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I am planning on starting this contest later in the year. But, if it goes as I hope, I will hold contests on all sorts of subjects, one after the other, with a lead up time to let people know what contests are coming, and what the deadlines are. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Thread
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Please add Paul Sinasohn to this box :-) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Log
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Name: Tamy Place: Waukesha, WI Occupation: Student Date: Received 7-29-99 Sent 7-30-99 Local color added to box: Special Report from Sunday paper, all about Wisconsin, things to do, things to see... almost kept this myself! Pieces taken: 4 red (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Reading Serial Port
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David Boosalis <dboosalis@mail.arc.nasa.gov> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly: (...) "Use The Source, Luke". Check the source code of the downloader in the Unix port of Interactive C. (...) I think you want 9600, not 921kbaud (unless (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Bass
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Not like the fish, like the cleff. This is the grooviest minifig I have ever made, which isn't saying much, but ah well. I'm too lazy right now to make a real page for him, but I should get around to it later tonight. All criticism appreciated, and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: LNP Repost (Me banging on about checksums)
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(...) You will miss about 1 in 256 errors that you do not catch earlier using collision detection. I think your error rate per message will be much less than 1 in 256 if you (can?) get the collision detection code right. But we shouldn't argue the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Golden Ticket Event (Adult LEGO play day)
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(...) Me too! (And Suzanne if she's not too busy on Sunday) --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: why is no-one saying anything about my parts?
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(...) Ok, I took a look at a few of your parts this morning. <flame> The reason people haven't said boo about your parts is because they know it will be wasting their breath. There is still a lot lacking in the parts I viewed. The incessant bugging (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New SW contest proposal
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(...) I do applaud your effort and the spirit behind the contest. (...) One of the reasons is that AFOL's are often some of the busiest people. I want enter a model in Pat's contest, and I told him I might, but I have to polish up my model first, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Dead handyboard?
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(...) Antistatic bags are conductive, right? You might have shorted the power to the ground via the bag itself, thereby killing your battery. Once a NiCad cell shorts, then it will can a large amount of current from a charger, possibly killing off a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Millennium Slizer (Throw Bot)
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Watch out for the Millennium Slizer (Throw Bot) to be released later this year, set number 8520. Retail price to be two to three times current price of normal Slizer sets. No further details. Grahame (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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(...) that correct Url is : (URL) 144 technic models : ) thanks for the link! fast loading too ! John (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: LNP Repost (Me banging on about checksums)
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(...) With much respect, I would suggest that CRC8 is probably not sufficient, especially if we go for a broadcast (Ethernet) solution, where lots of collisions, and hence errors, will probably occur - with CRC8 you will probably miss about 1 in 256 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | www.legomindstorms.com/press/
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All right, I got the Norwegian image link to work by switching browsers. But I'm still having trouble with the first link. When I download the link (URL) into a file, it contains the following: <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: mouse-click bug in mindstorms software?
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My response would be to drop the mindstorm software. I hated it cause those red blocks won't let me put 2 in a program unless I use command blocks and even then it ticked me off. Also I would do NQC, GPB, or VB instead, far better than the mindstorm (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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(...) You use the part numbers from the web page and then call the Lego Shop at home group in your country. The USA phone numbers are posted in the link (URL) or from the Shop-at-home specials link from the main lugent webpage Have fun ! John (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: repost of: ATV with rubber band suspension
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Sorry, I should stop being so impatient. Glad you liked it though! (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | another Lego clone
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I recently found a Lego-clone (not a very good one) at a discount store. The pieces include bricks, 1/2-height plates, and a few wheels and medium-slope roof pieces, in about 10 different colors. They are slightly larger than regular Lego bricks -- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: RIS version 1.5 coming this fall
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I think I'm with Kekoa on this one. TLG have always been very hot on what they consider right & wrong (most of us have read the bit on www.lego.com where they take the time to list what is OK & what is not). They take copyright/patent/trademark (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: green medium slopes
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(...) Leave it to me to forget a set: 1 2x2 - 7171 Mos Espa Pod Racers Rob +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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