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The Command Loss Timer is a timer that does just what its name says; it indicates to the probe that it has lost its data link for receiving commands. Upon expiration of the Command Loss Timer, I believe the probe starts a 'search for Earth' sequence (involving antenna pointing and attitude changes which consume fue...
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I'm making a customized paint program in DOS and need an algorithm for reading bitmap files like GIF, PCX, or BMP. Does anyone have such an algorithm? I've tried copying one out of a book for reading .PCX format but it doesn't work. I will take an algorithm for any format that can be created from Windows Paint. Th...
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Has anybody out there used/tested these new Fluke Scopemeters? How do they compare to a low-end Tectronix oscilloscope? Are there any big drawbacks about these handheld scopes when compared to the benchtop scopes of the same price range ($1000-$2000)? Any info on the Fluke Scopemeters would be greatly appreciated. Th...
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Losers like us? You are the fucking moron who has never heard of the Western Business School, or the University of Western Ontario for that matter. Why don't you pull your head out of your asshole and smell something other than shit for once so you can look on a map to see where UWO is! Back to hockey, the North Star...
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Really? I don't get it... Genesis first says that God created the earth, then the animals, then humans; then it turns around and says that humans were created before animals! How can you escape this contradiction?
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Archive-name: x-faq/part1 Last-modified: 1993/04/04 This article and several following contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) often seen in comp.windows.x. It is posted to help reduce volume in this newsgroup and to provide hard-to-find information of general interest. Please redistribute t...
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Sort of a "Mrs. O'Leary's" tank theory? Moooo.
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One thing that I haven't seen in this thread is a discussion of the relation between IBD inflammation and the profile of ingested fatty acids (FAs). I was diagnosed last May w/Crohn's of the terminal ileum. When I got out of the hospital I read up on it a bit, and came across several studies investigating the role of ...
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I am developing an X (Xt,Xm) application that will include a graphics window of some sort with moving symbols among other things. A pure X application could be implemented with Motif widgets, one of which would be an XmDrawingArea for drawing with Xlib. But I would like to take advantage of the Graphics Library (GL)...
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I edited a few newsgroup from that line (don't like to crosspost THAT much). I can't compare the two, but I recently got an HP DeskJet 500. I'm very pleased with the output (remember that I'm used to imagens, laser and postscript printers at school -- looks very good. You have to be careful to let it dry before touc...
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_TOO_ many.
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And, had not these citizens accepted the moral responsibility to protect their own lives, there could well have been at least 13 innocent victims lying dead and several criminals still out walking the streets perpetrating their crimes on others.
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Also, if someone would recommend another Try looking at the Brainstorm Accelerator for the Plus. I believe it is the best solution because of the performance and price. Why spend $800 upgrading a computer that is only worth $300 ???? The brainstorm accelerator is around $225. It speeds up the internal clock speed...
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Let me begin by saying I think this is the world's first religion to use the net as its major recruitment medium. Therefore, even if this religion does not take off, its founding members will be very important historically as this method of soliciting membership will eventually become common. The basis of this relig...
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I've had exactly the same problems in Aldus Freehand. I think autotracing is one of those "features" that barely works, but everybody feels compelled to throw it in because the other guys are doing it. :)
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First of all, realize that Tesla invented AC power generators, motors, transformers, conductors, etc. Technically, *ALL* transformers are Tesla coils. In general though when someone refers to a Tesla coil, they mean an "air core resonant transformer". The TV flyback version Tesla coil (see the _Encyclopedia_of_Electr...
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Okay here is what I have so far: Have a group (any size, preferibly small, but?) send a human being to the moon, set up a habitate and have the human(s) spend one earth year on the moon. Does that mean no resupply or ?? Need to find atleast $1billion for prize money. Contest open to different classes of participant...
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GAME(S) OF 4/15 --------------- ADIRONDACK 6 CDI 2 (Adirondack leads series, 1-0) ================================================= FIRST ROUND Springfield Indians vs Providence Bruins Gm 1: Springfield 3 PROVIDENCE 2 Gm 2: Springfield 5 PROVIDENCE 4 Gm 3: 4/16 Providence at Springfield Gm 4: 4/17 Providence ...
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Had a deal with Jay Hayes from Deleware and was ripped off do not deal with this guy and if you know him go to his door with a bat! He lives in Deleware and I will post his full address later as well as his phone number in case any on e else wants to call and leave nasty messages. He will not return email and he will n...
