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In article <114127@bu.edu>, jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
|>
|> I don't understand the point of this petty sarcasm. It is a basic
|> principle of Islam that if one is born muslim or one says "I testify
|> that there is no god but God and Mohammad is a prophet of God" that,
|> so long as one does not explicitly reject Islam by word then one _must_
|> be considered muslim by all muslims. So the phenomenon you're attempting
|> to make into a general rule or psychology is a direct odds with basic
|> Islamic principles. If you want to attack Islam you could do better than
|> than to argue against something that Islam explicitly contradicts.
Then Mr Mozumder is incorrect when he says that when committing
bad acts, people temporarily become atheists?
jon.
| 0alt.atheism |
acooper@mac.cc.macalstr.edu wrote:
: I wonder how many atheists out there care to speculate on the face of
: the world if atheists were the majority rather than the minority group
: of the population.
I've been thinking about this every now and then since I cut my ties
with Christianity. It is surprising to note that a large majority of
people, at least in Finland, seem to be apatheists - even though
90 % of the population are members of the Lutheran Church of Finland,
religious people are actually a minority.
Could it be possible that many people believe in god "just in case"?
It seems people do not want to seek the truth; they fall prey to Pascal's
Wager or other poor arguments. A small minority of those who do believe
reads the Bible regularly. The majority doesn't care - it believes,
but doesn't know what or how.
People don't usually allow their beliefs to change their lifestyle,
they only want to keep the virtual gate open. A Christian would say
that they are not "born in the Spirit", but this does not disturb them.
Religion is not something to think about.
I'm afraid a society with a true atheist majority is an impossible
dream. Religions have a strong appeal to people, nevertheless -
a promise of life after death is something humans eagerly listen to.
Coupled with threats of eternal torture and the idea that our
morality is under constant scrutiny of some cosmic cop, too many
people take the poison with a smile. Or just pretend to swallow
(and unconsciously hope god wouldn't notice ;-) )
: Also, how many atheists out there would actually take the stance and accor a
: higher value to their way of thinking over the theistic way of thinking. The
: typical selfish argument would be that both lines of thinking evolved from the
: same inherent motivation, so one is not, intrinsically, different from the
: other, qualitatively. But then again a measuring stick must be drawn
: somewhere, and if we cannot assign value to a system of beliefs at its core,
: than the only other alternative is to apply it to its periphery; ie, how it
: expresses its own selfishness.
If logic and reason are valued, then I would claim that atheistic thinking
is of higher value than the theistic exposition. Theists make unnecessary
assumptions they believe in - I've yet to see good reasons to believe
in gods, or to take a leap of faith at all. A revelation would do.
However, why do we value logic and reasoning? This questions bears
some resemblance to a long-disputed problem in science: why mathematics
works? Strong deep structuralists, like Atkins, have proposed that
perhaps, after all, everything _is_ mathematics.
Is usefulness any criterion?
Petri
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| 0alt.atheism |
The following is based on copies I was given of some articles published in
Hearing Instruments. I would appreciate any comments about this and other
'new' technology for hearing aids.
The ReSound system was developed on the basis of some research at AT&T and
appears to take a different approach from other aids. It appears to me that
a new 'programmable' aid like the Widex just uses a more flexible (and
programmable) version of the classical approach of amplifying some parts of
the spectrum more than others and adding some compression to try and help
out in 'noisy' situations.
The major difference in the ReSound approach is that it divides the
spectrum into low and high frequencies (splitting point is programmable),
apparently based on the fact that lots of vowel information can be found in
the low frequencies, while the important consonant information
(unfortunately for me) is in the high frequencies. The two bands then are
treated with different compression schemes which are programable. They have
also developed a new fitting algorythm that builds on what they call
'abnormal growth of loudness'.
This latter is interesting and fits my own personal experience, though I
think the phrase is missleading. What appears to be the case is that as you
exceed the minimum threshold for a person with hearing loss, the deficit
becomes progresslively less compared to normals and by the time you reach
the 'too loud' point the sensitivity curves appear to converge. This means
that if you just boost all sound levels, you are overloading at the high
end for people with hearing losses. Hence what you want is progressively
less amplification as the signal get closer to the maximum tolerable point.
You want to boost low volume sounds more than high and do so potentially
differently for the low and high frequency parts of the spectrum (specially
for someone like me who is relatively normal up to 1000 cps and then falls
off a cliff).
Aids with simple compressors don't descriminate between energy in the low
and high frequencies and can therefor 'compress' useful high frequency
information because of high volume of low frequency components.
Particularly impressive was the ReSound performance with whispered speech
and in simulated restaurant noise situations.
-Rich Haller <rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu> University of Oregon, Eugene, OR,
USA
| 13sci.med |
I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426
chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
(file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the
Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there,
email me and maybe I can upload them to some other sites as well.
I have a local bus based card (VL24 Bitblaster from Micron) but I think
the drivers work with ISA cards (or at least includes drivers for them).
I found the new drivers to be a significant improvement over the 1.2 version,
improving my graphic winmarks (v3.11) by about 2 million (7.77 to 9.88)
although this could be the result of intentional benchmark cheating on
Cirrus's part but I don't think so.
From Steve Gibson's (columnist for Info World) graphic card comparisons
(also found at the cica ftp site under the name winadv.zip) I extracted the
following for the sake of comparison:
Wintach
Winbn3.11 Word Sprsht Cad Paint Overall
Steve's system:
486/33 VLB:
ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 9.33 10.34 20.78 8.28 14.90 13.58
my system -
486sx/33 VLB:
VL24 Bitblaster 9.88 8.65 11.71 18.84 15.40 13.65
Its no Viper, but I think its a hell of a deal at about a third of the cost of
the ATI card and when compared to the other cards included in Gibson's review.
Micron system owner's, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the
DTC 2270VL local bus disk controller. My system came with a Maxtor 7120
drive (120 MB) and at first was only giving me disk winmarks of about 16 Kb/s,
I am now at 22 Kb/s. Is this about as good as it gets? I can't get a Norton's
sysinfo disk reading because the contoller intercepts the calls, at
least that was what the program said.
Oliver Weatherbee
oliver@earthview
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Hi, this is my first msg to the Net (actually the 3rd copy of it, dam*ed VI!!).
Look for the new VPIC6.0, it comes with updated VESA 1.2 drivers for almost every known card. The VESA level is 1.2, and my Tseng4000 24-bit has a nice affair with the driver.
Hope it is useful!!
Bye
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <1993Apr30.011157.12995@news.columbia.edu> ph14@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Pei Hsieh) writes:
> Hi -- sorry if this is a FAQ, but are there any conversion utilities
> available for Autodesk *.DXF to Amiga *.IFF format? I
> checked the comp.graphics FAQ and a number of sites, but so far
> no banana. Please e-mail.
>
.DXF can not be changed over to .IFF format what it can be changed
to is an object format used by one of the 3D programs on the Amiga. The
only tools around are comercial for that conversion.
--
_____________________________________________________________________
| |
| Yury German Blue-Knight@bknight.jpr.com |
| Blue-Knight Productions GENIE: Blue-Knight |
| (718)321-0998 ** Graphic Design and Video Productions ** |
|_____________________________________________________________________|
| 1comp.graphics |
I have a quick question regarding the Rockwell Chipset
that's`come out relatively recently--It supports v.32, v.32bis,
v.42, Group III Fax, and so on... However, I heard there
are bugs in the chipset. I know someone that has a ZOOM
14.4 Modem that uses the chipset, and he hasn't had a problem.
What's the word on the chipset? Is this a ROM bug specific
to a specific brand using the Rockwell, or is it the Rockwell
chipset itself? And, if it is the Rockwell chipset, what
are the chances that if I buy one of these modems (using the
Rockwell chipset), that a) the bug will affect me, b) a ROM
change will fix/compensate for the bug?
Please send responses via email...
--Joe Zbiciak
im14u2c@cegt201.bradley.edu / im14u2c@camelot.bradley.edu
--
Joseph Zbiciak im14u2c@camelot.bradley.edu
[====Disclaimer--If you believe any of this, check your head!====]
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Nuke the Whales!
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <lt8keoINN31v@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes:
>In article <C5sIAJ.Ks7@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) writes:
>>
>>Why didn't they release the children weeks ago?
>
>It would have been inconsistent behavior for them to have done so.
>
>Some people believe that there is more to life than the physical requirements.
>
>These folks believed that the generally-held standards of the surrounding
>community (heck, most of the world) were morally wrong, and letting the
>children be abandoned to this (godless/unbelieving) culture would be condeming
>them to eternal loss and separation from God.
>
>By their standards, letting the children go would be abandoning them to a fate
>literally worse than death.
>
>The FBI (and BATF and media) people working on the issue, I suspect,
>just couldn't get their heads into a similar-enough (to say nothing of
>identical) mode of thinking to realize what they were doing.
>
>Physically, there was no reason why the BD's shouldn't have given up and come
>out a long time ago.
>
>From the point of view of the BD's, they were up against the wall and had nowhere
>to go at all.
>
>They apparently really did love their kids too much to abandon them to a godless
>bunch of outsiders...although the end result was horribly twisted.
>
>I didn't say the BD's were right, I just said that that's the way they perceived
>it.
>
>Koresh was a nutcase, and a bunch of other people paid for that.
>
>And the FBI and BATF miscalculated and misunderstood what was going on from the
>word go.
Very likely possible. Reminds me of the movie "The Rapture".
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------
>| Some things are too important not to give away |
>| to everybody else and have none left for yourself. |
>|------------------------ Dieter the car salesman-----|
--
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <Apr.10.05.33.44.1993.14422@athos.rutgers.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
>
>In a short poem ("God in His mercy made / the fixed pains of Hell"),
>C. S. Lewis expresses an idea that I'm sure was current among others,
>but I haven't be able to find its source:
>
>that even Hell is an expression of mercy, because God limits the amount
>of separation from Him, and hence the amount of agony, that one can
>achieve.
>
I have also heard it called an expression of mercy, because Heaven would be
far more agonizing for those who had rejected God.
--
Joe Kellett
jkellett@netcom.com
| 15soc.religion.christian |
My wife has requested that I poll the Sages of Usenet to see what is
known about the use of chromium in weight-control diet suppliments.
She has seen multiple products advertising it and would like any kind
real information.
My first impulse was "Yuck! a metal!" but I have zero data on it.
What do you know?
--
Henry Melton rhca80@melton.sps.mot.com
| 13sci.med |
nilayp@violet.berkeley.edu (Nilay Patel) writes:
>I am looking for Bernoulli removable tapes for the 20/20 drive..
>Don't laugh ... I am serious...
>If you have any 20 MB tapes lying around that you would like to get rid of,
>please mail me ...
>-- Nilay Patel
>nilayp@violet.berkeley.edu
You do mean disks, don't you, not tapes? You forgot to say whether you
were looking for the old 8" or the newer 5.25".
Sorry, just use them at work and don't think they would appreciate it.
--
Nathan C. Moore
The Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory
ncmoore2@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu CIS: 70702,1576
Please note above address for email replies.
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Hello,
I am looking to slightly increase the performance of my 89 Honda
Civic Si. I was wondering if anyone could suggest upgrades that were not
too drastic. I thought that one of the easiest upgrades would be a new
header. Does anyone know what kind of increase that the header would give
me? I think I would check with Jackson Racing for the part. Are there
any other comparines would make Honda parts.
Are there any other small changes that can be easily made and won't
screw up the car. Things like new injectors?, new fuel injection chip etc?
I would welcome any suggestions of small changes that would make a
difference.
I don't really want to change the cam etc because I have heard that it
would be much harder on the engine.
E-Mail relpies prefered please and I will post a summary of all the replies.
Thanks for any help you may have to offer!
--
Jeff Smith jsmith@cs.dal.ca
Dalhousie University Halifax, NS
| 7rec.autos |
This is message is only of interest to those going to
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems that is being
held in Chicago this May.
I checking to see if there is any people out there who would be
interested in getting together for a pickup game of soccer during
the off hours of the conference. If so could you e-mail me at:
philc@macs.ee.mcgill.ca
I'll bring a ball. If you know someone who is going to the
conference and you know that they are avid soccer players
please pass on this message to them. Also if someone in
Chicago is going to the conference please let me know if
there is any field near the hotel where we can play.
Thanks. Bye.
Philip Crawley
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr27.202905.9409@Virginia.EDU>, ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Beyer") writes:
> A few things about the University. It is more fun than some may
> admit. Partying does go on and it has consistently been ranked
> one of Playboy's top party schools. But we do study and more
> importantly learn a lot. The overall UVa drug use is actually
> lower than the average college in the U.S.
> There is no hate law on the books even though they (The
> forces of PC) tried to have one last year( by the way a similar
> law at the University of Wisconsin ? was found unconstitutional
> last year). There is a law
> against relationship of professors with their students or
> advisees that just passed.
> Thomas Jefferson was the sole author of the Virginia
> statute for religious freedom(the basis for the first ten
> amendments), though he is not given full credit for righting
> the bill of rights. So someone who picked on me for that is
> right.
> By the way, we're the man in everything. Sports
> academics and partying. I'm sure a lot of other schools are
> good at what they do as well, so don't start mailing me junk.
> I'm happy where I am and maybe I'll go to one of y'alls medical
> schools in a couple of years.
Medical school ? Like your fellow Austrian Dr. Mengele ??
Josh
Dr. Josh Backon
Cardiology
backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Forgive me if this is stupid, but didn't I see a rumor somewhere that Apple
was working on an Intel platform OS. Say like system 7 for 80X86's?
Chris
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Hi. I was doing research on subliminal suggestion for a psychology
paper, and I read that one researcher flashed hidden messages on the
TV screen at 1/200ths of a second. Is that possible? I thought the
maximum rate the TV was even capable of displaying images was 1/30th
of a second. (or 1/60th of a second for an image composed of only odd
or even scan lines)
- Rich
kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <Apr.8.00.57.41.1993.28246@athos.rutgers.edu> REXLEX@fnal.gov writes:
>In article <Apr.7.01.56.56.1993.22824@athos.rutgers.edu> shrum@hpfcso.fc.hp.com
>Matt. 22:9-14 'Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find
>there, invite to the wedding feast.'...
>hmmmmmm. Sounds like your theology and Christ's are at odds. Which one am I
>to believe?
