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Hi, I'm looking for a program which is able to display 24 bits images. We are using a Sun Sparc equipped with Parallax graphics board running X11.
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Can any body tell me where the most significant bit of the total horizontal width hides out on the Tseng Labs ET4000 with a 15/16/24 bit dac? I am trying to use the 640x480x16M mode under unix (so i cant just call int 10h)I have a program which dumps the contents of the card registers under dos, but I am not sure I trust it for the extended registers of the et4000. Anyway, the problem is that in this mode, the Horizontal Total Register (3d4h index0) is apparently set to 0x27, but 3d4h index 1 (the displayed clocks) is set to 0xEF, so 0x27 is nonsense. A resonable value would be 0x0127 - so is there a high bit, and if so, where is it? Also, how does one set the video dot clock to the appropriate frequency ( and what would be an appropriate frequency?). The documentation isn't really very clear (tseng.txt from vgadoc2.zip from some ftp site) about this. My card is a MegaVga/1024 1Mb card. Seems to have a Tseng Labs Bios (ver 8.05 I think.) Works nicely under dos, and very well under unix (linux) in all the non-hicolor modes. Great for running X-windows in up to 1152x900x256ni - if your monitor will take it (only just in my case). Please email the answer, as I can't read news very often.
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Good point. Not only baseball but local NBA basketball games took precedence over any SCA's NHL playoff coverage.
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I'm not sure if this is a big issue, but it seems to me like it might be -- up till now, all >1g forces applied to the mirror and its mounting (and nearly all =1g forces) have been applied along the telescope's optical axis, and against the mirror's base. Reentry would apply forces along roughly the same axis, but tending to pull the mirror away from the mount, and the landing would apply on-edge forces to both the mirror and mount. It could be that one or both of these would not survive. greg --
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-| In article <1993Apr28.200843.83413@embl-heidelberg.de>, tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev) writes... -| > -| > -| >ANNOUNCEMENT: The "HyperKnowledge" PROJECT for NeXTSTEP -| -| I know this is kinda off the subject of sci.space, but not really, I want to -| answer this for their, as well as everyone else's information. What these -| people are proposing, by and large already exists and can be purchased today. -| -| It is called labview by National Instruments. IT is a wonderful object -| IT is a wonderful object oriented graphical programming language. -| [some lines deleted] I am afraid you are mis-directed. NeXTSTEP is an operating system as opposed to a package. I have read a little about it but since Steve Jobs does not seem to have the marketing capabilities of Bill Gates my info. is limited. Probably why the far inferior Windows NT is going to be more widely distributed (but that is another flame-ridden story). Some of the innovative features of NeXTSTEP are binary compatibility across platforms (eg you can just copy your program from a Sparc to a PC and it would run, as opposed to buying the version of the package ported to a PC), graphical object-oriented design (its all WSIWIG postscript), supports parallel hetrogeneous processing, and best of all it is based around the Mach micro-kernel so you can make it look like Unix with X, or DOS, or NT or even VMS if you feel the need. No package out there comes even close. I hope people will subscribe to the HyperKnowledge project and NeXTSTEP finally takes off in my lifetime :-)
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Advanced Kirlian Photography (try this at home, too) 1. Get a camera 2. Have your subject face you with his/her back to the sun. 3. Take photo 4. Observe the glow behind their silhouetted image on the photo 5. Invent crackpot theory to explain the effect
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[R2D2] Benjamin, my Zionist friend: [R2D2] It is amazing that there are still pigs like you left on this planet. [R2D2] Occupied Palestine has become a prison for its own inhabitants, thanks [R2D2] to you, the Zionist network around the world, and those who call [R2D2] themselves "the chosen people of God". [R2D2] If there is a God, and for as long as we have a breath left, we will [R2D2] fight for our freedom. Benjamin, don't rest too easily... Thanks for writing your name and identifying yourself, you coward. That is right hide behind your blind rhetoric, but beware JLE the Mossad agent wil come and get you. Tsiel
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If you think that windows is useable, you must not use it much. Windows version of "crash protection" is wearing a helmet while computing. The arir (air) bag is an expensive add-on. Brett
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Countersteering is a method for *leaning* the bike. Another method is leaning. Once leaned, the bike turns all by itself.
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Insomnia is a known, but relatively infrequent, side-effect of diphenhydramine. For most people, this does not occur. On the other hand, most people can build up a tolerance to an antihistamine with extended use. (Allergy sufferers are often switched from one antihistamine to another to avoid this.) -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730-1420
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hello all- i have a problem with my micro solutions backpack- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. i will either start a backup, or start a tape format, and at about 20 percent i get an error either saying the tape is bad or the backup/format has aborted for an unknown reason. if i turn everything off and wait a half hour it works fine. is it because the tape backup is too warm? has anyone had similar experiences?
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Koresh & some of his followers were tried and found *innocent* of all charges following that shootout. Were you unaware of this or did you purposly leave out this fact?
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Believe it or not, we DO have phone books, but the current information does not include an area code for Edmonton Alberta. I would not be so hostile towards others for asking simple questions... "I would rather appear stupid than open my moutha nd remove all doubt." -Mark Twain -- "If you assult someone you get 5 years--In hockey, 5 minutes. Is this a great sport or what?!"
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Well, just got all the parts replaced that needed replced (sprokets+chain) and notice that engine still taps like it did before. All our local 'experts' say it's the tappits that need some adjusting so I am soon to attempt that. I would like any advice anyone had. I do not have a shop manual but have read about the procedure in Chiltons and in a few other places. Is there anything I need to be particularaly carful of? Any problems anyone else has encountered? I ride a 1981 Yamaha Exciter 250cc (stop laughing, it's tiny, but it's shiny)
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I purchased a used 1988 Nissan 300ZX (non-turbo) last year. I had a question on gear/rpm ratios. Right now in 5th @65mph I'm at 2600-2700 rpms. @70mph I'm at about 2900rpms. Is this about the norm? I'm an auto neophyte so I'm just wondering if these are the proper ranges? Somehow the rpm figures seem high. A friend of mine just told me he can hit 60mph in 3rd on his 88 Chevy Beretta (2.8l V6.) Also, anyone know the top speed attainable (@redline???) for this model Z? (Not that I would try it but it would be an interesting factoid. :) Thanx! Derek
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Absolute nonsense. The decision that was made was Pocklington's. He chose 20 mill over Gretzky. If Gretzky wasn't upset about not being able to win a cup in LA then I submit that he wasn't worth the 20 mill. How do you know what he thinks (or thought)? The only "thought" that I can see that you have revealed is your own. You don't like Gretzky. Big deal. The real purpose of diving is not merely an attempt to draw a penalty. What the player is trying to do is make the checkers keep their distance so the ref won't be fooled. I can't imagine why anyone would expect someone like Lemieux to change his game. Why don't you pick on 1 dimensional over-rated type like Hull and Salami. --
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agencies your dictionary I don't recall saying Baptists do any of that. Though I suppose some do. And none of them are listed in the dictionary as characteristics of a cult. My mother stockpiled Campbells soup when it was on sale. You are an intolerent, foul-mouthed human. You sound like you are ready to join the KKK or neo-nazis, with a narrow mind like yours. Far from it, I defend the rights of anyone to be different under our constitution, which was formed in part to protect religious cults which had been persecuted in England before migrating here to be free. You are the one endangering our constitution. Jim -- jmd@handheld.com
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I had one and on three different motherboards it didn't work with NT and in some cases DOS. I sent mine back, but it is my understanding that on some systems such as Micronics motherboards it is necessary to shut off the internal cache on the 486 to have it work. I've yet to hear from someone running a 34F on any motherboard with NT without shutting off the cache. If you get one my advise it to be very sure you can return it first.
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This is the case in Britain, according to the head of the computer crime unit here when I interviewed him a couple of months ago. wg
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And most definitely read it in conjunction with Heinlein's _Starship Trooper_. The two books are radically different viewpoints of the same basic premises. I've even heard tell of English classes built around this. -- "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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Can anybody send me Pinouts of Real Time Clock IC of OKI Semiconductors, 58321. I wish to know if any RTC IC of OKI has an inbuilt crystal rather than an external 32.768KHz crystal. Thanks in advance. Nilesh Parikh nilesh@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
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I have the same problem with my '90 probe. The water is definitely not comming up from the rubber stoppered hole beneath the spare. I have to remove the rubber stopper to drain the water. Seems like a common problem with probe.
