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Now, while I wouldn't recommend doing this while moving, (Maybe Mike Beaverton can complain to you awhile! :/ ) you might not want to countersteer if you're just sitting in the driveway... <sounds of Rick falling off bike, muttering, "Damn, coulda sworn that's how they told me in the MSF course!!?" >
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Hi, there, I'm trying to build X11R5 mit core distribution on a SparcStation running SunOS 4.1.1. The only thing I change is the ProjectRoot in site.def. When the "make World" process goes to "cc -o xdm ...", I get the following error: ld: Undefined symbol __C0095A2A *** Error code 2 And the process continues to finish. Does anybody know what's wrong? Thanx for any info.
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I solved my problem. I still do not understand why it happens ths way; perhaps some of you C++ gurus can explain this to all of us! For some reason when I define the following functins in the class definition (in the .h file) the compiler thinks some pure virtual functions are not defined. When I placed these two in a separate source file and compiled them, the problem went away. Any ideas what happen? Are the functions that are defined in the class construct all inline ? Is this the problem? virtual int isEqual (const Object _FAR &obj) const { return this == &(HashEntry&) obj; } virtual void printOn( Rostream os) const { os << "[ HWindow is " << (void _FAR *) hWindow << " ]\n"; } --
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These are MY last words on the subject Some people think it enhances the flavor. I personally don't think it helps the taste, it makes me sick, so I try to avoid it. Well, I know that MSG effects ME adversely - maybe not permanently but at least temporarily enough that I like to try to avoid the stuff. EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Why can't people learn to cook from scratch *ON* the net. I've gotten LOTS of recipes off the net that don't use additives. If you LIKE additives then get off the net and go to your local supermarket, buy lots of packaged foods, and YOU get OFF THE NET!! I don't!! HEY - I'll pay *MY* hard earned dollars to buy food that costs more but does NOT have preservatives. I choose to speak with my pocketbook in many ways. Nacho cheese Doritos, breading for MANY frozen fried foods (like fish and chicken), etc. ad naseum. Or the "and other natural flavorings syndrome." It's been a few years since I've bought anything labelled with "and other natural flavorings". Well, I had had similar reactions many times. That was when I really started WATCHING CAREFULLY - reaction to Doritos - hey guess what's in there - reaction to Lawry's season salt - guess what's in THERE I'll give you a hint - I've had enough problems with MANY MANY MANY different products with MSG that I figured out one thing. UNLESS I plan on getting sick - I won't eat the stuff without my Seldane. And did I ever learn to read labels. Which was why I started checking EVERY time I got sick. And EVERY time I got sick MSG was somehow involved in one of the food products. And consider there were no other similar ingredients (to my knowledge) - it might not please a medical researcher - but it pleased my own personal physician enough for him to give me allergy medicine and MOST IMPORTANTLY it's enough proof for ME to avoid it (and enough proof that my INCREDIBLY frugal fiance didn't flinch when I literally threw out or gave away all the food products in his pantry that had msg - and he always flinches when there's waste - but it was a simple explanation - I won't eat this stuff, I WON'T cook with this stuff, so I can either throw it out or give it away.) Probably Lawry's seasoning salt. I LOVE the way that tastes. I'm not saying I NEVER consume ANYTHING with MSG. I've noticed that I have a certain tolerance level - like a (small) bag of bbq chips once a month or so it not a problem - but that same bag of chips will bother me if I also had chicken bouillon yesterday and lunch at one of the Chinese restaurants the day before. But - some say that only 2% of the population has a problem with MSG - some say it's more like 20% - but let's say that it's 5%. How many people would have to be tested that would have a problem? Also - I KNOW I have a problem with it, and I wouldn't VOLUNTEER for a test. Like thanks guys but I don't WANT to get sick. Also - I'm sure that most people probably have varying degrees of sensitivities at different times. If I have a cold I'm MUCH more susceptible to the reaction than when I'm healthy (as proven today - when I'm stuffy but for some silly reason I still gave in and decided to have the BBQ chips ;}). Cathy doesn't - I haven't saved all my postings but I NEVER called it "chinese restaurant syndrome" and I NEVER stated I got it only from Chinese food. I just thought it would be easiest to conduct my personal test at a Chinese take out place that I knew would hold (or not hold) the MSG. I can't call up whoever makes Doritos and ask them to make me ONE back of chips without MSG. Well, I believe I mentioned that in an earlier post Let's see you wrote this message at Date: 20 Apr 1993 00:09:31 -0500 but on Date: 19 Apr 1993 16:33:18 GMT OH - and just in case anyone thinks I'm prejudice against either Chinese food or Asian people - I'm not going home to cook some Chinese food for the guy I'm marrying next week. Incidentally, his last name is Wu. SO STOP IT WITH THE FLAME MAIL -- Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? -- Barbra Streisand
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I have the following Laser Discs forsale. All are in original covers. They are all in excellent condition, I've watched them so many times and I can't see myself watching them again. I'm asking $20 per disc. Terminator Road Warrior Hook Ghost Robo Cop Repo Man Romancing the Stone Lost Boys Dark Man Robinhoood Prince of Thieves Total Recall
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Really when you come down to it who cares. I just hope MS keeps doing what they do best getting usable productive software to the masses. Thx Dave L
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Surely you are not equating David Koresh with Christianity? The two are not comparable.
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Small Comic Collection For Sale. All issues are NM unless otherwise noted. Prices are flexible for large purchases. Buyer pays shipping. NM+ means the comic was ordered and bagged with backing upon arrival, and has *never* been read or opened. Numbers in parenthesis represent the number of multiple copies. 60% Graded Price ---------------- Fantasy Masterpieces (Silver Surfer, second series) #8 NM- Firestorm (original series) #1 F 2-5 F The Fury of Firestorm (second series) #3,6 Human Fly #1 VF Human Torch #1 VF- Indiana Jones #2 NM+ Kazar #19-21 Legion of Super Heroes #293 VF Machine Man #8,9 G (2001: A Space Oddessy, origin of) 1 F 6 F Micronauts #1 VF 19,20,46,47 New Gods #1 F 19 F Outsiders #3,4 NM+ Ragman #5 F Rom #1 VF 4 VF Secret Origins (Blue Beetle) #2 Secret Wars II #2-5 VF 6 (2) NM+ 8 9 (2) Shade, The Changing Man (original series) #1 VG 2,5 VG Thing #26-30 VF Thor #361 VF The Mighty Thor #13 (dbl iss) 75% Graded Price ---------------- Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer #1 Avengers #259-262 263 264-267 Batman & The Outsiders #29,30 Beauty & The Beast (4-issues) #1-2 NM- Cloak & Dagger #1 VF+/NM- 2-5 Daredevil #192(5), 193 NM+ 221-225 NM+ Deadman (Haney & Adams) #7 Deadman (Helfer & Lopez, 4-issue limited series) #1 Doctor Strange #74 Fantastic Four #281-284 VF 286 VF 287-290 VF Firestar (4-iss) #1(2) NM+ Hercules (4-iss) #1(2), 2, 3 (2) 4 VF (date stamp) Iron Man #98,102 F 126,127 VF 197-199 200 NM+ (dbl iss) 202 203 (2) 204,205 Laser Eraser and Pressbutton (Eclipse) #1 (2) Marvel Fanfare (Epic) #7 Marvel Universe #2 NM+ 4,5 NM+ Moonshadow (Epic, 12-issues) #6,7 Nightcrawler (4-iss) #1(2) 2,3 Squadron Supreme (12-iss) #1 VF 2,3,4,6,7 Vision & The Scarlet Witch (4-iss) #1 (4) NM+ Vision & The Scarlet Witch (12-iss) #1 NM- 2-5 X-Men & Alpha Flight (2-iss) #1 85% Graded Price ---------------- Alien Legion (Epic, 12-issues) #10 Alpha Flight #1 NM- 2 3,10 19,22-24 25-26 (2) 27,28 29-30 31 (2) 32 Crisis on Infinite Earths #5-6 7 8 9-10(2),11 12(2) Daredevil (Miller written and drawn) #187,188,189(2) NM+ Elfquest (Warp, third printing) #1 NM- Hulk (both Byrne) #314 (2) 318 Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1 3 (4) 4 (3) 5-6 (2) New Mutants #22-30 31-37,40,54,55 X-Factor #2 (2) X-Men #138 163 VF 167 168 (2) 196,199 Serious inquiries only ---------------------- Alpha Flight #17 X-Men crossover 33 Wolverine appearance Daredevil #226 NM+ Miller plot 227 NM+ Miller script starts 228 NM+ Miller Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (3) NM+ (second printing, comic size) 4 (7) NM+ (first printing, magazine size) 5 (4) NM+ (first printing, comic size) Michelangelo #1 (9) NM+ (original printing) Fugitoid #1 (3) NM+ (original printing) Raphael #1 NM+ (original printing) X-Factor #1 (5) NM+ X-Men & The New Teen Titans (Marvel/D.C. crossover, w/Darkseid) #1 NM-
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[...] Some of the Davidians *are* black. Next question?
