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I have a question about accessing certain addresses on a chip, particulary a 27C512 EPROM. Although I don't know that much about it, as I understand it, there's a pin on the chip that, when voltage is applied, kicks up the address. The question is how do you determine how many bytes the address is incremented by?? F...
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What we currently know as the 240sx, is known elsewhere as a 200sx.
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Well, thanks largely to subscribers of this group, here's xrastool 1.0, the animation package I started just over 3 weeks ago. A number of the solutions provided through discussions here have been incorporated in the code, so have a look! The full blurb has been posted to comp.windows.x.announce. This post is in two p...
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I would appreciate very much the address and/or phone # of this company. They supposely make analog EEPROMS. Thanks in advance.
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Brian Ceccarelli presents us with the fallacy of False Dichotomy in stating that we must accept every thing in the books attributed to Peter, or we must discount every other book of antiquity: Mr Ceccarelli, you seem to be stating that we must accept accept everything written in every "historical" document. Somehow ...
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k Sorry ... should have used correct terminology 1 Quid = 1 Knicker = 1.54 approx U.S. Dollars The Terry Pratchett Book "Good Omens" contains an adequate explanation of the rather strange UK money system, past and present for "Americans, Tibetans, and other alien species" :-)
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("like most good ideas,..." please, people!) _Five Weeks in a Balloon_. Not a good idea unless you have helium. Verne's protagonists didn't. They just got increadibly lucky. And yes, I knew the title of the movie too, just didn't want to start talking about it. Except to bring up the image of a team of S. African...
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Well, I don't want shorter games *per se*, but I would like for them to stop *wasting* so much time during games. The Gant incident is a perfect example. When a guy comes to the plate, he should be up there to hit, not show off (or show up the umpire, which is clearly what Gant was doing). I feel like writing a fan le...
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hIn article <Apr22.185314.14420@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Far more effective than mass mailing of a standard letter (this is taken usually to represent one pressure group) is a set of individual letters. Perhaps Nathaniel Sammons or someone else would like to prepare a set of "talking points" from which individuals c...
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: >There is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall. So you : >need to connect the wires (I'm not sure if they have wall jacks in Western : >Europe - they may). : : Son of the Return of the "How much does Americans know about the rest of : the word?"-flamewar anyone? Well, Bertil, you might la...
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I would guess the high price of gas in Europe (compared to the US) has always favoured 4-cylinder manuals. small engines with autos are a real bore... But why not turn the question around, why are automatics so common in the US? My guess is that when they tried to couple manuals to the torque-rich V8's in the sixt...
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In the abstract, what you're saying is true. But the facts happen to agree with me, and disagree completely with you. Listen, Pinkas. I'm going to count on the supposition that you think through the opinions you have - something which is, by the way, against my better judgment based on what I've seen from you to...
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Anything but... Bill Clinton and Janett Reno should not have started the whole shenanigan in the first place. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.
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There is an article in Communications Week (April 12's issue) which states definitively that not only is the justice department trying to revive the "wiretapping bill", but they are ALSO trying to find a way to force key registration. CLIPPER is an obvious thrust in exactly this direction. Dorothy Dennings is quoted i...
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Well, I've come into some money and want to buy CD-ROM, sound board and speakers. I have not kept up on any material relating to sound boards and CD-ROM's because until now I never thought I'd have enough money. So can you guru's out there point me in the direction of a good package including CD-ROM, sound, and s...
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This doesn't work, due to the near-field far-field effect. You may stop someone five yards away from listening in, but someone fifty yards away will be relatively unaffected - unless you pump out hundreds of watts and jam all the neighbourhood TV's as well. In that case the government will stomp on you - ask any rad...
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... One might well ask if CA gun owners have given up on the NRA/CRPA. The national NRA doesn't march in and get things passed. They provide a convenient label for local activities/activists. -andy
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When I went thru all the spinning chair tests at JSC the PhD in charge was Milt Reshke but the technician who strapped me in and, on occasion, inserted the "probe" (needle) was named Bev Bloodworth.
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Sigh. Here we go again. Must I? If I were to say that batting average is a predictor that can be used to judge which of two hitters is more likely to get a hit on a particular plate appearance, is that only valid if I can define the skill in hitting a baseball? That's all I've said, except ...
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: My 83 Nighthawk has two (related?) problems with the ignition system: : : - it won't start when on cold mornings ( 10 C, 50 F or so) : - I always need to give it gas when starting it, even when using : the clutch. : : This all still happens after a tune-up and a new battery, : any ideas on what could b...
