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Picture if you will, the Habs going into the last couple minutes of the game, leading 2-0. The Nords get a power play, pull Hextall, and get a goal. Bout a minute later, they get another one. Then they win in overtime...... A bad dream?....... How's that Red Hot Chili Peppers song go... "Give it away,give it away,...
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Vancouver, British Columbia) _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 4, 1993 PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT ...
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What I've been saying is that moral behavior is likely the null behavior. That is, it doesn't take much work to be moral, but it certainly does to be immoral (in some cases). Also, I've said that morality is a remnant of evolution. Our moral system is based on concepts well practiced in the animal kingdom. But, t...
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Local to the Joe Louis Arena? You mean local to Olympia Stadium, where Red Wings games were played until fairly recently (early 80s comes to mind). As far as I know, the rest of the post is basically correct. If what you meant by local was simply Detroit and I'm being incredibly picky, okay, sorry about that.
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So, how did you guys *learn* this? Is it something you were born with, or did you make horrible grinding noises the first few times? (how many times?) I would think you'd have to have a certain amount of "feel" for it to begin with. Some people would never get it, and others (like me) would never have the...
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This past winter I found myself spending a ridiculous amout of time in front of my computer. Since my eyes were going berserk, I decided to shell out some serious money to upgrade from a 14" to a 17" monitor. I'm running 800x600 at 72 Hz. My eyes are very grateful. However, I find myself using a smaller font with l...
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Getting back to the original question in this thread: I experienced breathing difficulties a few years ago similar to those described. In my case, it turned out that I was developing Type I diabetes. Although I never sought direct confirmation of this from my doctor, I think that the breathing problem was associated...
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BOAT For SALE 1989 23' IMPERIAL FISHERMAN featuring Walkaround Cuddy Cabin, 305 V8 with VOLVO DUO PROP OUTDRIVE /\/\/\/ AM-FM Cassette Stereo, VHF RADIO, 4x6 HUMMINGBIRD Fishfinder, ALL Safty equipment, Covers, and MUCH MORE. 18000 LB. Capacity includes Storage Trailer Hardly used: ...
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Subject says it all. Do any exist? Are they shareware? Where? Phil Trodwell
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# # "labor" is a tough one. Labor is defined, economically, as the efforts, # # both mental and physical, of humans. Capital is defined as intermediate # # goods used to create other goods and services. Now, if a slave is considered # # an intermediate good, then the slave has now been dehumanized and is # # simply a ...
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The XDM on Solaris 2.1 *WAS* broke. Since two weeks, Sun distributes a patched release, which works fine (supports /etc/shadow and all). We have it up and running ever since and have not experienced any problems. Call your local Sun rep. Dick.
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That's an interesting statement. There's quite a difference between Hollywood's "Old West" and the real one. Yes, there were drunks, saloons, mining camps, and thugs. However, as McGrath showed, the thugs preyed almost exclusively on one another. McGrath claims that this was due to the fact that no one much cared ...
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Mel is alive and well and playing in Japan. (The Yanks let him go because he was asking for too much money, and because they thought that they were going to get Barry Bonds, making Hall obsolete. Oopsie! Well, at least they got O'Neill to replace the Mel-man). --I'm outta here like Vladimir! -Alan
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Whoah whoah whoah WHOAH!!! What?!? That last paragraph just about killed me. The Deuterocanonicals have ALWAYS been accepted as inspired scripture by the Catholic Church, which has existed much longer than any Protestant Church out there. It was Martin Luther who began hacking up the bible and deciding ...
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I'm told that corn allergy is fairly common. My wife has it and it seems to be exacerbated if sugar is eaten with the corn. I suppose that in a person just on the verge of having epilepsy, an allergic reaction might cause a seizure, but I don't really know. Gordon?
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I've recently got hold of a PC with an S3 card in it, and I'd like to do some C programming with it, are there any libraries out there that will let me access the high resolution modes available via Borland Turbo C?