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DK>.@SUBJECT:VHS Movies [must sell because I am moving] N DK>.@FROM :koutd@hiramb.hiram.edu N DK>Newsgroups: misc.forsale,rec.video DK>Subject: VHS Movies [must sell because I am moving] DK>Message-ID: <1993Apr22.095736.1@hiramb.hiram.edu> DK>From: koutd@hiramb.hiram.edu (DOUGLAS KOU) DK>Date: 22 Apr 93 09:57:36 -0500 DK>Organization: Hiram College DK>Those VHS movies have to be sold because I am moving in 6 weeks. DK>And I have no idea what happend to those people who made the DK>deal with me before. So here I am, trying to post another message, DK>againt. ( I don't mean to waste your valuable time.) DK>Basic Instinct $11.00 DK>Born on the Forth of July $11.00 DK>Backdraft $11.00 DK>Presumed Innocent $11.00 DK>The Prince of Tides $11.00 DK>Dance of Wolves $11.00 DK>All the prices are including shipping. You get all of them for DK>$60.00. DK>Package deals are very welcome... DK>So make me an offer... DK>Douglas Kou DK>Hiram College DK>koutd@hirama.hiram.edu Douglas, Hi, I'd like to purchase "Basic Instinct" for $11. All of my other notes to you have been returned. I don't know why. It keeps saying address unknown. Please let me know if this movie is still available. Thank you. Jordan McAuley in Atlanta dita@info-gw.blackwlf.mese.com --- . SLMR 2.0 .
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I use WD-40. Try WD-40. Xavier
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Howdy, I recently upgraded the original BIOS in a Compaq Deskpro 286/12 with a Phoenix replacement BIOS, in order to support an IDE hard drive, and a high-density 3.5" floppy. I assumed that this would be a plug-and-play procedure, but I have encountered a problem that Phoenix and Compaq are unwilling to admit responsibilty for, and I was wondering if anyone else had seen it. Everything is hunky-dory except the 3.5" floppy, which will read, but NOT WRITE diskettes. Any write attempt merely corrupts both FATs. I have tried everything I can think of. Any takers?
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Does anybody have an idea how to model a tunnel diode on SPICE? Thank you.
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Excerpts from rec.autos: 26-Apr-93 Re: REVIEW: 1989 Ford Tauru.. by Mark W. Rice@mozart.Colu david.bonds@cutting.hou.tx.us (Dav One more way, which works in manual trans cars I've driven, and it is my personal favorite (the other suggestions above are great, but try this one, too). While pushing the shifter *gently* towards reverse, let the clutch out slowly (right to the friction point) and the shifter will be pulled into position. If you do it right, the car won't jump backward, nor will the gears grind.... You will just glide back.
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Can anyone tell me where to find a standard VESA display driver that will support the on-the-motherboard XGA video of a 486 50Mz DX2 IBM Model 95 (8595-0LF)? I need to use 640 x 480 and higher resolutions under both Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS. Minimum colors 256 at highest resolution, with 64K colors needed at 640 x 480.
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Right? What right? And don't you mean something more like: It so typical that the wants of the minority can obstruct the wants of the majority, no matter how ridiculous those minority wants might be or what benefits those majority wants might have? [My sole connection with the project is that I spent a lot of time in classes at the University of Colorado.] -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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If he gives you the same story explaining the presence of several synagogues in the "Moslem Quarter", then the story becomes suspect... In reality, the Old City was not as neighborhooded in the past as it became after 1948. In pre-Israel Jerusalem, there were many Jews in what is now called the Moslem Quarter. There are postal and telephone directories from that time to prove it. It's really rather interesting to hear Arabs there claim that a house or store has been in the family for centuries even when there are clear photos and documents that show a Jewish-owned business at the same location just a few decades ago.
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Looking at your discussion I would say that you both operate from your own reference frame. There's no inside and no outside, there are just two polarized views. As for statements inside the Bible, things are still not that clear, we don't have any indications for instance why Jobs was placed in the Old Testament, one of the few books that actually talks about Satan. Jobs is very much out of line with the rest of the OT books, and there's a chance that someone added this book later into the group of OT scriptures. This operates the other way around as well. You have to understand the mind of an atheist, agnostic, or as in my case, a radical relativist. If you don't understand the underlying concepts, it is pretty hard to continue with a dialogue. I'm not a perfect Christian, however about 20+ years of Christian teaching should have provided me with a pretty good picture of the Christian mind frame. Cheers, Kent
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The May issue of PC/Computing page 246 has a Windows hint and tips for just this thing. You have to edit the WIN.INI file and add a couple of lines. I tried it and it works. I actually made my Title bar and iconized text, and icon text smaller. On my monitor it works well. You can select a larger font also. You edit the WIN.INI file with a font name in your system directory. Read the article because I would not want to retype it here in case I type errored and caused your system problems. C-ya..... /\/\artin
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I like the Clark-WIlliams-Bonds order. Pitchers can only walk Clark with 2 outs (unlike last year). Williams is getting better pitches to hit with Bonds looming in the on-deck circle. Since Matt has a terrible batting eye, this helps the Giants a lot. When Bonds gets on base all by himself, he can try to steal 2nd and then be driven in with a single by Thompson, Manwaring, or Clayton. If you bat Bonds before the other sluggers, then you don't want him to run because a "caught stealing" could take you out of a big inning. Also Bonds is less in need of protection behind him because he is such a good base stealer (a walk is a potential double). The only draw back is when Clark and Williams are clogging up the bases infront of Bonds... and I think that's a problem the Giants will be glad to see especially if Robby Thompson gets hot.
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When they're not important, yes. All scientists do. Otherwise science would never get anywhere. Hang about -- not atomic interactions in general. Just specific ones which are deemed unimportant. Like gravitational interactions between ions, which are so small they're drowned out by electrostatic effects, and so on. Oh, probably. They still make people memorize equations and IR spectra. Maybe in a few decades they'll discover the revolutionary "data book" technique.
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Article #61175 (61302 is last): From: qwerty@tunisia.ssc.gov (Kris Schludermann) Subject: HELP:IDE Drive installation problems Date: Thu Apr 22 12:11:58 1993 I'm having trouble with installing a second IDE drive on a Promise IDE caching controller. The first drive is a conner 3204 and works fine. The second drive is a conner 30174, it is currently unjumpered to be the slave drive. The problem is the slave drive is recognized but is reported back as having no free space. Disabling cache has made no effect. What else should I check for? krispy End of File, Press RETURN to quit Krispy, Lets start with what Promise controller that you have. Ther are only about 4 or 6 of them made. The one that I have the DC-99m needs nothing done but install it as stated. As to the 2th. hd you do know about running FDISK on it and partisitions and then formatting it after your finished with the fdisk operation right!....Sam
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Boy are you going to look silly in a couple of weeks.
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I have an old Apple RGB Monitor for a IIGS which looks a whole lot like the 12" Monitor. I have the sneaking suspicion that if I had the right cable I could use it on my Mac. Does anyone know if my suspicions are correct or am I just full of it.
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I understand Robert Centor has a program called ROC ANALYZER, that can be used to do receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Does anyone know if this is avaliable from an FTP site? If not, does anyone know how to get a copy of it? ==============================
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Tonight will see the Toronto Maple Leafs, as some have guessed, come out hitting! The "Buds" will grind Detroit into the ground and walk away with home ice advantage for the remainder of the series... which given a shift to Toronto, will not last long. (Keep in mind this is only a predicition). Wendall will have to get into the game however otherwise Probert will dominate on the physical front.
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I came. I lurked. I read the FAQ. Now having purchased the recommended books, and having taken to heart the advice that one knows nothing about crypto without having done a stint as a cryptanalyst, I would like to correspond with people interested in cryptology. I am working on implementing the cryptanalyst's workbench example in Booch's OOD with Applications. I hope to start sending ciphers back and forth so each of us can practice cracking them. I would like to start with simple Ceaser's ciphers and progress roughly according to David Kahn's book. Of course I would be interested in general discussions and math also. I hope to have some foriegn correspondants so that we can test the response time of the "men in the suits" I've been hearing so much about. Unfortunately as a product of the American education system I only know English. Looking forward to any and all responses. James
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Apparently, the only place to take the MSF course around here in NC is at a community college. That woudl preclude some sort of state subsidation, then, no?
