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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 says 'Change icon'. Click on it. You are going
to be presented with some icons (sometimes just one). If you don't like
any of those presented, click on the 'browse' box, and look for the file
'moricons.dll' Select it. Browse through the icons presented, and just
double click on your desired icon.
If you want to replace it with an icon from some other icon manager,
say iconPower for instance, open the icon manager at the bottom of your
screen, where it will not block the application icon you wish to replace.
When you have found your desired icon, click on it once, and while holding
the mouse button down, pull this icon over the one you wish to change.
And thats it!
regards
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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 please clarify it for us on the net?
From what I've heard, the motors are fine - it is one of the two
sets of electronics that control the motors that needs a fix. The
motors and electronics are separate pieces of hardware. I expect
to be corrected if I'm wrong on this.
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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 characters.
Rob
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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 stuff I can't recall.
Then some other questions I think I recall correctly:
Can God unmake itself?
Can God make itself (assuming it doesn't yet exist)?
Has God has always existed or is it necessary for an observer to bind all of
Gods potential quantum states into reality?
Was God nothing more than a primordial force of nature that existed during
the earliest stages of universal (inflationary?) creation?
Is God a vacuum fluctuation?
Given a great enough energy density could we re-create God?
Would that make US God and God something else?
.
.
Some more stuff I don't recall concerning creating God. Followed by:
Is God self-aware?
Is it necessary that God be self-aware?
Is God a living entity?
Is it necessay that God be a living entity?
Is God unchanging or does it evolve?
.
.
Any comments? Post them so that others might benefit from the open inquiry
and resulting discussion.
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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
group interested in this subject in order to reach as broad an
audience as possible. Every vote counts, so make sure you register
yours if you want these groups to be created.
Proposed Groups
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comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
comp.publish.cdrom.software
comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia
Status
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Voting Period
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To: 23:59 EST, 21 May 1993
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Rationale
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The rationale for this proposal is a need for those interested or
involved in the publishing of cdrom materials to have a forum for
the discussion relating to their needs. At the moment the main fora
for such discussion are in alt.cd-rom and comp.multimedia neither
of which have publishing as their focus. Some lists serve the
general cdrom community with focuses on library, government and
network usage, and until several weeks ago none were devoted
to publishing (CDPub has just been setup). In any case a list is not,
and ought not, be a replacement for regular usenet newsgroups.
The reason for the division into three groups is a natural
partition of interest between the hardware and software topics,
and between the two main focal points of software, i.e. fulltext
and multimedia publishing. Topics such as CDROM XA, CDI, CD-R,
Photo CD and other related formats would be included as well.
Topics related to cdrom publishing that are neither clearly
hardware or software related such as books, copyright issues and
other legal matters, packaging, distribution, could be included in
the purvue of comp.publish.cdrom.software, as would any other
nonhardware or multimedia topic that relates in some way to cdrom
publishing, in any format, and is appropriate to the Internet.
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.software would be topics such as
index and retrieval software, premastering software, cdrom
simulation software, hypertext, sgml, scanning and imaging
software, data capture software, data clean up, compression,
encryption etc as relates to publishing cdroms.
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia would be software that
aids in the multimedia authoring and publishing process - audio and
video.
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.hardware would be hardware that
relates to cdrom publishing, as well as hardware for data capture,
such as all sorts of scanners and data capture hardware, as well as
information that publishers need to know about the hardware that
the intended enduser will utilize (the hardware that will
eventually play the published cdrom) including networks for cdrom.
Notes
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These groups are not to be used for topics such as reviews or
questions relating to already published cdroms or reviews or
questions relating to general purpose cdrom drives and the like.
Requests for help in installing a cdrom drive and other general
topics should be directed to other fora. Questions about cdroms
mounted on LANs should be directed to bit.listserv.cdromlan.
Charter
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Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.SOFTWARE
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.software, will be a newsgroup for
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
Index and retrieval software
Authoring software
Scanning and imaging software
OCR and OCR cleanup
Hypertext
SGML
Premastering and Simulation (cdrom) software
Copyright and legal issues related to publishing cdroms
Other nonhardware topics related to cdrom publishing
Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.HARDWARE
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.hardware, will be a newsgroup for
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
CD-R equipment
Data capture hardware
Scanners
Video and audio capture hardware
Networking hardware
Midi hardware
Photo CD hardware
Publishing systems
CDI and DVI hardware
Compression and encryption hardware
Keyboarding
Other hardware publishing topics
Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.MULTIMEDIA
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia will be a newsgroup for
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
Multimedia authoring software
Imaging software
Audio and Midi software
Color control software
Video editing software
Audio editing software
Multimedia utilities useful for publishers
Integration of text, image, audio and video
Compression and encryption of multimedia
Multimedia copyright and related legal issues
Multimedia databases and hypertext
Other multimedia publishing topics
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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 of the patience of Job"), while not a
quote, implies that James and his listeners are familiar with a
story of a man named Job who exhibited exemplary patience. It is
possible that the story they know is not that found in the Hebrew
Bible, but rather another similar and related story. (One has the
same problem with direct quotes.)
Again, Matthew 1:5 ("Boaz begat Obed of Ruth") tells us that Matthew
knew a story about a woman named Ruth who married a man called Boaz
and became the ancestor of David. Since Ruth is not mentioned in
the OT outside the Book of Ruth, it seems likely that Matthew was
familiar with the book and respected it, and thought Ruth important
enough to be one of the few women mentioned in the genealogy.
References like this do not prove that the NT writer considered his
OT source inspired or inerrant or canonical. But neither do direct
quotes.
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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 largely irrelevant.
Tony
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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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Paul R. Busta Busta@kozmic.enet.dec.com
Salem,N.H.