In this parable, Jesus tells the parable of the wedding feast. "The kingdom
of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son".
So the wedding clothes were customary, and "given" to those who "chose" to
attend. This man "refused" to wear the clothes. The wedding clothes are
equalivant to the "clothes of righteousness". When Jesus died for our sins,
those "clothes" were then provided. Like that man, it is our decision to
put the clothes on.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Hi again,
Many thanks to all the people who responded to my request for a MS-
Windows screen grabber. It proves to me AGAIN that the net is a
wonderful thing. :-)
So, in summary:
There are two choices:
1) Various screen grabber packages (Corel Draw has one, there are
a couple on simtel and cica).
2) Use the built-in PrintScreen and Alt-PrintScreen functionality
to paste the screen (or window) to the clipboard. Then paste the
clipboard to your application. Cool!
Again, thanks for the info...
Grant (the MS-Windows newbie -- Unix and X are my bag ;-)
--
Grant Totten, Programmer/Analyst, Trent University, Peterborough Ontario
GTotten@TrentU.CA Phone: (705) 748-1653 FAX: (705) 748-1246
========================================================================
A woman's place is in the wrong.
-- James Thurber
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <C5rpoJ.IJv@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) writes:
>
> Two of the nine who escaped the compound said the fire was deliberately set
> by cult members.
Correction: The *FBI* *says* that two of the nine who escaped said the fire
was deliberately set by cult members. Since the press was kept miles away,
we have absolutely no independent verification of any of the government's
claims in this matter.
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Kevin S. Van Horn | Is your religion BATF-approved?
vanhorn@bert.cs.byu.edu |
| 16talk.politics.guns |
PROGRAM EUROCRYPT'93, MAY 23-27, LOFTHUS, NORWAY
------------------------------------------------
General chair : Kaare Presttun
email: eurocrypt93@alcatel.no
Program chair : Tor Helleseth
Department of Informatics
University of Bergen
N-5020 Bergen
NORWAY
email: torh@ii.uib.no
=========================================================================
MONDAY, May 24
---------------
SESSION 1 : AUTHENTICATION
--------------------------
Chair: J. Seberry
9.00- 9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.30-10.00 On the Relation Between A-codes and Codes Correcting Independent
Errors, T. Johansson, B. Smeets (Lund University, Sweden),
and G. Kabatianskii (Institute for Problems of Information
Transmission, Russia)
10.00-10.20 Optimal Authentication Systems, R. Safavi-Naini and L. Tombak
(University of Wollongong, Australia)
10.20-10.50 Coffee or tea
SESSION 2 : PUBLIC KEY
----------------------
Chair: A. Odlyzko
10.50-11.10 Factoring Integers using SIMD Sieves, B. Dixon (Princeton
University, USA) and A.K. Lenstra (Bellcore, USA)
11.10-11.30 A New Elliptic Curve Based Analogue of RSA,
N. Demytko (Telecom Research Laboratories, Australia)
11.30-11.50 Weaknesses of a Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on Factorization
of Finite Groups, J. Stern (ENS, France)
11.50-14.00 Lunch
SESSION 3 : BLOCK CIPHERS
-------------------------
Chair: A. De Santis
14.00-14.20 Differentially Uniform Mappings for Cryptography,
K. Nyberg (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
14.20-14.40 On Permutations Against Differential Cryptanalysis,
T. Beth and C. Ding (EISS, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
14.40-15.10 Two New Classes of Bent Functions,
C. Carlet (INRIA, France)
15.10-15.30 Boolean Functions Satisfying a Higher Order Strict Avalanche
Condition, T.W. Cusick (SUNY, Buffalo, USA)
15.30-16.00 Coffee or tea
SESSION 4 : SECRET SHARING
--------------------------
Chair: Y. Desmedt
16.00-16.30 Size of Shares and Probability of Cheating in Threshold Schemes,
M. Carpentieri, A. De Santis and U. Vaccaro (University of
Salerno, Italy)
16.30-17.00 Nonperfect Secret Sharing Schemes and Matroids, K. Kurosawa,
K. Okada, K. Sakano, W. Ogata and S. Tsujii (Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan)
TUESDAY, May 25
---------------
SESSION 5 : STREAMCIPHERS I
---------------------------
Chair: T. Helleseth
9.00-10.00 From the Memoars of a Norwegian Cryptolog, E. Selmer (University
of Bergen, Norway) (Invited talk)
10.00-10.20 On the Linear Complexity of Products of Shift-Register Sequences,
R. Gottfert and H. Niderreiter (Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Vienna, Austria)
10.20-10.50 Coffee or tea
SESSION 6 : STREAMCIPHERS II
----------------------------
Chair: D. Gollman
10.50-11.20 Resynchronisation Weaknesses in Synchronous Stream Ciphers,
J. Daemen, R. Govaerts and J. Vandewalle (ESAT, KU Leuven,
Belgium)
11.20-11.40 Blind Synchronization of m-Sequences with Even Span,
R. Games and J.J. Rushanan (MITRE, USA)
11.40-12.10 On Constructions and Nonlinearity of Correlation Immune Functions,
J. Seberry, X. Zhang and Y. Zheng (University of Wollongong,
Australia)
12.10-14.00 Lunch
SESSION 7 : DIGITAL SIGNATURES
------------------------------
Chair: C. Schnorr
14.00-14.30 Practical and Provable Secure Release of a Secret and Exchange of
Signatures, I.B. Damgard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
14.30-14.50 Subliminal Communication is Easy Using the DSA,
G.J. Simmons
14.50-15.10 Can OSS be Repaired, D. Naccache (Gemplus, France)
15.10-15.40 Coffee or tea
SESSION 8 : PROTOCOLS I
-----------------------
Chair: K. Kurosawa
15.40-16.00 Limitations of Logical Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols,
C. Boyd and W. Mao (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
16.00-16.30 Practical Anonymous and Secure Voting Scheme, K. Itoh, C. Park
and K. Kurosawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
16.30-16.50 Untransferable Rights in a Client-Independent Server Environment,
J. Domingo-Ferrer (University of Barcelona, Spain)
16.50-17.20 Interactive Hashing Simplifies Zero-Knowledge Protocol Design,
R. Ostrovsky (UC Berkeley, USA), R. Venkatesan (Bellcore, USA) and
M. Yung (IBM T. Watson, USA)
RUMP SESSION
-------------
Chair: I. Ingemarsson
20.00-24.00 Accepted paper:
Security in Digital Mobile Communication Systems,
C. Park, K. Kurosawa, T. Okamoto and S. Tsujii (Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan)
WEDNESDAY, May 26
-----------------
SESSION 9 : HASH FUNCTIONS
---------------------------
Chair: B. Preneel
9.00- 9.20 One-Way Accumulators: A Decentralized Alternative to Digital
Signatures, J. Benaloh and M. de Mare (Clarkson University, USA)
9.20- 9.40 Some Attacks on the ARL Hash Function, I.B. Damgard and
L.R. Knudsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9.40-10.10 Collisions for the Compression Function of MD5, B. den Boer and
A. Bosselaers (ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium)
10.10-10.30 How to Find and Avoid Collisions for the Knapsack Hash Function,
J. Patarin (Bull CP8, France)
10.30-11.00 Coffee or tea
SESSION 10: PAYMENT SYSTEMS
---------------------------
Chair: I.B. Damgard
11.00-11.20 Single Term Off-Line Coins, N.T. Ferguson (CWI Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
11.20-11.40 Improved Privacy in Wallets with Observers,
R.J.F. Cramer (CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and
T.P. Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
11.40-12.10 How to Prevent the Mafia Fraud Using Distance-Bounding Protocols,
S. Brands and D. Chaum (CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
12.10-14.00 Lunch
SESSION 11: CRYPTANALYSIS
--------------------------
Chair: G.J. Simmons
14.00-14.20 On the Distribution of Characteristics in Bijective Mappings,
L. O'Connor (University of Waterloo, Canada)
14.20-14.40 On the Security of the IDEA Block Cipher,
W. Meier (HTL, Switzerland)
14.40-15.10 Linear Cryptanalysis Method for DES Cipher,
M. Matsui (Mitsubishi, Japan)
15.10-15.40 New Types of Cryptanalytic Attacks Using Related Keys,
E. Biham (Technion, Israel)
15.40-16.10 Coffee or tea
SESSION 12 : PROTOCOLS II
-------------------------
Chair: P. Landrock
16.10-16.40 Reconciliation on a Secret Key Through Public Discussion,
G. Brassard and L. Salvail (University of Montreal, Canada)
16.40-17.10 Global, Unpredictable Bit Generation Without Broadcast,
D. Beaver and N. So (Penn State University, USA)
17.10-17.40 IACR Business meeting
==========================================================================
Keywords:
| 11sci.crypt |
[reply to aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)]
>Medicine is not a totally scientific endevour.
The acquisition of scientific knowledge is completely scientific. The
application of that knowledge in individual cases may be more art than
science.
>There are diseases that haven't been described yet and the root cause
>of many diseases now described aren't known. (Read a book on
>gastroenterology sometime if you want to see a lot of them.) After
>scientific methods have run out then it's the patient's freedom of
>choice to try any experimental method they choose. And it's well
>recognized by many doctors that medicine doesn't have all the answers.
Certainly we don't have all the answers. The question is, what is the
most reliable means of acquiring further medical knowledge? The
scientific method has proven itself to be reliable. The *only* reason
alternative therapies are shunned by physicians is that their
practitioners refuse to submit their theories to rigorous scientific
scrutiny, insisting that "tradition" or anecdotal evidence are
sufficient. These have been shown many times in the past to be very
unreliable ways of acquiring reliable knowledge. Crook's ideas have
never been backed up by scientific evidence. His unwillingness to do
good science makes the rest of us doubt the veracity of his contentions.
David Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher
must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell
| 13sci.med |
Subject says it all :)
I'm looking for the jumper settings for an SMS OMTI 8610 AT-bus ESDI
controller card.
Thanks in advance,
Richard
Richard Solomon NCR Microelectronics
1635 Aeroplaza Drive
Richard.Solomon@ColoSpgs.NCR.COM Colorado Springs, CO 80916
...!uunet!ncrcom!ncr-mpd!Richard.Solomon (719) 573-3227
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <ASHWIN.93May2131021@leo.gatech.edu>, ashwin@[Agatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
> Our 20-month son has started falling sick quite often every since he
> started going to day care. He was at home for the first year and he did
> not fall sick even once. Now it seems like he has some sort of cold or
> flu pretty much once a month. Most of the time the cold leads to an ear
> infection as well, with the result that he ends up being on antibiotics
> 3 weeks out of 4. I know kids in day care fall sick more often, but we
> are beginning to wonder how often "more often" really is, whether our
> son is more susceptible or has lower immunity than average...
> Are there any studies that can help answer some of these questions?
When kids stayed in the home until kindergarden or 1st grade, infection
incidence was much lower because exposure was lower. Some studies suggest
that early exposure to various infectious diseases is probably beneficial
because exposure as an adult carries much more risk of morbitity and
mortality(mumps, measles. etc.).
> -- How often do kids in their first, second and third years fall sick?
> How often do they get colds, flus, ear infections? Is there any data on
> home care vs. day care?
Daycare will always carry a higher exposure risk than home care.
> -- Does being sick "build immunity" (leading to less illness later),
> does it make kids "weaker" (leading to more illness later), or does it
> not have any long term effect?
Exposure to infectious organisms does build immunity. But many viruses
mutate and reexposure to the new strain requires another immune response(
new antibody production). In addition, antibody levels tend to decline
with time and re-innoculation is needed to keep the antibody levels high.
Chronic overstimulation of the immune response can lead to immunosupression
but this is rare and very unlikely to occur in children.
> -- Does taking antibiotics on a regular basis have any negative long
> term effects?
Yes, chronic use of antibiotics can have an adverse effect on the good
bacteria that are supposed to be present in and on the body. Health effects
of this depletion of the good bacteria is a very hotly debated topic in the
medical community with most physicians seeming to discount any health effects
of chronic antibiotic use( a view that I do not support).
> -- How does one tell if a child is more susceptible to illness than
> normal, and what does one do about it?
Chronic infection in an adult or a child needs to be worked up( in my
opinion). But most physicians feel that chronic infection in a child is
normal because of both exposure and lack of prior immunity to many
infectious diseases. I do not share this view and there are some
physicians who also suspect that diet plays a big role in infection
frequency and severity. Exposure to an infectious agent does not have to
result in a severe infection. A strong immune response can minimize the
length of time needed to deal with the infection as well as the symptoms
associated with the infection.
> -- Is there any way to build immunity and resistance?
There are five major nutrients that are responsible for a good strong
immune response to infectious agents. They are: protein, vitamin C,
vitamin A, iron and zinc. The American diet is not low in protein so this
is rarely a problem. But vitamin A, vitamin C, iron and zinc are often low
and this lack of an adequate pool(nutrient reserve) can impair the immune
response. Iron is know to be low in most kids(as is vitamin A). There are
distinct biochemical tests that can be run to check the status of each of
these nutrients in a patient who is having a problem with chronic severe
infection. Serum ferritin for iron status, dark adaptation for vitamin A
status, red blood cell zinc for zinc status and leckocyte ascorbate for
vitamin C status. I have attempted to work up posts on these five
nutrients and their role in infection for this news group as well as the
others that I participate in. I can e-mail you what I've worked up so far.
But my best advice to you is to try to find a physician who recognizes the
critical role that diet plays in the human immune response. You may also
be able to get help from a nutritionist. Anyone can call themselves a
nutritionist so you have to be very carefull. You want to find someone(
like myself) who has had some formal training and education in nutrition.
Many Ph.D. programs in the U.S. now offer degrees in Nutrition and that's
what you need to look for. Some dieticians will also call themselves
nutritionists but most dieticians have not had the biochemical training
needed to run specialized nutritional assessment tests. They are very good
for getting general dietary advice from however.
> Any data, information or advice relating to this would be much
> appreciated. Thanks a lot.
>
> Ashwin.
Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.
Graduate degree in Biochemistry and Nutrition from VPI
and developer of a course on human nutrition for medical students
| 13sci.med |
By night I'm an Amiga user. By day I work with windows. I'd be much more
comfortable in windows if I had Two things.
1. A good Personal information manager. You know- a calendar, address book,
reminder list etc... rolled into one clean interface.