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I have a fairly severe high frequency hearing loss. A recent rough test showed a gently sloping loss to 10-20db down at 1000cps. Then it falls off a cliff to 70-80dbs down from 1500cps on. This type of loss is difficult to fit. I am currently using some old siemens behind the ear aids which keep me roughly functional, but leave a lot to be desired. Recently I had an opportunity to test the Widex Q8 behind the ear aids for several weeks. These have four independent programs which are intended to be customized for different hearing situations and can be reprogramed. I found them to be a definite improvement over my current aids and was about to go ahead with them until another local outfit advertised a free trial of another programmable system called ReSound. Unfortunately I was only able to try the ReSound aids in their office for about 30 minutes and I couldn't compare them 'head to head' with the Widex. Nevertheless, it did appear to me that they were superior and I was impressed by what I was able to read about the theory behind them which I will give in a separate posting. They also carry the Widex aids and had one patient (presumably wealthy) who decided to go ahead and get the ReSound even though he had purchased the Widex only 6 months ago. The problem is that the ReSound aids are about twice as expensive as the Widex and other programmable aids. I could take a trip to Europe on the difference! Being a lover of bargains and hating to spend money, I am having a hard time persuading myself to go with the ReSounds. I would appreciate any opinions on this and other hearing aids and projections about when and if I might see improvements in technology that aren't quite so expensive.
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Can anyone out there tell me Babe Ruth's complete pitching stats? I know he was 5-0 as a pitcher for the Yankees, but what were his numbers when he was with the Red Sox? Thanks in advance!
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I have a 105MB IDE drive and am having a few problems! I get 'Data error on drive C' messages when reading some files. The problem is also steadily getting worse. I have run some diagnostic software (PCTools V7.1) and it says that the drive is OK - but it does have to retry some sectors and it briefly flashes up an error message (which is too quick to read). Does anybody know of any cheap or free software which could mark these sectors as bad (DOS doesn't) or preferably perform a low level format. I have heard that the latter is possible on an IDE. Technical answers would be appreciated. It would be nice to be able to use the disk again!!!
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Anton LaVey's interpretation of Satanism has always puzzled me. I read his "Satanic Bible" a few years ago for a social studies project, as well as a book by Arthur Lyons called "The Cult of Devil Worship in America." The latter included a very interesting interview with the Black Pope in which he did indeed say that Satan was merely an instrument for one to realize the self. When I refer to Satanism, I am referring to the mishmash of rural Satanic ritualism and witchcraft which existed before the Church of Satan. I don't consider LaVey's church to be at all "orthodox," nor do I consider its followers "satanists." LaVey combined the philosophies of Nietzsche, Crowley, and Reich, slapped in some religious doctrine, added a little touch of P.T. Barnum, and christened his creation the Church of Satan. No doubt the title was a calculated attempt to attract attention...I suppose he could have just as easily called it the Church of Free Sex. At any rate, it worked (for a while). In its heyday, the Church had a huge following, including such Hollywood celebrities as Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jayne Mansfield. (I have a picture of LaVey with Sammy, by the way.) I find the idea of a Satanist not believing in Satan about as credible as a Christian not believing in Christ. But if you include the Church of Satan, then I suppose I need to alter my definition. Webster's Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary will have to do the same.
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I have a brand new, never used 12 inch mac to scsi cable for sale. I'm asking for $15 + shipping......tell me if this is too high....i don't think it is.. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ /~~~~~~~\ \_____ | | | TTTTTT EEEEE VV VV EEEEE | | | TT EE VV VV EE | /---/ | TT EEEE VV VV EEEE | Steve Liu |
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Hello again, About a week and one-half ago I posted a query looking for people feelings on the inkjet family of printers. Specifically, a comparison between the Canon BJ200 (BubbleJet) and the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500. Many people asked me to post the summary/account of all the postings and e-mail I received. Below is my original query and the responses I received. I have not deleted any part of the responses, only the headers and signatures, so you can extract what you find necessary. Some people asked me for an unbiased account; however, the very nature of the question suggests favoritism and biased comments, you must extract the information you believe unbiased and a fair representation of each printer. There are a wide range of comments, each has its own value. There was no clear winner, some like the BJ200 (especially its price/performance ratio), others preferred the durability and reliability of the DeskJet (the original inkjet with proven drivers and a solid background). Two new inkjet printers have drawn some attention, a new printer to be introduced by Hewlett-Packard later this year (around summertime), and an addition to the Epson product line (their first inkjet). You will find that after the initial purchase, the costs of re-filling or replacing the ink cartridges are about the same (this largely depends on where you purchase the re-fills or replacements -- so shop around first since this aspect will most likely dominate the cost of your printer). No one mentioned approx. how many sheets each ink cartridge will print, but I suspect they are roughly equal at about 1000 - 1500 sheets (laser printers will do 4000-5000 sheets per toner cartridge). Well, that's a brief research summary of my personal research. ENJOY! =========================================================================== Well I bought the BJ 200 about a month ago at the start of their $50 rebate program on that printer (it ends 5/31), and I bought it from Computer Discount Warehouse because their price of $325 couldn't be beat anywhere I looked, and I think it's a HOT printer. Just using regular copier paper produced fantastic results just in high quality mode. I compared the output of a Micrografx Designer legal size drawing with 4pt type done on my BJ 200 with the same drawing printed on an HP Laserjet IID and I was amazed how well I could read the small print on the BJ 200. Printing speed was several seconds faster on the BJ 200 which is amazing considering that the HP has 2.5M ram installed. I measured the time from when the printer first indicated it was receiving data (as I used print manager in Windows). I showed the output to several people at work and one manager bought one immediately for his office, and two other engineers placed their orders too. If you need CDW's phone number, it's 800-598-4239. Delivery to NY was two days. Good luck! Craig Witkowski, CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com Motorola Communications & Electronics Inc. Glen Rock, NJ =========================================================================== I own a Deskjet 500. Performance isn't spectacular under Windows using TrueType fonts but neither is the Canon from what I have seen. Quality for the HP is very much dependent on paper quality - on 'standard' photo-copy paper the characters have slightly 'frayed' edges but on better quality 'distinction' type paper things look better. For most applications I find copy paper fine - still better than dot-matrix. Comes with a Windows driver, which seems to by-pass print manager, has a few 'intelli-fonts'which are HP scaleable fonts - probably faster than TrueType but haven't really tried them out. Can get RAM & FONT cartridges but unless the speed of TrueType is a problem I wouldn't bother. The RAM cartridges can't be used as buffer - soft fonts only. For graphics, i.e. BMP images etc the HP can be put into a dither mode via the HP supplied Win driver. There a number of dither options such as 'scatter', 'pattern' etc. The manual gives recommendations depending on the type of image being printed. Text is not so good in this mode. Problem arises when you have a document which contains both graphic and text. The range of tones for graphic images isn't brilliant but I think that is more of a limitation with inkjet printers in general. However, a printer definitely worth looking at is the new inkjet from Epson. This printer is faster, cheaper, and capable of producing laser-like quality on normal copier paper. Can't remember the model #, LX - something I think? I purchased my HP days before the Epson was released here :-{. The introductory price on the Epson was the same as the HP here in New Zealand. =========================================================================== About a month ago, I got a Canon BJ200. I absolutely LOVE it. It is incredibly fast, except for printing from PSPICE (I don't know if you ever do stuff with that or not.) Most of the stuff I print is either from Microsoft Word for Windows or just plain text. The only problems I've had are printing headers/footers (the printer freaked out), and printing on cheap paper (lots of streaks). Normal copy paper works great with it, you can only tell it's not laser-printed by holding it, oh, less than twelve inches from your face. (That is, if you're nearsighted, like me! :) ) The printer comes with its own driver for Windows 3.1!! I have no other complaints. The printer also can act just like some EPSON or another for those archaic software packages that haven't written a driver for it yet. The teeny-weeny footprint is a real plus, too--AND, if you purchase it between now and May 31, you get a $50 rebate from Canon!! I bought mine from a store called CompUSA, and the price now is $340. I have a friend who has the HP you are looking at. It also prints very well, and everyone has drivers for it, BUT it is VERY slow! Hope I helped! (360dpi sure looks great!) Heather Stehman =========================================================================== I guess I have some experience with both: I have a BJ-300 at work and a Deskjet 500 at home. I prefer the Deskjet. The printing speed and quality are similar (I tested both with text and graphics before buying the Deskjet for home). The feature that sets the Deskjet apart is the driver support in so many applications. The BJ ends up emulating the Epson LQ or IBM Proprinter to get it to work with many non-windows apps and this will be the case for a long time. The design is superior if you just want to use cut paper, the Deskjet is quieter, AND the ink cartridges are quite a bit cheaper due to the number of Deskjets out there in comparision to the BJs. Just my $0.02 worth.. -- Mike Mattix Agricultural Group of Monsanto P.O. Box 174 Luling, LA 70070 INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com =========================================================================== Yes, there is the landscape mode printing problem, but it does not present a problem in Windows as the Windows printer driver handles the translation. I actually thought of some other points after I posted the note. The Deskjet has an unprintable area of approximately .5inch around the paper the Bubblejet does not. You are right about the graphics resolutions, I tested the printers with the applications I had access to: Wordperfect, Harvard Graphics, WinGIF, Paintshop PRO, and Paintbrush and could not tell a difference. In fact one of the HP Deskjet Windows drivers gives you significant control over the contrast and density of the printer