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Well pat for once I agree with you and I like your first idea that you had. IT probably is the gamma ray signature of the warp transitions of interstellar spacecraft! :) Well it makes as much sense as some things. I was at the first Gamma Ray Burst conference here at UAH and had great fun watching the discomfiture ...
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*Everything* in Louisiana is related to liquor: eating, sleeping, walking, talking, church, state, life, death, and everything in between. Plus the food is good, too.
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The subject line says it all really, I'm looking for a PD application which will just handle the displaying of 3D data sets (images) in cross section, or any pointers to code which will aid in the development of such a system. Thanks in advance Keith Marlow
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(Book Review): "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", by Dewey B. Larson, 1984, North Pacific Publishers, Portland, Oregon, 456 pages, indexed, hardcover. "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION" contains FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL astrophysical mysteries...
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Hi, I have bought a new harddisk and want to use it with my old TEAC SD3105 , 100Mb harddisk. Unfortunataly I do not have any documentation with this harddisk. Could someone please tell me how I should set the jumpers for master or slave ? Thanks in advance, Robert Tenback. ...
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What's the difference between a 16550 UART and a 16550A UART? Thanks!
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Did you ever notice that 99% of all the problems are from people that run Windows! Thanks MS...
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Yeah, just like you shouldn't assume that Aryan Nations supports genocide. Who are they (and you) fooling?
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I need some ECG data , uncompressed, hopefully in ascii format. Don't care what it looks like, this is for a signal processing project.
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First and foremost, I honestly do not believe that Jesus was anything more than a man who lived and died two thousand years ago. I know your Bible provides wonderful stories of the things he said and did, but I simply do not believe that he still exists as an entity that has any bearing on this universe or the lives ...
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I decided to come back and amend this so it quotes me and has added comments... before you had a pat of butter, now you need a medium apple (probably microwave the body will make fat out of carbohydrates if it needs them. Third, your body, like most peoples, wasn't bred to live on a high fat, modern diet. If y...
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nope. 4 cylinder. i wasn't aware that there was another Infiniti with a V-8 besides the Q45. several. the 740i, 730i, 540i, 530i. (4.0 liter and 3.0 liter V-8) one or two? there's at least one V-8 for every platform except the compact (190E). S-class (400SEL, 500SEL), W124 (400E, 500E), and roadster (500SL). a...
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I can't see the need for a single (big? expensive? heavy?) "mothership" except for Voyager style flyby missions. A few years ago, I did some calculations on a "Grand Tour" space probe launched by a Saturn V in 1975-76. At the time,I felt that the idea of a big "mother ship" had some merit - the Voyagers had to be ra...
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A rep at the dealer (actually it's a university order center, so they don't have any immediate financial interest), told me that they have been having lots of problems with their Centris 610. He didn't go into details, but mentioned problems with the floppy drive and intermittent problems with printing files. It sounde...
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FOR SALE!!!! 1) Sony Car Stereo Amplifier (Model XM-2040) Rated Power 20Wx4, into 4 Ohms from 20-20,000Hz @0.5%THD 2 Ohm Stable Short Circuit and Overload Protected This is a great little amplifier that I picked up as a demo model at Lechmere last spring, and never got a chance to install. It's been tested...
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Ouch. I guess I didn't. Sorry. But my comment was just more 'irony' into the fire. Cheers, Kent
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Could someone please tell me if the 486SLC and 486SLC2 processors IBM is putting in their Thinkpad 700's and other PC's is a REAL 486 with a math coprocessor or if it is really some Kludge that should not be called a 486 at all? Thanks, Eric
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<much deleted> Sounds like a memory conflict problem, which can cause truly weird symptoms like these. Call Dell tech support (or better, post to them on CSERVE if you have an account) and get the memory range(s) used by video RAM on your machine. The block windows from using those ranges with an EMMEXCLUDE= state...
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O.K, I am not a computer literate, but what can/cannot be done with the RAM over 16 megs in an ISA machine. Please e-mail! Thanks in Advance!
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[stuff deleted] The colormap element of SetWinAttrib must be a legitimate TrueColor colormap. So, use XCreateColormap() with the proper visual and use it in SetWinAttrib (and don't forget the mask!). And the inevitable caveat: I usually use widgets, setting the visual and colormap resources rather than direct X routi...
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I just got a Duo230 and a DuoDock, and am quite happy with it all - except I need to use the dock with a) two page grey scale monitor (Apple) b) two page color monitor (Apple) What is net wisdom on which vendor/video card would be preferable? Thanks in advance. ---jon---
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Am looking for network access to recent research into treatments for precocious puberty. If you know of specifics, would appreciate email. I have plenty of general textbook type references. Have a niece whose daughter is afflicted. The mother is an RN and has done a rather exhaustive search of printed material. P...
