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Hi,
is there any script/program/thelike already existing which could transform
the output of x11perfcomp (a huge table) into a nice 3d'ish diagram or
graph by producing postscript output from x11perfcomp input ?
Maybe someone has already written such beast ...
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-*----
I pity those who hope that medical knowledge can resolve issues
such as this. This issue has been rehashed in sci.med time and
time again. The bottom line is this: in normal circumstances,
both the medical advantages of and the medical risks of
circumcision are minor. This means that the decision is left to
the religious, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic mores of the
parents, at best, or to the habit of the concerned hospital or
caregivers, at worst.
As (prospective) parents, you should do what you want in this
regard and not worry about it too much. In terms of decisions
you make for your child, it will have far less importance than
many -- such as which schools you choose -- that most parents
think about only a little.
This question will undoubtedly push the buttons of people who
feel that the decision to circumcise your infant or not is a
momentous medical decision. It is not.
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I'm not sure were this thread has been before i popped in, but I've never
thought of waiting periods as having anything to do with training or
competence. I just can't imagin any valid reason for having a gun that
can't wait a few days. I can think of plenty of bad reasons for not
wanting a waiting period: I want to buy a gun and kill so-and-so right
now, I've crossed the state line to buy a gun illegally and I can't
afford to spend the night here, etc.
I'm not a big fan of guns, but I feel that it is important to guard
American's rights to own them. On the other hand, we license and regulate
many things without seriously impeding anyones constitutional rights.
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initially, 79 returned to active use, 80 new sectors marked bad, following
successive runs of spinrite.
I think I need a new ESDI HDD controller.
I know that these two will work:
DTC 6280
Adaptec 2322B
Others that MIGHT work:
DTC 6282
Ultra Store 12
WD 1007V
If you own one and will sell it cheaply I'll buy it.
Thanks,
-Greg Bishop
gt3635a@hydra.gatech.edu
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bleagh! this was a terrific trade. snow will certainly be better than
mattingly in the future, but that they'll be about the same now is a
defensible opinion. abbott is one of the few truly great pitchers in
the game today.
i'm not sure about this one. i think that it's good, in that a
pre-1992 boggs kicks hayes/meulens/whoevers' ass, and that a 1992
boggs still isn't ALL that shabby. it's bad, though, that the
yankees expect a pre-1992 boggs, and will probably get a 1992 boggs.
however, i'd still play boggs over hayes or bam bam.
you have my full agreement here. he's not all that much better than
velarde, and silvestri is just about a lock to be better than him.
however, i do enjoy the fact that "spike" is not a nickname.
not that this helps the yankees.
i strongly disagree. i'd much much rather have a hundred games of
tartabull and sixty games of dion james than 162 games of james.
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Often Shuttle lifts satellites with upper stages. Yet we still consider it
payload. Ten Saturn flights over about 4 years delivered to LEO roughly the
same as 50 shuttle flights over 10 years.
They where pretty much the same in terms of cost/pound. A resurected
Saturn would cost only $2,000 per pound (if development costs are ignored)
which is five times cheaper than Shuttle.
Allen
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I have also moved on to a 66.6 mhz clock. Thus far not problems. I'm not totallysurprised as I've had Q700 run at 35.4 mhz (CPU clock speed) using a VSO. My
25 mhz rated Daystar QuadraCache got very hot at 32 mhz and would fail previously. I glued on a piece of aluminum stock to the hi speed RAM chips and it runs
cool without problems at 33.3 mhz. The combination is faster than a Q950.
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Might depend on where you live .. I know locally, for most of the winter
the ground, and concrete floor, within sheds and garages (unheated) is
signifacantly warmer than the average air temperature. The air does get
warmer during the day, but during the night, the ground and concrete
is definitely warmer, especially when protected by the walls from the
albedo effect. And the nights are longer by several hours than the
days.
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Hmm... there must be two towns with the same name. Kaliningrad,
located just North of Moscow is correct. It is the home of several
Russian space enterprises, including NPO Energia, Krunichev, Fakel,
and Tsniimach. The main Russian manned spacecraft control facility
is also located here.
Kaliningrad is easily reachable by auto from Moscow, and tours
can be arranged. Call ahead though, there are still armed military
guards at many of these facilities -- who don't speak English,
aren't well paid, and are rather bored.
It's a very popular destination with Western space industry
types at the moment.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Wales Larrison Space Technology Investor
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In the hands of a defender, a .357 _is_ a miracle from God. He helps those
who help themselves. Or haven't you ever heard that one before?
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Evolution is both fact and theory. The THEORY of evolution represents the
scientific attempt to explain the FACT of evolution. The theory of evolution
does not provide facts; it explains facts. It can be safely assumed that ALL
scientific theories neither provide nor become facts but rather EXPLAIN facts.
I recommend that you do some appropriate reading in general science. A good
starting point with regard to evolution for the layman would be "Evolution as
Fact and Theory" in "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes" [pp 253-262] by Stephen Jay
Gould. There is a great deal of other useful information in this publication.
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Thats pretty hard since CB900 customs weren't introduced
until 1980. If you find a pre-80 one, hold onto it. It
will be worth big bucks some day.
Mine has comstar wheels. Methinks you need to do
your homework better.
And obviously, neither do you.
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Yesterday, I went to the Boeing shareholders meeting. It was a bit shorter
than I expected. Last year (when the stock was first down), they made a big
presentation on the 777, and other programs. This year, it was much more
bare-bones.
In any case, I wanted to ask a question that the board of directors would
hear, and so I got there early, and figured that If I didn't get to the mike,
maybe they would read mine off of a card, and so I wrote it down, and handed it
in.
After the meeting started, Mr. Shrontz said that he would only answer written
questions, in order to be fair to the people in the overflow room that only
had monitors downstairs. Naturally, I was crushed.
So, when question and answer time came, I was suprised to find my question
being read and answered. Admittedly near the end of the ones that he took.
Presumably getting there early, and getting the question in early made all
the difference.
So, on to the substance. The question was
Is Boeing looking at anything BEYOND the high speed Civil Transport, such
as a commercial space launch system, and if not, how will Boeing compete
with the reusable single stage to orbit technology presently being developed
by Mcdonnell Douglass?
Well, he read it without a hitch, and without editing, with impressed me,
then he answered it very quickly treating it as a two part question, last
part first.
This is to the best of my recollection what he said.
As far as single stage to orbit technology, we think that we have a better
answer in a two stage approach, and we are talking to some of our customers
about that. As far as commercialization, that is a long ways off. The High
speed Civil Transport is about as far out as our commercial planning goes at
this point.
So, this tells me that Boeing still considers space to be a non-commercial
arena, and for the most part this is true, however it also tells me that
they consider there to be enough money in building space launchers for them
to persue work on their own.
Now, I do have a friend on the spacelifter program at boeing. Actually,
this is a mis-nomer, as there is no spacelifter contract for the work that this
guy is doing, however, he is doing work in preparation of a proposal for space
lifter contracts. He won't tell me what he is doing, but maybe this is where
the TSTO action is taking place at boeing. At the very minimum, the chairman
of the board of boeing said that they have an approach in mind, and they are
trying to do something with it.
Anybody know anything further?
Is this really news?
Does this threaten further work on DC-? ?
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It is the Croats that were divided, at least 70,000 were left in Serbian
province of Vojvodina. It is the Muslims that were divided, 200,000
left in the region of Sanjak that now belongs to Serbia. If the Serbs
in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina want self-determination, the same
right should be given to Croats and Muslims, and Albanians and Hungarians
in Serbia. Why should Serbia be exempted?