hence controlling the amount of ink you put down. The Bubblejet did not. I had no imaging software to test the printers with and so had no comparision there. Finally, I wanted sheet feeding. In that configuration the Bubblejet cost approximately $100 more than the Deskjet. I went through a pretty thorough evaluation and chose the Deskjet when I spent my own money. BTW, I am replacing the BJ-300 with a Deskjet 500 at work this month anyway. Regards Mike Mattix Ag Group of Monsanto Luling, LA =========================================================================== I spent some time comparing the two. We ended up getting the Bubblejet BJ-200 versus the HP. Our reasons were: 1) The HP seemed to have worse banding than the Canon 2) 360dpi versus 300 - we felt we could see the difference 3) Price - Canon has a $50 rebate program going on at the moment. The BJ-200 was our choice over the BJ-10ex - we could have 100 pages in the BJ-200 feeder. The BJ-10ex holds only 30 pages, I think. As you can see, up to 100 pages on the BJ-200. We haven't done anything big with the BJ, but its performance seems reasonable under Windows. I know that the Microsoft BBS has a newer windows driver than comes with the printer, but I don't know how it compares (also the driver included with the printer is Canon's whereas I don't know where the Microsoft BBS one comes from - Microsoft?) Hope this helps. -- Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW tvf@cci.com, ...!uunet!uupsi!cci632!tvf, tvf@cs.rit.edu Mandlebratwurst: The Meal that Eats Itself! =========================================================================== Altough I'm sometimes also a salesperson (if I'm not suppost to study :-)) I would recommend to buy the BJ200. The printing quality is a bit better, but you you've got much more possiblities. Don't forget the HP engine is at least 2 years on the marked, the Canon engine (witch is also used in other "new" bubblejet printers like e.g. the Epson ones) is quite recently available.. I've seen during a short demonstration (from someone who tryed to sell me Canon printers) 2 times the same picture, one printed with the BJ200, one with the Canon, the other with the HP, and.. there was a difference in printing- quality,.. The Canon was a bit better.. Greetz, Kris =========================================================================== When we decided we needed quiet printers in our hospital we looked to inkjet printers. They have near laser quality, speed, and they are quiet. We use both HP Deskjets and the Canon BJ-200s. I prefer the paper handling qualities of the Deskjets but I feel the Canons have superior print quality. The Ideal would be a Canon with a sheet feeder, however I did end up buying a deskjet for home use (got too good a deal). Anyway, we are using Canons in high volume areas and they are holding up very well. Out of 15 Deskjets and 4 BJ-200s I have only had one problem with a deskjet and that was taken care of very quickly by HP. -Nate =========================================================================== Whenever I buy anything I look at what the "experts" say, pick out the top few and then buy on whatever criteria are the most apt. I've been unusually flush lately (no begging letter please) and so I've done this a few times including - about four months ago - with inkjet printers. I can't remember much about the process except that I read about three reviews of inkjets and that the 500 was always at or near the top. I bought the 500C because of the added dimension of colour (I intend to build a multi- media machine at some stage and have just bought a colour scanner towards that). Although I haven's used the colour thing in earnest yet I tried it out on a couple of Windows bitmaps and I was pleased with the result. I note that even though you can now get the 550C (the one with both colour and mono with no need to change the cartridge), the 500C and 500 are still readily available (at least in the UK). The following are my views/experience: 1. I don't know anything about the Canon except that I came away from reviews (and replies to a posting similar to yours) with the idea that the HP offered the best performance/price ratio. 2. I believe HP are the originals in the field - not always the ideal place to be but the market's still young so one assumes they have the expertise. 3. The 500C is worth the extra. Operation in mono is perfectly acceptable and I get good crisp reproduction of fonts from Windows. 4. I used to work for Monotype when they still manufactured typesetters (before their AMERICAN owners closed them down!) and I can tell you that in terms of definition 300 dpi is pretty poor anyway so 360 dpi is just a bit less poor... 5. The HP comes with a reasonable set of drivers. 6. If you buy it invest in the additional RAM pack - it's pretty slow with it, God knows what it's like without! I actually work in Germany and my PC is home in the UK so it's not in daily use. I would say that apart from my not reading the manual properly and having a really dumb problem at the start it's easy peasy to operate. Hope this is of use. Regards David =========================================================================== Just bought the BJ-200. I thought the price couldn't be beat ($329, with $50 rebate thru 5/31) and so far it is comparable, even superior, to the DeskJet in print quality. Speed: Per page rate seems to be faster (I don't have figures). I don't print long docs, though. Quality: I think the graphics quality is excellent. Print quality is excellent as well, unless you use small fonts and hold it up close; you can see a lot more "jaggies" than on a LaserJet. The 360 dpi is offset by a little less accuracy in holding the page/print head in place, I would imagine. Large docs: Not room in the standard model for a whole lotta pages ... manual says up to 100, though. Haven't tried it. Drivers: No problems under Win3.1 yet. WinWord doesn't want to print the envelopes the same way the Canon does, though. Know nothing of add-on costs. Daniel A. Hartung -- dhartung@chinet.chinet.com -- Ask me about Rotaract =========================================================================== I just bought a BJ-200 printer a couple of days ago. I compared it to the sample print of an HP DeskJet 500 and knew that the HP wasn't for me. The BJ-200 is pretty fast and really prints with good quality. I can compare it with the HP LaserJet IIID PostScript and they look almost identical ( depending on the kind of paper). I don't have problems with the ink not being dry, it seems to dry VERY fast. Probably within a second. Since Canon is giving a $50 rebate until the end of May, it is really a good buy. --- Sean Eckton Computer Support Representative College of Fine Arts and Communications =========================================================================== Wow, it's funny you should ask this. I'm a little behind in news reading so I know this may be late. I just purchased the Canon Bubblejet last night. I was really worried that I wouldn't like it but the print quality, and noise level is fantastic! I printed quite a few documents with lots of graphics and it printed DAMN near laser quality. You can't tell it's not laser unless you get 2 inches from the page. no problems with drivers. The printer came with the driver diskette which is good because I was beginning to panic when I couldn't findi it under Windows or WordPerfect. It works well under both. I have yet to install Word for Windows so don't know how it works with them. I had a DeskJet 500 at work last year. It was a good printer as well ut I felt it was awfully slow. And much noisier than the BubbleJet. I won't say the BubbleJet is MUCH better, but I really do like it more. Just my $0.02 worth. -=- Brett =========================================================================== -- Sincerely, Robert Kayman ---- kayman@cs.stanford.edu -or- cpa@cs.stanford.edu
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Larry King Live was both telling and sickening. Every other word out of Janet REno's mouth was "the little children" ,etc. Sounded like Clinton talking. She made claims that the children were beaten, etc, DESPITE the pronouncements of social workers that none of the children who left the compound were abused. But the REAL crime: Larry King, and his censored show. NOT ONE FUCKING QUESTION about Reno's possible error. Just two calls about how she had made a "good decision". Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that SOME people are going to be upset.
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Does anyone know the status of Jeffries or Arocha?
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The NSA's charter forbids them from doing any purely domestic intelligence work, I would think that even providing assistance in development of the Skipjack algorithom is a violation of that charter. But as with any intrenched government agency, they will do what they think is expedent.
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Once again, this posting has been delayed for about a week by falling between some software cracks... [Here follows an introduction to the controversial incident, and an apologetic explanation purporting to show why it couldn't actually have happened. The historicity of the episode doesn't matter to what follows] I don't know whether I'm quoting Gregg or Zakaria below. Anyway, back to current affairs, Among others; this incident is not something Rushdie or Watt or anyone else dug up from nowhere, it is a well known story, a myth if you will, known (according to Umar Khan) to "Every Muslim school boy and girl", and so presumably to Rushdie, and to Gibreel Farishta. Yes, this is what writing fiction is all about. Rushdie was writing about a crisis of faith, and chose this myth to present it, by placing the actor "Gibreel" in the role of the angel whose name he took. Rushdie was not writing a history or theology book, and nowhere claims or implies that this is what actually happened. It's somewhat like stories woven around the relationship between Jesus and the reformed prostitute Mary Magdalene (another myth). Or those referring to the Arthurian mythos, or the Grail legend, or the Wandering Jew, or dozens of others. If you can stand to read the work of a blasphemer, consider Salman Rushdie's children's book "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" for an idea of the way a storyteller -- a specific storyteller -- works with existing story lines. No. Muhammad's [Mahound's] integrity is not really impugned in this part of the story, and there's no reason to think this was Rushdie's intent: Gibreel, as the archangel, produces the verses (divine and satanic), though he doesn't know their provenance. It is not implied (in a straight reading) that Muhammad influences them: " *Not my voice* I'd never know such words I'm no classy speaker never was never will be but this isn't my voice it's a Voice. Mahound's eyes open wide, he's seeing some kind of vision, staring at it, oh, that's right, Gibreel remembers, me. He's seeing me. My lips moving, being moved by. What, whom? Don't know, can't say. Nevertheless, here they are, coming out of my mouth, up my throat, past my teeth: the Words. Being God's postman is no fun, yaar. Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture. God knows whose postman I've been." It's ambiguous: is Mahound somehow manipulating Gibreel? Is it Satan? Or something else? The answer is not given. To be sure, the question is raised. This novel explores faith and the role of revelation in religion, among other things. Addressing loss of faith implicitly raises questions about the truth of revelation, but this novel proposes no answers, at least not directly. The very existence of a newsgroup named "alt.atheism" raises the same questions, more forcefully, and does propose some answers, which is the real relevance. If Rushdie's mild fictional exploration is "filth and lies", and he "asked for what he got", are we next on the fatwa list? (That's a rhetorical question, of course.) -- Jim Perry perry@dsinc.com Decision Support, Inc., Matthews NC These are my opinions. For a nominal fee, they can be yours.
