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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:H4qCnx.2vA@lugnet.com... (...) I'm (...) useful (...) SCREAM!! DEATH DEATH DEATH omg that was death (...) is (...) sides, (...) wheels. NM!O!!!...!!! CANT BREATHE (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Anyone I know? (you don't know their call sign do you?) I've been asking around on various repeaters if anyone is into robotics and I haven't found a fellow ham yet with that interest. Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [rtlToronto] November 9th Confirmed for rtlToronto12: Blockstacking Reloaded
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Hi folks, Just a quick note that rtlToronto12 is confirmed with the library for November 9th. 2002: (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: update - Fw: paypal in Canada
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Or you can do what I do. Open a TD/Canada Trust account Then open a TD/Waterhouse USA TRUE USD IN USA account Connect PayPAl to Waterhouse account Withdraw with NO FEES, get a super exchange rate moving money between Waterhouse and CAnada Trust (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | update - Fw: paypal in Canada
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Angelo Castellano" snip (...) snip (...) As an update, I just did a transfer from my paypal account ( USD ) to my local bank. Did the transfer Sunday night, and the funds were there this morning. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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well, I've removed the brains from the large orange squash..... (ugh) -I Drew a simple pattern on the flattest face -I CUT into the orange beast. I have created a monster. then I removed the seeds boiled 2 cups of seeds in 6 cups of water and a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtl12 Rules
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(...) That's a good question. I'm still working out the plans. Our current plan is to drop off boy #1 with grandma & grandpa on Friday afternoon. Then, continue up to Toronto Friday evening. If anyone has suggestions about a good place to stay... or (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: ECRG wrap up and notes
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(...) Hey, don't worry about it. It would have been a bit of a bust anyways, apart from watching Rob, because of the low attendance. (I kind of feel bad asking Derek out there) The little robots drew good interest, especially from the youngsters (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | RCX Nameplate Tiles
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Stupid project time! While at ECRG Rob mentioned it would be useful to have two tiles that said M and S for Master and Slave so one wouldn't get confused. I first grabbed a pair of black tiles with a really ugly Star Wars orange and white pattern on (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtl12 Rules
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(...) Fixed it. Also upgraded the number of blocks (I hope we have that man blocks) to 40 blocks total. Everyone bring their blocks in case. Calum (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If it has not already been correct it will be soon... Calum and I have decided that a 3 min match is about as long as we want to watch small tracked robots move around a small floor. Can I assume then that you will be joining us in our fair (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtl12 Rules
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I have a small rules question. I'm sure this is not important, but the rules page: (URL) a small conflict on it. How long do the matches last? Under "What's the Contest?", it says five minutes, but under "Gameplay" is says three minutes. I don't (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ummm, this last line just BEGS for me to make a smart a$$ remark. Chris (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <snip> (...) I wanted to be there. I didn't get to the Big Smoke until 7 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday I was in Belleville at a baptism and didn't get back to T.O. until 8 p.m.. Thus the weekend... So (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hey folks, First off, I want to thank everyone for helping or offering to help: attending ECRG (Derek), supplying demo robots (Derek and Dave), just offering support (Dan O'Connell) etc. ECRG, the Eastern Canadian Robot Games was a well attended (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: www.rtltoronto.org
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(...) Listen, sonny, back in the day, machines had node names, because they were expensive boxen like Suns, not some generic made down the street boxes attached to some wussy residential network that doled out temporary DHCP addresses. No, machines (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: part time job @ TRU...
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(...) Congratulations! Sounds interesting... Jus' how much is the employee discount!!! :-p -R (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Bruce is the man
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(...) Its really simple: Always make sure that there is at least a 10ms delay before the slave tries to respond to the master. I stuck in delays of 20ms before every reply, and it worked like a charm! I also made sure I wasn't sending messages from (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) If you ever want something done right, you have to do it yourself. So now we have a nice domain name. (it's not as free as sparky.i989.net, but you can't win 'em all ;) ) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | www.rtltoronto.org
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OK, I asked Calum to post this but..... Before last night, If you ever wanted to tell people about our little group, and felt they might want to see the official RTLToronto web page you had to remember this ungainly address. (URL) "www" peach.mie. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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