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and skill. If you haven't done it before, it can be dangerous. It takes
some getting used to. Read Ed's list.
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as far as simply mapping your logo or whatever onto a cube or sphere,
it's quite easy. Just either copy the GIF you want mapped into the map
directory or add a map path to the directory where it currently is. Then
go into the materials editor and make a new material with that as the bit
map, voila..
__________________________________________________________________________
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They must be theists in disguise.
In any event, we don't _need_ to create religious parodies: just
look at some actual religions which are absurd.
[34mAnd now . . . [35mDeep Thoughts[0m
[32mby Jack Handey.[0m
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I can (and do) take religious writings as a metaphor for life.
I do this with all sorts of fiction, from Beowolf to Deep Space Nine.
The idea is to not limit yourself to one book, screen out the good
stuff from what you read, and to remember that it is all just a story.
You sound Buddist to me :^)
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Antihistamines have been the active ingredient of OTC sleep aids for
decades. Go to any drugstore and look at the packages of such sleep
aids as Sominex, Nytol, etc. The active ingredient is:
diphenhydramine, the same antihistamine that's in Benadryl.
--
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1420
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While I have respect for John's ability and integrity, I really regret his
leaving just after a major release (or, more accurately, making the release
just before leaving). Several of us are having problems with xv-3.00, and
in particular I have issues with all the fixes that have so far been made
to the Imakefiles and xv.h. Without John to adjudicate, and everybody
posting fixes that work for *them*, chaos is inevitable; let's hope it is
temporary.
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I think the answer to Mr. Mayamsky's question can be found in the
first amendment to the US Constitution.
Amendment I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.
Steve
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Talking about car alarms, there are certain cars in this country that are
only insurable if they are fitted with a Vecta alarm. We're talking Coswoths
and Porsches and stuff. Just before they (the insurance companies) decided to
make this move, they insisted that the car be fitted with a Scorpion alarm (
now they've changed to the Vecta)... so everyone who's spent $$$ on fitting
the Scorpion alarm have founbd themselves having to upgrade to the Vecta system.
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Macsee.zip on ftp.cica.indiana.edu is supposed to read and write Mac disks.
I've never tried it, though. Good luck
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horizontally opposed 4.
or 'boxer'
great idea, actually..
smooth running; low center of gravity..
also used in some honda gullwings, corvairs, porsches (others?)
...
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I wonder how many more years it will take Gretz to beat this one? ;-)
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I am forced to disagree with you. First of all, one may have been
born from a non-Turkish, non-Muslim parent outside the Turkish land,
yet still can be a Turk, provided this person calls himself or herself
a Turk. Because the designation of a Turk is not a genetic feature,
not a racial or religious feature. It is a matter of identifying
with the Turkish values. Secondly, the following observations by
Westerners were written in French by Ahmet Cevat:
"If Turks had behaved like Christians to use force to convert to Islam the
nations which they brought under their power, to which no one could have
opposed, today there would be no Eastern problem. But Turks did not do so.
They obeyed the word of the Koran to permit everybody "to worship in their own
way" centuries before Frederick the Great pronounced his famous dictum. Thus,
in an age when the Christian Europe itself shed Christian blood and when
people in Europe enjoyed inflicting inhuman tortures upon those whose beliefs
differed from theirs, the Ottoman Empire became the sole country where the
inquisition did not exist, where deaths at the stake were unheard of and
where accusations of witchcraft were not made. And the barbarian (!) Turkey
was the only country where the Jews persecuted and chased away everywhere
by the Christians, could find asylum. These facts demonstrate that Muslim
countries provided spiritually far better living conditions than Christian
countries."[1]
"The Turks, who are a conquering nation, did not Turkify the nations that came
under their rule; instead, they respected their religions and traditions. It
was a stroke of luck for Romania to live under Turkish rule instead of
Russian or Austrian rule. Because otherwise there would not have been a
Romanian nation today" (Popescu Ciocanel).
"Turks rule over people under their administration only externally, without
interfering with their internal structures. On account of this, the autonomy
of minorities in Turkey is better and more complete than any in the most
advanced European countries."[2]
"...human beings hate each other on account of religious differences. This flaw
is older than Islam and Christianity. But there has never been any examples
of this adjuration in Turkey because Turks never oppress anybody on account
of his religion. If enmity on the basis of religion had been such a case of
simple contempt among us too, or if it did not keep translating itself into
action, many nations in our Europe would probably have considered themselves
happy!" (A. de Mortraye).[3]
"Turkey never became a scene for religious terror or for the cruelty of the
inquisition. On the contrary, it served as an asylum for the unfortunate
victims of Christian fanaticism. If you look into history, you will see that
in the fifteenth century thousands of Jews who were expelled from Spain and
Portugal found such a good asylum in Turkey that their descendants have been
living there very calmly all through these approximately three hundred years,
and are only forced to defend themselves in some countries against the
cruelty of Christians, especially that of the Orthodoxes. No Jew is able to
appear in public during Easter celebrations in Athens, even today. In Turkey,
however, if the Israelites are insulted by the Greek and Armenian communities,
local courts immediately take them under their protection."
"In that vast and calm country of the sultan, all religions and nations are
living together peacefully. Although the mosque is superior to the church and
the synagogue, it does not replace them. Because of this, the Catholic sect is
more free in Istanbul and Smyrna compared with Paris and Lyon. In addition
to the fact that no law in Turkey prohibits the open-air ceremonies of this
sect, neither does any law imprison its cross in the church. While the
dead are being taken to the graves, a long line of priests bear processional
candles and chant Catholic hymns. When all the priests in all the churches in
the Galata and Beyoglu districts go into the streets and form clerical
processions during the Eucharist celebrations, chanting hymns and bearing
their crosses and religious banners, a detachment of soldiers escorts them
which forces even the Turks to stand in respect around the group of
priests." (A. Ubicini).[4]
[1] Ah. Djevat, "Yabancilara Gore Eski Turkler," 3rd ed. (Istanbul, 1978),
pp. 70-71.
[2] Ibid., p.91.
[3] Ibid., pp. 214-215.
[4] Ibid., pp. 215-216.
Serdar Argic
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My first and most important point is that regardless of how your recovery
happened, I'm glad it did!
On 10-May-93 in Re: How I got saved...
NOW! The point that I'll try to make is that coincidences like this occur
with a very high frequency. How many of us have been thinking of someone
and had that person call? Much of the whole psychic phenomenon is easily
explicable by this - one forgets the misses. Consider your astrological
forcast in the newspaper. How many times have you said "That's me" vs
"That's not me"? You'll remember the hits, but the misses will be much more
frequent.
On 10-May-93 in Re: How I got saved...
And what if, instead if being healed, your affliction got much worse and
you ended up paralyzed? Would you have attributed that to god as well?
Or would that have been the work of satan? If you believe that would have
been so, why ONLY good from god, and ONLY evil from satan? Couldn't the
agony have come from god? Think about what he did to poor Job!
David Hunt - Graduate Slave | My mind is my own. | Towards both a
Mechanical Engineering | So are my ideas & opinions. | Palestinian and
Carnegie Mellon University | <<<Use Golden Rule v2.0>>> | Jewish homeland!
====T=H=E=R=E===I=S===N=O===G=O=D=========T=H=E=R=E===I=S===N=O===G=O=D=====
Email: bluelobster+@cmu.edu Working towards my "Piled Higher and Deeper"
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Not entirely true. A friend of mine was having trouble finishing the game
GODS and asked me for help since he could not find a "trainer" (small
patch that lets you play without losing lifes). The game is compressed but
I did find *one* byte which when changed in the original *compressed* file
would not affect the decompression and would also prevent the "shield" in the
game from being tured off turning therefore making you invincible.
