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(...) Possibility. I wonder how the people who have expressed like for the name 'ldraw.org' feel about The LDraw Organization? Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. Personally, I use IE5 for browsing, but own a copy of Netscape 4.5 or something for checking browser compatibility. -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 "Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a good argument for waiting, but I don't think there's any way that it possibly hurts things to register it now. Acting as quickly as possible eliminates any possible shred of risk that some other organization or entrepreneur might (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, either the radiation or the blast (sorry, I'm no nuclear physicist) incinerated just about everything in the one mile radius of the explosion... so that would melt a fig :( Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Lars, I didn't intend for this to be a "fix" of any type. And the latitude/longitude method is a good one to use. If I sit there thinking about it enough, I can do it. And the automatic centering of the model is a fantastic feature that I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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That is what I was thinking. I was looking for a good multi-file find and replace (got one) and came across a utility to set times and dates. I thought it might be useful in some way to be able to do that. Maybe set the time to reflect the update (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, because Todd volunteered generously to front the bill until donations can be collected, I sent a message on to Jacob to have his ISP register it to work with his server. I am the billing contact and will handle the money to pay InterNIC (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm... it sounds like you are subtly insulting us. :-) -- Terry K -- Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures. (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Depends. What kind of radiation? Most of what your thinking of would pass right through. Of course, "radiation" in the infrared band would melt it. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoops. So right. My mistake. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. I concede that is a valid use. As long as the part author has the intention and the skill to "do the right thing" and not just use the output to slap on a part. (...) Again, OK. You are right. I was pretty much expressing my knee-jerk (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Otherwise known as TBOML The Bane Of My Life. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, to be honest, the biggie I had was with the "software" <?> "star wars" anomoly. I personally can't stand to be in a Star Wars discussion, and I would be pretty aggrivated when twice a week some newbie enters the software group just to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Days, weeks, months, or years? (...) Not necessarily disagreeing, but isn't it likely that a developer who cares about these issues would read the other groups, and that a developer who does not care about these issues would ignore the issues (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But abbreviations are good -- and important things for newsgroup hierarchies and URLs, especially where future growth is possible. Abbreviated, you have lugnet.cad lugnet.cad.dev lugnet.cad.ld lugnet.cad.ld.ideas lugnet.cad.ld.models (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How *some* browsers work, that is. I only have two data points: - Netscape Navigator 4.51 for Win95 colors the links wrong. - Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 for Win95 colors the links right. Netscape Navigator represents a big enough share (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ldraw.org. It seems we all missed the most obvious name (and a good one, I think): The LDraw Organization Like Todd said, "organization" is ambiguous, so it makes a great name! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hmm. It may take a while for me to warm up to this setup. I actually like having the discussion of models/parts separate from the cad.dat group. When I hear people raving about a model I might find interesting, then I'm motivated to check it out on (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hrmmm, inherently cheap bastard that I am, I can't agree. This has been discussed for _months_. What's another couple of weeks? Wasn't there some mention at one point of taking the extra funds and buying software or development tools or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm no economist, but I don't think that you could call what the govt is doing here "sticking its hand into free enterprise". Network Solutions has, at this moment, a legal monopoly, so there is NO free enterprise. This might be considered an (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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