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(...) So finally this brings us to a technique that combines the predictive abilities of the conditional lines with the runtime advantages of the stencil and BFC algorithms. Think of the conditional line as a pair of triangles with a shared edge (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Deactivate Tractor Beam
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(URL) Click the pic for more... AC (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Allen Smith wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks for the insight Allen, I'm also not a 3D guru, but I like to fool around with it as much as anyone interested in 3d programming. Your method is roughly the same as what LD4DStdudio does, (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: From Dan Brown
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(...) This sounds so cool. Too bad I'm on the opposite side of the state. :-( Jeff (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) And another thing... The BFC technique actually has an advantage over conditional lines because it works on the entire scene after it's been assembled. Whereas the conditional lines at the edges of the primitives are created in advance, and (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) (URL) technique and the conditional lines both target the same edges lines where the front facing polygons meet the back facing polygons, so the results should be quite similar. (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) You can ignore the conditional lines and achieve the same effect with display lists using the stencil buffer techniques presented here: (URL) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Adult Fans Take LEGO Creations to a New Level
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Adult Fans Take Lego Creations to a New Level Adult Fans of LEGO: Earliest enthusiasts come of age and keep right on building By DIANA MARSZALEK For The Associated Press June 15, 2010 (AP) Around age 14, Christopher Piccirillo sank into what he (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) Heh, you hit that problem too? I've played around writing an OpenGL LDraw renderer based exclusively on display lists, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to handle conditional lines in this setup. Has anyone else solved this (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) Hi Roland, Bricksmith now recursively flattens the geometry for each referenced top-level part then sorts it according to primitive type (triangles, quads, lines). Since the primitives are sorted, each type can be enclosed in a single glBegin (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw BFC Tool
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(...) Stupid me Link on sourceforge: (URL) Tim (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Monster Chess pits LEGO bots in game of awesome
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(...) Nicely played. Maybe they could link it up with my (URL) program,and they wouldn't need to use that external computer ;) ROSCO (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | SR 3D Builder and flex parts
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Hi everybody! I have published a new video of my application to show you how flex parts will be implemented. It's just a preview but it worth a look!! If you are discouraged using lSynth, this maybe the solution! The video at (URL) the new release, (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New trains coming
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(...) As per: (URL) passenger train is now available in US. A *slight* throwback to 7745, but quite different stylings 25 years on. Also slightly similar to Virgin trains in the UK - perhaps there's something more similar in mainland Europe or east (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Hi Kevin, Sorry I replied to the wrong message, that's what you get if you read the group in a newsgroup client and post at the site. Still hoping Allan could share some insight on the (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw BFC Tool
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(...) Cool! Where does one find an executable? Kevin (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Perth Model Railway Show 2010 Pics
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(...) (URL) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Hello Yann, 2010/6/15 Yann Vernier <yann@algonet.se>: (...) I really would prefer to see the interrupt code running to disabling all interrupts for several milliseconds, loosing several ticks and disabling all sensors during this time. Did you apply (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LDraw BFC Tool
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The time is up. There is no need to edit thousand lines of code anymore if you are in trouble with BFC-Certification! I have written a tool which requires .NET framework 3.5 and managed DirectX 9 to run. With this tool you are able to change wrong (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Monster Chess pits LEGO bots in game of awesome
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From Cnet.com By Matt Hickey Monster Chess pits LEGO bots in game of awesome I hate playing chess. I don't hate the game; in fact it's pure strategy, something I love. But despite years of practice, I still almost never win. And now, it would seem, (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) I've recently mucked about with the Power Functions protocol, and got a proof of concept running on the RCX using brickOS. The main problem is that it's quite timing sensitive, so this code only worked reliably with interrupts disabled (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) Hi Roland, Just to be clear, Allan recoded and achieved this fantastic performance improvement. Kevin (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Hi, Keving Just from a technical interest, how did you achieve that boost? I'm in the midst of writing a new LDraw renderer myself, so I'm very interested in any possible (...) (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Perth Model Railway Show 2010 Pics
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I like this clever use of monorail tracks: (URL) (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(...) ...snip.... (...) Allan, Congratulations on such a great improvement! Keep up the good work. Kevin (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Bricksmith 2.4: Faster. Much Faster.
