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(...) I believe the new fan is more efficent (it's a high-quality Papst fan). The specs say it moves the same amount of air as the old one. Thanks for your advice! -chris (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure. The voltage would have to match (which it does) so no worries there. the current ought to be less to not cause any problems. The old fan is 120mA (there's 1000 milliamps (mA) in an amp), so the new one draws half as much power. It may (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm not an electrical engineer... I'm trying to replace a noisy fan in a computer power supply. The fan in there is rated at 12v dc, 0.12(or something like that) amps. The replacement fan is 12v but 60mA. Would the replacement fan work without any (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Chris Lindsey to the Rescue! (was Re: Update on new CW Site)
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(...) Hey, I finally found what I think is a tolerably solid windows tool that does the same thing. It's called HTTrack Website Copier, find it at: (URL) achieve good results I found that one has to get into the options, and in particular one *must* (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Warcraft map makers? Anyone try to make a pic from a map?
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I got photoshop instead, but that doesn't solve the whole problem. I wanted the entire map. Like one huge .jpg If I take a screen shot it will give me only what I see in the window. Hmm, well I could do that multiple times. Then put them all (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Warcraft map makers? Anyone try to make a pic from a map?
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(...) Try the program Paint Shop Pro and use the image capture function. -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm trying to make a map for my website with the map maker from warcraft 2. Anyone ever try to do this? There must be a way to pull the whole map and make it a pic. I found a utility called Pudbrowser and it gives a nasty looking 8 color gif. (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geekshelf is online!
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(...) I've always wanted a good place to host such pictures but they don't quite seem to fit Geekshelf (at least most of my vacation pictures, now if I had pictures from the trip I took in college with my sister where we went to a hamfest, an (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New MOC: Module!
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(...) rope? A bunch of cavers rigged a 3230' cliff on Mt. Thor in Canada. Here's a couple links (the 2nd is in a Nordic language, but has some drawings with English labels): (URL) course with a rappel rope the structure which is supporting the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Um, isn't that "EX" tower? I heard it came crashing down last week. list of tallest structures as of a while ago: (URL) it wasn't that one.. the one that came down was in Omaha and was actually reported as 1965 feet... Collapse was reported by (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The first smiley?
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There was a bit here (URL) here (URL) Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:sandlin-7DEC1E....net.com... (...) story (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) used in an advertisement as long ago as the 60s. I'll see if I can find it. (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That *Don't Get* the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
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(...) I could argue that, but we're in the wrong place for it now. ;p (...) Don't forget the infamous Moller Air Car: (URL) the US Mil, in the incarnation of NARPA is funding exoskeleton research to the tune of mumble mumble million $$. In my fairly (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That *Don't Get* the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
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(...) GM may not be making hovercars, but the good people at Moller certainly are. (URL) know this link's been posted before, because somebody made a Lego version of the Skycar. Adrian (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That *Don't Get* the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
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The following post of James's is off-topic for debate. :-) But it's neat anyway. XFUT geek Let's see, we have John Deere prototyping walker/spider timber harvesters, and Caterpillar prototyping mechs. What's next? GM showing hovercars? Turboprop (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BBS systems and Planet Busters
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snipped stuff about the BBS scene and my game, Planet Busters> Well we are at an intergame point again, if you have an interest in playing this blast from the past (and possibly trouncing me at (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Possibly apocryphal, possibly not really the first but an interesting story of computer archeaology nontheless: (URL) got the URL from an old IBMers mailing list I am on) I don't think it has anything to do with MS other than that's where the story (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Robert L. Forward 1932-2002
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Robert L. Forward 1932-2002 Robert Forward, physicist, might be known to you as the author of Dragon's Egg (1987), a hard sf novel in which humans communicate with accelerated lifeforms on the surface of a neutron star and affect their history. SFWA (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Switch LEGO Style
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Stumbled across this while reading my Mac news sites. Not hilarious, but amusing: (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The ultimate computer peripheral
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(...) Now that's dissapointing...how can Hubzilla wreak havok upon the Disneyland Indiana Jones figure that lives on my desk? Still damn funny though. Matt (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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