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6100 | Subject: Re: Can't Breathe -- Update
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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Thanks to all those who responded to my original post on this question. The
final diagnosis was Stress. I did not take her for a chiropractic adjustment.
(Rachel receives all her medical care at Keller Army Hospital since she is a
military dependant, and the Army does not yet provide chiropractic adjustments
as part of its regular health care.) I am hoping that the arrival of (1)
Spring Break, and (2) College Acceptance Letters, will help. *UNFORTUNATELY*
she was wait-listed at the college she most dearly wanted to attend, so it
seems as though that stressor may just continue for a while. :-(
Meanwhile she is going on a camping trip with her religious youth group for
spring break, which seems like a good stress-reliever to me.
Thanks again for everybody's help/advice/suggestions/ideas.
------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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6101 | From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Matthew MacIntyre at the National University of Senegal)
Subject: Re: Gilligan's island, den of iniquity
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
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beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck) writes:
: In article <1993Apr13.011033.23123@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Matthew MacIntyre at the National University of Senegal) writes:
: >: >> Gilligan = Sloth
: >: >> Skipper = Anger
: >: >> Thurston Howell III = Greed
: >: >> Lovey Howell = Gluttony
: >: >> Ginger = Lust
: >: >> Professor = Pride
: >: >> Mary Ann = Envy
: >
: >Assorted Monkeys= Secular Humanism
:
: Assorted Headhunters - Godless, Heathen Savagery
: Russian Agent who looks like Gilligan - Godless Communism
: Japanese Sailor - Godless Barbarism
: Walter Pigeon - Godless Bird Turd
: The Mosquitos (Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving) - Godless Rock'n'Roll
: Harold Heckuba (Phil Silvers) - Hollywood Hedonism
: John McGiver - Butterfly flicking
: Tonga, the Fake Apeman - Deceit, Lust
: Eva Grubb - Deceit, lust
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6102 | From: hulthage@morue.usc.edu (Ingemar Hulthage)
Subject: Dead mouse ?
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morue.usc.edu
My MacClassic mouse died. I dissected it and determined that it is
the microswitch, that senses the click, that is stuck in the depressed
mode. This tragedy prompts the following questions:
1. Is it easy to find a microswitch that I could solder into the
place of the old switch ?
2. I have old mice (Max+, Mac 512Ke), can they be used with some
adapter ?
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6103 | From: JMARTTILA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Fast-Eddie Felson)
Subject: TRIDENT 8800CS DRIVERS FOR WIN 3.1?
Organization: Turku School of Economics
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Hello
I've got an old Trident 8800CS SVGA card, but lacking suitable drivers
for windows 3.1. The drivers for the 8900 series seem to be incompatible.
Does anyone have an idea of where to get these drivers? Address for an
ftp-site would be nice.
Thanks in advance
Jouni
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Jouni Marttila - Yo-kyl{ 11 B 25, 20540 Turku, FINLAND - +358 21 374624____
jmarttila@abo.fi - jmarttila@finabo - abovax::jmarttila - jjmartti@utu.fi__
PGP-key available via finger jmarttila@abo.fi ___________________________
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6104 | From: kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT)
Subject: Drug Use Up Among U.S. Eighth-graders
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Keywords: youths drugs LSD inhalants
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The article that follows was taken from the Wednesday, April 14, 1993
issue of USA Today ("Drug Use Up Among U.S. eighth-graders" by Mike
Snider, p. 6D).
A new national survey says drugs are easier to get, more teens are
using them and fewer deem drug use as risky.
For the last two years, government officials have trumpeted results
from the National High School Survey as signs that the drug war is
being won. But this year, officials are retreating - drug use by
eighth-graders has risen, according to the survey of 50,000 students
nationwide.
Possible reason for the increase: more experimentation. Why? If
drug use dropped during the '80s, eventually some students will
have fewer "drug-using contemporaries" who act as examples of
substance abuse's drawbacks, says social psychologist Lloyd Johnston,
one of the survey authors. Each new wave of youths "must be given
the knowledge, skills and motivation to resist using these drugs,"
Johnston says.
This type of resurgence "is possible," says Eileen Shiff, author of
"Experts Advise Parents" (Delta, $14.95). But that's not the issue,
she says. The prevalence of alcohol and drugs among teens today
could result in more alcoholic adults decades from now.
Aggravating the problem: baby boomer parents - who experimented with
drugs and alcohol as teens - trying to be friends, not parents, to
their children. "I've even seen parents serving kegs of beer" to
their underage kids and friends, Shiff says. For a recent graduation,
Shiff and other parents organized an all-night, "lock-in" party where
no booze or drugs were allowed. "We need to fulfill that parental
role, otherwise the peer group takes over," she says.
Officials may "talk about the war on drugs, but they really haven't
done anything that I've seen," says Suzanne Linkous, Scottsdale,
Ariz., 16, a volunteer who talks with teens about drugs, dating and
other issues on a peer counseling and suicide hot line. Linkous, a
member of USA Today's Teen Panel, says "there's always going to be
experimentation" with drugs.
A real war on drugs could be waged "education-wise," she says. But
"some don't want to give kids the facts. They think it will give
them ideas; it's the same with birth control. I think you should
give the kids the information or have it accessible" through classes,
pamphlets and speakers, she says.
Education efforts need to start as soon as kids get in school - in
kindergarten, says Dallas Owens, 17, teen panelist from Miami Shores,
Fla. "I remember in kindergarten, I used to see (drugs). I think
kids in the 10th and 12th grades have already made up their minds
(about using drugs)," he says.
Scare tactics in public service announcements aren't working; only
one commercial has gotten it right, he says. The commercial opens
with two "good-looking girls" in the restroom talking about having
no prom date. Then they take a hit off a joint. "That hits home
because it's not attractive," he says. "You can't be doing drugs if
you want somebody to like you."
Adolescents' choices
Drugs used by eighth graders in the last month:
Estimated, per 100 students
1991 1992 Pct. chg.
Alcohol 25.1 26.1 +4%
Cigarettes 14.3 15.5 +8%
Marijuana 3.2 3.7 +16%
Amphetamines 2.6 3.3 +27%
LSD 0.6 0.9 +50%
Cocaine 0.5 0.7 +40%
Crack 0.3 0.5 +67%
Source: University of Michigan Institute for Social Research,
1993 report
Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
Before: "David Koresh is a cheap thug who interprets
the Bible through the barrel of a gun..." --ATF spokesman
After: "[The ATF] is a cheap thug who interprets
[the Constitution] through the barrel of a gun..." --Me
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6105 | From: pmg@mdavcr.mda.ca (Phil Gray)
Subject: Opinions on Galaxy ?
Summary: Does anybody have any negative experiences ?
Keywords: GUI Builders, evaluation
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates
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We are currently evaluating GUI builders, initially for Motif but with
a wish to be flexible & portable. We have been through the popular
names (UIMX, TeleUSE, XVT etc) and have been very impressed with what
we have seen of Galaxy from Visix. I have spoken to current users
from a list supplied by Visix (happy users as you would expect), and
seen favourable comments on the net. However, since it is fairly
expensive to get an evaluation license from Visix, I would like to
query the net for any negative experiences with Galaxy. Did anybody
evaluate them and prefer another tool or use Galaxy and regret it or
find any mis-features ?
advTHANKSance,
Phil
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6106 | From: rich1@netcom.com (Richard Soennichsen)
Subject: Re: electronic odometers (was: Used BMW Question ..... ???)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
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The Bmw speedo is triggered by a reed switch\magnet assembly in the differential. I would think that this signal would be easy to reproduce.
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6107 | Subject: Re: Stop putting down white het males.
From: <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: City University of New York
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From: baba@Tymnet.com (Duane Hentrich)
-BTW, I'm a WALC (white aryan lapsed catholic)
-
---
-d'baba Duane M. Hentrich baba@Tymnet.Com
-
I would like to go on record as objecting to Mr. Hentrich calling
himself an Aryan. The word `Aryan' is of Sanskrit origin and occurs first
in the Hindu scripture, the Rigveda. It seems to have been a tribal term
but may have had connotations of good character. Such connotations
are quite explicit in the sayings of the Buddha who called his religion the
eightfold Aryan path. The word was borrowed by the German scholar
Max Mueller who used it as a synonym for `indo-european', but then the
Nazis proceeded to steal it and started pretending that `aryan' is
synonymous with `nordic' which seems highly unlikely. The people who
originally called themselves aryas, the Iranians, Noprth Indians, the Afghans
and possibly the Kurds, are none of them nordic. So the use of the word
by Westerners, though meant with apparent good humor in this case, is
nontheless inappropriate. The only Westerners who may have some claim
to call themselves Aryans (by descent) are the Celts who seem to have wor-
shipped a god called Aryaman who is mentioned in the Rigveda.
If you want to check what I am saying, look at Mallory's book, ``In
search of the Indo-Europeans" or, just look at the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The reason this usage is offensive is that most of Ancient Indian literature
as well as religion is directly or inderectly due to the Aryans and
for Westerners to butt in is really not nice, not to mention the horrible
things done by Germans to Jews, using a word to which the Germans have
no clear claim.
Rohit Parikh
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6108 | From: games@max.u.washington.edu
Subject: Aerospace companies cooperate in reusable vehicle market.
Article-I.D.: max.1993Apr6.121843.1
Distribution: world
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NNTP-Posting-Host: max.u.washington.edu
What would all of you out there in net land think of the big 6 (Martin
Mariatta, Boeing, Mcdonell Douglas, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Rockwell)
getting together, and forming a consortium to study exactly what the market
price pints are for building reusable launch vehicles, and spending say
$3million to do that. Recognizing that most of the military requirements
for launch vehicles are pulled out of a hat somewhere (say, has the shuttle
ever really used that 1200mi crossrange capability? You get the idea, figure
out how many, how often, where to, etc...)
Then taking this data, and forming a sematech type company (bad example, I
know... but at least its an example...) To develop between 3 and 5 craft
designs. Then to take all of those designs, and figure out EXACTLY what
the technologies are, and demonstrate those technologies, in order to
eliminate designs that can't be built today. And lets say that this
portion again funded by the GOV cost about $20 million.
And from here all of these companies went their separate ways, with the
intention of taking all of the market data and the design data to wall
street, and saying "I want to build this vehicle, and here are the numbers
that show %20 ROI, fund me...)
Now many of you think that this is a joke, but I have it on good authority that
just this project is shaping up in the background. It seems that the aerospace
companies have learned that everyone yelling similar but different things
ends up in many programs that do nothing much and get canceled (NASP, NLS,
ALS, DCY?, etc...) They need to work more in the japaneese, and european
spirit of initial cooperation. They have also learned that design requirements
that are phony (I.E. some generals idea of what a space vehicle ought to be)
ends up getting chopped up in congress, because it is not a REAL requirement.
Any feedback?
John.
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6109 | From: cbrooks@ms.uky.edu (Clayton Brooks)
Subject: Changing sprocket ratios (79 Honda CB750)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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Do any Honda gurus know if I can replace the
the front sprocket on my 1979 Honda CB750K with a slightly larger one?
(I see this as being preferable to reducing the size of the rear one)
Just wanting ride at a more relaxed RPM.
--
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722 POT U o'Ky .__,-' * \ of the blue cbrooks@ukma.bitnet
Lex. KY 40506 _/ ,/ grass and {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!cbrooks
606-257-6807 (__,-----------'' bourbon country AMA NMA MAA AMS ACBL DoD
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6110 | From: heathman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Michael Heathman)
Subject: Re: dogs
Originator: heathman@troon.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Lines: 31
In article <93Apr20.193958.30419@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
>
>What, a dog weighs 150lb maybe, at max? You can't handle it?
>
>You have, I presume, thumbs? Grapple with it and tear it's head
>off!
>
>Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human,
>we have *all* the advantages.
>
>Regards, Charles
>DoD0.001
>RZ350
>--
Professionals who train guard dogs, when polled, gave themselves a
1 in 4 chance of survival tackling a trained dog unarmed. A trained guard
dog is not to be trifled with. An untrained mutt may be another story.
ObMoto: A local dog used to chase me all the time. Really annoying. I
finally started stopping every time he'd chase me. He didn't know what to do
then and would usually just slink off the road. After a couple weeks of this
he stopped chasing me altogether. He would still chase cars or other bikes,
though. I think he recognized me when I went by ;-).
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6111 | From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr)
Subject: Re: SATANIC TOUNGES
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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In article <May.6.00.34.49.1993.15418@geneva.rutgers.edu> marka@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Mark Ashley) writes:
>I have a simple test. I take several people who can speak
>only one language (e.g. chinese, russian, german, english).
>Then I let the "gifted one" start "speaking in toungues".
>The audience should understand the "gifted one" clearly
>in their native language. However, the "gifted one" can
>only hear himself speaking in his own language.
That would be neat, but nowhere in the Bible does it say
that one who has the gift of tounges can do this. If the gift
of tounges were the ability to be understood by everyone,
no matter what languages they know, there would be no need for the
gift of interpretation, and I Corinthians 14 would not have had to
have been written.
>Perhaps I would believe the "gifted ones" more if they were
>glorifying God rather than themselves. Then perhaps we'd
>witness a real miracle.
That's a pretty harsh assumption to make about a several million
Christians world wide. Sure, there are some who want glory
for themselves who speak in tounges, just as there are among those
who do not have this gift. There were people like this in the Corinthian
church also. that does not mean that there is no true gift or that all
who speak in tounges do it for their own glory in the sight of men.
I would venture to say that a large percentage of those who do speak in tounges
do so more often in private prayer than in public.
Link Hudson
[There were apparently those in the early church who claimed that
at Pentecost the miracle was that the crowd were all given the
ability to understand the Apostles speaking in Greek. --clh]
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6112 | From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: Who's next? Mormons and Jews?
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
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Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: dale.handheld.com
In article <1qvh8n$gf4@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> friedenb@maple.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah
Friedenberg) writes:
> In article <1qvfik$6rf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
(John W. Redelfs) writes:
> |>
> |> Now that Big Brother has rubbed out one minority religion in Waco, who is
> |> next? The Mormons or Jews?
>
> Give me a break. If the Mormons fortified Utah and armed it to the teeth,
> and were involved in illegal activity, then they deserve whatever they get.
>
Where were you brought up? In the former USSR? Is Innocent until proven
guilty by a jury of your peers, NOT Dan Rather, dead in this country? Seems
so. Is tax evasion, the only charge brought against the BDs, punishable by
death in this country, now?
> You are making a ludicrous suggestion.
>
Not really. You are a blind idiot.
> |> We used to live in a country where everyone enjoyed the free exercise of
> |> their rights to worship and bear arms. Now we don't.
>
> Does that include the right to murder little children? How about killing
> ATF officers? I do not know much about the gun laws in Texas, but
> Koresh's folks claimed to have grenades, grenade launchers, and rocket
> launchers. I am not sure that the NRA feels that this falls under
> "right to bear arms."
"Not sure", yet you condem them to death for it? If the BATF had stayed home,
all would be alive, now. So who murdered who?
>
> |> Of course, to Jews and Mormons this is just a broken record. It has
> |> happened before.
>
> Please explain. I do not remember Jews or Mormons (as a group) overtly
> breaking a judicious (a.k.a. non-Nazi) law and being punished for it.
>
You have a short memory.
> |> I'll bet all you cult haters are happy now, right? Just hope you're not
next.
>
> Followups to /dev/null
>
> Alternative followups set to talk.religion.misc
>
Sleep well, tonite, heartless idiot. Sleep the sleep of the simple-minded.
I shall weep for my country, myself.
>
> |> ------------ John W. Redelfs, cj195@cleveland.freenet.edu -------------
> |> --------- All my opinions are tentative pending further data. ---------
>
> Gedaliah Friedenberg
> -=-Department of Mechanical Engineering
> -=-Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science
> -=-Michigan State University
>
>
>
I'm short of patience tonite, but rabid dogs deserve and get better treatment
than the BDs got.
Jim
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"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought
that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
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6113 | From: gowen@jade.tufts.edu (G. Lee Owen)
Subject: Re: PostScript on X-terminal
In-Reply-To: sp1henhj@edit's message of 22 Apr 93 14:08:31 GMT
Lines: 20
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Distribution: na
> I have a problem when I'm using PostScript. When I am working local
> on a SUN SPARCstation IPC the PostScript works good, but when I connect
> to the SUN from a X-terminal I just get error messages that the
> PostScript cannot connect to the news-display.
> Why doesn't PostScript work on an X-terminal
Because xterminals do not have a NeWS server. xterminals have
speed by nature of their limited functionality: once you add NeWS and
everything else, you have a workstation. There are workarounds, I've
heard, one involving a perl script. What we are trying to do is
replace programs that need NeWS (like pageview) with programs that
don't (like ghostview).
Maybe someone else can elaborate on the perl workaround; I
have no personal experience with it.
Greg Owen { gowen@forte.cs.tufts.edu, gowen@jade.tufts.edu }
Systems Programmer and TA, Tufts University Computer Science Dept.
230- All transfers are disclaimed by my host name and boss's address.
230- If you don't like this policy, disconnect now!
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6114 | From: gtalatin@vartivar.ucs.indiana.edu (Gerard V. Talatinian)
Subject: Low cost oscilloscopes?
Nntp-Posting-Host: vartivar.ucs.indiana.edu
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Organization: Indiana University
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I am looking at buying a low cost (< $500) scope for general purpose use.
Any recommendations? Is this info in a faq somewhere?
Any pointers appreciated.
Thanks,
-Gerard.
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6115 | From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi)
Subject: Re: "Beer" unto bicyclists
Organization: Elect Armts Div, US Army Armt RDE Ctr, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Lines: 23
Nntp-Posting-Host: b329-gator-3.pica.army.mil
In article <31MAR199308594057@erich.triumf.ca>, ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan
D. Reid) wrote:
>
> In article <tcora-250393111517@b329-gator-1.pica.army.mil>,
> tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) writes...
> >mxcrew@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (The MX-Crew) wrote:
> >> just an information (no flame war please): Budweiser is a beer from the
> >> old CSFR (nowadays ?Tschechien? [i just know the german word]).
>
> >Czechoslovakia. Budweiser Budwar (pronounced bud-var).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Not any more, a short while ago (Jan 1st?) it split into The Czech
> Republic and Slovakia. Actually, I think for a couple of years its official
> name was "The Czech and Slovak Republics". Sheesh! Don't you guys get CNN??
CNN=YuppieTV
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
--gene spafford, 1992
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6116 | From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
Subject: Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow]
Keywords: encryption, wiretap, clipper, key-escrow, Mykotronx
Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Lines: 157
strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
> Though some may argue about the nose of the camel, it's worth noting that
> the government proposal is limited to scrambled telephony. If it is only
> used for that purpose, and does not extend to electronic mail or file
As usual, David Sternlight is demonstrating his inability to read. The
proposal clearly states:
=> The initiative will involve the creation of new products to
=> accelerate the development and use of advanced and secure
=> telecommunications networks and wireless communications links.
It speaks about telecommunications in general. Read it again, David.
Maybe you'll understand it the next time... Nah, probably not.
> encryption, then it IS an improvement over the current mass-produced
> standard civilian technology which, with a few exceptions, is limited to
> easy-to-break inverters.
That's exactly what the government wants all sheep-minded people to
think. Let's look at the current situation. It allows to almost
anybody to eavesdrop almost everybody, unless secure (and I mean
secure) encryption is used. What will happen when ("if"? Ha!
optimists...) the new proposal gets accepted? Almost nobody EXCEPT
SOME will be able to eavesdrop everybody else, but the ability of
these "some" to eavesdrop will be guaranteed! The proposal emphasizes
on the former ("almost nobody") - which is clearly an improvement -
and "forgets" to mention the drawbacks of the latter ("guaranteed").
Yes, my statement assumes that the next step will be to make the
strong crypto unlawful. You think that it will not happen? Good luck.
> Note that the big issue for the feds is the continued ability to wiretap.
It's not just "continued ability". It's -guaranteed- ability.
> Before we go off the deep end with long discusions about secure crypto for
> e-mail and files, let's focus on this.
Yeah, that's exactly what your government wants you to think. Let's
take small steps, one at a time. Concentrate on the current one, don't
think about the future. Trust us.
> One question that was not asked in the release is whether this proposal is
> limited to telephony, or if the government intends to expand it.
It's not asked because the proposal clearly says that this is the
intention. They, unlike you, read what they write.
> Though I share many of the concerns expressed by some, I find the proposal
> less threatening than many others, since right now most Americans have no
> secure telephony, and any jerk with a pair of clip leads and a "goat" can
> eavesdrop. This would also plug up the security hole in cellular and
> cordless phones.
Yes, it will. It will stop the jerk who is eavesdropping now. It will
allow only to the government to eavesdrop. (If the scheme is secure,
of course, which is yet to be proven.) But how do you know that the
jerk you are fearing now will not get a government job tomorrow? The
new proposal -guarantees- him the ability to eavesdrop then. Hell,
that will even motivate him to get that job - if he indeed is that
mentally pervert...
> Reading between the lines, I infer that the system is highly secure
> without access to the keys.
Great. The Greatest Cryptographer of All Times David Sternlight (tm)
has succeeded to evaluate the new system in the absense of any
details whatsoever and has concluded that it is "highly secure". I
guess, that comes from the background of working some 50 years for the
two major crypto evaluating companies, right? Gee, now the government
can save all that money and trouble to ask a secret council of crypto
experts to secretly analyse the new secret method - for David
Sternlight has already done all the job for them...
> This would meet the needs of U.S. businesses
> confronted by rich and powerful adversaries, including French and Japanese
> security services and rich Japanese companies. It allows the NSA to make
> available some of its better stuff while protecting law enforcement needs.
"Trust us, we're from the Government and we're here to help you."
> Most legitimate U.S. corporations trust the NSA, and would be delighted to
> have a high-security system certified by them, even at the price of
> depositing keys in escrow. I see no difficulty in creating a reliable
"Those who are prepared to trade their liberties for the promises of
future safety, do not deserve either." This (or something like that; I
don't have the exact quote, but the meaning is the same) has been said
by one of your great men. Maybe you should study their works more
carefully, if you have the brains to understand them, of course.