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.4> adds the following features: Drawing speed improvements of up to 1200% 64-bit native on Mac OS X 10.6 Viewports fill their entire frame Supports displaying the newly-standardized direct RGB color syntax Supports displaying (...) (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés samedi 12 juin 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Le train de passagers 7938 ** par Gilles (...) (14 years ago, 13-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | My latest MOC; Volvo NL12 with conveyor belt trailer
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Yes, I indead this one before. That was back in '97 but I wanted to build the remake for many years. October last year I started with this model to have it finished in May this year. It's much more realistic than its ancestor and works much better (...) (14 years ago, 13-Jun-10, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | From Dan Brown
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Hi all. I am back. It has been awhile since I have posted anything from just me. I am no longer on Bricklink. And I have taken back seat at the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum (daily operations). I am back to building again for the 1st time in well (...) (14 years ago, 13-Jun-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fig-TEES(tm) Now you can have your company logo on a compatble part
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(...) Coming soon. (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Kernel freeze when attempting to use rotation sensor
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Hi, I've tried using the latest BrickOS and the latest BIBO with patches (from here: (URL) both with the same result. I don't know if nobody's really used a rotation sensor in 4 years (unlikely), or if my code just fails (likely), but every time I (...) (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Five Seconds in Datsville
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Here's my first animation from Datsville. Took one night to prepare, took an hour to render the 74 frames, takes 5 seconds to watch the result. (URL) (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: I can stop building steam engines now...
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(...) Thanks for the kind words Ben. I was quite tickled with crater plates myself, though it all happened accidentally. After a few folks complained about my backgrounds for earlier MOC pictures I decided to reach back and get the 48x48 baseplates (...) (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Perth Model Railway Show 2010 Pics
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Hi All, The Perth Model Railway Show was a huge success! 40,000 people through the doors and most of them crowding around our display! Take a look at my pics here... (URL) visit our site... (URL) Adult Lego Society. (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | WHaCKOLuG - June, Sunday the 20th
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Hi all, Here is your friendly reminder that Sunday the 20th is our monthly dinner at 6:30 pm at Angels Diner in Guelph, Ontario. Special note, many of our members will be off to Brick World so they will not be in attendance, as well, it is Fathers (...) (14 years ago, 11-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: June bugs, and dinner
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(...) Wow, and you dont rub this in to my socialism soapbox rants??? (...) LOL, did you type this with a straight face??? See you at 7. Wink. Janey Red Brick (14 years ago, 11-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Portable Lego Sundial
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(...) Merci, Philo. I have been working on another dial design I will be posting about soon. (14 years ago, 11-Jun-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: I can stop building steam engines now...
