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: : So what's the story here... we're all stuck with the regular : green, red, and off yellow-orange LED's!? What gives!!?? : Anybody have a 'scoop' on FAIRLY LOW PRICED >BLUE< LED's??? If your looking for LEDs in the $.10-$.20 range, forget it. Blue LEDs just recently became available and the materials they are made of are expensive. Maybe in the future they will become less expensive (and brighter), but for now it's going to cost you and the output will be limited. If they ever do get as efficient and cost effective as red and green LEDs, you're probably going to see a whole new family of color displays.
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After failing my State of New Hampshire Noise Gestapo test with my HD Slash cut pipes I installed my new Bubs (which I had been planning to do anyway), went to a different in spection station, and passed with no problem at about 97 dB. Two points: First, I don't think the first dude did the noise test correctly. Holding the meter close to his body probably caused a high reading, and doing it inside the garage with the door closed undoubtedly enhanced the dB level! So if any other NH riders need to get this done, make sure the inspection is done outdoors with the meter held well away from the body. Second, these Bub pipes are bloody terrific. At low revs or cruising through town, they as quiet as the stock pipes, but have a sound thats a more throaty, purring, rumble. When you open her up to >3000 RPM they emit a wonderfully satisfying rumbling roar. Best of both worlds!
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Hello ! Could anybody be so kind and tell me the date and possible ftp-location of the most recent Win 3.1 printer drivers for: - Canon BJ-10e and - Canon LBP-4 I would really appreciate if you could help me with this. Thanks in advance! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kjell@hut.fi kjell@niksula.hut.fi kjell@vipunen.hut.fi
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I'm currently looking for a viewer for Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) pictures. Please inform me about a SHAREWARE or FREEWARE version. Thnx, Remco
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Re: The 25MHz IIsi
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ESPN had an advertise for Pens/Devils game 4. I don't know what the hell they are trying to do, especially against NFL draft. Well I guess there goes the NHL ratings for Sundays game.
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Vocabulary test: Please define the following words: a) contradictory b) ambiguous
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CAN you read ?? If so: read my posting about Quisling OR look in a dictionary. If not: Don't read this :)
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Ignore the attacks and look at the sales numbers and the MS stock price if you need some gratification. Just keep doing the great job you have done in the past. Thx Dave L
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Ok, Buffalo fans. I am a Red Wings fan, but am amazed at how the Sabres are beating up on the Bruins. Is there any reason for this? Is it Grant Fuhr or Mogilny and Lafontaine? I would like to hear from you since I do not know much about the Sabres.
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Until recently I always understood the term "kingdom theology" to mean the theology of the kingdom of God, but now I have discovered that there is a new and more specialized meaning. I gather that it is also called "Dominion theology", and that it has to do with a belief that Christians must create a theocratic form of government on earth before Christ will come again. I have not come across anyone who believes or advocates this, but I am told that it is a very widespread belief in the USA. Can anyone give me any more information about it? Here are some of my questions: 1. Is it the teaching of any particular denomination? If so, which? 2. Where and when does it start? 3. Are there any particular publications that propagate it? 4. Are there any organizations that propagate it?
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When Robert refers to the "orthodox", he is talking about the Historical position of the Christian Faith. Such things are derived from Biblcal texts through the centuries by the apocolic fathers of the faith. You are right that people read things differently in the Bible, and this is alright in parts like parables and such forth. However, when it comes to the essential doctrines of the Historical Orthodox Christan Beliefs, there is only one correct way to read it. For example, either the doctrine of the Trinity is true, or it is false. Yes, people read the texts differently, but only one position is true. They both cannot be. According to the text, the doctrine is true and has always existed.
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Consider special relativity. It hasn't be proved, nor has it been disproved. No one has a proof one way or the other, but many people are interested in it! I've satisfied myself that nothing could indicate absolutely the existence of God one way or the other. The two possibilities are supernaturalism and naturalism. Of course no set of circumstances can be inconsistent with supernaturalism, but similarly, no set of circumstances can be inconsistent with naturalism. In naturalism, any phenomenon that could be described as God is considered part of the natural world, to be studied as any other natural phenomenon (gravity, for instance). For example, if a loud ``godlike'' voice vociferously announced, ``I am God, I exist, and I will prove it by reversing the force of gravity,'' and if then gravity did indeed reverse, a naturalist (probably a scientist) would say, ``Boy, we sure didn't understand gravity as well as we thought we did, and that loud voice is something new. Perhaps we didn't understand thunder as well as we thought we did either.'' I'm sure glad you don't know where I live, since you don't seem to realize it is impossible for you to distinguish between voices in your head, and God's voice. You seem to have missed my point. Even if Jim Jones and David Koresh were not religious people, my point remains that faith and dogma are dangerous, and religion encourages them. Jim Jones and David Koresh also encouraged them. My point does not rely on Jim Jones and David Koresh being religious.
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So, that is the reason why the Toronto Blue Jays *should* keep Alfredo Griffin, just because it "worked"? A team winning doesn't mean that everything that it's doing is right. A team not winning doesn't mean that everything that it's doing is wrong, or otherwise (to borrow the Sharks' situation) you would say that George Kingston should be fired. By then, it's too late. The problem with "not fixing something while it's working" is that by then, there may not be anything left to fix. So, the Blue Jays were simply perfect last year; there was nothing that they could have done to have improved that team. NOT.
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Actually, both numbers are correct. The difference is in the direction of the acceleration. For pilots, accelerations tend to be transverse to the direction you're facing (pulling out from a steep dive, the acceleration will force blood toward your feet, for instance). In this case, you can only put up with about 8 g's even with a pressure suit. The record for acceleration, though, is measured along "the direction you're facing" (for lack of a better term). As I recall, this record was set in rocket sleds back in the 60's -- and was about 40 g's or so.
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> anybody know the difference between the Quarda 900 and Quadra 950? > >Quarda 900 is a popular misspelling of Quadra 900, which has a 25 MHz > 040 >processor. The 950 has a 33 MHz 040, and some local buses on the > >motherboard run faster. The video is different also. The 950 can run a > 13" and I believe a 16" monitor in 16 bit color without a VRAM upgrade. > Besides the faster processor, the 950 has SCSI 2, and as far as I know, faster I/O due to separate processors handling those functions. The 950 can output 16 bit video to a 16" monitor with 1 meg of VRAM and 24 bit with 2 meg. hope this helps anand armani@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca
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I _do_ know that IBM systems, the PS/2 56SLC2, in particular, have absolutely no problem with OS/2--never had a "random" crash while running any of my programs under OS/2. In fact, I don't remember _ever_ crashing. Of course, I really don't run any OS/2 programs, just the same bunch of DOS and Windows stuff that I've always been running. And when I had the 56SLC (this is the 386SLC system) running Dos/Windows, I had only one crash, and it was consistent. FTP had a tendency to crash whenever I would get large files (>1mb) from particularly fast clients (DTR's 150K-200K/sec), I figured out the problem was with smartdrv's write buffering--if I turned off the write buffer, everything would work fine. FTP under OS/2 has never locked, though. I can even format floppies (to use the most often cited example of the superiority of OS/2.) Yeah, I guess I'm willing to admit that OS/2 is somewhat sensitive to specific hardware. WP51 for DOS works perfectly fine on my SLC2... Well, I save all my personal files to floppy, and when i did that under Windows, a floppy save of a large file hung up the system. I also found it quite bothersome to have to continually tweak the tasking options on fractint for dos whenever I wanted to do a fractal computation in the background.