> From my point of view this is a fair starting point. There are concerns that
> need to be addressed, including the reliability of the escrows. But in
The main question is to guarantee to availability of -really- secure
cryptography to the masses. Gee, if the proposal was saying "we
guarantee that every American will still have the full right to use
any kind of encryption s/he would like and regard this proposal as
just a default, voluntary implementation", there would have been much
less opposition... For some reason, they didn't even try to promise
you that. I wonder why... Was Orwell off only by 10 years?
> return we get access to high-security crypto.
No, in return you get crypto that is guaranteed to be crippled.
> Many have suggested that DES
> and other systems may be breakable by the NSA and hence others similarly
> skilled and endowed.
While the above is just rumors, and while even if it is true, it is
not done -easily-, the new scheme can is guaranteed to be easily
breakable by anybody who has the two keys. It might be also breakable
by somebody who does not have them but knows the right trick. Or who
has only one of them. NSA also told you that DES is secure, why don't
you simply trust them, huh?
> There is at least a good possibility (which should be
> checked) that the proposed system is not so breakable. It doesn't have to
It is -guaranteed- to be -easily- breakable - just get the keys. It
might be even easier, but until there is some evidence, this is just a
wild speculation.
> be, nor does it have to have trapdoors, if the government can get the keys
The trapdoors -are- there. In government's hands. The keys.
> pursuant to a legitimate court order. Thus they can protect legitimate
> communications against economic adversaries, while still being able to
> eavesdrop on crooks pursuant to a court order.
Legitimate? And who decides what communications are legitimate? Oh, I
guess, it's the government, right? The guys who already have the keys?
It's kinda if I have the keys from your car and I am asked to decide
who has the right to use it "legitimately"...
> In discussing this, let's try to avoid the nastiness, personal attacks and
> noise of some previous threads.
Impossible, since you are demonstrating the same level of incompetence
and ignorance as in the provious threads.
> This is a substantive and technical issue,
> and personal remarks have no place in such a discussion.
Unfortunately, I have yet to see you posting a technically competent
message.
Regards,
Vesselin
--
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Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.2 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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6117 | From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling X11R5 on SunOS_4.1.3
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Lines: 14
nemo@aguirre.dia.fi.upm.es (Francisco J. Ballesteros) writes:
>> The problem occurs during the initial "make World". When
>> it gets up to compiling the standard X clients, it can't seem to find
>> some of the libraries. Right now we highly suspect the program "ld"
>> which was updated for 4_1_3.
>>
> Yip, we had the same problem; the only fix we found was to link static
>some of the clients, ( btw, we used cc). :-(.
Or use a SunOS 4.1.1 ld.
\Bernhard.
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6118 | From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Subject: Re: Lincoln & slavery (Re: Top Ten Tricks You Can Play on the American Voter)
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
Lines: 27
In article <CB.93Apr5130728@tamarack13.timbuk>, cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
> Craig Depken writes:
>
> The fact that the South had a number of slave owners is true, but
> relatively small numbers (around 1200) had more than a few hundred slaves.
> (I have to get references that I do not have here for
> exact numbers.)
>
> If it has any bearing on this discussion, I saw a figure for the total
> number of slave-owners as 300,000. Does anyone have a figure for how
> many slaves there were? How many farmers without slaves?
>
> Chris Brewster E-MAIL ADDRESS: cb@cray.com
In 1860:
region total population free blacks % slaves %
U.S. 32,227,616 487,070 1.5% 3,953,818 12.3%
Confederacy 9,103,332 132,760 1.5% 3,521,110 38.7%
Union Slave States 3,212,041 128,158 4.0% 432,586 13.5%
All Union States 23,124,284 354,310 1.5% 432,708 1.9%
Union "Free" States 19,912,243 226,152 1.1% 122 0.0%
--
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
Relations between people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
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6119 | From: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Subject: Re: The nonexistance of Atheists?!
Reply-To: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Lines: 38
>In article <kutluk.734797558@ccl.umist.ac.uk> kutluk@ccl.umist.ac.uk (Kutluk Ozguven) writes:
>>Atheists are not
>>mentioned in the Quran because from a Quranic point of view, and a
>>minute's reasoning, one can see that there is no such thing.
I guess that's why scientists probably aren't mentioned either. Or
stock brokers. Or television repairmen.
It's precious to know just how deep the brainwashing from childhood
( that it takes to progress a religion ) cleans away a very substantial
part of the reasoning neurons.
But don't mind me; I don't exist.
-jim halat
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6120 | From: LMARSHA@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Laurie Marshall)
Subject: Re: WHERE ARE THE DOUBTERS NOW? HMM?
Article-I.D.: cms.16BA79DBA.LMARSHA
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit MI U.S.A.
Lines: 22
NNTP-Posting-Host: cms.cc.wayne.edu
In article <1993Apr4.051942.27095@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>
>For those of you who can only decide which team is best after you have
>seen the standings:
>
>TOR 42 25 11 95 .609
>CHI 42 25 11 95 .609
>DET 44 28 9 97 .599
>VAN 41 28 9 91 .583
>
>No team in the Campbell Conference has a better record than Toronto.
That's true, but according to your stats, Chicago has just as good a
record as Toronto. It's interesting that you should list Toronto ahead
of Chicago.
Laurie Marshall
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Go Wings!!
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6121 | From: rao@cse.uta.edu (Rao Venkatesh Simha)
Subject: xrn , xarchie for HP's
Nntp-Posting-Host: cse.uta.edu
Organization: Computer Science Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington
Lines: 10
Hi,
I need xrn and xarchie for the HP's (9000/730, version 8 OS), either in
the source form or, (preferably) in executable form. Please suggest
where I can find this,
Send e-mail to: rao@cse.uta.edu
Thanks in advance,
Rao.
--
SSC
|
6122 | From: broder@src.dec.com (Andrei Broder)
Subject: Re: Squaw lift tickets available for $32 each
Reply-To: broder@src.dec.com
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
Distribution: ba
Lines: 9
Tickets midweek are now down to $34. They will be $25 starting last
week in April, or maybe first week in May. By the way, the current
conditions (was there Apr 12-13) are great for spring skiing, with
excellent coverage, most stuff open, and no lift lines.
- Andrei
|
6123 | From: idoy@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Michael)
Subject: How to keep score like the officials?
Nntp-Posting-Host: crux1.cit.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
Lines: 15
Hello All,
I'd like to learn how to keep score when I watch ball
games using official scoring methods. Where can I get
scoresheets and instructions on how to use them?
I appreciate it,
Mike
========================== | Hofstadter's Law: It always takes
Michael Wilson | longer than you think, even if you
idoy@crux1.cit.cornell.edu | take into account Hofstadter's Law.
========================== | -- Douglas Hofstadter
|
6124 | From: trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Atheist's views on Christianity (was: Re: "Accepting Jeesus in your heart...")
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Lines: 66
norris@athena.mit.edu writes:
> This is certainly a valid objection to religion-as-explanation-of-
> nature.
> Fortunately for the convenience of us believers, there is a class of
> questions that can never be reduced away by natural science. For
> example: why does the universe exist at all?
Must there be a "why" to this? I ask because of what you also
assume about God-- namely, that He just exists, with no "why"
to His existence. So the question is reversed, "Why can't
we assume the universe just exists as you assume God to
"just exist"? Why must there be a "why" to the universe?"
> After all, the time-space
> world didn't have to exist. Why does *anything* exist? And: is it
> possible for persons (e.g. man) to come into being out of a purely
> impersonal cosmos? These questions which look at the real mysteries of
> life -- the creation of the world and of persons -- provide a permanent
> indicator that the meaning of life in the material world can only be
> found *outside* that world, in its Source.
It may be that one day man not only can create life but can also
create man. Now, I don't see this happening in my lifetime,
nor do I assert it is probable. But the possibility is there,
given scientists are working hard at "decoding" out "genetic
code" to perhaps help cure disease of a genetic variation.
Again, though, must there be "why" or a "divine prupose" to
man's existence?
> When you say that man is *only* an animal, I have to think that you are
> presenting an unprovable statement -- a dogma, if you will. And one
> the requires a kind of "faith" too. By taking such a hard line in
> your atheism, you may have stumbled into a religion of your own.
As far as we can tell, man falls into the "mammal" catagory. Now,
if there were something more to the man (say, a soul), then
we have yet to find evidence of such. But as it is now, man
is a mammal (babies are born live, mother gives milk, we're
warm-blooded, etc.) as other mammals are and is similar in
genetic construction to some of them (in particular, primates).
For more on this check out talk.origins.
> But before you write off all Christianity as phony and shallow, I hope
> you'll do a little research into its history and varieties, perhaps by
> reading Paul Johnson's "A History of Christianity". From your remarks,
> it seems that you have been exposed to certain types of Christian
> religion and not others. Even an atheist should have enough faith in
> Man to know that a movement of 2000 years has to have some depth, and
> be animated by some enduring values.
Well, then, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism,
Zoerasterism, Shintoism, and Islam should fit this bit of logic
quite nicely... :-) All have depth, all have enduring values,
thus all must be true...
Stephen
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ * Atheist
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Libertarian
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-individuality
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-responsibility
_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Jr. * and all that jazz...
--
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6125 | Subject: Re: Potvin's new goalie mask
From: caldwell8102@mtroyal.ab.ca
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
Lines: 24
In article <allan.734333484@swanlake>, allan@cs.UAlberta.CA (Allan Sullivan) writes:
> slegge@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>
>>I was wtahcing RIGHT GUARD HOCKEY WEEK on TSN yesterday and they had
>>a feature on this guy that does a lot (most?) of the masks for NHL
>>goalies. They talked about how they are made, what they are made of,
>>and the designs that are put on them, etc.
>
>>The best one of all was one he never talked about, he just held it up.
>>It has the current Leafs crest on the chin and an awesome looking
>>black panther on the forehead -- it *has* to be a new mask for Felix
>>Potvin, but he never said whose it was.
>
> Are you sure this program was current? I know that Grant Fuhr
> had a black panther on the forehead of his mask when he played with
> the Leafs.
It would seem logical that the mask is Potvins. His nickname is "The Cat",
which would go a long ways towards explaining the panther.
Of course, it could be an old story and the mask is Fuhrs, too.....
Alan
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6126 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: OB-GYN residency
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 30
In article <1r12bv$55e@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu (Donald Mackie) writes:
>
>FMGs who are not citizens are, like all aliens, in a difficult
>situation. Only citizens get to vote here, so non-citizens are of
>little or no interest to legislators. Also, the non-citizen may well
>be in the middle of processing for resident alien status. There is a
>stron sense that rocking the boat (eg. suing a residency program)
>will delay the granting of that status, perhaps for ever.
>
One should be aware that foreign doctors admitted for training
are ineligible to apply for resident alien status. In order
to get the green card they have to return to their country and
apply at the embassy there. Of course, many somehow get around
this problem. Often it is by agreeing to practice in a town
with a need and then the congressman from that district tacks
a rider onto a bill saying "Dr. X will be allowed to have permanent
residency in the US." A lot of bills in congress have such riders
attached to them. Marrying a US citizen is the most common, although
now they are even cracking down on that and trying to tell US
citizens they must follow their spouse back to the Phillipines, or
whereever.
--
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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6127 | From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Subject: Re: How hard to change springs on F350 truck?
Article-I.D.: pyramid.186044
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
Lines: 5
In article <1993Apr3.005245.10615@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
>Does it take any peculiar tools to remove the rear springs from a Ford
>F350 truck? o
Naah. Just a coupla nice big bumps.
|
6128 | From: mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier)
Subject: Re: MS-Windows access for the blind?
Lines: 23
Nntp-Posting-Host: mtrottie.mps.emr.ca
Organization: MPS, Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
In article <1993Apr22.172514.13025@cci632.cci.com> jfb@cci632.cci.com (John Bruno) writes:
>From: jfb@cci632.cci.com (John Bruno)
>Subject: MS-Windows access for the blind?
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 17:25:14 GMT
>We are developing an MS-Windows based product that uses a full screen window
>to display ~24 rows of textual data. Is there any product for Microsoft Windows
>that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently (quickly) ??
>
>Please email responses and I will post a summary to this group.
>
>Thanks for any help
>--- John Bruno
>
Apparently, Microsoft came out with a new product: MS-Braille it is suppose
to be "WYTIWIG". :-)
No offense.
Marc Trottier / mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca
|
6129 | From: bpita@ctp.com (Bob Pitas)
Subject: Re: BRAINDEAD Drivers Who Don't Look Ahead--
Keywords: bad drivers
Nntp-Posting-Host: earth.ctp.com
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners
Distribution: usa
Lines: 56
In article <1993Apr14.140642.19875@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> hhm@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (herschel.h.mayo) writes:
>
>Well, I guess I know for sure what I meant, and it is this: I don't know where
>you drive, but around here freeways are often clogged solid with large packs
>of semis, trucks, and cars of all descriptions. When I close on one of these
>rolling clusterf***s on the highway, I have no desire to add my vehicle to this
>rolling accident looking for a place to happen. If there were any way to pass it
>I WOULD BE PASSING MYSELF, however I can't. As I posted before, all it
>takes is a blown tire, or some moron tramping on the brakes to turn this pack
>into a cloud of shredded metal, flying glass, and burning vehicles. I want to
>maintain enough free space between myself and this mess to at least have a
>minimal chance to avoid a mass crash. That means maintaining a clear space
>between me and it.
>However, there is no end of shortdriving morons who are dying to pass so they
>can add themselves and their car to the bodycount. That wouldn't bother me so
>much except that after letting enough of these morons pass me and glue themselves
>to the pack ahead, my interval is filled up. Trying to back off further does not
>work because the road behind me has filled up, trapping my car right into an ever
>increasing pack. Now, if there was any slight possibility that there was a lane
>open ahead, I'd be glad to move over. But, there usually is no way in hell that
>anybody is going anywhere. So, I block the would-be passers. Not only for my own
>good , but theirs as well even though they are often too stupid to realize it.
>
Just an comment: I don't like it when people decide what's good for me...
If you think you're going to decide anything for me, you'd better be
carrying a badge and a gun. Who made you capable of determining if there
is "no way in hell that anybody is going anywhere"? Why do you find
it necessary to add to the problem instead of just minding your own
business? If someone is minding their own business, I will give them
all the room they want, and I'll try to make things easy for them, even
letting them in in front of me if they ask politely (with a directional).
On the other hand, if someone like you decides they want to block me and
be a general asshole, you can bet your ass that I'll make life as
miserable as possible for you, as long as it doesn't affect anyone else
who's minding their own business.
They have a phrase to describe someone like you:
Self Appointed Traffic Police.
Just mind your own business and stay in the right lane where you belong.
>As a rule of philosophy, I don't feel particularly sorry when somebody gets
>offed by his own stupidity, but It does worry me when some idiot is in a position
>to cash in my chips, too.
>
> H.H. Mayo
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6130 | From: steveth@netcom.com (Steve Thomas)
Subject: Re: Good Neighbor Political Hypocrisy Test
Organization: VisionAire, San Francisco, CA
Lines: 53
In article <C5IJ7H.L95@news.iastate.edu> jrbeach@iastate.edu (Jeffry R Beach) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.021021.7538@gordian.com> mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
>>In article <C5HuH1.241@news.iastate.edu>, jrbeach@iastate.edu (Jeffry R Beach) writes:
>>> In article <1qd1snINNr79@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> fogarty@sir-c.jpl.nasa.gov (Tim Fogarty) writes:
>>> >I would be upset that, although abortions would continue, they would be
>>> >a lot more expensive for the rich, and a lot less safe for the poor.
>>>
>>>
>>> So now things are supposed to be legal just to keep their cost down
>>> and the safety factor high??
>>>
>>> Think about it -- shouldn't all drugs then be legalized, it would lower
>>> the cost and definitely make them safer to use.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> I don't think we want to start using these criterion to determine
>>> legality.
>>
>> Why not?
>
>
>Where do they get these people?! I really don't want to waste time in
>here to do battle about the legalization of drugs. If you really want to, we
>can get into it and prove just how idiotic that idea is!
Go for it. I have yet to see anybody justify the
prohibition on drugs and the ensuing War On Drugs. In the world of
*.politics here on Usenet, it is YOU that is crazy. ANYBODY--who gives
the matter any thought beyond reading headlines---cannot justify this
atrocity, this all out war on individual rights.
Just _TRY_ to justify the War On Drugs, I _DARE_ you!
>
>My point was that it is pretty stupid to justify legalizing something just
>because it will be safer and cheaper.
>
Once again, in chorus: WHY is this "stupid"?
>
>A few more ideas to hold to these criterion - prostitution; the killing of all
>funny farm patients, AIDS "victims", elderly, unemployed, prisioners, etc. -
>this would surely make my taxes decrease.
The above paragraph is gibberish--that all I can make of it...
--
_______
Steve Thomas
steveth@rossinc.com
|
6131 | From: D.L.P.Li1@lut.ac.uk (DLP Li)
Subject: Re: CYRIX 486DLC-40 CPU
Reply-To: D.L.P.Li1@lut.ac.uk (DLP Li)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Lines: 12
> 2) Anyone using this cpu, what is your impressions of the cpu performance,
> compatability?
There is a benchmark program called COMPTEST said CYRIX CPUs have a bug
so they cannot run the program. Also may be NeXTSTEP 486?
regards,
Desmond Li
LUT, UK.
|
6132 | From: dietrijj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (dietrijj)
Subject: WHAT A DEAL!!
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Lines: 36
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-plus-
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-plus-
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(317) 495-4426 and ask for Jason. Thanks in advance!!!
-Jason Dietrich
|
6133 | From: cpc4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CONNIN PATRICK COLGAIN)
Subject: A.L. East is best in baseball!
Organization: Lehigh University
Lines: 27
Is there any doubt that this is true? After a few down years, the A.L. East
is back to where it was in the early eighties. With the emergence of the O's
and the Yanks, it is far and away the best. While the N.L. West has the best
team in baseball, and the Reds aren't bad either, they have nothing else. The
Giants, Astros, and Padres all have talent, they do not have the all arounf
teams that are found in the A.L. East. And the Dodgers just plain suck. As
for the Rockies, who knows?
The A.L. East has the defending champs, and although they lost a lot to
free agency, Toronto is still one of the best in baseball. The Orioles have
the preseason favorite to win the Cy Young in Mike Mussina, and you can never
forget about Ripken. The signings of Harold Baines and Harold Reynolds don't
hurt to much either, although I always liked Bill Ripken. While they let a
lot go this summer (Randy Milligan, Joe Orsulak, Bill Ripken, Bob Milacki, Sam
Horn, Storm Davis, and Craig Lefferts), they kept the heart of their team
intact.
My predicted finish:
1. Baltimore (Could be a biased opinion)
2. NY Yankees
3. Toronto
4. Milwaukee
5. Detroit
6. Boston
7. Cleveland (Would have been higher if not for the accident)
Go O's!!!!!!!!
--
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6134 | From: haberj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Haber Joerg)
Subject: ray tracing spline surfaces
Keywords: ray tracing, splines
Originator: haberj@sunbulirsch4.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Lines: 17
Hi net!
Due to further investigation I would like to study the following article:
Peterson, "Ray tracing general B-Splines",
Proc. ACM Mountain Regional Conference, April 1986
Unfortunately I didn't find it in any library's register.
If there is anyone having access to this paper or knowing about a
library containing those proceedings (preferrably in Germany), please
let me know! Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks a lot,
Joerg Haber
--
Joerg Haber haberj@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
Mathematisches Institut
TU Muenchen
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6135 | From: whaley@sigma.kpc.com (Ken Whaley)
Subject: Re: XCopyPlane Question
In-Reply-To: nancie@neko.CSS.GOV's message of 14 Apr 1993 15:19:05 -0400
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc.
Lines: 88
>
> I am trying to use XCopyPlane to copy a single plane
> from a depth-8 pixmap to a depth-1 pixmap. Everytime I
> try this, I see absolutely nothing displayed. I know there
> is data in the depth-8 pixmap becuase I have checked by doing
> an XCopyArea to the screen.
>
> I have been successful getting XCopyPlane to work if I use
> two pixmaps of depth-8. Is there a problem with what I am
> trying to do??
>
> Could someone please scan my code segment and let me know
> where I am going wrong...
>
> I have created a XmDrawingArea widget called canvas.
>
> w_id = XtWindow(canvas);
> display = XtDisplay(canvas);
> screen = DefaultScreen (display);
> pixmap8 = XCreatePixmap (display, RootWindow (display, screen),
> w_width, w_height, DefaultDepth (display, screen));
> pixmap1 = XCreatePixmap (display, RootWindow (display, screen),
> w_width, w_height, 1);
>
> w_gc8 = XCreateGC (display, w_id, 0, NULL);
> w_gc1 = XCreateGC (display, pixmap1, 0, NULL);
>
> --> Code to read xwd image into pixmap8 is omitted <----
>
Have you set the foreground and background colors in w_gc1 to
something other than 0 and 1? The WhitePixel and BlackPixel macros
on your server may not return values suitable for depth 1 drawables.
> /* Copy one plane into the depth-1 pixmap */
> XCopyPlane (display, pixmap8, pixmap1,
> w_gc1, 0, 0, w_width, w_height, 0, 0, 16);
>
Are you sure that the fifth plane of the data isn't all the same? You could
have different pixel values in the image, but the fifth plane (0x10 == 16)
might all be the same value?
> /* Using the depth-1 pixmap as the clipmask, copy it to the screen */
> values.foreground = fg_color;
> values.clip_x_origin = 0;
> values.clip_y_origin = 0;
> values.clip_mask = pixmap1;
> mask = GCForeground | GCClipMask;
> XChangeGC (display, w_gc8, mask, &values);
>
> XFillRectangle (display, w_id, w_gc8, 0, 0, w_width, w_height);
>
If you just want to see the plane of data and want better performance,
don't use ClipMasks, just use pixmap1 as the stipple in a stippled
rectangle fill. Many servers are very stupid about handling complex
clip lists, and turn a bitmap clip region into hundreds and hundreds of
little clipping rectangles, and clips every drawing primitive against every
one of these little triangles.