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THE ENEMY WITHIN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Robert I. Friedman The Village Voice, May 11, 1993, Vol. XXXVIII No. 19 | How The Anti-Defamation League Turned the Notion | | of Human Rights on Its Head, Spying on Progress- | | ives and Funn...
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So far, there is NO credible evidence that the BD's set the fires themselves. We only have the ATF/FBI's sayso. Law enforcements type would *never* lie to cover their ass, right? No, not love, just share a surprising similarity of beliefs and method. Funny, yeah, funny how you didn't wait for the FBI spokesdroid l...
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This poll was conducted to help users decide whether or not to alter their IIsi clock oscillator. I have attempted to gather as many case histories as possible to find some estimate of success and risk. The number of replies probably shows how rare this modification is but give the impression that success rates may be ...
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According to CNN last night (Saturday 4/24/93) he has now found bullets in two of the corpses, in the head (that would indicate that the bullets were aimed at killing the humans). Cheers, Kent
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This is not quite right. The differential arrival time techinique requires interplanetary baselines to get good positions. The differential arrival at the eight detectors differ by 10's of nanoseconds. This is smaller than BATSE's microsecond timing capabilities. BATSE, Ulysses, and Mars Obsverver are used for this ...
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To you, it shouldn't matter if you do evil things or good things. It is all meaningless in the end anyway. So go rob a bank. Go tell someone you dislike that he is a dirty rotten slime bag. What's restraining you?
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Now THAT makes sense. But the other half must be in a non-government escrow. (I still like EFF, but I admin their security has not been tested.)
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I remember a physic prof. who talked about scaling a cue ball to Earth size. Its was significantly less spherical that the Earth! --- Terry F Figurelle Boeing Defense & Space Group email: tff@plato.ds.boeing.com PO BOX 3999, Mail Stop 6J-EA phone: 206-394-3115 fax:206-394-4300 Seattle, WA 98124-2499
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I am looking for some Public Domain (and exportable) code for encryption. Nothing elaborate, just something that will satisfy a marketing need :-) Oh yes, UNIX platform.
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Well, actually not quite. Both Radar and Radio-Altimeters measure distances by measuring the time required to transmit a signal, then receive its reflection from a target. Radar generally uses pulses, while Radio Altimeters use either pulses or a modulated continuous-wave transmission. In the case of the latter, highly...
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IMHO, one should place the keybanks into satellites (space). The recovery should be done only by (highly visible) teams of astronauts. -- Borut B. Lavrencic, D.Sc. | X.400 :C=si;A=mail;P=ac;O=ijs;S=lavrencic J. Stefan Institute | Internet:Borut.B.Lavrencic@ijs.si University of Ljubljana, | Phon...
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I have a small network running in my dorm at school, and I am kind of worried about the length of the wires and the way that I have run it. I was wondering if anyone might have some schematic or at least some ideas on how to make some sort of simple appletalk repeater. I'm not so interested in making actual zones and ...
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The 91 and 92 Cruisers run the 4.0L straight 6 which only has about 150hp and 220lb-ft of torque. Plenty off-highway, marginal on the highway. The 93 has a much improved 4.2L straight 6 with >200hp and 275ft-lb torque. If you take them on rough trails, you'll see the difference. The Cruiser is an order of magnitu...
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This is always an option: when the sect is causing harm, re-label the cult to something else. Cheers, Kent
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I have no idea what this guy means but the Syrian Jews are not allowed to leave Syria because Assad welshed on his promise and is not letting them go. Israel has nothing to do with it. As for the other Arab countries there are still small communities left in some Arab countries. Morocco has the largest group I thin...
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G'Day All, I'm looking for a program to convert BMP images to GIF, TGA or even PPM. I'd prefer a unix program, but Dos is fine also. I've seen Alchemy (for DOS) and some windows image viewers which can save an image in other formats, but what I'm after is a converter not a viewer... Any help would be apprieciated! ...
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I had a deal on one, but the buyer disappear, so here we go again:
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Due to the large amount of request for 3dbench of ET4000/W32, I finally can get a 3dbench v1.0 from a ftp site. The 3dbench of ET4000/W32 in my Cardex W32 card with 1MB DRAM has superscape benchmark of 26.3 frames/sec. Hope it will satisfy people curiosity of this ET4000/W32 performance. What other benchmark program ...
