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(...) Depending on how you define your operators they may not be. If I define the operator +(a,b) to be what we would conventionally term +(a,2b) and define (-1) as that number which ensures that +(1,(-1))=0 (ie (-1)=-1/2) then the two equations are (...) (18 years ago, 25-Apr-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: IRON MECHA - The Qwelder Mech - FOR SALE
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(...) No, you suck too. (18 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: IRON MECHA - The Qwelder Mech - FOR SALE
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(...) By posting it in .geek are you implying Tim is a geek or are you trying to defy us evil oppressors again by posting it in the wrong group? Just asking. Legoswami (18 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: IRON MECHA - The Qwelder Mech - FOR SALE
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Whateva, you still suck. e (18 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: IRON MECHA Results!
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(...) The extreme definition: Science fiction is an extrapolation, linear perhaps. Fantasy is a random point, connected to nothing. (...) Self-consistency of pseudo science is a drag on the plot. It spoils the fun in Fantasy realms. :-) (...) Yes (...) (18 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: IRON MECHA Results!
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(...) Another interesting study of Sci-Fi vs. Fantasy can be found in Henry Gee's (URL) Science of Middle Earth>. His point is that science fiction has at least some focus on the technology that makes the 'impossible' possible. Fantasy, he suggests (...) (18 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Domain registration?
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(...) A big "thank you" to everyone who took the time to reply. Your answers have been informative and helpful! Dave! (18 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) for 1 year for domain names. I just got one several days ago. If you buy with them they give you a 50% discount on their web hosting as well. -AHui (18 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh one other thing - make sure whoever you register with sends out reminders when your domains are up for renewal, otherwise you'll lose em quicker than you can say "Why do I have porn on my website?" ROSCO (18 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yahoo! has donains for $2.99 apiece. A quote from a Y! email: How long will you wait to get that domain for your business, hobby, family, or anything else that interests you? For only $2.99 per year, you'll get your domain name plus: 24x7 (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) whatever you're planning on registering make sure you also register the other ones as well. what i mean is register .com .net and .org. when NILTC registered there site we forgot to register .com because we were using .org. because of this (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I thought he'd only register domains if you host them with Northstar? ROSCO (18 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I use Planet Domain (URL) mainly because they accept AU$ but they also have competitive prices. I haven't had a problem with them. You can see the prices vary quite a bit for different TLDs. They are currently having a sale on .info domains (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cheapest is $7.95/year through Godaddy.com AFAIK. (...) I would recommend (URL) Northstar Computer Systems>. It is owned by Eric Smith, an AFOL and member of IndyLUG (he hosts Bricklink IIRC) He will register anything for you for $15/year and (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) The cost depends to some extent on which TLD you're registering in (.com, .net, .org, etc.). My domain is registered with DynDNS (www.dyndns.com). Their prices are pretty typical. They charge from $15/year to $52/year for a domain name. .net, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Multilingual webserver
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(...) Right - the subrequests aren't visible to the user, so they would never see the /real-files - only the URI in their local language. I guess the first check the mapper would have to do is compare the URI with the desired language, and if they (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But my point is that people should _see_ a URL in the same language as the page. Hiding it inside Apache would be no fun. Play well, Jacob (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, first of all no one would ever see /real-files in any url or location bar, so they wouldn't know to link to it. And anyway it is easy to set up access such that direct requests to that URI would be denied - accept only 'subrequests', as (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But what would I then do if somebody made links to /real-files? (...) But Apache is still written in C. I have already written my own special-purpose web-servers a few times, so it is not something I haven't tried before. And I trust my own (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, you use an external script for the mapping... But it is a fairly simple perl script. And the infinite loops are avoided by having the actual URLs be off a separate tree - /lego/dat/model.dat could be rewritten as (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think it would at least require an external rewriting program just to handle the mapping of the accepted and available language to a selected language. And I can't see how you can avoid infinite loops using the Apache rewritemap directive. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Multilingual webserver (Was: Massive LDraw file repository)