2. A good file manager. Microsofts is very poor by my standards. How
about one that has a left and right window and allows file operations
between them. being able to launch programs from the same interface
would be nice. as well as text reading and graphics viewing. Those
who are familiar with Directory Opus on the Amiga know what I'm
looking for.
If anyone can steer me towards an FTP sight with these programs it would
make my transition to windows a lot easier. Please reply via email
as I rarely get to read this group. thanks so much!
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| why would he be such a jerk? i know that he doesn't smoke
steve lombardi | drugs. and he doesn't do cocaine. and he doesn't shoot
stlombo@acm.rpi.edu | smack. and he doesn't even drink beer. Why would he be
| such a fu*ker to me? --WEEN
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| why would he be such a jerk? i know that he doesn't smoke
steve lombardi | drugs. and he doesn't do cocaine. and he doesn't shoot
stlombo@acm.rpi.edu | smack. and he doesn't even drink beer. Why would he be
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
[This is SWF in another indirect post via Dan].
In article <1993Apr20.150829.27925@asl.dl.nec.com>,
duffy@aslss02.asl.dl.nec.com (Joseph Duffy) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr17.184948.4847@microsoft.com>
russpj@microsoft.com (Russ Paul-Jones) writes:
|> >
|> >The same way that any theory is proven false. You examine the
predicitions
|> >that the theory makes, and try to observe them. If you don't, or
if you
|> >observe things that the theory predicts wouldn't happen, then you
have some
|> >evidence against the theory. If the theory can't be modified to
|> >incorporate the new observations, then you say that it is false.
|>
|> But how does one handle the nonrepeatability of the experiment? In
many types of
|> experiments the "prediction" is that the observed phenomena will
happen again
|> and be capable of being observed. For example, in chemistry someone
may predict
|> the outcome of a chemical reaction and then actually observe that
reaction
|> repeatedly.
There are several problems here. First, you are discussing only
experimental procedures. Observational procedures are also useful. The
main criterion is attempting to verify an idea by using it to make
prediction about as-yet unmade observations. The observations could be
the result of an experiment, or they could be obsevations of activity
occuring spontaneossly in nature, or they could even be observations of
the lasting results of events long past. All that matters is that the
observations be *new*. This is what prediction is about in science -
it is
*not* about predicting the future except in this very restricted
sense.
Secondly, repeatability can also take many forms. It is really just
the
requirement that independent observers be able to verify the results.
The
observation of a fossil is 'repeatable', since any qualified observer
may
look at it (this is why the specimens are reqtined in a museum). Also,
there is the implicit prediction that future fossil finds will
correspond
to the current one. New fossils are found often enough that this is
tested regularly. Many times a new fossil actually falsifies some
conclusion made on the basis of previous fossils.
Unfortunately for you, the models that were falsified have alway been
peripheral to the model of evolution we now have. (For instance, the
front legs of Tyrannosaurus rex turned out to have tremendous muscles,
rather than being weakly endowed as previously believed).
So, in fact, histoircal science findings *are* repeatable in the
necessary sense. Just becuase you cannot go out and repeat the
original
event does *not* make it impossible to make valid observations.
[This is not to say that biologists would not go coo-coo if extra-
terrestrial life were discovered - that could make the determination
of the process of abiogenesis relatively easy].
--
sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima)
or
Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima)
or
Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
| 0alt.atheism |
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In article <PMETZGER.93Apr18141006@snark.shearson.com> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
> In article <1qnupd$jpm@news.intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>
> From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
>
> jhesse@netcom.com (John Hesse) writes:
> > Oh great. Wonderful news. Nobody can listen in--except the feds.
>
> Hey, it's better than the status quo.
>
> I am far less worried about "the feds" tapping my phone than high school
> scanner surfers who get their kicks out of eavesdropping on cellular and
> cordless phone calls.
>
> I'm a political dissident. I'm scared shitless of the feds listening
> in on my calls. My opinions are the sort that would get me
> "disappeared" in a slightly less free society -- and who knows what
> sort of society we will be in in five or ten years? I have friends who
> have had their phones tapped -- none of this is theoretical to me.
>
> As for "its better than the status quo", well, first of all, you can
> get a cryptophone from companies like Cylink today -- and they work
> well. In addition, a number of groups are now working on building
> software to turn any PC into a privacy enhanced phone right now -- and
> they are all working in overdrive mode.
>
> And yes, I'd rather just see all crypto restrictions lifted, but this is at
> least an incrememental improvement for certain applications...
>
> There ARE no crypto restrictions... yet. You can use anything you want
> RIGHT NOW. The point is to maintain that right.
The point you all seem to have missed was covered when the UK cellphone
scrambling system was discussed. Incidentally, my MP has responded to
my questions on that issue, and it appears that the UK and other `approved'
countries will get the secure A5 encryption, and `dodgy' countries will
get A5X. Existing mobile equipment will drop to clear mode when used with
A5X systems, but newer equipment will use A5/A5X/clear depending on the
capabilities of the base station.
The cops/feds do *not* need to be able to get hold of your private key to
listen in to cellular conversations. Encryption is not end-to-end, but
cellphone to base-station - it *has* to be this way so that cellular users
and fixed installations can talk to each other. For cellular to cellular
calls, the transmission is decrypted at the base-station, passed to another
base-station and re-encrypted. The cops/feds can listen to the unscrambled
call *provided* they get a warrant to tap into the cellular provider's
equipment. The only reason for wanting a crackable system is so they can
listen without having to obtain a warrant.
But, maybe the Clipper system is secure, and they really do need a warrant
to get the key out of escrow before they can listen in using a scanner (see
above - they don't *have* to go down this route anyway). I have my doubts,
but even if true once they have the key they will *never* again need a
warrant to tap into that particular phone whenever they want. `Well, Judge,
it appears he wasn't a drug-dealer after all, so naturally we'll stop
listening in'...
You have every reason to be scared shitless. Take a look at the records
of McCarthy, Hoover (J. Edgar, not the cleaner - though they both excelled at
sucking) and Nixon.
- --Paul
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| 11sci.crypt |
In article <C5wDMK.Jrn@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> 3s737abg@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Unknown Class User) writes:
>
>I think the subject title says it all. Anybody that relies on a SCSI dick
>for stoarage is a pain in the ass!!
>
>
Looks like someone left their terminal unattended.
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Hi all,
I would like to purchase CD-ROM drive. The specs I would like to have is:
* Applicable to Kodak multisession Photo-CD
* SCSI(2) Interface
* Compatible with Adaptec-1542B
* Does not need any caddies
* Cheaper ( < $500 if possible)
* Double Speeded
I believe there are no drives satisfying all of the above condition,
so I would like to know all of your opinion. The above conditions
are sorted by my priority.
I think NEC CDR74-1/84-1 is a little bit expensive, but it DOES satisfy
almost all of the above conditions. The problem is that I do not know
the compatibility with 1542B. Has someone succeeded to connect these
NEC drives to 1542B? I have heard a rumor that NEC drive is incompatible
with 1542B adapter.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Kobayashi,Masaoki
(masaoki@tky.hp.com)
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Hi,
Could someone explain to me what exactly the Xlib functions
XCreateRegion, XPolygonRegion, XPointInRegion do, or to
suggest a ftp site where I can find programs using these functions.
PS: The man pages does not explain much ......
Thank you,
Leo.
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Dept. of Computing
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| 5comp.windows.x |
A week or so ago, I posted about a problem with my SE/30: I have 20 megs
or true RAM, yet if I set my extensions to use a large amount of memory
(total of all extensions) then my system will crash before the finder
comes up. What I meant was having a large amount of fonts load, or
sounds, or huge disk caches with a control panel other than Apple's
memory control panel. Apple's cache is at 64K, mode 32 is on, and
so is 32 bit addressing. All extensions work by themselves or with the
others until I increase the memory used by some of them (with methods
mentioned above).
Well, here's my latest followup... I ran NOWs System Profile and got
this information:
%%% Memory info %%%
Physical RAM size: 20480K.
Logical RAM size: 20480K.
Size of Low Memory Area: 8K.
Virtual Memory: Inactive.
Addressing mode: 32bit mode in use.
32 bit System zone: Absent.
Parity RAM: Not capable.
Growable System Heap: True.
Temporary memory support: Present.
Tempory Memory Support: Real and tracked.
Note that 32 bit System zone is absent. Could this be the problem?
How can I turn this on? Any ideas?
Can anyone help?
Ken
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes:
>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>humor us. Thanks for your help.
>
>Thanks.
>Bobby
Hank Greenberg would have to be the most famous, because his Jewish
faith actually affected his play. (missing late season or was it world
series games because of Yom Kippur)
--
Pablo Iglesias
pi@ruth.ece.jhu.edu
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <1993Apr16.171347.784@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>
>UPI Clarinet has just relayed a "scoop" from the Toronto Sun
>(or was that Star? I like the Star myself ...) that Iron Mike
>Keenan has come to an agreement with the New York Rangers for
>next season. Interestingly, this comes the day after the Times
>Sports had an editorial about how the Rangers need their own
>Pat Riley ... who cares about what happens after next season?
>
The rumour was basically everywhere in Toronto based on reports
that Keenan has told both San Jose and Philadelphia that he
was no longer interested in pursuing further negotiations with
either team.
The Ranger announcement is supposed to happen tomorrow supposedly.
The Rangers have so many veterans that they had to get a coach
with "weight" and a proven record...and whom they know Messier respects.
Gerald
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Less than 1/2 of mailorder price!
I have three libraries, all on CD, which cost me over two thousand dollars
mail order. They are all genuine, high quality EPS vector graphics (NOT just
some scans with a silly EPS wrapper!) They are:
1. Totem Graphics color EPS library (about 1400 color EPS images).
This costs a thousand bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as
high quality (much better than Dynamic Graphics clip art, SOTMC clip art,
etc., in my opinion), but I rate both the 3G library and the C.A.R.
library as higher. Totem's art is ALL color -- whereas most of the other's
are B&W. It's the best all-color library out there, in my opinion.
2. C.A.R. Graphics library (haven't counted how many images, but you can
purchase the library on 48 floppies, to give you an idea of the size).
This costs about 4 hundred bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as
very high quality, but it's only B&W.
3. 3G Graphics library (very popular in all the Mac mags). This costs
about 4 hundred bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as very high quality
(got some awards in one of the major Mac mags, forgot which). Some of
the images are color, but most are B&W.
For what it's worth, all three of the CD's are saved in multiple file formats.
They are readable on Mac's and PC's. Additionally, Totem's will mount native-
NeXT also, although the NeXT could just as easily mount either the Mac or PC
filesystems. I've personally tested the CD's on all three machines (I've owned
all three machines, although I sold my NeXT a few months ago).
Also, in my opinion, the 3G and C.A.R. libraries are the best in the business
(and I've seen lots). Also, Totem's is, in my opinion, the best all-color
library around, although I like 3G's color art better.
I want $850 for everything. Can ship certified check C.O.D., as well as
VISA/MC charge. If you pay by VISA/MC, I'll ship pre-paid in the continental U.S.
If I ship C.O.D., buyer pays freight and C.O.D. fee.
Reason for selling: No longer have DTP business.
Please respond via email or telephone, as I rarely check these news groups.
Nevin
email: npratt@glacier.sim.es.com
voice: (h) 265-8949
(w) 582-5847 x6420
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <1993Apr15.221049.14347@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1qkkodINN5f5@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> pablo@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Pablo A Iglesias) writes:
>>In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes:
>>>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>>>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>>>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>>>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>>>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>>>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>>>humor us. Thanks for your help.
>>Hank Greenberg would have to be the most famous, because his Jewish
>>faith actually affected his play. (missing late season or was it world
>>series games because of Yom Kippur)
>The other Jewish HOF'er is Rod Carew (who converted).
Did he ever really convert? He married a Jewish woman, but I've never
heard him say he converted. Elliot Maddox, on the other hand...
>Lowenstein is Jewish, as well as Montana's only representative to the
>major leagues.
>Undeserving Cy Young award winner Steve Stone is Jewish. Between Stone,
>Koufax, Ken Holtzman (? might have the wrong pitcher, I'm thinking of the
>one who threw a no-hitter in both the AL and NL), and Big Ed Reulbach,
>that's quite a starting rotation. Moe Berg can catch. Harry Steinfeldt,
>the 3b in the Tinkers-Evers-Chance infield.
Yep, Holtzman. Saul Rogovin won an ERA title in 1949 or so before blowing out
the arm.
>Is Stanky Jewish? Or is that just a "Dave Cohen" kinda misinterpretation?
>Whatever, doesn't look like he stuck around the majors too long.
I'd be surprised. btw, they may just be shopping Gallego around to
make room for AS.
Roger
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <1993Apr24.003549.126206@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> amh2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ALOIS M. HIMSL) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.155325.6329@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, nancy@hayduke (Nancy
> Feagans) writes:
>>Ashtrays and cigarette lighters. These should be an *option*.
>You forget that the cigarette lighter plug is essential for plugging in radar
>detectors and lights. The ashtrays are also essential because they are great
>places to keep change and tokens.
Wouldn't you rather have some type of standard "electrical" plug instead of
that "fire hazard waiting to happen" adaptor? I know I would, and I would
also prefer to have sensibly placed cup holders instead of an ashtray. (my
car came with coin holders already built in)
Ron
| 7rec.autos |
livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
> Not, of course, The Greatest Salesman in the World. That was
> Jesus, wasn't it?
No, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
mathew
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In <1993Apr26.162805.1534@adobe.com> snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols) writes:
>In article <1993Apr24.010132.3405@mtroyal.ab.ca> caldwell8102@mtroyal.ab.ca writes:
>>The Hart trophy goes to the player most valuable to his team, not to the best
>>player in the league. So your above arguement is really worthless.
>Personally, I always thought that "most valuable to his team" was silly.
>Why should the best player in the league be penalized because he plays on a
>team with other good players? Why should a lesser player be picked solely
>because he's the best player on a weak team? Wouldn't the weaker team be
>helped even more by the best player in the league? Doesn't the presence of
>the best player in the league make the other players on the team look
>better, too?