There are many other progs whose copy protection was defeated one way or
another and I have seen examples of this with my own eyes. The copy
protection schemes defeated were various such as using protected mode,
compressed executables, progs that load and execute other progs (possibly
compressed), dongles, key disks, etc...
I believe that persistence overcomes even the very best copy protection
schemes.
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You allways could port and use emu from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/emu.tar.Z.
We've implemented a blinking text cursor for the very reasons people mentioned.
You can even configure the actual size of the text cursor (horizontal / ver-
tical line cursors, smaller block cursors), turn on and off blinking,
set the blink rate and so on. You even get blinking text - ok, enough
advertising.
I haven't looked at the xterm code in this respect, but from the memories
I have when we had to decide whether to start with xterm and make it do
what we wanted (mostly the blinking text), I'd say it won't be easy, since
xterm is a hairy mess (understandable if you follow it's roots back to
X10).
The actual task to get the cursor to blink isn't that difficult if you
provide the right hooks. As Antonio mentioned, you'll have to show the
cursor directly after it has moved, or people will become confused.
Since it's a good idea to take the cursor off the screen when you
do anything on screen anyways, this isn't very complicated. You'll just
have to start the blink process with the cursor showing directly after
it's mapped.
As for the portability of emu and it's newest version. The one on export
is still the same as on the R5 contrib tape. We wanted to get out a new
release for over six months now, but unfortunately we're drowning in work.
But since the changes aren't affectiong emu's behavior much, I'd say
whoever wants to try emu shouldn't wait for a new version.
As is, emu won't work on BSD derived systems (e.g. SUNs) with anything else
than a csh. There is a fix to this, which is very short (remove one line
of code). I'll put this on export today.
Michael
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The following books are up for sale.
All are in good to excellent condition.
Make offers.
rob@phavl.uucp ( uunet!phavl!rob )
Robert Ransbottom
General Supply & Metals, Inc.
voice: 508-999-6257
Index:
Miscellany
C
C++
Unix & Operating System
Intel Processor & MS-DOS
Miscellany:
Algorithms, 2nd Ed., Sedgewick, Hardbound
List: $41.00
Programmers at Work, Lammers
List: $10.00
Software Reliability, Musa, Iannino, Okumoto HARDBOUND
List: $51.00
The Users Guide to Small Computers, Jerry Pournelle
List: $10.00
Out of the Inner Circle, Bill Landreth
List: $10.00
Elementary Pascal, Ledgard, Singer
List: $13.00
C++ Language:
Object Oriented Program Design with Examples in C++, Mark Mullin
List: $20.00
C Language:
Variations in C, Schustack
List: $23.00
Programs and Data Structures in C, Ammeraal
List: $20.00
Turbo C Programmer's Library, Jamsa
List: $23.00
Advanced Turbo C, Hebert Schildt
List: $23.00
Understanding C, Bruce Hunter
List: $18.00
C Database Development, Al Stevens
List: $24.00
C Programmer's Library, Purdum, Leslie, Stegemotter
List: $20.00
Dr. Dobbs Toolbook of C, Dr. Dobb's Journal
List: $25.00
C with Excellence Programing Proverbs, Henry Ledgard
List: $19.00
C, the Pocket Reference, Herbert Schildt
List: $5.00
C Programming Guide, Jack Purdum, SOME WEAR
List: $25.00
C Programmer's Toolkit (w/ Disk), Jack Purdum
List: $40.00
C: Step-by-Step, Waite, Prata
List: $28.00
Unix and Operating System:
The Unix System V Environment, S. R. Bourne
List: $27.00
UNIX Papers, Michael Waite, editor
List: $27.00
UNIX for MS-DOS Programmers, Steven Mikes
List: $25.00
The Business Guide to the UNIX System, Yates, Emerson
List: $20.00
UNIX Programming on the 80286/80386, Alan Deikman
List: $25.00
UNIX The Complete Reference, Stephen Collin
List: $25.00
Unix Primer Plus, Waite, Martin, Prata
List: $20.00
UNIX for Programmers, An Introduction, Daniel Farkas
List: $23.00
Unix for Super-Users, Foxley
List: $26.00
UNIX Communications, Henderson, et al
List: $28.00
Microport System V Made Easy: Learning the UNIX O.S., O'Reilly ( SV.3.2)
List: $10.00
Understanding and Using COFF, Gintaras, O'Reilly & Assoc.
List: $22.00
Operating System Design The XINU Approach, P.C. Ed., D. Comer & Foosum, HARD
List: $53.00
Microcomputer Operating Systems, Dahmke
List: $17.00
INTEL Processor, MS-DOS:
Inside the IBM PC (w/ disk), Peter Norton
List: $30.00
Using Turbo Prolog, Robinson
List: $20.00
Using Assembly Language, Wyatt (ibm pc orientation)
List: $27.00
Compute's Quick & Easy Guide to Learning Lotus 1-2-3, Doug Wolf
List: $13.00
Advanced 80386 Programming Techniques, James Turley
List: $23.00
intel 80386 System Software Writer's Guide, Intel Corp.
List: $20.00
Performance Programming Under MS-DOS, Michael Young
List: $20.00
Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT & AT, R. Jourdain
List: $20.00
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I've turned my monitor on and off with the cpu running many times. Each time
I wonder what I am doing to my CPU by directly hooking in such a high current
draw on its lines while it is running. Does this put a substantial spike on
the power line? Could one possibly lose data or damage equipment?
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No.
No. The library at Alexandria was perhaps the greatest library ever
built in the world. The Greeks had a love of wisdom, philo sophos, and
this great love was reflected in the Alexandrian library. The Christians
got a hold of it and began modifying and purging texts and then the Moslems
invaded and either the Christians burned the library to keep it from falling
into Moslems hands (far more likely since they were the book burners, not the
Moslems), or it burned in the sack of the city or the Moslems burned it.
Either way, a tremendous amount of information was lost. The destruction of the
library of Alexandria was probably one of the greatest crimes of man
against man.
Actually, the Hebrew almah, (young woman), was translated as the Hellenistic
Greek parthenos which may or may not be correctly translated into the
modern and technical English term virgin. The Jews did not have the type
of virginity cult that the Greco-Romans had in Artemis and Diana.
The standard text used by Christians and Jews is the Masoretic Text.
Jews of course use the text in its original Hebrew, without translation.
Propaganda.
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Yow! Am I ENCRYPTING yet?
Didn't we go over this guns'n'crypto discussion a few months ago? Must
we go over it again?
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Or the library might be there but not pointed to by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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Would someone be willing to explain to me the 486DX 50MHz is not more
popular than it is? I would think it would be just as fast, if not
faster than the 486DX 66MHz for certian applications. Plus, a 50MHz
motherboard would seem better if you had any plans on upgrading the
chip in the future. I must be missing something, since everyone is
buying the DX2 66... Many adds don't even mention the DX 50.
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My $0.02 worth: I did this once. BDI LadyCager in a Town Car passed me on
the right on a two lane road!:-{ I memorized her license plate (this in the
days before I carried pen and paper in my tankbag) and went to the local
police station. Cops filled out the ticket. I signed it. She paid it!
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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You're reading far too much into this (aside from the obvious fact
that you shouldn't hold anybody to what they wrote in a 10 year old
book in a rapidly changing field like this.)
