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Well, if you're willing to spend a little money, you could buy one of those IDE caching controllers (assuming you have an IDE of course) and put the 256K SIMMs on them. Hardware cache!
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In fact, this "productive human presence" in the desert has, in the centuries it has been there, produced one of the greatest civilizations in human history. They not only created the wheel, but the printing press, the light bulb, Post-Modern skyscraper architecture, Broadway theatre and nuclear power, as well. Ri...
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I have the following Marx Brothers tapes forsale. I would like to sell them as a batch if possible. All (except *) are new, carfully stored copies I bought. I now own the laserdisks. MGM/UA: A Day at the Races At the Circus The Big Store MCA Hourse Feathers The Cocoanuts Duck Soup* Animal Crackers* -- brian opling...
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I recently purchased an IBM monochrome vga monitor from Mike Damico. The monitor arrived but it was missing it's power cable. Mike's address is apparently not a proper address because mail can't reach it. If anyone knows how to contact Mike and could help me find him I would appreciate it. I am sure he just set aside t...
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It's not quite what you were asking, but a few years ago I helped some EE remote sensing people run some experiments on the microwave emmissivity of ice; they used the sky for a background calibration source. They said that from Earth's surface the sky looks like a 60K blackbody.
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First you need to connect them with a null modem cable. Atleast thats what I've heard.
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Tasco 18EB 20X-60X60mm, used once, looks like new, worth $170, sell $70 only. Buyers pay shipping.
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You unfortunately failed to mention if the error occurs with the Parity Error Checking enabled or disabled. I assume you mean it gives you a parity error when it's enabled, and not when it's disabled. How high will the count go on the memory check at boot-up before this error occurs? Does the system beep at all; if ...
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Hello everybody out there ! I'm trying to compile X11R5pl23 and Motif 1.2.1 on a HP running HP-UX 8.05. But it' seems to be not very succesful, because I have only hp.cf config-files for HP-UX 7.0. I tried standard cc and X was compiled with a lot of warnings. The motif applications are compiled quite well, but the...
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: That's not inner calm. It's boredom, and it's being spoiled. The Arena's : been as quiet as a church on many nights this year; too many of us just : take winning for granted. It's been seemingly forever since the team : lost, and we've forgotten what it's like to feel real excitement and : surprise at victory. A...
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator) Subject: F<O>CUS/HEALTH: How U.S. compares... Children/Elderly in Poverty F<O>CUS/HEALTH: How U.S. compares... Children/Elderly in Poverty ================================================================== Percentage of children and elderly l...
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[deleted stuff from Andrew wrt which atheist myth is Bill re: to] "Counterfeit atheists". Hmmmm. So, we're just cheap knock-offs of the True Atheists. Religion demonstrates itself to be absurd. Constantly. Personally, if someone asks, I'm happy to point out how this is so. Man, what *is* your pill wrt atheists? ...
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: The same works for the horrors of history. To claim that Christianity : had little to do with the Crusades or the Inquisition is to deny the : awesome power that comes from faith in an absolute. What it seems you : are doing twisting the reasonable statement that religion was never : the solitary cause of any evil...
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: Recently an e-mail to me mentioned: : (Technically, the messengers aren't even human so : it *can't* be a case of "homosexuality" -- even of rape.) [...] : The Jude reference to Sodom is also meaningful only in the context of : the Sodomites' "lust" for the "other flesh" of angels. Again, : application to homosexu...
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This pretty much confirms my original impression after reading through the documentation on dos-6. The double space sounds nice, but NOT on your primary disk!! I'll probably wind up making a disk partition d: and doublespacing *it*, using it as an archive. Probably would be useful on floppy disks as well. But on...
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My reason for saying that was 'cause _I_, if _I_ were a cop wouldn't go out of my way to tell people how to break the law. Would you? The part about honesty was a joke, sorta. Obviously, people have had bad experiences with cops lying. Obviously, nobody's perfect and nobody _always_ tells the truth about everythin...
