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I have a couple applications for high speed data links
1__replacement of ultrasonic signal coaxial cables with fiber optic cable
2__applying fiber optic slip ring for 16 channel ultrasonics inspection
system for CANDU reactor inspection
3__remote data link from ultrasonic pipeline inspection device including
transfer of 16 channels via microwave or other higher speed transfer of
ultrasonic data from remote inspection head.
I would be happy to share sources...other info as acquired.
Please mail me or post here.
.....this is a long term upgrade over the next years _+
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I asked some simple questions at different occations. I don't understand why
some people insulted me for those SIMPLE questions!
Anyway, I didn't reply to them with the same language and I won't, because
1. There is no need
2. There is no benefit
3. I don't have time to reply to those garbages
By the way, do you want to know who am I? I am not a NATIONALIST Arab of 1967.
I am not a COMONIST Arab of 70's. Are you sure that you want to hear
my name? I am a MUSLIM FIGHTER. I am the same child who
fight with your armed soldier with stone! I am the same guy who wants to
bring JUSTICE to Palestine, I am the same fighter who wants to kicked Israel
out of south Lebonon in the same way of the 1982. I am the son of KHOMEINI.
I am honored to be a HEZBULLAH.... Don't you know me!!!? Just ask Rabin
he knows me!
Hamid
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1993 World Championships in Germany:
====================================
Group A standings (Munich) Group B standings (Dortmund)
-------------------------- ----------------------------
GP W T L GF-GA +/- P GP W T L GF-GA +/- P
Canada 5 5 0 0 31- 4 +27 10 Czech republic 5 4 1 0 17- 4 +13 9
Sweden 5 3 0 2 17-14 +3 6 Germany 5 4 0 1 20-12 +8 8
Russia 5 2 1 2 15-12 +3 5 USA 5 2 2 1 14-10 +4 6
Switzerland 5 2 0 3 11-14 -3 4 Finland 5 2 1 2 7- 7 0 5
---------------------------------- -------------------------------------
Italy 4 1 1 2 7-19 -12 3 Norway 4 0 0 4 1-13 -12 0
Austria 4 0 0 4 3-21 -18 0 France 4 0 0 4 6-19 -13 0
April 18: Italy - Russia 2-2 Norway - Germany 0-6
Sweden - Austria 1-0 USA - Czech republic 1-1
April 19: Canada - Switzerland 2-0
Russia - Austria 4-2 Finland - France 2-0
April 20: Sweden - Canada 1-4 Czech republic - Germany 5-0
Switzerland - Italy 0-1 Finland - USA 1-1
April 21: Germany - France 5-3
Italy - Sweden 2-6 Czech republic - Norway 2-0
April 22: Switzerland - Russia 0-6 USA - France 6-1
Austria - Canada 0-11 Norway - Finland 0-2
April 23: Switzerland - Austria 5-1 Germany - Finland 3-1
April 24: Russia - Sweden 2-5 Czech republic - France 6-2
Canada - Italy 11-2 USA - Norway 3-1
April 25: Sweden - Switzerland 4-6 Finland- Czech republic 1-3
Russia - Canada 1-3 Germany - USA 6-3
April 26: Austria - Italy France - Norway 20:00
PLAYOFFS:
=========
April 27: Quarterfinals
Sweden - USA 15:30
Russia - Germany 20:00
April 28: Quarterfinals
Canada - Finland 15:30
Italy/Switzerland - Czech republic 20:00
April 29: Relegation
A #5 - B #6 15:30
A #6 - B #5 20:00
April 30: Semifinals
A #1/B #4 - A #3/B #2 15:30
A #4/B #1 - A #2/B #3 20:00
May 1: Relegation 14:30
Bronze medal game 19:00
May 2: FINAL 15:00
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HELLO,
I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH MY DIAMOND STEALTH LOCAL BUS GRAPHIC CARD.
WHEN I TRY TO START WINDOWS MY SYSTEM STOP AND DISPLAY:
"NO FREE FILES HANDLES,CANNOT LOAD COMMAND,SYSTEM HALTED"
IT'S PERHAPS A BIOS SETUP PROBLEM BUT I'M NOT USED TO MY AMI-BIOS SETUP
IF SOMEBODY CAN EXPLAIN ME;HOW TO SETUP SHADOW VIDEO ROM, OTHERS
SHADOW ROM ,AND ALSO HOW TO CONFIG THE TWO "ADVENCED ... SETUP"
FOR A BEST UTILISATION OF MY GRAPHIC CARD.
THANKS FOR ANY ANSWER.
CH.ROBERT
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Has anyone considered how to prosecute a city holding a "no
questions asked" buy-back for receiving stolen property?
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Considering what you quoted and refered to was blank, I must say:
touche!
Of course, you are correct, there is no atheistic mythology employed
on this board. Or, if there is, it is null and void.
---
Private note to Jennifer Fakult.
"This post may contain one or more of the following:
sarcasm, cycnicism, irony, or humor. Please be aware
of this possibility and do not allow yourself to be
confused and/or thrown for a loop. If in doubt, assume
all of the above.
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ITEM: Sony ES-CDPX229
CONDITION: mint
AGE: 1 year old
PRICE: $300
ITEM: Sony CDP 770
CONDITION: excellent
AGE: 2.5 years old
PRICE: $250
Everything comes with the original packaging and manuals. These items have
only been played through audiophile system and are in excellent shape. If you
are interested, or need any additional information, please e-mail
(pc1o@andrew.cmu.edu) or call me at home.
Thanks,
Pete
(412) 687-3735
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I'm a 2600 hacker from The Old Days. Let's see how much trouble I can
get into by telling you what you want to know... ;-}
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Dale sez;
I don't buy it. If the things had no value at all, people wouldn't
spend money to make them. So their lack of value is just your
opinion, not an actual fact, which is neither a philisophical or
legal basis for prohibiting them.
On the other hand, I lived in OakBrook IL for a while, where zoning
laws prohibit billboards, as you mention above. I think it was a
fine law, despite it's contradictory basis.
I would guess that the best legal and moral basis for protest would
be violation of private property. "I bought this house, out in
the boondocks, specifically to enjoy my hobby, amateur astronomy. Now
this billboard has made that investment worthless, so I want the
price of the property, in damages." It wouldn't take too many
succesful cases like that to make bill-sats prohibitively expensive.
-Tommy Mac
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \ They communicated with the communists,
18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \ and pacified the pacifists. -TimBuk3
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Now available: xvertext 5.0
---------------------------
Another day, another xvertext release...
Summary
-------
xvertext provides you with several functions to draw strings at any angle in
an X window (previous versions were limited to vertical text).
What's new since 4.0?
---------------------
o Existing bitmap fonts can be magnified to give reasonable fonts at large
sizes.
o Bounding boxes can be obtained.
o The GC's stipple bitmap is honoured.
o Font IDs can be cached when font names are unavailable.
o An Imakefile is present.
o The demos are better (including a ransom note like the
comp.sources.postscript one)
Where can I get it?
