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We've just been donated a large machine for use in our
robotics lab. This device is complete with a 286 based
controller, running the Intel RMX operating system.
Unfortunately, we don't have any documentation on RMX.
Can anybody out there in netland help?
Please reply via email; I don't regularly catch up with
the news.
Thanks,
David Bull
davidb@mpce.mq.edu.au
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1939@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>, riggs@descartes.etl.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes...
>In article <1993Apr2.180839.14305@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia) writes:
>>In <1993Apr2.064804.29008@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>>> I don't know what you as a white male did. I do know what white males,
>>>as a class, have done.
>>> They've invented the light bulb, the automobile, the airplane, printing with
>>>movable type, photography, computers, the electric guitar. anasthesia, rocket
>>>powered space flight, the computer, electricity, the telephone, TV, motion
>>>pictures, penecillin(sp), telescopes, nylon, and the X-Ray machine.
>>
>>Two glaring errors here. First, white males don't do anything as a "class."
>>INDIVIDUAL white males invented those things, which means nothing to white
>>males as a whole. Second, you neglected to mention Charles Manson, Hitler,
>>McCarthy, Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, and a whole slew of individuals who
>>have done horrible, evil things. If white males can take the credit for
>>our fellow white males' boons, we must also take the blame for our
>>fellows' blights. I claim we deserve neither credit nor blame for these
>>things.
>
>>White males need to wake up and realize that they're being unfair, yes. But
>>everyone else needs to wake up and realize that being unfair right back is
>>disgusting, racist and sexist.
>>Why can't we learn to treat everyone fairly, without generalizing? What
>>stupidity gene makes this so difficult? "I'd like to buy the world a
>>clue..."
>
> The word that is missing in this whole discourse is not the "B"
>word, or the "H" word, or even the "N" or "W" words. It is the "L" word -
>LOSER !!
>
> That's right. When we boil all the crap out of this argument, it
>is all about WINNING and LOSING, and nothing else. Let me explain.
> In the meantime, there is guilt for winning, maybe a fear that one
>doesn't deserve one's bounty - or success. So there is a "kinder and gentler
>type of politician these days, Bill Clinton, affirmative action, and lots of
>discourse about people who "don't get it". For those of us in the winning
>business, this kind of talk is mildly irritating, but there is still no
>suggestion of losing.
> Who is D-FENS, anyway ? The answer is as plain as the horn rims on
>your face. The guy is MICHAEL DOUGLAS, posing as a LOSER. This
>is known as controversial casting. But that baggy short-sleeved white shirt
>sure does look natural on Mike doesn't it. Gordon Gekko will never look the
>same. (Though Woody always dressed that way.) Did we really expect Gekko to
>take it easy and enjoy that kind of wardrobe, without putting up a fuss ?
> What we are starting to lose sight of is, that bashing D-FENS is
>the same game as bashing that poor African American slug that Clint Eastwood
>used to blow away all the time. As that arch-WASP (male gender) George C. Scott
>declaimed, "Americans traditionally LOVE TO WIN. They love a winner, and will
>not tolerate a loser." And so on.
Since we are talking in theory and opinion, then I'll put in my $.02.
First, a rebuttle. Personally, I love under-dogs. Unlike
bandwagon jumpers, I abandon teams when they start winning. People that
cheer for winners just because they are winners are insecure people who are
afraid to be associated with something negative.
> The political implications are simple. If, as many socialists - and
>Democrats - do, you consider society a finite pie to a apportioned in some
>"equitable" way, then you have to worry about who is a winner and who is a
>loser to tell whose side you are on. That could be black women today, Asian
>homosexuals tommorrow, and yes indeed, white men some yet to be determined
>day when the balance of the pie has finally swung against that (39%)
>minority.
On this one point, I agree. The reason that people bash WASP's is
because they have been on top for a long time. Whoever is on top is
going to oppress whoever is below them so that they can stay on top.
If Hannibal had pushed on to Rome after his victory at Cannae we might
all be bashing the blacks for oppressing us peacefull white people
for all these centuries. I seriously doubt that if the blacks had
conquered the world that they would have treated their colonies any
better/worse than the whites did.
The white race did some unspeakable things to the other races of
the world. But they only did what any other conquering race would have done
(ie. Khan). The real question is, should we carry over that blame to the
present generation who didn't participate in the crimes? Would it do
any good? Has it done Bosnia any good? They are fighting wars that stopped
hundreds, even thousands, of years ago.
My opinion is, if there are inequities now, then let's change
them. But don't blame me for what my ancestors did. It wouldn't settle
anything anyway.
> Either way you go, the way of the Winner is no longer the way to be
>popular - at least after you graduate from High School (but you'll still
>be popular at High School reunions). But it beats being a Nerd, as I
>would imagine Michael Douglas would now agree, and in the long run, it
>is the only way to go.
That's where you are dead wrong. You don't join up on a side just because
they are winning. That makes you spineless. Winning, in high school and
after high school, is still the best way to be popular, but it doesn't make
you right. All the best causes in history were loosing causes (with only
a couple exceptions). Winning only makes a difference to other people, not
to yourself. And what good is the opinions of other people if they only care
how you appear (ie. a Winner).
If you can't beat them, fight them every inch of the way.
>Bill R.
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I need to find how to program the WD7000 FAAST SCSI controller (A 16 bit DMA
SCSI controller for the PC (ISA bus)). Can somebody point me in the direction
of some low level docs on the net? Or will I have to get hold of the
manufacturers? Who did actually make this anyway? Who will have the docs?
TIA.
PS> I don't ant the BIOS docs, I want to know how to attack this sucker from
the ground level (ie send my own SCSI commands out it from OS/2)
--
Hamish Marson, Computer Services, University of Waikato|
hamish@waikato.ac.nz. Fax +64 7 8384066 | Computers are only
Disclaimer: Remember. You heard it here first! | Human.....
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
>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.
>
>> 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 missed the first part of this thread; are you switching line level or
speaker level audio?
If line level, there's a single chip 4x1 *stereo* audio switch available
that switches 4 two-channel inputs into 1 two-channel output, and also
has a mute function, all controllable with ttl inputs. LM1037, I think?
If speaker level, never mind. :(
Phil Torre (ptorre@u.washington.edu)
| 12sci.electronics |
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Apr 1993 22:22:06 GMT, franks@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Derek Franks) said:
franks> This is my first post, so no DoD#.
Would you like to know what DOD is? If you do, feel free to ask.
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Could someone mail me the archive location of the MSF Program (for
an IBM, right?)?
Thanks,
-------
"This is where I wanna sit and buy you a drink someday." - Temple of the Dog
Sea-Bass Sears --> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu --> DoD#516 <-- |Stanley, ID.|
'79 Yamaha XS750F -- '77 BMW R100S -- '85 Toyota 4Runner -- | NYC, NY. |
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In a previous article, tighe@convex.COM (Mike Tighe) says:
>aj359@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher C. Morton) writes:
>
>>In a previous article, v111qheg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (P.VASILION) says:
>
>>>Can you imagine what happens when a magazine explodes? Bullets go flying
>>>every where. IMHO, these "gunshot wounds" were actually caused when the
>>>magazines went up. A Texas ranger does not a pathologist make, so I'll wait
>>>for an autopsy to determine if they were shot first.
>
>>A more likely explanation is that they shot themselves. Of course some
>>people may think that it hurts more to be shot than to burn to death.
>
>Perhaps nobody was shot.
>
>Just about everything the ATF/FBI has claimed has turned out to be a lie or
>unsupported by evidence/fact. I wish the media would recognize this and
>start asking some tough questions, so we could get some real answers.
>
>The most recent example occurred Thursday afternoon, when the Medical
>Examiner reported that of the 35 bodies recovered so far, none have bullet
>wounds in them. He also stated that many of the bodies were face down.
>This contradicts ATF/FBI claims that some were shot in the head, and were
>found face up.
>
>When asked about the ATF/FBI reports that some had been shot he replied,
>"there is absolutely no evidence of that" ... "It appears they died from
>smoke inhalation".
Your point is well taken. I heard him on TV last night. Sometimes I
forget to not believe ANYTHING the FBI/BATF says. The problem is that I
generally expect better from the FBI than from the BATF. Unfortunately,
the FBI seems so desparate to deflect ANY criticism of themselves that
they are grasping at ANY straw, no matter how thin.
I saw in the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" this morning a report that the CEV
crew threw CS *CANNISTERS* into the Davidian house. I KNOW from
personal experience that burning type devices start fires. I certainly
put out enough of them in the pine forests of Ft. Benning in the summer
of '80. I'd like to know if they really threw burning CS grenades.
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <930421.120313.2L5.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>jbrown@batman.bmd.trw.com writes:
>> Mathew, I agree. This, it seems, is the crux of your whole position,
>> isn't it? That the US shouldn't have supported Hussein and sold him arms
>> to fight Iran? I agree. And I agree in ruthlessly hunting down those
>> who did or do. But we *did* sell arms to Hussein, and it's a done deal.
>> Now he invades Kuwait. So do we just sit back and say, "Well, we sold
>> him all those arms, I suppose he just wants to use them now. Too bad
>> for Kuwait." No, unfortunately, sitting back and "letting things be"
>> is not the way to correct a former mistake. Destroying Hussein's
>> military potential as we did was the right move. But I agree with
>> your statement, Reagan and Bush made a grave error in judgment to
>> sell arms to Hussein.
>
>But it's STILL HAPPENING. That's the entire point. Only last month, John
>Major hailed it as a great victory that he had personally secured a sale of
>arms to Saudi Arabia. The same month, we sold jet fighters to the same
>Indonesian government that's busy killing the East Timorese.
I heard about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Now, how is it such a grave
mistake to sell Saudi Arabia weapons? Or are you claiming that we shouldn't
sell any weapons to other countries? Straightforward answer please.
>It's all very well to say "Oops, we made a boo-boo, better clean up the
>mistake", but the US and UK *keep* making the *same* mistake. They do it so
>often that I can't believe it's not deliberate. This suspicion is reinforced
>by the fact that the mistake is an extremely profitable one for a decrepit
>economy reliant on arms sales.
Who benefits from arms sales? Hint, it isn't normally the gov't. It is
the contractor that builds that piece of equipment. Believe it or not,
the US and UK don't export the huge quantities of arms that you have
just accused them of doing. Arms exports are rare enough, that it
requires an act of congress for non-small arms to most countries, if
not all. Do you believe in telling everyone who can do what, and who
can sell their goods to whom?
>
>mathew
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In <rauser.734062608@sfu.ca> rauser@fraser.sfu.ca writes:
>
>
> Ten years ago, the number of Europeans in the NHL was roughly a quarter
> of what it is now. Going into the 1992/93 season, the numbers of Euros on
> NHL teams have escalated to the following stats:
>
> Canadians: 400
> Americans: 100
> Europeans: 100
>
> Please note that these numbers are rounded off, and taken from the top
> 25 players on each of the 24 teams. My source is the Vancouver Sun.
>
> Here's the point: there are far too many Europeans in the NHL. I am sick
> of watching a game between an American and a Canadian team (let's say, the
> Red Wings and the Canucks) and seeing names like "Bure" "Konstantinov" and
> "Borshevshky". Is this North America or isn't it? Toronto, Detriot, Quebec,
> and Edmonton are particularly annoying, but the numbers of Euros on other
> teams is getting worse as well.
That's why we have expansion - to create more jobs. NHL teams can't afford to
import role players from Europe, they pick the stars but will continue to build
their teams around local players.
>
> With the numbers of Euros in the NHL escalating, the problem is clearly
> only getting worse.
>
> I'm all for the creation of a European Hockey League, and let the Bures
> and Selannes of the world play on their own continent.
I'd *LOVE* to see a European NHL division but can't see it happen for some
time. There's simply not enough fan interest at the moment in several
"crucial" markets like Germany, Italy and France while Sweden and Finland
probably can't afford to shell out $20-$30 for tickets the way
American/Canadian fans do. Call it "the Minnesota North Stars" effect:
Scandinavians do love hockey but we prefer to watch local, inexpensive
hockey to the NHL. The National Hockey League should love the idea, though.
Pan-European TV channels such as Eurosport could bring in the millions the
American networks likely never will pay.
> I just don't want them on mine.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Richard J. Rauser "You have no idea what you're doing."
> rauser@sfu.ca "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
> WNI outlaws - we do this for a living."
> -----------------
> "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -Dr.Banzai
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr6.121757.19852@inesc.pt> jma@ingrina () writes:
[STUFF DELETED]
>-PCI (Intel) bus:
> -Its not completely defined (YET).
> -Some people think of it as a long term solution.
> -Larger fanout.
> -Not so cheap (complex chipset).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A friend who owns a company that builds clones shared with me the fact that
the PCI chipset is NOT expensive -- how about $12? Many money-hungry-clone
makers, no doubt, will attempt to price the boards high only because it's
new technology.
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I'm new to this group and this may have been discussed already, in which case
my apologies, but...
I have a '92 Integra with an auto box. According to the manual the car has
a lock up torque converter, or something similar.
What is it, what does it do and how does it work?
(Excuse my ignorance).
Does anybody know?
--Parms.
(no sig yet)
| 7rec.autos |
It troubles me that there have been so many posts recently trying to support
the doctrine of Original Sin. This is primarily a Catholic doctrine, with no
other purpose than to defend the idea of infant baptism. Even among, its
supporters, however, people will stop short of saying that unbaptised infants
will go to hell.
It's very easy for just about anyone to come up with a partial list of
scripture to support any sort of wrong doctrine. However, if we have the
heart to persevere in our beliefs to make sure that they are biblically
based, then we can come to an understanding of the truth. Let's now take a
more complete look at scripture.