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(...) Hi Benn! Very cool engines and building techniques - thanks for sharing them with us! I especially liked your use of crate plates to create the illusion of smoke rising from the smoke stack. Brilliant idea! Ben (14 years ago, 10-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | TRU sale June 11-17
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Toys R Us flyer good from Friday June 11 to Thursday June 17th Buy 1 Get 1 1/2 off on all Toy Story toys (LEGO and other brands). Shows a picture of 7590 Woody and Buzz to the Rescue. 20% off on these (three) LEGO sets: 7747 Wind Turbine Transport (...) (14 years ago, 10-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Portable Lego Sundial
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(...) How cute, well designed and useful at the same time! Philo (14 years ago, 10-Jun-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo.‏
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(...) Actually they chose Toronto a long while ago for a Lego fan convention. But they weren't sure if they could handle the crowds and security so they decided on hosting the G20 & G8 meetings to see if they are up to the task :)) (14 years ago, 10-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Theed Diversion
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(URL) Click the pic for more... AC (14 years ago, 10-Jun-10, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo
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A Flickr image pool has bee created, so if you use Flickr, you can add your entry here: (URL) (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo.‏
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(...) ...snip... I misread this post and booked off the end of August of this year. Now I have to wait until January to book off the real dates. I am looking forward to this. Cheers, Jude (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Fig-TEES(tm) Now you can have your company logo on a compatble part
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(...) OooooOooo. Pictures? Steve (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo
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(...) or better Still.. Please Post you entry (or a link to your entry) Here. (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Portable Lego Sundial
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This little sundial can be used anywhere on the globe to accurately tell time to within a few minutes. (URL) Building and set-up instructions are now up at 62 Bricks (URL) (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Re: My MOC: Clockwork Do-nothing-machine
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Bravo, sir. It is quite frustrating to see something amazing on the internet, have the idea to recreate it in LEGO, further have the idea that it could be entirely mechanical, only to have someone else execute the MOC first, and exceedingly well, at (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo.‏
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(...) So you will just have to leave the east coast a day earlier... Or... Hop on a plain at your international airport and fly in... I think I recall hearing that Porter is flying between Moncton and The Toronto Island Airport now... (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo.‏
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(...) Hey Jeff! That IS great news! While Toronto might be the hub of Canada... Moncton is the hub of... the Maritimes We have an international airport, you know! And we had AC/DC in concert last year, sooo... Nope, I'm NOT jealous! Just that is 16 (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo
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(...) Forgot one last thing... Entries can be sent to jenn AT thebrickchick DOT com With a topic of BricksNorth Logo Contest. (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | CONTEST - BricksNorth needs a logo.‏
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Posted on Behalf of Jenn Wagner (jenn@thebrickchick.com) BricksNorth where: Downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada at the Delta Chelsea Hotel. when: August 25-28th, 2011 Hello everybody!! Some of you may have heard that Canada will be getting a LEGO fan (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jun-10, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Fig-TEES(tm) Now you can have your company logo on a compatble part
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Well after a good deal of thought and time,I am happy to announce that I received my first shipment of Fig-TEES(tm) last week and they look like they are going to work very, very well. Due to the legality (or rather illegality) of printing corporate (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 6 juin 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** FreeLUG à Noyant-d'Allier (03) ** par Jac le 7 (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | helicopter model - 10183 Hobby Train alternate model
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the compulsive urge to keep trying at a bell huey model continues...how else can you explain attempting a helicopter model from a train set?? witness my insanity with this helicopter model made with parts from the 10183 hobby train set: (URL) (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jun-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | New trains coming
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Hi all I noticed some new trains on Bricklink: (URL) are not on (URL) yet, nor here. However (URL) under the Danish version are 2 new sets 7936 and 7937. They are not under the US (default) version. I could not find any other information yet. The (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Classic Lego TV Commercials
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As part of a project to digitize and preserve classic television advertisements, Duke University has put two Lego television commercials from 1973 online. Links and details are here: (URL) (14 years ago, 7-Jun-10, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | June bugs, and dinner
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IT's JUNE, and you know what that means? Right, Tax Freedom day for Canadians. (April for Americans) (URL) and its rtlToronto Dinner time. YOU have 5 days to make plans and be prepared to attend the BEST(1) rtl dinner ever. Every month a post is (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | $150 PaB box discontinued.
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I went to the Bel-Square LEGO store last Wednesday with my PaB box that I got back in Feb. '09. (URL) without any reuse discount, (like there is for the cups) I didn't want to accumulate a pile of PaB boxes, so I used the same one at least 6 times, (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: New site for purchase of LEGO products.
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(...) 1. Can you include the number of items in a sub-category next to the sub-category name? 2. The cart popping up when I mouse over the link is a real pain, first couple of times it happened I couldn't work out where it came from. Please make it (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 4 juin 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Résumé du salon de Tinqueux ** par Jean-Marc Barré (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | New site for purchase of LEGO products.
