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(...) Yes Eric... I agree. Furthermore there very well may be tendencies for certain personalities (and associated professions) to respond or not to respond which will further skew the results. But I'm just interested and not trying to do anything (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well according to your definition I would say I am a geek. I work on the development of a Meta data datastore for IBM. The product has been included exclusively with DB2 in the past but our goal is to make it database independent. Pretty geeky (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's perfect. Thanks! --Bram (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's kinda obvious what I do | V -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer ;-) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Keep in mind that there will be two very different answers. The adult community on Lugnet comprises that segment of AFOLs that a) have heard of it, and b) choose to participate. I suspect that A and B are largely concurrent, but the fact is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) back of my mind for awhile now. Are the majority of AFOLs geeks? Or... more to the point... What variety of occupations/interests does the Lugnet community and AFOLs in general represent? I for instance... am a geek... I am a Development (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Netslaves has an article about geeks and their toys. It mentions LEGO too. (URL) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Another way to get the information is to go to ${folder}/thumb where ${folder} is the path to the actual images. In that folder is the actual thumbnail files and a file called .sizecache. .sizecache contains one line for each thumbnail in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I still have no idea what he is trying to do. When you access a brickshelf folder it gives you an html page that contains links to all of the thumbnail images. You just have to extract them from the html. That would be trivial because the thumbnail (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) writing a brickshelf specific script should be really easy, if you want it to generate a listing of a folder - however, I'd ask kevin for permission before launching such a script - it's considered impolite to run such scripts without asking (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I think you can use php as a perl module somewhere...I'm probably wrong about that though...If I remeber correctly though php.net had a area where you could find out who hosted sites with php. -Matt (URL) - no lego content, yet, but come on in and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, all of that. Including: spidering, spidering more than one webpage into the same index, putting different categories of the index on different web pages, and a business model patent for using the web to bypass local decency laws. Just (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you don't have time to / don't want to do this, Kevin, no big deal. I'll just host the images myself. --Bram (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a script that lists of all the images in a Brickshelf folder if that script was running on the Brickshelf server... Would you be willing to do that, Kevin? I don't know how useful it would be for (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) they've patented what algorithm? regexping a webpage? writing spiders??? (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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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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(...) 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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