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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 the
ground was REAL cold (< -30F) the battery might freeze an split. But then
it would probably freeze anyway :-)
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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 clue as to its origins. Maybe the abiogenesists have an answer. I
might also point out that evolution is aimless. Thus why Albert
Sabin evolved into a religious discussion is probably unexplainable.
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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 percentile. If the
median number of sexual partners for men is 7.3, it means that
at least 50% of men have had 7.3 or fewer sexual partners, and
at least 50% of men have had 7.3 or more sexual partners.
(Question: What is 0.3 of a sexual partner? :)
To confuse matters more, take the following data set:
[5.0, 6.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.0, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, 250.0]
The mean (arithmetic average) of the above set of numbers is 29.4.
The sample standard deviation is 73.2.
The mode is 9.0.
The median is 7.3.
--
Michael D. Adams (starowl@a2i.rahul.net) Enterprise, Alabama
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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 day
"contracts" were explained? ASPN has a piece of paper saying it MUST
show that baseball game if it happens. Many businesses payedd money to
have their commercials run during a baseball game. This is a business,
not your own personal video servant.
Maybe you should put that anger into something positive. For example, I saw
ads for the new Dodge both on the ESPN and KBL broadcasts. Why not write to
Dodge saying that "thanks to the ads run during the STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS,
you will now concider their products in the future. They love to hear stuff
like that and in the future will be more willing to buy commercial time
for hockey games, giving ESPN (and other networks) more incentive to carry
games (just one example)
Come on people, as great as we think it is, Hockey does not leapfrog the
"big three" overight.
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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 key
cryptography, are also vitally necessary, I can tell you that Jerry and EFF
are fully committed to this position.
The previous poster is apparently unaware of a long series of EFF positions in
support of this view. I suggest those interested read EFF's position on
Clipper or our other work in digital privacy. Check ftp.eff.org for more
details.
One of the great things about human beings is that they are capable of change
and evolution in their thinking. The idea that crypto is critical to privacy
is one which is no longer limited to certain net afficianados, but is
spreading to parts of the public policy community in Washington.
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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 are mainly beleivers of Islam. I got this from Bosnian Muslim
friend of mine who goes to University of Texas in Austin.
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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 pulsdialing. Not to touchtone.
Btw; Norway is even more interesting. They got both system! So you need different phones depending on where in the country you live.
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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 OS902S for
$490, but I need the 904S because of the 40 MHz B/W)
Thanks all.
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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 the problem, and later problems have overshadowed
the HGA problem.
Is there any plan to look at the affected HGA during the HST repair mission,
to determine the cause of its limited range of motion? Is the affected HGA
still limited, or is it now capable of full range of motion?
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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.
According to one survey, done in San Francisco, the number of heterosexual
men who were molested as children was on the order of 5%. The number of
homosexual men who were molested as children was on the order of 8%.
Source: a book on sexual abuse of children by David Finkelhor (sorry,
the title escapes me).
Conclusions that can be drawn from this: none.
Oh, you definitely have a choice. You realize, of course, that you
are approaching the two-year anniversary of your crusade. How are
you planning on celebrating two years of lies?
Incidentally, we are still waiting your crusade against African-Americans,
women, and other minorities who also want to "impose their morality on
others". After all, they also want the government to "tell peaceful
people how to live." Therefore, you really "have no choice", but to
continue to point out that being a woman or an African-American is not
a lifestyle, but a sickness.
It's bullshit, Mr. Cramer. It was bullshit when you began this crusade
and it's still bullshit. I am continually amazed at the depths to which
you'll stoop to carry on this deliberate attack.
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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 discover that
the cost of launch is not the only cost of advertising, and a company who
gauged that ill will would lose them more revenue than the advertising would
gain might decide to bow out of the project.
I got incensed when I read that Carl Sagan called this idea an "abomination."
I don't think that word means what he thinks it does. Children starving in the
richest country in the world is an abomination; an ad agency is at worst just
in poor taste.
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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.
Government spokespeople have lied and contradicted each other
throughout this whole affair. I'll wait for some better evidence before
I form an opinion.
--
paul hager hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu
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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 cynicism:
I do (did) contribute to the ARF mortgage fund but
when interest rates plumetted, I just paid it off.
The problem is, I couldn't convince Congress to move
my home to a nicer location on Federal land.
In other words, Mr. Schmidling could care less for the plight
of the homeless, but is not above using them to score points
for his agenda.
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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 (source) drive. I just want my money back out of it...$180. Thanks
a lot and offers appreciated. Dave 317-495-5978 kari@sage.cc.purdue.edu
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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 BATF showed up, took the Davidians hostage.
Then the FBI showed up, negotiated to have a few of the hostages
released, but were unable to keep the BATF from killing the rest
of the poor people trapped inside the compound.
Steve Martin
Steve_Martin@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com
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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 despite the Devils' line changing
adantage in last night's game, Bowman has been able to keep his cool and
keep the Devils in the dark. Granted, the hell-dwellers had the Pens
bottled up for a while last night, but Bowman was eventually able to
configure his line-up to get the job done. His ability to throw out new
looks and strategies at a moments notice is incredible.
Bowman seems to have a terrific ability of reading his players on an
individual basis. Last night, for instance, he realized that the speed
of Jagr, Straka, and MacEachern was throwing the Devils off balance. As
a result, Straka received many more shifts than average; Jagr played
almost the entire game (he was always on the puck), and MacEachern
scored a goal, while complementing Jagr many times throughout the night.
His ability to commit to one player in crucial situations is
commendable, especially when a coach of such a talented team might
simply rely on the overall talent to dominate, and to bring about
success.
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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 here on t.p.g
assume that when CCW laws are asked about the person is asking about the
possibility of an ordinary citizen getting one. It would also follow that said
person would get the CCW to carry on his/her person away from their home and/or
business.
Maybe Freeman did prove his point but his point is not relevant. The thing
that most people seem to care about when they ask questions about carrying
a concealed weapon is whether or not they can carry it concealed on their
person when they are out on the street somewhere. I'm sure that not many
people are concerned with whether or not they can carry concealed at home.
Speaking as someone who lives in Illinois (the only place where the above
quoted law is relevant :-)) I know that it is legal to own a handgun here (I
am not taking into account city ordinances). I could care less about whether
or not I can carry concealed at home. I only care about the fact that
I can't carry concealed in the place where it really counts- out on the street.
Freeman loves to be accurate and I can understand that (especially not) but he
seems to be forgetting that accurate facts don't always replace common sense.
I am not going to followup to this thread anymore because I believe that it is
useless to argue these points anymore. The only thing that is happening now
is that Freeman and I are "running around in circles" trying to prove each
other wrong and I do not have the time to be playing games anymore. Of course
now Freeman will attack me about my use of common sense in some of my earlier
posts but what can I do. My only advice for Freeman - quit being so picky
about accuracy sometimes and use your common sense; it really does work some-
times.
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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, Australia
When you find out a floppy password protect program, could you e-mail me.
Thanks
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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 tire to a steel post for example.
I was curious as to how well the jointed sections would stand up to attack ?
tony
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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 glasses? I find them quite useful.
After all, there must be some reason you choose to ignore the mounds
of evidence we present. It's too bad you feel it necessary to close
your mind and eyes to knowledge; you live a poorer life as a result
of that choice.
Heck, I'd wager that you could predict a WS winner with greater
accuracy than Jeanne Dixon. And you know why? Because I have
full confidence that despite your protestations to the contrary,
you are quite capable of using the knowledge we can come up
with through statistical methods to boost your knowledge level.
Have you tried calling a kettle black?
In other words, in your world, you cannot objectively state that
Jack Morris was more important to the Blue Jays than Al Leiter last
year.
In your world, that may indeed be true. Fortunately, in the world
the rest of us occupy, it's not.
I hope you never serve on a jury, Roger. I think the rest of the
jury would have to kill you. "There's no way I can objectively
judge the defendant to be innocent or guilty. You see, there are
2 billion other people on this planet. We have no way of knowing
whether the defendant would have committed the crime if it wasn't
for all the other people on the planet. We have no way of knowing
how the defendant would have acted had he been on a different planet,
because living on this planet is a team effort. And no individual
committs a crime totally isolated from his society; he is a part of
that society. That being case, anything I have to say on his
culpability would be absolute subjectivity, so I refuse to vote."
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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 STEP satellite.
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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 maybe I'm misremembering something I read or heard somewhere...)
Until we're able to perform a broad-band survey of nearby stars
to detect planets, we won't know enough to say whether or not
a single star has planets. And we're likely to find out about the
close ones first.
Heck, if neutron stars can have planets, anything can have planets.
(Or was that discovery disconfirmed?)
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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 the top (2 rows by 25 pins). It also looks like
it has an Intel processor on it (#A82380-16 Intel '86)
On an EEPROM there is a sticker with the P/N 700584-01.
Anybody ever seen or heard of one? Or better yet, do you know what it does?
We are all clueless here. Our last option is to hook it up to our HP
workstations and see if any smoke comes out.
Thanks a lot!
Kevin
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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
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It is one of the best 2- and 3-D plotting packages, with
online help.It's a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
for UNIX, MSDOS, Amiga, Archimedes, and VMS platforms (at least!).
Freely distributed, it supports many terminals, plotters, and printers
and is easily extensible to include new devices.
It was posted to comp.sources.misc in version 3.0, plus 2 patches.
You can practically find it everywhere (use Archie to find a site near you!).
The comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup is devoted to discussion of Gnuplot.
Xvgr and Xmgr (ACE/gr)
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Xmgr is an XY-plotting tool for UNIX workstations using
X or OpenWindows. There is an XView version called xvgr for
Suns. Collectively, these 2 tools are known as ACE/gr.