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Didn't expect to find you in the Devil's role, Stephen, but these are the times that try men's souls. Nine months, as I understand it. No doubt this accounts for a significant amount of the time as government efficiency in spending our tax dollars would certainly seek its absolute minimum in such an event. But my gut instinct says there is more at hand. It took some careful preplanning to demonize D.K. to such an extent. The attack meshes well with more restrictive gun control legislation that seems to be the agenda of the day. It also fits a pattern of increased government interference in personal religious beliefs. [Randy Weaver is now on trial]. No quarrel here. The BIG BANG theory is always apt at appropriation time. They just don't have to possess a single motive. I certainly think publication of the warrant undermines the government's case since it makes no claims of illegal action. Therefore the federal judge had reason to seal it. But I am reminded of Senator Frank Church's remark that "secrecy is the trademark of a totalitarian government." There is rarely sufficient motive to seal a warrant in a nation of free people. How can I argue with irrefutable logic? I have long suspected that the government has become a mindless machine and now you go and confirm my worst fears! Has it become a BEAST that is programmed simply to say "Kiss my toe and you get your piece of the pie?" I suspect bugs in the program arise when agents or those who love this critter have independent thoughts. And watching Terminator II. Yes, 186 seeds for a new Republic. And 86 for...? Rev. 11:10...And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. Stephen, have you sensed that some have been rejoicing lately....?
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:Being a chronic HBsAg carrier does not necessarily mean the patient has chronic :persistent anything. Persons who are chronic carriers may have no clinical, :biochemical, or histologic evidence of liver disease, or they may have chronic :persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular :carcinoma. : :Most cases of chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) are probably the result of :a viral infection, although in a good number of cases the cause cannot be :determined. The diagnosis of CPH is made on the basis of liver biopsy. It :consists of findings of portal inflammation, an intact periportal limiting :plate, and on occasion isolated foci of intralobular necrosis. But in contrast :to chronic active hepatitis (CAH) there is no periportal inflammation, :bridging necrosis, or fibrosis. : :CPH has, indeed, an excellent prognosis. If I had to choose between CAH and :CPH there is no question I would also choose CPH. However, as David pointed :out, the distinction between the two is not as neat as some of us would have :it. The histology can sometimes be pretty equivocal, with biopsies showing :areas compatible with both CPH and CAH. Maybe it is a sampling problem. Maybe :it is a continuum. I don't know. Darn. Just when I think I understand something someone who knows the pathology has to burst my bubble :-( We'd better not start talking about glomerular diseases, then I'll really get depressed. Seriously though, I wonder how someone with CPH would end up getting a biopsy in the first place? My understanding (and feel free to correct me) is that the enzymes are at worst mildly elevated, with overall normal hepatic function. I would think that the only clue might be a history of prior HepB infection and a positive HepB-sAg. Or is it indeed on a continuum with CAH, and the distinction merely one of pathology and prognosis, but otherwise identical clinical features?
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[stuff deleted] You should be clear in your mind what your goal is. Two possible goals are (1) maximizing you income from your program, and (2) minimizing the number of illegal copies which get created. Accomplishing (2) doesn't usually accomplish (1). Most vendors have concluded that copy protection reduces the number of normal legitimate sales by far more than it increase sales by virtue of changing 'copiers' to 'purchasers', and hence merely reduces revenue. Most legitimate buyers nowadays (including me) have had bad experiences with copy protected products (e.g., hard to make a legitimate backup, incompatabilties when new system on system upgrade, etc.), and they won't touch them with a ten foot pole.
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Ah-ha! I'm not alone at last! Which Sony do you have?? I have a 27"SXR (pre-XBR series, circa 1987). That damn thing used to make noise like a mad-man. I had/have 2 separate problems...one being the flyback, the other was the assembly where the windings of the yoke came together. First: I found by poking around the windings on that assembly, the thing would make noise. I guess that there was enough of a potential in that assembly to leak, so I sprayed it with a dielectric insulation spray--I think it was urethane or acyrilic. That fixed it. Second: Flyback...for the life of me, I can't isolate this one. If I leave the cover off, the TV will be quiet. If I put the cover back on, and let it heat up, it'll start to whine--kinda hard to solve with the cover on!! :-( A friend of mine who used to fix TV's says there might be a pin-hole leak somewhere on the flyback. Usually it's surrounded by a bunch of black dust/dirt. I hope this is a start...if you find something out, let me know!
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Anybody has any information about the number of the people have been killed by Israel during these 44 HAPPY YEAR?
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< < Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S. < does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally) < in such countries, including at least France and the U.S. < < David < <BZZT! < <Wrong. The US does NOT have crypto import laws. I'd not be so sure about that: Are there any MUNITIONS import laws, and could those be used against importation of crypto hardware/software as well as firearms? Importing so-called 'assault weapons' for use by commoners come to mind.... NOTE - talk.politics.guns added to Newsgroups for possible feedback...
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Dennis. WE agree a lot , it's just we don't both post when we agree on something. And when we disagree, it tends to be a lot more noticeable.;-)
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A typical Nazi/racist Armenian of 'ASALA/SDPA/ARF'. Can it be that criminal/Nazi Armenians of ASALA/SDPA/ARF hate Muslims for ideological reasons regardless of what they do? Between 1914 and 1920, your criminal Armenian grandparents committed unheard-of crimes, resorted to all conceivable methods of despotism, organized massacres, poured petrol over babies and burned them, raped women and girls in front of their parents who were bound hand and foot, took girls from their mothers and fathers and appropriated personal property and real estate. And today, they put Azeris in the most unbearable conditions any other nation had ever known in history. Source: The Times, 2 March 1992 CORPSES LITTER HILLS IN KARABAKH ANATOL LIEVEN COMES UNDER FIRE WHILE FLYING WITH AZERBAIJANI FORCES TO INVESTIGATE THE MASS KILLINGS OF REFUGEES BY ARMENIAN TROOPS... As we swooped low over the snow-covered hills of Nagorno-Karabagh we saw the scattered corpses. Apparently, the refugees had been shot down as they ran. An Azerbaijani film of the places we flew over, shown to journalists afterwards, showed DOZENS OF CORPSES lying in various parts of the hills. The Azerbaijanis claim that AS MANY AS 1000 have died in a MASS KILLING of AZERBAIJANIS fleeing from the town of Khodjaly, seized by Armenians last week. A further 4,000 are believed to be wounded, frozen to death or missing... Seven of us squatted in the cabin of an Azerbaijani M24 attack helicopter as we flew to investigate the claims of the mass killings. Suddenly there was a thump against the underside of the aircraft, a red flash of tracer ripped past the starboard wing, and the helicopter rocked sharply. We swung round, and there was a deafening burst of fire from the cannon under our wing as the helicopter crew returned fire. We had been fired on from an Armenian anti-aircraft post. We swung round again, tipped to starboard and appeared to dive straight down into a valley. The brown earth swooped around our heads, the helicopter swung round again and followed the contours of the ground. Our cannon fired repeated blasts. Later it emerged that a civilian helicopter that we had been escorting had landed successfully at Nakhichevanik in the east of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, to pick up some of the dead. We had, in fact, been attacked both by ground fire and by an Armenian helicopter. I had seen the Armenian helicopter intermittently through the window, its cannons firing, but had thought - mistakenly - that it was on "our side". Our group of Western journalists had embarked on a search-and-rescue flight that had become a combat mission. Our flight consisted of the civilian passenger helicopter and two M24 Soviet attack helicopters in the Azerbaijani service, nicknamed flying crocodiles for their armour. Our party was in the second crocodile. The civilian helicopter's job was to land in the mountains and pick up bodies at sites of the mass killings. The attack helicopters were there to give covering fire if necessary. The operation showed a striking sign of the disintegration of the Soviet armed forces because our pilot was a Russian officer. An Azerbaijani official told us that there were now five former Soviet military helicopters -and their pilots- fighting for Azerbaijan. "They have signed contracts to fly for us," he said. The helicopter we engaged in combat was most probably flown by a brother-officer of our Russian pilot, but fighting for the Armenians. We had taken off just before 5pm on Saturday from Agdam airfield, an heated for the Armenian-controlled mountains of Karabakh, a sheer white wall in the distance. The civilian helicopter picked up four corpses, and it was during this and a previous mission that an Azerbaijani cameraman filmed the several the several dozen bodies on the hillsides. We then took off again in a hurry and speed back towards Azerbaijani lines. Azerbaijani gunners on the last hill before the plain - and safety - gazed up at us as we passed. Back at the airfield in Agdam, we took a look the bodies the civilian helicopter had picked up. Two old men a small girl were covered with blood, their limbs contorted by the cold and rigor mortis. They had been shot. What did our Russian pilot think of the tragedy, our close shave, and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh? He gave us CHEERFUL GRIN, POLITELY DECLINED TO ANSWER QUES TIONS, AND MARCHED OFF TO HIS DINNER. Serdar Argic
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I just put a 33MHz 040 CPU into my Centris 610. Now I have a math coprocessor, but is it possible to speed up the Centris to run at either 25MHz or 33MHz?? I didn't see any oscillators on the motherboard like the ones on the IIsi's motherboard! Where is the oscillator for the Centris? Any ideas? Thanks
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I've built xcoral on my system (SunOS 4.1.3, X11R5, Motif 1.2, OW 3.0) and it builds fine, but when I run it, any child windows that xcoral opens, 1) locks the mouse into the window area 2) doesn't accept any input from the mouse. Needless to say, this is a pain in the ass, as I have to go find an empty terminal to login and kill xcoral. Is this a problem with OpenWindows or Motif? Is there a patch? --- ####################################################################### # Bob Campbell # "Crayons can take you where no # # System Manager # Starship can go." # # HAO, NCAR # -Guinan # # rsc@hao.ucar.edu # STTNG # ####################################################################### DISCLAIMER: My views are in no way connected to my employer.