The Hart Trophy was orginally awarded in a time where people did not think
in terms of who was the "best" player, rather in terms of who was the most
valuable to the team. And "valuable to his team" was not, and should not
be, considered synonymous with "best". We are talking about a time when
honour and attitude, not measurable skills, were the most important assets
a player brought to his team, his league and his sport. This was before
the onslaught of professionalism which has clearly denigrated what was
formerly the foremost peacetime pursuit of glory.
The Hart Trophy is not a prize. It is an honour.
--
cordially, as always, maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
"So many morons...
rm ...and so little time."
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <sandvik-180493131125@sandvik-kent.apple.com> sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>In article <f1682Ap@quack.kfu.com>, pharvey@quack.kfu.com (Paul Harvey)
>wrote:
>> In article <sandvik-170493104859@sandvik-kent.apple.com>
>> sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>> >Ignorance is not bliss!
>
>> Ignorance is STRENGTH!
>> Help spread the TRUTH of IGNORANCE!
>
>Huh, if ignorance is strength, then I won't distribute this piece
>of information if I want to follow your advice (contradiction above).
>
>
>Cheers,
>Kent
>---
>sandvik@newton.apple.com. ALink: KSAND -- Private activities on the net.
He was quoting Big Brother from Orwell's 1984.
| 19talk.religion.misc |
umyin@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Qing Yin) writes:
>Hi, it's an *easy* question for you Windows gurus. I'd appreciate any help.
>We need to write an on-line help for our application. We don't have
>Windows Software Developer's Toolkit (yet :-) ). Since we just want to build
>a .HLP file around Windows' help engine, I hope it won't be that complicated?
>Anyway, could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an
>on-line help, if it does not take 100 pages to explain? Or if it is complicated,
>would you help to point out what I would need to do it?
>--
>Vincent Q. Yin
>umyin@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Hi,
If you have developed your own windows application you must have a
SDK of some sort that contains the HC.EXE or HC31.EXE file to
compile and generate .HLP files out of .RTF files.
RTF files are generated by a wordprocessor like Word for Dos or W4W.
If this is not the solution be more specific about your application.
Mario
--
Mario Veraart TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
email: rioj7@fel.tno.nl The Hague The Netherlands
"If all else fails, show pretty pictures and animated videos,
and don't talk about performance", David Bailey
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
"Darius" == Darius Lecointe <dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> writes:
Darius> vic@mmalt.guild.org (Vic Kulikauskas) writes:
Darius> Let me suggest this. Maybe those who believe in the eternal
Darius> hell theory should provide all the biblical evidence they can
Darius> find for it. Stay away from human theories, and only take
Darius> into account references in the bible.
Like most topics, we've been through this one before, but here is
a good start: Matthew 25:46:
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous
to eternal life."
I may post more on this subject when I have more time. In any
case, it is clear that the fate of the damned is most unpleasant,
and to be avoided.
David Wagner "Sola Scriptura!"
a confessional Lutheran
[I'd like to suggest that discussions based on single quotations
are a bad way to proceed. There are passages consistent with
either theory. The sensible way to proceed is to look at them
all, and see if we can come up with a view that encompasses all
of them. --clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1qv9agINN3ba@shelley.u.washington.edu>
tannerg@hardy.u.washington.edu (Glenn Tanner) writes:
>fierkelab@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (Eric Roush) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Apr19.060208.17373@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>>dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>>>Why did I get sucked into this?
>>>
>>>In article <1993Apr19.035406.11473@news.yale.edu> (Austin Jacobs) writes:
>>>>Don't you GUYS think so? I mean, c'mon! What the heck are women doing
>>>>even THINKING of getting into baseball. They cause so many problems. Just
>>>
>>>Assuming you're serious, I guess you'd be surprised to hear
>>>that us GUYS don't think so. I would guess that a tiny fraction
>>>of 1% of the folks reading your post agree with it. I kind of
>>>doubt that even you agree with it.
>>
>>Sheesh! I agree with you here, Dave. Anyone for starting
>>rec.sports.idiots for guys like Austin?
>
>No, but I am for starting rec.sports.idiots for people who respond to obvious
>flamebait.
Nah, let's reserve rec.sports.idiots for people who POST
obvious flamebait, like yourself.
If someone posts something as controversial (not to mention
idiotic) as what Austin posted in a widely accessed newsgroup,
someone should challenge the statement. There is a school
of thought that suggests that silence = consent. Whereas
this idea may not apply to everything in life, it certainly
SHOULD apply to a forum of public discussion, which r.s.b.
is.
If you've been reading r.s.b. lately, you'll find
that even elementary school children have had access
to our postings, alibet in an edited form. It's making me
think a little more carefully about some of the things I post.
In conclusion, if someone like Austin wants to post his drivel
in some obscure newsgroup that I don't read, fine. He's got the
right to rant, rave, and drool all he wants to in the name
of free speech. But if he drools in a newsgroup that I read,
then I will support the right of anyone to provide rebuttal
to his drooling.
Now, of course, you don't have to read any of this.
And if you want to cut down on flames, then
DON'T POST FLAMEBAIT!
(You don't have to respond to flames, either. Saves cyberspace)
Sheesh,
Eric
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
I recently corrected the resolution on my Sparcstation by changing
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers from:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 100
to:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 85
I determined that my 19" 1152x900 monitor was 85 dpi by measuring the
active screen area and dividing by resolution.
However, this has caused my application fonts to behave strangely.
After some research, I believe this is caused by my applications
requesting fonts by Family, Weight, Slant, and Pointsize. I believe
that X is grabbing the first font on the path with these characteristics
and displaying it. Since I have only 75dpi and 100dpi fonts on my
path, the results are inaccurate. I do have some Speedo fonts, but
not for the family I am using (Helvetica).
I think this is incorrect. The fonts should always be provided in the
resolution of the display. This never seems to happen unless you
explicitly request fonts by xres and yres! This is true of both the
scaleable and bitmapped fonts! For instance, the command
xfd -fn '-bitstream-charter-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font (despite the fact that this is a Speedo font).
The command
xfd -fn '-adobe-courier-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font or a 100dpi font (depending on my font path).
Despite the fact that X knows my display is 85 dpi, and that it can
generate an 85dpi font for me! Unless I my applications specifies a
resolution, X appears to pick a stupid default.
Is this a bug? Is it a feature? If so, why? Is there anything I can
do to get around this problem? People have suggested that I lie about
my resolution, and specify a single font path (75 or 100, not both).
This would at least make my app consistent, but I like being able to
look at rulers that appear in my paint application and say: "Yup, thats
an inch". Anyone have a set of 85dpi bitmapped fonts I can use?
System info:
Sun Sparc 10/41 w/32 MB, SunOS 4.1.3.
xdpyinfo:
version number: 11.0
vendor string: MIT X Consortium
vendor release number: 5000
screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x900 pixels (348x272 millimeters)
resolution: 85x85 dots per inch
xset q font path:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
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Applications Architect, Applications Technology Group, Applications Division
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
| 5comp.windows.x |
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the FREE State,
the right of the people to KEEP and BEAR arms, shall not be infringed.
I know that as a Canadian, I don't have much to stand on...
But, I think that the right to KEEP and BEAR arms is very important to
maintaining a FREE society. The America is still the most enviable
place to live on this Earth (by anyone with their head on straight)
and will stay that way only if more people stand-up PUBLICLY for what
they believe!!
Remember, that if you stand for nothing... You'll fall for anything...
including "well-meaning" socialists, they did in Canada.
later
TED
| 16talk.politics.guns |
I found this press release from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice on
another system, and thought it would be of interest on campuses
where the administration or the athletics department wants to
eliminate the women's ice hockey team.
Women Athletes, TLP Win Sex Discrimination Ruling: Brown University
Ordered to Restore Two Women's Varsity Teams
To: National Desk, Sports Writer
Contact: Lynette Labinger, 401-421-9794, home 401-274-7507, or
Ray Marcaccio, 401-831-8900, both of Trial Lawyers For
Public Justice
WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit in Boston has upheld a U.S. District Court
order requiring Brown University to immediately reinstate its women's
gymnastics and volleyball teams to full varsity status. The ruling in
Cohen et al. v. Brown University is the first appeals court decision
in the nation applying Title IX to intercollegiate athletics. Trial
Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ), is the national public interest
law firm representing the women athletes.
"This ruling makes clear what we have said all along -- if a
school wants to eliminate teams before women have their fair share of
opportunities to participate, they can only eliminiate men's teams,"
said TLPJ Executive Director Arthur Bryant, co-counsel in the case.
The class action, filed April, 1992, charged Brown with violating
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law that
prohibits sex discrimination by all educational institutions
receiving federal funds. Brown terminated the two women's teams as
university-funded sports in May 1991, allowing them to continue to
compete against varsity teams if they could raise their own funds for
uniforms, travel, coaches, and all other expenses. They had also
been denied admission preferences for use in recruiting new members.
"This is a major victory for women and the cause of equal rights,"
said TLPJ lead counsel Lynette Labinger of Providence's Roney &
Labinger. "Universities across America need to reevaluate their
programs quickly. Title IX is the law and it's going to be enforced."
Three similar Title IX appeals await decision. Colorado State
University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), and Colgate
University are asking federal appeals courts to overturn court orders
requiring them to reinstate or establish specific women's varsity
teams. Continuing its cutting-edge Title IX activities, TLPJ is
representing women athletes at IUP.
In addition to Labinger and Bryant, TLPJ's legal team included:
Ray Marcaccio of Blish & Cavanagh and Amato DeLuca of Mandell, DeLuca
& Schwartz in Providence; and Sandra Duggan of Philadelphia. The
National Women's Law Center, Women's Sports Foundation, and National
Association for Girls and Women in Sports filed an amicus brief in
support of TLPJ's appeal.
-30-
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr27.043035.22609@etl.go.jp> klaus@ipri.go.jp (Klaus Hofmann;(6663)) writes:
:Hello,
:I heard that a certain disease (toxoplasmosys?) is transmitted by cats which
:can harm the unborn fetus. Does anybody know about it? Is it a problem to
:have a cat in the same apartment?
:
Having the cat around is not a problem, but the pregnant woman should not
change the litter box. Toxoplasmosis can be transmitted from the stool of
some cats.
--
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= General Internal Medicine | "...dammit, not a programmer!" =
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
| 13sci.med |
Hi,
David K. Drum writes:
>listserv told me that the list doesn't exist! So I got a global
>list of groups from the listserv and - - NOTHING! I grepped every
>string I could think of. If Frank, Ville Saari, Andre Beck, or anyone
>else who's a regular on DKB-L can tell me what is going on, please do!
I just sent a mail to Turgut Kalfaoglu (sp?), the maintainer of the list,
and asked him what's going on. If the list is (for whatever reason) really
dead, we might have to put up a list ourselves. But for now, I want to wait
for his answer.
Frank
PS: ...and I just thought this would be just another period of silence...
| 1comp.graphics |
Kent Sandvik (sandvik@newton.apple.com) wrote:
: In article <11838@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>, bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert
: Beauchaine) wrote:
: > Someone spank me if I'm wrong, but didn't Lord, Liar, or Lunatic
: > originate with C.S. Lewis? Who's this Campollo fellow anyway?
: I do think so, and isn't there a clear connection with the "I do
: believe, because it is absurd" notion by one of the original
: Christians (Origen?).
There is a similar statement attributed to Anselm, "I believe so that
I may understand". In both cases reason is somewhat less exalted than
anyone posting here could accept, which means that neither statement
can be properly analysed in this venue.
Bill
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <20756.2bd16dea@ecs.umass.edu> alee@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>
>Greetings!
>
> Situation: I have a phone jack mounted on a wall. I don't
> know the number of the line. And I don't want
> to call up the operator to place a trace on it.
>
> Question: Is there a certain device out there that I can
> use to find out the number to the line?
> Thanks for any response.
> Al
>
>
Do you get a dial tone when you plug a phone into the jack?? If not,
then the line is possibly disconnected from the nearest telco junction
box. If you do get a dial tone, then surely the telco is sending a bill
for the line to *someplace* or *somebody*. Are you sure that what you
are doing is on the level. Sounds to me like you are just trying to get
at somebody's unlisted number. Fess up.
Keith
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <C614BJ.BK6@agora.rain.com> jhart@agora.rain.com (Jim Hart) writes:
>"The security of the system should depend only on the secrecy of
>the keys and not on the secrecy of the algorithms" -- Dorothy Denning
>
>jhart@agora.rain.com
You're reading far too much into this (aside from the obvious fact
that you shouldn't hold anybody to what they wrote in a 10 year old
book in a rapidly changing field like this.)
Quite simply she says that the security should not DEPEND on the
secrecy of the algorithm. A secret algorithm can still be secure,
after all, we just don't know it. Only our level of trust is
affected, not the security of the system.
The algorithm *could* be RSA for all we know, which we believe to
be secure.
They have a much better reason to classify the algorithm than to
protect its security. They want to protect its market share.
If they publish the algorithm, then shortly manufacturers would
make chips that implement the algorithm and standard but do not
use a key stored in escrow. And of course, everybody would buy them.
The whole push of this chip is that by establishing a standard that
you can only use if you follow their rules, they get us to follow
their rules without enacting new laws that we would fight tooth and
nail.
Quite simply, with Clipper established, it would be much harder for
another encryption maker to define a new standard, to make phones that
can't talk to the leading phone companies. The result is tappable
cryptography without laws forbidding other kinds, for 99% of the
populace.
To get untappable crypto, you would have to build a special phone that
runs on top of this system, and everybody you talk to would have to
have an indentical one.
That's the chicken and egg of crypto. The government is using its
very special ability to solve chicken and egg problems of new
technologies to control this one in a way they like.
It's almost admirably clever. When the EFF started, I posed the question here
"What are the police going to do when they wake up and discover they
can't wiretap?" and nobody here had an answer (or even thought it was
much of a question)
Then came the backdoor and Digital Telephony bills, which we fought.
Now we have their real answer, the cleverest of all.
--
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
| 11sci.crypt |
Could anyone post the game summary for the Sabres-Bruins game.
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Aaron Lung (alung@megatest.com) wrote:
: >I was also sceptical about the amps being built in the far-east
: > or where-ever. But if you look in the amp and see what components
: > they use and how it was designed, you can easily see why the
: > amplifiers sound so brilliant.
: Good point...also, I wouldn't be surprised that the components
: they use off-shore are of inferior quality. As long as it was
: properly designed and robust, premium components are used, it
: shouldn't matter where it is assembled.