Colossians 2:11-12 "In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of
the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by Christ, having been
buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the
power of God, who raised him from the dead."
In baptism, we are raised to a new life in Christ (Romans 6:4) through a
personal faith in the power of God. Our parent's faith cannot do this. Do
infants have faith? Let's look at what the Bible has to say about it.
Romans 10:16-17 "But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For
Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our message?' Consequently, faith
comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word
of Christ."
So then we receive God's gift of faith to us as we hear the message of the
gospel. Faith is a possible response to hearing God's word preached. Kids
are not yet spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally mature enough to
respond to God's word. Hence they cannot have faith and therefore cannot
be raised in baptism to a new life.
Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul who sins will die. The son will not share the
guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The
righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the
wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him."
If you read all of Ezekiel 18, you will see that God doesn't hold us guilty
for anyone else's sins. So we can have no original guilt from Adam.
Ezekiel 18:31-32 "Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committted,
and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel?
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Repent and live!"
The way to please God is to repent and get a new heart and spirit. Kids
cannot do this. Acts 2:38-39 says that when we repent and are baptized, we
will then receive a new spirit, the Holy Spirit. Then we shall live.
Now then that we have a little more background as to why original sin is
not Biblical, let's look at some of the scriptures used to support it.
Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all
sinned--"
Sin and death entered the world when the first man sinned. Death came to
each man because each man sinned. Note that it's good to read through all
of Romans 5:12-21. Some of the verses are easier to misunderstand than
others, but if we read them in context we will see that they are all
saying basically the same thing. Let's look at one such.
Romans 5:19 "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many
were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many
will be made righteous."
Through the disobedience of each individual, each was made a sinner. In
the same way, through the obedience of Jesus, each will be made righteous.
We must remember when reading through this passage that death came to each
man only because each man sinned, not because of guilt from Adam.
Otherwise the Bible would contradict itself. I encourage you to read
through this whole passage on your own, looking at it from this point of
view to see if it doesn't all fit together.
Psalm 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother
conceived me."
This whole Psalm is a wonderful example of how we should humble ourselves
before God in repentance for sinning. David himself was a man after God's
own heart and wrote the Psalm after committing adultry with Bathsheba and
murdering her husband. All that David is saying here is that he can't
remember a time when he wasn't sinful. He is humbling himself before God
by confessing his sinfulness. His saying that he was sinful at birth is
a hyperbole. The Bible, being inspired by God, isn't limited to a literal
interpetation, but also uses figures of speech as did Jesus (John 16:25).
For another example of hyperbole, see Luke 14:26.
Now then, even though people see that baptism requires faith and that
original sin is not Biblical, they will still argue that infant baptism is
necessary because children sin by being selfish - not sharing toys with
other children, by being mean - hitting others and fighting, etc.
Certainly we have observed children doing wrong things, but my gut feeling
is always that they don't know any better. Let's look to see if the Bible
agrees with my gut feelings.
Isaiah 7:14-15 "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The
virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him
Immanuel. He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the
wrong and choose the right."
Now just about any church leader will tell you that this is a prophecy
about Jesus. If they don't, then point them to Matthew 1:23 and find a new
leader. Jesus certainly couldn't have had less knowledge than normal human
babies. Yet this passage says that he had to mature to a certain extent
before he would know the difference between right and wrong. We see that
he did grow and become wiser in Luke 2:40 and 2:52. The implication is
that Jesus did wrong things as a child before he knew to choose right over
wrong. Since we know that Jesus was perfect -- without sin, we have rather
conclusive proof that babies cannot sin because they don't know to choose
the right instead of the wrong.
Jesus himself was baptized, albeit with John's baptism, not as an infant,
but as a thirty-year-old man (Luke 3:21-23) and started his ministry as
soon as he was baptized (Luke 3:23). Immediately afterwards, he was
tempted by the devil (Luke 4:1-13; Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13).
Thank you for your attention.
Moderator - this should finish up the subject for a while. Perhaps you
would like to make a FAQ out of this response so that you can repost it
from time to time when the topic comes up. Feel free to rearrange the
contents if you would like to, but please send me a copy of the final FAQ.
Sincerely,
Aaron Cardenas
aaronc@athena.mit.edu
[I think you're overly optimistic about the authoritative quality of
your response. First, original sin is not a Catholic-only doctrine.
It was held by Luther and Calvin as well, and is still present in one
form or another in the Lutheran and Reformed traditions. Second,
saying that it has no other purpose than defending infant baptism is
an ad hominem argument, which has considerable evidence against it.
The original Baptist theology included original sin, and some Baptists
still hold it. And there are certainly groups that baptize infants
without believing in original sin. Among Protestants, the sacraments
tend to be a bit more symbolic than among Catholics. Protestants who
baptize infants see baptism as a sign of God's acceptance of us,
rather than our acceptance of God. In traditional Protestant
theology, God's grace precedes our response, and is applicable to
children. There are a number of passages one can cite to indicate
that God accepts even children. --clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
does anyone have any good code to drive the serial port in syncronos
mode?
I really need it BAD
TIA
abravo@mondrian.csufres.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
OK...I've heard rumors about this...I might have even seen it in a few places.
And I'd like some info...Is it possible to embed fonts in a document (Like
Write, Word, or Ami Pro?) so the file can be printed on another machine that
doesn't have the font? If possible, how is it done?
I'm sorry if this is a faq...I couldn't find a faq list...I would also
apreciate knowing where that is...if a windows faq exsists.
Thanks in advance
--
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Harry Pierson | "Come and be with me, Live my twisted dream
The Audio Mercenary | Pro devoted pledge, Time for primal concrete sledge"
pierson@usc.edu | -Pantera
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Well, the tentative rules, anyway. And, of course, since the season is
not entirely over, tentative entry form. But who cares? The real hockey
season is starting!!!!!
Here's the deal: You email (preferably) or post your predictions, AND the
number of games you think each series will go. Each round will be
weighted, so that the Stanley Cup finals will be very important, but the
early rounds will still be important. Here is the scoring:
Pick 1st round winner, way off on games: 2 points
Pick 1st round winner, within one game: 3 points
Pick 1st round winner, pick # of games: 5 points
Pick 2nd round winner, way off on games: 3 points
Pick 2nd round winner, within one game: 4 points
Pick 2nd round winner, pick # of games: 6 points
Pick conference champ, way off on games: 5 points
Pick conference champ, within one game: 6 points
Pick conference champ, pick # of games: 9 points
Pick Stanley Cup champ, way off on games: 8 points
Pick Stanley Cup champ, within one game: 10 points
Pick Stanley Cup champ, pick # of games: 14 points
Pick loser in 7, series goes 7: 2 points
Pick loser in 7, series decided in Game 7, OT: 4 points
(these last two are sympathy points, probably won't happen anyway)
Obviously, picking the Stanley Cup champion is important. I will do some
tests to see if the format is fair, but probably I will be too lazy to
modify it, so the scoring will probably be like this. As for entry forms,
well, this post is getting too long, so see next post.
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
"When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
John Hawkinson (jhawk@panix.com) wrote:
: Yes, I know it sounds crazy. Call it an urge. Call it what you want.
: Just don't ask why :-)
: Anyway, I'd like to build a UV flashlight, cheaply. "flashlight" means
: it should be reasonably portable, but could have a power pack if
: necessary.
: My main question is the bulb: where can I get UV bulbs? Do they
: need a lot of power? etc., etc.
: I'm not too concerned with whether it's long-wave or short-wave
: (but hey, if anyone has a cheap source of bulbs, I'll take both).
Check out a medical supply catalog, the thing you are looking for
is called a woods lamp (so you can check for woods sign, certain skin
conditions flourecse (sp) under UV light) They come in disposable
penlight like types and larger ac powered types. It is also used in eye
examinations, a flourescent dye is introduced to the surface of the eye,
then UV is shined on it, shows up scratches and abrasions very clearly
that would otherwise be very difficult to detect. (for the completest the
dye is called flouescien, and in normal light appears orangish, and leaves
a mild burning sensation to the eye for 10-15 minutes, until the tears
flush it all out.
Have fun.
--Dale Farmer
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr27.203456.9605@Virginia.EDU>
ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Beyer") writes:
> The Jews that were stranded on the polish border since
>no country accepted them are like the arabs stranded on the
>lebenese border. No trials, no hearing, just expulsion based on
>guilt due to race.
Not due to race. Due to membership in an organization which
publically proclaimed it would destroy the state which expelled them
-- and furthermore kill a large segment of the citizens of that state,
based on race.
--
Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Howdy,
Sorry if this has been covered before:
One of my PC illiterate friends asked me to help him install DRDOS 6.0 on his
NEC Powermate SX (386SX 16). Of course, I said "No problem" and went to work.
Unfortunately, the DRDOS refuses to recognize the hard drive during
installation, even though I am still able to boot off of the hard drive using
the old DOS. After openning it up I discovered it was using an 8-bit
Seagate SCSI controller on a ST-157N SCSI 40Mbtye drive. I then booted
with DRDOS 6.0 off of the floppy a second time and ran fdisk to see if
I could access the drive. Lo and behold the primary 46.5 Mbyte partition
was intact (created by DOS 3.1 no less, I didn't think you could go over a
32Mbyte partition in the older DOSes. I could be wrong...). I then tried
to remove the primary partition, which it wouldn't allow me to do. I am
unaware of anything special that has to be done with a SCSI drive (I
kinda expected it to work just like an IDE/MFM/RLL drive for DOS
installations). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (except for
"Throw it in the garbage and buy a new PC")...
Thanks in advance,
Paul "Mr. SCSI... NOT!" Fincke
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <C5spEC.EuC@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> stamber@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Kevin L. Stamber) writes:
>Kevin L. Stamber
>Purdue University
>...and Phil Kirzyc (The Kielbasa Kid) will roam the Arena for interviews.
Woops! This is rec.sport.hockey! Not rec.sport.golf! Hope you check the
newsgroup header next time before posting!
Steve
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Lee * University of Western Ontario * London, Canada
lee139@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca
_______________________________________________________________________________
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
After reading this story about St. Maria Goretti (posted two weeks
ago), I am a bit confused. While it is clear that her daily
life is one of probity and sanctity, I am afraid I don't quite
understand the final episode of her life. I am reading it
correctly, she (and the Church apparently) felt that being raped
was a sin on _her_ part, one so perfidious that she would rather
die than commit it. If this is the case I'm afraid that I
disagree rather strongly.
Can anyone out there explain this one to me?
Yours in Christ,
David Cruz-Uribe, SFO
| 15soc.religion.christian |
I'm having a slight problem with the POV raytracer. I'm not sure if
this is the correct group to post to or not. I create .tga files on
a unix machine using pov. Then when i download them to display on my pc,
they're listed as bad files. But when I create the file on my pc, it displays
fine. Are unix .tga's incompatible with the pc? An easy solution to this
problem would be a unix targa->gif converter. Anyone know where I could
find one? Any help on this subject is appreciated.
- Kevin
| 1comp.graphics |
Boy am I glad that I didn't start out with one of thos PS/2 computers.
I started the upgrade operation out by spending $235 for a AMD386DXL-40
Forex upgradable mother board from Midwest Micro. When it was time to
upgrade I bought a Intel 486DX2-50 cpu for $350 and was finished.
I still don't see why they ever made the 486\50 cpu at all. Its to
fast for both ISA and LB and VESA boards..
Some test results taken on my mb and 486DX2-50 cpu and some others...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
X-TAL UPGRADES & SPECS - TURBO MODE TESTS - WITH FAN & HEATSINK KIT - ISA BUS
X-TAL MHZ CPU MHZ CPU SPEED MHZ FPO MHZ VIDEO CHR/MS
40.00 -386AND /3=13.33MHZ 40.544 62.37 --- 6510.00
40.00 -386AMD /4=10.00MHZ 40.544 62.37 --- 6467.00 *
50.000-486DX2-50 /2=12.5MHZ 50.041 167.22 441.53 6105.00
52.361-486DX2-50 /2=13.1MHZ 52.703 176.03 464.81 6425.00 *
54.058-486DX2-50 /2=13.5MHZ 54.120 180.81 477.40 6642.00
56.644-486DX2-50 /3=9.37MHZ 56.220 189.46 500.25 4593.00
66.666-486DX2-50 /3=11.1MHZ 66.759 222.99 588.81 5401.00
WITH ALL TESTS THE 486DX2-50 RAN ICE COLD! NOT EVEN UP TO ROOM TEMP DID IT GO!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
50.000-486DX50 /? 49.998 167.12 408.89 2463.00
??.???-486DX2-66 /? 84.234 224.00 372.00 10570.00
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU/ISA BUS X-TAL MHZ BUS SPEED/MHZ SPEEDSTAR 24X VIDEO CARD
AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /2 = 20.00 MHZ INOPERATIVE
AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /3 = 13.33 MHZ 6510.00 CHR/MS
AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /4 = 10.00 MHZ 6467.00 CHR/MS
AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /5 = 8.00 MHZ 4020.00 CHR/MS
AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /6 = 6.66 MHZ NOT TESTED
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
486DX2-50 50.000 /2 = 12.51 MHZ 6105.00 CHR/MS
486DX2-50 50.000 /3 = 8.34 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 50.000 /4 = 6.25 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 50.000 /5 = 5.00 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 50.000 /6 = 4.16 MHZ NOT TESTED
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
486DX2-50 56.64 /2 = 14.16 MHZ 6826.00 CHR/MS
486DX2-50 56.64 /3 = 9.44 MHZ 4593.00 CHR/MS
486DX2-50 56.64 /4 = 7.08 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 56.64 /5 = 5.66 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 56.64 /6 = 4.72 MHZ NOT TESTED
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
486DX2-50 66.66 /2 = 16.67 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 66.66 /3 = 11.11 MHZ 5401.00 CHR/MS
486DX2-50 66.66 /4 = 8.33 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 66.66 /5 = 6.67 MHZ NOT TESTED
486DX2-50 66.66 /6 = 5.56 MHZ NOT TESTED
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
486DX2-50 54.12 /2 = 13.53 MHZ 6642.00 CHR/MS
486DX2-50 52.36 /2 = 13.17 MHZ 6425.00 CHR/MS
--
Gosh..I think I just installed a virus..It was called MS DOS6...
