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Jean-Pierre PARIS wrote in message <37F3B871.74AE196F@w...doo.fr>... (...) My algorithm doesn't require the vertices to exactly match; I was intending to pass one ray per polygon through the dat object, not an arbitrarily large number. And only if (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ok, I'll post the first message.
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(...) Well I believe that John G was talking about hte last Twin Cities Great Create which is held in the Hurbert H. Humphry Metrodome, which is a baseball/football stadium with Astroturf on the field, not a smooth surface at al. Mike (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.primo)
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| | Fremont Library not available in December...
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Sorry for the delayed responses. Lots to do, planning for the first moves into the new Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, which begins Friday, 1 October. I've been running pretty close to the ground for a few weeks now. So, The room isn't available (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: *** PANEL 2409 ***
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(...) Ok, but I'm 95% sure that's where I grabbed the copy for ldraw.org originally.. :) Downloading now... -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More Southern Fest pics and new website
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(...) Ha ha Simon's pictures are still on the film sitting in the camera owing to (1) Simon wants to use the remaining few shots on the film to get some other piccies for his website (2) Simon's book, Professional ADSI Development is scheduled to (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: More Southern Fest pics and new website
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(...) Ha ha Simon's pictures are still on the film sitting in the camera owing to (1) Simon wants to use the remaining few shots on the film to get some other piccies for his website (2) Simon's book, Professional ADSI Development is scheduled to go (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) (curiousity! :) What exactly is "Wasatch"? Is it a part of Utah, or does it go beyond Utah? What do the Linux LUGs in Utah call themselves? I'd see WA, by the way, and immediately think Washington (as in state and apples), but maybe that's (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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HI everybody I think this would be a GREAT idea. Lego Racing......wow!!!!! However Would you need to use the 8448 or could you just build a car from the ground up! i think that this would be even more of a challange. Come to think of it i think i (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | JDH/UK Auction 4 - Shell / Soccer / Kelloggs / Value Packs / other unopened sets
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All sets are in mint unopened UK boxes except where marked with '*' - see Details section. Please note my revised bid increments for this auction - see Rules section. Lots ==== 1747 Pirates $3.50 Barry C 30Sep@22:38BST 1749 Aquanaut Paravane $3.50 (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | JDH/UK Auction 3 - trains
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The two main sets consist of the train, track and engine driver only, i.e. no passengers, loads, platforms, road vehicles, etc. The speed regulators are available at no extra cost if required (240VAC @ 50/60Hz), but they will obviously increase (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Problem with this code
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(...) There's no standard for code organization, but indeting seems pretty common. "tidy.exe" from (URL) is great for organizing code in a readable fashion (it can also standardize capitalization, fix illegal HTML, etc.) My only complaint is that it (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: *** PANEL 2409 ***
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(...) I'm almost positive that the ldraw.exe at: (URL) include those updates, so Tim, please grab a copy. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) We're playing with WALUG, for Wasatch Area LUG. I think, though, that the best one is WAFOL, or Wasatch Area Fans Of Lego. It has a nice breakfast-y ring to it... :-, (...) That's just a whois query? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Liam Parnell (<99093012333600.018...rrender2>) wrote at 11:31:59 (...) It's a nice idea. Do you want to go for beauty or height? (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Richard Franks (<FIvI0w.4y5@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:43:44 (...) Those of us who were at LLW, and indeed the staff, were in awe of Liam's tower building prowess :-P (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO Town Quiz - Answers
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Below are the answers to the questions I posted a few days ago. Feel free to disagree with any of them. 1) Which was the Widest town vehicle produced? #6675 Road and Trail 4x4. (Note the question related to "town" not "LEGO System". 2) Apart from (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) Sounds great -- wish I could make it, but it's a bit of a walk for me (from Boston :) BTW, dunno how your naming plans are coming along, but last week I ran a script to look up which .org domains were available matching the form (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) This could almost be a challange. How about marking up a circuit by marking the curbs with black tape. Then let the car race around trying to map the circuit and find the way through. After a coupple of laps it could finish "learning mode" and (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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(...) I think that if you do something like this you should use a semaphore to secure no tasks access y and z simultanously. But that wastes another variable storing the sema. (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) What about adding a real combustion engine and control the throttle with the RCX? This would indeed add a new dimension to LEGO... (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FIw4r3.KCx@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) Those would be the airport runway plates that were available from 1990. They appeared in sets 6396 "International Airport" and 6597 "Century (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Ian, I was very impressed with your post. I sent it on to a good friend of mine that works for the company that handles the marketing for Mindstorms. He put on the LEGO Robogladiator event at the E3 convention that happened in Los Angeles some (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Via e-mail, simply use the Reply-To mapping... That is, If you're posting via a newsreader, then set your headers like this: Newsgroups: lugnet.foo,lugnet.ba...ugnet.gonk Followup-To: lugnet.gonk and if you're posting via e-mail, then set your (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) And I thought that my 5 hour drive to Toronto for a minicon (mini convention) was bad... Charles (Fenton, MI) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) My point is, where do we draw the line? We are dealing with creativity and imagination. Who is to decide what is allowed and what is not? I certainly don't want to be the one who does it. All I care about is having a place where I can showcase (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Why are SSIs bad?
