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I'm trying to get a hold of an IBM Quietwriter II printer driver for Windows 3.1. If such a beast exists, can someone suggest how I get it? Please mail me a reply directly as I don't normally read this group. Many thanks.
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Yeah, it's impossible to be a tough biker when a 5 year old starts waving at you.
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Sounds as though you are confused between "what I want" and "what I think is morally right".
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It depends on wether you are going to replace this with an icon that comes standard with windows, or with an icon from some other icon manager. Well, if it is one of those that comes with windows, just highlight the item by clicking once on it, click on 'File' and then on 'Properties'. You should see a box which sa...
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I do not understand what you are saying here. What is improved, what is Significant, and what does this have to do with carrying more equipment on a servicing mission? Also, as implied by other posters, why do you need to boost the orbit on this mission anyway? Maybe you have something here, but could you pleas...
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close. Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. Even if you are running DOS, if your CPU can't handle the speed of the interrupts, you will still lose characters. I have one 286/10 machine with an external 9600 bps modem attached and can't drive the serial port any faster than 19.2k without losing charact...
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I recall a discussion I had heard years ago. It went something like this: The problem with omnipotence (at least as I perceive it) as personified by the christian God ideal is that it is potentially contradictory. If a manifestation such as God is truly infinite in power can God place limits upon itself? . . Some ...
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True of all security sytems, I think, and it is the fundamental measure to be used in establishing a requisite security level. --
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C A L L F O R V O T E ------------------------- This is the official Call For a Vote on the creation of 3 newsgroups for those engaged or interested in all areas relating to the PUBLISHING OF ANY SORT OF CDROM MATERIAL. Please repost this CFV to any newsgroup, listserver or reflector that you think might have a g...
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> I'm leaning... SIRACH... is more directly referenced by JAMES > than JOB or RUTH is... in any NT verse I've seen. It would help if you mentioned chapter and verse from SIRACH and from JAMES. Job 5:13 ("He taketh the wise in their craftiness") seems to be quoted in 1 Corinthians 3:19. James 5:11 ("You have heard...
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I don't know about you, but I have nearly forgotten how to generate paper mail. If I had e-mail to Congress, I would have written many letters by now. I haven't written one yet, as it turns out. Writing on paper is such a complicated job, for those of us hooked on our way-cool Internet.
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Alltronics in San Jose (408) 943-9773 sells the Votrax Sc-01 Speech Synthesis chip for about $5.00. Also I noticed that Radio Shack sells the ISD chip which will store small amounts of digitized speech.
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Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer. The UK tone dialling is identical to the US system. The different settings on your modem are so that it uses CCITT V21 & V22 tones for data transmission, rather than Bell 103 & Bell 121 tones, which are used only in the USA and canada AFAIK. As most people now use at least V22bis, this is...
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What crap, Phil. 50mm? Wrong. To give you a clue as to how big 50mm is, the F-16 fighter aircraft have 20mm gattling guns used to shoot down other aircraft. A 50mm gun would be somewhere in the `cannon' realm. They might have had .50 calibre but definitely not 50mm. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><...
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The following comics are for auction. The highest bid takes them! All are near mint to mint condition! TITLE Minimum/Current -------------------------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight 51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.00 Aliens 1 (1st app A...
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Gravity? Doesn't gravity pull down the photons and cause a doppler shift or something?
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Victor Johnson, on the Thu, 22 Apr 1993 00:01:10 GMT wibbled: : > }Honda: a "V" designates a V engine street bike. "VF" for V-4, "VT" for V-twin. : > : > So how about my Honda Hawk (NT 650)? It's a twin, but not called a VT. : > -- : That's because they took the old VT 500 engine and stepped on it to make : th...
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Hi, I 've a series of images in sun raster formats. I've converted them to PCX formats (I can do the conversion to others like gif as well). I would like to know of any software that is able to do animation for these formats, and to record the animation onto a video tape. Thank you. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+...
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Suppose you want to change the particular icon for a program in windows such as the MS-DOS one. Would someone let me know how you can do this? Thanks a million.
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I am think of buying a new computer through the mail order, I am looking at the Gateway 2000 66V systen and the Zeos's system. Which is better (in terms of value, price, ungrade, service), because I am in canada, I wonder can i have the same level of service as in the states?