603-894-3962
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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
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Alpha Flight 51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.00
Aliens 1 (1st app Aliens in comics, 1st prnt, May 1988) $20.00/KrisM./SOLD
Amazing Spider-Man 136 (Intro new Green Goblin) $20.00
Amazing Spider-Man 238 (1st appearance Hobgoblin) $50.00
Archer and Armstrong 1 (Frank Miller/Smith/Layton) $ 7.50
Avengers 263 (1st appearance X-factor) $ 3.50
Bloodshot 1 (Chromium cover, BWSmith Cover/Poster) $ 5.00/SamE/SOLD
CyberRad 1 (Reintro CyberRad, Prestige silver edition) $15.00
Daredevil 158 (Frank Miller art begins) $35.00
Dark Horse Presents 1 (1st app Concrete, 1st printing) $ 7.50
Detective 657 (Azrael appears, Intro Cypher) $ 5.00
Detective 658 (Azrael appears) $ 4.00
Harbinger 10 (1st appearance H.A.R.D. Corps) $ 7.00/B.Matthey/SOLD
H.A.R.D. Corps 1 $ 5.00
Incredible Hulk 324 (1st app Grey Hulk since #1 1962) $ 7.00
Incredible Hulk 330 (1st McFarlane issue) $15.00
Incredible Hulk 331 (Grey Hulk series begins) $11.00
Incredible Hulk 367 (1st Dale Keown art in Hulk) $15.00
Incredible Hulk 377 (1st all new hulk, 1st prnt, Keown) $15.00
Marvel Comics Presents 1 (Wolverine, Silver Surfer) $ 7.50
Marvel Presents (Charleston Chew giveaway, Sam Keith) $ 5.00
Maxx Limited Ashcan (4000 copies exist, blue cover) $30.00
Mr T. #1 (Signed Advance copy, 10,000 exist) $10.00
New Mutants 86 (McFarlane cover, 1st app Cable - cameo) $10.00
New Mutants 100 (1st app X-Force) $ 5.00
New Mutants Annual 5 (1st Liefeld art on New Mutants) $10.00
Omega Men 3 (1st appearance Lobo) $ 7.50
Omega Men 10 (1st full Lobo story) $ 7.50
Power Man & Iron Fist 78 (3rd appearance Sabretooth) $20.00
Power Man & Iron Fist 84 (4th appearance Sabretooth) $15.00
Simpsons Comics and Stories 1 (Polybagged special ed.) $ 7.50
Spectacular Spider-Man 147 (1st app New Hobgoblin) $12.50
Spider-Man Special (UNICEF giveaway, vs Venom) $10.00
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Feb 1988, DC mini) $ 7.50
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Oct 1989, DC comics) $ 7.50
Trianglehead #1 (Special limited edition, autographed) $ 5.00
Web of Spider-Man 29 (Hobgoblin, Wolverine appear) $10.00
Web of Spider-Man 30 (Origin Rose, Hobgoblin appears) $ 7.50
Wolverine 10 (Before claws, 1st battle with Sabretooth) $15.00
Wolverine 41 (Sabretooth claims to be Wolverine's dad) $ 5.00
Wolverine 42 (Sabretooth proven not to be his dad) $ 3.50
Wolverine 43 (Sabretooth/Wolverine saga concludes) $ 3.00
Wolverine 1 (1982 mini-series, Miller art) $20.00
Wonder Woman 267 (Return of Animal Man) $12.50
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, X-Force card) $20.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Shatterstar card) $10.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Deadpool card) $10.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Sunspot/Gideon) $10.00
All comics are in near mint to mint condition, are bagged in shiny
polypropylene bags, and backed with white acid free boards. Shipping is
$1.50 for one book, $3.00 for more than one book, or free if you order
a large enough amount of stuff. I am willing to haggle.
I have thousands and thousands of other comics, so please let me know what
you've been looking for, and maybe I can help.
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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
: the plant for the Hawk -> "New Twin". Or does that only fly for Microsoft
: NT (New Technology)?
: I've been at this too long today ...
: Cheers,
: Victor "Dances with Hawks" Johnson
: ----------------------------------
Also the BMW stuff. K100RS. K = Kraut, RS = Really Slow, 100, I
suppose that's how much you have to spend each week to keep the damn
thing on the road.
--
Nick (the Pissed Off With His Bike Again Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford
M'Lud.
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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 mean that all arab-americans were involved, nor
should they be blamed for it, but denying that there were some
arab-americans involved sounds sorta silly to me.
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
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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 an exact translation of what we call it in my native language.
For certain regions in a district in a town or city, an image/
statue of our Lady of Fatima is moved from one home (originating
from owner) to another. This will stay with that family for
one (1) week and this family is required to pray the rosary and
other prayers (prayer sheets accompany the image) to our Lady
of Fatima. The move will be like a simple procession of folks
picking up the image from its current 'home' after 'departing'
prayers and proceeds to move it to the next home which has the
prior notification about the move. There will be the 'receiving'
prayers at the next home to welcome our Lady of Fatima image
there. It does not have to be that only members of the family
in that home who must pray to the image. They may invite others
(or others/friends can invite themselves in ;^)) to participate
during prayer time in that 'new' home everyday for one week.
This image is moved from one family to the next within the
bounded region of that district, until it goes back to the owner
of the image.
This is probably going on around there (Philippines) right now
(or somebody correct me when exactly since I forgot) and every
year, this is part of our devotion to our Lady of Fatima.
It has been easy to facilitate this back home because it is more
likely that your next door neighbor is a Catholic and the image
then is just moved next door.
I am thinking of starting something like it in the village where
my sister and her family lives. Most of our friends and neighbors
there are Catholics and practicing ones.
I'd like to know if there are any state/community laws that this
practice will violate, whatsoever, before I go for it. Thank you
for any comments or help about this matter.
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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 there any hockey oriented bars in this area.
Or does some Patrick division or Adams division fan have a satellite dish?
I don't mind paying an admission fee, if necessary.
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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 my compost bin?
Thanks in advance.
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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... Again, I said to get a
CORRECT version of the Constitution. The first indicator that
something is wrong (i.e. the copy has been modernized) is the modern
capitalization rules. The next thing to go is the spelling, and then
I've even seen versions where the GRAMMAR was modernized (oh, but
don't worry, modernizing the grammar won't change the meaning of the
text, right?... ;-) [p.s. I have found about 10 *different* versions
of the Constitution on the network; And accuracy DOES matter...]
--
Charles Scripter * cescript@phy.mtu.edu
Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931
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Bye.
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"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 your action." - Unknown
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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 xterms run login shells, but that still leaves the window manager
and the things that get started from its menus with the wrong environment.
Our alternative is that instead of having xdm run the client startup scripts,
it runs the user's favourite shell as a login shell, and has *it* then run the
rest of the startup scripts. That way the user's usual environment gets set
up as normal and inherited by everything. You can find an almost-current copy
of our scripts and things in contrib/edinburgh-environment.tar.Z, available
from the usual places.
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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 explain this to you REALLY slowly. Why did he abuse the
powers of his position? Could it have been to gain personal political
power? Naw, that would be too obvious.