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: > From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) : Bzzzzt. THANK you for playing, but obviously you are not reading the : material as it is presented. According to the report I've got in my : hands, the Newsweek article (which reported that "2 to 3 percent" of the : population is gay) used the criteria of "No...
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: After reading the posts on this newsgroup for the pasts 4 months, it : has become apparent to me that this group is primarily active with : Liberals, Catholics, New Agers', and Athiests. Someone might think : to change the name to: soc.religion.any - or - perhaps even : soc.religion.new. It might seem to be ...
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Here's the scoop: For the past two years, I have been using an SE/30 with a Sony 1304s and a Lapis video card. This past month, I bought a Quadra 800 and am now using the Sony on it. My SE/30 has been shipped home to my father who is planning on getting an Apple 14" monitor (The Trinitron one). My question is this...
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I hate to sound flippant, having shot off my mouth badly on the net before, but I'm afraid that much of this material only adds to my feeling that "the assumption of Mary" would be better phrased "our assumptions _about_ Mary." In all the time I've been reading about Mary on this group, I can not recall reading much a...
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Indeed so; it's at the extreme limit of what is humanly possible. It is possible only because Mount Everest is at a fairly low latitude: there is a slight equatorial bulge in the atmosphere -- beyond what is induced by the Earth's rotation -- thanks to the overall circulation pattern of the atmosphere (air cools at ...
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DEC LK250-AA PC keyboard for sale: - automatically senses machine type and switches between AT/XT modes - same exact key layout as DEC's VT2xx, VT3xx, etc., with DEC names on keys as well as PC names - standard AT/XT cable included - great for use with a VTxxx terminal emulator - all the keys a...
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More to the point, how long are atheists going to be insulted by the disgraceful addition of religious blah-blah to our money and out pledge? -- "What's big, noisy and has an IQ of 8?"
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think you're deliberatly overstating the requirements for OS/2. Considering that OS/2 is a multi-threaded true multitasking OS and takes the place of DOS and Windows and more, I actually think the requirements for OS/2 are very reasoable. I also think that anyone...
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[Much discussion about economics of safety deleted] This is a very simplistic view of safety. Assuming that you are in a collision (less likely with a more agile smaller car), then the important factor is how well does the car sacrifice itself to save you. This is why a thousand pound F1 car can hit a wall at 200 an...
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: I've seen people in their forties and fifties become disoriented and : demented during hospital stays. In the examples I've seen, drugs were : definitely involved. : My own father turned into a vegetable for a short time while in the : hospital. He was fifty-three at the time, and he was on 21 separate : medication...
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Good advice. My Ol'lady taps me on the shoulder to let me know she is uncomfortable. I, in turn, am prepared for her to move about on the back of the bike. We had 1 bad crash (nail in rear tire on left hand sweeper at crest of hill on pavement/pea-gravel road) and her actions helped lessen the severity of...
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> > Regarding the horror stories about DOS6/DOUBLEDISK and STACKER 2.? > killing hard drives: > > I was wondering if the dos 6 MIRROR command works on the doubled > drive info as well as the normal fat table and partition table. > If it records the vital DoubleDisk info, then using it daily > should go a lon...
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Are you serious?!!! Here's an exercise next time you are in the barnyard. Take *your* model and hold it directly above a fresh cowpie. Then release the model. You will observe that on its own *your* model will assume a trajectory earthward and come to rest exactly where it belongs. Watch out for splatters, partic...
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I am not quite so sure about the illegality of using a regular American phone on your home system. I vaguely remember a few years ago, when "Deutsche Bundespost" split into Postdienst, Postbank, and Telekom there was some discussion about a new regulation. I know that cordless or cellular phones still have to be appro...