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Huh? Mohamed Salimeh was perhaps a Korean? How do you claim arab-americans had no involvement in the WTC bombing? Ok, his involvement is alleged by the FBI, which doesn't seem to reliable these days. But honestly, there is a pile of evidence pointing to them, and it seems those 5 were involved. This does not ...
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Do all those who are saying the government is responsible for the death of those in the compound also say that the Isrealis are responsible for the death of the Isreali athletes at the Olympics? Hey, the Palestinians and the Dividians COULD have given up peacefully ('yeah, and monkey could fly out my butt' - Wayne).
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Hello. I just like to share this rosary and other prayer propagation practice we do in my country. I am not sure if it is going on also here in the US or any other country. In all these 4 1/2 yrs. I've been here in Illinois, USA, I have not encountered it. May I just call it "Traveling Fatima" since I don't know of ...
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OK. I know I look pretty desperate on this bboard. I think I have posted 3 or 4 messages already on the issue of NHL telecats over the last few weeks. But, hey. I am pretty desperate. What I am interested is not just a sportsbar with multiple screens so thast I can watch the game on one of those silent screens. Are t...
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What is the proper way to dispose of old blessed palms? I`ve have a bunch that I`ve been holding onto. In addition, my mom has been giving me her's. I used to give them to my uncle who would burn them (and leave the ashes to seep into the ground). Should I do the same? Could I just bury them? Could I add them to m...
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pete zakel is right, we don't need to worry about capitalization rules. after all, the punctuation gives all the necessary information about the sentence structure. why should anyone worry about whether the text is as close to the original as possible. (sarcasm intended). Then you didn't understand my grumble... ...
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Bye. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has Garrett Johnson come." --Tussman Garrett@Ingres.com "The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of ...
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One usual suggestion is to put everything into your every-time shell rc-file instead of your login-only one, which is fair enough if you only have a few users who know what they're doing. If you have several hundred users who do what the books tell them, though, then it's confusing at best. Another is to have your x...
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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. -derek
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What a JOKE! You can't actually believe what you just said. Can you? We bombed and invaded these countries. Notice the definition of war (from the American Heritage Dictionary): 1) A state or period of armed conflict between nations or states. This qualifies the invasions of Cambodia and Laos as wars. Then let me ...
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You fall if it opens, too. Gravity: it's not just a good idea; it's the law.
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What ever happened to the idea that the Customer is ALWAYS right? -- Joe
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[ . . .] I am a relativist who would like to answer your question, but the way you phrase the question makes it unanswerable. The concepts of "right" and "wrong" (or "correct/incorrect" or "true/false") belong to the domain of epistemological rather than moral questions. It makes no sense to ask if a moral position ...
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While also allowing law enforcement agencies to intercept phone conversations of criminals *and* non-criminals unlawfully. ("No, Rev. King, we aren't spying on you.") I wonder how long it will take for "the wrong people" to put their hands on the equipment necessary to read this stuff. It'll probably ...
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Hi, Can somebody tell me step by step how to add a 40Mb IDE Kalok? HD to an existing 120Mb IDE Maxtor HD with Stacker 3.0 and DOS 5? I know how to set the jumpers on the 40M to be slave and the settings for heads, wpcom, sectors, etc. I also know that I have to do some CMOS settings and fdisk. The problem is: what ...
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(I have been having trouble posting this article from within tin for over a week. If you do get multiple copies, my apologies.) Here is a challenge to Microsoft or Microsort Supporters to defend the pathetic state of DOS 6 as an upgrade distribution -- it is a long story but would make good reading for those who are i...
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There seems to be a P PDS slot in the above printers. What is it ?
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Drivel. I received delivery of my '93 Trans Am 7 weeks after I ordered (promised 6-8 weeks), and paid $400 over dealer invoice, which is a $1425 discount off of MSRP. I only have about 370 miles on it, but so far no problems, and it seems very well put together. By the way, first year production will be about ...
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How about going to a doctor to get some minor surgery done. Doctor refuses to do it because it's ``to risky'' (still charges me $50!). I go home and do it myself. No problem. The ``surgery'' involved digging out a pine needle that had buried itself under my tongue.
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You have to do the same sorts of things that Xt does with its main loop. That is, you have to rig up a timer queue, and you have to put a select(2) or poll(2) call in your main loop. You can obtain the file descriptor of the X display connection using fd = ConnectionNumber (display);
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I have a clone almost with no name generating 91k xstones on a 486/33Mhz system. Excuse me, but with a 486/50 256k cache, S3 928 ISA card, 8Mb XS3 (X11R5) running 386bsd you can get 100k+ xstones at 1024x768 65Mhz which I doubt that your XP10 series gets. Commerical verions X servers for S3 928 cards can get 136k...
