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(...) Okey-dokely. I'll put empty entries for the ones I don't have yet. They'll be unanswered for the time being, but this will ensure that the filenames are held. Heh, and I was working so hard to get the number of unanswered items *down*! ;-) (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Do you separate old vs. new LEGO?
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(...) My old lego is constantly at war with my new lego. I build tanks- like vehicles from my old 70's lego (mostly yellow universal and blue/grey space sets) and have battles with the new lego. My old lego vehicles are manned by old space and (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Jeremy: (...) Fine. I would like to reserve these names for entries from the LDraw FAQ: who_wrote_ldraw bmp_to_dat_conversion changing_hinge_betwe..._dat-steps changing_ldraw_output_location clear_ldraw_parts ldraw_colours comments_in_dat-files (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Todd: (...) Yes. I think Jeremy's suggestion (".../entry_file_name") is a reasonable solution for this. (...) Each question will appear as a separate file on ldraw.org (the LDraw FAQ is more than 40 kb _text_ at the moment). (...) Five in the 32 (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Already done. Actually, this is already being done, albeit indirectly. I've been giving the FAQ items longish and semi-informative filenames; e.g. "number_bricks_sf_to...c.en.faq". This significantly reduces the odds of getting a duplicate (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Minifigs...
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(...) <snip> (...) I definitly agree here. I actually like minifig's alot but not if they are like Jar Jar's head or Sebulla <sp?>. Especially Sebulla that little piece of twisted plastic is awful. Jar Jar's head is a nice shape but the least they (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Miniature Stepper Motors
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This is more of a general question about the size and resolution of stepper motors and linear actuators. Basically, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with very small high resolution actuators. I am trying to find out if stepper motors on (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Old Lego colors
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(...) Even though LEGO plates came out in 1963 (1x1 & 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 in parts packs 521, 520, 519 and 518 respectively), parts packs were the only way to purchase them at the time. The basic sets back then only carried the 2x8, 4x8, 6x8 and the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Jeremy: (...) [...] (...) OK. Will you take care of keeping a list of used entry names? (...) Skip the ".en.html#whatsitz". * Fixed language codes (".en") will give us unneccessary problems when translating the FAQ. * Todd will generate the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: trains and my original Railtech train cars...
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(...) Thomas Burger wrote (in part); (...) Hi Thomas. I've been a big fan of your RailTech line, and the LDRAW pages you've put up. Your train signals were one of the things that had encouraged me to design the electronics for lighting such train (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Suggestion for LDraw FAQ
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(...) [snip] (...) This is definitely something you need to do. I think that if you change the rather dull description "Ongoing maintenance and development" into "Release of new parts, programs and add on's" that item on voting procedures will catch (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) It would be super-cool if we had a cross-platform way to give some sort of "see-also" link from one FAQ question to another -- so that the links could be handled in a way most appropriate to their target platform... In an LDraw-oriented FAQ (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: New Freestyle Train Cars and Truck
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(...) Concerning the fenders on the Fritz-Homann delivery truck: I must acknowledge that I've seen these hinge pieces used for fenders by others. From memory, I recall Eric Brok and Bram Lambrecht (spelling?) uses the 1x5 stud 1 plate think hinges (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) I'm just curious, FMI (1): Why generate them on-the-fly when you only really need to generate them once after a change? What advantage does on-the-fly generation give us? Or when you say transparent caching, that means that the FAQ items are (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Old Lego colors
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(...) One thing that we need to remember was that in the late 50's and thru much of the 60's LEGO consisted mainly of TOWN sets . And in both Europe and USA/Canada (Samsonite) TOWN consisted of the Town Plan system. The (Samsonite) Town Plan set (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDRAW Models for K'NEX
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(...) Thought about it, never did it. Steve (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Set the Zoom/Scale to 50% on the main LDraw Add-On window before you go into the HTML function. Warning: current versions (2.0 or higher) of LDAO die badly in the HTML Generator. This will be fixed in the next version, which won't be in the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why are people buying Starwars Lego off ebay?
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Oh, that I had the wealth of Larry Pieniazek, such that I could afford to buy LEGO sets to my heart's desire. Alas, I'm feeling impoverished after my successful bid at becoming LEGO SW complete, and having to buy plane tickets, and having to pay my (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifigs...
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(...) I just hope that whatever they do make, they make well. I was kind of disappointed by the Jar Jar minifig (the head being undecorated) but I *love* Jar Jar's torso -- it's so perfect for Castle peasants. Same with so many of the other new (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Txt2Dat, utility to convert text to LDraw
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I've created a small utility program (and supporting DAT files) to create LDraw displays from text messages. It's currently very limited; it only handles numbers, letters, and some whitespace. To check it out, go to my page at (URL) and follow the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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