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1,500	## Don't forget that 25% had 20 or more partners.... # #Not surprising. Remember, that study includes homosexuals as well. Err, earth to Clayton, you posted this to show that 2% were homosexual. So if we assume EVERY homosexual was promiscious, that leads us to conclude that 23 percent of heterosexuals are promiscious. And that first assumtion is a bad one. Clayton, it IS suprising from the claims you are making.	13
1,501	I was one of the unfortunate people to run into this guy. I sent him $30 cash (Stupid, I know) for 4 CDs. That was the last I heard of him. I know there were some other people ripped off by this guy. Has there been any advances in tracking him down?	1
1,502	The other week I saw a TV program about the american space industry and NASA. It said that in the 60's they developed a rocket that used ions or nuclear particles for propolsion. The government however, didn't give them $1billion for the developement of a full scale rocket. Did anybody see this program? If not, has anybody heard of the particle propolsion system? Thanx. 8-)	12
1,503	[stuff deleted] ^^^ I think you mean HCI here. [snip] Joe	19
1,504	The April 1993 edition of MIX Magazine carries a story on 3DO which includes pictures of the unit, a schematic of what's inside and some indication from the people at 3DO as to where they intend to go and in what stages. (MIX is a trade rag aimed at the professional sound engineering community.) The schematic shows a central DMA Engine connecting and mediating between two Graphics Animation processors (32 bit bus), a 32-bit RISC processor with math co-processor, Video Decomp module, a control port, an expansion port (where 3DO hangs its double-fast CD player), 1Mb DRAM, an optional video port (for editing video) and on the outbound side 1MB VRAM to Video Processor to TV chain parallel with a DSP to sound chain. They promise Red Book CD-quality audio, full 30 fps video and a future connection path to your PC via a PC expansion card. I am not informed enough to have an opinion about the various means and methods discussed here. The article, written by Philip De Lancie, does cover the other machines mentioned in this thread. I come from the PC TCP/IP world and see a tremendous potential for bringing connectedness to the educated consumer; 3DO seems to have the right business partners to make this happen. Hope this helps.	7
1,505	I have a SPARC-2 with 2 CGSIX cards in it. I'd like to have the R5 server recognize the second card. I mknod created a /dev/cgsix1 device, but when I brought up the server, the second device was ignored. How do I setup the second card? Note: If I borrow a cgthree card, and put a cgthree and a cgsix card in the same SPARC-2 box, the R5 server finds the second card. I then set the DISPLAY to the second card, and start a second window manager. Worse case is I trade cards with someone, but maybe someone out there has seen this problem already... email is preferred... post if you must... Thanks in advance.... Jim	6
1,506	I need info regarding a miniscribe 3.5" half-height drive. There is a sticker on it with the following, MODEL HDA PCBA UNIQUE TDA 8425F 09AA 03AB 03AA - But the sticker on the biggest chip on the MFM interface has this, MODEL PCBA TDA FXX 03AB What is the spec of the drive (# of cyl, heads, etc)? How fast is this drive? Can I use it as a RLL drive? I also have a SCSI interface that seems to match all the connectors for this drive. It has this description, MODEL PCBA E-P TDA AXX 01A 29A Can I replace the MFM interface by the SCSI interface and use the drive as a SCSI drive? What would the drive size be? There is a set of jumpers on the SCSI interface with "6SEL" besides it. What is the use of it?	5
1,507	1. Don't hold your finger on it 2. When cooking with it use a very small pan and be sure to not spill liquids on the components 3. If you do not plan to cook with it there are a number of small cooling fans designed to mount on the chip and plug into your power supply. Look in Consumer Shoppers.	5
1,508	Can somebody send me a copy of this faq? Thanks alot!	6
1,509	Hi! We have an old Montage FR-1 35mm film recorder. When connected to a PC with its processor card it can directly take HPGL, Targa and Lasergraphics Language files. 24 bit Targa is quite OK for raster images, but conversion from whatever one happens to have can be quite slow. This Lasergraphics Language seems to be (got the source file for one test image) a vector-based language that can handle one million colors. It does some polygons too, and perhaps something else ? The question is, where can I find some information about this language ? A FTP site, a book, a company address,.... ? (OK, it would be nice to have a Windows driver for it, but I'm not THAT optimistic...) Thanks in advance for any help! jussi	7
1,510	Even better. Make up pete conrad in a Martian Suit, and have him get ou;t and throw a football to the refs.	12
1,511	Hi there, I have a problem here, I've lost the software drivers and setup programs for my Hardcard. Can someone email me the files, or let me know if Plus Development (were they bought out by Quantum?) has a BBS or phone #? I have a Hardcard II XL50.	5
1,512	The people involved in it have been building hardware rather than writing press releases. This is not a high-manpower project; they don't have spare people sitting around. As I understand it, there has also been some feeling on the part of some of the project management that publicity was not a good idea. A lot of people have been working on changing this view, with some success.	12
1,513	Will someone who can 'see' the X-Face included in this header please reply and tell me if it turned out okay? I'm not all too sure about my viewing software. I hand-converted this thing in "vi" from a Sun rasterfile... what a pain! For folks who haven't the slightest, it went like this: ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Make Your Own X-Face: in 0x000F Easy Steps! 1. Scan my Drivers' License into a .PCX file. 2. Use WinGIF to 'trim' my face out of the license, 'reduce' it by half, and convert it to .BMP. 3. Use Paintbrush to touch up manually. 4. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half again. 5. Use Paintbrush to touch up again. 6. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half again and convert it to .GIF. [now over to the UNIX side...] 7. Use Snapshot to convert the .GIF to a Sun rasterfile. 8. Use IconEdit to touch it up and convert it to an X bitmap. 9. Use "vi" (yes, a text editor) to manually convert the rasterfile into the "Uncompressed X-Face" format. (Lots of global "ed" commands, and by the time you're done you'll mirror hex bytewise in your sleep!!) [now over to the Linux side...] A. Use "compface" to convert it to what you see here: %:A<m@Dob}BO"'E",EEQGbn7qy(En7aS5U([k//"G{6^HIbY9X8~+PD($}6szF"&vVxCXSn 8mw^0G#nVHE%W,`X"[j0s{r.~%zs:O\|HFU=LwzYgH B. Try viewing it by whatever means you have available. C. Go back to step 9, but do it right this time.	6
1,514	hahahahahahahahahahaha - thanks for that, I haven't laughed so much in ages!	4
1,515	"CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS" by: Hank Hanegraaff "Controversy for the sake of controversy is a sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command." -Dr. Walter Martin Dr. Walter Martin personally selected Hank Hanegraaff to succeed him as President of the Christian Research Institute -- the largest evangelical counter-cult organization in the world. In this skillful, careful treatment of an explosive subject, Hanegraaff documents and examines how the beliefs of the Word of Faith movement clearly compromises and confuse the essentials of the historic Christian faith. For the first time ever, this large and influential movement is legitimately labeled as cultic. In this book, Hanegraaff discusses such leaders of the Word of Faith movement as E.W. Kenyon and the Twelve Apostles of "another gospel" (Gal 1:6-9) (Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Frederick K.C. Price, John Avanzini, Robert Tilton, Marilyn Hickey, Paul (David) Yonggi Cho, Charles Capps, Jerry Savelle, Morris Cerullo, and Paul and Jan Crouch). The book is now available through Harvest House Publishers and should be in most Christian Book Stores soon. You can order a hard-back copy through CRI for $14.99 by calling 1-800-443-9797 and avoid retail mark-ups. The Christian Research Journal, which is a quarterly publication by CRI has an article in it's most recent issue just released called, "What's Wrong With The Word Faith Movement?" This is a good article that will inform you of each of the teachers above, and tide you over until your book arrives. If you are interested in receiving the Journal yourself, you can order it from CRI at the number above for $14 a year. It is the best source of the most-accurate and well-researched info in Christiandom today.	18
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1,517	I did. You're mistaken. NSA's communications intelligence mission is strictly against foreign governments. Here's an excerpt from the enabling charter (24 Oct 52, Truman) that should clarify this. The charter was declassified in about Feb 1990 when an FOIA request made it public. Mind you, I don't know that they never collect anything they're not supposed to... but spying on US citizens isn't in their charter. b. The COMINT mission of the National Security Agency (NSA) shall be to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto. As used in this directive, the terms "communications intelligence" or "COMINT" shall be construed to mean all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications other than foreign press and propaganda broadcasts and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than intended recipients, but shall exclude censorship and the production and dissemination of finished intelligence. They're also tasked with protecting the US's communications, but I haven't seen the specific enabling memo on that. I assume that's the role under which Skipjack was developed. NSA is not in the standard-setting business, though -- that's why this Clipper stuff came from NIST, which I believe is tasked with coming up with standards based on their best inputs from other government agencies, which would include NSA.	3
1,518	Baloney. Either the programmer or the people who decided to let their actions be governed by the program are clearly at fault. If you neglect to do maintenance on your car, and the steering goes out, you _are_ responsible for the death of all those kids on the sidewalk your car subsequently drives over "on its own".	8
1,519	Though this will be addressed in the series of articles I'm posting now under "ARESNOKOITIA", I can't wait. This just really blew my socks off. Read I Tim 1: 3-11. Verses 3-8 speaks against those who have perverted the teachings of the Mosaic Law. In vv.9-10, we have, IN ORDER, the 5th thru the 9th commandments and in the midst of this listing is "homosexuals." The decalogue, above everything else, is seen as God's absolute. If you don't believe in absolutes, then you have nothing do do with Jehovah of the OT, which Paul reveals to be the Messiah of the NT. "Lord Christ Jesus" transliterates to read "Jehovah's Anointed Savior." In I Cor5, we see the same emphasis of moral separation from the pagan gentiles as we do in Lev 18-20. In I Cor 6:9-10, only one notation (drunkards) is not found in Lev 18-20. Paul was not naive in his use of the LXX. He knew full well how he was using the Law of God that was given in the OT, for application in the NT. As I've said, the Law was fulfilled, not done away with. This understanding is thoroughly rebutted in DeYoungs article that is being posted. Please refer to it. We can do better than "probably" which is not an adequate defense against the statement that Paul's culture didn't have the same understanding of homosexuality as ours. Again read the article because it uses facts. I think I do, because I have worked in the homosexual community by means of working with AIDs patients. The pastoral is merely the practical application of the theological truth however. Those who are working thru the issue of homosexuality need to have our love and understanding just as with a friend who is contiplating cheating on his wife or a friend who lives with his girlfriend, yet you continue to witness to him. But, once the choice is made, and there is no remorse, then I feel that Paul's "pastoral" care, as presented in the Corinthian Church, come to bear significance. THe one in active rebellion should be placed outside of the church if a believer, and if a non-believer, then one wipes his sandels and leaves it in Gods hand. If there was a member in your youth group who was constantly pawing at the little girls, you wouldn't hesitate to deal with the matter quickly and decisivly. That, in part, betrays the present "political correctness" of the issue. Pederasty is not accepted at the present, but some how we are to accept homosexuality because the latter is politically correct, while the former is not -at least not yet. THis is how the morals decay. I guess this would follow the liberal application in the political realm of economics. The liberals want to tax the rich in the federal, yet in their own states, when they try to get businesses to settle there, they give tax incentives to these same richies. It comes down to a moral code of relativeness, or to use the cultural thing, politically correct -at the moment. --Rex	18
1,520	What about disks? Won't it erase them if you're carrying them in the bag?	0
1,521	Jeremiah: 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.	8