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1988 Toyota Supra, Fully loaded automatic. Maroon color with leather interior. Alpine stereo system with CD changer. Alpine car alarm 90,000 miles, great condition, one owner. Have to leave country in June. Asking $9,000 o.b.o. Please call (310) 212 - 5376 and ask for Cary. -- -------------------------------------...
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Need Diet for Diverticular Disease and ideas for gastrointestinal distress
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This is hell. Hasn't anyone noticed?
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ram.page, n.: To move about wildly or violently. A course of frenzied, violent action. Who assaulted who here, Phill? Do you remember exactly which side came out looking for trouble? So if it turns out that the fire WAS caused by a tank knocking over a Coleman lantern, you'll support punishing the "responsible"...
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If the FBI started the fire, why didn`t people flee the burning building?
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I'm wondering if I can tote my American touch tone phone around with me to Sweden and Germany. It's DC powered, and I can buy a special adapter for that in Europe. The question is if the general electronics work the same. I can buy a different wall plug and refit it (I'm sure I'd have to), but would that do the tric...
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Hello, I hope this is the right group to post this in. I've got a little problem. I finally managed to get a REAL operating system (Linux, as opposed to MS-Dos) and I like it alot. But, when I try to run 'startx', I get a strange response: My monitor goes into graphics mode and I get this big white rectangle on t...
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Does antone know the ftp address for the Smithsonian Institution where one can get digitized photographs, etc ? Please reply by email to pbenson@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Thanks
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I would have appreciated an announcement of the policy change - Dartmouth will not be able to run xv 3.0, and I'm probably going to have to take v2 off line (I somehow missed the "shareware" designation in the README of v2, and didn't realize that we were supposed to register). I also debate whether this, with the ...
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Your source is wrong. The double speed CD300 is still slow compared to a typical hard disk. The LC can easily handle the SCSI transfer rate of the CD300. None of the current Macs, even the Quadras, support SCSI-2 unless you get a SCSI-2 Nubus Card. You don't have to have double speed to use PhotoCD. It's just...
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We were told that the resolution on the 5FGe could only go to 1024x768. And that the 5 FG could go to 1152x870. Has anybody tried running these higher resolutions?? Somewhere I thought I read that the 1152x870 on a 17" monitor may make the type too small to read. Any help would be appreciated. Steve
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The Christian Reformed Church does not allow people to belong to lodges, the Reformed Church in America does. The conservatives in both churches are very similar, as are the "progressives". The RCA currently ordains women; the CRC is fighting over the issue.
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Sorry Mike! What defensemen would the Wings be willing to give up for Beezer?
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While I agree that Lemieux deserves the Hart, it is far from a "no-brainer". The Hart trophy goes to the player most valuable to his team, not to the best player in the league. So your above arguement is really worthless. The Pens without Mario are still a damn good hockey team. The Leafs without Gilmour would hav...
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Umpires are not required to call time out just because a player asks for time. Only in extreme cases, like dust in the pitcher's or hitter's eyes, should an umpire call time. The batter has 20 seconds to get situated in the box and receive a pitch. I'm against putting a giant clock (or any size clock for that matter) ...
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I get the feeling that we are debating at cross-purposes--that we do not see the same fundamental assumptions, and this perhaps makes my answers orthogonal to your questions. I will try again. Perhaps you believe that nothing exists aside from objectively observable and provable things. In that case, I cannot show y...
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... Update: No, I or my friends with me now have not delt with him, but we did try to call him, and there's no answer at his phone. The call was made at midnight EST; God knows what time that is in Arizona. We'll try again later. Anybody want to saturate his mail box?
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Only because you are apparently easy to fool. In other words, your remark is obviously from someone who wouldn't know the difference. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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-- My wife is a physiotherapist and she is looking for some cliparts of skeleton and male/female body. We're currently using Windows Draw which can import all kind of graphic formats. Therefore, anything will do. Please advise of the existance of any freeware or commerical source that we can turn to. Since I don...
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completed Why would you dispose a channel if you are going to play more sounds soon? If you are trying to write a game, you shouldn't be using SndPlay. Instead, make a channel and use BufferCmds to play sounds on it. It works great. You can add CallBacks to the channel also to let you know when the channel is getting ...