Actually, I must also ask the FAQ's #1 most popular reason why graphics
don't show up: do you wait for an expose event before drawing your
rectangle?
> Other Info: X11R5 Patchlevel 10
> Motif 1.2.1
> Sun Sparc2 running SunOS 4.1.1
>
>
> Thanks in Advance!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Nancie P. Marin NET: nancie@neko.css.gov
> ENSCO Inc. MAIL: 445 Pineda Ct. Melbourne, Fl. 32940
> (407)254-4122 FAX: (407)254-3293
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
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Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc. Email: whaley@kpc.com
2630 Walsh Avenue
Santa Clara, CA. 95051
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6136 | From: kene@acs.bu.edu (Kenneth Engel)
Subject: Re: Atheists and Hell
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Lines: 18
|> Imagine the worst depth of despair you've
|> ever encountered, or the worst physical pain you've ever experienced.
|> Some people suffer such emotional, physical, and mental anguish
|> in their lives that their deaths seem to be merciful. But at least
|> the pain does end in death. What if you lived a hundred such lives,
|> at the conclusion of one you were instantly reborn into another?
|> What if you lived a million, a billion years in this state?
|> What if this kept going forever?
Did this happen to Jesus? I don't think so, not from what I heard. He lived
ONE DAY of suffering and died. If the wages of sin is the above paragraph, then
JESUS DIDN'T PAY FOR OUR SINS, DID HE?
I'd be surprised to see the moderator let this one through, but I seriously
want a reasonable explanation for this.
ken
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6137 | From: swyatt@bach.udel.edu (Stephen L Wyatt)
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Windows really and Ope
Nntp-Posting-Host: bach.udel.edu
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 24
In article <1pr6r2$t7c@agate.berkeley.edu> neff123@garnet.berkeley.edu (Stephen Kearney) writes:
>
>Apparently not. Many people complain about the confusion that
>results from the filemanager/progman split. It's just a basic
>flaw.
>
I have one thing to say-- why does everyone say that spliting them up is
such a bad thing? I actually like my program launcher and file manager
do be seperate.. it make things easier to figure out.. I mean, take a look
at OS/2's wps... (no flames!).. I personally hate it cause I just
have too much trouble figuring out how to do simple things like file copy..
and don't say "just drag the icon!".. Cause I hate icons in the first place.
I have too much trouble telling what all those little push buttons mean.
I want "F"ile "C"opy etc..
although I know I'm in the minority.
--
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swyatt@brahms.udel.edu !!! no disclaimer...I blame everything on someone else
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6138 | From: moakler@romulus.rutgers.edu (bam!)
Subject: The Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract
Distribution: na
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 49
Just a little something I found while reading the Village Voice, which
is not noted for its sports coverage, but occasionally the print some
interesting features. This year, the predictions/team analyses for
the 1993 season were presented in the form of Bob Dylan lyrics. I
don't have the article in front of me, so I'll only give the memorable
ones here that I remember and know the melody to. I could dig up more
if there is interest.
Yankess (to the tune of "Subterranean Homesick Blues")
Howe is in the basement, mixing up the medicine.
George is on the pavement thinking 'bout the government.
Wade Boggs in a trench coat, bat out, paid off,
Says he's got a bad back, wants to get it laid off.
Look out kids, it's somethin' you did.
Don't know when, but it's Columbus again.
Mets (to the tune of "Like a Rolling Stone")
Once upon a time you played so fine
you threw away Dykstra before his prime, didn't you?
People said "Beware Cone, he's bound to roam"
But you thought they were just kidding you.
You used to laugh about,
The Strawberry that was headin' out.
But now you don't talk so loud,
Now you don't seem so proud,
About having to shop Vince Coleman for your next deal....
Phillies (to the tune of "Highway 61")
Well Daulton and Dykstra should have some fun,
Just keep them off of Highway 61!
Giants (to the tune of "The Ballad of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter")
This is the story of the Magowan,
The man St. Petersburg came to pan,
For something that he never done,
He sits in the owner's box but one...
Day he could have been the Tampian of the world!
_______________________________________________________________________________
Bill Moakler | LPO 10280 | !RUTGERS ANIME!
moakler@remus.rutgers.edu| PO BOX 5064 | !ATLANTIC ANIME ALLIANCE!
(908)-932-3465 |New Brunswick, NJ 08903| !CHIBI-CON '93!
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I am not an OTAKU; I am a FREE MAN!
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6139 | From: rxg3321@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.X. Getter)
Subject: How do I put an HD on an XT?
Nntp-Posting-Host: ultb-gw.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Lines: 12
This may be a dumb question, but I need to put a hard drive on my father's
PC/XT, either MFM, RLL, or IDE. I know how to hook it up, but how do I tell
the computer the geometry of the drive. On my 386, you set it in the BIOS, but
I doubt that's how it's done on an XT. I thought it might be software with
the controller card, but the IDE card for XT's that I saw didn't come with
any. Also, how do I low level format it once it's on the computer? (Assuming
a drive which needs formatting)
advTHANKSance,
Rob
rxg3321@ultb.isc.rit.edu
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6140 | From: tiang@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Tiang)
Subject: Re: A Book I found... graphics
Nntp-Posting-Host: midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Lines: 35
covlir@crockett1c.its.rpi.edu (Locks) writes:
Hello,
>I happened to spot an excellent book in a bookstore about 4 days ago,
>though!!!!!! It is in C++ and assembly. It teaches you the assembly
>as it goes along --so if you're like me and have no assembler experience,
>don't worry. It has almost everything that I wanted to know and has
>-----WORKING----- code.
>--Rod Covlin--
I just bought a copy. I can't disagree that it is a very good
book. But unfortunately I was looking for the same graphics feature
described in this book but _NOT_ in 640x480x16 or 320x200x256 mode. It
is easy to accomodate all the pixel "descriptor" (or color attributes)
in those modes into A0000-AFFFFF, but not in 640x480x256(which is what
I am interested in). I haven't finish the book but I affraid the
author didn't talk much about this mode(or other SVGA modes). If
anyone out there know any good book dealing with fast SVGA graphics
manupulation(scrolling, repainting, all other good stuff..) please
send me mail. Programming guide to SVGA card is also welcome.
Thanks in advance.
************************************************************************
* Tiang T. Foo *
* tiang@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu *
************************************************************************
--
************************************************************************
* Tiang T. Foo *
* tiang@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu *
************************************************************************
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6141 | From: jackw@boi.hp.com (jack wood)
Subject: BBB Autoline Arbitration
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Keywords: bbb arbitration lemon
Lines: 46
My BBB Autoline arbitration experience is over.
The outcome was decidedly mixed. I won the battle but
lost the war. The arbitrator found that the car was
defective, but decided to offer a repurchase well below
market value :(. At the time of the hearing, average
retail on my truck in the NADA book was $21,025, but
the decision was for $17,665. I wrote a letter to the
Council of Better Business Bureaus pointing out the
fact that if you have an automobile that does not
depreciate rapidly, the manufacturer has no incentive
to deal with you. There is no way that the
manufacturer can loose because they can turn around and
sell the vehicle at a profit if the consumer is awarded
a repurchase. The attitude of Chevrolet's
representative at the hearing tends to support this
point of view; he was totally unprepared and did not
seem to take the proceeding very seriously.
I decided to take the repurchase, even though I am
getting totally screwed on the price. I will not have
to deal with continuing repairs or selling a lemon
myself, and I have no case for a civil suit based on
the Idaho lemon law. I am planning to send a letter to
my elected representatives telling them how utterly
ridiculous the Idaho lemon law is. The law allows for
a "use deduction" equal to the IRS mileage allowance.
As if Chevrolet were buying my gas and paying
for my insurance.
Summary of the case: In May 1992 I bought a new 3/4 ton
HD Chevrolet pickup. Between May 1992 and December 1992
this vehicle required repair after repair. Systems
that required attention included the transmission,
heater fan, paint, suspension, and motor. The main
problem was the five speed manual transmission. They
could not install a non-defective transmission in at
least four attempts.
So, in summary, it is possible to get a repurchase, but
you are going to get screwed on the price, unless you
paid too much in the first place, or if your car
happens to be a model that depreciates rapidly.
jackw@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
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6142 | From: neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz)
Subject: Re: Rumours about 3DO ???
Organization: CEC Karlsruhe
Lines: 17
NNTP-Posting-Host: NESTVX
In article <1993Apr15.164940.11632@mercury.unt.edu> Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu> 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
The 68070 is a variation of the 68010 that was done a few years ago by
the European partners of Motorola. It has some integrated I/O controllers
and half a MMU, but otherwise it's a 68010. Think of it the same as
the 8086 and 80186 were.
Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz
Distributed Multimedia Group, CEC Karlsruhe EERP Portfolio Manager
Software Motion Pictures & BERKOM II Project Multimedia Base Technology
Digital Equipment Corporation
neidecker@nestvx.enet.dec.com
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6143 | From: djf@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Marvin Batty)
Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.
Nntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk
Organization: Starfleet, Coventry, UK
Lines: 30
In article <C5t05K.DB6@research.canon.oz.au> enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:
>From the article "What's New" Apr-16-93 in sci.physics.research:
>
>........
>WHAT'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC
>
>1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE "SPINOFFS" WE WERE PROMISED?
>In 1950, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein published "The
>Man Who Sold the Moon," which involved a dispute over the sale of
>rights to the Moon for use as billboard. NASA has taken the firsteps toward this
> hideous vision of the future. Observers were
>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the
>pad with "SCHWARZENEGGER" painted in huge block letters on the
>side of the booster rockets.
Things could be worse. A lot worse! In the mid-eighties the
teen/adult sci-fi comic 2000AD (Fleetway) produced a short story
featuring the award winning character "Judge Dredd". The story
focussed on an advertising agency of the future who use high powered
multi-coloured lasers/search lights pointed at the moon to paint
images on the moon. Needless to say, this use hacked off a load of lovers,
romantics and werewolfs/crazies. The ad guys got chopped, the service
discontinued. A cautionary tale indeed!
Marvin Batty.
--
****************************************************************************
Marvin Batty - djf@uk.ac.cov.cck
"And they shall not find those things, with a sort of rafia like base,
that their fathers put there just the night before. At about 8 O'clock!"
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6144 | From: machman@hardy.u.washington.edu (The Machman)
Subject: Re: Jim Lefebvre is an idiot.
Organization: University of Washington
Lines: 19
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu
00bjgood@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>I just wanted to let everyone know that I have lost what little respect I have
>for Jim LeFebvre after seeing today's Cubs game. First of all how could he
[ etc. ]
>Vizcaino was batting. Face it Lefebvre has got to be the worst manager in
>baseball.
> A dishard Cub fan
Hey, he's the only manager so far to lead the Seattle Mariners to a
winning season, out of, what, fifteen? Give him some credit for that.
-- dave
--
/''' The Machman machman@u.washington.edu david c carroll
c-OO
\ "Big Science. Hallelujah"
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6145 | From: duncans@hotlips.Princeton.EDU (Duncan Smith)
Subject: Question about LocalTalk/AppleShare on MS-DOS system
Summary: How do I make AppleShare PC run properly under Windows or OS/2?
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: Windows, OS/2, AppleShare PC, LocalTalk
Nntp-Posting-Host: hotlips.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Lines: 13
Is anyone out there running a MS-DOS system with a LocalTalk board? I am on an
Appletalk network, hooked up with a DayStar Digital LT200 MC LocalTalk
Interface Board, running on a PS/2 Model 70. I'm using the AppleShare PC
software for file server and network access. It works fine under DOS or the
Window or OS/2 DOS box. But when I try to load it *before* Windows, so that
every application I run could get access to it, the machine crashes hard as
soon as I start up an application. And of course, things look pretty hopeless
for OS/2 (but who knows).
So, does anyone have experience with this bizarre and obsolete setup?
- Duncan
- duncans@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
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6146 | From: jmeritt@mental.mitre.org
Subject: God's promise to the righteous
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Lines: 3
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Ps.92:12: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree."
Isa.57:1: "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart."
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6147 | From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Old Predictions to laugh at...
Summary: LONG!
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Lines: 404
Oops! I came across this file from last year. Thought you might
enjoy some of these thoughts. The predictions were made on the
date indicated. They are largely out of order.
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June 11, 1992
tedward@cs.cornell.edu (ME!)
>What have I done? I computed the "expected winning percentage" for
>each team from their OBP, total bases, and runs allowed. I use the
>basic RC formula and the pythagorean projection. I then compare this
>with their actual winning percentage. All stats through June 7.
>
>Team OBP TB RA W L XWP Diff
>baltimore 0.351 768 199 33 21 0.647 -36
>boston 0.334 580 176 26 25 0.548 -38
>toronto 0.319 750 221 34 22 0.540 68
>new york 0.327 759 237 28 26 0.523 -5
>milwaukee 0.325 692 226 28 25 0.498 31
>detroit 0.328 782 285 24 31 0.448 -11
>cleveland 0.316 688 274 22 34 0.386 7
>minnesota 0.353 797 237 30 24 0.585 -29
>oakland 0.350 719 236 32 23 0.532 50
>texas 0.324 815 281 33 26 0.469 90
>chicago 0.325 601 212 25 27 0.459 22
>california 0.307 664 231 22 32 0.438 -30
>kansas city 0.310 656 239 22 32 0.420 -13
>seattle 0.310 726 290 22 33 0.376 24
You all know how things turned out. The Orioles, Red Sox, and Yankees
all disappeared. The Jays and Tigers continued at essentially the
expected pace. The Brewers and Indians cranked in the second half.
The Rangers predictably took a dive. That shouldn't have surprised
anybody. Meanwhile, as predicted, the Mariners dropped behind the
Angels and Royals. They clearly didn't deserve the 22-33 record in
June. The White Sox and A's upped their game a bit, while the Twins
dropped off a little. But for the most part things were as expected.
Okay, so there were a few blatant errors. But for a predictive
calculation, I thought this did pretty well.
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From CAVGEOE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Tue Mar 31 16:36:34 1992
>1. The Braves insert Kent Mercker into the starting rotation
>sometime this year (1992). Bielecki is traded or released, Lei-
>brandt becomes the fifth starter, and the best bullpen in baseball
>has Pena, Berenguer, Stanton, Wohlers, Freeman, and Pete Smith, who
>spot-starts as well.
Hm. Pete Smith made the rotation instead of Mercker. And Bielecki
wasn't released until the end of the year. I won't comment on the
bullpen. (Jeff Reardon??? :-)
>2. Blauser wins the starting shortstop job outright by the end
>of May. Bream goes on the DL, and Klesko goes on a nice hitting
>honeymoon (a la Gregg Jefferies in 1988) platooning with Hunter.
>Mitchell wins the center field job a bit later (All-Star break?) and
>Nixon stays on as a valuable pinch-runner. Lonnie is released unless
>the Braves find a taker in a trade.
Right on Blauser. Wrong on Bream and Mitchell. A bit early on
Lonnie, as with Bielecki. Didn't pick Sanders. (Did anybody? :-)
>3. Managers to be fired this year (1992) in chronological order:
>Fregosi, Showalter, Valentine, Riddoch
Three of them went, right? Showalter is still around (and likely to
stick, it seems).
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From mattel.Auto-trol.COM!mattel@auto-trol.com Tue Mar 31 17:04:22 1992
>1) Bonds gets traded from Bucs for some young talent.
Nope! They won the division, and so kept him for a shot at the
playoffs.
>2) Mets win division
:-) Well, they didn't finish last.
>3) Atlanta repeats in the West
Got that one right.
>4) Yankees surprise everyone, but finish second behind Toronto.
Nope.
>5) Dwight Gooden wins 20, but is surpassed by Saberhagen who wins 22.
I guess this is why you picked the Mets to win, huh?
>6) Roger Clemens is injured early in the season.
Tsk Tsk. Not nice to predict something like this.
>7) Strawberry fails to hit even 20 home runs and is often injured.
>8) Due to 7, Dodgers drop out of race.
You got that right!
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And my response...
>From tedward Tue Mar 31 17:57:42 1992
>
>Hmph! Can tell you are a Mets fan! Do you mind if I make some counter
>predictions against yours? They follow:
>2) Mets come in third, behind Pittsburgh and Montreal.
Okay, so the Mets finished fifth. But I got the Pirates and Expos
right!
>4) The Yankees offense and pitching flounders, dropping them to fourth
> place in the AL East. Boston wins 95 games, the division, the pennant,
> and the World Series.
First half? Dead on! Second half? Ummm.... I'm a Sox fan, go easy
on me!
>5) Dwight Gooden rushes his comeback, gets blown out, and goes on the DL from
> May through mid-July.
> Saberhagen runs a .500 record; WFAN criticizes the Mets for "giving away
> that great talent Jefferies", who has a solid year in KC.
So I got my predictions for Gooden and Saberhagen reversed. :-) I
was at least *close*, and was right about Jefferies. (Though I don't
know. HAS WFAN criticized the Jefferies trade?)
>6) Roger Clemens wins another CY, as well as 20 games.
Close. No cigar.
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In article <UdqcEAO00VpeII_lI1@andrew.cmu.edu>, al1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Amit Likhyani) writes:
> Excerpts from netnews.rec.sport.baseball: 1-Apr-92 Re: NL East( Smiley
> trade's.. CAVGEOE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale. (591)
>
>> OPS Projected for 1992:
>> HoJo .792
>
> I will streak naked down Forbes avenue if HoJo does not muster more than
> a .792 OPS. Something is wrong with that projection.
Some predictions need no introduction!
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>From navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Mon Apr 13 02:09:15 1992
>>From tedward@cs.cornell.edu
>>Do you care to put your prediction down for posterity? You predict
>>Mark Grace will get 90+ RBIs. I say you are out of your mind. That
>>is almost impossible for a 10-HR type guy batting behind Dawson. (Who
>>kills most of the rallies he doesn't finish.)
>
> Why do you say that? Mark has driven in 82 ('90) and 79 ('89).
>Last year Mark was batting second primarily and it was his worse year
>average wise. Since he is batting either 3rd or 5th this year I predict
>he will be back up to his previous standards (I think he will be better)
>90 rbi's is not that much of a stretch.
Sometimes us statheads get lucky. Grace *didn't* hit behind Dawson
the entire season, but he also finished with only 79 RBIs.
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>From nss3@midway.uchicago.edu Tue May 19 22:09:06 1992
>
>The most ballsy prediction ever:
>
>Mark McGwire will hit 61 or more HRs this year.
Nope. He slowed down, and the injury finished him off. Didn't
even reach 50. But a ballsy prediction, nonetheless.
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From ECAXRON@MARS.LERC.NASA.GOV Thu May 21 16:42:21 1992
>(1) Baltimore will not fade. They will not win the division this year,
> but they will finish within five games. I find the prospect of two
> Orioles winning 20 each easier to comprehend than that of two Sox.
> No offense - I think their pitching is about as good as the division
> has to offer.
The Orioles finished seven games out. None of them won 20 (though
Mussina might have had a chance, with better relief and more starts).
>(2) Nobody else in the division is worth a darn. They all finish a minimum
> of fifteen games out, the Tribe 30. That's another reason to watch
> Baltimore this year and next - they won't waste many of those games
> against the rest of the division.
Except for the Brewers (who you probably forgot), you were right! The
rest of the division was thoroughly mediocre. The Yankees and Indians
"led" with 76 wins, the Red Sox "trailed" with 73 wins. None were
horrible, but four were five or more games below .500.
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From: djohnson@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (David Johnson)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 15:47:30 GMT
>Right. That was me. I never said the Jays were a cinch to clinch it
>but I said that Milwaukee will be more of a threat than Baltimore. I
>do think that Toronto should win it but after '87 I don't consider
>anything a cinch unless you have something like a 4 game lead with 3
>games to go. I do think that the Jays have the best talented team in
>the AL East and if we had a good, or even average manager we might
>have a bigger lead right now. I also think that the Orioles will not
>play much better than .500 baseball for the rest of the season.
You win!
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From king@cogsci.UCSD.EDU Thu Nov 14 14:33:45 1991
>
>In article <1991Nov13.060413.9187@cs.cornell.edu> you write:
>>7. Indians the first and only 0-162 season ever! :-)
>
>Prediction: The Cleveland indians will win 70 or more games next year.
You were right!
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From stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu Fri Sep 13 01:15:52 1991
>
>1. Jose Rijo will win the 1992 Cy Young award IF he is healthy enough to go
>at least 210 IP. (Who would have thought he would try to steal a base? Why
>risk such an injury???)
He had 211 IP, but didn't win the Cy Young. Maddux surprised all.
>2. The Orioles will win 88+ games in at least 3 of the next 6 years
>(probably the last 3) and their pitching staff will have a team ERA
>among the best 4 in the AL in at least 3 of the next 6 years (but not
>necessarily all the same years as they win 88+). This one will take a
>long time to verify.
I don't think I want to wait that long. But they won 89 games last
year, and they were fifth in the league in ERA. Not a bad start.
>4. Ben McDonald will not challenge for an ERA title in the next 2
>years, nor will he have 18+ victories either year. (By challenge, I
>mean FINISH among the leaders; being among the leaders BEFORE the
>season is done doesn't count.) He will probably never be the pitcher
>he was hyped to be, but is still a decent starter to have.
Looks like it. He wasn't bad last year, just too consistent to be an
ace. So far this year looks like more of the same.
>5. The Phillies will give up *many* fewer walks if/when they get rid of their
>bullpen coach (Ryan). (I am not predicting when or whether they will get rid
>of him, and you will have to give the team a little bit of time to adjust
>before seeing the radical change. They would have a fine pitching staff if
>they would just steal Ray Miller away from Pittsburg. The White Sox seem to
>have the same problem, but not as bad.)
I honestly can't say. Did they get rid of him? Their BB totals were
down last year.
>7. Ricky Jordan will have 90+ rbi IF he starts 145+ games, hitting in
>the 3 or 4 or 5 spot in any lineup or the 6 spot in a lineup with very
>good OBP in the 4,5 hitters. This applies for each of the next 3
>years.
I just don't think he's that good....
>12. Billy Ripken will *never* again hit over .240 with 400+ AB.
:-) So far, so good. I'm *definitely* not waiting to check this one.