Quite simply she says that the security should not DEPEND on the
secrecy of the algorithm. A secret algorithm can still be secure,
after all, we just don't know it. Only our level of trust is
affected, not the security of the system.
The algorithm *could* be RSA for all we know, which we believe to
be secure.
They have a much better reason to classify the algorithm than to
protect its security. They want to protect its market share.
If they publish the algorithm, then shortly manufacturers would
make chips that implement the algorithm and standard but do not
use a key stored in escrow. And of course, everybody would buy them.
The whole push of this chip is that by establishing a standard that
you can only use if you follow their rules, they get us to follow
their rules without enacting new laws that we would fight tooth and
nail.
Quite simply, with Clipper established, it would be much harder for
another encryption maker to define a new standard, to make phones that
can't talk to the leading phone companies. The result is tappable
cryptography without laws forbidding other kinds, for 99% of the
populace.
To get untappable crypto, you would have to build a special phone that
runs on top of this system, and everybody you talk to would have to
have an indentical one.
That's the chicken and egg of crypto. The government is using its
very special ability to solve chicken and egg problems of new
technologies to control this one in a way they like.
It's almost admirably clever. When the EFF started, I posed the question here
"What are the police going to do when they wake up and discover they
can't wiretap?" and nobody here had an answer (or even thought it was
much of a question)
Then came the backdoor and Digital Telephony bills, which we fought.
Now we have their real answer, the cleverest of all.
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It's NOT the concrete floor that does it. The problem is that lead-acid
cells self discharge over time. Even high quality cells (Gates for instance)
will discharge 50-60% over a 3-5 month period of time. Non-sealed cells
self discharge even faster. If the battery was not completly charged
when left sitting, it probably discharged past the the point where cell
sulfiding occurs, which in many cases means a ruined battery.
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Here goes:
More than a few years back (if you were born that year, you can legally drink),
we tried it out. We found an 8 ft. deep cistern that we lined with some 10 ft.
2X6s. We put a large can (one of those industrial sized pork'n beans cans)
stuffed with oily rags and scraps of wood in the bottom. After lighting the
fire, we LOWERED a box of .38 Spc. SWCs into the can. We heard pops, one solid
bang and several "fizzzz shussss". After we thought the excitment was over, we
boldly climbed down to find that NONE of the bullets had left the can, several
of the shells were lieing around the bottom of the well and the boards had all
died of smoke inhalation. And 5 or 6 of the shells still had live primers!
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I UPGRADED MY OLD 386 WITH 486DX-50 LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARD TWO MONTH AGO
AND WITH IT I BOUGHT A CONTROLLER CARD LOCAL BUS AND A GRAFIC CARD
DIAMOND STEALTH VLB.
BUT WHEN I TRY TO PUT MY NEW GRAFIC CARD AND MY NEW CONTROLLER TOGETHER
MY SYSTEM DON'T WANT TO BOOT UP; IT STOP AFTER CONTROLLER CARD CHECKING.
I HAVE TRY TO CHANGE MY AMI-BIOS SETUP BUT NOTHING WORKS.
JUST ONE THING WHEN I DISABLE MY ROM-BIOS ADRESS ON MY CONTROLLER CARD
MY SYSTEM DO ONE MORE STEP: CHECKING ALL SYSTEM AND CACHE MEMORY BUT NOTHING
MORE.
THANKS FOR ANSWER.
CHROBERT
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If anyone has any information on this deficiency I would very greatly
appreciate a response here or preferably by Email. All I know at this
point is a deficiency can cause myoglobin to be released, and in times
of stress and high ambient temperature could cause renal failure.
x
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In fact, I'm looking for a possibility to connect different peaces of information
(like in the windows help system).
And no, I don't want to program such a system by myself. The necessary effort and
afford should be as small as possible.
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Tell that to the people who run the 10-meter Keck telescope, or the
astronomers and engineers working on the Gemini twin 8-meter telescope
project. It took 7 years to build Keck I and now they are building
Keck II. According to the December 1992 Sky & Telescope, "This
second 10-meter eye will convert the facility into a binocular telescope
with double the light-gathering power and the ability to resolve
the headlights of a car some 25,000 kilometers away." Japan's 8.3-meter
Subaru telescope will soon join Keck on Mauna Kea. All these telescopes
will work in the infrared, yes, but they are _visible light_ telescopes!
And haven't you heard anything about adaptive optics? A lot of research
was done with "Star Wars" funding, and some is now being shared with
astronomers. This shows great promise. Soon, probably within a few
years, even the largest telescopes will be able to resolve to their
theoretical limit _despite_ the distortions of the atmosphere.
To say that "visible light astronomy is already a dying field" is
pure hokum. To use the "logic" that things are already bad, so it doesn't
matter if it gets worse is absurd. Maybe common sense and logic
are the dying fields.
George Krumins
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[...]
The House Document Room can be reached at +1 202 225 3456. You need to
have the number of the document you want (e.g. HR1036) and they'll be happy
to send it to you. Tell them if it's going to be a big stack, because the
surly sounding guy who answers is scrawling in a really awful hand on the
back of the envelope that will come and will run out of room quickly if
you don't tell him.
The Senate document room is too important to deal with the likes of you
and I, and will answer requests from off the hill only by mail.
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(much mindless drivel deleted)
Question to you Canadian folk: is this University of New Brunswick a
branch campus of the Western Business School? Seems like the same sort
of rectal appendage belongs to both of them.
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Now to make it perfect apple ought to run right out and license
the voice of a certain Mrs. Roddenberry for the speech synthesizer....
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NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT KIND OF HAPPY GRASS YOU ARE SMOKING? MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHARE SOME WITH ME.
FIRST OF ALL, LOU GEHRIG IS THE GREATEST FIRST BASEMAN EVER. JIMMIE FOXX IS
CLEARLY THE NEXT BEST FIRST BASEMAN EVER. HE COULD BE THE GREATEST FIRST
BASEMAN OF THE YANKEES IN THE MODERN ERA. TO PUT HIM IN THIS "BEST IN THE
HISTORY OF BASEBALL" IS QUITE HUMOROUS, VERY SILLY, AND TOTALLY OFF THE LINE.
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I'll pick up that PM and have a look -- maybe the picture in there is not
the actual car, but a prototype?
I saw the Mach III and was not all that impressed -- it looked WAY too
Japanese for me... the tear drop headlights reminded me of a Nissan NX...
Glad I didn't hold out for the '94 and bought a '93. Maybe they'll work on
the design a little bit, listen to consumers and come out with nice-looking
'95 or '96. It always takes a while to work out the kinks in a new design,
e.g. the F-body Camaro/Firebirds (btw, the new Camaros look like shit too).
--
Keath Milligan, Software Engineer, VideoTelecom Corporation, Austin, Texas
jkm@vtel.com, reaper@wixer.bga.com
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You don't know much about the fall of Diem's government in Vietnam.
Or the traditional Indian practice of Suttee. People have been
burning themselves to death (or willing to go through such and end)
for political and religious reasons since the beginning of time.
Also, death from smoke inhalation is little better than dying from
the flames themselves. Think about breatning in searing toxic
gasses. It's not pleasant.
Then again, to a Buddhist monk, it might be. To each his own.
I'm waiting to see what the government has, too.
_____ _____
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Mitchell S Todd \\\\/ / _____/__________________________
________________ \\/ / mst4298@zeus._____/.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'_'_'_/
\_____ \__ / / tamu.edu _____/.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'_'_/
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\_ / /__________/
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Even if they did, a globe at a scale that you could fit into your average room
or even average "hall" the deviations you mention would not be visually
evident. In other words a micrometer would be required to test the fact that
the Globe was infact pear-shaped.