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Can someone elaborate a little on what this "Libertarian" movement is? I am not going to draw conclusions from a small sample, but so far I recall two self-described "Libertarians" posting here. Both seems to be: 1) Incredibly ignorant. 2) Incredibly arrogant. 3) All they want is to get people angry. 4) Posses a lousy...
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Sometimes when I boot up windows 3.1, after the windows logo comes up it han gs, I am using Dos 6 and doublespace, and a 5 meg temp swap file on an uncompressed drive. But when I press the reset button on the computer, windows boots up fine... Why is this??? is it dos 6? --
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good but where are these drivers?? anybody at Actix listening? Upload the dang drivers to an ftp site pleeeeeeese?! cheers, Kym _______________________________________________________________________________ Kym A. Burgemeister Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide South Australia ...
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Wow, I hadn't realized how VENOMOUS this was getting! Be careful here...the problem isn't the rich but the values and the systems that make the rich rich. Things are designed in such a way that in order to go with the system and make money, everything ELSE we care about goes to shit. I have to constantly remind myse...
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Here's a listing that I came accross a while ago. This question seems to come up often enough that I figured this would be of interest. Note that the server "X Appeal" for DOS is available in demo form on the internet via anonymous ftp. This is one way of quickly checking out the feasability of using your sy...
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Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part1 Last-modified: 1993/04/27 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/3 ] =================================================== Last Change : 27 April 1993 Many FAQs, including this Listing, are available on the archive site pit-manager.mit.edu (alias rtfm.m...
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Turkish Historical Revision <9305111942@zuma.UUCP> via dotage sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) responded to article <1sn5f5INNkh6@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> [MP] Actually, I would like to get a compilation of these one liners, [MP] so that I could print them out and show them to my friends over the [MP] summer, and they...
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Those VHS movies have to be sold because I am moving in 6 weeks. And I have no idea what happend to those people who made the deal with me before. So here I am, trying to post another message, againt. ( I don't mean to waste your valuable time.) Basic Instinct $11.00 Born on the Forth of July $11.00 Backdraft $11...
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=>I don't necessarily agree with Pat Robertson. Every one will be placed before =>the judgement seat eventually and judged on what we have done or failed to do =>on this earth. God allows people to choose who and what they want to worship. = =I'm sorry, but He does not! Ever read the FIRST commandment? I have. App...
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Yes and No. ESPN2 will be launched as early in September. Cap Cities are currently working with cable companies to ensure a good start-up base needed for a launch for any brand new cable service. The problem ESPN2 faces is the TCI-Cablevision connection in the merger of their Prime and SportsChannel networks. Prime S...
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So you really see no problem with banning them from places to which you don't want to go? Talk to somebody in the insurance industry, particularly after a few drinks. Then talk to my mom (no booze required). :^) Ever heard of the DoD? :^) Nah, you just became complacent that so long as your little quarter a...
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In a debate about the student government here at our university, a question was raised by one student senator: "Why should I represent people who didn't vote?" and by implication, this raises a different question: "Why should I represent people who didn't vote for me?" I feel that there are many good reasons that...
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This is not a "studies", but a study. Other studies, including the just-published "Janus Report", give very different figures. The Janus Report figures are not too different than Kinsey: 9% homosexual men, and 4% bisexual men. Don't be stupid. The Kinsey report is one study, so it can't be "all over the map" a...
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Luke 16 talks about the rich man and Lazarus. Matthew 25 talks about the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Revelations 20 and 21 reference this fire as the place where unbelievers are thrown. Matthew 18 talks about being thrown into the eternal fire and the fire of hell. It seems quite clear that t...
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I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
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If you were to start your own religion, this would be fine. But there is no scriptural basis for your statement, in fact it really gets to the heart of the problem. You think you know more than scripture. Your faith is driven by feel goodism and not by the Word of God. Just because they are nice people doesn't make...
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I don't think that it is "obvious" that "lots" of people are willing to pay the price. I'm sure someone out there in net-land has some facts about trends in attendance regarding percentage of capacity sold. But even if the trends are relatively flat, you have to consider what is happening on a team-by-team basis. ...
