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DJ was a popular player in San Diego, Derek Bell was not faring well in the clubhouse at Toronto, so no matter how bad he looks now I still think it was a steal for the Jays just from the perspective of team chemistry. No statistic can describe it (sorry statheads) and since there are so many new faces in the clubhous...
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Yes, it is possible. I'm making a 7 stepper controller board, with 7 digital inputs, and (up to) 18 digital outputs from the // port. One main thing that will tell you whether the // port is bi-directional or not is the bus tranceiver on it. Look for a chip numbered 74LS245. If you don't have this,...
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-= PASTORTALK =- A weekly dialogue with a local pastor on the news of the day by Carl (Gene) Wilkes Startext: MC344578 CompuServe: 70423,600 Internet: 70423.600@compuserve.com -= THIS WEEK'S THOUGHTS =- ...
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Wait a minute. The story being pushed here is that the fire started in ONE PLACE. This is not consistent with the story that they were TRAPPED by the fire (particularly in a building that all of a sudden had many more exits). Choose one, please. Well, for everyone besides Koresh and his blood children, we can a...
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Announcing the Trincoll Journal Trinity College's Paperless Publication The Trincoll Journal is an interactive magizine written in Hypercard. This publication offers a wide variety of information concerning the "Trinity Campus", and the Greater Hartford Area. In ...
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Let me remind all of those Muslim-haters out there who like to mention the Mufti's cooperation with Germany as a reason to let Muslims be slaughtered everywhere in the world of the following facts: 1)Why blame the Muslims for what the Nazis did and FORGIVE ITALY, THE CROATS, AND MANY OTHER EUROPEANS FOR BEING REAL ALL...
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If by chance you answered my request for NEO Asteroids in the last two days please send them to me directly. I by mistake deleted instead of read all the space-request messages . Thanks and sorry. Harry G. Osoff Science & Technology Editor Access News Network
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I just removed an IDE drive and reformated two SCSI disk to use as boot disk in a system that did run Windows fine in 386 Enhanced Mode. Its a DX50 with 8 meg RAM, and an Adaptec 1542b with bios enabled. System runs fine and runs Windows in standard mode fine, but it returns to the DOS prompt when trying to run 386...
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... BadWindow is an X protocol error. If you write a custom error handler which does not do "exit(1);" the error handler will return and let your program carry on. So, using a XSetErrorHandler is the way to go, but never mind the longjmp.
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caching drive for?
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Prove it. I am an atheist. It doesn't mean I am for or against abortion. An obvious effect of homosexuality is non-procreation. That, unlike your statement, is a fact. Please prove that (a) homosexuality is defended as means of population control, (b) being atheist causes you to hold these beliefs. I defend ho...
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Can anyone out there tell me the difference between a "persistent" disease and a "chronic" one? For example, persistent hepatitis vs chronic hepatitis.
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============================================================================== Could someone please tell me the Best FTP'able viewer available for MSDOS I am running a 486 33mhz with SVGA monitor. I need to look at gifs mainly and it would be advantageous if it ran under windows...........thanks
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: In light of recent events, it may soon become a very good idea : to include the ability to produce transparent, or at least non-obvious, : cyphertext in upcoming revisions. This won't help if the NSA/FBA axis requires all messages to undergo textual analysis and reduction to canonical form to eliminate concealed mes...
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For sale: Toshiba 3300SL notebook computer. Specs: 80386SL (64K cache) @ 25MHz, * 8MB * RAM, 80 meg 16ms IDE hard drive, 1.44meg floppy, 5.9 lbs w/ Nickle Hydride battery installed, edgelit greyscale VGA display, PS/2 mouse port, external keyboard port, 1 PCMCIA port, external expansion port, external VG...
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speaking of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin: Yes. For examples of this in the writings of the early fathers, consider: You alone and your Mother are more beautiful than any others; For there is no blemish in you, nor any stains upon your Mother. Who of my children ...
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jsn104 is jeremy scott noonan
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Recently I got a case of Hot Shots '93 cards. Unfortunately I had not planned on keeping all of them. I sort of got stuck with the case. (I'm not going to mention any names, though.) So, I am trying to sell off most or all (minus a set for myself). If you have any interest in a set, a box, or any singles, please l...