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You may not think that it is fair, but how many sins do you know of that affect only the sinner? Is it fair for us even to be able to get into Heaven? Do we have a _right_ to Heaven, even if we were to lead sinless lives? Anyway, your argument seems to be saying, "If _I_ were God, I certainly wouldn't do things ...
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well it seemed to work for the Mac II installation I was talking about. Oh yeah there is something I forgot to mention : even though you're not suppposed to have water around, there IS some condenstion d dripping from the roof of the plane make sure that your hardware is covered. Make also sure that your keyboards a...
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I have a joint House-Senate conference committe report (i.e., crime bill) for the 102rd Congress which contains a "Brady Bill -- 7 day waiting period" within it. I believe it just died and never came up for a vote in either house. They got four years of Clinton's support to pass it.
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> I'm wondering if I can tote my American touch tone phone around with me > to Sweden and Germany. It's DC powered, and I can buy a special adapter > for that in Europe. The question is if the general electronics work > the same. I can buy a different wall plug and refit it (I'm sure I'd > have to),...
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This has troubled me for a long time and needs to be dealt with. From a long article Available through an individual on this newsgroup. About scripture being against homosexuality: ------------------------------------------ When we are less homophobic we will see that what we know as gay and lesbian people, engagin...
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There are many programs on CD-ROM that fit on a harddisk, not all software is that big (but we're getting there :-)). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guido Klemans Internet: rcstage1@urc.tue.nl valid until 16 may 1993 ---------------------------------...
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daved@world.std.com (Dave T Dorfman) writes... ]I was enjoying lunch this saturday at foodies in Milford NH with an assortment ]of other nedod folks when Dean Cookson ( yes he has not left the ]country, yet) mentioned that the wiring diagram of the VFR750 ]shows that the light switch is a three position switch. ...
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To Whomever who can help me, I am a doctor from Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. I have recently hooked up my private home computer to EMail via the local telephone company. I am really interested in corresponding with other Doctors or medical researchers through Email. I also hope to be able to subscribe to a news n...
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Jesus did and so do I. Peace be with you,
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This really bugs me. The emissions of diesels are the cleanest of any vechicle, but they are considered so polluting that they are banned in passenger cars in California. What a bunch of crap. Diesel is the fuel of choice for enviromental benefit in Europe while here it's illegal for the same reason. The particul...
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We have reached the point in our society when there are certain crimes that are so heinous that to merely be accused with them one is automaticly considered guilty and deemed not to have any natural rights much less civil rights. Among these are drug abuse, sexual perversion, and political incorrectness. Today Billa...
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Big deal. If you are a legitimate law enforcement agent and have a legitimate wiretap order, you just listen in on the line for 10 minutes, get the serial number, and then take the order and go to the escrow agencies. If you notice the criminal is now using a different phone instrument, take your still-valid wiretap o...
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Get the generic version (for Unix and VMS) and build it. IMHO a VMS .com file to build it is supplied. As the distribution comes as .tar.Z you should either have uncompress and tar on VMS or a UNIX flavoured machine handy. Usually you won't find this on IBM-PC specific archives, but on the better ones :)
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bobbe@vice (Robert Beauchaine;6086;59-323;LP=A;YAyG) Pontificated: I would guess that you either mean that you don't have a problem swearing aligance to a non-existant being or that you are being deliberatily dense (considering what group this is). It doesn't come "quite naturally" to nonbelievers such as myself o...
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unfortunately not
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Speaking of that..... My comp has "emmexclude=$e000-$efff" or something of that nature in the system.ini file. Or some system file for *windows*. I was just wondering if having that line in a *windows* startup file is better, as it will give some more memory on dos apps., but disable it when you run windows? (Actu...
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On a more cheerful note, perhaps hackerism/hacking isn't completely dead. As someone else said, take the GNU offerings for example - free, redistributable and often better than the commercial stuff. Take also the number of papers published every year in all the fields of computer science - the vast majority of these...
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: 09.05.93, 14:48 : Hi out there ! : Is there anybody who can write me how to add icons to the iconlist (which : is build-into) of Progman.exe ? : I'm grateful for every clue ! : Thanx and have a nice day ! One way is to use a program called Iconmaster. It's shareware and If you can't get it mail me, and I'll pos...
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which Kenneth Engel challenges: I will wimp out and admit that I never liked the metaphor of Jesus "paying" for our sins in the sense that many Christians accept as literal. The point is that God understands the suffering we go through, not just intellectually like when we watch the Somalians on TV, but _really_ unde...