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[..] This statement simply amazes me! "Through no fault of ATF, the element of surprise was lost"! What element of surprise? In the paragraph preceding this one, he said "... the special agents announced who they were and their purpose for being at the compound", which was to serve the federal warrant. No el...
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Better yet, instead of thrashing around on the DOS file system, take it a step further. Write yourself a minimal "file system" program that is used to create/delete files, en/decrypt them to ramdisk, list a directory. Put the util, password protected, on a floppy. The catch is that the storage space used by ...
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There is no such thing as "completely secure," especially when dealing with High Technology. It's all a question of cost: what cost are you willing to bear to protect your information vs. what rewards the "bad guys" are going to get if they break it. The rewards of breaking such a single ID system would be high i...
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My fiance has a pc-junior and wants to upgrade to a full 386. Does anyone know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine? I heard it's MCGA or EGA, but not sure which. Also, does it use cards, so we can use the drive controller, floppy, etc? Thanks for the help! -Bryan
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It just goes to show that not all evangelical fundamentalists are pharisitical! I wear a black leather jacket, like classic rock, but no longer have the long locks I once had. However, I too rely upon the Bible as a basis for Christian ethics.
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Hmmm... people in the americas before the time of Christ, children who die young, etc. ? But of course, the popular conception of hell (correct or incorrect) is something akin to eternal perpetuation of consciousness, at the very least. I think a good number of atheists believe there is nothing bey...
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I have a '71 Buick Skylark with 148K on it. I bought it in California, and if it'll let me, I'd like to keep it for another year. The only problem is these Indiana winters--my heater controls don't work. The car has vacuum operated control switches for the vents. Right now it is stuck in the "vent" mode. It will b...
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Why not? Ford owns Aston-Martin and Jaguar, General Motors owns Lotus and Vauxhall. Rover is only owned 20% by Honda. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I have been trying to compile some source code for a mpeg animation viewer for X Windows. I got the code from a ftp site. I have modified the Makefile as they instructed, no errors there. What happens is that I get the following message when everything is going to be linked: cc util.o video.o parseblock.o motionvec...
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The traditions of the church hold that all the "apostles" (meaning the 11 surviving disciples, Matthias, Barnabas and Paul) were martyred, except for John. "Tradition" should be understood to read "early church writings other than the bible and heteroorthodox scriptures".
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I am looking out for an inexpensive fax modem card for PC. If you have one to sell, please e-mail
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Just a question. As a provider of a public BBS service - aren't you bound by law to gurantee intelligble access to the data of the users on the BBS, if police comes with sufficent authorisation ? I guessed this would be a basic condition for such systems. (I did run a bbs some time ago, but that was in Switzerland) ...
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A brain abscess is an infection deep in the brain substance. It is hard to cure with antibiotics, since it gets walled off, and usually, it needs surgical drainage. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intell...
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Here are the standings after game 1 of each of the divisional semi-finals. (Hey, look who's #4!) I'll try to post the standings after "each game" (i.e. every two days). I managed to recover the email lost up to Saturday night, so all I'm missing is mail that arrived between early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon...
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I have a problem with intersections between two surfaces. Does anybody have a easy to understand algorithm for that or maybe even C source??
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Hello everybody, I am searching for (business) information of Windows application, to create a TOP-30 of most used WordProcessors, Spreadsheets, Drawing programs, Schedulers and Fax programs, etc.. Please mail me all your information or references. I will summaries the results on this media. Thank you in advance, ...
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If you need just to change the wallpaper, then I've written a short program in VB that does this by using SystemParametersInfo-function. The bad news is that you need VBRUN200.DLL to run it, and the DLL is some 350kb (the program is about 7kb). The order of pictures depends on the system date and the number of BMP-fi...