1,522	hi netters, I'm doing a project which is about image analysis. Firstly, I have to find out any restrictions or limitations on the colour display on various kind of workstations, they are DECstation, HP, Amiga, Apollo. Secondly, I read from some graphic texts that image is displayed in 24 bites(please point out to me if I got it wrong). But, the images which I will deal with are displayed in 16 bites by the software they are using currently. So, will there be any problems to display them under X-windows in the future? Because we are thinking to implement the GUI by X-windows for our project Is there any person here can help me to solve the problem or query above? Or, give me some advice or suggestion where I can find them out. Please send me an e-mail if there are any. Thanks in advance. Yours Christine Chan	7
1,523	Have there ever been any other no-hitters in Mariner history?	11
1,524	This homeopathic remedies. I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops three times a day. I didn't notice any change whats so ever. How long were you using the drops before you noticed a difference?	9
1,525	I am planning on buying a modem and related software. What are some good products out there that won't cost me a lot of money but will still do the job? Any help will be appreciated. I am looking for something in the 2400 baud area. Kenneth --	10
1,526	Pete-- That was uncalled for. I'm sure Andi Beyer or whatever his name is was a product of his environment before he came to school, and is enjoying the mantle of THE UNIVERSITY to make his viewpoint seem legitimate (well-reasoned). I'm at Virginia, too, and I think maligning UVA is in poor taste, even if Beyer did slip in here.	2
1,527	This is kind of interesting. I always assumed that the 240SX was named because of the 2.4 liter engine which it uses. Likewise for the 200SX which uses a 2.0 liter engine. Isn't this true?	4
1,528	Seagate ST-212, HH, 10MB, $25 IBM, FH, 30MB, $70 They all are MFM type and in good working condition. Buyers pay shipping.	1
1,529	'63 to '82 vettes had the same basic chassis. 1980 add aluminum (weaker) rear 'axle' housing. All these years used same brakes, similar springs etc Late 70's was a bad year for GM reliability. Catastrophic converter was added in 1975. Cheapest corvette '78 to '79 low end about 4k tops out about $12k except for those morooons that think there '78 indy / 25th aniversity vette is special. These guys have been known to ask 25K. I don't think they get it . Best buy: convertables 69 - 74. I got my 69 for 5K - needs body work but I'm willing. Parts for all are readily avail at swap meets and mail order etc. V-8 reliability / looks / independant suspension / 4 wheel disk and all under 10K. And they thought a miata was a good deal. My origional inquires to my insurance agent: I can drive my '69 convertable for 3000 miles or less per year, I must keep it in a locked garage and it will cost me 2% of the stated value per year (does this sound right?). Get an appraiser to look at the car. He will check serial numbers and look for origional equipe. Depending on what mods have been done the car could be worth only 10K. Problems like wrong engine / trans. Wrong paint type ( vetts used lacquer) An modification would reduce tthe value. But your looking for a car to drive right? This sounds like a ball park price for a small-block (327 cu in.) / manual / no air car. A 427 would put it closer to $30K.	4
1,530	I have the following CD's for sale for $5 each plus shipping Body Count - (without "Cop Killer") Yo! MTV Raps (volume 1) Skid Row (1st album) Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbours Temple of the Dog C + C Music Factory - gonna make you sweat IBM PC games - Eye of the Beholder 2 with cluebook - $25 Pools of Darkness - $18 Jet Fighter 2 - $18 Books - Ancient Egypt, a Social History (retail $26, will sell for $8) Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (hardcover, 283 pages) - $18 Encyclopedia of Physics (hardcover, 1371 pages, 1990) - $25 + shipping also on books and games	1
1,531	Jonathan, interesting questions. Some wonder whether or not the moon could have ever supported an atmosphere. I'd be interested in knowing what our geology/environmental sciences friends think. As for human tolerances, the best example of human endurance in terms of altitude (i.e. low atmospheric pressure and lower oxygen partial pressure) is in my opinion to the scaling of Mt. Everest without oxygen assistance. This was accomplished by a team of mountaineers who trained at high altitudes for quite awhile (I think a few months) and then were flown by helicopter from that training altitude to the equivalent altitude on Mount Everest, where they began the ascent of our planet's highest peak without oxygen tanks. This is quite a feat of physiological endurance, because if you or I tried to go to 20,000 feet and exert ourselves, we would probably pass out, get altitude sick, and could even die from cerebral edema. So this is the limit of low pressure. High pressure situations would be limited by the duration of time which it takes to slowly acclimate to a higher pressure. Skin divers would know alot about high pressure situations and could tell you about how they safely make deep dives without getting the bends. Some military experiments have put people under several atmospheres of pressure (not sure what the high limit was because the papers aren't in front of me). Usually at a certain point, the nitrogen in the air becomes toxic to the body and you start acting idiotic. Divers call this nitrogen narcosis. Those afflicted can do very dangerous and irrational things, like taking off a diving mask and oxygen tank in order to talk to fish at 100 feet under water. (Hope any diving folk can elaborate on this matter, as I am not a diving expert). Mars cannot support human life without pressurization because the atmosphere is too thin (1/100 th our Earth's atmospheric density). In addition, the Mars atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. Basically, you would need a pressure suit there, or you'd die from the low pressure. Interesting huh?	12
1,532	I'm sure there are many people who work with neural networks and read this newsgroup. Please tell Kevin what you've achieved, and what you expect. Indeed. I think dualism is a non-solution, or, as Dennett recently put it, a dead horse. Petri	14
1,533	Dave, What i recall from air craft maintence. Torqque and safety wires or cotters were more important, then if some bolt face were nicked up. If it was in bad shape you replaced it with another $30, aircraft grade bolt. I can see adjustable spanners eating up profit, but lives?	12
1,534	Well, let me see if I can explain it. It's similar to collecting coins, or stamps, or campaign buttons, or coke bottles, or juke boxes, or model trains, or just about anything else that is collected (and just about everything is collected). In all cases, you might consider it something of an aberration; I mean, what purpose does it serve? Not much really; it's just a hobby. The collector yearns for diversity (not much use in having TWO of the same thing, except for trading/selling it), historical significance (this was the thingy used by so-and-so), technical significance (this is the only one that does such-and-such like this; this is the first one to do it this way), rarity, and so on. Some people use their collections, other people do not. As you state, you use your collection. In one sense, this diminishes the value of your collection as the items suffer wear and exposure. In another sense, it can enhance your own enjoyment of your collection. Some people collect firearms that they do not use; other people use some or all of the firearms they collect. It's just personal preference. Oops, 'personal preference' ... I guess we're not supposed to have that any more, are we?	8
1,535	But of course it does. It's certainly a legal matter. If it's not a legal matter that interest you you may simply put it in your kill file.	19
1,536	HONDA ACCORD FOR SALE ===================== - 4 Dr, Steel Grey, 1984 Honda Accord. - ~ 139K miles - 5 speed (manual) gives around 30mpg - Brand new clutch (installed last month) - Original owner - AM/FM (Cassette doesn't work), A/C, Cruise Control - $2500/b.o - Runs great. Reason for selling: Recently purchased a new car	1
1,537	I read about a SuperTrapp system called E.A.R that was supposed to be quiet enough to pass some European standards. Apparently it's not on the market yet... Yoshimura makes a few systems that are supposed to be "kind of" quiet. They are also really light. I'm planning on getting one of these systems soon, and will post the results. - Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark S. Burnham (markb@wc.novell.com) AMA#668966 DoD#0747 Alfa Romeo GTV-6 '90 Ninja 750	0
1,538	I'm sure you are not. After the "San Francisco" Earthquake a couple of years ago, there was a flurry of traffic on talk.religion.misc about how this was the result of the notorious homo- this that and t'other in the City. The fact that the Earthquake was actually down the road in Santa Cruz/Watsonville didn't seem to phase them any.	14
1,539	930425 Rome was under attack by barbarians, they sent for advice to some Oracle, and she said Worship Cybele and you'll be saved. They did, they were. Cybele was the quintessential wiccan goddess, there was Her and her son & lover, Attis. Yucky idea if you ask me. OK the book says she was Phrygian, from the neolithic matriarchal society Catal Huyuk (Turkey). Worshipped 1st as Black Stone (that Kaaba in Mecca ring a bell maybe????) Carried to Rome in 205BC to save them from Hannibal. Response: Is there some relation between the name 'Cybele' and the phenemenon of the 'sibyl'? Your paragraph above seems to indicate there might be. My understanding is that Islam was founded on the remains of a goddess cult or two. Many Muslims would not like to hear that. ;> You: It gets more interesting. Romans called her Great Mother (Magna Mater), could be the reason why so many of those Mary statues in Europe are black, prob. IS connected to that Ka'aba they've got in Mecca, 3rd cent. AD She was supreme Goddess in Lyons, France . . . Attis was castrated and formed into a pine tree . . . she should be worshiped on 25 Mar . . . in Rome it was an ecstatic cult, her priests wore drag, worked themselves up in dance and castrated themselves in order to initiate to her, lived their lives as women. They wore make up and jewelry and the whole bit. Only other such primitive transsexualism I know of goes on in India (where else?) where they do that castration thing under some meditation maybe, I forget by now...there's a book on that.) Of course, that excepts that weird Russian / Romanian 18th cent. Xian cult that did all kinds of self-castration too, I forget their name. Response: I'd love to get details or references on any of the above. My own exploration of this issue has only extended to a brief examination of the Zuni 'berdache'. _The Zuni Man-Woman_, by Will Roscoe, University of New Mexico Press, 1991 probably has some interesting things to say about them. I've yet to procure it. Any details or references on: Ecstatic cults in Rome, India, Russia/Romania (Christian too?) which exhibit any type of transsexualism or transvestitism, male OR female (though I expect mostly the former will be found ;>). Thanks for your interesting posts, Charles. :>	8
1,540	Hi there, I'm looking for help on hi-rez CGA modes (hey, i know it sounds crazy but at the moment it's got to do). My card's manual says it does something like 640 by 400 2 colour and 640 by 200 4 colour (the card has 64k memory). Could anyone give me some help on how to implement these modes (Assembly language is fine). Any other usefull tips on the CGA regs will also help. Thanx in advance... Frans. My eMail is	7
1,541	It will be ironic in the extreme if Spector manages to uncover a government conspiracy and cover-up in this case. Maybe he'll posit a Magic Grenade that lit fires in three wings of the building at once.	13
1,542	Heh, someone mentioned Tommy Soderstrom (Flyers) for the besk mask poll too (in the mentioned below part). All he has is a plain white helmet with a big cage. I found this pretty amusing. -John Santore Philadelphia Flyers in '93-'94! ============================================================================= ____________________ / \ "We break the surface tension \_________ ____ \ with our wild kinetic dreams" / / \ \ -Rush, Grand Designs \_______ / (*) ) ) / / /\___/ / Go Philadelphia Flyers! \_____ / / / / / \_______/ John Santore (jsbh@andrew.cmu.edu) \________/	16
1,543	You don't, and never had to. That's what enhanced shells are for. Remember 4DOS and NDOS? I mean, come on, you can't expect DOS to cover everything from R1.0. Microsoft has other projects to work on. I don't think they deliberately crippled the project. On the other hand, it IS a technical achievement for what it does considering that it rides on top of DOS. I mean, you get a GUI with reasonable speed on a PC. With XWindows running on top of Linux or something similar you're still gonna need a fast processor. [Re: DOS's death] Except for the people who use DOS programs, which means about 75% or more of the business world.	17
1,544	Being a a BLUES fan I don't get to see much else from around the league with the exception of Hockey Night on ESPN. I can't get the BLUES games where I go to school, thus I don't get to see a whole lot of other teams play except for the Hawks. But last night I got to catch a glimpse of the Caps/Isles game. It occurred to me that Turgeon is a stud on skates. His moves are quick and brilliant. You NY fans should be proud. P.S. Who won the game (Caps/Isles)?	16
1,545	Jason - I've heard the people who are talking about this dismissed as conspiracy nuts, but nobody seems to be talking about a conspiracy, at least at the beginning. There were a lot of bad decisions that went into this tragedy, and some people may now be taking some serious evasive action to avoid being held responsible for the unexpected results of those bad decisions. Actually, the only ones I see that are tied into a conspiracy theory are the ones raving about deranged cultists with stockpiles of weapons and suicide pacts. I think there are a lot of us that have been following this pretty closely from the beginning, and we woud probably agree that this tragedy was more the result of stupidity than malice.	19