-------------------
comp.sources.x (soon...)
export.lcs.mit.edu : contrib/xvertext.5.0.shar.Z (now)
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I need to make a power supply that can take input from a
cigarette lighter in a car (12v dc) and drive 7.5 volts
at up to 3.0 amps. I know enough to know that a simple
voltage divider with two resistors won't do it right. Can
such a thing be made from Radio-Shack-able parts without
too much difficulty?
jps
bf
p.s. I've looked for premade things like this at radio shack but
none of it seems to go any higher than about 800mA.
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Yes, but that's because interstellar grains are very poor radiators, not
remotely black bodies. As a consequence they are a lot warmer than the
"ambient".
When I was in graduate school, a long time ago, we used 10,000 deg K with
a DILUTION FACTOR of 10+4 for representative values of the radiant energy
background in the galaxy due to starlight.
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--
Kevin makes a good point here, and when that theists miss all-too-often. That
is, the belief in a diety is not necessarily coupled with agreement/love of
that diety, so really they have yet another bit of convincing to do just beyond
belief.
I guess the standard argumet goes something like: well, once you believe in
God, you know God is love, and you will choose to love him-- if it wasnt so
widely accepted and asserted it'd be laughable...
best regards,
--Adam
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Subject: Re: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians
From: Satya Prabhakar, prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 15:50:31 GMT
BIGOTRY"
Muslims,
This kind of racialist generalization is utterly inappropriate. SOME
Bosnian Muslims cooperated with the Nazis in World War 2. Other Bosnian
Muslims risked their lifes to hide Jews from the Nazis and Ustashe, and
those Jews who survived the war remember that. In fact the Jewish leader
in Sarajevo has remained there saying he wants to repay the debt to the
Bosnian Muslims that saved so many Jewish lives in WW2.
Similarly, SOME Serbs are "doing" to Muslims now. This is a group of
serial-killers, rapists, and thieves who have control of the vast
Yugoslav army arsenal. Many other Serbs oppose these atrocities. As one
of Serbian heritage who condemns emphatically the genocide being carried
out against Muslims by both HVO and Mladic forces, I condemn your
generalization about Bosnian Muslims and about Serbs.
This is not a fresh case of
Every place on earth is the scene of a saga of mutual hatred and
destruction. The holocaust was not a "fresh case." It was another
chapter in a 900 year history of attacks on Jews in Europe. That didn't
make it acceptable. and Balkan history does not make the genocide against
Bosnian Muslims acceptable.
Not taking sides in this
Standing by and allowing well-armed criminals to slaughter Bosnian Muslim
civilians, while enforcing an arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims is
not only religious bigotry it is direct complicity in mass-murder.
It could just
You tell us a region on earth that does have a long history of war. NATO
is the largest military "police force" in the world. It was not
"helpless." It could have stopped the carnage a year ago.
Regards,
Mike.
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Pitchers are required to pitch (or feint or attempt a pick-off)
within 20 seconds after receiving the ball, not 15.
Pitchers are required to pitch their warm-up throws within a
one minute time frame, beginning after each half inning ends,
not two minutes.
And the reason why a reliever should be allowed warm-ups is
simple: Different mound, different catcher.
Ryan Robbins
Penobscot Hall
University of Maine
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Sure. It has caused my wife to conclude that I am totally insane, not just
partially:-}
Usually I just lift the left hand off the wheel and wave thru the
windshield. Damn near the same motion as on the bike:-}
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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It's public because it belongs to everybody. It's vandalism because many people -- power companies -- do maliciously waste light. If they can sell you
or your city or your state an unshielded light that wastes 30 to 50 percent
of its light, they make more _money_. Never mind that your money is wasted.
Never mind that taxpaper's money is wasted. Never mind that the sky is ruined.
Bob Bunge
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Not only have I not heard of the Western Business School, or the University
of Western Ontario, I've never even wondered if there WAS a western
Ontario. And judging by the quality of the posts coming from there, I'm
still not sure that the place exists.
Perhaps I should be impressed, though, since it appears that grade school
children in that area have access to the Internet.
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:
: >You might -- except that gay men are MUCH more promiscuous than
: >straight men -- which shows how damaged and screwed up gay men are.
:
: Okay Claytoon, let us say that hypothetically I agree with you that
: gay men are much more promiscuous than straight men. Why does
: this indicate they are screwed up people?
:
: BTW - It occurs to me that since, in my experience, men are much more
: interested in sex than women and want to have sex much earlier
: in a relationship than women do, that homosexuals would have
: sex more often simply becuase their partner is of a like mind.
: i.e. heterosexual men would be more promiscuous if they could.
It's my observation that women are more likely to me more strongly
indoctronated into now wanting sex that are men.
Also there are definite double standards for men and women who are
promiscuous.
Could there also be a factor of communication being more direct in
homosexual relationships and culture.
--
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>Qualcomm had spare cycles in the DSPs for their new CDMA digital
>cellular phones. They wanted to put strong crypto into them since they
>had the capacity. The government decided to "discourage" them.
You're blowing smoke. Qualcomm wants to sell to nice, lucrative overseas
markets like Japan and the EC. The government told them "don't do encryption
if you ever hope to export this technology". The reason that CDMA doesn't
have encryption is NOT because the G-men came a'knocking at Qualcomm's door.
It's because Qualcomm doesn't think that the US market for digital cellular
is big enough for them. This is just the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations all over again.
Perry has already stated on the net that Qualcomm wanted to sell overseas, and
the government told them they wouldn't be allowed to export,
so he's only blowing the same smoke you are :-)
Sure, they probably could have made a US version, and a non-crypto
export version, and contracted with a Bulgarian or Japanese software house to
develop an overseas crypto ROM, but that's getting pretty expensive.
No, Cylink sells their phones because they're willing to make different
stuff for domestic use vs. export. Qualcomm isn't. So Cylink makes
money--that's capitalism, comrade.
Well, some people like capitalism, and others prefer free enterprise;
they're different! Using the government to stifle your competition is capitalist.
>Someone out there WILL build a unit to do all this. Better yet,
>prehaps someone will produce a package that turns any 486 box with a
>sound card into a secure phone.
"Someone" this and "someone" that. If you think it's so easy, why are
you whining on the net instead of getting your butt in gear and writing it?
Writing good crypto code is something most good programmers can do;
writing good new crypto algorithms is a very specialized skill.
Developing new voice coding algorithms is also pretty specialized,
but finding ways to implement the more complex ones when you don't
have enough horsepower is still fairly hairy stuff.
Once the 586/Pentium becomes widespread, or the next generation of
sound boards has DSPs on it, I suspect we'll see it happen.
Maybe the vanilla 486+Soundblaster is enough.
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Wing ding XV will take place in Louisville, Kentucky from 15 June-18 June.
For more info, or to register, contact GWWRA, P.O.Box 14350, Phoenix, AZ,
85017, Tel. (602) 269-1403.
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....
Thanks for posting the references. I do not normally read t.p.m.,
and I posted my request for references because Jim's article
was cross-posted to soc.culture.jewish. Allegations of Jewish
disrespect for the objects and buildings of other religions are
one of antisemitic stereotypes that permeate western culture, and
rumors of church and Host desacration probably caused more pogroms
than blood libel. The stereotypes that pervade our culture create
cognitive illusions that reify those stereotypes. Therefore any
claim that appears to reify a stereotype should be treated by
decent people with utmost suspicion until and unless documented.
