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Ok, I'm a geek. I admit that. But now that I've got that out of the way, lemme say I've always loved connect 4, just because it's such a more strategic game (like checkers, rather) than one typically accounts for-- rather than say, tic-tac-toe, (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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I (...) I think you met someone who is not a geek last night. Jonathan (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think the more important question is, who here is NOT a geek??? :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) So... Have you ever had to write up documentation for a product that didn't exist yet, like Tina? --Electro-- (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Well, according to CNN, there is but one career in the entire IT gammut that does not entail direct interaction with networks or personal computers. That is the Technical Writer. I am a Technical Writer. Unlike network administrators, UNIX (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) I'm an aeronautical engineer, by my education. I was a "Rocket Scientist" (really..:-) for the first two years of my carrier, I decided that I didn't want to spare my job hours in front of a workstation by coding simulation programs, and I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Whew! Just fixed a mess. Vision Command owners read :)
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I just solved a problem I was having.... this may help someone else! Recently (as in the last 2 weeks) I installed an ethernet card and cable modem, I upgraded to Direct-X 8, I replaced my aged Celeron300a with a Celeron-II 600, and installed Lego (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Special Browser Add-on Question
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(...) In MLCAD, you can create a new parts-group that will show all the parts. To do this, select the Settings | Groups | Group configuration menu option. In the Name, type "All" (or something). In the Search, type "<" (no quotes). Click OK. To see (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Well I guess I am a greek. I am a structural engineer, and looking back on things - I actually learned a good deal about structural mechanics just by building with Lego as a young child. I didn't know at the time the technical physics behind (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Nah, just anyone who likes it. (Of course, that's sufficient but not necessary.) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I would probobly call myself a geek. I am currently studing computer science at university and I also spend most of my spare time on the computer, a lot of which is pulling various games to bits and working with editors for them and so on. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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I think you maybe misunderstood what I was saying! I didn't mean that being a firefighter was what made me "not" a geek! I was just stating it for the original question as to what AFOL's do! Second, I was saying that if I was walking a fine line (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | skipstone
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For everyone lookin' for a good web browser on *nix: check out Skipstone. (URL). It's a pure Gtk+ browser that embeds mozilla gecko. Unlike Galeon, it's *just* gtk, sans the GNOME baggage. Current cvs builds (linked with cvs mozilla) are really nice (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) OK, after READING the article, I am definitely a GEEK!!!!!! A big one! And a netslave to boot!! How scary is that? But I am a geek about five million times over. Yay me! Matt (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a graphic designer, which doesn't necessarily connote geek-ness on its own, but I think my geeky tendencies make up for that. ;^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I guess I'm NOT a geek. At least, not a techno geek. I'm a stockbroker. As soon as I graduate with my bachelor's in May, I'll be workign towards my CPA degree also. So, no I'm not a geek, I'm a nerd. Matt (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think I'm a geek. I currently work in Publishing but its only a job to get me to the next one. My previous 'career' job was floor manager in a factory, it couldn't get more blue collar, and I mean old school blue collar. Totally union, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) I dunno; there are a lot of computer/internet users out there who most certainly are _not_ geeks. On the other hand, just because you're a firefighter doesn't mean you're not a geek, either. :) And many of the computer professionals I work (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) I don't classify myself as a geek! I'm a firefighter! But, I am partial to geeks! hehheheh If I had to tip the scale, it would probably fall into the geek catagory! I would think that the majority of computer/internet users would fall that (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) I'm probably classified as a psuedo-geek. I repair all kinds of computer/electronics related hardware (primarily printers in my current job), which is pretty solidly in the range of geekdom, but it's a 9-to-5 deal with me. I enjoy it - it's (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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(...) That's perfect. Thanks! --Bram (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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| | Re: Free server with CGI? And/Or php?
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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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| | 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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| | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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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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| | Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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