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(...) If you want to use URLs to retrieve files, there is the Perl module LWP which has a "User Agent" tool. I use it to retrieve a set of web pages each week. With Brickshelf you can't get a plain list of your directory though. But you could make a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Free server with CGI? And/Or php?
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AFAIK Tripod (www.tripod.com)allows custom CGI's. I've yet to try, but I 'm pretty sure I remember seeing this on their site... On a related note, does anyone know of a free site that allows you to host custom php script? Thanks, HTH (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Isn't MS bashing (and by extension, bashing of other corporations) really more fodder for .debate than .geek? I fail to see any technical content in ranting about the evil empire in Redmond. But then I may be missing something. ++Lar (FUT (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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(...) no simple way - since the script assumes you have local access to the directory... and since there is no real way of you knowing what files are in a directory on the webserver, unless it allows you to list them. the only thing you can do is (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've written a perl subroutine (thanks, Paul Hartzog) which finds all the files in a directory and returns some HTML code for thumbnails with links to those images. Is there a way I can modify this code so it can work with a URL instead of a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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(...) Except for anything directly targeted as feedback to LEGO Direct, it's probably time to migrate the discussion to .off-topic.geek. --Todd (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone know of a free web space provider that allows users to upload their own perl cgi scripts? Or does anyone have some space they can let me borrow while I test the scripts I'm writing? (I'm trying to make my website easier to update by (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway)
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(...) Well, that changes everything, yes. (...) If cos(x/51.5) is close, then you are in radians (Shiri already correctly explained where the 1.11 came from, and she's correct if your wavelength of 324 is in degrees. If it's in radians then you have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hehehehe... I probably did. Math is not by far my *favorite* subject, but it happens to be my strongest (for reasons that are totally beyond me). <shrug> -Shiri (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for your help, too. I just hope you did well on your test, or I'm in trouble... Dave! (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yep! It's measured from the baseline to a peak (or a valley). (...) <grin> the term for that is half a wavelength, or Crest to Trough. Something like that. (A wavelength is measured from peak to peak, so peak to valley is 1/2 of it). (...) Yes (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Doh! I was trying to be so careful! I thought amplitude was the "height" from high to low--is it actually half that? At any rate, I meant to write the min occurs at y=60, so that the high points occur along the line y=180 and the low points (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a little rusty myself, but there are bits and pieces here that don't quite add up, I think. Having a wavelength of 324 (I'm assuming you mean degrees, although you without stating degrees normally means radians) in which case your sin (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm working on something that's taxing my limited knowledge of trig functions, so forgive me if my terminology is a little messed up: I need to graph a sine function with a wavelength of 324 and an amplitude of 120 passing through point (0,180) at a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Because the mind of a bored Legomaniac at work is a dangerous thing...
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(...) And yet another that came to me at work: #9: Little plastic bricks They don't do much by themselves But together? Wow! (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mecha postings
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(...) Actually, shouldn't houses be pushed to .build.arch? The more and more I use Lugnet, both through NNTP and through the web interface, and the entire web in general, the more I realize the limitations of newsgroups and other topic (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Doom
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(...) Well again, it's only my opinion! It's the only conclusion I can reach. Not suddenly, but gradually over say a 20-year period. I'd been wondering, given all of the things you listed, and now I wonder no more. --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm honestly a bit puzzled by this statement. Regarding the MS issue, it's not like LEGO has released lots of software for non-MS OS earlier on. And regarding the implied statement that LEGO used to be a moral company. I don't see that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Because the mind of a bored Legomaniac at work is a dangerous thing...
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(...) Two more on similar lines: #7; Dreams of a sculpture Bigger than stegosaurus One day I'll make it... #8: Harshbarger again Another wonderful thing Why do I bother? (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Doom
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(...) Not to mention that IF someone DID do it (with all the M$ "Safeguards" in place) then the bottomless pit of money from the evil empire would quickly stamp some poor sod into the ground. NQC, LegOS and Legjos had better watch closely and double (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics)
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