If such a claim is cross-posted to a news group in which it has
not been documented before, such as s.c.j, a reference should be
given the first time it appears. Now that the claim has been
documented, I regard the whole episode as disgusting and
shameful. Especially so because the official who failed to
provide proper temporary facilities for the evicted Jordanians
was probably Jewish, and as a Jew I know that he should have
known better.
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What sadist brought up this vein about Malarchuk? When I saw what
happened I wanted to throw up, and at the same time I was devastated,
since I thought that Malarchuk wouldn't survive. BTW, I believe he picked
up an alcohol problem after (before?) the incident.
To radically change the subject, the Caps must be having nightmares about
the Isles in overtime in the playoffs. Have they *ever* beaten the
Islanders in a playoff OT game? This is lunacy. The Caps are such a
sorry team in the playoffs, they consistently choke against opponents who
they should be beating. Losing two OT games in a row is not coincidence,
it's evidence of the choke factor.
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NCD just announced a new generation of PC-Xview. They
changed the name a little though and I can't remember
exactly... PC-Xsomething.
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[...]
The President is not competent to plan or judge the planning of such a
raid, nor does he need to be. His job is to set basic policies and
manage the people under him. If Clinton instructed Reno to preserve
lives, and if she confirmed that the plan for the raid was a safe as
could be, then he did his job. The President should not involve
himself in the minor details of these kinds of operations. This sort
of micromanagement only leads to disaster, as was demonstrated so well
in Vietnam.
But the raid went bad: Over 80 civilians have been killed in a
controntation with U.S. authorities.
NOW Clinton enters the picture in a big way. Will Clinton start an
investigation? Or will he try to squash any attempt to investigate?
Is he a responsible leader? Or is he only interested in protecting
the image of his administration?
We'll all find out as this unfolds.
--
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I think its a great, but idealistic idea. A reseacher will first of all try
to publish a worthy paper in a credible, professional magazine and not in a
community like USENET which is infamous for lots (not all) of junk
information. The papers that will be "published" here will, in general, be
of low quality. Also, it is improbable that any credit will be given to a
researcher who publish here - and sadly, that is nowadays a main reason for
publishing.
USENET is great for informal discussions and free exchange of ideas - keep
it like that. A new, specialist group is just not worth it.
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Well, this is *only* a guess: If it goes by the "true" meaning of "bit
map", then it holds (x,y,c) where x pixel number in th ex-direction, y:
pixel-number in the y-dir, c: colour.
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To: All
Uniden Cordless Phone-Model XE 300. Perfect working condition, but
base station is missing its antenna (the antenna mount is intact).
$25, shipping included if prepaid.
DO NOT REPLY TO: dino.fiabane@pics.com. Your mail will bounce if
it is sent to that address. Instead, please reply only via
private E-Mail to: pics!dino.fiabane@twwells.com
(Since my home BBS can only handle personal messages through
E-Mail for the time being, any further replies from me to you
will also arrive via E-Mail instead of by way of a regular
newsgroup.)
Dino Fiabane, 150 Weston Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-2132
phone (609) 424-3836
* SLMR 2.1a * reply to: pics!dino.fiabane@twwells.com via E-Mail
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I heard they were posted somewhere, but I can not find them.
Please e-mail location.
Thanks,
-Jody
--
Jody Hagins -- hagins@avlin8.us.dg.com
Data General Corporation, Linthicum, MD
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......
When did Koresh go on a rampage?
What I saw was an unnecessary, unprovoked massive attack on Feb. 28th.
Probably even an illegal action by ATF, certainly way out of proportion
to anything reasonable.
And yet, according to a pole taken yesterday, 95% of the people poled
believe the government forces acted appropriately. They don`t believe
Reno or the President have any guilt in ordering/allowing the attack.
I suppose they also believed things like:
"I would present a 5-year plan to balance the budget."
"We don`t need to lead with a tax increase...."
"It starts with a middle-class tax cut..."
"I`ll have the bills ready the day after I am inaugurated and we`ll
have a 100 day period....It will be the most productive in modern history."
"I will ask congress for a line item veto.."
"I will lift the social security earnings test.."
I personally prefer to disbelieve the government until they prove themselves
right, rather than the other way around. That way I have a better than
50% chance of being right about my first guess!
Read the constitution sometime, it is supposed to protect the citizens
and their rights. I am sick of the abuse of government power.
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Can some kind soul point me to references for the above formats?
Thanks,
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Um, I sortof hesitate to bring this up, but owning even a single share
entitles you to attend the annual shareholders meeting, and under most
corporate charters to introduce topics to be discussed. While I *don't*
suggest the tactic used by some in Japan (go to the shareholders meeting,
and disrupt the bejeezus out of everything), what about a well-worded
resolution complaining about "advocacy journalism"?
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According to MacWeek of 2-22-93:
The Cyclone will come in the same metal minitower case as the Quadra
800, while the Tempest will share the low-slung case of the Centris
610. Apple will offer a miniature video camera that can be mounted
above the user's monitor or moved about on the end of its cable to take
pictures of objects or documents. Taking advantage of the 32-bit
digital signal processor (DSP) built into the systems' logic boards,
the camera will be able to put an image measuring 360 by 288 pixels,
with 256 gray levels, on the screen.
Users will be able to install supplementary lenses that can record
detail as fine as the wire bonds on an integrated circuit. The camera
is expected to cost between $150 and $250.
The systems will ship with all the software needed to put Apple's
Casper voice-recognition technology to work; users apparently will have
to purchase an operational high-fidelity microphone.
The two models will talk as well as listen. A new system facility
called the Speech Manager will convert text strings sent by
applications to phonemes and then pass them to a speech synthesizer.
The Cyclone will include a 40MHz '040, three NuBus slots and support
for up to 128MB of RAM. The Tempest will use a 25MHz LC040, lacking an
FPU, and hold up to 68MB of RAM; it will have a single slot that will
require a NuBus adapter and have room for only 7-inch NuBus cards.
Users will be able to update the Tempest's process but not the
Cyclone's.
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I posted a message here some time ago asking why my mouse was so jumpy.
Well, I think I know why, and it doesn't have anything to do with the
mouse. It seems to be the video driver! Here's why I think that:
A few weeks ago I helped a guy install the driver for his S3 video card for
windows. He had been using the normal Windows default VGA driver. We don't
have the same kind of mouse (mine is microsoft serial and his is an off-
brand serial mouse). His mouse worked fine until I installed the S3 (v1.4)
driver on his system, then his mouse became really jumpy too!
Is there anything I can do? I need high resolution since I display LOTS of
stuff on my screen (AMI Pro, Pegasus Mail for Windows, WP Office 4.0 --
sorry, nondisclosure!, and alot more). I noticed there are S3 drivers on
ftp.cica, but they are the same version that I already have and they are no
help (I already tried!).
---
Sean Eckton
Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
D-406 HFAC
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)378-3292
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Jasen Mabus
RPI student
I am looking for a hman brain in any CAD (.dxf,.cad,.iges,.cgm,etc.) or picture (.gif,.jpg,.ras,etc.) format for an animation demonstration. If any has or knows of a location please reply by e-mail to mabusj@rpi.edu.
