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  Good image-format converters
 
Does anyone know of any good(windows) programs that can convert graphics from the .bmp to .gif or .jpg format. Or how do you make pov output a gif or jpg. -- webpage: (URL) AIM:Qbwiz -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s--:- a---- (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What is "powerful"?
 
(...) Anyone planning on taking a look at the $199 iToaster? (URL) only "bad" thing seems to be that you have to use their ISP, and it is $19.99 per month, which I guess is kinda average, but certainly a lot more than I pay (nothing). If there were (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What is "powerful"?
 
(...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tasty!
 
(...) Actually, wouldn't that be a pizza calling to order another pizza? (...) It's too bad - that legal letter should have said to use the term "Lego brand bricks". I have a feeling this was a reactive response rather than a proactive one. Has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  anyone ordered stuff from x10.com?
 
(URL) from the fact that this place seems to always be running "hurry up and buy it before it goes off sale in 2 days" promotions, their stuff looks pretty cool. My friends and I ordered a few of their "free" firecracker home automation kits the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tasty!
 
Jonathan Wilson: (...) Hey wow, you can!!! Cool! -- recursive pizza! (almost) Say, I wonder if this means that they finally worked out their issues with the LEGO Legal Department as to the use of the word "legos"... (URL) (HTTP date stamp of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
 
(...) Oh, good. Then I wrote something close to correct. :) (...) That's probably a good idea. Most people will just scratch their heads at them, but some people would find it useful. Steve (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
 
Hey now, that's beginning to look like the yacc grammer for LDRAW in the LDLite source code. If you want to get precise in the language spec, grab the LDLite lex and yacc files and either take them as the defacto standard or modify them to handle (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
 
(...) Both of the above are common output from LDAO code. (...) Well, I was just throwing stuff out. I don't know if LDraw would take that one, or not. (...) Darned context-sensitive constructions. (...) I didn't say they made sense. Just that they (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: True Geekness
 
(...) Todd, any reason there is no link to the traffic page from "(URL) The only link directly to Traffic I saw was the intro/setup screen. A link on the Traffic site from the page listing all the groups would be great. (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
 
(...) Nope, won't take a fraction w/o the integer part; gotta fix that (...) Nope, same reason as above (...) Nope, won't take a fraction w/o the fraction part, gotta fix that (...) Nope, same reason as above (...) Yep! Woo-Hoo!!! :-, (...) Nope, I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
 
Oops, I forgot a few other odd things. I *think* your expression allows these, but I'm not sure: .1 -.1 0. -0. 001 1E BTW, the color-code can be in scientific notation. The line-type can't, at least, it can't in LDLite. I'm betting LDraw would (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: True Geekness
 
(...) Slight clarification here (I'm sure I'm one of the people who said they didn't like to scroll horizontally): I don't like horizontal scrolling, when it was a design choice of the site developer(s). If the data is visually structured, and it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: True Geekness
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Nah. Then we'd have to scroll :) Mike (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: True Geekness
 
(...) It's not really fixed at 500 pixels or anything, it's just whatever width the particular message you're viewing happens to be. Most of the time, it's an 80-column ASCII text message, displayed in Times Roman (or whatever the default (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
 
Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote: I'll have to respond to more of this later, especially the situation-specific stuff. Maybe privately since I would assume it might bore others. (...) No, dial-up service is not free, although (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
 
(...) Arg. Is this allowed? I guess it should be; the original parser was implemented using Pascal... Yes, ugly getting it is, hmmm? :-, if( $linein =~ m/ ^ \s*1 # indicates a subpart \s+([0-9]+) # color (?:\s+[+-]?[0-9]+(?:...-9+])?){3} # (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So few threads...
 
(...) Oh, were that it were! :-, Tamy, I noticed that while the Followup-To: header was set to lugnet.off-topic.fun, your message was still posted into both lugnet.off-topic.fun and lugnet.general. It seems you're posting via the e-mail interface. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
Oops ... forgot to mention that the new place is about 3 blocks away from my current place. AND, he didn't know my current salary. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
(...) I got a job proposal (which I'm starting on Monday), and that had a 50% jump. But I agree that a 100% jump is pretty steep. There are several reasons that I feel that I got: 1) Current programmers are focused on other things, and need somebody (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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