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5100 | From: boell@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Donald P Boell)
Subject: Rockies 2-5, two more errors, 6 more walks
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Lines: 36
Name Pos AB H 2B 3B HR RBI RS SB E AVG
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Boston OF 12 7 2 6 .583
Galarraga 1B 28 13 3 1 9 2 .464
Tatum 3B 5 2 1 .400
Cole CF 24 9 1 2 8 2 .375
E. Young 2B 28 9 1 1 1 5 10 5 3 .321
Hayes 3B 25 7 1 2 5 2 1 2 .280
Murphy OF 4 1 1 .250
Bichette RF 21 5 1 5 3 1 .238
Clark LF 24 5 2 2 1 .208
Girardi C 25 5 1 1 3 2 .200
Castilla SS 6 1 1 .167
Benavides SS 18 1 2 1 4 .056
G. Young OF 1 1 .000
PITCHERS P 12 .000
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Totals 233 65 9 3 5 34 37 9 11 .279
Name L/R IP H R ER K BB ERA W L S
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Wayne L 2.7 3 0 0 3 2 0.00 0 0 0
Aldred L 5 4 3 1 1 6 1.80 0 0 0
Smith R 12.3 15 3 3 2 3 2.19 1 1 0
Ashby R 5 6 2 2 3 5 3.60 0 0 0
Neid R 12 15 6 6 5 8 4.50 1 1 0
Parrett R 5.7 7 3 3 7 3 4.76 0 0 0
Blair R 5.3 7 5 3 2 3 5.06 0 0 0
Henry L 6 9 6 5 4 1 7.50 0 1 0
Ruffin L 3 7 6 5 3 4 15.00 0 1 0
Reed R 2.7 7 7 7 1 3 23.63 0 0 0
Holmes R 1.3 6 10 9 1 4 60.75 0 1 0
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Totals 61 86 51 44 32 42 6.49 2 5 0
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5101 | From: degroff@netcom.com (21012d)
Subject: Re: Atlas revisited
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: sci
Lines: 8
I found it very interesting that Atlas depended on pressure to
maintain tank geometry....leads me to the question: ? have any
of the SSTO concepts explored pressurized tankage such that the
launch configuration would be significantly different from the
reentry one? I have long been facinated by pnumatic structures
as conceived and built by Frei Otto and others, a "ballon" tank
SSTO sounds very clever.
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5102 | From: anielsen@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Nielsen)
Subject: Versatec plotter PPD?
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Lines: 13
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Hello world, does anyone know of a Postscript PPD for a Versatec
A0-size plotter, which is generally accessed via a ZEH Postscript
interpreter? Replies by e-mail very gratefully received - this is
proving to be quite a tricky one.
_________________________________________________________________________
Andrew D. Nielsen Internet : anielsen@DIALix.oz.au
Advanced Systems Consultant AppleLink: AUST0278
AppleCentre Perth
69 Adelaide Tce Tel: +61-9-2214511
PERTH WA 6004 AUSTRALIA FAX: +61-9-2212527
"Any opinions expressed are my own, not those of my employer."
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5103 | From: phew@gu.uwa.edu.au (Patrick Hew)
Subject: Re: Color pict of spinning Earth
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Lines: 22
NNTP-Posting-Host: mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au
ESTOP07@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (*ACS) writes:
>Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this
> I was crusing the net earlier this year and came upon something called
>Color pict of spinning earth. I am assuming it is a animation sequence of the
>earth's rotation (or revolution I always get those mixed up). At the time I
>found it my sysem would not even support color graphics so I didn't bother to
>get the pict. Now I have a fairly nice system and cant find the pict again!
>If anyone can help please post here or E-mail me
>Thanks in advance
>Eric (Estop07@conrad.appstate.edu)
Likewise for me please. First time I've hear of it, but I've beem looking
for something like this for the past few months.
Patrick Hew
2nd Year Science/ Engineering
University of Western Australia
phew@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
phew@mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au
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5104 | Subject: Traffic Rules at intersections
From: jsv@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Julian Visch)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
Nntp-Posting-Host: sss330.canterbury.ac.nz
Lines: 20
I am presently doing a masters thesis to do with traffic intersections in
New Zealand but a lot of the books I am researching from, are from America or
Australia and so I was wondering if anyone could please tell me what the road
rules are in either country with regard to intersections.
Thanks
Julian Visch
jsv@math.canterbury.ac.nz
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5105 | From: (jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu)
Subject: Re: ALL-TIME BEST PLAYERS
Organization: master/peon
Lines: 19
In article <1993Apr14.173428.12056@Princeton.EDU>, roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:
>
> >In article <1993Apr13.115313.17986@bsu-ucs>, 00mbstultz@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
> > writes...
>
> >>I've recently been working on project to determine the greatest
> >>players at their respective postions.
>
> >>2B Career
What about U. Johnny Hodapp, the greatest 2nd baseman in Cleveland Indians
history? 225 hits in 1930, consistantly over .300. A great, great second baseman.
Jon "Johnny" Hodapp
jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
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5106 | Subject: Cornerstone DualPage driver wanted
From: tkelder@ebc.ee (Tonis Kelder)
Nntp-Posting-Host: kask.ebc.ee
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]Lines: 13
Lines: 13
I am looking for a WINDOW 3.1 driver for
Cornerstone DualPage (Cornerstone Technology, Inc)
video card. Does anybody know, that has these? Is there one?
Thanks for any info,
To~nis
--
To~nis Kelder Estonian Biocentre (tkelder@kask.ebc.ee)
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5107 | From: tp923021@fir.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston)
Subject: Possible FAQ question about a UART
Lines: 25
Organization: Compact Solutions, Canberra ACT Australia
> Hello, my question is could someone E-mail me the
> names of manufactures
> of the 16550 and predecsor UARTs. I have only seen
National Semiconductor are one that I know of.
Cheers,
Ben
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University of Canberra
Email: tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au
Also: ellib@cbr.cpsg.com.au
UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!sserve.adfa.oz.au!compsol!root
FidoNet: 3:620/262
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5108 | From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: DX3/99
Originator: guyd@pal500.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
Lines: 32
In article <1993Apr3.163556.24998@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:
> In article <1993Apr3.011823.22935@kpc.com>, pcarmack@gimp.kpc.com (Phil Carmack) writes:
> > ....there are people who are performance driven enough to do it.
> > If it weren't so people wouldn't buy Pentium(tm) systems in the first
> > place since they could buy a 486DX3/99 that would run their existing
> > applications faster. Certainly a 486DX3/99 is in the same "league" as
> > a Pentium(tm).
>
> Is the 486DX3/99 anything more than a myth? I haven't heard of it
> from any source that I trust, and I sure don't see any ads for DX3/99
> machines in Computer Shopper. Intel is pretty busy with the Pentium
> right now; I can't seem them introducing their own competition.
>
IBM has displayed a 486DX3/99 as a *TECHNOLOGY DEMO*.
This effectivly means - "here's some neat technology". It is not
a commitment to make such an item...
> --
> Keith Mancus <mancus@butch.jsc.nasa.gov>
> N5WVR <mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>
> "Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall,
> when your back's against the wall...." -Leslie Fish
Guy
--
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guyd@hoskyns.co.uk Tel Hoskyns UK - 71 251 2128
guyd@austin.ibm.com Tel IBM Austin USA - 512 838 3377
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5109 | From: dmcgee@uluhe.soest.hawaii.edu (Don McGee)
Subject: Federal Hearing
Originator: dmcgee@uluhe
Organization: School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Distribution: usa
Lines: 10
Fact or rumor....? Madalyn Murray O'Hare an atheist who eliminated the
use of the bible reading and prayer in public schools 15 years ago is now
going to appear before the FCC with a petition to stop the reading of the
Gospel on the airways of America. And she is also campaigning to remove
Christmas programs, songs, etc from the public schools. If it is true
then mail to Federal Communications Commission 1919 H Street Washington DC
20054 expressing your opposition to her request. Reference Petition number
2493.
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5110 | From: bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver)
Subject: Re: JUDAS, CRUCIFIXION, TYRE, Etc...
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: usa
Lines: 16
(Frank DeCenso)
> But how? It's evident from the texts in Ezek 26-28 that God isn't concerned
> about buildings or structures - God is concerned about people. The people and
> leadership (Ezek 28) never did return as a city. Others may have come later
> and built a city, but the people and leadership that God prophesied about in
> Ezek 26-28 were never rebuilt as a city of people and leaders.
How incredibly fucking stupid. Of *course* the text is referring to the city
itself (buildings, bricks, mortar, etc.) Otherwise it makes no sense to
refer to the future of Tyre as being reduced to nothing but a _place_ to spread
fishing nets.
Is there any twisting of text or semantic game that you *won't* do to preserve
your faith from admission of error, DeCenso?
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5111 | From: astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)
Subject: Re: Israeli Terrorism
Organization: NYSERNet, Inc.
Lines: 20
cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamaza H. Salah) writes:
>>Would you tell me which Arab country is prohipiting the Jews from
>>migrating to Palestine?
>the last arab country was syria. but not all of them
>migrated due to the jewish state economical and
>securital dilemma!
As usual, when Salah is not totally racist, she manages to get
virtually all the facts wrong.
Assad pledged to allow Jews to leave Syria, but not to go to Israel.
Unfortunately, not all of them have escaped yet, but not because they
don't want to leave; rather, Assad went back on his word and stopped
issuing travel permits. He claimed bureaucratic snags, but everyone
knows it was a tactic to pressure Israel.
--
Alan H. Stein astein@israel.nysernet.org
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5112 | From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
Subject: Re: Do we need the clipper for cheap security?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Lines: 35
In article <1r1f62$rh5@news.intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>One thing that Clipper offers is interoperability, at a higher degree of
>security than we currently have in non-proprietary voice encryption systems.
>This means it will be cheaper than anyone's proprietary scheme, and easier to
>deploy.
I may be an anarchist nutcase, but I wouldn't have frothed overmuch
had the government proposed a secure encryption standard. In fact,
if the NSA had come up with a privacy chip rather than a wiretap
chip, I would have been happy. They *could* have done this -- set
up an ANSI committee, picked a secure cryptosystem, defined a
protocol and interface, and said, "Hey, start building them."
Instead we have a deliberately brain-dead version of a cryptosystem
that has not even been peer reviewed. Yes, the NSA owns some smart
people. But if they pulled a FEAL, well, AT&T is going to be left
with a lot of dud phones on its hands.
>Perry said:
>> Someone please tell me what exactly we get in our social contract in
>> exchange for giving up our right to strong cryptography?
>
>Can you tell me where exactly we have given up that right?
Heh heh. The government already gave it up for us. Remember in the
announcement they described this scheme as balancing the two
extremes of having no privacy and claiming that citizens had a
Constitutional right to encryption?
So much for Clinton's support of the "right of privacy".
PGP 2 key by finger or e-mail (void when prohibited)
Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
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5113 | From: neil@stone.oz.au (Neil Watkinson)
Subject: COM3 COM4 is there a hardware standard ?
Organization: Stone Microsystems, NSW, Australia
Keywords: COM3 COM4
Lines: 19
Help....
I need to implement COM3 and COM4 on a board that I'm designing and I'm
finding it dificult to track down a definition (hardware that is) of COM3
and COM4.
I have the IO adresses and the fact that COM3 shares IRQ4 with COM1 and COM4
shares IRQ3 with COM2, except exactly how this IRQ sharing is done is not
clear especially if the existing COM1/2 does not allow IRQ sharing. Does the
standard??? allow for a different IRQ to be used and if so how.
Please answer by email to :-
neil@stone.oz.au
thanks in advance
Neil Watkinson.
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5114 | From: morrow@cns.ucalgary.ca (Bill Morrow)
Subject: Need source for old Radio Shack stereo amp chip
Nntp-Posting-Host: cns9.cns.ucalgary.ca
Organization: University of Calgary
Lines: 13
Last week I asked for help in getting an old homemade amp working with
my Sun CD-ROM drive. It turns out that the channel I was testing with
was burned out in the amp. The other channel works fine.
So now I need a new amplifier chip. My local Radio Shack no longer
carries components! The chip is a 12 pin SIP (?) labelled with BA5406
and then "502 515" below that.
Does anyone have a source? Thanks,
--
Bill Morrow Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary
e-mail: morrow@cns.ucalgary.ca voice: (403) 220-6275 fax: (403) 283-8770
3330 Hospital Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, CANADA T2N 4N1
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5115 | From: fritzm@panix.com (Fritz Mueller)
Subject: electronic parts in NYC?
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Lines: 18
Hey all:
I just moved to NYC and wondered if there are any electronics hackers
out there who could point me to places in NYC that sell individual
electronic components (switches, pots, transformers, caps,
transistors, etc.) "Radio Shack" doesn't count (they have almost no
selection, and their prices are outrageous!)
I have particular interest in audio components (amplifier IC's, power
MOSFETS, output transformers, tubes and tube sockets, pan pots,
faders, etc.)
I have checked out a lot of 48th street and Canal street so far with
no luck. Am I missing places, looking in the wrong place, or do I
have to resort to mail order?
thanks in advance,
--FritzM.
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5116 | From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Telephone On Hook/Off Hok
Nntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
Lines: 26
In article <734953838.AA00506@insane.apana.org.au> peter.m@insane.apana.org.au (Peter Tryndoch) writes:
>MC>Aye, there's the rub -- if you draw enough current to light an LED, th
>MC>equipment at the phone company will think you've gone off hook.
>MC>In the on-hook state you're not supposed to draw current.
>
>Ok lets have some calculation here: Going by Australian standards, which I
>presume might be similar to other countries ( If not, lets have some
>input) a phone uses 600ohm to loop a 48V line = 80mA. A standard LED
>drains 20mA. So what is the actual loop current required for an "off hook"
>indication, do you know?
Up to 60 microamperes = on hook
Over something like 10 mA = off hook
In between = defective line, and the phone company comes looking
for leaky insulation.
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:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********
:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *
:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><
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5117 | From: brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615)
Subject: Re: Is it good that Jesus died?
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.
Lines: 71
In article <bskendigC5L782.JM5@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>John 12:24-26: "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
>falls onto the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it
>produces much grain.
> "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in
>this world will keep it for eternal life.
> "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My
>servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor."
>
>Why would I want an eternal life if I hate this one?
Again, you missed Jesus's point. If you read the surrounding passages
you would understand what Jesus means by "life in the world." But
as is, you bumbled around, asserted your standard axiom that the Bible is bunk,
and came up with the wrong idea. Also, you do not know exactly
what Jesus means by eternal life.