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I imagine that was the MKS Toolkit, from Mortice Kern Systems.
Another third party add-in, and a good one too.
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I believe that that would be the same as a system error #64. Since there is no
error #64, then I would guess that it would be a -64 error. Which is a font
manager error of "error during font declairation".
I would assume that the system that's on the floppy that you are trying start
up on has a corrupted font in it, or something like that.
Mario Murphy
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Let's put it this way, they have a charter and several executive orders
to obey, among other things which *explicitly* prohibit sharing this
information (unless things have changed withing the last little while).
I suppose they could ignore it, if they choose. But I doubt they would.
For an authoritative look at the NSA, get Bamford's "The Puzzle Palace".
That's all I can say.
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Your ignorance is showing. The BATF warrant was unsealed.
The entire operation was illegal from day ONE.
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[some big deletions]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Another in a string of idiotic generalizations. Gad, I'm surprised I got
this far down in the post. I guess some just like seeing their names up on
a CRT.
Like me :-)
Phil Trodwell
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Actually, I just think he's confused. *I'm* going to hell because I'm Gay,
not becuase I don't believe in God.
(I wonder if that means I can't come to Tammy & Deans picnic?)
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Try using Laser printer/copier paper, it works quite
well and is cheaper than HPspecial paper.
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Are you sure you want to include Chalcedon here? I presume that you
mean the description of Jesus as fully human and fully devine. Almost
everyone would consider the majority of Copts and Armenians, and the
Jacobites, as Christians, yet for 15 centuries it has been maintained
that they disagree with the Formula of Chalcedon. Those that wouldn't
consider them Christians are most likely to object that these communities
don't require a personal commitment to Jesus, which is only tangentially
related to the Formula of Chalcedon.
--
Thanks, John Kolassa, kolassa@bio1.bst.rochester.edu
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In light of the 100 letter over "What was the LISA" I thought I'd start a
new one. What was the IIvx? I hear it was some machine that predated the
main 040 line by about 6 mos, but used obsolete tech. Rumor has it that
several were sold....
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hi folks
i have a 386 25 mhz and now i'm buying a new 486
first question) which is the best way to share hard disks
and printer
p.s. my two pc will be far about 10 meter and i like to use
a parallel port or ethernet card and i like to share resource
under dos linux os2.1 and windows 3.1 & nt
2) which 486? i think to buy 486 dx2 50mzh local bus
but i heard that some board coulnd't work properly
cause some incompatibilites is that true?
should a 486 dx 50 mhz a better solution
in case i buy local bus it's better to buy an accelerated
svga card with a normal local bus ide controller
or it is better to buy a local bus svga card non accelerated
with a normal ide controller?
3) is there any accelerated local bus and possibly true color
svga card? at which price?
4) i need to buy a cd which is the cheapest that is able to read
musical photo kodak and computer cd rom
i have heard about a sony and a mitsumi which is best?
and which controller work with its?
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Why should he have to? This sort of thing should be included. How about
the millions of people who don't have access to pd libraries over networks?
Just because people can work around it, doesn't mean that something shouldn't
be done to remedy the situation.
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On all 1.44Mb drives (both Mac and PC), the disk spins at a constant
RPM. On 800k Mac disk drives, the spin rate of the disk is varied so
that the tracks pass under the head at a constant speed; a slower rotation
for the outer tracks, and a faster rotation for the inner tracks. A PC
needs special controller hardware to make this happen.
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I have not seen this book, though I have had several people quote it in
support of some tendentious assertions they were making, so I have become
curious about it.
I don't want to malign this Hislop fellow, whoever he may be, as I have only
heard the arguments at second hand, but both of the arguments seemed to turn
on false etymology that SEEMED to be derived from Hislop.
I would be interested in knowing more about these things.
The first one claimed that the word "church" was derived from the Greek
"cyclos", and that it was therefore related to the worship of "Circe".
I don't know if Hislop is the source of this assertion, but it does seem to
be based on false etymology.
The second claimed an etymological relationship between "Ishtar" and
"Easter", which seemed to be even more fanciful and far-fetched than some
of the wilder notions of the British Israelites.
Regarding the latter, as far as I have been able to find out, "Easter" is
derived from the old English name for April - "Eosturmonath". The Venerable
Bede mentioned that this was associated with a goddess called "Eostre", but
apart from that reference I have not been able to find out anything more
about her. It also seems that the term "Easter" is only used by the English
and those they evangelized. The Germans, for example, also use the term
"Ostern", but Germany was evangelized by English missionaries.
So I would be interested in any evidence of "Easter" being used for Pascha
by people who do not have any kind of connection with the ancient Anglo-
Saxons and their offshoots. Such evidence might support the claims of those
who appear to derive the theory from Hislop.
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On the subject of the upcoming new Mustang:
The car magazines have printed a lot of information about the new Mustang
and the consensus about what to believe in my "car circle" is that the
suspension pieces and tuning will be almost identical to the current
Cobra, but on a stiffer body structure which will improve its behavior.
After the MN12 (Thunderbird) cost and weight debacle, Ford decided
independent rear suspension with rear wheel drive won't be tried again in
a volume car.
The current 4.9l V-8 will soldier on for about two years. A version of
the 32 valve modular V-8 in the Mark VIII could be offered then. Ford
is spending big money tooling up for 2.5l and 3.5l V-6 engines which will
power most of their cars in the immediate future, and therefore probably
do not consider volume production of 300 hp V-8 engines a priority.
Undisguised, the car looks OK, but not nearly as exciting as the new
Camaro/Firebird, IMO.
I suspect Ford will produce their car with higher quality than GM will
achieve with the Camaro/ Firebird. The way GM loses money, the temptation
to "just get them out the door" for the sake of positive cash flow will be
great once demand really takes off.
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fuchs@tsar.princeton.edu (Ira H. Fuchs):
the
the
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Hmm, depends on how you define 'clean'. Jordan implemented the system
dependent stuff in a way that you have basic implementations for,
call it, operating system types, then you go ahead and write a include
file for your specific machine or operating system using the basic
implementations. Since both Jordan and I haven't encountered a
OS flavor yet, that is fully POSIX, we haven't gotten around to
really implement (and test) a top-level include file specifically
for just posix. The posix routines are used in the sun specific file
tty_sun.i for example, but here we also use some bsd stuff. All in all
it still is probably better to implement a include file for each and
every operating system than '#ifdef'ing in existing ones. The type
of mess that can result from that can clearly be seen in the xterm
sources. Even if quite a bit of code gets copied almost unchanged a
couple of times, this only uses up some disk space, since only the
"drivers" actually included from the toplevel include file will be
compiled into emu.
It shouldn't be hard to come up with a tty_linux.i file that fully
relies on the posix stuff, but unfortunately I don't have a linux
system available to me, so I can't do the port myself. I would suggest
you read the README in term/sysdep and if you have any problems or
questions, contact me and we could try to sort this out. Unfortunately
we have to rely on help from the net on this part of emu, since we
just don't have access to that many different systems.
Michael
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Pat Myrto says if law enforcement wants keys, let them get a court order and
then ask him for them.
Most use of probably cause wiretapping warrants isn't to decrypt historical
traffic, but for prospective listening once probably cause is established.
