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And the initiative for actual implementation. Clinton is not just an
innocent bystander here - They didn't just slap his name on it without
consulting him. What exactly is his extensive history of individual
rights advocacy that people are assuming he really has nothing to do
with this? He just went back on his pledge to cut the espionage
budget, and is now asking for more money than even Bush wanted.
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* ATTENTION ALL FOUR WHEEL OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS *
* *
* On/Off Road Rally - Sunday, April 25th *
* Joliet Illinois *
* *
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The Event:
* The Joliet Mud Turtles, a Chicago land four wheel drive club, is
sponsoring an On/Off Road Rally Sunday April 25th.
* For those who ask "What is an on/off road rally?", well...
An On/Off Road Rally consists of the following:
1. An on-the-road rally where participants are given a set of
directions and clues guiding participates around the
Joliet/Plainfield area. The object is to navigate a course
based on a set of directions and clues. Participants will
be given a set of questions pertaining to the course which
they must answer along the way. Points are awarded for the
number of correct answers given. Directions will ultimately
lead to an off-road area where a four-wheel drive course is
set-up. At various locations in the on-road course, check-points
will be set-up where participants will be asked other questions
or requested to perform some activity (e.g. tire roll, truck tow,
basketball free-throw, etc.) for additional points.
2. An optional off-road, four wheel drive course where participants
will navigate off-road trails, mud bogs and/or hill climbs.
Points are awarded for successfully navigating off-road obstacles
without getting stuck. If you should get stuck (which is half
the fun anyway), there will be assistance to get your vehicle
unstuck so you can try it again. The off-road course will
divided up based on tire size, so stock 4x4s as well as modified
4x4s can run the course.
At the end of the rally, trophies will be awarded to top scoring
participants. Door prizes and dash plaques will also be given out.
Food and drinks also available at the conclusion.
* This is an organized activity sponsored by the Joliet Mud Turtles
so safety and fun is our foremost concern. All 4x4s must be
street legal and have solid tow points for the off-road section
of the course - we don't want to have to separate someone's bumper
from their vehicle :) .
The Particulars:
* Rally begins at Instant Replay, 2409 Plainfield Road, Joliet Il.
(815)436-9382 (see map below)
* Registration is between 9 and 10:30 a.m. First truck out at 10:00 a.m.
* Rally date is Sunday April 25th, rain or shine
* There is an entry fee of $10 per truck.
* You must have a co-driver (passengers allowed)
* A valid drivers license is required
* Suggested equipment:
CB Radio
Compass
Tow Strap and Clevis
Clip Board and Pencil
* No alcohol during rally
* For more information contact
Gary (815)727-3415
Tom (815)485-9346
Norm Jr. (815)741-4853
Brian (708)979-6083
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What else do you expect? Israel is trying to portray itself
as the great democracy. One requirement is to have a leader
who previously had an extra-marital affair (e.g. Bill Clinton)
It helps if your wife says it's OK.
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I have the following 45 rpm singles for sale. Most are collectable 7-inch
records with picture sleeves. Price does not include postage which is $1.21
for the first record, $1.69 for two, etc.
Beach Boys|Barbara Ann (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Califonia Girls (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$15|45
Beach Boys|Fun, Fun, Fun (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Little Girl I Once Knew (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Please Let Me Wonder (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Rock n Roll to the Rescue (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$15|45
Beach Boys|When I Grow Up to Be a Man (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beatles|Im Happy Just to Dance with You (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Doctor & the Medics|Burn (I.R.S. Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
General Public|Too Much or Nothing (I.R.S. Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Go Gos|Our Lips are Sealed (I.R.S. Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Lennon, John|Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Lennon, John|Mind Games (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$10|$45
Madonna|Open Your Heart (Sire Promo)|$5|45
McCartney, Paul|Coming Up (Columbia. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
McCartney, Paul|Mull of Kintyre (Capitol. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
McCartney, Paul|Stranglehold (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
McCartney, Paul|Wonderful Christmastime (Columbia. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Mercury, Freddie|I Was Born to Love You (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Pink Floyd|Learning to Fly (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Queen|Kind of Magic (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Ramones|Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Sire Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Rolling Stones|19th Nervous Brakdown (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Jumpin Jack Flash (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Mothers Little Helper (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Paint It, Black (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Starr, Ringo|Photograph (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Starr, Ringo|Youre Sixteen (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Talking Heads|Road to Nowhere (Sire Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Waters, Roger|Sunset Strip (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Waters, Roger|Sunset Strip (Columiba Promo)|$5
Waters, Roger|Who Needs Information (Columiba Promo)|%10|45
If you are interested, please contact:
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In the game *I* have seen yesterday in the Olympiahalle of Munich
Canada won 4-1 against Sweden! The last goal for Canada was at 19:59 in
the 3rd period. Maybe you shouldn't go and get you another beer
before the game is over and then post imaginary results...
Holger
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Complete Q700 are best obtained from your dealer or some recent
copy of MacWorld or MacUser. My foggy memory suggests that the most relevant
comparison factors vis-a-vis a IIci are as follows:
25 MHz 68040
16 Mhz data path (don't recall this for sure, but it's slower
than Q 950 style machines for sure).
Ethertalk card on-board
Audio in/out
4 MB RAM on motherboard
4 SIMM slots
2 NuBus slots.
More flexible build-in video than the CI. Uses VRAM.
In comparison, a IIci with an accelerator won't give you
audio or ethernet or the same video options.
With a 68040 accelerator, CPU performance can be comparable but I
think it ends up costing more.
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Are you certain you didn't mean to post
to alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg?
You'd better rush home...I hear Kruschev
calling "Come to papa, jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu!"
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Lets carry this one step further. Suppose the text of the key is
in itself conclusive evidence of the SAME CRIME for which the
encrypted material is further evidence. I find myself envisaging a
scenario like this:
You have made some scans of Peanuts strips. You encrypt them. The key
is a phrase.
The Comic Police haul you in. They seize your system. They find the
encrypted file.
CP: "Whats that file?"
You: "I take the fifth."
CP: "What's the keyphrase to that file?"
You: "I take the fifth."
Judge: "You have to reveal the keyphrase" [I disagree, but I'm not a judge.]
You: "Your Honor, revealing the keyphrase, in it's own right, would
tend to incriminate me of breaking laws, independent of what
may or may not be in the encrypted file."
Judge: "I grant you immunity from whatever may be learned from the key
itself"
You: "The keyphrase is: "I confess to deliberately evading copyright;
the file encoded with this keyphrase contains illegal scans of
copyrighted Peanuts strips.""
Judge and CP: "Oh."
How will they get you now? I'm not saying that they won't, or
can't (or even that they shouldn't :-), but what legal mechanism will
they use? Should we be crossposting this to misc.legal?
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Ah, but why? Can some technically-hip Macslinger tell us what the
difference is between PDS and Nubus?