Brian K., do you expect to jump in the middle of the quantum mechanics
book and understand Hermite polynomials having not read the surrounding
material? Why do you such with the Bible? For an idea what Jesus
means by the world, look up references to it in your concordance. For
a good description, the whole Book of Ecclesiastes is game. For
eternal life, check out John 17:3, John 3:15-16. You will find that
eternal life is quite different than what you think. Eternal life
starts NOW--an infinitely high quality of life living in fellowship
with God.
>In short: even if your deity *does* exist, that doesn't automatically
>mean that I would worship it. I am content to live my own life, and
>fend for myself, so when I die, I can be proud of the fact that no
>matter where I end up, it will be because of *my* actions and *my* choices.
>
>If your god decides to toss me into a flaming pit for this, then so be
>it. I would much rather just cease to exist. But if your god wants
>my respect and my obedience, then it had better earn these; and if it
>does, then they will be very strong and true.
If my diety exists, you would not just cease to exist. Jesus talks of
hell in Luke 16:19-31.
>You've got to understand my point-of-view: I see Christians spouting
>Bible verse all the time as if it were some sort of magic spell that
>will level all opposition. Truth is, it's not. Robert has never
>demonstrated that he actually understands what the verses imply; he
>just rattles them off day by day. Some brazenly fly in the face of
>common sense and reality, and I point these out where I can.
The truth is, is that it is not some sort of magic spell. The truth
is is that you do not understand it, and enjoy not understanding it.
>Christanity is a very nice belief set around a very nice book.
Wrong again. Christianity is supposed to be relationship. You
do not even know what Christianity is and you are arguing against
it.
>And in my opinion, you're bumbling about blindly making up entities
>where there aren't any, and depriving yourself of a true understanding
>and enjoyment of your life. As long as you keep your beliefs to
>yourself, I'll keep my beliefs to myself -- but as soon as you start
>waving them around, expect me to toss in my opinions, too.
Just as I make up such places as Jericho, Jerusalem, Babylon, Corinth,
Ephesus, Susa, and such kings as Nebuchanezzar, David, Solomon,
Sennacherib, Herod, Pontius Pilate . . . . But I guess then
that you treat Abraham Lincoln as a myth like you do Odin and Zeus.
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5118 | From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Janet Reno and "Responsibility"
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Lines: 11
I see no difference between Janet Reno's claim of responsibility for
the Waco Massacre and the IRA's claims of responsibility for various
acts of terrorism against British citizens.
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
I'm beginning to look forward to reaching the %100 allocation of taxes
to pay for the interest on the national debt. At that point the
federal government will be will go out of business for lack of funds.
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5119 | From: juvirtan@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jukka A Virtanen)
Subject: Re: Plus minus stat
Organization: University of Helsinki
Lines: 24
In <1993Apr16.015936.11303@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>>>Good for you. You'd only be displaying your ignorance of
>>>course, but to each his own...
>>
>>Roger, I'm not sure here, but I think "ignorance" is really a
>>function of "a lack of knowledge" and not "formulating an
>>opinion"...but hey, if you need to take a cheap shot, then by all
>>means go ahead...that's if it makes you feel better.
>To knowledgeable observers of the game my meaning is obvious. Your
>hockey education is not my responsibility.
Just curious, Roger, but since you have such a vast knowledge of the
game and the league, how come you haven't made a living out of it?
There must be a lot of demand for expertise in the field. I'm sure
you'd be of great help to, say, the Leafs as an assistant coach or
a scout. Or maybe try a career as a reporter or tv commentator...
I might be wrong, of course, and you already have.
--
Jukka A Virtanen
juvirtan@cc.helsinki.fi
University of Helsinki
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5120 | From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
Subject: Re: Some more about gun control...
Organization: Totally Unorganized
Lines: 53
In article <1993Apr16.010235.14225@mtu.edu> cescript@mtu.edu (Charles Scripter) writes:
<In article <C5Bu9M.2K7@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
<jrutledg@cs.ulowell.edu (John Lawrence Rutledge) wrote:
<
<> [ ... excellent exchange deleted ... ]
<> It seems to me the whole reason for the Second Amendment, to give
<> the people protection from the US government by guaranteeing that the
<> people can over through the government if necessary, is a little bit
<> of an anachronism is this day and age. Maybe its time to re-think
<> how this should be done and amend the constitution appropriately.
<
< Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861: "This
< country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit
< it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
< they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or
< their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
<
< Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate
< over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, 17 August
< 1789: "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the
< establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...
< Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of
< the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order
< to raise an army upon their ruins."
<
<So now we know which category Mr. Rutledge is in; He means to destroy
<our Liberties and Rights.
What I find so hard to understand is how come some people, apparantly
NOT connected with government or otherwise privileged, will
go to great lengths, redefinitions, re-interpretations, in a full-bore
attempt to THROW AWAY THE PROTECTION OF THEIR OWN RIGHTS under the
Constitution!!!
Almost makes me think of lemmings running into the sea during a lemming
year...
I really wonder that Jefferson and Madison would say to these folks?
<-------------------------------------------------------------
<"...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be
<drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render
<powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will
<become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we
<separated." Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Excellent quote.
--
pat@rwing.uucp [Without prejudice UCC 1-207] (Pat Myrto) Seattle, WA
If all else fails, try: ...!uunet!pilchuck!rwing!pat
WISDOM: "Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity,
and I am not sure about the former." - Albert Einstien
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5121 | From: chatterj@haji.lcs.mit.EDU (Shash Chatterjee)
Subject: Help: SunView on olwm/xview3/X11R5
Article-I.D.: haji.9304051753.AA05339
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 23
NNTP-Posting-Host: enterpoop.mit.edu
To: xpert%expo.lcs.mit.edu@fin.lcs.mit.edu
Hi,
I just compiled the X11R5 distribution for a Sun3/SunOS4.1.1. I also
compiled the public domain xview3 (with olwm) distribution. I have some
old 3rd-party application binaries that are SunView programs. How do I
get them to work under xview3 and olwm? (I tried using the OpenWindows
version 2 "svenv" program, but it did not work.)
I do not have news access....that's why I am mailing this directly. Also,
is there an email alias where my questions can get to comp.windows.x or
comp.windows.open-look? PLEASE RESPOND TO fwr8bv@fin.af.mil
Thanks,
Shash
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+ EC Software PHONE: (817) 763-1495 +
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5122 | From: bet@sbi.com (Bennett Todd @ Salomon Brothers Inc., NY )
Subject: Re: Source of random bits on a Unix workstation
Lines: 44
Nntp-Posting-Host: sandstorm
>>For your application, what you can do is to encrypt the real-time clock
>>value with a secret key.
Well, almost.... If I only had to solve the problem for myself, and were
willing to have to type in a second password (the secret key) whenever I
logged in, it could work. However, I'm trying to create a solution that
anyone can use, and which, once installed, is just as effortless to start up
as the non-solution of just using xhost(1) to control access. I've got
religeous problems with storing secret keys on multiuser computers.
>For a good discussion of cryptographically "good" random number
>generators, check out the draft-ietf-security-randomness-00.txt
>Internet Draft, available at your local friendly internet drafts
>repository.
Thanks for the pointer! It was good reading, and I liked the idea of using
several unrelated sources with a strong mixing function. However, unless I
missed something, the only source they suggested (aside from a hardware RNG)
that seems available, and unguessable by an intruder, when a Unix is
fresh-booted, is I/O buffers related to network traffic. I believe my
solution basically uses that strategy, without requiring me to reach into
the kernel.
>A reasonably source of randomness is the output of a cryptographic
>hash function (e.g., MD5), when fed with a large amount of
>more-or-less random data. For example, running MD5 on /dev/mem is a
>slow, but random enough, source of random bits; there are bound to be
>128 bits of entropy in the tens (or hundreds) of megabytes of data in
>a modern workstation's memory, as a fair amount of them are system
>timers, i/o buffers, etc.
I heard about this solution, and it sounded good. Then I heard that folks
were experiencing times of 30-60 seconds to run this, on
reasonably-configured workstations. I'm not willing to add that much delay
to someone's login process. My approach (etherfind|compress, skip 10K) takes
a second or two to run. I'm considering writing the be-all and end-all of
solutions, that launches the MD5, and simultaneously tries to suck bits off
the net, and if the net should be sitting __SO__ idle that it can't get 10K
after compression before MD5 finishes, use the MD5. This way I could have
guaranteed good bits, and a deterministic upper bound on login time, and
still have the common case of login take only a couple of extra seconds.
-Bennett
bet@sbi.com
|
5123 | From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST
Lines: 3
They must be shipping that good Eau Clair acid to California now.
Tom Freebairn
|
5124 | From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina)
Subject: More Diamond SS 24X
Nntp-Posting-Host: dil.adp.unc.edu
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Lines: 9
Has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this
card. Is only in Windows. I have replaced card and am waiting on
latest drivers. Also have experienced General Protection Fault Errors
in WSPDPSF.DRV on Winword Tools Option menu and in WINFAX setup.
I had a ATI Ultra but was getting Genral Protection Fault errors
in an SPSS application. These card manufactures must have terrible
quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs.
What a hassle. Running on Gateway 2000 DX2/50.
Thx Dave L
|
5125 | From: daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (S.F. Davis)
Subject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City
Organization: NSPC
Distribution: na
Lines: 107
In article <1quule$5re@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
|>
|> AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration confernce
|> May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the auspices of AIAA.
|>
|> Does anyone know more about this? How much, to attend????
|>
|> Anyone want to go?
|>
|> pat
Here are some selected excerpts of the invitation/registration form they
sent me. Retyped without permission, all typo's are mine.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Low-Cost Lunar Access: A one-day conference to explore the means and
benefits of a rejuvenated human lunar program.
Friday, May 7, 1993
Hyatt Regency - Crystal City Hotel
Arlington, VA
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Low-Cost Lunar Access conference will be a forum for the exchange of
ideas on how to initiate and structure an affordable human lunar program.
Inherent in such low-cost programs is the principle that they be
implemented rapidly and meet their objectives within a short time
frame.
[more deleted]
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Preliminary)
In the Washington Room:
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. Alan M. Lovelace
9:10 - 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address
Mr. Brian Dailey
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. U.S. Policy Outlook
John Pike, American Federation of Scientists
A discussion of the prospects for the introduction of a new low-cost
lunar initiative in view of the uncertain direction the space
program is taking.
10:00 - 12:00 noon Morning Plenary Sessions
Presentations on architectures, systems, and operational concepts.
Emphasis will be on mission approaches that produce significant
advancements beyond Apollo yet are judged to be affordable in the
present era of severely constrained budgets
In the Potomac Room
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Guest Speaker: Mr. John W. Young,
NASA Special Assistant and former astronaut
In the Washington Room
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. International Policy Outlook
Ian Pryke (invited)
ESA, Washington Office
The prevailing situation with respect to international space
commitments, with insights into preconditions for European
entry into new agreements, as would be required for a cooperative
lunar program.
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Plenary Sessions
Presentations on scientific objectives, benefits, and applications.
Emphasis will be placed on the scientific and technological value
of a lunar program and its timeliness.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a registration form and the fee is US$75.00. The mail address
is
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dept. No. 0018
Washington, DC 20073-0018
and the FAX No. is:
(202) 646-7508
or it says you can register on-site during the AIAA annual meeting
and on Friday morning, May 7, from 7:30-10:30
Sounds interesting. Too bad I can't go.
|--------------------------------- ******** -------------------------|
| * _!!!!_ * |
| Steven Davis * / \ \ * |
| daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov * (<o><o>) * |
| * \>_db_</ * McDonnell Douglas |
| - I don't represent * |vv| * Space Systems Company|
| anybody but myself. - * (__) * Houston Division |
|--------------------------------- ******** -------------------------|
|
5126 | From: nraclaw@jade.tufts.edu (Nissan Raclaw)
Subject: Re: Go Hezbollah!!
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Lines: 13
Congratulations also are due to the Hamas activists who blew up the
World Trade Center, no? After all, with every American that they put
in the grave they are underlining the USA's bankrupt imperialist
policies. Go HAmas!
Blah blah blah blah blah
Brad, you are only asking that that violence that you love so much
come back to haunt you...............
Nissan
|
5127 | From: freemant@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Toby Freeman,TJF,G151,3344813,OCT95, )
Subject: Re: CorelDraw BITMAP to SCODAL (2)
Nntp-Posting-Host: borneo
Reply-To: freemant@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Glasgow University, Glasgow.
Lines: 52
In article 1r4gmgINN8fm@zephyr.grace.cri.nz, srlnjal@grace.cri.nz () writes:
>
>Yes I am aware CorelDraw exports in SCODAL...
>... but if you try to export in SCODAL with a bitmap
>it will say something like "cannot export...
>...If anyone out there knows a way around this
>I am all ears.
I think one (not ideal) solution is to use the
tracing utility (can't remember the name, sorry!)
included in the Corel Draw s/w pack. It can convert
bitmaps to Corel art format. These can then be
imported into a drawing rather than the bitmap.
Result - the file is completely in Corel format and
can be SCODAL'ed no problem!
BUT the slight problem with this, which makes the
solution less than idea, is that the trace utility
spits out many more points than are necessary to
define the shapes being traced. Straight lines and
curves are both traced as many short segments.
So... the SCODAL taking *much* longer to
image.
The obvious solution is time-consuming - stripping
out the extra points by hand using Corel.
OUCH!
I've done it a few times :-]
>...I was just wondering if there was anything out there
>that just did the bitmap to SCODAL part a tad cheaper.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Jeff Lyall
As I say, if you don't mind the problems, go via the route...
BITMAP -> COREL (VIA TRACE) ->
HAND TRIMMING (USING COREL)!!! ->
COMBINE WITH MAIN COREL PIC (VIA IMPORT) -> SCODAL
Cheers,
Toby
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|
5128 | From: ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Beyer")
Subject: Re: Israeli Terrorism
Organization: University of Virginia
Lines: 4
I think the Israeli press might be a tad bit biased in
reporting the events. I doubt the Propaganda machine of Goering
reported accurately on what was happening in Germany. It is
interesting that you are basing the truth on Israeli propaganda.
|
5129 | From: marcs@crpmks.uucp (Marc Snyder)
Subject: Re: Anyone use Number 9 GXE video card?
Organization: CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, Additives Division
Keywords: Video adaptor hardware graphics
Lines: 13
In article <6023@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> claborne@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Chris Claborne) writes:
>Has anyone used the Number Nine (# 9) Video Graphics adaptor with Windows
>or Windows NT? What do you think???
