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I just wanted to let everyone know that the 'Mikes of Columbus' are making good on their promise of fast turnarounds. Unlike some auctions where you may wait for months to get your LEGO, the 'Mikes' are working hard to get the winnings out. I know (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: "There are always possibilities" (possible braod Ep. II Spoilers)
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(...) Did anyone know that in Sanskrit, "gunga" means "water"? Like the Ganges River, which the locals call the Gunga. And "Gungan" means "of water" or "underwater" in some dialects. I guess that's the logic for naming them that. Just thought y'all (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Clear line between Auctions and Trades
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(...) Hrmmm.... that's interesting to hear. I have been executing a command each time I read Lugnet discussion groups that changes my sig from my 4 line version that includes a reference to JABA to a 2 line version that does not, mainly because I (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: does anyone have the old version of ldlite i need for the ldao minifig modeler?
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(...) I will mail you the previous version. -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don't forget yellow chalices to represent gold. Would magic wands be a good addition? Steve (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to dither colors
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(...) 512. You could say this is a good mnemonic: 5 and 1 and 2 is 512. 5 - 1 = 4. 4 and 2 is 42. 42 is The Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. You *could* say it's a good mnemonic, except it's pretty stupid. :-, Cheers, - (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Just link to it! I understand that you want to have a standard style across the LDraw resources. And ldraw.org should always be willing to host LDraw-related content (utilities, information, etc) for anyone who wants to contribute it. But just (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: signals / legOS internals
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(...) Ummmmm, I don't want to speak for Markus, but most embedded kernels (and I use a lot of them) use the term signal and semaphore interchangably. I'm willing to bet a couple of bricks that the intent is to implement semaphores to facilitate (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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(...) I agree with you, but the advantage of the 'virtual folder' approach is that it would continue to work with LDraw, without any weird sub-directory references needed in multi-file models. Which brings me back to my original idea of having LDAO (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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(...) As I understand Jamie's idea, all model DAT's are physically stored in the /models directory. So you could only have one Ship1.dat. When you tried to create a second file with the same name, the software should warn you. Steve (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Supercar auction ends tonight
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(...) John, you should win the Internet Lego Marketing Award! Your presentation & ad copy are superbe - I wouldn't at all be surprised to find you do this professionally in your NLL (Non-Lego Life) Cheers, Derick (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: signals / legOS internals
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(...) Because they are useful at times, and Markus directed me to implement them. I think the upcoming network code is going to use them, too (at least, that's what I heard). Just 'cause they're there doesn't mean you have to use them. (...) How do (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to dither colors
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What's the formula for calculating a dithered color? color 1 * ??? + color 2. What value is ??? -John Van (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Has anyone...treasury?
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Nick Goetz wrote in message ... (...) as (...) LOL :-) -- Have fun! John's Lego AUCTION Page - several sets on auction, more soon! (6067,6023,4558,8880 ++++ more!) (URL) Lego Web TRADE Page - updating it soon! (URL) ( ig88888888@stlnet.com - same on (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 6067, 6023, 6783, 8855, 8849, 1182, 1183 end soon
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Hello everyone, I have two of the most popular Castle sets now on auction, as well as a variety of other sets. See my other post for Train sets. I have the following sets ending Sunday night: Lego Adventurers Promo from Germany 1183 Auction ends (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | My Train auctions (end Sunday night)
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Hello everyone, I am back and 90% of my past overdue deals are finally finished. I finally had the time to list some more auctions, and now have the time to let this group know about them. For Train sets, I have the following sets ending Sunday (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Has anyone...treasury?
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Hey if you make the vault big enough, you could put a London Bus in there as well ! (Does that qualify for Lego humor?) -Nick (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi group, I have a Supercar for auction on eBay, which ends at 19:55 PST tonight(around 11 PM eastern). I have added a link to my current auction list to my sig or you can go to the Supercar auction directly: (URL) Thanks and... -- Have fun! John's (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: signals / legOS internals
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(...) This second methed doesn't really solve anything since you still have to communicate with the compute thread from the receive thread. (...) But what can you actually do in the signal handler? Modify the state of the state of the executing (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone want to get together next week?