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It was a classy move. But it looks like ESPN is going to devote most of the coverage to the Pens. On Tuesday night, they continued to broadcast the Pen-Devil game even though Pittsburgh had the game well in control. Granted they did show some "bonus" coverage of the Caps and Isles but they cut away from the close gam...
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Anyone have experiences, good or bad, with replacing the MFM controller and drive with an IDE controller and drive in a Zenith 386/16? I had heard some rumors about bus mastering problems on some CPU board revisions.
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I'd have to agree with you there Joe.
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Oil Pressure, Oil Temperature Coolant Temperature Manifold Vacuum Ammeter, Voltmeter Fuel Pressure [maybe] (Problematic, since you either need an electronic sensor/gauge pair or you have to mount the damn thing outside the car) In addition, it'd be nice to have a big red idiot light 'Check Guages' connected to Oil p...
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Hello out there! My Mac IIsi runs a Radius Pivot LE monitor, with the PDS card. As I wanted to try to switch to 32 bit adressing, i couldn't startup my Mac anymore. 1. What is the trick to zap the PRAM (so I won't have to take out the battery next time) 2. Is there any trick that could allow me to switch to 32bit? ...
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I have a '72 CL350 which I stopped riding about 2 years ago (I upgraded to an '84 Sabre 750). I parked it in the corner of my parking lot, and planned on draining the gas, spraying oil in the tank, etc. to get it ready to store. Well, after a lot of procrastination, all I ended up doing was throwing a tarp on it. We...
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Yup, I bought the darn thing cause it was sturdy. I carry it around in an unpadded (unless you consider all the papers and files and folders) bookbag (shoulder strap little job from Eddie Bauer). I've travelled cross country several times with Walkman, DiscMan and tapes, books and computer all piled in their. My PB100...
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If you wanted to send your own letter to the NHL where would you send it? Brett E. Ball
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[Joe, why don't you put your username on your account?] Or claims to have discovered so... It would hardly be the first time they raided someone based on incorrect evidence. It was a "no-knock", according to the Associated Press report. Here's something I found in my collection: Excerpts from an article in t...
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Actually, I was hoping for Barry Bonds. Oh well. First off, Jeff has had like 5 hits in the last two games, and walked *yet again*. Sorry Ken, but Jeff King does have some power, which means his SLG won't be below .300, and his walks are *way* up. If that increase is real, Jeff King will be an above average NL th...
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There is no reason to believe that Paul's thorn in the flesh was a sin in his life. That makes little sense in the light of Paul' writings taken in totality. He writes of how he presses for the mark, and keeps his body submitted. No doubt Paul had to struggle with the flesh just like every Christian. Paul does as...
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I have a copy of 'The Earth-From Space' on my wall that I purchased from Space Shots, Inc. (LA, CA (800) 272-2779). As printed on the poster, the image was created by Tom Van Sant and the GeoSphere Project. The image IS copyrighted, so I doubt that you'll find it legally in the public domain. Part of the proceeds ...
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NOTE: Saturday, April 20th's scores should be sent out by this coming Friday. MLB Standings and Scores for Tuesday, April 20th, 1993 (including yesterday's games) NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road San Francisco Giants 08 05 .615 -- 7-3 ...
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: At the company I worked for previously, I received a file that was : des encryped : and the person that had sent it, went on vaction. Rather than wait : two weeks : I set up a straight frontal attack with one key at a time. It only : took two(2) : days to crack the file. No, I don't have any faith in DES. Then it...
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I wrote that I thought that 2 Peter 1:20 meant, "no prophecy of Scripture (or, as one reader suggests, no written prophecy) is merely the private opinion of the writer." Tony Zamora replies (Sat 8 May 1993) that this in turn implies that it is not subject to the private interpretation of the reader either. I am not su...
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Just create the window in the place you want it and set the program position field in the WM_NORMAL_HINTS property, then map it. Then, assuming they have a non brain dead window manager, the user can say whether they want to us program specified positions or not. For tvtwm the UsePPosition command in the .tvtwmrc will...
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Well, watching several Denizen's dismantle Laurie's Virago in an attempt to change the oil at the ride 'n feed a few years back was a pretty funny site. Surely with the combined wisdom of all these folks they weren't doing things the hard way, were they?
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Me too. Even after I bought the 3-piece Krauser K2 set. Now and then, DK puts them on sale for 50 bux or so to clear out inventory, but they never seem to to go away. They are the Volkswagens of tank bags, I guess. BTW, the late Paul O' Neill showed me a trick with a pair of pliers that will extend their life cons...
