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Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Paul Davidson

I'm just curious if anyone has ever built their newly-bought lego set only to discover a piece is missing. I've often been positive partway through that I was missing one, but I always ended up finding it. On the other hand, I *always* have a small (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Dave Stiles

(...) Had worse than a missing piece happen tonite. As I was completeing the 4020 Fireboat I was lucky to get in a auction a while ago....I found that the stickers had been cut in half, and they were unusable. ARGH ! ! ! ! ! But at least the 4031 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Paul Davidson

Dave Stiles <Turbowolf@aol.com> wrote in message news:FL6Exv.KFp@lugnet.com... (...) only (...) 4020 (...) intervetion (...) Perhaps! On a recent set, I actually lost a piece (a tiny 1x1 transparent white tile) behind the couch while assembling it. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Ever been missing a piece? Nope! —Richard Parsons

Paul Davidson wrote (...) Never. Not once in over 500 sets over twenty years. That is very impressive quality control. Wouldn't mind that level of attention to detail in some of the businesses I work with :-) Richard Still baldly going... Check out (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Ever been missing a piece? Nope! —Mark Harrison

Hi Richard, I just traded a MISB 6989 MCM and a MISB 6987 MIB for a used complete 7740. My friend emailed me yesterday to say the 6989 was missing one of the large plastic wheels. He even rang lego in Sydney and they confirmed that the batch of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Tony Priestman

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Paul Davidson (<FL6EL3.JuE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 07:07:27 (...) Yup. The unthinkable happened to me just recently. It was a white 2x1x1/3 grill from a 4561. On phoning LEGO consumer services, the part was sent immediately. (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Rose Regner

I had a which's castle that had two entrance bars? 6 bricks by 12 bricks but I was missing a castle wall piece. I know that I have had atleast one other one in the last year, but I can't remember it right know. Rose Paul Davidson wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Scott W. Runyan

Only once. I bought a bunch of 8414's, and building one I found a missing bag of pieces. There was a duplicate bag of other pieces though, so upon weighing the set seemed complete. Called customer service and received the missing pieces in three (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Mike Case

(...) I bought a Magic Flash (5581) a few years ago and discovered that I was missing from 50 to 100 pieces. As near as I could tell, a parts bag left out of the box. The Lego service people worked with me to replace all of the missing parts. (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Kevin Maynes

(...) I never EVER thought it would happen. Set after set, Q-control from Lego has always been spot-on. (and yes, always with a few extra tiny bits!) Until just a couple days ago! Augh! (funny you should ask right about now). A sealed, mint (so mint (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Paul Davidson

I guess you should call Lego then ... judging from the other responses here, they are very efficient at getting you the missing parts speedily. Half of the reason for asking was so that I would know how well Lego responded to these things. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Bryan Wong

Let me share a funny story - I thought I was missing a piece! I got the Technic space shuttle a while ago. Since it was my first Technic set, I had a bit of trouble identifying the various small pieces. So in the first step that required the use of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Troy Cefaratti

Yes, but just once so far out of all these sets I've been buying 9several hundren in the last 6 months). It was an arachnoid starbase purchased at Kohls, and it was apparently mispacked at Lego, as is was missing an entire large bag of parts, but (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Paul Baulch

Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) I've never been _missing_ a piece, but recently I bought a Gungan Sub (unopened) and it turned out that one of the printed 1x4 dark grey tiles was substituted for a light grey one without printing. Weird. It (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Giulio Ferrari

Never been missing a piece, but a few weeks ago I found a damaged piece in a sealed 4551 Crocodile Engine train. It was a white 2x1x1 piece with small teeth on the sides, a tipical train piece. It was turned and flattened, probably it went into some (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —David Eaton

(...) I've heard of mis-packed lego instances 3 times in all my 23 years of existance: 1: Around '88 or '89, a friend of mine bought the FUTURON monorail. A Trans-blue windshield was interchanged with a Trans-Green one. Status of mistake? Unknown. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jennifer L. Reckard

{snip} I had two in one buying binge recently, the first was in 4559 (cargo railway) missing a 1x2 white plate with one stud on top (instead of two, pardon my terminology) the other was in the ninja stone tower bridge (6089) a 1x2 gray plate with a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Selçuk Göre

The only occurrence of such a thing in my whole life was a box of 6332 (Town Jr Police Headquarters) which I won from a promotional lottery by a TRU in Istanbul. There was a 1x6x5 brick missing and one trans green/black window block (the newly (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Craig Livingston

I know this is kinda late in the thread for adding comments, but I have had two experiences with missing pieces lately: 1 - An Outback airstrip I bought from KB was missing a 1x2 corrugated gray brick that I must of search an hour for (thinking I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Christopher Lannan