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(...) If you're the site admin, there's not a security problem. The security issue is with letting your _users_ use SSI, because those commands execute as the user which owns the web server. Which, if you don't trust your users, is a bad thing. (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) Not by a longshot. (...) Although it doesn't really fit the "fun" in .off-topic.fun, it does fit .off-topic.fun far more than it fits lugnet.general (which is for general LEGO-related topics). .off-topic.geek or .publish would probably work (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Official catalog of part numbers
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From memory the internal parts catalogue system is made up of three components: 1) The catalogue which shows images of all 2000 or so parts broken down into themes and further into "classifications". 2) A second catalogue which details the colour (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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I believe that you can add (even via mail) a "Followup-To: lugnet.general" to your message headers and it would do what you wanted. (...) I would like to point out that I think what we all want isn't adult legos, but rather sets that don't insult (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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I can understand the partial minifigs - if somebody wants a black witch hat but has no use for an entire witch it's silly for them not to leave the rest of the fig in the box. But if people do trades like taking all the non-yellow hands and (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) Depends on where we want to go. If we want to set up a framework for a believable, interesting interstellar society, we've pretty much got to allow FTL technology. Even practical sub-light drive technology is way out there. (...) There's a lot (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Trains, Technic and Space!
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Hi, I have the following sets that I am considering exchanging for 9volt train sets or selling. 7735 7745 7857/8/9 8865 8842 6970 6980 . With the exception of 6970/6980 the sets are in good to very good, hardly used condition. Some boxes available, (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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Don't worry, Ed. If that box ever comes my way, I will be sure to relieve it of the air tanks and put in there something more pallable (SP?). Scott Sanburn (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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Hey all, We Utah Legomaniacs are forming a lego user group! Joseph Gonzales, my wife Barbara and I are looking for anyone and everyone who would want to attend a small LEGOfest at my Orem, UT residence, on the evening of Friday October 15, 1999. You (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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(...) Just as a comment towards this: Not allways true. I have 2 plates that are green, 7 stud wide, and are new. I did not repaint them either... Some sort of oddity I guess... James Powell (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | no way to load an icb file !?!?!?
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Hi all, IC does'nt load my *.icb file. Why? I wrote this code in a *.asm file: TFLG1 EQU $1023 ORG MAIN_START subroutine_initialize_module: ldd #IC3_interrupt_handler std $FFEA cli rts variable_right_clicks: fdb 0 IC3_interrupt_handler: ldd (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LUGNET Roll Call
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LUGNET Roll Call September, 1999 Name: John Gerlach Gender: M Year of Birth: 1962 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 8 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota E-mail Address: john.gerlach@bestbuy.com Homepage: none Marital Status: single, unattached, (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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After sorting through the box, I was able to assembly some complete minfigs (most of the heads are not original and only 1 of the helmets has its visor): 5 Wild West black bandits (4 missing scarfs), 3 Willas (1 missing a hat, no capes), 4 red Ninja (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) <clip> (...) <CLIP> I agree 100% with Wayne's point here. Lets just build and view each others' models. If Person X makes a station that doesn't dock with Person Y's ship, then it is either up to Person X, Person Y, or a third Person Z to (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Tabs in web interface (was: Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?))