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Had an '83 Alliance for a long time. It was a comfortable but sluggish car. I got very used to the horn on the stalk, after a couple months worth of getting used to it. After I bought my next car, a Chevy, it took me for-EVER to get used to the horn on the steering wheel again! jim grey jwg@acd4.acd.com
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good job to whoever posted the article. I'd been saving that NYTimes edition for a while, planning to ytpe it in myself, but now I don't have to. For all of those people who were worried about whether or not the media would even question the raid, we owe it to the NY Times (despite their rabidly anti-gun editorials) ...
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So I should be very comfortable that 500,000,000 people want to convert me to Islam. Or, to convert me to ANYTHING. There are many types of violence, physical murder is only one. 'Trying' to convert is an insult. It's like trying to tell me that me and/or my God/my lack of God are just crap, that I need a new, '...
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[Note: I just tried to figure this stuff out about a month ago myself, from various people on the net, so I could be wrong.] The data is only ever read once (barring mistracks and such, of course), and eventually gets turned into 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, two channel data. Oversampling takes two discrete data points, and int...
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demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer) writes... First, people should be aware that Brett's (no last name listed) posts on bit.listserv.politics indicate that he has been hostile toward GM's hiring policies and to the Moseley verdict when it came out. Equal opportunity disagreement, I guess. :-) My guess,...
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In NY City, the number to dial is 958... It seems to be different in different areas.
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I don't claim to be an expert on the branch Davidians, but I might know more than most. The Branch Davidian group (led by Koresh) is actually one of two off-shoots of a group known as the Shephard's Rod. The Shephard's Rod (now defunct as far as I know)broke off from the SDA Church in the 30's. The Shephard's Ro...
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This is fascinating. Atheists argue for abortion, defend homosexuality as a means of population control, insist that the only values are biological and condemn war and capital punishment. According to Benedikt, if something is contardictory, it cannot exist, which in this case means atheists I suppose. I would like to ...
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All right. Not saying I know any more than the average salesguy, I'll give your question a shot. The key issue that I bought my BJ-200 on was ink drying speed. You really have to try awful hard to get the BJ-200 ink to smear. The HP DeskJets need 10-15 seconds to completely dry. In both cases, howeve...
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In fairness, we should note that if you look up "speculum" in the dictionary (which I did when this question first surfaced), the first definition is "a mirror or polished metal plate used as a reflector in optical instruments." Which doesn't mean the name fits in this context, but it's not as far off as you might th...
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As usual, David Sternlight is demonstrating his inability to read. The proposal clearly states: => The initiative will involve the creation of new products to => accelerate the development and use of advanced and secure => telecommunications networks and wireless communications links. It speaks about telecommunicat...
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For those of you with motorcycles of the liquid-cooled persuasion, what brand of coolant do you use and why? I am looking for aluminum-safe coolant, preferably phosphate-free, and preferably cheaper than $13/gallon. (Can you believe it: the Kaw dealer wants $4.95 a QUART for the Official Blessed Holy Kawasaki Coolant...
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Mr. Freeman: Please find something more constructive to do with your time rather than engaging in fantasy..... Not that I have a particular affinty to Arafat or anything. John
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There has been NO hard info provided about MSG making people ill. That's the point, after all. That's because these "peer-reviewed" studies are not addressing the effects of MSG in people, they're looking at animal models. You can't walk away from this and start ranting about gloom and doom as if there were any docu...
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I think you are too optimistic! PostScript is a very big language and so the fig format can not be able to be an interpreter of ANY arbitrary ps code. The only program I know to manipulate PostScript files is IslandDraw. I for myself use xfig and include the PostScript files (converted to epsi format). Small changes th...
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If the first rule of humor is never having to say you're sorry then the second rule must be never having to explain yourself. Few things are worse that a joke explained. In spite of this, and because of requests for me to post my list o' nicknames, I must admit that no such list exists. It was simply a plot devic...
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(Reasoning pertinent to believing Xians deleted for space) It strikes me, for no apparent reason, that this is reversible. I.e., if I had proof that there existed a hell, in which I would be eternally punished for not believing in life, would that make me a Xian? (pardon my language) _Bloody_hell_no_! ...