Definately, I agree wholeheartedly. If they can build the amp where
the labour is not so expensive, they can afford to put decent
components in and go to more effort to improve the design of the
amplifier - as Adcom has done.
: >I cannot see why people say the amplifier won't last - not with
: > those quality components inside. Sure the amp runs very fairly
: > hot - but that's how you get an amp to sound incredibly good.
: An amp that runs hot has no bearing on how it's gonna sound.
: The amp you have probably is running Class-A the whole day.
: Actually, I'd be wary of excessively hot amps, 'cauz even though
: the components inside may be rated to run that way, excessive
: heat will dramatically shorten the life of *any* electronic component
: regardless of quality. In fact, an amp that does run hot to the touch is
: because either the engineer or manufacturer of that amp wanted
: to skimp on heatsinking or cooling to save costs! Hmmmmm....
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that because of the heat generated, the
amp sounds good. My Adcom GFP 535II runs fairly warm - not hot to
the touch - but enough to satisfy me that the amp is running nicely.
I don't like it when an amp runs dead-cold. It makes one think that
the amp is doing nothing :)
The heatsinks that Adcom uses in their amps are certainly far for
skimpy - they're massive things with heating vents both below
and above. More than enough to carry away excessive heat.
My opinions once again.
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** webb@itu2.sun.ac.za **
** **
** The path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high **
** The ravens all are watching from a vantage point near by **
** Apprehension creeping like a choo-train up your spine **
** Will the tightrope reach the end; will the final couplet rhyme **
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <May.7.01.09.44.1993.14556@athos.rutgers.edu> muirm@argon.gas.organpipe.uug.arizona.edu (maxwell c muir) writes:
>
>I think you should give up the amatuer psysochology :).
>...
> In all candor, I would be happy to be proven wrong. Problem is,
>I will have to be _proven_ wrong.
> Do I sound "broken" to you?
Absolutely not. I went through a "journey" of lukewarm Christianity,
agnosticism, atheism, agnosticism, and now (although I know my faith
is less than what it should be) Christianity again. I think it's a path
many of us take.
Jeff Johnson
jcj@tellabs.com
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article 1r4gmgINN8fm@zephyr.grace.cri.nz, srlnjal@grace.cri.nz () writes:
>
>Yes I am aware CorelDraw exports in SCODAL...
>... but if you try to export in SCODAL with a bitmap
>it will say something like "cannot export...
>...If anyone out there knows a way around this
>I am all ears.
I think one (not ideal) solution is to use the
tracing utility (can't remember the name, sorry!)
included in the Corel Draw s/w pack. It can convert
bitmaps to Corel art format. These can then be
imported into a drawing rather than the bitmap.
Result - the file is completely in Corel format and
can be SCODAL'ed no problem!
BUT the slight problem with this, which makes the
solution less than idea, is that the trace utility
spits out many more points than are necessary to
define the shapes being traced. Straight lines and
curves are both traced as many short segments.
So... the SCODAL taking *much* longer to
image.
The obvious solution is time-consuming - stripping
out the extra points by hand using Corel.
OUCH!
I've done it a few times :-]
>...I was just wondering if there was anything out there
>that just did the bitmap to SCODAL part a tad cheaper.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Jeff Lyall
As I say, if you don't mind the problems, go via the route...
BITMAP -> COREL (VIA TRACE) ->
HAND TRIMMING (USING COREL)!!! ->
COMBINE WITH MAIN COREL PIC (VIA IMPORT) -> SCODAL
Cheers,
Toby
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| 1comp.graphics |
Misc. Items for sale:
Mount Plate: Sony Model CPM-203P, mounting plate for Sony portable CD players
for Portable: plugs into car lighter, snaps onto the bottom of any Sony
CD Player: Portable CD player, perfect condition. Will also throw in a
cassette adapter in SO SO condition.
Paid $45...............Asking $30.
Car Speakers: Sherwood 5 1/4" two way car speakers, in car for 7 months,
5 1/4 inch: excellent condition, Paid $65............Asking $40.
4 inch: Factory Speakers from Toyota excellent condition Asking $20.
Nintendo: Nintendo Game Boy, Light Boy, Tetris, Super Mario Land,
Gameboy: NFL Football, Castlevania Adventure, Hyper Lode Runner, 4 years
+ games: old all in working condition, Asking $70.
Accessories:
Whole Internet: The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog by ED Krol,
book: guide to using the internet, where to fing information and
resources. Paid $30..........Asking $20.
MicroSoft: Never Used, came with my computer, Asking $30.
Visual Basic:
MicroSoft: Came with my computer, never used, Asking $100.
Word for Windows:
Thanks,
Jonathan D. Fields
fields@cis.ohio-state.edu
| 6misc.forsale |
In article <1993May15.042551.17892@seas.gwu.edu>, louray@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Panayiotakis) writes:
>
>Well, renaming screensavers (.scr) to .exe, and running them, as has
>been pposted, (I haven't tried changing win.ini , but should have same
>effect) shows me the "setup" dialog. box, butdoesn't enable the saver.
>
>Mickey
Start the renamed saver vid the commandline option /s.
Frank
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
wwarf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Wayne J. Warf) writes:
>Then post what the press has said, not what you wished they said.
>The Medical Examiner has refuted the FBI "facts" and if you don't
>believe someone who has a LOT more reason to be impartial then
>what do you have to say for yourself.
In the interest of accuracy (seems a liitle late to start
that, I know) the medical examiner has *not* contradicted
the FBI.
The FBI said they found some folks who had been shot in
the head, and the medical examiner said "we have not seen
evidence of this".
At the time the medical examiner said that, they were dealing
with charred bodies in the compound - this sounds like
typical medical examiner not releasing details until
a thorough investigation. The medical examiner saying
he hasn't seen something is *not* the same thing as saying
that it isn't there.
While it might end up being true that the FBI had spoken
falsely, it isn't clear yet that they have.
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Help!
I'm trying to run dxterm's (DECs' xterm) on a DECstation 5000/240
(Ultrix 4.3, X11R4, Motif 1.1.3) with the DISPLAY variable set to an
Apollo DN2500 (Domain/OS 10.3, X11R4, Motif ?.?).
I get these errors appearing on the DECstation:
> dxterm
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCharDel " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCopy " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCut " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apPaste " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apUpBox " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apDownBox " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apRightBar " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apLeftBar " to type VirtualBinding
Segmentation fault
>
Any ideas? Is it a Motif problem...are the DEC and Apollo versions of Motif
incompatible? Or something to do with XKeysymDB?
(xterms run fine on DEC displaying on Apollo..arggh)
I need to run dxterm because the package we are using on the DEC's, Oracle Case,
uses dxterm by default, and we have a lab of Apollo workstations we would like
to run Oracle from.
Andrew "Alf" Leahy, alf@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
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__________________________________________________________________________
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Uni. Western Sydney, Nepean. Remote-email: alf@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Sydney, Australia. Local-email: alf
| 5comp.windows.x |
>
>And bythe way 5.0 and Camaro both have drums on the rear breaks ...
>Hello , this is the 90 's ?
>
>Vlasis Theodore
good point. you would think by now that most car companies would just make
4 wheel disc standard and be done with it. can it really cost that much more
for disc? especially when you think of the economies of scale they would gain
by just making them all 4 wheel disc. no seperate parts numbers and orders
etc. btw, the z28 and trans am and formula have 4wheel disc, but the bottom
line models have the rear drums.
| 7rec.autos |
In article <1993Apr20.184432.21485@research.nj.nec.com> behanna@syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:
> For the same money, you can get a Kryptonite cable lock, which is
>anywhere from 1/2" to 7/8" thick steel cable (looks like steel rope), shielded
>in a flexible covering to protect your bike's finish, and has a barrel-type
>locking mechanism. I don't know if it's adjustable, but my source says it's
>more difficult to pick than most locks, and the cable tends to squish flat
>in bolt-cutter jaws rather than shear (5/8" model).
>
> FYI, I'll be getting a Krypto cable next paycheck.
A word of warning, though: Kryptonite also sells almost useless cable
locks under the Kryptonite name.
When I obtained my second motorcycle, I migrated one of my Kryptonite
U-locks from my bicycle to the new bike. I then went out shopping for
a new lock for the bicycle.
For about the same money ($20) I had the choice of a Kryptonite cable lock
(advantages: lock front and back wheels on bicycle and keep them both,
Kryptonite name) or a cheesy no-name U-lock (advantages: real steel).
I chose the Kryptonite cable. After less than a week, I took it back in
disgust and exchanged it for the cheesy no-name U-lock.
First, the Krypto cable I bought is not made by Kryptonite, is not covered by
the Kryptonite guarantee, and doesn't even approach Kryptonite standards of
quality and quality assurance. It is just some generic made-in-Taiwan cable
lock with the Kryptonite name on it.
Secondly, the latch engagement mechanism is something of a joke. I
don't know if mine was a particularly poor example, but it was often
quite frustrating to get the latch to positively engage, and sometimes
it would seem to engage, only to fall open when I went to unlock it.
Thirdly, the lock has a little plastic door on the keyway which serves
the sole purpose of frustrating any attempt to insert the key in the
dark. I didn't try it (obviously), but I have my doubts that the
lock mechanism would stand up to an "insert screwdriver and TORQUE"
attack.
Fourthly, the cable was not, in my opinion, of sufficient thickness to
deter theft (for my piece of crap bicycle, that is). All cables suffer the
weakness that they can be cut a few strands at a time. If you are patient
you can cut cables with fingernail clippers. Aviation snips would go
through the cable in well under a minute.
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INTERNET: robinson@cogsci.berkeley.edu
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Sorry about the garbage code, the following is used of course:
XSetForeground(Disp, PixGC, BackgroundColor);
XFillRectangle(Disp, Pixs, PixGC, 0, 0, Scr_width, Scr_height);
XSetForeground(Disp, PixGC, ForegroundColor);
XDraw[Line|String|Rectangle](Disp, Pixs, PixGC, ...);
XCopyArea(Disp, Pixs, Win, PixGC, 0, 0, Win_width, Win_height, 0, 0);
Juergen Schietke
Research Insitute for Discrete Mathematics
University of Bonn
Nassestr. 2
5300 Bonn 1
Tel: (+49) 0228 738786
E-Mail: schietke@or.uni-bonn.de
| 5comp.windows.x |
Are the Serbs doing the work of God? Hmm...
I've been wondering if anyone would ever ask the question,
Are the governments of the United States and Europe not moving
to end the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs because the targets are
muslims?
Can/Does God use those who are not following him to accomplish
tasks for him? Esp those tasks that are punative?
James Sledd
no cute sig.... but I'm working on it.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Gv Fragante (fragante@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Anyone familiar with this video card? What chipset does the winjet use - S3?
: As I am in the market for a VLG video card, what is the best chipset among
: S3, Cirrus Logic and Tseng Lab (ATI is out of the question - too expensive) ?
: Thanks.
WinJet is not a video card -- it's _printer_ accelerator manufactured
by LaserMaster (Eden Prairie, MN).
-- Willy
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I have a Gateway 4DX-33V with my 3.5 inch floppy as drive A. I
accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from ONE particular
box of diskettets in the A drive when I boot up, rather than getting
the "Non-system diskette" message, the machine hangs and the CMOS
gets overwritten (luckily, Gateway sends a print of the standard
CMOS settings with their systems). This only happens with a box
of pre-formatted Fuji disks that I have, no other disks cause this
problem. If I re-format one of the Fuji disks, the problem goes away.
I did a virus scan (scan v1.02) of the disks and found nothing.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Hardware problem? A
virus that can't be detected? The system reading in garbage from
the boot sector?
--
Tim King, tcking@uswnvg.com
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <2406@hcrlgw92.crl.hitachi.co.jp> steve@hcrlgw (Steven Collins) writes:
>In article <1qkgbuINNs9n@shelley.u.washington.edu> bolson@carson.u.washington.edu (Edward Bolson) writes:
>>Boy, this will be embarassing if it is trivial or an FAQ:
>>
>>Given 4 points (non coplanar), how does one find the sphere, that is,
>>center and radius, exactly fitting those points? I know how to do it
>>for a circle (from 3 points), but do not immediately see a
>>straightforward way to do it in 3-D. I have checked some
>>geometry books, Graphics Gems, and Farin, but am still at a loss?
>>Please have mercy on me and provide the solution?
>
>Wouldn't this require a hyper-sphere. In 3-space, 4 points over specifies
>a sphere as far as I can see. Unless that is you can prove that a point
>exists in 3-space that is equi-distant from the 4 points, and this may not
>necessarily happen.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong (which I quite possibly am!)
>
>steve
Sorry!! :-)
Call the four points A, B, C and D. Any three of them must be
non-collinear (otherwise all three could not lie on the surface
of a sphere) and all four must not be coplaner (otherwise either
they cannot all lie on a sphere or they define an infinity of them).
A, B and C define a circle. The perpendicular bisectors of AB, BC
and CA meet in a point (P, say) which is the centre of this circle.
This circle must lie on the surface of the desired sphere.
Consider the normal to the plane ABC passing through P. All points
on this normal are equidistant from A, B and C and its circle (in
fact it is a diameter of the desired sphere). Take the plane
containing this normal and D (if D lies on the normal any
plane containing the normal will do); this plane is at right angles
to the ABC one.
Let E be the point (there are normally two of them) on the circumference
of the ABC circle which lies in this plane. We need a point Q on the
normal such that EQ = DQ. But the intersection of the perpendicular
bisector of ED and the normal is such a point (and it exists since D is
not in the plane ABC, and so ED is not at right angles to the normal).
Algorithm:
Is the sphere well defined?
(1) Check that A and B are not coincident (=> failure).
(2) Find the line AB and check that C does not lie on it (=> failure).
(3) Find the plane ABC and check that D does not lie in it (=> failure).
Yes. Find its centre.
(1) Find the perpendicular bisectors of AB and AC.
(2) Find their point of intersection (P).
(3) Find the normal to the plane ABC passing through P (line N).
(4) Find the plane containing N and D; find the point E on the
ABC circle in this plane (if D lies on N, take E as A).
(4) Find the perpendicular bisector of ED (line L)
(5) Find the point of intersection of N and L (Q).