And anyone who can only call names because his position is defensless is
breathtakingly ignorant and desperate. I noticed that you edited out the
other points were I proved you and Phil to be completely wrong.
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"Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of Garrett Johnson
every letter that passed through his hands went every Garrett@Ingres.com
adverb and adjective. The next day he made war on articles.
The following day he blacked out everything in the letters
but "a", "an", and "the". - Joseph Heller's Catch-22
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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 is right or wrong, although it is
legitimate to ask if it is good (or better than another position).
Let me illustrate this point by looking at the psychological derivatives
of epistemology and ethics: perception and motivation, respectively.
One can certainly ask if a percept is "right" (correct, true,
veridical) or "wrong" (incorrect, false, illusory). But it makes little
sense to ask if a motive is true or false. On the other hand, it is
strange to ask whether a percept is morally good or evil, but one can
certainly ask that question about motives.
Therefore, your suggested answers (a)-(c) simply can't be considered:
they assume you can judge the correctness of a moral judgment.
Now the problem with (d) is that it is double-barrelled: I agree with
the first part (that the "rightness" of a moral position is a
meaningless question), for the reasons stated above. But that is
irrelevant to the alleged implication (not an implication at all) that
one cannot feel peace is better than war. I certainly can make
value judgments (bad, better, best) without asserting the "correctness"
of the position.
Sorry for the lengthy dismissal of (a)-(d). My short (e) answer is
that when two individuals grotesquely disagree on a moral issue,
neither is right (correct) or wrong (incorrect). They simply hold
different moral values (feelings).
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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
be as safe as weapons locked safely in evidence rooms.
And people to whom they sell them to. All it takes is corrupting
the right guy. No, that never happens.
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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 letter will the CMOS
give the new drive? If it's D:, what will happen when Stacker creates
D: and swap? Can I tell CMOS to make it E:? So that if I Stack it, I
will have C, D, E and F?
I know this could be an FAQ or in a readme somewhere, but I want
to hear from somebody who've actually done it. Thanks!
Romy
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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 interested in knowing the
potential pitfalls of "upgrading" to DOS 6 that I have been able to
notice after only about a week of playing around with it.
My envorinment
==============
TI TravelMate 4000 WinSX (486SX/25) 4M Ram 120M Disk
System BIOS version 1.03 05/21/92 by Texas Instruments
CL-GD6420 VGA BIOS v 1.03 a1 by Cirrus Logic & Quadtel
Advance Power Manager BATTERY.PRO v b6.00 by Texas Instruments
Smart Drive Cache (WIN3.1/DOS6) Parameters: 2048 1024 a- b-
Windows Benchmark WinBench(tm) v 3.11 02/11/93 by ZD Labs
After "updgrading" to DOS 6, I could not understand why certain things
became so slow, especially after I decided to try 'dblspace'. In the
process of finding out why, I discovered some interesting things.
Disk Performance with Double Space and Smart Drive
==================================================
While most things did not appear to slow down most of the time, certain
applications appeared to run very much slower. What was interesting is
that commands like 'chkdsk' and 'defrag' were running far too slowly to
consider them useful by any standards. I suspected Double Space (DS)
and decided to measure its impact on my system using WinBench(tm).
The Real Disk WINMARK of 20350 for the original system (as shipped from
factory with DOS 5 and Windowws 3.1) became 10718 when "upgraded" to
DOS 6 with DS. Thus there is an effective performance degradation of
more than 50 percent which did not really surprise me because I knew
that DS compression must cost something.
Specifically, for short sequential reads up to 512 bytes, DS actually
*improves* transfer rates by about 10% (because CPU being faster than
I/O, more CPU cycles needed for DS is more than compensated by savings
in I/O cycles). However, for all other cases, particularly large
random writes, the transfers take up to three times as long.
While the performance depends on the type of access (i.e random or
sequential, small or large transfer units), on the average (based on
WinBench's assumptions), the disk slows down to half its speed.
The tests alone, done in 'real mode' (see WinBench) and with smartdrv
on, do not say much except that it helps to put into those subjective
statements like 'there is no noticable difference in performance' or
even that 'it will speed up disk access when you have a fast CPU and
slow disk I/O'.
This explained why some applications ran markedly slower, but not why
'chkdsk' and 'defrag' (the latter especially) too so long.
Double Space and Windows
========================
DBLSPACE will not run at all from within windows, not even if you
wanted to only to get information, not modify anything, or for that
matter even check on its usage -- try "fasthelp dblspace" in a dos box
within windows and you will see what I mean from the error message you
get. How narrow minded can a programer get, I wonder.
Yes, this information can be obtained through the mstools.dd add-on to
file manager, but this 'mstools' dll does not understand a compressed
floppy! (Use the DOS 6 supplement utility to create a compressed
floppy if you dont know how to.)
DOS 6 Defragmenter is incompatible with TI APM
==============================================
Defragmentation seemed to take too much time. Even so, I waited
patiently till it finished and then ran it again to just to confirm.
This confirmation 'dblspace /def' command for the 120M drive should take
no more than 30 seconds (much faster on other defragmenters I have used)
but it took 12 minutes.
I discovered that if I moved the mouse, defragmentation checking ran
faster (the % figure ticked more rapidly). It dawned on me that this
had to do with TI's battery saver Advanced Power Management (APM)
module which slows the clock down when it thinks that the CPU is idle,
and it obviously thought DS defragmentation was an idle process! After
disabling the TI's power saver, this operation took only 20 seconds.
Microsft programmers think TI4000 and Gateway NOMAD users are idiots
====================================================================
In the readme.txt file, you can find the the following
Running Microsoft Backup with TI4000 and Gateway NOMAD computers
----------------------------------------------------------------
To avoid a conflict between the Turbo feature and Microsoft Backup
for Windows or MS-DOS, add a /L0 switch to the DEVICE command in
your CONFIG.SYS that loads the BATTERY.PRO file. Or, before you
run Microsoft Backup, type SETPOWER /L0 at the command prompt.
If you checked TI's manual on the /L0 option, you will realise that it
means "disable all power saving features of your notebook". Why would
anyone want to run a driver disabled! As I have found out, not only
does TI's power management interfere with Microsoft Backup as the
readme.txt claims, but 'chkdsk' and 'dblspace' (and who knows what
else) are crippled by the TI's power saver.
It is obvious that there is not such thing as APM specifications. If
there indeed is such a thing, then either Microsoft programmers or TI
programmers dont know how to read these specifications. You dont have
to guess as to who are the idiots.