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Steve Tuttle was traded from the Blues to TB in the before the start of this season along with Pat Jablonski, for future considerations. He played for Milwaukee of the IHL, then got traded from TB to QUE along with Michel Mongeau. He's currently playing with Halifax of the AHL.
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Now where did I put my little red book? Or was that green? Jim
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Yep! I did one yesterday on my shaftie Vision... I should mention that I had a pillon that helped rotate the bike over :-) . The wheelie was the result of a necessarily agressive acceleration manouver through an intersection (damn San Antonio cagers tend to be REALLY bad drivers). However, I have done one b...
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HI I`m looking for some assistance in locating information on how to run win 3.1 on a CGA monitor. The setup suggests you look at the manual, but the guy I`m helping is part of a large office and computer assistance must be booked in advance, therefore he cant get windows onto his CGA system. Thanx in anticipation
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Hello, Below I have the copy of some source I am using to setup a user-specified color- map for X R11 V4. I am attempting to create user defined colors in terms of RGB color ranges. The calls to XAllocColor prove ineffective. Variables are defined are as follows: int i, j, k, lut_index color...
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You deliberately deleted a line! I don't remember how wrote it, but I remember what he wrote. He wrote Happy 45 birth day of Israel! and I worte: Is this means that the number of the people have been killed by Israel are so high that you can not keep the track of, or this is also a part of Zionism ideology that...
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--> A humble response to a letter by G. Scott Braley written 04-21-93 20:43. GSB> a 286 upgrade would probably cost about $50, 386 about $150 or so. GSB> Coprocessors or accelerator cards would cost at least that much. 'Tis true! I just saw an add for 286/20 motherboards for $80. I have seen whole 286/12 syst...
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Development of what? In-house apps? Maybe, but certainly not apps to be sold on an open market. Statistics like that are laughable, because they may simply mean that there are not enough shrink-wrapped usable apps for UNIX and they have to be developed disproportionately often as compared to the installed UNIX ba...
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*retching noises* Talk about "out of the frying pan and into the fire" :) I'm pretty sure SCSI is faster. Along with a lot better compatability.
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I just called them and they said the order went out on the 13th. They're putting a UPS tracer on it. Watch, it'll be waiting for me at home tonight. :-) Dean
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I came across the following notice in the Denver Post classified secction this morning (April 26, 1993): \begin{quote} NOTICE: The Denver Post will no longer knowingly accept any advertisement to buy or sell assault weapons. The Denver Post finds that the use of assault weapons poses a threat to the health, safety,...
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The Colorado Daily recently reprinted the Wall Street Journal's article on Paxton Quigley, including the nefarious little paragraph the Journal tacked onto the end. After recieving much assistance from various T.P.G. type folks, I wrote a letter to the editor criticizing this last paragraph, and surprise, surprise, su...
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It already happened as far as I know... I got some email about three weeks ago saying it was coming, and sure enough, a week after that the Duos dropped in price. I think the Duo 210 4/80 is now around US$1,8xx. The educational prices have dropped, and I imagine others as well, but I haven't really checked around si...
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mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes, (missing the entire point of my post): No joke. No,_you_jumped to_that_conclusion. It's actually an argument as to how to accomplish the societal good of discouraging drug use without violating individual rights. No. _You_missed the point. The point is, the...
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HELLO, New to this area so.... I have read about some upgrades for the LC II, Doing some modification to make the thing run faster! Is the Performa 400 about the same as an lc and if so would the homemade speed upgrade work?? Thanks Brad
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I want All-Star Tickets does anyone know how I can get some? Are they for public sale or are they sold out? Or do you just have to work for a company with some Anyway any answers would be appreciated. Please E-mail me.
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And you're the guy that doesn't know that illiterate people can't write coherent sentences. Does that make you superior somehow? Steve []
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This question derives from the Waco incident: Could CS ("gas") particles create an allergic response which would result in laryngospasm and asphyxiation?- especially in children.