I just put one in my machine last week. I have an AST 486/66. I was
getting ~10million winmarks with my Diamond SS24, and the #9 board is
doing ~20million winmarks. From my brief experiences with it, i'm very
satisfied. BTW, this is with Win 3.1.
--
Marc Snyder UUCP: ...philabs!crpmks!marcs
System Administrator
Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Hawthorne, New York Work: 914.785.2284 Play: 914.347.6440
|
5130 | From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
Subject: Re: The Old Key Registration Idea...
Organization: Little to None
Lines: 18
In article <1qn1ic$hp6@access.digex.net> pcw@access.digex.com (Peter Wayner) writes:
>That leads me to conjecture that:
...
>2) The system is vulnerable to simple phone swapping attacks
I seriously doubt that any practical implementation of this proposal would
place the onus on the individual to register keys. Realistically, the
Clipper-Chip will probably emit an ID code which will serve as the identifier
when requesting the key fragments. The chip manufacturer would register
this identifier code vs. key combination when the chip is made and the
(uninitiated) end-user can therefore remain completely outside the loop.
The chip could be used in a cellular phone, a modem, or other device --
it really makes no difference: When the authorities detect the use of this
encryption standard during surveillance, they would then capture the ID
and apply for the key in order to decrypt the data.
--
Rob Stampfli rob@colnet.cmhnet.org The neat thing about standards:
614-864-9377 HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh There are so many to choose from.
|
5131 | From: dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca (Deepak Chhabra)
Subject: Re: Mogilny must be benched.
Nntp-Posting-Host: stpl.ists.ca
Organization: Solar Terresterial Physics Laboratory, ISTS
Lines: 19
In article <wong.734890713@sfu.ca> wong@fraser.sfu.ca (Sam S. Wong) writes:
>> About 4 or 5 weeks ago I read in the Toronto Sun a quote from Alex; it
>> went something like [sarcastically]:
>> "Yep, Patty's the man. He's responsible for the team's success...I'm a
>> nobody around here."
>How can you assume it was a sarcastic remark?
>For someone whose first language is not English, I would interpret
>that comment to mean that he believes Pat is the MVP on the team and that
>he is just one of the other normal players. Quite modest I might say.
Well, I don't recall assuming anything, except perhaps that the columnist
who reported the incident was telling the truth i.e. the sarcastic impression
came from _him_ (Steve Simmons?). Besides, to my knowledge Alex has a pretty
fair grasp of the English language...and his recent comment after the Detroit
game would indicate that this remark _is_ what I think it to be. Very low.
dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca
|
5132 | From: brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets)
Subject: Looking for a filemanager under X11R5
Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
Disclaimer: Views expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
Lines: 9
Does anyone have a file manager that runs under UNIX/X11R5??
brians
--
Brian Sheets _ /| "TRUCK?! What truck?"
Support Engineer \`o_O'
Atlas Telecom Inc. ( ) -Raiders of the Lost Ark
brians@atlastele.com U
|
5133 | From: marshatt@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Zauberer)
Subject: Re: It's a rush... (was Re: Too fast)
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Lines: 28
Remember roads in America are NOT designed for speeds above 80 meaning they
would be safe at 55-65. Roads like the Autobahn are smoother, straiter,
wider and slightly banked.
Example: A few months back I was traveling late at night ( 3:00 am or so)
and I was changing highways at a bent crosssing. It curved off to the south
east becoming hidden by trees after about 1,000 ft and continued to the
left strait north. I wanted to turn north, checked the south lane, rolled
into the crossing and checked the north lane. Nevertheless there wasn't
a car in sight, so I took one last look and pulled into the left hand lane.
Now my car isn't a 5 sec 0-60 performer but I was in the corect lane and
over 40 in decent time, even at 3:00 I wasn't wasting time. It was then
that I checked my mirror and saw a Mustang closing in my lane *FAST*, he
had just turned the corner and was just noticing me. Luckly he saw me and
changed lanes in time, I estamate he was moving in excess of 90 or so.
I was just a by stander, I had no chance of runing from him, or moving out
of his way. I'm glad he saw my brake lights in time. I shudder to
think of what would have happened had I wainted to pull out and not
left the time he needed to dodge me.
Rule: Just because your car can do 100+, and your way is clear,
don't assume it will stay that way.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TRAVIS disclamer: the ideas expressed above are in fact the same as
my employer, since I have none |-)
e-mail, flame, at : marshatt@feserve.cc.purdue.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
5134 | From: monta@image.mit.edu (Peter Monta)
Subject: Re: MC SBI mixer
In-Reply-To: musone@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 19 Apr 93 21:10:14 GMT
Organization: MIT Advanced Television Research Program
Lines: 24
musone@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mark J. Musone) writes:
> P.S. any REALLY GOOD BOOKS on AM/FM theory ALONG WITH DETAILED
> ELECTRICAL DIAGRAMS would help a lot.
> I have seen a lot of theory books with no circuits and a lot of
> circuit books with no theory, but one without the other does not help.
Mixers have a wide variety of implementations; the Mini-Circuits
part you mention is a doubly-balanced diode mixer, but active ones
(BJT, FET) seem more popular in consumer receivers. You might
call MCL; they have a nice catalog.
The universal answer for wide-coverage, theory+practice, RF design
is the _ARRL Handbook_, published by the American Radio Relay
League, the radio amateur organization. Any technical bookstore
can order you one. The book is superb, with lots of accessible
theory, construction projects, and generally interesting stuff.
You might also check out _Solid State Design for the Radio Amateur_
(I think), by Hayward and <someone>. This has sharper design
and test information about subsystems like mixers.
Peter Monta monta@image.mit.edu
MIT Advanced Television Research Program
|
5135 | From: mps1@cec1.wustl.edu (Mihir Pramod Shah)
Subject: Re: new saturn argument
Article-I.D.: wuecl.1993Apr6.225025.13054
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Lines: 78
Nntp-Posting-Host: cec1
In article <C50p1M.21o@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
>
>ok, how about this to argue about. why does the sl2 have a much lower base
>price than the sc2??? it's over 1k cheaper(i forget the exact amount).
>doesn't it cost more to have the extra doors/windows/locks/motors etc. that
>are in the 4 door???? perhaps it is just a marketing deal....people want the
>2door, so they will pay the extra 1.2k???
Ok, here's what I understand:
The SL/SL1/SL2/SW1/SW2 was meant to compete with the following cars:
Honda Civic
Toyota Tercel (SL,SL1)
Toyota Corolla (SL1,SL2)
Nissan Sentra
Mazda 323/Protoge'
Subaru Loyale/Impreza
Isuzu Stylus
Geo Prizm
Ford Escort
Mercury Tracer
Mistubishi Mirage
Plymouth/Dodge Colt
Their core competition is the Civic, Corolla, and Sentra. Most of the other
models are in the same class, but aren't the first cars you would think of.
I threw in the Escort/Tracer because it has a good amount of Japanese
technology and has similar reliability stats. I didn't include domestic small
cars such as the Cavalier, Sunbird, Shadow, Sundance, Tempo, and Topaz, since I
think Saturn is going after cars that have at least some degree of Japanese
roots.
The SC1/SC2 was meant to compete against the following cars:
Toyota Paseo
Honda Civic Si/Civic Coupes/del Sol Si
Nissan NX1600/NX2000
Mazda MX-3
Isuzu Impulse
Geo Storm
Ford Escort GT
If you look at the prices of these cars, they're more expensive than they're
4-door counterparts. The is good reason for this. It is a more upscale and
trend-driven market. Even though many of these models are based on sedan
platforms, their interior, etc. is good enough to warrant slightly higher
prices. Here are some of the platform derivations I can think of:
Tercel -> Paseo
Sentra -> NX1600/NX2000
Civic -> del Sol
323 -> MX-3 (not sure on this one)
Stylus -> Impulse/Storm
To illustrate, a Tercel starts at around $8000, while the Paseo starts at
around $11,000. Even a 4-door Tercel will cost less than a 2-door Paseo. Now,
you might be saying that the Tercel doesn't offer the power that some 4-doors
offer. What I mean is that there is no 4-dr Tercel with a comparable
powerplant as its sport coupe derivative. Let's take another example: the
Isuzu Stylus XS and Impulse XS/Storm GSi. Both have the same powerplants (a
1.6L 140hp engine), but the smaller 2-dr coupes are generally more expensive.
Again, this is because the two-door sport coupe market is a more
fashion-oriented and trend-setting segment. People are willing to pay more
money for this type of car.
In short, even though the SC1/SC2 may be smaller, hence "less" car, it's market
orientation dictates a slightly higher price than its mechanically equivalent
sedan (SL1/SL2) version.
I hope this clears things up a bit......
Mihir Shah
|
5136 | From: thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: The state of justice (GM trial)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Lines: 40
In article <1993Apr15.143320.8618@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer) writes:
> A judge denied GM's new trial motion, even though GM says it has two
>new witnesses that said the occupant of the truck was dead from the impact, not
>from the fire.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> It's kind of scary when you realize that judges are going to start
>denying new trials even when new evidence that contradicts the facts that led
>to the previous ruling appear.
On the other hand, it would be kind of scary if there were *never* a final
verdict, because a party to litigation could keep saying "Oops! I forgot
to bring up this evidence," and demand a new trial. You get one bite at
the apple.
> Or has the judge decided that the new witnesses are not to be believed?
>Shouldn't that be up to a jury?
It's up to General Motors to find those witnesses in the first litigation.
You'd be up in arms if a plaintiff suing General Motors pulled the same
stunt and made them relitigate an issue that they already lost. It's not
as if General Motors couldn't file enough discovery motions to delay the
trial until they found all the witnesses they wanted.
> And what about members of the previous jury parading through the talk
>shows proclaiming their obvious bias against GM?
Define "obvious bias."
>Shouldn't that be enough for
>a judge to through out the old verdict and call for a new trial?
Did GM move for a new trial on those grounds? No? Perhaps they had a
reason?
--
ted frank |
thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu | I'm sorry, the card says "Moops."
the u of c law school |
standard disclaimers |
|
5137 | From: asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)
Subject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Lines: 19
In article <1993Apr21.141824.23536@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:
>
>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used
>to compute sunrise and sunset times.
>
>Joe Wetstein
There is a wonderful book by Jean Meeus called
"Astronomical Algorithms," (1991) which I am fairly sure
contains an algorithm for sunrise and sunset times.
Dan Asimov
Mail Stop T045-1
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
asimov@nas.nasa.gov
(415) 604-4799
|
5138 | From: oser@fermi.wustl.edu (Scott Oser)
Subject: Re: DID HE REALLY RISE???
Organization: Washington University Astrophysics
Lines: 36
In article <Apr.10.05.33.59.1993.14428@athos.rutgers.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
>The two historic facts that I think the most important are these:
>
>(1) If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then he must have done something
>else equally impressive, in order to create the observed amount of impact.
>
>(2) Nobody ever displayed the dead body of Jesus, even though both the
>Jewish and the Roman authorities would have gained a lot by doing so
>(it would have discredited the Christians).
>
>--
>:- Michael A. Covington internet mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *****
>:- Artificial Intelligence Programs phone 706 542-0358 : *********
>:- The University of Georgia fax 706 542-0349 : * * *
>:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><
And the two simplest refutations are these:
(1) What impact? The only record of impact comes from the New Testament.
I have no guarantee that its books are in the least accurate, and that
the recorded "impact" actually happened. I find it interesting that no other
contemporary source records an eclipse, an earthquake, a temple curtain
being torn, etc. The earliest written claim we have of Jesus' resurrection
is from the Pauline epistles, none of which were written sooner than 20 years
after the supposed event.
(2) It seems probable that no one displayed the body of Jesus because no
one knew where it was. I personally believe that the most likely
explanation was that the body was stolen (by disciples, or by graverobbers).
Don't bother with the point about the guards ... it only appears in one
gospel, and seems like exactly the sort of thing early Christians might make
up in order to counter the grave-robbing charge. The New Testament does
record that Jews believed the body had been stolen. If there were really
guards, they could not have effectively made this claim, as they did.
-Scott O.
|
5139 | From: cas@spl1.spl.loral.com (Carl A Swanson)
Subject: PC sound on a SB
Organization: Loral Software Productivity Lab
Lines: 9
I read sometime in the last couple of weeks, an article which desribed how to play PC sound
through a soundblaster. I didn't save the article and all old articles have been purged from
our system here.
Would whomever posted the article detailing where to connect the wires please re-post?
Specifically, I need to know where to connect wires from the PC speaker to the SB card.
Thx in Advance, Carl
|
5140 | From: michael_maier@qmgate.anl.gov (Michael Maier)
Subject: Round VS Elliptical DOT Screens
Organization: ANL
Lines: 15
When using Photoshop is there anyway to get an elliptical dot for the
halftone screen rather than a round dot ? My printer would prefer an
elliptical dot, but I'm not sure how to set it up. I'm sending from a Mac
IIci to a Linotronic L300 imagesetter and I am using Photoshop 2.0.1 to
make my separations.
Any help would be greatly appreshed. T.I.A.
Michael (Unscene)
Michael Maier, Computer Artist, ANL | [|Ú]---*Z* Glued to the veiw.
Email michael_maier@qmgate.anl.gov | "TV is the milk of Amnesia."
Phone 708 252 5298 | Ñ Michael Maier
|
5141 | From: scottj@magic.dml.georgetown.edu (John L. Scott)
Subject: Apology (was: Luser!)
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
X-Posted-From: iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu
Lines: 10
I was shocked to see that the subject of my last rely to awesley was
"Luser!" That was certainly not my intention. I meant to leave the
subject line unchanged. I believe that the NNTP server I use at columbia
must have put in that subject line in protest over problems with my header.
That was rather rude of them, but beggars can't be choosers, I suppose.
In any case, I didn't do it and I apologize to awesley for the apparent
insult.
--John L. Scott
|
5142 | From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Subject: RE: Program argument: geometry
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 31
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu, rgasch@nl.oracle.com
#
#I have a question regarding the processing of program arguments
#such as the -geometry option. Since this is a standard X option,
#I'm wondering wether I have to parse it manually or whether there
#is some predefined function that will do this for me?
#
If you are using the Intrinsics, it is parsed for you. If you are working
at the Xlib level, you can parse it yourself or you can use the following
bit of code.
static XrmOptionDescRec options[] = {
{"-geometry", ".geometry", XrmoptionSepArg, (XPointer)NULL}
};
#define Number(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]))
XrmParseCommand(db, options, Number(options), "MyApplication", &argc, argv);
Then use XrmGetResource() to retrieve the value and parse it using
XParseGeometry().