Compiling xmgr requires the Motif toolkit version 1.1
and X11R4 - xmgr will not compile under X11R3/Motif 1.0x.
Check at ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34} in
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.09.tar.Z (Motif version)
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z (XView version)
Comments, suggestions, bug reports to Paul J Turner
<pturner@amb4.ese.ogi.edu> (if mail fails, try pturner@ese.ogi.edu).
Due to time constraints, replies will be few and far between.
Robot
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Release 0.45 : 2-D and limited 3-D. Based on XView 3, written
in C / Fortran (so you need a Fortran compiler or the f2c translator).
Mainly tested on Sun4, less on DECstations. Check at
ftp.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28), pub/astrod.
VG plotting library
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This is a library of Fortran callable routines at sunspot.ceee.nist.gov
[129.6.64.151]
Xgobi
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It's being developed at Bellcore, and its speciality are
multidimensional data sets analysis and exploration. You can call it
from the S language also, and it works as an X11 client using the Athena
widget set (or with an ASCII terminal). It's distributed free of charge
from STATLIB at CMU.
To get it via e-mail, send email to statlib@temper.stat.cmu.edu and
in the body area of the message, put the line
send xgobi from general
If you want to pick it via ftp, connect to lib.stat.cmu.edu. Log in as
"statlib" and use your e-mail address as your password. Then type
cd general
mget xgobi.*
Warning: It's about 2 MB sources + large Postscript manual. Read the
relevant README to decide whether you need it or not.
PGPLOT
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Runs on VAX/VMS and supposedly on UNIX. It's a set of fortran routines freely
available (though copyrighted and requiring a nominal fee of $50 or so)
that includes contour plots and support for various devices, including ps.
Contact tjp@deimos.caltech.edu
GGRAPH
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Host shorty.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.8] : /pub/ggraph.tar.Z
Unknown more details.
epiGRAPH
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For PCs. Call dvj@lab2.phys.lgu.spb.su (Vladimir J. Dmitriev) for details.
You can get the program demo or (and) play version, if sent 10 $ to
1251 Budapest posta fiok 60
Hungary
ph/fax 1753696 Budapest
ph 2017760
Multiplot XLN
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For Amigas, shareware ($30 USD, #20 UK or $40 Aust.). Advanced 2D package
that has a big list of features. Contact:
Dr. Alan Baxter <agb16@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk>,
Cambridge University
Department of Pathology,
Tennis Court Road,
Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK
Athena Plotter Widget set
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This version V6.0 is based on Gregory Bond's version V5-beta. Added
some stuff for scientific graphs, i.e. log axes, free scalable axes,
XY-lineplots and some more, and re-added plotter callbacks from V4, e.g.
to request the current pointer position, or to cut off a rectangle from the
plotting area for zooming-in. Version V6.0 has a log of bugs fixed and a
log of improvements against V6-beta. Additionally I did some other
changes/extensions, besides
- Origin and frame lines for axes.
- Subgrid lines on subtic positions.
- Line plots in different line types (lines, points, lines+points,
impulses, lines+impulses, steps, bars), line styles (solid, dotted,
dashed, dot-dashed) and marker types for data points.
- Legend at the right or left hand side of the plot.
- Optional drawing to a pixmap instead of a window.
- Layout callback for aligning axis positions when using
multiple plotters in one application.
Available at export.lcs.mit.edu, directory contrib/plotter
SciPlot
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SciPlot is a scientific 2D plotting and manipulation program.
For the NeXT (requires NeXTStep 3.0), and it's shareware.
Features:
ASCII import and export; EPS export; copy, cut, paste with data buffer;
free number of data points, data buffer, and document window;
selective open and save ; plotting in many styles; automatic legend;
subviews; linear and logarithmic axes; two different axes; text and graphic;
color support; zoom; normalizing and moving; axis conversions;
free hand data manipulations (cut, edit, move, etc.); data editor; sorting
of data; absolute,relative, and free defined error bars;
calculating with buffers (+, -, *, / ); background subtractions
(linear,shirley,tougaard, bezier); integration and relative integration;
fitting of one or more free defined functions; linear regression;
calculations (+, -, *, /, sin, cos, log, etc.); function generator;
spline interpolation; least square smooth and FFT smooth; differentiation;
FFT; ESCA calculations and database; .. and something more
You can find it on:
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.7] : /pub/NeXT/science/SciPlot3.1.tar.Z
Author:
Michael Wesemann
Scillerstr. 73,1000 Berlin 12, Germany
mike@fiasko.rz-berlin.mpg.de
PLPLOT
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PLPLOT is a scientific plotting package for many systems, small (micro)
and large (super) alike. Despite its small size and quickness,
it has enough power to satisfy most users, including:
standard x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D plots,
mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or
different sizes) may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each
graph. Different line styles, widths and colors are supported. A virtually
infinite number of distinct area fill patterns may be used. There are
almost 1000 characters in the extended character set. This includes four
different fonts, the Greek alphabet and a host of mathematical, musical, and
other symbols. The fonts can be scaled to any size for various effects.
Many different output device drivers are available (system dependent),
including a portable metafile format and renderer.
Freely available (but copyrighted) via anonymous FTP on
hagar.ph.utexas.edu, directory pub/plplot
At present (v. 4.13), PLPLOT is known to work on the following systems:
Unix: SunOS, A/IX, HP-UX, Unicos, DG/UX, Ultrix
Other platforms: VMS, Amiga/Exec, MS-DOS, OS/2, NeXT
Authors: Many. The main supporters are:
Maurice LeBrun <mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu>: PLPLOT kernel and the metafile,
xterm, xwindow, tektronix, and Amiga drivers.
Geoff Furnish <furnish@fusion.ph.utexas.edu>: MS-DOS and OS/2 drivers
Tony Richardson <amr@egr.duke.edu>: PLPLOT on the NeXT
SuperMongo
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2-D plotting package at CMU, filename ~re00/tmp/SM.2.1.0.tar.Z
(probably under the ftp.cmu.edu or andrew.cmu.edu machines?)
GLE
---
GLE is a high quality graphics package for scientists. It runs on a
variety of platforms (PCs, VAXes, and Unix) with drivers for XWindows,
REGIS, TEK4010, PC graphics cards, VT100s, HP plotters, Postscript
printers, Epson-compatible printers and Laserjet/Paintjet printers. It
provides LaTEX quality fonts, as well as full support for Postscript
fonts. The graphing module provides full control over all features of
graphs. The graphics primitives include user-defined subroutines for
complex pictures and diagrams.
Accompanying utilities include Surface (for hidden line surface
plotting), Contour (for contour plots), Manip (for manipulation of
columnar data files), and Fitls (for fitting arbitrary equations to
data).
+ Available via anon. FTP at these places:
+
+ PC gle: SIMTEL, wuarchive.wustl.edu, and other mirrors, msdos/graphics/gle*.*
+ UNIX gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/unix
+ VMS gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/vms
Mailing list: GLEList. Send a message to
listserver@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu, with a message boyd containing
sub glelist "Your Name"
maintainer: Dean Pentcheff <dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu>
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15. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
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PC and Mac-based tools (multi-platform software)
======================
IMDISP
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IMDISP Written at JPL and other NASA sites. Can do simple display,
enhancing, smoothing and so on. Works with the FITS and VICAR/PDS
data formats of NASA. Can read TIFF images, if you know their dimensions
[PC and Macs]
LabVIEW 2
---------
LabVIEW is used as a framework for image processing tools. It provides a
graphical programming environment using block diagram sketch is the
"program" with graphical elements representing the programming elements.
Hundreds of functions are already available and are connected using a
wiring tool to create the block diagram (program). Functions that the
block diagrams represent include digital signal processing and
filtering, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. The tool allows any
Virtual Instrument (VI, a software file that looks and acts like a real
laboratory instrument) to be used as a part of any other virtual
instrument.
National Instruments markets plug-in digital signal processing (DSP)
boards for Macintoshs and PC compatables that allow real-time
acquisition and analysis at a personal computer. New software tools for
DSP are allowing engineers to harness the power of this technology. The
tools range from low-level debugging software to high-level block
diagram development software. There are three levels of DSP programming
associated with the NB-DSP2300 board and LabVIEW:
Use of the NB-DSP2300 Analysis Library: FFTs, power spectra, filters
routines callable from THINK C and Macintosh Programers Workshop (MPW) C
that execute on the NB-DSP2300 board. There is an analysis Virtual
Interface Library of ready-to-use VIs optimized for the NB-DSP2300.
Use of the National Instruments Developers Toolkit that includes an
optimizing C compiler, an assembler and a linker for low-level
programming of the DSP hardware. This approach offers the highest level
of performance but is the must difficult in terms of ease of use.
Use of the National Instruments Interface Kit software package which has
utility functions for memory management data communications and
downloading code to the NB-DSP2300 board. (This is the easiest route for
the development of custom code.)
Ultimage Concept VI
-------------------
Concept VI by Graftek-France is a family of image processing Virtual
Instruments (VIs) that give LabVIEW 2 (described above) users high-end
tools for designing, integrating and monitoring imaging control systems.
A VI is a software file that looks and acts like a real laboratory
instrument. Typical applications for Concept VI include thermography,
surveillance, machine vision, production testing, biomedical imaging,
electronic microscopy and remote sensing.
Ultimage Concept VI addresses applications which require further
qualitative and quantitative analysis. It includes a complete set of
functions for image enhancement, histogram equalization, spatial and
frequency filtering, isolation of features, thresholding, mathematical
morphology analysis, density measurement, object counting, sizing and
characterization.
The program loads images with a minimum resolution of 64 by 64, a pixel
depth of 8, 16, or 32 bits, and one image plane. Standard input and
output formats include PICT, TIFF, SATIE, and AIPD. Other formats can
be imported.
