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I am running WordPress for the NCLTC and NCLUG web sites and even though I have turned on the setting which requires registration to comment, I still receive a bunch of spam comments. Anyone know how this is happening and what I can do to prevent (...) (17 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Smallest cube ever!?
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(...) Of course this should be all non-integer cubes are impossible... Tim (17 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Smallest cube ever!?
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(...) hmmm. I have a suspicion that most non-integer cubes are impossible because of the way the surfaces can be constructed. Each side of a surface must be constructed out of I + 1/5 J plate units (I and J integer) since we can only make them out (...) (17 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: New TLC standard for containers?
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(...) No doubt it's pleasant but it's a shipping container so it should be practical and is this unappealling ;) Tim (17 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: New TLC standard for containers?
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(...) I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote 3:2. I meant that 6:10 is just off the golden ratio of 6:9.7... Though I was confused there, you make the case that the aspect ratio is actually a pleasant one, as opposed to your initial (...) (17 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: New TLC standard for containers?
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(...) actually 10:6 = 5:3 = 1.66 is closer to the golden mean (1.618...) than 3:2 = 1.5 ;) (...) Moved to .o-t.geek (17 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) There's a version 0.8? I can only find 0.6. BTW, FF 2.0 is out now, and it says the plugin is incompatible - I'm guessing it's just a version number change or something. ROSCO (17 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Dan, FYI, version 0.8 worked fine on the test page using Firefox 1.5 on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7. ) Thanks! A couple things I noticed: 1) (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Your website?
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(...) Drupal. Dan Sabath does all the technical stuff, but any of us can post content. (18 years ago, 5-Nov-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Your website?
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Hi guys, I'm looking at options for setting up a content management system for the Brickvention website (it's currently static HTML). I've tried Geeklog on another site, and it's OK, but doesn't do everything I'd like to do for our site. I was (...) (18 years ago, 3-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) This should work now. Apparently, JS doesn't reset it's RE engine when the input changes. So it would end up returning 'null' after every successful match. Which means it'd skip every other entry. Updated both the Extension and the GM (...) (18 years ago, 23-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) How about looking for numbers in the nnnn_n or nnn_n in links. At least then the set pictures may trigger recognition in the set guides, and the 1900-2100 range would also be picked up. Alternatively, add an option in a menu that will (...) (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | USB hard drive shaped like your fave brick
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A friend forwarded this to me, so i figured I'd put you all on to it. The title of this post pretty much explains it all. Here's the link: (URL) (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) The problem is that it only looks up 4 digit numbers, or numbers in the form of nnnn-n. Oh, and it ignores numbers between 1900-2100. I could easily make it look at 3 digit numbers as well, but you'd end up with that many more false-positives. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) G'day, minor niggle number 2 (or is that 3?): When searching the set guide on lugnet, You can't always find the set information from peeron. For example: (URL) a result on only "VW 1200 Limousine with Garage" (set 261)...and the sets found are (...) (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Hmmm, it's saying no updates found, I'm using 0.4. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Great work. Playing with it a bit I noticed that it's not consistant with set detection. Take this message: (URL) script doesn't seem to detect any of the set number listed. I'm using the greasemonkey version if that helps. If I get time, I'll (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Yup, I think that did the trick. Try the 0.5 update? (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Interesting. I guess the browser treats the iframe as it's own window. Which I guess is what it's supposed to do. I just released 0.5, telling the extension to ignore googlesyndication windows. Check for updates in your extension window, see (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Hmmmm, Google ads. Check out the above page now that the extension has been available, especially the bottom left corner of the ad box. Weird. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) For some people, this would be considered a positive function of that extension ;-) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) That was my original plan - however I found that it actually is somewhat annoying, because too often the window would close by mistake. Also, by leaving it open, it allows comparing multiple sets (popups) at the same time. Maybe once I add (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) G'day, Probably just me being difficult, but would it be possibe to: 1) have the window close when the mouse leaves it, instead of relying on clicking the 'X' 2) Have a seperate link in the info area for the inventory and instructions, so that (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Whoa! I'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. Probably could just add "textarea" to the tags to be left alone. (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in the extension. When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which contained a set number it found the set number and promptly blanked the entire text edit box. Tim (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Well I'm no expert either, but there seem to be right and left CSS properties that may be able to do it. I haven't really played with CSS much though, Tim G would be the guy to ask. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Updated. (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to the list though. (...) I'll look into that - if I can figure out how to do it, sure :) (...) I noticed that - if you could help me figure out the CSS for the peeron_popup, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) 3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty extends the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal scrollbar. But closing the info window does not reset the page width. Is it possible to right-align the info (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Dan, I have 2 questions: 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see (URL) any idea why that may be? 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over the page corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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(...) WOW! works fine, but you should add a note telling that firefox could block the installation of add-ons based on your settings. at least I had to allow the installation and had to add peeron to the list of harmless sites. w. (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Peeron Firefox Extension (beta)
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This is my first attempt at writing a firefox extension. It will allow looking up information about sets mentioned in posts on various LEGO sites. See screenshots, examples and install it from here: (URL) hope this might be useful! Dan FUT (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !!
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| | Re: Trouble with IE, PNG and BS
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(...) Yes, you have the point, all the troubles comes from the way I've recorded the PNGs, with the box "don't save alpha layer" checked...I hope so (I've not been able to check this yet). Didier (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh! What happens when you try this one? (URL) the BS links, I get a black square in IE, but on the peeron one, it seems to be ok. Both work fine in FF, of course. I guess photoshop saves the png in a slightly different format? plat.png: PNG (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, I have QT installed but IE does not launch it when I click the pictures deep links. I guess all this comes from the png file format, the way Photoshop record them (how it manages transparencies for instance) and the way viewers recognize (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Didier Enjary" <d.enjary@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:J77wzs.Ar@lugnet.com... (...) Even more weirdness here, the first time I clicked on the link below, all was fine as IE opened it up with QuickTime. (...) a pic, the pic inserted into the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Help wanted for a website (web designer)
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Hello geeks, I have reserved a domain name for my website, and now I am looking for a web designer, who could work for me to build my site. I dont have a big budget, but I can barter with lego sets. Or any volonteer work will be much appreciated. I (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Factory Train Contest Entry
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:> I doubt that LDD will ever be a truly powerful CAD software simply because it (...) Power Users? In my world thats a step down the food chain ;-) Tim (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | need help setting up an e-commerce site
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Here's my dilemma: My friend has a hobby store, and I run the website for his store. He wants to start an online store to sell (at a discount) some popular merchandise. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to proceed. I can design the layout and (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: On line LEGO building Instructions
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(...) Yes, that's known people in USA/Canada, Australia can't reach these pages. Only europeans seem to be able to download it. I'm not a computer geek but I'm quite curious to know how this is, technically speaking, possible. Didier (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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