1,546	I think a few things are being missed overall here... First of all, anyone with a DOS manual can copy a disk, or copy anything (hidden files dont go far if you are dealing with anyone who is not comletely DOS ignorant) off of a hard disk. 'Professional' crackers aren;t interested in copying disks. They are programmers who get some thrill out of going through unassembly listings of programs to disable copy protection such as serial number dialog boxes, volume label checks, and who knows what when it comes to computer games. Those people are in the minority, however. In my experience with the world of people and software, it seems that a good majority of people (say 80%) will at some point copy a friend's program ("Gee, you really oughta try this") or accept a copy. These are people who normally would buy a software package or do without, but decided that just once it wouldn't matter. The last thing is people who own or are responsible for more than one computer; most people aren't going to spend $150 * X# of computers for the same software package.. they will just install it x# of times, especially things like DOS upgrades.	15
1,547	How about changing team names! Post your choices! Here I'll start: How about the Baltimore Baseblazers San Francisco Quakes	11
1,548	Personally, I'll be blasphemous and say that if Microsoft keeps doing what it does so well, I hope to see much harsher/stricter copyright and patent laws for computer algorithms, concepts, interfaces, and other intellectual properties to protect real innovators. I'd hate to be one who actually does innovate, and then have Microsoft come in like a huge vulture and use their brute mass (development staff, marketing, etc) to get fat off of my innovation. I don't have all that much sympathy for Apple's complaint against Microsoft, since they just took the ideas from Xerox's PA Research Center when the Federal government forced Xerox to disclose their patents over antitrust fears. However, for other companies and individuals who have a great idea, yet get it "borrowed" by larger corporations who can afford to quickly bring it to market, without any licensing from the original innovator, I feel much sympathy. Larry	17
1,549	: I heard about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Now, how is it such a grave : mistake to sell Saudi Arabia weapons? Or are you claiming that we shouldn't : sell any weapons to other countries? Straightforward answer please. Saudi Arabia is an oppressive regime that has been recently interfering in the politcs of newly renunified Yemen, including assasinations and border incursions. It is entirely possible that they will soon invade. Unluckily for Yemen it is not popular in the West as they managed to put aside political differences during reunification and thus the West has effectively lost one half (North?) as a client state.	14
1,550	There was a guy around here who would do them on an early pre fairing Wing with a Hannigan. He would get it right up and ride a ways. Pretty intimidating sight. He was real good. He had to be. I guess you wouldn't get away with chopping the throttle more than once. __ Jorg Klinger \| GSXR1100 \| If you only new who Arch. & Eng. Services \|"Lost Horizons" CR500 \| I think I am. UManitoba, Man. Ca. \|"The Embalmer" IT175 \| - anonymous	0
1,551	It will certainly help to be able to run Windows and Dos apps but the only way that Solaris or OS/2 or any other scheme is going to challenge Microsoft is if they can somehow get the prices for Solaris or OS/2 or whatever apps, down to a DOS competitive level. Everybody would rather run a Solaris app on a Solaris system and an OS/2 app on an OS/2 system, they usually just can't afford a Unix system because of the high prices for good Unix software.	17
1,552	See xwd, xpr. Even better, grab xdump from ftp.cs.uwm.edu. It makes use of these programs as well, but has a much nicer interface (and can do more). You can dump to PostScript, bitmaps, etc.	6
1,553	As I recall from Kieth Hernandez' 'auto'biography, Rusty is a devout Roman Catholic. Kieth and Rusty would carpool to Shea everyday but Sunday, when Rusty would go to mass. SC	11
1,554	Try coming up with your own definition of any or all "self-hating" peoples. To me, any who reject their culture to the point where they only see the absolute negatives of that culture (generally, or regarding a particular event) and accept only those views purely opposing aspects of that culture (thus, selective belief in and use of historical facts and a complete ignoring of "context" results) "hate" their culture. That certainly describes Elias, since he has no intention of recognizing that, alongside the Palestinian experience and perspective, there exists also that of Israelis. And, this is precisely why Israeli society has been tremendously harmed by the actions it (its government) has felt it had to take in response to an "other" perceived as a threat. Just as with you, there has long been a strident and emotional debate about the pain Israelis feel when forced to "balance" desires for survival and moral beliefs. The trauma of having to make that choice is made worse by the fact that neither can be conveniently brushed aside (as a result of a reasoned political debate) for the sake of the other, only reshaped.	2
1,555	If you want slow LED flash rates, adjustable by switches (or by a 4066/4016 digitally controlled switch), I suggest looking at a 555 oscillator chip. They cost ~$1 at Radio Shack (much cheaper in quantity at quality places), and you will be able to find good info about simple circuits in a 555 oscialltor notebook (I think Forest Mims has one at Radio Shack). You'll have to toy with resistor/capacitor values OR you can use your head with a little math to get the right frequencies. Any engineer worth his salt, can make a 555 osciallator... It's in the book, and left up to you to see (I hate doing ASCII circuit graphics). The 555 can accurately go from a few Hz to about 500 KHz (I think). About the Tape Recorder gizmo, you could alter a stereo tape deck to use one channel as a DATA line (for flashing LED), and one as audio line (for voice or music). This would eliminate a lot of noise. The data line is probably most easily done by some kind of PLL or bandpass filter (using just an op-amp). The 565 chip is a good PLL, and not hard to work with. However if you nothing about how a PLL works, I suggest you don't try this. Op-Amp information can also be found in the Forest Mims Radio Shack info-booklets, and the popular 741 op-amp is a snap to work with. Setting frequency and bandpass filter values are not so easy, so I would suggest the 555 method firstmost... I have no idea what this is going into, so I am really generalizing... As for manufacturing techniques, if you're only goofing with it, I suggest you breadboard the thing... No need to solder. Wire-wrap would be the next, more permanent step. And lastly, soldering/PCB making. Hope that clears things......	15
1,556	What does this bill do? McD	19
1,557	I badly need a pair of SEGA 3D glasses for a cheap VR setup. If you have a set and want to part with it, I can arrange shipping, etc.., and duty if necessary. Leave e-mail to: davecru@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca or call (403) 459-2893 ask for DJ.	1
1,558	A friend and I have ATI Graphic Ultra display adaptors, and they have been reasonably good performers, but we both have had irritating compatibility problems with the ATI drivers and are ready to change to something faster and more compatible with windows. I have heard rumblings that the new Orchid 9000 card is very fast. Anyone have experience with this card? What is currently available that is fast, compatible, does 1280x1024x256 non- interlaced and cost under $500? Ken Keirnan --	17
1,559	Like it or not stock prices and sales of a particular product ARE measures of success. They can be measures of short term or long term success. I think in MS case they are a good measure of their long term success. The original post mentioned how it seems on this group that there are a large number of people attacking MS and not willing to accept anything positive about MS. I was trying to make a point that the attacks are over emphasized and to look at the sales of MS products they definitely tell a different story.	17
1,560	Why bother with a new newsgroup? If you want to discuss the subject, start discussing it. If there is enough traffic to annoy the rest of us, we will let you know... and then it will be time for a new newsgroup.	12
1,561	Can I view JPEG files without special hardware?	7
1,562	This happens intermittently to Macs in our department, ranging from IIsi's to a Quadra 950. I can end the slowdown immediately by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the Mac. It seems that something on the network puts out these packet storms every few days. These storms have the effect of making our Macs slow down to a crawl. David Gutierrez drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu	10
1,563	I'm told that I can replace the colorful windows logo that appears as windows invokes with a graphic of my choosing. The challange is that the image must be in 'RLE' format. I've got GIF's, PIC's, JPG's, TIF's, etc... everything but RLE's! What's the best route to converting these things? What program should I download, and from where? Has anybody else done this, and do you have the steps available?	17
1,564	Where did that idea come from? It's news to me.	12
1,565	This is very curious being that they are both built by Mercury in the very same factory. Steve	4
1,566	I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this pin arrangement look familiar to anyone out there??? Any hints on where I can find this information? 1 10 "speaker" . . . . . . . . . . "keylock" . . . . . . . . . . 11 ^ 20 J23 \| \|The board came with a jumper vertically across these two pins. I can get the power/keylock to work across pins 11-15, reset across pins 9 and 19, but would prefer not to blow something up by further experimentation. The date on the board itself is 6/92, opti chips. I would really appreciate any help, and thank you in advance.	5
1,567	Because, unlike the UK, passing the average driving test over here usually only requires a pulse & a single digit IQ. Every state controls their own licensing requirements, so it's possible that there's a test out there that actually requires some driving skills, but I doubt it.	0
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1,570	My doc handed me 10mg samples of CLARITIN (brand of Ioratadine Tablet from Schering Corp.) I tried to find it in the PDR to no avail. I do remember she mentioned this drug was relatively new to the US but available overseas for quite some time. Looking mostly for side-effect, contraindications, and mode of action such that it differs from Seldane and Hismanal. Email or newsgroup is fine. Thanx in advance.	9
1,571	Hello Netters I recenlty aquired enough money to purchase a laser printer. The other day, I bought the COMPUTER SHOPPER mag. I was looking through printer review section and noticed the WINPRINTER800. The machine is incredibly low priced for all the features it has 800 dpi! 8Meg RAM Postscript compatable envelope printing My question is does anyone have one of these or know why the price is so cheap? I would appricaiate it if someone would pass on their knowledge on this subject. Thanks alot! Dave ------------------------------ Donuts are a girls best friend	17
1,572	>in the field who might be able to find out haven't yet done their >review of the chip design, and there's been a lot of wild speculation >and guesswork from those with little information that it might be >Swiss cheese. Oh, that puts the debate on -excellent- terms for our side: FEDS: You people saying that Clipper is insecure don't have any real information to support that judgment. ME: Fine -- show me this "information" that would prove me wrong. FEDS: That's secret!	3
1,573	On the other hand, Rush made an interesting point: The Democrats ran one of their best campaigns in years against a pathetic Republican and a paranoiac and still only pulled 43% of the vote, lost 10 seats in the House, and gained 0 seats in the Senate. 1994 might be pretty interesting. Clueless of the world, take heart! 57% of the electorate is willing to vote for "a pathetic Republican and a paranoiac"!!	13
1,574	I'm replying to someone who asked for information on space camp. I have a brochure that has all different schedules. What age, what level and what program do you want to know the schedule of? Most of the missions are 5 to 8 days long. The address for Huntsville is: Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission U.S. Space and Rocket Center One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35807 - Jennifer	12
1,575	I recently made the mistake of purchasing a SONY CPD-1320 monitor for my Mac IIci. The monitor is very good, however it seems that the IIci does not support VGA (then why did you buy it you ask? I am stupid I reply). What I am looking for is a video card, preferably 8 bit, which supports VGA. I am interested in any information I can get. Offers for the sale of applicable cards will also be considered. Thanks in advance.	10
1,576	And unless I am mistaken (I screwed up my borrowed VCR and got the first 2 minutes :-), the Corrado SLC was awarded AJAC's Sports (Sporty?) Car of the Year.. Mattias	4
1,577	========================= commodore 128 1571 d/s disk drive 2 joysticks 1 mouse lotsa software, both games and apps. rapid fire joystick adapter ALL necessary cables ========================== about a year old $95 OBO	1
