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  Recommendations for Media PC OS?
 
It appears that we may be building a media computer for our house soon... Basically, it will play movies (off CDs/DVDs/network) and music. Probably doesn't need to do anything else since the video card is too slow for 3D rendering. What OS/software (...) (19 years ago, 11-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: firefly
 
(...) I'm in the same boat - I'm in the middle of watching the series so I'll be prepared for the movie. Aside from all the great characters, writing, etc., you know what I really like about this show? No sound in space! Did you see the (URL) LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
 
  firefly
 
I'm late to the party, but what a freakishly awesome show! Just finished watching the DVD. And they canceled it?!? I guess there was some crappy reality show that was more important. So, what's this about a movie? :) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  
 
  Re: Chirality
 
(...) Funny. Actually, you apply chirality every day when you put your shoes on--you put the right shoe on the right foot and the left shoe on the left foot rather than vice versa. You just aren't thinking about the terminology when you do so. :) (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
 
(...) Server is back up, and something like 15-20,000 free form records (the more automated ones are being scraped rather than hand transcribed) have been transcribed already by volunteers, but there's lots more to do yet. If you want to help, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)  
 
  Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
 
(...) I would agree, things like Open Office are probably technically as good or better than the MS originals. A lot of the MS development time is probably spent on designing what the products do, not just how they do it The Open Office developers (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
 
(...) So many people volunteered to help with this that the load from many many simultaneous connections apparently took the New Orleans Network (where the data is being collated) DB server down, they're upgrading and said they'd be back up soonish. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
 
There are a LOT of different missing persons databases out there, making it hard to search them all if you're a relative or one of the missing, so someone came up with the idea of consolidating the info. See: (URL) for info and key in some data if (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) Yeah. Meanwhile you can make the telnet method feel just a tiny bit more like that button by launching telnet from some browsers with this URL: telnet://lugnet.com:1119/ Don (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) I have only used Outlook express and Pine. With Outlook express you just select the message, then Message / Cancel Message from the menu (don't choose Edit / Delete - that just removes it from your local drive!). And wait for the confirmation (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) Hey thanks ROSCO, I couldn't get it to work with IE or Mozilla. (User Interface issues, I guess). So I was forced to use the ultra-modern telnet news client. So for web posters, here's howto cancel your own lugnet post via telnet. First visit (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  
 
  Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
 
I may very well abandon my LDraw based LDA2001 project when I... * see something that really works, and when I... * understand enough of it to make my own animations from it. (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
 
(...) Hi Damien, The correct place for your response would be .off-topic.geek which is where I set the follow up to in the response post. I thought you were proposing to write a scripting language, but now I suspect you mean that people should use (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
 
(...) I think you've forgotten the big ones for physicists, Science and the Physical Review stable. To be honest, I've never heard of Annales de Physique, which might just mean it publishes outside my areas of interest. Tim (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
 
  Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
 
(...) ALthough I have no experience in this area, I have to completely agree with you here. If I wanted to make an animated film, the last thing I would want to do is script the whole thing. Maybe it was fine for games designers in days of CGA and (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Reply to me
 
(...) Follow up set to .off-topic.geek (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  AFOL Web Developers! (was Re: LEGO Developer's Guild)
 
Ok, I promise I'm not trying to win the prize for the oldest thread resurrected :) But when we were at Brickfest a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that many of the conversations that I was involved with were about code, and websites, and how to make (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general) !! 
 
  Re: Windows Server 2003 vs. Windows XP Professional
 
(...) Unless you want learn server stuff or use it as a server then definatly no Tim MCSE2003 (19 years ago, 11-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Luxeon LEDs
 
Anyone know of an on-street source for Luxeon or other high-powered white LEDs? pref small pre-made assemblies. (i.e. a stripped out MagLite) -Suz (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Dear NASA,
 
(...) Or the British version: "aluminium condominium" Thank you, thank you. (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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