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: [ . . . . . ] : : Personally, I feel that since religion have such a poweful : psychological effect, we should let theists be. But the problem is that : religions cause enormous harm to non-believers and to humanity as a whole : (holy wars, inquisitions, inter-religious hatred, impedence of science : & intellectual...
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^^^ what the hell is 'ios'? Fix your own typos before you blame others....
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[FAQ and Darius' response deleted] I am myself an SDA and I am in total agreement with what Darius has to say. I also worship on Saturday to honor the Lord. Your mention of "[esteeming] all days alike" IMO has to do with the fast days observed by the Jews. But no matter how you interpret that passage, I do ac...
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I hope you're not going to flame him. Please give him the same coutesy you' ve given me.
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I just implemented this and it seems I can just about achieve the display rates (20 400x400x8 frames / sec on IPX) that I get with Sunview, though it's a bit "choppy" at times. Also, loading the data, making an XImage, then XPut'ing it into a pixmap is a bit cumbersome, so the animation is slower to load than with Sun...
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The Yammie Deltabox and the Hawk frame are conceptually similar but Yammie has a TM on the name. The Hawk is a purer 'twin spar' frame design: investment castings at steering head and swing arm tied together with aluminum extruded beams. The Yammie solution is a bit more complex.
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As usual, you are missing the whole point, Russell, because you are not willing to even consider questionning your basic article of faith, which is that science is merely a matter of methodology and that the highest purpose of science is to avoid making mistakes. This is like saying that the most important aspect o...
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The Pens are now being broadcast on 102.5 WDVE.
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Their should be no difference in the drive itself between IBM-PC and Mac. The two main differences are the formatting of the disk itself (but with the correct software each can read the others) and maybe the cable (depends on your SCSI board on IBM-PC). If you get some Mac softawre to allow mounting of ANY IBM-fo...
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Your speculation that the two proven veterans will produce better than Lopez is also no more than speculation. It *does* make a difference whether the speculation is well-founded or not. Though this is a good point. The one speculation is "safer", because it can be reversed.
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: I was posting to Alt.locksmithing about the best methods for securing : a motorcycle. I got several responses referring to the Cobra Lock : (described below). Has anyone come across a store carrying this lock : in the Chicago area? : : Any other feedback from someone who has used this? What about the new Yamaha ...
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I wholeheartedly agree. Knowing that WE have let our law enforcement agencies seize our property against the Fifth Amendment of OUR Constitution tells me that we are absolving ourselves of our responsibility for SELF-GOVERNANCE. WE have to take our government back from the self-serving politicians who create laws an...
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They don't have a conflict because technically LPT1: does not use IRQ7!. The Parallel printer processor (the actual number escapes me) contains a printer control register which enables the chip to transmit an interrupt to the interrupt controller as IRQ7, then onto the main processor as Int 0x0F. By default the pa...
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Steve, If the Israelis are stupid enough to "allow" a second "Palestinian" state (the first one is Jordon), then you will probably get your wish - and the Israelis would get what's coming to them. However, if the "Palestinians" were to somehow demonstrate that they could govern themselves AND live in peace with the...
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--Minnesota definitely deserves an NHL franchise!!! You'll see the Minnesota Whalers pretty soon, so fear not Minnesota fans. No Norm Green, 'cept for the team color (sorry, bad pun!) --What a difference two years makes! Minnesota finished 29-37-14 in 1992 and made the finals. They finish with a better recor...
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OK, I'll join in the fun and give my playoff predictions: 1st round: ---------- PITT vs NYI: PITT in 4. WASH vs NJD: WASH in 6. BOS vs BUF: BOS in 5. QUE vs MON: MON in 7. CHI vs STL: CHI in 4. DET vs TOR: DET in 6. VAN vs WIN: WIN in 6. CAL vs LA: CAL in 5. 2nd round: ---------- PIT...
