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: This topic was beaten to death a year or so ago. : The concrete is not the problem. : Lead-acid batteries often fail from disuse (not being charged for a long : time), but there's no way the concrete floor could be the cause of the : problem. Ditto. The only remote, and I do say remote, possibility is that if th...
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Its just variation within a thread. The variation at times has been so great that speciation has occurred. So Albert Sabin is the common ancestor of several threads, some of which have themselves speciated. On a separate topic, I subscribed to t.o. just recently. Albert Sabin existed at that time, so I have no clu...
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On 20 Apr 93 13:34:03 GMT, Gary Piatt observed: : First, the median does not imply that half of the men are : above and half below 7.3: it simply means that 7.3 is the mid-point : between the maximum number of partners and the minimum (which is most : likely zero). Actually, the median *is* defined as the 50th perc...
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No, I'd rather not. First of all, I don't have exact figures, and I don't want to disclose how I know this. However, I will say that Jim Francis from Microsoft just posted a figure of $26 million (payment from IBM to Borland) and that's somewhere in the range that I've heard.
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Heh... Try the rec.autos.sport FAQ. They are always calling ESPN to complain. I'm sure you could find the number for ABC there too, as many west-coast viewers were compaining about how something as boring as hockey cut into the Long Beach GP. =) Were you (and several of the other people here it seems) asleep the da...
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Does anyone have any information about the world hockey championships and specifically about the US team? Game summaries and/or stats would be greatly appreciated!! USA Today reported that the US beat the Czech Republic, but that was the limit of the story.
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nobody@alumni.cco.caltech.edu correctly states Jerry Berman's 1985 view on privacy, but he mistakenly assumes that this represents Berman's 1993 view as EFF Executive Director. As one of the people who convinced Jerry that legal protections for privacy are insufficient, and that technical measures, especially public k...
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It is indeed different usage of the word Muslim . In Bosnia , it is more or less used as an ethnic term not as religious one . There are people in Bosnia who refer to themselves as "Christian Bosnian Muslims" if you can make sense of that . Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims have the same language. Bosnian Muslims ...
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It fixed a problem for us of getting Divide Errors that were caused by the GW BIOS overwriting some interapplication memory area. Our problem was with Clarion Database programs, but I also heard that it fixed the same problem with Brief
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This is just basicly right. The connections that cannot handle touchtone dialing is very few. I would estimate a couple of percents and if you are in a bigger town, there is none that cannot handle tone dialing. And regarding our swedish dialing system (a rather screwd up system), that does just apply to pulsdialin...
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Hi all, I am looking for a new oscilloscope (BK 1541-B, it looks like, Goldstar OS904S if I can find one cheap enough) and would like suggestions on a low-priced source for them. (Currently, BTW, Fry's electronics in Los Angeles has the 1541-B for $598, the best price I've seen overall for now - They carry the GS OS...
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I haven't seen any mention of this in a while, so here goes... When the Hubble Telescope was first deployed, one of its high gain antennas was not able to be moved across its full range of motion. It was suspected that it had been snagged on a cable or something. Operational procedures were modified to work around t...
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Who has experience with porting a GL-program to an Alpha APX workstation with Kubota's Denali 3D-Graphic. Is there any problems? Is the real graphic-performance like a SGI R4000 Indigo XS24Z?
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I'm not sure if this made it out so i'll try again. I have an Ecklar's (sp?) Corvette car cover for sale. The cover is canvas on the outside and felt on the inside. It is weather proof and in great condition. I'm asking $95.00 and I'll pay shipping. (originally $175.00 in October of 1992).
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Mr. Cramer, when are you going to stop indulging in such blatant lies? This is not only not true, you know damned well that it's not true. None of your research supports this; no mental health expert has taken this position. This is *your own* opinion which is not backed up by any research or any knowledge. Accordi...
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Hello World. In posts I've heard about all of the bugs in the DSS24X and the drivers. Now I hear that Diamond ships BIOS replacements to some people, that fixes a lot of problems as well as new drivers. Can anyone tell me how to get mine?
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In some sense, I think that the folks who think the idea is wonderful, and the folks who want to boycott anyone who has anything to do with this project are both right. That is, I think that space advertising is an interesting idea, and if someone wants to try it out, more power to them. However, a company may discove...
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Indeed. Larry King had the two attorneys (whose clients are now dead) of Koresh and another Davidian on his show last night. Their discussions with the survivors differ from the FBI account. The attorneys say that they were told that the tanks knocked over lanterns in the compound which started the fires. Gover...