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I have the following computer items for sale: Item Condition Price (a) Color EGA card and monitor Working $180.00 Monitor made by Zenith (b) (3) 1Mx8 80ns SIMMS by MT Working $ 25.00/each (16) 256K 80NS SIMMS by OKI Working $ 3.00/each (4) 256K 100NS SIMMS by IT Working $ 2.75/each (4) 256K 100NS SIMMS by Motorola Working $ 2.75/each (4) 256K 120NS SIMMS by NEC Working $ 2.50/each NOTE: All the above simms left over from numerous Macintosh upgrade I did over the years. If you have questions as to which one fits your Mac, please mail me back. (c) (2) AST FASTRAM card with 512K Working $ 25.00/each could be upgraded to 2M with the DRAM in item(d) (d) (54) 256K 100NS DRAM by TI Working $ 0.50/each (36) 256K 100NS DRAM by OKI Working $ 0.50/each (18) 256K 100NS DRAM by Hunydai Working $ 0.50/each (e) Compaq Classic "Portable" computer Working $150.00 2 360K floppy drives Amber 9 inch screen 256K RAM (f) (2) Serial card Working $ 10.00/each (g) Western Digital Disk Controller Working $ 30.00 WD1003-WAH F003 X16 16 bit card for floopy and harddisk (h) Logitech 3-buttons mechanical Working $ 20.00 serial mouse (i) (1) Full-size AT case with Working $ 35.00 200W power-supply (1) Full-size AT case with Working $ 60.00 200W power-supply This is the original case for my AST Premium/286 computer, it could have up to 5 half-height devices (three of which could be floopy drives, tape drive etc). I am also including the original 286 motherboard which condition is unknown. (j) (2) 1.2M 5.25" floopy drive Working $ 30.00/each (1) 1.44 3.5" floopy drive Working $ 38.00 (k) Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Brand New $220.00 (l) Wangtek 5150ES SCSI 250M Working $200.00 1/4" tape drive (m) 1/2 height 40M MFM drive Working $100.00 by Miniscribe? 1/2 height 40M MFM drive Working $100.00 by Seagate ST 251-1 1/2 height 20M MFM drive Working $ 50.00 by Seagate (n) Prodigy start-up kit for Brand New $ 45.00 PC with 24/96 data/fax modem The following items I am selling as is, all the them are in unknown condition, either I never get it to work or never try to hook it up. (o) EGA card Unknown $ 5.00 (p) Multi-function game/clock/ Unknown $ 5.00 parallel/serial port card (q) Monochrome Graphics 132 columns Unknown $ 5.00 graphics card (r) CDC 94171-344 340M SCSI drive Unknown $150.00 (q) Miniscribe 20M SCSI drive Unknown $ 15.00 (r) Prodigy start-up kit Unknown FREE (s) (2) AST-3G Plus Chip Unknown $ 2.00 (t) Seagate 80M MFM drive Unknown $ 80.00 model ST-4096 I bought the radar detector a couple years ago for obvious reason(s) and I have never been ticketed for the past 3 years and now I don't drive to work anymore so I would rather sell it. (u) Whristler 425 radar detector Working $ 30.00 X & K bands If you would like to buy any of the above items, please mail me at jack@acs.bu.edu. Also, a 10% automatic discount will apply if your total purchase price is $100 or more (except the two brand new items). Buyer(s) pay shipping. If you think the prices I listed above is unrealistic, please mail me back and I would take your advice into consideration and make the proper adjustments. The reason I am selling this stuff is because I have decided that I had enough with this hobby of PC computing and I want to move on other interests. One last thing, if you know any non-profit organization whom might be interested in my equipments, please let me know. Because if no one wants to buy them, I might as well donate them and get a tax break... Thanks. -Jack jack@acs.bu.edu --
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My wife wants to publish a newsletter. She's no artist, so she intends to use comercial clipart and customise it a bit by drawing a circle or a box around it etc. We have MSPublisher for manipulating text, but it is not suitable for doing much with graphics, so she needs a more specialised tool. Right now she's looking at Corel Draw and Harvard Draw. There seem to be more books in the stores on Corel than on Harvard, so she's inclined to go with Corel on the basis of popularity. Can anyone give us an informed opinion on which package would be more suitable or if there is an even better alternative available? If this is a FAQ, please withhold the flames and just send the location of the FAQ document. Thanks. Three PS's: 1) Is it ok to use clip art from Harvard Draw or whatever for commercial purposes? 2) We have a 600 dpi Laser Jet 4 printer. What would be a good scanner for reading in paper clipart?
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Yesterday I changed the US-Keyboard of my Sparc10 with a german keyboard. And now I cannot get any "Alt Graph" characters ('tilde' usw.). When I exit from X I can get the characters, but not under X. Can anybody give me some hints, where to check for the correct installation of the keyboard.
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M --> M --> Look for the Leafs, led by a healthy Doug Gilmour and a confidence-restored M --> Felix Potvin to do the Blues in 6. The Leafs will have 3 more games with the M --> Wings and that should give Joseph a few extra days to pass those horshoes. M --> HA! Roger the dodger is back! (on the bandwagon, that is.) - Jack * Please Tell Me if you Don't Get This Message
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Local media hasn't said much, if anything, about the MOW. Also, when I called a straight friend in Arlington to tell him I would be on his doorstep this weekend, he didn't know anything at all about the march. This is a gay-sympathetic person who notices things like this. I thought it was strange that he was unaware of what was happening. It made me wonder just how much coverage is getting to "mainstream" America.
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I am new to Windows and I wanted to know how to setup the terminal program. I have a modem in COM4, but when it try to configure it inside Windows I get the messare "Unsupported COM ..." Can anyone help me?
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Judging from the responses so far, I have not made clear enough in my article quoted above that Imake-TeX is not for installing TeX, but for *using* it. With Imake-TeX, you will never again have to fiddle around with calling latex and its various utility programs (makeindex, bibtex). Simply type "make" and your document's DVI file will be up-to-date. All you have to do is to write a simple Imakefile and let Imake generate a suitable Makefile for you. Here is such an Imakefile: #include "TeX.tmpl" PaperFormatA4() SimpleLatexTarget(document) The generated Makefile provides the following commands: make depend: Searching the TeX source files for dependencies like \input{somefile} make dvi: Generate an up-to-date DVI file make viewdvi: Display it on your screen make ps: Generate a PostScript version of your document make viewps: Display it make clean: Remove unnecessary things make veryclean: Remove even the DVI file make Makefiles: Generate Makefiles in subdirectories If ... a) ...this seems attractive to you, b) ...you are willing to test Imake-TeX and send me a short test report, c) ...you are willing to cope with a rudimentary English documentation (however, the German version is completed and included), then you are invited as a beta tester. I am looking forward to your e-mail. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute I R B : immer richtig beraten Univ. Dortmund, IRB Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-W4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
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I've got a 386DX-40, 4MB and I'm using Windows 3.1. Sometimes I wondered why Windows worked endlessly on my HD when I was doing nothing (execpt having lunch or something like that). Then I turned this virtual memory swapfile off, and Windows became quite faster, but now having less memory free. And so I'm still wondering, why windows is reading everything from virtual memory when the convertional is sufficient? Any common-sense-explanation is really appreciated.