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Neither. You don't have to pay attention to any one source, neither do you have to abandon your critical thinking, but to disregard all sources of information as 'lies' and 'distortions' and substitute your own pet theories is more likely to get you wild untruths than by basing your theories on the 'facts' as they...
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Heres a nice story to help explain the virtues of purity, innocence and modesty, and their importance. The Most Beautiful Virtues This story is an excerpt taken from The Basket of Flowers by Johann Christoph von Schmid In a certain little market town, over a hundred years ago, there lived...
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Did anyone notice any helicopters equipped with thermal imaging equipment? They usually manifest themselves in a turret in the front of the helo, or a sphere on top of the rotor with optical elements.
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Article: 41686 of sci.electronics Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: news.nd.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!asuvax!ennews!mcdphx!schuch From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) Subject: Food Dehydrators Message-ID: <1993Apr19.154356.17880@phx.mcd.mot.com> Sender:...
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Dear netters I am wondering about the accident of Koresh. I have heard different explanations. Without any explanation about your opinions and believes, please kindly tell me: 1)- What was Koresh talking about?. (Or what was his message) 2)- What was the main reason that Government went in war with ...
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Zoroaster is far older than Daniel. If anything, one could claim that, in a sense, Daniel is a descendant of Zoroaster; as Daniel, though being Hebrew, has assimilated into Zoroastrianism and has successfully introduced the religion into the Tanakh of Judaism. [However, the majority of the book is in Hellenistic Aram...
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The question is not whether your radio will be stolen. The question is when your radio will be stolen.
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Both xli and xloadimage will display in 24 bit color if a 24 bit visual is available. Check the output of xdpyinfo to see if one is.
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GM has always screwed the rest of the divisions in favor of the Corvette. The current platform is no exception. The "detuned" Camaro and Firebird is a load of crap to keep people from realizing that they can buy one of these instead of a Corvette and save about $10,000. I like the idea of an Impala SS, but if they rea...
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Gateway 2000 Fax/Modem send receive fax 9600 baud send receive up to 57,000 baud .. more never been used comes with software crosstalk/winFax New $195 from Gateway (only sold to gateway customer) will fit into your AT bus
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Interesting question, esp since I remember *wishing* with all my heart that this *were* true so that I wouldn't have to be a "good Christian" anymore. "Christianity" was terribly hard, the only reward was Heaven and (maybe, sometimes, if I was really good) acceptance; I wanted a way out. What Jesus has done for me...
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... If we take things this literally then we must also forbid women from speaking in church. Paul while led by the holy spirit was human and could err. I find it interesting that CHRIST never discussed the issue of homosexuality, certainly it existed back then and if it was a serious transgression CHRIST would have c...
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I currently have a AD-lib card, it can play .mid files in windows but it cannot play the startup .wav files.. i called microsoft... no help. i cannot call ad-lib since they went belly up. does anyone know if there are special drivers that i need for this? if so, where are they? Thanx in ad-libvance!! :-)
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Rabin is the PM. Did he ever indicate such a wish? Try to implement it? I opt for the third. Ish
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How generous Andi. Thanks for your validation.
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Persons interested in the tongues question are are invited to peruse an essay of mine, obtainable by sending the message GET TONGUES NOTRANS to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET or to LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
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The Hart Trophy was orginally awarded in a time where people did not think in terms of who was the "best" player, rather in terms of who was the most valuable to the team. And "valuable to his team" was not, and should not be, considered synonymous with "best". We are talking about a time when honour and attitude,...
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Still here. Just doing a little sobbing in our beer so we're to busy to post :-) Seriously I think I caught a .sig curse from Nelson :-) First the $%@#$%$ Rangers and $50 now the B's...... Hmmm....How bout dem Whalers? (No offense to steveg or others)
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Though David Sternlight pushes the envelope of credibility by claiming that talk.politics.guns is not the place to discuss guns, or the meaning of the Second Amendment, it seems he would rather post to millions of people out of relative ignorance of the subject than to follow the currently active threads discussing...
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Picture our universe floating like a log in a river. As the log floats down the river, it occasionally strikes rocks, the bank, the bottom, other logs. When this collission occurs, kinetic energy is translated into heat, the log degrades, gets scraped up, and other energy translaions occur. The distribution of dama...
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That would be a V4 ticket, presumably, not a V5 ticket. The V4 ticket format can even be complicated several more orders of magnitude...
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cdash@moet.cs.colorado.edu (Charles Shub) writes... What really irritated me was that they kept switching back and forth between baseball and hockey after they stated that they couldn't show the overtime period. I turned back to ESPN around 11 and it was hockey. Great, I pulled up a chair and watched, then the first o...