Pat's approach would tip off the crooks.
David
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^^^^^^
Pardon my ignorance of foreign currency and exchange rates, but what is a
quid, how does it relate to the British Pound (or whatever it's called)
and what is that in American Dollars??? :-)
Thanks!
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Remove LEGEND from the V-8 list, it's a 6.
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:
:
: "Numerical Recipes in C"..Fortran..Pascal has a nice section on
: encryption and decryption based on the DES algorithm. There is
: also source code provided (I think some versions of this book are
: distributed with the source code on disk; the source code can
: also be ordered from the publisher).
:
: --Victor Iseli
: victori@xetron.com
Yes I benchmarked the DES implementation in the Recipes in C
book.. it is about 1 1/2 orders of magnitude SLOWER than the
Outerbridge/Karn/Gillogly/et al implementation.
It may be instructional, but it isn't very fast.
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I do.
Yesterday.
Seriously, Countess Ada of Lovelace gets the credit. She first used
it in the late 80s. Her bike: the spokeless wonder.
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919
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Owieneramus. Always has to stick his 'ASALA/SDPA/ARF' made nose into
every discussion with non-points and lies. Well, still anxiously
awaiting...
Source: Cemal Kutay, "Ottoman Empire," vol. II., p. 188.
"The atrocities and massacres which have been committed for a long time
against the Muslim population within the Armenian Republic have been
confirmed with very accurate information, and the observations made by
Rawlinson, the British representative in Erzurum, have confirmed that
these atrocities are being committed by the Armenians. The United States
delegation of General Harbord has seen the thousands of refugees who came
to take refuge with Kazim Karabekir's soldiers, hungry and miserable,
their children and wives, their properties destroyed, and the delegation
was a witness to the cruelties. Many Muslim villages have been destroyed
by the soldiers of Armenian troops armed with cannons and machine guns
before the eyes of Karabekir's troops and the people. When it was hoped
that this operation would end, unfortunately since the beginning of
February the cruelties inflicted on the Muslim population of the region
of Shuraghel, Akpazar, Zarshad, and Childir have increased. According
to documented information, 28 Muslim villages have been destroyed in the
aforementioned region, more than 2,000 people have been slaughtered,
many possessions and livestock have been seized, young Muslim women
have been taken to Kars and Gumru, thousands of women and children who
were able to flee their villages were beaten, raped and massacred in the
mountains, and this aggression against the properties, lives, chastity
and honour of the Muslims continued. It was the responsibility of the
Armenian Government that the cruelties and massacres be stopped in order
to alleviate the tensions of Muslim public opinion due to the atrocities
committed by the Armenians, that the possessions taken from the Muslims
be returned and that indemnities be paid, that the properties, lives,
and honour of the Muslims be protected."
Serdar Argic
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-Allergy medicine, huh? Is this just to get rid of the resultant migraine or
whatever, or does it actually suppress allergic reactions? (i.e. like an
antihistamine does?) As far as doctors over here are concerned, if you slip up
and eat something you're allergic to (even if they won't test you to tell you
what to avoid) then tough; if a _cheap_ medicine will alleviate your symptoms,
then fine, otherwise you just suffer. One doctor did prescribe me imigran (costs
the NHS #48 for 6 tablets) after having to rehydrate me because I'd been throwing
up for four solid days and couldn't even drink water - but I got taken off it
again when I moved and had to change doctors. Reasoning: they did not know what
the side-effects were because it was new. OK, fine - but it has passed the
safety tests to get on the prescription list, and anyway I was prepared to take
the risk to have quality of life now. The only alternatives I have is to get it
prescribed privately, which I cannot afford, or to pay a private allergy
specialist to test me and tell me what to avoid. I am fairly certain I am
allergic to more than one chemical additive, as a lot of things I can't eat have
nothing in common except things I know are safe, so testing myself isn't really
an option; there are too many permutations.
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Is the sending of encrypted traffic without government permission legal in
New Zealand?
David
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Well I agree with you in the sense that they have no "moral" right to inflict
these rules, but there is one thing I might add: at the very least, almost
everybody wants to avoid pain, and if that means sacrificing some stuff for a
herd morality, then so be it.
Right, and since they grew up and learned around us, they have some idea of our
right and wrong, which I think must, in part, be incorporated. Very rarely do
you see criminal behaviour for "philosophical reasons"
(stuff deleted)
--
best regards,
--Adam
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It seems faith is the only tool available for emotional purposes
due to the tragedy. As such it maybe fills a need, however I'm
getting tired to see children dying in pain in Sudan due to lack
of food, and assuming that God takes these sufferers to heaven
after a painful death.
Cheers,
Kent
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-> >->
-> >-> For those who still doubt what is going on, this is
-> >-> from the still uncensored AP wire:
-> >->
-> >-> Two journalists from Houston arrested at gun-point and
-> >-> cuffed and jailed for taking pictures of the compound today.
-> >-> Later released on bail, but cameras and film were confiscated.
-> >->
-> >-> jh
-> >
-> > You could work for CNN. Take a few lines from a story and
-> >imply something with it but don't say what you really mean.
-> >
-> > The police always close off the area around a major crime
-> >scene to keep evidence from being disturbed
->
-> By taking pictures?
They leave foot prints, they may drop some trash on the
ground, and they may pick up something that looks interesting.
->
-> >, and it is a misdemeanor
-> >to enter the closed off area. One of the photographers also quickly
-> >spun around with a long lens camera while the officer was approaching,
-> >a good way to get shot.
->
-> Well, that (hopefully) depends on what country one is in.
It has nothing to do with the country. You are coming toward
someone in an area where there has been violent confrontations, and
one guy spins around quickly with an object that looks like a gun.
Police are not trained to stand there and let someone gun them down.
-> There was also no indication in that story
-> >that they wouldn't get their cameras and film back after getting out
-> >of jail.
->
-> Once goverment agents have had an opportunity to check
-> the film out.
You're making statements that are not supported by facts.
Don't let paranoia get the best of you. Wait to see if the reporters
don't get their film back or they get it back developed before
screaming conspiracy.
->
-> I think it was Barry Goldwater who once said "the goverment
-> that is big enough to give you everything is big enough to
-> take everything from you." You life and/or freedom including.
-> Of course, that could not happen to you, could it?
Our government is not big enough to give you everything,
despite the efforts of people like Bill Clinton. Taking a statement
like that and thinking `everything done in the name of law enforcement
is wrong' is simple minded and ignorant of history. A government is a
necessary evil, and we must decide what it should be allowed to do
based on facts, history, and not by baseless claims.
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There were a great many Germans, Poles and others who did not
sympathize with the victims of the Holocaust but instead participated
with enthusiasm in the killing.
The Holocaust wasn't a massacre, it wasn't even killing for sport; it
was an entire Industry of Death. German engineers, architects
technicians and bureaucrats proudly put their best efforts into as
efficient and methodical a Killing Machine as they could devise and
operate. And it certainly was something extraordinary.
Please don't bleat to us about how the Nazis suffered from the
Holocaust.
All Jews suffered during WWII [...]
was "correct" him with:
All humans suffered [...]
So what WERE you implying?