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The following comics are for auction. The highest bid takes them! New stuff added! (Oooooh! The Mr. T. premium comic!) TITLE Minimum/Current -------------------------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight 51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.00 Aliens 1 (1st app Aliens in comics, 1st prnt, May 1988) $20.00/KrisM./THREE Amazing Spider-Man 136 (Intro new Green Goblin) $20.00 Amazing Spider-Man 238 (1st appearance Hobgoblin) $50.00 Archer and Armstrong 1 (Frank Miller/Smith/Layton) $ 7.50 Avengers 263 (1st appearance X-factor) $ 3.50 Bloodshot 1 (Chromium cover, BWSmith Cover/Poster) $ 5.00/SamE/ONCE Daredevil 158 (Frank Miller art begins) $35.00 Dark Horse Presents 1 (1st app Concrete, 1st printing) $ 7.50 Detective 657 (Azrael appears, Intro Cypher) $ 5.00 Harbinger 10 (1st appearance H.A.R.D. Corps) $ 7.00/B.Matthey/SOLD H.A.R.D. Corps 1 $ 5.00 Incredible Hulk 324 (1st app Grey Hulk since #1 1962) $ 7.00 Incredible Hulk 330 (1st McFarlane issue) $15.00 Incredible Hulk 331 (Grey Hulk series begins) $11.00 Incredible Hulk 367 (1st Dale Keown art in Hulk) $15.00 Incredible Hulk 377 (1st all new hulk, 1st prnt, Keown) $15.00 Marvel Comics Presents 1 (Wolverine, Silver Surfer) $ 7.50 Maxx Limited Ashcan (4000 copies exist, blue cover) $33.50/BrentB/THREE Mr T. #1 (Signed Advance copy, 10,000 exist) $10.00 New Mutants 86 (McFarlane cover, 1st app Cable - cameo) $10.00 New Mutants 100 (1st app X-Force) $ 5.00 New Mutants Annual 5 (1st Liefeld art on New Mutants) $10.00 Omega Men 3 (1st appearance Lobo) $ 7.50 Omega Men 10 (1st full Lobo story) $ 7.50 Power Man & Iron Fist 78 (3rd appearance Sabretooth) $20.00 Power Man & Iron Fist 84 (4th appearance Sabretooth) $15.00 Simpsons Comics and Stories 1 (Polybagged special ed.) $ 7.50 Spectacular Spider-Man 147 (1st app New Hobgoblin) $12.50 Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Feb 1988, DC mini) $ 7.50 Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Oct 1989, DC comics) $ 7.50 Trianglehead #1 (Special limited edition, autogrphed) $ 5.00 Web of Spider-Man 29 (Hobgoblin, Wolverine appear) $10.00 Web of Spider-Man 30 (Origin Rose, Hobgoblin appears) $ 7.50 Wolverine 10 (Before claws, 1st battle with Sabretooth) $15.00 Wolverine 41 (Sabretooth claims to be Wolverine's dad) $ 5.00 Wolverine 42 (Sabretooth proven not to be his dad) $ 3.50 Wolverine 43 (Sabretooth/Wolverine saga concludes) $ 3.00 Wolverine 1 (1982 mini-series, Miller art) $20.00 Wonder Woman 267 (Return of Animal Man) $12.50 X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, X-Force card) $20.00 X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Shatterstar card) $10.00 X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Deadpool card) $10.00 X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Sunspot/Gideon) $10.00 All comics are in near mint to mint condition, are bagged in shiny polypropylene bags, and backed with white acid free boards. Shipping is $1.50 for one book, $3.00 for more than one book, or free if you order a large enough amount of stuff. I am willing to haggle. I have thousands and thousands of other comics, so please let me know what you've been looking for, and maybe I can help. Some titles I have posted here don't list every issue I have of that title, I tried to save space.
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==== BEGIN REPOST ==== IBM, Apple, Motorola Ready to Unwrap PowerPC 601 Processor The wraps will come off the PowerPC 601 processor this week, as Motorola Corp., IBM, and Apple Computer Inc. detail the results of their yearlong effort. This first in a series of PowerPC processors will be a 32-bit processor with a 64-bit memory interface, much like Intel Corp.'s Pentium, with the capability of performing as many as three instructions per clock cycle, according to sources familiar with the chip. Motorola is expected to release the chip in volume by year end in two configurations, running at 50 and 66 MHz with performance of 40 and 50 SPECint89 marks, respectively, sources said. Floating-point performance for the 3.6-volt processors will be even better, as their SPECfp89 performance will be 60 and 80, respectively. The 601, a scaled-down version of the Power 220 chip developed by IBM for its RS/6000 workstations, will also include a 32K single buffered cache on the chip with protocols to support Motorola's 64-bit multiprocessor 88110 bus built in. The chip, which is being designed initially to support the Micro Channel Architecture, is bus independent, so vendors could develop PowerPC- based systems using a number of different architectures, including ISA, EISA, or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s S-bus design, one source noted. According to sources familiar with the development effort, Motorola has been extremely successful in developing the PowerPC as an inexpensive architecture, despite a complex design made up of more than 2.8 million transistors using a 0.6-micron technology. Initial chips are expected to be priced from $300 to $400 -- only slightly higher than Intel Corp.'s 486 processors -- but could be sold profitably for less than $100, one source said.
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A long time back (months), I think a similar question was asked.... A suggestion, in addition to Ed's list, was to put your windward knee out away from the bike. I tried it, and it seems to help, actually.
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I knew when I posted that I was going to get into trouble. Now I suppose I have to give /5 wheelie demos at the Spring Fling or something. But you're right, John, it is a chain drive model. I think it goes around the camshaft and up over the rocker arms or something. Stolen from an early Spagthorpe design, according to urban legend.
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Look, folks, I don't know what happened in Waco. I do not claim the BDs are angels, I never did. Koresh may very well be the devil incarnate. I just don't know. But I do know that I must question any single source of information, such as we have here. And I must question even harder given that it is single source at the insistance of that very government. What ever else happened at WACO, that is perhaps the biggest evil done. And even more so in light of the discrepencies turning up between the federal officials and the state officials. But what I really don't understand is the hoards of devoted government worshipers who believe the government could not possibly do any wrong. They are fanatic to the point of making things up, such as Brent's microwave oven disclaim of the BD's using fire for food heating. I am hard pressed to see any real difference between the claimed power Koresh held over the BDs, and the demonstrated power the government holds over those rapid apologists. Jim -- jmd@handheld.com
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Considering the above, and some postings about Diamond's bad attitute towars customers, I ordered and ActixGE+ VLB 2M card. It will arive these days. -- Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
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When the bugs are splatting on the side of my helmet instead of the faceshield. When semis are on their side in the downwind ditch. When I can't see the road for all the tumbleweeds rolling past. When the airborne sand/gravel is sandblasting my paint job. When all of the above is happening at once in the middle of Wonderful Wyldoming. Well, it *WAS* gusting to 87 mph. Cheers, VLJ
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Serial cables: There are only three output signals: TD, DTR, and RTS. There are five inputs signals: RD, DSR, DCD, CTS, and RI. There are many differnt null modem requiremts as dictated by the software. The IBM BIOS requires asserts DTR and RTS and then waits for both DSR and CTS before sending. When a BIOS recieve call is made, it asserts DTR and waits for DSR to become true (times out after a while and returns with an error if DSR never becomes true). It requires CTS to be true for sending AND recieving. Most communications packages bypass this and replace it with their own protocol. The key is that each comm. package could very well have different requirements. My favorite cable works in many cases: short RTS to CTS at each end, but also run RTS through to DCD at the opposite end. TD runs through to RD and DTR runs through to DSR from both DTE's and of course SG goes through to SG. I have never had trouble with this null modem even though I have used it with a comm. package that was expecting RTS to go to CTS instead of DCD. The advantage of this cable is that it also works with the IBM BIOS.