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Convenient? It seems very appropriate that this is cross-posted to alt.conspiracy. Assuming the most favorable interpretation of your '1000 degree' measurement (that the temperature is in Centigrade, rather than the more common -in the US- Fahrenheit), you are still laboring under at least 2 misconceptions: 1. You seem to believe that steel melts somewhere around 1000 C. Actually, the melting point of most iron alloys (and steels are iron alloys) is in the neighborhood of 1400 C. Even if the gun were found in area which achieved the 1000 C temperature, the steel parts of the gun would not be deformed, and it would still be trivial to identify the nature of the weapon. 2. A fire is not an isothermal process. There are 'hot' spots and 'cold' spots, though 'cold' is purely a relative term. So the weapon was not necessarily situated in a hot spot, as you seem to imply. And, even if it was, so what? It would not have melted anyway.
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I understood that there are two methods to connect application code to widgets: callbacks and actions The problem I face now is that I have a quite long piece of application code that performs a lot of drawing into a window. I want to connect this to a widget. No problem so far. I could use a callback function or an action to do this, processing any events afterwards. But because the drawing takes some while, I want the application code sequence to be able to be interrupted by events. Then I want to handle the events and resume with processing the application code at the point it was interrupted. It seems to me that this isn't possible, but how can I give the user the impression that his inputs are immediately processed ? Has anybody an idea? Please answer via e-mail. Thanks in advance. Soenke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soenke Voss Faculty of Economics soenke@wiwi12.uni-bielefeld.de University of Bielefeld W-4800 Bielefeld 1 Germany The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad ! (Salvador Dali)
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The latest issue of The Andrew View, newsletter of the Andrew Consortium is available. The simplest way to get it is via ftp from emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.45.40) in directory ./newsletters; subdirectories ASCII and PostScript contain the newsletter in those formats. If you have requested it in the past, you will receive an email copy. You may request to be placed on the mailing list by sending your request to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu.
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I have two SCSI hard drives, each has 512KB of 'cache'. There several reasons for this :- When the drive has read requested data from the disk the SCSI bus may be busy. This data needs to be stored some where until the bus is free and the data can be transmitted. When the drive receives data to be written, the data can come down the bus faster than the drive can write it to the disk. It needs to be stored somewhere while the disk is writing it out. In these situations the memory is being used as a buffer NOT a cache! May be the drive does some read-adead caching as well... Guy
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Excuse me? Quality? As in grade A CO2 and grade B CO2? I may not have this quite right but I was under the impression that CO2 was CO2. Furthermore, A) There is no reason to believe this system is inherently stable- The Ice ages occured without any help from humans. B) The point was that the human contribution of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses is insignificant and it won't really make a difference if we make more or less. C) What overwhelming data? I see lots of 'projections' of the future, which is fascinating, considering they can't predict the weather two weeks in advance.
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Hello, I have some problem in converting tga file(generated by POVray) to rle file. When I convert, I do not get any warning message. But if I use xloadimage/getx11, something is wrong. Error messages are, % targatorle -o o.rle data.tga % xloadimage o.rle o.rle is a 0x0 24 bit RLE image with no map (will dither to 8 bits), with gamma of 1.00 Dithering image...done Building XImage...done xloadimage: X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) on 0x0 xloadimage: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on 0xb00003 ...... I know that I need to install ppmtorle and tgatoppm, but I do not spend time to install them. Even I do not want to generate .rgb from POVray and then convert them to rle, if possible.(.rgb to rle works, but it will mess up my directory with so many files, and it needs 2 more steps to finally convert to rle file. say cat | rawtorle | rleflip ) Does any body out there have same experience/problems ? Thanks in advance,
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I have a few the original IBM 10Mb harddisks for sale. They are actually Seagate's ST412, MFM, full height, has the IBM logo and black face plate. Each disk is checked and formatted with DOS 6.0. It can be doubled to 20Mb or so with dblspace or stacker if you so desire. Have the original IBM foam fitted boxies and anti-static bags. I am not sure if they were ever used, but each drive that is sent out will be quarenteed in good working order. $30 each plus shipping cost, (about $5),
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Speaking of SIGGRAPH, I just went through the ordeal of my annual registration for SIGGRAPH and re-upping of membership in the ACM last night, and was I ever grossed out! The new prices for membership are almost highway robbery! For example: SIGGRAPH basic fee went from $26 last year to $59 this year for the same thing, a 127% increase. Those facile enough to arrange a trip to the annual conference could reduce this to $27 by selecting SIGGRAPH Lite, which means SIGGRAPH is charging an additional $32 (or so) for the proceedings and the art show catalog, essentially. TOPLAS went up 40% in cost, way outstripping the current inflation rate. Basic SIGCHI fees remainded the same, but whereas before SIGCHI membership included UIST and Human Factors conferences proceedings, these are now an extra cost option. Bundling that back into the basic rate, equivalent services have gone up 100% in cost. SIGOIS membership cost has up 33%, but they've also split out the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference proceedings that used to be included with membership. Adding that cost back in means this SIG also has doubled its membership fee. What really galls me is that the ACM sent out brochures a couple months ago touting their new approach to providing member services, and tried to make it sound like they were offering NEW services. But with the exception of a couple, like SIGGRAPH, all the "plus" services appear to be just splitting the costs into smaller piles so that they don't look so big. But their recommended changes to my membership would have me paying 90% more than last year for a 31% increase in services (measured by cost, not by value), and, curiously, a 31% inflation rate on the publications I got last year. Is anyone out there as galled by this extortion as I am? ________________________________________________________________________________ Robert Reed Home Animation Ltd. 503-656-8414 robert@slipknot.rain.com 5686 First Court, West Linn, OR 97068 SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
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I am looking for some clarification on a subject that I am trying to find some information on. How is HSV-2 (Herpes) transmitted? I currently know that it can be transmitted during inflammation but, what I am looking for is if it can be transmitted during in other periods. Also, I want to know if you can be accurately tested for it while you are not showing symtoms? If you can help I would greatly appreciate it.