By the way, if you run the advance power management utility, POWER.EXE
Power Management Status
-----------------------
Setting = ADV: MAX
CPU: idle 60% of time.
This figure of 60% seems to be the steady state value on my notebook
when I am running nothing (windows with only program manager in
iconised form). Does that mean that Windows takes up 40% of my CPU all
for itself, and that I have at best only 60% left for useful work? Is
such an overhead justified (whether or not Windows is an operating
system or just another user interface)? (In DOS alone, it reports 99%
idle time.) Looks like Windows is a good example of busy waiting type
of package that I like my students to study as the classical 'negative'
example of our times!
Microsoft programmers do not know batch programming
===================================================
I like to structure my startup script and thus have the equivalent of
addpath statements like this:
set PATH=C:\DOS
...
set PATH=C:\ETC\BIN;%PATH%;C:\BIN
...
set PATH=C:\ETC\WINDOWS;%PATH%;C:\WINDOWS
...
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\BCC\BIN
...
set PATH=%PATH%;%MOUSE%
Even though the new dos was installed in the same directory as the old
one (i.e. c:\dos), DOS 6 installation program modifes each and every
path statement, and prepends C:\DOS to its value. As a result, my
resultant path has so many DOS's.
If the installation program wanted to remove the old DOS path, and add
the new DOS path, clearly it has to only scan for the path statement
containg the old DOS directory and replace it by the new DOS path.
(Even this should only be done if the new DOS is installed in a
directory different from the old one being 'upgraded'.)
Instead, the Microsoft programmer (if you can call this person one)
decided to meddle every path statement I had in the autoexec and
prepend DOS to the value. I wonder if Microsoft is so desparate that it
would not fire programmers who are incapable of the thought process.
I started a thread on this when DOS 4 came up, and the Microsoft
representative in Singapore called me about this poster. In fact he
specifically said his US counterparts saw the poster and relayed the
information to him as he did not have access to internet.
Now that has not changed one bit. In fact, if you have a PATH statement
with %PATH% already in it, is it not obvious that the this statement
should not be touched for any reason?
As another example of the inability of Microsoft programmers to
understand batch programming -- I had the mouse driver invoked as:
set MOUSE=C:\ETC\MOUSE
set PATH=%PATH%;%MOUSE%
loadhigh %MOUSE%\MOUSE.COM
Guess what MEMMAKER did? It replaced the last statement with
LH ... C:\ETC\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM
Why is it so difficult just to replace loadhigh with LH and its
parameters, without touching the rest of the line, I do not understand.
DOS 6 Software Quality
======================
DOS 6 is the only operating system I know, in which, under normal usage,
you end up creating a file that you cannot get rid of using of the
commands that come with it.
I am deliberately being cryptic about this: I challenge Microsoft to
use all its programmers to catch this bug and publish it. If they dont
within a week, I will post how you can create this "ghost" file.
Surely if I can pick this bug without even looking for it after using a
particular command only twice, I am sure two dozen Microsoft (idiot)
programmers randomly banging on their keyboards over a week could find
it -- that is what I was told how Microsoft "tests the quality" of
their products.
I think it is funny that Microsoft has found ways to "test quality"
when it is accepted in the industry that quality cannot be tested, but
can only be built into the product. No wonder they cannot provide any
form of guarantees on their products, not even a decent list of bugs
that will prevent scores of user from destroying their disks beyond
repair!
Also, if you run 'dblspace /def' often enough, repeatedly when the disk
is fully defragmented, you may get errors, that was created by the
defragmenters. I got my IO.SYS file size error and it got truncated
when I did the chkdsk. This happend only after five successive
defragmentation efforst after the first one supposedly did its job and
with no new file creation since.
Microsft, dont you dare reply to this poster on the network until you
admit that your DS has bugs, and are willing to let us know what we
should watch out for if we have already used DS.
Jaya
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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 60,000
cars. Dealers would like you to think there is a shortage, but
considering they only sold about 90,000 F bodies last year and the
new model was introduced mid-year, that is not going to create a
shortage. GM planning on ramping to about 160,000 F bodies next
year (according to a WSJ article).
Several people have mentioned seeing a photo of the '94 Mustang in
Popular Mechanics. I saw a photo of it in Motor Trend January
1993 issue (p30). Direct side on view. Although they described
it as a "seriously handsome car with broad shoulders," I thought
it looked pretty boring in that view. Roofline reminded me of a
Toyota Celica (yuch!). Description of mechanicals same as has
been reported from the PM article.
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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 xstones. So the performance is there and additionally since
is running unix multiple users can use the system which I have done in
my home setup.
Maintenance is minimal if you can read README files for the X servers and
for 386bsd.
Amancio Hasty
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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.
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bernard Lin Departmental Research Assistant
Computing and Information Services Columbia Business School
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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" people, Phill?
Or will you find then find a different reason to hang it all on Koresh?
--
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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 trick?
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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 the screen - that's
all! Nothing else! Now, I've collected almost every FAQ in the world to
help me but either it's too confusing or I must be missing something.
My setup:
386DX (about 20Mhz)
Trident 8900C SVGA (w/1 Meg)
4 MB RAM
Plenty of HD space
Any help is appreciated.
Thanx.
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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 new "institutions must pay"
policy belongs in the contrib directory on export - to me, "contrib"
means "contributed" (i.e. no strings, except copyright) attached.
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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 faster
reading images off of a disk. I think that the CD150 can handle PhotoCD,
but only single session. The CD300 can do multisession PhotoCD.
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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 have been fighting Tampa Bay for the 3rd pick.
Like I said, Mario deserves it, IMHO. But it is a very close race and a
Gilmour victory would not surprise me. I dislike Doug Gilmour with a passion,
but I must concede that he is extremely valuable to the Leafs.
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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) up to count down 20 seconds between pitches and
the minute for warm-ups. But I think umpires should tell hitters
to go to hell if they step out to get the sign or whatever, and
instruct the pitcher to pitch. The same goes for pitchers. Umps
should tell them to pitch or feint within 20 seconds or a ball
will be called. That's the way it should be.
Ryan Robbins
Penobscot Hall
University of Maine
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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 you
that there is such thing as a spirit or a spiritual need--these
things do not exist in the realm of the objective, but in the
realm of the subjective.