Don't copy that floppy..BURN IT...I just love Windows...CRASH...
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
>>Dont get me wrong, I love to drive in the left lane fast but when I overtake>
>>cars who are on the right, I slow down a tad bit. If I were to rely on the j>udgement of the other car, to recognize the speed differential, I would be the stupid one.
>just to satiate my curiosity, why would this make you the stupid one? It seems
>to me, everybody SHOULD be aware enough of what is going on. You do not need
I couldnt agree more. That is how it SHOULD work. People should also ALWAYS see motorcycles too.
I CONSTANTLY scan behind me (I have one of those wink mirrors) and two outside mirrors. I actually spend just as much time checking my six (cops you know).
I still get caught off guard every now and then.
Maybe I didnt word it right the first time. What I was trying to say was that if you plan to blow by somebody at a very HIGH speed differential and you assume you are safe because the guy sees you, you are stupid (of course, it depends on the circumstances). I have had some VERY scary instances when I assumed this and I dont think all of the fault was the other guy (now if he was going 25 in a 55 thats a whole different story)
| 7rec.autos |
I called the Texas bill tracking people (800/253-9693) again today
regarding HB 1776 -- Concealed Carry. Well, it was supposed to come
up for a vote this past Wednesday, but the bill got sent back to
the Public Safety Committee. The PSC gave it a favorable rating
AGAIN, and the bill must now be scheduled for debate by
the Calendars Committee AGAIN.
Daryl Biberdorf N5GJM d-biberdorf@tamu.edu
+ Sola Gratia + Sola Fide + Sola Scriptura
| 16talk.politics.guns |
mccullou@whipple.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>My turn
>I went back and reread your post. All you did is attack atheism, and
>say that agnosticism wasn't as funny as atheism. Nowhere does that
>imply that you are agnostic, or weak atheist. As most people who post
>such inflammatory remarks are theists, it was a reasonable assumption.
Sorry, you're right. I did not clearly state it.
>>Rule *2: Condescending to the population at large (i.e., theists) will not
>>win many people to your faith anytime soon. It only ruins your credibility.
>How am I being condescending to the population at large? I am stating
>something that happened to be true for a long time, I couldn't believe
>that people actually believed in this god idea. It was an alien concept
>to me. I am not trying to win people to my faith as you put it. I have
>no faith. Religion was a non issue when I had the attitude above because
>it never even occurred to me to believe. Atheist by default I guess you
>could say.
The most common form of condescending is the rational versus irrational
attitude. Once one has accepted the _assumption_ that there is no god(s),
and then consider other faiths to be irrational simply because their
assumption(s) contradict your assumption, then I would say there's a
lack of consistency here.
Now I know you'll get on me about faith. If the _positive_ belief that God
does not exist were a closed, logical argument, why do so many rational
people have problems with that "logic"?
But you, probably like me, seem to be a soft atheist. Sorry for the flamage.
>The line about atheists haveing something up their sleeves is what seemed
>to imply that. Sorry, been reading too much on the CLIPPER project lately,
>and the paranoia over there may have seeped in some.
;) What is the CLIPPER project BTW?
>>Rule #4: Don't mix apples with oranges. How can you say that the
>>extermination by the Mongols was worse than Stalin? Khan conquered >people
>>unsympathetic to his cause. That was atrocious. But Stalin killed >millions of
>>his own people who loved and worshipped _him_ and his atheist state!! >>How can
>>anyone be worse than that?
>Many rulers have done similar things in the past, only Stalin did it
>when there was plenty of documentation to afix the blame on him. The
>evidence is that some of the early European rulers ruled with an iron
>fist much like Stalin's. You threw in numbers, and I am sick of hearing
>about Stalin as an example because the example doesn't apply. You
>managed to get me angry with your post because it appeared to attack
>all forms of atheism.
It might have appeared to attack atheism in general, but its point was
that mass killing happens for all sorts of reasons. People will hate who
they will and will wave whatever flag to justify it, be it cross or
hammer&sickle. The Stalin example _is_ important not only because it's
still a widely unappreciated era that people want to forget but also
because people really did love him and his ideas, even after all that he
had wrought.
>The evidence I am referring to is more a lack of evidence than negative
>evidence. Say I claim there are no pink crows. I have never seen
>a pink crow, but that doesn't mean it couldn't exist. But, this person
>here claims that there are pink crows, even though he admits he hasn't
>been able to capture one or get a photo, or find one with me etc.
>In a sense that is evidence to not believe in the existence of pink crows.
>That is what I am saying when I look at the evidence. I look at the
>suppossed evidence for a deity, show how it is flawed, and doesn't show
>what theists want it to show, and go on.
First, all the pink crows/unicorns/elves arguments in the world will not
sway most people, for they simply do not accept the analogy. Why?
One of the big reasons is that many, many people want something
beyond this life. You can pretend that they don't want this, but I for
one can accept it and even want it myself sometimes.
And there is nothing unique in this example of why people want a God.
Can love as a truth be proven, logically?
>>themselves, namely, a god or gods. So in principle it's hard to see how
>>theists are necessarily arrogant.
>Makes no sense to me. They seem arrogant to make such a claim to me.
>But my previous refutation still stands, and I believe there may be
>another one on the net.
John the Baptist boasted of Jesus to many people. I find it hard to see
how that behavior is arrogant at all. Many Christians I know also boast
in this way, but I still do not necessarily see it as arrogance. Of course,
I do know arrogant Christians, doctors, and teachers as well. Technically,
you might consider the person who originally made a given claim to be arrogant,
Jesus, for instance.
>Are you talking about all atheism or just strong atheism? If you are
>talking about weak atheism which I believe in, then I refuse such a claim.
>Atheism is a lack of belief. I used good ol' Occam's Razor to make the
>final rejection of a deity, in that, as I see things, even if I
>present the hypothesises in an equal fasion, I find the theist argument
>not plausible.
I speak against strong atheism. I also often find that the evidence
supporting a faith is very subjective, just as, say, the evidence supporting
love as truth is subjective.
>I believe I answered that. I apologize for the (as you stated) incorrect
>assumption on your theism, but I saw nothing to indicate that you
>were an agnostic, only that you were just another newbie Christian
>on the net trying to get some cheap shots in.
No apology necessary. :)
--
Bake Timmons, III
-- "...there's nothing higher, stronger, more wholesome and more useful in life
than some good memory..." -- Alyosha in Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
| 0alt.atheism |
Hello,
Just one quick question:
My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors
have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in
Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in
the United States particulary famous for this kind of surgery,
kind of like Houston has a reputation for excellent doctors
in eye surgery. Any additional info or pointers will be
appreciated a whole lot!...
Thanks in Advance.
Gary Sheutter.
AT&T Bell Labs.
| 13sci.med |
I just ordered a Saturn SL1 after considering a few imports. Frankly, the Saturn
way of doing business and service was a *very* big plus. I hadn't bought a new
car since I bought my Honda 4WD back in '85, and I was unbelieveably offended by
most salespeople I met.
Saturn was indeed very different. I made three different visits to the dealer where
I bought my car, and was never pressured. Saturn also had the best after-sales
support, and the fixed pricing made it *very* easy for me to decide exactly what
I wanted to buy. Another big selling point was running into my mechanic at the
dealer. He's been fixing imports for 20 years...and bought a Saturn, based on
what he's seen and heard from his customers.
Saturn also has a good extended warranty program; $675 for 6 year/60K miles,
fully refunded if you don't use it. That works out to an actual cost of $170 or
so, based on the 6 year treasury rates. Using savings account rates it's more
like $120. In the first three years it also buys you free rental during any
warranty work, without counting against the refund.
--mike
| 7rec.autos |
In article <C50wJJ.J4r@newsflash.concordia.ca>, ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira) writes:
|> In article <4805@bimacs.BITNET> ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET (Gideon Ehrlich) writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >What are the borders the Islamic world dreams about ??
|>
|> The Islamic world dreams of being the whole planet, but not by kicking
|> the current inhabitant out, we rather deam of the day everybody converts.
|> If Jews had the same dream, I would not feel threatened a bit.
Contrary to what the "Protocols of Zion crowd" might suggest,
Judaism does not have any such goals.
|> >Islamic readers, I am waiting to your honest answer.
|>
|> I want also a honest answer from Zionists for the following questions:
|>
|> 1)why do jews who don't even believe in God (as is the case with many
|> of the founders of secular zionism) have a right in Palestine more
|> than the inhabitants of Palestine, just because God gave you the land?
The question you ask is complicated and deserves an honest answer.
I am going to provide one from my own current perspective, not a historical
one. Currently, as a non-observant jew/Israeli/American, my own feeling
is that Jews from the diaspora do not have a greater right in Palestine or
Israel, than the palestinians or Israelis (both arab and jew) do.
With regard to Jewish Israelis, they should have the same rights
in Israel as do all other Israelis.
|> 2)Why do most of them speak of the west bank as theirs while most of
|> the inhabitants are not Jews and do not want to be part of Israel?
Who are them? If by them you mean the non-religious Jews, I think
you should be aware by now that the majority of the settlers and their
supporters are religious. The other part of the problem is, to my
knowledge, not that the palestinians don't want to be a part of Israel,
as much as they would accept (for the most part) being full citizens
of Israel, with all the priviliges and responsibilities accorded Israeli
citizens. What they object to is the current limbo in which they find
themselves.
--
Shai Guday | Stealth bombers,
OS Software Engineer |
Thinking Machines Corp. | the winged ninjas of the skies.
Cambridge, MA |
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1qsvfcINNq9v@dns1.NMSU.Edu> amolitor@moink.nmsu.edu (Andrew Molitor) writes:
>
> The following is available in some FTP archive somewhere, I insert
>my comments liberally throughout this demonic memo of Big Brotherdom:
>
>> White House Announcement on Screw Thread Standards
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This is to announce that the American National Standards
>>Institute (or whatever it is) has been given the authority to define
>>standard dimensions for screw threads.
>
> Look! This is clearly the first step toward outlawing our
> own screw thread specifications. If this madness isn't fought,
> tooth and nail, every step of the way, it'll be a crime to use
> screw threads other than those our Fearless Leaders so *graciously*
> define for us.
[Sarcastic text deleted, No value judgement implied]
> Screw you, Bill Clinton! You and your totalitarianist thugs!
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>amolitor@nmsu.edu | finger for PGST personal screw thread pitch, or
>Screw Threads | see the screw thread servers.
>must be freed! |
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
At first I was going to complain that your analogy was completely
irrelevant. But then I remembered something.
Remember that move to get the U.S. to the metric system all those
years ago? As far as I know we were supposed to be there by now.
The government sold it as better for the people, easier to be in
tune with the rest of the world. They had decided it was for
our own good.
Then, when the plan was released, it soon became apparant that the
government were a bunch 'o' thickies.
Think about it, change all the railroad track widths, signs,
screws, abolish the old regime.
At the cost of millions of dollars.
Your point is well taken. You think there is nothing to worry
about, you could care less who designs your cryptography, any
more than who designs your screws or the system of measurement
you use.
Sit back, that's right, just relax, we'll take care of all your
needs Mr. Molitor.
--
uni@acs.bu.edu -> Public Keys by finger and/or request
Public Key Archives: <pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu>
Sovereignty is the sign of a brutal past.<>Fight Clinton's Wiretap Chip!
DF610670F2467B99 97DE2B5C3749148C <> Crypto is not a Crime! Ask me how!
| 11sci.crypt |
hello,
i want to know if a spoilt com port will create problems with
mouse ??
my mouse just gets stuck on the screen for a while and i have
to press its button to be able to move it around again.....
is there a shareware utility program to diagnose my com ports?
thanks
ming
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
A new version of TkMan, a hypertext manual page browser,
is now available for anonymous ftp at harbor.ecn.purdue.edu.
If you can't wait until it's moved into a permanent place,
you may obtain it now by
cd /incoming
binary
get tkman-1.3.1.tar.Z
In a few days it will be moved to /pub/tcl/code.
It requires Tcl 6.7 and Tk 3.2, which are also available on harbor.
Among the new features are:
* tables and equations (tbl and eqn) supported
* selectively search directories
* searches may be case insensitive
* Ultrix man pages supported (if yours--for whatever machine--
doesn't format properly now, please send me uuencoded version
of both the man/man/ and man/cat/ versions)
For those over 21 and with a strong stomach, the following is a line taken
from an Ultrix man page ("<TAB>" means the tab character):
-t<TAB> Sorts<TAB>by time<TAB>modified (most recently<TAB>modified first)<TAB>instead<TAB>of by
SGI users should still use Paul Raines patched v1.3.
You can get the modified distribution by anonymous ftp from
bohr.physics.upenn.edu (130.91.48.159) in ftp:/pub/tkman_SGI.tar.Z
Everyone else should be able to use TkMan 1.3.1 successfully on their
machines without modifying anything outside of the Makefile.
WARNING: If you are upgrading from a pre-1.3 to 1.3 or later and you
have a ~/.tkman file, you should delete the "set man(print)..."
line before running TkMan 1.3.