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: In article <34592@oasys.dt.navy.mil> odell@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Bernard O'farmer : >I am not quite sure of the reasons, but the old man was certainly : >not "enraptured" by ole Harry. : But maybe his wife was :-) : I don't claim to know whether it's true or not, but a couple different : people (totally unrelated) have said Harry was 'relieved' of his duties : because he had more than platonic relations with Augie Busch's wife. : Judgement is left to the individual, cuz I sure don't claim to be an : impeachable source in this case. Among those who have said it (well, not quite SAID it but certainly alluded to it) is Bing Devine, Redbird GM or some other administrator at the time. I heard Bing speak about it at last year's SABR National. BTW, have we had a show of hands about who will be attending this year's SABR National in San Diego? I'll be there... --
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: Oh? Then why did the smoke and flames start from three different places? : In particular, three different places where there were no APV's? The crushed remains of a PRESSURIZED propane tank were found in the ruins of the BD compound. The key word is PRESSURIZED. When that baby was crushed, the gas would have gone all over the place. And when ignited, would look just like the pictures of the explosion we saw on the TV news. Ammo doesn't go up all at once - kind of like fireworks going off. Propane gas goes off in a big fireball. Gee, that's kind of consistent with what the pictorial history shows. Hmmmmm... : And if the government did start the fire, then why weren't people trying : to get out of the compound? Remember, PRESSURIZED gas. People all over the building. Conflagration in less than a minute. Huge explosion. Gas masks being worn by the inhabitants. Makes a lot of sense that very few of those on the inside would even know that the tank was damaged. If they thought it was just a normal fire, they would probably be trying to put it out. Then - BOOM - the fireball. After that explosion and concussion, I doubt anybody on the inside of the building was capable of moving. : And besides... oh, I don't know why I'm even bothering. Good question. Take an objective look at what happened, listen to the things that the FBI said ("The BD's started the fire." "The BD's bodies were found with gunshot wounds.") that are now being refuted by the evidence being recovered. Seems that the FBI is deliberately making statements that have no rational basis in fact, and trying to make them sound like fact. : I find it tremendously chilling that so many people seem eager to believe : a murderous, heavily-armed religious cult, despite much evidence to the : contrary. Thought Experiment: Suppose this exact same thing happened under : the Bush administration. What would your answer be then? Would you still : prefer to believe the cultists? Yes, I would still believe that the FBI and the BATF were on a non-stop string of lies and half-truths. This is consistent with their operations on numerous occasions. And as for the BD's being murderous, they did not cause any problems until they were assaulted by the BATF. So now a thought experiment for you: If the BATF had never stormed that farm, would four agents and 90 BD's be dead today? : (No, I don't really expect a response to that challenge.) : >But then : >again, that is how Mr. Clinton was elected, by people who believe that : >his campaign promisses would be respected by him once he got into office. : Um, isn't that how all politicians are elected? Yes. That is how politicians are elected. Kind of scary, isn't it. Now if we as a people actually held Mr. Clinton to his promises instead of apologizing and denying that he ever made them, and actually expected accountability by our government, I doubt that debacles like Waco would happen as often as they do. : So is there any particular reason the gummint decided to slaughter eighty : people? Are they, like, just plain evil, or what? Did they just wake up : one day, stretch and yawn, and throw a dart at a map of the United States : to figure out who to oppress that day? I'm eager to know. Acutally, no. THe BATF has a rather checkered history of staging raids of this sort just prior to the time when their budget comes up for review. Oddly enough, their budget was about to be reviewed just two weeks after the initial raid on the BD's. "Coincidence? I think not!" And as for the fire, what happened was caused by the act of knocking over walls with an armored vehicle of destruction. The FBI tried to convince the world it was suicide, but all of the facts that are coming out by the investigation of the Texas rangers and medical examiners point to a gas explosion and quick fire that decimated all of the occupants of the building. Sounds to me like a law enforcement agency that is trying to cover its ass. : And does Bill Clinton have cooler theme music than Darth Vader? How is he : on diabolical laughter? Does he look good in a cape? These things MUST be : investigated. You first. Oh, please. If you want to argue, argue. If you merely want to demean those who see this differently than you, then please go somewhere else. : Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
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If the clutch is in, then a large chunk of counter-rotating mass is not rotating. Hence, at a light, reving makes it twist. Shaft effect is the rear end rising under power or (the real problem) getting lower to the road when the throttle is snapped shut (say when you are cornering and the heads are real close to the road). New GS bikes with the paralever shaft have almost no shaft effect. It's a question of how long you spend at low RPM and how much you need the extra light. At low RPM, 3K and under, they don't charge all that much if at all. The alternators put out sufficient wattage, it just that you need to be at 4K RPM to get it. Full choke. Open the gas taps. Hit the starter and ever so slightly blip the throttle. It should fire. Cranking should be done with minimal throttle. My R100 likes the throttles to be raised just a bit off idle. It's an EXPERIENCE thing. Like Zen, it's hard to describe. It can be hard to learn if you aren't paying atttention to the differences between success and failure. Especially if you get really pissed off and flatten the battery while trying to get it to run. If my bike has been sitting for a few weeks, I give it a short while to start. If it doesn't, I turn it off and wait a few minutes for things to vaporize in the fuel system and then it lights right off. I've got dual plugs which make it easier to start. The BIG fix is the Bing carb upgrade kit. It's good for a few MPG and the parts are alcohol proof. The parts it replaces aren't alcohol proof. As long as the bike isn't going to sit for long periods of time, gasohol is nice since it helps keep ping away. If your bike doesn't ping on cheap gas you ought to raise the compression! (Half a smiley, the BMW twins of the 80s and beyond have lowered compression to keep the EPA happy. Dual plugs and higher compression give back a big chunk of the lost perfomance).
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-- I would like to find out about the ADB connector on the back of the macintosh powerbooks. After seeing several products that use it for powering devices on the powerbook I also thought up of something to power from the ADB connector (the keyboard/mouse connector) Does anyone have spex on it.... I know it has voltage on it and a serial i/o of some sort if some kind soul could tell me the way you talk to the mac through it (ie packet info) IT would BE APPRECIATED GREATLY!!!!! on a second note, What are the pin outs of the MAC powerbook modem connector .. I have would like to know which pins are +5V, data ETC... AGAIN THANKS! Charles
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In many of our cities, there are traffic signals every 100 feet (unsynchronised, of course (well here in Ottawa anyway)) and the roads are so congested that shifting manually is a real pain in the left foot. Also, most Canadians are too stupid to learn how to shift manually (gee, I gotta co-ordinate my two feet on the clutch, brake _and_ accelerator, and I gotta steer, shift _and_ operate the signals (optional) and radio with my two hands... duh... it can't be done). Also, most North American made cars come with the automatic as standard equipment, so why bother with a manual when the car can shift for you for no addition money.
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I grew up listening to Harry Carey call the Cardinals' games and really liked him--then. But, as I recall, he was fired because he was too critical (read: honest) when he was announcing. He dared to point out the Cards' miscues and such. At least, this is what I remember from when I was a kid.
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The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current elements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial BBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. Element sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation and software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil (129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space. STS 55 1 22640U 93 27 A 93119.24999999 .00041555 00000-0 12437-3 0 90 2 22640 28.4657 249.3697 0008512 260.9747 152.1416 15.90732913 425
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% mail newsserv@kiae.su Subject: PLEASE, HELP!!! Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! We should be grateful for any information about address and (or) E-mail address of Loma-Linda Hospital (approximate position: USA, California, near Vaimor town, 60 miles from Los-Angelos). A patient needs consultation in this clinics before operation.
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More than Talk: From the FCC Rules: 73.4250 Subliminal Perception: (a) See Public Notice, FCC 74-78, dated January 24, 1974, 44 FCC 2d, 1016; 39 Fr 3714, January 29, 1974. (b) See FCC Information Bulletin, "Subliminal Projection" (sic, at least in my rules service copy of the rules), dated November 1977. Since I don't have either old copies of the Federal Register or the Information Bulletin around, I can't tell you what you can't do on TV ( or radio) but I seem to remember this being an unnecisarily hot subject in the late '70s. Practically speaking, I dont have too much trouble seeing the one frame edits in MTV promos, badly scratched or torn single frames in films and such, but maby that's just because the contrast between the single frame and the surrounding material was significant. I never believed in the one-frame type of SP being real. On the other hand, the Coca-Cola or Brand (insert desired name here) beer cans conveniently placed so the brand name is visible in the movie you just watched, that's another story, and if your TV station or network was paid by the beer company for the privilege of doing that, there has to be a "Promotional Consideration paid by ...) or similar message included with the program; but if the TV station bought the movie already edited that way from the film company and didn't get any of the payment for "brand visibility" that the film company got, then they don't have to run the message.
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Ok, this might seem a bit odd. How do check the state of (dip)switches on the mother board of a IBM XT WITHOUT using the BIOS. /Thanx
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Does anyone have information about the struggles that Patti Duke went through in her personal life with severe mood swings. Did she have some form of chemical imbalance that triggered these problems? I recall that she wrote a book about her troubles. Does someone have the title of that book?
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A few months ago, in one the the motorcycle mags, there was an article that mentioned reflector tape that was supposed to be available thru BMW. The idea was that the tape would look black in sunlight, and reflect in other colors at night to headlights. It sounded like a nice way to add nighttime visibility without turning the bike into a carnival attraction. I talked to the local BMW dealer about this. I was told that the only thing he had heard about this kind of reflector, was it being used in a coming line of BMW clothing (rainsuits). He wasn't aware of anything regarding self applied tape. Has anyone come across this from BMW or any other source? Thanks,
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Cute anecdote, but hardly indicative of the population. From the responses I've received to that post (all from men, by the way) I get the impression that unless a person is willing to drop down and masturbate whenever the need or desire strikes, then that person is very hung up on sex. With tv programs about "boobs" (Seinfeld) and "masturbation (again Seinfeld) and with condoms being handed out in high schools and with the teenage pregnancy rate and the high abortion rate here in the States, I would not assume that we American's are frightened of sex. Rather we are a bit stupid about it. Healthy sexuality does not require flamboyance or promiscuity. It requires responsibility.
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Well, I tried this method based on responses from several people. Either I am a klutz(probable) or they have changed the connector. I ended up having to destroy the connector, put heat shrink tubing on the individual pins and then plug them into the SB connector in the correct order. It works great this way so this turned out just fine. It certainly sounded easy based on other people's experiences but my attempts did not go too well... John -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I am interested in finding 3D animation programs for the Mac. I am especially interested in any programs that don't exist in a PC port and are so good that they would make me go buy a Mac. Do any such exist?
