use this new one ?

But, wouldn’t that take all the excitement out of the situation? (jk)

We don’t currently have a definitive guide to using the forum, but are happy to answer any questions you would care to post here. The structure is the same as the previous one, but will allow us to serve you better with more maintainability, more reliability (up-time) ease of feature addition and greater speed.

And, weren’t you really sick of hospital green?

While there is no longer a link to “Most recent 10 posts” (which was a bit weird anyway, since it delivered them to you out of context), this forum will show any “New” posts to you as dark blue folders, and posts you have reviewed as light blue. In addition, in the rightmost column, it shows you the most recent post for each thread, so you can quickly scan them to see if they might be of interest.

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וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְיָ | אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּכָל-לְבָֽבְךָ, וּבְכָל-נַפְשְׁךָ, וּבְכָל-מְאֹדֶֽךָ. וְהָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה, אֲשֶׁר | אָֽנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם, עַל-לְבָבֶֽךָ: וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ, וְדִבַּרְתָּ בָּם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ בְּבֵיתֶךָ, וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ בַדֶּרֶךְ וּֽבְשָׁכְבְּךָ,

Modern Isreali, probably out of context; no delete switch in new configuration, so how to strike?

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 22 March 2008 08:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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I’m feeling like a rather polished writer today, so:
[P]oza remontami i budowaniem jachtów zajmujemy się również ich projektowaniem. Aby mieć całkowitą pewność, że osiągi projektowanych jednostek będą bardzo dobre, korzystamy z pomocy profesjonalnego oprogramowania, dzięki któremu możemy sprawdzić, czy wszystkie obliczenia są optymalne. Wykonujemy również dokumentację przeznaczoną na obrabiarki numeryczne służące do wykonywania modeli 3d, a także na plotery, które wycinają gotowe elementy z arkuszy stali i sklejki.

Whoops, back to normal grade—only upon further inspection not august Russian but old Polish news:

“Besides remodelling and construction of yachts, we are likewise occupied with their design.  In order to be entirely certain that performance of drafted units will be very good, we benefit from the assistance of professional software, thanks to which we may check if all calculations are optimal.  We also perform documentation allocated toward digital machine tools, serving for the realization of 3D models, and toward plotters as well, which cut out ready-made components from steel sheets and plywood.”

Whew, now you see why I keep away from such commercial technobabble!

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 22 March 2008 08:33 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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Bandito, you asked:


“How to strike”


Did you have a way of ignoring specific postings before? or
editing other peoples?

You should be able to edit your own, if you’d like.

Are you describing the lack of a particular feature?

Just curious and trying to keep things working.,

d!

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The creature was about fifty feet tall, with wide lapels, long dangling participles, & a pronounced gazetteer. 
“Aiyee!” shouted Legolam. “A Thesaurus!” “Maim!” roared the monster. “Mutilate, mangle, crush. See HARM.”

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Posted: 22 March 2008 08:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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When I am logged in as my non admin user (this one,dianevm3) I have buttons for my own post,after
it is posted, that say

[Edit]

etc, so in the worst case,  you could edit a post of your own down to nothing.

Also if you PM me,or one of the admins, we can delete a post of yours.

I will investigate whether self-post deletion can be turned on.

Would that do it for ya?

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Posted: 25 March 2008 02:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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Please excuse my temporary absence: Deleting one integral message then another can indeed prove counter-productive, especially if I happen to be in mad “rush” mode after some yet to be named destination—perhaps I wasn’t clear enough!

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 27 March 2008 08:01 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Ob Sie mit Ihrer Familie, Ihrem Partner oder mit Freunden verreisen: Mit dem DB Autozug genießen

“Whether you go away with your family, your partner or with friends: enjoy with GFR [German Federal Railways] motorail”

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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