Are we supposed to thank you for your generosity?
Or should we be pleased with your minimal common sense?
Why is it that when someone writes something simple like "All Jews
sufffered during WWII" that YOU feel the burning need to add
commentary? Regardless of what people write, you keep trying to twist
things into what YOU want to hear. People with similar tendencies in
more extreme form are sometimes called Historical Revisionists. Is
this something that you aspire to?
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I don't think there is a general distinction. Rather, there are
two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic
persistent hepatitis. I can't think of any other disease where the
term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic.
Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic persistent"
sound fuzzy, the actual distinction between the two conditions
is often fairly fuzzy as well.
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And here is the first patch :-) The following fixes some problems with the
Imakefile files and makes it possible to compile xv-3.00 under Solaris without
having to use the ucb stuff:
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:05:03
--- Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:20:35
***************
*** 209,215 ****
OBJS4= xcmap.o
PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap
!
#if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff)
# ifdef HaveJpeg
--- 209,218 ----
OBJS4= xcmap.o
PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap
! all::
! @echo ""
! @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?"
! @echo ""
#if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff)
# ifdef HaveJpeg
***************
*** 222,238 ****
SUBDIRS = tiff
# endif
# define PassCDebugFlags
MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
- DependSubdirs($(DUBDIRS))
#endif
all::
- @echo ""
- @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?"
- @echo ""
-
- all::
@echo " building xv ..."
@echo ""
--- 225,236 ----
SUBDIRS = tiff
# endif
# define PassCDebugFlags
+ # define IHaveSubdirs
MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
#endif
all::
@echo " building xv ..."
@echo ""
***************
*** 259,267 ****
SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4)
- DependTarget()
AllTarget($(PROGRAMS))
NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
--- 257,269 ----
SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4)
+
AllTarget($(PROGRAMS))
+ DependTarget()
+ #ifdef IHaveSubdirs
+ DependSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
+ #endif
NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 08:33:13
--- xv.h 1993/04/28 08:19:31
***************
*** 284,292 ****
--- 284,298 ----
/* signal macros */
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #define HOLD_SIG sighold(SIGALRM)
+ #define RELEASE_SIG sigrelse(0)
+ #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0)
+ #else
#define HOLD_SIG sigblock(sigmask(SIGALRM))
#define RELEASE_SIG sigblock(0)
#define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0)
+ #endif
/* default for most folks */
***************
*** 318,323 ****
--- 324,333 ----
#define random rand
#define srandom srand
#endif
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #define random() rand()
+ #define srandom(x) srand(x)
+ #endif
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:09:50
--- xcmap.c 1993/04/28 07:09:03
***************
*** 9,15 ****
--- 9,19 ----
/* include files */
#include <stdio.h>
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #include <string.h>
+ #else
#include <strings.h>
+ #endif
#include <ctype.h>
#include <X11/Xos.h>
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:17:41
--- tiff/Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:53:34
***************
*** 49,59 ****
--- 49,69 ----
tif_compress.o: Imakefile
+ #if HasGcc
g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h
-${RM} g3states.h
+ ${CC} -traditional -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c
+ ./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h
+ #else
+ g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h
+ -${RM} g3states.h
${CC} -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c
./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h
+ #endif
depend:: g3states.h
+ clean::
+ -${RM} mkg3states g3states.h
+
DependTarget()
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Because riding a passenger doesn't really depend on the type of bike.
The things you want a passenger to do/not do is the same. Ergo, if he's
asking advice, I reasoned he doesn't have much practice, period. If
you say he does, fine. I still wouldn't take the uninitiated up a
road that's all switch backs and reverse/center/uncrowned roadway, not
to mention the BDCs and squids who will also be on that particular
road. He asked for advice, and even though it wasn't what he meant,
I still consider it some of the best I've read.
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I have an external drive connected to my IIsi. This is never
recognized and mounted on system startup. I can mount it with
the SCSI control panel. I'm running system 7.0.1, and everything
is properly terminated. Would anyone have a helpful idea at to
the problem?
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On a similar note, a good friend of mine worked as a clerk in a
chain bookstore. Several of his peers were amazing, one woman in
particular:
A customer asked her if they had _The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin_. "Who's it by?" was her first question. Then, "Is he
still alive?" Then, "Is it fiction or non-fiction?"
Finally my friend intervened, and showed the guy where it was.
It makes one wonder what the standards of employment are.
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Krishna.
BG10:20(Miller) I am the self abiding in the heart of all creatures; I am
their beginning, their middle, and their end.
BG10:32(Miller) I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of
creations, Arjuna; of sciences, I am the science of the self; I am the
dispute of orators.
BG10:41(Miller) Whatever is powerful, lucid, splendid, or invulnerable
has its source in a fragment of my brilliance. (42) What use is so much
knowledge to you, Arjuna? I stand sustaining this entire world with a
fragment of my being.
BG11:32(Miller) I am time grown old ...
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To: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
RT> o Those administering the treatment do not know which subjects
RT> receive a placebo or the test treatment.
It seems to me that many drugs have such severe side effects that
it might not be possible to keep the doctors from knowing who is
getting the true drug. This is especially true of the drugs used
for "mental" illnesses.
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Why are circuit boards green? The material used to make them goes by two
names. If it is used to make circuit boards it is called FR-4. The same
material is used in the cryogenics industrya and marine industries as a
structural material and is called G-10. FR-4 and G-10 are both green. They
are not green because of a solder masking agent. The basic ingredients are
a clear epoxy resin and glass fibers. I am not sure what the specs are on
the resin, but if you are really curious you can call NEMA (National
Electronics Manufacturing Association) or Ciba Geigy (a major manufacturer
of epoxy resins) to find out. As an aside, I occasionally mix clear epoxy
and glass microsphres to cast small structures for cryogenics experiments.
The proportions of glass to epoxy are about the same as in G-10. They are
the same green color.
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We're NOT???! Hell, I was wondering why there was all the pointless woffle
about motorcycles.
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T.S.Reddy writes
While the people here may be claim to be Muslim, the actions reported here,
if they actually happened, are 180 degrees opposite from what Islam stands
for, and I, for one, condemn them.
--
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(Whatever the above comment has to do with the hazards of fighting a
fire in the midst of ammo cooking off...)
Maybe the fire department was loudly complaining the whole time about
being diverted from their other duties, and the FBI said "FIne. Go home
and we'll call you if we need you." A million things could have happened,
we don't know.
BTW, this is the first time I have heard that the Waco FD was on scene
for all but the last 2 days... what's the source (out of curiosity)?
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I suppose for the same reason Jews call the Occupied Territory, Judea and
Sumaria. It's called propaganda and if you repeat lies often enough,
people start to believe it.
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FOR SALE
1945 King Feature Syndicate
Jaymar Specialty Company
200 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
Cardboard puzzle - NO BOX
Pieces worn from use
NO MISSING PIECES
Size: 13 3/4 inches by 21 1/2 inches
60 Puzzle Pieces
Puzzle depicts Dagwood, Blondie, the kids, and dog Daisey with her
puppies on a picnic with Dagwood and Alexander trying to get
a fishing line out of a tree.