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Can't we just stick this guy in the FAQ and stop responding to him, guys? The last several flame-wars with him have been pretty much identical. Could someone just collect all the articles from this one, and simply re-post the entire block whenever he tries to start one? It'd be simpler. Roger apparently is one of those embarassing specimens who enjoys flames. Why give him what he wants? Oh, Roger.. You're dull.. very dull... You should get a new act.
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I have been using a HDS X-terminal, and really like it. What is really powerful is that it can run the X server without running a window manager. One can then run a special client X program called a window manager, either (1) run motif or openlook from it's own firmware (limiting the network traffic - but having no HOME). or (2) run motif or openlook from some home place (like a sparc, or vms). This is powerful, especially since I can exit one window manager (without killing windows) and then start up another manager. (Some of my VMS tools need special meta-mouse combos that work in one manager and not the other). Well the question is: On a sparcstation running openlook, does anyone know how to break apart olwm from the olwm_slave program? Basically I want to run only the server, and go somewhere else to run the window manager. --- Please respond my e-mail (as well as posting) because of the large volumes in window.X) Thanks.
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That's expected. The first sentence describing the bitmap resource in the MenuButton section of the "Athena Widget Set - C Language Interface" documentation states bitmap A bitmap to display instead of the label. One way round this might be to make use of the button's backgroundPixmap resource, but remember that you, or a user of your application, won't be able to set it from a resource file. Also, the button won't automatically be the size of the bitmap. The bitmap will be tiled if necessary, or you could set the button's dimensions to match its size. Jim
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Two or three years ago I saw a report on TV about a company that had developed a method of making solar cells on a flexible substrate. My failing memory has convinced me it was some flexible metal. I now have an application that requires a flexible solar cell and was hoping someone out in netland knows something about this company or a similar product. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Major League Baseball is trying to expand its appeal to people with shorter attention spans (i.e. the football crowd). (-: Invariably, all the arguments from people who don't like to watch baseball on T.V. say the same thing: the games are too long and too boring. Baseball is trying to find a way to shorten the games for wider T.V. appeal. If you look at it, though, baseball games last around the same amount of time as football games. The difference is that there is "more action" in that duration in football games. Perhaps if there were "more action" in baseball games, you would get more of those fans to tune in. Anyway, coming up with a solution to make baseball more appealing to a bigger crowd is going to be difficult. [On soapbox] Yet another reason to get a commisioner NOW since it's obvious that ruling baseball by comittee works about as fast as a snail race in Nebraska. [Off soapbox] -Steve
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I am trying to design a small 90mW 472MHz FM transmitter for remote alarm use. Is there an FM transmitter IC available that can be used for this purpose? Any help, circuits, info etc will be greatfully accepted. Please reply to bsc_graham@seqeb.gov.au Thanks in advance.
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As the Rangers found out in last year's playoffs, it's too late to try line-juggling at this point. gld
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Since Image Writer LQ was discontinued, there is no Apple Talk printer with 11"*15" continous paper printer. I would like to know is there are any possibility to connect an IBM compatible printer to an Apple Talk net directly (or with a Net Serial hardware), and if I need any other software to do it. I've have not found quite the solution yet. The following comes from MacUser's MiniFinders: The Grappler IIsp is a dot matrix-printer interface cartridge that emulates the Imagewriter LQs. Includes networking and spooling software that allows multiple users... $159 Orange Micro 714-779-2772 If you find out any more information, please let me know because in the future I have the same problem, or if anyone else has the information please post. Thanks
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[Someone quoted the following. I've removed the name because it's not clear which name goes with which level of quote. --clh] On the basis of these examples I would say that Joe Moore was only wrong in claiming Augustine as a prime mover of the sin=sex view. These quotes clearly equate sexuality with defilement and incontinance, even within the marriage relationship (else they would not apply to Mary after her marriage to Joseph). So Joe's assignment of the reasoning behind the concept of the perpetual virginity of Mary does seem to be supported by these quotes.
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Knight Riders has got to be one of the silliest movies I've ever seen.
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controler prodrive you are want on money. cable. and the Is this true??? I was under the impression that people on the net had both SCSI and IDE working together.
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The color of the board shows the composition of it, hence the use of it. Original and older boards were bakelite composition, and were brown. Phenolic (spelling) was a tan Most "non filled" fiberglass boards used in computers are green. Filled fiberglass is blue. Teflon is white. As boards evolved more and more demands were made of them. First boards were used mainly in audio circuitry. Couldn't be used in high voltage or RF because it would arc and burn. Most boards today are fiberglass, the type being chosen by its use and cost. Boards in satellite and microwave communication are teflon (and ceramic) as the fiberglass, and other boards are conductive (they actually work more as a capacitive dialectric, but the word conductive simplifies explaination) at the high frequencies. Another printed circuit material used mainly in automotive and interconnections is a thin flexible (mostly mylar) material and is used to connect the front of the vehicle (etc) to the back instead of wiring harnesses. Camcorders use this to intereconnect the boards inside where wires would be a nuisance. Am working on a generator made by Hewlet Packard right now and the entire board is gold plated, boy it looks expensive!!! Hope I got most of my facts right as I am working from memory of material read. My education was pre-transister! -- 73, Tom ================================================================================ Tom Wagner, Audio Visual Technician. Malaspina College Nanaimo British Columbia (604)753-3245, Loc 2230 Fax:755-8742 Callsign:VE7GDA Weapon:.45 Kentucky Rifle Snail mail to: Site Q4, C2. RR#4, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, V9R 5X9
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zyda@cs.nps.navy.mil (Michael Zyda) notes: I had the same problem and called the people who handle the box; the problem happened some time ago and was caught almost instantly. All registrations going to that address are now fixed. See what trouble you get into when you don't procrastinate, Mike? And no, SIGGRAPH 93 has not skipped town -- we're preparing the best SIGGRAPH conference yet!
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In <1993Apr20.004119.6119@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) Why? How? Might makes right? How can they force their morality on me? Why can't I do what I want? Who are they to decide? What if I disagree? Good point, but it is being immoral in our opinion. We don't let them choose, we make the decision that their actions are wrong for them. For someone to lay claim to an alternative I admit to lean toward the idea of an innate moral sense, but have little basis for it as of yet. How far can such a concept be extended? and Do you mean that we could say it would be wrong for us to do such a thing but not him. After all, he was behaving morally in his own eyes and doing what he chose. On what basis do we condemn other societies besides, here's the buzz words, on the idea that there are some actions wrong for all humans in all societies? Holding that morality is subjective does not mean Why not? Do we have to be objective suddenly? MAC -- **************************************************************** Michael A. Cobb "...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana -Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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I am selling a Western Digital 212 meg IDE HD, the Caviar 2200 model. The access time is <15 ms, and it has a built in cache. It is BRAND NEW, still in the original static bag. Asking $275, obo.
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A friend recently bought a used 286. The brand is Syntrex. It didn't come with any documentation and I am trying to find some information about the computer. So the question is, has anyone heard of it? If you know anything about these please drop me a note. Thank you
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I don't know much about phones in Germany, but this is what I know: I bought a phone in the U.S. for my mother who lives in Bratislava, Slovakia and it works just fine. The problem is they don't have wall jacks like we do here. There is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall. So you need to connect the wires (I'm not sure if they have wall jacks in Western Europe - they may). Hope this helps. Dagmar kniha@carson.u.washington.edu
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The whole point is, maybe everyone _doesn't want_ to participate. [...] Blindly opposing everything with a flavor of religion in it that is supported by taxpayer money is the only way to keep christianity from becoming the official U.S. religion. Not noticing that danger is utterly idiotic.