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You have perhaps heard of the Dead Sea. I may be wrong, but I believe it is not misnamed. And I don't believe that humans had a hand in it, although it is possible since the great cedar forests of Lebanon were but a memory by the time of Christ if not earlier. But, more on the point, while Nature is the may be the ...
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This is the first I hear that Koresh refused to release someone. In fact, a lot of people, including children, came out during the stand-off. How do you know Koresh killed his followers? The FBI said he had had no such plans (and they had the place bugged), Koresh's attorney said the same t...
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I just received a music software WinSong for Windows and found that it needs a MIDI/sound card (Sound Blaster Pro is preferred) to have its fantastic features show up. As I don't have the plan to add a sound card now, I am putting it here for sale. It's listed $79.95 on April issue of WINDOWS magazine and I paid $84....
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Hey American Hockey fans, As a hockey fan I can sympathize with thefrustration that you feel. The problem is that other Americans don't give a shit about hockey. They view it as a bunch of Canadians with bad accents and missing teeth beating the shit out of each other on a patch of ice when it is too warm now in tw...
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(about my reply) It a society that is constantly on the verge of flaming, Usenet, diplomacy is the best way to ensure the voice of reason gets through, isn't it? Kevin, unfortunately you are now delving into field I know too little about, algorithms. Your reasoning, as I see it, is very much along the lines of Rog...
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I think it's because the lead gets coated with lead oxide if the battery is not being charged or discharged. I remember some advice from an ancient car manual guide my father had, which was to use car batteries to power a garage clock or something similar when they're not in a car. This is supposed to prevent the oxi...
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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? Le...
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Just saw on CNN that the independent team that examined the Waco fire and reported that it was started inside by the BDs is now under question. The attoneys for the BD's are claiming that it's not an impartial team for the team leader is the wife of one of the BATF agents. HA! The goverment continues with it's propag...
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I am trying to follow the current conflict in former Yugoslavia. One thing I cannot figure out is where do the Serbs and Croats get their weapons, etc? Don't they run out of them?
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I'm worried by the concern about it though, for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with Space Advertising (which for a number of reasons is probably doomed to fail on financial grounds). (And I've been reading and (and writing) this thread since way back when it was only on sci.space). For starters, I don'...
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I can vouch for this method in my 1990 SHO. This is the only sure way of putting in the reverse without any problem _every_ time.
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Yes me, why?
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I think you just answered your own question...
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A guy who threw 240 innings with about .6 run lower ERA would have saved the bullpen even more. Say, somebody like Frank Viola (238 innings). Nice audition tape. Send it to: Baseball Tonight ATTN: Ray Knight ESPN Bristol, CT Have you, by chance, taken a look at the boxscores from last year to determine ...
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Oakland, California, Sunday, April 25th, 1:05 PM PDT: Jose Mesa vs. Storm Davis. You have been warned.
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First off, the correct spelling of Nissan's luxury automobile division is "Infiniti" not "Infinity." I would also like to clear up the question of what kind of engines power Lexus and Infiniti automobiles, since a person had remarked in earlier posts that most Lexus and Infiniti models had V6 engines, while at the sam...
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I have a Gateway 4dx2/66v. Does anyone know if I csn (or can't) Duse 32 bit access? D D
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Well I was watching Hockey Hotline last night and Stan said that the station (KBL) had been recieving calls all day concerning this subject. And the verdict was that almost exclusively NOBODY wanted that load mouth, know it all blow hard, former Bruin whiner, Ulf Hating, scum sucking, Pr*ck of missery in Pittsbur...
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Come on, this is sci.space. An orbital billboard won't do any permanent damage; in a few years it will reenter and probably hit Los Angles anyway :-) The boost to space commerce orbital advertising might provide might speed the day it is possible for those with a yen for dark skies to get some really dark skies beyo...
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Nanao's F-Series (e.g. F550i) and T-Series (e.g. T660i) monitors are MPR-II compliant. According to my little pamphlet, the T-Series monitors are also TCO-compliant, whatever that is.
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Mark, this is the most reasonable post that I've seen in Sci. Med. on the topic of Colonic Flushing. I'm in a profession that uses manipulation(a very refined form of massage) to treat various human diseases. Proving that manipulation works has been extremely difficult(as the MD's delight in pointing out). The ...
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Anyone who thinks that TIFF is too complex hasn't dealt with CGM, ASN.1, CDA, DCA, SGML, or any one of a number of other very successful file format. People seem perfectly capable dealing with these others. Dealing with the format of TIFF is frankly less difficult than dealing with the DCT, LZW, and FAX encoding...