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Williams does not like hitting cleanup!! Secondly, Bonds and Clark (in that order) are a lot more productive with runners in scoring position than Matt "I am streaky, free swinger" Williams.
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Hmmm... what about the genocide conducted by the Ottoman Empire aganist the Armenians living in Turkey.
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You should be aware that the US Army was called to "fight" (and did) WW I veterans (bonus marchers) who marched on DC demanding bonuses they were promised for service. Becaues of the depression, they wanted them early.
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Could some please refer me to someone who can perform PRK (Photo Refractive Keratostomy) in Canada (preferably eastern portion). I've looked in the yellow pages with little success, and if someone has had a good (or bad, for that matter) experience, that would be especially helpful if you could please let me know.
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To: All GVC Technologies v.32 9600bps modem 9600/4800/2400/1200/300 bps operation with Automatic Speed Selection. CCITT v.32/v.22bis/v.22/v.21 full-duplex operation. Asynchronous operation. Auto-answer & auto-dial: automatically switch between data and voice transmission. Supports COM port 1-4, and IRQ 2-5 Analog/dig...
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Have you checked Foley's book? The solutions are in chapter 13.
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Hello, a friend a mine has a commodore 386sx and we've put in that machine a second harddisk, he now has 100+200 MB. But the problem is that the 200MB harddisk isn't supported in the bios. Alas there's no user type 47 in the setup. At the moment we use it as a 193MB type but there are getting bad blocks on the harddisk...
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Perhaps you should change your name to Clayton "Mr Logic(NOT!)" Cramer! Please give evidence of the above statement or shut up. I believe that I may have answered that elsewhere, amongst your other ravings.
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Hey, collection. I am interested in buying any in good condition. I am particularly interested in any of the older, exotic models (eg five ] transformers into one etc... I am looking at paying around $20-$40 depending upon the model, size and original cost etc. I will also pay airmail postage and packing. I am ...
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Bad system disk. (possibly too new a version for your historical curiosity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFat Mac)
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What about the land mines which have already been mentioned? Oh, very neat. Dismiss everything I say unless I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt something which you yourself admit I can never prove to your satisfaction. Thanks, I'll stick to squaring circles.
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The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current elements for the current...
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: While it's possible that it's a ham radio transmitter that you're : hearing, it isn't likely - every bit of signal that doesn't go out the : antenna is wasted, as far as a ham is concerned, and most hams are It is the radiated signal that would cause the problem. : technically competent to ensure that they don't wa...
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Enough, already. Let's take this discussion to some other newsgroup that's more appropriate. Most of us are tired of it and would like to get back to old cars, IMHO.
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I would like to see his reasoning behind this. You may have gotten "burned" by natural disaster prophecies down there, but that does not mean that every natural disaster/judgement prophecy is false. Take a quick look at the book of Jeremiah and it is obvious that judgement prophecies can be valid. here in the US, ...
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I need the jumper settings for the achieve io card...usually found in xt's. It is affecting my video card and forcing the machine into 40 col mode. Any help? -The Ghoul Hath Spoken
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Broadcasting amplified sounds of tortured rabbits? Burning alive men, women, and children? We have on our hands here some truly sick puppies.
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Regarding the horror stories about DOS6/DOUBLEDISK and STACKER 2.? killing hard drives:
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Have anyone dealt with "Hardware that Fits" before. I have seen their ad in both MacWorld and MacUser and decided to try them when I needed a new disk. The result was not satisfactory and I was just wondering if I was just an isolated case. I like to send a letter to the president of "Hardware that Fits". ...
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You would be arrested as an international arms trafficker.
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Buffalo is up 2-0 is the series with Boston, and the reason....Grant Fuhr ? Fuhr is playoff hungry, and he's proving once again why they call him money goaltender. Fuhr might not be one of the best goaltenders in the league anymore (Statistically at least), but he's proving that he can make the big save at the ...
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I have been using the JOIN command for many years now, mostly with good success in duplicating unix-style file mounts. You will hear lots of people cursing JOIN because they confuse it with the dos APPEND command (a truely gnarly hack), but don't believe them. You also will hear people saying that Microsoft recommen...