(By a.a., I assume you mean Alcoholics Anonymous, and not alt.atheism ;)
I would not say that AA "handles" spiritual needs. Rather I would say
that AA (and other 12-step programs) help people come to terms with their
needs--ie that AA is facilitating the recovery, and that as part of the
recovery, they recognize their spiritual needs, and begin to rely on a "higher
power" (12-step's term) to fill them instead of whatever substance abuse
they had been accustomed to. (Sorry, there is no objective proof here
either--no way to take 2 identical alcoholics and try to have one recover
by fulfilling spiritual needs, and one without and externally compare the
difference--we are talking about the virtually infinite complexity of
*people* here.)
Spiritual needs could be defined as things that people need in addition to
physical requirements like air, food, sleep, etc. These are things like
the need for love and acceptance, and the need for meaning in life. If
one denies the existence of spiritual things, one would presumably call
these "emotional needs". The reason Christians call them spiritual needs
is that they have aspects that are not fulfillable except by spiritual
means--ie a person could be loved and accepted by many people, and do
many meaningful things, but still have a need for love, which can only be
satisfied by the love of God. Now the problem is that there are people who
accept the existence of these needs, and people who reject them. Since I
believe in absolute truth, some of these people are right, and the others
are wrong. So here are the 2 possibilities:
1) If Christians are right, then we all have spiritual needs--ie
we all need God. Those who do not realize that they need God are
deluded--they just haven't recognized it yet.
2) If Christians are wrong, spiritual needs are an artefact of our brain
chemicals. Well-adjusted and properly-integrated personalities do not
have such things. Christians are simply using the concept of God and
spiritual needs to mask their own inadequacies.
I hate to belabour the point, but the existence of spirits and spiritual
needs cannot be objectively demonstrated or proven, just like the existence
of God cannot. And yes, this means that there is a risk that all my subjective
evidence is manufactured by my brain chemicals. But on the other hand, I
could venture into solipsism and say that there is a risk that everything that
I appear to objectively know is really manufactured by my brain chemicals.
I suspect this is an unsatisfactory answer to a request for evidence and
demonstration of the existence of spirits and spiritual needs, but my assertion
is that such things are not objectively demonstrable. As I have said before,
I myself am on the Christian side of agnosticism, having been pushed off the
fence by subjective evidence. (And no, I was not raised a Christian, so it
is not a case of simply accepting what I was indoctrinated with.)
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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't normally read this newsgroup,
please responds via e-mail.
Thanks in advance.
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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
empty. Before it gets empty.
7.1,
Callbacks are very reliable, I found them 100% reliable, even
under System 4.1. I was doing continuous background sound with
interrupting sound effects on System 6.0 with the IM-V
documentation.
You probably were cancelling your callback commands out of
your channels, of course you didn't get called. In general, if
you have problems with sounds working when you play one per
channel and then close the channel (with the related
slowdown), but then when you play more than one you don't
work, then you are adding more than one synthesizer to a
channel, possibly the same one multiple times. This might be
because you are calling SndPlay on a preexisting channel with
a sound resource which adds the sampled sound synthesizer to
the channel first thing before it plays. Most sampled sounds
have this command at the start of them. You need to resedit
the sound and remove that command, then when you create your
channel, specify the sampled sound synthesizer to be the
channel's synth. Then you can use asynch sndplay's all you
want. You'll probably want to switch to BufferCmd's, since you
are going to have to use SndDoCommand anyway to add callbacks.
Now before you go ahead and tell me I am full of it, and the
sound manager doesn't work for games, remember, Spectre uses
it. And it works great. If Spectre can spare the CPU time, you
can too.
One little disclaimer: There are some out there who say the
Sound Manager in the IIsi can't be made to work right. I'm not
sure either way, but I know for sure that you can make your
sounds work 100% correctly on every other machine using the
Sound Manager.
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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 game, which went into double ot, to update
us on the fifth goal of the rout.
Thursday was a good game even if it was the second straight game between
the pens and devils. IMHO they should program some variety into the
telecasts.(Yes I know the game shown on saturday is between the B's and
Sabres, probably throwing a bone to us Bruin fans.)
And what about the Cambell conference? I'd like to see a game in the
Norris or Smythe. Why not have back to back nights of National
Hockey Night?
Just a thought.
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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 pressure, Oil Temp, Coolant Temp, Ammeter &
Voltmeter. With heaps of guages, it's hard to look at them all all
the time. In the case of oil pressure, for example, you want to know
right away if your oil pump goes bad, unlike coolant temperature, a
minute or two of 0 oil pressure would be A Very Bad Thing(tm).
Adam
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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?
3. What does 32bit adressing bring to me as an user? faster work?
4. Any chance to have more than 8Mb of adressable memory with 24bit
adressing?
Thank you a lot for your answers (via mail or reply)
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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.
Well, now I have to move and want to clean up the 350. I tried starting it
(with someone else's battery) and had no luck. My first guess is that it is
the gas and so I plan on draining it and replacing it with new gas (I can only
pray that I didn't trash the carbeurators). The question is, what do I do
with this old gas? I am not going to run it in my Sabre, and I think that
there is enough that I don't want to burn it (campus police don't think
too kindly about bonfires). Dumping it isn't a great idea.
Thanks for any ideas,
George Heinz
----
Win the $1,000,000 question -- what does this C code do? (No fair compiling it)
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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 works happily, and I'm typing on
it right now... It has a Global Village Teleport 9600 V.32 internal
send/receive fax-modem, and I just love it.
Unfortunately, I have seen a new Duo 230 that a friend bought as a
primary computer (I have a Mac IIsi and SE30 as primary home
computers, and Quadra and IIci at work in the lab). And while amazed
at the lightness of it, I was kinda shocked at the flimsiness of the
screen. I'm sure it'd break real easy....
Geez, we are a Sony familly. Our neighbor works for Zeinth and hates
it (always asks why we didn't buy Zeinth products). Nice guy
nevertheless. We still have two working Sony Color Trinitrons from
1972 and 1974. Older one is on it's second picture tube, but both
work. Now they're relegated to the old 8-bit atari computer and atari
2600 game machinces, as well as our not-that-old younger sister's
Nintendo game machine. Sony doesn't make TV's like they used to
though, the newer Mexican assembly-line TV's are not that reliable or
sharp anymore... Dad also just got a 35" direct-view Sony (god, the
thing weighs a ton!). :) Still, where would we be without Trinitrons,
CD players, or the veritable Walkman????