It is probably quicker to parse it yourself from argv, however, I much prefer
using the X resource management routines to do this.
Patrick L. Mahan
--- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM ---------
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered - Lazarus Long
a capital crime. For a first offense, that is From the Notebooks of
Lazarus Long
|
5143 | From: ries@hqrim.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
Subject: Re: " Only $17 / Month! "
Nntp-Posting-Host: hqrim.sedd.trw.com
Organization: TRW SEDD
Lines: 25
A Alan Brock 4/14/93 Orange County Register Editorial titled "A case for
repealing the income tax" got my attention.
Some quotes:
"... a tax on income, because of the flexible definition of that
concept, invites the government to snoop into every nook and
cranny of our lives. Encouraging people to snoop on one another
and report transgressions against the almighty state, which most
Americans deplored in Nazi or communist regimes..."
"... Although most Americans paid no income tax at all 50 years ago
-- withholding began only during World War II, as a "temporary"
exigency, and in 1948 the median family federal income tax was $9..."
"Last year the federal government got only 37 percent of its income
from income taxes... How long ago was it that the federal government
somehow managed to stagger along on 63 percent of its 1992 revenue?
... Would you believe five?..."
"... The income tax has converted a free people into a society of
the fearful and the snitches..."
|
5144 | From: ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons)
Subject: Re: What the clipper nay-sayers sound like to me.
Distribution: na
Nntp-Posting-Host: blanca.lance.colostate.edu
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College
Lines: 39
[... a bunch of well-meaning (maybe) cynnical text about screw-thread
sizes, the rights of people to have their own standards,
and the non-right of the gov. to regulate screw-threads...]
Well, as funny as your little comment may seem, it has very little to
do with your personal privacy as a citizen, and about the governemnt
being able to look at everything you have ever typed into a computer
at one point or another.
This "Clipper Chip" stuff is the seeds for nightmares to make the
Nightmare on Elmstreet cheese-on-celluloid movies look like episodes
of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
IF the gov establishes a cryptography standard that has to be used by
everyone, and everyone's personal key is divided into two segments
and stored at two separate, albeit easy to find places, and that key is
only 80 bits to begin with, we are screwed (pardon the allusion to the
affore-mentioned article)!
the gov, I believe, as do many others probably already have the cracking chips
for this Clipper Chip made. Hell, they probably based the encoder on the
chip that cracks it, that way it's easier to break the code, but since it is a
classified algorythm, no one knows that they can crack it so easily.
I, for one, and quite scared of this kind of thing, and plan to support
organizations (and even disorganizations) who are fighting against this
Clipper Chip in any way that I can.
I do not want the government to be able to have access, even with a search
warrant, to my keys... and I don't want those keys to be only 80 bits long
to begin with!
-nate sammons
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5145 | Distribution: world
From: Pamela_E._Mullen@dbug.org
Organization: Seattle Mac dBUG
Return-Receipt-To: Pamela_E._Mullen@dbug.org
Subject: PB 100 to Non Apple Printer
Lines: 8
Is there a workaround which will enable me to print to a HPLJ4 from my
Powerbook 100? (Actually I'm going to a 4M which will have an Ethernet card in
the LocalTalk slot!!!GRRRRR). Is there some hardware which will enable me to
this easily (kind of plug and play!).
Thanks, Pam Mullen
-- [ This message was sent by a member of Seattle Mac dBUG's ExChange BBS ]
PO Box 3463, Seattle, WA 98114 USA Infoline (206) 624-9329
|
5146 | From: mcguire@cs.utexas.edu (Tommy Marcus McGuire)
Subject: Re: Countersteering_FAQ please post
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Lines: 36
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.cs.utexas.edu
In article <1qmetg$g2n@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
[...]
>horse's neck in the direction you wish to go. When training a
>plow-steering horse to neck-rein, one technique is to cross the reins
>under his necks. Thus, when neck-reining to the left, the right rein
^^^^^
[...]
>Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
[...]
Given my desire to stay as far away as possible from farming and ranching
equipment, I really hate to jump into this thread. I'm going to anyway,
but I really hate it.
Ed, exactly what kind of mutant horse-like entity do you ride, anyway?
Does countersteering work on the normal, garden-variety, one-necked horse?
Obmoto: I was flipping through the March (I think) issue of Rider, and I
saw a small pseudo-ad for a book on hand signals appropriate to motorcycling.
It mentioned something about a signal for "Your passenger is on fire." Any
body know the title and author of this book, and where I could get a copy?
This should not be understood as implying that I have grown sociable enough
to ride with anyone, but the book sounded cute.
-----
Tommy McGuire
mcguire@cs.utexas.edu
mcguire@austin.ibm.com
"...I will append an appropriate disclaimer to outgoing public information,
identifying it as personal and as independent of IBM...."
|
5147 | From: ma201rs@prism.gatech.EDU (SHONKWILER R W)
Subject: screen problem in unix/xwindows/solaris
Keywords: unix xwindows solaris
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 23
Experiment: From a Sun openwindows 4.1.3 xterm window log into a
Solaris 2.x machine using rlogin; now do an "ls" and get the first
character of each line display in the last column of the display
with the rest of the line wrapped to the next line of the display.
Log out and the condition persists. Check stty all, try reset
with no effect.
Use telnet instead of rlogin and it doesn't occur.
Try it from a unix console and it doesn't occur.
(1) What's causing this?
(2) Can it be avoided?
(3) How can the terminal characteristics be reset?
Please send replies to shenk@math.gatech.edu
--
SHONKWILER R W
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ma201rs
ARPA: ma201rs@prism.gatech.edu
|
5148 | From: aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page)
Subject: Re: Importing Volvo?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Lines: 9
There was an article in Business week not more the 4 weeks ago
on this very subject. IN fact the Volvo 850 was one of the cars
they laid out an example for.
--
Andrew E. Page (Warrior Poet) | Decision and Effort The Archer and Arrow
Mac Consultant | The difference between what we are
Macintosh and DSP Technology | and what we want to be.
|
5149 | From: dougr@meaddata.com (Doug Ritter)
Subject: Re: Expanded NL Strike Zone? (Was Re: A surfeit of offense?)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Lines: 30
NNTP-Posting-Host: birch.meaddata.com
In article <13247@news.duke.edu> fierkelab@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (Eric Roush) writes:
>In article <1993Apr14.160447.17835@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu
>(Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:
>
>
>>We won't really be able to say anything for at least another couple of
>>weeks. But so far it looks like a homerific season! (Might the umps
>>be squeezing the strike zone?)
>>
>
>
>Watching the Braves on TBS, I would have said that the strike zone
>in the NL has expanded this season. Specifically, it appears that
>the strike zone has moved above the belt. Yeah, the announcers
>have commented on that also, but it was also my perception.
>
>However, the strike zone hasn't climbed all the way up to
>"the letters". It's more like a little ways under the letters.
>
>Any other perceptions out there?
Judging by the way the Reds' pitchers have performed thus far, it
appears to me that the zone has been squeezed to the size of a grape.
1/2 :-)
--
===============================================================================
Douglas N. Ritter
dougr@meaddata.com Life is short - ride hard!
..!uunet!meaddata!dougr
|
5150 | From: dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Darius_Lecointe)
Subject: Re: Easter: what's in a name? (was Re: New Testament Double Standard?
Organization: Florida State University
Lines: 63
seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna (S.M.) Watson) writes:
> Since the_day_upon_which_most_Christians_celebrate_the_resurrection_of_Jesus
> is approaching, I thought I would comment on this:
>
> In article <Mar.29.03.23.31.1993.19711@athos.rutgers.edu> dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
> >
> What is the objection to celebration of Easter? It is celebration of the
> resurrection of Jesus. I don't recall a command in Scripture for us to
> celebrate the resurrection, but it is the sole and only reason that we
> are Christians--how could we not celebrate it? If it is only the name
Not quite correct. Biblical teaching expects us to celebrate the
resurrection of Christ not once a year but every time someone is baptized.
Col. 2:12-Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the
dead." Rom. 6:4-Therefore we are buried with him in baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
Those really want to celebrate the resurrection should by faith walk in
newness of life after baptism. It is not necessary to celebrate a pagan
goddess in the process.
> > So, as we see from Scripture, those who are of Israel will observe
> >the 7th Day *FOREVER*. The Gentiles who believe in the Messiah of Israel
> >are welcome to observe the 7th Day as well, but it is not required of them
> >since the are adopted into the Commonwealth of Israel. The Gentiles who
> >are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel are only required to observe
> >the basic commands given to those who came before Abram (see also Acts
> >15). No further requirements are placed upon them once they come to faith
> >in Messiah.
> >
> So from this I infer that there are different rules for Christians of Jewish
> descent? What happened to "there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,
> male nor female, for all are one in Christ Jesus"? Jewish Christians/Messianics
> may find certain forms of worship and certain disciplines meaningful because
> of their cultural background, but I have a hard time understanding the
> justification for applying rules or commandments to those who have been
> justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
>
Paul answered your question in Romans 9. In v. 4 he stated that the
adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of
God, and the promises were given to the Israelites. It is a package deal.
He goes on to identify those who are true Israelites. Vs 6-8 makes it
plain that the true Israelites are not those who are born that way but
those who accept the promise of God. Paul continued to emphasize that he
was an Israelite in 2 Cor. 11:22, then in Gal 3:29 he says that all those
who belong to Christ are Abraham's seed, and heirs to all the promises
given to the Israelites. The promises come with the law. It is all or
nothing. Why is it that you only want to discard one part of the law?
Certainly you would want your husband to be faithful to you. Or do you
believe that adultery is no longer forbidden? Same law.
BTW please give a reference for your statement that the Gentiles are only
required to observe the basis commandmants. Could you list those
please. Acts 15 deals with circumcision and the law of Moses which was
added because of transgression of God's eternal law (Gal 3:19; Rom 4:15)
++++++++++++
Darius A. Lecointe | I got my BA when I was Born Again
Department of Educational Research | And my MA when I was Made Anew
Florida State University | Now I'm getting my PhD as I become
Tel: (904) 644-0706 | A Patient, Humble, Disciple.
E-mail: dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
|
5151 | From: cracker@tc.fluke.COM (Don Graham)
Subject: Re: JEEP WRANGLER - OPINI
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Lines: 44
In article <1qht5eINNjdf@hp-col.col.hp.com>, tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke) writes:
> I have had two Wranglers, and still have the second right now. It's a
> 1991 Wrangler Base model with the big I-6 4.0L engine, hard top, no
> power steering or air conditioning. Runs like a top. Has about 37k on
> it. Has never been in the shop. I can change my own oil (nice tall
> vehicle). I can lube it myself (11 fittings). I occasionally take it to
> Jiffy Lube to check the differentials and do the oil change there.
>
> My previous Wrangler had nary a problem either. Here in Colorado there'
> more Jeeps than BMW's, Mercedes, Volvos, and the like together! In fact
> Jeep has been called the Colorado Car for a while. They hold their value
> well, and are very easy to resell. Mine cost right around $14.2K new. Of
> course, I didn't blow money on an Islander, Sahara, or Renegade which
^^^^^^^^^^
I have a 92 Wrangler Sahara and paid $14.1 new (including the rebate).
> are just Wranglers with fancy inside stuff.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
After driving a CJ-5 for 6 years, that fancy stuff is pretty nice.
>
> The cars are primitive, ride like a dump truck, etc.. But if you live in
> an area that gets around 140" of snow per winter, you'd have one too.
> They'll go anywhere (with a winch) and are easy to get parts for. The
^^^^^^^^^^^
I like my Wrangler, but when doing some serious off roading, it can't
keep up with a CJ-5 because of ground clearance and limited suspension
travel. I do have a winch and would like to get an ARB air-locker in the
future.
> 4.0L engine puts out 180-190 HP and gets around 20mpg. Not bad.
I love the 4.0.
>
> Just my experience. I'm sure there are bad ones out there, but that goes
> for any make and model.
>
>
Don Graham
|
5152 | From: Robert Everett Brunskill <rb6t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: $$$ to fix TRACKBALL
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 5
NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu
In-Reply-To: <93105.152944BR4416A@auvm.american.edu>
The little blue roller on the trackball interior is probably rubbing
against its support, just push it down the pin so that it no longer
touches it. I had a similar problem.
Rob
|
5153 | From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
Subject: Re: Sexual Proposition = Sexual Harassment?
Organization: WINCO
Lines: 59
In article <1pkkidINNsrj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
>
>In article <1993Mar30.181636.22756@pmafire.inel.gov>,
>cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook) said:
>
>> A real world data point: A person has a much stronger legal claim for
>> harrassment (sexual or otherwise) if they make it clear to the
>> offender that their behaviour is unwanted. If the behaviour persists,
>> harrassment is much easier to demonstrate, due to the fact that the
>> offender knew that the behaviour was unwanted.
>
>No argument here... my original query regarded the question of why the
>_first_ sexual proposition made by Person A to Person B would be
>considered to be sexual harassment by some/many people. (Assuming, of
>course, that there does not exist a power relationship between A and B
>such that the proposition carries strong implications of extortion right
>from Word One.)
I can only say that those people are wrong. The word harass means to
irritate or torment persistently; I'd hardly consider one time to fall
under the definition of persistent. Additionally, there is no basis
to assume the behaviour is unwanted, unlike an illegal proposition.
>
>> Of course, I think the original question of offering money for sex is
>> inarguably harrassment, because the activity is illegal, and could be
>> presumed to be unwanted by the average citizen.
>
>I have to take issue with this viewpoint... given that (a) prostitution
>is a victimless crime and (b) there are literally millions of Americans
>who participate in some sort of victimless activities which the state
>has defined to be criminal (e.g., prostitution, obscenity, gambling,
>using certain recreational drugs, having non-mercenary sex with persons
>not one's spouse in certain states, having "unnatural" sex with people
>regardless of marital status or exchange of money in certain states,
>etc.), I'd have to say that the idea that an activity may be presumed to
>be unwanted by the average citizen merely because it is illegal is the
>sort of sophistry that only a judge could indulge in with a straight
>face. (He said, speaking as a law student who's read his share of
>judicial opinions in which reality was not only denied but, in fact,
>actually inverted in order to make the universe conform to the writer's
>politics.)