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Hello, I'm looking for information on Alphanumeric pagers and *how* the data is sent from the paging transmitter and how I would go about building a device to decode the paging data (like my pager does) and feed it though an RS232 port. I'm planning on seperating different paging messages and different pagers in software to keep amount of hardware I need down.... Does anyone know what chips (Motorola?) are good for decoding Numeric and Alphanumeric paging data (and then stuffing it down an RS232 port (basically any baud rate is fine!) ? (I already have a radio reciever with headphone level output for the audio signal from the paging tower, but I'd be interested in anything you know about pagers, including the type of radio recievers they use!) Thanks in advance! -theo EMAIL = theo@walt.caps.maine.edu
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Hello out there, If your familiar with the COMET program then this concerns you. COMET is scheduled to be launched from Wallops Island sometime in June. Does anyone know if an official launch date has been set?
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Did anyone else notice how the question of what federal laws were violated was brushed aside? I'd like to know what laws were violated, and on what evidence the orignial BATF warrants were based.
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This is the most unmitigated bilge I've seen in a while. Jim Brown obviously has possession of the right-wing token. "In December, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told a Senate committee that sanctions were costing Iraq $100 million per day, and that the multinational coalition could take all the time in the world. Iraq, he suggested, was losing badly every day it defied the UN demands, while the community of nations won every day -- with no taking of life or loss of life." -- FCNL Washington Newsletter. Wrongful actions of murderers like leaders of the US government, perhaps? Regrettable, of course; The-Way-It-Is - certainly not. Good heavens! An escapee from Rush Limbot Land! "Conservative", my ass. BULLSHIT!!! In the Gulf Massacre, 7% of all ordnance used was "smart." The rest - that's 93% - was just regular, dumb ol' iron bombs and stuff. Have you forgotten that the Pentagon definition of a successful Patriot launch was when the missile cleared the launching tube with no damage? Or that a successful interception of a Scud was defined as "the Patriot and Scud passed each other in the same area of the sky"? And of the 7% that was the "smart" stuff, 35% hit. Again - try to follow me here - that means 65% of this "smart" arsenal missed. Prove it. I have a source that says that to date, the civilian death count (er, excuse me, I mean "collateral damage") is about 200,000. -s -- "No one has attempted to calculate the costs of an execution in Washington state, but studies elsewhere suggest it costs far more than incarceration. "California is spending more than $90 million annually on capital cases, and until this year hadn't executed anyone since 1972. Texas, the national leader in the number of executions, spends an estimated $2.3 million per execution. That compares to an average cost of incarceration in Washington state of $25,000 per maximum-security prisoner per year."
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What are peoples opinions on the above make of hard drives, I seem to have found a really good bargain on a 170meg drive but I thought I'd check if anyone had any comments to say on this make? Also I'm a bit of a novice with PC's (but an experienced computer user), when connecting and fitting this drive into one of my spare 5 1/4 bays what extras will I need, a cable for starters (I guess :-) , but what about brackets etc... Also I think I might have to change some jumpers on the drive and my original Connar 211meg one. I'll be attaching the second drive to a seperate IDE socket on my controler card. What will I need to change ???? Yet again many thanks to all that have answered me in the past and to any that answer me in the future :-)
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Exactly what would that show, ?! the "law enforcement block" is easy to create, given the Government key and any serial number. *IF* it comes to trail about the wiretap.... ya, some safegaurd that is. What if they just harass people as a result, or learn things they shouldn't have learned, etc? The whole point of the Escrow system is to prevent the FBI from making illegal wiretaps. Why not have the FBI holds the keys and that's it? Why do we need the escrow system at all? Unless a 3rd party (a judge) verifies that the requested serial number is "right", and the FBI can get any key they like at anytime, the escrow system is useless.
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[reply to tgk@cs.toronto.edu (Todd Kelley)] Agreed. It is hard for me to understand, but quite a few professional scientists and philosophers are theists. But also intolerance and superstition. I'm not sure that in the balance it is not detrimental. Sure would!
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I am looking for a tandem bicycle, any make, any model, and any condition. I would prefer a complete bike, but just a tandem frameset is OK, too. Please email me if you have one for sale. P.S. I will pay shipping from anywhere in Canada or U.S.
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My 3.5" floppy drive stopped recognizing low density (720K) floppies. The controller and drive works fine in another system. I was told it could be the DMA chip. The system is a 386DX-25 using Chips & Technology chip set. I'm open to all suggestions. Please send your replies to: ken@jazz.concert.net
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I've spent the past week tearing my hair out, trying to get the output of a piped "tail -f" to end up in a widget. I've managed to make it work in some ugly ways, but either a) X blocks on the tail and won't allow user input, b) the "tail -f" functions like just "tail" and doesn't follow the expansion of the file, c) the "tail -f" doesn't die after I've closed the pipe and destoryed the widget, or d) pclose() blocks forever waiting for tail to die. I _know_ this code has to exist. Anybody have it? A general popen() case would be perfered but at this point I'll take anything... Thanks.
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I've had the same problem with a Maxtor 7213A. Turned off smartdrive, 32 bit disk access, etc. This same disk aborts Norton Speed Disk (NU 4.5), up to 8 times, requesting NDD to be run when attempting to defrag drive. At Some peoples' suggestion I reformatted my drive and reloaded DOS 5.0, Win 3.1 from scratch. A few people found that installing 3.1 on top of 3.1 beta on top of 3.0 caused a similar problem, So I tried this drastic solution. When the problem reoccurred, I didn't have the brains not to load 6.0 and dblespaced the drive. I get arround the annoyance by copying my *.grp files to *.gro. when I get the message, I run file manager and copy the offeniding group files from *.gro ove rthe *.grp. Then I quit and restart windows(If the group is an often used important one.) This really sucks. But I'm pretty sure that the problem is the drive (especially with the NSD problem). I will be going with out over 66% of my memory after finals for 2 to 4 weeks, while the guy I bought the disk and system from, goes over it and either fixes it or replaces the drive. I can't wait to have a system that will run consistently with all hte goodies!
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If you use MEK for your sake wear safty glasses or better still industrial goggles. The small est drop in the eye will casue blindness by a catalysis reaction that is non cureavble once it starts. The results are similar to mustard gas contamination. Note MEK peroxide is a hardner form fibreglass resins.
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Firearm? Let's not even consider long knives (swords), which were also common militia weapons in the 18th century, and which, if anything, are often restricted more heavily than firearms. Whatever sense gun control makes, knife control makes even less. --
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A friend of mine has a complete set of AIX-PS/2 1.2 software and manuals for sale. (NEW) (all on 1.44 Meg floppies) including: Base OS Development tools (including C Compiler) Administration extensions X Windows / Motif TCP/IP PC simulator (DOS Merge) etc. etc..... (This software requires a PS/2 with 386 processor or higher, ample disk space and memory :-) it can coexist with dos and OS/2 on the same machine, and selectively booted at startup.) If you are interested email me your offer and I will pass it along. Keep in mind that the manuals and software fill up a 12x12x18 box so shipping is a consideration.
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I posted this question about colorizing motif widgets. I got it working fine. There was one bug in my .Xdefault file. It should work fine in normal case. Thanks
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that they out the little writing. Ranger last see Mike went who is the penalties and reason? Islander test hard
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: Build 59 causes 2 exceptions when I exit Windows. In fact, I have had : this happen on all builds after 44, which shipped with my Gateway : system. Am I doing something wrong, or is this problem commonly : overlooked? I have never had "exceptions" with build 44, 50, or 59 drivers. I have a GW2000 DX266. --
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For all those people flaming John Bradley, the author of xv - he's on vacation till May 10 (or 15, I don't remember). Maybe we all should slow down and wait to hear his side wrt copyrights, fees, etc.