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[Interchange on Hoban deleted] Only those you haven't actually read? Sorry, but the irony remains. So although you don't agree with the fatwa, and apparently don't think Rushdie should be killed for his book, yet you think he is not due sympathy for being being under this threat. Furthermore you base this reactio...
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If the student has a kidney infection, she ought to be on antibiotics. Kidney infections-- left untreated-- can cause permanent damage to the kidneys. I was hospitalized with a kidney infection a while ago and I was very sick.
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This sounds an awful lot like a password-guesser, not a weakness in DES. Merritt and I pointed out this weakness in Kerberos in a paper that came out about 2.5 years ago, in both Computer Communications Review and Usenix. For that matter, it was loudly discussed on the Kerberos mailing list even earlier. The proble...
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I've got a 4PR1000A (EIMAC) unused transmitter tube for sale. Best offer so far is $125. That's getting close to what I'll sell it for. Hamfest prices have been about $200 - $250. It works, guaranteed. Original packaging. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Medin Phone...
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What is the maximum rate of the 6882 FPU that Apple sells directly (Apple Part No. M6775 LL/A)? The Apple literature labels the FPU for Classics and LC III's so I assume it will do at least 25MHz. My question is can I put it in a Performa 600 (68030 @ 32MHz)? The Apple price is cheap at $78 compared to ~$135 from ma...
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You should try having a .xsession script in $HOME to do these things. xdm will start up your process using the system version (usually /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession), which should check whether you have your won and change to that if you do. (Take a copy of the system one and edit it). Note, ...
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I would say only to the extent that the Roman Catholic Church neither approves nor disapproves of capital punishment, as confirmed in the recent catechism, though there are many RCs who were rather surprised and upset that capital punishment was not explicitly condemned. For myself, as a Catholic, I see my own opposit...
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Hah. Newbie bait. Everyone knows the first motorcycle wasn't built until 1893 - there _were_ no pre-'80's motorcycles! You've been watching too much Northern Exposure. Why? Because our wheels are repairable? Humph. Obviously, more bait. Everyone knows you don't discard Maytag boxes. Even after they've beco...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Gasp! I've just spent 3 hours catching up on sci.crypt here (slow reader I guess) and I really have to put out a few comments too. First, let me flame the famous Dave S. : He's obviously only 10 years old. Cut him some slack. :^} The joke about Clinton/crypto/drugs slammed me thr...
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PLEASE REPLY TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: hani.akhras@jhuapl.edu __________________________________ The following discs are for sale: All discs are postage paid. Camouflage|Methods Of Silence|$8 ppd Revenge|One True Passion|$8 ppd Cabaret Voltaire|Technology:Western Re-Works 1992|$8 ppd Soul II Soul|Keep On Moving (...
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Hmm, it seems that this is the core of Christianity then, you have to feel guilty, and then there's this single personality that will save you from this universal guilt feeling. Brian, I will tell you a secret, I don't feel guilty at all, I do mistakes, and I regret them, however I've never had this huge guilt feeli...
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[much stuff deleted] excuse me, but what makes you think that just because he's atheist he doesn't know anything about christianity???? in my (albeit limited) experience atheists are often the ones who know _more_ about the bible, having searched it from end to end for answers. i myself am a christian, but that doe...
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Wasn't the shareware fee a "suggestion" by John? Is so then it's up to the individual to make the choice whether or not to honour it and part with money. Personally if I was in his position I would do exactly the same thing, John has obviously put in lot of time and effort into xv and why shouldn't he ...
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As requested, here are some addresses of sources of bizarre religious satire and commentary... Plus some bijou book reviewettes. --- Loompanics Unlimited PO Box 1197 Port Townsend, WA 98368. USA. Publishers of one of the most infamous mail-order book catalogue in the world. Anarchism, Discordianism, Libertarianis...