I was speaking from a legalistic viewpoint. What you say is true, but
the law, in order to make what little sense it manages to make, has to
make *some* assumptions. Assuming that an illegal activity is unwanted
by the average citizen I think is reasonable. Certainly, I would need
a preponderance of evidence on the side of the propositioner that there
was a reasonable belief that the proposition was welcome.
The number of people who participate in "victimless" crimes notwithstanding,
the fact reamins that under the law, the activity is illegal. To presume
that the proposition *is* welcome simply because a large number of people
indulge in it is the type of sophistry only a lawyer could indulge in
with a straight face.
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...Dale Cook "Any town having more churches than bars has a serious
social problem." ---Edward Abbey
The opinions are mine only (i.e., they are NOT my employer's)
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|
5154 | From: idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick)
Subject: Re: Rumours about 3DO ???
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.7272
Organization: Portland State University, Computer Science Dept.
Lines: 20
In article <1993Apr15.164940.11632@mercury.unt.edu> mcmains@unt.edu (Sean McMains) writes:
>
>Wow! A 68070! I'd be very interested to get my hands on one of these,
>especially considering the fact that Motorola has not yet released the
>68060, which is supposedly the next in the 680x0 lineup. 8-D
A 68070 is just a 68010 with a built in MMU. I don't even think that Moto.
manufactures them.
- Ian Romanick
Dancing Fool of Epsilon
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5155 | From: maler@vercors.imag.fr (Oded Maler)
Subject: Re: Binyamin Netanyahu on CNN tonight.
Nntp-Posting-Host: pelvoux
Organization: IMAG, University of Grenoble, France
Lines: 16
I have not seen but I guess would not liked it - to me he
represents the worst of both American and Israeli politics
- but this is a matter of taste.
As for the famous confession, it is currently believed (at
least by some people) that all this adultry affair was just
invented by him in order to impress the Likkud voters (and poor
jealous Hamazah) and appear as a "real" man.
--
===============================================================
Oded Maler, LGI-IMAG, Bat D, B.P. 53x, 38041 Grenoble, France
Phone: 76635846 Fax: 76446675 e-mail: maler@imag.fr
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|
5156 | From: craycrof@ruchbah.rtp.semi.harris.com (Bob Craycroft x629)
Subject: [Q] ASUS Motherboards?
Nntp-Posting-Host: ruchbah.rtp.semi.harris.com
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Research Triangle Park, NC
Keywords: ASUS motherboard linux
Summary: Seeking advice/experience with ASUS motherboards, eps. wrt linux
Lines: 9
I'm considering the purchase of a 486DX-33 VLB system to run linux.
The system has an ASUS-brand motherboard. Anyone have any comments
on ASUS motherboards?
Thanks,
--
Bob Craycroft | craycrof@rtp.semi.harris.com
Systems Analyst | Phone: (919) 549-3629
Harris Semiconductor - RTP, NC USA |
|
5157 | From: mike@drd.com (Mike.Rovak)
Subject: workaround for Citizen drivers
Summary: workaround
Keywords: printer driver Citizen PN48 GSX-140
Organization: DRD Corporation
Lines: 38
I have been experiencing several end-user problems with various commercial
software packages (WordPerfect 5.2/WIN, Publish It!/WIN 3.1) and printing
landscape mode on a Citizen PN48 (the little guy) or the Citizen GSX-140+.
In a nutshell the problem is that I lose the first 0.625 inches of
information from my left margin, be it white space or TrueType font
output, and margins are not preserved on subsequent pages past the
first.
WordPerfect had a workaround consisting of using the "Default" location
for the printers instead of "Tractor" or "Manual". They have also filed
this as a bug and are continuing to investigate it.
MS Write, of course, has no problem with these printer drivers, proving that
Microsoft knows something the rest of us don't! Are you surprised? I'm
not.
Publish It!/WIN is still investigating this problem, and while I was consider-
my options (rejecting the one about buying an $800 DTP package, for *surely*
they wouldn't have this problem, right?) I stumbled onto a global workaround.
WORKAROUND
----------
Go into the Windows 3.1 control panel, select printers, select your Citizen
printer driver, select SETUP, and select a custom size of 850 x 1132. Like
magic, all of your problems will go away.
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies!
-- Mike
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Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
========================================================================
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mike.rovak@drd.com
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|
5158 | From: gtoal@gtoal.com (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Do we need the clipper for cheap security?
Lines: 43
: From: caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni)
: In article <9304201003.AA05465@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> gtoal@gtoal.com (Graham Toal) writes:
: >Can someone tell me if hardware compression is or is not needed to run
: >digital speech down 14.4K? I think it is; I've heard it's not. Lets
: >say 8 bit samples. Would *raw* data at the corresponding sampling rate
: >be usable? If not, how fancy does the compression need to be?
: As far as I know ISDN (call it Swissnet here, and it's being plugged in) it's
: 8 bit 8000Hz (gives you one channel of 64kBit/sec) I guess you should not go
: below a sampling rate of 6000 Hz if you want to have same quality as on an
: analog-line. Anybody knows compression-algorithms & -factors for voice ?
I've posted some info on CELP coding on sci.crypt. Looks like you can
squeeze speech into 4000bps if you have a fast enough computer like a
sparcstation (or a Newton with the Acorn Risc Machine in it :-) )
This drops the bandwidth to so low a figure that it's feasible to run
speech over tcp/ip running on top of slip down a v32bis modem. Not only
will this let us run point to point encrypted speech, it'll let us
run speech internationally over the internet if no-one stops us by
getting *very* heavy about regulations. The thought of this, if the
administration realised, would probably scare them shitless.
Now of course the trick is to develop and define a standard protocol
for internet speech *damn fast*, allowing anyone who feels brave to
inplement custom handheld hardware as well as us hacking it on our
workstations. Shouldn't be too difficult. The CELP stuff is standardised,
we use tcp/ip streams, and a protocol allowing silences to be used to
catch up on any net lag, and also to avoid sending any data during
silences (ie it's not wise to be synchronised real-time on each end
because any net delays would add up to big voice-lags)
As for me, I'm going to press ahead on trying this stuff as soon as
I get my sparc back from being loaned out and buy the necessary microphone.
It'll save me a fortune in calling my friend in texas every night :)
(whether encrypted or not)
You know, surely *someone* is working on this. Who? It's so obvious,
why doesn't it exist already? I've only seen netphone for Suns and
it didn't do the CELP compression so was restricted to ether connections.
G
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5159 | From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
Subject: Re: CA's pedophilia laws
Organization: Kalamazoo College
Lines: 79
cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
>#
># Having completely
># dived into the abyss of believing that there are no queers in the world
># who think differently from the child-molestation-advocating minority on
># soc.motss, he doesn't even notice that he's starting a sentence with
># "They believe" when the referent of that "they" is millions of people.
># "...so few as to be irrelevant..."
>
>If you don't want to be lumped together as a group, stop insisting
>on being treated as a member of a group.
Please point out where I have said I even _was_ a member of that group,
much less asked to be treated as such, much less insisted upon it.
>Sexual orientation is not defined by the anti-discrimination law
>that was passed last year. Pedophilia isn't a sexual orientation?
Wait a minute. You've been claiming for quite a while now that
pedophilia, according to CA state law, is a sexual orientation. Now
your position is that the law doesn't specifically exclude it?
You know damn well what's going to happen. Some guy in a NAMBLA
T-shirt's going to apply at a day-care, they're going to turn him down,
he's going to take it to court, and the court's going to rule that
sexual orientation is defined as homosexuality, heterosexuality, or
bisexuality.
Unless and until that court decides that pedophilia is a sexual
orientation, you have no business saying so.
># "Silence = Death" pin or something. They turn me down because of
># that.
>
>I wholeheartedly support their right to take this action. I wouldn't
>do it myself, unless it was something like the NAMBLA T-shirt.
Despite the fact that all homosexuals are lying bastards?
># How about: a black man applies for a job at a bank. The bank decides,
># based on statistics, a black person would be more likely to steal
># money, and denies the man the job. Would you support the bank's right
># to this freedom?
>
>I support their right to do so [deletia] but [deletia]
Ah.
So, for example, you are opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
>Here's the law that was passed and signed by the governor:
>
> The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
>
> 1 SECTION 1. The purpose of this act is to codify
> 2 existing case law as determined in Gay Law Students v.
> 3 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, 24 Cal. 3d 458 (1979)
> 4 and Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp., 235 Cal. App. 3d 654
> 5 (1991) prohibiting discrimination based on sexual
> 6 orientation.
> 7 SEC. 2. Section 1102. is added to the Labor Code, to
> 8 read:
> 9 1102.1. (a) Sections 1101 and 1102 prohibit
>10 discrimination or disparate treatment in any of the terms
>11 and conditions of employment based on actual or
>12 perceived sexual orientation.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>13 (b) This section shall not apply to a religious
>14 association or corporation not organized for private
>15 profit, whether incorporated as a religious or public
>16 benefit corporation.
There's no "for purposes of this act, the term 'sexual orientation' will
be defined as" section? No definitions anywhere? Did they run this
through the state Congress on an accelerated schedule or something?
--
Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
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5160 | From: reczek@acsu.buffalo.edu (Timothy J. Reczek)
Subject: Wanted - dialog box to select file(s) for DOS apps
Article-I.D.: acsu.C5Jq1D.HCp
Organization: UB
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Originator: reczek@tolstoy.acsu.buffalo.edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: tolstoy.acsu.buffalo.edu
I'm looking for a program that will let me use a windows
common dialog box to select a file to use when running a DOS app.
Basically, I have several DOS apps that I use now and then
with different files. They all accept a file as a command line
parameter, but the only way (at least that I know of) to do this
easily when running them from windows is to set up the PIF file so
that it prompts me for additional parameters (at which point I type
in the file name).
Problems are:
1) Sometimes I can't remember where the file is exactly located and it
would be nice to browse my directories for it without having to use the
file manager.
and 2) I'm lazy and hate to type long pathnames for files burried
several directory levels deep.
If anyone can point me to such a program or let me know of some
other way to handle this, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Tim
--
The Net isn't organized enough to be considered an anarchy
reczek@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu
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5161 | From: richard@amc.com (Richard Wernick)
Subject: Bruins in the Playoffs
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
Distribution: na
Lines: 19
Well Bruins fans it's playoff time again.
It looks like the B's have peaked at the right time.
Getting out of the Adams is going to be a cat fight to the end.
After what they did to Montreal and Quebec, these teams will be out for
revenge. If Neely can stay healthy, and both Bourque and Moog stay sharp,
we should get to see Neely finally take out two years of frustration
on Ulf (I don't fight) Samuelson. I don't agree with fighting in the NHL,
but if there is one guy who deserves to be taken out good, it's him.
This is going to be a good series, Go Bruins!!!!
Rchard
richard@amc.com
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5162 | From: sgberg@charon.bloomington.in.us (Stefan G. Berg)
Subject: Re: Motorola XC68882RC33 and RC50
Reply-To: sgberg@charon.bloomington.in.us (Stefan Berg)
Distribution: world
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Lines: 25
In article <16APR199323531467@rosie.uh.edu> st1my@rosie.uh.edu (Stich, Christian E.) writes:
> I just installed a Motorola XC68882RC50 FPU in an Amiga A2630 board (25 MHz
> 68030 + 68882 with capability to clock the FPU separately). Previously
> a MC68882RC25 was installed and everything was working perfectly. Now the
> systems displays a yellow screen (indicating a exception) when it check for
> the presence/type of FPU. When I reinstall an MC68882RC25 the system works
> fine, but with the XC68882 even at 25 MHz it does not work. The designer
> of the board mentioned that putting a pullup resistor on data_strobe (470 Ohm)
> might help, but that didn't change anything. Does anybody have some
> suggestions what I could do? Does this look like a CPU-FPU communications
> problem or is the particular chip dead (it is a pull, not new)?
> Moreover, the place I bought it from is sending me an XC68882RC33. I thought
> that the 68882RC33 were labeled MC not XC (for not finalized mask design).
> Are there any MC68882RC33?
I, too, have a XC68882RC50 math coprocessor, which I installed
succesfully in my Mega Midget Racer (clocked at 33 MHz). I have tried
clocking my FPU at 28 to 50 MHz and it all worked just fine. I have a
MC68030-33 CPU. I don't know why my FPU has an XC (my original 33MHz FPU
was label MC68882-33), but it seems to work fine on my system. Maybe you
just have a bad chip.
Stefan
P.S. Or does it mean eXperimental Chip instead of Motorola Chip? .-)
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5163 | From: ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Alicea)
Subject: Re: Freemasonry and the Southern Baptist Convention
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Lines: 20
Reply-To: ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Alicea)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu
In a previous article, jluther@cs.umr.edu (John W. Luther) says:
John:
It not "good netiquette" to quote a complete article :-) NOTHING
PERSONAL, Please! :-)
>I also appreciate your being amused
>by such determined ignorance. Without taking anything away
>from your mirth, I want to say that these views sadden me.
>
This views sadden me too! Don't think that I don't care! Sorry
if it seemed different. It IS serious stuff; but I have a 'sick' sense of
humor though (some say... :-)
Tolerance!
Tony
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5164 | From: klaty@atchafalaya.engin.umich.edu (Brad Alan Klaty)
Subject: Goalies
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Lines: 10
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: atchafalaya.engin.umich.edu
Originator: klaty@atchafalaya.engin.umich.edu
I've heard that you can score on Belfour by shooting high
because he goes down a lot, and on Potvin by shooting high
on him and then getting the rebound in because he plays so
deep in the net. Any truth to these?
Brad
A Wings fan, but no predictions.
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5165 | From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bill Conner)
Subject: Re: thoughts on christians
Nntp-Posting-Host: okcforum.osrhe.edu
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]
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Kent Sandvik (sandvik@newton.apple.com) wrote:
: > This is a good point, but I think "average" people do not take up Christianity
: > so much out of fear or escapism, but, quite simply, as a way to improve their
: > social life, or to get more involved with American culture, if they are kids of
: > immigrants for example. Since it is the overwhelming major religion in the
: > Western World (in some form or other), it is simply the choice people take if
: > they are bored and want to do something new with their lives, but not somethong
: > TOO new, or TOO out of the ordinary. Seems a little weak, but as long as it
: > doesn't hurt anybody...
: The social pressure is indeed a very important factor for the majority
: of passive Christians in our world today. In the case of early Christianity
: the promise of a heavenly afterlife, independent of your social status,
: was also a very promising gift (reason slaves and non-Romans accepted
: the religion very rapidly).
