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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 tru...
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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 te...
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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...
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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". [R2D...
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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 L...
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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...
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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...
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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 p...
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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 f...
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BOSTON (0) AT SEATTLE (7) BOSTON AB R H BI SEATTLE AB R H BI RILES 2B 3 0 0 0 FELDER LF 4 0 1 1 QUINTANA RF 2 0 0 0 COTTO DH 3 0 0 0 GREENWELL LF 3 0 0 0 SASSER PH 1 0 0 0 DAWSON DH 3 0 0 0 GRIFFEY JR CF 4 0 0 0 M...
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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 i...
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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 read...
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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 mot...
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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."...
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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 g...
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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 :car...
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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 nu...
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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 aroun...
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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 t...
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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, orga...
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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 lo...
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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 Ali...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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....
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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 ...
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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...
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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 discu...
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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 (...
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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 ca...
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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 ev...
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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 move...
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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 do...
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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...
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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 *d...
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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. ...
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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 th...
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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 deal...
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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 playe...
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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 go...
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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...
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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 ===============...
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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) o...
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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 el...
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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(S...
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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 plast...
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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...
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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 wa...
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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 consis...
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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 c...
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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) W...
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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 understand...
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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 DE...
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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 bounc...
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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...
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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 m...
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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 milit...
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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 ...
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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 partis...
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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...
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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....
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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? ...
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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...
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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 ...
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