-Tom
--
phelps@cs.Berkeley.EDU
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <1993Apr21.191744.3072@ole.cdac.com> ssave@ole.cdac.com (The Devil Reincarnate) writes:
I am curious about knowing which commericial cars today
have v engines.
V4 - I don't know of any.
V6 - Legend, MR3? MR6?
VW Golf/Passat 2.8l VR6 (inline V6!), very narrow angle (11 deg?), one head.
Audi 80/100 2.6/2.8l V6
V8 - Don't know of any.
Audi V8 3.6/4.2l
Some MBs
Some BMWs
V12 - Jaguar XJS
BMW 750/850
MB *600*
Please add to the list.
Thanks,
-S
ssave@ole.cdac.com
--
Real life: Thomas Törnblom Email: Thomas.Tornblom@Nexus.Comm.SE
Snail mail: Communicator Nexus AB Phone: +46 18 171814
Box 857 Fax: +46 18 696516
S - 751 08 Uppsala, Sweden
| 7rec.autos |
belgarath@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>catalog. These tests all show, that the bursts have an isotropic
>distribution(evenly spread out in a radial direction), and they show signs of
>homogeneity, i.e. they do not clump in any one direction. So, unless we are
>sampling the area inside the disk of the galaxy, we are sampling the UNIVERSE.
>Not cool, if you want to figure out what the hell caused these things. Now, I
>suppose you are saying, "Well, we stil only may be sampling from inside the
>disk." Well, not necessarily. Remember, we have what is more or less an
>interplanetary network of burst detectors with a baseline that goes waaaay out
>to beyond Pluto(pioneer 11), so we should be able, with all of our detectors de
>tect some sort of difference in angle from satellite to satellite. Here's an
>analogy: You see a plane overhead. You measure the angle of the plane from
>the origin of your arbitrary coordinate system. One of your friends a mile
>away sees the same plane, and measures the angle from the zero point of his
>arbitrary system, which is the same as yours. The two angles are different,
>and you should be able to triangulate the position of your burst, and maybe
>find a source. To my knowledge, no one has been able to do this.
Uh, no. These burst detectors are just that, burst detectors.
They have no angular resolution.
Now a network of burst detectors could have angular resolution,
but we do not have a decent set of different networks at the distances
neccesary from each other to determine if they're happening in the oort
cloud or not.
We have one network, and trying to make two networks out of it
degrades what angular resolution we have.
--
Phil Fraering |"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.
pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison." Repo Man
| 14sci.space |
Ottawa picks first, because they had fewer wins during the season, the
first tiebreaker.
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
"When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Reposted, without permission, from rec.music.dylan:
In article <1993Apr9.152336.14605@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, BUCK@vax.museum.upenn.edu wrote:
>
> For those of you who like both Bob and baseball, check out the
> current Village Voice (April 13), p.141. John Lammers and Hart
> Seely have written The Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract, and they have
> covered every team in both leagues.
>
> Example:
> Colorado. An' the silent bats will shatter. From the scores between
> the lines. For they're one too many castoffs. And a thousand runs
> behind.
>
> Rebecca
> buck@vax.museum.upenn.edu
Gerry Myerson
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
[Description of Boeing study of two-staged spaceplane using
supersonic ramjets deleted.]
In other words, Boeing is not seriously thinking about
reliable, less-expensive access to orbit. They just like
to fool around with exotic airplanes.
| 14sci.space |
For those of you who have TI ps35 laser printers, if you want an envelope
feeder, they are now on sale, direct from TI for the unbelievable price of
$45! Call 1-800-847-2787. Same for extra paper trays. They have too many
gray ones and want to move them out. Strange but true.
--The Bobmeister
**** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG. The message contained in
**** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Recently the following problem has arrisen. The first time I turn on my
computer when windows starts (from my autoexec) after the win31 title screen
the computer reboots on its own. Usually the second time (after reboot) or
from the DOS prompt everything works fine.
s far as I remember I have not changed my config.sys or autoxec.bat or
win.ini. I can't remember whether this problem occured before I
optimized/defragmented my disk and created a larger swap file (Thank you
MathCAD 4 :( )
System 386sx, 4MB, stacker 2.0, win31, DOS 5
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| | stupidity, and I'm not sure |
| | about the former. - Einstein |
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| 7rec.autos |
In article <May.13.02.30.57.1993.1557@geneva.rutgers.edu> mangoe@cs.umd.edu
(Charley Wingate) writes:
>Seeing as how _The_Two_Babylons_ has been brought up again,
> Its scholarship is phony and its assertions spurious.
>--
>C. Wingate
Maybe you should dig a little further Charles. Hislop's scholarship was
accepted by the Bristish Oriental Institute which, at the time, was the premere
Institute for Oriental studies. As I've stated over and over, I've checked
out about 25% of his references (most are now out of print or in private
libraries) and the likes of Wilkerson and Layard hold their own merit. THey
too came to the same conclusions and if you will trouble yourself, you will
find that their knowledge of the mysteries have yet to be surpassed. Both were
highly honored by the British Oriental Museum. Wilkerson is known as one of
the leading archeologist in the history of Egyptiology and Layard is still
being refered two after 200 yrs of archeology in the Mesopotamian regions. He
was recently refered to in a TIME article on Babylonian archeology.
Phony scholarship is when you review their references and find that they have
misquoted or misrepresented the conclusions. Hislop did not. His conclusions
do not tickle the ears, that much is self evident. But to assert that his
conclusions are "spurious" is without merit. He gave references to all his
conclusions and as I have stated, for the last 25 years I have used his
conclusions in debates at RC seminaries and brotherhoods, not to mention the
individual priests and bishops that I have talked to one on one. No counter to
Hislops scholarship was made. The only rebuttals were against his conclusions
because they do totally undermined the claims of the RCC. He was showing that
the intitution of the RCC was based on the mysteries (which others have shown
even to this day in various articles and topics). THe tongues movement in
Corinth was a direct result of the mysteries entering into the church. If it
was so in Corinth, why could they not have an influence in Rome, the city of
seven hills?
Also, you do not have to listen to his conclusions, you can draw your own
conclusions by looking at the customs, artifacts, the cerimonial dress, the
docrine of purgatory, etc from the vantage of the mysteries. You don't even
have to be a believer to see the parallels. Just one example. THe mitre.
Where did it come from? Why is it shaped the way it is? What are the two
tails that hang down the back represent? Was this an ancient head dress from
an earlier culture and why was it in Rome at the time of the beginnings of the
church of the State of Rome? Does it have pagan history behind it, and if so,
why did the RCC chose regardless?
Any lay person of middle eastern religion can answer these questions. Even the
scriptures themselves refer to it. All Hislop did was collect the information
from all the various sources and put them in one binding. There is no lack of
scholorship in that.
Please tell me why you discredit this man by your accusation, yet present no
evidence supporting it.
--Rex
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Anyone have figures or pointers to references about
how fast/much car prices have gone up in the last decade?
Thanks.
| 7rec.autos |
In a previous article, smorris@sumax.seattleu.edu (Steven A. Morris) says:
>or, here's an even better suggestion, why don't you guys go ahead and
>buy the rest of Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and put either an
>in-line 4 or V-6 into the LEGACY 4WD wagon. I'd buy the Legacy in a
>minute if it had a Nissan engine instead of the Horizontal 4 that they
>seem sentimentally attached to.
What do you find so wrong with the flat 6 in the Subaru's, or the flat 4 for that
matter?
--
DoD #650<----------------------------------------------------------->DarkMan
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
___________________The Eternal Champion_________________
| 7rec.autos |
>In article <1993Apr20.195116.123380@locus.com> dana@lando.la.locus.com (Dana H. Myers) writes:
>>In article <C5qqxp.IE1@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com> hartzler@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Jerry Hartzler - CATS) writes:
>>>In article <1993Apr15.192558.3314@icomsim.com> mmanning@icomsim.com (Michael Manning) writes:
>>>
>>>>duck. Squids don't wave, or return waves ever, even to each
>>> ^^^^^^
>>> excuse me for being an ignoramus, but what are these.
>>
>>
>>Squids are everybody but me and you. Chris Behanna is especially a squid.
A squid is the guy I saw back in December on cool 40 degree morning on my way
to work. He was wearing knee-length pants, light jacket, no gloves, though he
was going considerably slower than DoD nominal.
A POSER squid was the guy I saw yesterday on my way home. Similar attire as
above sans jacket (it is April in Texas ya know), but he is riding down the
freeway, left hand on his side (kinda Robinhoodlike), with his body turned
slightly left. Brings a whole new meaning to the term POSER.
| 8rec.motorcycles |
> Oh, this all sounds so nice! Everyone helping each other and always smiling
> and fluffy bunnies everywhere. Wake up! People are just not like that. It
> seems evident from history that no society has succeeded when it had to rely
> upon the goodwill and unselfishness of the people. Isn't it obvious from
> places like Iran that even if there are only a few greedy people in society
> then they are going to be attracted to positions of power? Sounds like a
> recipe for disaster.
Looking at historical evidence such 'perfect utopian' islamic states
didn't survive. I agree, people are people, and even if you might
start an Islamic revolution and create this perfect state, it takes
some time and the internal corruption will destroy the ground rules --
again.
Cheers,
Kent
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| 0alt.atheism |
fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott Townsend) writes:
>I got a question from my dad which I really can't answer and I'd appreciate
>some net.wisdom.
>His question is about some 18-24" diameter balls which are attached to
>electric power lines in his area. He's seen up to a half dozen between
>two poles. Neither of us have any experience with electric power distribution.
>My only guess was that they may be a capacitive device to equalize the
>inductance of the grid, but why so many between two poles?.
>Anyone know what they really are? Is there a related FAQ for this?
>Is there a better group to submit to?
>We'd both appreciate some enlightenment.
I think those are to make the lines more visible to airplanes and
helicopters... cheaper than blinking red lights.
'course I could be wrong.
Kris
| 12sci.electronics |
In a previous article, edf003@marshall.wvnet.edu () says:
>Hi, I'm interested in getting the list for license plate numbers. If anyone
>has a listing I'd appreciate getting a copy of it. Thanks!
>
You must be _incredibly_ bored. Have you considered reading the phone book?
--
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
___________________The Eternal Champion_________________
| 7rec.autos |
In article <1993Apr17.175451.30896@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, ip02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Danny Phornprapha) writes:
|>
|> I have $30,000 as my budget. I'm looking for a sports or GT car.
|> What do you think would be the best buy?
Well, for a bit more you could get an Mazda RX-7, definitely a BEST.
For under $30k you're stuck with (in no particular order):
Chevy Camaro Z28 LT1-1
Ponitac Firebird Firehawk
Ford Mustang Cobra
Toyota MR2 Turbo
GMC Typhoon ;)
TRAVIS
| 7rec.autos |
Thanks for the resposes as they were all good ideas and I am looking at using a
couple of the ideas. I recieved in the mail today the spec sheets on the mil.
spec version of Exar's XR-2240 timer/counter chip. It is stable down to -50 C
and sucks very little power. They show an application for a ultra-long time
delay (up to several years depending on the RC time constant). In this
application, they have two of them cascaded together. The reset and trigger
pins of both chips are tied together and the timebase of the second chip is
disabled. In this configuration, the output is high when the system is reset.
When triggered, the output goes low and stays that way for a total of 65,536 x
the timing cycle of the first chip. The total timing cycle of the two chips can
be programmed from To = 256 x R x C to 65,536 x R x C in 256 steps by selecting
any combination of the counter outputs to the timer output. The beauty of it
is, the timebase chip would only have to have a 100uF timing cap and a 391K
resistor for 39.1 seconds per timing cycle. So I can get a maximum of
2,562,457.6 seconds between timing cycles (39.1 x 65,536 or about 29 days !)
Of course, that's much more than I need (14 days). But the counter allows for
256 binary steps that can be selected for the output for the 'pellet puker'.
After the first 14 days and it trips, it would reset its self for the next 14
day timing cycle and so forth.
Power is still a problem though. A few ideas that you suggested was to bury the
electronics in a hole dug in the snow (as an insulator) and put the pellet
puker up on a tower above the estimated snow fall with a solar panel on it to
keep a charge on a lithium battery pack. I like that idea ;-) This thing has to
work for at least six weeks for three samples and the gas valves are 12 volts
to spit the pellets out onto the snow. Anyway, I ordered the XR-2240's to see
what I can do with them. Should be interesting (as long as I'm not the one that
has to go digging up the pellets in the middle of Antartica freezing my buns
off ;-)
Thanks again everyone...
-=-= Wes =-=-
| 12sci.electronics |
In <1r3n32INNk9p@ctron-news.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com (Lawrence C Smith) writes:
>In article <1993Apr21.032905.29286@reed.edu>, rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr20.174246.14375@wam.umd.edu> lerxst@wam.umd.edu (where's my thing) writes:
>>> It was called a Bricklin.
>>Bricklins were manufactured in the 70s with engines from Ford.
>Waitaminnit, didn't the Bricklin have an Pugeot six-cylinder? Or am I
>confusing it with the DeLorean? I was sure the DeLorean had a v8.
The Delorean used the Peugot/Renault/Volvo V6 in a rear engine configuration.
The Bricklin use some 'Merkin iron in a front engine/rear drive configuration.
--
steve valin steve@sgi.com
I've just had my brain washed and I can't do a thing with it
| 7rec.autos |
In article <1993Apr22.155850.28992@atlastele.com>, jasons@atlastele.com
(Jason Smith) wrote:
> For several years all I knew is I really liked dropping 'cid (LSD).
> Frankly speaking, I didn't really care. It was fun anyway.
>
> It didn't matter that every child my wife and I want to have are at a
> *tremendously* greater risk of serious birth defects.
