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"Juergen Stuber" <juergen@jstuber.net> wrote in message news:87bqmngteb.fsf@...ber.net... (...) Thanks, Jurgen! But indeed I had noticed there isn't a power pack available from S@H site for Australia! (...) Interesting to note, so if anyone has it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Sure, I'm just trying to be helpful. When I bought my battery packs in Oberhausen I didn't know whether I could use the train transformer, and neither did the shop staff (they didn't have the transformer in stock). Later at home I found out it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That is true, but I think this is more about the fact that the standard train transformer is not available from S@H (at least not to Australia), so anyone reading the Battery information and not knowing what the standard train transformer is (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi Geoffrey, (...) you can use the standard train transformer. Jürgen (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(URL) is the Lithium Battery for Mindstorms NXT - unfortunately, while the S@H page clearly states that you require the additional purchase of #9833 Transformer Pack sold separately, there is no way to buy this with the 9798 kit shown on S@H site. (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Starting yesterday, Shop@Home is selling the train in European countries. Change 'country' (top-left) in the S@H site, and check it out. On the details page they also mention a K101== nr., regarding a set with 9V (!) track and motor! Usually (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I guess it should reach *every* european countries soon as the sets available thru SaH for France. Eric Borrega from FreeLUG has shot some pictures : 7898 : (URL) : (URL) Didier (...) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Full access appears to have been restored, however I still have no information on what the issue was, or whether my scanning script was to blame, so I will not be adding any new instructions until this has been clarified - I don't want access (...) (18 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J5pK1q.o44@lugnet.com... (...) OK, I went, I complained. Buth then suddenly one download worked for me. I did it again, it failed. So, having now spent a number of minutes (...) (18 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Great idea Kerry! I initially contacted them via the contact form on the website. They have opened a problem ticket, so I'm communicating via that system now, but if any other aussies are experiencing this problem, it can't hurt to let them (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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What email address are you using to contact them? I'll moan too bcause it's not working for me and I'm not doing anything that might offend them. Kerry (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well it takes about 7 days to check them all. And it's only grabbing the header unless it's a new file. (...) Yeah, we'll see. ROSCO (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Ahh. Yeah, I could see that as being potentially red-flagging, if they're getting a million hits in a short period of time. I was definitely thinking smaller scale than that. (...) Heh, the inevitable 1st level of tech support :) It will be (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Ahh. Yeah, I could see that as being potentially red-flagging, if they're getting a million hits in a short period of time. I was definitely thinking smaller scale than that. (...) Heh, the inevitable 1st level of tech support :) It will be (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It's more complicated than that, because the PDFs are stored by the 7 digit LEGO number, not the set number. Basically I scan the header of all files in a certain range (about 1 million), and if it is a PDF I check against my database, (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hm. given what you're talking about, it doesn't seem terribly likely that they'd shut down your IP based on that alone-- unless your polls are REALLY hitting them hard. But I'm assuming you're doing something like: for each set in the Lugnet (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) To put a number on it, I have received 22329 requests to my page since April. That's total requests, including non-search, and failed search requests. I have no way to tell how many requests that generated for lego.com, and besides, blocking (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I poll from Australia, roughly once a month. (...) that URL. Which either means they are blocking the same IPs on that server too, or it is a temporary cache and it has been flushed (in which case it is useless for polling). (...) I do not (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Negligible. I would guess LEGO's own instruction download page probably generates significantly more. ROSCO (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I just tried it, and it gave me 'Server error' when clicking on the link. Right clicking in the browser (FireFox) and choosing 'Save link as...' worked! Clicking on the link again also seems to work now, so maybe it's just some intermittent (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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