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That "Federal land" and tax money could have been used to commerate Americans or better yet, to house homeless Americans. jim@specialix.com (Jim Maurer) responds: Why don't you contribute to a group helping the homeless if you so concerned? Jack Schmidling (arf@genesis.MCS.COM) reveals the true depths of his...
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Greetings netters, I have a Seagate 3144 130MB IDE drive forsale. I bought it yesterday and have been able to come across a 215MB that I am going to buy, but I need to sell this one. I guarantee that it will work. There is still a transferable warranty I believe. It was only used as a boot drive, not a server (so...
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NOT an accurate analogy. David Koresh did not take a bunch of hostages and then call the BATF with a ransom note. You make it sound as if the BATF showed up to save those children in the first place. I have some interesting news for youBATF has absolutely NO jurisdiction in child abuse cases. It seems to me that the...
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During the first three games of the Pens-Devils series, I have been impressed time and time again by the pure talent of the Pens. Jagr, MacEachern and Barrasso have been especially fun to watch. But, one element of this team which goes unnoticed seems to be Scotty Bowman. Despite Brooks' lunatic comments, and despit...
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This is where Freeman's love of accuracy becomes really ridiculous. [his point was that it is possible under certain circumstances for many people to carry concealed in Illinois] I did read the law before I commented on it. Judging from replies I received about my "Semantics on t.p.g" post many (if not most) people ...
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: I am a new reader of sci.crypt I would like to obtain a copy of a : public domain program that can encrypt files, preferably using DES, : that runs under MS-DOS. : I would also like to obtain a program which will password protect : floppy disks, if this is possible. : Thanks. : David Maddison : Melbourne, Australi...
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Hey, the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse (see Raising Arizona) had flames coming out of both his exhaust pipes. I love to toggle the kill switch on my Sportster to produce flaming backfires, especially underneath overpasses at night (it's loud and lights up the whole underpass!!!
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Better still, years ago they demonstrated a cold air system which only used "air". It was called a Rovax. The unit worked very well, the short coming was the seal technology. Where is it today?
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Has anyone any experience with the (new?) Yamaha Cyclelok ? It looks like it uses the same hardened steel as a Kryptonite U lock, but unlike a U lock, it is hinged in 5 places and opens out to a large rectangle (longer length than any U lock I have seen, plus it folds down to real small), so you could lock the rear ti...
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Is there any such thing as in inefficient heater?
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And you know what? There is no such method inherent in real life either. So I would assume you would endorse the notion that we cannot state, with any level of objectivity, that Mother Theresa has accomplished more good in this world than Joseph Stalin. After all, life on earth is a team effort. Have you tried g...
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Regarding drag free satellites, Joe Cain gives a good description of the concept. It is however more than a concept. The Navy's Triad satellite succesfully used drag free control. Drag free control is an integral part of the Stanford Gravity Probe-B spacecraft, due to fly in 1999. It is also part of the European ST...
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Did they ever put in any gas stations on US 12? I rode through there in 1987, skipped a fillup at Bryce Canyon and rode 100+ miles before seeing a gas station at Torrey. Awesome road, I recall riding up a narrow ridge above 9,000? 10,000? feet. -Bruce
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Sure about that? Maybe Proxima might cause problems, but at Oort Cloud distances AC a and AC b together look like a point source. Besides, even the solar system's Oort cloud is unstable over geologic time, right, and needs to be replentished from somewhere else, like the short period comets of the Kupier Belt? (Or...
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I need help identifying this board that I found stuffed away in a corner. As the title says, all that is printed on it is NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS NB-DMA-8. It fits fine in my Mac IIci and snooper gives the very same name for the board. It looks like it has an HP-IB connector on the back of it and another connector on th...
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Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part2 Last-modified: 1993/04/27 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 2/3 ] =================================================== Last Change : 27 April 1993 14. Plotting packages ===================== Gnuplot 3.2 ----------- It is one of the best 2- and 3...
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I have a Seagate hard drive that I need some info specific information on. Anyone have the ph# for Seagate Technology, Inc? (Or if they have a bbs setup that has all the drive info on it, like Maxtor does, I'll take that!) Thanks!
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These zealots. Holy fuck. Israel. Armenia. Turkey. Greece. Croatia. Serbia. Bosnia. Russia. Germany. Iran. The Arab World. War.
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I have an application running in one window. In this application, I'd like to iconize this window, and later deiconize back to window. How could I do it? Your help would be appreciated.
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I had mention in a previous article that I was searching for the 300 external drive. I did call Apple Catalog as recommended and they told me the drives were back ordered until May 8. I placed an order anyways and two days later I had a visit from Federal Express. Well, you can guess how I spent my weekend. Of cour...