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TO: rych@festival.ed.ac.uk (R Hawkes) RH>I've noticed that if you only save a model (with all your mapping planes RH>positioned carefully) to a .3DS file that when you reload it after restarting RH>3DS, they are given a default position and orientation. But if you save RH>to a .PRJ file their positions/orientation are preserved. Does anyone RH>know why this information is not stored in the .3DS file? Nothing is This is because the PRJ (Project) format saves all of your settings, right down to the last render file's name. RH>I'd like to be able to read the texture rule information, does anyone have RH>the format for the .PRJ file? Sorry... Don't have anything on that or the CEL format. ....r.c V.t.ell. .r...
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Brian Ceccarelli wrote (that's me): Kent Sandvik responds: I think I see where you are coming from Kent. Jesus doesn't view guilt like our modern venacular colors it. "Feelings" have nothing to do with guilt. Feelings arise from the state of being guilty. Feeling and guilt are mutally exclusive. Feelings are a reaction from guilt. Jesus is talking about the guilt state, not the reaction. Let me give you an example: Have you ever made a mistake? Have you ever lied to someone? Even a little white lie? Have you ever claimed to know something that you really didn't know? Have you ever hated someone? Have you ever been selfish? Are you guilty of any one of these? The answer is of course, YES. You are guilty. Period. That is it what Jesus is getting at. No big surprise. Feelings do not even enter the picture. Consider Jesus's use of the word "guilt" as how a court uses it. Jesus is concerned that everyone should admit that they are guilty of being imperfect. The Bible calls it the state that we are all sinners. We all do bad things. Even the most insignficant thing that we do wrong is proof of our guilt that we are all sinners. It is it in our nature to do bad things. We are sinners, therefore we do bad things. Being a sinner is fact. It is not a pleasant fact. But it is just a fact. We are not perfect. Calling us sinners should have no more emotional charge to you than calling you a human being. Guilty as charged. You can handle your guilt in one of two ways: Acknowledge you made a mistake, learn from it, and try to not do it again--in the meantime, not punishing yourself for it: which is the way Jesus wants you to handle or it. This is the healthy way. Or two, the destructive way: put yourself down, slap yourself and feel like crap, never forgive yourself, force yourself to say a thousand Hail Marys . . . even to suicide. This the way Jesus does NOT want us to deal with it. All people fall into this category to some extent in their lives. Jesus is not in the business of saving us from this guilt feeling. Jesus is in the business of showing us how much he loves us despite our guilt. Jesus knows we are guilty. That isn't new to him. It is no big deal to him. He just wants you to realize that this sinful nature destroys the relationship between you and him. That is what he wants you to know. Why, because he wants to have your company. You are immensely valuable to him. Jesus wants a relationship with you, however, in our present sinful nature, we are incapable of having this relationship. God is perfect. We are not. You cannot fit a square peg into a round hole. However, God has provided a way for us to change our nature so that we can have a relationship with him. God has provided Jesus, so that whosoever just believes in Jesus, will have their nature changed. The Holy Spirit will move it. And now divine nature is now within lives our very being--and us and God communicate with each through his unifying Holy Spirit. The benefits of this are endless. For with the divine nature living within us, we can now see our imperfections better. We can now head them off at the pass. With the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, we now have his power to help us overcome our shortcomings. Because the divine nature lives within us, we can now understand profound Bible passages that never before we could understand. Because the divine nature now lives within us, we now have authority over demonic forces. And lastly, because the divine nature now lives within us, we have eternal life--for the Holy Spirit is eternal. The relationship with Jesus is of the utmost importance. Because it is not what you do in life that qualifies you to belong to heavenly kingdom, it is your relationship to the living God. Remember what Jesus said at the tail end of Matthew when he separated the "goats from the sheep". Many people in the last day will ask him, "Didn't I prophesy in your name and do miracles, and do good things in your name?" And what did Jesus say? "Depart from me, for I never *knew* you." That is the cornerstone of Christianity, Kent. Jesus must know you as his friend. It is your relationship to Jesus. If he is your friend and you are his, you will be counted among those who will share in his inheritance in heaven. Good. It shows that you have a strong self-image--that you love yourself. That is the second greatest commandment Jesus taught. If only more people could do as you do. As I said before, in the common english venacular, "feeling guilty" has a different meaning than the state of guilt. I believe what we all need in our personalities is a lot less ego, a lot less self-centeredness, and a lot more unconditional love.
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I would like to buy a 4 channel multitrack recorder. I would prefer a cassette machine such as those made by Fostex, Tascam, Yamaha, etc. but would consider reel-to-reel as well. Write me if you know of anything. Thanks. -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 788-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 788-5727 (Dept.)
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Everyone seems to think that this man's mouse problem is mechanical (its dirty) I have been having a similar problem with my mouse, and it only occurs when ru nning windows and therefore cannot be mechanical in nature. I'm running a mouse systems compatible mouse on a 486 66 DX2 with a trident 1 meg video card and a m experienceing similar jumpiness as well as strange font subsitutions and mous e traces left on screen and windows gpf errors. HELP!!!
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: Just curious why floptical drives never seemed to catch on. Remember : those 21 Mb disks that look and feel like 3.5" floppies? These drives : are SCSI devices and can read and write both 720 Kb and 1.44/21 Mb : disks. Sounds to me to be one great product for the PC market. Are the : prices really that unaffordable compared to CD-ROMs which are currently : not rewritable? I know about the new rewritable CDs and expect SONY to : develop the first MDs for the computer. My question is: why isn't there : any substantial interest in developing the flopticals? Certainly in the UK the 21Mb flopticals are about the same price as a cheap CD-ROM now (you seem to be able to get them for around GBP 200-250). However the bigger optical drives (e.g. 128Mb) are much more expensive - around the GBP 1000 mark. A couple of questions that someone may be able to answer - the 21Mb flopticals - are they direct drop in replacements for a floppy or do they need driver software etc. I.e. do you just rip out the floppy drive, plug the same cables into the floptical, stick in a flopti-disk and hey presto you have a 21Mb floppy. This sounds far too easy. On the subject of Sony developing MDs for computers, I have reread a PCW article on this subject and there it says that Sony have been doing optical drives for other people for some time and may be about to do a product themselves. From the article it seems that the audio MD format is a byproduct of their computer storage work - the MD mechanism is identical to their MO computer optical drives. A Sony spokesman was quoted as saying that a 2.5" MD disk would hold about 100Mb of data though he refused to comment on any possibility of this being productized. The article said that one of the problems holding back development in this area was lack of sensible standards plus there are at least 2 distinct optical storage mechanisms around at present. Given that it probably needs MDs being used as a distribution medium to get it into the market and since this has already been cornered by CDs it probably needs someone to come in with a very strong marketting lead to get MDs accepted. --
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The arrest of Noriega did not have any major adverse effect on the drug trade going through Panama. Money laundering continues to be Panama's main industry. In fact, it is bigger now than before Noriega was arrested [1]. Panama's current administration also has ties with the Colombian cocaine cartels [2]. And large amounts cocaine still flow through Panama on a regular basis [3]. Oh well... Sources (from the book _Drugs in America_ by Vincent Bugliosi): [1] IRS Criminal Investigations Divison [2] _New York Times_ [3] U.S. State Department
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Do I assume correctly from the above aricle that your mother has a historyy of cancer? I was just wondeing, since you mentioned thhat she has an oncologist. A bone scan is a nuclear scan. Thperson receivving the scan is gven a dose of a radioactive tracer, and an imaging device is used to track the distribution of the tracer wwithin the body. The tracer is usually given intravenously. (IV) This means that the physician or his assistant will insert a needle into a vein and inject medicine into the vein. After a few minutes has passed for the tracer to circulate through the body, the person is scanned with an imaging device to detect high concentrations of the tracer. The radiologist or doctor is looking for areas that take up more of the radioactive tracer or less of it. As far as pain, the only pain comes from the needle stick that is required to start the IV line. What the doctor is probably looking for are changes in the bones that may have resulted from cancer. This is also why I was wondering if your mother has had cancer, since cancer can spread from one site and wind up in the skeletal system. I hope I have answered some of your questions. Feel free to e-mail me if you have more questions related to the bone scan or anything else related to your mother's care. I'm a newly graduated nurse, and I enjoy sharing information with other people to help them understand things that they did not know about before. My thoughts are with you both.