Is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into PDS and ends in a
Nubus card cage? At least, Marvin's friend has not been able to
locate one and neither have I. What is the fundamental reason for
this?
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Hello,
I am looking for a PC card with the following features:
- Controller for IDE(AT-Bus)-HardDiskDrive
- Controller for 2 FloppyDiskDrives
- Standard(256KB) VGA Graphics INCLUDING FEATURE CONNECTOR (important!)
===========================
There *are* some manufacturors/distributors of this kind of card, but I have
not found them yet.
If you can help me, please mail to: ICH344@DJUKFA11
ICH344@zam001.zam.kfa-juelich.de
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You might visit some congregations of Christians, who happen to be homosexuals,
that are spirit-filled believers, not MCC'rs; before you go lumping us all
together with Troy Perry.
The Lord IS working in our community (the homosexual community, that is). He's
not asking us to change our sexual nature, but He is calling us to practice
the morality that He established from the beginning.
Isn't Satan having a hayday pitting Christian against Christian over any issue
he can, especially homosexuality. Let's reach the homosexuals for Christ.
Let's not try to change them, just need to bring them to Christ. If He
doesn't want them to be gay, He can change that. If they are living a moral
life, committed to someone of the same sex, and God is moving in their lives,
who are we to tell them they have to change?
That's my two cent.
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The story I related is one of the seven apparitions
approved by our Church as worthy of belief. It happened
in La Salle, France.
The moral lesson of the story is:
The Lamb of God has been sacrificed and His blood has
been used to cleanse us of our sins every moment as God perceives
worthy of being done in Heaven. Mary weeps for The Lamb and
for the rest of her offsprings. This will continue while we
disobey God or sin against Him. Mary, as a messenger,
has been given the task to make us be 'aware' of the evil
serpent (communism, wars, famine, unfaithful, disobedience
to God, etc.) running after the rest of her offsprings.
The children who went astray by disobedience led by the dragon is
brought back by her peace and loving messages, reparations for sins,
to obey God's commandments and be more worthy to be in the presence
of The Lamb.
As she was conceived without sin to be worthy of bearing the
Son of God in her womb, Mary has been preparing us, the Church,
the Body of Christ, for His second coming (making sure we are
protected from the dragon). Also, she has been preparing the new
Eden, by reversing the deed of the ancient Eve. The new Eden will be
the sanctuary of the righteous as judged by Christ in His
next coming.
I relate the story again:
I believe this and Mary, in one of her apparitions
in 19th or 20th century, she appeared to these
two children who tends goats and cows (I forgot
the exact place). She was weeping and telling the
children that she is afraid she's "going to lose her
Son's arm". She is mourning too for these
townfolks because it was their fault that there
would be drought in their harvest; not much good
food again this year as it was last year.
Mary tells the children:
* Most of the townfolks in this place worked whole *
* week even on Sundays when they should be in church *
* honoring God. These townfolks swears and *
* uses her Son's name in bad words. That is *
why her Son's arm is so heavy in pain.
Then she asked them if they pray. The children
said "hardly". She asked them to pray every
morning and night. When the children went back
from work they had to tell somebody about this.
When the news was spred and after thorough
* investigation of the incident, the townfolks *
* were converted and faith and obedience to God *
* were restored in their community. *
Once again, the Lamb succeeds.
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DAMN RIGHT it doesn't! Ohm's come from the greek letter omega, which
is used for resistance/impedance.
Of course, the original poster MAY have been being facetious (let's hope
so).
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The word is "subrogation." Seems to me, if you're willing to wait
for the money from scumbag's insurance, that you save having to pay the
deductible. However, if scumbag's insurance is Scum insurance, then you may
have to pay the deductible to get your insurance co.'s pack of rabid, large-
fanged lawyers to recover the damages from Scum insurance's lawyers.
Sad, but true. Call it job security for lawyers.
Later,
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I don't buy this at all. Roy was the reason the game was tied... and that
would *not* have been the case had Dionne kept his cool.
Hextall gave up 2 very questionable goals himself ...
Both Dionne's and Bellows' shots were misplayed by Hextall, but just because
his gaffes were early in the game, no one seems to care. Roy stood on his head
for the first 15 minutes of the game when the Nords were rushing from
end-to-end. Kamensky's mini-break after the tying goal and the first shot by
Young in OT were both excellent chances stopped by Roy. Roy outplayed Hextall
for most of the game, but Roy becomes the villain and Hextall the hero
because Roy's team didn't make full use of their opportunities.
Hextall, on the other hand, had a lot of lucky bounces ... he played very
well, but the Haller shot off the post in OT, the rebound bouncing over
Bellows' stick, the Brunet breakaway, the 3 chances for LeClair ... all
those opportunities were *not* finished off by Montreal, and it cost them.
Hextall wasn't particularly brilliant on those plays ...
Sure, no excuse ... but it was just the 1 goal. The timing stank, but against
an explosive team like Quebec, they gave them 1 opportunity too many with
a powerplay that was totally unnecessary.
I disagree. Roy played well because he wasn't screened the whole night.
The defense, for the 1st time this season, played remarkably, keeping Sakic,
Nolan, and Sundin out of the slot most of the night.
This most certainly was a team loss... Leclair missed his opportunities,
as did Bellows and Brunet. Dionne took a bad penalty. Damphousse and Lebeau
were *silent*. Carbonneau and Savard were a step behind all night. Roy gave
up the bad goal. Roy, by no means, can be singled out for this loss.
And Hextall didn't on Dionne's goal? Please. Roy is paid big money because
that is his value compared to other goalies ... and he still is in the top 5,
when you consider the defense, or lack of one, that played in front of him
for most of the season.
The Montreal media is the quickest to heap praise and then hurl derogatory
comments against the Habs. They are no better than uninformed fans. Why should
they read the papers? They played 58 minutes of "Burnsian" hockey to shut
down Quebec. All they need tonight, and for the rest of the series is the
extra 2.
Red Light to face Quebec...rubbish. That's a guaranteed way to end the
series 4-0. Who would be taught a lesson by this ?
The fans, the media, and Racicot, perhaps. Certainly not the rest of the team.
If you mean the goal should never have gone in, because there should never
have been an OT, then I agree. But the goal itself was a great piece of work
by Young. Roy had both the near and far posts covered, but Young flipped the
puck up under Roy's arm as he wrapped-around the net ... not a bad goal at all.
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John White from STAC Electronics can be reached at compuserv as 72370,1005.
For me 72370.1005@compuserve.com would as email address work from Internet.
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internet: ffritze@hpwbe007.wad.hp.com
phone: Germany 7243 602296
address: Fromut FRITZE, Waldbronn Analytic Division R&D,
Hewlett Packard Str, D 7517 Waldbronn 2, Germany
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Well, I was told that my last message came through without anything
in it, so I'll try again.