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From panix!spira@cmcl2.NYU.EDU Fri Sep 13 12:38:08 1991
>
>No matter what Lou Gorman and his scouts say, Paul Quantrill will
>never ever be an adequate major league starter. Never! (I have never
>seen a starting pitcher who can only strike out 3 per 9 innings at AAA
>be successful in the majors.)
Current plans seem to be to use Quantrill in long relief. He has a
rubber arm and unusual delivery. He might be decent in that role.
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From lyle@ecn.purdue.edu Sat Sep 14 01:51:28 1991
> M.V.P. - `92
>A.L. - Frank Thomas
>N.L. - Hal Morris
>
> Division Winners - `92
>A.L. East - Baltimore Orioles
>A.L. West - Chicago White Sox
>A.L. Pennant - Chicago White Sox
>N.L. East - St. Louis Cardinals
>N.L. West - Cincinatti Reds
>N.L. Pennant - Cincinatti Reds
>W.S. Champion - Cincinatti Reds
Wrong on all of the above. (Hal Morris????)
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And my favorites!
From tedward Sun Oct 20 23:52:57 1991
>
>Belle will not walk as many as 50 times in 1992.
>Belle will hit more HR than he has walks in 1992.
Belle hit 34 HR last year, walking 52 times (but five of those were
intentional!). Okay, so I exaggerate. But I *might* have been right.
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From trn@strdev.jhuapl.edu Tue Mar 31 15:25:28 1992
>
>> Are the O's going to sign Cal, of is Eli's wallet welded shut (outgoing
>> money only, wide open for incoming cash 8-))
>
>My prediction (which you may make note of, Valentine :-) ), is that Eli Jacobs
>will defer any serious negotiations on Cal Ripken's contract until the '92
>season is over. Eli will give Cal every opportunity to have his stats tumble
>a bit from last year's pace before coming forth with an offer.
>
>(Despite claims that OP@CY was designed to Cal's strength, my feeling is that
>the 411 foot left-center "canyon" will cut down on Cal's power stats.)
>
>After all, it's hard to credibly to offer $3-4 million/year to an
>All-Star game MVP/AL MVP/Gold Glove shortstop/baseball deity :-) --
>but it'd be a lot easier to offer a similar salary to an "obviously
>declining but above average" shortstop who had a career year one full
>season ago.
>
>Of course, if Cal *does* match his '91 numbers, then Eli is going to be faced
>with a rather huge (and expensive) problem...
How much did Cal sign for? When did he sign? If I remember
correctly, he got a rather hefty contract despite a weak season.
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And finally....
From jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca Thu Sep 12 10:35:58 1991
>
>Generally, because of expansion in 1993, there will be a lot of
>mediocre talent hanging around. Much of it will not make it, as the
>expansion teams look for younger talent around which to build their
>teams. My specific predictions:
>
>As of April 7, 1993:
>
>Jim Acker and Cory Snider will be selling aluminum siding.
Snyder is still in SF. Acker is gone??
>Neither Charlie Kerfeld nor Vance Lovelace (presently in Tiger AA but
>formerly big leaguers) will be playing professional ball.
They aren't in the majors.
>Nor will Dave Rozema (who says he's keeping in shape with a hope for
>another shot with expansion).
Never heard of him.
>Shawn Hare and Jody Hurst will be in the major leagues.
>(They are outfielders in the Tiger minor league system)
I don't *think* they are in the majors.
>Ron Hassey will be a minor league manager with the Yankees.
Dunno what happened to him.
>It will be bye-bye for Balboni.
If he's still around, he's stuck in the minors.
>Bo Jackson will _not_ be a starter.
Hm. With Raines out, Bo looks to get a lot of PT.
>Gary Huckaby will have moved to Alaska permanently (they're on the
>net!),
:-)
>and Dave Kirsch will return to Canada to live.
Hm.
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Thanks for listening!
-Valentine
|
6148 | From: ruca@pinkie.saber-si.pt (Rui Sousa)
Subject: Re: Potential World-Bearing Stars?
In-Reply-To: dan@visix.com's message of Mon, 12 Apr 1993 19:52:23 GMT
Lines: 17
Organization: SABER - Sistemas de Informacao, Lda.
In article <C5Dz7C.J0E@visix.com> dan@visix.com (Daniel Appelquist) writes:
I'm on a fact-finding mission, trying to find out if there exists a list of
potentially world-bearing stars within 100 light years of the Sun...
Is anyone currently working on this sort of thing? Thanks...
Dan
--
In principle, any star resembling the Sun (mass, luminosity) might have planets
located in a suitable orbit. There several within 100 ly of the sun. They are
single stars, for double or multiple systems might be troublesome. There's a
list located at ames.arc.nasa.gov somewhere in pub/SPACE. I think it is called
stars.dat. By the way, what kind of project, if I may know?
Rui
--
*** Infinity is at hand! Rui Sousa
*** If yours is big enough, grab it! ruca@saber-si.pt
All opinions expressed here are strictly my own
|
6149 | From: mbeaving@bnr.ca (Michael Beavington)
Subject: Re: Ok, So I was a little hasty...
Nntp-Posting-Host: bmerh824
Reply-To: MBEAVING@BNR.CA
Organization: BNR Ottawa, DMS Software Design
Lines: 18
In article <13394@news.duke.edu>, infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew Infante) writes:
|> Apparently that last post was a little hasy, since I
|> called around to more places and got quotes for less
|> than 600 and 425. Liability only, of course.
|>
|> Plus, one palced will give me C7C for my car + liab on the bike for
|> only 1350 total, which ain't bad at all.
|>
|> So I won't go with the first place I called, that's
|> fer sure.
|>
Nevertheless, DWI is F*ckin serious. Hope you've got some
brains now.
Mike Beavington
mbeaving@bnr.ca
* these opinions are my own and not my companies'.
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6150 | From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)
Subject: Re: Braves Pitching UpdateDIR
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Lines: 13
In article <1993Apr15.010745.1@acad.drake.edu> sbp002@acad.drake.edu writes:
>or second starter. It seems to me that when quality pitchers take the
>mound, the other teams score less runs. The team that scores the most
>runs wins. This puts the team with the better pitching at the advantage
>(providing they can stop the opposing team from scoring runs). A low
>scoring game would clearly benefit the Braves.
Not clear to me at all. I'd certainly rather have a team who was winning
4-1 games than 2-1 games. In the 2-1 game, luck is going to play a much
bigger role than in the 4-1 game.
Sherri Nichols
snichols@adobe.com
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6151 | From: dbl@visual.com (David B. Lewis)
Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 2/5
Summary: useful information about the X Window System
Reply-To: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
Organization: VISUAL, Inc.
Expires: Sun, 2 May 1993 00:00:00 GMT
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Archive-name: x-faq/part2
Last-modified: 1993/04/04
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Subject: 24)! How do I make a screendump or print my application?
The xwd client in the X11 distributions can be used to select a window
or the background. It produces an XWD-format file of the image of that window.
The file can be post-processed into something useful or printed with the xpr
client and your local printing mechanism. You can use this command:
csh% sleep 10; xwd -root > output.xwd &
and then spend 10 seconds or so setting up your screen; the entire current
display will be saved into the file output.xwd. Note that xwd also has an
undocumented (before R5) -id flag for specifying the window id on the
command-line. [There are also unofficial patches on export to xwd for
specifying the delay and the portion of the screen to capture.]
Two publicly-available programs which allow interactive definition of
arbitrary portions of the display and built-in delays are asnap and xgrabsc.
There are several versions of xgrabsc; version 2.2, available on export [8/92]
is the most recent.
xsnap includes some asnap features and supersedes it; it also renders
XPM output [version unknown]. It is available on export or avahi.inria.fr;
see xsnap-pl2.tar.Z.
A screen-dump and merge/edit program combining features of xwd and xpr
is available from vernam.cs.uwm.edu as xdump1.0.tar.Z. Information:
soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu.
xprint, by Alberto Accomazzi (alberto@cfa.harvard.edu) is available
from cfa0 (128.103.40.1) in xprint.export-2.1.tar.Z.
To post-process the xwd output of some of these tools, you can use xpr,
which is part of the X11 distribution. Also on several archives are xwd2ps
and XtoPS, which produce Encapsulated PostScript with trimmings suitable for
use in presentations (see export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xwd2ps.tar.Z and
contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z). Also useful is the PBMPLUS package on many archive
servers; and the Xim package contains Level 2 color PostScript output.
The XV program can grab a portion of the X display, manipulate it, and
save it in one of the available formats. ImageMagick has similar capabilities.
Also:
Bristol Technology (info@bristol.com, 203-438-6969) offers Xprinter
2.0, an Xlib API for PostScript and PCL printers; a demo is on ftp.uu.net
in vendor/Bristol/Xprinter.
ColorSoft 9619-459-8500) offers OPENprint package includes a screen-
capture facility, image-processing, and support for PostScript and
non-PostScript printers.
Some vendors' implementations of X (e.g. DECWindows and OpenWindows)
include session managers or other desktop programs which include "print portion
of screen" or "take a snapshot" options. Some platforms also have tools which
can be used to grab the frame-buffer directly; the Sun systems, for example,
have a 'screendump' program which produces a Sun raster file. Some X terminals
have local screen-dump utilities to write PostScript to a local serial printer.
Some vendors' implementations of lpr (e.g. Sony) include direct
support for printing xwd files, but you'll typically need some other package
to massage the output into a useful format which you can get to the printer.
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Subject: 25) How do I make a color PostScript screendump of the X display?
If you need color PostScript in particular, you can
- grab the screen-image using a program which can produce color
PostScript, such as xgrabsc and xv
- grab the screen-image using xwd and post-process xwd into color PS.
You can do this using xwd2ps or the XtoPS program from the ImageMagick
distribution. The PBMPLUS package is also good for this, as is the Xim package.
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Subject: 26) How do I make a screendump including the X cursor?
This can't be done unless the X server has been extended. Consider
instead a system-dependent mechanism for, e.g., capturing the frame-buffer.
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Subject: 27) How do I convert/view Mac/TIFF/GIF/Sun/PICT/img/FAX images in X?
The likeliest program is an incarnation of Jef Poskanzer's useful++
Portable Bitmap Toolkit, which includes a number of programs for converting
among various image formats. It includes support for many types of bitmaps,
gray-scale images, and full-color images. PBMPLUS has been updated recently;
the most recent version [12/91] is on export in contrib/pbmplus10dec91.tar.Z.
Another tool is San Diego Supercomputing Center's IMtools ('imconv' in
particular), which packages the functionality of PBM into a single binary.
It's available anonymous ftp from sdsc.edu (132.249.20.22).
Useful for viewing some image-formats is Jim Frost's xloadimage, a
version of which is in the R4 directory contrib/clients/xloadimage; there are
later versions available, including contrib/xloadimage.3.03.tar.Z on export.
Graeme Gill's updates to an earlier version of xloadimage are also on export;
see xli.README and xli.tar.Z.uu; version 1.14 was released 2/93.
xv (X Image Viewer), written by bradley@cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley),
can read and display pictures in Sun Raster, PGM, PBM, PPM, X11 bitmap, TIFF,
GIF and JPEG. It can manipulate on the images: adjust, color, intensity,
contrast, aspect ratio, crop). It can save images in all of the aforementioned
formats plus PostScript. It can grab a portion of the X display, manipulate on
it, and save it in one of the available formats. The program was updated 5/92;
see the file contrib/xv-2.21.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu.
The Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation, by Michael Mauldin <mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu>.
Conversion and manipulation package, similar to PBMPLUS. Version 1.0 available
via FTP as nl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z, uunet.uu.net:pub/fbm.tar.Z,
and ucsd.edu:graphics/fbm.tar.Z.
The Img Software Set, by Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>, reads
and writes its own image format, displays on an X11 screen, and does some image
manipulations. Version 1.3 is available via FTP on expo.lcs.mit.edu as
contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z, along with large collection of color images.
The Utah RLE Toolkit is a conversion and manipulation package similar
to PBMPLUS. Available via FTP as cs.utah.edu:pub/urt-*,
weedeater.math.yale.edu:pub/urt-*, and freebie.engin.umich.edu:pub/urt-*.
Xim, The X Image Manipulator, by Philip Thompson, does essential
interactive displaying, editing, filtering, and converting of images. There is
a version in the X11R4 contrib area; but a more recent version (using R4 and
Motif 1.1) is available from gis.mit.edu (18.80.1.118). Xim reads/writes gif,
xwd, xbm, tiff, rle, xim, (writes level 2 eps) and other formats and also has a
library and command-line utilities for building your own applications.
ImageMagick [2.3; 2/93] by cristy@dupont.com can be retrieved from
export's contrib area. It is a collection of utilities to transform and display
images on any X server. The tool uses the MIFF format; filters to and from MIFF
from other popular formats (PPM, TIFF, GIF, SUN Raster, etc) are included.
xtiff is a tool for viewing a TIFF file in an X window. It was written
to handle as many different kinds of TIFF files as possible while remaining
simple, portable and efficient. xtiff illustrates some common problems
with building pixmaps and using different visual classes. It is distributed
as part of Sam Leffler's libtiff package and it is also available on
export.lcs.mit.edu, uunet.uu.net and comp.sources.x. [dbs@decwrl.dec.com,10/90]
xtiff 2.0 was announced in 4/91; it includes Xlib and Xt versions.
A version of Lee Iverson's (leei@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) image-viewing tool
is available as contrib/vimage-0.9.3.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu. The package
also includes an ImageViewPort widget and a FileDialog widget. [12/91;5/92]
[some material from Larry Carroll (larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov), 5/91]
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Subject: 28) How can I change the titlebar of my xterm window?
The solution involves sending an escape sequence to xterm which will
cause it to update the property which the window manager relies upon for the
string which appears in the window titlebar.
A solution is as easy as typing this in an xterm running a shell:
echo "ESC]2;TEXT^G"
where ESC is the escape key, TEXT is the string you wish to have displayed,
and ^G is a Control-G (the BEL character).
Here is a more complicated csh alias which changes the titlebar to
the current working directory when you change directories:
alias newcd 'cd \!*; echo -n ESC]2\;$cwd^G'
The digit '2' in these strings indicates to xterm that it should
change only the title of the window; to change both the title and the name
used in the icon, use the digit '0' instead, and use '1' to change only the
icon name.
Note: another way to do this, which prevents an incorrect display of
the local directory if a modified `cd` is used in a subshell, is to wrap the
escape sequences into the PS1 prompt itself.
Note: on an IBM RS/6000 is may be necessary to begin the sequence with
a ^V.
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Subject: 29) Where can I find the xterm control sequences?
The best source of such information is in your R5 sources in the file
ctlseqs.ms; a PostScript version is in mit/hardcopy/clients/ctlseqs.PS.Z.
O'Reilly's Volume 3, the X User's Guide, includes an R5 version of the control
sequences; the standard volume will be available 3/93, and a Motif version of
the book is available now. The current (R4) guide includes an outdated version
of the control sequences. [1/93]
Other good sources of information include the R4 version of that document
and also the file in the R4 sources called mit/clients/xterm/ctlseq2.txt, a
compilation put together by Skip Montanaro (GE CR&D) listing the VT100
sequences. It dates from R3 but is fairly accurate. A hardcopy version was
published in the December 1989 XNextEvent (the XUG newsletter).
In a pinch, a VT100 manual will do.
[last updated 10/91]
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Subject: 30)- Why does the R3 xterm, et al, fail against the R4 server?
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Subject: 31) How can I use characters above ASCII 127 in xterm ?
In order to use special characters such as the o-umlaut, you need to
"stty pass8" but also to use a charcell ISO8859 font, such as
XTerm*font: -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
XTerm*boldfont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
[The family is intentionally unspecified in this example.]
In addition, you may want to set this in your shell:
setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
For a given character above 127, you can determine the key to use with
the Alt modifier by finding the equivalent character below 127 (try using
`man ascii`). For example, o-umlaut (v) is Alt-v and the section character (')
is Alt-'.
[thanks to Greg Holmberg (greg%thirdi@uunet.uu.net) and Stephen Gildea
(gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu); 6/92]
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Subject: 32) Why are my xterm menus so small?
You are probably setting the geometry small accidentally. If you give
a resource specification like this:
xterm*geometry: 80x24
then you are asking for all widgets under xterm to have their geometry set to
80x24. For the main window, this is OK, as it uses characters for its size.
But its popup menus don't; they are in pixels and show up small. To set only
the terminal widget to have the specified geometry, name it explicitly:
xterm*VT100.geometry: 80x24
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Subject: 33) How can I print the current selection?
You could paste it into an xterm after executing the lpr command.
However, a program by Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) specifically for
manipulating the selection will help; e.g.
% xselection PRIMARY | lpr
finds the primary selection and prints it. This command can be placed in a
window-manager menu or in shell-scripts. xselection also permits the setting of
the selection and other properties. A version is on export.
Also available is ria.ccs.uwo.ca:pub/xget_selection.tar.Z, which can be
adapted to do this.
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Subject: 34) How does Xt use environment variables in loading resources?
You can use several environment variables to control how resources are
loaded for your Xt-based programs -- XFILESEARCHPATH, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, and
XAPPLRESDIR. These environment variables control where Xt looks for
application-defaults files as an application is initializing. Xt loads at most
one app-defaults file from the path defined in XFILESEARCHPATH and another from
the path defined in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH.
Set XFILESEARCHPATH if software is installed on your system in such a
way that app-defaults files appear in several different directory hierarchies.
Suppose, for example, that you are running Sun's Open Windows, and you also
have some R4 X applications installed in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. You could
set a value like this for XFILESEARCHPATH, and it would cause Xt to look up
app-defaults files in both /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/openwin/lib (or wherever your
OPENWINHOME is located):
setenv XFILESEARCHPATH /usr/lib/X11/%T/%N:$OPENWINHOME/lib/%T/%N
The value of this environment variable is a colon-separated list of pathnames. The pathnames contain replacement characters as follows (see
XtResolvePathname()):
%N The value of the filename parameter, or the
application's class name.
%T The value of the file "type". In this case, the
literal string "app-defaults"
%C customization resource (R5 only)
%S Suffix. None for app-defaults.
%L Language, locale, and codeset (e.g. "ja_JP.EUC")
%l Language part of %L (e.g. "ja")
%t The territory part of the display's language string
%c The codeset part of the display's language string
Let's take apart the example. Suppose the application's class name is
"Myterm". Also, suppose Open Windows is installed in /usr/openwin. (Notice the
example omits locale-specific lookup.)
/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N means /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Myterm
$OPENWINHOME/lib/%T/%N means /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/Myterm
As the application initializes, Xt tries to open both of the above
app-defaults files, in the order shown. As soon as it finds one, it reads it
and uses it, and stops looking for others. The effect of this path is to
search first in /usr/lib/X11, then in /usr/openwin.
Let's consider another example. This time, let's set
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH so it looks for the file Myterm.ad in the current working
directory, then for Myterm in the directory ~/app-defaults.
setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ./%N.ad:$HOME/app-defaults/%N
The first path in the list expands to ./Myterm.ad. The second expands
to $HOME/app-defaults/Myterm. This is a convenient setting for debugging
because it follows the Imake convention of naming the app-defaults file
Myterm.ad in the application's source directory, so you can run the application
from the directory in which you are working and still have the resources loaded
properly. NOTE: when looking for app-default files with XUSERFILESEARCHPATH,
for some bizarre reason, neither the type nor file suffix is defined so %T and
%S are useless.
With R5, there's another twist. You may specify a customization
resource value. For example, you might run the "myterm" application like this:
myterm -xrm "*customization: -color"
If one of your pathname specifications had the value
"/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%C" then the expanded pathname would be
"/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Myterm-color" because the %C substitution character
takes on the value of the customization resource.
The default XFILESEARCHPATH, compiled into Xt, is:
/usr/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%C:\ (R5)
/usr/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%C:\ (R5)
/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%C:\ (R5)
/usr/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N:\
/usr/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N:\
/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N
(Note: some sites replace /usr/lib/X11 with a ProjectRoot in
this batch of default settings.)
The default XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, also compiled into Xt, is
<root>/%L/%N%C:\ (R5)
<root>/%l/%N%C:\ (R5)
<root>/%N%C:\ (R5)
<root>/%L/%N:\
<root>/%l/%N:\
<root>/%N:
<root> is either the value of XAPPLRESDIR or the user's home directory
if XAPPLRESDIR is not set. If you set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to some value other
than the default, Xt ignores XAPPLRESDIR altogether.
Notice that the quick and dirty way of making your application find
your app-defaults file in your current working directory is to set XAPPLRESDIR
to ".", a single dot. In R3, all this machinery worked differently; for R3
compatibilty, many people set their XAPPLRESDIR value to "./", a dot followed
by a slash.
[Thanks to Oliver Jones (oj@world.std.com); 2/93.]
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Subject: 35) How to I have the R4 xdm put a picture behind the log-in window?
The answer lies in changing xdm's xrdb resource in the xdm-config file to run a
program to change the background before loading the resources; for example,
your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file may add the line
DisplayManager.0.authorize: false
to permit unrestricted access to the display before log-in (beware!) and also
DisplayManager*xrdb: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/new.xrdb
where that file does something (for all connections) along the lines of:
#!/bin/sh
#comes in with arguments: -display :0 -load /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
/usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -display $2 -bitmap /usr/lib/X11/xdm/new.bitmap
/usr/bin/X11/xrdb $*
Substitute xloadimage or xv for xsetroot, to taste. Note that this is a
general hack that can be used to invoke a console window or any other client.
[Thanks to Jay Bourland (jayb@cauchy.stanford.edu), 9/91]
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Subject: 36) Why isn't my PATH set when xdm runs my .xsession file?
When xdm runs your .xsession it doesn't source your .cshrc or .login
files. You can set the path explicitly as you normally could for any SH script;
or you can place all environment-setting statements in a separate file and
source it from both the .xsession file and your shell configuration file; or,
if you set your PATH in your .cshrc file, the normal place, you can make your
.xsession have PATH set simply by making it a csh script, i.e. by starting
your .xsession file off with "#!/bin/csh".
If this doesn't work, also try starting off with:
#!/bin/sh
# Reset path:
PATH=`csh -c 'echo $PATH'` ; export PATH
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Subject: 37) How do I keep my $DISPLAY when I rlogin to another machine?
