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Hiya all.... OK.. I've finally finished my updates for my site, including Chapter 2..... The Village.... Sculptures.... Torso Designs...and more....!!!! So Come vist the ALL NEW KINGDOM OF ANDRASTAVIA www.ozbricks.com/andrastavia I hope you all (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: People please stop uploading BMP to www.brickshelf.com!!!
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(...) I agree that BMP's are unsuited for web publishing. As you say, it is better to use compressed GIF, PNG of JPEG, depending on the kind of image. I think that most people who upload BMP's or other uncompressed image files do so out of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickset.com receives overhaul
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"John Herre" <jherre@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:GttLro.GyJ@lugnet.com... (...) function (...) 4.7 in (...) Whoops... thanks for spotting that! I have corrected it, and will go through the rest of the home page source code files later on. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickset.com receives overhaul
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(...) There are a couple of html problems on the home page. The one causing the problem is a <table> instead of a </table> near the end, shortly after function ValidatorOnSubmit. When this is fixed, I can load the page in Netscape 4.7 in under 15 (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) What version of Netscape do you use? I use Mozilla 0.9.8 and came up almost instantly. (Netscape 4.7, otoh, was hopeless.) If you're using a Netscape 6 and seeing this problem, try upgrading to a Mozilla build. (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I normally use Netscape, and it took minutes for the home page to come up, but when I fired up Internet Explorer, it came up fairly quickly. As much as I hate Microsoft for railroading Netscape, there seems to be no way to avoid using Explorer (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> wrote in message (...) else (...) Something has just been done. Reviews are now moderated. We'll stop those juvenile Bionicle-buyers once and for all. Huw (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GtpBvD.Cyp@lugnet.com... (...) else (...) Thanks -- I have deleted several of them. If you notice any more, please let me know. I plan to go through them all, but it takes time -- there (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickset.com receives overhaul
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(...) Yeah. I mean, look at this! (URL) at 'drtnysey's' review. This does not belong here! And somebody else on the same page seems to think that this is a message board or something. Something needs to be done. John Kruer (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gtor8z.293@lugnet.com... (...) Good, another Bill Gates worshipper :-) (fut: off-topic.geek) Huw (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) and (...) I'm glad at least you are noticing an improvement! And, thanks for your reviews, keep then coming. (...) forum (...) I had a play with an ASP.NET chatroom,, but it really didn't work too well. Personally, I don't think there is a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, it certainly doesn't from here. Perhaps (hopefully) it was a transient thing. (...) ASP.NET is a vast improvement over ASP. I know I will be wasting my breath arguing its virtues compared to JSP/PHP etc. because I suspect you (and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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(...) You need to pay attention to the bandwidth allowance. Webspace is nice, but it's not as important as the traffic capacity, especially if your webhost will temporarily shut your site down or require extra fees if you exceed your allowance. If (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Seems nice and fast, even on my crummy work connection. And speaking as an ASP programmer currently having to write in PHP, ASP is so much better. :) It is especially speedy if run using Chillisoft on Unix James (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) It takes a couple of minutes just to view the home page, even with the rewrite. Why are you using ASP at all? Why not use Perl, PHP, JSP, or just about *anything* but ASP? --Bill. (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickset.com receives overhaul
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(...) Huw! That's great! I post reviews on brickset.com at least once a week, and I happy to see that response times have speeded up to a decent rate. Just a question here. What sort of additional features might you add to brickshel.com in the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: new ezboard
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(...) When you post via NNTP you get a confirmation e-mail. To authorize the post, just reply to that e-mail and insert an "x" between the first [ ] brackets. You don't even have to delete the space after you insert the "x". It only takes a few (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Is there a way for instant posting via nntp? I know I'd seen a bit about possibly using PGP, but I don't know if that was implemented or just a suggestion. If such existed (or might exist soon), it would increase my priority on donating, since (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) does it really have a better UI? I always found that kind of threading board terribly hard to read and follow. To the point that I can't actually use them at all, even for boards that I am interested in the content. It's just too hard to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Lugnet is free for reading and posting and always has been. Posting here is instant for me because I'm a member ($10 for a lifetime membership) and I stay logged in. When I'm not logged in, or for non-members, the verification email takes very (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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