If this is a hypothetical proposition, you should say so, if it's
fact, you should cite your sources. If all this is the amateur
sociologist sub-branch of a.a however, it would suffice to alert the
unwary that you are just screwing around ...
Bill
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5166 | From: dtmedin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com (Dave Medin)
Subject: Re: Where do U look??
Reply-To: dtmedin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL
Lines: 43
In article <1993Apr2.170955.1749@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
|> I might add that collecting last year's data books (or even ones two years out
|> of date) is usually pretty cheap, and has benefits besides: You usually DON'T
|> want to base a design on a brand-new chip. There may be bugs; availability may
|> be limited; the data sheets may be missing critical information that will show
|> up in the ap notes in next year's data books. Kinda like buying Version 1.0 of
|> a major new software package: Sometimes you get lucky, but don't count on it.
There are two more reasons to save old databooks and then beyond two
years--obsoleted parts and better application notes and tutorials.
When a part is dropped from future production planning, such as the
National MM-series white noise generators, camera sync generators, etc.,
it will disappear from current databooks although it still may be produced
for a short time (or be available from stock somewhere). Now, if you
have some old plans calling for such a device, or you have a dead
gadget on your workbench and it has such a part in it, you'll know
the functions so you can troubleshoot and substitute as necessary.
The old GE thyristor data books contain real good tutorials on
SCR and triac applications that are not found elsewhere, for
example.
|> > In summary, read. READ! ****READ!!!**** That's how you'll know what to
|> > design in, which parts to use, and how to solve the intractable problem
|> > that your boss has presented you with.
|>
|> It helps to have a prodigous memory for details...
Here, here!...
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Medin Phone: (205) 730-3169 (w)
SSD--Networking (205) 837-1174 (h)
Intergraph Corp.
M/S GD3004 Internet: dtmedin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
Huntsville, AL 35894 UUCP: ...uunet!ingr!b30!catbyte!dtmedin
******* Everywhere You Look (at least around my office) *******
* The opinions expressed here are mine (or those of my machine)
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5167 | From: jdmooney@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (John D. Mooney)
Subject: Re: anti-theft devices
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
Lines: 36
Originator: jdmooney@koinsv02
In article <99948@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>, rhaar@gmr.com (Bob Haar) writes:
> In article 3056@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com, jdmooney@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (John D. Mooney) writes:
> |>
> |>Someone writes:
> |>>
> |>> BTW, somebody stole the front grille off my beat-up 1983 Nissan Sentra
> |>> a few weeks ago! I couldn't believe it. I'm just driving around
> |>> without it now.
> |>
> |>Years ago, my brother lived in a ROUGH area.... he left his NOVA
> |>parked on the street in FRONT of his house for a few days.....
> |>one day he went to move it back into the driveway, it wouldn't start....
> |>
> |>Seems some industrious fool needed a NOVA GAS TANK..... the fool found
> |>one under my brothers car.
> |>
>
> The engines in VW Beatles are quite easy to remove without entering the car
> or even opening the engine compartment. How would you like to find that
> your car wouldn't start because the engine was stolen?
>
I would probobly feel a hell of a lot poorer... a gas tank is about
50$ in a junkyard. An engine... more!
Seriously though, my other brother, DARRELL, left his VW on the same
street... someone stole the radiator out of it.... try finding a VW
radiator in a junkyard :-) I DARE YOU !
JD
--
********************************************************************************
* John D Mooney Delco Electronics General Motors *
* ------------------ jdmooney@kocrsv01@delcoelect.com -------------------------*
* Opinions expressed are MINE... NOT necessarily DE's or GM's *
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5168 | From: klute@tommy.INformatik.uni-dortmund.DE (Rainer Klute)
Subject: Imake support for xmosaic
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Lines: 20
NNTP-Posting-Host: enterpoop.mit.edu
To: xannounce@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Imake support for xmosaic
=========================
Although xmosaic is a great program in general, it unfortunately comes
without Imake support. So I created one. Until Marc Andreessen finds the
time to incorporate it in an official xmosaic release, you can easily do it
yourself. Use anonymous FTP to get
ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/X11/misc/xmosaic.Imake.tar.z
The file's size is 3200 Byte. You will need gzip to unpack it. Have fun!
--
Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute I R B : immer richtig beraten
Univ. Dortmund, IRB
Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
D-W4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
new address after June 30th: Univ. Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund
|
5169 | From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
Subject: Re: MORBUS MENIERE - is there a real remedy?
Organization: WINCO
Lines: 19
In article <19607@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>>A recent movie, Lorenzo's Oil, offers a perfect example of what
>>I'm talking about. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's not
>
>I saw it. It is almost a unique case in history. First, ALD
>is a rare but fatal disease. [...]
>Their accomplishment was significant. (Of course, it was overplayed
>in the movie for dramatic effect. The oil is not curative, and doesn't even
>prevent progression, only slows it.)
There's a pretty good article in the the March 6, 1993 New Scientist titled
"Pouring cold water on Lorenzo's oil". The article states that research
has shown that the oil has no discernable effect on the progression of the
disease in patients in which demyelination has begun. In patients with
AMN (a less acute form of the same disease) there is some improvement
seen in the ability of nerve fibres to conduct impulses. In ALD patients
who have not yet begun demyelination, the jury is still out.
---Dale Cook
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5170 | From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)
Subject: Re: Elevator to the top floor
Organization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL
Lines: 56
Reading from a Amoco Performance Products data sheet, their
ERL-1906 resin with T40 carbon fiber reinforcement has a compressive
strength of 280,000 psi. It has a density of 0.058 lb/cu in,
therefore the theoretical height for a constant section column
that can just support itself is 4.8 million inches, or 400,000 ft,
or 75 Statute miles.
Now, a real structure will have horizontal bracing (either a truss
type, or guy wires, or both) and will be used below the crush strength.
Let us assume that we will operate at 40% of the theoretical
strength. This gives a working height of 30 miles for a constant
section column.
A constant section column is not the limit on how high you can
build something if you allow a tapering of the cross section
as you go up. For example, let us say you have a 280,000 pound
load to support at the top of the tower (for simplicity in
calculation). This requires 2.5 square inches of column cross
sectional area to support the weight. The mile of structure
below the payload will itself weigh 9,200 lb, so at 1 mile
below the payload, the total load is now 289,200 lb, a 3.3% increase.
The next mile of structure must be 3.3% thicker in cross section
to support the top mile of tower plus the payload. Each mile
of structure must increase in area by the same ratio all the way
to the bottom. We can see from this that there is no theoretical
limit on area, although there will be practical limits based
on how much composites we can afford to by at $40/lb, and how
much load you need to support on the ground (for which you need
a foundation that the bedrock can support.
Let us arbitrarily choose $1 billion as the limit in costruction
cost. With this we can afford perhaps 10,000,000 lb of composites,
assuming our finished structure costs $100/lb. The $40/lb figure
is just for materials cost. Then we have a tower/payload mass
ratio of 35.7:1. At a 3.3% mass ratio per mile, the tower
height becomes 111 miles. This is clearly above the significant
atmosphere. A rocket launched from the top of the tower will still
have to provide orbital velocity, but atmospheric drag and g-losses
will be almost eliminated. G-losses are the component of
rocket thrust in the vertical direction to counter gravity,
but which do not contribute to horizontal orbital velocity. Thus
they represent wasted thrust. Together with drag, rockets starting
from the ground have a 15% velocity penalty to contend with.
This analysis is simplified, in that it does not consider wind
loads. These will require more structural support over the first
15 miles of height. Above that, the air pressure drops to a low
enough value for it not to be a big factor.
Dani Eder
--
Dani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/
Rt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37' N 86deg 43' W +100m alt.
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5171 | From: boyle@cactus.org (Craig Boyle)
Subject: Re: Basics about maintenance
Article-I.D.: cactus.1993Apr6.002142.6753
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Lines: 30
In article <1993Apr5.175719.7892@telxon.mis.telxon.com> joes@telxon.mis.telxon.com (Joe Staudt) writes:
>In article <1piip4$bo6@agate.berkeley.edu> hubertc@whistle.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Hung-Hsien (Hubert) Chang) writes:
>>
>>Hi! being new to a car owner, I would pretty much like to know more about
>>some basics of maintaining the cars.
>>
>>I know the following:
>>
>>1. Oil has to be changed every 3000 miles.
>
>Change the oil filter, too.
>
>>2. Check tires before going on the high way. And fill up the tank.
>
>Make that monthly, or more often if you know one or more of your
>tires has a slow leak.
If the tire has a leak you should fix it.
>
>>What others? Thank you.
>
>
>4. Check ALL fluids regularly (every month?), check the oil every time you
> fill up with gas.
Doesn't work too well if the engine is hot, its more accurate to check the
oil when the engine is cool, i.e. not when you are at a gas station.
Craig
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5172 | From: Lawrence Curcio <lc2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Big amateur rockets
Organization: Doctoral student, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <C5Ky9y.MKK@raistlin.udev.cdc.com>
Let's see. These aren't, in a strict sense, amateur rockets. That term
denotes rockets, the engines of which are constructed by the user. The
rockets you describe are called HPR, or high power rockets, to
distinguish them from (smaller) model rockets. They use factory-made
ammonium perchlorate composite propellants in phenolic plastic engines
with graphite nozzles. The engines are classified by impulse. A "D"
engine, for example, can have no more than 20 newton-seconds of impulse.
An "F" engine can have no more than 40 ns. Each letter corresponds to a
doubling of the maximum impulse. So far, engines up to size "O" are
available pretty much off the shelf. Engines of size H and above are
shipped as Class B explosives, and as such are controlled. Engines of
size F and below are shipped as Class C explosives, and are not as
controlled. Class F engines, BTW, are not HPR engines, but model rocket
engines. (Class G engines go in and out of legal limbo.)
There is an HPR Society, The Tripoli Rocket Society, I believe, which
holds events at various sites throughout the year, with all legalities
(FAA waiver included) taken care of. The National Association of
Rocketry is more concerned with engines below H, though it is involved
in HPR as well. These societies certify users of HPR rockets, and
companies will not sell to uncertified individuals.
Bottom Line: It's legit. I suggest you send for a catalog - but forget
the dynamite, will ya?
-Larry C.
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5173 | From: boone@psc.edu (Jon Boone)
Subject: Re: Why Spanky?
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh PA, USA
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NNTP-Posting-Host: postoffice1.psc.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
On Mon, 12 Apr 93 00:53:14 GMT in <<1993Apr12.005314.5700@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>> Greg Spira (gspira@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
:>Does anybody in the Pittsburgh area know why Mike LaValliere was released?
:>Last year I kept saying that Slaught should get the bulk of the playing time,
:>that he was clearly the better player at this point, but Leyland insisted on
:>keeping a pretty strict platoon. And now he is released? That doesn't
:>make any sense to me.
Greg,
The story goes like this:
Spanky is too slow! If he were quicker, he would still be here.
But with Slaught and Tom Prince, they didn't want to lose Prince in order
to bring up that 11th pitcher. Slaught is about as good as Spanky and
Prince is coming along nicely!
Don't feel too bad for him. He's still gonna get theat $4,000,000
over the next two years -- he'll be able to do most of what he wants to
do.
--
/*****************************************************************************/
/* Jon `Iain` Boone Network Systems Administrator boone@psc.edu */
/* iain+@cmu.edu Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (412) 268-6959 */
/* I don't speak for anyone other than myself, unless otherwise stated!!!!!! */
/*****************************************************************************/
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5174 | From: Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org>
Subject: H.R. violations by Israel/Arab st.
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1483500360:000:2383
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!cpr Apr 24 16:07:00 1993
Lines: 48
Many of you ask me whether I approve of severe human rights
violations by Arab States becuse I focus on Israeli human rights
violations.
Let's make things clear: My opposition to H.R. violations in Arab
States is total and without qualification. No Arab State is and can
claim to be democratic. No Arab state claims to be democratic.
I am born in Palestine (now Israel). I have family there. The lack of
peace and utter injustice in my home country has affected me all my life.
I am concerned by Palestine (Israel) because I want peace to come to
it. Peace AND justice.
If anybody has legitimate claims towards Arab states, he should present
his claims and ask for support. Jews who left Arab states are fully
entitled to make claims and should do so, if they consider their case has
a merit. It is their basic right to return to these countries, if they
wish. If not, they should not complain and compare themselves to the
Palestinians who have been struggling for the right of return since
Israel was established and whose right is upheld by the United Nations
quasi totally. If Jews feel discriminated in Arab countries, they have a
legitimate claim that any decent person can and should support.
Human rights violations by Arab States don't justify, legitimate nor
are the cause for Israeli breaches of international law and human rioghts.
Israeli breaches stem from the Zionist concept, which can only be
implemented by negating basic rights to Palestinians.
Israeli trights and Palestinian rights are not symmetrical. The first
party has a state and the other has none. The first is an occupier and
the second the occupied. For any meaningful relationship to emerge, some
symmetry must be established. As long as Israelis and Jews don't realise
the necessity of a change of perspective towards the Palestinian people
and as long as Israelis and Jews don't want to exorcise their own
past towards the Palestinians (the Naqba of 1948, etc.) and refuse to
acknowledge that the creation of Israel was dependent upon the removal
of most Palestinian Arabs, there will be no base for a real trust.
When I read the first time the list of the 383 Arab villages
destroyed by the State of Israel in and after 1948, I got a shock.
I hope others will be touched by this discovery and think about the
meaning of such massive destruction and destitution.
Elias Davidsson
Iceland
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5175 | From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
Subject: Re: Animation with XPutImage()?
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
Lines: 51
In article <1993Apr22.092830.2190@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, dcr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Derek C. Richardson) writes:
> I just implemented this and it seems I can just about achieve the display
> rates (20 400x400x8 frames / sec on IPX) that I get with Sunview, though
> it's a bit "choppy" at times. Also, loading the data, making an XImage,
> then XPut'ing it into a pixmap is a bit cumbersome, so the animation is
> slower to load than with Sunview. Is there a better way to load in the
> data?
>
> rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch) writes:
> > If you need speed, and your client can run on the same host as the X server,
> > you should use the shared memory extension to the sample X server (MIT-SHM).
> > xdpyinfo will tell you if your server has this extension. This is certainly
> > available with the sample MIT X server running under SunOS.
> > A word of warning: make sure your kernel is configured to support shared
> > memory. And another word of warning: OpenWindows is slower than the MIT
> > server.
> > I have written an imaging tool (using XView for the GUI, by the way) which
> > yields over 10 frames per second for 512*512*8 bit images, running on a Sparc
> > IPC (half the cpu grunt of an IPX). This has proved quite sufficient for
> > animations.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Gooch....