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From Israeline 4/27/93 Peace Talks Resume Today; Israel to Offer Palestinians New Proposals Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL, reports on today's resumption in Washington of the bilateral peace talks, following a recess which lasted over four months. According to the report, Israel is expected to offer the Palestinians new proposals regarding the authority of the Palestinian Executive Council, general elections, control over land and human rights issues in the Territories. Israel will express its readiness to give the Palestinians control of more land than previously offered. According to the radio report, one estimate is that Israel will give the Palestinians control over as much as two thirds of the administered lands, as well as broad authority on water issues. Israel will seek to promote its offer to hold elections in the Territories in hopes of strengthening the position of the Palestinian delegation to the peace negotiations. According to Israel Radio, the Israeli delegation to the bilateral talks with the Palestinians will offer greater responsibilities to the Palestinian Executive Council allowing it certain legislative capabilities, without making it a symbol for Palestinian sovereignty. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher invited all the heads of delegations to a gathering tonight. It will be the first such event since the Madrid conference. Head of the American team at the bilateral peace talks, Edward Djerejian, said that tonight's gathering is meant to demonstrate the U.S.' active role in the peace process.
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That's what the pseudo-disclaimer is supposed to say, sorry for the confusion. -nate
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The last V8 in Mad Max is based on a Holden (Australia). Holden is linked with GM (Vauxhall GB) and so they're quite unlikely to use Ford parts.
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These substances are normally not the secret, but how to get at them. The method of preperation is normally patented, which means that no-one else can make the chemical in the same way, without undergoing an agreement with American Cyanamid. (But I guess you knew what a patent is :-) ) If you know what substance is used, you'll also know its toxicity. The Luminol reaction has the disadvantage of not lasting as long as the commercial version. Remember that cyano compounds are found in nature, and not all are poisonous. Regards,
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Hello, I'm curious what sort of neat features exist on high-end answering machines today. In particular, I'm interested in features of digital answering machines. Also, what is the typical amount of storage(in minutes) for these digital answering machines? The reason? I'm hacking together an answering machine program for my ZyXEL modem and I'm wondering if I'm missing something on my wish list. arthur
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Laser holes are (or were) used to prevent someone from making exact copies of a disk. You do not want to write to the damaged disk, only read and use the programs. I remember a program called Copywrite that could copy a disk with a laser hole in it. I think it simulates the laser hole. After copying the disk the program is, if necessary, used in conjunction with a program called Nokey or something. (The program tells you which program to use) No solution.
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Has anyone had experience buying computers from Comtrade? When I asked about TC, I got one reply describing problems returning a defective hard drive. Should I expect any problems from Comtrade? Thanks,
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The borders of the Jewish state as drawn by the U.N. included the areas which contained mostly Jews, that's what the surveys and the numerous commitees where after when they visited here. I never touched an Arab during my army service and never voted for anyone more right than the Green party. Will I be spared by these "humanist standards"? (or will anyone stop to consider this before sloughtering me?) I doubt it. And not only because of the past record of murdering helpless women and children since the turn of the century up to these days.
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What about including points? Probably no goals (at least against opponents) but there have been several assists given.
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It does sound funny, I will admit. But for me it is true. Windows crashed on all of the time (and from what I have read in PC Mag, this is not the exception) . OS/2 gives each windows app a VDM and they can't touch each other or (generally) anything they aren't supposed to have. If windows works for you, then great. Maybe this is why some people don't see why OS/2 is the OS of choice. If windows doesn't crash on you, and you don't mind waiting on each task, and not being able to adress your memory better than DOS, some of the key reasons for using OS/2 are gone. I probably would still use it, but it would be more of an even fight. Brett
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The thing is, I know what arms and legs are. It's therefore generally easy to tell whether or not someone has arms and legs. This "sinful nature", since it does not require that the baby actually perform any sins, seems to be totally invisible. As far as I know, maybe half the babies have a sinful nature and half don't--it'd look exactly the same, since there is no way to tell the difference. So what's so bad about a sinful nature, then? I could understand it being bad if it always results in people committing sins, but babies can have it, never commit sins, die, and they still have it. So the bad part about can't merely be that it results in people committing sins--so what _is_ bad about it? -- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey! On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole that she made from Leftover Turkey. [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ... -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
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That's the trouble: *what* peak years? He wavers between excellent and very good, with no real bell-shaped pattern in there. 1979 was a fine year; 78 and 80 were merely really good. With the Yankees, 84 (I think) was the best; that was the one with the .340 BA. Of course, 1992 wasn't bad, either. He's been in the bigs since 1973, with a one-year intermission for surgery. Though he doesn't have the mix of skills that Pete Rose did, he's like Pete Rose in one way: he's not a natural hitter. Winfield's swing used to be the ugliest thing in New York, and that includes the Gulf+Western Building. But his sheer athletic prowess and physical size made up for a lot. Fascinating player to watch, even now. Not obviously great in any one way; but able to do quite a few things in surprising ways and at surprising levels.
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Ilyess sez: >So how would have *you* defended Saudi Arabia and rolled >back the Iraqi invasion, were you in charge of Saudi Arabia??? All Muslims knew that the whole thing was set up to destroy Iraq, not to "Liberate Kuwait", The people who were killed by the invasion are more (many many more), than the ones that were killed by the Iraqis in their smaller invasion. I lived in the west, and I have seen how your media prepared you (helpless naive Americans) for a war against ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No doubt you plan on exploiting "helpless naive Americans" for your own purposes. Hmm...let's see: Iraq even before the artificial conflict between Iraq and Kuwait that led to the invasion, as the CIA correctly predicted (and pretended to be surprised not to know). It just happened that Saddam was so predictible and so arrogant and stupid. What would I have done: Most Muslims would choose 300 dead Kuwaitis over 200,000 dead Iraqis and 1000 dead Kuwaitis. The first case would happen if no western intervention happened, and the second case was a direct or indirect result of western envolvement. Possibly, if 200,000 Iraqis had indeed died, but this number is based on Greenpeace estimates. Greenpeace had compromised its alleged impartiality during the war by condemning the potential environmental consequences of Allied miiltary action, while initially *completely* ignoring Iraq's horrible environmental crimes, starting with the dumping of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf at Ahmadi to the blowing of over 700 oil wells. What is the real number? There has been a lot of work on this in the last two years, none of it reported as the Greenpeace figure seems to get continuously bandied about. The real number seems to be around 10,000, on the same order as the number of Kuwaitis killed, tortured and kidnapped during the occupation. I've included an article I recently posted below, but this is really old news. Independent Television News reported a figure around 15,000 only a few months after the war, but it was hardly reported. For the Allies to have killed 200,000 Iraqis, they would have had to kill twice the *total* number of Iraqis in Kuwait. The favored image of the hysterics is the last battle of the war at Mutla'. This was yet another example of the American and European media playing into the hands of Iraq and its de facto allies. The destruction of the Iraqi convoy at Mutla' was portrayed as an all-out slaughter. This is simply not true. The head and tail of the convoy was bombed initially, resulting in a lot of casualties at these points. Before bombers came back, most of the rest of the Iraqi soldiers fled on foot. Furthermore, your estimates of Kuwaiti war dead if Allies hadn't invaded is completely ridiculous. You have acknowledged (certainly implicitly) that Saddam is a barbarous brute. You have acknowledged the hundreds of thousands he has been responible for killing *in his own country*. You *know* that the man he appointed as governor of Kuwait, Ali Majid, was his most brutal henchman, presiding over the near genocide of the Kurds in the late 80's and, more recently, the Shi'a. Yet, when it comes to his treatment of Kuwaitis, he is an angel. In your estimate, he would've killed *fewer* than he already had when the war started. What a joke! APn 03/09 0006 Iraq War Dead Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Some of the survivors have been "interviewed" on TV as they were going to or returning from court. They basically said, no way was there any kind of suicide pact or attempt.