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Okay DoD'ers, here's a goddamn mystery for ya ! Today I was turning a 90 degree corner just like on any other day, but there was a slight difference- a rough spot right in my path caused the suspension to compress in mid corner and some part of the bike hit the ground with a very tangible "thunk". I pulled over at f...
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I know you said E-mail preferred but because this is a common problem with WPWin I'll post it here.
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The federal civil rights trial against the four LA police officers accused of violating Rodney King's civil rights is now history: Lawrence Powell: guilty Stacey Coons: guilty Theodore Brazenio: innocent Timothy Wind: innocent Sentencing slated for mid August, appeals expected. So far, all is calm in L...
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According to the hockey gurus over at ESPN, should the Islanders win tonite the two teams will have the same record, but the Devils will be playing the Penguins. This is because the Islanders have won the season series against the Devils. I think the rules for deciding a tie breaker include: 1. season series 2. go...
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just a random passing thought, but can anyone cite a documented use of encryption technology by criminals and terrorists. (Excluding the Iran-Contra Gang) -- Shaun P. Hughes sphughes@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
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sorta. '88 Honda Hawk YMMV.
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Probably, law enforcement people (Park Service Police and D.C. cops), who will use aerial photographs and extrapolate based on the density of the crowd in small regions. These sort of techniques derive from Army Intelligence and CIA methods of estimating troop strength, and tend to be methodologically skewed to alwa...
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What you need is a hardware router such as EtherRoute/TCP made by Compatable Systems ($1400). This will allow you to connect your Localtalk network (4 Macs) to your Ethernet network (NeXT and Ethernet Mac). It will route TCP/IP protocol between the two networks. Software routers are also available for less money,...
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As far as I know, they did; my new Mac came with one yesterday... (And I got my ergonomic keyboard, on order for three months, the other day, too!) Cheers, / h+ -- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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I simply wish to thank Dave Mielke (dave@bnr.ca) for sharing the tract concerning God's love. It was most welcome to me and a great source of comfort.
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: Help: I am running some sample problems from O'Reilly volume 4, : Xt Intrisics Programming Manual, chapter 3. popup : dialog boxes and so on. : : In example 3.5, page 76 : "Creating a pop-up dialog box" : : The application creates window with a button "Quit" and "Press me". : The button "Press me" pops up a dialog ...
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Does anybody know where I can get, via anonymous ftp or otherwise, a PostScript driver for the graphics libraries GINO verison 3.0A ? We are runnining on a VAX/VMS and are looking for a way outputing our plots to a PostScript file... Thanks in advance...
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[ ... questions omitted ... ] Funny you should mention it, but I've heard these questions time and again, also. Why just the other day, a couple neo-Nazis by UCLA were passing out literature like this. Cheers, Steve
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I'm greatly in need of Jurgen Moltmann's book God in Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation. If you have a copy you're willing to part with, I'd love to hear from you soon. You may call me at 312-702- 8367 or e-mail me. Thanks.
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> I realize I'm entering this discussion rather late, but I do > have one question. Wasn't it a Reagan appointee, James Watt, a > pentacostal christian (I think) who was the secretary of the > interior who saw no problem with deforestation since we were > "living in the last days" and ours would be the last ge...
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Could you describe in more detail the above procedure? I've never heard about it. And yes, if they pierced you with the needles you probably should have protested. euclid
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--- Received from EEI.EEIIHY 353-1-2800455 93-04-26 12.28 -> VAX.XPERT..EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU..INET -: - - - - - - - - - - > MAIL USER IN VAX AND INTERNET help
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Don't you GUYS think so? I mean, c'mon! What the heck are women doing even THINKING of getting into baseball. They cause so many problems. Just look at Lisa Olson. Remember that feisty reporter that entered the New England Patriots locker room? She started crying like a LITTLE GIRL! I just don't think women belo...
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[William Christie asked about the Essene NT. Andrew Kille reponded --clh]
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ITEMS FOR SALE - PRICE LISTED OR BEST OFFER!!!!!!! KFC SVGA Monitor 1024X768 .28DP Non-interlaced 14" Screen, still under warranty! (Brand New) $ 290.00 1200 Baud Compuadd Modem Box/docs/software $ 20.00 CGA Monitor with Cga/Parallel Card $ 30.00 SCO UNIX V3.2.2 Unlimited User OS...
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They certainly are until the Arabs make peace. Only the most leftist/Arabist lunatics call upon Israel to withdraw now. Most moderates realize that an Israeli withdrawl will be based on the Camp David/242/338/Madrid formulas which make full peace a prerequisite to territorial concessions.