Image enhancement features include lookup table transformations, spatial
linear and non-linear filters, frequency filtering, arithmetic and logic
operations, and geometric transformations, among others. Morphological
transformations include erosion, dilation, opening, closing, hole
removal, object separation, and extraction of skeletons, among others.
Quantitative analysis provides for objects' detection, measurement, and
morphological distribution. Measures include area, perimeter, center of
gravity, moment of inertia, orientation, length of relevant chords, and
shape factors and equivalence. Measures are saved in ASCII format. The
program also provides for macro scripting and integration of custom
modules.
A 3-D view command plots a perspective data graph where image intensity
is depicted as mountains or valleys in the plot. The histogram tool can
be plotted with either a linear or logarithmic scale. The twenty-eight
arithmetic and logical operations provide for: masking and averaging
sections of images, noise removal, making comparisons, etc. There are
13 spatial filters that alter pixel intensities based on local
intensity. These include high-pass filters for contrast and outlines.
The frequency data resulting from FFT analysis can be displayed as
either the (real , imaginary ) components or the (phase, magnitude)
data. The morphological transformations are useful for data sharpening
and defining objects or for removing artifacts.
The transformations include: thresholding, eroding, dilating and even
hole filling.
The program's quantitative analysis measurements include: area,
perimeter, center of mass, object counts, and angle between points.
GTFS, Inc. 2455 Bennett Valley Road #100C Santa Rosa, CA 95494
707-579-1733
IPLab Spectrum
--------------
IPLAB Spectrum supports image processing and analysis but lacks the
morphology and quantitative analysis features provided by
Graftek-FranceUs Ultimage Concept VI. Using scripting tools, the user
tells the system the operations to be performed. The problem is that far
too many basic operations require manual intervention. The tool
supports: FFTs, 16 arithmetic operations for pixel alteration, and a
movie command for cycling through windows.
Macintosh-based tools
=====================
NCSA Image, NCSA PalEdit and more
---------------------------------
NCSA provides a whole suite of public-domain visualization tools for the
Macintosh, primarily aimed at researchers wanting to visualize results
from numerical modelling calculations. These applications,
documentation, and source code are available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Commercial versions of the NCSA programs have been
developed by Spyglass.
Spyglass, Inc. 701 Devonshire Drive Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6000
fax: 217 355 8925
NIH IMAGE
---------
Available at alw.nih.gov (128.231.128.7) or (preferably)
zippy.nimh.nih.gov [128.231.98.32], directory:/pub/image.
It has painting and image manipulation tools, a macro language,
tools for measuring areas, distances and angles, and for counting
things. Using a frame grabber card, it can record sequences of
images to be played back as a movie. It can invoke user-defined
convolution matrix filters, such as Gaussian. It can import raw
data in tab-delimited ASCII, or as 1 or 2-byte quantities. It also
does histograms and even 3-D plots. It is limited to 8-bits/pixel,
though the 8 bits map into a color lookup table. It runs on any Mac
that has a 256-color screen and a FPU (or get the NonFPU version
from zippy.nimh.nih.gov)
PhotoMac
--------
Data Translation, Inc. 100 Locke Dr. Marlboro, MA 01752 508-481-3700
PhotoPress
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Blue Solutions 3039 Marigold Place Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 805-492-9973
PixelTools and TCL-Image
------------------------
"Complete family of PixelTools (hardware accelerator and applications
software) for scientific image processing and analysis. Video-rate
capture, display, processing, and analysis of high-resolution
monochromatic and color images. Includes C source code."
TCL-Image:
"Software package for scientific, quantitative image processing and
analysis. It provides a complete language for the capture, enhancement,
and extraction of quantitative information from gray-scale images.
TCL_Image has over 200 functions for image processing, and contains the
other elements needed in a full programming language for algorithm
development -- variables and control structures. It is easily
extensible through "script" (or indirect command) files. These script
files are simply text files that contain TCL-Image commands. They are
executed as normal commands and include the ability to pass parameters.
The direct capture of video images is supported via popular frame
grabber boards. TCL-Image comes with the I-View utility that provides
conversion between common image file types, such as PICT2 and TIFF."
Perceptics 725 Pellissippi Parkway Knoxville, TN 37933 615-966-9200
Satellite Image Workshop
------------------------
It comes with a number of satellite pictures (raw data) and does all
sorts of image enhancing on it. You'll need at least a Mac II with co-
processor; a 256 color display and a large harddisk. The program doesn't
run under system 7.x.ATE1 V1
In the documentation the contact address is given as: Liz Smith, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, MS 300-323, 4800 Oak Grove Dr,.Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-6980
Visualization Workbench
-----------------------
"An electronic imaging software system that performs interactive image
analysis and scientific 2D and 3D plotting."
Paragon Imagine 171 Lincoln St. Lowell, MA 01852 508-441-2112
Adobe Photoshop
---------------
The tool supports Rtrue colorS with 24-bit images or 256 levels of grey
scale. Once an image has been imported it can be Rre-touchedS with
various editing tools typical of those used in Macintosh-based RpaintS
applications. These include an eraser, pencil, brush and air brush.
Advanced RpasteS tools that control the interaction between a pasted
selection and the receiving site have also been incorporated. For
example, all red pixels in a selection can easily be preventing from
being pasted. Photoshop has transparencies ranging from 0 to 100%,
allowing you to create ghost overlays. RPhoto-editingS tools include
control of the brightness and contrast, color balancing, hue/saturation
modification and spectrum equalization. Images can be subjected to
various signal processing algorithms to smooth or sharpen the image,
blur edges, or locate edges. Image scaling is also supported.
For storage savings, the images can be compressed using standard
algorithms, including externally supplied compression such as JPEG,
availlable from Storm Technologies. The latest version of Adobe
Photoshop supports the import of numerous image formats including: EPSF,
EPSF, TIFF, PICT resource, Amiga IFF/ILBM, CompuServe GIF, MacPaint,
PIXAR, PixelPaint, Scitex CT, TGA and ThunderScan..
Adobe Systems, Inc. 1585 Charlestown Road PO Box 7900 Mountain View, CA
94039-7900 415-961-4400
ColorStudio and ImageStudio
---------------------------
ColorStudio is an image-editing and paint package from Letraset that has
more features than Adobe Photoshop but is decidedly more complex and
therefore more difficult to use. Several steps are often required to
accomplish that which can be done in a single step using Photoshop. The
application requires a great deal of available disk space as one can
easily end up with images in the 30 MB range. The program provides a
variety of powerful selection tools including the "auto selection tool"
which lets the user choose image areas on the basis of color, close
hues, color range and mask.
ImageStudio: Don't know...
Letraset USA 40 Eisenhower Drive Paramus, NJ 07653 201-845-6100
Dapple Systems
--------------
"High resolution image analysis software provides processing tools to
work with multiple images, enhance and edit, and measure a variety of
global or feature parameters, and interpret the data."
Dapple Systems, 355 W. Olive Ave, #100 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-733-3283
Digital Darkroom
----------------
The latest release of Digital Darkroom has five new selection and
editing tools for enhancing images. One such feature allows the user to
select part of an image simply by "painting" it. A new polyline
selection tool creates a selection tool for single pixel wide
selections. A brush lets the operator "paint" with a selected portion
of the image. Note that this is not a true color image enhancement tool.
This tool should be used when the user intends to operate in grey-scale
images only. It should be noted that Digital Darkroom is not as
powerful as either Adobe Photoshop or ColorStudio.
Silicon Beach Software 9770 Carroll Ctr. Rd., Suite J San Diego, CA
92126 619-695-6956
Dimple
------
It is compatible with system 6.05 and system 7.0 , requires Mac LC or
II series with 256 colours, with a recommended min of 6Mb of ram. It has
the capability of reading Erdas files. Functions include; image
enhancement, 3D and contour plots, image statistics, supervised and
unsupervised classification, PCA and other image transformations. There
is also a means (Image Operation Language or IOL) by which you can write
your own transformations. There is no image rectification, however
Dimple is compatable with MAPII. The latest version is 1.4 and it is in
the beta stage of testing. Dimple was initially developed as a teaching
tool and it is very good for this purpose."
"Dimple runs on a colour Macintosh. It is a product still in its
development phase.. i.e. it doesn't have all the inbuilt features of
other packages, but is coming along nicely. It has its own inbuilt
language for writing "programs" for processing an image, defining
convolution filters etc. Dimple is a full mac application with pull down
menus etc... It is unprotected software."
Process Software Solutions, PO Box 2110, Wollongong, New South Wales,
Australia. 2500. Phone 61 42 261757 Fax 61 42 264190.
Enhance
-------
Enhance has a RrulerS tool that supports measurements and additionally
provides angle data. The tool has over 80 mathematical filter
variations: "Laplacian, medium noise filter", etc. Files can be saved
as either TIFF, PICT, EPSF or text (however EPSF files can't be imported).
MicroFrontier 7650 Hickman Road Des Moines, IA 50322 515-270-8109
Image Analyst
-------------
An image processing product for users who need to extract quantitative
data from video images. Image Analyst lets users configure
sophisticated image processing and measurement routines without the
necessity of knowing a programming language. It is designed for such
tasks at computing number and size of cells in images projected by video
cameras attached to microscopes, or enhancing and measuring distances in
radiographs.
Image Analyst provides users with an array of field-proven video
analysis techniques that enable them to easily assemble a sequence of
instructions to enhance feature appearance; count objects; determine
density, shape, size, position, or movement; perform object feature
extraction; and conduct textural analysis automatically. Image Analyst
works with either a framegrabber board and any standard video camera, or
a disk-stored image.
Within minutes, without the need for programming, the Image Analyst user
can set up a process to identify and analyze any element of a image.