Regards Scott.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272).
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Department of Psychology / \ W + E
University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S
Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v
*** ERROR 144 - REBOOT? is a registered trademark of ENSONIQ Corp ***
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CALL FOR PAPERS
===============
Progress In Neural Networks
Special Volume on Shape Analysis
Omid M. Omidvar Minsoo Suk
Series Editor Volume Editor
Significant progress has been made recently in shape analysis using
neural networks and the energy minimization concept. Ablex Publishing
Corporation is planning a special volume on "Shape Analysis", scheduled
for this year.
This volume will be a part of "Progress in Neural Networks," an annual
book series reviewing research in modelling, analysis, design and
application of neural networks. The primary aim of this volume is to
present, in a single volume, the most important achievements made on
this important topic, which are otherwise scattered in diverse literature.
Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts detailing recent
progress. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: shape modelling,
shape estimation, shape recovery, shape representation, shape matching,
surface reconstruction and surface decomposition. Research work utilizing
neural networks directly or based on energy minimization techniques such as
Markov random field, mean field annealing, simulated annealing, graduated
non-convexity algorithms and resistive networks are most welcome.
The paper should be tutorial in nature, self contained and preferably,
but not necessarily, about fifty double spaced pages in length. Please send
electronically (if you prefer, you can send a hardcopy to the address below)
an abstract and an outline to
msuk@ima.enst.fr
by May 30, 1993. The full paper must be submitted by July 31, 1993 to:
Europe USA
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There are two approaches:
1. If your power cord is the kind that detaches from the back of the
monitor (most common) you can get a *replacement* power cord that will go
from the monitor to the back of the computer.
2. You can get an adpater that connects to the plug end of the existing
power cord and provides the proper end that plugs into the back of the
computer.
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Yeh. Be tough to pick up UK Telly in your situation:-}
No signs of Type 259 ads in TV in the states yet, but I don't watch much,
so I'm not in a real position to comment.
BUT! I got my invite to the dealer introduction "On the deck out back".
RSVP is on the way!!!!!!
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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-jeremy
Are you talking about a single BATSE component, or
the whole thing?
You *could* propose a BATSE probe; launch two or three with ion
drive on various planetary trajectories... your resolution increaces
the more they're spaced apart. You could probably cheaply eject them
from the solar system with enough flybys and patience.
Things would start out slow, then slowly get better and better
resolution...
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OK, I heard a lot of talk about the NSA's infamous control over encryption
export through the ITAR. Here's a question. Say I develop this great new
encryption system, and I want to sell my software worldwide. The thought
police then come in and say "This algorithm is a threat to national security.
You will not be permitted to export it." At this point, what kind of trouble
could I get into if I ignored the ITAR and sold my program to international
customers anyway?
First of all, it's not the thought police, it's the export police.
If you move overseas with your great thoughts in your head, write the software there,
and then sell it, the US Thought Police probably can't do too much about it,
though you might want to check with your lawyer first.
However, if you write the program here, and sell it to furriners,
you are now an international arms dealer and can get thrown in the
clink for *many* years, especially if they decide you'd be a good example,
and Cuban Drug Dealers and Fanatic Middle Eastern Terrorists buy your stuff.
(Definitions of "public domain" are different for ITAR purposes, so if
you've got a good enough lawyer who'll do your case for free after
they've confiscated everything you own as evidence, you might win.
But nobody wants to go first, since the stakes are _quite_ high.)
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This has to be a dictionary attack. No other attack makes sense.
This means that whoever encrypted the file just typed some password
which was a single dictionary word, and then Russell tried all the
words in the dictionary. This isn't too implausible, especially if he
was smart and clipped the first plaintext block off the ciphertext (if
the first block doesn't decrypt then obviously the others won't
either).
Assuming one attempt a second, it takes seven hours to try all the
words in /usr/dict/words. Not real tough.
If you want DES to be secure, you have to use RANDOM KEYS. You can't
just type your wife's name and think "aha they'll never guess that
one!"
--
Daniel F. Boyd -- boyd@cs.buffalo.edu
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So THAT'S what happened to Denny McLain. Sad.
For those of you who are interested, another baseball pariah,
Pete Rose, has a weekday radio show on the Sports and
Entertainment national radio network. I think it's 3-5 PM
locally, 6-8 PM on the East coast.
And actually, his on-air monologues about the baseball
business sounds a lot more reasonable and articulate
than what I hear from the Ray Knights of the world.
--
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin "Interracial mixing encompasses a lot lot more
f67709907@ccit.arizona.edu than mingling between G7 races." -- robohen
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I have the following IBM hardware forsale
ATI VgaWonderXl24 - This is a great card, it supports 1024x768 256 colors, 800x600 32k colors, and 640x480 16 million colors. I found that it also speed up windows considerably. I'm asking $100 o.b.o. for this card.
I also have 2 2400 baud modems. I have Docs for both but I don't have the original boxes. Both work fine and I'd like to get $25 each or $40 for both.
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#
# > Dear Mr. Beyer:
# >
# > It is never wise to confuse "freedom of speech" with "freedom"
# > of racism and violent deragatory."
# >
# > It is unfortunate that many fail to understand this crucial
# > distinction.
#
# In fact, if a speach was not offensive to some, its
# protection under Freedom of speach laws would be useless. It is
# speach that some find questionable that must be protected, be
# it religiously blasphemous or inherently racist. It is only
# through civilized discourse and not scare tactics that one can
# enlighten those that one perceives to be ignorant. That is the
# idea behind freedom of expression.
# What you find offensive might be perceived as truth by
# some and what they might find offensive might be your belief.
# It is only through free exchange of ideas (and insults as the
# case seems to be with this channel) that one can change
# another's erring ways.That is why Jefferson said that here
# we are not afraid to "tolerate error so long as reason is left to
# combat it".
Does this mean that YOU are volunteering to wade through the
Mutlu/Argic deluge that comes in every day? Some of us are
tired of being dragged into content-free pissing contests
with reflexive bigots. We INTENSELY dislike being stuck between
letting this crap pass without comment as though it were
unremarkable and replying to it and getting sucked in again.
Let's keep some perspective here.
IMHO, the Josh's policy of forwarding the garbage in question,
without comment, to the relevant sysadmin strikes a good
balance. The stuff was, after all, PUBLISHED on a public
forum -- from that very site, yet. Hardly a matter of
confidentiality or copyright. If the local administration
wants to do something about it, they have that right. If
not, nobody's twisting their arms.
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Does this need to have anything to do with disk compression? I have
experienced the same thing a couple of times myself, but *without* any disk
compression stuff installed. (For example, guess what happened when Norton
SpeedDisk once crashed during defragmenting!)
Bjorn-
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Bjorn Myrland * bjorn.myrland@sipaa.sintef.no
SINTEF Safety and Reliability * N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY
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I got mine for about 7 bucks at Radio Shack. The instructions
DO say to expose it to light for a while, but mine doesn't seem to require
very much to make it work.
I just wish I could get a big sheet of the stuff, abouit 12" x 12"
for a reasonable price.....it isn't cheap, from what I've seen.
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You, along with Mario Lemieux, must be from another planet. The only
difference is that Lemieux comes from the one with Geo. Washington, Abe
Lincoln (and many other great men and women of this world) whereas you come
from the one with David Koresh. Yeah, Mario is good at drawing penalties,
but wouldn't you try do something (you do claim to play) to give your team
an advantage? I don't remember Lemieux getting any diving penalties this
year, whereas many others did. Finally, Mario has NEVER complained about
being hit. He knows it's part of the game; he gets back by dishing out an
even bigger hit to the same guy or just scoring a few goals (or setting
them up.) Don't you have any compassion for a man who has gone through so
much in his life?