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What? Absolutely not. No way. Asimov was a lifelong atheist, and said so many times, right until his death. Judging from the many stories he told about his own life, he felt culturally closest to Judaism, which makes sense. He was born Jewish.
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I believe the FPU on the LCIII is always supposed to go on the logic board, not in the PDS board. I have heard of crashing problems with PDS-based FPUs on the LCIII. Asante may have fixed them but why bother. Why bother building an LCIII card with an FPU anyway? The extra circuitry gives the card one more chance to fa...
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Heck, I remember reading a quote of Luther as something like: "Jews should be shot like deer." And of course much Catholic doctrine for centuries was extremely anti-Semitic.
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It is important if Christianity is being damaged by it. If people who "speak in tongues" make claims that they are miraculously speaking a foreign language through the power of the Holy Spirit, when it can easily be shown that they are simply making noises, it damages all Christians, since many who are not Christians d...
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[does he believe in predestination] really? you may be right, but i'd like proof. as far as i know (and i am not a div school student!) the catholic church does not seem to accept predestination. my chaplain told me "beware of greeks bearing gifts" with reference to this doctrine: it seems to have the curious resul...
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Has anyone tried this HP LaserJet FAX. It receives faxes and prints them on your HP III. Also, from your word processor, you can print straight to the fax.
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I am considering selling an Atari 1040 and purchasing an IBM compa- tible. I need to know what kind of money or trade I can expect to get for the Atari before I bother. I am about to start graduate school, and that means I'm about to be poor! (There's a price list for used synthesizers on rec.music.makers.synth, but...
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I would like to offocially nominate Maxima Chain Wax as another Official (tm) DoD product of choice.
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| | > Mary at that time appeared to a girl named Bernadette at | > Lourdes. She referred to herself as the Immaculate Conception. | > Since a nine year old would have no way of knowing about the | > doctrine, the apparition...
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Well, does it change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920, the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion and national origin? Between 1914 and 1920, 2.5 million Turks perished of butchery at the hands of Armeni...
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: > : > I think you're letting atheist mythology : Great start. I realize immediately that you are not interested : in discussion and are going to thump your babble at me. I would : much prefer an answer from Ms Healy, who seems to have a : reasonable and reasoned approach to things. Say, aren't you the : creation...
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I have a Northern Telecom disk array dated 1987 that has two 253MB drives units in it and I cannot get it formatted. I set the SCSI ID on 1 and my software recognizes the unit, but I cannot mount it or anything - do I have to use BOTH drives in the array? Any help with these drives or possibly newer software than w...
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Now *this* is a legitimate point. Baseball is entertainment, and I have no quarrel with people who find certain styles of play more entertaining than others, regardless of their win-value. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the slug-bunt; I doubt it's a high-percentage play, but I get a big kick out of it. I am willing...
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You are sure that what you call a 200SX we call a 240? Just curious.. We also have a nissan predacessor (sp) to the 240 called a 200, which came in turbo and nonturbo. But i don't think we've ever had a 240 turbo...just curious...(BTW, I'm in the US, if that matters..)
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Hi Mac fans, I have some problems with my new Quadra 700. Several programs (Mathematica 2.1, AfterDark-Mandelbrot module) causes a systemcrash if the 040Cache is active. Do anyone have a list of programs which are compatible and which are not? Do anyone have some hints for the use of the Quadras perfomence?
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What is the healthiest way to deal with earwax? Should one just leave it in your ear and not mess with it, or should you clean it out every so often? Can cleaning it out damage your eardrums? Are there any tubes in your ear that might get blocked?
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You mean Bobby Mozumder is a myth? We wondered about that. You mean Bobby Mozumder didn't really post here? We wondered about that, too. So, Mr Conner. Is Bobby Mozumder a myth, a performing artist, a real Moslem. a crackpot, a provocateur? You know everything and read all minds: why don't you tell us?
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I tried this code yesterday. On my Sparcstation ELC it takes over 300 seconds to compress 22 seconds' worth of speech. This means that it needs to be "optimized" by over a factor of 10 before it will be usable in even a half-duplex mode. I question whether CELP is the best approach for this application. It produ...
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Mine works great, so far......
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Coming from an idiot/crook Armenian, I'd take that as a compliment. Your criminal grandparents committed unheard-of crimes, resorted to all conceivable methods of despotism, organized massacres, poured petrol over babies and burned them, raped women and girls in front of their parents who were bound hand and foot, ...
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Sorry to split hairs, but I just read in "The making of the atomic bomb"(*) that teflon was developed during world war 2. A sealant was needed for the tubing in which uranium hexafluoride passed as it was gradually enriched by difussion. UF6 is very corrosive, and some very inert yet flexible material was needed for...
