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| (...) Unfortunately, this is being postponed until either later today or early next week. There's still one more software issue to resolve on the new hardware. I'll try to make an announcement today if we go forward today, but be prepared for an (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Call for curator requests
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| If there are any outstanding curatorship requests, please e-mail me at <todd@lugnet.com> and I'll try to get you set up this weekend after the server upgrade. I set up a couple earlier this week but I think there are still others that managed to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.curators) !
| | | | | New Technic Sets & Bulk Discounts on S@H
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| [DELURK] I've not been keeping a close eye on Lugnet recently, so sorry if any of this has been announced by others already, but I've just spotted the new Technic sets on sale at S@H - at a glance, UK and Germany have them on sale now, so I guess (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Scheduled downtime Thursday, March 6, 2003
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| The lugnet.com server will be taken off-line for approximately two hours on Thursday, March 6, 2003 for a software and hardware upgrade. --> Going down at: 10:00AM EST (that's 10 o'clock a.m. New York time) <-- The outage may be as short as one hour (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
| | | | | MOTM/SOTM for February 2003
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| Do I ever hate the cold & flu season..... Anyway, here goes; MOTM is Cale Leiphart's "1949 John Deere Model A". This was actually a tough call. Cale's model tied with Carlos un apellido's Supercar model, so I had to be the tie-breaker. The supercar (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Mega Port Block
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| Well, people, we face a tragic event... The Cool site of the week could very well be awarded to a megablock website :-( Yes, Port Block Yards and New Pacific, 2 different entries in the poll for the same website (!!!), are actually websites that use (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New newsgroups for Micro-scale building, Mosaics, and Sculpture
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| Three new newsgroups in the lugnet.build hierarchy have been created for the focused discussion of specialty building. Micro-scale building (as in "microfig" scale) is coming into its own in a big way, thanks in a large way recently to the efforts (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
| | | | | A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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| All, Today was a landmark day for the Building Instructions Portal...today we surpassed 100,000 click thrus! (URL) more than 100,000 occasions, a user of the B.I. Portal has searched for an instruction, clicked the link to that instruction, and then (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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| Over the past few months I've been building a web service that will allow anyone to create their own mini web site for their MOCs. It's free, you can make unlimited pages, there are no annyoing ads or pop-ups, and it's easy -- you don't even need to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general) !!
| | | | | MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
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| Hi, In case you missed it at the diner, or didn't make it to BW '03, (or a BayLTC pizza meeting) Ross showed the prototype Maglev vehicle and short "track" that he and I built. Eric Sophie was kind enough to snap and post a pic of it. Its at: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf) !
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