Measurements and statistics can be automatically or semi-automatically
generated from TIFF or PICT files or from captured video tape images.
Image Analyst recognizes items in images based on their size, shape and
position. The tool provides direct support for the Data Translation and
Scion frame grabbers. A menu command allows for image capture from a VCR
video camera or other NTSC or PAL devices.
There are 2 types of files, the image itself and the related Sequence
file that holds the processing, measurements and analysis that the user
defines. Automated sequences are set up in Regions Of Interest (ROI)
represented by movable, sizable boxes atop the image. Inside a ROI, the
program can find the distance between two edges, the area of a shape,
the thickness of a wall, etc. Image Analyst finds the center, edge and
other positions automatically. The application also provides tools so
that the user can work interactively to find the edge of object. It also
supports histograms and a color look-up table (CLUT) tool.
Automatix, Inc. 775 Middlesex Turnpike Billerica, MA 01821 508-667-7900
IPLab
-----
Signal Analytics Corp. 374 Maple Ave. E Vienna, VA 22180 703-281-3277
FAX 703-281-2509
"Menu-driven image processing software that supports 24-bit color or
pseudocolor/grayscale image display and manipulation."
MAP II
------
Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II distributed by John Wiley has
integrated image analysis.
IMAGE
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from Stanford : Try anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu
It has pd source for image v2, and ready to run code for a mac under
image v3.
Windows/DOS PC-based tools
==========================
CCD
---
Richard Berry's CCD imaging book for Willamon-Bell contains (optional?)
disks with image manipulating software. Source code is included.
ERDAS
-----
"ERDAS will do all of the things you want: rectification,
classification, transformations (canned & user-defined), overlays,
filters, contrast enhancement, etc. ... I was using it on my thesis &
then changed the topic a bit & that work became secondary."
ERDAS, Inc. 2801 Buford Highway Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30329 404-248-9000
FAX 404-248-9400
RSVGA
-----
"I have been getting up to speed on a program called RSVGA available from
Eidetic Digital Image Ltd. in British Columbia. Its for IBM PC's or
clones, cheap (about $400) and does all the stuff Erdas does but is not
as fast or as powerful, though I have had only limited experience with
Erdas. I have used RSVGA with 6 of 7 Landsat bands and it is a good
starter program except for the obtuse manual"
IMAGINE-32
----------
It's a 32 bit package [I suppose for PCs] called "Imagine32"
or "Image32" The program does a modest amount of image processing --add,
subtract, multiply, divide, display, and plot an x or y cut across the image.
It can also display a number of images simultaneously.
The company is CompuScope, in Santa Barbara, CA.
PC Vista
--------
It was announced in the 1989 August edition of PASP. It is known to
be available from Mike Richmond, whose email addresses have been
richmond@bllac.berkeley.edu
richmond@bkyast.berkeley.edu
and his s-mail address is:
Michael Richmond,Astronomy Department, Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
The latest version of PC-Vista, version 1.7, includes not only the source
code and help files, but also a complete set of executable programs and
a number of sample FITS images. If you do wish to use the source code,
you will need Microsoft C, version 5.0 or later; other compilers may work,
but will require substantial modifications.
To receive the documentation and nine double-density (360K) floppies
(or three quad-density 3-1/2 inch floppies (1.44M) with everything on them,
just send a request for PC-Vista, together with your name and a US-Mail
address, to
Office of Technology Licensing
2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 510
Berkeley, Ca. 94704
Include a check (Traveller's Checks are fine) or purchase order for $150.00
in U.S. dollars, if your address is inside the continental U.S., or $165.00
otherwise, made out to Regents of the University of California
to cover duplication and mailing costs.
SOFTWARE TOOLS
--------------
It's a set of software "tools" put out by Canyon State
Systems and Software. They are not free, but rather cheap at about $30 I
heard. It will handle most all of the formats used by frame grabber
software.
MIRAGE
------
It's image processing software written by Jim Gunn at the
Astrophysics Dept at Princeton. It will run on a PC among other platforms.
It is a Forth based system - i.e. a Forth language with many image
processing displaying functions built in.
DATA TRANSLATION SOURCE BOOK
----------------------------
The Data Translation company in Massachusetts publishes a free book
containing vendors of data analysis hardware and software which is
compatible with Data Translation and other frame grabbers.
Surely you can find much more PC-related stuff in it.
MAXEN386
--------
A couple of Canadians have written a program named MAXEN386 which does
maximum entropy image deconvolution. Their company is named Digital
Signal Processing Software, or something like that, and the software is
mentioned in an article in Astronomy Magazine, either Jan or Feb 92
(an article on CCD's vs film).
JANDEL SCIENTIFIC (JAVA)
------------------------
Another software package (JAVA) is put out by Jandel Scientific.
Jandel Scientific, 65 Koch Road, Corte Madera, CA 94925, (415) 924-8640,
(800) 874-1888.
Microbrian
----------
Runs on an MS dos platform and uses a 32 bit graphics card
(Vista), or an about to be released version will support a number of
super VGA cards. Its a full blown remote sensed data processing
system.. It is menu driven (character based screen), but is does not use
a windowed user interface. Its is hardware protected with a dongle.
Mbrian = micro Barrier reef Image Anaysis System. It was developed by
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Organization) and is
marketed/ supported by:
MPA Australia (51 Lusher Road, Croydon, Victoria
tel + 61 3 724 4488 fax +61 3 724 4455)
There are educational and commercial prices, but be prepared to set
aside $A10k for the first educational licence. Subsequent ones come
cheaper (they need to!) It has installed sites worldwide. It is widely
used at ANU.
MicroImage
----------
The remote sensing lab here at Dartmouth currently uses Terra-Mar's
MicroImage, on 486 PCs with some fancy display hardware.
Terra-Mar Resource Information Services, Inc.
1937 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 415-964-6900 FAX
415-964-5430
Unix-based tools
================
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
--------------------------------------------
Developed in the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Kitt Peak AZ
It is free, you can ftp it from tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1]
and complement it with STSDAS from stsci.edu [130.167.1.2].
Email to iraf@noao.edu for more details.
Apparently this is one of the _de facto_ standards in the astronomical
image community. They issue a newsletter also.
They seem to support very well their users. Works with VMS also last
I heard, and practically has its own shell on top of the VMS/Unix shells.
It's suggested that you get a copy of saoimage for display under X windows.
Very flexible/extendable -- tons (literally 3 linear feet) of
documentation for the general user, skilled user, and programmer.
ALV
---
A Sun-specific image toolkit. Version 2.0.6 posted to
comp.sources.sun on 11dec89. Also available via email to
alv-users-request@cs.bris.ac.uk.
AIPS
----
Astronomical Image Processing System. Contact: aipsmail@nrao.edu
(also see the UseNet Newsgroups alt.sci.astro.aips and sci.astro.fits)
Built by NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, HQ in Charlottesville,
VA, sites in NM, AZ, WV). Software distributed by 9-track, Exabyte, DAT,
or (non-anonymous) internet ftp. Documentation (PostScript mostly)
available via anonymous ftp to baboon.cv.nrao.edu (192.33.115.103),
directory pub/aips and pub/aips/TEXT/PUBL. Installation requires building
the system and thus a Fortran and C compiler.
This package can read and write FITS data (see sci.astro.fits), and is
primarily for reduction, analysis, and image enhancement of Radio Astronomy
data from radio telescopes, particularly the Very Large Array (VLA), a
synthesis instrument. It consists of almost 300 programs that do everything
from copying data to sophisticated deconvolution, e.g. via maximum entropy.
There is an X11-based Image tool (XAS) and a tek-compatible xterm-based
graphics tool built into AIPS. The XAS tool is modelled after the hardware
functionality of the International Imaging Systems model 70 display unit and
can do image arithmetic, etc.
The code is mostly Fortran 77 with some system C language modules, and is
available for Suns, IBM RS/6000, Dec/Ultrix, Convex, Cray (Unicos), and
Alliant with support planned for HP-9000/7xx, Solaris 2.1, and maybe SGI.
There is currently a project - "AIPS++" - underway to rewrite the
algorithmic functionality of AIPS in a modern setting, using C++ and an
object oriented approach. Whereas AIPS is proprietary code (licensed for
free to non-profit institutions) owner by NRAO and the NSF, AIPS++ will be
in the public domain at some level, as it is an international effort with
contributions from the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, India, and
Australia to name a few.
LABOimage
---------
(version 4.0 is out for X11) It's written in C, and currently
runs on Sun 3/xxx, Sun 4/xxx (OS3.5, 4.0 and 4.0.3) under SunView.
The expert system for image segmentation is written in Allegro Common Lisp.
It was used on the following domains: computer science (image analysis),
medicine, biology, physics. It is distributed free of charge (source code).
Available via anonymous FTP at ftp.ads.com (128.229.30.16), in
pub/VISION-LIST-ARCHIVE/SHAREWARE/LaboImage_*
Contact: Prof. Thierry Pun, Computer Vision Group Computing Science Center,
U-Geneva 12, rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND
Phone : +41(22) 787 65 82; fax: +41(22) 735 39 05
E-mail: pun@cui.unige.ch or pun@cgeuge51.bitnet
Figaro
------
It was originally made for VMS, and can be obtained from
Keith Shortridge in Australia (ks@aaoepp.aao.gov.au)
and for Unix from Sam Southard at Caltech (sns@deimos.caltech.edu).
It's about 110Mbytes on a Sun.
KHOROS
------
Moved to the Scientific Visualization category below
Vista
-----
The "real thing" is available via anonymous ftp from lowell.edu. Email to
vista@lowell.edu for more details. Total size less than 20Mbytes.