Q is the centre of the desired sphere
Pictures:
(1) In the plane ABC
A
P
B C
(2) At right-angles to ABC, in the plane containing N and D
E
D
line N
--------------------P-------------Q---------------------------
Numerically:
If ED << EP then Q will be very close to P (relative to the radius
of the ABC circle) and subject to error. It's best to choose D so
that the least of AD, BD and CD is larger than for any other choice.
--
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Internet: bob@oxford.ac.uk
Address: 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK
Telephone: +44-865-273211
| 1comp.graphics |
In article 2262@geneva.rutgers.edu, Desiree_Bradley@mindlink.bc.ca (Desiree Bradley) writes:
> I must have missed the postings about Waco, David Koresh, and the Second
> Coming. How does one tell if a Second Coming is the real thing, unless the
> person claiming to be IT is obviously insane?
One rule of thumb is that if a person is making the claim, they are
wrong. I was just reading John 14 this morning (I think that is the
right chapter, anyway it is close and I don't have a Bible at work to
check with.) and in it Jesus is talking to his disciples about his
impending death and he says that he will be going away and then later
he will be with them. He said something along the lines of "I will
be in you and you will be in me." (Again I cannot provide the exact
quote or citation.) Anyway, my understanding of this is that
the Second Coming will not be an outward event. It is an inward
event, Christ will come to live in our hearts and we will live in him.
If you look for a person you will be deceived.
It seems to me that the Jews had been looking for a Messiah that would
be a political or military leader and so didn't recognize Jesus when
he came. Jesus tried to show that his Kingdom was not of this earth.
A lot of what I have seen written about the Second Coming seems to
based on an expectation of Christ coming back and finally taking over
the world and running it the way it should be. It sounds a lot like
what the Jews were looking for. The First Coming wasn't like that and
I see no reason for the Second Coming to be like that either.
Oh and by the way, I don't expect it to happen once. There is no one
Second Coming, there are a lot of little ones. Every time Christ
comes into someones heart, Christ has come again.
Peace,
Will.
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <C5r60r.4ID@megatest.com>, alung@megatest.com (Aaron Lung) writes:
> In article <C5qsBF.IEK@ms.uky.edu> billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
>>I built a little project using the radio shack 5vdc relays to switch
>>audio. I got pretty bad 'clicks' when the thing switched. I was doing
>>most of the common things one is supposed to do when using relays and
>>nothing seemed to get rid of the clicks.
>>
>>
>>My question is:
>>
>> Is there a good relay/relay circuit that I can use for switching
>>audio, so that there will be *NO* noise of any kind on the audio lines.
>>
>>
>>I will appreciate any advice or references to advice. Also, exact part
>>numbers/company names etc. for the relays will help!
>
> Are you switching high level signals or low level signals like pre-amp
> out level signals? Also, are the clicks you mentioning the big
> clack that happens when it switches or are you refering to contact
> bounce? How are you driving the relays? TTL gate output? Switching
> transistor? How are the relays connected to what you are driving?
>
> Need more specifics to answer your question!! :-)
As a general rule, no relay will cleanly switch audio if you try to tranfer
the circuit with the contacts. The noise you hear is due to the momentary
opening and closing of the path.
The noiseless way of transfering audio is to ground the circuit. In high
impedance audio circuits a resistive "T" is constructed close to characteristic
impedance of the circuit. Grounding the imputs (connected to the T) transfers
the audio.
In low impedance circuits transformers are usually used, and the inputs are
shorted out or grounded. Secondaries are paralleled at the characteristic
impedance.
Sometimes if it is necessary to actually switch audio, a second contact is used
to momentarily short the circuit output for the duration of the switching time.
Telephone relays are handy, because contacts can be adjusted to "Make before
break and Vica Versa" but I haven't seen any of these for years.
Nowadys switching is done electronically with OP amps, etc.
A novel circuit I used to build was a primitive "optical isolator".. It consists
of a resistive photocell and a lamp, all packaged in a tube. When the lamp is
off the cell is high resistance. Turn the lamp on and the resistance lowers
passing the audio. Once again this device in a "T" switches the audio. Varying
the lamp resistance give a remote volume control. Use 2 variable resisters and
you have a mixer!
Lots of luck!
--
73, Tom
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1qhc2p$8d8@transfer.stratus.com>, cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
> In article <1993Apr14.120229.15878@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Russell Webb) writes:
...
> Call me paranoid, but this is the same kind of scare story which Dorothy
> Denning was citing while calling for the limitation of cryptography.
>
> I doubt that DD is behind this --
>
> but I suspect that the FBI (and maybe NSA) are behind DD and those agencies
> could easily be mounting a nationwide campaign (with our tax dollars?) to
> build up public outcry against digital communication -- especially against
> unbreakable, encrypted communication.
>
>
> What's going on here??
>
Haven't you read any of Noam Chomsky's works? A widely used information net
outside the control of the 'right people' is unthinkable. Hundreds of billions
of dollars will be spent to wipe it out, sorry, 'regulate and order it' once
the major media and poitical powers wake up to the efect it can have.
If you can't be bothered reading, get the video "Manufacturing Consent".
~Paul
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <Apr.17.01.11.16.1993.2265@geneva.rutgers.edu> jdt@voodoo.ca.boeing.com (Jim Tomlinson (jimt II)) writes:
[..]
>goodness that is within the power of each of us. Now, the
>complication is that one of my best friends has become very
>fundamentalist. That would normally be a non-issue with me, but he
Hello. Firstly, what do you exactly mean by "fundamentalist"? I will
for the time being assume that what you mean is that your friend believes
that the bible is God's word to mankind? I suspect that what happened
to him is what he'll call being "born again"? Anyway, was that recent?
If the answer is "yes" to all the questions above, it is quite
understandable. However, IMO, I'ld rather give advice to your friend!
I think I've been through something similar to him, and one thing I can
say is that the basic problem is that each of you are now trying to
communicate from different worldviews. Why he talks about those things
is because they are now "obvious" to him. What is "obvious" to him is
not obvious to you. Secondly, why he may be very persuasive is because
from his point of view, he has been on "both sides of the fence". This
I mean that before he turned "fundamentalist", you two are agreeable
because both of you see things from the same side. If suddenly, as if
a new world of reality has suddenly opened up to him, it is like the
discovery of let's say a new continent, or a new planet. To him, he's
got to tell you because he has seen something much more wonderful than
where he was, and what he thinks is much better than where you are now.
You have got to realise that from his point of view, he means well to
you, eventhough he may end up offending you. To him, it is worth that
risk. Nevertheless, it is really up to him to respect where you stand
and listen to you as well. At this moment, it may be difficult because
he is either very excited or feel it is too urgent to keep quiet about,
however, he may not realise that he's really putting you off.
[...]
>the Bible that it is so.' So my question is, how can I convince him
>that this is a subject better left undiscussed, so we can preserve
>what is (in all areas other than religious beliefs) a great
>friendship? How do I convince him that I am 'beyond saving' so he
>won't try? Thanks for any advice.
So far, I've only been trying to explain things from his side. However,
I do understand how you feel too, because I wasn't a Christian for a good
part of my life as well. I was quite turned off by Christians or
"fundamentalists" who were really all out and enthusiastic about their
faith. They really scared me, to tell you the truth. Unfortunately,
"religious belief" is a very personal thing, just as your agnosticism
is also a very personal thing to you. Since the Christian belief is
inevitably at odds with anything non-Christian (religious or otherwise),
it will be a touchy matter. Like all friendships, it will take both
sides to do their part to make it work. In this matter, maybe you can
do your part by telling him nicely that you are not able to dig what he's
trying to convince you about, that it's beyond you or not your concern
"for now". Don't tell him it's nonsense, because to him it is reality -
and that would be a real insult. He'll also have to be careful not to
insult where you stand too.
Like I said before, I wish I could give your friend some advice too.
I'll admit that I did similarly to some of my friends when I became a
Christian. In some ways, I wish I could have done things a little
differently. However, it was difficult then because I was so excited
and just blabbered away about what I've found! To me, it was too good
not to know. To some, I was crazy, and I didn't really care most of
the time what they thought. You will probably think he's crazy too -
but God is very real to him, as real as you are to him. Keep that in
mind. And he thinks he can convince you because since God is so real
to him, he doesn't see why God can't be real to you too.
I don't know how helpful this is to you. But all the best anyhow -
this is quite a challenge for you to face. By the way, personal
conviction: nobody is "beyond saving" except the one we call the
devil and his hosts.
Regards,
Selbyn Liew
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
In a previous article, rudim@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Rudi Maelbrancke) says:
>In Windows I created a permanent Swap-file of 7771Kb as win3.1
>recommended me to do that (32bit access).
>If I use EMM386.EXE, after win3.1 startup I have 6689K of memory
>free, if I leave EMM386.EXE out of my config.sys I have 9935K
>of memory free, and windows recommends me a swap file of 11769K.
>
I think you need the EMM386.EXE noems
This will let the expanded mem be active but not use any, therefore
this will give you more extended mem for windows yet have all the
bases covered.
>I use DOS6, with memmaker, have 4MB of internal Memory and a 486DX,
>
I do not use dos6 so I am not familiar with this.
>Does anybody knows why this is happening (possibly win needs
>some UMB's to manage virtual memory?, If true, which UMB's, those
>that EMM386 can find without including suspicious parts?)
>
>I need an optimized DOS-environment, because i develop applications for
>DOS using a windows programming environment.
>
>
>Rudi
>
c-ya..... /\/\artin
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani) writes:
>>IOWA: All firearm related bills are dead. Senate File 303
>>dealing with off-duty police officers carrying concealed remains
>>viable.
> The *POWER* of the word processor and a stamp at work.
>The fact that around here the state rep generally lives no more than
>nine miles from any constituent doesn't hurt, either.
>< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
>< ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
>< USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, >
>< unusual people. And flame them. >
Does anyone know the particulars on the Senate File 303?
Does this bill allow or deny off-duty police from carrying concealed?
From what information that I have, Iowa has a discretionary permit policy
on CCW. If S 303 allows police(off-duty) to carry concealed then I would
be inclined to oppose it. I don't believe off-duty police officers should
have any more rights than civilians. If law or policy prevents law-abiding
citizens from being armed for self defense then why should off-duty police
officer be treated any differently.
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1993Apr16.170521.21129@midway.uchicago.edu> shou@quads.uchicago.edu (roger colin shouse) writes:
>
>SPEAKING OF VAT: Did anyone see CNN's report yesterday (4/15)? It
>was quite hillarious (no pun intended). They ran down how a percent tax
>was added at each stage of manufacturing, graphicaly depicting a stack of
>quarters being added at each wholesale stage. When they got to the final
>stage (the actual retail sale) the small stack of quarters added to the
>large stack already there was said to be "the amount paid by consumers."
>In other words, they completed ignored the fact that at each stage the
>tax would of course be passed on to the next buyer with the retail consumer
>paying the full load.
>
>These are not journalists--they're lap dogs.
One of the commentators on one of the Big Three news programs
described the VAT (which ain't a sales tax) as a tax "government's love."
I was even surprised he got the reason right: it effectively hides the
majority of the tax the consumer has to pay *from* the consumer. It's
kind of like they do with cars. You pay far more for automobile taxes than
most people realize because it's contained in two dozen different taxes,
everything from your license to your tires to your gasoline.
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PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu - "I still remember the way you laughed, the day
your pushed me down the elevator shaft; I'm beginning to think you don't
love me anymore." - "Weird Al"
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In <3880218@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> gharriso@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Graeme Harrison) writes:
>/ hpcc01:rec.motorcycles / xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu / 2:48 pm Apr 19, 1993 /
>Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive?
>Mike Terry
>'82 Virago
>----------
>I've seen 'em, but the real question is, can one do a wheelie on a Lead Wing?
>If so, how high would the front wheel be off the ground?
>Graeme Harrison
There was a guy around here who would do them on an early pre fairing
Wing with a Hannigan. He would get it right up and ride a ways. Pretty
intimidating sight.
He was real good. He had to be. I guess you wouldn't get away with
chopping the throttle more than once.
__
Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who
Arch. & Eng. Services |"Lost Horizons" CR500 | I think I am.
UManitoba, Man. Ca. |"The Embalmer" IT175 | - anonymous
--Squidonk--
| 8rec.motorcycles |
(Stephen A. Creps) writes:
The Catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free
will in any way. Since God knows everything, He therefore knows
everything that is going to happen to us. We have free will, and
are able to change what happens to us. However, since God knows
everything, He knows all the choices we will make "in advance" (God
is not subject to time). Too often arguments pit predestination
against free will. We believe in both.
That last sentence of Steve's is an important one to remember.
There are certain things in the Catholic religion that cannot be
completely comprehended by a human being. Were this not the case, it
would be good evidence that the religion was man-made.
In the case of predestination, you have to reconcile two things that
would at first appear to be irreconcilable: the sovereignty of God's
will over all things, and man's free will in deciding his own fate.
Catholics believe in both! But that doesn't mean that anyone has come
up with a pat reconciliation...
I have often thought that Goedel's famous theorem has applicability to
Catholic dogma, at least in an analogous sense: there are things that
are true that cannot be proved. God's intellect is far above ours.
There are many truths that we will never be able to understand.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <9304202040.PN27738@LL.MIT.EDU> ejb@ll.mit.edu ( Ed Baranoski) writes:
>In article <1993Apr20.181245.11319@VFL.Paramax.COM> davidm@gvls2.vfl.paramax.com (David Madden) writes:
>
> Another pair of suggestions:
> 1. Remove the Balk rule. It is the runners responsibility to stay "safe"
> no matter what the pitcher does.
Quite honestly, this one is ridiculous. Consider the following
scenario: Runner on third. As the pitcher starts to throw home, the
runner takes off for home and the batter squares around to bunt for
the suicide squeeze. The pitcher, seeing this, does not throw home,
but stops in mid action and puts the runner in a run down. It is the
balk rule that prevents this from happening.
Believe it or not, this actually happened to me once in an OBA
(Ontario Baseball association) game in Milton, Ontario. I was the
batter and to my amazement, the umpire missed it. In the 12 years
that I played ball, this was worst piece of umpiring I ever saw.
--
Pablo Iglesias
pi@ruth.ece.jhu.edu
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <strnlghtC5wHo2.1FK@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>In article <a_rubin.735496128@dsg4.dse.beckman.com>
>a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
>
>>I wouldn't think so. Asking people to trust a secret algorithm seems
>>unsound to me.
