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(...) I tried to get LeoCAD into Debian last year with the help of a Debian devel but they were too scared of adding the library without a license (there's a long discussion on the Debian-Jr mailing list archives). I even have .deb packages ready (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I tried it recently, but I am afraid I am too used to writing my models in `vi` to apprecate the interface. Speed-wise it seemed okay. I would rather prefer that you spent some time getting the "polling" feature to work properly. Play well, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And considering that I just got a single bootable CD Linux system, which runs both KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and a bunch of other stuff, it would probably not be difficult to modify this with some LDraw tools added. The big problem - as I see (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] Working on Update 2002-04 [DAT]
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(...) Hi Tore, Hi Steve, May be too late to patch "Space Laser-Gun with Side Sight". It has 3 missing edges. Following is a corrected version. Thanks to Tore Eriksson for reworking this part, Thanks to the authors, admins and reviewers for the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It finally dawned on me (after a less than subtle yet very helpful IM from someone who shall remain nameless :-) that you're the LDGLite author. :-, I've tried the LEdit mode, and gave up in frustration due to the slow redraw (particularly (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've updated the faq; I added verbiage to indicate that LDraw stops looking, once it's found a file. I also corrected the search order. Steve (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So it all boils down to speed? Has anyone actually tried the LEdit mode (besides the Mac folks who currently have no other option)? I'm just wondering how much of a speedup is required. I've used it for small things on my 486 laptop, but that (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I just tested a POV-RAY scene with my syster's pc the P-75 and it took 35seconds with the dos version of POV-RAY In my P-3 pc takes 2 - 3 seconds with windows XP runing using a command line dos window. About making a boot disk with povray.exe "dos" (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sorry, didn't mean to be insulting there. :-, What Linux (and to some extent, Windows too) really needs is a semi-fast LEdit clone. I understand that one of the newer tools (LDGlite?) has an LEdit mode, but is kinda slow without hardware (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" list. (...) That's an interesting thought. Is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Eduardo, I really like this idea. I have no experience whatsoever with making bootable CDs, but I'm sure someone else here does. Some questions... I assume that all file saving would happen to hard disk or floppy, unless a rewritable medium such as (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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FYI, I'm going to be working on update 2002-04 today (and maybe tomorrow). During this time, the Parts Tracker should be shutdown for file submissions and review posting. In the past, there have been bugs in the website-locking mechanism that have (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Good but is not want I wamt to and second I can't buy hardware so just tell me how to make my boot disk (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well, sounds like a plan. There are a few things that you can do to make it easier and maybe faster. I for one would definately network the computers. All you will need is 2 NICs (Network Interface Cards) a hub or switch (preferably a switch) and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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As sometime the electricity goes and as I don't have a laptop and even sometimes my brother wants to play games as I have a powerfull PC but I can't just stop my ldraw work or what ever i'm doing for him to play so as we have 3 pc's and I found on (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's just the way I have interpreted the FAQ. I think that this is what is to be understood from the "in the following order" part. Fredrik (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Found in LDraw FAQ: (...) That's perfectly clear, but still I have to ask: What if a file exists in two or more of these folders? Will it say: "Hey I found in 'The current folder'! Now I don't have to look anymore."? Or will it keep scanning and (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, I've been having headaches for over two nights now trying to figure something out for my animation program. I have made it possible to change the rotation point of an model. This works fine but I want it to be possible to change the point during (...) (22 years ago, 10-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have heard reliable reports of recently opened MISB sets from 1973 and 1976 without and with grooves, respectively. I think that narrows down the time frame for the addition of the groove (to nongrille tiles). It would be good to narrow it (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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