[Cialug] OT: flag pole repair

[Neal Daringer]

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:
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
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