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CJF> agrino@enkidu.mic.cl (Andres Grino Brandt) asks about Mormons. CJF> Although I don't personally know about independent sudies, I do know CJF> a few things. CJF> One of the more amusing things in the BOM is a claim that a CJF> civilization existed in North America, aroun where the mystical plates CJF> were found...
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Recently, Windows has starting giving me the error "Sound Blaster Pro: Requires newer version of Windows 3.1." It has worked correctly for a long time, and don't know what the problem could be. Thanks! --
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Hi Netters. For my home computer I have a humble MacLC with a 12" color monitor. The majority of my work is writing, therefore I would love to have a b&w portrait monotor conected to the LC. However, I sometimes do need the color monitor. My question is this; Is there a good (Cheap) way to hook up two monitors to ...
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Hmmm.... CELP takes up about 12.6 MIPS for full duplex, and has been implemented on about a million DSP chips... the 56001 card in my PC only cost about $700, and I'm sure once demand goes up the prices would drop. The Analog Devices 21020 board that we're looking at now cost about $500 (academic price). I don't think ...
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I have a new monitor which I set up approximately 3-4 feet from where the AC power enters my house - at my fuse box. Is this safe for the monitor, or will/can the EMF emitted by the AC current eventually affect my monitor? If so, how, and is the damage permanent or would degaussing fix it?
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However, to underestimate the power of religion creating historical events is also a big misunderstanding. For instance, would the 30-year-old war have ever started if there were no fractions between the Protestants and the Vatican? Cheers, Kent
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You obviously haven't read the information about the system. The chips put out serial number infomation into the cypher stream to allow themselves to be identified. The system does not rely on registering people as owning particular phone units. I am against the proposal, but lets be accurate in our objections. -- P...
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: : As a private citizen, I would feel much more "secure in my person and : papers" knowing that an organization committed to individual civil : liberties- the ACLU and the NRA come to mind- was safeguarding half of : my key. Both the ACLU and the NRA are resistent to government pressure : by the simple expedient fact...
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Something similar has happened to me - ages ago when we were working on PGP we used to send short messages about development issues or simply to test new features around. Now at this time PGP (and certainly the newer version) was unknown over here. Suddenly the admin at the site I was using received a request t...
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Does anyone know of an English language edition that does not show the verse (or even chapter) numbers. I have always thought that such an edition would be very useful - although hard to navigate around. I have a Scots NT that doesn't show verse numbers, and it is great to read, particularly longer narrative passage...
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For sale: 030 direct slot adapter card for the mac iisi (with a mac coprocessor on it as well). If this what you are looking for. Let me know, email an offer as well if you are interested.
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This whole thread is rediculous. Who cares if they had a stove going or not. Does it matter if they had a stove burning, or lanterns burning, or candles burning, or someone smoking, etc, etc, etc. The premise is that the FBI was filling the house with napalm so that it would catch fire. This is crazy. FBI was NOT...
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Hello. I have Windows 3.1 and I was wondering what is necessary to change the default system font to something else. I have just obtained MSC/C++ 7.0 with SDK, so I'd really like to get my feet wet with doing my first windows pro- gram to change the system font. Tx., William F. Maton
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Did youy guys know that it is LEGAL to own a radar detector but is ILLEGAL to use it! Isn't that a bit like owning a gun but not being allowed to use it? My mate just switches his off whenever the cops are around.
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Hey guys! I run twm and would like to execute some program before leaving twm. In other words I would like to run some program before I do f.quit. Is it possible to make a menu section which would contain these two parts?
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TRIVIA TIME!!! OK, We all know that Dave "My Batting Average is Down in the" Valle caught Chris Bosio's no hitter last night (and is batting over .300, BTW). Here is the question: Who caught Randy Johnson's no-hitter in June of 1990. (Hint: Not Dave Valle :-))
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Think about what you are saying here. The 24 bit image is quantised down to 8 bits so many 'similar' colours are mapped onto a single palette colour. This colour gets modified in fairly arbitrary ways. You then want to apply these modifications back to the 24 bit file, so you have to find which colours mapped to thi...
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Charles Hubbert writes... Chevy has let in 2 or 3 soft goals so far, but they all didn't matter. However, his recent history has been inconsistant play but comes up big when it counts. The score was 4-0 I think when the goal you mentioned was scored. In the third period when it looked like Toronto was coming back, C...