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There has been a long running discussion over changing the Startup logo for Windows for a few weeks here. While all the COPY methods are great & haven't seen any mention of a program that will do it for you..... Well... I found one on CICA called winlogo (Can't remember where unfortuantely), and it seems to work real well... even comes with a couple example .RLE files. What I'd really like though is a way to create .RLE files myself, specifically the RLE4 format mentioned in the winlogo readme file. Can anyone point me in the direction of such a beast with a REAL directory path ?? All the ones I've seen mentioned didn't pan out.....
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My original post: Aha, I think I found the problem and it isn't dirt! Another guy here was using a different kind of mouse and was using 640x400x16 video driver (the default VGA for Windows). He has an S3 LocalBus card like I do and when I loaded the S3 video driver in Windows for him, his mouse became jumpy too. Seems like it is the S3 driver! Is there any newer one than version 1.4 that would solve this problem? It is really bad. I have to use the keyboard instead sometimes! The s3-w31.zip on cica is version 1.4 (which is the same version that came with my card). --- Sean Eckton Computer Support Representative College of Fine Arts and Communications D-406 HFAC Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 (801)378-3292
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1993 World Championships in Germany: ==================================== Group A results: SWEDEN - SWITZERLAND 4-6 (0-3,3-1,1-2) 1st: SWI 0-1 Manuele Celio 1 3:21 SWI 0-2 Patrick Howald 1 11:37 SWI 0-3 Patrick Howald 2 (Sven Leuenberger) 16:00 2nd: SWE 1-3 Peter Andersson 1 (Michael Nylander) 2:47 (pp) SWI 1-4 Roman Waeger 1 (Martin Rauch,Sven Leuenberger) 8:53 (pp) SWE 2-4 Jonas Bergqvist 3 (Markus Naslund) 9:08 SWE 3-4 Jan Larsson 1 (Patrik Juhlin) 18:50 3rd: SWE 4-4 Mikael Renberg 2 (Thomas Rundqvist,Peter Andersson) 7:49 SWI 4-5 Roman Waeger 2 9:07 SWI 4-6 Felix Hollenstein 1 (Sven Leuenberger,Thomas Vrabec) 11:29 Shots on goal: Penalties: Attendance: Referee: Sweden 5 20 18 - 43 4*2min 6,000 Rob Hearn, USA Switzerland 10 6 7 - 23 5*2min Switzerland beat Sweden in a WC for the first time since 1950, and the Swiss now have a small chance of reaching the quarterfinals (if Austria beats Italy tonight). The Swiss took the lead after Hakan Ahlund made an incredibly stupid drop pass at his own blue line, and Celio came in alone with Soderstrom and beat Tommy to the stick side. The Swedes continued to make mistakes as Howald was allowed to skate in between the Swedish D and put the puck past Tommy to make it 0-2. 0-3 was a nice one, Howald entered the Swedish zone, slammed on the breaks, and his shot went in by Tommy's far post. One of the lousiest periods I've seen Sweden play this year. Second period saw a new Swedish team, and the Swiss had to ice the puck many times. On a pp, Nylander skated in from the boards, Pavoni made the initial save, but Peter Andersson scored on the rebound. Then a power play goal from the Swiss, a slap shot from the blue line hit two players on the way to the goal and past Soderstrom also. Jonas Bergqvist made it 2-4 after a nice pass from Naslund behind the goal. Jan Larsson reduced the lead to 3-4 just before the end of 2nd period, on a pp skated in unattacked in front of the goal, and put the puck through Pavoni's 5-hole. Third period, Sweden equalized on a slap shot from Renberg that trickled through Pavoni's 5-hole. Then, another defensive mistake by the Swedes, Waeger was allowed to skate around the Swedish goal unattacked and from close range could make it 4-5. Hollenstein then scored 4-6 on a 2-on-1 break away, and put it top shelf with no chance for Soderstrom. Switzerland: Goaltender: 20 Reto Pavoni (28 Renatio Tosio) Defense: 26 Rick Tschumi, 2 Martin Steinegger 16 Sven Leuenberger, 5 Martin Rauch 7 Sandro Bertaggia, 17 Patrick Sutter 31 Samuel Balmer Forwards: 22 Alfred Luthi, 11 Felix Hollenstein, 25 Roman Waeger 23 Gil Montandon, 12 Roberto Triulzi, 10 Patrick Howald 35 Christian Weber, 18 Andreas Ton, 24 Joerg Eberle 15 Bruno Erni, 13 Thomas Vrabec, 29 Manuele Celio - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RUSSIA - CANADA 1-3 (0-2,1-1,0-0) 1st: CAN 0-1 Kevin Dineen 1 (Garry Galley) 4:28 CAN 0-2 Paul Kariya 2 (Eric Lindros) 12:20 (pp) 2nd: CAN 0-3 Eric Lindros 10 (Paul Kariya,Shayne Corson) 9:40 RUS 1-3 Valeri Karpov 2 (?) 16:24 3rd: Penalties: RUS 2*2min 1*5min, CAN 5*2min Referee: Anton Danko, Czech republic Attendance: 8,600 Russia probably made their best game of the tourney, but yet there wasn't enough to win against the effective Canadians. Galley took a slap shot that found Dineen by the far post, and Dineen just deflected the puck past Trefilov in the Russian goal. Then a power play goal, after a couple of deflections Eric Lindros found Kariya alone by the far post, and Kariya put the puck high over a sliding Trefilov. Russia won the shots in the first period 12-5, and they had the most of the scoring opportunities, but they just couldn't score. Second period saw Lindros scoring his 10th (!!) goal of the WC. Kariya entered the Russian zone, slammed on the break to get past his defenseman, then made a nice pass to Corson who just got the stick on the puck to deflect it to Lindros who one-timed the puck. The Russians then finally got their goal, Karpov broke in from the side and made a slap shot in Tugnutt's top right hand corner. Player of the game in Canada was voted Paul Kariya, and for Russia Valeri Karpov. I agree, the difference in this game was Lindros and Kariya, and in part also Tugnutt. Kariya had a far better game now than vs the Swedes, and he was very impressive. Kariya got the place in the line with Lindros after Mike Gartner went out with a rib-injury early in the first period. Lindros, BTW, lead the point scoring with 14 pts (9+5) before this game, 7 pts ahead of the next player! i.e. double as much as the next player (among those Kariya with 1+6). Amazing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group B results: FINLAND - CZECH REPUBLIC 1-3 (0-0,1-1,0-2) 1st: 2nd: CZE 0-1 Petr Hrbek 2 11:04 FIN 1-1 Mika Alatalo 1 17:51 3rd: CZE 1-2 Jiri Dolezal 3 5:04 CZE 1-3 Martin Hostak 2 19:45 (en) Penalties: FIN 8*2min, CZE 9*2min Referee: Vincent Moreno, Switzerland Attendance: 4,300 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - GERMANY - USA 6-3 (5-0,0-0,1-3) 1st: GER 1-0 Raimond Hilger 2 7:12 GER 2-0 Gerd Truntschka 3 11:16 GER 3-0 Ernst Kopf 3 11:55 GER 4-0 Michael Rumrich 3 16:06 GER 5-0 Benoit Doucet 1 18:45 2nd: 3rd: USA 5-1 Derek Plante 1 4:06 GER 6-1 Dieter Hegen 5 6:57 USA 6-2 Craig Johnson 1 7:30 USA 6-3 Rob Gaudreau 3 13:07 Penalties: GER 7*2min, USA 10*2min Referee: Valeri Bokarev, Russia Attendance: 11,000
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Does anyone know of any studies done on the long-term health effects of a man's vasectomy on his female partner? I've seen plenty of study results about vasectomy's effects on men's health, but what about women? For example, might the wife of a vasectomized man become more at risk for, say, cervical cancer? Adverse effects from sperm antibodies? Changes in the vagina's pH? Yeast or bacterial infections? Outside of study results, how about informed speculation? Thanks in advance for your help!