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(...) Cool idea - not sure I see why you can't use a plain Apache, with a semi-smart redirect-map... It should be fairly straightforward to implement, actually - two MySQL tables (one for dirs/language translation, one for file/language), and a (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Multilingual webserver (Was: Massive LDraw file repository)
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(...) In case anybody is curious about what I mean by a "multilingual webserver" the basic idea is no only to serve pages in the preferred language of the reader, but also to redirect them to URLs in their preferred language. There is a few more (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: KING KONG
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(...) Haven't seen the story in (URL) Wired magazine> have you? (...) Adr. (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: A very fast TGV
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(...) Some of mine are pushing thirty years! :D (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Interesting calculations. I have come across similar in the model railway world. The question is, do you scale down time as well? Is a minifig second 1/45 of a full size second? After all smaller animals tend to have shorter lifespans, how long does (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Gottwald AMK 1000t mobile crane
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(...) I would prefer to see a small overall view with zoomed pictures of the details. If a pic won't fit on my screen 90% of the time I won't even bother looking at it. Tim (19 years ago, 30-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A dark blue starfighter
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(...) Don't get me wrong- they look great. And a lot of popular sci-fi (especially Anime) does the same thing. This is Lego, where for the most part style trumps reality. I'm assuming Newtonian (reactionary) physics. In other words, you're pushing (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Network issues - looking for help
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(...) Thanks to all of those that helped, after endless hours (actually DAYS) of work and frustration... The network is finally working!!! Thank you very much, to Chris, Ross, and Andy, between combining their most excellent advice, with my not so (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Network issues - looking for help
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(...) Oops, my mistake, I mean the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 (not the default gateway, as I had stated) This geek stuff is eating my brain. Janey "Red Brick" (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Network issues - looking for help
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(...) When we went to ipconfig... the info we got was the same... 192.168.2.10 mine 192.168.2.11 for him 192.168.2.1 for the router default gateway 255.255.255.0 we are both getting the router (192.168.2.1) for the default gateway Janey "Lost and (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Network issues - looking for help
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(...) What's the IPs on these 3 nics? (yours, the router and the son's?) Sounds like his machine is getting an IP on a different subnet than yours from the router, and not getting his gateway ip set up right. (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Network issues - looking for help
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Can anyone make heads or tails out of this network issue??? My computer (running XP HomeEd.) can access the Internet without issue. History... I have been using highspeed for a bit, and my children were starting to complain about dial up, as well as (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: perl file copy question
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(...) Yes, it returns a list of filename strings, including any relative path. ROSCO (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: perl file copy question
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(...) Does this code help? It shows the outputs. Decided to have a fiddle with what Ross posted to see what everything did. Tim use File::Glob ':glob'; use File::Basename; $ddn="destination directory"; @t=(<g:/docs/in_prog...bes/*.*>); foreach $f (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: perl file copy question
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(...) that does help! (meanwhile I got a version working that uses system(), just as a stopgap...) However I really don't want to use system() (or any process spawning things) and since I want to wildcard aren't I going to have to use glob() to get (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: perl file copy question
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(...) Try File::NCopy (although I dont think it's a standard module) - (URL) however that you can easily obtain directory and filename from the path string - you don't need the file handle (I'm pretty sure File::Basename is standard): use (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have a need from within a perl module to copy a large (and variable, it's wildcard driven) number of files from one directory to another. TMTOWTDI of course. What's the best way under the following constraints? - the OS is linux - The wildcard (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Holy **** Autodesk just ate Alias
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(URL) As a lowly end user, this totally caught me by surprise. Were there rumblings about this within the community for a long time? Anyone have an idea how this is going to play out in 3D land (now that Maya and 3DS are owned by the same empire)? (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: off topic computer problem----HELP
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(...) thanks guys it worked. now if i could just remember how i did it in the first place. =) ondrew (19 years ago, 2-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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