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(...) Nope, it doesn't! Tabs are actually preserved. If you do a "view source" on this... (URL) see that tabs are actually output correctly as "	" HTML entity sequences. It's actually your browser which is converting the tabs to spaces, but it's (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Compressors, Valves, and Other Wishes
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I have some solutions for this on my website in the 'pneumatics' section. CU Bert Lego robots and artificial intelligence (URL) Compressors, Valves, and Other Wishes (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lugnet Roll-call
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Name: Jeremy H. Sproat Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1972 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 7, going on 19 Location: Orem, Utah E-mail Address: jsproat@io.com LEGO/home page URL(s): (URL) Status: Newlywed for more than 2 years and counting Children: 2 (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) This would fit really easily within a simple (non-monolithic text file) database. Are there any plans to do so? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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Most of the demographic info that Ian suggests we collect is part of the roll call form. I'd suggest people post or update their forms rather than reposting this info... Here's a searchable entry point: (URL) Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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I'm not sure what all the hubub is about regards what is or isn't "allowed" into someone's design. What is our "Current Space Technology" anyway? We (humans of Earth) can build (with a whole lot of agument between nations and corporations) a space (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) It's definitely something to be decided. (...) Yep, make force-fields possible, but too expensive to be practical. (...) Oops. The world gov't deals with issues throughout the Sol system. Maybe there are colonies on other planets, but other (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) That's true -- in terms of effort on the part of the doners, it's the best way to go! Much easier than donating, say, a kidney. :-, (...) Eh? I saw no spam coming from you, sir. I'm reconsidering what I said eariler -- I no longer think you (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: apartments
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(...) This is a cool building. I did see some problems, though. First, the couch floats a plate off the floor. Two plates (1x1, 1x2) in the stair sections are not seated under the rest of the pieces. Also, I think the stair color should be changed (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) As far as donations go, I'd certainly agree. But they didn't require anything from me... I tried it before posting it (one would hope I would!) and it was simply a single click-- no cookies were dropped, no forms to fill out, no information to (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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Hello, Ok guys, I already announced that I coded such a tool in Java. At present, only one Ldrawer has asked for the code. In fact, it's an alpha release. Thus, I should find beta testers first. Anyway it has already translated some pieces! Here is (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego in the UK
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(...) Hey, Ben -- thanks for the heads up...I won't set my expectations too high (unlike my trip to Cincinnati earlier this week) I don't suppose you'll have a chance to check out the Kent province(Canterbury, Dover) anytime soon? :-) Paul, who is (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) But Jules Verne typically made few assumptions about technology in his novels. He took those few assumptions tried to see where they would take him. Contrast that with "Sci Fi" which has faster-than-light drives, artificial gravity, devices (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) You've been spammed, but I don't think directly from the Hunger Site. It's not cost-efficient to spam guest books. They also have a disclaimer for exactly this kind of thing: (URL) I haven't been hit, and I'm a member of both the Legomaniac's (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Chess Minifig
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(...) Looks like he's the same one as the little bag set that came with the throne... think someone was looking for that not too long ago on RTL or LUGNET... But yeah, he looks kinda cool... maybe I'll try and pick up a chess game just so I can (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Is Classic Space really that fantastic?
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I have never owned a Classic Space set, so maybe I am the wrong person to say this, but here we go: I have alwys loved space. When I found the Internet and all the exciting space stuff there, I was very excited. Escpecially over Classic space. (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) click. (...) I had the same thing entered into the guest book on my website some time ago. I haven't removed it yet, but feel that I've been violated by a spam. Has anyone else been hit by this website? And could this be a result of farming (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) Hrmmm.... maybe it's the miniaturization that makes it so expensive. Silk screening t-shirts is one thing, but silk screening a shirt not even an inch square may be something entirely different... Maybe it's so expensive for the same reason (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) So since we are going to use a technology that is only plausible by today's standards, I'm assuming that FTL speeds are out of the question since that is mathematically impossible. How far are we going to go with this one? I like to have a (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Hunger website
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I'm not really sure if this is the appropriate group... None of the off-topic subgroups really fit, and I can't seem to post one to just plain lugnet.off-topic with the web interface... Anyway, someone just emailed me this site-- Apparently for (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: To Tore Eriksson
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(...) They could also be differentiated simply by appending Type 1 and Type 2 to the name. Steve (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) Of course all kidding aside, anybody heading through Wisconsin passing through the Eau Claire area would be welcome to visit. (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) The general answer to "why not" is because there's no clear way to get from what we've got today to <any specific future technology>. As more "fantastic technologies" are allowed into the environment, the less realistic the whole thing (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Mandtal
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Jeg kan da også fortælle lidt mere om mig selv: Navn.........: Jacob Schultz Køn.........: Mand Fødselsår.........: 1975 Bopæl.........: Køge E-post.........: dungeonmaster@get2net.dk Websted.........: hjem.get2net.dk/anne.jacob/ (der er bare ikke (...) (27 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: Classic space animations
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(...) You have my permission. I don't mind since it's not my design, I just drew it. Also remember that Huw has drawn the alternate models shown on the box. (URL) (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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This is good. I´d also like to say that I think that a ground-positioned station with spaceships would be better than a big station, where all the models would have to use the same docking ports etc. That way, I can build like I want to, and not (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Classic space animations
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Yeah, I could. I have downloaded a DAT from Lugnet of the Alienator, but maybe I should code in the DAT myself, because I think that I´m taking credit of something I haven´t made. But, I can always contact the author of the DAt and ask for (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Game Box (was: Re: New Ideas for Jambalaya - anyone interested?)