1,578	Hello, Our application requires us to capture keypad presses for all windows in a number of applications. We are trying to use action translation tables to implement this. We have only succeeded by assigning the translation table to every individual widget in all windows in a single application. The Xt calls we make are included below. It would be much more convenient if we could assign the translation table to a class of widgets rather than individual widget instantiations, and also accomplish it for MULTIPLE applications. If someone could describe how do this it would be greatly appreciated. Platform: Sun Sparc w/ X11R4 & Motif 1.1.4 *********************************************************************** static XtActionsRec actionsTable[] = { {"up", do_up}, {"right", do_right}, {"middle", do_middle}, {"left", do_left}, {"down", do_down}, {"bye", quit}, }; static char defaultTranslations[] = "<Key>KP_8: up() \n\ <Key>KP_6: right() \n\ <Key>KP_5: middle() \n\ <Key>KP_4: left() \n\ <Key>KP_2: down() \n\ <Key>KP_1: bye()"; XtTranslations trans_table, trans_table2; (. . .) XtAddActions(actionsTable, XtNumber(actionsTable)); trans_table = XtParseTranslationTable(defaultTranslations); widget = XtCreateManagedWidget("msg", xmPushButtonWidgetClass, form, wargs, n); XtOverrideTranslations(widget, trans_table);	6
1,579	I think you would need a DOS macro program. Superkey (by Borland?) comes to mind. I don't think Windows is capable of sending keystrokes to a DOS window. What you want to do sounds like a security problem to me, though.	17
1,580	GCC and other big programs seemed to crash about 15% of the time for me. gcc gave something like "program as got fatal signal 11" and when doing anything past the complexity of elvis, kermit, etc, I got kernel general protection faults at least once a session. I disabled my cache as suggested, and bingo, Linux is as stable as a rock (it hasn't given me a core dump or kernel error yet). Does any one know why the cache would do something like this? Aldy -- hernandz@andrews.edu	5
1,581	We have Suns running SunOS 4.1.3 and Openwindows 3.0 (X11R4). We have used Xvision on a PC, setup to broadcast query to the UNIX xdm servers and allow a user to choose a UNIX client in which to login: xdm will then manage that display. I would like to do the same thing with xfree86 running under Linux, but I don't know how. I don't want to hardwire the UNIX xdm to manage the PC displays as the PC's are not always running Linux (let alone xfree86). I would like the same setup as provided by Xvision. Can anybody help? Thanks,	6
1,582	It varies. You may get a catalog or price list from the advertiser, or if the ad was a specific product - a slec sheet on that product or line.	15
1,583	For those of you who complain about Don Cherry, and wonder why he is popular... the reply is Dick Vitale and John Madden and Bobby Knight and Joe Garagiola and Howard Cosell. John Madden picks Gary Clark of the Redskins for his All-Madden team a lot, over much better receivers...for much the same reasons Cherry sings the praises of Doug Gilmour...a little guy with heart...yet one doesn't see a string of American posts saying that John Madden has lost his marbles. Dick Vitale is always promoting this kid from this high school or that college with outrageous statements. Why should Americans expect that Canada would not have such characters in relation to our greatest passion...which is hockey? Canadians are very similar to Americans...culturally our sports are just hockey and curling, whereas with Americans it is football/basketball/baseball and bowling.	16
1,584	"This is your god" (from John Carpenter's "They Live," natch)	14
1,585	Can anyone figure out what kind of deranged parent was stupid enough to bring their infant on a rock throwing crusade (or jihad, sorry)? 18-month old infants certainly don't walk around the streets on their own. That would lead me to believe that some nimrod of a "parent" brought them along for a little terrorism. thats what happened. Uhm, last I heard, the territories were disputed. Israel's occupation is not illegal. They are legally allowed to remain there until a settlement is reached with the arabs which, from the behavior of the Palestinian negotitating team, will probably be never. huh? they were buying vegetables.	2
1,586	I am looking at buying a Dual Sport type motorcycle. This is my first cycle as well. I am interested in any experiences people have with the following motorcycles, good or bad. Honda XR250L Suzuki DR350S Suzuki DR250ES Yamaha XT350 Most XXX vs. YYY articles I have seen in magazines pit the Honda XR650L against another cycle, and the 650 always comes out shining. Is it safe to assume that the 250 would be of equal quality ?	0
1,587	... If we are indeed talking about CS, then this is not quite accurate. CS is "just" tear gas--albeit the worst kind. It isn't a nausea gas, and doesn't have direct CNS effects. However, it's quite bad--much worse than CN gas. I was briefly exposed to it once (during an engagement in Berkeley circa 1968 8^) and it's not the kind of thing you forget. It seems to be moisture-activated--it not only made my eyes sting and water, but attacked my breathing passages and lungs. Breathing was painful, and my entire face felt as if it was on fire. These effects persisted for hours after exposure, and I was coughing for days afterwards. If I was exposed to a dense concentration of this stuff in a closed space for several hours, I doubt whether I could find the exit. Indeed, I can't imagine living through it.	19
1,588	Yeah... and BMW 525e has 2.7 litres 535 3.4 BTW - can someone out there please tell me how to put someone else's file on and then reply to that so the other person's file and my own 'reply' go to the newgroups together? (ps: just mail me personally)	4
1,589	This is a phenomenon known around work as ready-fire-aim. I am astounded at the number of times people post strong opinions about things they not only don't understand but publicly admit to not understanding. In fact, there's a plausible argument that saves are a more rational stat than wins. For the record, there are two ways that a reliever can get a save: He must finish the game and either 1. have entered the game with the tying run on base, at bat, or on deck. 2. have pitched at least three innings effectively. A pitcher may not get a win and a save in the same game. But this is an argument that wins is a dumb stat, not saves. This again doesn't support your claim about saves at the beginning of your post. Mike Jones \| AIX High-End Development \| mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com	11
1,590	I've been using Final from CODA for some time, but suddenly it stopped using my fonts. I have a 386 PC with lots of disk space and memory, a Postscript laser, Win3.1, Finale 2.0.1 and I recently installed ATM 2.0. I've been fiddling around with the Windows setup for some time, and when I needed to do some work with Finale things didn't print properly. It might - and it might not - have anything to do with the installation of ATM from 1.something to 2.0, but I don't have the old ATM lying around anomore. The most annoying problem was that the Petrucci font didn't print, which is a rather important font :-) I managed to get direct printing to work if I included OwnPS=0 in the [Finale] section of WIN.INI, but Compile PostScript Listing still doesn't work; and it's those .EPS files I need. When I look at the .eps files generated the only font which appears there is Courier. I found out that if I manually changed the Courier 24-point to Petrucci 24-point in the .EPS file everything worked ok, but I'd rather avoid that since I have a lot of songs to work with. And yes, in the Special/Font/Font names dialog box all the fonts I need are listed, with the correct mapping between Finale, Screen and Printer fonts. Finale is obviously aware of the fonts since direct printing of a score works well (that is, after I included OwnPS=0), and all my other Windows applications print Petrucci and the other fonts well. Has anyone encountered problems like this? What is the current version of Finale from Coda Music Software? I have 2.0.1 Are the people at Coda available on Internet or X.400? I'd be grateful for all hints and help. -mats	17
1,591	How about the GNU people, handing out very good, free software? I've also distributed two decent-sized programs myself, the Go player Fumiko (at ftp.u.washington.edu) and the Genetic Neural Network Programmer CEREBRUM (somewhere out there). I've only had time to write these programs because of scholarships and grants. The intended benefit to society, or a loophole in the system?	7
1,592	I am looking for info on products that can take Windows source on a Unix box (such as Sparc), and produce a Motif executable. Another requirement is that MFC 2.0 should be supported. I already know of: Wind/U by Bristol Technologies Hunter SDK MainWin by MainSoft Are there any others? I will post a summary if it's wanted. Daniel	6
1,593	Hi, I need to know if there is a 256 color graphics mode that allows multiple pages. I want something like mode 0x10 (640x350x16 2 pages). I have been experimenting with graphics by calling the BIOS with borland turbo c. I feel like I am flying blind in this area, and could use all the help that you can give. Thanks, Ivan......	7
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1,595	Well, let's delve one level deeper. Why is democracy better than tribalism or other means of Govt.? The President of Georgia was elected with a thumping majority and booted out later, w/ no objections from the UN. Similarly, the people of Algeria elected an Islamic Fundemantalist Party into power but the junta declared it illegal. In both cases, I personally have _no_ problems with the outcome, but if the voice of the people is that hallowed thing that the world community claims to revere so, why isn't it interfering there? . Exactly. My point is that it will inevitably turn out that way, and we can save ourselves a lot of pain and trouble by simply letting people sort out their problems on their own. Colonial interventions, even in Haiti, haven't worked in the past. They had a 102 coups from 1845-1915. The US invaded in 1915. And left in 1933, almost 17 years after they had intended to. Was it a success? Well, look at Haiti today and of the past 40 years and decide for yourself. It _was_ a success so long as the US was in, from what I remember. But it didn't last long, obviously. Nobody did. People should have a right to self-defense. If the UN wants to arm the Bosnians or Haitian revolutionaries or whoever, I have no problems with that. I do when they cross that line and attempt to re-arrange boundaries, govts. etc., the Vance-Owen plan being one such piece of insanity. We finally have a clearly-stated point of difference. Colonialism can have its good side, which is as you stated above - removing thugs from being able to lord it over powerless people. I am worried that the bad side is what will assert itself, and I am prepared to let natural forces take their course if that will mean we can avoid the bad side of colonialism. -- Srinivas Sunder sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu If The University of Illinois shares these views, I'd be surprised. They aren't that smart generally -:).	2
1,596	From article <C5wDMK.Jrn@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>, by 3s737abg@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Unknown Class User): Saying things like that incline one to believe that you can't get it (SCSI) to work for your setup (too bad). I've daisy-chained 4 SCSI devices off my mac without a problem (limit is 7 SCSI devices in the daisy-chain). If it isn't working for you, it's really better to state the problem (unless all you really intend to do is try to get nasty e-mail, in that case perhaps you would be better off posting to alt.masochistic type of newsgroup). /`-_ callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu { }/ Joel E Callan Hey, why do you think I have the answer? \ ./ 2909 N. 44th Street May you sit on the tack of success \|___\| Milwaukee, WI 53210 and rise to the occasion!	10
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1,598	Last night, Boston Red Sox win its 11 games of 14 games by beating Seattle 5-2. Roger Clemson pitch not so dominate. He walked at least 6 man in first 6 inns. But Valetin and Greenwell hit homeruns and Red Sox prevail.	11
1,599	I wonder why you say that? I don't see why having a spouse and/or kids would have anything to do with it. It might if you brought your kids to the game and wanted them to get home in time to get to bed at a reasonable hour (in which case I'd probably decide to take my kids to games on weekends, as many people do, or else be prepared to leave the game early), but from what you say later on, you don't bring your kids or your spouse to the game. As it happens, I have a husband but no kids, and my husband usually attends games with me. I can see it's a problem if you don't bring your wife to the ballgame, but that's a problem even if the game goes a trim 2 1/2 hours. As far as bagging work the next day, I don't really understand why that's necessary, unless going to a game also means that you consume vast quantities of beer (I note that this is the case for many guys). If you don't think you can get up to go to work after a long evening out, then don't have long evenings out during the week. Look: if I pay between $8.00 and $20.00 apiece for tickets, plus $10.00 for parking, plus spending my time and energy driving to and from Boston, plus spending additional money on concessions etc. at the ballpark, then I see going to a game as a considerable investment of time and money. I can't afford to go to a lot of games. Hence, going to a game is a big deal, like going to a play or an opera. Maybe you have more money than I do and can go to games all year long, so it's not such a big deal for you. But I'm not interested in having games "sped up", any more than I want to have _Die Walkure_ cut down to a convenient "weeknight version" of two hours. If I felt that going to a night game during the week would interfere with my family life or my work life, then I'd choose to go to a weekend game. IMPO.	11