There are several ways to avoid having to do a "setenv DISPLAY ..."
whenever you log in to another networked UNIX machine running X.
One solution is to use the clients/xrsh on the R5 contrib tape. It
includes xrsh, a script to start an X application on remote machine, and
xrlogin, a script to start a local xterm running rlogin to a remote machine.
A more recent version is on export in xrsh-5.4.shar.
One solution is to use the xrlogin program from der Mouse
(mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu). You can ftp caveat-emptor versions from
132.206.1.1, in X/xrlogin.c and X/xrlogind.c. The program packages up $TERM and
$DISPLAY into a single string, which is stuffed into $TERM. rlogin then
propagates $TERM normally; your .cshrc on the remote machine should contain
eval `xrlogind`
where xrlogind is a program that checks $TERM and if it is of the special
format it recognizes, unpacks it and spits out setenv and unsetenv commands to
recreate the environment variables. [11/90]
In addition, if all you need to do is start a remote X process on
another host, and you find
rsh <HOST> -n /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display $DISPLAY
too simple (DISPLAY must have your real hostname), then this version of xrsh
can be used to start up remote X processes. The equivalent usage would be
xrsh <HOST> xterm
#! /bin/sh
# start an X11 process on another host
# Date: 8 Dec 88 06:29:34 GMT
# From: Chris Torek <chris@mimsy.umd.edu>
# rsh $host -n "setenv DISPLAY $DISPLAY; exec $@ </dev/null >&/dev/null"
#
# An improved version:
# rXcmd (suggested by John Robinson, jr@bbn.com)
# (generalized for sh,ksh by Keith Boyer, keith@cis.ohio-state.edu)
#
# but they put the rcmd in ()'s which left zombies again. This
# script combines the best of both.
case $# in
[01]) echo "Usage: $0 host x-cmd [args...]";;
*)
case $SHELL in
*csh*) host="$1"; shift
xhost "$host" > /dev/null
rsh "$host" -n \
"setenv TERM xterm; setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0; \
exec $* </dev/null >& /dev/null" &
;;
*sh)
host="$1"; shift
xhost "$host" > /dev/null
rsh "$host" -n \
"TERM=xterm export TERM; \
DISPLAY=`hostname`:0 export DISPLAY; \
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; \
PATH=\$PATH:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin; \
export PATH; \
exec $* < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1" &
;;
esac
;;
esac
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Subject: 38) How can I design my own font?
One way is to use the "bitmap" client or some other bitmap-editor (e.g.
Sun's icon-editor tool, post-processed with pbmplus) to design the individual
characters and then to do some large amount of post-processing to concatenate
them into the BDF format. See Ollie Jones's article in the November 91 X
Journal for more information.
The R3 contrib/ area (in fonts/utils/ and in clients/xtroff) contained
a number of useful utilities, including some to convert between BDF font format
and a simple character format which can be edited with any text editor.
An easier way is to use the "xfed" client to modify an existing font; a
version is on the R4 or R5 X11R5 contrib tape in contrib/clients/xfed. Xfed is
available for anonymous ftp on ftp.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.64.63],
possibly as file /pub/windows/X/Diverse-X11-Sourcen/xfed.tar.Z. It can produce
BDF-format fonts which can be compiled for a variety of X servers.
The xfedor client from Group Bull permits creation of bitmaps, cursors,
XPM1 pixmaps, and fonts. Binaries for common machines are on avahi.inria.fr in
/pub; in addition, the sources (an old Xlib implementation) have been placed
[5/91] in export:/contrib.
If you are a MetaFont user you can use "mftobdf" from the SeeTeX
distribution to convert PK, GF, and PXL fonts to BDF format; the distribution
is on ftp.cs.colorado.edu and on export.lcs.mit.edu.
The GNU package fontutils-0.4.tar.Z on prep.ai.mit.edu includes xbfe,
a font editor, and a number of utilities for massaging font formats.
The O'Reilly X Resource issue #2 contains an article on using these
tools to modify a font.
Fonts can be resized with Hiroto Kagotani's bdfresize; a new version is
in ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp:/X11/contrib.
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Subject: 39) Why does adding a font to the server not work (sic)?
After you have built the font using your system's font-compiler,
installed it in some directory, and run `mkfontdir` or your system's equivalent
(e.g. bldfamily for OpenWindows) in that directory, be sure to use `xset +fp
$dir` to add that full path-name to the server's font-path, *or* if the
directory is already in the path, use `xset fp rehash` so that the new fonts in
that directory are actually found; it is this last step that you're probably
leaving out. (You can also use `xset q` to make sure that that directory is in
the path.)
Sometimes your "xset +fp $dir" command fails with a BadValue error:
X Error of failed request:BadValue
(integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
This means the X server cannot find or read your font directory, or
that your directory does not look like a font directory to the server. (The
mention of an "integer parameter" in the message is spurious.)
-- Is the font directory you're specifying readable from the SERVER's file
system? Remember, it's the server, not the client, which interprets your
font directory. Trouble in this area is especially likely when you issue an
xset command with shell metacharacters in it (e.g. "xset +fp ~/myfonts") and
the server is an X terminal or managed by xdm.
-- Is the directory really a font directory? If you're running an MIT server
(or most varieties of vendor servers) look in the directory for the file
"fonts.dir". If you can't find that file, run mkfontdir(1). (If you're
running OpenWindows, look for the file "Families.list". If you can't find
it, run bldfamily(1).)
-- If you're in a site where some people run X11Rn servers and others run a
proprietary server with nonstandard font formats (OpenWindows, for
example), make sure the font directory is right for the server you're using.
Hint: if the directory contains .pcf and/or .snf files, it won't work for
Open Windows. If the directory contains .ff and/or .fb files, it won't work
for X11Rn.
[thanks to der Mouse (mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu) and to Oliver Jones
(oj@pictel.com); 7/92 ]
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Subject: 40) How do I convert a ".snf" font back to ".bdf" font?
A tool called "snftobdf 1.4" is part of the bdftools package, which is
available from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/bdftools.tar.Z and from
crl.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/bdftools.tar.Z. [2/91]
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Subject: 41) What is a general method of getting a font in usable format?
der Mouse's getbdf is one solution; it connects to a server and
produces a .BDF file for any font the server is willing to let it. It can be
used as an anything-to-BDF converter, but requires access to a server that can
understand the font file, thus is both more and less powerful than other tools
such as snftobdf. getbdf is on 132.206.1.1 in X/getbdf.c or available via mail
from mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU. [5/91]
In addition, the R5 program "fstobdf" can produce bdf for any font that
the R5 server has access to.
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Subject: 42) How do I use DECwindows fonts on my non-DECwindows server?
The DECwindows fonts typically don't exist on a non-DEC installation,
but rewrite rules can be used to alias fonts used by DECwindows applications to
standard MIT fonts of similar characteristics and size. Pick up the file
contrib/DECwindows_on_X11R4_font.aliases from export.lcs.mit.edu; this file is
for a standard MIT R4 server. It can also serve as a starting point for
creating a similar aliases file for the Open Windows server or other servers
which do not use the MIT font scheme.
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Subject: 43) How do I add ".bdf" fonts to my DECwindows server?
The format of fonts preferred by DEC's X server is the ".pcf" format.
You can produce this compiled format from the .bdf format by using DEC's dxfc
font-compiler. Note that the DEC servers can also use raw .bdf fonts, with a
performance hit.
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Subject: 44)! How can I set backgroundPixmap in a defaults file? (What is XPM?)
I want to be able to do something like this:
xclock*backgroundPixmap: /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/rootweave
You can't do this. The backgroundPixmap resource is a pixmap of the
same depth as the screen, not a bitmap (which is a pixmap of depth 1). Because
of this, writing a generic String to Pixmap converter is impossible, since
there is no accepted convention for a file format for pixmaps. Therefore,
neither the X Toolkit or the Athena widget set define a String to Pixmap
converter, because there is no converter you cannot specify this value as a
resource. The Athena widget set does define a String to Bitmap converter for
use in many of its widgets, however.
[courtesy Chris D. Peterson (now kit@ics.com), 4/90]
However:
A specific converter which encapsulates much of the functionality of
the xloadimage package by Jim Frost was posted 12/90 by Sebastian Wangnick
(basti@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de); it permits loading of a number of
image formats as a pixmap.
The leading general-purpose format for pixmaps is the XPM format used
by Groupe Bull in several of its programs, including the GWM window manager, by
AT&T in its olpixmap editor, and by ICS in its interface builder. XPM
distribution, available on export as contrib/xpm.tar.Z, includes read/write
routines which can easily be adapted to converters by new widgets which want to
allow specification of pixmap resources in the above manner. See information
on the xpm-talk mailing list above. XPM 3.0f was announced in 3/93 and is
available from export.lcs.mit.edu and avahi.inria.fr; an older version is on
the R5 contrib tape. [A set of XPM icons collected by Anthony Thyssen
(anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au) is on export in contrib/AIcons.]
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Subject: 45) Why can't I override translations? Only the first item works.
You probably have an extra space after the specification of the first
item, like this:
basic*text.translations: #override \
Ctrl<Key>a: beginning-of-line() \n\
Ctrl<Key>e: end-of-line()
^ extra space
The newline after that space is ending the translation definition.
[Thanks to Timothy J. Horton, 5/91]
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Subject: 46) How can I have xclock or oclock show different timezones?
One solution is xchron, in Volume 6 of comp.sources.x, which can show
the time for timezones other than the local one.
Alternatively, you can probably set the timezone in the shell from
which you invoke the xclock or oclock, or use a script similar to this:
#!/bin/sh
TZ=PST8PDT xclock -name "San_Luis_Obispo_CA" 2> /dev/null &
TZ=EST5EDT xclock -name "King_Of_Prussia_PA" 2> /dev/null &
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Subject: 47) I have xmh, but it doesn't work. Where can I get MH?
The xmh mail-reader requires the Rand MH mail/message handling system,
which is not part of the UNIX software distribution for many machines. A list
of various ftp, uucp, e-mail and US-mail sites for both xmh and MH is given in
the monthly MH FAQ; one source is ics.uci.edu in the file pub/mh/mh-6.7.tar.Z.
If you do not receive the comp.mail.mh newsgroup or the MH-users mailing list,
you can request a copy of the FAQ, which also includes a section on xmh,
by sending mail to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing the request
"send usenet/news.answers/mh-faq".
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Subject: 48) Why am I suddenly unable to connect to my Sun X server?
After a seemingly random amount of time after the X server has been started, no
other clients are able to connect to it.
The default cron cleanup jobs supplied by Sun (for 4.0.3, at least)
delete "old" (unreferenced) files from /tmp -- including /tmp/.X11-unix, which
contains the socket descriptor used by X. The solution is to add "! -type s" to
the find exclusion in the cron job.
[10/90]
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Subject: 49) Why don't the R5 PEX demos work on my mono screen?
The R5 sample server implementation works only on color screens, sorry.
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Subject: 50)! How do I get my Sun Type-[45] keyboard fully supported by Xsun?
Many users wants the Num Lock key to light the Num Lock LED and have the
appropriate effect on the numeric keypad. The Xsun server as distributed by MIT
doesn't do this but there are two different patches available.
The first patch is written by Jonathan Lemon and fixes the Num Lock related
problems. It is available from export.lcs.mit.edu in the file
contrib/Xsun-R5.numlock_patch.Z .
The second is written by Martin Forssen and fixes the Num Lock and Compose keys
and adds support for the different national keyboard layouts for Type-4 and
Type-5 keyboards. This patch is available from export.lcs.mit.edu in
contrib/sunkbd1216-0314.tar.Z or via email from maf@dtek.chalmers.se.
[thanks to Martin Forssen (maf@dtek.chalmers.se or maf@math.chalmers.se), 8/92]
A set of patches by William Bailey (dbgwab@arco.com) was posted to newsgroups
11/92 to provide support for the Type-5 keyboard.
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Subject: 51) How do I report bugs in X?
Generally, report bugs you find to the organization that supplied you
with the X Window System. If you received the R5 source distribution directly
from MIT, please read the file mit/bug-report for instructions. [Look in
mit/doc/bugs/bug-report in R4.]
[Thanks to Stephen Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu>, 5/91; 12/91]
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Subject: 52) Why do I get "Warning: Widget class version mismatch"?
This error, which typically goes on to say, "widget 11004 vs.
intrinsics 11003" indicates that the header files you included when building
your program didn't match the header files that the Xt library you're linking
against was built with; check your -I include path and -L link-path to be sure.
However, the problem also occurs when linking against a version of the
X11R4 Xt library before patch 10; the version number was wrong. Some Sun OW
systems, in particular, were shipped with the flawed version of the library,
and applications which link against the library typically give the warnings you
have seen.
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Subject: 53) Where can I find a dictionary server for xwebster?
Webster's still owns the copyright to the on-line copies of Webster's
Dictionary which are found at various (university) sites. After it became aware
that these sites were then acting as servers for other sites running xwebster
and gnuemacs-webster, it asked that server sites close off external access.
[The NeXT machine apparently is also licensed to have the dictionary. A
Webster daemon for NeXT machines is available from iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
(129.79.254.192) in "pub/webster/NeXT-2.0".]
Unless you want to get a legal on-line copy yourself or can find a site
which can grant you access, you are probably out of luck.
However, if you are a legitimate site, you'll want to pick up the
latest xwebster, as-is on export:contrib/xwebster.tar.Z [10/91]; the file
xwebster.README includes discussions of the availability, illegality, and
non-availability of dictionary servers.
[courtesy steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU (Steve Miller) and mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels
Mayer) 11/90]
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Subject: 54) TOPIC: OBTAINING X AND RELATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
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Subject: 55) Is X public-domain software?
No. The X software is copyrighted by various institutions and is not
"public domain", which has a specific legal meaning. However, the X
distribution is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.
Contributed software, though, may be placed in the public domain by
individual authors.
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Subject: 56) How compatible are X11R3, R4, and R5? What changes are there?
The Release Notes for each MIT release of X11 specify the changes from the
previous release. The X Consortium tries very hard to maintain compatibility
across releases. In the few places where incompatible changes were necessary,
details are given in the Release Notes. Each X11 distribution site on the
network also offers the Release Notes that go with the release they offer; the
file typically can be found at the top of the distribution tree.
[Stephen Gildea, 1/92]
The comp.windows.x.intrinsics FAQ-Xt lists Xt differences among these versions.
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Subject: 57)! Where can I get X11R5 (source and/or binaries)?
Information about MIT's distribution of the sources on 6250bpi and QIC-24 tape
and its distribution of hardcopy of the documents is available from
Software Center, Technology Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 28 Carleton Street, Room E32-300, Cambridge MA 02142-1324,
phone: 617-258-8330.
You will need about 100Mb of disk space to hold all of Core and 140MB to hold
the Contrib software donated by individuals and companies.
PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network.
Note that the RELEASE notes are generally available separately in the same
directory; the notes list changes from previous versions of X and offer a
guide to the distribution.
North America anonymous FTP:
California gatekeeper.dec.com pub/X11/R5
16.1.0.2
California soda.berkeley.edu pub/X11R5
128.32.131.179
Indiana mordred.cs.purdue.edu pub/X11/R5
128.10.2.2
Maryland ftp.brl.mil pub/X11R5
128.63.16.158
(good for MILNET sites)
Massachusetts crl.dec.com pub/X11/R5
192.58.206.2
Massachusetts export.lcs.mit.edu pub/R5
18.24.0.12
(crl.dec.com is better)
Michigan merit.edu pub/X11R5
35.1.1.42
Missouri wuarchive.wustl.edu packages/X11R5
128.252.135.4
Montana ftp.cs.montana.edu pub/X.V11R5
192.31.215.202
New Mexico pprg.eece.unm.edu pub/dist/X11R5
129.24.24.10
New York azure.acsu.buffalo.edu pub/X11R5
128.205.7.6
North Carolina cs.duke.edu dist/sources/X11R5
128.109.140.1
Ohio ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu pub/X.V11R5
128.146.8.52
Ontario ftp.cs.utoronto.ca pub/X11R5
128.100.1.105
Washington DC x11r5-a.uu.net X/R5
192.48.96.12
Washington DC x11r5-b.uu.net X/R5
137.39.1.12
Europe/Middle East/Australia anonymous FTP:
Australia munnari.oz.au X.V11/R5
128.250.1.21
Denmark freja.diku.dk pub/X11R5
129.142.96.1
United Kingdom src.doc.ic.ac.uk graphics/X.V11R5
146.169.3.7
hpb.mcc.ac.uk pub/X11r5
130.88.200.7
Finland nic.funet.fi pub/X11/R5
128.214.6.100
France nuri.inria.fr X/X11R5
128.93.1.26
Germany ftp.germany.eu.net pub/X11/X11R5
192.76.144.129
Israel cs.huji.ac.il pub/X11R5
132.65.6.5
Italy ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it pub/X11R5
149.132.2.1
Netherlands archive.eu.net windows/X/R5
192.16.202.1
Norway ugle.unit.no pub/X11R5
129.241.1.97
Norway nac.no pub/X11R5
129.240.2.40
Switzerland nic.switch.ch software/X11R5
130.59.1.40
Japan anonymous FTP:
Kanagawa sh.wide.ad.jp X11R5
133.4.11.11
Kwansai ftp.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp X11R5
133.1.12.30
Kyushu wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp X11R5
133.4.14.3
TISN utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp X11R5
133.11.11.11
Tokyo kerr.iwanami.co.jp X11R5
133.235.128.1
Tokyo scslwide.sony.co.jp pub/X11R5
133.138.199.1
UUCP:
uunet for UUNET customers ~/X/R5
decwrl existing neighbors only ~/pub/X11/R5
osu-cis ~/X.V11R5
(not online until ~ 9 Sept)
utai existing neighbors only ~/ftp/pub/X11R5
hp4nl Netherlands only ~uucp/pub/windows/X/R5
NFS:
Missouri wuarchive.wustl.edu /archive/packages/X11R5
128.252.135.4 mount point: /archive
AFS:
Pennsylvania /afs/grand.central.org/pub/X11R5
NIFTP (hhcp, cpf, fcp, ...):
United Kingdom uk.ac.ic.doc.src <X.V11R5>
00000510200001
user "guest"
anon FTAM:
United Kingdom 000005102000 (Janet) X.V11R5
146.169.3.7 (Internet)
204334504108 (IXI)
ACSNet:
Australia munnari.oz (fetchfile) X.V11/R5
Please fetch only one file
at a time, after checking
that a copy is not available
at a closer site.
[9/2/91; updated for contrib 10/91]
Anyone in Europe can get a copy of the MIT X.V11R5 distribution, including
the core and contributed software and all official patches, free of charge.
The only requirement is to agree to return the tapes, or equivalent new tapes.
Only QIC and TK format cartridges can be provided. Contact: Jamie Watson,
Adasoft AG, Nesslerenweg 104, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland.
Tel: +41 31 961.35.70 or +41 62 61.41.21; Fax: +41 62 61.41.30; jw@adasoft.ch.
UK sites can obtain X11 through the UKUUG Software Distribution Service, from
the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, in several tape formats.
You may also obtain the source via Janet (and therefore PSS) using Niftp (Host:
uk.ac.ic.doc.src Name: guest Password: your_email_address). Queries should be
directed to Lee McLoughlin, 071-589-5111#5037, or to info-server@doc.ic.ac.uk
or ukuug-soft@uk.ac.ic.doc (send a Subject line of "wanted". Also offered are
copies of comp.sources.x, the export.lcs.mit.edu contrib and doc areas and most
other announced freely distributable packages.
X11R5 and X11R4 source along with X11R5 contrib code, prebuilt X binaries for
major platforms, and source code examples from O'Reilly's books is available on
an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM from O'Reilly & Associates. [as of 3/92].
X11R5 source is available on ISO-9660-format CD-ROM for members of the Japan
Unix Society from Hiroaki Obata, obata@jrd.dec.com.
X11R5 source along with GNU source, the comp.sources.x archives, and SPARC
binaries is available on an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM from PDQ Software,
510-947-5996 (or Robert A. Bruce, rab@sprite.Berkeley.EDU).
X11R5 source is available from Automata Design Associates, +1 215-646-4894.
Various users' groups (e.g. SUG) offer X sources cheaply, typically on CD-ROM.
Source for the Andrew User Interface System 5.1 and binaries for common systems
are available on CD-ROM. Information: info-andrew-requests@andrew.cmu.edu,
412-268-6710, fax 412-621-8081.
Binaries for X11R5, with shared libX11 and libXmu, for A/UX 2.0.1 are now
available from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/systems/aux/X11R5. Patches for
X11R5 compiled with gcc (but not shared libraries) are also available.
[John L. Coolidge (coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu, 10/91)]
Binaries by Rich Kaul (kaul@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu) for the Sun386i running
SunOS 4.0.2 are available on dsinc.dsi.com (please only after-hours USA EST).
Binaries for the Sun386i are available from compaq.com (131.168.249.254) in
pub/sun-386i/sources and from vernam.cs.uwm.edu (129.89.9.117).
A binary tree for the Next by Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) is on
foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu; it is missing the server, though.
Binaries for the Sun386i are in vernam.cs.uwm.edu:/sun386i.
Binaries for the HP-PA are on hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15).
Source and binaries for HP-UX 8.*/9.0(S300/400/700/800) and Domain 10.4 (68K,
DN 10K) are available through the Interworks Users Group; contact Carol Relph
at 508-436-5046, fax 508-256-7169, or relph_c@apollo.hp.com.
Patches to X11R5 for Solaris 2.1 by Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) et al
are on export in contrib/{R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z,R5.SunOS5.patch.README}.
Patches to X11R5 for the Sun Type 5 keyboard and the keyboard NumLock are
available from William Bailey (dbgwab@arco.com).
Also:
Binaries are available from Unipalm (+44 954 211797, xtech@unipalm.co.uk),
probably for the Sun platforms.