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I have seen the existance of electronics solder with a 2% silver content that seems to have good wetting and fatique reatings. Can anyone tell me why it is not used? (silver is not such an expensive metal). Andy
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If you don't agree with Joseph's accurate statement of the Catholic dogma of Mary's perpetual sinlessness, then how do you interpret Luke 1:28, And when the angel had come to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women." and Luke 1:48? ...for, behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. I suppose that these verses might be interpreted to mean that Mary was possessed of some limited quantity or quality of grace, just as some of filled to the brim, incapable of containing more. The only other people we know of who have an abundance of grace are those souls existing in heaven now (another Catholic dogma, based on the communion of saints, as I explained in an earlier post). Full of grace to me means sinless, and anyone who has ever sinned in his life cannot be without sin in the same sense as Mary was sinless. As a Catholic, I too find certain of the dogmas tough to embrace. But that's where the Catholic faith and prayer come into play. I pray God to strengthen my will to accept the faith given the bride of Christ, which in turn usually strengthens my community faith in His Church. And, as you probably know, faith in Christ's Church is tantamount to faith in Christ inasmuch as the Church is Christ's Mystical Body. A Catholic by nature must have two aspects to his faith in Christ: (1) a personal faith in Christ as his own personal redeemer and (2) a community faith in the Church as the body of Christ. -- Randal Lee Nicholas Mandock Catechist gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu
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The main effect of the spherical aberration problems with the primary mirror was to drive the computer engineers to develop the image processing software that much faster. When they use the _same_ deconvolution software on the images from the fixed Hubble, be ready for some incredible results! There is every reason to believe that the results will _exceed_ the original specs by a fair margin. Adaptive optics is a combination of hardware and software. It works realtime, not after the fact, as is the case with Hubble. You might be interested to know this technology has made it to the amateur market, in the form of the AO-2 Adaptive Optics System. Starting on page 52 of the April, 1993 Sky & Telescope is a three page review of this new product. It lists for $1,290. The article states: "The AO-2 Adaptive Optics System comes in a handy soft-plastic case that a three-year-old could carry around." Even though this device is really only good for the brightest objects, "it could cope with image movements of up to 0.8 millimeter in the telescope's focal plane." Now just imagine how well this infant technology will do in a few years, especially in a dedicated system that has hundreds of thousands of dollars, and many man-hours invested in its development. George Krumins
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Wonder if anyone would know where (or if) I could find the schematic for the old Timex-sinclare (sp) computer... Or even a pin out on the expansion bus??
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I'm posting this request again since the last one had no title. I'm looking for X server software on DOS or Windows. I've already seen Desqview/X and XVision but would like to be aware of other solutions, namely public domain or shareware implementations. I'd also like to know, in the commercial case, about possible problems, incompatibilities, available window managers and libraries, etc. If you have any experiences in this area please let me know. C U! By(e)
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Radio Shack stores sell them here in the States. Not sure if InterTan is carrying these for Australia or not... Cost is $6 USD. You charge them under a fluorescent, then they glow when exposed to IR.
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You are not sticking to the original question. Imagine what it would be like if you were human...impossible you say? Is that not the crux of my argument? Why is this so difficult for you to understand? Lack of intelligence? Well, does it change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920, the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion and national origin? 1) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of Van.[1,2,3,4,5] 2) Armenians did slaughter 42% of Muslim population of Bitlis.[1,2,3,4] 3) Armenians did slaughter 31% of Muslim population of Erzurum.[1,2,3,4] 4) Armenians did slaughter 26% of Muslim population of Diyarbakir.[1,2,3,4] 5) Armenians did slaughter 16% of Muslim population of Mamuretulaziz.[1,2,3,4] 6) Armenians did slaughter 15% of Muslim population of Sivas.[1,2,3,4] 7) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of the x-Soviet Armenia.[1,2,3,4] 8).... [1] McCarthy, J., "Muslims and Minorities, The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire," New York University Press, New York, 1983, pp. 133-144. [2] Karpat, K., "Ottoman Population," The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. [3] Hovannisian, R. G., "Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, pp. 13, 37. [4] Shaw, S. J., 'On Armenian collaboration with invading Russian armies in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)." (London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316. [5] "Gochnak" (Armenian newspaper published in the United States), May 24, 1915. Source: Jorge Blanco Villalta, 'Ataturk,' TKK, 1979, pg. 234. "They [Armenians] did not refrain from giving in to their racial hatred and committing acts of cruelty and massacres against the Moslem population, which were encouraged by the 'Tashnak' party, mortal enemies of Turkey." Serdar Argic
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I had a '82 Saab 900 Turbo, and now have a '87 BMW 325is There is no comparison for handling, reliability, or overall quality of engineering. The BMW wins hands down. After 5 years I was sick and tired of the all the little problems and entropic decay of the SAAB. The 6-year old BMW is still as sweet as it was new. But I see you are posting from western MA. BMW's **SUCK** in the snow. I have aggressive snows, plus a hundred pounds of sand in the back, and I still try to avoid driving in the snow. I happily took the SAAB through blizzard conditions without a worry. I would say this is the single design flaw in the BMW.
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Using greenhouses to extend the growing season shouldn't be a problem. I'm supprised they don't do so in Alaska (cheaper to import, perhaps?) No, the Incas had no problems with this, but the Spanish did.
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Not when your talking about cryptography. Think again. You won't see me using apple's new signature from the finder feature. This analogy fails in its assumption that the government gives two squirts about credibility. In addition, Apple's proclaimed purpose in releasing the Macintosh wasn't survellience. Quite the opposite: "On January 24, Apple will introduce.... Macintosh, and you'll see why 1984 won't be, like '1984'" So don't give me any bullshit analogies about how we trust coke not to put mind control drugs in every can to get us to buy more. One of the reasons we should be all the more suspicious. When was the last time the president wasted his time to comfort americans? Just another reason to look closely at exactally what's going on. uni@acs.bu.edu
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Maybe you should contact your schools officials and make them consider installing the necessary softwares or hardwares that allows the Unix works stations to shuts off its monitor when left untouched. It does save a lot of energy. - Chung Yang
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Isn't there some *formal* action a citizen can take that *requires* the FCC to, at least, generate some paperwork?