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This is at least a beginning for it. Will have the bulk elements and other parts of my old inventory up in the coming weeks. Contact me directly for element purchases! Will gladly post excess elements for you on the site. (URL) is a physical store (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: LDPattern
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(...) No greater loss I guess. ;) (...) Guess I'll have to take a peep at Quad2dat to see how it works. I thought it was basically just the same approach as bmp2dat, with the difference it can handle more file formats and color depths. /Tore (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I <3 LEGO
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Hi all, Here's one of the largest single-piece sculptures I've ever done. A 4' tall cross-section of the human heart for a tradeshow in Denver last month: (URL) Harshbarger (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: TRU sale June4-10
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(...) They also have appeared in Walmart in Ontario and Quebec. Cheers (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LDPattern
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(...) Even with Lugnet it's not always easy to know things exists: I had no idea LDraw Draw existed until today ;o) (...) Hopefully Il'dar will chime in, but I guess LDPattern will work like Quad2dat: once vertices are created, new points closer (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Possible (minor) contradiction in the specs
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(...) If by "extension documents" you mean the (sub-)specifications referred to from the main 1.0.0 spec document (ie this page (URL) is no contradiction as the referenced specs were ratified BEFORE the main 1.0.0 spec (they had to be, otherwise the (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I can stop building steam engines now...
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(URL) full gallery> I think I've built my masterpiece, I doubt I'll ever be able to top this one. Just over a year ago, after the Emerald Night came out I decided to build a better Pacific. My chosen subject was the Southern Pacific Railroad, 4-6-2 (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) I prefer to space mine at 270 degrees. Tim (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) No, 90 degrees is the norm for 2 cylinder locos, as Larry says it's called "quartering" (because they are a quarter of a circle apart). It ensures that there is always at least one piston not at the end of it's stroke. ROSCO (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDPattern + LDS, Proof of Concept [DAT]
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(...) ... and here's the output from the LDS Compiler v 0.61: 0 Tile 2 x 2 with Red L Pattern 0 Name: 3068bpL.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Non-LEGO Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\3068bs01.dat 0 // Pattern created by (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDPattern + LDS, Proof of Concept [DAT]
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Here's a thought LDPattern project file in pure LDS format: ' 3068bpL.lds ' LDS Source File created by LDPattern 0 Tile 2 x 2 with Red L Pattern 0 Name: 3068bpL.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Non-LEGO Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY ' Default (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: TRU sale June4-10
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(...) They are in Walmarts in Alberta as of Tuesday, but they weren't in all stores. -Chris Gray (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Possible (minor) contradiction in the specs
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Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct group for this, but I was wondering about a possible contradiction in the specs. I started working on a translation of my LD4DStudio renderer in C++ in means of a refresher course. While starting this up I (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDPattern [DAT]
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I just discovered the LDPattern project. (URL) to the ongoing delugnetization, I had no idea it existed until today. Anyway, here are my thoughts. In 1997, I made a DOS program called LDD (=LDraw Draw, to avoid confusion with TLC's Lego Digital (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 2 juin 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Génération SW à Cusset ** par Jac, Pierre CHARLES (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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(...) Jordan I appreciate your response. I considered the phone coverage aspect and you're right about phone orders for TLG and other stores eventually going the way of the dodo. It just stinks that this one break (and a nod of (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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(...) ::snip:: (...) I have a different theory on this. I think that LEGO is merely streamlining its operations and recognizes that these days, orders by phone represent a very small portion of their total sales. I would guess that their call center (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | TRU sale June4-10
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This weeks TRU flyer is good from Friday June 4th through Thursday June 10th. 20% off all Technic, LEGOVILLE (DUPLO town) and Atlantis. On the front page they also have "NEW! GET IT HERE FIRST!" with pictures of some sets from world racers, city, (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LdPattern (Was: Using Quad2Dat...)
