 | | 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq
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All, I've just posted to lugnet.faq all 202 FAQ items I've collected (1). Just look for messages with the subject line starting "autoFAQpost"; they should be pretty hard to miss. Warning: If you're subscribing to lugnet.faq via e-mail, you might (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego UK are hiring!
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Jobs aren't on the website. Here is a poor scan of the ad, which has appeared in the last two Thursdays' Times. (URL) ___...___ richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net remove nospam.(lugnet excepted) Web Site: (URL) 13177071 AOL Instant Messenger: RJD88888 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Me (The return of)
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Geesh, stop paying attention for a few months and you've got forty thousand back-messages to read. (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.db.brictionary
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[Followups set to lugnet.db.brictionary] A new newsgroup lugnet.db.brictionary has just been created. For background information, please see: (3 URLs) lugnet.db.brictionary (group): Discussions of parts nomenclature and taxonomy; planning for the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.logo
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[Followups set to lugnet.robotics.logo] A new newsgroup lugnet.robotics.logo has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.robotics.logo (group): Discussion group for projects and educational activities involving LEGO® and the Logo (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.logo)
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| | [ldraw.org] Thank You
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I would like to thank the following people on their contributions to the ldraw.org project: First and foremost, the biggest thanks goes to Jacob Sparre Andersen. Jacob donated the server space for ldraw.org and has played a HUGE role behind the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Site Release!
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I am pleased to announce the ldraw.org website is now online and open to the public! Please visit and enjoy. :) (URL) no means is the site or the project complete. I have done all I can to present the site neat and tidy with placeholders where (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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If someone would like their well-done Povray rendered model displayed on the ldraw.org main page, please let me know. There will be a little paragraph describing LDraw and I feel it is appropriate to include a small image of a rather impressive (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Perilous Pirates have moved
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The Perilous Pirate Page has moved to: (URL) thanks to everybody who voted for me. I'm CLSOTW for this week! I have added a map of the Legoribbian which include some pictures of Fort El Lego. Enjoy! SteveC Perilous Pirate Page (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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This is a general "FYI" heads-up... The lugnet.com server is due for a slight overhaul to upgrade the OS from FreeBSD 2.1.7 to 2.2.7. When exactly this will occur is not set in stone, but I'll post more when I know more. Hopefully sometime in the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Update Fabuland Homepage
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Hello everybody, I've updated the Unofficial Fabuland Homepage today. The layout has changed very much, and I also added a links page, although I have still to add many links there. Of course, you can still find the set list and the set inventory on (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Factoring service
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(Posted to many groups, but followups set to .market.theory) I have been meaning to write up my factoring service for some time now. Except for the fact that my email address (hehe) is nowhere to be found in it, I am happy with my writeup and I am (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | [Update] Fractal landscape generator
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I have updated the Fractal Landscape Generator site[1] with binaries for DOS and OS/2. The DOS version should work on recent flavours of MS-Windows. Play well, Jacob 1) (URL) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | [Update] MPD builder
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I have updated the MPD builder site[1] with binaries for DOS, OS/2, and the recent flavours of MS-Windows. Play well, Jacob 1) (URL) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository Filenames/Headers
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After discussing the ldraw.org Official Model Repository header and file naming system, I feel that we can come to a final resolution. A lot has been discussed on the topic, including various file naming systems and also locations within the models (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Help Still Needed
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There are still a lot of things that need to be done on ldraw.org, and there's only a handful of volunteers in a specialized area. We are in need of help working with reference material for the most part. As quoted from a previous post: 5. Reference (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | New URL for Ed Boxer sites
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I now have an additional URL to access my sites: www.geocities.com/~edboxer This would replace: www.geocities.com/We...ywood/9172 (note, this URL will remain active) I have joined GeoPlus (an enhanced version of GeoCities). Its actually a very good (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | My site
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Hi all This is my first post here, but i just wanted to let everyone know about my site. It's a fire related site at (URL) There are pictures of my stations and trucks there, so stop on by and let me know what you think. Thanks Tom D (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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In order to begin assembling the ldraw.org official (TLG) model repository, I need to begin collecting TLG models in Ldraw. If you have made any TLG models you would be willing to contribute to the repository, please email them to me in .dat or .mpd (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Donations
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All needed donations for ldraw.org have been recieved. Thanks to all of you who have donated: Larry Pieniazek Terry Keller Mike Stanley Jean-Pierre Paris Lars Hassing John VanZwieten The money will be taken care of soon and sent off to Todd to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Software Download Templates
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I need to ask for help from those of you who have created utilities that are designed for use with LDraw or LDraw .dat format files. ldraw.org will be offering a centralized download section for these utilities. If you have created one of these (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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I just happened across a couple unauthorized links from eBay auctions directly to images of sets hosted on the lugnet.com server. What people are doing is linking from various places (mostly eBay auctions) directly to the JPEG images. This is a big (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | Temporary outage of FAQ work
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Hey all LUGFAQ fans, Well, it happened. I have acquired a lot of short-term duties at work (1) and my Scotland vacation is coming up fast, so I am unable to continue work on the FAQ for at least a few months. I should be able to again dedicate time (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce)
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| | [ldraw.org] Progress
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I haven't posted in a while concerning ldraw.org. So far, a handful of pages have been created, along with a few templates. I will end up doing the html myself for the site, but VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED to work with assembling content. We still (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | emulegOS: a legOS (and RCX) emulator
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Marco Beri and I just released the first version of emulegOS, a software emulator of legOS and the RCX itself. We like a lot legOS and the way it opens a broad range of possibilities to the RCX, but felt the need of a more comfortable environment (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | ¡Legopalooza!