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The FLYERS blew a 3-0 lead over the Buffalo Sabres in the second period, but Kevin Dineen's 7th career hat trick powered them to their 7th consecutive win, 7-4 over the Sabres who have now lost 7 in a row. Alexander Mogilny led the comeback scoring his 75th and 76th goals of the season which tied the game at 3 in the 2...
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[all kinds of unacceptably racist drivel deleted] And after that we find the man has absolutely nothing to say. Richard J. Rauser, you are a dishonourable little man. caustically, when necessary, rm
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Kerry-- I'm guessing a little at this, because it's been a few years since I saw the info, but you will probably want to look at Air Defense Artillery as a specialty, or possibly Signals. The kind of thing you're looking for is SDI-type assignments, but it'll be pretty prosaic stuff. Things like hard-kill ATBM mi...
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[all deleted...] Sam Zbib's posting is so confused and nonsensical as not to warrant a reasoned response. We're getting used to this, too.
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<lots more deleted> I think the hangup with digital scopes is that you have to know so much more about them and how they work on a scope-by-scope basis, and some of the functions are typically presented, in my opinion, in a counter-intuitive fashion (HP has made some strides in their 54600 series, IMO). Automatic set...
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The system, or 'family', key would appear to be cryptographically useless, since *every* chip must know it and be able to remove its effects from the bitstream. I daresay that it will be widely known almost immediately after this system is deployed, and since it's been pointed out that there is not a separate decrypt ...
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stuff deleted stuff deleted The problem mentioned last is a known Quadra SCSI problem, it was heavily discussed last year and an Apple employee pointed out that there was a one byte error in the SCSI driver routine for the Quadra's (at least the 700 and 900). System 7.1 should not have that problem, for most people t...
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This morning a truck that had been within my sight (and I within his) for about 3 miles suddenly forgot that I existed and pulled over right on me -- my front wheel was about even with the back edge of his front passenger door as I was accelerating past him. It was trivial enough for me to tap the brakes and slide beh...
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Hi, I found what I believe is an undocumented feature in my windows directory, Microsoft Diagnostics, ver 2.00. I am specifically interested in a more in depth explanation of the legends in the memory mapping report. Thanks.
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Usually when I start up an application, I first get the window outline on my display. I then have to click on the mouse button to actually place the window on the screen. Yet when I specify the -geometry option the window appears right away, the properties specified by the -geometry argument. The question now is: How...
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Archive-name: x-faq/speedups Last-modified: 1993/4/15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF X -- monthly posting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Compiled by Art Mulder (art@cs.ualberta.ca) More RAM, Fa...
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Darryl Strawberry's moon shots were fun! He can hit those high and far home runs that if he actually ran them out he'd be rounding second base by the time they landed. We used to say that he should have to file a flight plan at LaGuardia for some of them. Then _Bull_Durham_ came out and that was changed. :-) On ho...
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A person posted certain stuff to this newsgroup, which were highly selected quotes stripped of their context. Here is the complete posting which was quoted (lacking the context of other postings in which it was made): Probably within 50 years, it will be possible to disassemble and re-assemble our bodies at the mol...
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There is X for the Amiga, but it'll cost you. GfxBase Inc., owned by Dale Luck, one of the original Amiga architects, sells X for the Amiga. There are many options available, including Motif. Call 'em and get the scoop. GfxBase Inc. 1881 Ellwell Drive Phone: 408-262-1469 Milpitas, CA 95035 Fax: 408-262-...
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Hello, I just bought a copy. I can't disagree that it is a very good book. But unfortunately I was looking for the same graphics feature described in this book but _NOT_ in 640x480x16 or 320x200x256 mode. It is easy to accomodate all the pixel "descriptor" (or color attributes) in those modes into A0000-AFFFFF, b...
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<I might have a need in the future to display rotated text. I noticed the <"xvertext" package on the net. It looks very good, but it has one slight <problem. The API to it assumes you have a font name, not an already loaded <font. It shouldn't be too difficult to split up the function into two <interface routines, ...