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(...) Ok, I can do: Mon 6/28 6:00 pm or later Tue 6/29 6:00 pm or later Wed 6/30 7:30 pm or later On Mon or Tue, if we start at 6:00, we can either order pizza or something, or people can bring food, otherwise we should start at 7 or 7:30. Also, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| | Re: Old sets
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John DiRienzo <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote in article <FDsrL4.F6G@lugnet.com>... (...) <01bebdb0$fdce44c0$0...rbrown>... (...) and (...) girlfriend (...) get (...) Hey, thanks for your reply John! I gotta say though, that my girlfriend won't be (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Self Supporting Pod Racers
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(...) WARNING: THESE INSTRUCTIONS REQUIRE COLD, HEARTLESS MUTATION OF UNEXPECTING AND INNOCENT LEGO PIECES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. To make Quadrinaros' Pod, I used two standard energy beams from Anakin's Podracer. Attach them in an X, then tie clear (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: superAUCTION 5: MIB Trades Welcome!!
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) buy/sell/trade (...) brief (...) compact (...) That is cool. That is what I was talking about a few minutes ago, possibly in another thread, and maybe even in a different group (or perhaps in several groups). (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hey ya'll! I was wondering if anyone within the Netherlands was tired of their buckets, 'cause I could use some for storage. Not talking about bricks, just need empty buckets. Well? Anyone gotta get rid of them spare buckets? Please, contact me, so (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Jeez, I need to pay attention to where I am posting. We *were* in that other group, too! No more posting from me today. (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: New Challenge
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(...) Good idea Todd, but there is a hitch. What surface is the dumbell on? Can the bot pick up the dumbell? Can the dumbell be in a cart? etc.... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Indside of a (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Old sets
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Arjan Brugman wrote in message <01bebdb0$fdce44c0$0...rbrown>... (...) Howdy! (...) Its really hard to say what these different sets are worth - condition and completeness are very big factors. However, you can assure your girlfriend that they are (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: signals / legOS internals
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(...) This is the same thing as most modern RTOS use, called various things. The terminology I use for this is FLIH/SLIH (first level interrupt handler and second level interrupt handler). Coupled with lock priority inheritance, it makes for a very (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Clear line between Auctions and Trades
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John DiRienzo wrote in message ... <snipped my previous post> (...) .auction (...) OOps, I thought we were in that other group then. Oh well, I will make an announcement (or two) to this group momentarily. -- Have fun! John's Lego AUCTION Page - (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Let's just do it next week. Jimmy (...) so? (...) share (...) also (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) his (...) Yah, I think so too - I have done this. I just thought it seemed uncouthe to copy my auction updates (which I don't post to .auction too frequently either) to .B-S-T. (...) - (...) The man's a genius! (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Yup! (...) Something like that would be wonderful. (...) Hmmm, I wonder if off-site pages would really benefit from a rigid template, because that could be left to the on-site pages for the subgroups. (It'd be nearly impossible to enforce an (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: signals / legOS internals
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(...) In OSE interrupt processes (first class processes, that is why we don't call them ISR's) use OS mechanisms (usually messages) to communicate with normal processes. The OS handles all update of shared data structures (such as message queues). A (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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I'm gonna butt in here and say that I would prefer having actual folders to store different themes in. Say an actual folder for space, etc. I would prefer that over a flooded /models folder. Just my $.02 Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: New Challenge
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If no further details are provided, than this is a trivial challenge. No robot needed either. Take a dumbbell with disk weights, put it on a smooth, hard surface so that it can roll easily. Connect a winch to a Lego motor. Mount it on a base plate, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: superAUCTION 5: MIB Trades Welcome!!
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What happened to lugnet.market.theory or technique or whatever it is? Sybrand Bonsma wrote in message ... (...) I disagree with Mark. I had several auctions a while ago, and the method I used to sneak my list on to b-s-t was to make an announcement (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Has anyone...treasury?
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You know, reading this I had an idea. Someone mentioned using the 2x2 chrome dishes from aquazone (originally used as actually reflectors for the 9v lights) as treasure. But what if you stuck one of those on top of a light saber handle? It might (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: signals / legOS internals
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(...) An ISR can certainly modify data that is used by the executing code. For example, if it doesn't save registers that are used the interrupted code will certainly be affected. In fact, the ISR is of little use if it doesn't modify data that can (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:376e43ee.544316...net.com... (...) through (...) And say I'm working in my "Space" virtual directory and I create a model called Ship1.dat. Does the actual Ship1.dat go into the /models (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But hardware interrupts schedule a different context (the interrupt process or ISR) from the one already executing. A Unix-style signal asynchronously signal interrupts the executing process and jumps to a different location in the code that (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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