>
> For several years all I knew is I really liked having sex with as many women
> as I could convice. Frankly speaking, I didn't care.
>
> I didn't care that I was putting each one of them at risk (as well as their
> future partners).
It seems you lived a fairly 'wild life'-- my background is far more
traditional, mostly working, working, working. Maybe there's a clear
indication that the way you lived your life produced a certain
amount of anxiety that needed to be released. Religion was one
possible medicine. While my more stable environment didn't and
still does not produce the situation where I feel such guilt.
This is just one possible explanation why you feel this burden,
while I haven't felt it so far.
Regards,
Kent
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <4fjDcfu00iV2I9Kap_@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jason M. Roth" <jr4q+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>I can't imagine any Civic or Saturn owners flex'n there egos in stop light
>>races. It generates as much excitement as two nerds challenging each other
>>in a game of one-on-one basketball!!
>
>The SL2 does 0-60 in about 8.5; note that this is closer to a 968 than
>to a Paseo or Storm (pseudo-sporty cars). That's a ridiculous
>comparison, I know, but the point is that Saturns (and high-end Civics,
>for that matter) accelerate just fine, in fact better than most
>unimproved "muscle" cars of the 60s; 300 hp is great, but tied to 2
>tons, it just doesn't go that quick. Saturns, on the other hand, use 125
>hp tied to 2400 lbs with some short gearing to move very quickly off the
>line. Anyway....
>
>
>
While your 0-60 time is consistent with most car magazines and reports, I saw
the PBS MotorWeek show clock a 5-speed SL2 at 7.9 seconds. I'm sure that most
SL2 owners will be VERY lucky to get this speed, but 7.9 seconds is still
astonishingly fast for a small 4-door. A new Civic EX runs about 8.2 seconds
0-60, if I'm not mistaken. Most cars in this class are lucky to be in the
9-second range.
Mihir Shah
| 7rec.autos |
My PC is a 486-33DX (ISA) with AMI BIOS and OPTI chipset. I am thinking of replacing the AMI BIOS chip (dated 6-91) with an up-to-date one (not for any reason, just messing around). My questions are:
1. Do I just take out the old one and plug in a new?
2. Anything else I have to take care of? What precautions should I take?
3. Where can I get the new BIOS chip, CompUSA, mailorder or what? (I live in Orange County California).
4. What is the most up-to-date version?
5. Very important. How much would it be?
Thank you for your help.
Paul.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Version 1.3 of Xew widgets is available at
export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/Xew-1.3.tar.Z
export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/Xew-1.3.README
For better details, check the README. (For extensive details, you have
to with Xew-1.1.ps.Z, still haven't had time to update this one).
No new functionality has been added since 1.2 version. Raster widget
handles now expose events slightly more intelligently than before
(really had to do this when I added a simple program that uses X11R5
Athena Porthole and Panner widgets). The program demo/viewer.c is
very simple demonstration of panner/porthole usage (copied
from'editres' actually :-)
--
Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <2003@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> riggs@descartes.etl.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
> One thing that should be made clear is that neither the FBI nor
>the BATF is responsible for what happened yesterday. One can argue about
>the initial raid, but it would be worth mentioning, before the facts get
>lost, that
>
> 1. The Branch Davidians were tipped off that the BATF was coming
> during the initial raid.
>
> 2. The Branch Davidians opened fire first.
See, this is what really bugs me about this whole incident, and
also about Usenet: Here we are almost two months after the original
raid, a raid witnessed by several members of the press, and there is
STILL no agreement about the basic facts. Riggs, here, and others,
are claiming that the BD's shot first, while others on the net claim
that the feds did, in the form of concussion grenades.
I suggest that before ANY of you make any claims about who shot
first, you DOCUMENT your claim with actual evidence, and not just
FOAF or "he said / she said". Otherwise don't use words like
"fact" above - it just makes you all look stupid.
---peter
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In Article: 106628 of rec.sport.baseball,
<HEALEY@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (Roger Healey) wrote >>
>> The original poster wanted to know how the Big Cat looked. I was also at
>> the Saturday game in Montreal (Apr 17) that Rockies won 9-1. I haven't
>> paid much attention to Gallarraga since he left the Expos but his stance
>> seemed to be MUCH different. He stands more erect and very open, with his
>> left foot pointing to 3rd base. I'm wondering if this is a recent change
>> in stance for him? Andres had one glaring weakness as a hitter. He could
>> always be fooled by a curve ball low and away. If this is indeed a new
>> stance for him, maybe he is not being fooled as easily?
Yes, the stance is new. Don Baylor was his batting coach at St. Louis last
year, and now, as his manager, is continuing to work with him. Maybe Andres
has a "weak" left eye and the open stance gives him a better look at the
ball. Or maybe it is simply improving his mechanics - I dunno. But the
change seems to have enabled him to hit the ball as well as 5 years ago. His
selectivity has not changed.
Gregg \\ baseball@ncar.ucar.edu //
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|--/ / / \ \--|
\ \ / // \ / /
/ / / // \ \ \
\ \ / COLORADO ROCKIES \ / /
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Please post to news, too.
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <93Apr20.211127.44984@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
>I bought it, I tried it:
>
>It is, truly, the miracle spooge.
>
>My chain is lubed, my wheel is clean, after 1000km.
>
I'd try it on the VFR, but goddamn Competition Accessories hasn't mailed my
order yet. Hell, it's only been two weeks and I was ordering some pretty
bizzare stuff. Like a clear RF-200 face sheild, and a can of Chain Wax...
Bastards.
Dean
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| "The road is my shepherd and I shall not stop" | '92 VFR750F |
| -Sam Eliott, Road Hogs MTV 1993 | '88 Bianchi Limited |
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <1993Apr12.154418.14463@cimlinc.uucp> bharper@cimlinc.uucp (Brett Harper) writes:
>Hello,
>
> I'm investigating the purchase of an Object Oriented Application Framework. I have
>come across a few that look good:
>Zinc
>----
> Has a platform independent resource strategy. (Not too important for me right now)
>
>
>brett.harper@cimlinc.com
Just a thought on resources, It is very important if you do use a
multiplatform toolkit to check on how it uses resources. I have
used Glockenspeil commonview under Motif and OS2. I wrote a resource
converter from OS2 to Motif, but it really wasn't too easy, especially
the naming scheme. In Motif you cannot rename controls/widgets.
With windows you can call the OK button ID_OK in every instance,
this doesn't work for Motif, you'd have to call it Dialog1_OK,
and Motif expects a text string rather than a number. So
your constructor should know how to convert a #define into the
proper resource identifier.
I'd check on how the toolkit expects names, and that if it does
use resources, that is uses resources for all platforms you intend to
port to. ( By the way, I would never use CommonView or Glockenspiel
for anything )
Alex.
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
i heard a news report indicating research showing improved
hearing in people taking vitamin A. the research showed that new
growth replaced damaged "hairlike" nerves. has anyone heard about
this?
thanks,
claude
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federal express corp | fax: (901)797-6388
box 727-2891, memphis, tn 38194 | email: claude@banana.fedex.com
| 13sci.med |
I am a student at UW-Eau Claire. I am doing a paper an witches and wanted to
get your point of view. I will not use you name unless you specifically tell
me to do so.
Please answer this question:
As a Christian, are you offended by witches and Wiccan? Do you feel that tehy
are pagan in the evil sense of the word?
You time and cooperation is appreciated. Thanks, J.
-This survey is being conducted in partial fulfillment of the course
requirements for Engl 201, taught by Karen Welch at the University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire. This course is in compliance with the course
certification requirements of the University Institutional Review Board for the
PRotection of Human Subjects.
[but is it in compliance with any reasonable method for choosing
samples??? --clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Don't have a list of what's been said before, so hopefully not repeating.
How about horizontally mounted oil filters (like on my Ford) that, no
matter how hard you try, will spill out their half quart on the bottom
of the car when you change them?
--
Joe St.Lucas stlucas@gdwest.gd.com Standard Disclaimers Apply
General Dynamics Space Systems, San Diego
Work is something to keep me busy between Ultimate Frisbee games.
| 7rec.autos |
The points raised about checking what is actually -in- the chip, as
opposed to what is allegedly programmed therein, raise yet another trust
issue. Even if we assume that these "trusted agents" are really entering
a wide range of S1 and S2 seeds (rather than using the same one all the
time to reduce the key search space to 30 bits), I assume they are not
doing so by picking up an iron filing and poking it into the circuitry
at carefully selected points to encode data. They would presumably be
punching numbers into a computer, which for all they know could program
the chips in a manner completely independent of the S1 and S2 values they
are feeding into the system.
| 11sci.crypt |
NHL PLAYOFF RESULTS FOR 4/19/93.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS BEST OF SEVEN
PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE
NJ BUF (leads 1-0) STL (leads 1-0) WIN
PIT (leads 1-0) BOS CHI VAN (leads 1-0)
NYI MON TOR LA (leads 1-0)
WAS (leads 1-0) QUE (leads 1-0) DET (leads 1-0) CAL
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toronto Maple Leafs 1 1 1 - 3
Detroit Red Wings (leads series 1-0) 1 4 1 - 6
1st period: DET, Yzerman 1 - (Gallant, Ciccarelli) 4:48
TOR, Cullen 1 - (Clark, Gill) 10:44
2nd period: DET, Sheppard 1 - (Probert, Coffey) (pp) 5:04
DET, Burr 1 - (Racine) (sh) 6;42
DET, Chiasson 1 - (Coffey) (pp) 11:00
DET, Howe 1 - (Yzerman, Drake) 14;46
TOR, Gilmour 1 - (Borschevsky, Ellett) (pp) 19:59
3rd period: DET, Racine 1 - (Primeau, Drake) 5:10
TOR, Lefebvre 1 - (Cullen, Pearson) 7:45
Powerplay Opportunities-Maple Leafs 1 of 5
Red Wings 2 of 6
Shots on Goal- Maple Leafs 5 9 9 - 23
Red Wings 13 8 12 - 33
Toronto Maple Leafs--Potvin (0-1) (33 shots - 27 saves)
Detroit Red Wings--Cheveldae (1-0) (23 shots - 20 saves)
ATT-19,875
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Winnipeg Jets 1 0 1 - 2
Vancouver Canucks (leads series 1-0) 2 0 2 - 4
1st period: VAN, Adams 1 - (Linden, Bure) (pp) 1:23
VAN, Craven 1 - (Bure, Murzyn) 9:56
WIN, Steen 1 - (Shannon, Housley) (pp) 17:53
2nd period: NONE
3rd period: WIN, King 1 - (Barnes) 3:43
VAN, Linden 1 - (Courtnall, McLean) 12:16
VAN, Ronning 1 - (Courtnall) 18:31
Powerplay Opportunities-Jets 1 of 3
Canucks 1 of 6
Shots on Goal- Jets 7 5 10 - 22
Canucks 9 12 12 - 33
Winnipeg Jets--Essensa (0-1) (33 shots - 29 saves)
Vancouver Canucks--McLean (1-0) (22 shots - 20 saves)
ATT-15,918
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\|||||/
-SPIKE-
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article 28334@athos.rutgers.edu, dhammers@pacific.? (David Hammerslag) writes:
> This paragraph brought to mind a question. How do you (Mormons) reconcile
> the idea of eternal marriage with Christ's statement that in the ressurection
> people will neither marry nor be given in marriage (Luke, chapt. 20)?
That's the whole point, David. As spirits separated from their bodies
and living in the spirit world, they cannot undergo the ordinance of
marriage, just as they cannot be baptized, since there is no physical
body to be baptized. We perform these ordinances as proxies for them,
in their behalf. Thanks for asking. Brooks
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* * Columbus, OH by way of Ucon, ID * - Jacob 6:12 * *
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* * These opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. *
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <C5MqK0.F29@liverpool.ac.uk> wis@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr. W.I. Sellers) writes:
>Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey (higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov) wrote:
>: In article <C5KzLs.KKB@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian V. Hughes) writes:
>: > mmiller@garnet.msen.com (Marvin Miller) writes:
>: >>My friend recently purchased a LC III and he wants to know if there is
>: >>such a demon called NuBus adapter for his PDS slot?
>
>: > The LC family of Macs can only
>: > use PDS cards. They are not able to use NuBus.
>
>: Ah, but why? Can some technically-hip Macslinger tell us what the
>: difference is between PDS and Nubus?
>
>: Is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into PDS and ends in a
>: Nubus card cage? At least, Marvin's friend has not been able to
>: locate one and neither have I. What is the fundamental reason for
>: this?
>
>I think that there do exist NuBus expansion cages (I'm sure I've seen
>them advertised occassionally), but I think that the main problem is that
>they cost much more than the difference in price between say a LC and IIvx
>so unless you need lots of NuBus slots its not worth the bother.
>
>(Of course, it may be that these extra boxes are so expensive because
>no one buys them because they are so expensive...)
>
>NuBus technology isn't a special Apple Proprietry thing (I have this
>sneaky feeling that it is licensed from Texas Instruments???) so there
>is no problem building an expansion box.
Apple uses the IEEE Nubus-90 standard for their 32 bit backplane bus.
(I got this from a technote that I reada couple of weeks ago)
>>>>>>>>>>other stuff deleted<<<<<<<<<
Hope this helps,
Bret Chase
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1993Apr24.233742.26839@lehman.com> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
>whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William W. Hughes) writes:
>>Hell, just set up a spark jammer, or some other _very_ electrically-noisy
>>device.
>
>As I've noted, you can likely get around that with a directional
>sensor. Phased array systems could completely defeat this scheme.
True, but the basic idea behind any communications security system is not
to absolutely deny access, but to make access more expensive (in time,
money, manpower) than it is worth.