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This inelegant device started life as a 175 watt security lamp, until
i smashed off the outer glass to liberate the nasty rays, It works a
treat, weighs a heap (due to the ballast) , and NO - i wont ship it !!
cheers
Mike.
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** I am posting this for a friend **
** please respond to vaughn%sonatech@hub.ucsb.edu **
I'm working on an application where we are creating a dither pattern
and rendering it in a window by applying it to the stipple pattern
of the GC. The following code segment almost works if the window width
is an even multiple of 8. If it is not an even multiple it skews the
pattern towards the right. Another problem, whether it is an even
multiple of 8 or not, is a series of vertical lines spaced 8 pixels
apart.
extern Display *dpy;
extern Window xid;
extern GC gc;
extern int Max_X, Max_Y; /* set in resize handler */
dither(pixels)
char *pixels; /* dither pattern data */
{
char *bm; /* bitmap data */
char *bmp;
long I, arraymax;
arraymax = Max_X*Max_Y;
bm = (char *)malloc(arraymax);
bmp = bm;
for (I=j=0; I<arraymax; I++)
{
if (pixels[I] & DITHER_BIT)
*bmp |= 2<<j; /* pixel on */
else
*bmp &= ~(2<<j); /* pixel off */
if (++j > 7)
{
bmp++;
j = 0;
}
}
stipple = XCreateBitmapFromData(dpy, xid, bm, Max_X, Max_Y);
free(bm);
XClearWindow(dpy, xid);
XSetStipple(dpy, gc, stipple);
XSetFillStyle(dpy, gc, FillStippled);
XFillRectangle(dpy, xid, gc, 0, 0, Max_X, Max_Y);
XSetFillStyle(dpy, gc, FillSolid);
}
I suspect the answer is to pad the data.
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This is actually more like the stuff from Phase A and MOL....Phase B ended
with a "Power Tower" approach....
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gimme a break! you KNOW chevy'd screw that up just like that almost great
truck with the "big phat 454". Have you ever seen the mufflers on that
thing??it's amazing it moves....(which isn't to say it's not a good idea,
but i'm quite sure chevy'd screw it up the same way)
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[Some discussion about whether Elias is money grubbing deleted]
Some thoughts and facts,
1.) Bill James is a partial owner of STATS, inc. However he has almost
nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the company, although he
does have significant input into the design of the books that bear his name.
(The handbook, but not the scoreboard). To the best of my knowledge, the
only things that Bill actually writes for STATS are the predictions section
of the handbook, and the Bill James Fantasy Baseball rulebook.
2.) The debate over Elias goes way back. Bill James' early stuff was hampered
by the fact that Elias would not give access to their stats at any price.
Project Scoresheet, and later, STATS were founded to fill this void. You
can call STATS, and ask them for a report on just about anything in their
database, and they will provide it -- for a price, of course. Or you could
just log into their online system and look at the data yourself. Having
attempted to pry numbers from Elias in the past (football, not baseball), they
just don't do that. In STATS eyes, the high ground comes from making the
information available at all.
3.) That being said, I'm pretty dissapointed by Bill's book this year, too.
I am given to understant that it was mostly a response to the publishers
desire to have the book come out sooner than April.
Hope this makes things just a little bit clearer.
(Bias alert. I am a former part-time employee of STATS.)
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So, who is Mykotronx, Inc.? It would be nice to know that they were
not a front company used by an intelligence or other agency of the
U.S. government. Trusting the fox to guard the chickens, and all that.
Seems suspicious when the rest of the sources are foxes.
While we are at it, the chip design(s) should be examined and verified
against silicon to insure no trap doors or hidden protocols exist in silicon,
regardless of the security level of the encryption algorithm. It would be a
shame if some three letter agency had the ability to interrogate my chip, when
all I'd know is that someone rang, and when I attempted to go off hook the
line went dead. Could be even worse if the chip were intended to connect
directly to a modem.
The design examination should be done to the gate level. Does anyone have
a good idea how to tell if there is a piggyback design on silicon? The model
would be extra logic sharing pins with the advertised function. Tip offs
would be circuitry that would ignore incoming data if formats or sequence
is not right. I can think of only two ways an output pin could be used,
and its possible that might be noticed, but could be edited from the netlist.
I think the silicon itself needs to be investigated. Imagine a design
done in two layer metalization, yet finding a third layer under the
microscope.
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I am working with 24 bit RGB BMP files and need to
comvert these to 15 and 16 bit images. How do convert
24 bit images to 15 and 16 bit RGB images? Thanks!
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I need to be able to cause a beep, but without using any interrupt
routines, as I cannot use the BIOS. I believe that the PIC might have
something to do with it, but I'm having troubles deciphering the
information I have on it to figure out how to program it!
I'm programming all of this in Turbo C, if that makes any
diference at all...
Please can anyone help me??!
Thanks,
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Just taking a guess, perhaps it was that Koresh had peaceably been served
with warrants before, and he did not shoot anyone but instead went with the
police without fighting.
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
-- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
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Very good point. Is there someone out there that is working on this?
I'd offer my time to help manage/do it all myself but yaw'll are not
going to hear from me over the summer. I'm not trying to be pushy,
and there is being progress made (re: pov mailing list).
-hed
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I know you work at sun, but that's really no reason not to like fast
computers. I suspect a conspiracy here. Are you trying to drag Intel through
the mud at a con or something? I really wish you guys would make your own
computers faster instead of degrading others'. Why don't you go straight for
the top and run a pentium at 0.7 MHz while you're at it?
Seriously though; Why in the bleeding hell do you want a 386/40 to run at
25MHz?????????????
(Insert smiley where appropriate)
MAIL-mail: gunnarh@sofus.dhhalden.no SNAIL-mail: Gunnar Horrigmo
gunnarh@fenris.dhhalden.no Oskleiva 17
N-1772 Norway
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Ok, I have a question... why? Why do people copy the article, and the
only new thing they add to the post is there name? I'm not picking on
this person, I've seen a few of these. Is it just a mistake? Am I
missing something? Is it some unknown net-equette I missed somewhere?
I skip over all the quoted material, since I've already read it, and look
for the non-quoted material, and all I get is the name addition. Is this
supposed to me "I agree", or "I second this" or what?
Sorry...
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Wow! You really know how to hurt a guy. Guess I shouldn't bother watching
any more games. It's already been decided. :^)
luigi
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What I saw on TV and what you claim are two different things. The
Davidians did not start shooting until after the BATF lobbed a couple
genades in the windows and started shooting themselves.
EASY! If you see federal agents in body armor with sub machine guns
going in throught windows, that is a No-Knock warrant. Also since the
videotape shows the BATF throwing grenades before the BD's etunred fire,
you can safely assume that they didn't ring the doorbell.
P.Vasilion,
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Howdy, Netlanders:
Can you put an ISA card into an EISA slot?
Also, can you put a 8-bit PC card in an ISA
slot?
Please e-mail if possible,
Thanks ahead of time,
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Argh. This is what I get for acknowledging David Sternlight's existence.
Okay, it looks like I am going to have to do the history lesson after all.
During the Vietnam war, there were a great many citizens opposed to it
who considered themselves perfectly law abiding, although Mr. Nixon and
his lackeys thought otherwise.