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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 the Knoxville News-Sentinel Final
Edition Monday, March 1, 1993 (the byline is associated press):
WACO, Texas - Fierce gun battles erupted Sunday as more than 100
law officers tried to arrest the leader of a heavily armed
religious cult. At least four federal agents and two cult members
were reported killed. [...]
The gun battles began when federal agents hidden in livestock
trailers stormed the sect's head-quarters Sunday morning,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
witnesses said. The agents had warrants to search for guns and
explosives and to arrest Howell, said Les Stanford of the ATF in
Washington. [...]
Witnesses said the law officers stormed the compound's main home,
throwing concussion grenades and screaming "Come out," while three
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
National Guard helicopters approached. For a moment, there was no
response. Then the shooting began.
I think "storming the sect's head-quaters" and "throwing concussion
grenades" qualifies as a no-knock (or perhaps an illegal assault).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Probably not. But then again, neither are you.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And just what is "his background"? What prior crimes had he been
CONVICTED of?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry, BATF are "Federal TAX Enforcement officials". They're not
police, nor do they have police powers.
--
Charles Scripter * cescript@phy.mtu.edu
Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931
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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 third
baseman in 1993. Jose Lind, on the other hand, *still* doesn't walk,
and clearly isn't a .320 hitter. My bet is that he won't be getting
any extra bases either once everybody starts pulling the "Lind Shift"
we were seeing in the NL.
No, although since the Lavalliere weirdness, nothing would really
surprise me. Jeff King is currently in the top 10 in the league in
*walks*. Something is up...
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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 associate his
thorn with a Satanic messenger, and with physical infirmities and tribulation,
but not with a sin in his life.
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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 from the sale of the image go to the
GeoSphere Project (an environmental education thing), and the cost is
nominal, so crack a 20 and buy one! Also, I don't think it's always
safe to assume that just because the government 'funded' a project, any
products will be provided for free. Many government agencies (NASA, NOAA)
and some private groups (National Geographic) provided assistance to the
GeoSphere Project. This collaboration seems to be mostly oriented to
educating the public, rather than pure research.
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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 Won 1 05-02 03-03
Houston Astros 07 05 .583 0.5 7-3 Won 1 02-04 05-01
Atlanta Braves 07 07 .500 1.5 4-6 Lost 1 04-03 03-04
Los Angeles Dodgers 06 07 .462 2.0 4-6 Won 3 03-03 03-04
San Diego Padres 05 07 .417 2.5 5-5 Won 3 03-04 02-03
Colorado Rockies 04 07 .364 3.0 4-6 Lost 1 03-03 01-04
Cincinnati Reds 03 09 .250 4.5 2-8 Won 1 02-04 01-05
NATIONAL EAST
Philadelphia Phillies 09 03 .750 -- 7-3 Won 1 05-01 04-02
Pittsburgh Pirates 07 05 .583 2.0 5-5 Lost 3 03-02 04-03
St. Louis Cardinals 07 05 .583 2.0 6-4 Lost 3 04-02 03-03
New York Mets 06 05 .545 2.5 5-5 Lost 1 02-03 04-02
Chicago Cubs 06 06 .500 3.0 5-5 Lost 1 03-03 03-03
Montreal Expos 06 06 .500 3.0 5-5 Won 1 03-03 03-03
Florida Marlins 04 08 .333 5.0 3-7 Lost 1 02-04 02-04
AMERICAN WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
Texas Rangers 08 03 .727 -- 7-3 Won 2 04-02 04-01
California Angels 06 04 .600 1.5 6-4 Lost 1 03-02 03-02
Minnesota Twins 06 05 .545 2.0 6-4 Lost 1 03-03 03-02
Chicago White Sox 05 07 .417 3.5 4-6 Lost 3 02-03 03-04
Seattle Mariners 05 07 .417 3.5 4-6 Won 1 03-02 02-05
Oakland Athletics 04 06 .400 3.5 4-6 Lost 4 04-02 00-04
Kansas City Royals 03 09 .250 5.5 3-7 Won 1 01-05 02-04
AMERICAN EAST
Boston Red Sox 10 03 .769 -- 7-3 Won 3 06-01 04-02
Detroit Tigers 07 05 .583 2.5 7-3 Lost 1 05-01 02-04
Toronto Blue Jays 07 05 .583 2.5 6-4 Won 1 04-02 03-03
New York Yankees 06 06 .500 3.5 5-5 Lost 2 03-03 03-03
Milwaukee Brewers 04 05 .444 4.0 4-5 Won 2 02-02 02-03
Cleveland Indians 05 08 .385 5.0 3-7 Lost 1 04-03 01-05
Baltimore Orioles 04 07 .364 5.0 4-6 Won 1 02-03 02-04
YESTERDAY'S SCORES
(IDLE teams listed in alphabetical order)
NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE
Houston Astros PPD Chicago White Sox 0
Chicago Cubs RAIN Boston Red Sox 6
Atlanta Braves IDLE Toronto Blue Jays 7
Cincinnati Reds IDLE Cleveland Indians 1
Colorado Rockies IDLE Seattle Mariners 10
Florida Marlins IDLE Detroit Tigers 6
Los Angeles Dodgers IDLE Baltimore Orioles IDLE
Montreal Expos IDLE California Angels IDLE
New York Mets IDLE Kansas City Royals IDLE
Philadelphia PhilliesIDLE Milwaukee Brewers IDLE
Pittsburgh Pirates IDLE Minnesota Twins IDLE
St. Louis Cardinals IDLE New York Yankees IDLE
San Francisco Giants IDLE Oakland Athletics IDLE
San Diego Padres IDLE Texas Rangers IDLE
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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 was either _really_ good luck or you had some _very_ fast
machine. DES has 2^56 possible keys, each two of which are simply
to convert into each other, so you have to expect 2^54 trial encryptions
in the mean case, assuming known plaintext.
2^54 / 2 / (24*60*60) / 1000000 is ca. 104250.
So you must have managed to do 104250 encryptions per microsecond.
CE Infosys builds a very fast DES chip that manages 2 (!) encryptions
per microsecond.
Yes, I'm not very seriously bothered about the security of DES yet;
though you might prefer to use triple DES or IDEA, both of which
use more key bits.
joerg
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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 sure that I understand this.
In one sense, no statement by another is subject to my private
interpretation. If reliable historians tell me that the Athenians
lost the Pelopennesian War, I cannot simply interpret this away
because I wanted the Athenians to win. Facts are facts and do not go
away because I want them to be otherwise.