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There are companies (one in Canada, as I recall) which specialize in analyzing chips to understand process technology, design rules, ... to understand the probable yield of the assembly line making them, and therefore the probable current cost and possible future cost curves, given design shrinks, statistical quality ...
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With regards to what you wrote, how does one "adjust for room dynamics and stuff like that"? I asked a professor that question just last week and he didn't really know himself. Since pink noise is believed to be due to surface states (say, the surface of the Silicon where there's a lack of a covalent bond) that a...
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I would like to buy a cheap modem for my Mac. Did I mention that I would prefer it to be cheap? 2400 baud preferred, but when you're looking for cheap (and I do mean cheap) beggars can't be choosers. E-mail me.
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I think what Bob is describing here is a game which MAD magazine called 'Basebrawl'. I have no idea what issue, but it sure did cover the violence issue. paul
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Most of these are C.S. books. There are also some Math and Physics books. For books marked as "New", the condition is *perfect*. All other books are in good condition. Shipping: Buyer pays $1 per book. Here is the list: *** If you hate the prices, email me an offer... ========================================...
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Good idea, But why put all the eggs in one basket? Given that the escrow keys are generated 200 at a time on floppy disks, why not keep them there rather than creating one huge database that will have to be guarded better than Fort Knox. Give each floppy to a different bank for safekeeping. The USA has over 10,000 ...
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[TC] Do you, as I do, agree that this (sort) of "peace process" is needed? [TC] What about the particular points mentioned in the article? Is what [TC] Israel is (supposedly) going to propose "good"? Does it go too far? [TC] Not far enough? [TC] If you don't agree that a "peace process" is needed, what is? I person...
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Be fair. He did walk 6 batters in 6.1 IP. He also allowed only three hits, none for extra bases. Only one run. A pretty good outing, all told. There is no such thing as a "must win" game this early in the season. And we can always *hope* that Darwin pitches well!
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I'm also interested in info both public domain and commercial graphics library package to do PC VGA graphics. I'm currently working on a realtime application running on a PCC with a non-DOS kernel that needs to do some simple graphics. I'm not sure if reentrancy of the graphics library is going to be an issue o...
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Jim and Andy both have it incorrect I believe: The *facts* are what is there, the processes that exist in the present or the physical evidence of the processes having occured in the past. These *facts* exist with or without a theory. The *theory* tries and explains the *facts* and how they relate to the rest of the p...
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/* posted for a friend -- please reply to him */ ++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAR AMPLIFIERS FOR SALE +++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have 3 high-end car amplifiers for sale: (2) Old-Style Rockford Fosgate 150's. These are great amps, and I've never had a minute's trouble with either of them. I've been running them on...
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^^^^^^^^ Oh my god. My spelling and grammer suck. I guess I need some sleep. I said righting (instead of writing). What's the chance of that. Thank god I caught it before everyone started picking on it. I hope I didn't cause Mr.Jefferson too much shame.
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Bill Conner, meet Bill Conner.
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No, the sky does not, at this time, belong to anyone. Ownership is necessary to the definition because someone has to have the authority to decide if the action was good or bad. If neither you or I own a brick wall, then I can't unilaterally declare that spraypainting my name on it is right, and you don't have the...
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That's another sad thing. I'd expect this sort of shit from the BATF. But I'm goddamn disappointed in the FBI. They used to be professionals. --
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Our white knight for Islam rides in again! Our instant expert on religion, race and ethnicity is at the door! Stand back all. Let him through. He's going to single-handedly rescue Islam from all these dastardly mistakes, misquotes, misconceptions.
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Some time ago (about 1 month) there was a bit of discussion about a universal VESA driver for > 8bit cards. It was in the file uvesa32.zip. Well i can't find it, does anyone know where it is (gorilla.something.something.au), and what sort of cards it works for ? Also would it ...
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.. actually from Alistair Scott afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au I have come across a old external hard disk and I can't find any specs for it anywhere... It is made by NEC (yes I tried tech support.... no help), and it has a model number APC-H27C and is labelled "Expansion Hard Disk" Can anyone help me out with figuring...
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There has been no empirical evidence to support the first statement. True, there is a power surge at startup that has the potential to do damage, but the internal power supply is well-protected. (I've turned my Mac on and off six or seven times a day for three years without problem). The monitor is the same. To le...
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PEXLIB and PHIGS (as it comes from MIT with PEX and as is explained in the PHIGS Programming Manual) are just different API's for the PEX protocol, which is an extension to the X protocol. So it depends on You, what you go to use. Advantage of Phigs is the protability to other platforms (IBM GraPhigs, SunPhigs) and...
