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Even with its stabilizers, I think this thing will flop. -- Erin (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes: <snip>... One thing that strikes me as (...) </snip> ......... I'm in a similar predicament. "Which camera ?" "Other stuff" - well, maybe sometimes. * But it's important to me to be able to do some lego (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :) well, sure. But I think you'll find that a) most digital cameras out there work pretty well for general purpose stuff, and b) you'll be able to find a lot of information and reviews in general, but very few of them will mention the camera's (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Other stuff he asks knowingly, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more! Martin :-) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Other stuff, eh? Like what? You seem pretty vague on the details, Dave! -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Why would you want to do that, Dave! (Ending a sentence with Dave! W00T! Hey, I did it again!) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thank you to everyone for your input. One thing that strikes me as particularly amusing is that everyone is giving suggestions for cameras that photograph LEGO models well, but I should probably have specified that I'd be taking pictures of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The categorization comes from the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org). The dmoz data is used by a number of sites, including Google. -- Tim Buchheim (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's cool because in the macro mode, things *more* than a few centimeters out of where you're focusing are slightly blurry. This lends the impression that the scene is full human scale instead of miniature. (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, as has been mentioned, a closeup macro is a very important feature for photographing LEGO. Also, take note of the focus depth. A few months ago I was helping one of my fellow SEALUG'ers investigate cameras, and I think we found that the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Definitely. It's also good to have one that takes good pictures in low light, since you want to avoid using a flash with lego. (Too shiny.) Check out (URL) for good digital camera reviews. (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) pictures." (...) I don't really have any suggestions, just some pointers... we use a Mavica-FD88 for all our pictures, and found that for LEGO, a macro capability is very very important - zoom much less so. We also like saving the data to a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm looking into picking up a digital camera and thought some of us here might have some good suggestions. I'm a very casual photographer, so I don't need built-in X-ray lenses or anything, but can someone recommend a good value in the neighborhood (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Dunno if anyone will be interested in this, but I wrote a small newsticker app: (URL) designed as a netscape6/mozilla sidebar, but can work on any browser - if you cannot use sidebars, it'll just pop up as a new window. :) Dan (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !!
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(...) That's correct! I think perhaps the puppetmaster gets stolen after he sees the tape, but I'm not quite sure. (I have a copy on DivX which I can check at home...) I chose that scene because it is easy to capture, with a static camera and few (...) (23 years ago, 17-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow! I never get these obscure references, usually! It's the surveillance tape of the diplomats coming out of the parking garage that the Major is watching, after they've stolen the puppetmaster. :) Cool. thanks, James (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yep, that's exactly correct! Fredrik (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ghost in the Shell? It's the first thing I thought of, but I discarded it, because I think you're looking for something older. thanks, James (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You are definitively moving in the right direction. For the origin of this particular movie, you'll need to look outside USA. Also, this movie does not feature live actors; it is animated. Fredrik (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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At first I thought it was the sequence with David Bowie in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. I put in the movie again and realised I was wrong. I'm stumped. Although I imagine it has something to do with sci fi. It looks like the two individuals are (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sliding Doors? (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Here's a challenge for you all. I have captured a scene from a 90's movie in a LEGO animation. The characters in the movie are substituted with LEGO figures, obviously. The movie isn't exactly a blockbuster, but it does have a significant appeal in (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is far from my area of expertise, but I've seen it in all of those places. Maybe version-of-mswindows related, maybe version-of-mozilla. (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I can't get IE to work at all anymore, perhaps someone could help me out. Everytime I try to use it I get a DNS error. Aol 6 works fine. Steve (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) want (...) data\mozilla\profiles (...) I believe it's c:\windows\mozilla\users\... :) Dan (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds like there was some corruption in your user profile. You might want to delete that and try again -- C:\windows\application data\mozilla\profiles or C:\windows\all users\application data\mozilla\profiles or somewhere. (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But it's the emacs way to include those things with your text editor. (...) Not exactly, but there's a similar project: (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Interesting, my first two pages are my way out of date AOL pages. At least my top level Lego page shows up third. Interestingly, it has a description and category tag, who puts those there? It shows up as #48 in the Recreation > Collecting > (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh. I thought 10 = X (more specifically, 10 was ramped up for OSX) (...) I think I'll just do that:-) Thanks! -John It seems to work (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Illustrator 10, yes. Illustrator X, no. (...) I didn't really, I just don't use it. (...) Why? Go download Netscape 6.2 and see how you like it. It seems to work fine in X. I don't know why it's doing this hanging crap in 9, tho. ~Grand (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I thought AI 10 *has* been released... How did you extricate IE from OSX? I was resigned to switching over to the default IE? -John (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I tried it, and promptly deleted it. At first I was pleasantly surprised that it automatically imported my Netscape prefs so I didn't have to set it all up. Then I was unpleasantly surprised that it imported the "hang for 30 seconds when (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, I haven't had problems with the Mail bit of it. (...) Well, Netscape X for MacOS X works fine too, but I can't switch this (my work laptop) 'puter over until Adobe gets off their butt and releases Illustrator X. (...) Yeah, but it works, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) irc (...) oh - url: (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) but (...) that. (...) I actually use galeon at work now - it's based on mozilla, but trimmed down. It's not the unix way to include a mail client, news client and irc client with your web browser. galeon takes the mozilla rendering engine and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) He's not hung, he's just *resting*. Presumably the blossoming time meant that it was actually doing something. (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Have you tried Mozilla? It's basically Netscape; still in beta (0.9.5) but very stable, highly configurable, has excellent ad- and popup-blocking capabilities, and a better mascot than anything going. Definitely worth checking out. I don't use it (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm using 6.1 and don't have any such problems... in 6.01 was terrible, i can't believe NS put their name on such a thing! both versions however are terrible at mail handling - i frequently lose everything in all folders, it's a blast, let me tell (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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For some reason, Netscape has decided to hang when I close a browser window. At first it was a mildly annoying 3 second hang, but then it grew to be 20 seconds and then a whole minute. I got sick of the thing and am now using IE. Blah. ~Grand (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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