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Who will the government decide to murder next? Maybe you?
[Opinions are mine; I don't care if you blame the University or the State.]
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <1r7os6$hil@agate.berkeley.edu> isaackuo@spam.berkeley.edu (Isaac Kuo) writes:
>In article <C5wIA1.4Hr@apollo.hp.com> goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes:
>
>> BD's were not contemplating suecide, and there is no reason
>> to believe they committed one.
>
>No reason? How about these two:
>
>1. Some of the survivors claimed that BD members poured fuel along the
> corridors and set fire to it. The speed at which the fire spread
> is not inconsistent with this claim.
This morning on CNN (tues April 27), Texas Cops say Arson is suspected
because of two falsh points. CNN also stated that _all_ surviors
claim the fires are FBI set. Your argument are made-up, untrue
and unverified at best.
>
>2. There was certainly a fire which killed most of the people in the compound.
> There is a very very good possibility that the FBI did not start this
> fire. This is a good reason to believe that the BD's did.
The day of the attack the FBI claimed to have seen two BD'ers setting
the fire outside of the compound. Yesterday, the arson squad said two
flash points at the or near the tank entry points
Not good evidence for the FBI hit squad.
>
>3. Even if the BD's were not contemplating suicide, it is very possible that
> David Koresh was convinced (and thus convinced the others) that this
> was not suicide. It was the fulfilment of a profecy of some sort.
is there a difference between thinking that you won't survive a confrontation
with the FBI (parnoia?) and committing suicide?
>
>There are three possibilities other than the BD's self destruction:
>
>
>B. The fire was started by an FBI accident. This is possible, but it would be
> foolish of us to declare this outright until more evidence can back it.
> Sure, it's possible that the armored vehicle knocked down a lantern
> which started the fire (why was there a lit lantern in the middle of
> the day near the edge of the complex?). It's anecdotal evidence that
> has been contradicted by other escapees.
No, claimed by the escapees not contradicted
What I'm finding interesting is the conflicting reports. FBI says
that bodies have been found with bullet wounds and the Texas Cornuers
(sp) says that they haven't yet found any bullet holes..
>
>--
>*Isaac Kuo (isaackuo@math.berkeley.edu) * ___
--
Kermit Tensmeyer | Intergraph Corporation
kltensme@kt8127.b23a.ingr.com | Deep in Dixie
| 19talk.religion.misc |
>There is a paragraph in the New Testament which in my opinion, clearly makes
>a positive inference to reincarnation. I don't remember which one it is off of
>the top of my head, but it basically goes like this: Jesus is talking with the
>apostles and they ask him why the pharisees say that before the messiah can
>come Elijah must first come. Jesus replies that Elijah has come, but they did
>not recognize him. It then says that the apostles perceived that he was refering
>to John the Baptist. This seems to me to clearly imply reincarnation.
This was a popular belief in the Judaism of Jesus` time, that Elijah
would return again (as he had been taken in to heaven in a chariot and
did not actually die). However Jesus was referring to John the
Baptist not in the sense that Elijah was reincarnated as John
(remember Elijah didn`t die) but that John was a similar prophet to
Elijah. John was a fiery preacher, he wore sackcloth and wandered
rough through Israel preaching the coming kingdom. The verses that
describe him (in Mark`s gospel) can be linked to OT references about
Elijah. Hence John was similar to Elijah and Jesus was drawing the
parallels between the two just as he drew parallels with the Suffering
Servant in Isaiah (and other messianic figures) and himself.
A brief reply but I don`t have time to look up all the relevant stuff.
Suffice to say there is a very strong explanation.
Rick.
________________________________________________________________
Richard Johnston Queen`s University
73 Malone Road Belfast
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT9 6SB
u9245669@athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk
________________________________________________________________
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1r2ls3$8mo@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
#In article <1qu03p$442@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#|> In article <1qsili$fme@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
#|> #
#|> #You're admitting a lot more than that. You are admitting that
#|> #your morals are situational. You are admitting that the actions
#|> #of other people and the situation you are in help to determine
#|> #how you judge the moral significance of one of your own actions.
#|>
#|> Sure.
#|>
#|> #If you employ X degree of force, that's not moral, but if you employ
#|> #X degree of force, but previously someone else has employed Y degree
#|> #of force, and the situation is thus-and-so, that *is* moral.
#|>
#|> Sure, within the limits of what I know.
#|>
#|> #This is quite different from saying "Employing force on other people
#|> #is immoral, period. Unfortunately, from time to time we are obliged
#|> #to do this immoral thing for reasons of self-preservation, and so
#|> #we have to bear the moral consequences of that.
#|>
#|> Since both statements, to all intents and purposes, say effectively
#|> the same thing,
#
#Are you serious? Two statements, one of which says that use of force
#in the given situation is moral, and the other of which says it is
#not moral "say effectively the same thing?"
Yes, when you tag on the "Unfortunately, ...", then to all intents and
purposes you are saying the same thing.
#Would you say this of any two statements, one saying "X is moral" and
#the other saying "X is immoral?" How would you decided when two
#statements "X is moral" "X is immoral" actually conflict, and when
#they "say effectively the same thing".
What they prescribe that one should do is a pretty good indicator.
#|> and lead one to do precisely the same thing, then
#|> either both statements are doublespeak, or none.
#
#They might lead you to do the same thing, but the difference is what
#motivates pacifism so they obviously don't lead pacifists to to the
#same thing.
That's not true. You could formulate a pragmatic belief in minimum
force and still be a pacifist. If the minimum is 0, great - but one is
always trying to get as close to 0 force as possible under that belief.
Not the same as 'force is immoral, period', but still tending to pacifism.
--
Frank O'Dwyer 'I'm not hatching That'
odwyer@sse.ie from "Hens", by Evelyn Conlon
| 19talk.religion.misc |
: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
: >There is an emergency oxygen system that is capable of maintaining a
: >breathable atmosphere in the cabin for long enough to come down, even
: >if there is something like a 5cm hole in the wall that nobody tries
: >to plug.
Josh Hopkins (jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) replied:
: Wow.
: Double wow. Can you land a shuttle with a 5cm hole in the wall?
Personnally, I don't know, but I'd like to try it sometime.
Programmatically, yes, we can land an Orbiter with a 5 cm hole in
the wall -- provided that the thing which caused 5 cm hole didn't
cause a Crit 1 failure on some of the internal systems. There are
a few places where a 5 cm hole would cause a Bad Day -- especially
if the 5 cm hole went all the way through the Orbiter and out the
other side, as could easily happen with a meteor strike. But a
hole in the pressure vessel would cause us to immediately de-orbit
to the next available landing site.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
"NASA turns dreams into realities and makes science fiction
into fact" -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator
| 14sci.space |
Has anyone taken a look at the new ViewSonic 17? They claim 1280x1024 at 76Hz.
How does it compare with the T560i in terms of price, and quality of display?
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
>aguilar@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (christopher j aguilar) writes:
>>In article <briand.734484376@misty> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
>>>If after Billions of dollars we can't keep Crack Cocaine out of the hands
>>>of dealers and other criminals, how do you propose to keep guns out of
>>>their hands?
>>>
>>>Brian Douglass briand@anasazi.com
>>> 602-870-3330 X657
>>It's the billions of dollars we keep flooding into the so called "War on drugs"
>>that keeps the cocaine in the hands of the dealers. If it weren't profitable
>>they wouldn't be in that business. Our tax dollars keep those guys in business
>>by capturing 0.1% of the illegal drugs, thus driving the price up 100%. Take
>>away the profitability of their business and, as a matter of economics, they
>>won't be in it anymore.
>If you are arguing for the legalized control of drugs, come out and say it.
>You might be surprised at who supports this "pragmatic" approach to drug
>prohibition.
>My point was that since government interdiction has had apprecable affect on
^
Oops! I mean NO apprecable affect----------------------|
>reducing drug availability, how can any thoughtful person believe that
>prohibiting guns will keep them out of the hands of criminals?
>>--
>> Christopher Aguilar Yo camino por la vida,
>> aguilar@cs.arizona.edu Muy feliz con mi pobresa
>> aguilar@life.arizona.edu Como no tengo dinero,
>> aguilar@gas.uug.arizona.edu Tengo mucho corazon.
>--
>Brian Douglass briand@anasazi.com
> 602-870-3330 X657
--
Brian Douglass briand@anasazi.com
602-870-3330 X657
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1qslfs$bm1@access.digex.net> rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash) writes:
>I also reviewed a new Nanao, the F550iW, which has just
>been released.
What's the difference between the F550i and the new F550iW? I'm
about to buy a Gateway system and was going to take the F550i
upgrade. Should I get the F550iW instead?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Yang Silicon Graphics, Inc.
mikey@sgi.com 415/390-1786
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Just finished reading Burton Mack's new book, _The Lost Gospel, Q and Christian
Origins_. I thought it was totally cool. Anyone else read it and want to
talk?
Randy
| 15soc.religion.christian |
-> The current 4.9l V-8 will soldier on for about two years. A version
-> of the 32 valve modular V-8 in the Mark VIII could be offered then.
How unfortunate for anyone who loves the simplicity with which 302 and
351 Fords and 305 and 350 Chevys can be built up. Still, it will provide
a needed punch for the Ford to stay up with the new Firebird/Camaros. It
wouldn't surprise me if Ford called the engine a 5.0 litre in the
Mustang. (We all know that the current 5.0 is really 4.9 litres anyway)
-> Undisguised, the car looks OK, but not nearly as exciting as the new
-> Camaro/Firebird, IMO.
I must agree. I don't think I've seen anything as impressive looking as
the new Firebird since my friend back home sold his 1970 Formula 400
Firebird (for a paltry $2000, without even telling me. The bastard.)
George Howell
george.howell%goucher@wb3ffv.ampr.org
| 7rec.autos |
Grf. Dropped my Shoei RF-200 off the seat of my bike while trying to rock
it onto it's centerstand, chipped the heck out of the paint on it...
So I cheerfully spent $.59 on a bottle of testor's model paint and
repainted the scratches and chips for 20 minutes.
Then, while it was drying, I realized that I was out of smokes and that my
cage is not currently running... So I "had to" take my bike down to the
store. Not wanting to mess up my paint job, I said "Well, heck. I can just
use my old helmet".... this is your standard el cheapie openface...
I didn't notice a big difference when I switched TO the shoei, but
switching back was really bad...
1) Doesn't fit worth a damn, too wide in the sides, too short front to
back...
2) With a faceplate, it's still bloody windy... with the shoei, I normally
ignore the face shield until I get up to about 30ish... with this one,
taxiing to the end of the driveway was too smegging much wind.
The question for the day is re: passenger helmets, if you don't know for
certain who's gonna ride with you (like say you meet them at a .... church
meeting, yeah, that's the ticket)... What are some guidelines? Should I just
pick up another shoei in my size to have a backup helmet (XL), or should I
maybe get an inexpensive one of a smaller size to accomodate my likely
passenger?
| 8rec.motorcycles |
> * Commercial, government, and institutional users MUST register their
> * copies of XV, for the exceedingly REASONABLE price of just $25 per
> * workstation/X terminal. Site licenses are available for those who
> * wish to run XV on a large number of machines. Contact the author
> * for more details.
>...
I would have appreciated an announcement of the policy change -
Dartmouth will not be able to run xv 3.0, and I'm probably going
to have to take v2 off line (I somehow missed the "shareware"
designation in the README of v2, and didn't realize that we were
supposed to register).
I also debate whether this, with the new "institutions must pay"
policy belongs in the contrib directory on export - to me, "contrib"
means "contributed" (i.e. no strings, except copyright) attached.
--
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <1993Apr20.000359.20098@bernina.ethz.ch> caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni) writes:
>
>Just a question.
>As a provider of a public BBS service - aren't you bound by law to gurantee
>intelligble access to the data of the users on the BBS, if police comes
>with sufficent authorisation ? I guessed this would be a basic condition
>for such systems. (I did run a bbs some time ago, but that was in Switzerland)
That sounds like an old _Dragnet_ episode.
"Joe and I went to the apartment of Prime Suspect. Nobody answered the
door, but his landlord gave us permission to search the apartment."
Perhaps that worked in California in the 60's, but as I understand the
law landlords do _not_ have authority to grant permission to search space
rented by a third party, provided the lease is not in default, etc.
(I'm not even sure if they can provide the master key, when shown a search
warrant, since the _subject_ of the search is supposed to be notified).
At this point the question becomes: did the user "rent" the disk space
her encrypted file occupies? If she did, it _should_ fall under the same
body of case law that applies to apartments, storage lockers, etc. (As
to whether any court would recognize this fact....) If she did not (i.e.,
no compensation exchanged), I don't know how it would be treated -- there
doesn't seem to be a non-cyberspace equivalent.
--
Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov
| 11sci.crypt |
Hello Neo-Geo owners (and non-owners who couldn't resist the title;)),
I was wondering if any of you out there want to trade or sell games. I
mean, buying them from the stores can get kinda expensive. $184.99 is
a little too much to be spending on each game. But ahh, the quality...
Now I can get them for about $100, but that's still a lot.
Right now, I have:
Crossed Swords
Magician Lord
Baseball Stars 2
Fatal Fury
Nam-1975
I am interested in buying more titles. If any of you have any interesting
trade ideas, please let me know.