The Federal government had no compunction about adding "people who
are otherwise decent, law abiding and upstanding, but disagree with
us" to your nice little list. Do you think this could never happen
again?
Note that I am not speculating about what the government could do,
but discussing the sort of "observation" - including but not limited
to phone tapping - that the government put its citizens under during
a time of national tension.
Your naivete is still appalling, BTW. I mean, read what you posted again.
How are we to differentiate between Good People and Bad People? Answer:
A priori, we can't; we have to assume. Now, which way do we assume? Do
we assume a priori that a citizen is law-abiding, or rather a potential
CommunistDrugLordChildAbuserCultMessiah? One of the things that's
supposedly great about America is the freedoms enjoyed by citizens who
are presumed to be law-abiding until proven otherwise.
--
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Are there any Off-Line mail readers for the net-news? In qwk format? It
would be really helpfull to be able to download the net news from a Vax or
mainframe and read it off-line.....
Adam Hodge
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OK... quick scenario... you're at home, not bothering anybody... next thing you
know, somebody comes crashing in the upstairs window and you hear an explosion.
You see that this individual has a submachinegun, and that more similarly armed
individuals are rushing your front door. Will you a) defend yourself and family
against this attack b) realize "oh, only the BATF would enter like that, so I
better surrender" or c) roll over and let whoever is attacking your home do
what they would like? You have chosen a), and discover that the people you
defended yourself against are federal agents, who now are camped outside your
door waiting for you to surrender. You have learned that they intend to
charge you with murder, and are further defaming your name, while claiming that
you can safely surrender at any time. Then they start using psychological
warfare techniques against you, while still claiming that you can safely give up
and will receive a fair trial. Some weeks into this standoff, you are still
holding out, when they begin a new ploy to induce your surrender, namely using
tear gas to annoy you, and ramming your home with tanks. Yet they claim that
you can safely surrender at any time. While you patiently wait out this latest
round of attacks, your house catches fire and the bales of hay you were using as
cover spread the fire rapidly through the house, and you try to escape through
the fortifications you had raised for your own defense and the rubble created
by the tanks. Only 9 of your followers make it.
I am not claiming that the above scenario is accurate. I am disagreeing with
the notion that it is their own fault for dying because they refused to
surrender to agents of the Federal government after another federal agency
committed an armed assault of their home on the basis of a flimsily concocted
search warrant.
Look at how the Texas Rangers view the BATF. Look at the FBI statements
regarding the BATF actions. From all apparent sources, the FBI blundered
trying to clean up the mess made by the BATF, resulting in an accidental fire
which killed most of the BD's who were still in the compound, and are now
playing CYA. The BATF committed an illegal assault, obtained the use of
Texas NG resources with fabricated allegations, and compounded their abuses
by accusing the BD's of crimes outside their jurisdiction once they had been
held off in their assault.
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Well, here goes. After lurking for a LONG time, I'll announce myself. Yes, I'm
the enemy. The enemy that also happens to ride an "arrest me red" 90 VFR.
Bike history: (as if this endears me to the DoD)
79 Honda XL 175 "High School"
85 Kawasaki KLR 600
84 Honda V65 Sabre "Cornering by Committee"
88 Honda Hawk GT "Proctologists' designed this bike"
90 VFR
I'll entertain questions but my answers will reflect Georgia law and may not
apply in your state.
P.S. Anyone got a Nomex suit for sale?
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I remember reading an article in Reader's digest many moons ago
about a similar incident. During a minor leaque game a player neck was
cut when the opponent he was back-checking tripped and his skakes
flew up. In this case the victim's mask proved a hinderance since
his face was protected and so he didn't bother with the
usually instinctive reaction to protect his face/neck. A quick
thinking coach saved his life by applying direct pressure and using
snow to contract the blood vessels (from what I can remember).
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As she said, the letter is addressed to Bettman. The post (which, though
having pretty much the same content, is an entirely different entity) was
addressed to all. When she puts the letter in the mail I doubt it will
say "To: All". I figure she wanted to let people here see what was in it
since it is a topic that interests a lot of folks here. That's an entirely
different purpose than sending the letter to Bettman.
Unfortunately...
The "largest computer networks in the world" phrase is a definition of
the Internet, not a group as a whole that she claims to represent. As
for the business of whether or not it is large, it is large compared
to say, the number of folks on r.s.h. who are sending a letter to thank
him for changing the names, at least to this point. And just for my
own curiosity I thought I'd look up the "official" definition of large
in the dictionary. It reads:
large - 1. having more than usual power, capacity, or scope.
2. exceeding most other things of like kind in quantity or size.
Now I have no idea how many letters Bettman may have gotten on the issue
or how many people may have signed them. 65 people may be up there,
thereby validating definition 2. I would also wager that the geographical
range of signatures is quite large, which would give it a large scope.
Why would he be impressed with this unless it were "large"?
I am of course assuming that you actually agree with what you are writing
and are not simply trying to be a pain about the whole issue to hear
yourself speak.
I personally don't know whether or not I agree with the letter. I have
very mixed emotions about it. I like the names as they are, and don't
think they make it that difficult to learn the game, but there might be
a shred of validity to the change.
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This comes up periodically, and I just don't get it. Take, for example, Mark
McGwire. He walked 90 times in 1993. If that's not a potential great example
of what you're talking about then I don't know what is. Now let's look at
what happens when McGwire doesn't walk:
75% of the time he made an out.
10% of the time he hit a single.
5% of the time he hit a double.
10% of the time he hit a homer.
Now, you're pitching against McGwire. Would you trade 20 walks for 2 homers,
1 double, 2 singles, and 15 outs? I would. Why give him the base when you
can get him out 3 times out of 4?
Then there are guys like Alex Cole, who has a career .363 OBP even
though he's never had a batting average over .300 (he did hit .300 in
227 AB in 1990) or hit a single home run. Yep, that's right, he's
*never* hit a homer in 916 AB's through the end of 1992. Who'd be
afraid to throw a strike to him?
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
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For Sale: 24 Pin Printer - ALPS Allegra 24
Asking Price: $150 shipped prepaid
(C.O.D. orders pay C.O.D. shipping).
Features:
Straight paper path (won't jam).
Paper saving tear-off capability (no need to waste a sheet to
get a current printout).
Programmable preferences (you don't even need a computer)
Letter Quality 360dpi output
Epson LQ2500 emulation built-in
Card slot for additional memory / font upgrades
Printer ribbons easily found (there are three or four sources
for ALPs ribbons in every Computer Shopper).
Fast 180 CPS output
This printer has not even been used in the last two years (three
years old) because I have a laser printer at work and use that
instead.
Originally $399.
I'll even throw in two ribbons (may need simple reinkings tho).
Adisak Pochanayon
2525 University Avenue
Apartment J
Madison, WI 53705
(608) 238-2463
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Jeez!!! It never fails, get in the tub and there's a rub at the lamp!
-- The Genie from Aladdin.
pochanay@cae.wisc.edu eddie (Adisak) Pochanayon
Check out all of SilverFox SoftWare's Releases.... your Amiga entertainment.
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"The Villager-Quest seem like the best of the Cravan/Voyager
copies to come along since the Mazda MPV."
I'll agree about villager but not MPV -- it's so small that I'd class
it as a SUV with an extra seat shoehorned in. To get any rear cargo
space, you shove the back seat up against the middle seat, eliminating
*all* leg room.
Back to the Villager ...
"Only the price is controversial."
And the use of attack belts instead of 3-point belts. That killed it
for me.
