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and it looked so promisiong until I read the fateful words of doom... (Brick-o-Lizer not available for Macintosh browsers at this time.) <short rant> In other words-Sorry, Dave and anyone else who refuses to use windoze, we at Lego hate your kind. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) for what it's worth, it doesn't work in a NATed network either - I'm behind a firewall, and it bailed out saying it can't resolve my ip. oh well. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They probably wrote an Activex or whatever the latest acronym is. Instead of running it on the server like Todd's. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Oh, look, Brick-o-Lizer is a Java applet! Write once, test once, run once, sort of thing. Since they used Java, it's probably extremely Windows dependent. It'll never be ported. Who will figure out what bricks go into your order? Do you think it's a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How far did you get? I'm behind a firewall, running Virtual PC, where it runs miserable-to-adequate, and I've done all but hit the Order button. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Huh. It works under Linux. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) heh, guess I was wrong. it didn't like linux at all, but when Jenn tried it from her win95, also NATed, it worked ok :) :) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So, if I hack the browser's identifying code, I might get away with it. At least exercise the JVM ... Netscape just released a Macintosh version that actually uses the Apple/Sun Java instead of Netscape's own. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) FWIW, I'm running under Linux, behind an IP masq box.... works fine. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It works well with sound in Netscape 4.6 of the HP-UX, which actually had a hard time running the menus of shop.lego.com. It most likely would work on a Mac. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Rather than browser-the-software that would be browser-the-person using a Mac to access the internet. Decyferable but, yes, too confusing a phrase when it could be easily stated more clearly. John #388 (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Look closer -- (in the HTML source) -- it's written by Eric Harshbarger! :-) (...) I hope it's not Windows dependent. It kinda sorts runs on Linux here for me, but not well. But Eric is a smart guy! -- he'll fix it! :-) (...) Hmm, good (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Whoa! Congrats, Eric! eric (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Eric Joslin writes: ^^^^ (...) ^^^^ (...) (1) (...) ^^^^ (...) ^^^^ (...) ^^^^ Is there an echo in here? Or are Joslin/Olson/Harshbarger secretly the same person? I mean, has anyone actually seen all three of them together? They (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL -- good call! (...) I always wondered what happened to Erick Jolsonbarger from RTL. ;-) --Todd (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Slow day at work, Larry? ;) James (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I imagine the order is computer picked on a custom basis, with exact plate counts. Perhaps they give you a couple extra, but here's my math: 1993 bricks in set: 1 48x48 baseplate 44 2x4 slopes 4 2x2 corner slopes 1936 1x1 plates (44x44) ---- (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I called S@H, took some poor operator by surprise (in the sense that she had very little information, only that the Brick-o-Lizer was Coming Soon). She says that the pieces come in 90-piece baggies, and *** the pieces are all 1x1 plates. *** (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I just finished running through the Brick-O-Lizer (and y'all thought the regular shop.lego.com site was slow! This B-O-L is like molasses!). The saved GIF is 440x440, but each 10x10 pixel square is a single color. So it appears that: 1. The (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm on Win98, behind a firewall, and it still runs miserable-to-miserable. Steve (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, it's almost 10 PM and I really ought to leave... ++Lar (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The thing that made it the most miserable was really those web menus that take forever to load. UGH. I would have ordered the thing but I did not have that much time to waste on menus. (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Curses! I've... I mean, we've... been found out! eric (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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