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hi folks, reading the new brickjournal Ldraw's history ends in 2003. 2003! ... hang on ... the history at the site even stops in 2001!!! (URL) down ... "Note: The LDraw History document is far from complete. If you recall anything of significance (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) Googling his name I found fredrikg(AT)ifi.uio.no Tim (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) You might try fredrigl as the username instead of glockner. I'm assuming you've tried fredrigl at math.uio.no, since that's the email address that he posted here under. You might also try folk.uio.no, www.math.uio.no, mail.uio.no and uio.no as (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) tanks to many helping hands we made substantial progress in shorting the list (did you notice that Steffen with his incredible number of 234 authored parts is no longer on the list?). I updated the chart accordingly. please have a look and (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) I asked the same question in the the ldraw.org steerco discussion and I was told the following: "the concept of the CA-affirmed library is that we can advertise it as re-distributable, subject to the conditions of the CCLA. To publish (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) Why? (...) This guy didn't even make any parts. (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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We (LDraw.org) are still trying to contact all the authors who have contributed to the Parts Library over the years but have not yet affirmed the current version of the Contributor Agreement (URL) Below you will find a list of all the authors (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Yeah, that makes sense. LDView will notify the server that it accepts gzipped content, but will work fine either way. It will just work faster when the response is gzipped. At this point, I'm not sure when the next version of LDView will be (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) I'll either do that, or just start mirroring the entire ldraw library to media.peeron.com. How soon will you need this? I guess your script should work transparently either case though - gzipping shouldn't be required, just accepted. Make (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) OK, I got it working. Feel free to delete the file whenever you want. So, do you plan to turn gzip support on for the ldraw.org server? It would make a really big difference for unofficial part downloads. --Travis (18 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) that file there for a while while I get my gunzipping to work? I'll post another message here once I get it working. Thanks. --Travis (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Right - apparently I don't have it enabled on peeron/ldraw's server, but try it on this: (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Just as an experiment, I added the above header to my request, and still got back plain-text. --Travis (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) It's assumed - at least, firefox doesn't mention it explicitly. (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) I don't do this now, but I think I can do so fairly easily. Just to check, if I add the following header to my request, ldraw.org will gzip automatically? Accept-Encoding: gzip If I do that, do I need to add another accepted encoding to let (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) The HTTP header can say when a particular file has been modified last - but not a bunch of files in one request. Again, it's already included in the tar format, as well as each file size (which can be useful to make sure your request didn't (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) If the client supports it, yes. But unless LDView specifically says it does, the server will assume it can't. (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) MPD would work for any text files, as long as they don't include /\n0 FILE /. One thing MPD would not provide is the mod-timestamp for each file. That could be listed at the top of the response (before the first file) or maybe in the HTTP (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Wont most servers (and clients) automatically use gzip or similar if they both support it? (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Right - it could only do so when asked by the client, and the client is always free to ignore data it doesn't need. (...) Could do that, or tar (which would work for non-DAT files, if needed). I'd be tempted to add a zip compression (as an (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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