I have a Leading Edge 386SX 16 with a flaky motherboard and a friend
game me one to replace it, but he didn't have any docs for the
mother board. It's a CHEERTRON board with Award bios and has a
sticker on it that says VI 1 T1 3 T2 3 on it. I can tell what
most of the switches on the blue blocks mean. except FDC and
SH, but I have no idea about all the jumpers. I've replaced hard
drives and modems and installed math co-processes, but this is a
bit out of my league and without the docs, I'm really lost.
If anyone could give me some help on this, I'd really appreciate
it. I don't get on news regularly, so if you can help, please
e-mail me at passman@world.std.com
Thanks.
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: Marian CATHOLIC high school, outside of chicago:
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: 666 south ASHLAND avenue.
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Actually, Satanism is technically inverted Catholicism.
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Hello, is there anybody in there? You think you have to pay for this idiot's
problem now, who's going to pay for the ballooning number of addicts and
all of the associated problems with them. I don't even want to think about
it with Hillary in the White House and an administration that "feels our
pain".
No harm but to himself? What about when he drives his school bus full
of kids into a train. When he gets stoned and drives up on a sidewalk
and kills 5 people. When he lives off me on Welfare for the rest of his
life.
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Why not? Horner played 130 games in 1985 and hit 27 HR.
Murphy played 162 and hit 37.
In 1986 Horner hit 27 in 141 games and Murphy hit 29 in 160 games.
(and the Braves lost 96 and 89 games).
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I am most embarassed that my irrate, intemperate post is still
circulating.
I have been chided by experts for my behavior. I now agree with
all of them, although some were no more restrained in their
speech than I was 8)
I have apologized to Robin Hanson.
Lew
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[deletia- and so on]
I seem to have been rather unclear.
What I was asking is this:
Please show me that the most effective substance-absure recovery
programs involve meetinsg peoples' spiritual needs, rather than
merely attempting to fill peoples' spiritual needs as percieved
by the people, A.A, S.R.C. regulars, or snoopy. This will probably
involve defining "spritual needs" (is it not that clear) and
showing that such things exist and how they can be filled.
Annother tack you might take is to say that "fulfilling spiritual
needs" means "acknowledging a "higher power" of some sort, then
show that systems that do require this, work better than otherwise
identical systems that do not. A correlation here would help you,
but as you point out this might just be demonstrating swapping
one crutch for annother. (however, I do feel that religion is
usually a better crutch than alchohol, as it is not usually
poisonous! :) )
I hope with that clarification, my question will be answerable. I actually
did know about the 12 step program, its the question of what it does,
rather than what it tries to do, that makes a difference to me.
---
- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0
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What is Pink noise and how is it used in sound experiments?
-tony
wayne@uva386.schools.virginia.edu
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TOSHIBA P321SL
-track/friction feeds
-LCD display
-3.5 months old
-like new
-sample print-out sheet (GEOWORKS) available
-EMULASER (a 2-month old program by VERTISOFT
makes print-out look like an inkjet print-out)
-$175 firm.
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Hello, I know that this has been discussed before. But at the time
I didn't need to teselate a sphere. So if any kind soul has the code
or the alg, that was finally decided upon as the best (as I recall it
was a nice, iterative subdivision meathod), I would be very
appreciative.
Thomas DeWeese
deweeset@rdrc.rpi.edu
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TEXT 44
bhogaisvarya-prasaktanam
tayapahrta-cetasam
vyavasayatmika buddhih
samadhau na vidhiyate
bhoga--to material enjoyment; aisvarya--and opulence; prasaktanam--for
those who are attached; taya--by such things;
apahrta-cetasam--bewildered in mind; vyavasaya-atmika--fixed in
determination; buddhih--devotional service to the Lord; samadhau--in
the controlled mind; na--never; vidhiyate--does take place.
TRANSLATION
In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and
material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute
determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take
place.
PURPORT
Samadhi means ``fixed mind.'' The Vedic dictionary, the Nirukti,
says, samyag adhiyate 'sminn atma-tattva-yathatmyam: ``When the mind is
fixed for understanding the self, it is said to be in samadhi.''
Samadhi is never possible for persons interested in material sense
enjoyment, nor for those who are bewildered by such temporary things.
They are more or less condemned by the process of material energy.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
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| Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare |
| Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare |
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I've got two lines coming into my apartment. Two different telephone numbers.
When I ordered the second line installed, instead of bringing out another 4
wire bundle, the telco just connected up to my yellow and black wires. So I
have one line on red & green and the other on yellow & black.
Today I was monitoring the voltage on both lines. I had a voltmeter across
the red and green and read back 52 volts. I then lifted up the receiver on my
second line.(black & yellow wires) The voltage dropped to 31 volts on the first
line. (red & green wires) I repeated this experiment with the second
line(monitoring black & yellow and lifting the handset off the cradle on the
red and green line.) It also dropped to 31 volts.
Why is this ? I thought these were separate lines.
Next I went to the 66 block and disconnected the blue and white lines coming in
from the telco cable. I then disconnected all the phones in my apartment and
went back to the 66 block and did some resistance measurements. Both lines read
open.
I'll appreciate any help on this. Is this considered normal ?
Guy Urbina
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Hmm... now where was that ad for the combination radio/hand cranked
generator/flashlight/siren I saw? :-)
[function generator has a 50mV offset, and the amplitude's too high]
Sure, you've already got the right idea.
Ignoring the 50 ohm internal resistance of the generator for a second, just
run it into, say, a voltage divider made of 990 ohms in series with 10
ohms. This new circuit is the Thevenin equivalent of one that puts out
1/100 of the original voltage, and has an output impedence of negligibly
less than 10 ohms. You may want to monkey with the values a little
depending on whether you care more about the _exact_ dividing ratio or
the availability of parts.
Hows that sound?
---Joel Kolstad
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Before the S4 became the S4 it was called the 200 turbo quattro 20v.
This model did come in a wagon, a very quick wagon. Very rare also.
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Or John Edgar Hoover's USA.
yet.
yet.
so far.
What harm is there in overreacting?
This may be the largest single threat to civil liberties yet in my
lifetime. The US has done some pretty heinous things in the past,
and we haven't yet recovered from all of them. There certainly seems
to be a historical trend towards less liberty, with occasional
perturbations.
Time to break out the quotes from American political radicals.
Lyle Transarc 707 Grant Street
412 338 4474 The Gulf Tower Pittsburgh 15219
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A book that I can somewhat recommend is :
Pratical Image Processing in C
by Craig A. Lindley
published by Wiley
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Who's the mindscheme(?) behind this one -- Ted
Simmons? As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I'm 230
miles from home (during the school year) and will never be able to pick up
DVE. At least now I can sort of make out what Mike and Steigy say through
all the static on KDKA. This just may be enough reason for me to transfer
to Duquesne and live at home. Who's going to announce on DVE anyway?
Paulson and Krenn? (Just kidding.)
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In regards ot some of the posts concerning bias in articles of k bikes
versis /2's or boxers of a later date or whatever.. Jeezzz, Lighten up!
