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Has anyone thought of, attempted or suceeded in putting scanned instructions onto a CD ROM? I would be very interested if someone has done it? also whether its reasonably easy and of reasonable cost. I am very interested in gathering together a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I remember back when kl.net was just barely under 650 megs - I burned it onto a CD. Haven't grabbed the whole thing in a long while, though, so I bet it's at least 2 cds worth or more now. I wouldn't think of selling the CDs, though. Probably (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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A friend of mine in France sells a 3 CD set of instructions scans. The price is kind of steep. Do you have a CDR? -- Have fun! John AUCTION Page (More soon!) (URL) Page (URL) wp,dm,rk,df++ fk-]++++(6035) SW,TR,old(456)+++ TO++ PI,SP+ DU-- #+++++ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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That would be a good trick. My understanding is that since it's dynamically generated content using a hybrid of HTML and Perl that Todd invented, it would be hard to put on a CD statically and still have the search work. one could, perhaps, write a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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I use CD-R and CD-RW quite often to take instructions home... (that way my employer pays for the download). I'm always left think that one cannot beat the real thing, or printed scans for that matter. I suppose separate CD's of each LEGO genre or (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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The LUGNet set search would be a much much better CD to have. The amount of times I connect to the web to access this is scary... having it on CD would suit me much better. -- Scott A Edinburgh, Scotland. (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Doesn't this mean that one would have to actually tell one's family how much one spends on LEGO? I can see that some may think that their family is better off not knowing this. :-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) How funny. Larry is absolutely right, and so is Fredrik! Hell hath no fury like an NLSO finding out how much you spent on stupid plastic blocks! What a conundrum:-) I would err on the side of *not* telling the spouse how much it's worth, if (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The entire site is currently 4.5GB, including zips which make up half the space, and catalogs. So, if you wanted to put just the scans (no zip files)on cd, you would need 4-5 cd's, depending on how you divided it up. Of course, while making cd-r's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Kevin, Having probelms mailing you back, here is a cut'n'pasted version: our message has encountered delivery problems to the following recipients: Unable to deliver to destination domain Cannot resolve nospmkl.net Your message reads (in part): (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Or at least put a special section in your will, which it will not be sold until x envelope, containing prices, is sold! :) Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Do you have a reccomended way to pull down just boxtops and instructions? I'd be interested in wasting some of my company's T3 to get a few cd's worth of stuff? Is there a way to pull down by date entered? So I could just burn a new CD in a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I'd love to make a set of CD's for myself, but I've always felt bad about the thought of turning something like wget loose on big sites. (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Let's see - his web address is kl.net - and this seems to be an obvious SPAMBLOCK, just like I use (doesn't make me a WISEGUY, either, as someone very recently called me in a message asking me for help) in my posts. (...) Luckily, ignorance is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Well, ya, that is true. Perhaps put it in a sealed set of instructions? (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'll buy that envelope for a dollar. Then shred it and get the collection for a song. I think c /is sold/is opened/ ... :-) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What part? I can elaborate if you think it would help. net net is that the LUGNET Pause DB would be hard to put on a CD because it's more than just raw data. The pages you see are made on the fly and you'd lose all that. (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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don't feel bad, people run wget (or similar) all the time (resulting a 2-5GB daily download rate). However, for half the download time, you might want to do wget -A zip since everything is zipped (including the thumbnails and indexes) KL (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hrmmm... will do then. I think I have a few gigs free on vader right now - might as well put them to use. Then I can extract the zips and make my own CD's. (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Keep in mind that you are the named beneficiary of at least one will when saying this, Mr Glockner. My family are currently minding my collection, but I don't think they realised its real (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I am? Wow, I had no idea of that. (...) Here in Norway, most people realize that LEGO is a high quality, expensive construction toy. It is my impression, although I haven't actually got any statistics for it, that only very few would ever give (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Better you than some lucky kid out looking for a bargain. My parents have already demonstrated their incompetance by selling the Lego I had as a child for virtually nothing (about $US3/lb) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks! I sampled up the original 384x288 renderings to 768x576 by using some bicubic technique, and used these to make an MPEG animation. The resulting animation hasn't really got anymore details than the 384x288 one, but it still looks quite (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I'm not sure you would get in trouble if you quitly sold a CD set for cost of media plus time. This is a standard practice for share/free-ware (I do realize that this isn't freeware... my $.02 SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Yeah, and that's also something that shareware and freeware authors specifically allow people to do - redistribute and charge for the media and possibly for the service. The key is they want people to distribute their programs. TLG seems to be (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) You're right. While distributing scans on cd might seem to be the same as on the web, it really isn't. In the real world, distributing bits as atoms is alot different than distributing bits as electrons or photons. Especially when you don't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) That was the one I grabbed :) This low-res stuff, pah! (...) Cool. Moz (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) I don't know where it comes from but there's jiggling from some other parts of the image, and combined with jiggly music (Emily Richards, "Lie to Me" from the album "You Give" (URL) a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, I noticed. It's probably an artifact of the MPEG encoding. I can see if I can encode it at slightly less compression, to see if it goes away then. If I still have the original rendered files, that is. *ponder* Now, the next challenge (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I agree with your intepretation as well. I just fear their interpretation may change if someone were to create an atomic distrobution using your photonic distrobution. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in article <37BA00E7.49E95BF@vo...er.net>... (...) I'm sure it would be easy enough to write a front end for the database in Visual Basic. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Mostly on bike paths. Well, shared use death traps, whatever you want to call them. The paths are nice, it's just that sometimes we get a 2m wide path shared between cyclists travelling (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I have now downloaded around 80% of Brickshelf's instruction scans and am getting ready to burn some CDs. Has anyone else done this yet? I'm wondering about the best division of files between the CDs and how to handle future additions. Also, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi, Because my kids destroyed my catalogs from 1990 until 1998 downloaded i the catalogs from 1966 until 1997 and burned them on CD. Now i can search for some items without being on-line. The CD is self starting (Autoplay) with some special software (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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