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There are several ways in which one can choose to intrepret any constitutational issue : (a) Original intent (b) Subjectively intrepreted accordiong to political whims of the day. If we use original intent as the basis for intrepreting the constitution, it is clear that the founding fathers intended that th...
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For sale -------- STR-AV1070 Audio Receiver ------------------------- 120 Watts per channel Dolby Surround sound with Pro Logic Learning Programmable remote 10 Watts per channel for surround sound Supports Dual Room Link Control (to hear another source in a different room) Index filing of all radio stations 7 band equ...
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[stuff deleted] Actually, it does make a reasonable amount of sense. Fixed disk sectors are buffered by the controller, and transferring them to memory with a 'rep insw' (or whatever the instruction is called) is quite efficient (single instruction, goes as fast as the controller/cpu know how to use the bus). Since ...
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It is a long standing good luck Redwing's tradition to throw an octopus on the ice during a Stanley Cup game. They say it dates back to '52 at the Olympia when the Wings became the 1st team (I think) to sweep the cup in 8 games. A lot hardet to throw one from Joe Louis seats than from the old Olympia balcony, thoug...
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but what is Saturn's motivation here? they're already selling every car they make, with multiple shifts in the plant. given this, what possible motivation could they have to lower prices? cheers, richard
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^^^^^^^^^ 1 Cor 11:31-32 "But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. When we are judged by the ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ Lord, we are being discipled so that we will not be condemned with the world." 1 Cor 5:3 "Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judg...
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A lot of teams carry 3 catchers on their 25 man roster, but the 3rd catcher is seldom ever used. He is only insurance in case of extra innings or the 2nd catcher is injured during a game. So to free up this roster spot for an extra pinch hitter or reliever, why not invoke a catcher re-substitution rule: If the la...
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With regard to your speculations on NSA involvement in the creation of PKP, I find that it fails the test of Occam's butcher knife. Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by forthright greed.
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I use the Diamond SpeedStar 24X in 1024X768X256 mode all of the time. I have NOT found distortions in the cursor. The cursor is a little jumpy from time to time (due to 32 bit access to the swap file), but it is never distorted.
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With a sound card on interrupt 5, two serial ports (one for modem on i4, one for Miracle Piano on i3) and a printer port on i7, I have run out of low interrupts. What I would like is a mouse port with an interrupt of 10, 11, or 12 (which ever interrupt the PS/2 mouse port uses) in in ISA i486 computer. I called techn...
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: From: caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni) : >Can someone tell me if hardware compression is or is not needed to run : >digital speech down 14.4K? I think it is; I've heard it's not. Lets : >say 8 bit samples. Would *raw* data at the corresponding sampling rate : >be usable? If not, how fancy does the ...
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Sure you can do wheelies with a shaft drive bike. I had a BMW R100RS that was a wheelie monster! Of course it didn't have the initial power burst to just twist it into the air - I had to pop the clutch. I also had to replace front fork seals a few times as well. The fairing is a bit heavy to be slamming down onto t...
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Just a few comments about the feasability of zipping up a bunch of miles on your electronic odometer with an oscillator.... I wouldn't expect to be able to do this. Not because the engineers at BMW are putting in anti-fraud logic, but just because an automobile is a noisy, hostile environment for electronics, and...
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A traffic citation is an accusation of having committed a crime. That's why they have to go through the motions of having a trial if you want one, you are still innocent until proven guilty. Cops are not the only ones who can accuse people of committing crimes, anyone who witnesses a crime can do so. Go to the Highw...
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To clarify a little more: SOUND.EXE is a self-expanding archive which contains the driver (which is actually called SPEAKER.DRV, I think).
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I recently had a case of shingles and my doctors wanted to give me intravenous Acyclovir. It was a pain finding IV sites in my arms...can I have some facts about how advantageous it is to give intravenous antibiotics rather than oral?
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Isn't name calling fun! What do you think happened at Watergate? What do you think they broke into the building for? It wasn't to just look around. Do I have to draw you a picture? Whatever... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Who said anything about panicking?" snappe...
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So, did the Jews kill the Germans? You even make Armenians laugh. "An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of the independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at least 30-40 percent of the population of that republic. The me...
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I forwarded an old posting about CELP speech compression: In case you'd like to experiment with CELP, you can obtain a software implementation of the 4800 bps Fed Std CELP coder for free: The U.S. DoD's Federal-Standard-1016 based 4800 bps code excited linear prediction voice coder version 3.2 (CELP 3.2) Fortran ...