I wrote the slash two blues for a bit of humor which seems to be lacking
in the MOA Owners News, when most of the stuff is "I rode the the first
day, I saw that, I rode there the second day, I saw this"
any body out there know were the sense if humor went in people?
I though I still had mine, but I dunno...
Regards
Craig Vechorik
BMW MOA Ambassador #9462
DOD #843
And hey, I just want ya'll to vote.. O.K.? for SOMEBODY instead of throwing
it in the trash...
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CONGRAULATIONS !!!! Your helmet just passed the Snell Test.
Oh well, as least it looks ok now. Still, it may not save your head as well
as before you dropped it.
Mike
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: You know, it just occurred to me today that this whole Christian thing
: can be blamed solely on Mary.
:
: So, she's married to Joseph. She gets knocked up. What do you think
: ol' Joe will do if he finds she's been getting around? So Mary comes up
: with this ridiculous story about God making her pregnant.
:
Nice attempt Chris . . . verrry close.
You missed the conspiracy by 1 step. Joseph knew who knocked her up.
He couldn't let it be known that somebody ELSE got ol' Mary prego. That
wouldn't do well for his popularity in the local circles. So what
happened is that she was feeling guilty, he was feeling embarrassed, and
THEY decided to improve both of their images on what could have otherwise
been the downfall for both. Clever indeed. Come to think of it . . . I
have gained a new respect for the couple. Maybe Joseph and Mary should
receive all of the praise being paid to jesus.
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As for SF and advertising in space. There is a romantic episode
in Mead's "The Big Ball of Wax" where the lovers are watching
the constellation Pepsi Cola rising over the horizon and noting
the some 'stars' had slipped cause the Teamsters were on strike.
This was the inspiration for my article on orbiting a formation
of space mirrors published in Spaceflight in 1986. As the reviews
but is it aesthetically desirable? These days the only aesthetics
that count are the ones you can count!
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Did they or did they not sustain Miller's conviction? I don't have the
text of the case handy.
Yes, shotguns had been used in WWI, the Spanish-American War, and the
US Civil War. That was not in question. The possession of a sawed-off
shotgun was, i.e., a weapon altered to improve concealibility.
You are free to produce evidence that I'm not willing to abide with
all the implications of this.
Just because I don't whole-heartedly endorse the NRA position does not
mean that I oppose the RKBA. This attitude is what makes the NRA
unpopular.
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It helps to have some idea of the source of the distortion - or at least
a reasonable model of the class of distortion. Below is a very short
description of the process which we use; if you have further questions,
feel free to poke me via e-mail.
================================================================
*ASSUME: locally smooth distortion
0) Compute the Delaunay Triangulation of your (x,y) points. This
defines the set of neighbors for each point. If your data are
not naturally convex, you may have very long edges on the convex hull.
Consider deleting these edges.
1) Now, there are two goals:
a) move the DistortedData(x,y) to the Reference(x,y)
b) keep the Length(e) (as measured from the current (x,y)'s)
as close as possible to the DigitizedLength(e) (as measured
using the digitized (x,y)'s).
2) For every point, compute a displacement based on a) and b). For
example:
a) For (x,y) points for which you know the Reference(x,y), you
can move alpha0*(Reference(x,y) - Current(x,y)). This will
slowly move the DistortedReference(x,y) towards the
Reference(x,y).
b) For all other points, examine the current length of each edge.
For each edge, compute a displacement which would make that edge
the correct length (where "correct" is the DigitizedLength).
Take the vector sum of these edge displacements, and move the
point alpha1*SumOfEdgeDisplacements. This will keep the
triangulated mesh consistent with your Digitized mesh.
3) Iterate 2) until you are happy (for example, no point moves very much).
alpha0 and alpha1 need to be determined by experimentation. Consider
how much you believe the Reference(x,y) - i.e., do you absolutely insist
on the final points exactly matching the References, or do you want to
balance some error in matching the Reference against changes in length
of the edges.
WARNING: there are a couple of geometric invariants which must be
observed (essentially, you can't allow the convex hull to change, and
you can't allow triangles to "fold over" neighboring triangles. Both of
these can be handled either by special case checks on the motion of
individual points, or by periodically re-triangulating the points (using
the current positions - but still calculating DigitizedLength from the
original positions. When we first did this, the triangulation time was
prohibitive, so we only did it once. If I were motivated to try and
change code that has been working in production mode for 5 years, I
*might* go back and re-triangulate on every iteration. If you have more
compute power than you know what to do with, you might consider having
every point interact with every other point....but first read up on
linear solutions to the n-body problem.
There are lots of papers in the last 10 years of SIGGRAPH proceedings on
springs, constraints, and energy calculations which are relevant. The
above method is described, in more or less detail in:
@inproceedings{Sloan86,
author="Sloan, Jr., Kenneth R. and David Meyers and Christine A.~Curcio",
title="Reconstruction and Display of the Retina",
booktitle="Proceedings: Graphics Interface '86 Vision Interface '86",
address="Vancouver, Canada",
pages="385--389",
month="May",
year=1986 }
@techreport{Curcio87b,
author="Christine A.~Curcio and Kenneth R.~Sloan and David Meyers",
title="Computer Methods for Sampling, Reconstruction, Display, and
Analysis of Retinal Whole Mounts",
number="TR 87-12-03",
institution="Department of Computer Science, University of Washington",
address="Seattle, WA",
month="December",
year=1987 }
@article{Curcio89,
author="Christine A.~Curcio and Kenneth R.~Sloan and David Meyers",
title="Computer Methods for Sampling, Reconstruction, Display, and
Analysis of Retinal Whole Mounts",
journal="Vision Research",
volume=29,
number=5,
pages="529--540",
year=1989 }
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Hmmm. I seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record-
players and radios in the 1960s wasn't better performance but lower
per-unit cost than vacuum-tube systems.
Mind you, my father was a vacuum-tube fan in the 60s (Switched
to solid-state in the mid-seventies and then abruptly died; no doubt
there's a lesson in that) and his account could have been biased.
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That's not all that Kratz doesn't know.
Now we know that Kratz doesn't understand what a safety is supposed to
do. (He also confuses "things he can see" with "things that exist";
Glocks have multiple safeties even though only one is visible from the
outside.)
A safety is supposed to keep the gun from going off UNLESS that's
what the user wants. With Glocks, one says "I want the gun to go
off" by pulling the trigger. If the safeties it has make that work,
it has a "real" safety, no matter what Kratz thinks.
-andy
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You write as if no-one ever became a Christian except people from
Christian families. This is not true, as quite a few people on this
group can attest (including me).
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Why thanks for your reply to my post. By the way, I never, never ever said
that it was right to shoot "THOSE kind" of babies. However it was the Branch
Davidian people in there that insisted on staying there with their "savior"
(yeah right budy boy) because he had brain-washed them into believing that
what ever he says is the truth, even if means that they are to give up their
lives for <<<<HIS>>>> cause. Therefore it is Davids fault and not the ATF's
who gave them 50 to 51 days to get out, this was 50 days to many for me and
for many of the rest of the U.S. I am however sad to hear of the death of any
child unlike the sick bastard I supposedly am.