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Sounds more like an Opel GT. Neat cars, fun to drive. Sold through Buick from 196? through 1973 (if I remember correctly). I believe it was in '72 that there were some engine mods made such that parts were not interchangeable with the older models. Parts are thus much harder to come by for the later models. Part...
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First off, let me congratulate you for not posting a flame about "You sick perverts, you are immoral, you are all going to hell.", which seems to be the usual "religious" post found on the alt.sex.* hierarchy. Hopefully, you won't get flamed, either. You will, however, be argued with. I personally think that your p...
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10 month old stereo system for sale. Luxman R-351 receiver, Onkyo TA-RW404 tape deck, and Polk Monitor M4.6 book shelf speakers are for sale. Receiver has 5 year warranty, and all equipment is in excellent condition. Paid $950 for the system and willing to consider the best offer. Will sell seperate pieces also if desi...
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Replying to A.J. Teel: Well, the two nifty letters giving concrete proof that the Income Tax is voluntary and giving specific procedures for stopping withholding, et cetera have been out there for a while now. Humbug. Those letters don't provide "concrete proof" of anything at all in the absence of any case law ...
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I'm not sure if this is free or shareware, but you can try to look to wsmrsimtel20.army.mil, directory PD1:<MSDOS.DESKPUB> file OCR104.ZIP . From the file SIMIBM.LST : OCR104.ZIP B 93310 910424 Optical character recognition for scanners. Hope this helps.
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peter.m@insane.apana.org.au (Peter Tryndoch) writes... Yes there is. Not common for CB. The pattern is different (sort of a cloverleaf, with four main lobes. Use of anything under 1/4 wave for transmitting is very uncommon. (The usual "rubber duck" uses a coil to fool itself into looking like a quarter wave. ...
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. . . ESPN had the Houston Astros @ Chicago Cubs game scheduled for last night on the west coast. Since the game was rained out, they showed the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Detroit Red Wings game instead.
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We tried to ship an X server once that only supported a 24bit TrueColor visual. The main problems we encountered were: 1) Clients written with logic like the following: if (DefaultDepth() != 1) /* Assume default depth is 8bit */ These clients need an 8bit deep visual in the root window to run correc...
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One of the things I find intersting about pagan beliefs is their belief in a feminine deity as well as a masculine deity. Being brought up in a Christian household, I often wondered if there was God the Father, where was the mother? Everyone I know who has a father usually as a mother. It just seemed rather unbalance...
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Here's one I hope some knowledgeable readers will make a comment or contribution to: In the State of Virginia radar detectors are illegal, period. If you are caught with one it will be confiscated on the spot and will not be returned until after you appear in court and pay your fine. The fine for having a radar dete...
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Evidence given for her prostitute status, besides the admittedly questionable claim of the man on trial included: 1. Prior employment in a number of massage parlors, with women who claimed that she worked as a prostitute; 2. Walking around a truck stop at 4:00 AM wearing a lace miniskirt, a halter top, and no under...
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Also remember that every dollar spent keeping one spacecraft in safe mode (probably a spin-stabilized sun-pointing orientation) is a dollar not spent on mission analysis for a newer spacecraft. In order to turn the spacecraft back on, you either need to insure that the Ops guys will be available, or you need to retra...
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A silly question: I frequently edit small files and need to make copies of them on several floppy diskettes of the same size and format, but my computer is only equipped with one 3.5" HD drive and one 5.25" HD drive; can't I do the copying without swapping files temporarily to my hard disk (which is 99.9% full) using s...
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Canada's GST is collected as a sales tax and is considered a VAT. Funnily, the previous hidden wholesale tax that it replaces was never referred to as a tax (or, people never paid mind to it, thus the uproar when it was brought up front as the GST --- one party has actually campaigned on hiding the tax again). The s...
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Yes, and what about Paul saying: 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (Ephesians 4:26). Obviously then, we can be angry w/o sinning. Jon ------------------------------------------------ Jon Ogden - jono@mac-ak-24.rtsg.mot.com Motorola Cellular - Advanced Products Division V...
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