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I got back from my trip to discover that my email spool file got blown away. I am missing all the playoff pool entries sent between April 5 and April 17. It looks like about 200 entries got lost. *Sigh*. Therefore, I would like to ask each person that sent me a team to resend it ASAP. I am relying on your honesty ...
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At least we got somebody the Flyers wanted ;-) Is this really true? I have not been keeping up with any news. If it is, what's the deal with Neil Smith? Is he gone, too? -- Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!! LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!! kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
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or there Okay, I guess its time for a quick explanation of Mac sound. The original documentation for the sound hardware (IM-3) documents how to make sound by directly accessing hardware. Basically, you jam values into all the even bytes from SoundBase to SoundBase+0x170. This was because of how the Mac 128 (and som...
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It seems like XTranslateCoord. doesn't work the way I expecting it. Right after performs a XMoveWindow, I want to know the absolute window position with respect to the root window. To get this info. I do a XTranslateCoordinates but the abs_x, and abs_y aren't right? Does anybody know of a way to find out this infor...
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all of my HO's disagree with your HO's. I LOVED Dallas rush hour in my stick.. detested it in the auto(like i did any other time in the auto...). Of course, Dalls rush hours are nothing, from what i hear..if i lived in LA, i might be of a different persuasion. And, just for the record, rarely do you shift gears wh...
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Does anybody know if there is a mailing list or newsgroup for Power Systems and related areas? Thanks,
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Bill Gripp writes ok, but didn't Jesus figure somewhere into their beliefs? Anyway, my original question regarding christians and weaponry still stands.
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Please don't misuse newsgroup hierarchy names as distributions. Yes, but it's not an attribute of the window; it's an attribute of the GC used to do the drawing. Set the subwindow-mode to IncludeInferiors rather than the default ClipByChildren. der Mouse
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I found an oddity with our SGI Indigo (MIPS R3000 chip). When xlock +nolock is running, and I am working remotely or in batch (at) mode, the runtime of my programs (as timed by using clock() in the code itself) is ~25% slower than if xlock is NOT running. No other processes seem to affect my runtimes, yet this is very...
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Or have different classes of competetors.. and made the total purse $6billion or $7billion (depending on how many different classes there are, as in auto racing/motocycle racing and such)..
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Thousands? Tens of thousands? Do some arithmetic, please... Skipjack has 2^80 possible keys. Let's assume a brute-force engine like that hypothesized for DES: 1 microsecond per trial, 1 million chips. That's 10^12 trials per second, or about 38,000 years for 2^80 trials. Well, maybe they can get chips running ...
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This isn't inherently bad. This isn't really light pollution since it will only be visible shortly before or after dusk (or during the day). (Of course, if night only lasts 2 hours for you, you're probably going to be inconvienenced. But you're inconvienenced anyway in that case). Finally: this isn't the Bro...
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Clipper might be a good way to cover the use of another layer of encryption. Currently, when you send an encrypted message, an opponent can usually tell 1) that you are using encryption 2) which encryption method you are using [because that information is usually in the clear]. With clipper, most opponents will only ...
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False, as federal courts have affirmed on many occasions. This is getting out of sci.crypt territory, though...
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Rob Reilly: This is just not so - many of the earliest cars had their steering controls in the center of the vehicle, and there is no discernible pattern of left- or right-hand steering controls until a few years into the 20th century, when, in America at least, left-hand wheels became the pattern. The mule team (or ...
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Probably keep quiet and take it, lest they get their kneecaps busted.
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The Adaptec 1540-series use bus mastering. This means that the CPU doesn't sit waiting for data bytes, it can go off and do other computing - if you have an advanced multi-tasking OS, that is. DOS just sits and waits anyway. Why don't you start with the spec-sheet of the ISA bus first? :-) IDE was designed to plu...
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Victoria Hotel Reserv. 2 nights $40 MID-WEEK (Sun - Thurs) Hotel reservation available for Victoria, Canada. 2 nights/3 days for $40. Expires June 1, 1993. This is a LETTER OF CREDIT (fully transferrable) issued by HOTELCO for a hotel room in any of a number of available hotels in Victoria, Canada. HOTELCO is a repu...
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To: ad994@Freenet.carleton.ca JW> 1) Where is there a book or code that will teach me how JW> to read and write pcx,dbf,and gif files? JW> 2) How do I access the extra ram on my paradise video board JW> so I can do paging in the higher vga modes ie: 320x200x256 JW> 800x600x256 JW> 3) anybody got a line on a good boo...