>
>Maybe so, but it's quite common.
Not when your talking about cryptography.
>There are millions of Macintosh users who
>have no idea what's in Apple's patented ROMs. Many have modems connected.
>How do you know all your business secrets aren't being stolen? Answer:
>1. Because you trust Apple;
Think again. You won't see me using apple's new signature from the
finder feature.
>2. Because if any such attempt, however sophicsticated, came out, it would
>destroy Apple's credibility forever.
This analogy fails in its assumption that the government gives two
squirts about credibility.
In addition, Apple's proclaimed purpose in releasing the Macintosh wasn't
survellience.
Quite the opposite:
"On January 24, Apple will introduce.... Macintosh, and you'll see why
1984 won't be, like '1984'"
So don't give me any bullshit analogies about how we trust coke not to
put mind control drugs in every can to get us to buy more.
>In the Clipper case, a representative body of experts is going to be allowed
>to audit it, and we'll have assurances (maybe even from the President) that
>other than the escrowed keys there are no back doors. While some may not
>have confidence in that (I am not among them), it's a lot more assurance
>than we get for many things we routinely trust in everyday life.
One of the reasons we should be all the more suspicious. When was the
last time the president wasted his time to comfort americans?
Just another reason to look closely at exactally what's going on.
>David
>--
>David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
> our information, errors and omissions excepted.
uni@acs.bu.edu
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Sovereignty is the sign of a brutal past.<>Fight Clinton's Wiretap Chip!
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| 11sci.crypt |
I posted this to sci.psychology on April 3, and after seeing
your post here on panice disorder thought it would be
relevant.
-----
My research indicates that two schools of thought exist.
the literature promoting medication says it's the superior
treatment. Not surprisingly, literature promoting cognitive
therapy also claims to be superior.
What are the facts? Early in my research I didn't have a
bias towards either medication or cognitive therapy. I
was interested in a treatment that worked. After reading
journals published after 1986, the cognitive therapy camp
claims a higher success rate (approx 80%), a lower drop-out
rate, and no side effects associated with medication.
Lars-Goran Ost published an excellent article titled
"Applied Relaxation: Description of a coping technique and
a review of controlled studies." This is from Behav. Res. Ther.,
vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 397-409, 1987. The article provides
instructions on how to perform applied relaxation (AR).
Briefly, you start with two 15 minute sessions daily, and
progress in 8-12 weeks to performing 10-15 thirty second sessions
daily.
I'll snail mail this article to anyone interested (USA only please;
International please pay for postage).
Mark
vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
| 13sci.med |
In article <1qid8s$ik0@agate.berkeley.edu>, dzkriz@ocf.berkeley.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes:
|>RE: Abortion and my health insurance coverage
|>
|>
|>TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
|>
|>I recently have become aware that my health insurance includes
|>coverage for abortion. I strongly oppose abortion for reasons of
|>conscience. It disturbs me deeply to know that my premiums may
|>be being used to pay for that which I sincerely believe is
|>murder. I would like to request that I be exempted from abortion
|>coverage with my health premiums reduced accordingly.
Unless Dennis's parents were excentric in their naming a girl with
a boy's name I strongly suspect that abortion might be a medical service
that his insurers were not counting on him requiring.
When an insurance company attempted to set up lower rates for non smokers
in the early 80s they got spiked by the tobacco industry. Anyone know what
the current status is on the smoking issue?
If Denis really wants to have a "fair" insurance premium I take it he would
be willing to have DNA fingerprinting done so that the company could weed out
all but the cast iron non risk cases?
US health financing system sucks, certainly its killing a hell of a lot of
people every year.
Phill Hallam-Baker
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <mcmahanC5v942.MKJ@netcom.com> mcmahan@netcom.com (Dave Mc Mahan) writes:
> In a previous article, kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>>In article <hcbC5un9L.DD0@netcom.com> hcb@netcom.com (H. C. Bowman) writes:
>>>
>>>I just bought a new portable CD player for the office, and I notice that
>>>it proudly proclaims "8 TIMES OVERSAMPLING" on the box.
>>The data is only ever read once (barring mistracks and such, of course),
>>and eventually gets turned into 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, two channel data.
>>Oversampling takes two discrete data points, and interpolates n-1 points
>>between them for n times oversampling. When I asked, people said that the
>>interpolation was not simply linear interpolation, but significantly more
>>complicated.
>You are quite correct in your understanding.
>In case you care, the filtering method uses an FIR (finite impulse response)
>filter. I'd guess that CD makers use the same kind of method. Anybody out
>there know the real answer?
Typical (in the old 2x-oversampling units) was a thirteen-tap
FIR, implemented as a dedicated hardware addition circuit. At this kind
of speed (slow, by digital standards) such an adder is much less
expensive than analog components of comparable precision.
I gleaned this information from a hardware manual for
an old CD player design; where one would find similar info for
a particular CD (the digital filter IS an interesting component,
from my point of view), I have no idea. The digital filter
is a kind of interpolation scheme (read a book on numerical
analysis, to see just how BROAD the term 'interpolation' is...),
John Whitmore
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr23.151050.8995@sctc.com> macomber@sctc.com (Chuck Macomber) writes:
>
>TWINS UPDATE -- Posted April 22, 1993
>---------------------------------------------
>Jim Deshaies continues to be the surprise of not only the Twins, but of
>the American League as well. Going into today's game, Deshaies was 3-0
>with a 1.74 ERA. Deshaies allowed 2 Earned runs in 6 2/3 innings, meaning
>his ERA will climb slightly. Deshaies, who came to MN via a trade with
>Philadelphia which sent David West there, continues to make Andy MacPhail
>look like a true genius.
>
Minor correction: Hartley came in the West trade to Phily. Deshaies signed
as a free agent ($1.7M over 2 years). He pitched for San Diego last year.
--
Regards,
Maynard Brandt
Cray Research, Inc.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
>dhk@ubbpc.uucp (Dave Kitabjian) writes ...
>>I'm sure Intel and Motorola are competing neck-and-neck for
>>crunch-power, but for a given clock speed, how do we rank the
>>following (from 1st to 6th):
>> 486 68040
>> 386 68030
>> 286 68020
>040 486 030 386 020 286
How about some numbers here? Some kind of benchmark?
If you want, let me start it - 486DX2-66 - 32 SPECint92, 16 SPECfp92 .
>>While you're at it, where will the following fit into the list:
>> 68060
>> Pentium
>> PowerPC
>060 fastest, then Pentium, with the first versions of the PowerPC
>somewhere in the vicinity.
Numbers? Pentium @66MHz - 65 SPECint92, 57 SPECfp92 .
PowerPC @66MHz - 50 SPECint92, 80 SPECfp92 . (Note this is the 601)
(Alpha @150MHz - 74 SPECint92,126 SPECfp92 - just for comparison)
>>And about clock speed: Does doubling the clock speed double the
>>overall processor speed? And fill in the __'s below:
>> 68030 @ __ MHz = 68040 @ __ MHz
>No. Computer speed is only partly dependent of processor/clock speed.
>Memory system speed play a large role as does video system speed and
>I/O speed. As processor clock rates go up, the speed of the memory
>system becomes the greatest factor in the overall system speed. If
>you have a 50MHz processor, it can be reading another word from memory
>every 20ns. Sure, you can put all 20ns memory in your computer, but
>it will cost 10 times as much as the slower 80ns SIMMs.
Not in a clock-doubled system. There isn't a doubling in performance, but
it _is_ quite significant. Maybe about a 70% increase in performance.
Besides, for 0 wait state performance, you'd need a cache anyway. I mean,
who uses a processor that runs at the speed of 80ns SIMMs? Note that this
memory speed corresponds to a clock speed of 12.5 MHz.
>And roughly, the 68040 is twice as fast at a given clock
>speed as is the 68030.
Numbers?
>--
>Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
>ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A pun is a no' blessed form of whit.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
If some society came up with a good reason for why rape and murder are ok I
would be consistent with my position and hold that it was still wrong. My
basis of morality is not on societal norms, or on current legalities. My basis
is, surprise surprise, on both the Bible and on inherent moral abhorrences, for
lack of a better way to put it, to certain things. Yes, that's vague, and the
only way I know off the top of my head to defend it is to say that all humans
are similarly made. Yes, that falls into the trap of creation, and why follow
the Bible. My arguments are that it is better to exhibit trust, goodness,
love, respect, courage, and honesty in any society rather than deceipt, hatred,
disrespect, "cowardness", and dishonesty. No, I haven't been everywhere and
seen everyone, but, according to my thesis, I don't have to, since I hold that
we were all created similarly. If that makes an unfalsifiable thesis, just say
so, and I'll both work out what I can and punt to fellow theists.
MAC
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Michael A. Cobb
"...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
With new taxes and spending cuts we'll still have 310 billion dollar deficits.
| 0alt.atheism |
Jeff,
If you have time to type it in I'd love to have the reference for that
paper! thanks!
--
kathleen richards email: karicha@eis.calstate.edu
~Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!~
-dire straits
| 13sci.med |
Has anyone observed this? If I copy a large, say 800K+ file (a large PKZIP
file for instance) to my floppy drive (3.5") under MS Windows 3.1 via either
Program Manager or a DOS Shell, the file copied under the DOS shell
has errors whereas the file copied from within Program Manager does not.
The corruption is detected by executing "pkunzip -t b:\file.zip" after
both copies. The file copied via the DOS shell always shows corruption.
Now here's the kicker:
I have many windows open while doing this; both DOS and WINDOWs apps.
Supposedly all WINDOWs' apps share the same time slice, whereas the
DOS apps get their own equal time slice (unless overriden).
So, as an example, I have 5 WINDOWs' apps open, 2 multitasking DOS sessions running,
and one execution-execlusive DOS shell iconized (inactive). Under this
scenario, CPU time is divided into two major slices: one for all the Windows
apps and one slice for the running DOS app.
When copying under Windows PGM MGR, I'll assume the other Windows and DOS tasks
are essentially inactive. Thus PGM MGR gets, say, 80% of the Windows slice and
95% of the execution-background DOS shell's slices. Thus it gets (.8)(.95)^2 =
.72 or 72% of the total available CPU time.
When copying in a DOS shell, I activate the execute-exclusive mode DOS shell
(no other DOS background tasks allowed), full screen, under the Windows task
manager. The CPU time available to this shell would be 80% of the Windows slice
(assumming inactive Windows applications) and 100% of the DOS slice:
(1.0)(.8) = .8 or 80% of the total available CPU time.
So why do I get copy errors under DOS if it has the greater amount of CPU
time? Is program manager working in a pre-emptive mode during the floppy
copy? It must be!
Miscellaneous data: Running Windows on top of DOS 5.0, qemm 5.x, rapidbios.sys,
2.0 mbyte smartdrive (no delayed writes), two ramdrives,
logitech mouse driver 6.2, full 16mbytes motherboard RAM,
64Kbyte motherboard cache, 386 DX 33 Mhz.
Running dos-edit.com TSR in the DOS shell.
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
>>That's The BD side of the story. The other is that D. Koresh met
>>agents at the door with a weapon. Remember the affidavit indicates
>>that Koresh had spent $200,000 on assault weapons in the past year and
>>now we know that the 'bunker' adjacent to the house is thigh deep with
>>a million rounds of ammunition.
* The news statement was that there was $200,000 worth of "firearms
and ammunition (no mention of "assault weapons")" on the premises,
not that Koresh had purchased them (what would his crime be if he
had?). This averages to about $2000 per person, not an astronomical
number.
* We don't know that there is a thigh-deep pile of a million rounds...
we know that the FBI SAYS there is a pile of a million rounds.
* This is the first I've heard that Koresh was identified as being
at the door with a weapon.
| 16talk.politics.guns |
I have a Onkyo integrated amplifier that I am looking to get rid of.
60w/ch
integra series
works great
not a problem
Asking $100 OBO
If your interested call me at (317)743-2656 or email this address.
MAKE ME AN OFFER!!!
Todd
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/ __ __ / __ / % Environmental Engineering
| 6misc.forsale |
Hi, I am doing a term paper on the syringe and I have found some
information. It is said that Charles Pravaz has invented the hypodermic
needle, but then I have also found that Alexander Wood has invented it.
Does anyone know which one it is, of if it was anyone else? If there is
anymore information that is out there could you please send it to me.
Thank you very much.
Becky Olsen
| 13sci.med |
In article <VNci2B7w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>, victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca
(Victor Laking) writes:
> Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan?
>
> All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at
> drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury's
> orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info.
The sightings were apparently spurious. There is no planet inside of
the orbit of Mercury.
The idea of Vulcan came from the differences between Mercury's observed
perihelion precession and the value it should have had according to
Newtonian physics. Leverrier made an extensive set of observations
and calculations during the mid 19th century, and Simon Newcombe later
improved on the observations and re-calculated using Leverrier's system
of equations. Now Leverrier was one of the co-discoverers of Neptune
and since he had predicted its existence based on anomalies in the orbit
of Uranus his inclination was to believe the same sort of thing was
afoot with Mercury.
But alas, 'twere not so. Mercury's perihelion precesses at the rate
it does because the space where it resides near the sun is significantly
curved due to the sun's mass. This explanation had to wait until 1915
and Albert Einstein's synthesis of his earlier theory of the electrodynamics
of moving bodies (commonly called Special Relativity) with Reimanian
geometry. The result was the General Theory of Relativity, and one of
it's most noteworthy strengths is that it accounts for the precession
of Mercury's perihelion almost exactly. (Exactly if you use Newcomb's
numbers rather than Leverrier's.)
Of course not everybody believes Einstein, and that's fine. But subsequent
efforts to find any planets closer to the sun than Mercury using radar
have been fruitless.
-Bill Gawne
"Forgive him, he is a barbarian, who thinks the customs of his tribe
are the laws of the universe." - G. J. Caesar
Any opinions are my own. Nothing in this post constitutes an official
statement from any person or organization.
| 14sci.space |
In article <WARLORD.93Apr24232556@podge.mit.edu> warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) writes:
<In article <strnlghtC5t4D6.Jn8@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
<
< Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S.
< does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally)
< in such countries, including at least France and the U.S.
<
< David
<
<BZZT!
<
<Wrong. The US does NOT have crypto import laws.