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But no one (or at least, not many people) are trying to pass off God as a scientific fact. Not so with Kirlian photography. I'll admit that it is possible that some superior intelligence exists elsewhere, and if people want to label that intelligence "God", I'm not going to stop them. Anyway, let's _not_ turn t...
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How about the following scholarly source? Source: Pierre Oberling, "The Road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus", Social Science Monographs, Boulder, 1982, ISBN 88033-000-7. Well, I am forced to disagree with you. The Greeks started massacring the Turkish population on Cyp...
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O.K. It would be a shame for Cards fans on the net to go through the 1993 championship season without a mailing list to talk on so I would be willing to look at starting one. Except there's one little problem... I don't know the first thing about how to do it or what it requires in terms of resources or time. So ...
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I have a project in mind that requires an array of LEDs that can be addressed individually by a microprocessor (say, 16x16 or so). Is there an LSI that is designed to drive an LED array (including RAM to hold the array state), or failing that, some way of multiplexing the display so I don't have to latch a bit for eac...
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Adobe Streamline has been out four a couple of years. It does a much better job than the autotracing functions which are built into illustration programs. Of course, a higher resolution bitmap will produce a more accurate trace. The problem that I've run into though, is that when it creates a detailed trace, it prod...
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Hi all, I've read the FAQ, I've fiddled around, but I am still having problems getting my poor old HP9000/300 to let me input/display characters above 127. I have the following in my .Xdefaults: XTerm*Font : -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1 So I believe that I have the correct font s...
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(Please note followup) In <1993Apr27.012045.8543@Virginia.EDU> ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is name-calling of the lowest kind. Please don't be disingenuous. Do civil libertarians make no distinction between the Nazis and Israel? Would you say that the Iraqis are like the Nazis? If yo...
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Cambridge Audio Integrated Amp P70 - 60W stereo solid state, w/box List $600 want $340 Cambridge Audio Tuner T50 - 8 presets list $350 want $200 Cambridge Audio PreAmp C70 - list $500 want $290 Klipschorns - The Klipschorns Speakers...legends in there own time list ~$3k...
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The phone number for GCC is 617-275-5800, I believe. I don't have the number for Tech Support handy...
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I disagree. By converting to another religion, you certainly do change your cultural identity, and lose that part of you which was Jewish. No, there is a serious cultural and religios difference between renouncing the jewish god and accepting a new one. "Thou shall have no other gods before me." Conversion ...
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Grant Fuhr rules! -).
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Radiating from someone who is incapable of providing a single scholarly source on his 'genocide apology program', it is rather amusing. Again, where is your non-existent list of scholars and scholarly sources? Here is mine: "An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the systematic extermination of t...
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But, but, but... How does buying an external modem solve the problem of wanting more than 2 serial devices at once? And since the PC only supports two, why are you blaming a modem vendor for the problem? I don't see how your experience could have been different with any internal modem.
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at least be honest. velcro (tm) dates from the 40's. i have doubts about everything listed above. just because it was developed in the space age, doesn't mean it was a space spin-off.
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I have a friend with an original HP LaserJet. The nameplate does not specify a number, but since the LJ II followed later, one assumes that he has a LJ I. His problem is a tax program which requires a 17 cpi font to print the forms properly. This unit came to market in 2 versions. The plus version supported do...
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Why don't you pull your head out of your ass and into reality? First off, what is the deal with your subject lines? Do you think that you are being funny? Ha ha. What a developed sense of humor you have, I'm surprised they let you out of the cage. Why don't we not talk about the "official" definition of foreign a...
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While I wouldn't be too terribly impressed with anybody who got to be paranoid based on either Usenet in general or Phill Hallam-Baker's comments in general, you'd be surprised. For most people, if you accuse them of something long enough and loud enough, to enough people, they start to ask why th...
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Having in mind the size of the images, my opinion is to go with VLB. It has _much_ more bandwith that EISA, which in fact can be utilized by the craphics card. (I have not made measures, so someone else may share experience on that.) Also, the DX2/66 is faster in the operations, that run off internal cache, ...