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I'm still interested; add me to the list! Paul Sinasohn 3359 Arkansas St Oakland CA 94602-3707 (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Lego in the UK
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(...) Well I was recently there and checked out Cardiff and some of its surrounding areas and was pretty bummed out. Just a bunch of King Kahukas (why, I don't know). I thought I was onto a good thing - bummer. Ben (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Adults Are People Too!
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Dear Lego, Several months ago, I was re-introduced to one of my favorite childhood toys, Lego, spurred by the appearance of the Mindstorms product line. Somehow, from the moment I saw that box on the shelf, I knew that I would be buying a lot of (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Why are SSIs bad?
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(...) My ISP (io.com) serves .shtml so they expire quickly (I believe but haven't tested), but .html files with the executable file attribute (using XBitHack) are served as if they were static, even with SSI code. I use the XBitHack approach. It's (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | RE: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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The problem with the 8448 is that the Lego motor is not powerful enough to do any "racing", or take advantage of the gear box. If you use a single motor and a battery box, then the 8448 moves rather slowly on smooth surfaces only. If you shift the (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Why are SSIs bad?
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Sproaticus: (...) I am not quite sure what security problems there are with SSI. My main reason for (mostly) not using SSI on published web pages is that I suspect that it means that the pages won't be stored by proxies. Is it possible to make (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Compressors, Valves, and Other Wishes
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(...) Excellent Ben, I'll check those out... Off topic, but... Have you people seen the satire/black comedy American Beauty yet? I highly recommend it. Ben, perhaps Kevin Spacey's character inspired you to quit your job and lead a fuller life to (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: S@H Prices
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(...) wow. i think this is the first time i've seen the "Kalifornia" spelling outside of a firearms/2nd ammendment newsgroup. either the VFAQman is another gun nut like me, or the state really IS that bad. the firearms newsgroup references are (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Why are SSIs bad?
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Hey all, I use SSI (server-side includes) a *LOT* on my Web pages. They're extremly powerful and versatile. I'm almost a firm believer. But I recall some folks warning about potential security holes and other problems with SSI. Rooting around the (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Other Boxes (was Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1)
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(...) <snipped description of contents> (...) I can only vouch for those I've seen. General box #5 (moved on) is the worst one I've seen, with maybe ~10% parts in less-than-ideal condition(1), but no pieces (that I recall) were broken, or in a state (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) What you are proposing sounds sort of like the Dear Lego newsgroup. It just needs to be used more frequently by a lot more of us. I'm not aware of any hard evidence that TLG reads (or reacts to) Dear Lego, but it couldn't hurt to vent politely (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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(...) You know it!!! I think one of the main reasons it took me so long to come out of my dark ages was a fear of what people would think about me buying LEGO. Now when a cashier says something like "Someone's going to have a happy birthday" I just (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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I just received this box and I am majorly depressed. The intention of these boxes was to offer people the opportunity to trade elements in good condition that they didn't use to get elements in good condition that they wanted/needed. Upon opening (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?)
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(...) If we start with the just the Moonbase, we can put off making this decision at least until the second installation is started. If not longer. (...) Hmm. Do you mean 100 cubic parsecs? Or a sphere with a radius of 100 parsecs (that's 4.2 cubic (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) This seems like a John Neal sort of question. He silk screens T shirts for a living. Not the same, exactly but he presumably would know what it should cost, the technology is similar. (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Official catalog of part numbers
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Last week I sent a letter to LEGO Systems, asking whether a listing of all parts was available (and offered to compensate them for their trouble if they'd send me a copy). They just called me and said that the document I wanted was "for internal use (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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Almost as bad as Huw's name badge idea :) Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | FA: 34 Lego Lots on SeriousCollector.com - RARITIES - trains, castle, town, boat, space, and more!