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I have a promovie spectrum, it seems to work very nicely with Video for
Windows. With my setup (386-25, 17 ms HD, PAS-16, and orchid F VA), the
board could handle up to 15 frame/s.
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The Bmw speedo is triggered by a reed switch\magnet assembly in the differential. I would think that this signal would be easy to reproduce.
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: Upon arriving at home, Joseph probably took advantage of Mary...had his way
: with her so to speak. Of course, word of this couldn't get around so Mary,
: being the highly-religious follower that she was decided "Hey, I'll just say
: that GOD impregnated me...no one will ever know!"
:
: Thus, seen as a trustworthy and honorable soul, she was believed...
:
: And then came Jesus, the child born from violence.
:
:
:
Dave,
Can you explain the purpose of your post, I can't imagine what you
must have thougt it meant.
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Following precedent in other areas, the government is likely to put a tax on
encryption technology. Once the tax is imposed, it becomes a federal matter
and suspicision of an unlicensed cryptographic tool will bring the BATF or
FBI tossing grenades into your house. (The BATF appears to be the logical
agency to enforce such regulations: federal control over alocohol, tobacco,
and firearms is similary based on taxes.)
Look at the FCC: they won't allow sale of any receiever that can receive
bands that are supposed to be private. This has nothing to do with any
desire to prevent harmful interference. If the government can make a radio
receiver illegal what makes you think they won't claim the right to control
encryption?
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The runner can leave his base at any time. If the ball is caught,
he's got to tag up. If it isn't caught, he _doesn't_ have to tag up at
all. So, if he's feeling lucky, your runner at second can sprint for glory
as soon as the ball is popped up. If it isn't caught, he's probably scored
a run. If it is, he's probably headed for AAA.
The only effect the infield fly has is to make the batter out,
thereby removing the force on the runners on base. All other rules apply,
as if you were standing second with first open and the ball is popped up.
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The front covers should be available from Sony. Check with a local car
stereo shop. You will probably (definitely) have to provide the units
serial number and hopefully you had registered the warranty card. I
don't know the cost, but replacements have to be available to people
who damage the face cover, so it stands to reason that it can be replaced.
As to deterring theft:
When I worked for a stereo shop, we referred the customer to a Sony 800
number. We would not sell the face, nor did we have them available. Most
people who came in asking for the face cover (or a pullout sleave for that
matter) would look very disheartened to find that they acquired a deck
they couldn't use. If theft occurs with these decks, notify Sony. Serial
numbers do catch theives.
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Please count me in also...
Just can't tell you how excited I was when the Islanders beat the Rangers
in overtime on last Friday!!!
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In evolution of 80-x86 data path width has been doubled from
8 to 16 t0 32 bits but the speed of data processing has not increased at
same rate.The question is Why? What is relationship bettween data path width and data processing speed?
Thanks in advance for the input.
Robert.
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1) make sure your hard drive is defragmented. This will speed up more than
just windows BTW. Use something like Norton's or PC Tools.
2) I _think_ that leaving the wall paper out will use less RAM and therefore
will speed up your machine but I could very will be wrong on this.
There's a good chance you've already done this but if not it may speed things
up. good luck
Morgan Bullard mb4008@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu
or mjbb@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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OK. Instead of holding an auction, I have decided to compute prices for each comic (after many suggestions). These are the most reasonable prices I can give (not negotiable). If you would like to purchase a comic (or group), simply email me with the title and issue #'s you want. The price for each issue is shown beside each comic. First come, first served!!! There is no more bidding. Meet my price and it is yours. I can be reached at this email address:
02106@chopin.udel.edu or
02106@ravel.udel.edu or
02106@bach.udel.edu or
02106@brahms.udel.edu
NO MORE HAGGLING ABOUT THE PRICE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF COMICS FOR $1, $2, or $3 LOOK AT LIST!!!!!
For all those who have bought comics from me, thanks!!!
All comics are near mint unless otherwise noted (my books were graded by
mile high comics and other comic professional collectors, not me!)
Here is the list:
Incredible Hulk
156 (vs another Hulk) $3
195 $2
196 $2
246 (vs Captain Marvel) $1
248 $1
249 $1
250 (Double size issue vs Silver Surfer) $5
255 (vs Thor) $1
279 $1
300 $2
312 $2
313 $1
316 (vs Bi Coastal Avengers) $1
347 $1
348 $1
350 (vs Thing) $2
354 $1
358 $1
360 $1
362 (vs Werewolf By Night) $2
364 $1
365 $1
366 $1
379 (1 copy) $5
Punisher
50 $1
57 $2
Punisher War Journal
29 (Ghost Rider) $2
30 (Ghost Rider) $2
Punisher Armory
1 $4
2 $2
Original Ghost Rider Rides Again (Reprint)
1 $1
Ghost Rider (old series)
37 $3
43 (vs Johnny Blaze) $3
77 (2 copies, origin of GR dream) $4 each
Ghost Rider (new series)
15 (1st print, Green glow in dark cover, 1 copy) $5
15 (2nd print, gold cover w/ glow cover) $3
Web of Spiderman
56 (2 copies) $2 each
60 $3
69 (vs Hulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
70 (SpiderHulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
71 $1
72 $1
78 $1
Deadly Foes of Spiderman
1 (2 copies) $2 each
2 $2
3 $2
Amazing Spiderman vs Dr. Octopus (special NACME issue) $2
Amazing Spiderman
350 (vs Dr. Doom, 1 copy LEFT!!!) $2
Spiderman (1990)
1 (silver, not bagged) $4
6 $3
7 $3
8 (2 copies) $2 each
9 (w/ Wolverine, 1 COPY LEFT!!!) $2
10 $2
11 $1
13 $5
16 $1
New Warriors
1 (gold cover) $2
8 $4
10 $2
11 $1
12 $1
13 $1
14 (w/ Darkhawk) $1
15 $1
Superman Man of Steel #1 $2
Superman (new)
53 (2 copies) $1 each
55 $1
56 $1
Adventures of Superman
479 $1
Annual #3 $1
Superman Annual #3 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Action Comics #666 $1
Avengers West Coast #69 (Hawkeye vs US Agent) $1
Batman
465 (Robin returns) $2
466 $1
467 $1
Annual #15 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $3
Captain America
230 (vs Hulk) $2
257 (vs Hulk) $1
Armegedon 2001
1 $4
2 $2
Foolkiller #1 $2
Infinity Gauntlet
1 $6
4 $3
5 $3
Double Dragon #1 $1
Deathlok (series)
2 $1
Transformers #80 (last issue) $2
Wonder Man
1 $1
2 $1
Flaming Carrot #25 (w/ Ninja Turtles) $2
The Comet #1 $1
Legend of the Shield #1 $1
Justice Society of America
1 $1
2 $1
3 $1
4 $1
Official movie mag from Turtles II movie (sealed w/ Jelloman comic) $5
Robin
1 (1 copies w/ poster) $3
1 (3rd print) $1
5 (6 copies) $1 each
Guardians of the Galaxy
1 $6
2 $3
3 $2
4 $2
5 $2
6 $2
7 $2
8 $2
9 (2 copies) $3 each
10 $2
11 $2
12 $1
13 $3
14 $3
15 $1
16 $1
17 $1
18 (2 copies) $2 each
Superman vs Amazing Spiderman (oversized issue from 70's) $7
DarkHawk
1 (3 copies) $8 each
2 (2 copies) $6 each
3 $5
4 $4
5 $4
6 $3
7 $2
8 $2
9 $3
10 $1
Thor
246 $1
428 $1
429 (vs Juggernaut) $2
430 (w/ Ghost Rider) $1
431 $1
432 (Thor vs Loki, 2 copies) $3 each
433 (new Thor) $2
Annual #16 $1
What if....