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Pictures from Legopalooza have been posted, so all you concert-goers can see what you missed last weekend. This page will later be incorporated into my town section. Relevant questions/comments/criticisms are welcome. It's a bit slow-loading, but (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Service interruptions - 11 May 99
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I posted this to rec.toys.lego about 20 minutes ago... (...) Good news, Things now seem to be back up & running fine (of course there -could- still be further turbulence tonight). I'll have to tune in to the local pair newsgroups later tonight to (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | group lugnet.robotics.rcx created
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[Crossposted to lugnet.robotics & lugnet.announce; followups set to lugnet.robotics & lugnet.robotics.rcx] All right -- better late than never... A new group lugnet.robotics.rcx has been created, and is there now for anyone wants to jump in and use (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
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| | .off-topic.qotd group nuked
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The .off-topic.qotd group didn't work out as planned, and has been nuked. It may in the future come back someday under a different name, but until then the .off-topic.fun group (or other groups, as appropriate) can always be used for the sort of (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | New .off-topic groups: .geek, .pun, and .qotd
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[Followups set to lugnet.admin.general] Three new newsgroups in the .off-topic hierarchy have just been created. For background on what has led up to this, please visit the following super-monster of a thread: (URL) make a long shory stort, the (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | New newsgroups for LEGOLAND parks
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[Followups set to lugnet.legoland] Newsgroups for LEGOLAND parks have just been created. For background on what has led up to this, please visit the following thread: (URL) lugnet.legoland (group and hierarchy): General LEGOLAND® (not (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.rb.bil, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.uk.en.bk.win, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.trains.org
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[Followups set to lugnet.trains.org] A new newsgroup lugnet.trains.org has just been created. For background on what has led up to this, please visit the following thread: (URL) lugnet.trains (group and hierarchy): Train mania: modeling, layouts, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.market.theory
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[Followups set to lugnet.market.theory] A new newsgroup lugnet.market.theory has just been created. For background on what has led up to this, please visit the following threads: (2 URLs) lugnet.market.* (hierarchy): Auctioning, buying, selling, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | New newsgroups in lugnet.cad.dat.* hierarchy
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[Followups set to lugnet.cad.dev] Six new specialized newsgroup in the lugnet.cad.dat.* hierarchy have just been created for posting various types of LDraw DAT files -- for example: models, scenes, building ideas, and parts. For background on what (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Yonkers New York newsgroup renamed
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(...) All right, Ed, I'll be counting. ;-) OK -- so -- the Yonkers, New York, U.S.A. newsgroup has just been renamed: from: lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny.yon to: lugnet.loc.us.ny.yon And anyone who has e-mail subscriptions to the Yonkers group has been (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.yon, lugnet.loc.us.ny)
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| | [ldraw.org] Progress
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During the last week or so, Jacob and I have worked on the templates for ldraw.org. I feel that they are just about set, and definitely ready to recieve content. I still need to work on the images for the multilanguage support pages in Danish, (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder
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Hello everyone! One month ago I publicly launched the Halloween Lego Design Contest here on LUGNET and RTL. It is my plan to make monthly announcements to help remind those interested in participating and for those people who have only recently (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Working on the FAQ
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Hey y'all, We're really working to get a FAQ put together! :-, The FAQ will be patterned after the LUGNET site structure, and has room for Q+A on anything and everything you'd expect to see on LUGNET. If you have any questions for the FAQ -- or (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: New LEGO Backgrounds
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My backgrounds are now in GIF format: (URL) LMKWYT! --Bram (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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