DISIMP
------
(Device Independent Software for Image Processing) is a powerful
system providing both user friendliness and high functionality in
interactive times.
Feature Description
DISIMP incorporates a rich library of image processing utilities and
spatial data options. All functions can be easily accessed via the
DISIMP executive. This menu is modular in design and groups image
processes by their function. Such a logical structure means that
complicated processes are simply a progression through a series of
modules.
Processes include image rectification, classification (unsupervised and
supervised), intensity transformations, three dimensional display and
Principal Component Analysis. DISIMP also supports the more simple and
effective enhancement techniques of filtering, band subtraction and
ratioing.
Host Configuration Requirements
Running on UNIX workstations, DISIMP is capable of processing the more
computational intensive techniques in interactive processing times.
DISIMP is available in both Runtime and Programmer's environments. Using
the Programmers environment, utilities can be developed for specific
applications programs.
Graphics are governed by an icon-based Display Panel which allows quick
enhancments of a displayed image. Manipulations of Look Up Tables,
colour stretches, changes to histograms, zooming and panning can be
interactively driven through this control.
A range of geographic projections enables DISIMP to integrate data of
image, graphic and textual types. Images can be rectified by a number of
coordinate systems, providing the true geographic knowledge essential
for ground truthing. Overlays of grids, text and vector data can be
added to further enhance referenced imagery.
The system is a flexible package allowing users of various skill levels
to determine their own working environment, including the amount of help
required. DISIMP comes fully configured with no optional extras. The
purchase price includes all functionality required for professional
processing of remote sensed data.
For further information, please contact:
The Business Manager, CLOUGH Engineering Group Systems Division, 627
Chapel Street, South Yarra, Australia 3141. Telephone: +61 3 825 5555
Fax: +61 3 826 6463
Global Imaging Software
-----------------------
"We use Global Imaging Software to process AVHRR data, from the dish to
the final display. Select a chunk of five band data from a pass,
automatic navigation, calibrate it to Albedo and Temp, convert that to
byte, register it to predesigned window, all relatively automatically
and carefree.
It has no classification routines to speak of, but it isn't that
difficult to write your own with their programmer's module.
Very small operation: one designs, one codes, one sells. Been around for
a number of years, sold to Weather Service and Navy. Runs on HP9000
with HP-UX. Supports 24-bit display"
HIPS
----
(Human Information Processing Laboratory's Image Processing System)
Michael Landy co-wrote and sell a general-purpose package for image
processing which has been used for basically all the usual image
processing applications (robotics, medical, satellite, engineering, oil
exploration, etc.). It is called HIPS, and deals with sequences of
multiband images in the same way it deals with single images. It has
been growing since we first wrote it, both by additions from us as well
as a huge user-contributed library.
Feature description
HIPS is a set of image processing modules which together provide
a powerful suite of tools for those interested in research,
system development and teaching. It handles sequences of images
(movies) in precisely the same manner as single frames.
Programs and subroutines have been developed for simple image
transformations, filtering, convolution, Fourier and other transform
processing, edge detection and line drawing manipulation, digital
image compression and transmission methods, noise generation, and image
statistics computation. Over 150 such image transformation programs
have been developed. As a result, almost any image processing task
can be performed quickly and conveniently. Additionally, HIPS allows
users to easily integrate their own custom routines. New users
become effective using HIPS on their first day.
HIPS features images that are self-documenting. Each image stored in
the system contains a history of the transformations that have been
applied to that image. HIPS includes a small set of subroutines
which primarily deals with a standardized image sequence header, and
a large library of image transformation tools in the form of UNIX
``filters''. It comes complete with source code, on-line manual
pages, and on-line documentation.
Host Configuration Requirements
Originally developed at New York University, HIPS now represents
one of the most extensive and flexible vision and image processing
environments currently available. It runs under the UNIX operating
system. It is modular and flexible, provides automatic documentation
of its actions, and is almost entirely independent of special equipment.
HIPS is now in use on a variety of computers including Vax and
Microvax, Sun, Apollo, Masscomp, NCR Tower, Iris, IBM AT, etc.
For image display and input, drivers are supplied for the Grinnell and
Adage (Ikonas) image processors, and the Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun- 4, and
Sun-386i consoles. We also supply user-contributed drivers for a
number of other framestores and windowing packages (Sun gfx, Sun
console, Matrox VIP-1024, ITI IP-512, Lexidata, Macintosh II, X
windowing system, and Iris). The Hipsaddon package includes an
interface for the CRS-4000. It is a simple matter to interface HIPS
with other frame- stores, and we can put interested users in touch with
users who have interfaced HIPS with the Arlunya and Datacube Max-
Video. HIPS can be easily adapted for other image display devices
because 98% of HIPS is machine independent.
Availability
HIPS has proven itself a highly flexible system, both as an
interactive research tool, and for more production- oriented tasks. It
is both easy to use, and quickly adapted and extended to new uses. HIPS
is supplied on magnetic tape in UNIX tar format (either reel- to-reel or
Sun cartridge), and comes with source code, libraries, a library of
convolu- tion masks, and on-line documentation and manual pages.
Michael Landy SharpImage Software P.O. Box 373, Prince Street Station
New York, NY 10012-0007 Voice: (212) 998-7857 Fax: (212) 995-4011
msl@cns.nyu.edu
MIRA
----
[ Please DON'T confuse that with the Thalmanns animation system from
Montreal. These are altogether different beasts! - nfotis ]
MIRA stands for Microcomputer Image Reduction and Analysis. MIRA gives
workstation level performance on 386/486 DOS computers using SVGA cards in
256 color modes up to 1024x768. MIRA contains a very handsome/functional
GUI which is mouse and keystroke operated. MIRA reads/writes TIFF and FITS
formats, native formats of a number of CCD cameras, and uncompressed binary
images in byte, short integer, and 4-byte real pixel format in 1- or 2-
dimensions. The result of an image processing operation can be short integer
or real pixels, or the same as that of the input image. MIRA does the
operation using short or floating point arithmetic to maintain the precision
and accuracy of the pixel format. Over 100 functions are hand-coded in
assembly language for maximum speed on the Intel hardware. The entire
graphical interface is also written in assembly language to maximize
the speed of windowing operations. Windows for 2-d image and 1-d image/data
display and analysis have dedicated cursors which read position and value
value in real time as you move the mouse. There are also smooth, real time
contrast and brightness stretch and panning of a magnified portion of
the displayed image(s), all operated by the mouse. A wide selection of
grayscale, pseudocolor, and random palettes is provided, and other
palettes can be generated.
Supported functions include such niceties as the following:
o image & image: + - / * interpolation
o image & constant: + - / *
o unary operations: abs value, polynomial of pixel value, chs, 1/x, log,
byteswap, clip values at upper/lower limits, short->real or real->short.
o combine images by mean, median, mode, or sum of pixel values, with or
without autoscaling to mean, median, or mode of an image section.
o convolutions/filters: Laplacian, Sobel edge operator, directional gradient,
line, Gaussian, elliptical and rectangular equal weight filters, unsharp
masking, median filters, user defined filter kernel. Ellipse, rectangle,
line, gradient, Gaussian, and user defined filters can be rotated to
any specified angle.
o CCD data reduction: flat fielding, dark subtraction, column over/underscan
bias removal, remove bad pixels and column defects, normalize to
region target mean, median, or modal value.
o create subimage, mosaic m x n 1-d or 2-d images to get larger image,
collapse 2-d image into 1-d image.
o plot 1-d section or collapsed section of 2-d image, plot histogram of
region of an image.
o review/change image information/header data, rename keywords, plot
keyword values for a set of images.
o luminance/photometry: elliptical or circular aperture photometry,
brightness profile, isophotal photometry between set of upper & lower
luminances, area and luminance inside traced polygon. Interactive
background fitting and removal from part or all of image, fit elliptical
aperture shape to image isophotes.
o interactive with 2-d image: contrast/brightness, x- y- or diagonal plot
of pixel values, distance between two points, compute region stats,`
centroid, pan to x,y location or image center, zoom 1/16 to 10 times,
change cursor to rectangle crosshair, full image crosshair, or off, and
adjust cursor size on image. Select linear, log or gamma transfer function
or histogram equalization.
o interactive or specified image offset computation and re-sampling for
registration.
o interactive with 1-d image: zoom in x- y- or both in steps of 1/2 or
2 times current, re-center plot, or enlarge a framed area. 4 plot buffers
can be cycled through. Interactive data analysis: polynomial fitting,
point deletion, undelete, change value, point weighting, linear and
quadratic loess and binomial smoothing, revert to unit point weights
or original data buffer, substitute results into data buffer for pass
back to calling function. Dump data buffer (+ overlays and error bars)
to file or printer. Change to user specified coordinate system.
o Tricolor image combination and display, hardcopy halftone printout to
HP-PCL compatible printers (Laserjet, deskjet, etc.)
o Documentation is over 300 pages in custom vinyl binder.
Cost: 995 $USD/copy
Available from:
Axiom Research, Inc.
Box 44162
Tucson, AZ 85733
(602) 791-2864 phone/fax.
international marketing rep: Saguaro Scientific Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.
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End of Part 2 of the Resource Listing
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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 course I ended up paying list price but you do get a free copy of PC Exchange
when you order from the Apple Catalog. You may want to check if they have any
internal drives.
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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 fail. I say FPU on
main logic board, in socket, Ethernet alone on PDS card, in slot.
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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 do not distinguish between the various sects.
The more modest claim for "tongues" that it is simply
uncontrolled praise in which "words fail you" is surely the one
that should be used by those who make use of this practice.
I agree with the point that "Charismatic" practices like this
can lead to forms of worship which are more about the
worshipper showing off than genuine praise for God; one of the
things Jesus warned us about.