13 $1
23 $1
25 $2
26 $1
Alpha Flight
29 $1
51 $6
53 $6
94 (vs Fant. 4) $1
New Mutants
22 $2
100 (last issue, 1st look at X-Force, 1st print, 2 copies) $5 each
100 (2nd print, gold cover) $4
Flash (new)
43 $1
48 $1
49 $1
50 $2
51 $1
Annual #4 $1
X-Men (new)
1 (all 5 covers) $1 each but $2 for magneto foldout cover
Uncanny X-Men
191 $3
215 $2
255 (2 copies) $2 each
258 $6
268 (1 sold,1 copy left!, Lee reg artist) $10
275 (1 COPY LEFT 1st print) $6
275 (gold 2nd print) $3
276 $3
277 $3
278 $2
279 $2
280 $2
281 $3
282 $4
283 $6
Defenders
52 (Hulk vs Sub Mariner) $2
Fantastic Four
347 $4
348 $2
349 (3 copies) $2 each
Wolverine
11 $3
20 $2
41 (w/ Cable, 2 copies) $6 each
42 $4
43 $3
Silver Surfer (1987)
1 $6
2 $3
3 $3
4 $3
5 $2
6 $2
8 $2
22 $2
24 $2
32 $2
49 $2
50 (Foil cover, only 1 copy left!!) $6
51 $2
52 $2
53 $1
54 $1
55 $1
56 $1
58 $2
59 $2
Avengers
326 $3
328 (origin of Rage) $3
X-Factor
40 $6
67 $3
68 $6
71 $3
73 $1
Quasar
21 $1
22 $1
23 $1
24 $1
Green Lantern (1990)
3 $2
9 (2 copies) $1 each
10 $1
11 $1
12 $1
Toxic Avenger
1 (3 copies) $1 each
2 $1
Sleepwalker
1 (3 copies) $2 each
3 $1
7 $1
Kool Aid Man #1 (sealed in white bag, 2 copies) $2 each
X-Force
1 (bagged w/ Cable Card) $4
1 (bagged w/ Shatterstar Card) $3
2 $2
3 $1
4 $1
NFL Superpro
1 $1
Dr. Strange #31 $1
Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Send all bids and comments to
02106@chopin.udel.edu
Thanks
Sam (the "ex" comic book collector)
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If I recall correctly, the bill would provide for concealed carry if
the person takes a 15-hr DPS safety course in firearms and pays a $150
fee for the license. The bill is apparently veto-proof in the House,
but LtGov Bullock has said it will never come to the floor of the
Senate and Dreamboat Annie has vowed to veto it if it comes to her
desk. *shrug*
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Hello,
I am planning on attending Podiatry School next year.
I have narrowed my choices to the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric
Medicine, in Philadelphia, or the California College of Podiatric
Medicine in San Francisco.
If anyone has any information or oppinions about these two schools, please
tell me. I am having a hard time deciding which one to attend, and must
make a decision very soon.
thank you, Larry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Live From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT...
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Archive-name: space/net
Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:15 $
NETWORK RESOURCES
OVERVIEW
You may be reading this document on any one of an amazing variety of
computers, so much of the material below may not apply to you. In
general, however, systems connected to 'the net' fall in one of three
categories: Internet, Usenet, or BITNET. Electronic mail may be sent
between these networks, and other resources available on one of these
networks are sometimes accessible from other networks by email sent to
special 'servers'.
The space and astronomy discussion groups actually are composed of
several mechanisms with (mostly) transparent connections between them.
One mechanism is the mailing list, in which mail is sent to a central
distribution point which relays it to all recipients of the list. In
addition to the general lists for space (called SPACE Digest for
Internet users, and SPACE on BITNET), there are a number of more
specialized mailing lists described below.
A second mechanism is Usenet 'netnews'. This is somewhat like a bulletin
board operating on each system which is a part of the net. Netnews
separates contributions into hundreds of different categories based on a
'group name'. The groups dealing most closely with space topics are
called 'sci.space.news', 'sci.space', 'sci.space.shuttle', 'sci.astro',
and 'talk.politics.space'. Contributors 'post' submissions (called
'articles' in netnews terminology) on their local machine, which sends
it to other nearby machines. Similarly, articles sent from nearby
machines are stored locally and may be forwarded to other systems, so
that an article is posted locally and eventually reaches all the Usenet
sites interested in receiving the news group to which the article was
posted.
Gateway machines redirect the Usenet sci.space group into Internet and
BITNET mailing lists and vice versa; the other Usenet groups are not
accessible as mailing lists. If you can receive netnews, its more
flexible interface and access to a wider range of material usually make
it the preferred option.
MAILING LISTS
SPACE Digest is the main Internet list, and is now being run by the
International Space University (in only its second change of management
in over a decade). Email space-request@isu.isunet.edu (message body
should be in the format 'subscribe space John Public') to join. Note
that the moderated SPACE Magazine list is defunct at present for lack of
a moderator. Old copies of SPACE Digest since its inception in 1981 are
available by anonymous FTP. Retrieve
julius.cs.qub.ac.uk:pub/SpaceDigestArchive/README
for further details.
Elements is a moderated list for fast distribution of Space Shuttle
Keplerian Elements before and during Shuttle flights. NASA two line
elements are sent out on the list from Dr. Kelso, JSC, and other sources
as they are released. Email to elements-request@telesoft.com to join.
GPS Digest is a moderated list for discussion of the Global Positioning
System and other satellite navigation positioning systems. Email to
gps-request@esseye.si.com to join.
Space-investors is a list for information relevant to investing in
space-related companies. Email Vincent Cate (vac@cs.cmu.edu) to join.
Space-tech is a list for more technical discussion of space topics;
discussion has included esoteric propulsion technologies, asteroid
capture, starflight, orbital debris removal, etc. Email to
space-tech-request@cs.cmu.edu to join. Archives of old digests and
selected excerpts are available by anonymous FTP from
gs80.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.205.90) in /usr/anon/public/space-tech,
or by email to space-tech-request if you don't have FTP access.