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## Don't forget that 25% had 20 or more partners.... # #Not surprising. Remember, that study includes homosexuals as well. Err, earth to Clayton, you posted this to show that 2% were homosexual. So if we assume EVERY homosexual was promiscious, that leads us to conclude that 23 percent of heterosexuals are promiscious. And that first assumtion is a bad one. Clayton, it *IS* suprising from the claims you are making.

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I was one of the unfortunate people to run into this guy. I sent him $30 cash (Stupid, I know) for 4 CDs. That was the last I heard of him. I know there were some other people ripped off by this guy. Has there been any advances in tracking him down?

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The other week I saw a TV program about the american space industry and NASA. It said that in the 60's they developed a rocket that used ions or nuclear particles for propolsion. The government however, didn't give them $1billion for the developement of a full scale rocket. Did anybody see this program? If not, has anybody heard of the particle propolsion system? Thanx. 8-)

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[stuff deleted] ^^^ I think you mean HCI here. [snip] Joe

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The April 1993 edition of MIX Magazine carries a story on 3DO which includes pictures of the unit, a schematic of what's inside and some indication from the people at 3DO as to where they intend to go and in what stages. (MIX is a trade rag aimed at the professional sound engineering community.) The schematic shows a central DMA Engine connecting and mediating between two Graphics Animation processors (32 bit bus), a 32-bit RISC processor with math co-processor, Video Decomp module, a control port, an expansion port (where 3DO hangs its double-fast CD player), 1Mb DRAM, an optional video port (for editing video) and on the outbound side 1MB VRAM to Video Processor to TV chain parallel with a DSP to sound chain. They promise Red Book CD-quality audio, full 30 fps video and a future connection path to your PC via a PC expansion card. I am not informed enough to have an opinion about the various means and methods discussed here. The article, written by Philip De Lancie, does cover the other machines mentioned in this thread. I come from the PC TCP/IP world and see a tremendous potential for bringing connectedness to the educated consumer; 3DO seems to have the right business partners to make this happen. Hope this helps.

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I have a SPARC-2 with 2 CGSIX cards in it. I'd like to have the R5 server recognize the second card. I mknod created a /dev/cgsix1 device, but when I brought up the server, the second device was ignored. How do I setup the second card? Note: If I borrow a cgthree card, and put a cgthree and a cgsix card in the same SPARC-2 box, the R5 server finds the second card. I then set the DISPLAY to the second card, and start a second window manager. Worse case is I trade cards with someone, but maybe someone out there has seen this problem already... email is preferred... post if you must... Thanks in advance.... Jim

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I need info regarding a miniscribe 3.5" half-height drive. There is a sticker on it with the following, MODEL HDA PCBA UNIQUE TDA 8425F 09AA 03AB 03AA - But the sticker on the biggest chip on the MFM interface has this, MODEL PCBA TDA FXX 03AB What is the spec of the drive (# of cyl, heads, etc)? How fast is this drive? Can I use it as a RLL drive? I also have a SCSI interface that seems to match all the connectors for this drive. It has this description, MODEL PCBA E-P TDA AXX 01A 29A Can I replace the MFM interface by the SCSI interface and use the drive as a SCSI drive? What would the drive size be? There is a set of jumpers on the SCSI interface with "6SEL" besides it. What is the use of it?

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1. Don't hold your finger on it 2. When cooking with it use a very small pan and be sure to not spill liquids on the components 3. If you do not plan to cook with it there are a number of small cooling fans designed to mount on the chip and plug into your power supply. Look in Consumer Shoppers.

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Can somebody send me a copy of this faq? Thanks alot!

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Hi! We have an old Montage FR-1 35mm film recorder. When connected to a PC with its processor card it can directly take HPGL, Targa and Lasergraphics Language files. 24 bit Targa is quite OK for raster images, but conversion from whatever one happens to have can be quite slow. This Lasergraphics Language seems to be (got the source file for one test image) a vector-based language that can handle one million colors. It does some polygons too, and perhaps something else ? The question is, where can I find some information about this language ? A FTP site, a book, a company address,.... ? (OK, it would be nice to have a Windows driver for it, but I'm not THAT optimistic...) Thanks in advance for any help! jussi

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Even better. Make up pete conrad in a Martian Suit, and have him get ou;t and throw a football to the refs.

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Hi there, I have a problem here, I've lost the software drivers and setup programs for my Hardcard. Can someone email me the files, or let me know if Plus Development (were they bought out by Quantum?) has a BBS or phone #? I have a Hardcard II XL50.

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The people involved in it have been building hardware rather than writing press releases. This is not a high-manpower project; they don't *have* spare people sitting around. As I understand it, there has also been some feeling on the part of some of the project management that publicity was not a good idea. A lot of people have been working on changing this view, with some success.

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Will someone who can 'see' the X-Face included in this header please reply and tell me if it turned out okay? I'm not all too sure about my viewing software. I *hand*-converted this thing in "vi" from a Sun rasterfile... what a pain! For folks who haven't the slightest, it went like this: ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Make Your Own X-Face: in 0x000F Easy Steps! 1. Scan my Drivers' License into a *.PCX file. 2. Use WinGIF to 'trim' my face out of the license, 'reduce' it by half, and convert it to *.BMP. 3. Use Paintbrush to touch up manually. 4. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half again. 5. Use Paintbrush to touch up again. 6. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half *again* and convert it to *.GIF. [now over to the UNIX side...] 7. Use Snapshot to convert the *.GIF to a Sun rasterfile. 8. Use IconEdit to touch it up and convert it to an X bitmap. 9. Use "vi" (yes, a *text* editor) to manually convert the rasterfile into the "Uncompressed X-Face" format. (Lots of global "ed" commands, and by the time you're done you'll mirror hex bytewise in your sleep!!) [now over to the *Linux* side...] A. Use "compface" to convert it to what you see here: %:A<m@Dob}BO"'E",EEQGbn7qy(En7aS5U([k//"G{6^HIbY9X8~+PD($}6szF"&vVxCXSn 8mw^0G#nVHE%W,`X"[j0s{r.~%zs:O|HFU=LwzYgH B. Try viewing it by whatever means you have available. C. Go back to step 9, but do it *right* this time.

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hahahahahahahahahahaha - thanks for that, I haven't laughed so much in ages!

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"CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS" by: Hank Hanegraaff "Controversy for the sake of controversy is a sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command." -Dr. Walter Martin Dr. Walter Martin personally selected Hank Hanegraaff to succeed him as President of the Christian Research Institute -- the largest evangelical counter-cult organization in the world. In this skillful, careful treatment of an explosive subject, Hanegraaff documents and examines how the beliefs of the Word of Faith movement clearly compromises and confuse the essentials of the historic Christian faith. For the first time ever, this large and influential movement is legitimately labeled as cultic. In this book, Hanegraaff discusses such leaders of the Word of Faith movement as E.W. Kenyon and the Twelve Apostles of "another gospel" (Gal 1:6-9) (Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Frederick K.C. Price, John Avanzini, Robert Tilton, Marilyn Hickey, Paul (David) Yonggi Cho, Charles Capps, Jerry Savelle, Morris Cerullo, and Paul and Jan Crouch). The book is now available through Harvest House Publishers and should be in most Christian Book Stores soon. You can order a hard-back copy through CRI for $14.99 by calling 1-800-443-9797 and avoid retail mark-ups. The Christian Research Journal, which is a quarterly publication by CRI has an article in it's most recent issue just released called, "What's Wrong With The Word Faith Movement?" This is a good article that will inform you of each of the teachers above, and tide you over until your book arrives. If you are interested in receiving the Journal yourself, you can order it from CRI at the number above for $14 a year. It is the best source of the most-accurate and well-researched info in Christiandom today.

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I did. You're mistaken. NSA's communications intelligence mission is strictly against foreign governments. Here's an excerpt from the enabling charter (24 Oct 52, Truman) that should clarify this. The charter was declassified in about Feb 1990 when an FOIA request made it public. Mind you, I don't know that they never collect anything they're not supposed to... but spying on US citizens isn't in their charter. b. The COMINT mission of the National Security Agency (NSA) shall be to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto. As used in this directive, the terms "communications intelligence" or "COMINT" shall be construed to mean all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications other than foreign press and propaganda broadcasts and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than intended recipients, but shall exclude censorship and the production and dissemination of finished intelligence. They're also tasked with protecting the US's communications, but I haven't seen the specific enabling memo on that. I assume that's the role under which Skipjack was developed. NSA is not in the standard-setting business, though -- that's why this Clipper stuff came from NIST, which I believe is tasked with coming up with standards based on their best inputs from other government agencies, which would include NSA.

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Baloney. Either the programmer or the people who decided to let their actions be governed by the program are clearly at fault. If you neglect to do maintenance on your car, and the steering goes out, you _are_ responsible for the death of all those kids on the sidewalk your car subsequently drives over "on its own".

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Though this will be addressed in the series of articles I'm posting now under "ARESNOKOITIA", I can't wait. This just really blew my socks off. Read I Tim 1: 3-11. Verses 3-8 speaks against those who have perverted the teachings of the Mosaic Law. In vv.9-10, we have, *IN ORDER*, the 5th thru the 9th commandments and in the midst of this listing is "homosexuals." The decalogue, above everything else, is seen as God's absolute. If you don't believe in absolutes, then you have nothing do do with Jehovah of the OT, which Paul reveals to be the Messiah of the NT. "Lord Christ Jesus" transliterates to read "Jehovah's Anointed Savior." In I Cor5, we see the same emphasis of moral separation from the pagan gentiles as we do in Lev 18-20. In I Cor 6:9-10, only one notation (drunkards) is not found in Lev 18-20. Paul was not naive in his use of the LXX. He knew full well how he was using the Law of God that was given in the OT, for application in the NT. As I've said, the Law was fulfilled, not done away with. This understanding is thoroughly rebutted in DeYoungs article that is being posted. Please refer to it. We can do better than "probably" which is not an adequate defense against the statement that Paul's culture didn't have the same understanding of homosexuality as ours. Again read the article because it uses facts. I think I do, because I have worked in the homosexual community by means of working with AIDs patients. The pastoral is merely the practical application of the theological truth however. Those who are working thru the issue of homosexuality need to have our love and understanding just as with a friend who is contiplating cheating on his wife or a friend who lives with his girlfriend, yet you continue to witness to him. But, once the choice is made, and there is no remorse, then I feel that Paul's "pastoral" care, as presented in the Corinthian Church, come to bear significance. THe one in active rebellion should be placed outside of the church if a believer, and if a non-believer, then one wipes his sandels and leaves it in Gods hand. If there was a member in your youth group who was constantly pawing at the little girls, you wouldn't hesitate to deal with the matter quickly and decisivly. That, in part, betrays the present "political correctness" of the issue. Pederasty is not accepted at the present, but some how we are to accept homosexuality because the latter is politically correct, while the former is not -at least not yet. THis is how the morals decay. I guess this would follow the liberal application in the political realm of economics. The liberals want to tax the rich in the federal, yet in their own states, when they try to get businesses to settle there, they give tax incentives to these same richies. It comes down to a moral code of relativeness, or to use the cultural thing, politically correct -at the moment. --Rex

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What about disks? Won't it erase them if you're carrying them in the bag?

