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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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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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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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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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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(...) Except for anything directly targeted as feedback to LEGO Direct, it's probably time to migrate the discussion to .off-topic.geek. --Todd (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone know of a free web space provider that allows users to upload their own perl cgi scripts? Or does anyone have some space they can let me borrow while I test the scripts I'm writing? (I'm trying to make my website easier to update by (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway)
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(...) Well, that changes everything, yes. (...) If cos(x/51.5) is close, then you are in radians (Shiri already correctly explained where the 1.11 came from, and she's correct if your wavelength of 324 is in degrees. If it's in radians then you have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway)
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(...) Hehehehe... I probably did. Math is not by far my *favorite* subject, but it happens to be my strongest (for reasons that are totally beyond me). <shrug> -Shiri (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway)
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(...) Thanks for your help, too. I just hope you did well on your test, or I'm in trouble... Dave! (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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