SEDS-L is a BITNET list for members of Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space and other interested parties. Email
LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET with a message saying "SUBSCRIBE SEDS-L your
name". Email saying "INDEX SEDS-L" to list the archive contents.
SEDSNEWS is a BITNET list for news items, press releases, shuttle status
reports, and the like. This duplicates material which is also found in
Space Digest, sci.space, sci.space.shuttle, and sci.astro. Email
LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET saying "SUBSCRIBE SEDSNEWS your name" to join.
Email saying "INDEX SEDSNEWS" to list the archive contents.
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) runs a mailing list which
carries the contents of the sci.space.news Usenet group. Email him
to join the list.
As a general note, please mail to the *request* address to get off a
mailing list. SPACE Digest, for example, relays many inappropriate
'please remove me from this list' messages which are sent to the list
address rather than the request address.
PERIODICALLY UPDATED INFORMATION
In addition to this FAQ list, a broad variety of topical information is
posted to the net (unless otherwise noted, in the new group
sci.space.news created for this purpose). Please remember that the
individuals posting this information are performing a service for all
net readers, and don't take up their time with frivolous requests.
ACRONYMS
Garrett Wollman (wollman@UVM.EDU) posts an acronym list around the
first of each month.
ASTRO-FTP LIST
Veikko Makela (veikko.makela@helsinki.fi) posts a monthly list of
anonymous FTP servers containing astronomy and space related
material to sci.space and sci.astro.
AVIATION WEEK
Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) posts summaries of
space-related stories in the weekly _Aviation Week and Space
Technology_.
BUYING TELESCOPES
Ronnie Kon (ronnie@cisco.com) posts a guide to buying telescopes to
sci.astro.
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASA
Don Barry (don@chara.gsu.edu) posts the monthly Electronic Journal
of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic to sci.astro.
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL
Swaraj Jeyasingh (sjeyasin@axion.bt.co.uk) posts summaries of
space-related news from _Flight International_. This focuses more on
non-US space activities than Aviation Week.
LARGE ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS
Robert Bunge (rbunge@access.digex.com) posts a list describing many
"Large Telescope Projects Either Being Considered or in the Works"
to sci.astro.
NASA HEADLINE NEWS & SHUTTLE REPORTS
Peter Yee (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov) posts a variety of NASA material,
including NASA Headline News (with the schedule for NASA SELECT),
shuttle payload briefings and flight manifests, and KSC shuttle
status reports. For Usenet users, much of this material appears in
the group sci.space.shuttle.
NASA UPDATES
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts frequent updates from
JPL, Ames, and other centers on the Ulysses, Gailileo, Pioneer,
Magellan, Landsat, and other missions.
ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS
TS Kelso (tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil) posts orbital elements from
NASA Prediction Bulletins.
Mike Rose (mrose@stsci.edu) posts orbital elements for the Hubble
Space Telescope to sci.astro.
Jost Jahn (j.jahn@abbs.hanse.de) posts ephemerides for asteroids,
comets, conjunctions, and encounters to sci.astro.
SATELLITE LAUNCHES
Richard Langley (lang@unb.ca) posts SPACEWARN Bulletin, which
describes recent launch/orbital decay information and satellites
which are useful for scientific activities. Recent bulletins are
available by anonymous FTP from nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov in
ANON_DIR:[000000.ACTIVE.SPX].
SHUTTLE MANIFEST
Ken Hollis (gandalf@pro-electric.cts.com) posts a compressed version
of the Space Shuttle launch manifest to sci.space.shuttle. This
includes dates, times, payloads, and information on how to see
launches and landings.
SOLAR ACTIVITY
Cary Oler (oler@hg.uleth.ca) posts Solar Terrestrial reports
(describing solar activity and its effect on the Earth) to
sci.space. The report is issued in part from data released by the
Space Enviroment Services Center, Boulder Colorado. The intro
document needed to understand these reports is available by
anonymous FTP from solar.stanford.edu (36.10.0.4) in
pub/understanding_solar_terrestrial_reports. nic.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100) also has this document in
/pub/misc/rec.radio.shortwave/solarreports and is an archive site
for the reports (please note this site is in Europe, and the
connection to the US is only 56KB). A new primary archive site,
xi.uleth.ca (142.66.3.29), has recently been established and will be
actively supported.
SOVIET SPACE ACTIVITIES
Glenn Chapman (glennc@cs.sfu.ca) posts summaries of Soviet space
activities.
SPACE ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
Allen Sherzer (aws@iti.org) posts a newsletter, "One Small Step for
a Space Activist," to talk.politics.space. It describes current
legislative activity affecting NASA and commercial space activities.
SPACE EVENTS CALENDAR
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts a calendar including
anniversaries, conferences, launch dates, meteor showers and
eclipses, and other space-related events.
SPACE NEWS
John Magliacane (kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP) posts "SpaceNews" (covering
AMSATs, NOAA and other weather satellites, and other ham
information) to rec.radio.amateur.misc and sci.space.
SPACE REPORT
Jonathan McDowell (mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu) posts "Jonathan's Space
Report" covering launches, landings, reentries, status reports,
satellite activities, etc.
TOWARD 2001
Bev Freed (freed@nss.fidonet.org) posts "Toward 2001", a weekly
global news summary reprinted from _Space Calendar_ magazine.
WARNING ABOUT NON-PUBLIC NETWORKS
(Included at the suggestion of Eugene Miya, who wrote the item)
NASA has an internal system of unclassified electronic mail and bulletin
boards. This system is not open for public use. Specifically, NASA
personnel and procurement operations are regarded with some sensitivity.
Contractors must renegotiate their contracts. The Fair and Open
Procurement Act does not look kindly to those having inside information.
Contractors and outsiders caught using this type of information can
expect severe penalities. Unauthorized access attempts may subject you
to a fine and/or imprisonment in accordance with Title 18, USC, Section
1030. If in fact you should should learn of unauthorized access, contact
NASA personnel.
Claims have been made on this news group about fraud and waste. None
have ever been substantiated to any significant degree. Readers
detecting Fraud, Waste, Abuse, or Mismanagement should contact the NASA
Inspector General (24-hours) at 800-424-9183 (can be anonymous) or write
NASA
Inspector General
P.O. Box 23089
L'enfant Plaza Station
Washington DC 20024
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I think you missed one of my points there. It takes *more* than a great
GM to win a stanley cup, even once. Some of the guys on the list you
gave earlier never won one. I agree that you and I could probably argue
back and forth for days to no avail about who is the best GM in hockey-
that is a matter of opinion, and who is to say my opinion is any better
than yours or yours than mine? But the point of my *original* original
post (if not well stated) was that Murray has the GM abilities but not
the coaching abilities. Which leads to below:
I think at this point there's a personal, emotional element involved here
which transcends Murray's logical thought. As outsiders, it's fine for
us to say, "He should hire a different coach." In fact, he has talked about
doing so in the past. But, the press (here in Detroit, at least) has so
built up this business about Murray never getting past the second round of
the playoffs as a coach, that I think he has taken it upon himself to
prove to the world that he *is* capable of coaching a team past the second
round. He needs to, as the papers say, "get that monkey off his back."