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In the part of the posting you have so helpfully deleted, I
pointed out that they used the wording from the English Bill of
Rights apparently *changing* what they understood by it, and I
asked why then should we, two hundred years later, be bound by
what Keith Allan Schneider *thinks* they understood by it.
So one cannot say "a cruel fate"?
Your prevarications are getting increasingly unconvincing, I think.
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Especially the '68 Shelby-American GT-500KR (King of the Road, so named
to steal GM's planned Camaro King of the Road's thunder :-)
Some GT-40s are street legal, some aren't.
I found my Shelby-American guide. There were a grand total 126 GT-40s
built:
GT-40 Coupes 55
GT-40 Road Cars 31
GT-40 Mk II 13
GT-40 Mk IIIs 7
GT-40 Roadsters 5
Mirages 3
GT-40 Mk IVs 12
TOTAL: 126
Additional uncompleted Mk IIIs 6-12
Twelve of these cars were prototypes; 48 racing coupes; 31 road coupes;
eight Mk II coupes; 4 LHD Mk IIIs; and 3 RHD Mk IIIs. The other
breakdowns follow the above list (eg, 12 were Mk IVs). The LHD/RHD
breakdown is only given on the Mk IIIs.
The prices (for those which can be bought) are around the $1 Million
mark, last I heard, with a projection of some $3.5 Million (or
thereabouts) in 2000. It was second only to some penny-ante Ferarri ;-).
Shelby won the FIA World Manufacturer's Cup with his Cobras in '65; that
was also the year that he retired them from the Shelby-American racing
team (in favor of the Ford GT program the next year). That victory
broke a 13(?) year Ferarri winning streak.
Well, there's lotsa info I could spout, but I'll refrain. Much of
this information comes from "Hot Rod" magazine's "Shelby American
Cobra/Mustang Guide," which has more info on the Shelby-American
Fords than you could _ever_ want to know.
James
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Does anyone have the player stats for games played up until
April 22,1993.
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In a post of 29 April (?), considering disasters as instances of the
judgements of God in history, Andy Byler spoke of
> the desire of the Jerusalem mob who crucified the Lord that
> "His blood be upon us."
Vera Noyes replied (02 May),
> I will not comment here for fear of being heavily flamed.
I invite them both (and other interested parties as well) to read my
comments on this verse of Scripture. To obtain them, send the
message GET CHOOSING BARABBAS to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET or to
LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU. Putting it briefly, I think that the
significance of the demands of the Jerusalem crowd has usually been
greatly misunderstood, both by Christian and by anti-Christian
readers.
Yours,
James Kiefer
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I own a PC FanCard II, which is a slightly different beast. It's a long card
that plugs into an 8 or 16 bit slot and contains two muffin fans. It requires
no extra cabling. I had a 286 that was experiencing some problems due to
heat. The FanCard made the system run cool enough so that the problem no
longer appears. It's supposed to keep the internal temperature in the range
of 75-95 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the maker's (M.S. Tech)
advertisements, the US Army used a bunch of these to keep their PCs running
(w/o a/c) in Desert Storm. I can't vouch for that. However, I am a satisfied
customer. And I have no other connection with the maker or the mail-order
house (Lyben (313) 268-8100).
Hope this helps,
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Or how about:
"End light pollution now!!"
Your banner would have no effect on its subject, but my banner would.
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Everyone is complaining about the debacle in Waco. It is hard to
understand all this angst. What happend there is nothing less than
what we wanted to happen. Why all the sour grapes ?
BATF was looking for a propaganda event to counteract their impending
budget cuts ... the attendance of the press at the initial big
commando raid is proof. It would have been ever so easier to grab
Koresh and his central followers as they shopped in Waco. Alas, no
propaganda value there.
The FBI screwed-up big time, all the time. They should have never allowed
the situation to drag out like that. A quick second assault, before the
BDs could decide on a strategy, would have been the better plan.
The BDs themselves were the biggest screw-ups though. They imagined
that US law and US law-enforcement had no jurisdiction within their
little 'country'. WRONG ! They had no right whatsoever to fire on
the BATF, and if they mistook their identity initially, they should
have surrendered at once when they did realize who they were. If the
BDs had a problem with the warrants, they take it to court, just like
the rest of us. If they wanted full-auto weapons, they could have
obtained the proper permits, just like the rest of us would need to
do. What they may NOT do is decide for themselves what US law applies
to themselves and which does not. They get their chance like the rest
of us - at the voting booth.
If the BATF and FBI have become latter-day Gestapo, then they have
become that way because WE have desired them to be so. We get to
vote on laws, and on the lawmakers. By our choices over the years,
we have approved the creation and form of the BATF and FBI. When
the FBI was out chasing 'pinkos', the general public didn't seem
to mind a bit of extra-constitutional activity. When the BATF is
raiding militant black organizations, we don't mind the heavy hand.
When the FBI is dicking around with the rights of potheads, the
public doesn't mind. Suddenly, when we see a bit of ourselves in
the current 'enemy' choosen by these agencies, we get all bent out
of shape. SUPRISE ! You reap what you sow.
Waco was an encapsulation of the All-American experience - religious
fanaticism, militaristic thinking and overwhelming violence. Don't
blame it on 'them', the FBI and BATF. They were just acting within
the parameters we have set over the years. We made 'them'. We ARE 'them'.
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That's kind of extra work that one cannot expect the store people to do.
IMHO it would be easier if companies sell their software as cheaply as
possible AND to sell the customers detail manuals (for the brain-deads)
, quick reference books, how to do books and videos, paid support hot line
(1-900 :). For the registered purchasers, these can be part of their package.
I have seen many books to teach people how to use DOS, WP and other software. I
I suspect either users can't read the manuals or they don't have manuals.
Either way, there is $$$ to be made. BTW books are quite a bit more
expensive to reproduce than a $1 disk.
With the popularity of Multitasking and pseudo multitasking systems
(eg. OS0.5, Windoze, Mack System 7), it is pretty easy to run a debugger
and figure out the protection schemes by disassembling/tracing/trapping
the application during run time. Schemes like compressed software/
special loaders would be easy pray even to beginner hackers.
Hardware keys (unless well designed and *TOTALLY* transparent) is a
pain in the b*t. We having using a piece of software under Windoze
that uses a hardware key. The key interfers with the printer stuff
with other programs and often has to be unplugged for those software
to work properly.
All the hacker has to do is to remove/modify code that communicate with
the port.
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First the FBI said they saw two members of the cult start the fire-and the
FBI never lies. Second, the first started in opposite ends of the compound
at the same time and thirdly, the fire spread too quickly for it not to be
help without an accelerate.
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As I've noted, you can likely get around that with a directional
sensor. Phased array systems could completely defeat this scheme.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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One can only remap special-command keys in procomm it seems. I
would like to remap other keys too - especially "altgr 2", and
such combinations.
Anybody know a plain OR dirty way to do this?? (of cause most
people settle for remapping function keys, but I don't see
why there should be a limitation...)
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In-reply-to: johnn@eskimo.com's message of 21 Apr 93 23:03:27 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitors - Nanao?
References: <C5uw1t.3HI@eskimo.com>
Distribution:
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I have a Nanao 17" (F560?) on my IPX. I prefer it to my Sun 16"
trinitron at work with all those vertical jitters and the two
horizontal shadowmask thingies.
I got it from one of the folks advertising in Computer Shopper et al
for $1050 plus about $40 shipping.
I bought a cable which goes from the Sun's 13W3 connector to the
monitors 4xRGBS for about $50 from a Macintosh mailorder shop (Relax
Technologies).
I'd do it again. Happily.
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