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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
result that human beings are not held responsible for their own
actions! i'll answer how you deal with this in a minute.
right. that doesn't really seem like predestination to me, but i'll
continue with what you're saying....
this is really confusing to me, especially since i still believe that
christ jesus died for ALL of us. preknowledge of obstinacy seems
like an awfully convoluted way to account for a couple of verses. but
then, i am not really biblically supported in this opinion -- or am i?
others?
so God uses grace like margarine: he only spreads it where it's needed
and not where it isn't? and so there are the saved and the not-saved,
and nothing in between. hmmmm.
although i realize this doctrine was not originally intended to cause
social problems, it ends up doing just that -- if there is supposed to
be some sort of "sign" that someone is elect, like lots of children or
success at work, then those who have a good life on earth will go
around thinking that those who don't are doomed to hell.
in a way, though, this sounds like the opposite idea -- those doomed
to hell will have a great life on earth. that's almost like the
converse of what i believe -- responsibility for what we do now will
be punished after we die. you're saying what we get after we die has
a direct bearing on how we live now? strange....
so sin is either punished now or later -- and not both? what if it's
sort of half-punished? are there any grey areas in this doctrine?
[my stuff deleted]
>We should stop the slaughter of the innocent (cf Proverbs 24.11-12), but
>does that mean that Christians should support a war in Bosnia with the
>U.S. or even the U.N. involved? I do not think so, but I am an
>isolationist, and disagree with foreign adventures in general. But in
>the case of Bosnia, I frankly see no excuse for us getting militarily
>involved, it would not be a "just war." "Blessed" after all, "are the
>peacemakers" was what Our Lord said, not the interventionists. Our
>actions in Bosnia must be for peace, and not for a war which is
>unrelated to anything to justify it for us.
the idea (well, my idea) would be that you would intervene to
establish peace and stop the atrocities. i'm not suggesting wwIII. i
don't really understand what you mean by a "just war". of course i am
not an isolationist, although i see some merit in not jumping in at
the first opportunity (can you say kuwait?). we happen to be a big
country with a lot of resources (as well as a lot of debt), and this
gives us some responsibility in the world, whether we like it or not.
flashbacks of wwII, as well as vietnam, should be haunting us.
yet another difference of opinion. so be it.
>Andy Byler
thank you for answering; i hope you don't take any of my comments as
flames, but instead as expressions of interest.
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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 no equivalent list for computers...)
This system is tailor-made for a MIDI musician. Details follow:
* Atari 1040 ST
TOS 1.0
1 MB RAM
720K floppy drive
* SupraDrive 20 Mb external SCSI drive, 18 months old
* 12" Atari monochrome monitor
* Generic 2400 baud external modem
* Software: All software is registered and comes with manuals.
Passport's Master Tracks Pro, Version 2.5 (sequencing software)
Dr. T's Copyist Professional (scoring software)
First Word (word processor - *not* the PD version)
Megamax's Laser C, Version 2.0 (programming language)
VIP Professional (spreadsheet package - low-tech Lotus clone)
Partner ST (desk accessory with integrated calendar, cardfile, etc.)
Migraph's Easy Draw (an early, pre-Postscript release)
NeoDesk (improved desktop for Atari ST)
Universal III (improved file selector for Atari ST)
Miscellaneous software (including Uniterm communications software)
I will consider all prices above $900. I am also willing to
trade the Atari system for a quality (386 or 486) PC, including lap-tops.
I own some PC hardware, so a complete system may not be necessary.
--
== John J. Ladasky II ("ii") ========================= ladasky@netcom.COM ==
"Great composers do not borrow - "Talking about music is like
they steal." - John Ladasky ~ - dancing about architecture."
(quote stolen from Stravinsky, who o o - Elvis Costello? Laurie
stole it from a statement made by > Anderson? Frank Zappa?
Pablo Picasso about painting, who \_/ -------------------------------
stole it from...) "Property is theft." - Groucho
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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 was deemed to be true and it sealed
| > the case for the doctrine.
|Bernadette was 14 years old when she had her visions, in 1858,
|four years after the dogma had been officially proclaimed by the
|Pope.
|
| Yours,
| James Kiefer
I forgot exactly what her age was but I remember clearly
that she was born in a family of poverty and she did not
have any education, whatsoever, at the age of the apparitions.
She suffered from asthma at that age and she and her family were
living in a prison cell of some sort.
She had to ask the 'Lady' several times in her apparitions about
what her name was since her confessor priest asked her to do so.
For several instances, the priest did not get an answer since
Bernadette did not receive any. One time, after several apparitions
passed, The Lady finally said, "I am the Immaculate Conception".
So, Bernadette, was so happy and repeated these words over and
over in her mind so as not to forget it before she told the
priest who was asking. So, when she told the priest, the
priest was shocked and asked Bernadette, "Do you know what
you are talking about?". Bernadette did not know what exactly
it meant but she was just too happy to have the answer for
the priest. The priest continued with, "How did you remember
this if you do not know?". Bernadette answered honestly that
she had to repeat it over and over in her mind while on her
way to the priest...
The priest knew about the dogma being four years old then.
But Bernadette did not know and yet she had the answer which
the priest finally observed and took as proof of an authentic
personal revelation of Our Lady to Bernadette.
(Note: This Lady of Lourdes shrine has a spring of water which
our lady requested Bernadette to dig up herself with her
bare hands in front of pilgrims. At the start little
water flowed but after several years there is more water
flowing.)
-Marida
"...spreading God's words through actions..."
-Mother Teresa
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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 Armenians. The genocide involved not only the killing of
innocents but their forcible deportation from the Russian Armenia.
They were persecuted, banished, and slaughtered while much of Ottoman
Army was engaged in World War I. The Genocide Treaty defines genocide
as acting with a
'specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group.'
History shows that the x-Soviet Armenian Government intended to eradicate
the Muslim population. 2.5 million Turks and Kurds were exterminated by the
Armenians. International diplomats in Ottoman Empire at the time - including
U.S. Ambassador Bristol - denounced the x-Soviet Armenian Government's policy
as a massacre of the Kurds, Turks, and Tartars. The blood-thirsty leaders of
the x-Soviet Armenian Government at the time personally involved in the
extermination of the Muslims. The Turkish genocide museums in Turkiye honor
those who died during the Turkish massacres perpetrated by the Armenians.
The eyewitness accounts and the historical documents established,
beyond any doubt, that the massacres against the Muslim people
during the war were planned and premeditated. The aim of the policy
was clearly the extermination of all Turks in x-Soviet Armenian
territories.
The Muslims of Van, Bitlis, Mus, Erzurum and Erzincan districts and
their wives and children have been taken to the mountains and killed.
The massacres in Trabzon, Tercan, Yozgat and Adana were organized and
perpetrated by the blood-thirsty leaders of the x-Soviet Armenian
Government.
The principal organizers of the slaughter of innocent Muslims were
Dro, Antranik, Armen Garo, Hamarosp, Daro Pastirmadjian, Keri,
Karakin, Haig Pajise-liantz and Silikian.
Source: "Bristol Papers", General Correspondence: Container #32 - Bristol
to Bradley Letter of September 14, 1920.
"I have it from absolute first-hand information that the Armenians in
the Caucasus attacked Tartar (Turkish) villages that are utterly
defenseless and bombarded these villages with artillery and they murder
the inhabitants, pillage the village and often burn the village."
Serdar Argic
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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
: creationist guy who made a lot of silly statements about
: evolution some time ago?
: Duh, gee, then we must be talking Christian mythology now. I
: was hoping to discuss something with a reasonable, logical
: person, but all you seem to have for your side is a repetition
: of the same boring mythology I've seen a thousand times before.
: I am deleting the rest of your remarks, unless I spot something
: that approaches an answer, because they are merely a repetition
: of some uninteresting doctrine or other and contain no thought
: at all.
: I have to congratulate you, though, Bill. You wouldn't
: know a logical argument if it bit you on the balls. Such
: a persistent lack of function in the face of repeated
: attempts to assist you in learning (which I have seen
: in this forum and others in the past) speaks of a talent
: that goes well beyond my own, meager abilities. I just don't
: seem to have that capacity for ignoring outside influences.
: Dean Kaflowitz
Dean,
Re-read your comments, do you think that merely characterizing an
argument is the same as refuting it? Do you think that ad hominum
attacks are sufficient to make any point other than you disapproval of
me? Do you have any contribution to make at all?
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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 what I'm using
(FWB HDT1.0 and 1.1) will be greatly appreciated!
-grey
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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 to live with the bad consequences in exchange for the fun.
Of course, this is *not* the same as claiming (as some do) that Galarraga's
inability to defer gratification isn't hurting his team because he "isn't
paid to walk" or "is an RBI guy" or whatever.
I'm not sure. I used to think this was true, but more and more I'm becoming
convinced that it's the other way around: among players with the physical
ability to hit the ball real hard, the patient ones are the ones who get the
chance to do it a lot.
Let's break down the four basic categories of hitter, according to whether
they are power threats and whether they walk a lot:
Power No Power
Patient Frank Thomas Brett Butler
Barry Bonds Ozzie Smith
Mark McGwire Craig Grebeck
Babe Ruth Miller Huggins
Ted Williams Billy Hamilton
Rickey Henderson Eddie Joost
Joe Morgan Mike Hargrove
. .
. .
. .
Impatient Ernie Banks Ozzie Guillen
Dave Kingman Shawon Dunston
Joe Carter Andres Thomas
George Bell Jose Lind
Kirby Puckett Devon White
etc.
As far as I can tell, all the categories are full. It really looks like the
two are independent. Nobody could possibly be *afraid* of Craig Grebeck at
the plate, and yet he walks quite a lot. Part of that, undoubtedly, is being
small of stature, but surely major league pitchers can hit that sort of
target at least 3 times out of 6. Randy Milligan is an even better example;
he's only shown noticeable power for one (partial) season, but he walks all
over the place, despite his huge strike zone.