I'd not be so sure about that:
Are there any MUNITIONS import laws, and could those be used against
importation of crypto hardware/software as well as firearms?
Importing so-called 'assault weapons' for use by commoners come to mind....
NOTE - talk.politics.guns added to Newsgroups for possible feedback...
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If all else fails, try: ...!uunet!pilchuck!rwing!pat
WISDOM: "Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity,
and I am not sure about the former." - Albert Einstien
| 11sci.crypt |
> My 8514/a VESA TSR supports this
Can You report CRT and other register state in this mode ?
Thank's.
Serge Ivanov (serge@argus.msk.su)
| 1comp.graphics |
My 14-y-o son has the usual teenage spotty chin and greasy nose. I
bought him Clearasil face wash and ointment. I think that is probably
enough, along with the usual good diet. However, he is on at me to
get some product called Dalacin T, which used to be a
doctor's-prescription only treatment but is not available over the
chemist's counter. I have asked a couple of pharmacists who say
either his acne is not severe enough for Dalacin T, or that Clearasil
is OK. I had the odd spots as a teenager, nothing serious. His
father was the same, so I don't figure his acne is going to escalate
into something disfiguring. But I know kids are senstitive about
their appearance. I am wary because a neighbour's son had this wierd
malady that was eventually put down to an overdose of vitamin A from
acne treatment. I want to help - but with appropriate treatment.
My son also has some scaliness around the hairline on his scalp. Sort
of teenage cradle cap. Any pointers/advice on this? We have tried a
couple of anti dandruff shampoos and some of these are inclined to
make the condition worse, not better.
Shall I bury the kid till he's 21 :)
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The floggings will continue until morale improves
pchurch@swell.actrix.gen.nz Pat Churchill, Wellington New Zealand
| 13sci.med |
This will be the first of monthly postings of the newsletter of
the Long Island Chapter of the Transplant Recipients
International Organization (TRIO). Unfortunately, I was unable
to post it before the date of this month's meeting. I'm
posting it anyway, and posting it world-wide instead of
regional, in the hopes that some of the information may be
useful or illustrative. Also, I hope it can be used as an
example and inspiration for the posting of other newsletters
and data related to organ transplantation and donation.
Mike
Transplant Recipients
International Organization
Long Island Chapter
P.O. Box 922
Huntington, NY 11743-0922 NEWSLETTER
516/421-3258
APRIL 1993
VOLUME IV No. 8
NEXT MEETING
The next meeting is WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 at 8 pm at the Knights
of Columbus Emerald Manor, 517 Uniondale Avenue in Uniondale.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Lewis Teperman. Dr. Teperman
trained in Pittsburgh under Dr. Starzl and is now the Assistant
Director of the Liver Transplant Program at New York University
Medical Center. Dr. Teperman will discuss current trends in
transplantation and treatment and will answer questions. He is
a long time friend of TRIO, surgeon to many of our members, and
always a gracious and delightful guest. It is sure to be a
very informative, interesting and engaging evening. Our
hospitality committee, Bette and Vito Suglia and Jim Spence
will be well prepared, and at last the weather should be
cooperative. We hope to see a very large gathering to welcome
Dr. Teperman.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 K of C UNIONDALE
LAST MEETING
It has been noted here before that the Long Island Chapter of
TRIO has extraordinary power in predicting bad weather, being
able to forecast rain, sleet and snow fully a month in advance.
No TV weatherman can match us. This time we not only scored
again, but we were also able to disable the Long Island
Railroad, making travel REALLY difficult. None the less, many
braved the snow and we had an interesting meeting and good
conversation. Our scheduled speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Linnehan,
a professional nutritionist, had a family emergency and was not
able to attend. She hope she will be with us in the fall to
discuss diet and medications. However, Ms. Jennifer Friedman,
an image consultant and sister of a liver transplant recipient
was kind enough to step in on very short notice. Ms. Friedman
gave us a lot of good advice about choosing clothes and makeup,
(even a bit for men) to help us look well and healthy and to
minimize some of the cosmetic effects of some of the medicine
and drugs we take. We are most grateful to Jennifer and thank
her for an entertaining evening.
ANNUAL MEETING
In addition to welcoming Dr. Teperman, the April meeting is
also the Annual meeting of the Chapter. This is the official
notice of the meeting as required by our By-Laws. The main
purpose of the meeting is to review the past year, solicit
member views and ideas for better ways to meet their needs, and
to elect members of the Board of Directors for the coming two
year term. The nominating committee has prepared the following
slate for the Board.
Anne (Liver Recipient) and Don Treffeisen
Robert (Heart Recipient) and Eulene Smith
Vito (Kidney Recipient) and Bette Suglia
Kay Grenzig (Liver Recipient)
Jan Schichtel (Kidney Recipient)
Larry Juliano (Kidney Recipient)
David Bekofsky (Director Public Education LITP)
Those remaining on the Board for another year are:
Robert Carroll (Liver, Kidney & Pancreas Recipient)
Jerry (Kidney Recipient) and Jeanne Eichhorn
Ron (Kidney Donor) and Marie Healy
Peter Smith (Bone Marrow Recipient)
Patricia Ann Yankus (Kidney and Pancreas Recipient)
Walter Ruzak (Kidney Recipient)
This may seem to be a big Board, but many hands make light work
and with our various medical uncertainties, it is good to have
backups for all the jobs on the Board. Therefore, in addition
to the slate being presented for voting, nominations will also
be accepted from the floor. There is no set number of Board
members and there is plenty of work.
In addition, brief treasurer's and membership reports will be
given and the floor will be open for any new business,
suggestions, or comments anyone would like to bring up.
We will keep the formal meeting short so that we can spend the
majority of the time with Dr. Teperman.
FUTURE MEETINGS
Remember the scheduled guests for the rest of the year.
May 12 Dr. Peter Shaprio, Chief of Psychiatry
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
June 9 Dr. Felix Rappaport, Director of the Stony
Brook Kidney Transplant Program.
Plan on being with us the second Wednesday of each month.
NOTDAW
The week of April 18-24 is National Organ and Tissue Donor
Awareness Week. NOTDAW. While we are planning news releases,
speaking engagements and meetings with Supervisors Gullata and
Gaffney, we have decided not to have our softball game
because of two year's experience with miserable weather.
We all can help spread the word on donor awareness, however. We
have found it effective to ask your pastor, or rabbi to publish
a letter or announcement in the parish bulletin, allow you to
address the congregation, or include mention of the gift of
life in his sermon. Attached to this Newsletter is a sample
letter and fact sheet you can use. Thank you.
DR. STARZL TO BE HONORED
The Long Island Chapter of the American Liver Foundation will
hold its annual Auction and Dinner Dance on May 7th at the
Fountainbleu on Jericho Turnpike in Jericho. Dr. Thomas
Starzl will be the honored guest. Tickets are $50 person and
are going fast. If you'd like to meet Dr. Starzl, call Anne
Treffeisen at (516) 421-3258 for details.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
Congratulations to Al Reese. Al received his heart transplant
in Pittsburgh after waiting 3 1/2 years. He is home and doing
well after only 12 days in hospital.
Arthur Michaels, liver recipient, is planning to run the Boston
Marathon in April. What fantastic proof that transplantation
works! We hope the national press notices.
Bob McCormack, after a persistent bout with infection, had his
transplanted kidney removed. He is home now, back on dialysis
and feeling better.
Nicole Healy, kidney recipient and daughter of Ron and Marie,
spent the past several weeks in hospital in Miami with problems
encountered on vacation. Marie has been with her in Florida.
They are back in New York where Nicole's treatment will
continue. We wish Nicole a speedy recovery.
Kay Grenzig, liver recipient, is mending now after a bad fall
that resulted in a broken arm and a broken leg. Kay is a
candidate for the Board so we need her well soon.
And best wishes to all coming out of the flu. It was a tough
winter for many, but the tulips are just under the snow.
SEE YOU......WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 8 PM K of C UNIONDALE
DR. LEWIS TEPERMAN
| 13sci.med |
In a previous article, aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) says:
>
>In a previous article, eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu (eliot) says:
>
>>In article <1r1vofINN871@usenet.pa.dec.com> tomacj@opco.enet.dec.com (THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO !!!) writes:
>nice theory. too bad the MR2's never came with a four cylinder over 2.0
>liters. More like 1.6. Or did they? were the nonturbo MR2II's 2.2 or
>some such?
let me clarify, i think they both are 2.0 litres.
>I also understand that anyone using balancing shafts on four cylinders, must
>pay SAAB a royalty for using their patented design..like Porsche's 3.0 I4...
i was already corrected on this, and believe i may have been in errror, that
it is actually MISTUBISHI.
apologies for butting into the thread.
>c ya
>DREW
| 7rec.autos |
Does anyone know the pin-outs for the 27C512 EPROM?? I have bought
several of them, none of which has come with the pin-outs! Any info would be
appreciated....
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% Sean Kelly - Sysop Amizon BBS (312)594-1146 %
% Always looking for classic video games for the following systems: %
% %
% Atari 2600-Atari 5200-ColecoVision-Atari 5200-Intellivision-Vectrex %
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr20.151131.8531@news.uit.no> paale@stud.cs.uit.no (Paal
Ellingsen) writes:
> In article <1r0qsrINNc61@clem.handheld.com>, Jim De Arras writes:
> |> Mr. Roby, you are a government sucking heartless bastard. Humans died
> |> yesterday, humans who would not have died if the FBI had not taken the
actions
> |> they did. That is the undeniable truth.
>
> ....the question is: for how long? Even if the FBI had done nothing, I guess
the
> BDs would have committed suicide, but maybe not until hunger and thirst gave
them
> the choice between sucide or surrender.
> The BDs was warned in beforehand about the FBI action. They HAD the chance to
> surrender and get a fair trial. No matter who started the fire, the BDs were
> responsible for 80+ peole dying. No one else.
>
This is, of course, your opinion. I differ greatly. There can be NO doubt the
FBI at least shares in the blame.
> --
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"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought
that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Does anyone have the player stats for games played up until
April 22,1993.
Mauro.
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Joshua Smith (jlredd@ravel.udel.edu) wrote:
:
: Once again, someone else with a Gateway Monitor problem, anyone who can
: help, please do, it would be much apprieciated. Thanks in advance.
:
: Ok, I have a Local Bus 486/66 machine, with the Crystal Scan 15inch
: monitor. I have 1 meg of loca memory on the ATI ultra pro, w/ the
: mach32 driver (the newest release).
:
: My problem is in Windows when I use the 1024 mode. I get shadows down
: the sides of the screens, and very blurry type in the corners. The
: types on the screen are all out of focus. I've gotten replacement video
: cards, and a replacement monitor. None of that has helped though.
: Could someone pleae help me with this very frustruating problem.
I have the 1 meg card with the Crystal Scan 15 inch also. I see very
faint shadows on the left side of the screen only in 1024 x 768 mode,
but not enough to really bother me. The characters on the screen
are clear until I turn on the Crystal Fonts, then they become blurry.
I have a friend who has 2 meg on the video card who has the same shadows,
but says the Crystal Fonts are, well, crystal clear.
We are both using build 59 of the mach32 drivers. Neither of us has a monitor
extension cable. I tried the build55 driver and found no difference.
--
Tim King, tcking@uswnvg.com
US West NewVector Group Inc.
Bellevue, Washington
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Would it be asking too much for you to DOCUMENT these allegations of
"Israel used to arrest and kill neutral reporters"? I think you confuse
Israel with other nations of that geographical region to which the notion
of a free, unmonitored by the government, press corps would be a joke.
As for the notion that Israel threatens the human rights of Palestinians by
sealing off the Gaza strip, get real. When the Palestinian-on-Palestinian
civil war stops and all Palestinians can behave like mature human beings,
Israel will talk concessions on both sides for peace. Not before.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1993Apr27.145201.15495@walter.bellcore.com> deaddio@ski.bellcore.com (Michael DeAddio) writes:
>Does anyone know of any type of acceleration sensor that has
>an electrical output of any sort? It would only have to sense
>acceleration in one direction.
>Thanx, Mike
>Michael DeAddio (MTS) | Work hard, play hard,
>Bell Communication Research | the only problem is that
>deaddio@thumper.bellcore.com | playing hard makes
>201-829-5024 | working harder.
>MRE 2Q-260 |
SETRA SYSTEMS, 4 Nagog Park, Acton, MA 01720, Ph: (617) 263 - 1400
Schaevitz Engineering, US Rt. 130 & Union Ave., Pennsauken, NJ 08110
Ph: (710) 892 - 0714
Accelerometers are not cheap, mainly because the outputs are fairly linear
with respect to acceleration. You don't say what the range of acceleration
you want to measure is, and there are other ways in which to measure it
other than using an accelerometer. Additional information would be helpful
to anyone who may respond.
Call, if you wish.
| 12sci.electronics |
Well, I've now been working on this DAMNED stepper controller board
since 9pm. It's now 6am... I'm pissed off. Period. Alright, I can
drive the steppers through the 3479P's; no problem (that's with the
6-wire steppers, 2 to +, and the other 4 are the phase lines). Problem
1: I've got some 4 wire steppers. I put the darkest line to + and the
other 3 to the 3479P... worked, kinda. Tried it with a printer stepper
(moves the head back and forth, 4 wires), didn't work too well. It
would
shift back and forth (use something like a 4017 instead?) Also I've
been
trying to get a bunch of NPN's to work with it... NO LUCK... tried
PNP's,
still NO LUCK!!! I don't know if I'm cursed on this or what, but I feel
my brain slowly frying with the thought of STEPPER ... ARGGG!!!
I don't know what's wrong with the transistor hook-up (to-220
pkg
type), also tryed the 2n2222-pkg type... no luck.
I'm going to try getting some z's, and I hope
you
can help me with this problem.
If someone can please help me with this soon, it would be greatly
appreciated...
Thanks.
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1qulhsINNm22@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> smedley@ecst.csuchico.edu
(Steven Medley) writes:
> I am looking for a 8 meg 72-pin SIMM for my Centris 610. Where is the
> best place to purchase one (stock, shipping, warrenty), and if
> possible, phone numbers so that I can order one as soon as possible.
1st Tech Corp.
12202 Technology Blvd., Suite 130
PO Box 200656
Austin TX 78720-0656
800 533 1744
512 258 3570
Fax 512 258 3689
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