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David B. Lewis faq%craft@uunet.uu.net
"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday
--
David B. Lewis Temporarily at but not speaking for Visual, Inc.
day: dbl@visual.com evening: david%craft@uunet.uu.net
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6152 | From: jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS)
Subject: Re: Aerostitch: 1- or 2-piece?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Distribution: rec
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In article <1993Apr14.144015.18175@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> na4@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Request for opinions:
>
>Which is better - a one-piece Aerostitch or a two-piece Aerostitch?
>
>
>We're looking for more than "Well, the 2-pc is more versatile, but the
>1-pc is better protection,..."
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Nadine
I would be scared of trying to fit the one piece. When I got my
two piece, I got the jacket in 42 and the pants in 40 (just due
to my manly-man of an athletic build, kind of thing) No laughing,
please. Seriously, I'm not trim and the 42 pants would have
been way too big. Also, I don't think the 1 piece does provide
better protection. If I'm wrong, I'll be swiftly if ever so gently
correct by the net.pansies.of.knowledge (as they like to call themselves).
Regards
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919
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~ afternoon, when I'm still asleep, that I worry about. ~
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6153 | From: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Subject: RE: need shading program example in X
Reply-To: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Lines: 43
NNTP-Posting-Host: irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de
In article <930421105641.100043a@TGV.COM>, mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan) writes:
|>
|> #
|> #Do anyone know about any shading program based on Xlib in the public domain?
|> #I need an example about how to allocate correct colormaps for the program.
|> #
|> #Appreciate the help.
|> #
|>
|> I don't know if this might help, but I've just started playing with a program
|> called POVRay (Persistance of Vision Raytracer) that also displays its output
|> via X Windows. It does a fairly good job of allocating the colormap on my
|> Psuedo-Color 8-plane display. I got the source from from a site in Canda.
|> The person I retrieved them from was David Buck (dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca).
|>
I think the original post was searching for existing implementations of
f.i. Gouroud-shading of triangles. This is fairly complex to do with plain
X. Simpler shading models are implemented already, f.i. in x3d (ask archie
where to get the latest version).
For Gouroud, a fast implementation will be possible utilizing some extension
only, either MIT-SHM to do the shade in an image and fast update the window
with it, or PEX/OpenGL which should be able to shade themselves. The portable
'vanilla X' way would be to shade in a normal XImage and use XPutImage(),
what would be good enough to do static things as f.i. fractal landscapes
or such stuff.
To speak about POVRay, the X previewer that comes with the original source
package is not that good, especially in speed, protocol-friendlyness and
ICCCM compliance. Have a look on x256q, my own preview code. It is on
141.76.1.11:pub/gfx/ray/misc/x256q/
The README states the points where it is better than xwindow.c from
POVRay 1.0
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6154 | From: ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira)
Subject: Remember those names come election time.
Keywords: usa federal, government, international, non-usa government
Nntp-Posting-Host: davinci.ece.concordia.ca
Organization: ECE - Concordia University
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In article <christopherU3AK245pe@clarinet.com> clarinews@clarinet.com (SID BALMAN Jr.) writes:
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Tuesday
there are better ideas to stop the human slaughter in the Balkans than
ordering American fighters to bomb the Serbs, but a frustrated senator
told him to do just that.
``We've not done a damn thing,'' Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told
Christopher at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
``Preventive diplomacy is not in your capability right now in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
Biden chastised the administration and its Republican predecessor for
what he characterized as a limp response to the Serbian policy of
``ethnic cleansing'' of Muslims, including rape and shelling of
civilians.
``The time has come for us and the world to stop bemoaning the fact
that all the options are bad ones,'' Biden said. ``They are all bad ones
and we ought to pick a couple.''
Biden also endorsed lifting an international arms embargo against the
former Yugoslavia so the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government might have
a chance to at least defend itself against the Serbs.
Christopher said this could give an opening role in the conflict to
****************************************************
the radical Islamic government of Iran.
***************************************
O, I C!
Biden endorsed bombing Serbian heavy weapons around the besieged
eastern town of Srebrenica.
``There's not a military person...who will not tell you that they
could today, if you gave them the order, take out the heavy weaponry
around Srebrenica,'' Biden said.
``If you did nothing else, nothing else but that, you would have
saved hundreds of women and children who are being absolutely massacred
right now.''
Military action ``is the only thing that's going to change the
equation,'' Biden said.
....................................
Despite the frustrations and pressure, Christopher had no enthusiasm
for American combat aircraft to strike Serb positions in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
....................
> ``Clearly we are at a turning point in the Bosnia situation,''
>Christopher said. ``Air strikes are among those steps that are so
>complex because they tend to interfere with the humanitarian endeavours.
>I think there may be better options.''
Humanitarian as in feeding them and let them get raped and killed.
>political conflict. Clinton vowed during the presidential campaign to
*******(then)
>lift the arms embargo and to strike at Serbian heavy weapons with U.S.
>combat aircraft.
> Christopher said airstrikes would likely ``increase the level of
*******************(Now)
>fighting and cause our allies to draw back'' or even ``pull out the
>humanitarian effort.''
> Great Britain and France have balked at foreign military intervention
>in Bosnia-Herzegovina for fear that their peacekeeping troops on the
>ground may suffer Serbian retribution.
Why don't they get the hell out of there, they ared doing nothing to
protect the victims anyway.. Maybe becasue they have a different agenda.
> Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., seemed to agree with Christopher's
*************************
>assessment and stressed the need not to build up Bosnian expectations
>for heavy U.S. military intervention.
> ``It's very important that expectations aren't raised high on the
>part of the beleagured Bosnians,'' she said.
> Air strikes might have made a difference eight months ago, she said,
>but the strategic significance of that step now is questionable. Like
>Christopher, Kassebaum said it might jeopardize the humanitarian relief
>effort.
Now that they made sure the Bosnian (who were the only real subject of the
embargo last year, as everybody knows that the Serbs had an unlimited supply
of arms) wre massacred without having a chance to defend themselves, Now this
evil coldhearted snake is saying "it is too late to save them, so let them die.
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6155 | From: ziegenfE@moravian.edu (Eric W. Ziegenfus)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Running AIX info from a Sun rlogin shell.
Lines: 36
Nntp-Posting-Host: batman
In <1r74bcINN6ei@ome.sps.mot.com> wcl@risc.sps.mot.com (Wayne Long) writes:
> When I run our RS6000's "info" utility through a remote login
> shell (rlogin) from my Sun Sparc 1+, I can no longer type
> lower case in any of info's window prompt's.
> I thought the prob. may have been due to my Sun window mgr.
> (Openlook) being incompatible with the AIX Motif application
> but I tried it under TVTWM also. Same result.
>
> So this is presumably an X11 key definition problem between
> workstations - but my system admins. feign ignorance.
>
> What do I need to do the be able to type lower case into
> this remote AIX motif app. from within my local Openlook
> window manager?
>
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Wayne Long - OE215 Internet: wcl@risc.sps.mot.com
>6501 William Cannon Drive West UUCP: cs.texas.edu!oakhill!risc!wcl
>Austin, Texas 78735-8598 Phone (512) 891-4649 FAX: 891-3818
I have had the exact same problem, but have not figured out a solution.
I run a PC with Linux (free-unix) with X11r5 and OpenWindows 3.0, I
would appreciate any solutions.
ewz
--
/---------------------------------------------\
| INTERNET: ziegenfE@moravian.edu |
| UUCP: ...!rutgers!lafcol!batman!ziegenfE |
\_____________________________________________/
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6156 | From: "Dennis G Parslow" <p00421@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Minnesota Pitching
In-Reply-To: <4fjvBVy00iUz86yo5_@andrew.cmu.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.4)
Lines: 36
>DATE: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 00:19:45 -0400
>FROM: Karim Edvard Ahmed <ka0k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
>Since I haven't been able to keep up with baseball much this season, I
>have a few questions about my favorite team, the Minnesota Twins:
>
>1. How good does their rotation look? The last I heard, the order is
>Tapani, Erikson, Mahomes, Banks, and some guy I've never heard of.
>(sounds pretty pathetic to me)
Well, maybe it will be. Banks is a 24 year-old prospect who "hasn't
matured as quickly as they would have liked. Mahomes is a 22 year-old
who is very highly touted. Tapani and Erickson are also young, and
have looked very good this spring. The last spot was between Jim
Deshaies, formerly of Houston and S.D. and Mike Trombley. Deshaies
hasn't looked very good this spring, so I believe that the spot has
gone to Trombley, although they hadn't wanted 3 starters this unproven.
I personally believe very highly in Mahomes and Trombley.
>
>2. Who is playing short and third?
Well, Scott Leius is the shortstop. He played mostly 3B last year, but
was a SS in the minors, and moved back after Gagne left to K.C. 3B is
split (maybe) between Pagliarulo, who has had a great spring, and Terry
Jorgenson, a good looking kid who has languished in Portland for 3
years. I'm not sure how the time will be divided, but they seem to be
happy with what they have here. I like Jorgenson, but I fear they
might give too much time to Pags.
>3. How's Winfield doing?
Sorry, can't help you here.
Dennis
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6157 | From: (Proust)
Subject: Re: Individual Winners (WAS: Re: WHERE ARE THE DOUBTERS NOW? HMM?)
Nntp-Posting-Host: td-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu
Organization: Computing & Information Systems, Yale University
Lines: 15
In article <1993Apr15.170226.11074@cci632.cci.com>, dwk@cci632.cci.com
(Dave Kehrer) wrote:
>
> Well, since you mentioned it...
>
> In article <1993Apr12.142028.6300@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, migod@turing.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey) writes:
>
> > Lemieux is clearly the MVP
>
> No question here. Chip in the Masterson as well...
Lemieux for the Masterson? No doubt he had an awe inspiring season,
but what personal records did he set this year? Lemieux should have
Hart locked up...but how about Mike Gartner for the Masterson?
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6158 | From: andrei@labomath.univ-orleans.fr (Andrei Yakovlev)
Subject: References to switched-capacitor filter ICs wanted.
Organization: University of Orleans, France.
Lines: 9
Hi All!
I would like to know what are the popular ICs of the type, their capabilities
(# of channels et.c.) and prices :-)
Great thanks,
Andrew.
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6159 | From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: A WRENCH in the works?
Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp.
Lines: 15
nanderso@Endor.sim.es.com (Norman Anderson) writes:
>jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch) writes:
>>effect that one of the SSRBs that was recovered after the
>>recent space shuttle launch was found to have a wrench of
>>some sort rattling around apparently inside the case.
>I heard a similar statement in our local news (UTAH) tonight. They referred
>to the tool as "...the PLIERS that took a ride into space...". They also
>said that a Thiokol (sp?) employee had reported missing a tool of some kind
>during assembly of one SRB.
I assume, then, that someone at Thiokol put on their "manager's hat" and said
that pissing off the customer by delaying shipment of the SRB to look inside
it was a bad idea, regardless of where that tool might have ended up.
Why do I get the feeling that Thiokol "manager's hats" are shaped like cones?
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6160 | From: yee@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Paul Yee)
Subject: Re: Booting from B drive
Summary: Sorry, can't be done from AMI BIOS
Nntp-Posting-Host: nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca
Organization: Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster University
Lines: 30
In article <khan0095.735001731@nova> khan0095@nova.gmi.edu (Mohammad Razi Khan) writes:
>glang@slee01.srl.ford.com (Gordon Lang) writes:
>
>>David Weisberger (djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
>>: I have a 5 1/4" drive as drive A. How can I make the system boot from
>>: my 3 1/2" B drive?
[intermediate reply suggesting cable switch deleted]
>
>I have AMI bios, I have poked around the bios but haven't tried this but somewhere it says BOOT: A:;C:
>I would assume that you could probably slip in a b:
>althoug a.) I haven't tried it and
>b.) don't mess with your CMOS unless you know what your doing!!
I hate to burst your bubble but you cannot "slip in a B:" to that
particular AMI BIOS setting. That setting only allows you to set
the *boot order* of the floppy A: with respect to the primary HD C:,
i.e., check A: first, then C: or check C:, then A:.
>
>
>>Gordon Lang
>--
>Mohammad R. Khan / khan0095@nova.gmi.edu
>After July '93, please send mail to mkhan@nyx.cs.du.edu
Regards,
Paul Yee
yee@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca
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6161 | From: babb@sciences.sdsu.edu (J. Babb)
Subject: Re: Electric power line "balls"
Article-I.D.: larc.babb-060493164354
Distribution: usa
Organization: SDSU - LARC
Lines: 16
NNTP-Posting-Host: larc.sdsu.edu
In article <1993Apr6.203237.20841@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>,
fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott Townsend) wrote:
>
> I got a question from my dad which I really can't answer and I'd appreciate
> some net.wisdom.
>
> His question is about some 18-24" diameter balls which are attached to
> electric power lines in his area. He's seen up to a half dozen between
> two poles. Neither of us have any experience with electric power distribution.
> My only guess was that they may be a capacitive device to equalize the
> inductance of the grid, but why so many between two poles?.
I'll bet there's a runway nearby.
Jeff Babb
babb@sciences.sdsu.edu babb@ucssun1.sdsu.edu
Programmer, SDSU - LARC
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6162 | From: julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 34
In article <michael.735318247@vislab.me.iastate.edu> michael@iastate.edu (Michael M. Huang) writes:
>MSG is common in many food we eat, including Chinese (though some oriental
>restaurants might put a tad too much in them). I've noticed that when I
>go out and eat in most of the Chinese food restaurants, I will usually get
>a slight headache and an ununsual thirst afterwards. This happens to many
>of my friends and relatives too. And, heh, we eat Chinese food all the
>time at home :) (but we don't use MSG when we're cooking for ourselves)
>
>So, when we put one and one together, it can be safely assumed that
>MSG may cause some allergic reactions in some people.
>
>Stick with natural things. MSG doesn't do body any good (and possibly
>harms, for that matter). So, why bother with it? Taste food as it should
>be tasted, and don't cloud the flavor with an imaginary cloak of MSG.
As I understood it, MSG *is* natural. Isn't it found in
tomatoes?
Anyway, lots of people are terribly allergic to lots of natural
things; peanuts, onions, tomatoes, milk, etc. Just because something
is 'natural' doesn't mean it won't cause problems with some folks.
As for how foods taste: If I'm not allergic to MSG and I like
the taste of it, why shouldn't I use it? Saying I shouldn't use
it is like saying I shouldn't eat spicy food because my neighbor
has an ulcer.
People have long modified the taste of food by additives, whether
they be chiles, black pepper, salt, cream sauces, etc. All of these
things cloud the flavor of the food. Why do we bother with them?
How should food be tasted? Isn't it better left to the diner?
Julie
DISCLAIMER: All opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
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6163 | From: lundby@rtsg.mot.com (Walter F. Lundby)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
Nntp-Posting-Host: accord2
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Lines: 23
In article <1993Apr20.173019.11903@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes:
>
>As for how foods taste: If I'm not allergic to MSG and I like
>the taste of it, why shouldn't I use it? Saying I shouldn't use
>it is like saying I shouldn't eat spicy food because my neighbor
>has an ulcer.
>
Nobody is saying that you shouldn't be allowed to use msg. Just
don't force it on others. If you have food that you want to
enhance with msg just put the MSG on the table like salt. It is
then the option of the eater to use it. If you make a commerical
product, just leave it out. You can include a packet (like some
salt packets) if you desire.
Salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, pickles ..... are table options.
Treat MSG the same way. I wouldn't shove my condiments down your
throat, don't shove yours down mine.
WFL
--
Walter Lundby
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6164 | From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
Subject: Re: Protection of serial (RS232) lines
Keywords: serial protection
Article-I.D.: uniwa.1pqp7f$h16
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Lines: 13
NNTP-Posting-Host: mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au
laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>There is at least one optically-isolated RS-232 transceiver chip. I
>don't remember where I saw it.
RS Components (they exist in Australia and the UK. Don't know about the US) have
little chips called Isolated MAX 250 and 251. They give you isolated RS-232 from
a single 5V supply. External components are 4 caps, 4 optoisolators, a diode,
and an isloting transformer. They go up to 19.2K baud..
John West
--
For the humour impaired: Insert a :-) after every third word
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6165 | From: boora@kits.sfu.ca (The GodFather)
Subject: RANGERS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Lines: 14
I can't believe that the NY Rangers would force its
players to go to Binghamtom to play in the AHL playoffs instead
of letting them represent their countries in the World Championships.
Anderrson and Zubov are waiting for the NHL to make a decision to this,
while Kovalev has given in and gone down to the minors.
The Rangers are a disgrace.
ps. it has been reported that Neil Smith was very much against
the hiring of Mike Keenan. How long will Smith be in NY for?
the GodFather.
`
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6166 | Subject: Re: Screw the people, crypto is for hard-core hackers & spooks only
From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
<1r0ausINNi01@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1993Apr20.145338.14804@shearson.com> <1r47l1INN8gq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Nntp-Posting-Host: dsg4.dse.beckman.com
Lines: 24
In <1r47l1INN8gq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>In most cases information you come by properly is yours to use as you wish,
>but there are certainly exceptions. If you write a paper which includes
>sufficiently detailed information on how to build a nuclear weapon, it is
>classified. As I understand the law, nuclear weapons design is
>_automatically_ classified even if you do the work yourself. I believe you
>are then not allowed to read your own paper.
This has now been thrown out by the courts. (The "Progressive" case.)
>A less serious example: if you tell drivers about a speed trap they are
>about to run into, you can be fined, even though you might argue that you
>broke no law when you discovered the location of the policeman. The charge
>is interfering with a police officer, which is quite similar what you would
>be doing by reverse engineering the Clipper chip.
This is outright illegal. It DOES violate the first amendment. If you
would, give a case in which your "speed trap" example has been upheld by
the courts.
--
Arthur L. Rubin: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (work) Beckman Instruments/Brea
216-5888@mcimail.com 70707.453@compuserve.com arthur@pnet01.cts.com (personal)
My opinions are my own, and do not represent those of my employer.
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6167 | From: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker)
Subject: Re: Shipping a bike
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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Reply-To: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
In a previous article, manish@uclink.berkeley.edu (Manish Vij) says:
>
>Can someone recommend how to ship a motorcycle from San Francisco
>to Seattle? And how much might it cost?
Hmmmmmm....put your butt in the seat and follow the road signs?
--
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_________________
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6168 | From: Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: LCIII problems
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7F4A76B690100ED@kimball-pc-316.stanford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 16 Apr 93 02:11:55 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Lines: 24
In article <1qmgjk$ao5@menudo.uh.edu> , sunnyt@coding.bchs.uh.edu writes:
> Its not a good idea to have a horizontally formatted hard disk in a
>vertical position. If the drive is formatted in a horizontal position,
it can
>not completely compensate for the gravitational pull in a vertical
position.
>I'm not saying that your hard disk will fail tomorrow or 6 months from
now, but
>why take that chance? If you want more detailed info on the problem,
please
I think the other replies sum up the fact that you can place a hard drive
on its side. The point is this will only be sure to work on the 'new'
drives, namely 1/3 ht LPS drives that have a smaller platter and are also
more stable.
Why should I take the chance? Because I've been running a Maxtor 1/3 ht
120 LPS on both its side and flat for about a year and I've had no
problems with it. Period.
Like I always say, NEVER trust the manufacturer.
"Just like everything else in life, the right lane ends in half a mile."
Ravi Konchigeri.
mongoose@leland.stanford.edu
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6169 | From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
Lines: 19
In article <C5stLG.Fwq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
> Sorry, guy, you got it wrong. ATF was pumping tear gas into the compound.
> The Branch Davidians (going along with their apocolyptic faith) set their
> own compound on fire killing all but 9 or so. No children survived.
Seeing as how people are willing to quote the FBI quoting cultists
who just yesterday were deranged and not to be trusted (hmm the FBI
or the cultists...) I think I'll quote the BBC quoting (actually voice
interview) one of the two British survivors. He claimed that the fire
started when the tanks caused an internal wooden wall/roof to collapse
knocking over kerosene lamps and that they had no suicide plan.
Maybe true, partly true, or false.
--
Alan Greig Janet: A.Greig@uk.ac.dct
Dundee Institute of Technology Internet: A.Greig@dct.ac.uk
Tel: (0382) 308810 (Int +44 382 308810)
** Never underestimate the power of human stupidity **
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6170 | From: db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler)
Subject: Re: The doctrine of Original Sin
Organization: Freshman, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 22
Eugene Bigelow writes:
>Doesn't the Bible say that God is a fair god [sic]? If this is true,
how can >this possibly be fair to the infants?
What do you mean fair? God is just, giving to everyone what they
deserve. As all infants are in sin from the time of conception (cf
Romans 5.12, Psalm 1.7), they cannot possibly merit heaven, and as
purgatory is for the purging of temporal punishment and venial sins, it
is impossible that origianl sin can be forgiven. Hence, the unbaptized
infants are cut off from the God against whom they, with the whole of
the human race except Mary, have sinned. Which is why Jesus said,
"Truly, truly I say to you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless
he is born of water and Spirit" which is the true meaning of born again
(John 3.5). Thus, as infants are in sin, it is very fair for them to be
cut off from God and exlcuded from heaven.
As St. Augustine said, "I did not invent original sin, which the
Catholic faith holds from ancient time; but you, who deny it, without a
doubt are a follower of a new heresy." (De nuptiis, lib. 11.c.12)
Andy Byler
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6171 | From: I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau)
Subject: Re: An Anecdote about Islam
Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Lines: 28
In article <114127@bu.edu>
jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
>>When they are victimized they are Muslims. When they victimize others
>>they are not True Muslims (tm) or no Muslims at all.
>
>>Quite annoying.
>
>I don't understand the point of this petty sarcasm. It is a basic
>principle of Islam that if one is born muslim or one says "I testify
>that there is no god but God and Mohammad is a prophet of God" that,
>so long as one does not explicitly reject Islam by word then one _must_
>be considered muslim by all muslims. So the phenomenon you're attempting
>to make into a general rule or psychology is a direct odds with basic
>Islamic principles. If you want to attack Islam you could do better than
>than to argue against something that Islam explicitly contradicts.
>
It was no criticism of Islam for a change, it was a criticism of the
arguments used. Namely, whenever people you identify as Muslims are
the victims of the attacks of others, they are used an argument for
the bad situation of Muslims. But whenever deeds by Muslim that victimize
others are named, they do not count as an argument because what these
people did was not done as a true Muslims. No mention is made how Muslims
are the cause of a bad situation of another party.