>
> Shared memory PutImage (also mentioned by nkissebe@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu,
> Nick Kisseberth) looks interesting, but I need someone to point me to some
> documentation. Is this method likely to give better results than server-
> resident pixmaps? I'd also be interested in looking at the XView code
> mentioned above...
>
> Thanks for the help so far. If I get something decent put together, I'll
> definitely post it to the Net.
>
The MIT tapes come with documentation written by Keith Packard on the Shared
Memory Extension to X. Look in: mit/doc/extensions/mit-shm.ms
I found this invaluble. Unfortunately, there is a bit of work to set up the
shared memory segments, making an XImage from it, etc. Also, there is an
extension query to determine if the server supports it, but you still need to
test if the server is running on the same host and if shared memory is enabled
in the kernel. I have written layers of convience routines which make all this
transparent.
As for the XView code, well, I doubt that would be considered interesting.
The interesting stuff is done in a C object library. People interested in this
code can Email me.
Regards,
Richard Gooch,
rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
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5176 | From: sheinfel@ssd.comm.mot.com (Aviad Sheinfeld)
Subject: Re: Lo Jack
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Keywords: n
Nntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.172.11
Lines: 9
According to a LoJack representative I saw recently, LoJack must be installed by
an authorized LoJack dealer, and is placed in one of (roughly) 30 spots in the
car...
>Thanks,
>Steve M. att.com!mantic!srmal
Sure,
Aviad
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5177 | From: bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman)
Subject: Re: Women's Jackets? (was Ed must be a Daemon Child!!)
Nntp-Posting-Host: fred.colorado.edu
Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, OCS
Distribution: usa
Lines: 48
In article <bethdC5Juzw.18F@netcom.com> bethd@netcom.com (Beth Dixon) writes:
>In article <1993Apr14.141637.20071@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jhensley@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Hensley) writes:
>>Beth Dixon (bethd@netcom.com) wrote:
>>: new Duc 750SS doesn't, so I'll have to go back to carrying my lipstick
>>: in my jacket pocket. Life is _so_ hard. :-)
>>
>>My wife is looking for a jacket, and most of the men's styles she's tried
>>don't fit too well. If they fit the shoulders and arms, they're too
>>tight across the chest, or something like that. Anyone have any
>>suggestions? I'm assuming that the V-Pilot, in addition to its handy
>>storage facilities, is a pretty decent fit. Is there any company that
>>makes a reasonable line of women's motorcycling stuff? More importantly,
>>does anyone in Boulder or Denver know of a shop that bothers carrying any?
>
>I was very lucky I found a jacket I liked that actually _fits_.
>HG makes the v-pilot jackets, mine is a very similar style made
>by Just Leather in San Jose. I bought one of the last two they
>ever made.
>
>Finding decent womens motorcycling gear is not easy. There is a lot
>of stuff out there that's fringed everywhere, made of fashion leather,
>made to fit men, etc. I don't know of a shop in your area. There
>are some women rider friendly places in the San Francisco/San Jose
>area, but I don't recommend buying clothing mail order. Too hard
>to tell if it'll fit. Bates custom makes leathers. You might want
>to call them (they're in L.A.) and get a cost estimate for the type
>of jacket your wife is interested in. Large manufacturers like
>BMW and H.G. sell women's lines of clothing of decent quality, but
>fit is iffy.
>
>A while ago, Noemi and Lisa Sieverts were talking about starting
>a business doing just this sort of thing. Don't know what they
>finally decided.
>
>Beth
Seems to me that Johns H.D. in Ft Collins used to carry some
honest to god womens garb.>
>=================================================================
>Beth [The One True Beth] Dixon bethd@netcom.com
>1981 Yamaha SR250 "Excitable Girl" DoD #0384
>1979 Yamaha SR500 "Spike the Garage Rat" FSSNOC #1843
>1992 Ducati 750SS AMA #631903
>1963 Ducati 250 Monza -- restoration project 1KQSPT = 1.8
>"I can keep a handle on anything just this side of deranged."
> -- ZZ Top
>=================================================================
|
5178 | From: thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Subject: Re: Title for XTerm
Keywords: XTerm
Organization: Cities in Dust
Lines: 37
In <1993Apr17.170907.25718@samba.oit.unc.edu> naoumov@physics.unc.edu (Sergei Naoumov) writes:
>Hey guys!
>I work on many stations and would like this name and current logname
>to be in a title of Xterm when it's open and a machine name only
>when it's closed. In other words, I want $HOST and $LOGNAME to appear
>as a title of opened XTerm and $HOST when XTerm is closed.
>How can I do it?
>Thnsks in advance,
> Serge
> serge@gluttony.astro.unc.edu
Almost all window managers (twm, mwm, olwm and their derivates) support
escape sequences for it. For your purpose put following into your
.login (if you're using csh or tcsh), for sh you have to modify it.
if ( "$term" == "xterm" ) then
echo "^[]2;${LOGNAME}@${HOST}^G^[]1;${HOST}^G"
endif
Note, ^[ stands for <Esc>, in vi you can enter it by pressing
Ctrl-V and the <Esc>. Same for ^G, it means Ctrl-G. In vi:
press Ctrl-V and then Ctrl-G.
The first sequence puts the string into the title bar the second
in the icon.
BTW, you can also put the current working directory in the
title bar if you make an alias for cd:
alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo "^[]2;${LOGNAME}@${HOST}: ${cwd}^G"'
greetings,
Thomas
--
Thomas Wolfram, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de
EANTC, TU Berlin, wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de, +49 030 31421294
|
5179 | From: shaw@feanor.xel.com (Greg Shaw)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI
Organization: XEL Communications, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]
Lines: 39
GRUBB (bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu) wrote:
: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
: >What does a 200-400 meg 5 megs/sec SCSI drive cost?
: Since the Quadra is the only Mac able to deal with 5MB/s and Hard drives START
: at 160MB I have NO idea.
: For the Mac I have the following {These are ALL external}
: 20MB $299 {$15/MB}
: 52MB $379 {$7.3/MB}
: 80MB $449 {$5.63/MB}
: 120MB $569-$639 {$4.75-$5.33/MB
: 210MB $979-$1029{$4.67-$4.90/MB}
: 320MB $1499-$1549 {$4.68-$4.84/MB}
: 510MB $1999-$2119 ($3.92-$4.31/MB}
: etc
I thought you might want the latest prices:
As of MacWeek 4/12/93:
Meg: Int Ext
20M - couldn't find one available.
42M - $159 $219
85M - $199 $269
127 - $279 $349
170 - $299 $359 All above are quantum, low profile (1") 3.5" drives
240 - $369 $449
525 - $899 $979
1225- $1499 $1569 - the last three are quantum 1/2 height 3.5" drives.
[ bunch o stuff deleted ]
: SCSI came FROM the high end computer world with multitasking OS were the
: standard for the most part.
Hear, hear.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
You can't go against nature, because when you do, Greg Shaw
go against nature, it's part of nature too. shaw@feanor.xel.com
Love & Rockets uunet!csn!xel.com!shaw
|
5180 | From: mike@mks.com (Mike Brookbank)
Subject: MGBs and the real world
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Lines: 14
My sister has an MGB. She has one from the last year they were produced
(1978? 1979?). Its in very good shape. I've been bugging her for years
about selling it. I've said over and over that she should sell it
before the car is worthless while she maintains that the car may
actually be increasing in value as a result of its limited availability.
Which one of us is right? Are there MGB affectionados out there who are
still willing to pay $6K to 8K for an old MG? Are there a lot out in the
market?
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Brookbank, |MKS| 35 King St. North mike@mks.com
Director, InterOpen Sales, |MKT| Waterloo, Ontario (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. |MKS| Canada, N2J 2W9 fax (519)884-8861
|
5181 | From: yohan@citation.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan W Newton)
Subject: Re: Societally acceptable behavior
Organization: Kansas State University
Lines: 35
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: citation.ksu.ksu.edu
In article <C5qGM3.DL8@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
>Merely a question for the basis of morality
>
>Moral/Ethical behavior = _Societally_ _acceptable_ _behavior_.
I disagree with these. What society thinks should be irrelevant. What the
individual decides is all that is important.
>
>1)Who is society
I think this is fairly obvious
>
>2)How do "they" define what is acceptable?
Generally by what they "feel" is right, which is the most idiotic policy I can
think of.
>
>3)How do we keep from a "whatever is legal is what is "moral" "position?
By thinking for ourselves.
>
>MAC
>--
>****************************************************************
> Michael A. Cobb
> "...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
> class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
> -Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
>
>With new taxes and spending cuts we'll still have 310 billion dollar deficits.
|
5182 | From: chert@dungeon.cirr.com (Chert Pellett)
Subject: Epson (HPGL) 4 pen plotter W/340 Pens $500 / B.O.
Summary: HP compataible
Keywords: Plotter HP Epson
Organization: Dis-
Distribution: usa
Lines: 30
Greetings,
I have an Epson HI-80 4 pen plotter forsale. It emulates an HP 7570
or 7574 - I'm not sure which. It has an option board on it that does
the emulation. It has a serial interface with Hardware handshake. I
also have 340 Pens for it as follows: 10 packs of 4 Black Oil based, 16
packs of 4 Red,Green, Blue, and Black pens, 22 packs of 4 Aqueous Black,
7 packs of 4 Aqueous R,G,Blue,Black, 1 pack of 6 Aqueous Multi color
pens, and 114 assorted non-packaged pens mostly colored.
The plotter is used. I have tested it using the Windows drivers for
HP 7570 and HP 7574 and both worked fine. It accepts either A or B
sized paper. (8.5 x 11 or 11x17).
I figure that the plotter is worth about $300 and the pens are worth at
least another $200 more.. One thing is certain, you won't need to
purchase any pens for quite a while... All of the packaged pens were
sealed so they are all still fresh. The rest were capped and seem to
function as well.
I'd be willing to sell the pens seperate if anyone is interested in
just them.
I'm selling it because I got a HP LaserJet and I don't need color.
I'd like $350 or best offer...
-Chert
--
Chert Pellett - chert@dungeon.cirr.com || chert@dungeon.lonestar.org
PANIC: The cat is nibbling on the power cord!
|
5183 | From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: BATF/FBI Murders Almost Everyone in Waco Today! 4/19
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Lines: 89
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: dale.handheld.com
In article <C5spov.LrE@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
writes:
> In article <1r0qsrINNc61@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De
Arras) writes:
> >In article <C5s0Ds.J54@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
> >writes:
> >> I agree that they deserved a trial. They had more than 40 days to come
> >> out and get their trial. They chose to keep the children with them and
> >> to stay inside. They chose to stay inside even after they were tear
gassed.
> >> I do not find these actions rational. Even Noriega was smart enough to
> >> give up and go for the trial he deserved.
> >>
> >
> >Mr. Roby, you are a government sucking heartless bastard.
>
> Unworthy of comment.
But apparently true. My opinion, only, of course.
>
> >Humans died
> >yesterday, humans who would not have died if the FBI had not taken the
> >actions
> >they did. That is the undeniable truth. I cried for them.
>
> Nor would they have died if they had come out with their hands empty.
> That is undeniable truth.
No, it is not. It is possible the FBI planned for this to happen, and the
gunfire heard was the FBI keeping the folks inside. I'm not proposing this as
the way it went down, but just to point out that it's not "undeniable" that if
they walked out yesterday, they would be alive today.
> My heart bleeds just as much as yours for
> the children who were never released given 51 days of ample opportunities
> to do so. My heart also bleeds for people so blinded by religious devotion
> to not have the common sense to leave the compound when tanks came up
> and started dropping in tear gas early in the morning.
>
My heart "bleeds" for no one. You are the "bleeding heart". And I'm sure
beyond any possible doubt that you do not feel for those people as I do. You
can not say the heartless things you have said if you did.
> >You seem to say
> >they got what they deserved.
>
> I do not think this. However, if they did set the fire (which started in
> more than one place and spread very quickly), then they got what they
> wanted and put into motion themselves.
"they got what they wanted". What kind of creature are you that you can
believe this?
>
> I see the BATF is going to be investigated by the Justice Dept. and likely
> by Arlen Spectre and congress. This is good. They have bungled the affair
> from the start.
>
We agree on this. Now lets have your God, the FBI, investigated, too.
> >Jim
> >--
> >jmd@handheld.com
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> >"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't
rethought
> >that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
> >"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was
landed
> >in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
> >WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
>
>
> --
>
Jim
--
jmd@handheld.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought
that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
|
5184 | From: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker)
Subject: Re: Open letter to NISSAN
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Lines: 17
Reply-To: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
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_________________
|
5185 | From: caldwell@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Wayne Caldwell)
Subject: Printer and game for sale
Nntp-Posting-Host: epcot
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Lines: 14
I have the following for sale:
TI 855 Printer in excellect working condition
$100 + postage
Game = The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
Original box and contents used 1 time and
unregistered $30 + postage
If iterested EMAIL me at:
EMAIL = caldwell@epcot.spdc.ti.com
and I will hold it for you.
|
5186 | From: heatonn@yankee.org (Neal Heaton)
Subject: Sam, are you there?
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
Lines: 9
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
To Mr. Millitello -
Listen, Sammy, can you explain why Buck pitched you in relief
yesterday? I figure no-one would know this better than you yourself.
Jason A. Miller
"some doctor guy"
P.S. Tell Bam-Bam he should've made good on his thread to retire :-)
|
5187 | From: cdash@moet.cs.colorado.edu (Charles Shub)
Subject: Thumbs WAY WAY WAY DOWN to ESPN
Keywords: Baseball, goddamn Baseball
Nntp-Posting-Host: moet.cs.colorado.edu
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Lines: 12
Tuesday, and the isles/caps game is going into overtime.
what does ESPN do.....
Tom Mees says, "we are obligated to bring you baseball"
I hate to say this, but last year the coverage of the playoffs on
sports channel america (out in colorado) was vastly superior
to what espn is giving us this year.
--
charlie shub cdash@cs.Colorado.EDU -or- (719) 593-3492
on leave at the University of Iowa cdash@cs.uiowa.edu (319) 335-0739
|
5188 | Subject: Re: Arythmia
From: perry1@husc10.harvard.edu (Alexis Perry)
Organization: Harvard University Science Center
Nntp-Posting-Host: husc10.harvard.edu
Lines: 18
In article <1993Apr22.031423.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> u96_averba@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
>doctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused
>
Is it that serious? My EKG often comes back with a few irregular
beats. Another question: Is a low blood potassium level very bad? My
doctor seems concerned, but she tends to worry too much in general.
