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(...) surely 0.8 cm is as metric as 1cm? Tim (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Using Firefox ( was Re: Using Firefox on Shop at Home website
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(...) OK, easy one first. I use mapblast.com (0) a lot(1) When I get to a map I like (right zoom and etc) I want to print it. But since I am cheap and it's my toner, all I want to print is the image, not the whole page. now, the image is itself a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Using Firefox on Shop at Home website
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(...) Sure - details? (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sort of tangential... I am trying to make a clean break with IE too. But there are a few functions that IE does that I can't do as easily in FireFox (or that I haven't figured out how to configure) which is holding back a complete switch. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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hmm, I haven't run into this, but maybe it's because the cookie was created when I was still running an older version of FireFox? I've been running FireFox / FireFird / Pheonix for a long time... well since it was called Pheonix, :) and haven't had (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, Those of you who may have switched to using the recently released Firefox 1.0 as your browser may also have encountered a problem with the Shop at Home website that it doesn't allow you to switch destination countries, saying you must have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for sorting this out Kyle. I learned something and that's always a good thing. Details, details... Now, to return to being inspired... Peace and inspired learning, Professor Whateverly (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ooo I like this shape: (URL) It can be done in bricks! (URL) A coincidence? Maybe. ;^) `~Trev (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Im not so sure this is a bug with his site. The link orginally posted in this thread is www.artships.com/index.php/ note the backslash at the end of the url. This is generally not a valid url. But since php uses the information posted after the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or coolness for that nifty work digging out the true dope when I was too lazy. Thanks, man! Peace and HTMLhacking ++Lar (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'm not without lameness, but I did view the source for his page. (the links didn't work with Mozilla on a Mac either) All his outside links take you away to those sites as expected, but his internal links point to "2004/index.php" etc. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Nah, I don't think it's you. I tried the site on Firefox and IE with no success of seeing pics. Maybe some other browser is needed? I didn't try Netscape but I somehow don't think that'd work either. Adding to .geek for input to see if I'm (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Hey everyone, I need some help with the MMOG Neopets. I need to get some neopoints, an easy way to do this seems to be referals. So, to this end, could everyone here please click this link: (URL) And sign up for neopets? It's not a lot of time out (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Googolplex (was: Is lego *truly* unlimited?)
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(...) build' question, given that it only obtains a googolplex by measuring the number of "distinct" states by a wholly ridiculous number of particles. And try as I might, I can't get the number of Lego configurations to get much beyond (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I found the following amusing description of how to visualise a googolplex: "...if one put this black hole into a hypothetical rigid nonpermeable box, a few million light years in size, and looked at the contents once a year, it would look (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ok, so it's asymptotic, not logarithmic, and it approaches 4, so 4 was a perfectly cromulent guess. However. Since the sum of any line N of Pascal's triangle is apparently 2^N (starting at row 0), and you'd theoretically count EVERYTHING (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi David, Thats why I said something more finite, like our collections would be easier/possible to calculate. (...) All that fancy math........ (...) I shouldve x-posted there in the beginning. Thanks, Samarth (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The 2004 LEGO Company Profile white-paper says "Over the years, enough LEGO bricks have been manufactured to give an average of 52 each to every single one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants." Another place indicates "Annual production is (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The only emulator that I know of is Microsoft's own Virtual PC. It comes in various flavors, starting at about $120 US. That seems a little steep just for running a little (and free) Lego app. But yes, it is an option. (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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All right here we go. Finally my profession pays off to my past-time and AFOL peers. Have discoverd that lego.com is multihomed. I traced the LEGO site from Sydney as my (and USA) domain servers appear to connect to one host 192.208.45.167. I then (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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