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 Author: Stonemonkey1974 View Messages Posted By Stonemonkey1974
 Posted: Nov 20, 2019 13:36
 Subject: Re: Better time information on maintenance
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Stonemonkey1974 (527)

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In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
  Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
  
  Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST

When is that according to GMT?

Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.

Google (other search engines are available) is your friend
 Author: HarryPotter71 View Messages Posted By HarryPotter71
 Posted: Nov 20, 2019 13:24
 Subject: Re: Better time information on maintenance
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In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
  Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
  
  Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST

When is that according to GMT?

Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.

EST = Eastern Standard Time
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Nov 20, 2019 04:30
 Subject: Re: Better time information on maintenance
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In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
  Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
  
  Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST

When is that according to GMT?

Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.

Could you have just looked it up, for example, here:
https://time.is/EST

If they add GMT, then no doubt others will want their time zone too. It makes
sense for BL to stick to one time - BL time - and do all times in that.
 Author: sonnich View Messages Posted By sonnich
 Posted: Nov 20, 2019 03:25
 Subject: Better time information on maintenance
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sonnich (327)

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Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
  
  Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST

When is that according to GMT?

Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
 
 Author: JusTiCe8 View Messages Posted By JusTiCe8
 Posted: Nov 15, 2019 15:04
 Subject: Re: Suggestion for extra function in Bricklink
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JusTiCe8 (121)

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Funny how idea flows in the ether as I think of a similar feature but a bit more
from a practical point of view. I encounter the same issue with the mini/micro
Serenity by Brothers Bricks which use a medium dark flesh modified tile on top
to hold the 3x3 dish, which I don't have obviously , and while building
it I've figured out colour doesn't not matter at all, one part bought
quite uselessly.

So, I have imagine an invisible brick detection feature, maybe by using a light
source in a brick and by some kind of occlusion, or whatever the right name
is, calculations (lights vector can be computed and some algorithm could be use
to see if the light vector hit a face of a 3D object as it is done for "basic"
rendering technique like in deferred rendering).

If the light source is not visible from outside = bingo, the brick could be any
colour.
If not, its colour actually matters (if the builder also care of following designer
guidelines).

I don't have work enough in 3D rendering to get any kind of solution, I still
offer a way which can actually be done I guess.

In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
  Hello,

Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.

It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list.

As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.

Greetings,

JL
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Nov 15, 2019 12:23
 Subject: Re: Suggestion for extra function in Studio
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In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
  In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
  Hello,

Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.

It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list of colors in Studio.

As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.

Agreed… but the dedicated forum for Studio is http://forum.bricklink.com/
 Author: JLvL View Messages Posted By JLvL
 Posted: Nov 15, 2019 11:58
 Subject: Re: Suggestion for extra function in Studio
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JLvL (30)

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In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
  Hello,

Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.

It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list of colors in Studio.

As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.

Greetings,

JL
 Author: JLvL View Messages Posted By JLvL
 Posted: Nov 15, 2019 11:55
 Subject: Suggestion for extra function in Bricklink
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Hello,

Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.

It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list.

As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.

Greetings,

JL
 Author: JusTiCe8 View Messages Posted By JusTiCe8
 Posted: Nov 14, 2019 08:40
 Subject: Re: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help
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Hi,

not sure it is the right place for this and most importantly, if company such
FB can afford such a yearly uptime, is because they know how to do their job
right (at least in the server architecture). Plus, the lower the downtime is,
the higher it cost, 99% is a lot more cheaper than 99.9999%, 1% of a year is
quite 3.6 days off. Lowest downtime are a few hours or even minutes.

The cheapest and easiest way to remove downtime almost completely would be to
set-up a mirror of everything (web server mostly) they have now, upgrade one
while leaving the other running with old stuff, do the switch (here could be
a minor downtime), then upgrade the other and finally enable both together.

Anyway, we don't know how things has been setup behind the scene and how
they are actually managed, except it is not done according to BL expectations.

In Suggestions, Ethan1701 writes:
  Hey,
I'm a database administrator (Business intelligence specifically), and I'd
like to help eliminate the daily and monthly downtimes. The way I see it, if
Facebook can have an uptime of 99.9999% while rolling out new features, so can
BL.

Hit me up, I'd love to know what the downtimes are for, and help see if we
can design a better solution for those needs.
 Author: Ethan1701 View Messages Posted By Ethan1701
 Posted: Nov 14, 2019 06:52
 Subject: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help
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Hey,
I'm a database administrator (Business intelligence specifically), and I'd
like to help eliminate the daily and monthly downtimes. The way I see it, if
Facebook can have an uptime of 99.9999% while rolling out new features, so can
BL.

Hit me up, I'd love to know what the downtimes are for, and help see if we
can design a better solution for those needs.

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