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Jeremiah: 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

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hi netters, I'm doing a project which is about image analysis. Firstly, I have to find out any restrictions or limitations on the colour display on various kind of workstations, they are DECstation, HP, Amiga, Apollo. Secondly, I read from some graphic texts that image is displayed in 24 bites(please point out to me if I got it wrong). But, the images which I will deal with are displayed in 16 bites by the software they are using currently. So, will there be any problems to display them under X-windows in the future? Because we are thinking to implement the GUI by X-windows for our project Is there any person here can help me to solve the problem or query above? Or, give me some advice or suggestion where I can find them out. Please send me an e-mail if there are any. Thanks in advance. Yours Christine Chan

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Have there ever been any other no-hitters in Mariner history?

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This homeopathic remedies. I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops three times a day. I didn't notice any change whats so ever. How long were you using the drops before you noticed a difference?

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I am planning on buying a modem and related software. What are some good products out there that won't cost me a lot of money but will still do the job? Any help will be appreciated. I am looking for something in the 2400 baud area. Kenneth --

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Pete-- That was uncalled for. I'm sure Andi Beyer or whatever his name is was a product of his environment before he came to school, and is enjoying the mantle of THE UNIVERSITY to make his viewpoint seem legitimate (well-reasoned). I'm at Virginia, too, and I think maligning UVA is in poor taste, even if Beyer did slip in here.

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This is kind of interesting. I always assumed that the 240SX was named because of the 2.4 liter engine which it uses. Likewise for the 200SX which uses a 2.0 liter engine. Isn't this true?

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Seagate ST-212, HH, 10MB, $25 IBM, FH, 30MB, $70 They all are MFM type and in good working condition. Buyers pay shipping.

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'63 to '82 vettes had the same basic chassis. 1980 add aluminum (weaker) rear 'axle' housing. All these years used same brakes, similar springs etc Late 70's was a bad year for GM reliability. Catastrophic converter was added in 1975. Cheapest corvette '78 to '79 low end about 4k tops out about $12k except for those morooons that think there '78 indy / 25th aniversity vette is special. These guys have been known to ask 25K. I don't think they get it . Best buy: convertables 69 - 74. I got my 69 for 5K - needs body work but I'm willing. Parts for all are readily avail at swap meets and mail order etc. V-8 reliability / looks / independant suspension / 4 wheel disk and all under 10K. And they thought a miata was a good deal. My origional inquires to my insurance agent: I can drive my '69 convertable for 3000 miles or less per year, I must keep it in a locked garage and it will cost me 2% of the stated value per year (does this sound right?). Get an appraiser to look at the car. He will check serial numbers and look for origional equipe. Depending on what mods have been done the car could be worth only 10K. Problems like wrong engine / trans. Wrong paint type ( vetts used lacquer) An modification would reduce tthe value. But your looking for a car to drive right? This sounds like a ball park price for a small-block (327 cu in.) / manual / no air car. A 427 would put it closer to $30K.

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I have the following CD's for sale for $5 each plus shipping Body Count - (without "Cop Killer") Yo! MTV Raps (volume 1) Skid Row (1st album) Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbours Temple of the Dog C + C Music Factory - gonna make you sweat IBM PC games - Eye of the Beholder 2 with cluebook - $25 Pools of Darkness - $18 Jet Fighter 2 - $18 Books - Ancient Egypt, a Social History (retail $26, will sell for $8) Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (hardcover, 283 pages) - $18 Encyclopedia of Physics (hardcover, 1371 pages, 1990) - $25 + shipping also on books and games

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Jonathan, interesting questions. Some wonder whether or not the moon could have ever supported an atmosphere. I'd be interested in knowing what our geology/environmental sciences friends think. As for human tolerances, the best example of human endurance in terms of altitude (i.e. low atmospheric pressure and lower oxygen partial pressure) is in my opinion to the scaling of Mt. Everest without oxygen assistance. This was accomplished by a team of mountaineers who trained at high altitudes for quite awhile (I think a few months) and then were flown by helicopter from that training altitude to the equivalent altitude on Mount Everest, where they began the ascent of our planet's highest peak without oxygen tanks. This is quite a feat of physiological endurance, because if you or I tried to go to 20,000 feet and exert ourselves, we would probably pass out, get altitude sick, and could even die from cerebral edema. So this is the limit of low pressure. High pressure situations would be limited by the duration of time which it takes to slowly acclimate to a higher pressure. Skin divers would know alot about high pressure situations and could tell you about how they safely make deep dives without getting the bends. Some military experiments have put people under several atmospheres of pressure (not sure what the high limit was because the papers aren't in front of me). Usually at a certain point, the nitrogen in the air becomes toxic to the body and you start acting idiotic. Divers call this nitrogen narcosis. Those afflicted can do very dangerous and irrational things, like taking off a diving mask and oxygen tank in order to talk to fish at 100 feet under water. (Hope any diving folk can elaborate on this matter, as I am not a diving expert). Mars cannot support human life without pressurization because the atmosphere is too thin (1/100 th our Earth's atmospheric density). In addition, the Mars atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. Basically, you would need a pressure suit there, or you'd die from the low pressure. Interesting huh?

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I'm sure there are many people who work with neural networks and read this newsgroup. Please tell Kevin what you've achieved, and what you expect. Indeed. I think dualism is a non-solution, or, as Dennett recently put it, a dead horse. Petri

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Dave, What i recall from air craft maintence. Torqque and safety wires or cotters were more important, then if some bolt face were nicked up. If it was in bad shape you replaced it with another $30, aircraft grade bolt. I can see adjustable spanners eating up profit, but lives?

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Well, let me see if I can explain it. It's similar to collecting coins, or stamps, or campaign buttons, or coke bottles, or juke boxes, or model trains, or just about anything else that is collected (and just about everything is collected). In all cases, you might consider it something of an aberration; I mean, what purpose does it serve? Not much really; it's just a hobby. The collector yearns for diversity (not much use in having TWO of the same thing, except for trading/selling it), historical significance (this was the thingy used by so-and-so), technical significance (this is the only one that does such-and-such like this; this is the first one to do it this way), rarity, and so on. Some people use their collections, other people do not. As you state, you use your collection. In one sense, this diminishes the value of your collection as the items suffer wear and exposure. In another sense, it can enhance your own enjoyment of your collection. Some people collect firearms that they do not use; other people use some or all of the firearms they collect. It's just personal preference. Oops, 'personal preference' ... I guess we're not supposed to have that any more, are we?

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But of course it does. It's certainly a legal matter. If it's not a legal matter that interest *you* you may simply put it in your kill file.

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HONDA ACCORD FOR SALE ===================== - 4 Dr, Steel Grey, 1984 Honda Accord. - ~ 139K miles - 5 speed (manual) gives around 30mpg - Brand new clutch (installed last month) - Original owner - AM/FM (Cassette doesn't work), A/C, Cruise Control - $2500/b.o - Runs great. Reason for selling: Recently purchased a new car

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I read about a SuperTrapp system called E.A.R that was supposed to be quiet enough to pass some European standards. Apparently it's not on the market yet... Yoshimura makes a few systems that are supposed to be "kind of" quiet. They are also really light. I'm planning on getting one of these systems soon, and will post the results. - Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark S. Burnham (markb@wc.novell.com) AMA#668966 DoD#0747 Alfa Romeo GTV-6 '90 Ninja 750

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I'm sure you are not. After the "San Francisco" Earthquake a couple of years ago, there was a flurry of traffic on talk.religion.misc about how this was the result of the notorious homo- this that and t'other in the City. The fact that the Earthquake was actually down the road in Santa Cruz/Watsonville didn't seem to phase them any.

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930425 Rome was under attack by barbarians, they sent for advice to some Oracle, and she said Worship Cybele and you'll be saved. They did, they were. Cybele was the quintessential wiccan goddess, there was Her and her son & lover, Attis. Yucky idea if you ask me. OK the book says she was Phrygian, from the neolithic matriarchal society Catal Huyuk (Turkey). Worshipped 1st as Black Stone (that Kaaba in Mecca ring a bell maybe????) Carried to Rome in 205BC to save them from Hannibal. Response: Is there some relation between the name 'Cybele' and the phenemenon of the 'sibyl'? Your paragraph above seems to indicate there might be. My understanding is that Islam was founded on the remains of a goddess cult or two. Many Muslims would not like to hear that. ;> You: It gets more interesting. Romans called her Great Mother (Magna Mater), could be the reason why so many of those Mary statues in Europe are black, prob. IS connected to that Ka'aba they've got in Mecca, 3rd cent. AD She was supreme Goddess in Lyons, France . . . Attis was castrated and formed into a pine tree . . . she should be worshiped on 25 Mar . . . in Rome it was an ecstatic cult, her priests wore drag, worked themselves up in dance and castrated themselves in order to initiate to her, lived their lives as women. They wore make up and jewelry and the whole bit. Only other such primitive transsexualism I know of goes on in India (where else?) where they do that castration thing under some meditation maybe, I forget by now...there's a book on that.) Of course, that excepts that weird Russian / Romanian 18th cent. Xian cult that did all kinds of self-castration too, I forget their name. Response: I'd love to get details or references on any of the above. My own exploration of this issue has only extended to a brief examination of the Zuni 'berdache'. _The Zuni Man-Woman_, by Will Roscoe, University of New Mexico Press, 1991 probably has some interesting things to say about them. I've yet to procure it. Any details or references on: Ecstatic cults in Rome, India, Russia/Romania (Christian too?) which exhibit any type of transsexualism or transvestitism, male OR female (though I expect mostly the former will be found ;>). Thanks for your interesting posts, Charles. :>

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Hi there, I'm looking for help on hi-rez CGA modes (hey, i know it sounds crazy but at the moment it's got to do). My card's manual says it does something like 640 by 400 2 colour and 640 by 200 4 colour (the card has 64k memory). Could anyone give me some help on how to implement these modes (Assembly language is fine). Any other usefull tips on the CGA regs will also help. Thanx in advance... Frans. My eMail is

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It will be ironic in the extreme if Spector manages to uncover a government conspiracy and cover-up in this case. Maybe he'll posit a Magic Grenade that lit fires in three wings of the building at once.

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Heh, someone mentioned Tommy Soderstrom (Flyers) for the besk mask poll too (in the mentioned below part). All he has is a plain white helmet with a big cage. I found this pretty amusing. -John Santore Philadelphia Flyers in '93-'94! ============================================================================= ____________________ / \ "We break the surface tension \_________ ____ \ with our wild kinetic dreams" / / \ \ -Rush, Grand Designs \_______ / (*) ) ) / / /\___/ / Go Philadelphia Flyers! \_____ / / / / / \_______/ John Santore (jsbh@andrew.cmu.edu) \________/

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You don't, and never had to. That's what enhanced shells are for. Remember 4DOS and NDOS? I mean, come on, you can't expect DOS to cover everything from R1.0. Microsoft has other projects to work on. I don't think they deliberately crippled the project. On the other hand, it IS a technical achievement for what it does considering that it rides on top of DOS. I mean, you get a GUI with reasonable speed on a PC. With XWindows running on top of Linux or something similar you're still gonna need a fast processor. [Re: DOS's death] Except for the people who use DOS programs, which means about 75% or more of the business world.

