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(...) Yes Eric... I agree. Furthermore there very well may be tendencies for certain personalities (and associated professions) to respond or not to respond which will further skew the results. But I'm just interested and not trying to do anything (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well according to your definition I would say I am a geek. I work on the development of a Meta data datastore for IBM. The product has been included exclusively with DB2 in the past but our goal is to make it database independent. Pretty geeky (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's perfect. Thanks! --Bram (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's kinda obvious what I do | V -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer ;-) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Keep in mind that there will be two very different answers. The adult community on Lugnet comprises that segment of AFOLs that a) have heard of it, and b) choose to participate. I suspect that A and B are largely concurrent, but the fact is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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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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(...) 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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