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You can get a *little* UV by putting a heavy UV filter (deep purple) in front of an ordinary flashlight bulb (the brightest you can get). My father used a setup like this in law enforcement work circa 1964. Good UV ("blacklight") bulbs work like fluorescent bulbs. I'd proceed by getting a cheap battery-powered _fluor...
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Ok, I have a problem that I thought you guys/gals might know about.... I'm running a 286dx-25 with a 85mb hdd. I also have windows 3.1, but hardly any dos application will run out it. Also, when I do a "mem" command, it says that I have used up 58kb out of 640kb of conventional memory, zero from upper level memory, ...
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From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu> The majority of the discussion involving this "Clipper Chip" seems to pertain to the encryption of telephone conversations. Does anyone know if that means this chip is designed to work primarily with analog signals? The language sort of suggests this, but it's ha...
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In the April edition of "One Small Step for a Space Activist", Allen Sherzer & Tim Kyger write: "Another problem is what are called 'wraps' (or sometimes the 'center tax'). When work for a large program like Freedom or Shuttle is performed at a NASA center, the center skims off a portion which goes into what...
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I am posting to this group in hopes of finding someone out there in network newsland who has heard of something similar to what I am going to describe here. I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced a seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog's Frosted Flakes. She is perfectly healthy, had ne...
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[...] Well, chalk one up for driving away sympathies by looking like a paranoid lunatic. Last I heard there were nine. Apparently as of this point they've found no bodies, except those killed during the initial assault a couple of months ago. Be cute if Koresh hit the trail. Mayb...
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I have a request for those who would like to see Charley Wingate respond to the "Charley Challenges" (and judging from my e-mail, there appear to be quite a few of you.) It is clear that Mr. Wingate intends to continue to post tangential or unrelated articles while ingoring the Challenges themselves. Between the la...
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How can we resist a questions that says something like this? If your Expose event handler is truly intelligent about exposed rectangle information, then you can use XClearArea to generate an Expose event (assuming that your background pixel is not None) for the enclosing rectangle of your new item. This is still no...
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: : >: I hope my cynicism is misplaced here. Go ahead...I'm not afraid to : >: be wrong every once in a while. But, I have an uneasy feeling that I : >: am right. :( : > : >It is and you are wrong yet you emotionally state a bunch of crap as fact : >with a tiny disclaimer at the end. Check your facts first and gro...
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Is there a typical component or set of components that are at fault when a switch mode power supply goes south? The supply is for a disk drive. Any general hints would be appreciated! Thanks! Mark-Tarbell@suite.com at fault when a switch mode power supply goes south? The supply is for a disk drive. Any general hin...
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Only if you have a weeny insurance company. Unless it's some stupid PA law. I know that if some jerk hits me while I'm in a parking lot, if my insruance company doesn't sue his (or his doesn't immediately say, 'Yes, it's his fault') I'll sure him myself and tell my insurance company to go to hell if they raise my ra...
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I've started to notice the same thing myself. I'm running DOS 5 and Win 3.1 so I can fix it from the Windows Control Panel. At times it is the date, at others the clock seems to be running several minutes behind where it should be. If you find out I'd like to know also. Oh, and I also leave my system running all...
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it can position. now, but please Sunny, I asked this question a while ago while contemplating placing my 650 on it's side. I received a response from someone at Seagate (Sorry I trashed the message) stating that most newer drives (Seagates at the least) can very well compensate for gravity. This means t...
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Is their a pd/freeware hard drive utility that can handle a compressed IDE drive without screwwing it up? Need to document occasional failures in reading/writing, check overall integrity of disk's hardware and sectors. I believe that all of my problems with DOS/Windows can be isolated to my drive. Getting occasional...
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I've recently ordered a Centris 650 and need to decide on which modem to buy. I'm pretty sure I want to get a fax/data modem that can run at 14.4k, but is it worth it? I'll primarily only be 'conversing' over CompuServe or some other link to the Internet, but I'm not sure if those systems can supply ME with data at 1...
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I am a new reader of sci.crypt I would like to obtain a copy of a public domain program that can encrypt files, preferably using DES, that runs under MS-DOS. I would also like to obtain a program which will password protect floppy disks, if this is possible. Thanks.
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"Todd Karlin" writes Bonilla wasn't threatening anyone. He just wanted to give him the dollar tour. =^)
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OTOH, some of us get lucky-- I've unplugged and replugged SCSI and ADB quite often, and never blown anything. I blew out the ADB by shorting the cable, though.
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