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.. ... It sounds like she has a problem. She has a problem opening up to her husband so she is lesbian. WHAT? In a marrige, a couple is supposed to open up to each other. Because she didn't feel comfortable opening up to her husband she gets a divorce and comes to the conclusion that she is lesbian. Before anyone ...
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For sale, or trade some combination for 286-16 motherboard or 2400 v.42bis Monochrome monitor, pretty generic, for IBM. 8088 motherboard, 7 Mhz, built in monochrome and color support, built in serial and parallel ports. Stick it in a robot, use it to make a cheap terminal, whatever. 5.25" internal Low density disk ...
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How fast do the fastest modems go? V.FAST is targeted for about 28kbps; 14.4kbps is ~$500, and 19.2 may be here soon too. (Remember to ignore compression figures which make your modem go faster on compressible data, because voice gets compressed better than that, and encryption makes further compression impossible...
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: worked fine.) Please note: none of the software or hardware parameters : were changed, only the phone line itself. Is my new modem faulty? What : can I do? : : -- : David Thomas Dudek / v098pwxs@ubvms.bitnet \ __ _ The Cybard I'm arguing with the phone company about a similar problem. We installed ...
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Your ignorance is hardly characteristic of most '*ians'. Sarkis Atamian explains in his book called 'The Armenian Community, New York 1955, Philosophical Library' that, according to historians, original fatherland of the Armenians was in Thessaly, Greece. Armenian invaders burned and sacked the fatherland of Ura...
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Subject sez it... Wondering if either team are in town that weekend (5-30/5-31). I can probably get Phillies tix, as the Vet can hold a bunch (and I hope they're still in 1st but it's late may, and...). Camden Yards is a problem - is there any way of getting in the park w/o an SRO ticket? Any advice if there at hom...
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Look be consistent. First you post something that seems to suggest that you see xv being an 8 bit program as some sort of error. So I post and asy it is not a bug, it is meant to be like that. So you post and say it is not a bug, you never said it was, I have misunderstood etc. Now you are saying: If you wou...
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Nice litle bike. I loved riding my brother-in-law's. ----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====----
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You would have to use something other than the AT&T black box - in other words, I don't think public key would work. The session key would have to be agreed upon prior to the conversation and distributed to all sites beforehand. Or go out and get a STU-III ;-) -- Doug Bank Private Systems...
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Texas Instruments TI-81 calculalor. Excellent scientific calculator.
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Dirty Cosar pig has been doing just that for a long, long time. Source: "Ahmet Cosar said to have been part of 1992 Terror Attack at MacDonalds in Munich," The Fuckersville Reporter, February 7, 1993, p. 1. "Le Merde, the influential Anatolia daily, based on unidentified sources, claimed last week that Ahmet Cosar,...
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... I believe that my former employer Hughes Aircraft Company has a working Ion Propulsion system for satellites.
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Hi, Terry. Its me again. I couldn't agree with you more. I finally received my Datadesk keyboard a month after sendng it to Datadesk to have it checked. They didn't tell me over the phone that you had to wait before pressing the shift key to disable extensions. Actually, they did, but not until a day before my keyboar...
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I have tested both vehicles (identically equipped), both for week-long periods. Curiously (and consider these are test vehicles), I found the Mercury higher in build quality than the Nissan. Either choice is good, but beware that I did not experience reasonable mileage with the V6. Average city driving was <15mpg, wi...
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Ensoniq SQ-80 Cross-Wave Synthesizer: I have an SQ-80 for sale. The SQ-80 is a powerful performance oriented synth with a limited on-board sequencer. I bought it because it has a very large timbral repertoire; it seems to do meaty analog synth sounds as well as sounds that are considerably more "digital". Below are ...
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I would like to sell my PS/2 Model 50, with its Kingston SX/Now! 33MHz processor, a Cyrix FasMath coprocessor (CPU/FPU LandMark scores of 46.6MHz/107.8MHz), 8 Meg (9 Meg total) on a AST Advantage/2 board (0 wait state), original 20 Meg hard drive, and a very fast Adaptec 1640 SCSI controller card (worth around $300...
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I just ordered my 4DX2-66V system from Gateway. Thanks for all the net discussions which helped me decide among all the vendors and options. Right now, the 4DX2-66V system includes 16MB of RAM. The 8MB upgrade used to cost an additional $340.
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NHL PLAYOFF RESULTS FOR 4/20/93. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS BEST OF SEVEN PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE NJ BUF (leads 2-0) STL (leads 1-0) WIN ...
