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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another reason for the slowdown is large e-mail inboxes. Every time a person logs into the Pine mail program, his or her inbox is accessed. Bigger inboxes take longer to open and thus put more stress on the server...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slow Servers Should Be Fixed Within Weeks | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...that HASCS has pinpointed the source of the system weakness, it can work on a more permanent solution. After a time-consuming analysis, HASCS calculated what equipment is needed and placed the order. The equipment is complex, and will take up to several weeks to arrive...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slow Servers Should Be Fixed Within Weeks | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Vegas is Disney World up 30 notches times 30 hotels. It's the ultimate postmodern landscape--a dizzying simulacrum of our collective consciousness. In other words, it is pop culture. Just take a virtual journey down the Strip--the pirate-themed Treasure Island, the luxurious tropical visions at the Mirage, the canals (with gondola rides!) and warm cannolis at The Venetian, the Arthurian legend at Excalibur, the cobblestone streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...seen the first three and "Mystere" is definitely my favorite--but that, perhaps, is because it was the first one I saw. Performed with live music (a combination of techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...these four films (all presumably good ones), you'll have to spend almost 12 hours in a movie theater over Christmas break. But if you want to watch Toy Story 2 four times - a movie that no doubt is better than any of those will be - it'll take you a curt six hours... Speaking of Toy Story 2, I'm still raving about it. The first Toy Story racked in $225 million and launched computer animation as a viable film medium - but more significantly gave us an engaging storyline (like Aladdin, it appealed to kids, teens, and adults...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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