(...) pattern (...) my (...) I've noticed the round 1x1 thing too. I have also noticed, though not always, that there is often what appears to be part of the sprue for the 1x1s in the box too- tho not attached to them. Perhaps the machine makes them (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Frank Filz

(...) Actual reason is probably that the 1x1 round plates (there are a few other parts which sometimes come with an extra) are very close to the tolerance of their scales, so they put an extra one in, and set the limit to account for that extra (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Ray Sanders

My 8480 Shuttle was missing a piece, I think it was a 1x2 black plate (or something like that). I found one in a yard sale bag and just continued on. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Will Middelaer

(...) My 8480 was missing a 1x2-1x2 hinged plate in black. A quick call to customer service had a replacement on the way. Wi (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Alex Roode

(...) Yes. A whole bunch. My most recent was the Granite Grinder, it was missing one of those 2x2 plates with technic studs on top. An other one was the big red piece on the front of a red stunt plane. And my Insectoids were missing a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Rengenier Mulder

I bought a 8299 Search Sub on discount yesterday and the pneumatic workcylinder was leaking right the first time I used it. I replaced it with one of my own, but will call LEGO Benelux monday. Rengenier (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jonathan Little

I always think I've lost a piece or that one is missing when I'm building a new set. I'm just paranoid like that. If I can't find a piece right a way I actually have these very minor panic attacks (my heart rate picks up slightly, nothing major). (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) Cheaper than finding out what part it was, exactly, that Idiot Customer[1] lost, finding it, and sending it, presumably. Jasper [1] No offense to you personally, but if you've ever worked in a customer-facing situation, you know what I mean.. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jonathan Little

(...) No offense taken. Frankly, unsatisfactory opinions from people that I don't know usually don't bother me. I'm not sure what you mean by a "customer-facing situation" but, if you are referring to customer service problems, i.e. a situation (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —James Brown

(...) <fairly major snippage> (...) That door swings both ways, though. While unhappy customers can be/often are hard to deal with/unwilling to admit fault, the other end occurs often as well. A company with a poorly designed/managed customer (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) Oh, don't get me wrong, I know. It happens. I've been on that side of the fence a few times myself. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jonathan Little

(...) OK . . . I can understand this point. I worked at a bookstore, and I had customers all the time that would come in and tell me that they wanted the big green book that was on *that* table, three months ago. They had no idea of the title, or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Bram Lambrecht

(...) Ah, but my Calc teacher says that a good teacher should be able to teach calculus to a first grader :) (at least geometrically speaking) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) pay more to get (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) The problem is that a) the minority completely ruins your life as a support person and b) in the end, it's cheaper in terms of time and material to just treat _everyone_ as a total idiot because it costs only a little extra, compared to when (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Steve Bliss

(...) You ever thought about sneaking in, and lowering the drag sensitivity for double-clicks? Steve (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Matthew Miller

Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote: [someone else wrote:] (...) Or, install a more user-friendly system like Linux+KDE? :) [Followup To .off-topic.geek] (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) That would be "admin-friendly", and if I had the time to get DOSEMU working, it'd be there, like, now. Minus KDE of course. What the hell are you thinking - this is a 486DX2-66/8M/420M. ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Matthew Miller