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Microsoft has a division called Microsoft Consulting that does what IBM FEs (field engineers) do. However, neither company just up and sends consultants to client sites. Both companies charge very high hourly rates for on-site consulting unless the client has already paid an annual service contract.
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Hey, I am looking for C-algorithm, which decide,whether a 3D-Point is inside a space which was defined by 8 x 3D-points. With a space defined by 8 x 3D-points, I mean a space defined by 6 closed 3D meshes defined by 8 points. Like this : _____ / /| /____/ | ...
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It is a factory testing slot. The test rig connects to the connector and verifies proper board operation.
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May I humbly suggest DESQview/X? (Of course, I'm biased...) DESQview/X is a multitasker for DOS computers, that uses a standard X11R4 server as it's display mechanism. DOS applications and Microsoft Windows standard mode are converted on-the-fly to X-protocol, allowing you to display them, or any R4 compatable X-prog...
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Could someone repost the FAQs for this group, please?
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*********************Word Perfect V2.1 for the Mac********************* I have a brand new copy of Word Perfect 2.1. It is the latest release, $100 it has not been used and is still in shrink wrap. It is a student version so it is not upgradable to a newer version. It sells for $250+ I would like to get $100 for...
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The aperture door will be shut during reboost. Using the shuttle means that there will be someone nearby to pry the door open again if it should stick.
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Assuming that the wax is causing hearing loss, congestion or popping in the ears, you can try some cautious tepid water irrigation with a bulb syringe, but it is awkward to do for oneself and may not work or may even make things worse. (My wife would disagree, she does it successfully every six months or so.) In an...
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Not totally true. For the past year or two, the AP has been getting box scores from STATS, Inc. The AP representative in the press box is actually a STATS reporter ($25 dollars a game, but free parking. And anybody can do it.) The box is downloaded to STATS in Chicago, some quick error checking is done, and th...
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#|> #|> #|> #|> #This is quite different from saying "Employing force on other people #|> #|> #is immoral, period. Unfortunately, from time to time we are obliged #|> #|> #to do this immoral thing for reasons of self-preservation, and so #|> #|> #we have to bear the moral consequences of that. #|> #|> #|> #|> Since...
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It depends on the mode you're using. For a single 64-bit input block, a one-bit error will have a 50 percent chance of corrupting each of the 64 output bits - in other words, it essentially turns the output block into a random number. If you're encrypting data in CBC mode, however, only the one 64-bit block will be ...
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: But how do we know that you're representing the REAL Christians? : ;-) : Bill, you're an asshole. Get lost. Maddi, I see that you still can't grasp the obvious, is it because your are devious by nature, or can you only find fault with an argument by misrepresenting it? I plainly said that I was stating the Chri...
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I am looking for some fast polygon routines (Shaded or Texture Mapped) in ASM (compile with MASM) or in Turbo Pascal (compile with TP6). It has to be able to run on a 286, but does not have to look super fast on a 286, but must look good on a 386. If anyone has any such code could you please mail it to me. Or tell m...
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^^ || New Technology || Cycle eXperimental Got this from a mechanic at Al Lamb's Honda! AT
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I believe I have the same monitor problem. I have a system from Micron Computers with the 15" Mag 1564 (the same monitor as the gateway) and am having the same symptoms. What's this with removing the monitor extension cable?
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Is there a way I can save a snapshot of my screen to a file, under Windows? (Similar to the way one can press CMD-SHIFT-3 on a Mac.) Please email rather than posting.
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Is (was? :-( ) your HG zipper the nylon-coil type or the kind with molded plastic teeth? I've only tried it on the coiled nylon type, and it doesn't take much squish to fix the problem. I found I was overdoing it (no broken parts, but the zipper was too hard to pull) so after spreading the zipper pull jaws again, I t...