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Arthur Melnick posts an interesting first-hand message about his NEA algorithm. Though I have no reason to disbelieve anything he says, I want to clarify one point: He says he has no connection with the NSA. If he was part of an "NSA plot", of course he'd say that. Now I don't think he is. But the level of some discussion here is of that sort, and very quickly we reach the point where it's impossible to continue rationally discussing some issues. "I am not a crook" "Well, if you were, of course you'd say that" or the ever popular favorite: "Please prove the following negative." I don't know what to do with such messages, so I have taken to ignoring them. Comments? David
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Hmm your CD-Rom program must be using some oddball VGA modes. I think they are trying to get it out by the end of this month, when it is released though it'll be in limited quantities, I think they have quite a back order right now (the 2 megs version will come out a bit later). Since you have a Viewsonic 17 (I think it has a 78khz horizontal frequency right?), you're gonna love the 2 megs version. It can do 1280x1024x256 at 75Hz, 1152x900x256 at 80Hz, 1024x768x256 at 90Hz(!), 1024x768x65536 at 75Hz. It can also do 640x480x16 mil. and 800x600x16 bit at 90Hz, too bad I don't have such a high bandwidth monitor like yours ;) ;) (most of those modes need a 78khz monitor, otherwise you'll have to use a lower refresh rate) If you want more info. about the coming Graphite VL, you should go to the IBM hardware section on Compuserve (IBMHW), in the video sig. There're several Hercules reps there that are very helpful.
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I'm afriad that's not true. The monitor problem seems to occur whenever the 15" Mag monitor is put into 1024x768 mode. I'm running OS/2 at 1024 and the same symptoms appear. It does not seem like a video card problem as the Cirrus Logic 5426 chip and the ATI GUP seem to cause these problems... two VERY different cards.
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How about the discussion of the STS Tether experiment. Ran forward, it would suck energy from the Earth's magnetic field, while trivially slowing the Shuttle. It could also have run backward -- if they ran electricity through the tether the other way, it would have trivially propelled the Shuttle faster. But an even better example comes to mind. There's this electronics guy, someone like Craig Anderton or Don Lancaster. Ten years ago he wrote about an invention of his. He could take a light-detector, run current through it at about a hundred times its rating, and it would glow. He got legal rights to this design of a combination "fiber optic emitter/receiver". This turned out to be the basic unit of ATT's (I think) plan to bring Brazil's communications system into the 21st century. (The article was mostly about his legal wranglings with the company that eventually got him well-compensated for his invention.)
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anyone else experiencing a similar problem? This concerns the clutch on a 92 Honda Accord 5 speed. When the clutch is first used in the morning, about the first 4 miles of shifting, there is a significant amount of clutch chatter until things warm up. Then the clutch shifts smoothly. This chatter started when I moved to the San Francisco Bay area from a low-humidity environment. The dealer stated that this is known to happen since Honda changed from an asbestos to non-asbestos clutch material. No remedy!! Seems that moisture on clutch surface causes slipping until the moisture evaporates.
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Marcus Thuresson had 6 goals, 10 assists, 16 points and 22 PIM in 31 games this season for Leksand in the Swedish elite league. This was only 10th in point scoring for Leksand. Marcus (born May 31 1971, Ht 185 cm, Wt 85 kg) is relatively young so he might still start producing, but I think the Sharks may have done a bad trade here. Staffan
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He'll slam Clinton for anything at all on the air. I just do not understand why he remains so popular. He'll take a piece of video of Clinton walking along; find a frame in which Clinton wrinkles his nose, say; freeze on it and blow it up full screen; and then rant for five minutes on how no one could possibly trust someone with such a face and such beady greedy little eyes. I've seen this on his TV show (it was around the time of the inauguration). Can anyone call this stuff legitimate (I hate to say "informed") commentary? How can anyone with half a brain in his or her head[1] continue to watch it[2]? The American TV-watching (and I guess radio-listening) public never ceases to amaze me. /J [1] Oops, have I just inadvertently answered my own question? [2] I myself only see it when I run across it every couple months when channel-surfing late at night; the longest I've been able to stand him was about 10 minutes. (Apologies for stripping the alt.fan.rush groups from the Newsgroups line; the software here apparently rejects anything with groups we don't carry, and we don't carry those. Also I removed sci.crypt from followups.)
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In <May.13.02.31.16.1993.1569@geneva.rutgers.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu I'm afraid I see that question as very tendentious. Try rephrasing it: What's more important to Christians? Love of God or love of other human beings? to which of course the only conceivable answer is that the one is like the other. I am *deeply* suspicious of any "flavor" of Christianity which would elevate one clause of the Great Commandment to a "priority" over the other such as to claim a conflict. True, we are told to let the dead bury the dead, to "hate" family rather than let it keep us from following Christ. But the dichotomy here is not one between love of our fellows and love of God, but of allowing *social* constructs to blind us to the presense of God. It is particularly satanic to twist love of God in such a manner as to become an excuse to treat others as on a different level than the one who is so caught up in "love" of God. The trouble comes in the relation of human love and human sex. Yes, it has sometimes been the case that the Church has "taught" that all sex was nasty, evil, sinful stuff. But when man and wife leave their parental homes to become helpmates, living in one flesh, it is the sex that is the vehicle of becoming "one flesh" (if you doubt me, read St. Paul on what is wrong with frequenting prostitutes :-)). Less provocatively, what I mean is just this: sexual bonding is a deeply founded aspect of our social interaction, and in particular is the foundation of the institution of marriage, so that unlike with many mammals, human males remain with and foster the children they beget and support their children's mothers. This is the schema behind Genesis 2:18-24 (and behind Jesus' citation of that passage.) [ I observe, by the way, that not all human males in fact do as I have just described; but another thing that characterizes human societies is our raising of *non*begotten children, not only orphans and adoptees and the like, but products of the quite common infidelities of humans to their spouses. We are in this not unique in the animal world, but the full extent of social consequences and implications is most intricate for us. ] Yes, of course it sometimes goes "wrong" -- like all else we do, it is infected with sin, and you find married "couples" where there is no bond, and people so deliriously addicted to the initial stages of sexual bond formation (the "infatuation", "falling in love" phase) that they break any forming bond in order to keep stepping over the threshold of the deep unity God has prepared for us, and stepping back out again right away. Satan may indeed *use* sex as a very handy tool to corrupt human love -- but in the Edenic creation, that is not its nature, and with God's grace under the power of Christ to make all things new it need not be a problem for Christians (though we must be vigilant, even in Christ, as the devil is watchful, prowling around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour.) So, returning to the original question, what is more important to STRAIGHT Christians? Sex, or Christianity? Paul, clearly, tended to think that sex was at best a distraction from Christianity (though to be charitable to him, his context was in expectation of immediate parousia, so that the hard TASKS of a married union -- the lifelong building and adaptation to each other -- seemed somehow to undercut the "proper" preparation for an immediate eschaton. Since we *do not* know the hour of return, we should act *both* with instant readiness for that *and* with a commitiment to our mates that proposes a long lifetime together. And telling people *not* to bond in such a perspective strikes me as crippling us in the second clause of the the commandment to love. I would claim that only a very few saints have the CAPACITY to deeply love (without sexual tinges or complication, mind you) their fellow human beings unless they have had a deeply spiritual life in married union growing together as one flesh -- and that means in the type case, with a persistent and continued sexual relationship. We are human, and little good comes of trying to "mortify the flesh" to the point of pretending to be otherwise, pretending NOT to be sexual beings. It depends entirely on context. If that context is major hypocrisy on the part of those who find us "stumbling blocks" I am much less of a mind to efface myself so that they can pontificate about MY sins. There are some people for whom a life of celibacy is a spritual gift, and maybe even a victory against a to-them troubling sexual urge that seems to them to lead only to sin. Nothing I say should ever be read as demeaning such a gift. Nor the even rarer gift of love for all our conspecifics, and indeed for all God's creation, that can develop to the full *without* the tutoring of a spousal/helpmate marriage founded in sex. But there is a difference between spiritual gifts and penance; telling people that they HAVE to have a particular gift (or else? what?) is fraught with manipulation and disregard of the differences of our spiritual endowments from God. To one person is given the gift of speaking in toungues, to another intepretation of toungues; to yet another prophecy; and to still another teaching. The notion that some *particular* gift is required of *all* is one of the earliest heresies.
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A religion is a cult which if those in power belong to it. Actually, they're all bull shit.
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Hello I am the proud new owner of a MAC 512K. Upon power-up and insertion of the sytem disk, I get SAD MAC code 0F0064. Can anyone give me a clue to what this means? Thanks.
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I am wanting to upgrade from a 386SX-25, to a 486DX-33, and are looking at a cheap quote from someone offering me a 486DX-33 motherboard, with no ram in it. (I will probably sell my old m-board off somewhere) Now, I have 4 meg of RAM in my 386, which consists of 4 x 9 module 1024KB simms, running at 70 nanoseconds. ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Would I encounter problems with the pointed out areas, by throwing these from one computer to the other?