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: 8<-------- (...) It is available already, and yes, very promising! Google and ye shall find. /Tore (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the news, Dominic. This is a sad statement but not too surprising considering Lego's great financial returns (currently anyway) and the way their sets continue to be overpriced by 20-25%. They're making money (and keeping the (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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| | Perth Model Railway Show 2010 - This weekend!!
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Hi All, This Long Weekend (June 5th, 6th and 7th) the Perth Adult Lego Society is displaying it's annual train and town layout at the Perth Model Railway Show. Come along to the Claremont Showgrounds to see lots of scaled-up trains plus the all new (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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(...) The Today Tonight story is on YouTube here... (URL) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) Most folk call this a "tender", since it carries water as well (and often, fuel oil rather than coal if the engine is an oil burner) (...) If weight helps you may have some binding in the driver mechanism somewhere. (...) Steam engines are (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) I built a coal car over a 9v motor, and tried it out on a circle of track. It had serious problems running while pushing the engine in front of the motor. I tried adding some straights in to make an oval so it'd have a couple stretches without (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) "Someone" is Il'dar Ismagilov (LDraw parts author Eldar). LdPattern should be usable soon, already very promising. If you try it, comments here will be appreciated! Philo (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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I just called in to check the weekly LEGO Shop at Home phone specials. Unfortunately, this program has been discontinued. There will be no more phone specials. This was confirmed by speaking to a second LEGO customer service representative. Dominic (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Share a room
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Hi, my name is Don Cox, GtwLUG, and Lugnet#1239. I am in need to share a room at the Westin for Thursday thru Sunday night for Brickworld. I wasn't able to get a room and I prefer to stay at the Westin. Please contact me at: the1hugh@yahoo.com. (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks for the insight, Actually the more 'local' feel to interfaces is the reason why I'm a bit more leaning towards wxWidgets at the moment, it uses native controls where possible on all platforms. But Qt is clearly more (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Apparently you'll need to email someone who already has it. Meanwhile someone is working on an open source replacement called ldpattern which does have a download available. I don't know what it does yet, but I'd suggest we all give the author (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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(...) Sorry if this is a silly question, but where can I download Quad2Dat? It seems every link on the web points to Chris Alano's long gone Geocities page, even the link in LDraw.org's downloads section... Remi (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | PALS on Today Tonight
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Hi All, Today Tonight recently filmed a story on us and it's airing tonight! The show starts at 6:30pm on Channel 7. We are setting up our annual train/town layout in the next couple of days, so there should be more footage of us and our Lego (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Brickworld - Esther Walner Memorial Charity Auction
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover 2010: Bricks In Space Brickworld is only a couple weeks away and you are helping us set records with this year's event already with a massive 795 registered attendees. While this is incredible, the one record (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Just as a note, since Ctrl+Shift+Enter might be hard to remember in the long run when doing this type of thing in the future, you can also right click on "cmd.exe" in the list that shows up after typing cmd in the search box, then select "Run (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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I know you've already mostly decided on a direction, but I figured I'd throw in my two cents. LDView takes a different tack for cross-platform support: all the back-end code is cross-platform C++, but the UI code is platform-specific. So my Windows (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Microscale trains by LDD
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(...) There's some really nice models there. I've never got my head round using LDD/DesignByMe, but it looks like you have. I particularly like the Garrett Tim (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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I switched to a new machine running Windows Seven 64 bits, and I had a bit of trouble installing Quad2Dat. Here is what I had to do: - Download and install Visual Basic 5 runtime (File msvbvm50.exe, get it from (URL) Place MSFLXGRD.OCX somewhere on (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 31 mai 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Résumé de l'exposition de la Foire de Printemps (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Roland, I use Qt (free) with static binding for LPub4. It works pretty well, and is well organized, but the learning curve is big (but not too steep). Kevin (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LETGUI update
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(...) There has been bugs in the app itself and the wrong version of rectifier has been packed in the installer. Therefore you will find at (URL) now the version 1.5.0.1 Thanks to Philo, who has directed me to that errors. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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