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acooper@mac.cc.macalstr.edu (Turin Turambar, ME Department of Utter Misery)
said re. Dan Schaertel's article [if I followed the quoting right]:
I think it may also be worthwhile pointing out that if we
take the appellation `Rabbi' seriously then Jesus had a full
grasp of contemporary `scripture'
Mat21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures...
Mat22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing
Mat22:29 the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Following from this, he would have been in a wonderful
position to fulfil prophesies, and the NT says as much:
Mat26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled,
Mat26:54 that thus it must be?
Mat26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the
Mat26:56 prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples
Mat26:56 forsook him, and fled.
If the books comprising the referred-to `scripture' had not
been accessible then it probably would be a different
matter.
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This whole discussion is just a religous war. I'd rather have a '93 RX-7
than the Mustang 5.0L for 3 times the price. That's how you explain
Porsches selling. Some folks would rather have the Stang...
<shrug>
Sean
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Dandridge Cole and Isaac Asimov collaborated on a book titled,
"Habitable Planets for Man" (I think) in 1964. It should be available
in most good libraries, or through inter-library loan.
It answered the questions you ask (speculatively, of course), along
with many more that need to be considered in habitability studies:
length of day (for day/night temperature variation, and agricultural
concerns), partial pressures of certain unexpected gasses (ever hear of
xenon narcosis? neither did I), density of particulates in the atm, and
their composition (ever hear of silicosis? not much fun), etc.
Climate isn't a global phenomenon and probably needn't concern you,
but axial tilt ought to. It plays a large part in determining the
severity of seasonal differences, and a lesser but still significant
part in determining the speed of prevailing winds.
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Thanks. Got that from two other sources as well. The full quote is as
follows:
From Dorothy Denning, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY, Addison-Wesley
1982,1983, page 8:
"Cryptosystems must satisfy three general requirements:
"1. The enciphering and deciphering transformations must be efficient for
all keys.
"2. The system must be easy to use.
"3. The security of the system should depend only on the secrecy of the
keys and not on the secrecy of algorithms E [enciphering] or D
[deciphering]."
--Mike
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Uh, Bob, why is the battery warmer than ground temperature? On the time
scales in question, and with the considerably reduced temperature swings
several feet underground, there isn't going to be any major temperature
difference between the battery and what it's sitting on.
Because the temperature of your hand, *unlike that of the battery*, is
determined by the balance between internal heat production and external
heat loss. You're feeling the greater rate of heat loss from an object
(your hand) which is kept much warmer than its surroundings. In the case
of an object with no significant internal heat production, this will
affect how quickly it comes into equilibrium with its surroundings (if
it started out not in equilibrium with them) but won't affect the final
temperature.
For the same reason, windchill affects whether you will freeze but not
whether water will freeze.
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xIf you put a locking lugnut on your tires, do you need to have your
xtires rebalanced??
x
xJohn Mas
x
xE-Mail Address :: MAS@SKCLA.MONSANTO.COM
Since the wheel/tire is balanced off the car i.e. the lugnuts are
not normally involved, how would they do that? I would think that
since the lugs are so close to the center of rotation any slight
difference in weight between a normal lugnut and a locking one would
not have any noticable effect on the balance. I could be wrong, it *is*
Friday afternoon.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mack Costello <mcostell@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Code 65.1 (formerly 1720.1)
David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock Division Hq. NSWC ___/-\____
Bethesda, MD 20084-5000 Phone (301) 227-2431 (__________>|
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I would like to see a serious discussion on the best way to install windows
from a Novell administrator's point of view.
I just got off the phone with MS Access support and was told that they
(Microsoft) has decided to implement, as a standard for software support,
the LOCAL setup (described below) as the "most advantageous installation".
If this is true and Microsoft deems this to be the most prudent installation
then I will comply but I'd like to hear it from administrators first.
The LOCAL Windows Installation:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Windows is fully installed on each workstation hard drive (assuming the
resources are available). From a network administrator's implementation,
he/she would install all windows disks on a network drive using SETUP/A.
Then install windows on a per/machine bases by running SETUP off the network
to install the complete system on the local drives. In this way, all drivers
are available to the SETUP procedure w/o the need to change disks.
Advantages:
- Reduce Traffic - Running Windows locally reduces network traffic due to
the local access of main Windows files.
- Network independence - If the network fails (and they all do at one point
or another), the local installation would allow users to keep producing
and reduce the cost of down-time.
- Faster Windows - Theoretically, Windows will run faster from a local hard
drive than over a network. This may be a hard point to prove if the network
has an optical backbone and/or the network drives are significantly faster
access than local ones.
- A user traveling from machine to machine does not need to worry about
varying setups (monochrome, color, types of mouse, etc...) since the
Windows installation is assigned to the Workstation.
Disadvantages:
- Cost - Installing Windows locally requires a significant amount of disk
space. Workstations now must be purchased with a hard disk that can
increase the cost of the workstation from 10 to 30 percent.
- Administration - Local windows installations are very difficult to
administer.
New drivers for peripherals are constantly being made available, each of
which would have to be individually installed on each workstation.
- Security - Users now have access to erase or corrupt their own system
files from simple ignorance. This could result in quite a headache for
administrators who may have to constantly repair damaged installations.
- Backup - We all know the problems backing up local hard disks. The backup
sets (if done via a centralized tape system) get very large very quickly.
Backup individually (to floppy) may not happen at all. This may be
eliminated if it is assumed that local hard disks only contain replaceable
applications and *not* user data.
The SHARED Windows Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Windows is fully installed to a network disk via the SETUP/A procedure
described above. Users (or administrators) then install a minimal set of
files to individual "user" directories. These directories may be on a
local hard disk or perhaps a network "home" directory. The bulk of the
Windows system files are maintained on the network in a single directory
(some 400+ files) and are accessed (shared) as-needed by users throughout
their Windows session. The user's files consist of a small set of files
that the user has updated during his/her Windows session. These include
group files, .INI files and other regularly updated files.
Advantages:
- A single location for all files makes updates to drives easy. As
an updated driver becomes available, it only needs to be installed in this
single directory for all users to be able to take advantage of it.
- Assuming that the users' files are maintained in network (home) directories,
the administrator can easily edit any .INI file as-needed to correct
problems that may arise. This includes WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI.
- Backup of all pertinent files is done easily. Even if the users' files
are on a local hard disk, the bulk of the Windows system is backed up with
all driver updates.
Disadvantages:
- Network traffic - since all Windows files are being shared in a network
directory, traffic on the network can become a problem an effect the
speed of Windows.
- If the network crashes, all production comes to a stop since Window's
is reliant upon the network for its files. Loss of data usually occurs
as well since users working in Windows at the time of the crash will
usually not be able to save their work.
- Although minimal, disk space is still a consideration. If the users' files
are maintained on the network, a large number of users can cause a
significant utilization of disk space due to their personal Windows
files alone.
- Users cannot easily move from machine to machine unless the workstation
hardware are similar. This is due to the Windows installation being
tied to a particular username (in the case of Network user files).
The Discussion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I would like to know, from other administrators with a large Windows
userbase, how they prefer setting up Windows. Personally, I have
setup numerous installations using the SHARED setup. All Windows and
application files are on the network with little or no utilization of
local hard disks. In fact, I sold a network on the fact that the
company would no longer need to purchase hard disks for their workstations
and thus save that much more money.