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She's published two books about her manic-depressive illness: _Call Me Anna: the Autobiography of Patty Duke_, Patty Duke and Kenneth Turan, Bantam Books 1987 and _A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness_, Patty Duke and Gloria Hochman, Bantam Books 1992
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Several replies to my post have said that I should get to know Christian homosexuals before judging them. I maintain that I was not judging them by saying that homosexuality is wrong. I would like to look at the responces to my post and make a general sterotypical evaluation of the people who responded to the side of Christianity and homosexuality being compatible (admitedly not all are homosexuals but I know that many are from their e-mail responces). I don't normally make sterotypical assumptions about groups of people, but since I have been asked to by many of the opposing veiw point I will. So far people have made wild assumptions, put me down because I don't have the resources of others, and even reverted to name calling. If you don't think this is an acurate representation then those of you who are homosexual Christians show me the diffrence.
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In the interest of accuracy (seems a liitle late to start that, I know) the medical examiner has *not* contradicted the FBI. The FBI said they found some folks who had been shot in the head, and the medical examiner said "we have not seen evidence of this". At the time the medical examiner said that, they were dealing with charred bodies in the compound - this sounds like typical medical examiner not releasing details until a thorough investigation. The medical examiner saying he hasn't seen something is *not* the same thing as saying that it isn't there.
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For an expansion team? I'm pretty sure I would go with the rings, as long as their salaries and ages weren't too high. I would want the fans to be able to identify the players. I would like a championship attitude in the clubhouse. As for Larkin and Griffin? Salaries aside, I would have to consider which player is likeliest to contribute to a WS victory. Past performance, age and attitude would all be integral to my decision. I certainly wouldn't just haul out my copy of Gillete and pick Larkin, as many others would. And, unlike many others who post to this group, I hardly consider myself quali- fied to make those kinds of decisions. I have never been able to believe it about myself, to tell you the truth. It's like banging your head against a stone wall. --
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Hey now, I'm having the roughest time getting a company to cover my new bike. Here are some details about her and me: I'm: single 23 riding with a clean record a homeowner a 'new' rider accoring to most companies not a member of MSF or AMA yet She's: a '92 CBR600F2 got 150 miles got temp plates still one screamin' bitch of a ride... Can you get me some ideas? We can take them to private email to lower the noise on the net. mrr3@po.cwru.edu is a good mail address. I need to hear something soon so I can keep her on the road... Thanks in advance, Mark
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This is historically incorrect. Early Zionist 'fighters' did indeed target civilians. They made random attacks in Arab marketplaces, killing innocent passers-by. Your assertion of the opposite is an attempt to whitewash history. Anyone can read about the history of the Zionist terrorists. A good book to start is the one by J. Bowyer Bell, an expert in international terrorism. (His main interest is Irish terrorism.) AUTHOR: Bell, J. Bowyer, 1931- TITLE: Terror out of Zion : Irgun Zvai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine underground, 1929-1949 / J. Bowyer Bell. PUB. INFO: New York : St. Martin's Press, c1977. DESCRIPTION: xi, 374 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. SUBJECTS: *S1 Lohame herut Yisrael. *S2 Irgun tsevai leumi. *S3 Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. *S4 Jewish-Arab relations--1917-1949. LC CALLNO: DS119.7.B382 1977 For completeness, Arab thuggery of the same period was also rampant, and targeted chiefly Jewish civilians. Can anyone tell me what the opposite of live and let live is?
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[...] ^^^^^^^^^ He doesn't have a beard. Rob, being pointless, wondeing if anyone else caught that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ____ ___ ____ / \ Any resemblance between the above views and ================== / .clarku.edu \ want Clarkies to think about them.
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What is the penalty if convicted of murdering 4 Federal agents in Texas? The death penalty. Yup.
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I posted almost the same bad experience with Midwest Micro but our %^*^&*^&* news program only sent one paragraph out of the middle. In addition to the facts that: (a) the modems (I had ordered two) wouldn't work as documented and (b) the tech person had NO CLUE as to how it should work, it also turned out that: (c) one of the two modems they sent was clearly USED but the techs thought that was standard practice and (d) the modems made all three of my floppy drives quit working and my CMS250 tape drive start running away. That they are incompetent is one thing, but that they sell used stuff as new and won't even apologize for it is another. Stay away from these crooks!
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I applauded the Sabres for making the deal to get Fuhr, specifically because I thought it would help them win at least one playoff series. However, I don't think the Leafs can be faulted either...there is nothing to say that Felix won't be winning playoff series by himself in years to come. Anyway, does anybody else find it ironic that Fuhr is up against Moog? (or at least he was until a guy named Alex showed up....:-) )
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Hi, netters: We have a problem with 'makedepend': it doesn't know how to correctly process #if clause in C preprocessor statements. It evaluates everything to true no matter what the conditionals are. For example, makedepend chokes on one of X11 include files (as distributed by Sun) - namely Xos.h: #if !defined(SUNOS41) || defined(__STDC__) # include <string.h> # define index strchr # define rindex strrchr #else /* BSD && !__STDC__ */ # include <strings.h> #endif /* !SUNOS41 || __STDC__ */ Here 'makedepend' evaluates both #if and corresponding #else statements to 'true' and tries to open the file <strings.h> which doesn't exist under Solaris2. We also have a lot of #if statements in some of our legacy code. We got and built 'makedepend' off the net - it didn't fix the problem. In all fairness it should be noted that 'makdepend' man-page (Sun's distribution) mentions this problem: BUGS If you do not have the source for cpp, the Berkeley C preprocessor, then makedepend will be compiled in such a way that all #if directives will evaluate to "true" regardless of their actual value. This may cause the wrong #include directives to be evaluated. Makedepend should simply have its own parser written for #if expressions. Has anybody come up with some solution/fix to 'makdepend' other than WriteYourOwnParser... and willing to share it with us? Since we often experience delays in our newsfeed - please reply directly to my e-mail address -> I'll post a summary.
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Feel free to patronize me all you like; I need the tips. :-) Seriously, if you were insulted, I apologize. People are sucking up to the government when they decide that ONLY the things the government says are plausible. Especially if they refuse to consider reasonable alternatives. However, from what I saw plastered all over the TV news last night, it's no longer necessary to be an "independent thinker" to depart from the government's party line. It looks like our "independent press" may actually be starting to be earn its clothes allowance. This, to me, is a good sign. I hope it continues. Independent thinkers question authority. In a situation where only one set of facts are being presented, "coming to a conclusion" is not the hallmark of an independent thinker unless it's coupled with the ability to challenge those "facts" critically. The scientific method consists of more than choosing the popular hypothesis; it's even more than choosing between two hypotheses that other people have proposed. --
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: : or the biggest killer (IMO) : : 6) one's dreams are (sadly) shattered on the hard rocks of society's : version of reality. Without the dream the motivation dies, without : the motivation the effort seems useless. : Actually there are more possibilities -- one is that with practice the hacker has become so good and powerful in manipulating data streams that s/he goes simply underground... Possessing true power perhaps there is no need to impress anyone with it.
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This is no less logical than the assumption that if something is _not_ in the Bible, then it _must not_ be done. But I don't really think that's what he's saying anyway. See below. What about the letter to Philemon? In it Paul at least hints that a certain slave be released. Also, slavery in those times was not the same as the type of slavery we had in the U.S. I think a better comparison would be to indentured servitude. I don't really want to get into a discussion on slavery. Anyway, although it does demonstrate your point, I don't think it is relevent, because the original poster did not say that absence of specific condemenation proves something is not immoral. Back to the original poster's assertion. He is not in fact making the logical error of which you accuse him. He stated the fact that the Bible does not say that babies cannot be baptized. Also, we know that the Bible says that _everyone_ must be baptized to enter Heaven. _Everyone_ includes infants, unless there is other Scripture to the contrary, i.e. an exception. Since there is no exception listed in the Bible, we must assume (to be on the safe side) that the Bible means what it says, that _everyone_ must be baptized to enter Heaven. And so we baptize infants. To summarize, you accused the original poster of saying if something is not forbidden by the Bible, then that proves it is OK; i.e. if something cannot be disproven, it is true. He rather seemed to be asserting that since the Bible does not forbid, _you cannot prove_, using the Bible, that it is _not_ OK. There is a difference between proving whether or not something can be proven or disproven (there are theories on provability in the field of Logic, by the way) and actually proving or disproving it. The other logical error we must avoid falling into is the converse: that if something cannot be proven, then it is false. This seems to be the error of many _sola scriptura_ believers. I think the only thing that can be proven here is that one cannot use Scripture alone to prove something either way about infant Baptism, although the evidence seems to me to favor it.