Double standards.
Benedikt
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6172 | From: jmg14@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Graham)
Subject: Re: 14" monitors
Article-I.D.: usenet.1pt447$n3r
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Lines: 23
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu
Joseph M. Kasanic <jmk13@po.cwru.edu> writes:
>Just thought I would mention that Sony no longer manufactures the CPD-
>1304 because of several manufacturing flaws. The new model is now the
>1430, which just like Apple's new Sony Trinitrom CLAIMS to be 14 inches.
>I'm not sure of the details on the defects, but I work at our schools
>bookstore
>and can tell you that nearly half of them were returned with some kind of
>defect or another.
I'm assuming that you are referring to the 1304S, correct? What kind of flaws
have been reported? I've been using mine for about 6-7 months now, and I
haven't noticed any problems. Might they develop later, or did I get lucky
and snag a good monitor?
Just Curious,
john
--
******John M. Graham***********************
******The Cleveland Institute of Music*****
******jmg14@po.cwru.edu********************
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6173 | From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Subject: THE DIVINE MASTERS
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Lines: 208
THE DIVINE MASTERS
Most Christians would agree, and correctly so, that
Jesus Christ was a Divine Master, and a projection of God
into the physical world, God Incarnate.
But there are some very important related facts that
Christians are COMPLETELY IGNORANT of, as are followers of
most other world religions.
First, Jesus Christ was NOT unique, John 3:16 NOTWITH-
STANDING. There is ALWAYS at least one such Divine Master
(God Incarnate) PHYSICALLY ALIVE in this world AT ALL TIMES,
a continuous succession THROUGHOUT HISTORY, both before and
after the life of Jesus.
The followers of some of these Masters founded the
world's major religions, usually PERVERTING the teachings of
their Master in the process. Christians, for example, added
THREATS of "ETERNAL DAMNATION" in Hell, and DELETED the
teaching of REincarnation.
Secondly, and more importantly, after a particular
Master physically dies and leaves this world, there is
NOTHING that He can do for ANYbody except for the relatively
few people that He INITIATED while He was still PHYSICALLY
alive. (THAT IS SIMPLY THE WAY GOD SET THINGS UP IN THE
UNIVERSES.)
Therefore, all those Christians who worship Jesus, and
pray to Jesus, and expect Jesus to return and save them from
their sins, are only KIDDING THEMSELVES, and have allowed
themselves to be DUPED by a religion that was mostly
MANUFACTURED by the Romans.
And emotional "feelings" are a TOTALLY DECEIVING
indicator for religious validity.
These things are similarly true for followers of most
other major world religions, including Islam.
Thirdly, the primary function of each Master is to tune
His Initiates into the "AUDIBLE LIFE STREAM" or "SOUND
CURRENT", (referred to as "THE WORD" in John 1:1-5, and as
"The River of Life" in Revelation 22:1), and to personally
guide each of them thru the upper levels of Heaven while they
are still connected to their living physical bodies by a
"silver cord".
True Salvation, which completes a Soul's cycles of
REincarnation in the physical and psychic planes, is achieved
only by reaching at least the "SOUL PLANE", which is five
levels or universes above the physical universe, and this
canNOT be done without the help of a PHYSICALLY-Living Divine
Master.
One such Divine Master alive today is an American, Sri
Harold Klemp, the Living "Eck" Master or "Mahanta" for the
"Eckankar" organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis,
(P.O. Box 27300; zip 55427).
Another Divine Master is Maharaj Gurinder Singh Ji, now
living in Punjab, India, and is associated with the "Sant
Mat" organization.
One of the classic books on this subject is "THE PATH OF
THE MASTERS" (Radha Soami Books, P.O. Box 242, Gardena, CA
90247), written in 1939 by Dr. Julian Johnson, a theologian
and surgeon who spent the last years of his life in India
studying under and closely observing the Sant Mat Master of
that time, Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji.
Several of the Eckankar books, including some authored
by Sri Paul Twitchell or Sri Harold Klemp, can be found in
most public and university libraries and some book stores, or
obtained thru inter-library loan. The book "ECKANKAR--THE
KEY TO SECRET WORLDS", by Sri Paul Twitchell, is ANOTHER
classic.
Many Christians are likely to confuse the Masters with
the "Anti-Christ", which is or was to be a temporary world
dictator during the so-called "last days". But the Masters
don't ever rule, even when asked or expected to do so as
Jesus was.
People who continue following Christianity, Islam, or
other orthodox religions with a physically-DEAD Master, will
CONTINUE on their cycles of REincarnation, between the
Psychic Planes and this MISERABLE physical world, until they
finally accept Initiation from a PHYSICALLY-LIVING Divine
Master.
RE-INCARNATION
The book "HERE AND HEREAFTER", by Ruth Montgomery,
describes several kinds of evidence supporting REincarnation
as a FACT OF LIFE, including HYPNOTIC REGRESSIONS to past
lives [about 50% accurate; the subconscious mind sometimes
makes things up, especially with a bad hypnotist],
SPONTANEOUS RECALL (especially by young children, some of
whom can identify their most recent previous relatives,
homes, possessions, etc.), DREAM RECALL of past life experi-
ences, DEJA VU (familiarity with a far off land while travel-
ing there for the first time on vacation), the psychic read-
ings of the late EDGAR CAYCE, and EVEN SUPPORTING STATEMENTS
FROM THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE including Matthew 17:11-13 (John the
Baptist was the REINCARNATION of Elias.) and John 9:1-2 (How
can a person POSSIBLY sin before he is born, unless he LIVED
BEFORE?!). [ ALWAYS use the "KING JAMES VERSION". Later
versions are PER-VERSIONS! ]
Strong INTERESTS, innate TALENTS, strong PHOBIAS, etc.,
typically originate from a person's PAST LIVES. For example,
a strong fear of swimming in or traveling over water usually
results from having DROWNED at the end of a PREVIOUS LIFE.
And sometimes a person will take AN IMMEDIATE DISLIKE to
another person being met for the first time in THIS life,
because of a bad encounter with him during a PREVIOUS
INCARNATION.
The teaching of REincarnation also includes the LAW OF
KARMA (Galatians 6:7, Revelation 13:10, etc.). People would
behave much better toward each other if they knew that their
actions in the present will surely be reaped by them in the
future, or in a FUTURE INCARNATION!
"2nd COMINGS"
If a Divine Master physically dies ("translates")
before a particular Initiate of His does, then when that
Initiate physically dies ("translates"), the Master will meet
him on the Astral level and take him directly to the Soul
Plane. This is the ONE AND ONLY correct meaning of a 2nd
Coming. It is an INDIVIDUAL experience, NOT something that
happens for everyone all at once. People who are still
waiting for Jesus' "2nd Coming" are WAITING IN VAIN.
PLANES OF EXISTENCE
The physical universe is the LOWEST of at least a DOZEN
major levels of existence. Above the Physical Plane is the
Astral Plane, the Causal Plane, the Mental Plane, the Etheric
Plane (often counted as the upper part of the Mental Plane),
the Soul Plane, and several higher Spiritual Planes. The
Soul Plane is the FIRST TRUE HEAVEN, (counting upward from
the Physical). The planes between (but NOT including) the
Physical and Soul Planes are called the Psychic Planes.
It is likely that ESP, telepathy, astrological
influences, radionic effects, biological transmutations [See
the 1972 book with that title.], and other phenomena without
an apparent physical origin, result from INTERACTIONS between
the Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane.
The major planes are also SUB-DIVIDED. For example, a
sub-plane of the Astral Plane is called "Hades", and the
Christian Hell occupies a SMALL part of it, created there
LESS THAN 2000 YEARS AGO by the EARLY CATHOLIC CHURCH by some
kind of black magic or by simply teaching its existence in a
THREATENING manner. The Christian "Heaven" is located
elsewhere on the Astral Plane. Good Christians will go there
for a short while and then REincarnate back to Earth.
SOUND CURRENT vs. BLIND FAITH
The Christian religion demands of its followers an
extraordinary amount of BLIND FAITH backed up by little more
than GOOD FEELING (which is TOTALLY DECEIVING).
If a person is not HEARING some form of the "SOUND
CURRENT" ("THE WORD", "THE BANI", "THE AUDIBLE LIFE STREAM"),
then his cycles of REINCARNATION in this MISERABLE world WILL
CONTINUE.
The "SOUND CURRENT" manifests differently for different
Initiates, and can sound like a rushing wind, ocean waves on
the sea shore, buzzing bees, higher-pitched buzzing sound, a
flute, various heavenly music, or other sounds. In Eckankar,
Members start hearing it near the end of their first year as
a Member. This and other experiences (such as "SOUL TRAVEL")
REPLACE blind faith.
For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
please consult my CITED SOURCES (3 books, 2 addresses).
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
Robert E. McElwaine
2nd Initiate in Eckankar,
(but not an agent thereof)
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6174 | From: arens@ISI.EDU (Yigal Arens)
Subject: Re: Why does US consider YIGAL ARENS to be a dangerous to humanity
Organization: USC/Information Sciences Institute
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NNTP-Posting-Host: grl.isi.edu
In-reply-to: ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET's message of 19 Apr 93 14:58:49 GMT
In article <4815@bimacs.BITNET> ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET (Gideon Ehrlich) writes:
>
> In article <ARENS.93Apr13161407@grl.ISI.EDU> arens@ISI.EDU (Yigal
> Arens) writes:
>
> >Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, April 13, 1993. P. A1.
> > ........
>
> The problem if transffering US government files about Yigal Arens
> and some other similar persons does or does not violate a federal
> or a local American law seemed to belong to some local american law
> forum not to this forum.
> The readers of this forum seemed to be more interested in the contents
> of those files.
> So It will be nice if Yigal will tell us:
> 1. Why do American authorities consider Yigal Arens to be dangerous?
I'm not aware that the US government considers me dangerous. In any
case, that has nothing to do with the current case. The claim against
the ADL is that it illegally obtained and disseminated information that
was gathered by state and/or federal agencies in the course of their
standard interaction with citizens such as myself. By that I refer to
things such as: address and phone number, vehicle registration and
license information, photographs, etc.
> 2. Why does the ADL have an interest in that person ?
You should ask the ADL, if you want an authoritative answer. My guess
is that they collected information on anyone who did or might engage in
political criticism of Israel. I further believe that they did this as
agents of the Israeli government, or at least in agreement with them.
At least some of the information collected by the ADL was passed on to
Israeli officials. In some cases it was used to influence, or attempt
to influence, people's access to jobs or public forums. These matters
will be brought out as the court case unfolds, since California law
entitles people to compensation if such actions can be proven. As my
previous posting shows, California law entitles people to compensation
even in the absence of any specific consequences -- just for the further
dissemination of certain types of private information about them.
--
Yigal Arens
USC/ISI TV made me do it!
arens@isi.edu
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6175 | From: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk (Tony Kidson)
Subject: Re: Info on Sport-Cruisers
Distribution: world
Organization: The Modem Palace
Reply-To: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21)
Lines: 25
In article <4foNhvm00WB4E5hUxB@andrew.cmu.edu> jae+@CMU.EDU writes:
>I'm looking for a sport-cruiser - factory installed fairings (
>full/half ), hard saddle bags, 750cc and above, and all that and still
>has that sporty look.
>
>I particularly like the R100RS and K75 RT or S, or any of the K series
>BMW bikes.
>
>I was wondering if there are any other comparable type bikes being
>produced by companies other than BMW.
The Honda ST1100 was designed by Honda in Germany, originally for the
European market, as competition for the BMW 'K' series. Check it out.
Tony
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6176 | Subject: Re: Ford SHO engine parts!
From: david.bonds@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Bonds)
Reply-To: david.bonds@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Bonds)
Distribution: world
Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
Lines: 21
W >>will NOT do work on internal engine components of the SHO engine. This
W >
W >Good thing, too.
W >
W >At about 25K miles my cam sensor went south. 2 different Ford
W >dealers tried 5 or 6 different "fixes", none of which worked. Finally
W >I took it down the street to the local mechanic. This guy reads the
W >code off the engine computer, says "Bad cam sensor", and fixes it in
W >an hour...
A friend of mine had some sensors damaged by flood waters, Ford denys any
sensors are registering bad. He and his father did the short a circut via
paper clip method (not sure of the exact technique), and read the codes off
the "service engine" light flashes generated from this. Came up with the
damaged sensors, went back to Ford, and TOLD them what was wrong. They
fixed the car after that. What a bunch of bozos.
----
The Cutting Edge BBS (cutting.hou.tx.us) A PCBoard 14.5a system
Houston, Texas, USA +1.713.466.1525 running uuPCB
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6177 | From: lfoard@hopper.Virginia.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: The bad press Islam has recieved.
Organization: ITC/UVA Community Access UNIX/Internet Project
Lines: 34
In article <buddha.735157446@du248-07.cc.iastate.edu> buddha@iastate.edu (Scott H Vann) writes:
>
> I recently read an article in a local paper written by an Islamic
> person who was upset with the way Islam has been portrayed by western media.
> When a terrorist action takes place in the middle east, it is always played
> up as an Islamic Terrorist. However, when the a Serbian terrorist attacks
> the Croations, its not a Christian terrorist, its just a terrorist.
> I have often tried to explain this to some close friends who believe
> the press, that Islam is somehow tied to violence. Often times you hear
> things like "They just don't value human life like we do..." and so on.
> I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions for how we can
> change this image, or how I can help my friends to see that this is just
> hype. I would appreciate any serious suggestions or comments via e-mail,
> and I'm not interested in hearing about how right the press is.
Very easily. Show them pictures of crime scenes perpetrated by Christian
terrorists in this country, if that doesn't convince them have them talk
to the victims of Christian terrorism.
A brutal act of terrorism inspired by Christian propoganda was recently
commited on your very campus.
Its very simple religious extremists of all religions put no value on
human life. Christian and Islamic fundamentalists put advancing there
religion above all else, even if doing so violates the religion itself.
P.S. I'm not saying all Christians are terrorists, I'm using "Christian
terrorist" in the same way the media uses Islamic terrorist.
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6178 | From: gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)
Subject: Food Dehydrators
Distribution: world
Organization: Ozone Online Operations, Inc. - New Orleans, LA
Reply-To: gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)
Lines: 39
>Does anybody out there have one of those food dehydrators I've been seeing
>all over late-night TV recently? I was wondering if they use forced air, hea
>or both. If there's heat involved, anybody know what temperature they run at
>My wife would like one and I'm not inclined to pay >$100.00 for a box, a fan
>and a heater. Seems to me you should be able to throw a dehydrator together
>for just a few bucks. Heck, the technology is only what? 1,000 years old?
You can learn how to build a deyhdrator very easily from the book, "The
Hungry Hiker's Guide to Good Food," by Gretchen McHugh. The heat source
is a 100 watt light bulb. Basically, it's a vertical wooden box with
ventilation holes in the top and bottom (lots of them, you want the air
to flow). The light bulb goes in the bottom, and wire cake racks are
spaced every 6" starting about 10" above the bulb.
Or, at a slightly higher cost in electricity, you can do what I do: Use
your oven. (NOTE - I do this in an electric oven; some gas ovens may
not have a low enough setting). Put food to be dried on cookie tins or
racks in the oven. Set oven to 140 degrees (the lowest setting on my
oven - if yours goes down to 120 that's probably even better.) Stick a
wooden spoon or something across the front corner of the oven and close
the door on the spoon so that it stays open about an inch - this allows
for airflow. Leave the stuff in the oven for 6 to 8 hours; check it
often, since this dries it much faster than the dehydrator. If you are
using cookie sheets instead of racks, turn the stuff over halfway
through.
If you want more info, e-mail me since this isn't really the right sub
for this stuff.
gerald.belton@ozonehole.com
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6179 | From: add@sciences.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray)
Subject: Need specs/info on Apple QuickTime
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
Lines: 12
NNTP-Posting-Host: sciences.sdsu.edu
Keywords: quicktime
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]
I need to get the specs, or at least a very verbose interpretation of the
specs, for QuickTime. Technical articles from magazines and references to
books would be nice too.
I also need the specs in a format usable on a Unix or MS-DOS system. I can't
do much with the QuickTime stuff they have on ftp.apple.com in its present
format.
Thanks in advance.
James D. Murray
add@sciences.sdsu.edu
|
6180 | From: jbulf@balsa.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Bulf)
Subject: Re: detecting double points in bezier curves
Reply-To: jbulf@balsa.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Bulf)
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computers Inc.
Lines: 20
In article <ia522B1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl>, ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (Ferdinand Oeinck) writes:
|> I'm looking for any information on detecting and/or calculating a double
|> point and/or cusp in a bezier curve.
|>
|> An algorithm, literature reference or mail about this is very appreciated,
There was a very useful article in one of the 1989 issues of
Transactions On Graphics. I believe Maureen Stone was one of
the authors. Sorry not to be more specific. I don't have the
reference here with me.
The article actually was more general than this, giving a way to decide
whether a given (cubic) Bezier curve contains cusps, intersection points
or whatever wierdness. The same treatment is also available in SIGGRAPH 89
course notes for the course called "Math for Siggraph" or something like
that.
--
dr memory
jbulf@kpc.com
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6181 | From: grahamt@phantom.gatech.edu (Graham E. Thomas)
Subject: Re: BLAST to the past!
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 17
NNTP-Posting-Host: oit.gatech.edu
amh2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ALOIS M. HIMSL) writes:
>be worthwhile? Or how about something like the old MGB with new technology?
>Just think about it - the old style with upgraded safety features and perhaps a
>natural gas operated engine for less than 10K. I think it would go over well.
>What is your opinion??????
>Al H
Well, the MGB is currently in production for the English market, built
by Rover. It now has a V8, improved suspention, and a slightly
updated body. Too bad it's only available in GB and would set one
of us back about $42,000+.
--
Graham E. Thomas * blah blah blah blah blah
Georgia Institute of Technology * blah blah blah blah blah
Internet: grahamt@oit.gatech.edu * blah blah blah blah blah
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6182 | From: popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich)
Subject: Re: Truly a sad day for hockey
In-Reply-To: Anna Matyas's message of Fri, 16 Apr 1993 13:34:29 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 19
"Mom" writes:
>I fear that within the next decade or so the only professional sports team
>left in Pittsburgh will be the Steelers.
Perish the thought...but you know, you may be right, at least as far
as MAJOR LEAGUE professional sports teams go. They all seem to be
becoming BIG MONEY games, much more so than at any previous time. To
think that if I am ever able to move back home several years from now,
all that may be there is an AHL team, at best...SIGH.
The interesting thing is that the NHL is also expanding, at the same
time as it is dramatically increasing the amount of money needed to
operate a team. This would seem to indicate that there's a BIG
shake-out about to occur in the next few years, unless player salaries
can somehow be brought under control. Frankly, I don't see how the
NHL's current drive for expansion is supportable under its current
operating conditions. If revenue sharing AND a salary cap don't come
into the NHL soon, look out.
-Steve
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6183 | From: e324ngon@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Ngo Nguyen)
Subject: Re: speeding up windows
Keywords: speed
Organization: University of Toronto, Erindale Campus
Lines: 25
In article <972@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> djserian@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Reincarnation of Elvis) writes:
>I have a 386/33 with 8 megs of memory
>
>I have noticed that lately when I use programs like WpfW or Corel Draw
>my computer "boggs" down and becomes really sluggish!
>
>What can I do to increase performance? What should I turn on or off
>
>Will not loading wallpapers or stuff like that help when it comes to
>the running speed of windows and the programs that run under it?
>
>Thanx in advance
>
>Derek
>
>--
You can try defraging your disk more often. It definitely will
help speed things up. A 2 megs smartdrv is also a good idea with
the amount of memory you have, and use fastdisk (32bit access) if
you not already. Hope that help..
N. Ngo
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6184 | From: berryh@huey.udel.edu (John Berryhill, Ph.D.)
Subject: Re: What do Nuclear Site's Cooling Towers do?
Nntp-Posting-Host: huey.udel.edu
Organization: little scraps of paper, mostly
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The object of a cooling tower is to distribute dissolved salts in
cooling water over large areas of farmland and to therefore decrease
farm subsidies for non-producers by rendering their land infertile.
A side effect of this deficit-reduction program is that they provide
a low-T reservoir for a variety of industrial processes.
Now you know.
--
John Berryhill
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6185 | From: francesca_M._Benson@fourd.com
Subject: Serdar
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Lines: 5
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
You are such a LOSER!!!!
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System: fourd.com Phone: 617-494-0565
Cute quote: Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry
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6186 | From: shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday)
Subject: Re: Fundamentalism - again.
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Lines: 17
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: composer.think.com
In article <khan0095.734814178@nova>, khan0095@nova.gmi.edu (Mohammad Razi Khan) writes:
|> One of my biggest complaints about using the word "fundamentalist"
|> is that (at least in the U.S.A.) people speak of muslime
|> fundamentalists ^^^^^^^muslim
|> but nobody defines what a jewish or christan fundamentalist is.
|> I wonder what an equal definition would be..
|> any takers..
Well, I would go as far as saying that Naturei Karta are definitely
Jewish fundamentalists. Other ultra-orthodox Jewish groups might very
well be, though I am hesitant of making such a broad generalization.
--
Shai Guday | Stealth bombers,
OS Software Engineer |
Thinking Machines Corp. | the winged ninjas of the skies.
Cambridge, MA |
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6187 | From: pjaques@camborne-school-of-mines.ac.UK (Paul Jaques)
Subject: Problem with dni and openwin 3.0
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 23
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Can anyone help me?
I am having a problem displaying images greater than 32768 bytes from a
Decwindows program running on a Vax 6310, and displaying on a Sparc IPC
running Openwindows 3.0 and dni. The program works fine with Openwindows 2.0.
The code segment which fails is given below, the program simply crashes
out with an Xlib I/O error at the XPutImage() call.