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For those who are interested, the FCC does indeed care about cable leakage, particularly into the aviation nav band, or leakage that is "causing interference to other services". Part 76.611 details specific limits to acceptable leakage, and measurement technique. If you will clearly document your problem, and measurement technique (a signal level meter with dipole is the normal approach, remember to correct between measurement data and microvolts per meter) and fax or mail the details to Mr. John Wong Cable Branch, FCC 1919 M st. NW Wash DC, and a copy of your letter to the local cable company, you will get results. In fact the cable company will probably start treating you much better when they realize you have figured out how to get the FCCs attention. What is important is to document your case as it relates to the applicable rules. However the cable company *is required* to at least check out every complaint of leakage. They must file with the commission and maintain on premises a yearly measurement report that details the results of leakage testing. But remember, call the cable company first, and give them a chance to work to correct the problem before contacting the commission. I am in the business of measuring cable system leakage via the airborne method.
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The copyright notices themselves seem to be making conficting restrictions. I do not know how to reconcile: /* Copyright Notice * ================ * Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by John Bradley * * Permission to use, copy, and distribute XV in its entirety, for * non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, provided that * this license information and copyright notice appear in all copies. * ... with: * * XV is shareware for PERSONAL USE only. You may use XV for your own * amusement, and if you find it nifty, useful, generally cool, or of * some value to you, your non-deductable donation would be greatly * appreciated. $25 is the suggested donation, though, of course, * larger donations are quite welcome. Folks who donate $25 or more * can receive a Real Nice bound copy of the XV manual for no extra * charge. * * Commercial, government, and institutional users MUST register their * copies of XV, for the exceedingly REASONABLE price of just $25 per * workstation/X terminal. Site licenses are available for those who * wish to run XV on a large number of machines. Contact the author * for more details. ... It strikes me that the first part gives you the right to use, without fee, the program for noncommercial purposes if the info appears in all copies. This seems to cover educational institutions despite what the rest of the notice says. And the first part doesn't say subject to the conditions outlined below... Chris
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Romans 10:16-17 "But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our message?' Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ." So then we receive God's gift of faith to us as we hear the message of the gospel. Faith is a possible response to hearing God's word preached. Kids are not yet spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally mature enough to respond to God's word. Hence they cannot have faith and therefore cannot be raised in baptism to a new life. Catholics view the effects of Baptism slightly differently, and that's one primary reason why they baptize babies. They believe that Baptism produces a change in the soul of the baby, quite independently of any volitional act on the part of the baby. This change in the baby's soul gives the infant certain capabilities that he would not have without Baptism. Since the infant does not have the use of his intellect and will yet, these new faculties are dormant. But as the child gets older, the gifts of Baptism come more and more into play. Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul who sins will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him." If you read all of Ezekiel 18, you will see that God doesn't hold us guilty for anyone else's sins. So we can have no original guilt from Adam. Adam was given a number of gifts by God. The chief among them was what Catholics call "sanctifying grace". (In the New Testament, the word used for this is "charity".) By his sin, Adam lost this grace. He didn't lose it just for himself, however, he lost it for the whole human race. Because once he lost it, he couldn't pass it on to his descendents. That's why Catholics baptize babies. Through his Original Sin, Adam lost sanctifying grace for all his descendents. Christ instituted Baptism to give it back to everyone.
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<> Somebody asked me what was wrong about overreacting in cases such as this. < <That was probably me. <I meant only that nobody has overreacted yet. It seemed to me that <Jerry was suggesting that people are currently overreacting, and I <vehemently disagree. I see a lot of talk, but not much action. <I see now that I misunderstood Jerry's position. < <> The reason is very simple: How many people do you want to die in a riot? <> In a new Civil War? <> <> Everybody is jumping up and down and screaming about it, and I'm worried <> that people are going to reach for their hammers and rifles before their pens <> and paper. < <Not this bunch. They'll just bitch on the Net for a while, and <then go back to lurking. < <> Can people work within the system before trying to break it? Examine your <> history books, and find out how many armed revolutions led to Democratic <> (or Democratic style) governments. I think you'll only find one in over <> five thousand years of written history. < <Actually, it's not quite that bad, but it's close. I think everyone would just as soon work within the system. The presence of the POSSIBILITY of using the bullet box instead of the ballot box is supposed to be a deterrent - by keeping the price of massive abuse unacceptable. However, governments being what they are, sure would like to REMOVE that deterrence, which will make the need for armed citizens all the more great (you don't need 'em till you don't have 'em). Then I think we can be more accurately called 'subjects' instead of 'citizens'. The idea of the people being sovereign over the government is sure not in vogue in the Beltway these days, that is for sure... The Administration is saying "We know best. We will tell you what you need, or don't need..." "After, that old-fashioned anachronism called the Bill of Rights is not needed in these 'enlightened times'... <Look, we (collectively) have the power to throw the bums out, but we <don't use it. We clearly don't need to go burning things down, but we Not if the government has its way: There are EIGHT bills before Congress that will either ban, tax exhorbitantly, or register all useful weapons in the hands of the unconnected US subject. Can you say $200.00 just for a box of cartridges for practice? One of the current Administrations top priority items is to disarm all who are not well-connected, or that work for the government. <clearly do need to throw at least some of the bums out. <Unfortunately, the bums have learned to target only small groups of <people at a single time, so the masses won't react and throw them out. <Eventually, the masses will react, unless the bums cease their <relentless encroachment on liberty and despoilment of the economy. <The sooner it happens, the less the damages will be. I don't want to <live in a war zone, either -- I want to see the bums thrown out before <they do some *real* damage. Another tactic is to toss out so many outrages at once that nobody can give justice to them all. Like is being done RIGHT NOW. <Lyle Transarc 707 Grant Street <412 338 4474 The Gulf Tower Pittsburgh 15219
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Infact on tuesday, the Bosnian foreign minister asked formally the UN to leave Bosnia, just to show how much hypocracy is there in Europe. These so called UN is actually helping Serbs carry out their etnic-clensing/murders/rapes. In Zepa the UN effectively helped the Serbs carry out their heinous crimes by spreading conflicting reports that nothing was going on there. The cowards, or so called UN peacemakers, only "attempted" to go out there for a fact finding mission -as if with all the ham-radio operators were lying and all the US war planes out there have no means of flying over there. This is the biggest farce in the history of the world and the same act has been repeated over and over again in different beseiged Bosnian towns.... Yes! I heard today that the president of Bosnia- under pressure from the "civilized nations" has appealed to the UN to stay there in Bosnia. He should know better.. These hypocrates (Sadly! it includes Clinton administration too) all came out and said that the call for a referendum from bosnian serbian perliment (or a bunch of rapists/criminals) is a farce and yet they have to wait for the result of this referendum to act.... For those of you who are against US to commit ground troops, fine just lift the arms-embargo on BOTH sides (since we know that serbs always got the heavy weapons form federal army). Wake up West!! and admit that you are the most uncivilized, the most hypocratic and the most violent bunch on this earth... -Khalid
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From article <1r19l9$7dv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, by oldham@ces.cwru.edu (Daniel Oldham): They did have the proper equipment. The problem is that they went about things the wrong way. The ATF should have served the warrant in a peacable manner instead of going in there like a bunch of Rambos with guns blazing. I'm not trying to excuse what David Koresh did. I'm just saying that the ATF (henceforth to be known as the cigarette cops :-) went about the "raid" in an improper manner. Let the FBI, Customs, and local police officers do the ATF's job. WE DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE!!! The cigarette cops are just leftovers from Prohibition days. They are an anachronism! Including you? What if the cigarette cops kicked down your door and cut you in half with a machine gun? THIS COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN. Maybe they get the wrong address and then raid *your* home, for example. It's happened before and it can happen *again*. I have heard of more than one instance of a no-knock raid going sour. Just recently I heard about a case in which police raided this guy's home because they thought he had dope or something. The guy blew both of the officers away and he didn't go to jail for it. The judge hearing the case ruled that the man was acting in self-defense. Are you sure that that would have been the way to go? Surely the FBI and ATF could have handled this fiasco better. They didn't have to massacre all those people. As Stimpy said in "Fake Dad", "Shame, shame, double shame!" The FBI and ATF should be ashamed of theirselves. Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
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Hi, folks out there ! I don't know whether I am in the right newsgroup, but I have a question. If I am completely wrong here in this group, could you mail me the right name of the correct newsgroup ? A friend of mine is studying electronics at the Technical University in Karlsruhe/Germany since one year. He wants to know whether there are possibilities to study audio control engineering in the U.S.A. . Does anybody know how to get information about these studies in the U.S.A. ? Could you send me information like (e-mail)adresses of the universities, "quality" of these studies, and so on ? Is it possible to e-mail the universities directly to get information ? Do the universities send information via e-mail ? Please could you answer via e-mail, because I don't read this newsgroup regularly. Thanks in advance. Stephan Jaeger
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I have a few the original IBM 10Mb harddisks for sale. They are actually Seagate's ST412, MFM, full height, has the IBM logo and black face plate. Each disk is checked and formatted with DOS 5.0. It can be doubled to 20Mb or so with dblspace or stacker if you so desire. Have the original IBM foam fitted boxies and anti-static bags. I am not sure if they were ever used, but each drive that is sent out will be quarenteed in good working order. $30 each plus shipping cost, (about $5),
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Simple, eh?
