[Cialug] OT: flag pole repair

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Wed May 14 14:04:56 CDT 2008


pot/kettle/black syndrome.

-dc

Neal Daringer wrote:
> wow what a nerd.
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
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>> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
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>>> This is going to sound like the oddest problem, but I was wondering if
>>> anyone here knows anything about flag pole repair or knows someone who
>>> does it. The rope is broke and stuck at the top of the pole so the
>>> flag won't go up or down and the bottom of the flag is not tethered.
>>>
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>> I had heard that it was in alpha, but I didn't know MS came out with
>> their FlagPole (FP) edition already.  Your problem did ring a bell
>> though: I read from the FP Alpha testing list that this is what would
>> happen consistently when they (MS) would run things up the flagpole.
>> Running ideas up the flagpole such as "adhering to open standards" would
>> just cause the rope to catch at the top.  Last I read for the KB
>> postings, the only fix is a hard yank to the chord or a reinstall.
>>
>> - --
>> Paul Gray
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