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Hi, Does anyone have a source for 386DX/25 Motherboards? I've been calling around the local stores and everyone appears to be only stocking the 386DX/33/40 or 386SX/25/33 motherboards. How difficult is it to modify a 386DX/40 motherboard to run at 25 MHz? Is it as simple as replacing the system clock with a slower ...
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Alas, we too will have to stop using it. Brian
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I have a '81 DATSUN 210 HATCHBAK forsale: It's a Blue Datsun Two doors (three, since it's a hatchback) 69,900 miles Automatic Very good condition (I hate to sell it, but Phila insurance is outrageous; I also don't need a car right now) I am asking $800 or BO
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[...] As anyone who attended HoHoCon will attest, you can pick information off the video chip. It's surprisingly easy too. The guy did it with a portable TV, with very minor mods. It only worked from 3 feet, but then it was just a demonstration. RA rogue@cs.neu.edu (Rogue Agent/SoD!)
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Since there is no BIOS support for ST-506 interface hard disks in an XT, that support must come from a BIOS extension ROM on the (MFM/RLL) hard disk controller. Usually the controller has a ROM-based low level format program (a common jump address is C800:0005 ... you can type G=C800:5 from debug to see) and a small t...
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Geez, I think some of these people have been too long on the net, you are not going to convince anyone of anything through violent language, one wonders why so many have violent tounges...
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:> :> I would not be suprised if the equipment is compatible, in fact New York :>Telephone (NYNEX) spend a lot of money on Swedish switching equipment :>recently. :> :>>Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: lhe@sics.se :> :> You can guess what brand of equipment I refer to :-) :> : Lars-Henrik will ...
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Text & Graphics: Bristol Technologies has help clone of MSWindows help Frame (makers of FrameMaker) has FrameView Text only: Graphical Software Technology has Xtra Widgets (includes help) There are probably others (check out ICS widget data book) I actually wrote one for the last company I worked for-- however...
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For example, I would claim that the recent assassination of four catholic construction workers who had no connection with the IRA was probably religously motivated. What would you call is when someone writes "The killings in N.I are not religously motivated?" Given that the avowed aim of the IRA is to take Northe...
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I'm planning to buy a computer and I like TC's ads. Can you tell anything about the company and their computers? Also, if anyone has a company they would prefer, please let me know. Thanks.
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started!". not It's also what you say when you're waiting for the end to come in a "fiery apocalypse"...just a thought. Personally, if the fire was set (by either side), I wonder about the timing. If Koresh & Co. set the fires, why wait through six hours of wall-bashing and tear-gassing before starting; was ther...
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Ok, let me see if I can get all this out concisely. I am on an information gathering venture regarding the various expressions of Christianity/churches there are. My husband and I come from very different, but completely Christian backgrounds. I was a Lutheran when I met him and he was a born and raised Chu...
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True, but the basic idea behind any communications security system is not to absolutely deny access, but to make access more expensive (in time, money, manpower) than it is worth.
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I came across this interesting information in my local public library while researching minivans. It is the dealer price and the retail price for a minivan I am thinking about purchasing. Someone told me that the number for base price was slightly lower than the current price, but this should still give you s...
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Dummy Hoy, a late 19th-Century baseball player, was deaf. In order for him to be able to find out whether the pitch was a ball or strike, the umpires developed hand signals. This also helped to relieve the stress on umpires' vocal cords, so they didn't have to shout "STRIKE!!!" or "BALL!!!!!" 350 times a game... H...
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According to the NY Times, the 4 islands "belong[] to the United Arab Emirates." Why is it, then, that when the British, Iranians and UAE refer to Occupied Territory, they mean territory in dispute in Israel but not in their own affairs?
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Because I'm a guy and most of my pillions are female. Also, the other reasons, like having an idea where you passengers weight is, it being a more comfortable position for the passenger, and it being a more stable configuration all come into it as well. Holding the grab rail is a great idea only for braking, when y...
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What fraction of the NASA workforce is civil servant as opposed to contractor and what are the rules on reduction in work force for civil servants? eg, if say the shuttle program is terminated, how much is payroll reduced and how?
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> Paul repeatedly talks about the "thorn" in his side. Some think > it refers to lust, others pride, but who knows? Whatever the > thorn was, apparently it was not compatible with Christianity, > yet does that make his epistles any less? Paul mentions his "thorn" (SKOLOPS, actually a sharp stake) in 2 Corinthians...
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