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Sounds to me like your dealer really wants to get rid of the IIvx's he has in stock. I can imaging that they are getting hard to sell, given that 1. a C610 is way faster, and is comparable in price. 2. an LCIII is about the same speed, and is way cheaper. So your dealer may well be trying as hard as he can to convince people that IIvx's are a much better buy than a C610 just so he can get rid of all his old stock! No disrespect to dealers or the IIvx intended!
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Claris Filemaker Pro Database Manager for MacIntosh, still unpackaged.
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I wonder how hard it would be (i.e. what it would add to the cost) to design desktop machines with a power saver feature built in which would reduce power consumption automatically if the machine is idle for more than some amount of time. This is pretty standard in portable machines, and the same kinds of tricks could be played; spinning down disks, turning off screens, reducing clock speed, etc. The advantage of this over just turning the thing off would be 1) you don't have to remember to do anything and 2) the machine is still available over the network. The tricky part might be in defining what constitutes inactivity. Certainly, you don't want to wake up from sleep mode just because somebody pinged you, but you do want to wake up (at least the CPU) if somebody logs in via a telnet connection. I wouldn't worry too much about wasting electricity in the winter months; that energy is just getting turned into heat. It may not be as efficient a way to heat a building as the central heating plant, but it's not too bad. In the summer though, it's a disaster. Not only are you wasting that power, but you're probably also running the air conditioning to get rid of the waste heat.
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[i agree wholeheartedly!!] not sure about there in CA, but here in US, the manuals are quite often the standard equipment. Of course, FINDING a car with one might be hard, but if you read the sticker on the window, there is usally an additional 2k or so tacked on for that lousy tranny. So you actually ARE paying more, just that it's sometimes hard to find one that is equipped "standard". (this applies to MOST cars, but not to the luxoyachts..eg caddilac, licolns, etc..)
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Yes, it's easy to use. It's just like an ordinary controller. You don't have to change the bios config. It's transparent. It works with any drive. If you change the drive you only need to change the bios config. as usual. Yes, no problem. That depends. You will get a little better performance if you use smartdrive and buffers in addition. That's because access to the card through the ISA bus is slower than access to system RAM. I don't use smartdrive myself, but I have a few buffers.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ My vivid imagination sez this is almost close enuff. $mail_to 00cjmelching@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu /users/neal/dod/faq.dod but...... naw!!!
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Try this one, a favorite around here: Bureau of Assholes, Tightwads, and Facists. And remember, they were created by the Infernal Revenue Code. --msa
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(Deletion) The reference to it's not yet being ethics is dubious. You have used the terms absolute, objective and others interchangeably. Same with moral values, values, at all, worth, measuers, and usefulness. You infer from them as if they were the same. To the IF. When the If is not fulfilled, your intermission is a waste of time. Assuming that you don't intend this, it is reasonable to conclude that you want to argue a point. You have made a interesting statement here, namely that of the disinterested observer. There is no such thing in morals. Probably the shortest proof for objective and morality being a contradiction. Fine. And that freedom is valuable is not generally agreed upon. I could name quite a lot of people who state the opposite. (Not that that wasn't mentioned before). In other words, you have nothing to fulfill your strong claims with. Clutching a straw. I don't believe in mappings into metaphysical sets were loaded terms are fixpoints. Those who deny the morality of freedom make quite clear what they say, their practice is telling. Yes, there are even those who are willingly unfree. It is quite common in religions, by the way. For one, there is a religion which is named Submission. Don't even try to argue that submission is freedom. If it were so, it would argue my case. But I am afraid that that is considered proof.
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I have a 386 clone, and an internal modem set to COM4. It worked fine until I upgraded to DOS 6.0 and at the same time reloaded Windows 3.1 Now the system can't find COM4; MSD says COM4 is "N/A", and three of my four comm programs say "hardware not present" or some similar error message. Procomm, however, finds the modem no problem and works fine! Curiouser and curiouser. Any hints/help? Thanks. Mike m14494@mwvm.mitre.org
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Hi there, I plan on upgrading my monitor and video card to 1280x1024. I have a DX2/66 ISA (no local bus) system. I would appreciate if anyone can drop me an email of your experience with high-resolution video board/monitor. Thanks. -Ming T. Lin
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My interpretation of Denning's description is that S1 and S2 are chosen randomly by agents of the key escrow companies at the start of each 300- chip programming session. I imagine that the chips are in a carrier which will allow them all to be programmed fairly quickly - there would not be a need to transfer chips one at a time into a little PLA programmer as some people have envisioned. My guess as to why this procedure is used is that basing the keys on the S1 and S2 using a specified algorithm provides an (in-principle) checkable way to verify that no back doors exist in the choice of the random numbers used to generate the keys. Since we have to trust the escrow companies anyway, it does not weaken the system to have the keys be generated from random seeds entered by the escrow agents. And since the algorithm for key-generation is public (modulo Skipjack secrecy) then in principle an agent could challenge the procedure, ask for S1 and S2 to be exposed, and run his own independent calculation of U1 and U2 to verify that that is what is actually being put onto the floppies. And yes, there are many ways in which failures to follow this scheme could be hard to check. The laptop probably will not really be destroyed each time. Hidden cameras in the ceiling could see the S1 and S2 entered by the trusted escrow agents. Back doors in the chip could allow U to be recovered. Heck, each chip could be recorded with the same U, ignoring what was on the floppy.
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