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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 produces
great compression but at the expense of tremendous CPU loads. We want
something that can be run on ordinary workstations or even high-end PC's
without DSP cards. My guess is that some other algorithm is going to be
a better starting point.
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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, took girls from their
mothers and fathers and appropriated personal property and real estate.
And today, they put Azeris in the most unbearable conditions any other
nation had ever known in history.
Source: John Dewey: "The New Republic," Vol. 40, Nov. 12, 1928, pp. 268-9.
"They [Armenians] traitorously turned Turkish cities over to the Russian
invader; that they boasted of having raised an army of one hundred and
fifty thousand men to fight a civil war, and that they burned at least
a hundred Turkish villages and exterminated their population."
SOME OF THE REFERENCES FROM EMINENT AUTHORS IN THE FIELD OF MIDDLE-EASTERN
HISTORY AND EYEWITNESSES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 2.5 MILLION MUSLIMS
1. "The Armenian Revolutionary Movement" by Louise Nalbandian,
University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1975
2. "Diplomacy of Imperialism 1890-1902" by William I. Lenger, Professor
of History, Harward University, Boston, Alfred A. Knopt, New York, 1951
3. "Turkey in Europe" by Sir Charles Elliot,
Edward & Arnold, London, 1900
4. "The Chatnam House Version and Other Middle-Eastern Studies" by
Elie Kedouri, Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, 1972
5. "The Rising Crescent" by Ernest Jackh,
Farrar & Reinhart, Inc., New York & Toronto, 1944
6. "Spiritual and Political Evolutions in Islam" by Felix Valyi,
Mogan, Paul, Trench & Truebner & Co., London, 1925
7. "The Struggle for Power in Moslem Asia" by E. Alexander Powell,
The Century Co., New York, London, 1924
8. "Struggle for Transcaucasia" by Feruz Kazemzadeh,
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1951
9. "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey" (2 volumes) by
Stanford J. Shaw, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York,
Melbourne, 1977
10."The Western Question in Greece and Turkey" by Arnold J. Toynbee,
Constable & Co., Ltd., London, Bombay & Sydney, 1922
11."The Caliph's Last Heritage" by Sir Mark Sykes,
Macmillan & Co., London, 1915
12."Men Are Like That" by Leonard A. Hartill,
Bobbs Co., Indianapolis, 1928
13."Adventures in the Near East, 1918-22" by A. Rawlinson,
Dodd, Meade & Co., 1925
14."World Alive, A Personal Story" by Robert Dunn,
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1952
15."From Sardarapat to Serves and Lousanne" by Avetis Aharonian,
The Armenian Review Magazine, Volume 15 (Fall 1962) through 17
(Spring 1964)
16."Armenia on the Road to Independence" by Richard G. Hovanessian,
University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1967
17."The Rebirth of Turkey" by Clair Price,
Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923
18."Caucasian Battlefields" by W. B. Allen & Paul Muratoff,
Cambridge, 1953
19."Partition of Turkey" by Harry N. Howard,
H. Fertig, New York, 1966
20."The King-Crane Commission" by Harry N. Howard,
Beirut, 1963
21."United States Policy and Partition of Turkey" by Laurence Evans,
John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1965
22."British Documents Related to Turkish War of Independence" by Gothard
Jaeschke
1. Neside Kerem Demir, "Bir Sehid Anasina Tarihin Soyledikleri:
Turkiye'nin Ermeni Meselesi," Hulbe Basim ve Yayin T.A.S.,
Ankara, 1982. (Ingilizce Birinci Baski: 1980, "The Armenian
Question in Turkey")
2. Veysel Eroglu, "Ermeni Mezalimi," Sebil Yayinevi, Istanbul, 1978.
3. A. Alper Gazigiray, "Osmanlilardan Gunumuze Kadar Vesikalarla Ermeni
Teroru'nun Kaynaklari," Gozen Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1982.
4. Dr. Kirzioglu M. Fahrettin, "Kars Ili ve Cevresinde Ermeni Mezalimi,"
Kardes Matbaasi, Ankara, 1970.
T.C. Basbakanlik Osmanli Arsivi, Babiali, Istanbul:
a) Yildiz Esas Evraki
b) Yildiz Perakende
c) Irade Defterleri
d) Cemaat-i Gayr-i Muslime Defterleri
e) Meclisi Vukela Mazbatalari
f) Dahiliye Nezareti, Kalem-i Mahsus Dosyalari
g) Dahiliye Nezareti, Sifre Defterleri
h) Babiali Evrak Odasi: Siyasi Kartonlar
i) Babiali Evrak Odasi: Muhimme Kartonlari
T.C. Disisleri Bakanligi, Hazine-i Evrak, Defterdarlik
a) Harb-i Umumi
b) Muteferrik Kartonlar
British Archives:
a) Parliamentary Papers (Hansard): Commons/Lords
b) Foreign Office: Confidential Print: Various Collections
c) Foreign Office: 424/239-253: Turkey: Correspondence - Annual Reports
d) Foreign Office: 608
e) Foreign Office: 371, Political Intelligence: General Correspondence
f) Foreign Office: 800/240, Ryan Papers
g) Foreign Office: 800/151, Curzon Papers
h) Foreign Office: 839: The Eastern Conference: Lausanne. 53 files
India Office Records and Library, Blackfriars Road, London.
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Peace: 1918-1923"
b) L/P & S/10/1031, "Near East: Turkey and Greece: Lausanne Conference,
1921-1923"
c) L/P & S/11/154
d) L/P & S/11/1031
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Archives du ministere des Affaires entrangeres, Quai d'Orsay, Paris.
a) Documents Diplomatiques: Affaires Armeniens: 1895-1914 Collections
b) Guerre: 1914-1918: Turquie: Legion d'Orient.
c) Levant, 1918-1929: Armenie.
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Agreements, Minutes and Others
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(Gn. Kur., ATASE); "Askeri Tarih Belgeleri Dergisi," V. XXXI (81),
(Dec. 1982).
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(Istanbul, 1912).
Meray, S. L. (trans./ed.) "Lozan Baris Konferansi: Tutanaklar-Belgeler,"
(Ankara, 1978), 2 vols.
Meray, S. L./O. Olcay (ed.); "Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun Cokus Belgeleri;
Mondros Birakismasi, Sevr Andlasmasi, Ilgili Belgeler," (Ankara, 1977).
(Osmanli Devleti, Dahiliye Nezareti); "Aspirations et Agissements
Revolutionnaires des Comites Armeniens avant et apres la proclamation
de la Constitution Ottomane," (Istanbul, 1917).
----; "Ermeni Komitelerinin Amal ve Hareket-i Ihtilaliyesi: Ilan-i
Mesrutiyetten Evvel ve Sonra," (Istanbul, 1916).
----; "Idare-i Umumiye ve Vilayet Kanunu," (Istanbul, 1913).
----; "Muharrerat-i Umumiye Mecmuasi, V. I (Istanbul, 1914).
----; "Muharrerat-i Umumiye Mecmuasi, V. II (Istanbul, 1915).
----; "Muharrerat-i Umumiye Mecmuasi, V. III (Istanbul, 1916).
----; "Muharrerat-i Umumiye Mecmuasi, V. IV (Istanbul, 1917).
(Osmanli Devleti, Hariciye Nezareti); "Imtiyazat-i Ecnebiyye'nin
Lagvindan Dolayi Memurine Teblig Olunacak Talimatname," (Istanbul, 1915).
(Osmanli Devleti, Harbiye Nezareti); "Islam Ahalinin Ducar Olduklari
Mezalim Hakkinda Vesaike Mustenid Malumat," (Istanbul, 1919).
----; (IV. Ordu) "Aliye Divan-i Harbi Orfisinde Tedkik Olunan Mesele-yi
Siyasiye Hakkinda Izahat," (Istanbul, 1916).
Turkozu, H. K. (ed.); "Osmanli ve Sovyet Belgeleriyle Ermeni Mezalimi,"
(Ankara, 1982).
----; "Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi Gizli Celse Zabitlari," (Ankara, 1985),
4 vols.
Russia
Adamof, E. E. (ed.); "Sovyet Devlet Arsivi Belgeleriyle Anadolu'nun
Taksimi Plani," (tran. H. Rahmi, ed. H. Mutlucag), (Istanbul, 1972).
Altinay, A. R.; "Iki Komite - Iki Kital," (Istanbul, 1919).
----; "Kafkas Yollarinda Hatiralar ve Tahassusler," (Istanbul, 1919).
----; "Turkiye'de Katolik Propagandasi," Turk tarihi Encumeni Mecmuasi,
V. XIV/82-5 (Sept. 1924).
Asaf Muammer; "Harb ve Mesulleri," (Istanbul, 1918).
Akboy, C.; "Birinci Dunya Harbinde Turk Harbi, V. I: Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun
Siyasi ve Askeri Hazirliklari ve Harbe Girisi," (Gn. Kur., Ankara, 1970).
Akgun, S.; "General Harbord'un Anadolu Gezisi ve (Ermeni Meselesi'ne Dair)
Raporu: Kurtulus Savasi Baslangicinda," (Istanbul, 1981).
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Aksin, S.; "Jon Turkler ve Ittihad ve Terakki," (Istanbul, 1976).
Basar, Z. (ed.);"Ermenilerden Gorduklerimiz," (Ankara, 1974).
----; "Ermeniler Hakkinda Makaleler - Derlemeler," (Ankara, 1978).
Belen, F.; "Birinci Dunya Harbinde Turk Harbi," (Ankara, 1964).