I would also like to see recommendations for applications. Should
apps such as Word and/or Excel be installed locally regardless of how
Windows is installed? Again, I keep all files on the network for easy
backup and administration but this is "putting all eggs in one basket";
if the network crashes, work comes to a halt.
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Regarding the first paragraph, I would say that I didn't write it. I
don't believe that unbaptized babies are put in Hell. I don't even
believe in Hell. At least, I don't believe in a fiery place where
there will be "gnashing of teeth".
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I caught the tail end of a piece on NPR (National Public Radio) about
Chomsky. Apparently there is a new documentary about him and his
concepts on the propagandist news media of the West, or some such.
The funny thing is that NPR painted Chomsky and the documentary in
such a positive light, or at least ended the report in a positive way.
The documentary is just now showing in a few cities in the US, and
will open in more cities in June. Sorry, forgot the title.
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My feeling on baptism is this: parents baptize their baby so that the
baby has the sanctifying grace of baptism (and thus removal of original
sin) on its soul in the event of an unexpected death.
That is, the parents speak on behalf of the child which is too young
to speak on its own. This should not surprise anyone: don't parents
*always* do what they believe is the best for their baby? Why would
that apply to the baby's physical needs only but not his/her spiritual
needs to have God's grace?
The purpose of confirmation is for the baby (now young adult) to
decide to re-affirm for himself/herself the promises that his/her
parents made at baptism. That is where accepting Jesus into your
heart comes in. In baptism, the parents ask Jesus to come into their
baby's heart; at confirmation the child repeats that request
independently.
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An '82 FT500 Ascot was my first bike--I recommend it. If anyone's
interested, mine's for sale. It's in LA currently, with a bum
starter and around 10k miles. I'd like a couple hundred for it.
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Precisely my position.
As a newbie, I tried the point-by-point approach to debate with
these types. It wasted both my time and my lifespan. Ignoring
them is not an option, since they don't go away, and doing so
would leave one with large stretches of complete anonymity in this
group.
What's left? Healthy flaming. I'm sure on occassion I've
appeared to be little more than a caustic boob to some of the
Bobby types. But why waste breath arguing with someone whose most
rational though process involves his excretory system?
And I stand by my record of recognizing these people long before
most of the rest of the group. So let's see what this Timmons
character has in store for us...
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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Hi,
I am using xdm on X11R5 with OW3 and Xview3 on Sun3s and SPARCs running
SunOS 4.1.1. Prior to using xdm, I used to set PATH and other environment
variables (like MANPATH, HELPPATH, ARCH, etc) in my .login file. With xdm,
the .login file doesn't get executed and therefore neither the olwm
root-window nor my applications know about these variables.
I used the "DisplayManager._0.userPath" resource in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config
to succesfully pass the PATH variable. But I am having problems passing anything else!!! I tried execing $HOME/.login in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
but that didn't help. I also tried using
"DisplayManager.exportList: HELPPATH MANPATH ARCH"
which didn't work either.
I would appreciate any help on this matter.
Thanks in advance,
Shash
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I am sure some bashers of Pens fans are pretty confused about the lack
of any kind of posts about the recent Pens massacre of the Devils. Actually,
I am bit puzzled too and a bit relieved. However, I am going to put an end
to non-PIttsburghers' relief with a bit of praise for the Pens. Man, they
are killing those Devils worse than I thought. Jagr just showed you why
he is much better than his regular season stats. He is also a lot
fo fun to watch in the playoffs. Bowman should let JAgr have a lot of
fun in the next couple of games since the Pens are going to beat the pulp out of Jersey anyway. I was very disappointed not to see the Islanders lose the final
regular season game. PENS RULE!!!
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Maddi: >>
No, no, no! I've already been named by "Killfile" Keith.
My nickname is Maddi "Never a Useful Post" Hausmann, and
don't you DARE forget it, "Half".
You really should quote Ivan Karamazov instead(on a.a), as he was
the atheist.
--
Maddi Hausmann madhaus@netcom.com
Centigram Communications Corp San Jose California 408/428-3553
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What makes you say that the guns were illegal?? I understand that the BD's
had a valid Class III Federal Firearms Permit, which would allow them to
have pretty much anything short of a howitzer legally.
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My comment was off the top of my head; I wasn't aware that it had
already been thought of. Guess it's true that there's nothing new under
the sun (or in this case, the flying billboards.)
--
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NO! I'm running both at home. Ok, to the cumpter is turned off right now but I
did boot BSD/386 from an IDE drive, most of the system is on a SCSI drive...
I'm using an Adaptec 1542B and a no-name el-cheapo IDE card.
Guy
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The first and only thing I've ever tried to auto-trace was a piece
of a USCG nautical chart using Adobe Illustrator 3.2. I wanted to get the
outline of the coast for Western Long Island Sound. I was simultaneously
suprised at how good a job it did and disappointed at how poorly it did. I
suspect what I gave it was a very difficult thing; not only is the coastline
very irregular, but overlaid on the chart are numerous sets of gridlines
(not only lattitude and longitude, but loran grids as well). The most
common mistake it make was whenever the coastline was roughly parallel and
tangent to a grid line, it would take off following the gridline instead of
the coast. I think the best improvement would be some sort of interactive
algorithm that would let you step in and say "no, dummy, you're going the
wrong way".
Steve Reisberg, a friend of mine a few years back(*), did his
doctoral work analysing electron micrographs of filimentous phage (virii).
A good chunk of the work was writing a program to take a digitized
micrograph and automatically trace the centerline of the virus particles.
This is essentially the same problem that Illustrator tries to solve with
its auto-trace tool.
In some respects the problem Steve worked on was harder, since he
was trying to do quantitative analysis of the virus structure and finding a
good centerline was only the first step, but a step on which all future
analysis depended. However, in other respects, it was an easier problem
since the program could be written with a lot of knowledge about what the
virus particles were supposed to look like, and the analysis could be
restricted to those particles which happend to be relatively straight,
clean, and well imaged; you don't always have that freedom auto-tracing real
life images. In any case, it gave me some insight into just how difficult
this problem is to solve in the general case.
(*) Steve is no longer with us. He and his wife disappeared while
on vacation in Hawaii a couple of years after they graduated. Their last
known location was hiking in a densely wooded in a mountainous area. While no
bodies were ever found, they are presumed to have been the victim of some
sort of fall or accident in the woods.
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Hehehe! Dontcha just love these carefully constructed arguements?
Clayton, babe, please define the word `molest`. Are you using a legal
term or a proper dictionary term? Molest, as far as I can remember, means
`to do damage to person(s)`. My mate, Mike, was lured into a woman's parlour
when he was 14. Is that molestation? A number of my friends (straight) lost
their virginity before that. Were they 'molested'? They told me that they
thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I see no damage.
Please stop pushing your objective morality on others. If you push, people won't
fall over and say 'Ye gads, you're right!', they'll just push back.
Have you signed up for that logic course yet?
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Where can I get documentation about the X-Server-Internals?
BTW, I'm also interested in documentation about TIGA.
Any hints welcome.
Thanks, rainer.
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