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Being a a BLUES fan I don't get to see much else from around the league with the exception of Hockey Night on ESPN. I can't get the BLUES games where I go to school, thus I don't get to see a whole lot of other teams play except for the Hawks. But last night I got to catch a glimpse of the Caps/Isles game. It occurred to me that Turgeon is a stud on skates. His moves are quick and brilliant. You NY fans should be proud. P.S. Who won the game (Caps/Isles)?

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Jason - I've heard the people who are talking about this dismissed as conspiracy nuts, but nobody seems to be talking about a conspiracy, at least at the beginning. There were a lot of bad decisions that went into this tragedy, and some people may now be taking some serious evasive action to avoid being held responsible for the unexpected results of those bad decisions. Actually, the only ones I see that are tied into a conspiracy theory are the ones raving about deranged cultists with stockpiles of weapons and suicide pacts. I think there are a lot of us that have been following this pretty closely from the beginning, and we woud probably agree that this tragedy was more the result of stupidity than malice.

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I think a few things are being missed overall here... First of all, anyone with a DOS manual can copy a disk, or copy anything (hidden files dont go far if you are dealing with anyone who is not comletely DOS ignorant) off of a hard disk. 'Professional' crackers aren;t interested in copying disks. They are programmers who get some thrill out of going through unassembly listings of programs to disable copy protection such as serial number dialog boxes, volume label checks, and who knows what when it comes to computer games. Those people are in the minority, however. In my experience with the world of people and software, it seems that a good majority of people (say 80%) will at some point copy a friend's program ("Gee, you really oughta try this") or accept a copy. These are people who normally would buy a software package or do without, but decided that just once it wouldn't matter. The last thing is people who own or are responsible for more than one computer; most people aren't going to spend $150 * X# of computers for the same software package.. they will just install it x# of times, especially things like DOS upgrades.

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How about changing team names! Post your choices! Here I'll start: How about the Baltimore Baseblazers San Francisco Quakes

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Personally, I'll be blasphemous and say that if Microsoft keeps doing what it does so well, I hope to see much harsher/stricter copyright and patent laws for computer algorithms, concepts, interfaces, and other intellectual properties to protect real innovators. I'd hate to be one who actually does innovate, and then have Microsoft come in like a huge vulture and use their brute mass (development staff, marketing, etc) to get fat off of my innovation. I don't have all that much sympathy for Apple's complaint against Microsoft, since they just took the ideas from Xerox's PA Research Center when the Federal government forced Xerox to disclose their patents over antitrust fears. However, for other companies and individuals who have a great idea, yet get it "borrowed" by larger corporations who can afford to quickly bring it to market, without any licensing from the original innovator, I feel much sympathy. Larry

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: I heard about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Now, how is it such a grave : mistake to sell Saudi Arabia weapons? Or are you claiming that we shouldn't : sell any weapons to other countries? Straightforward answer please. Saudi Arabia is an oppressive regime that has been recently interfering in the politcs of newly renunified Yemen, including assasinations and border incursions. It is entirely possible that they will soon invade. Unluckily for Yemen it is not popular in the West as they managed to put aside political differences during reunification and thus the West has effectively lost one half (North?) as a client state.

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There was a guy around here who would do them on an early pre fairing Wing with a Hannigan. He would get it right up and ride a ways. Pretty intimidating sight. He was real good. He had to be. I guess you wouldn't get away with chopping the throttle more than once. __ Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who Arch. & Eng. Services |"Lost Horizons" CR500 | I think I am. UManitoba, Man. Ca. |"The Embalmer" IT175 | - anonymous

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It will certainly *help* to be able to run Windows and Dos apps but the only way that Solaris or OS/2 or any other scheme is going to challenge Microsoft is if they can somehow get the prices for Solaris or OS/2 or whatever apps, down to a DOS competitive level. Everybody would rather run a Solaris app on a Solaris system and an OS/2 app on an OS/2 system, they usually just can't afford a Unix system because of the high prices for good Unix software.

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See xwd, xpr. Even better, grab xdump from ftp.cs.uwm.edu. It makes use of these programs as well, but has a much nicer interface (and can do more). You can dump to PostScript, bitmaps, etc.

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As I recall from Kieth Hernandez' 'auto'biography, Rusty is a devout Roman Catholic. Kieth and Rusty would carpool to Shea everyday but Sunday, when Rusty would go to mass. SC

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Try coming up with your own definition of any or all "self-hating" peoples. To me, any who reject their culture to the point where they *only* see the absolute negatives of that culture (generally, or regarding a particular event) and accept *only* those views purely opposing aspects of that culture (thus, selective belief in and use of historical facts and a complete ignoring of "context" results) "hate" their culture. That certainly describes Elias, since he has no intention of recognizing that, alongside the Palestinian experience and perspective, there exists also that of Israelis. And, this is precisely why Israeli society has been tremendously harmed by the actions it (its government) has *felt it had to take* in response to an "other" perceived as a threat. Just as with you, there has long been a strident and emotional debate about the pain Israelis feel when forced to "balance" desires for survival and moral beliefs. The trauma of having to make that choice is made worse by the fact that neither can be conveniently brushed aside (as a result of a reasoned political debate) for the sake of the other, only reshaped.

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If you want slow LED flash rates, adjustable by switches (or by a 4066/4016 digitally controlled switch), I suggest looking at a 555 oscillator chip. They cost ~$1 at Radio Shack (much cheaper in quantity at quality places), and you will be able to find good info about simple circuits in a 555 oscialltor notebook (I think Forest Mims has one at Radio Shack). You'll have to toy with resistor/capacitor values OR you can use your head with a little math to get the right frequencies. Any engineer worth his salt, can make a 555 osciallator... It's in the book, and left up to you to see (I hate doing ASCII circuit graphics). The 555 can accurately go from a few Hz to about 500 KHz (I think). About the Tape Recorder gizmo, you could alter a stereo tape deck to use one channel as a DATA line (for flashing LED), and one as audio line (for voice or music). This would eliminate a lot of noise. The data line is probably most easily done by some kind of PLL or bandpass filter (using just an op-amp). The 565 chip is a good PLL, and not hard to work with. However if you nothing about how a PLL works, I suggest you don't try this. Op-Amp information can also be found in the Forest Mims Radio Shack info-booklets, and the popular 741 op-amp is a snap to work with. Setting frequency and bandpass filter values are not so easy, so I would suggest the 555 method firstmost... I have no idea what this is going into, so I am really generalizing... As for manufacturing techniques, if you're only goofing with it, I suggest you breadboard the thing... No need to solder. Wire-wrap would be the next, more permanent step. And lastly, soldering/PCB making. Hope that clears things......

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What does this bill do? McD

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I badly need a pair of SEGA 3D glasses for a cheap VR setup. If you have a set and want to part with it, I can arrange shipping, etc.., and duty if necessary. Leave e-mail to: davecru@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca or call (403) 459-2893 ask for DJ.

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A friend and I have ATI Graphic Ultra display adaptors, and they have been reasonably good performers, but we both have had irritating compatibility problems with the ATI drivers and are ready to change to something faster and more compatible with windows. I have heard rumblings that the new Orchid 9000 card is very fast. Anyone have experience with this card? What is currently available that is fast, compatible, does 1280x1024x256 non- interlaced and cost under $500? Ken Keirnan --

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Like it or not stock prices and sales of a particular product ARE measures of success. They can be measures of short term or long term success. I think in MS case they are a good measure of their long term success. The original post mentioned how it seems on this group that there are a large number of people attacking MS and not willing to accept anything positive about MS. I was trying to make a point that the attacks are over emphasized and to look at the sales of MS products they definitely tell a different story.

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Why bother with a new newsgroup? If you want to discuss the subject, *start discussing it*. If there is enough traffic to annoy the rest of us, we will let you know... and *then* it will be time for a new newsgroup.

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Can I view JPEG files without special hardware?

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This happens intermittently to Macs in our department, ranging from IIsi's to a Quadra 950. I can end the slowdown immediately by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the Mac. It seems that something on the network puts out these packet storms every few days. These storms have the effect of making our Macs slow down to a crawl. David Gutierrez drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

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I'm told that I can replace the colorful windows logo that appears as windows invokes with a graphic of my choosing. The challange is that the image must be in 'RLE' format. I've got GIF's, PIC's, JPG's, TIF's, etc... everything but RLE's! What's the best route to converting these things? What program should I download, and from where? Has anybody else done this, and do you have the steps available?

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Where did that idea come from? It's news to me.

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This is very curious being that they are both built by Mercury in the very same factory. Steve

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I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this pin arrangement look familiar to anyone out there??? Any hints on where I can find this information? 1 10 "speaker" . . . . . . . . . . "keylock" . . . . . . . . . . 11 ^ 20 J23 | |The board came with a jumper vertically across these two pins. I can get the power/keylock to work across pins 11-15, reset across pins 9 and 19, but would prefer not to blow something up by further experimentation. The date on the board itself is 6/92, opti chips. I would really appreciate any help, and thank you in advance.

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Because, unlike the UK, passing the average driving test over here usually only requires a pulse & a single digit IQ. Every state controls their own licensing requirements, so it's possible that there's a test out there that actually requires some driving skills, but I doubt it.

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My doc handed me 10mg samples of CLARITIN (brand of Ioratadine Tablet from Schering Corp.) I tried to find it in the PDR to no avail. I do remember she mentioned this drug was relatively new to the US but available overseas for quite some time. Looking mostly for side-effect, contraindications, and mode of action such that it differs from Seldane and Hismanal. Email or newsgroup is fine. Thanx in advance.

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Hello Netters I recenlty aquired enough money to purchase a laser printer. The other day, I bought the COMPUTER SHOPPER mag. I was looking through printer review section and noticed the WINPRINTER800. The machine is incredibly low priced for all the features it has 800 dpi! 8Meg RAM Postscript compatable envelope printing My question is does anyone have one of these or know why the price is so cheap? I would appricaiate it if someone would pass on their knowledge on this subject. Thanks alot! Dave ------------------------------ Donuts are a girls best friend

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>in the field who might be able to find out haven't yet done their >review of the chip design, and there's been a lot of wild speculation >and guesswork from those with little information that it might be >Swiss cheese. Oh, that puts the debate on -excellent- terms for our side: FEDS: You people saying that Clipper is insecure don't have any real information to support that judgment. ME: Fine -- show me this "information" that would prove me wrong. FEDS: That's secret!

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On the other hand, Rush made an interesting point: The Democrats ran one of their best campaigns in years against a pathetic Republican and a paranoiac and still only pulled 43% of the vote, lost 10 seats in the House, and gained 0 seats in the Senate. 1994 might be pretty interesting. Clueless of the world, take heart! 57% of the electorate is willing to vote for "a pathetic Republican and a paranoiac"!!

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I'm replying to someone who asked for information on space camp. I have a brochure that has all different schedules. What age, what level and what program do you want to know the schedule of? Most of the missions are 5 to 8 days long. The address for Huntsville is: Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission U.S. Space and Rocket Center One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35807 - Jennifer

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I recently made the mistake of purchasing a SONY CPD-1320 monitor for my Mac IIci. The monitor is very good, however it seems that the IIci does not support VGA (then why did you buy it you ask? I am stupid I reply). What I am looking for is a video card, preferably 8 bit, which supports VGA. I am interested in any information I can get. Offers for the sale of applicable cards will also be considered. Thanks in advance.