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Thanks for Looking! Click here to bid or view: (URL) here: (URL) Description Currently 6940 Alien Moon Stalker--Who says Lego didn't make an AT-AT?! $31.50 Lego Boats: 4021 Police patrol MISB $21.00 LEGO Castle - 1906 Majisto's Tower - unopened (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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The following was posted to RTL in response to some threads discussing Adult's playing with LEGO and I finish with my `New LEGO Philosophy' I hope you enjoy it... I too have just recently reappeared after my dark age. I had lots of great sets during (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) WOW. They're $5 each even at that kind of quantity?! Man, I'd love some, but I doubt I could bring myself to buy in the quantity I'd like at that price. Note, I know nothing about silk screening, so maybe this is a good deal. I just hope you (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cookies ?
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G'Day The label on side side lists the ingredients and at the bottom of the label states: Produced by/Fabrique par: Ripensa A/S, Orstedsvej 10, 6760 Ribe, Denmark. No other identifing marks. UPC Code 0 31784 00480 0 Cheers! Oliver <Snipage> (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) primitive (...) the (...) ray (...) A hypothetical batch dat fixer program could examine the primitives first and flag the ones that were not closed volumes, since those would be the only ones that would (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) I might be interested, but probably not at 5 bucks a pop. What I'd like to know, though, is where you're getting your hands on 1000 white torso's! James (URL) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LeoCAD for Linux (Was: Compiling MPD Builder/Splitter for DOS/Win?)
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Leonardo: [ LeoCAD for Linux can be found at (URL) ] I downloaded and installed it. Some problems: - I had to compile Mesa with the command make linux-386-elf (not "linux-shared-elf" as you write on the web site). - Gtk+-1.2 is neccesary. - LeoCAD (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ulterior motives (was Re: Don Quixote puts away his lance (was Re: McDonalds set
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(...) <snipped monorail & boat examples> (...) Hmm. Neat. The castle sets currently there seem to be fetching about equivalent prices to what I'm used to seeing. The 6009 is higher on SC, and the 6044 and 6038 are higher on e-bay, but they're all in (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) Darn! That's 11.25 hours from Lowell! Way too far. Steve (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) Have you followed the discussions among BAYLUG'ers about their meetings? The meets were at public libraries -- cheap, and they've got a reasonable among of 'drive by' traffic to attract the public. If you/we aren't interested in the public, (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi)
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| | Re: Steve Bliss' Tree
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(...) I built one of these - kinda - from looking at the rendering before you posted the DAT file, Steve, and I used the 4-blade freestyle propellors instead of the Technic 3-blade rotors - much easier to find, and grey and black look OK once the (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Chess Minifig
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(...) set... (...) Found him on the LEGO site. The URL: (URL) does look pretty cool! The throne looks easy enough to build from common bricks, too. Heather Patey St. John's, Newfoundland Pirate Wench / Brick Detective (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Alcuni interrogativi
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Carlo Ottolina wrote in message ... (...) di (...) inconcepibile (...) Sapevo che (giustamente) me l'avresti chiesto :-) Ho letto qualcosa in thread vari su lugnet. Non ricordo con precisione, qui però c'é una traccia: (URL) letto anche (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | FT: My 1/35 military scale model kits for LEGO?
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More relics from my old, but now defunct, hobbies... Before getting back into LEGO, one of my hobbies was building scale models. Just like many model builders (as well as LEGO collectors) I bought much more sets than I would ever have time to build. (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Brick by Brick Auction Update--G2
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Hi, Just a quick Brick by Brick Auction Update: Items Going Twice with no new bids by 7:00 P.M. E.D.T. today will be SOLD. Items that haven't received any bids by this evening will be removed from the auction. Visit my site at: (URL) auction rules, (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Gary Williams <graywolf@pcpros.net> wrote in message news:FIvo77.F2B@lugnet.com... (...) In the case I'm talking about, 1 primitive is used in 1 instance to be both an outer face and an inner face. In this case, you'd have to fix it manually by (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Cookies ?
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(...) Aw, nuts. I should've suspected that they'd be using it to promote Twon Jr. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.general)
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