(...) Ugh. Add in some more RAM though, and that'll manage KDE just fine. I suggest KDE because of the single-click-operation paradigm -- seems like that'd solve most of the problem. (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) Heh. Where am I gonna get 72-pin FPRAM modules these days? I mean, okay, I have 32M lying around, but that's gonna have to go into the P166 I also have lying around. (...) Ah, is that it.. I must admit I've never delved very deeply into KDE. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Hey, this reminded me of something I did last week. Short background: Bought a new 40 gig drive for my Linux box. Couldn't make it be seen properly even after a BIOS update and even after numerous other things (edited lilo.conf with the CHS (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) *drool* (...) And again... (...) I've heard about that. I haven't heard of anyone who actually liked it. (...) I suppose that says something about IDE, large drives, and servers. (...) Probably not. (...) Stop it, you're making me jealous.. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Me either. My two co-admins and I just sat there and barely contained our urge to vomit while we went through the installer. If I hadn't feared the 40 gig drive would give <6.1 fits I would have scrounged around for my 5.2 or 6.0 cds... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) 6.0 is 2.2.7 or something, isn't it? Shouldn't that deal with 40G? (...) Light load helps a lot. Though if you were planning on running a full feed for yourself, light load isn't exactly the word... (...) Not like win2k should be more (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) You got me. I'm still very much a casual Linux user. Maybe now that I'm almost finished with the MCSE I'll have time to actually sit down and do some reading instead of just hammering away and reading an occasional man page. (...) Well, there (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Just realized that might sound bad. Let me elaborate, and yeah, this may show how dumb I've been to stick around, or it may show, for those who know me, that I'm paranoid about going without insurance, and my wife only recently got her (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Well, yeah. Though it might have been $50/test, I'm not actually sure. (...) MCSE always was 7 tests, since realistically you want +I added as well ;) (...) Not what I've heard, but employers and neighbourhoods vary. (...) Tempus fugit, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) I wish. I may end up paying for some of these myself - $50 would be a lot nicer than $100. (...) Actually, MCSE+I is 9 exams. So I'll have 3 more to go. :( Only one after that to MCDBA, tho. (...) Really? Everyone I've spoken to, either on the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Really? My memory must be failing. Old age or something. (...) Uhm, exactly. I thought you were saying otherwise, so that was a bit of a misunderstanding. Actually, a) happens 100% as far as I can see, but b) is rarer. (...) Heh. My "simple (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Well, my consulting partner and I have decided to split up certs anyway, so I think I'll be getting the MCDBA first. 2 Exams to go for that - Admin and Design/Implementation. (...) Yeah, _everyone_ in my classes earlier this year was amazed (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) This is the part where I scream in horror and recoil violently. Adminning MS is bad enough, but MS databases... Are you _sure_ you want to go that way? (...) They probably haven't thought of it - I know of other university admins who get those (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) I want to learn - period. We have more SQL Server implementations on campus than anything else, especially Oracle. So yes, given my present circumstances, I am sure I want to go this way. I could decide to start working towards some sort of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) That's one line of reasoning. Given the tales of woe I've been hearing from sysadmins all over the world, though, anyone with half a clue tries to move to unix adminning as soon as humanly possible. You've certainly got the necessary clues, so (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Maybe. I doubt I'll be doing Unix stuff at my current employer, though. Our main Unix systems seem to be held together with chewing gum, lots of hope, and a ton of money. I'm trying to learn what I can on my own, but there's only so much time (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) How much of that money is for the "sysadmin's beer fund"? (...) Yeah, but single platform locations don't exist. Everyone wants on the 'net. Here's how a countryman of mine put it: (URL) you do, never touch Exchange. Or Lotus Bloats. Or any (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Let's be sure we're on the same page. If you're saying groupware itself is not a good thing, vehemently disagree. I'll be happy to briefly explain how indispensable it is if that is what you were saying. However, if you're saying that Exchange (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Groupware is a nice idea. (...) It's just that I've never seen or heard of any implementation yet which, _especially_ in the area of email delivery (which is ridiuclously high-volume compared to almost all other groupware traffic), doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) OK, whew. Got enough to debate you as it is... (...) Or just use news. Really! I've seen it done. (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) By the way.. in one or two of your posts lately I thought I detected a certain.. how shall I put that.. annoyance at me personally as opposed with my arguments. Any comments? (...) For brainstorming sessions of more than, say, 3-4 people, it's (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Annoyance? naaa.... <ponder> Urp, no more than usual/no more than I am at anyone else? You're misguided, confused, idealistic and generally wrong when it comes to freedom, economics and markets, but I like you anyway in spite of all that. I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Ah, that's OK then. (...) Awwwww... shucks. (...) I think it would probably be more suited in off-topic.people. But then, we can't really put it there. (...) You could call me ... "democrat" (Or, for that matter, "republican" or (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Wouldn't surprise me. (...) Would surprise me. Samba blows. Sorry, but it does. Touching it with 95/98, which, unfortunately, is what a ton of places use, is a slow painful joke. Touching it with NT is slightly better, but still slow and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) The question is, how does it's blowiness relate to the negative-mass white hole that is NT SMB serving? Jasper (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Well, not sure. But in *my* admittedly limited Linux/Samba experience trying to introduce Samba as an alternative to NT for file serving is a joke. File copies went from seconds to minutes on 95/98, and at increased dramatically even when (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) No comment. (...) True, true. Not quite what I meant, thinking of single platform in-house, but I get what you're saying. (...) I've avoided Exchange because we don't use it anywhere I know of on campus and because I heard so many bad things (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Very wise. Are the elevators in your buildinmg controlled by the network? How about the halon systems? "After a few hours the thumping dies down. I guess those [backup tape - ed] safes really _are_ airtight." (...) Well, yes, I knew that's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Yep. Kinda funny, though. I talked to my local MCSE buddy, the one who got most of his experience in his current job doing OJT, and he had lots of really good things to say about Exchange. 'Course, his implementations are all small-scale, so (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) That helps. In small-scale, single-in-house-platform, beefy-server, in-house-24/7-admin-...luescreens environments, it's not too bad. Talk to a few of the people in ASR who deal on a daily basis with Ericsson's Sexchange servers, though. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) ISP adminning? What do you mean? I don't work for an ISP. I don't know that you'd call the adminning I do corporate right now, though... (...) Contrary to popular opinion, I'm really a quiet guy. I read a lot of groups I never post in. But no, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Well, not yet. I don't know that much about your plans for the future ;) (...) See email. One I'll mention right now is comp.risks. (...) Ouch. I mean, yes, nice machine, but $5.6k? In US prices, even. That would be around $7k if I wanted to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Ok. So what do you mean by "completely different"? I'm curious as to what you see as the differences betweeen "ISP" adminning and "corporate" adminning. I've actually done ISP "helpdesk" stuff before (in fact my last job was managing an office (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Matthew Miller