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... Speedy, you've got this all wrong. When you're done, buy a better dirt bike, body armor, decent boots, and forget about the weenie street riding. :-)
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John E. King (king@ctron.com) posts a whopping one liner: * "The modern theory of evolution is so inadequate that it deserves to be * * treated as a matter of faith." -- Francis Hitching * I have a few points to make about the above posting. 1. Science is not based on and does not consist of "quotes" from either real or alleged experts. Critical reasoning, evidence and (if possible) experimentation are necessary. Creationists frequently display a massive confusion about this by merely quoting both non-experts and experts alike (some of the latter quotes are in fact false) and steadfastly refusing to follow any kind of rigorous scientific procedure. This strongly suggests that (a.) their claims completely lack any scientific merit and (b.) they are aware of this fatal deficiency. Of course, you may not actually be a creationist and this may not be your real intent. 2. You have failed to identify Hitching and the surrounding context of his statement. Why is that? If Hitching is a scientific illiterate then the quote would merely display his profound ignorance of evolutionary biology. Creationists are frequently known to quote real scientists out of context and to fabricate statements that they subsequently attribute to legitimate scientists. Of course, you may not actually be a creationist and this may not be your real intent. 3. Evidence supporting the alleged inadequacies of "the modern theory of evolution" would be a much more powerful argument than a contextless one line quote from an unidentified nobody. It is also important to note that disproving biological evolution does not automatically prove some alternate claims any more that disproving that the earth is shaped like a hockey puck proves that it is a hyperbolic paraboloid. Creationists seem rather fond of diving (head first) into this logical fallacy. Of course, you may not actually be a creationist and this may not be your real intent. 4. Since evolution is central to virtually all of modern science, an attack on evolution (either the fact or the theory) really represents an attack on science. While the theory will unquestionably continue to evolve (B^) the fact of evolution will not ever go away. Creationists lost the battle long ago (more than 100 years in fact) but are simply too willfully ignorant and irrational to acknowledge the fact. Of course, you may not actually be a creationist and you may not really be that ignorant. Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub (kv07@IASTATE.EDU) asks: * Neither I, nor Webster's has ever heard of Francis Hitchings. Who is he? * I, like Hitchings, am not to be found in Webster's B^). Francis Hitchings is a scientifically illiterate creationist (or perhaps he is just playing the part of one) who wrote a quite ignorant book attacking evolution ("The Neck of the Giraffe"). In that publication he quotes a creationist (Jean Sloat Morton) using the standard invalid creationist probability argument that proteins could not have formed by chance. Thus not only confusing abiogenesis with evolution (the two are quite independent) but also concluding with a "non sequitur" (i.e. the conclusion "does not follow"). [pp 70-71] Hitchings also misquotes Richard Lewontin in an effort to support creationism. [pp 84] Hitchings book was reviewed by National Park Service ecologist David Graber in the Los Angeles Times (and repeated in the Oregonian). The article was titled "`Giraffe' sticks scientific neck out too far". Excerpts include : "Francis Hitchings is not a biologist." "He goes after Darwin like Mark Antony after Brutus. He flips from scientific reasoning to mysticism and pseudo-science with the sinuosity of a snake-oil salesman." "He suggests a mystical `organizing principle' of life, using the similarity of organs in different creatures as evidence [sic]." Note that the last statement above is actually evidence FOR evolution not against it. If John E. King is quoting from this reviewed book it wouldn't surprise me much. It's also interesting that King had nothing to add (i.e. he only posted a quote).
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I had this problem when I initially installed my sound blaster pro and here's what the tech support told me. They told me to look for the files that are stated in the readme file from the win31 subdirectory of the soudblaster directory. Now look in the system.ini file and if any of them say device=xxxxxxx.386 than change it to device=*xxxxxxx Thats should work. Was your system.ini file erased for some reason? That would be the only reason that I would think that Windoes is giving you the error now.
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Somebody help me cure my poor computer before I go insane! I have a problem with my 486 when running windows that appears to be memory-related. It's actually not limited to windows, but that's where it causes most of my problems. Ths machine's 486DX33, 8Meg RAM, 256Kcache, TRIDENT TVGA card, PAS-16 soundcard. 1) Windows runs REALLY, REALLY slow most of the time. Slower than on my old 386SX16. Graphics draws/fills are slow, boots are slow, applications are sluggish, dialog boxes take up to 15 seconds to appear. (Note: some of my other non-windows applications do funny things that appear to be related. Several run slow, my .mod player crashes the system etc..) 2) Running Borland C++ 3.0 before running windows (or any of the other programs) COMPLETELY fixes the problem. Windows will run as fast as I've ever seen it run, easily 10 times faster for graphics than when I don't run BC beforehand. 3) I don't have a memory manager installed in config.sys. Installing emm386.exe does not fix the problem- it makes it worse. After emm386 is installed, running BC will not fix the problem anymore.
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Just a follow-up note, I have sold the receiver, so don't e-mail or call me anymore. Sorry to dissapoint anyone.
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It would be nice if someone here from the HST program was talking instead of all the speculation that is going on here. From what I understand from Dr. Frank Six of the Marshall Space Flight Center there is no insrmountable problem in bringing HST back. IT was designed that way to begin with. Also it is my understanding that the solar arrays WILL be one of the items replaced on this mission. The originals were built by Brit Aerospace and I think the new ones are too. I am currently working with the guys at MSFC that are in charge is the HST power system, although I have not spoken with them in a long time about HST.
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Standings reflecting 2 completed series in Round 1: Participant Points Final 4 1. roland_behunin 5 CAL-6 QUE-7 QUE-7 Dave_Wessels 5 VAN-7 PIT-6 PIT-5 3. Barfly 0 TOR-6 BOS-7 TOR-6 Dean's 0 DET-5 PIT-5 PIT-7 Oz 0 LAK-6 BOS-6 LAK-6 Garry 0 TOR-6 BOS-6 BOS-4 Brian_Bergman 0 DET-6 PIT-6 DET-6 Mopar_Muscle_Men 0 CHI-5 PIT-6 PIT-5 BH's_Last_Place_Picks 0 CHI-5 PIT-6 PIT-5 Milton_Keynes_Kings 0 DET-6 PIT-5 PIT-5 Sam_&_His_Dogs 0 DET-6 PIT-5 PIT-5 Ye_Ding 0 DET-6 PIT-5 PIT-6 Tampere_Stars 0 CHI-6 PIT-6 PIT-6 The_Mighty_Hedgehogs_Of_Myllyp 0 CHI-6 BOS-6 BOS-6 Homesick_Hawaiian 0 VAN-7 PIT-6 PIT-5 Killer_Kings 0 CHI-6 WAS-6 CHI-6 Puggy_Greybeards 0 DET-5 PIT-5 PIT-5 Ottawa_Bearcats 0 TOR-5 PIT-6 TOR-6 Andrew_Kirk 0 TOR-6 PIT-6 PIT-5 Muller_n_Walker 0 DET-6 PIT-6 PIT-6 Excalibur 0 DET-6 PIT-4 PIT-6 Rednecks_from_Hockey_Hell 0 DET-7 BOS-5 BOS-5 The_@$%@#$%_Rangers_of_1940 0 CHI-6 PIT-7 PIT-6 Jeff_Phelps 0 DET-6 PIT-6 PIT-5 Arctic_Circles 0 DET-6 PIT-6 PIT-4 Sludge 0 DET-6 PIT-6 DET-6 The_Logistician 0 DET-6 PIT-6 DET-7 Hillside_Raiders 0 CHI-6 BOS-6 BOS-7 Danielle 0 CHI-5 QUE-7 QUE-7 Stanias_Stars 0 CHI-6 BOS-7 BOS-6 BloodHook 0 DET-5 PIT-5 PIT-5 Gilles_Carmel 0 CHI-6 PIT-7 PIT-7 Pasi_Fr{nti 0 LAK-7 PIT-5 PIT-6 Evan_Pritchard 0 VAN-6 PIT-6 PIT-5 Skriko_Wolves 0 DET-7 PIT-5 PIT-5 Rangers_Blow 0 CAL-7 PIT-6 PIT-4 Sean 0 DET-5 PIT-5 PIT-6 Schott_Shooters 0 CHI-6 PIT-5 PIT-5 Gary_Shiff 0 TOR-4 PIT-6 PIT-4 Mike_Burger 0 DET-7 PIT-6 DET-7 Darse 0 DET-6 PIT-6 PIT-6
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Ken, Then what happens when you die? Why are you here? What is the purpose of Your life, do you think it's just by chance you're in the family you are in and have the friends you have? Why do you think your searching? To fill the void that exists in your life. Who do you think can fill that void
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I suppose for the same reason that you do not believe in all the gods. Why should any be any different? I use the same arguments to dismiss Koresh as I do god. Tell me, then, why do you not believe that Koresh is the son of god? By logic it is equally possible that Koresh is Jesus reborn.