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Hi Fellows, I Still have got bunch of 386DX-25 Intel cpu and 387DX-25 Intel coprocessors. Buy a SET for $79 + $5.00 for shipping. Individually 80386DX-25 = $42 + $5.00 = $47.00 and 80387DX-25 = $42 + $5.00 = $47.00 If interested, respond here or call 408/942-9690 Fax 408/942-9693
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I found this little gem, I don't know if anyone has any interest/comments... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, I'm a commited Christian that is battling with a problem. I know that romans talks about how we are saved by our faith not our deeds, ...
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We cannot isolate completely, Roger, but we can make a pretty good estimate. I won't claim to split hairs and say that we can really measure who was better, Robby Alomar or Carlos Baerga, last year; the difference is too close to call. But Larkin and Lee? Clemens and Morris? The differences are too great there. In yo...
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Just saw a new commercial(?) by the NRA. It starts out with a bunch of politicians talking about how to get rid of crime. They finally realize that they need to put criminals away longer but there isn't enough jail space so they decide on another gun law.( During this whole seen there quoteing various statistics on ho...
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YAHOOOOOOOOO! The Habs tied this sucker at 2 and the teams now head for Quebec City to play game 5. BTW, final score was Habs 3-Nords 2. The score might be a bit misleading. The Habs dominated the game from the 5:00 mark of the first and then on. The score should have been 8-2 if it weren't for some miraculous sav...
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My father is a huge Tiger fan, and I am a loyal Blue Jay fan, who endured the collapse of 87, the heartbreak of 85. I don't have the stat book, so let's throw them out. First of all, Morris in his heyday (81-88) vs Clemens (86-present). How many Cy Youngs does Morris have? How many Cy youngs does Clemens have? B...
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amen.. I too have learned by example, specifically yours. :) .. but dorsai leads the way.. Unlike other services that are commercial in nature, dorsai is a community based service. While others charge monthly fees for access, dorsai accepts donations from those who can afford to contribute. While other systems ...
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We know that sermon. It is posted roughly every month or so by different persons, and that doesn't make it any better. How did you get the idea that skeptics are closed-minded? Why don't you consider the possibility that they came to their conclusions by the proper methods? Besides, one can come to a conclusion wi...
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However valuable, this discussion does NOT belong on comp.org.acm or on comp.org.ieee. Please edit your followups to include only the appropriate newsgroups.
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# ## Can someone tell me why when Mr. Cramer spouts on about homosexuals, # ## he only addresses homosexual men, and never, in any post I've read, # ## addressed lesbians? # # # #I can't really speak for Mr. Cramer here, but I can say that a # #homosexual [male] is an entirely different animal than a lesbian. # #There ...
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: I agree, I had a hard feeling not believing my grand-grand mother : who told me of elves dancing outside barns in the early mornings. : I preferred not to accept it, even if her statement provided : the truth itself. Life is hard. Kent, Truly a brilliant rebuttal. Apparently you are of the opinion that ridicule i...
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No, the Grand canyon is not too far away. Short side trips to Kolob (between Cedar City and Hurricane) and Pipe Springs (on the way from Hurricane to the Grand Canyon) may be interesting--they are right off the highway. Pipe Springs (a small fort) gives you real insight into just how the pioneers lived. You have mis...
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It's actually a bug in the Solaris 2.1 kernel. We could add a workaround to xterm. open should never return EINVAL, but it does :-( I didn't have time to update the R5.SunOS5 patch lately, but non of the existing problems seem to warrant a new set of patches. XDM coulda also keep the XDM environment variable. It ...
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I have the following machine for sale: Zenith 386, 20MHz machine 40 MB Hard disk 3.5 inch 1.44 MB Floppy drive 5.25 1.2 MB Floppy drive 2 MB of RAM VGA card ZCM 1492 FTM (Flat Tension Mask) VGA Color monitor Flat screen , Non-Glare 101 Key Keyboard, 2 Serial ports, 1 Parallel port Original manuals th...
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Yes a flotation tank, combined with floride breathing water(REF: the Abyss breathing solution I think).. also the right position of the astronaut and strapping you can probably get much more than 45gs in an accesloration.. More like near 100g (or somewhat less).. Saw I book called the "Time Master" (I thjink that wa...
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You are right, Michael. In John 3:5, Jesus says, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit." That's really what He said, and He meant it. That verse is the definition of baptism. I don't have the law book in front of me, but there is a canon law that urg...
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Hi ! I am trying to develop a utility to view WORD for window file. But to do that I need to know the format of the DOC ( word for window file format ) files.Can anybody tell me what is the format of DOC file or direct me where can I get it. Or is it proprietory format ? Your help is greatly appriciated.
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Which 486 CPU will give the better performance on math intensive programs, a 486-66 DX2 or a 486-50 DX? Thanks in advance,
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