(...) Eep, yes. This is exactly what got me into Linux in the first place. My friend was trying to start an ISP running NT. They were having trouble, so since I'd done some work getting PPP to work on the ancient terminal server at the small college (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) I don't know why but this reminds me of a guy I know via IRC who started up his own ISP literally in his own home using a Linux box and a handful of lines, providing service mainly to local teachers, with the initial goal being to simply pay (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Matthew Miller

(...) Very similar to my situation, actually. My friend wanted to start an ISP so he could have net access after college and not have to pay for it. There was a time a few years ago when it was possible. 56K modems really raise the bar, though; it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Well, there are generally _much_ more users per server, per admin, and per company. And they're all clients which have to be treated with respect. And there'more bandwidth involved. In general, though, the main difference is that as an ISP you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Ah, ok. Well, aside from the fact that I treat all my clients/customers with respect, I agree. But I tried especially hard when I was in charge of the network support center for the students on campus and all our dial-up stuff. But even then, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Oh, that usually is the case - but universities and corporate environments do tend to be more forgiving of late-night downtime than ISP, as far as I can tell. (...) You and everybody else in the business, apparently. (...) barney:~$ telnet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Matthew Miller

(...) Yeah, the new installer is broken -- they've TOTALLY screwed up the net-install. *sigh*. And with 6.0, they'd FINALLY gotten all the bugs out. But there is one small consolation -- you can still do the install in text mode by selecting that at (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) No way. I TOTALLY missed that. Or ignored it, or something. Oh well, I got a machine at home I'm not using for anything (233/64mb - dead 5 gig drive but I've got a 6 gig spare) - I'll set it up and play with some stuff here at home. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Matthew Miller

(...) The text mode install isn't actually the old one; it just looks exactly like it. But it's still been rewritten from scratch in python, and just like the gui version is full of bugs. Maybe next version will be better. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been) —Mike Stanley

(...) Ught. Nevermind. Or at least I'll just install it and ghost it like I do the other OSes on that test machine. Not much call for testing the stuff I've been doing for local companies under Linux anyway... (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) Been there, done that. Duh. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Look, you're my friend and everything but do you HAVE to use that word on this site? Just because my kids already know that word, know what it means and all, and have heard it used before doesn't mean that I want them reading it HERE. (1) You (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jasper Janssen

(...) I know it. I just need a little reminding of where I am sometimes. Post is cancelled, BTW. (...) Isn't that the same thing? (F-up that to debate) (...) Isn't that "Le roi est mort, vive le Roi!"? (...) Wonder when ebay is going to sue this (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

(canceled) —Jamie Obrien

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —David Schilling

(...) A piece deliberately stolen? YES! I recently bought a 25th Anniversary DUPLO bucket that someone had bought, taken the silver brick out, and returned! The polybag that was supposed to hold the brick had a tiny hole in it - just big enough to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Mark Rideout

(...) Pulling from memory of the past (which could cause problems itself) sometime probably in the 1970s (or early 80s), but wasn't there a case of a boy who bought some Legos with a piece missing? It received national TV attention and TLG (or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Jeff Thompson

(...) Must have been a slow news day! Last time it happened to me, I just called Consumer Affairs and got a replacement. I forgot to call the local news crews. =) Seriously, I've had malformed elements, but the only missing elements I've found in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Adrian Drake

(...) When I bought my Whirl'n'Wheel Super Truck Model Team set (I don't know the number offhand) way back when it was available, it was missing the black snowplow piece that made the air deflector on the roof. I never called TLC to complain, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Dave Schuler

(...) My Y-Wing fighter had a 4x4 plate in red instead of the dk grey one it was supposed to have. Does that count? Dave! (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —James Simpson

(...) Only once: a blue 1x6 beam 19 years ago. I have received a mis-printed computer screen - the classic space one with the buttons and cross-hairs. The printing on it is all askew. I rather like it, actually. Oh, and a few months ago I was (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Richard Marchetti

(...) Well, the weird double think of not actually missing a piece but thinking I had has certainly happened to me, but so has ACTUALLY missing a piece! Sometimes I am sure this is because someone has lifted the piece in question. Other times, its (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece? —Tony Priestman

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Richard Marchetti (<FoC7C7.GCu@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:00:07 (...) No. And I think they're changing the formulation of the plastic as well. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)