In another sense, every statement is subject to private
interpretation, in that I have to depend on my brains and
expereience to decide what it means, and whether it is sufficiently
well attested to merit my assent. Even if the statement occurs in an
inspired writing, I still have to decide, using my own best
judgement, whether it is in fact inspired. This is not arrogance --
it is just an inescapable fact.
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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 do this.
Now, I'm sure that by the time this message gets out of our local news
timewarp someone will have advised you to set the user position bit in
the WM_NORMAL_HINTS. _Do_not_ do this. It's evil. It's a disservice to
your users. Offler the tusked crocodile god will come in the night and
remove your vital organs with a blunt spoon if you even contemplate
it.
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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 considerably. When the zipper starts to separate
behind the pull (because of age and wear), squash the pull body with the
pliers just a bit to tighten it back up. I would have tossed my bag three
years ago, but this fixed it up and kept it secure and reliable.
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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 never (at least I haven't) ground-em-to-fit when using
this technique.
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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 used to mean, today it means "thief."
: >>
: >> It only means "thief" if you want it to mean that. To me, it means
: [Lots of context wickedly omitted by myself :-) ]
: >
: >Anyway, if I say "Joe is a hacker" to most english speaking people who
: >know the word they'll probably think he is either a poor golfer or a
: >bad carpenter. But there are very very few people who will think he is
: >a good and clever programmer. :-)
: >
: >If you chose to call yourself by a term that means "thief" don't be
: >surprised when people think you are a thief. Even if you don't agree
: >with that definition of the word.
: ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
: [....] The narrower view that a hacker, when
: associated with the computing environment, is a dishonest
: expert is not so widespread, I'm my opinion, at least with the
: people involved with the field. IMHO the wider meaning is not
: obsolete at all, no matter how much the lay press would like it to
: be! [....]
: Therefore I conclude that if you call yourself a hacker, and somebody
: perceives you as a thief, then this person belongs to a very very
: small group that has some computer knowledge, but not enough to know
: the wider (and original) meaning of the word. [....]
Unfortunately, the general public has a very narrow view of the deep, dark
recesses of the art of computing. What little they do see is from the view
given to them by the media. From what I have seen from the media, 'hacker'
is not a proper way by which to refer to a respected person.
I, on the other hand, know what 'hacker' means from those who consider
themselves such. Following is the definition from "Jargon File 2.9.10".
(This is also known as the "Hackers Dictionary".) The definitions are
arranged in order of decreasing frequency of usage:
:hacker: [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] n.
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable
systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most
users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who
programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys
programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A
person capable of appreciating {hack value}. 4. A person who is
good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program,
or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in 'a UNIX
hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who
fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One
might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the
intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing
limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to
discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence 'password
hacker', 'network hacker'. See {cracker}.
The term 'hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global
community defined by the net (see {network, the} and
{Internet address}). It also implies that the person described
is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ehic (see
{hacker ethic, the}).
It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe
oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an
elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new
members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego
satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if
you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled
{bogus}). See also {wannabee}.
:hacker ethic, the: n. 1. The belief that information-sharing
is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of
hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and
facilitating access to information and to computing resources
wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun
and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits
no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality.
Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no
means universally) accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe
to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and
giving away free software. A few go further and assert that
*all* information should be free and *any* proprietary
control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the {GNU}
project.
Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of
cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering.
But this principle at least moderates the behavior of people who
see themselves as `benign' crackers (see also {samurai}). On
this view, it is one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy
to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop,
preferably by email from a {superuser} account, exactly how it
was done and how the hole can be plugged --- acting as an
unpaid (an unsolicited) {tiger team}.
The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker
ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share
technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing
resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as
{USENET}, {Fidonet} and Internet (see {Internet address})
can function without central control because of this trait; they
both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be
hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
: Finally, a true hacker does not name himself/herself one, for this is
: a title that is bestowed by the befuddled sysadmins and users at large.
: To me, a sign of a truly great hacker is to be introduced to someone who
: says "Nahh, I just know a thing or two, people always exagerate..." :-)
Note that the above definition does not preclude a hacker from describing
limself (meaning: himself/herself) one, but simply says that it is better
not to do so. There are many who do not know the meaning of 'hacker'. So,
in order to defend the true meaning of the word, it is sometimes necessary
to borrow on the reputation of a known (respected) hacker around the
workplace. (This means that 'hacker' is defined in terms of some well-known
and respected person.) Sometimes, there may only be one such person.
: >No matter what Mr. Dumpty says, language doesn't work that way.
: Actually it does, you just have to get adequate press coverage... :-)
Language works anyway that we want it to work. The purpose of language is
to communicate. To oversimplify: As long as communication is taking place,
then language is working.
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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 together to preclude them from being part of
the same fire."
They might be waiting until the evidence comes in from the
site, and the investigation is at least well underway.
The same could be said of Jonestown.
Maybe. Then again, I've been suprised at what folks have missed
in the past in similar situations. Don't jump t oconclusions.
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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 desicion? Let's say, for the sake of argument, that god creates
#every one of us (directly or indirectly, it doesn't matter.). What then
#happens, is that he first creates us, and then turns us lose. Well, I didn't
#ask to be created.
#
#Let's make an analogue. If a scientist creates a unique living creature
#(which has happened, it was even patented...!!!), does he then have the
#right to expect it to behave in a certain matter, or die...?
Dear Joakim, let me begin by saying that these are excellent questions,
but that by asking, you will find as many different explanations as there
are respondents. As a Latter-day Saint, I believe that all of us (you,
me, etc.) lived once as spirit-children of God the Father (Hebrews 12:9)
in the pre-mortal existance. In order to continue our eternal progression,
an earthly probationary time was required. (To live by faith, not by
sight, to choose good over evil, and to prepare ourselves in all things
to become worthy of a higher order of existance.) We believe that all of
God's spirit-offspring were once assembled to discuss the specifics of
this earthly sojourn. One-third chose for Lucifer's plan, most followed
the Firstborn (the pre-mortal Jesus Christ). Lucifer's aspirations ("I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God . . ." Isaiah 14:12-17, etc.)
resulted into the rebellion of his followers against the Firstborn and
those who followed Him, resulting in the casting out of Lucifer (who
became Satan, the father of lies) and one-third of the hosts of heaven
("And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth . . ." Revelation 12:4) as demons (evil spirits).