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Close, but no cigar. The LISA was introduced in January, 1983 (at the same time as the Apple //e). I'll have to check to see if the Hard Drive came bundled for the $10K. The floppy drives were 5.25" initially (the infamous "twiggy" drives)
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Freebie and the Bean, GREAT chase scene on a trials bike! ----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====----
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Hi, I've seen alot of ads for voicemail/fax/data modems.....this would be way-cool if they work well....I don't want to have someone call me and get the connecting sound of a fax machine. Do they work very well? Has anyone out there played with one? If so, please tell me what brand and other info like that..... Thanks, Kent
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You've asked a toughie of a question. There are many different drugs which are used for chemotherapy. The overall purpose of chemotherapy (don't worry about the spelling. Some of these crazy medical words are impossible to spell! :-) is to either destroy cancer cells or to keep them from growing. Different drugs have different effects on cancer cells, and therefore, it is not uncommon to use more than one drug at a time. Some chemotherapeutic drugs are effective anytime during the growth cycle of a cell. Others work only at specific times during the cell cycle. The first phase of the cell cycle is G1; it is when the protein synthesis and RNA systhesis occurs. In the second phase, S, synthesis of DNA occurs. The third phase is G2; The DNA splits and RNA and protein are synthesized aagain. In the fourth phase, M (or Mitosis), the cell may divide. There are drugs which are effective in each phase. Some stop DNA synthesis. Others stop the cell from dividing. Others wreck protein synthesis. At any rate, the end result that is being sought is for the cancer cells to stop growing. If what you are seeking is "practical" advice, I apologize for rambling on the techno stuff. Some side effects are pretty common. Chemo. drugs are rather nasty. It can cause a person to lose their appetite and to experience nausea and vomiting. Things to help this include eating small frequent meals. It is also suggested that if nausea/vomiting (hereafter known as n/v) occurs that the person notify the doctor; there are medicines tthat help nausea. Diarrhea can be an effect. Antidiarrheal medications can be given, and good skincare and fluid intake are important. Probably the one of biggest concsern is hair loss. This does not always happen. It depends on what drugs are being given, and on the person themself. Different people taking the same drug can and do have different side effects. I have seen some literature which states that wearing a snug headband and/or wearing an ice cap can help reduce hair loss, presumably by reducing blood flow to the scalp. If anyone has seen research on this too, I would love to see it, and possibly some bib data. I highly recommend making contact with the American Cancer Society. They have a vast selection of literature and information. In addition, if your friend has had a mastectomy, I highly recommend "Reach for Recovery". It is a support group comprised entirely of women who have lost a breast because of cancer. They can offer some excellent support and suggestions. If you have further questions, please send me E-mail. I hav some good access to information, and I enjoy trying to help other people.
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My understanding of the academic use of the word cult is that it is a group of people oriented around a single authority figure. It need not be religious. However, I have seen plenty of religious cults, including some that mainstream.
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... : We would like to keep it that way. Thats the point. By reacting : strongly and forcefully now, we will assure that we continue to remain : free. You cannot overreact to a threat like this. The worst that : happens if we overreact is that we waste time and effort. The worst that : happens if we underreact is tyranny. I prefer overreaction myself. .... : Only through centuries of overreaction have we managed to maintain : ourselves in this state of even moderate freedom. I suggest that : overreacting now and in the future is a good thing. Perry is right on target here. Careful analysis of the Clipper Chip announcement reveals that is *not* likely to remain "voluntary" for very long...the cost of the system, the cost of generating and _then storing_ the escrow keys, and the admitted security holes pretty much make the ClipperPhone a loser. Strong crypto will outcompete it, if strong crypto is allowed. This is the battle we face. We had rumblings of this totalitarian key registration thing a while back, and now the other shoe has dropped. The firestorm of commentary and criticism this time around reveals the almost immediate revulsion this Wiretap Chip (and automatic Caller ID and Callee ID, don't forget!) generates in everyone, or almost everyone, who hears about it. This is a battle we can't afford to lose. -Tim May
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Last night CNN reported that FBI has infrared pictures showing that the fires started in three places at the same time. That would indicate something not resembling an accident. Cheers, Kent
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Yea, I think not also. Israel's #1 issue is "Security" so *any* outcomes of "negotiation" certainly need to address ISREAL'S perception of this issue. The problem is is defining (by "outsiders", by Israel, and by the Arabs themselves) what is the #1 issue to the Arab side. Is it "Palestinian statehood", is it that Israel as a state should not and must not be allowed to exist, is it that the existence of a self-governing non- muslim "state" in the "Islamic World" is intolerable...what? Just as the dividing line between Israel-fighting-for-security and Israel-fighting- to-expand is often hard to discern by "outsiders" (especially to the Arab world), so the rationale behind the Arab-struggle-to-undermine-Israel-in- any-way could either be based on visceral rejectionism or a sense of being wronged that still values peace, who knows which. Anyway, in these talks, what "gestures" would you think would be seen by Israel as "substantial"?
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And Fleury is no enforcer. An agitator for sure, but Fleury never has and never will have a fight, which seems to be what you're saying Wood is. The closest Fleury ever came to fighting was a game two years ago against Los Angeles. There was a scrum and McSorley pinched Fleury's head under his arm. Fleury dropped his gloves and gave McSorley a weak shot to the side of the head. McSorely, knowing a good thing when he saw one, popped Fleury one right between the eyes. End of fight. Fleury got ten stitches for his trouble. The only player I can ever see Theo fighting is Cliff Ronning, and even then he'd be giving up two inches and 10-15 pounds. :-)
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"The Preferred Applications Development Platform" according to 432 of the Fortune 1000 corporations Survey by Sentry Market Research Survey (All percentages) 1992 1993 Unix 18 28 Mainframe 35 22 DOS & MSW 24 18 OS/2 8 17 Midrange 14 14 This is from `Corporate Computing', May 1993, page 28. It's interesting to see how the greatest vapour-project of the world has not been able to make much of a difference here :-) Before you think it's a interesting rag, they have this incredibly incompetent article/opinion piece by someone named Robert Ziff which has preposturous statements like "Sun has sold around 300 multiprocessing servers"!!!!!! (In that case USC has around 4% of all Sun MP servers on earth :-)) He is off by a factor of 50? 100? I thought of sending them a "factual disaster" email message; they have a column titled "how to contact us" but being silly PCheads they seem to have never heard of the Internet. These may also be of interest: World computer market share by broad category (%) 1991 1996 DOS, Windows, Netware 37.0 40.0 Unix 11.6 21.0 IBM Mainframe 17.4 14.4 VAX/VMS 3.7 2.6 IBM minis 4.1 4.0 Macintosh 3.6 4.6 Other 22.6 13.4 Totally $155 billion 1996 projections are by IDC Source: Unix World, Jan 1993 1993 Unix hardware sales by category $billion installed-base Workstations 14.1 3 million Midrange 7.4 1 million Large-scale 1.8 PC Unix 0.6 2 million Total 23.9
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I'm looking to buy the annual Playboy magazine issue featuring girls from colleges around the US. Specificly, I want issues from 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. One of these features a girl I went to high school with, so I'm curious to see how it turned out. All help is appreciated.
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I wish I caught the original post, but anyway ... The problem is that the Plus's poor old power supply (sometimes referred to as the analog sweep board) is on its way out. Apart from a board swap (bikkies to Apple), there's not much the average Joe can do to fix it. You can, of course, try and re-adjust the voltage levels (the 5v rail should be as close to 5v as you cn get it) but this is more often than not a temporary fix. A copy of Larry Pina's "Macntosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" is a worthwhile investment for the serious do-it-yaself-er.
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For Sale MAC 512Ke with mouse and keyboard. Functions fine HD20 Serial Hard Drive.. plugs into Floppy port and gives a 20MB HD Make offers
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AIRLINE TICKET ATA TO CINCINNATI I have a friend who has one ticket from ATLANTA to CIN, OH. It is one seat in economy class on Delta. The ticket is the return half of a round trip. It is currently in a woman's name. She does not need to fly back. Need to sell the ticket. Flyer would go standby because ticket is dated. Asking $90. I am posting this for my friend. Please do not email responses to me. Instead contact Rick at 513-271-4169.
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I have two UN-opened, NEW Epson Action Printers 2250 for sale. List price at CompUSA is $169, I'm asking $100 + shipping for each. My friend and I got the printers at a promotional event at one of the CompUSA stores near our area. We didn't need printers, so we're selling it. Specs for printer: 9-pin dot matrix printer 240 cps Draft, 40 cps NLQ 50 sheet paper tray (Does single sheets!) Prints on letterhead Small footprint (Can be used either flat or upright!) Quiet operation can support an optional tractor feeder comes with Full (2-year) manufacturer's warranty if interested reply to: phillyg@acs.bu.edu Trades are welcome!!!
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How are you, Everybody? I installed X11R5 on our IBM RS6000 workstation. OS version is AIX 3.2.3. There was no problem in installation. But there was a problem in invoking 'xinit'. When I invoke 'xinit', there is a error message as follows: giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I'm a navice. So I don't know the reason why I get this message. Please help me. I am waiting for your help. Thanks for reading this mail.
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for those who live near or plan to vacation in New Hampshire and Maine, I am posting the basic info of how to apply for a LTC (CCW) in those states for non-residents.
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Gosh, I have to associate with heterosexuals against my will every day! That means you've imposed your moral codes on me, now doesn't it? Fortunately, I have taken the time to get to know some members of the het community and discovered that, hey! They really AREN'T all evil elitists with no concept of reality! I've got a few clues for you. (a) I'm not working to pass any laws. (b) Our morals are YOUR morals: I imagine you value freedom. So do we. If you value your own freedom, you must necessarily accept that these laws are important to protect it. After all, discriminate in one area and you're open to discriminate in the rest. (c) I suggest learning a bit more about gays, lesbians, and bis before you post the kind of drivel you have been. It's obvious that you haven't a clue who you're talking about. But not between members of the same sex, right? How can you live with such hypocrisy? Drewcifer
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