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Allow me to point out the (un)obvious... UPC = Universal Product Code where the leading 0 means general merchandise there is an additional lead character but I forget the detail (something like 3 means pharmacutical) five characters to the left of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Any having trouble accessing lugnet.com subdomains?
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It works fine from Sweden;) I included some info to you, maybe you can find it usefull? 8 164 ms 144 ms 176 ms bar1-serial6-1-1-0.N...nyr.cw.net [206.24.200.157] 9 168 ms 136 ms 170 ms acr2-loopback.NewYorknyr.cw.net [206.24.194.62] 10 175 ms 178 ms (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Someone in the Washington, D.C. area is reporting having trouble accessing things on img.lugnet.com and news.lugnet.com...possibly some kind of DNS confusion somewhere. (img.lugnet.com is where images from the sets database are served.) Anyone else (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Writing A Proposal
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(...) Luckily, it looks like Lego uses the set # as the last part of the UPC. At least from the sets I looked at -- are there cases where this isn't true? (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Writing A Proposal
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(...) That would be cool!!! :-s --Todd (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Writing A Proposal
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(...) I intend to set up something so that scanning a Lego UPC automatically enters it in LUGnet as part of my collection. I'd highly recommend against using the software that comes with the :CueCat. Each device has a unique ID, and every time you (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I got two of these, one from Wired, and one from Forbes. (1) Have people been putting these to any use at all? I could see using them to scan UPC codes maybe... I would rather they built this function into a giveaway mouse instead of YAGTCUMW (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dang. THAT is a very important piece of info -- thanks! OK... Are there any popular programs out there (on the level of Excel, etc.) which only handle CSV text and don't handle tab-delimited text data? --Todd (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: CSV delimiters
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Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I see in the thread that you've got most of the answers you need, but there is at least one complication in the Windows world (if you ever get files from that): The MS programs (and many others too, as (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Hey - I've poked around the web enough, and also asked a few people with no success, so I thought I'd dip in the brain pool here. Two questions about Office 2000 - 1) Is there any way to restore the start menus to the way they were before O2K was (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: CSV delimiters
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(...) Aha! Excellent. Those docs sound well thought out. Hmm, that reminds me... Duh, this is prolly a common Perl thing. I bet Freidl[1] as some stuff on CSV? Lessee... <dig dig dig> Ahh, here we go: pp. 204-208, 227, 231, 290. And (haha!) it even (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Maybe this will also be helpful. It's not exactly a standard, but it is IEEE. :) (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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There exists (in CPAN) a Text-CSV perl module. From its documentation: This module is based upon a working definition of CSV format which may not be the most general. 1 Allowable characters within a CSV field include 0x09 (tab) and the inclusive (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: CSV delimiters
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(...) I remember looking for this about a year ago, and I came across something that looked very standardish. If I remember right, it's really silly. You don't actually escape things. Fields are comma separated, and optionally surrounded by (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I think there are a variety of CSV-to-HTML-table converters floating around that you can download -- I saw at least 3 earlier while searching before posting. You'd probably want to look for one that somehow auto-sensed whether quotes were (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | RE: CSV delimiters
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(...) I agree. I was trying to hack an Excel file into some usable html, and those "" made it nearly impossible for me to do search and replaces to get valid html without messing it up in other places. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Eeek -- shame on me -- did I just say "it's" when I meant "its"? Anyway, I forgot to say: The idea of escaping quotes is *bizarre* in the first place. IMHO, there shouldn't *be* any closing double-quote character on a field once it has already (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I hate it too. IIRC, Excel uses "" instead of \" for an escaped " -- but I could be wrong. I just remember hating it once when I looked at it. :) One nice thing, though, is that Excel can import tab-delimited text, so that's it's saving grace. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | RE: CSV delimiters
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(...) Sorry, I can't help. And I hate the way Excel outputs in plain text. But since it's 2:30 in the morning, I'll make useless comments. Sounds like you're working on the question I asked...augh, and I just entered all the sets manually. Oh well, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | CSV delimiters
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Is there any "official" or "reasonably standardized format" for CSV (_C_omma _S_eparated _V_alue) data? I guess it's pretty obvious, mostly, but how are the delimiter characters typically encoded (specifically: comma, double-quote, and newline)? In (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: ICQ searching