___________________________________________________________________________
Alexis Perry "The less I want the more I get
perry1@husc.harvard.edu Make me chaste, but not just yet.
eliot house box 413 It's a promise or a lie
(617) 493-6300 I'll repent before I die."
"Work? Have you lost your mind?!"
-Ren -Sting
Nobody really admits to sharing my opinions - last of all Harvard College
|
5189 | From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
Subject: Re: BATF/FBI revenge
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Lines: 38
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhad2.admin.uh.edu
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
In-Reply-To: donb@netcom.com's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 17:10:52 GMT
In <donbC5sL24.Ewu@netcom.com> donb@netcom.com writes:
> Anyway, here's how I see the Waco affair; I'd be interested in other peoples'
> interpretations...
>
> 1. Koresh and his people were basically minding their own business.
> 2. Some weapons violations may have been committed and I wouldn't have
> disapproved of prosecuting him for those violations. However, I think
> the BATF was criminal for starting negotiations with a military style
> assault and for firing into a house where there were children and other
> noncombatants.
> 3. I don't see they couldn't just leave a token guard on the place and wait
> the BDs out; I don't approve of the tear gas approach and, if it caused
> the fire to be started, I think the FBI agent responsible should spend
> 10-20 years in jail.
I think the legal term would be "negligent homicide"
> 4. However, if Koresh's response to the tear gas was to kill everyone there,
> I hold him largely responsible for their deaths.
Well, it's nice to see someone with a brain, a general lack of paranoia, and
a willingness to put his thoughts in public. I tend to agree with all you have
said.
"Never assume foul motives when stupidity will do." -- Jim's Corrolary to
Occam's Razor
semper fi,
Jammer Jim Miller
Texas A&M University '89 and '91
________________________________________________________________________________
I don't speak for UH, which is too bad, because they could use the help.
"Become one with the Student Billing System. *BE* the Student Billing System."
"Power finds its way to those who take a stand. Stand up, Ordinary Man."
---Rik Emmet, Gil Moore, Mike Levine: Triumph
|
5190 | From: Lauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com (John Lauger)
Subject: Imitrex and heart attacks?
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Lines: 20
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: q5020598.mdc.com
My girlfriend just started taking Imitrex for her migraine headaches. Her
neurologist diagnosed her as having depression and suffering from rebound
headaches due to daily doses of analgesics. She stopped taking all
analgesics and caffine as of last Thursday (4/15). The weekend was pretty
bad, but she made it through with the help of Imitrex about every 18 hours.
Her third injection of Imitrex, during the worst of the withdrawl on
Friday and six hours after the first of the day, left her very sick. Skin
was flushed, sweating, vomiting and had severe headache pain. It subsided
in an hour or so. Since then, she has been taking Imitrex as needed to
control the pain. Immediately after taking it, she has increased head pain
for ten minutes, dizziness and mild nausea and mild chest pains. A friend
of hers mentioned that her doctor was wary of Imitrex because it had caused
heart attacks in several people. Apparently the mild chest pains were
common in these other people prior to there attacks. Is this just rumor?
Has anyone else heard of these symptoms? My girlfriend also has Mitral
Valve Prolapse.
Opinions are mine or others but definately not MDA's!
Lauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Huntington Beach, California, USA
|
5191 | From: jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen)
Subject: Re: top 10 reasons why i love CR (not for the humor impaired)
Article-I.D.: magnus.1993Apr6.214754.23608
Distribution: na
Organization: The Ohio State University
Lines: 52
Nntp-Posting-Host: magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
In article <1993Apr6.195710.24227@cs.tulane.edu> finnegan@navo.navy.mil writes:
>In article <1993Apr6.180456.17573@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen) writes:
>|> In article <1993Apr06.133319.7008@metrics.com> tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>|> >CHINTS@ISCS.NUS.SG writes:
>|> >> Here are "another" ten reasons why we should all love CR
>|> >> 10. Car salesmen love their new car buying service
>|> >> 2. And later on buying a CR "idealized family sedan"
>|> >
>|> >And my number 1:
>|> >
>|> >1. The spectacle of the religious fervour of the CR "true believers".
>|>
>|> Or the spectacle of "Macho Real Men" who would never bother to read the
>|> magazine but are more than apt to criticize it.
>
>Hey, I'm a "Macho Real Man" and I DO read it. So I can criticize
>it all I want, especially since I pay for the publication. (They
>accept no outside advertising, don't you know....)
>
>|> John Nielsen MAGNUS Consultant ______ ______ __ __
>|> "To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just /\ __ \ /\ ___\ /\ \/\ \
>|> something that happened to other people, \ \ \/\ \\ \___ \\ \ \_\ \
>|> wasn't it?" - The Black Adder \ \_____\\/\_____\\ \_____\
>
>Relying on Consumer Reports to pick your automobiles is like
>letting Field & Stream select your living room furniture.
>
>Kenneth
>finnegan@navo.navy.mil
No one should EVER rely on just a magazine to determine what car they
buy, I don't care what magazine. Btw, I subscribe to three other
auto rags, I just think CU is getting a bum rap by these macho men
from hell who think real men should read . . . .
Statements like what you said above have no meaning. People keep on
saying "CU is only good for dishwashing detergent" or as you
said:"Relying on Consumer Reports . . . . is like. . ." and that is
all they say.
If there were as critical of themsevles as they are of CU maybe there
would be some real content.
john
--
John Nielsen MAGNUS Consultant ______ ______ __ __
"To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just /\ __ \ /\ ___\ /\ \/\ \
something that happened to other people, \ \ \/\ \\ \___ \\ \ \_\ \
wasn't it?" - The Black Adder \ \_____\\/\_____\\ \_____\
|
5192 | From: bpang@tuba.calpoly.edu (Brennan Lawrence Pang)
Subject: Hard drives, etc... for sale
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Lines: 35
HARD DRIVES: (all drives include manuals, warranty)
------------
Fujitsu 1.2 GIGabyte SCSI hard drive
$1000
Quantum 240 MEG SCSI prodrive
$350
Fujitsu 90 MEG SCSI hard drive
$175
Apple "zero footprint" hard drive case with power supply
$75
ACCELLERATED VIDEO:
-------------------
Apple 8/24GC (accellerated) graphics card with software (init)
Millions of colors, FAST!
$700
HARDCOPY:
---------
Apple Imagewriter II printer with spare print head (these aren't cheap)
$300
FAX machine: 9600 baud with leather travel case and many other accessories
$200
To discuss the purchase of any of these items, call John at (408) 268-1769
If you get the answering machine, please leave a message with your name and
phone number, letting me know which piece you are interested in.
John
(408) 268-1769
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ACCOUNT!
|
5193 | From: wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.)
Subject: ImageWriter II at 50 Hz
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 12
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
Hi!
A while back, there was a thread in this group about the use of the IWII
in Europe (in countries with 50 Hz AC current). The consensus at the time
was that the IWII would not work there. As I will be moving there this summer,
I called Apple to make sure and they told me (today) that the IWII (as bought
in the U.S.) will definitely run on 50 Hz AC current (as long as a step-down
converter is employed if 240 V current is used). The same info, turns out, can
be found in the IWII manual (p. 127 in the 1989 version), but I didn't really
trust that. Does anyone have any direct experience to the contrary? Just
wondering.
Chris W.
|
5194 | From: alung@megatest.com (Aaron Lung)
Subject: Re: Suggestions on Audio relays ???
Organization: Megatest Corporation
Lines: 23
In article <C5qsBF.IEK@ms.uky.edu> billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
>I built a little project using the radio shack 5vdc relays to switch
>audio. I got pretty bad 'clicks' when the thing switched. I was doing
>most of the common things one is supposed to do when using relays and
>nothing seemed to get rid of the clicks.
>
>
>My question is:
>
> Is there a good relay/relay circuit that I can use for switching
>audio, so that there will be *NO* noise of any kind on the audio lines.
>
>
>I will appreciate any advice or references to advice. Also, exact part
>numbers/company names etc. for the relays will help!
Are you switching high level signals or low level signals like pre-amp
out level signals? Also, are the clicks you mentioning the big
clack that happens when it switches or are you refering to contact
bounce? How are you driving the relays? TTL gate output? Switching
transistor? How are the relays connected to what you are driving?
Need more specifics to answer your question!! :-)
|
5195 | From: steveg@cadkey.com (Steve Gallichio)
Subject: Re: NHL team in Milwaukee
Organization: Cadkey, Inc.
Lines: 38
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net
Charlie Betz (cbetz@romulus.cray.com) writes:
> After reading some of the reports of possible NHL moves to Milwaukee or that
> Milwaukee should have an NHL team, I thought I'd pass along a story I heard
> recently. This is second hand, so I don't know how true it is, but I have
> no reason to doubt it either.
>
> Bradley Center in Milwaukee is home to the Milwaukee Admirals minor leauge
> hockey team. The owner of the Admirals (sorry, I can't remember his name)
> either owns or at least shelled out the majority of the funds to build the
> Bradley Center.
Lloyd Pettit.
>
> Supposedly he was approached by the NHL about an expansion franchise, but
> turned it down because he thought the franchise fee of $50 million was too
> high.
>
> Like I said, I don't know whether this story is true or just a rumor, but if
> it's true, don't look for an NHL team in Milwaukee anytime soon. The Admirals
> aren't going to be forced out of the building and you won't see an NHL club
> and a minor league club in the same building, especially since the NBA's
> Milwaukee Bucks play there as well.
Yes, it is true that he refused to buy a franchise from the NHL for $50M; but
at the time the reason was that the established market for teams was much
less than that. He felt that no one would pay $50M for an expansion team, and
that he would simply wait to buy an existing franchise for less than that. But
the market fooled him, and 5 teams have been created for $50M apiece in the
last three years, and even the existing teams can't be moved for less than
$50M and I doubt that he could get one for that little.
Pettit gambled and lost. Now he'll have to pay more.
-SG
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5196 | From: ggeorge@bu.edu (Gerry George)
Subject: Partition table disappeared!! Help
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My computer won't recognise my disk after a reboot (Windows crash - Grrr!!)
Are there any options to restore everything, without losing data?
The drive previously had 3 partitions, but I do not remember the exact
settings.
I have copies of the boot data from the disk (PC-tools rescue disk). I do not
want to lose my data - 340MB IDE drive. Do I have any options?
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School of Management, Boston Univ. | illegal, immoral or fattening.
Internet: ggeorge@acs.bu.edu | Any item not in the above three
Compu$erve: 72607.2560@compuserve.com | categories causes cancer in rats!
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5197 | From: cfb@fc.hp.com (Charlie Brett)
Subject: Re: Los Angeles Freeway traffic reports
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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: While driving through the middle of nowhere, I picked up KNBR, AM 1070,
: a clear-channel station based in Los Angeles. They had an ad
: claiming that they were able to get traffic flow information from
: all of the thousands of traffic sensors that CalTrans has placed
: under the pavement. Does CalTrans sell this info? Does KNBR have
: an exclusive? What's the deal?
: ==Doug "Former L.A. commuter" Claar
You were right the second time, it is KNX. Believe it or not, I also
listen to KNX in the evenings here in Colorado! It's kind of fun driving
through the country listening to traffic jams on the 405. Back to your
original question. Yes, there are sensors just past every on-ramp and
off-ramp on the freeways. They're the same sensors used at most stoplights
now (coils in the pavement). You might want to give CalTrans a call or
even ask Bill Keene (KNX's traffic reporter). I doubt if just anyone can
get the information, but it would be worth asking just in case you can
get it.
Charlie Brett (former LA commuter) Ft. Collins, CO
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5198 | From: whaley@sigma.kpc.com (Ken Whaley)
Subject: Re: Animation with XPutImage()?
In-Reply-To: dcr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk's message of Thu, 22 Apr 1993 09:28:30 GMT
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc.
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| Shared memory PutImage (also mentioned by nkissebe@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu,
| Nick Kisseberth) looks interesting, but I need someone to point me to some
| documentation. Is this method likely to give better results than server-
| resident pixmaps? I'd also be interested in looking at the XView code
| mentioned above...
There is no easy answer to this question: it depends on whether the display
device can hold pixmaps in off-screen memory, and if so, how efficiently
the server manages these resources (having to deal with limited off-screen
memory is the bane of the server implementor's existence!).
I have worked with graphics devices where the off-screen memory to
main display copy rate eclipses that of the main memory to display copy
rate, and with those where the main memory to display is *faster* than
off-screen to display (requires only a write to the framebuffer rather
than a read of the F.B. followed by a write)
If your server uses the cfb code or something like it to render into
pixmaps in CPU main memory, the rates you can get through MIT-SHM are
likely to be equal (maybe a tad slower, depending on your OS's implementation
of shared memory) to CopyArea from pixmap to window, which is also then
just a copy from CPU main memory to graphics device.
One advanage of MIT-SHM is that if your images are large, you don't end up
growing the size of the server process to hold them.
One disadvantage of the MIT-SHM is that, in its sample implementation,
there is no provision for elegantly cleaning up the shared memory segments
if the client dies a sudden, violent death (e.g., "kill"). You have to
be mindful of cluttering up the system with zombie shared memory segments.
Ken
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Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc. Email: whaley@kpc.com
2630 Walsh Avenue
Santa Clara, CA. 95051
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5199 | From: volkert@kub.nl (Volkert)
Subject: Q: which of these CD-ROM players would you choose for OS/2?
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Netters!
I need a cdrom drive as my order was cancelled and thought 'Why not ask
the net.community'? I was ordering a Nec CDR-74 but saw so much cheaper
ones that I want to know more.
The drive will be used to install software and (if available) for listening
to CD's. Perhaps some day I'll want to use it to read the other CD's, but
that's not really relevant at the moment.
I've been offered the following CD-ROM players, for the prices stated.
They all claim to have SCSI-I, and operate under OS/2.
The drives are not listed in the cdrom-faq and therefor, please give
your opinions on the drives, i've got the impression that they're not
all SCSI. Actually the Nec was listed as non-scsi in the cdrom-faq and as
a compatible SCSI product in the os2faq.
I've calculated the prices as having dutch guilders times 2. It's actually
about times 1.8.
Mitsumi CRMC $240
Philips LMS-I $300
Philips 205 $350
Toshiba ? $370
Nec CDR-74 $650
Who bought that Trantor that is in the faq? It's extremely cheap and SCSI,
so what's the trick or where can I order it (Holland using MasterCard).
Trantor T128 $200
regards, JV
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