XImage *ximage;
ximage = XCreateImage(myDisplay, DefaultVisual(myDisplay, myScreen),
ddepth, ZPixmap, 0, image,
xwid, ywid, 8, 0);
XPutImage(myDisplay, myWindow, myGC,
ximage, 0, 0, xpos, ypos, xwid, ywid);
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| Paul Jaques |
| Systems Engineer, Camborne School of Mines, |
| Rosemanowes, Herniss, Penryn, Cornwall. |
| E-Mail: pjaques@csm.ac.uk Tel: Stithians (0209) 860141 Fax: (0209) 861013 |
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|
6188 | From: rngai@oracle.com (Raymond Ngai)
Subject: Perstor System Disk Controller information needed
Nntp-Posting-Host: hqseq.us.oracle.com
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
Distribution: comp
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
at Oracle Corporation. The opinions expressed are those
of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
Lines: 36
Does anybody out there have or used to have an HD controller from
Perstor System Inc. (which is out of business I believe)? My friend
received an old PC which happens to have such a controller and I am
having a hard time trying to add another HD to the card.
I believe the controller is supposed to control MFM drives as RLL
drives??
Here the model info on the card, but any other similar model will
probably do.
Perstor System Inc.
Model: PS 180-16FN
Rev: 2.2 ECN 9-21
I would appreciate your reply directly to my e-mail address below.
Thanks,
Ray (rngai@oracle.com)
--
( Raymond Ngai <rngai@oracle.com> )
( Application System Analyst 300 Oracle Parkway, #670A )
( Vertical Applications Division Redwood Shores, CA 94065 )
( Oracle Corporation (415)506-3385 FAX:506-7262 )
|
6189 | From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
Summary: Gee, maybe I've misjudged you.
Keywords: science errors Turpin NLP
Organization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)
Expires: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:00:00 GMT
Lines: 141
In article <lsu7q7INNia5@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
>-*----
>I agree with everything that Lee Lady wrote in her previous post in
>this thread.
Gee! Maybe I've misjudged you, Russell. Anyone who agrees with something
I say can't be all bad. ;-)
Seriously, I'm not sure whether I misjudged you or not, in one respect.
I still have a major problem, though, with your insistence that science
is mainly about avoiding mistakes. And I still disagree with your
contention that nobody who doesn't use methods deemed "scientific"
can possibly know what's true and what's not.
> [Deleted material which I agree with.]
>
>Back to Lee Lady:
>
>> These are not the rules according to many who post to sci.med and
>> sci.psychology. According to these posters "If it's not supported by
>> carefully designed controlled studies then it's not science."
>
>These posters are making the mistake that I have previously
>criticized of adhering to a methodological recipe. A "carefully ...
> ....
>Rules such as "support the hypothesis by a carefully designed and
>controlled study" are too narrow to apply to *all* investigation.
>I think that the requirements for particular reasoning to be
>convincing depends greatly on the kinds of mistakes that have
>occurred in past reasoning about the same kinds of things. (To
>reuse the previous example, we know that conclusions from
>uncontrolled observations of the treatment of chronic medical
>problems are notoriously problematic.)
Okay, so let's see if we agree on this: FIRST of all, there are degrees
of certainty. It might be appropriate, for instance, to demand carefully
controlled trials before we accept as absolute scientific truth (to the
extent that there is any such thing) the effectiveness of a certain
treatment. On the other hand, highly favorable clinical experience, even
if uncontrolled, can be adequate to justify a *preliminary* judgement that
a treatment is useful. This is often the best evidence we can hope for
from investigators who do not have institutional or corporate support.
In this case, it makes sense to tentatively treat claims as credible
but to reserve final judgement until establishment scientists who are
qualified and have the necessary resources can do more careful testing.
SECONDLY, it makes sense to be more tolerant in our standards of
evidence for a pronounced effect than for one that is marginal.
I come to this dispute about what science is not only as a
mathematician but as a veteran of many arguments in sci.psychology (and
occasionally in sci.med) about NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). Much
of the work done to date by NLPers can be better categorized as
informal exploration than as careful scientific research. For years
now I have been trying to get scientific and clinical psychologists to
just take a look at it, to read a few of the books and watch some of
the videotapes (courtesy of your local university library). Not for
the purpose of making a definitive judgement, but simply to look at the
NLP methodology (especially the approach to eliciting information from
subjects) and look for ideas and hypotheses which might be of
scientific interest. And most especially to be aware of the
*questions* NLP suggests which might be worthy of scientific
investigation.
Over and over again the response I get in sci.pychology is "If this
hasn't been thoroughly validated by the accepted form of empirical
research then it can't be of any interest to us."
To me, the ultimate reducio ad absurdum of the extreme "There've got to
be controlled studies" position is an NLP technique called the Fast
Phobia/Trauma Cure.
Simple phobias (as opposed to agoraphobia) may not be the world's most
important psychological disorder, but the nice thing about them is that
it doesn't take a sophisticated instrument to diagnose them or tell
when someone is cured of one. The NLP phobia cure is a simple
visualization which requires less than 15 minutes. (NLPers claim that
it can also be used to neutralize a traumatic memory, and hence is
useful in treating Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome.) It is essentially
a variation on the classic desensitization process used by behavioral
therapists. A subject only needs to be taken through the technique once
(or, in the case of PTSD, once for each traumatic incident). The
process doesn't need to be repeated and the subject doesn't need to
practice it over again at home.
Now to me, it seems pretty easy to test the effectiveness of this cure.
(Especially if, as NLPers claim, the success rate is extremely high.)
Take someone with a fear of heights (as I used to have). Take them up
to a balcony on the 20th floor and observe their response. Spend 15
minutes to have them do the simple visualization. Send them back up to
the balcony and see if things have changed. Check back with them in a
few weeks to see if the cure seems to be lasting. (More long term
follow-up is certainly desirable, but from a scientific point of view
even a cure that lasts several weeks has significance. In any case,
there are many known cases where the cure has lasted years. To the best
of my knowledge, there is no known case where the cure has been reversed
after holding for a few weeks.) (My own cure, incidentally, was done
with a slightly different NLP technique, before I learned of the Fast
Phobia/Trauma Cure. Ten years later now, I enjoy living on the 17th
floor of my building and having a large balcony.)
The folks over in sci.psychology have a hundred and one excuses not to
make this simple test. They claim that only an elaborate outcome study
will be satisfactory --- a study of the sort that NLP practitioners,
many of whom make a barely marginal living from their practice, can ill
afford to do. (Most of them are also just plain not interested, because
the whole idea seems frivolous. And since they're not part of the
scientific establishment, they have no tangible rewards to gain
from scientific acceptance.)
The Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure is over ten years old now and the clinical
psychology establishment is still saying "We don't have any way of
knowing that it's effective."
These academics themselves have the resources to do a study as elaborate
as anyone could want, of course, but they say "Why should I prove your
theory?" and "The burden of proof is on the one making the claim."
One academic in sci.psychology said that it would be completely
unscientific for him to test the phobia cure since it hasn't
been described in a scientific journal. (It's described in a number of
books and I've posted articles in sci.psychology describing it in as much
detail as I'm capable of.)
Actually, at least one fairly careful academic study has been done (with
favorable results), but it's apparently not acceptable because it's a
doctoral dissertation and not published in a refereed journal.
To me, this sort of attitude does not advance science but hinders it.
This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I talk about "doctrinnaire"
attitudes about science.
Now maybe I have been unfair in imputing such attitudes to you, Russell.
If so, I apologize.
--
In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems
less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects.
lady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu lady@uhunix.bitnet
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6190 | From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: Why not concentrate on child molesters?
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Nntp-Posting-Host: 137.23.47.37
Lines: 21
In article <7166@pdxgate.UUCP> a0cb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Chris Bertholf) writes:
)MCARTWR@auvm.american.edu (Martina Cartwright) writes:
)
)
)>The official and legal term for rape is "the crime of forcing a FEMALE
)>to submit to sexual intercourse."
)
)Please, supply me with some references. I was not aware that all states
)had the word "FEMALE" in the rape statutes. I am sure others are surprised
)as well. I know thats how it works in practice (nice-n-fair, NOT!!), but
)was unaware that it was in the statutes as applying to FEMALES only,
)uniformly throughout the U.S.
I agree mostly with Chris. It is (unfortunately, IMO) true that the *FBI*
figures for rape based on the 'uniform crime report' report only female
rapes. However, some states (such as Illinois) are not tabluated because they
refuse to comply with this sexist definition!
--
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms post to the net from your account
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6191 | From: luigi@sgi.com (Randy Palermo)
Subject: Re: Grateful Dead?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Lines: 16
Nntp-Posting-Host: bullpen.csd.sgi.com
In article <93095.172834IO21087@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO21087@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
>Being a baseball fan and a fan of the above mentioned band I was
>wondering if anyone could clue me in on whether the Dead (or members
>of) sang the national anthem at todays Giant opener?
>
>I would imagine that it is a bit too early for anyone to know, but
>an answer would be greatly appreciated.
>
It is my understanding that the Dead will sing the NA at the Giants
home opener on Mon. 4/12. The Giants are opening today in St. Louis.
luigi
--
Randy Palermo luigi@csd.sgi.com Fax: (415)961-6502
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd Mt. View, CA 94039
"Play an accordion, go to jail. That's the LAW"
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6192 | From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from Feb 15 AW&ST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Lines: 23
In article <1993Apr23.155313.4220@dazixco.ingr.com> jbreed@ingr.com writes:
>|> [Pluto's] atmosphere will start to freeze out around 2010, and after about
>|> 2005 increasing areas of both Pluto and Charon will be in permanent
>|> shadow that will make imaging and geochemical mapping impossible.
>
>Where does the shadow come from? There's nothing close enough to block
>sunlight from hitting them. I wouldn't expect there to be anything block
>our view of them either. What am I missing?
You're assuming that their normal rotation carries all areas of the surface
into sunlight. Not so. Even on Earth, each pole gets several weeks without
sunlight in mid-winter. Pluto and Charon have much more extreme axial
tilt and a much longer orbit. Pluto's north pole, for example, gets over
a century of darkness followed by over a century of perpetual light.
At the moment, we're in luck -- Pluto and Charon are just past their
equinox, when the Sun was just on the horizon at both poles (of each).
If we get probes there soon, only the immediate vicinity of one pole
(on each) will be in long-term shadow. This will get steadily worse the
longer we wait.
--
All work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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6193 | From: gmich@is.morgan.com (George Michaels)
Subject: NTSC and the Mac
Nntp-Posting-Host: idt114
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Distribution: comp
Lines: 21
A question in general about displaying NTSC through a Mac.
If I understand correctly, the Video Spigot can display NTSC
in a small window as well as capture the data in Quicktime
format.
However, if I want to use a larger window, what are my options?
Perhaps I misunderstood the Video Spigot review...
Also, I am not interested in Quicktime. I would merely like to
use my Mac as a television from time to time. I have a nice
Sony 1430 monitor, and I would like to use it as a second TV
when my wife is watching sitcoms on our regular TV.
Perhaps some of the video cards for the Mac accept NTSC input?
I have a IIsi, and I am willing to buy a NuBus adapter.
Thanks in advance for any help,
George Micahels
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6194 | From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)
Subject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net
In article <19600@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
> Keith is the only person I have ever heard of that keeps the weight
> off without any conscious effort to control eating behavior. ... most
> of us have to diet a lot to keep from going back to morbid obesity.
I attribute my success to several factors:
Very low fat. Except when someone else has cooked a meal for me,
I only eat fruit, vegetables, and whole grain or bran cereals. I
estimate I only get about 5 to 10 percent of my calories from fat.
Very little sugar or salt.
Very high fiber. Most Americans get about 10 grams. 25 to 35 are
recommended. I get between 50 and 150. Sometimes 200. (I've heard
of people taking fiber pills. It seems unlikely that pills can
contain enough fiber to make a difference. It would be about as
likely as someone getting fat by popping fat pills. Tablets are
just too small, unless you snarf down hundreds of them daily.)
My "clean your plate" conditioning works *for* me. Eating the last
10% takes half my eating time, and gives satiety a chance to catch
up, so I don't still feel hungry and go start eating something else.
I don't eat when I'm not hungry (unless I'm sure I'll get hungry
shortly, and eating won't be practical then).
I bike to work, 22 miles a day, year round. Fast. I also bike to
stores, movies, and everywhere else, as I've never owned a car.
I estimate this burns about 1000 calories a day. It also helps
build and maintain muscle mass, prevent insulin resistance (diabetes
runs in my family), and increase my metabolism. (Even so, my
metabolism is so low that when I'm at rest I'm most comfortable
with a temperature in the 90s (F), and usually wear a sweater if
it drops to 80.) Cycling also motivates me to avoid every excess
ounce. (Cyclists routinely pay a premium for cycling products that
weigh slightly less than others. But it's easier and cheaper to trim
weight from the rider than from the vehicle.)
There's no question in my mind that my metabolism is radically
different from that of most people who have never been fat. Fortunately,
it isn't different in a way that precludes excellent health.
Obviously, I can't swear that every obese person who does what I've
done will have the success I did. But I've never yet heard of one who
did try it and didn't succeed.
> I think all of us cycle. One's success depends on how large the
> fluctuations in the cycle are. Some people can cycle only 5 pounds.
I'm sure everyone's weight cycles, whether or not they've ever been fat.
I usually eat extremely little salt. When I do eat something salty,
my weight can increase overnight by as much as ten pounds. It comes
off again over a week or two.
--
Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
f p=2,3:2 s q=1 x "f f=3:2 q:f*f>p!'q s q=p#f" w:q p,?$x\8+1*8
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6195 | From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Subject: Program manager ** two questions
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Lines: 16
(1) Is it possible to change the icons in the program groups? I'd like
to give them some individuality.
(2) Can you set up a short-cut key to return to the Program Manager?
I know <CTL><ESC>, <ESC> will do it, but I'd rather set it up so I
can avoid the task list and get back to the P/M with <ALT><F1>.
Any and all help is welcomed.
--
============================================================================
| Help stamp out stupid .signature files! Gerry Swetsky WB9EBO |
| vpnet - Public access Unix and Usenet |
| Home (708)833-8122 vpnet (708)833-8126 lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us |
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6196 | From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
Organization: The Group W Bench
Lines: 22
In <93109.13404334AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET> 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET writes:
>I will be surprised if this post makes it past the censors,
>but here goes:
Fret not, you made it.
>I have predicted this from the start, but God, it sickens me to see
>it happen. I had hoped I was wrong. I had hoped that there was
>still some shred of the America I grew up with, and loved, left
>alive. I was wrong. The Nazis have won.
Not while we still have our guns. <evil grin>
Hey, gang, it's not about duck hunting, or about dark alleys,
it's about black-clad, helmeted and booted troops storming
houses and violating civil rights under color of law.
Are YOU ready to defend YOUR Constitution?
-- Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
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6197 | From: louis@loa.citilille.fr (Louis Gonzalez 20-43-41-19)
Subject: SPHINX: Satellite Image Processing under X11
Organization: Universite des Sciences et Technologie de LILLE, France
Lines: 106
NNTP-Posting-Host: loasil.citilille.fr
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
**************************** SPHINX ***************************
Sphinx is a user-friendly, state-of-the-art image processing
and analysis package that runs across a spectrum of high performance
computer platforms operating UNIX and the X-Window System.
It was created to meet to the daily research needs of scientists
conducting climate investigations using satellite data and remote
sensing techniques.
Intuitive Graphic Interface
Sphinx features an interactive interface with pop-up menus and
point-and-click dialog boxes which makes image processing and
analysis simple and fast.
This accessible menuing enables you to build attractive image
layouts quickly while also providing you the flexibility of returning
to the main menu to conduct other image analysis and processing operations.
Image Format Compatibility
Using smart read/write functions, Sphinx allows you to easily open
and save image files in a variety of formats using bit, integer or real
data values. Sphinx also reads and writes the common TIFF and GIF formats
as well as compresses and decompresses image formats to save disk space.
Image Analysis & Processing
For image and pixel analysis, the Sphinx package includes an
assortment of processing tools that perform useful statistical and
mathematical filtering operations, such as Fourier transforms, convolution
product or principal component analyses.
An interactive interpreter for both algebraic equations and images allows
the user to manipulate and combine individual data channels interactively.
Standard FORTRAN notation is used for formula entry and for trig
onometric and transcendental functions.
Satellite Spectra & Orbit Analysis
Sphinx possesses functions to simulate satellite signal sensitivity
for various meteorological satellites (e.g., GOES, METEOSAT, NOAA, Spot etc.).
The simulations are conducted for a selection of standard atmospheric and
surface conditions and instrument spectral bands.
A geometry model computes the solar zenith angles, warping, orbit simulation,
and 3-D image projection.
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Sphinx allows users the flexibility to integrate externally
developed software algorithms for processing and converting satellite
observations. Sphinx exports and imports image files and image parameters
to external programs using special interface functions.
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Sphinx rapidly displays, manipulates, and enhances high-resolution
multispectral images and color tables. Using six 8-bit 1024x1024 image
planes and one graphics plane, the package conveniently combines color images,
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Sphinx's 2-D and 3-D graphics editor provides complete flexibility for modifying
and integrating vector graphics and analysis plots with images, such as
histograms and radial graphs. The package supplies color and gray scale
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Other Capabilities Sphinx also performs image animation, external
graphics importing, mosaic fitting... what else?
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Sphinx was developed at the Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique (LOA)
of the Universite de Lille, France.
The package has received critical feedback and support from scientists at
the French national laboratory, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),
and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
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research needs and advances in computer technology. The package, which features
on-line help, is supported by an Internet address
sphinx@loasil.citilille.fr through which questions can be answered and
version updates provided without delay.
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CNES has selected Sphinx to analyze and process the satellite data
collected during the upcoming ADEOS/POLDER satellite mission. Today,
the Sphinx package is in use at the NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
and is widely used in many French laboratories, including
the Centre de Recherche en Physique de l'Environnement, Ecole Normale Superieure ,
Laboratoire d' Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection Spatiale, Laboratoire
de Meteorologie Dynamique.
A TEST VERSION OF SPHINX IS AVAILABLE AT loasil.citilille.fr
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IN THE TEST VERSION THE OUTPUT FILES ARE DISABLE. HOWEVER THE
VISUALISATION AND GRAPHIC FUNCTIONS ARE AVAILABLE. THIS IS
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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN KEEPING "SPHINX", SEND US YOUR EMAIL
AND YOU WILL RECEIVE NEWS ABOUT THE PACKAGE EVOLUTION.
THE SOFTWARE IS CHANGING WITH USER SUGGESTIONS WE WILL
APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
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6198 | From: steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks)
Subject: Re: We're from the government and we're here to help you
Summary: Historical examples and the US Constitution
Organization: Free the Barbers, Inc.
Lines: 76
Nntp-Posting-Host: thor.isc-br.com
In article <1993Apr8.200326.27560@infonode.ingr.com> albeaj@jima.b17d.ingr.com (Jim Albea) writes:
>
>
>In article <1993Mar24.235606.15959@isc-br.isc-br.com>, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes:
>
>Ouch, now that really hurts. I'm being accused of no breadth nor depth
>to my historical knowledge because I'm unwilling to agree that economic
>inequality leads to poverty and from there to "social and political
>instability". You go read your history again. POVERTY is the main
>engine of social instability (in this context, we'll put aside religious
>turmoil, mass migrations, etc.).
Well, the fact of the matter is that poverty is imperfectly related to
social and political instability, while economic inequality is much more
strongly related. In virtually all major revolutions including
England (the Puritan revolution), France, Russia and China, the
revolutions occurred as economies were undergoing substantial long term
growth and poverty was declining. What sets off revolutions is massive
inequality coupled with a perception on the part of those at the bottom
that social change is possible.
If "poverty (were) the main engine of social instability," this typical
historical pattern would not hold. In fact, revolutions would have been
far more typical before the nineteenth century than since that time.
[Much deleted...]
>|> Gee, Jim, if you'll check the Constitution you'll find "in order to...
>|> promote the general welfare...do ordain and establish this Constitution..."
>|> I'm surprised you missed it. It's right there in the first paragraph. I
>|> would have thought you would have made it at least through the preamble.
>
>You almost got it right, and it was a good try, but you should follow your
>own advice. The PREAMBLE to the CONSTITUTION does read as you have quoted
>but let us not forget that after all it is only the preamble. It is not
>a binding part of the Constitution and carries no weight in the law. That
>poor tortured paragraph has got to be one of the most unfortunate passages
>in the English language - witness the legions of blowhards like yourself who
>think those vague flowery phrases are part of the law of the land. Do you
>really believe that a politician only has to give lip service to "promoting
>the general welfare" to be within the limits of the constitution?
Sorry, buddy, but some other "blowhards" managed to include the "general
welfare" in another portion of the constitution.
Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect
taxes...to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and GENERAL
WELFARE of the United States..."
I guess they wanted to make sure everyone understood they meant what they
said in the preamble.
>Just to make sure you've got the point, let's do a little experiment. What
>if the constitution read as follows?
>
>Preamble: We the people, to promote the general Welfare, do ordain
> and establish this Constitution for the United States of
> America.
>
>Constitution: The Federal Government shall have one function and one
> function only - to provide for the defense of the nation.
>
But as noted above, the constitution doesn't say that, does it?
>The government would not then have two functions: defense and Welfare.
But since it explicitly includes both the general welfare and defense
in Article I, Section 8, I guess you'll grant that botha are constitutional
functions. Right?
jsh
--
Steve Hendricks | DOMAIN: steveh@thor.ISC-BR.COM
"One thing about data, it sure does cut| UUCP: ...!uunet!isc-br!thor!steveh
the bulls**t." - R. Hofferbert | Ma Bell: 509 838-8826
|
6199 | From: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)
Subject: ringing ears
Keywords: ringing ears, sleep, depression
Reply-To: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)
Distribution: world
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA
Lines: 15
A friend of mine has a trouble with her ears ringing. The ringing is so loud
that she has great difficulty sleeping at night. She says that she hasn't
had a normal night's sleep in about 6 months (she looks like it too :-().
This is making her depressed so her doctor has put her on anti-depressants.
The ringing started rather suddenly about 6 months ago. She is quickly losing
sleep, social life and sanity over this.
Does anyone know of any treatments for this? Any experience? Coping
mechanisms? Any opinions on the anti-depressant drugs?
[J.F.]
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