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GK>Occasionally, I have trouble shifting into reverse. The shifter GK>refuses to enter the gate, and I often grind the synchros trying to GK>get it into gear. I'll be watching this carefully in the next couple GK>of months. Enter 1st, wait 2-3 seconds and then go into reverse. They use the same synchros, and you'll...
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: In article <1993May12.193454.29823@hal.com>, bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendleton) writes... : >From article <1993May7.235404.22590@pony.Ingres.COM>, by mwmeyer@Ingres.COM (Mike (wading through the muck and) Meyer): : >> This is getting pretty silly. First off, "Hacker" is an obsolete term. : >> Doesn't matter what it u...
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Yes, each is a form of the other. Charley an anarchist? No, just true words being spoken in jest.
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russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes... It's fairly simple. It was decided to burn the place down, and more than one agent was dispatched to set the fires in separate parts of the compound. I doubt that "simultaneously" means "at the exact same time" in this case. It likely means "close enough tog...
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#Recently, I've asked myself a rather interesting question: What RIGHT does #god have on our lives (always assuming there is a god, of course...!) ?? # #In his infinite wisdom, he made it perfectly clear that if we don't live #according to his rules, we will burn in hell. Well, with what RIGHT can god #make that desic...
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: : >|> Has anyone got multiverse to work ? : >|> Extn 5543, sts@mfltd.co.uk, !uunet!mfocus!sts : : I've tried compiling it on several SPARCstations with gcc 2.22. After : fixing up a few bugs (3 missing constant definitions plus a couple of : other things) I got it to compile & link, but after starting cli...
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I think you have are addressing the wrong issue. The situation is more like: we both see some elves. This is established as fact since we can both touch them etc. Then one of us says, the elves have always been with us. The other says, no no there was a time before elves were here. Which is the positive argument?
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You can do a whole hell of a lot better than 2 or 3 degrees with the differential timing measurements from the interplanetary network. Ignore the directional information from BATSE; just look at the time of arrival. With three detectors properly arranged, one can often get positions down to ~arc minutes. BTW, abou...
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Yer welcome to ride with me and my friends any time. Just introduce your self at the earliest opportunity and say "Mind if I rid with you guys?" ----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====----
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I agree with Jeff's reply. I've never changed the brake fluid except when having a brake job, which is usually at around 80,000 miles (alot of freeway driving). However, I will start to do this as preventative maintenance on my new car. Also, there are brake system flushing agents that can be used but the problem is...
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Question for those of you who seem to be fundamentalists (Stephen Tice, the Cotera, Joe Gaut, et al)(apologies if I've mislabelled any of you, I've only started reading t.r.m since the BD disaster. But I know the Cotera is a fundy) and are defending Koresh and his beliefs as an example of True Christianity under perse...
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^^^^^^^^^^ O.K. people, so it's not tied. I meant leads 2-1........ Shoot me if you must. -JPC --
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Hi there again... I still have a few tapes left... As before they are $2.50 each (postage paid, 1st class). Multiple orders appreciated, but not necessary... Package deals welcome... Thanks... Chris Bray Lewis, Huey|Sports Contains "Heart of Rock and Roll", "Heart and Soul", "Want a New Drug", "Walking on a Thin L...
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How do you solve the problem when the message "Cannot perform malloc" shows for XtCreateManagedWidget call? I have the application written in X11R5 running on DECstation using Athena widgets. As soon as I added codes to do Remote Procedure Call, the program refused to work. I also have my program working using just ...
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It might be interesting for folk to know that the Church of Scotland (also a Presbyterian church) managed to "agree to disagree" over women's ordination for 25 years. The reasoning was that congregations are free to call whoever they wish, and that Ministers and Sessions choose elders. If a congregation did not wis...
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<Yawn> Another right-wing WASP imagining he's an oppressed minority. Perhaps Camille Paglia is right after all. "I would not have any argument or problem with a peace-nik if they [...] stayed out of all conflicts or issues"? I bet you wouldn't. You'd love it. But what makes you think that sitting back, saying n...
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Interesting. Would you care to explain to me then, how my SoundBlaster Pro card and my printer card are sharing IRQ 7 successfully? I assure you that they are both set to IRQ 7 and that I have no problem. My computer is a DTK 286-12 IBM clone.
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