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I dont know about the story but it comes from the fact that in most stadiums, the batter faces northeast and so when a pitcher is on the mound, his left arm is to the south, hence the term.
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Condensers, Kimble Modern Liebig West #18003. Jacket length 500 mm. All glass, straight tubes. Plastic/gasketed end caps. Exactly like Central Scientific's 14459 series condensers. Being sold in American Science & Surplus's April catalog for ~$20 each. In original (old) packaging. I have 13 of these. $15 each. Volum...
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[deleted] It's noteworthy that the posts about the west being evil etc are made not in some Islamic hellhole but from the west. If the west is so bad, why do they come here? Notice how they comfortably exercise their rights to free expression, something completely absent in their own countries. Vasudev
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Please replay yxy4145@usl.edu Thanks a lot
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The forces and accelerations involved in doing a little bit of orbital maneuvering with HST aboard are much smaller than those involved in reentry, landing, and re-launch. The OMS engines aren't very powerful; they don't have to be.
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Could someone explain how to make sense of drag coefficients (i.e Cd) mentioned in magazines. I understand that lower numbers signify better aerodynamics but what does this mean in the real world. Is there a way to calculate new top speeds(assuming the car is not rev limited at top speed) or mileage benefits if a ide...
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What jetting do you recommend for a ZX-11 (with standard mufflers) instead of the standard one (idle-38, main-155). Cheers.
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<: <: As a private citizen, I would feel much more "secure in my person and <: papers" knowing that an organization committed to individual civil <: liberties- the ACLU and the NRA come to mind- was safeguarding half of <: my key. Both the ACLU and the NRA are resistent to government pressure <: by the simple expedien...
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Hello, Could someone tell me if and where i could find faceoff stats for the 91/92 season and later on the 92/93 (i think its to early to get it now). Thanks a lot
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My girlfriend just started taking this drug for her migranes. It really helped her get through the rebound withdrawl when she got off analgesics. She doesn't have a mail account, but asked me to forward this: "Glaxo is the distributor; Imitrex is the drug's brand name. It works. She can call her pharmacy for more ...
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Oh horse puckey. Without their cop partner in attendance, they are less likely to be controllable *without* the use of force which would kill the dog. O.k. so you've disabled the dog's mouth, and given up use of your arm to do so. How `bout them front and read paws, and the fact that to plug up that mouth you've...
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Does anybody have a data-sheet handly for the above-mentioned card? I bought one, sans manual at a local surplus shop, and want to try it out with the Crywyr packet driver suite. The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18)...
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Markus, what is that we are noting about the spelling? That you aren't good at it? :^) That Peugeot is OUT of N. America? What does this mean?
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- - I heard a story on the local sports news broadcast in Edmonton. - Oiler owner Peter Pocklington will be holding a press conference - next week. While the exact details are not known, it is believed - to concern the Oiler's future. - - Rumour has it that Pocklington signed a tentative lease arrangement - with Copps...
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It's called PC-XWare. It is based on NCD-Ware, their X-terminal software (which , IMHO, is excellent). PC-XWare will include X-Remote and be optimized for 32 bit machines. It's X11R5 based. It will support remote management, etc. Not an NCD employee, just a fan :) -- --------------------------------- Edwa...
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Silly boy! You read the rest of that jibberish! go back and read rule #1. OK, for the record, Spike is jointly owned. The registration says -or- (Uhhh, what _does_ the title say, Beth?) Beth brought the ad to my attention, I'd been half heartedly lusting after an SR500 for years. I had successfully avioded buying ...
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Hey Larry, How can you be a comp sci major and never crash a damn computer. What does your CS dept teach you...or are you just that good of a programmer that not one of your assembly programs have ever downed your machine. Why do you bother putting up such stupid posts...or are you that ignorant.
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Seeing all these questions about uart types, their availability, and their relative merits, wouldn't it be fine, if for internal highspeed modems there were a mode of operation bypassing the dull and stupid uart interface and instead accessing directly the relatively large send/receive buffers of the modem, thus elim...
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