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What would be a good platform for some fairly basic video work of the following nature: Reading real video in for playbak in various app's 5-10 Minnutes in length Basic editing features for said video - rearange sequences, adding grapic slides from something like power point etc... I'm not to familiar with this stuf...
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I am *almost* done porting XFree86 1.2 to a new piece of display hardware, but have run into a snag I think may be somewhat commonplace, so I'm sending a net-feeler. I have a display that is a non-interlaced, memory mapped, 1-bit 720x280 display. The server's view of the world, (obtained via xwd | xwud), seems to be ...
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I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum the other day and one of their VERY early winners was 4 valves per cylinder (and either front wheel drive or all wheel drive, I think front wheel drive) and that was in 1914! Spiros
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I've seen it as "Colmn" also. Blame the Associated Press. After the official scorer balances the official score card, they copy it and give it to several diffent people. One of those is a person from AP whose job it is to type it up (using a template on a laptop) and transmit it to the AP offices in New York (Rocke...
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Are there any Montreal Canadiens fans out there who can let me the radio station(s) which are playing the playoff series (including short wave radio frequencies)? Lewisburg, PA (home of Bucknell University) is definitely not a hockey town! Please send responses to malinich@bucknell.edu
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(message posted by/for roomate) Bike is in good condition, is black, has 23000 miles, mag wheels, front disk, rear drum, good front tire, new back tire, o-ring chain, new battery, new starter and has that laid back look. Bike runs real strong with all four carbs giving their best. Buyer gets a cover (all weath...
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I have a few small cans of self defense spray for sale. I'm asking $12 for one can. It's about the size of a pen marker and works pretty good. (so I hear). Thanks,
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If I may offer a constructive criticism, perhaps you should decide if you love vehicles or the use they are put to. I, myself, think the F-86 is a beautiful aircraft, but rest assured, I wouldn't even think of flying it in combat today. Most of us want access to space and judge vehicles on how they perform. Not to ...
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OK. It varies from state to state. It has to do with operating a vehicle while there is greater than a given percentage of alcohol in your bloodstream. Can we drop this now, and get back to asking Ed Green to getabike? tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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Note that the two tables don't talk about the same population. One is Fortune 1000 companies favoring the platform as their primary application platform, the other is sales (to everyone, not just Fortune 1000). Fortune 1000 companies don't do a lot of development with the Mac as their top platform. I would expect ...
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The BATF warrant was unsealed yesterday. The entire operation was illegal from day ONE. No authority for a "no-knock" raid. No authority to use the Texas helicopters. No authority to search for a "drug lab". More ATF lies.
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I am wondering if anyone has any opinions about the 2theMAX 4000S SVGA card. I just purchased one due to a great price on it. It boasts 16.7 million "true" colors, with 1MB onboard. If you know anything about this card, please respond via mail, as this group tends to be overwhelming at times with posts. Thanks in ...
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The biblical arguments against homosexuality are weak at best, yet Christ is quite clear about our obligations to the poor. How as Christians can we demand celibacy from homosexuals when we walk by homeless people and ignore the pleas for help? Christ is quite clear on our obligations to the poor. Thought for the d...
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I don't think Michael's response was anti-party but rather pro-environmental. I agree that you gotta let us Hogs out to roam every once in awhile. Let's hope that next year Oatman will be better prepared and that we all pick up after ourselves. Well, I for one thought you told a good story, even if you say you are ...
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A friend had a Ford Taunus (era early 60's) that *did* have a V4 in it. I lost a bet on it. I find it hard to believe there are no *recent* cars with a V4 in them. Any *recent* ones? Spiros
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It has also apparently been excised from the second edition.
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There are basically three alternatives for Gaza: 1. To throw the Jews to the sea. that is basically to make them leave the Middle-East and go back to where they came from (russia, Europe, USA, etc) 2. To throw the Gazans into the sea, in accordance with Yitzhak Rabin's wish and that of many Zionists. 3. For...
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