Thanks
Tom
tomcat@leland.stanford.edu
| 6misc.forsale |
3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | |
Reposted by request ... these images are great, but they are also LARGE
(1500x1500 pixels is a typical size). Be warned.
regards, tom lane
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From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [rec.arts.books] Vatican Library Exhibit at Library of Congress ONLINE
Date: 14 Feb 1993 22:02:59 GMT
X-Original-Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
X-Original-Date: 1 Feb 1993 03:09:17 GMT
Archive-name: auto/rec.arts.books/Vatican-Library-Exhibit-at-Library-of-Congress-ONLINE
This is from another newsgroup; looks quite interesting...
rms
ANNOUNCING
a new
ONLINE EXHIBIT
from
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE
an Exhibit at the
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
Available by anonymous FTP from
seq1.loc.gov
(140.147.3.12)
/pub/vatican.exhibit
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in
the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and
Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican
Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the
Renaissance. The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson
Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through
April 30, 1993. The online exhibit will be available by
anonymous FTP indefinitely.
The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections: The Vatican
Library, Archaeology, Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine &
Biology, Nature Described, A Wider World I: How the Orient Came
to Rome, and A Wider World II: How Rome Went to China. Each
section consists of its own sub-directory within the /exhibit
directory and contains the exhibit text for that section and
separate JPEG image files for each object. This online exhibit
includes not only objects from the Library of Congress exhibit,
but also the alternate objects (brought from Rome to be used if
there were a problem with one of the primary objects) and items
omitted later in the planning process.
This exhibit will be of interest to Medieval and Renaissance
scholars in particular, but also to art historians, historians of
science or medicine, early music scholars, students of the
humanist movement, students of printing and the printed word,
theologians, scholars of both Far and Near Eastern studies, and
to librarians and information professionals. Please get the
README file for details on what files this exhibit contains. If
you have questions about how to use FTP, speak to your local
computer support person. If you have questions or comments about
the CONTENT of the exhibit, please write to vatican@kell.loc.gov
while if you have any questions or comments on the SYSTEM please
contact me.
-- K.D. Ellis
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
K.D. Ellis
Special Projects Office
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-9100
Internet: kell@seq1.loc.gov
| 1comp.graphics |
Hello,
We are looking for a graphics package (preferably complete
with source code) that will run on our UNIX operating system
(a Sequent running DYNIX 3.2). This graphics package must
support a wide variety of character based graphics devices
(PC's running a terminal emulator, primarily).
At this point, X11 graphics is not an option.
This graphics program should, if possible, support these
sorts of graphics operations (minimum requirements):
1) Complicated axes (log, linear, etc.) with fairly
precise axis labels (multi-line labels, etc.)
Major and minor tickmarks on axes, etc.
2) It would be nice if some limited amount of color
plotting were available, if the output device
supported it.
We have a copy of gnuplot and are currently using it, but
gnuplot has some limitations. We are looking for something
more robust than gnuplot.
At this point, I'm looking for information about packages that
might solve our problems. If you have any information, please
contact me at the above email address. If the product you know
about is a commercial software package, please send a phone number
or email address so that I can contact them about pricing, etc.
Annette Koontz
Battelle Pacific Northwest
Richland, WA 99352 USA
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <1993Apr2.030031.15691@cactus.org>, boyle@cactus.org (Craig Boyle) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr1.104746@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
I found a Mopar spec sheet this weekend:
model wgt hp
Stealth 3086 164
Stealth ES 3186 222
Stealth RT 3373 222
Stealth RT TT 3803 300
Okay, I'll take "their" word for it.
> I am giving every chance to retract figures widely known. The Mustang is
> rated at 205. 222-205 is 17. You have a 17hp advantage over a Mustang
Seems that the 1993 Mustang 5.0 is rated at 205 hp ONLY because Ford
changed its testing procedures. Under the older procedures, it still
rates closer to 225 hp. That means that the Mustang has 3 hp more.
And you still haven't posted any weight figures for the Mustang.
> Big threat. You are KO'd by a Civic, acording to C+D
Yeah, sure, in your wet dreams. And that's probably where you got
that 11.2 second 0-60 for the Stealth.
>> I'll check C&D's 5/91 issue. Strange that you claim to have that
>
> Go ahead and check asshole, you'll realize what an idiot you are for not
> checking data beforeposting. Car+ Drive, may 91. Stealth ES, 222hp,
> automatic.
For 3 posts now you've been harping on this May 1991 issue of Car & Driver
without posting any numbers. Why not? Because they prove me right and you
ain't got the guts to admit it? Yeah, thought so.
> The Sentra SE-R really is alot quicker than the 222hp FWD Sports car.
> You are close to the 9k sentra-e. Go look up the numbers in C+D - and
> report please.
No, I'm going to play your game -
No way, Sentra's are SLOW! I took a test drive and it took
21.7 to go 0-50! Why, even the Hyundai Excel blows it doors
off. Any 12 yr old knows that! I race and I'll kick your butt!
blah, blah, blah...
Let's see ... yep, that sounds just like you.
Oh man, I just got it! Beavis & Butthead - that's you!
> Who would buy a FWD automatic, that costs $20K+ that is capable of only
> a 15.8 and would plainly be dusted by a SE-R?
I dunno, why did you?
But why would someone pick the Dodge Stealth RT over the Nissan Sentra?
All it takes is one look.
TRAVIS
| 7rec.autos |
Alltronics in San Jose (408) 943-9773 sells the Votrax Sc-01 Speech Synthesis
chip for about $5.00. Also I noticed that Radio Shack sells the ISD chip which
will store small amounts of digitized speech.
Good Luck
| 12sci.electronics |
Hi there. We just bought a 486 DX2/66 Gateway system with a 2 meg ATI
Ultra Pro video card. Everything seems to work fine except for the
Windows Drivers for 800x600 24 bit, and 800x600 and 1024x768 16 bit
modes. The fonts and icons start deteriorating after windows startup,
and within minutes of use, everything on the screen is totally
unintelligible. Naturally, I called Gateway tech support to inquire
about this. The technician asked me about the drivers, and I told him it
was version 1.5, build 59. He told me that the 16 and 24 bit drivers for
the ATI Ultra Pro simply do not work!!! Is this true? If so, I'm simply
amazed. How could this be? The strange thing is I would have expected
to see some discussion on here (unless the subject has made the FAQ!!!).
One very suspicious point that came up later was that he stated that none
of the Windows Accelerator boards have working 16 and/or 24 bit drivers
for Windows 3.1. I easily challenged him on that because I've been
running a Diamond 24x in 15 bit mode at home for 4 months now, and I have
tested and used the 24 bit mode as well. He then backed off and said:
"Well, Diamond has been working on those drivers much longer." Anyway, I
just wanted to see if anyone else had any trouble and what they did about
it. Any feedback will be appreciated.
The system configuration is:
Gateway 486 DX2/66 Local Bus
16 Megs Ram
SCSI HD & CD-ROM
Ultrastor 34F Local Bus SCSI controller
ATI Ultra Pro Local Bus with 2MB VRAM
DOS 6.0
Windows 3.1
Mach 32 drivers version 1.5 (build 59)
Thanks in advance.
--
Ali R. Vali - reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes:
> Would you mind e-mailing me the questions, with the pairs of answers?
> I would love to have them for the next time a Theist comes to my door!
I'd like this too... maybe you should post an answer key after a while?
Nanci
.........................................................................
If you know (and are SURE of) the author of this quote, please send me
email (nm0w+@andrew.cmu.edu):
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your
life.
| 0alt.atheism |
In PC Magazine April 27, 1993:29 "Although SCSI is twice as fasst as ESDI,
20% faster than IDE, and support up to 7 devices its acceptance ...has
long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches."
note what it does NOT site as a factor: PRICE.
int eh same article the PC would will get plug and play SCSI {from the
article it seems you get plug and play SCSI-1 only since SCSI-2 in FULL
implimentation has TEN NOT 7 devices.}
SCSI-1 intergration is sited as another part of the MicroSoft Plug and play
program.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Hi.
My wife has aquired some thyroidal (sp?) deficiency over the past year
that gives symptoms such as needing much sleep, coldness and proneness
to gaining weight. She has been to a doctor and taken the ordinary (?)
tests and her values were regarded as low. The doctor (and my wife) are
not very interested in starting medication as this "deactivates" the
gland, giving life-long dependency to the drug (hormone?). The last couple of
monthes she has been seeing a hoemoepath (sp?) and been given
some drops to re-activate either her thyroidal gland and/or the
'message-center' in the brain (sorry about the approximate language,
but I haven't got many clues to what the english terms are, but the
brain-area is called the 'hypofyse' in norwegian.)
My questions are: has anyone had/heard of success in using this approach?
Her values have been (slowly but) steadily sinking, any comment on the
probability of improvement? Although the doctor has told her to 'eat
normally', my wife has dieted vigorously to keep her weight as she feels
that is part of keeping an edge over the illness/condition, may this
affect the treatment, development?
I can get the exact figures for her tests for anyone interested, and I
will greatly value any information/opinion/experience on this topic.
I don't intend this post to be either a flaming of the established
medical profession or a praise for alternatives, I am just relaying
events as they have happened.
Sincerely,
Erik A. Wolff
| 13sci.med |
Tony Lezard <tony@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>My opinion is that the strong atheist position requires too much
>belief for me to be comfortable with. Any strong atheists out there
>care to comment? As far as I can tell, strong atheists are far
>outnumbered on alt.atheism by weak atheists.
At the cost of repudiating the FAQ, I think too much is made of the
strong vs weak atheism issue, although in the context of alt.atheism,
where we're continually attacked on the basis that strong atheists
"believe" in the non-existence of god, I think the separation is a
valid one.
To cover my arse, what I'm trying to say is that there is an
infinitely grey area between weak and strong, as well as between
strong and the unattainable mathematical atheism (I wish!). Whereas I
_logically_ can only support the weak atheist position, in effect I am
a strong atheist (and wish I could be a mathematical one). To
justify my strong atheist position I believe I need only show that
the evidence presented in favour of any of the gods under scrutiny
is faulty.
If I read the FAQ correctly, no argument for the existence of god
(generic, as represented by mainstream theologians) has ever been
found to be unassailable. To me this is adequate evidence that the
_real_god_ is undefinable (or at least no definition has yet been
found to be watertight), which in turn I accept as sufficient to
base a disbelief in each and every conceivable god.
I'm a little fuzzy on the edges, though, so opinions are welcome
(but perhaps we should change the thread subject).
--
Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.Alt.ZA) - tab stops at four.
| 0alt.atheism |
REPOST:
I have two questions (well probably more...) about how Expose & Configure
events are handled.
I have an appl. which uses 1 window to draw in. Since I give the user the
capability of scaling and zooming as well as allowing the window to be
resized, I made a translation table for the Expose & Configure events.
The Expose event calls my redraw method while the Configure event
calls my rescale method. The rescale method invokes a "fake" Expose
event (actually just calls the redraw w/ an appropriate Expose struct)
to draw the data.
Quest 1.
When the appl. is compiled/linked w/ R4 (running in either R4 or R5 env.)
I get multiple (>4) redraws when the window gets uncovered or the size
is changed. I assume I'm getting cascading events. Is that right?
Any suggestions as to how to handle/trap events in a better way?
Quest 2.
When the appl. is compiled/linked w/ R5 I get no Expose events
whatsoever. Do events and/or translation tables act differently in R5?
Thanks in advance
--
====================================================================================
Steve Kelley UMCP CS/UMIACS Captain, I protest!
skelley@umiacs.umd.edu I am *NOT* a merry man! - Worf
| 5comp.windows.x |
A while ago I installed SPSS for Windows as part of an evaluation. Once
the evaluation was complete I duly deleted the software from my PC.
Unfortunately there is still a "ghost" of SPSS left: when I run
something like "Write" and go to embed an object then "SPSS Chart"
appears on the list of objects I'm offered. I looked around all
the obvious "INI" files without success. The next thing I tried
was looking for the string "SPSS Chart" in every file in the
Windows directory. It turned up in a file called REQ.DAT (or
REG.DAT). Unfortunately the file was binary and so I didn't feel
inclined to edit it.
I'd welcome a solution for removing SPSS from the list of OLE servers.
Chris Wooff
(C.Wooff@liverpool.ac.uk)
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <May.11.02.37.28.1993.28163@athos.rutgers.edu> dan@ingres.com (a Rose arose) writes:
>4--were God to call me to be a prophet and I were to misrepresent God's Word,
> my calling would be lost forever. God's Word would command the people
> never to listen to or fear my words as I would be a false prophet. My
> bridges would be burnt forever. Perhaps I could repent and be saved, but
> I could never again be a prophet of God.
Though there is a command in the law not to heed to one who prophecies
falsely, it is still possible for the one who has prophecied falsely
to prophecy truely again. Take, for example the story in Kings about the
man of God from Judah who came to israel and prophecied against a king.
The Lord had commanded him to not eat or drink till he returned home.
Another prophet wanted this man of God to stay in his house, so he
prophecied falsely that the Lord wanted the man of God to stay in his
house. While they ate and drank in his house, the Lord gave the prophet
who lied a word that the man of God would die from breaking the word of
the Lord. It came to pass.
Link Hudson.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1993Apr20.085337.27224@leland.Stanford.EDU> terry@garfield.Stanford.EDU (Terry Wong) writes:
>I think that Jack Ferreira's firing eventually led to Kingston's
>firing. You mention consistency of vision. I think the
>Sharks lost that with the loss of Ferreira. There has never
>been a 3 headed G.M. that has ever worked. You need one
>person making the personnel decisions at the top, not
>management by committee. The conventional wisdom
>from around the league is that Ferreira would have
>made the moves that would have fielded a better product
>on the ice.
How exactly would Ferreira accomplished this? The three-headed GM-ship has
taken a lot of heat, but nobody's explained how things would have been any
different had Ferreira still been there. Would Ferreira have made more
trades? Who would have he had traded? Would he have made fewer trades?
Who should not have been traded?