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And unless I am mistaken (I screwed up my borrowed VCR and got the first 2 minutes :-), the Corrado SLC was awarded AJAC's Sports (Sporty?) Car of the Year.. Mattias

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========================= commodore 128 1571 d/s disk drive 2 joysticks 1 mouse lotsa software, both games and apps. rapid fire joystick adapter ALL necessary cables ========================== about a year old $95 OBO

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Hello, Our application requires us to capture keypad presses for all windows in a number of applications. We are trying to use action translation tables to implement this. We have only succeeded by assigning the translation table to every individual widget in all windows in a single application. The Xt calls we make are included below. It would be much more convenient if we could assign the translation table to a class of widgets rather than individual widget instantiations, and also accomplish it for MULTIPLE applications. If someone could describe how do this it would be greatly appreciated. Platform: Sun Sparc w/ X11R4 & Motif 1.1.4 *********************************************************************** static XtActionsRec actionsTable[] = { {"up", do_up}, {"right", do_right}, {"middle", do_middle}, {"left", do_left}, {"down", do_down}, {"bye", quit}, }; static char defaultTranslations[] = "<Key>KP_8: up() \n\ <Key>KP_6: right() \n\ <Key>KP_5: middle() \n\ <Key>KP_4: left() \n\ <Key>KP_2: down() \n\ <Key>KP_1: bye()"; XtTranslations trans_table, trans_table2; (. . .) XtAddActions(actionsTable, XtNumber(actionsTable)); trans_table = XtParseTranslationTable(defaultTranslations); widget = XtCreateManagedWidget("msg", xmPushButtonWidgetClass, form, wargs, n); XtOverrideTranslations(widget, trans_table);

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I think you would need a DOS macro program. Superkey (by Borland?) comes to mind. I don't think Windows is capable of sending keystrokes to a DOS window. What you want to do sounds like a security problem to me, though.

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GCC and other big programs seemed to crash about 15% of the time for me. gcc gave something like "program as got fatal signal 11" and when doing anything past the complexity of elvis, kermit, etc, I got kernel general protection faults at *least* once a session. I disabled my cache as suggested, and bingo, Linux is as stable as a rock (it hasn't given me a core dump or kernel error yet). Does any one know why the cache would do something like this? Aldy -- hernandz@andrews.edu

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We have Suns running SunOS 4.1.3 and Openwindows 3.0 (X11R4). We have used Xvision on a PC, setup to broadcast query to the UNIX xdm servers and allow a user to choose a UNIX client in which to login: xdm will then manage that display. I would like to do the same thing with xfree86 running under Linux, but I don't know how. I don't want to hardwire the UNIX xdm to manage the PC displays as the PC's are not always running Linux (let alone xfree86). I would like the same setup as provided by Xvision. Can anybody help? Thanks,

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It varies. You may get a catalog or price list from the advertiser, or if the ad was a specific product - a slec sheet on that product or line.

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For those of you who complain about Don Cherry, and wonder why he is popular... the reply is Dick Vitale and John Madden and Bobby Knight and Joe Garagiola and Howard Cosell. John Madden picks Gary Clark of the Redskins for his All-Madden team a lot, over much better receivers...for much the same reasons Cherry sings the praises of Doug Gilmour...a little guy with heart...yet one doesn't see a string of American posts saying that John Madden has lost his marbles. Dick Vitale is always promoting this kid from this high school or that college with outrageous statements. Why should Americans expect that Canada would not have such characters in relation to our greatest passion...which is hockey? Canadians are very similar to Americans...culturally our sports are just hockey and curling, whereas with Americans it is football/basketball/baseball and bowling.

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"This is your god" (from John Carpenter's "They Live," natch)

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Can anyone figure out what kind of deranged parent was stupid enough to bring their infant on a rock throwing crusade (or jihad, sorry)? 18-month old infants certainly don't walk around the streets on their own. That would lead me to believe that some nimrod of a "parent" brought them along for a little terrorism. thats what happened. Uhm, last I heard, the territories were disputed. Israel's occupation is not illegal. They are legally allowed to remain there until a settlement is reached with the arabs which, from the behavior of the Palestinian negotitating team, will probably be never. huh? they were buying vegetables.

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I am looking at buying a Dual Sport type motorcycle. This is my first cycle as well. I am interested in any experiences people have with the following motorcycles, good or bad. Honda XR250L Suzuki DR350S Suzuki DR250ES Yamaha XT350 Most XXX vs. YYY articles I have seen in magazines pit the Honda XR650L against another cycle, and the 650 always comes out shining. Is it safe to assume that the 250 would be of equal quality ?

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... If we are indeed talking about CS, then this is not quite accurate. CS is "just" tear gas--albeit the worst kind. It isn't a nausea gas, and doesn't have direct CNS effects. However, it's quite bad--much worse than CN gas. I was briefly exposed to it once (during an engagement in Berkeley circa 1968 8^) and it's not the kind of thing you forget. It seems to be moisture-activated--it not only made my eyes sting and water, but attacked my breathing passages and lungs. Breathing was painful, and my entire face felt as if it was on fire. These effects persisted for hours after exposure, and I was coughing for days afterwards. If I was exposed to a dense concentration of this stuff in a closed space for several hours, I doubt whether I could find the exit. Indeed, I can't imagine living through it.

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Yeah... and BMW 525e has 2.7 litres 535 3.4 BTW - can someone out there please tell me how to put someone else's file on and then reply to that so the other person's file and my own 'reply' go to the newgroups together? (ps: just mail me personally)

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This is a phenomenon known around work as ready-fire-aim. I am astounded at the number of times people post strong opinions about things they not only don't understand but publicly admit to not understanding. In fact, there's a plausible argument that saves are a more rational stat than wins. For the record, there are two ways that a reliever can get a save: He must finish the game and either 1. have entered the game with the tying run on base, at bat, or on deck. 2. have pitched at least three innings effectively. A pitcher may not get a win and a save in the same game. But this is an argument that *wins* is a dumb stat, not saves. This again doesn't support your claim about saves at the beginning of your post. Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com

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I've been using Final from CODA for some time, but suddenly it stopped using my fonts. I have a 386 PC with lots of disk space and memory, a Postscript laser, Win3.1, Finale 2.0.1 and I recently installed ATM 2.0. I've been fiddling around with the Windows setup for some time, and when I needed to do some work with Finale things didn't print properly. It might - and it might not - have anything to do with the installation of ATM from 1.something to 2.0, but I don't have the old ATM lying around anomore. The most annoying problem was that the Petrucci font didn't print, which is a rather important font :-) I managed to get direct printing to work if I included OwnPS=0 in the [Finale] section of WIN.INI, but Compile PostScript Listing still doesn't work; and it's those .EPS files I need. When I look at the .eps files generated the only font which appears there is Courier. I found out that if I manually changed the Courier 24-point to Petrucci 24-point in the .EPS file everything worked ok, but I'd rather avoid that since I have a lot of songs to work with. And yes, in the Special/Font/Font names dialog box all the fonts I need are listed, with the correct mapping between Finale, Screen and Printer fonts. Finale is obviously aware of the fonts since direct printing of a score works well (that is, after I included OwnPS=0), and all my other Windows applications print Petrucci and the other fonts well. Has anyone encountered problems like this? What is the current version of Finale from Coda Music Software? I have 2.0.1 Are the people at Coda available on Internet or X.400? I'd be grateful for all hints and help. -mats

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How about the GNU people, handing out very good, free software? I've also distributed two decent-sized programs myself, the Go player Fumiko (at ftp.u.washington.edu) and the Genetic Neural Network Programmer CEREBRUM (somewhere out there). I've only had time to write these programs because of scholarships and grants. The intended benefit to society, or a loophole in the system?

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I am looking for info on products that can take Windows source on a Unix box (such as Sparc), and produce a Motif executable. Another requirement is that MFC 2.0 should be supported. I already know of: Wind/U by Bristol Technologies Hunter SDK MainWin by MainSoft Are there any others? I will post a summary if it's wanted. Daniel

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Hi, I need to know if there is a 256 color graphics mode that allows multiple pages. I want something like mode 0x10 (640x350x16 2 pages). I have been experimenting with graphics by calling the BIOS with borland turbo c. I feel like I am flying blind in this area, and could use all the help that you can give. Thanks, Ivan......

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Well, let's delve one level deeper. Why is democracy better than tribalism or other means of Govt.? The President of Georgia was elected with a thumping majority and booted out later, w/ no objections from the UN. Similarly, the people of Algeria elected an Islamic Fundemantalist Party into power but the junta declared it illegal. In both cases, I personally have _no_ problems with the outcome, but if the voice of the people is that hallowed thing that the world community claims to revere so, why isn't it interfering there? . Exactly. My point is that it will inevitably turn out that way, and we can save ourselves a lot of pain and trouble by simply letting people sort out their problems on their own. Colonial interventions, even in Haiti, haven't worked in the past. They had a 102 coups from 1845-1915. The US invaded in 1915. And left in 1933, almost 17 years after they had intended to. Was it a success? Well, look at Haiti today and of the past 40 years and decide for yourself. It _was_ a success so long as the US was in, from what I remember. But it didn't last long, obviously. Nobody did. People should have a right to self-defense. If the UN wants to arm the Bosnians or Haitian revolutionaries or whoever, I have no problems with that. I do when they cross that line and attempt to re-arrange boundaries, govts. etc., the Vance-Owen plan being one such piece of insanity. We finally have a clearly-stated point of difference. Colonialism can have its good side, which is as you stated above - removing thugs from being able to lord it over powerless people. I am worried that the bad side is what will assert itself, and I am prepared to let natural forces take their course if that will mean we can avoid the bad side of colonialism. -- Srinivas Sunder sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu If The University of Illinois shares these views, I'd be surprised. They aren't that smart generally -:).

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From article <C5wDMK.Jrn@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>, by 3s737abg@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Unknown Class User): Saying things like that incline one to believe that you can't get it (SCSI) to work for your setup (too bad). I've daisy-chained 4 SCSI devices off my mac without a problem (limit is 7 SCSI devices in the daisy-chain). If it isn't working for you, it's really better to state the problem (unless all you really intend to do is try to get nasty e-mail, in that case perhaps you would be better off posting to alt.masochistic type of newsgroup). /`-_ callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu { }/ Joel E Callan Hey, why do you think I have the answer? \ ./ 2909 N. 44th Street May you sit on the tack of success |___| Milwaukee, WI 53210 and rise to the occasion!

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Last night, Boston Red Sox win its 11 games of 14 games by beating Seattle 5-2. Roger Clemson pitch not so dominate. He walked at least 6 man in first 6 inns. But Valetin and Greenwell hit homeruns and Red Sox prevail.

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I wonder why you say that? I don't see why having a spouse and/or kids would have anything to do with it. It might if you brought your kids to the game and wanted them to get home in time to get to bed at a reasonable hour (in which case I'd probably decide to take my kids to games on weekends, as many people do, or else be prepared to leave the game early), but from what you say later on, you don't bring your kids *or* your spouse to the game. As it happens, I have a husband but no kids, and my husband usually attends games with me. I can see it's a problem if you don't bring your wife to the ballgame, but that's a problem even if the game goes a trim 2 1/2 hours. As far as bagging work the next day, I don't really understand why that's necessary, unless going to a game also means that you consume vast quantities of beer (I note that this is the case for many guys). If you don't think you can get up to go to work after a long evening out, then don't have long evenings out during the week. Look: if I pay between $8.00 and $20.00 apiece for tickets, plus $10.00 for parking, plus spending my time and energy driving to and from Boston, plus spending additional money on concessions etc. at the ballpark, then I see going to a game as a considerable investment of time and money. I can't afford to go to a lot of games. Hence, going to a game is a big deal, like going to a play or an opera. Maybe you have more money than I do and can go to games all year long, so it's not such a big deal for you. But I'm not interested in having games "sped up", any more than I want to have _Die Walkure_ cut down to a convenient "weeknight version" of two hours. If I felt that going to a night game during the week would interfere with my family life or my work life, then I'd choose to go to a weekend game. IMPO.

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