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(...) nod... I just have ICQ open all the time anyway, so for most things, it's easier to send off an ICQ msg than to find my lugnet/quickset bookmark... :) Dan (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow! So, ok. You were *really* bored :) Cool anyhow but I'm not sure if it's that practical since you need Internet access anyhow and then a launch of a webbrowser is easier then to find ICQ and the user BrickInfo. I love the idea though, it (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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hey all - I was bored today. well, kinda. so I came up with an ICQ based lego set search. What you do, add 91890482 (BrickInfo) to your ICQ list (and ignore any auth stuff). Then, send it a message with a set number: Message to BrickInfo Thu Sep 21 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For those of a mathematical disposition, I vaguely remember an article on the subject of building computing logics out of train tracks in 'Eureka' (the annual journal of the Cambridge University undergraduate math society, the Archimedeans) a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Modelling boolean gates with trains
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(...) If NOT is reversing direction, than 1 is forward and 0 is back. (Or the other way around; whatever.) But I'd be curious to hear how you envision more complicated logic! (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.trains)
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| | Modelling boolean gates with trains
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Okay, this might be totally impossible (or insane or banal), but has anyone modelled boolean functions on a train layout (System or Duplo)? At the moment I'm thinking "train on the line"=1, "not on the line"=0. NOT could be done by reversing the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake)
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(...) Calling it a bug was just me being annoyed. I'm a relatively old geezer who has been programming computers for 25+ years. I miss the days when you could understand pretty much everything your computer was doing, along with how and why. My (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) Or "traceroute" if you're running unix. (Including the new Mac OS X).... (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:22:11 -0600, Rui Martins wrote (in message <Pine.GSU.4.10.10009...0@is-sv>): (...) to try to get an idea of where your packet has to go to get to ldraw.org, try typing this from your command prompt (my apologies to those (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego New is Up
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(...) I had the same problem trying to use iCab to access it - it worked fine once I told iCab to pretend it was Netscape. (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Can't get Linux NQC to compile/Run
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(...) Ok, here is the scoop. I've done the following tests... Installed Red Hat 6.2 Both rpm's worked just fine. (pre compiled & source) Installed Mandrake 7.1 as a 'Developer' (w/ Extension CD) Pre Compiled rpm failed. Same error. Compiled rpm (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | flash (was Re: legoland.co.uk attack)
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(...) Well, there is a flash 4 player for Linux from Macromedia, and there's also an open-source flash 3 player. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: legoland.co.uk attack
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(...) An 'Ethical' cracker? IMO he didn't want' to obstruct the site although I cant find a thorugh link on the mirror (hmm?). He also does have a point regarding DeCSS, Why should we have to PAY a certian company in Seatlle a small fortune to be (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: legoland.co.uk attack
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(...) That looks like THE Millennium Falcon (URL) usually not a starwars fan, but this one had me impressed. Jürgen (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Two people seeing two different web sites
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(...) This is probably it in this case. But there's another possibility too: The website name could actually point to multiple web servers, which might be updated at different times. You could even be redirected to different addresses depending on (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego New is Up
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(...) I get that error all the time with lynx -- it's usually just a warning and Lynx copes with it. However, this ends up doing something else weird: it eventually dumps me at: [ERROR.GIF] No cookie. To access this site your browser must be (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) To extend the list of resons: They might have changed the IP to the servern in the primary DNS and your computer alt. your DNS haven't got it yet. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Two people seeing two different web sites
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(...) well, it could be caused by a number of reasons: The web server might actually be serving different versions of the page to different people - according to browser type, how you got there, what ip you have, what cookies you have... etc. If (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Two people seeing two different web sites
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How can two systems, each with a cleared cache, see two different versions of the same web site? Yes, I am talking about the infamous www.lego.com i.e. I have seen references to links in the Lego web site that people have made but I get an under (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Uncle Bill's new toy
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"Tobias Möller" <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:39C12BEB.CD41A6...lia.com... (...) Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5, but MS decided to rename it. They've moved some bits around and added new features (eg. EFS) but the core is still based (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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