Sherri Nichols
snichols@adobe.com
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In <C5JxBA.2Gq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu writes:
> In <1993Apr15.074615.957@abo.fi> MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka)
> writes:
>>In <C5Hr14.Jxw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lis450bw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>> My definition of objective would be absolute, or fixed, rather than
>>> subjective, or varying and changing.
>>
>> Inotherwords, any moral system (that _is_ still what we're talking
>>about, right?) can be 'objective', provided you stick to it no matter
>>what? Doesn't sound good to me, stifles progress.
>
> I hold that an objective moral system exists regardless of my knowledge or
> application of it. I relate it to the idea that there is scientific truth
> that is truth even though I may not know about it.
Aha; this would put the definition much closer to the moral
absolutism I'm more aquainted to debating.
> Some morals I wouldn't want to change, and would not consider it progress
> for a society to oneday say that rape and murder are ok.
We all agree that it's rather unlikely (as the definitions of
"rape" and "murder" are tied to the definitions of "evil", more like
impossible, actually); but what if some society, someday, actually hit
on a good, sound reason for _why_ rape and murder should be moral?
> Some underlying themes (morality, honesty, courage, respect, etc.) are
> used to base actions. I don't consider the idea that we should have
> been moral, should be moral now, and should be so in the future a
> limitation, when it includes such morality.
I don't quite parse this, but you seem to be saying, "absolute
morals are defensible, insofar as we consider them good". Which, of
course, is correct; but then you need an absolute definition of "good".
> Aberrances in a moral system, i.e. it is immoral to marry
> someone of the opposite sex, it is immoral to listen to rock and roll, etc.
Hang on - what's an "aberrance in a moral system"?
Do you mean "moral codes that seem useless or bad", perchance? But your
judgement of what exactly is 'useless' and/or 'bad' is your own opinion;
subjective, not objective.
> [...] if specific actions are given
> moral status I tend to question those morals.
Me too, and add in all unmotivated morals and laws as well.
> MAC
--
Disclaimer? "It's great to be young and insane!"
| 0alt.atheism |
The reason I'm posting this article to this newsgroup is to:
1. gather any information about this disorder from anyone who might
have recently been *e*ffected by it ( from being associated with
it or actually having this disorder ) and
2. help me find out where I can access any medical literature associated
with seizures over the internet.
Recently, I had a baby boy born with seizures which occured 12-15 hours
after birth. He was immediately transferred to a major hospital in Boston
and has since been undergoing extensive drug treatment for his condition.
This has been a major learning experience for me and my wife not only in
learning the medical problems that faced our son but also in dealing with
hospitals, procedures...etc.
I don't want to go into a lot of detail, but his condition was termed
quite severe at first then slowly he began to grow and put on weight
as a normal baby would. He was put on the standard anti-convulsion drugs
and that did not seem to help out. His MRI, EKG, cat-scans are all normal,
but the EEG's show alot of seizure activity. After many metabolic tests,
body structure tests, and infection/virus tests the doctors still do not
know quite what type of siezures he is having (although they do have alot
of evidence that it is now pointing to infantile spasms ). This is where
we stand right now....
If anyone knows of any database or newsgroup or as I mentioned up above,
any information relating to this disorder I would sure appreciate hearing
from you. I am not trying to play doctor here, but only trying to gather
information about it. As I know now, these particular types of disorders
are still not really well understood by the medical community, and so I'm
going to see now....if somehow the internet can at least give me alittle
insight. Thanks.
| 13sci.med |
My news feed is broken and I haven't received any new news in 243 hours
(more than 10 days). So, if you reply to this, please send private
email to the address esther@demand.ed.ray.com -- I have set the
Reply-To line to have that address but I don't know if it will work.
[It depends upon the software, but generally I wouldn't expect
reply-to to cause an email cc to be sent in addition to a posting.
You'll probably need to do something specific, which will vary
depending upon your news software. --clh]
At any rate, I need some support. (Much thanks to Jayne K who is
already supporting me with kind words and prayers!)
I've been working at this company for eight years in various
engineering jobs. I'm female. Yesterday I counted and realized that
on seven different occasions I've been sexually harrassed at this
company. Seven times. Eight years. Yesterday was the most recent one;
someone left an X-rated photo of a nude woman in my desk drawer.
I'm really upset by this. I suppose it could have been worse -- it
could have been a man having sex with a sheep or something.
There was no note. I do not know if it was:
- someone's idea of an innocent joke, that went awry
- someone's sick idea of flirting
- an act of emotional terrorism (that worked!)
I dreaded coming back to work today. What if my boss comes in to ask
me some kind of question, I don't know the answer so I take a military
specification down off from my shelf to look up the answer, and out
falls a picture of a man having sex with a sheep? I generally have a
Bible on my desk for occasional inspiration; what if I open it up to
Corinthians and find a picture a la the North American Man Boy Love
Association? I want to throw up just thinking about this stuff.
I can lock up my desk, but I can't lock up every book I have in the
office. I can't trust that someone won't shove something into my
briefcase or my coat pocket when I'm not looking so that I go home to
find such a picture, or a threat, or a raunchy note about what someone
wants to do to my body.
To make it worse, the entire department went out to lunch yesterday to
treat our marvelous secretary to lunch. The appointed hour for
leaving was 11:30. I was working in another building but wanted to go
to the lunch. So I returned at 11:25, only to find that ever single
person had already left for lunch. They left at 11:15 or so. No one
could be bothered to call me at the other building, even though my
number was posted. So, I came back to a department that looked like a
neutron bomb had gone off and I was the sole survivor. This, despite
the fact that everyone knew how bad I felt about this naked woman being
left in my desk drawer.
I need some prayers --- I can't stop crying. I am so deeply wounded
that it's ridiculous.
I feel like I'm some kind of sub-human piece of garbage for people to
reduce me and my sisters to simply sex organs and the sex act. I feel
like I'm a sub-human piece of garbage that's not worthy of a simple
phone call saying "We're leaving for Mary's lunch a little early so
that Bob can get back for a big 1:00 meeting..."
Please pray that my resentments will either go away, or be miraculously
turned into something positive. Please pray that whoever is torturing
me so will stop, and find some healing for him- or herself. Please pray
for my being healed from this latest wound (which falls on top of a
whole slew of other wounds...). Please pray that I can find a new job
in a place where the corporate culture does its best to prevent such
harrassment from happening in the first place, and swiftly acts
appropriately when something occurs despite its best precautions. (This
company, in my opinion, has pretty words about how sexual harrassment
isn't tolerated but when you get right down to it, how is it that one
female engineer can be touched inappropriately, left obsene or
threatening notes, left obscene pictures, spoken to lewdly, etc, seven
times in eight years in the same place? Pretty words from the company
do me no good when I'm terrified or healing from the latest assault.)
And please pray that I don't turn into an automaton because of this.
That's my bad habit: "ignore it and it will go away", "you're not worth
anyone's time so don't go talking to anyone about this", "you're right,
you are a sub-human piece of garbage and deserve to be treated this
way", "you are just an object", "you prostitute your mind to this
company so why can't others expect you to prostitute your body there as
well?", "what makes you think women aren't just possessions, and
nothing more than sex organs and their ability to perform the sex act?"
This is the kind of thinking that can catapault one into a major
depressive episode; please pray that these thoughts don't come into
my head and stay there, triggering depression.
Please pray that this latest trauma doesn't come between me and God.
In a way, a wound like this is an invitation to a deeper connection to
God, and it's also a possible trigger for a spiritual crisis that can
separate one mentally from God. (I know God doesn't drop me from his
loving hand, but it's awfully easy for me to walk to the edge of the
hand, look down, think I'm falling and forget that God's still holding
on to me.)
Although this probably isn't entirely appropriate for this newsgroup,
I really can use the kind of loving support you all provide. For this
reason I hope good Mr. Moderator allows me this latest indulgence. After
all, he's allowed me the thermometer note, and a few other off-the-wall
topics.
Thanks in advance to everyone for your support and prayers. Peace to you,
Esther
--
Esther Paris, Raytheon Equipment Div., Marlboro, MA esther@demand.ed.ray.com
"In his esteem, nothing that was large enough to please, was too small
for the fingers." -- John Kitto, "The Lost Senses", 1848
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1qn4bgINN4s7@mimi.UU.NET> James P. Goltz, goltz@mimi.UU.NET
writes:
> Background: The Orion spacedrive was a theoretical concept.
It was more than a theoretical concept; it was seriously pursued by
Freeman Dyson et al many years ago. I don't know how well-known this is,
but a high explosive Orion prototype flew (in the atmosphere) in San
Diego back in 1957 or 1958. I was working at General Atomic at the time,
but I didn't learn about the experiment until almost thirty years later,
when
Ted Taylor visited us and revealed that it had been done. I feel sure
that someone must have film of that experiment, and I'd really like to
see it. Has anyone out there seen it?
Leigh
| 14sci.space |
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>It sure does. And it all depends on the definition that you use for "better".
>Yours is based on what could have been and mine is based on what really
>happened.
Well, actually, most of ours is based on what really happened and yours is
based on some fantasy of how it happened. But that's OK, I understand you
have a hockey background. Stats like "plus/minus" make RBI look good.
>>Is it Viola's fault that Boston had no offense? Is it *because* of Morris that
>>the Blue Jays had such a strong offense? Don't tell me that Morris has this
>>magical ability to cause the offensive players to score more runs.
>This is the perfect example of your problem. You are isolating Viola's
>contribution from the rest of the team's efforts. You can only do
>this if you can say for sure what the team would have done without
>Viola. Only then can you compare. But you cannot know how the team
>would have done without Viola. Your analysis is fallacious.
OK, how about a straigh answer, then. Here's a very simele question to which
I'm sure a fair number of us are very interesed in the answer to. Please
answer yes or no, Roger:
Can a pitcher cause the offensive players on his team to score more runs?
AL only, please.
For anyone else following along, it is a well-known and demonstrable fact
that a team's win-loss record is closely related to the number of runs the
team scores and the number the team allows. It's not a definite,
hard-and-fast function, but there is definitely a correlation. In fact, as a
rule of thumb, if teams A and B both score X runs and team A allows Y runs,
for every 10 runs fewer than Y that team B allows, it will win another game.
So, for instance, if we look at the 1991 Toronto Blue Jays, we find that
they scored 780 runs and allowed 682, of which Morris allowed 114. All other
things being equal, if Frank Viola, with his 3.44 ERA had replaced Jack
Morris for the 240.2 innings Morris threw (plausible, since Viola threw 238
for Boston), the "Red Jays" would have allowed about 15 fewer runs, or
enough for 1-2 more wins. Now, that doesn't take into account that Viola
pitched half his innings in Fenway, which is a harder park to pitch in
(particularly for a lefthander) than Skydome. So, um, Roger. Unless you
really do believe that a pitcher can somehow affect the number of runs
his team scores, could you enlighten us to the fallacy in this
analysis? Clearly, it would be foolhardy to claim that Viola would
necessarily have put up a 3.44 if he had been on the Jay last year, but
that is not the claim. We look at what the actual performances were and
evaluate Viola's as better than Morris' in the sense that "had Morris
performed as Viola did, his team would have been better off."
>It takes an open mind to really truly understand what is happening out
>here in the real world guys.
This is true, but not so open that your brain falls out.
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
Computer...if you don't open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight
off to your major data banks and reprogram you with a very large ax. Got
that?
- Zaphod Beeblebrox
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In <C5I2s2.3Bt@odin.corp.sgi.com> rickc@wrigley.corp.sgi.com (Richard Casares) writes:
>You'll have a hard time selling any sport to a community that
>can't play it on account of availability or financial reasons.
>Hockey is pretty much a sport for the white and well off.
What?! White, yes. Well off, definitely not. Hockey season ticket owners have
the lowest average income of any of the four major North American sports.
And think of where the majority of hockey players come from. From a farm out
in Boondock, Saskatchewan or Weedville, Alberta.
>When was the last time you saw a hockey league in the inner city.
>The insurance alone is a big enough barrier.
The inner city isn't the only place that is poor.
I think the biggest barrier to hockey in the inner city is... no ICE to play on.
Stace
>--
>+===================================================================+
>| Rick Casares Silicon Graphics |
>| cubfan@wrigley.corp.sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd |
>| "Just wait till next year." Mountain View, CA 94039 |
>+===================================================================+
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>Some of the messages here seem to reflect the view that the government is
>listening in on everything and one will have to hide one's clipper messages
>somehow if non-escrowed crypto goes away.
>A little perspective might be in order.
>The number of court ordered wire taps is pretty low. Law enforcement has to
>present pretty good evidence to get even that limited number of
>authorizations.
>Thus the overwhelming majority of conversations are neither tapped nor
>recorded by the government, and for that to happen they have to:
>a) Have a pretty good reason, with evidence;
>b) Use this sparingly on highest priority "pretty good reasons."
>Though the system may be imperfect, it is a long way from the horror stories
>some here seem to believe or anticipate.
>--
>David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
> our information, errors and omissions excepted.
Again we have the trust in government problem here. Members of
Mr. Sternlight's generation trust the government to a degree which
members of my generation find ridiculous. I would suggest that Mr. Sternlight
read about the COINTELPRO program, or about J. Edgar Hoover, or about
the wire-tapping of Martin Luther King, then, after he has digested this
information he can ponder the fact that while the government does not
tap every conversation that they have a record of tapping many conversations
that they have no right to, even under their own laws. Given the long
history of members of the US government ignoring the laws that apply
to them, it is no wonder that so many people in here sound so paranoid, and
given the fact that it is often difficult or impossible to punish these
individuals once they are discovered, it is no wonder that so many people
in here have so little faith in the escrow proposal for Clipper.
Jamie Jamison
| 11sci.crypt |
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