Deliorman, A.; "Turklere Karsi Ermeni Komitecileri," (Istanbul, 1980).
Ege, N. N. (ed.); "Prens Sabahaddin: Hayati ve Ilmi Mudafaalari,"
(Istanbul, 1977).
Ercikan, A.; "Ermenilerin Bizans ve Osmanli Imparatorluklarindaki Rolleri,"
(Ankara, 1949).
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Ermeniler Sempozyumu," (Izmir, 1983).
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(Istanbul, 1976).
Karal, E. S.; "Osmanli Tarihi," V. V (1983, 4th ed.); V. VI (1976, 2nd ed.);
V. VII (1977, 2nd ed.); V. VIII (1983, 2nd ed.) Ankara.
Kurat, Y. T.; "Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun Paylasilmasi," (Ankara, 1976).
Orel, S./S. Yuca; "Ermenilerce Talat Pasa'ya Atfedilen Telgraflarin
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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 the seals.
Alejo Hausner (hausner@qucis.queensu.ca)
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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. Not only did it use steel and other metals, but it had
CJF> lots of wars (very OT). No one has ever found any metal swords or
CJF> and traces of a civilization other than the Native Americans.
I was talking to the head of the archeology dept. once in college and
the topic of Mormon archeology came up. It seems that the Mormon church
is (or was) big on giving grants to archeologists to prove that the
native Americans are really the lost tribe of Israel and other such
bunk. The archeologists would shake their head knowingly while listening
to them, take the grant, and go off to do real archeology anyway.
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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 my LC
and is there anyone out there that has done this, how do you like it?
Please respond here or to me directly.
Thanks for your time, hope to talk to anyone soon!
jerry salem
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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 hardware is something to worry about... if you get it working,
people will snap up internet phone cards like there was no tomorrow.
What we need here is a good implementation of CELP (the government code is
absolute crap, I got a 30% speedup after looking at it for a couple of hours),
and modifications to pgp to allow it to compress/decompress 144 bit frames
every 30msec... I think the AD21020 should have enough juice for this (50MIPS).
As part of the project I'm working on now, we're trying to get CELP up and
running in realtime full duplex mode... I gotta find the source to pgp and
see how tough it would be to integrate the en/decryption parts into the code.
I'll play with it. Anyone else out there got an AD21020 setup?
- Ed
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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,
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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.
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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 that they are not supported, funded, or
: overtly controlled by the government.
: --------------------------
Thats one problem that has so far been overlooked. These two escrow
agencies will have to create a secure database and service the
input and output of Keys. Who pays for this? If they refuse an
illegal request from some congressman to deliver a key can their
budget by cut to punish them? Will congress be forced to fund
them forever?
The problem is that laws can change. Congress may pass a law setting
up an escrow agency with instructions that keys are private. Some
future congress may change that law. Suppose pre-nazi Germany had
a clipper system. Do you think the escrow agencies would have
told Hitler that he could not have the keys without a valid
court order?
In effect you must set up escrow agencies as a fourth branch of
the goverment and isolate them from any outside interferance.
They will be able to directly tap into Federal funds with no
accountability to anyone except through a court challenge.
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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 that I stop sending encrypted email. Now there is almost no way
that some automatic scanner could have found this, since they wouldn't have
known about PGP - they *must* have checked for unknown data types in the
message, tried to unscramble it, found they couldn't get past the PEM
armour part, and then contacted the sysadmin and asked me to stop. Luckily
the current email carriers are less picky about what goes over their
networks :-).
In case people think email scanning doesn't take place, I can assure you
that it is done regularly by many sites - usually not by government
agencies (or at least not that I know of), but by local administrators who,
for reasons of their own, have decided to monitor all communications
(I'm sure you can all think of a whole mess of reasons - stop hackers/
terrorists/child pornographers/drug dealers/evil commies/whatever). There
have been several occasions when I've got people into trouble simply by
including the traditional NSA bait in a message (I don't try it any more
now :-). A friend of mine was once picked up for mentioning the name of
the UK town of Scunthorpe (hint: look for words embedded in it). I'm sure
there are many more examples of this happening (in fact if anyone has any
examples I'd appreciate hearing from them - I could use them as
ammunition during talks on privacy issues).
Peter.
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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 passages, but my Scots isn't quite
up to doing proper study from this edition - I tend to use it to get a
"feel" for a story, particularly in the gospels, and then use an
English edition to look for details.
Alison
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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 PUMPING NAPALM into the
Davidians home. You will have to have pretty damn strong evidence to
convince me of that.
I can believe mass suicide/murder by Koresh. I can believe an
accident by the Davidians. I can believe an accident by the FBI. I
can easily believe mass stupidity on all sides but I can not believe
that the FBI lit this fire intentionally. No way.
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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 this one palette colour. Ok you could do this by copying the 24 bit file to a
32 bit file and using the extra 8 bits to hold the index entry.
Having done this, you need to do something to them ... what, exactly?
Apply the difference in RGB between the original and modified palette entry to
each colour in the group? This could generate colours with RGB outside the range
0...255. It would also lead to discontinuities when different parts of a smooth
colour gradient mapped to several different palette entries.
You could interpolate from full modification to no modification depending how
far each colour was from the palette entry. However I suspect this would look
rather odd.
So in summary, what I said in my previous posting still holds:
In other words, to edit a 24 bit file you need software built for the job.
Tacking mods onto xv is going to create more problems than it solves.
As to the other bits - you seemed to be claiming that there were bugs in XV. If
that was not what you meant, then:
Yes, I probably did. I found that the collected digest format of your posting
made it a little difficult to understand precisely what your point was. Sorry
if I misunderstood.
Yes again. What *is* (was?) wrong with xv?
--
Chris Lilley
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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, Chevy was exceptional. I can see him as a Barraso style playoff
goalie: inconsistant when there's nothing on the line,
but comes up big when really needed. I guess we'll both find out.
Ron
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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.
Hans.
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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, between slow confirmations and
Clinton's Saturday Night Massacre, hasn't much of a staff in place).
If we really get lucky, both of the above will be too busy trying to
keep their feet from being held to the Waco fire to spend much effort
insisting on their alleged right to spy on the American people.
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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 overall voltage gain of
350-400. They are like new and guaranteed good. $20 postpaid,
schematic included. Please email me for more data.
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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.
> (victorf@seas.ucla.edu)
This is one of the trickiest problems w/ Win 3.1 ... Personally I run
Telix 3.2 for DOS under Windows just fine (and 've been waiting for the Win
version froever... :) ), but I have to admit I am the exception to the rule:
I have tried installing various DOS comm progs on friends' machines, most of
them w/ big problems... Some of the stuff you have to lookout for:
1) ALWAYS run the prog thru a .PIF, never by calling its .exe, 2) In the .PIF
_always_ toggle on _lock_application_memory_ --actually this is something
MS points out in the readme.wri file, and is especially critical for downloading
3) Go under Ctrl Panel/386 enh and check for _all_ your COM ports 'Alway Warn'
--it will help u w. debugging this thing and it's 'healthier' 4) Check where
are u running the mouse from - com port - 5) check the com port addresses from
your BIOS setup and from Ctrl Panel/Ports/(Setup?)/Advanced..
These might help u... If yu still have problems, get $100 and buy Procomm+Win..,
:) Hope it helps somehow...
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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 help them?
3) With all of the deseases we currently have that are deadly and undetectable,
what will be done to ensure that more new deadly deseases aren't brought
back, or that our deseases don't destroy life elsewhere?
--
Have a day,
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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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Symptom : Bar moving.
Fault : You are being carried out.
Solution : Find out if you are being taken to another bar - if not complain
loudly that you are being hi-jacked.
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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 shown to be pregnant; the soldier did
the honorable thing of marrying her. According to this story, they lived
happily ever after.
Perhaps the most famous of Mr. Rau's classes was the time he would come
into class brandishing an aluminum turning mandrel (tapering from about
3/8" to 1/2" over a 10 inch length). He would say, "Boys, do you know
what this is? It's a medical instrument called a 'cock reamer' and it's
used to unclog your penis when you have VD. They just ram it up there
without an anesthetic!" Needless to say this had a chilling effect.
I didn't have lascivious thoughts for at least an hour. Later in life
as I perused medical instrument catelogs and saw the slender flexible
urethral sounds that are actually used, I could not escape thinking
that I might one day see, "Reamer, Cock (style of Rau) ."
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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
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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 discovery was made via CAT scans.
She then had MRI scans done, where small cancerous areas were discovered
in her lungs. Biopsies showed it to be adenocarcinoma. One spot is
in the lungs, and another in the pneumothorax. The oncologists believe
the cancer started in the lungs and caused the brain tumor (she smoked
until four years ago).
Anyway, I'd like feedback as to what adenocarcinoma is, how it is different
from other cancers, how she will be treated (luckily the tumor is right
below the skull and can be easily removed), and statistically what are
the chances for full remission/recovery?
Thanks.
Jon Noring
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club.
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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. You pay extra for the additional functinality and expandability
of a PC. For home user, that extra functionality is worth the added cost.
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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 now coming standard on the 93 bikes (K1100RS, K1100LT, etc).
it's also my understanding that the heater resides _inside_ the bar
itself so if anything I would suspect it would reduce vibration by
providing more bar end mass.
I don't see why they wouldn't work with the old style foam grips aside
from the fact that it might cause the foam to deteriorate or something.
hard to belive considering they do fine in the 100+ degree texas summers.
'course, I don't actually have them so you can save your flames.
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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.
Great! Circuit diagrams etc for building an electronuc compass
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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?
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Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
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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.
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-- bkilgore
Thus spake the master programmer:
"After three days without programming,
life becomes meaningless."
- Geoffrey James "The Tao of Programming"
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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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