To get back on OUR choice to be born on this earth, and to be subject to
God and His plan (for good or bad, based upon our obedience and choices),
we made that choice individually. (God speaking to Job: "Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth, . . . when the morning stars
sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:4-7). We
lost the knowledge of our pre-mortal existance (the "Veil of Forgetful-
ness," somewhere in Psalms), in order to live by faith, not by sight.
You may not accept this scenario, neither do quite a few who rely on the
Bible alone, which offers only fragmentary insights into this particular
aspect of our existence as individuals, as sons and daughters of God.
#Who is god to impose its rules on us ? Who can tell if god is REALLY so
#righteous as god likes us to believe? Are all christians a flock of sheep,
#unable to do otherwise that follow the rest?
#
#Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
(All Christians, by definition, ARE a flock of sheep, following the Shepherd
as they understand Him ;-) --But in any event, not all Christians believe
in the same theology, such as the one Latter-day Saints believe in. (They
will cry "heresy" and other accusations of "perverting" the doctrines of
the Bible, while they themselves believe in a myriad of interpretations, as
found in their catechisms and various do-it-yourself Bible-study manuals...)
As for me, I have a personal conviction that the pre-existance scenario as
explained above, is most in harmony with Biblical doctrine, some Dead Sea
Scroll books, the pseudographion, other (Jewish) sources, and last but not
least, modern-day revelation on the subject.
#I just want to point out that this is not sarcasm, I mean it.
#
# How should one deal with a man who is convinced that
# he is acting according to God's will, and who there-
# Jokke fore believes that he is doing you a favour by
# stabbing you in the back?
#
# -Voltaire
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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 client
: & server I just get a black window; sometimes the client core dumps,
: sometimes the server, sometimes I get a broken pipe, sometimes it
: just sits there doing nothing although I occassionally get the
: cursor to become a cross-hair in dog-fight, but that's it. I've
: sent word to the author plus what I did to fix it last week, but
: no reply as yet.
:
: Peter K. Campbell
: p.campbell@trl.oz.au
I've discovered a bug in the libraries/parser/parser.c loadcolour function where it was generating a segmentation fault. It appears the colourList[] is geting corrupted somehow. I had it return random colours instead and everything worked great (except for a few colour problems) so I know its the only thing wrong.
The colour table somehow gets a couple of nulls placed in it so when the "name" of the colours are compared it crashes. I haven't found the problem yet maybe someone else can.
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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, about Oort cloud sources: shouldn't this be testable in the
fairly near future? Some of the GRBs have very short rise times (< 1
ms). We could detect the curvature of the burst wavefront out to a
distance of on the order of b^2/(t c) where b is the detector spacing
and t the time resolution. For t = 1 ms and b = 2 AU, this is on the
order of 16 light years. I understand statistics will reduce this
number considerably, as would geometry if the burst is coming from the
wrong direction.
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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 that if any of the agent is left in the
system, it can cause problems, so it's been recommended NOT to use them unless
you are 100% certain that you can remove all of the flushing agent. Just for
your info, I was quoted a price of: labor=$29.95 and fluid=$9.95 for
flushing the brake system; this in conjunction with a break job so I don't
know if it was more without the brake job. This is in the S.F Bay Area.
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ISBN 0-13-747270-6
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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 persecution from the the Big
Bad Secular State: what is your opinion of his reported sexual habits?
If the reports are accurate, what IYO does this say about the quality of
his Christianity? Or are the allegations just part of the Big
Cover-Up?
(I remain deliberately neutral on the cause of the fire: I wouldn't
put it past Koresh to have torched the place himself. On the other
hand, if the propane-tank-accident story is correct, I wouldn't put it
past the FBI to try to cover its ass by claiming Koresh did it. I
hope your government does a VERY thorough investigation of the whole
debacle, and I'll be disappointed if a few heads don't roll. The
authorities seem to have botched the original raid, and in the matter
of the fire, are guilty of either serious misjudgement, or reckless
endangerment.)
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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 Line", "If This is It", and more!!!
Hooters: Nervous Night
Contains: And We Danced, Day By Day, All You Zombies, Nervous Night...
Poison|Look What the Cat Dragged In
Their 1st tape. Contains "Cry Tough", "I Wont Forget You",
"Talk Dirty to Me", and more!
Hall & Oates|Big Bam Boom
Contains: "Out of Touch", "Possession Obsession", and more!
Ratt|Out of the Cellar
Contains: Wanted Man, Round and Round, and more!
Quiet Riot|Condition Critical
Contains: Mama Weer All Krazy Now
Outfield|Play Deep
Contains: Say It Isn't So, Your Love, All the Love in the World,
and more!
Plant, Robert|Shaken n' Stirred
Contains: Little By Little, plus more...
Journey|Raised on Radio
Contains: Girl Cant Help It, Suzanne, Be Good to Yourself, Ill Be
Alright Without You, Why Cant This Night Go On Forever...
Duran Duran|Arena
Contains: Is There Something I Should Know?, Hungry Like the Wolf,
New Religon, Wild Boys, Planet Earth, and more!
Monkees|Then and Now - The Best of the Monkees
Contains: All their big hits plus some...
INXS|Kick
Contains: Mediate, New Sensation, Devil Inside, Need You Tonight,
Never Tear Us Apart, Mystify, and more! GREAT TAPE....
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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 Xlib calls with RPC. My executable code is about 1.4M and I don't
have any idea how much memory is the DECstation 3100/5100.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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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 wish to have a woman, they
were not obliged to, and if a Session did not wish to, they could not
be forced to. (Note that the who issue of freedom to call on the part
of the Congregation is VERY important here - this year is the 150th
Annivarsary of the Disruption, where the church split on that very
issue, they didn't get back together for almost 80 years).
A couple of years ago on the 25 anniversary of the allowing of womens
ordination the position was changed - so that, in theory, all
ministers and elders must recognise that women can be ordained. In
theory, a minister who refused to ordain a woman to his Session, or
refused to work with a woman minister in Presbytery, could be
disciplined. In practice this has not happened, and I believe it is
unlikely to happen. My personal view is that the new legislation was
a mistake, and that the permissive (but not prescriptive) legislation
worked very well.
We are going to start going round the homosexual debate at next years
assembly. At this years, a motion was put to ban the blessing of
same-sex couples (after an Edinburgh minister did so). Our Panel on
Doctrine is currently looking at marriage, and will report next year -
the matter will be considered and debated then.
Hope this is interesting
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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 nothing about defense
issues, and letting people like you make all the decisions is anything to do
with "their ideals"?
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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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