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Greetings, I need some help with the detail of geometry specification. I have a program that uses Xlib to create a simple window. I tried to hard code the x,y location in XCreateWindow but it didn't work. I also tried XSetStandardProperties, XSetWMHints with no luck. Could somebody enlighten me on this subject. ...
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Good points. In addition, I would point out that now is one of the best times to fight this political battle, with much of the opposition in disarray -- an FBI director (Sessions) on his way out, an Attorney General (Reno) who has only been in long enough to find the office coffee machine two tries out of three (and, ...
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I have several isolation amplifier boards that are the ideal interface for EEG and ECG. Isolation is essential for safety when connecting line-powered equipment to electrodes on the body. These boards incorporate the Burr-Brown 3656 isolation module that currently sells for $133, plus other op amps to produce an over...
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And now he is posting lies about Benjamin Franklin in talk.politics.misc. Seems our Mr. Salah will stoop to any level (or is that *climb*) to spread his hate.
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>Can anybody tell me what exactly Windows 3.1 does to the COM ports??? >Why can't I run a single communication program under Windows? I have ProComm+, >QuickLink, {COMMO} - neither of them respond to modem commands after the >connection has finally been established, although I'm still able to manage > Vick....
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There are a number of Philosophical questions that I would like to ask: 1) If we encounter a life form during our space exploration, how do we determine if we should capture it, imprison it, and then discect it? 2) If we encounter a civilization that is suffering economicly, will we expend resources from earth to h...
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All I can remember is that there was an article in Scientific American maybe 20 years ago. As someone else noted rats or mice fed nothing but heavy water eventually died, and the explanation was given. -- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu haynes@cats.bitnet
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Hello everybody! Does anybody know how to implement wordwrap with use of XDrawImageString? The problem is that I don't know how many characters can be drawn in a region. Have I to calculate character for character the width of the drawn text? Thank you in advance. ,,, ...
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I think you must have the same hygiene teacher I had in 1955. There is a story about the Civil War about a soldier who was shot in the groin. The bullet, after passing through one of his testes, then entered the abdomen of a young woman standing nearby. Later, when she (a young woman of unimpeachible virtue) was ...
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That's because they took the old VT 500 engine and stepped on it to make the plant for the Hawk -> "New Twin". Or does that only fly for Microsoft NT (New Technology)? I've been at this too long today ... Cheers, Victor "Dances with Hawks" Johnson
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You'll have to kill off half the net. Maybe that isn't such a bad idea...
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Putting aside our substantial differences, I'd like to ask the knowledgeable ones to give feedback on this. Let me explain. One of my family members last week was discovered to have a brain tumor after having some difficulties with walking and writing (she is 64 years old). Otherwise, she is in fine health. The disc...
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I would further add that a 486/50,S3/928,8mb,15",200mbDISK is going to cost /WAY/ more than $900, probably $3,000. Color makes it not apples/apples too. Xterminals provide better price/performance than PCs. You can make a PC much cheaper, and perform much worse, and you can make PC's perform great, and cost more. Y...
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]To those of you who have the BMW heated handgrips: ] Are they comfortable? Do they transmit a lot of ] vibration? How do they compare to the stock grips? ] To foam grips? I don't have the grips, but have looked into getting them. it's my understanding that the grips themselves are the standard european style grips...
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Ultimately it rests with personal opinion...in my opinion. :-) The question doesn't make sense to me. Maybe it would be better to ask, "What makes a democracy better than [for example] a totalitarian regim?"
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Sorry, my news reader doesn't want to reply. 1) Ling, S.C. "Fluxgate magetometer for Space Application", IEEE Journal Spacecraft, Vol. 1, No. 2, March-April 1964, pp 175-180. Oldish, but usable. Background information 2) "Fluxgate magnetometry", Electronics world + Wireless world, September 1991, pp. 726-732. Gr...
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This a wightened speed avarage for many windows tasks. The original poster (Ross Mitchell) was primary intersted in manipulating large images, which implies moving a lot of data from memory to the card. Does anyone have the benchmarks on this particular task? -- Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: pene...
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The only book I know of is : "The X Window System Server - X Version 11, Release 5" by Elias Israel / Erik Fortune Digital Press Copyright 1992 Order number EY-L518E-DP DP ISBN 1-55558-096-3 PH ISBN 0-13-972753-1 But if there are any more, please post/email me the names. -- -- bkilgore Thus spake the...
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Does anyone know about the Christian Embassy in Washington DC? What exactly does it do? Please respond to lisa@ux1.lbl.gov
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We all had that problem, you need to expand the fonts manually, the program "decomp" is on disk 1 & the equations fonts are on disk 3 Have fun
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How big of a lightning rod, would you need for protection? and would you need jupiter as a ground plane.
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