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We have an copy of the book, new, not read. $20 plus S/H. DC if you can pickup. (The book has over 1100 pages and is quite heavy.) Feng
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J<--> J<--> Yahooooooooooooooooooooo! J<--> J<--> What a game, we finally beat those diques...and in O.T.! J<--> The Habs dominated this game and especially in O.T.. You realize that we dominated game 1 also and should be ahead in this series 2 - 1? J<--> Glorieux were plagued by bad luck; the puck wouldn't bounce their J<--> way. But in O.T. they got their lucky break, the winning goal J<--> went off Gusarov's skate. Thank you Lord!!!!!! And it's about time! We hit 2 posts in this overtime and 1 post in game 1's overtime. Let's hope that **we** start getting some luck for a change. He played well in this game but Roy's inconsistency still makes me nervous. Otherwise, I'd say we're going to win this series, no sweat. It's all up to Patrick Roy to provide **consistent** goaltending. J<--> And those damn Bruins lost in O.T., their down 3-0. Congratulations J<--> Buffalo!! J<--> J<--> Life doesn't get better than this!!!!!!!!! Agreed. <g> - Jack * Tagline Bad or Missing NO CARRIER
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I have seen Copper Bracelet by the name of Sabona created by Dr. John Sorenson. I am looking for literature on the effectiveness of Copper Bracelet in dealing with Arthritis. I know in one case a 70-year old person developed bruise at the base of her left thumb after wearing the copper bracelet on her left wrist for several months. She was told the bruise is "normal" and would disappear. Is the bruise reason to be concerned? Should the person discontinued wearing the copper bracelet? Could anyone kindly point me to literature on copper bracelet? What are the other information on copper bracelet? Your response would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Lau Hon-Wah
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If I get a chance I will ask them this weekend. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The words I have underlined are at the heart of the problem. A "quick look" doesn't do justice to the depth of the book of Jeremiah. Having studied the Jeremiah/Ezekial period solidly for over a year at one stage of my life, I have to say that there is a great deal of underlying theological meaning in the judgement prophesies. Let me make one point. The clash between Jeremiah and the "false prophets" was primarily in the theological realm. The "false prophets" understood their relatioship to God to be based on the covenant that the Lord made with David. It is possible to trace within the pages of the Old Testament who this covenant, which was initially conditional on the continued obedience of David's descendants, came to be viewed as an unconditional promise on the part of the Lord to keep a descendant of David's upon the throne and to never allow Jerusalem to subjegated by any foreign power. Jeremiah was not a Judahite prophet. He was from Anathoth, across the border in what had formerly been Israelite territory. When he came to prophesy, he came from the theological background of the covenant the Lord had made with Israel through Moses. The northern Kingdom had rejected the Davidic covenant after the death of Solomon. His theology clashed with the theology of the local prophets. It was out of a very deep understanding of the Mosaic covenant and an actute awareness of international events that Jeremiah spoke his prophesies. The "judgement prophesies" were deeply loaded with theological meaning. In my opinion, both the Portland earthquake prophesy and the David Wilkerson "New York will burn" prophesy are froth and bubble compared to the majestic theological depths of the Jeremiah prophesies. -- ___ Bill Rea (o o) -------------------------------------------------------------------w--U--w---
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I would label him rather an original Christian, not a Pauline Christian, though. Sad that the original church lost the game. Cheers, Kent
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As far as a member of the Armed Forces is concerned, the President is whatever the h*ll he wants to be. All of them recently have rather insisted on being treated as something other than a *mere* civilian. So if Hilary were asleep at the time...... I like living in a country where the head of state is not a military officer too. But this point about not using the military as the first choice for solving domestic problems.... Didn't they go after these Branch Davidians with a *tank*, after all?
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Although the $1 billion scheme is a fantasy (it's an old canard in the space business called "trolling for billionaires"), there is a good chance that a much smaller program ($65 million) will pass the 103rd Congress. This is the Back to the Moon bill, put together by the people who passed the Launch Services Purchase Act. The bill would incent private companies to develop lunar orbiters, with vendors selected on the basis of competitive bidding. There is an aggregate cap on the bids of $65 million. Having a single rich individual paying billions for lunar missions is probably worse than having the government bankroll a $65 million program, as the Delta Clipper program has shown (DC-X was funded by SDIO at $59 million). We have a clear chance of making a lunar mission happen in this decade - as opposed to simply wishing for our dreams to come true. Please support the Back to the Moon bill. For more information, please send E-mail with your U.S. postal service address.
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Motorcycles are not allowed on th 17 mile drive at pebble Beach.
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However, batters didn't use to go for strolls after bad calls to the degree they do now. Everyone was told of the new emphasis on speeding up games. The rule that Hirschbeck invoked has been in the books a long time. Nobody, including Hirschbeck, ever said he was. That's your (perhaps colored by your partisanship of the Braves) perception. Hirschbeck's view was that Gant was heading off for a long walk, and in accordance with his instructions concerning speeding games up, directed him into the batter's box. The point is, based on the rulebook and the umpires' instructions, it was *not* an unreasonable request. The Braves were already upset Had Gant done as instructed, you wouldn't have remembered the name of the umpire.
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We've just recently upgraded our X11 to R5 and are now running into problems with some of our applications that use Motif 1.1. It appears that pointer to the widget being passed to the callback function (i.e., the "w" of (w, client, call) ) is nil. The client and call pointers are okay in some instances, but bogus in other instances. We are running SunOS 4.1.2 on a Sun 4. After compiling X11R5 and all 23 patches (with the MotifBC flag set), we recompiled Motif and then we recompiled the application. Did we skip a step or leave something out? Is there a flag that we should have used? Should we have left Motif alone? Any answers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kathy
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Last year, I was totally surprised when my annual physical disclosed an inguinal hernia. I couldn't remember doing anything that would have caused it. That is, I hadn't been lifting more than other people do, and in fact probably somewhat less. Eventually the thing became more painful and I had the repair operation. This year I developed a pain on the other side. This turned out to be another inguinal hernia. So I go back to the hospital Monday for another fun 8-) operation. I don't know of anything I'm doing to cause this to happen. I'm 38 years old and I don't think I'm old enough for things to start falling apart like this. The surgeon who is doing the operation seems to suspect a congenital weakness, but if so, why did it suddenly appear when I was 37 and not really as active as I was when I was younger? Does anyone know how to prevent a hernia, other than not lifting anything? It's rare that I lift more than my 16-month-old or a sack full of groceries, and you may have noticed that your typical grocery sack is fairly small these days. Is there some sort of exercise that will reduce the risk? Of course, my wife thinks it's from sitting for long periods of time at the computer, reading news...
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And thus, COINTELPRO, in which horrible people who threatened the republic by disagreeing with the Government were systematically kept track of for years... -- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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I've got an IN-2000 working in a (wimpy) 386SX20 presently. In a few months I'm getting a 486 motherboard and probably a Toshiba 3401e CDROM and a SBPro. Will I need special drivers for getting all this to work? Do they exist? Basically, is this feasible, or should I expect to be getting a newer, faster SCSI card? thanks, -Bryan
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We have a problem with 'makedepend': it doesn't know how to correctly process #if clause in C preprocessor statements. It evaluates everything to true no matter what the conditionals are. [...] Has anybody come up with some solution/fix to 'makdepend' other than WriteYourOwnParser... and willing to share it with us? rewrite 'makedepend' to use 'cc -M' or 'gcc -M' or 'gcc -MM' (which is the one I prefer, since system headers don't change that often) for generating the actual dependencies. you'll still need to write the parts that edit the actual Makefile. I think there's a program in the Berkeley distributions called mkdep that will do essentially this.
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Does anyone know how I can obtain information about the ICS widget data book? I only have their email address, and they don't seem to be reading (or replying) to their mail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Jan-Olav Eide, Software Engineer / Systems Administrator ! ! snail mail : ! email : ! ! Nordic Offshore Systems ! olav@nordic-offshore.no ! ! Drilling Information Services ! voice : ! ! Ringsveien 3, Box 185 ! (+47) 67125580 ext. 211 ! ! 1321 Stabekk ! fax : ! ! Norway ! (+47) 67125401 ! ! "I don't believe in astrology. But then I'm a Capricorn, and ! ! Capricorns don't believe in astrology" ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
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