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(...) CAD -- can't believe you missed that one. :P -Tim (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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This is a followup to last week's initial LEGO Enthusiast News Network Initiative (LENNI) posting, located at (URL) is a preliminary proposal for additions to an XML RSS/Atom feed, specifically for LEGO-related content. This is based on previous (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have no experience with bloggers but the one that Constantine set up for WAMALUG is WordPress. I have heard good things about it but that's where my knowledge ends :-( Sorry that I can't be of more help about blogs. Abe (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I sent an email on this as well, but if you're interested, I'm happy to donate a copy of my (URL) BlogFusion> app to your club. In fact, if any other clubs are interested, drop me a line and I'll get you a copy as well. It's ColdFusion based (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Snipped comments on wiki's (...) There are several blog packages out there. One that I have found very easy to set up is (URL) word press>. There is also (URL) blosxom> which is a very simple file based blog package. Linux Journal has done (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Well, since you asked so nicely.... ;) Sorry I missed this the first time around. I get so much email and try to read so many postings that I don't get to process as much as I would like. First off, let me say that my book was as much about (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I have some limited experience with Wikis. They seem very neat. Being able to control who has access seems very useful. I will try to do some research on them and see if one fits the bill. I also didn't know how difficult they were to setup, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) An alternate approach would be to set up a Wiki. It's basically a collaborative web site. You can control who gets access, e.g., read-only, upload, modify, etc. They are pretty easy to set up and run and they will run under Windows. I set up a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: What to Look For in a Digital Camera
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(...) Hi Max. I have found that the two main features needed for a good digital camera/LEGO setup are a macro setting (for very close-up shots) and at least 4 megapixels (to be able to print decent-looking 8x10s). I personally have a (URL) Nikon (...) (20 years ago, 29-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) I agree, one centralized area would be an excellent resource, one which LENNI could accomplish easily, I believe. That's a big part of why I think something like this should be created. Let me expand my assumptions on the project (...) (20 years ago, 29-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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Hello all, I am looking to buy a digital camera, mainly to photograph my Lego models. I also want to be able to print some 8 x 10's. I want to know what features I should look for to meet my needs (hows many megapixels, etc.). Thanks, Max (20 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I thought of a few more things: We are being hosted by NorthStar Computer Systems, which runs windows servers, I believe phpwebsite doesn't run on windows. A way for users to add content For coming events, I like to be able to have some (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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I've got a question for all you web gurus. I'm start work on chicago-builders.org and I am hesitant to just copy the ground work I've already laid over at <http:www.michlug.org michlug.org>. Things I'm looking for: A good way to post news to the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) Hm. I guess there is a misunderstanding somewhere (and I think it's caused by language barriers, sorry, I simply don't know how to translate individual technical descriptions). But I'll try one more time. It would be ridiculous if we couldn't (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) That's pretty much what I'm thinking too... provide tools for anybody to publish LENNI-enhanced feeds from their own sources, and provide other tools for readers, either web-based or desktop/compiled. And as a side benefit, I also see the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) I saw a centralised server as an aggregator, not the primary source of the original content. I think there's a desire to be able to aggregate feeds from many places and present them blended together. Once aggregated, some specific filtering (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) Why have a centralized server? I'd expect there be a list of feeds someplace, and maybe mirroring of feeds... But it would make a lot of sense to have each feed hosted off the service that generates it. Unless LENNI wants to support remote (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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(...) Ha! You do better than many native-English speakers I deal with daily. (...) That's a good question. I do think most feeds will end up being served from a centralized server, but that's not an absolute necessity. RSS links can be distributed, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: Attention all RSS geeks!
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(...) I'd say just follow the spec (either RSS or Atom) as far as specifying in the feed what the charset is. (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Attention all RSS geeks!
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(...) As for charsets, AFAIK ISO-8859-1 covers 17 languages, including English, German, Dutch and French. Nevertheless, every news publisher should try to keep his data within this charset when working with LENNI. I.e. I have to be aware of some (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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