So it becomes a matter not of intelligence, but of pride. Is it foolish
to let pride stand in the way of sound logic? Perhaps, but we're all
a little that way from time to time. I think eventually he'll step down
from behind the bench and concentrate on his GM duties, and the team will
improve as a result.
I think his coaching duties take away time he might have otherwise spent
on GM work. In that sense, once he steps down as coach, we'll see how
good of a GM he really is.
I may not agree with everything you've said, but it's been fun discussing
it with you.
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: |>
: |> XmDrawingArea for drawing with Xlib. But I would like to take advantage of
: |> the Graphics Library (GL) available on our IBM RS/6000 (SGI's GL i believe).
: |> Is it possible to mix X and GL in one application program?
: |> Can I use GL subroutines in an XmDrawingArea or in an X window opened by me
: |> with XOpenWindow?
You can't make GL calls in an XmDrawingArea widget for sure.
:
: There is a widget already defined for GL. It is the GlxMDraw (motif) or
: GlxDraw (athena) widget. It is similar to a XmDrawingArea, except that it
: allows you to use GL calls to render into the window. Look at glxlink,
: glxunlink, glxgetconfig, and glxwinset in the man pages.
:
:
: The GlxMDraw widget works pretty well. OpenGL will be an improvement.
I can vouch for that. The GL Widget works pretty well. I have been using it
for sometime now. I'm not sure though whether you can use Xlib calls to draw
into the GL widget. I haven't tried it yet nor have I read the accompanying
documentation completely. Try posting to comp.sys.sgi for more information.
Better still,you will find most of the answers in the SGI manuals .. there
is a little transition guide which explains the "mixed-model programming"
paradigm(Mixing X and GL).
: |> Does PEX (graPHIGS?) have the same functionality of GL?
:
: I think GL is a little easier to use and a little more powerful, but
: that's just an opinion. Mileage may vary.
Well, PEX is designed as an extension to X and will be more seamless but
then, it is buggy to start with .. opinions again.
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My family has never been particularly religious - singing Christmas
carols is about the limit for them. Thus I've never really believed in God and
heaven, although I don't actually believe that they don't exist either -
I'm sort of undecided, probably like a lot of people I guess.
Lately I've been thinking about it all a lot more, and I wondered how
religious people can be so convinced that there is a God. I feel as though
I want to believe, but I'm not used to believing things without proof -
just as I can't believe that there definitely isn't a God, so I can't
definitely believe that there is. I wondered if most of you were brought up by
religious families and never believed any different. Can anyone help me to
understand how your belief and faith in God can be so strong.
Another question that frequently crosses my mind is which religion is
correct?? How do you choose a religion, and how do you know that the Christian
God exists and the Gods of other religions don't?? How do you feel about
people who follow other religions?? How about atheists?? And people like me -
agnostics I suppose. Do you respect their religion, and accept their
beliefs as just as valid as your own?? Isn't there contradiction between
the religions?? How can your religion be more valid than any others?? Do
you have less respect for someone if they're not religious, or if they follow
a different religion than you would if they were Christian??
Also, how much of the scriptures are correct?? Are all events in
the bible really supposed to have happened, or are they just supposed to be
stories with morals showing a true Christian how to behave??
I generally follow most of the Christian ideas, which I suppose are
fairly universal throughout all religions - not killing, stealing, etc, and
'Loving my neighbour' for want of a better expression. The only part I find
hard is the actual belief in God.
Finally, what is God's attitude to people like me, who don't quite
believe in Him, but are generally fairly 'good' people. Surely not
believing doesn't make me a worse person?? If not, I find myself wondering why
I so strongly want to really believe, and to find a religion.
Sorry if I waffled on a bit - I was just writing ideas as they came
into my head. I'm sure I probably repeated myself a bit too.
Thanks for the help,
Paul Simmons
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Write a good manual to go with the software. The hassle of
photocopying the manual is offset by simplicity of purchasing
the package for only $15. Also, consider offering an inexpensive
but attractive perc for registered users. For instance, a coffee
mug. You could produce and mail the incentive for a couple of
dollars, so consider pricing the product at $17.95.
You're lucky if only 20% of the instances of your program in use
are non-licensed users.
The best approach is to estimate your loss and accomodate that into
your price structure. Sure it hurts legitimate users, but too bad.
Retailers have to charge off loss to shoplifters onto paying
customers; the software industry is the same.
Unless your product is exceptionally unique, using an ostensibly
copy-proof disk will just send your customers to the competetion.
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Dear Rob,
Sometimes I do come across condesending, and I am sorry I come across that
way at times. Thank you for the reproach, I really do appreciate it. I'll
try to get better.
Rob, at the same time, I have also learned that some people respond to the gentle
approach while others respond only at a harsh rebuke. Brian K., so far,
only responds to the latter. And I am glad he responds at all. In both
cases of approach, my intention is to be loving. I am making no excuse
for myself if I am coming across condesending. I apologize for that.
Rob, sometimes Brian K. comes across as honest. I know this. But Brian K.
vasillates back and forth. One post looks honest; the next is
an excuse. Now he wants me to explain the universe in 50 words or less.
I think Brian Kendig is really trying but he is too comfortable with
his set of excuses.
I just want Brian K. to be honest with himself. If he really wants
to know, he will ask questions and stop asserting irrelevant excuses
which have nothing to do with my God. I wish Brian would read the
Bible for himself and come to his own decisions without being
sidetracked with the temptation to mock God.
From my perspective Rob, when I look at Brian Kendig, I see a man
standing out in the middle of a highway. Off into the distance I
see a Mack truck heading right for him, but Brian K. is faced away
from the oncoming truck. He doesn't see it. Here's is how I see
the dialog:
Me: "Brian K, please step aside before you get run over."
BK: "There is no truck."
Me: "Turn around at look."
BK: "No."
Me: "Look! You will be healthier if you do take a look at
the oncoming truck."
BK: "No. Explain to me why trucks exist."
Me: "Turn around or you will run over."
BK: "No. I won't because I like hiking and tomorrow is Tuesday."
Me: "You blind fool! Why do you choose ignorance? You have nothing
to lose if you look. But if do not look, you will certainly lose your life."
I do not want to see you squashed all over the road.
BK: "It is my life to lose. I rather not look.
Besides, a truck running over me will not harm me."
And by the way, I really have an open mind."
So is my motivation to belittle Brian, or to love Brian the best I know how?
I do not wish to single Brian Kendig out. Because millions if not
billions of people fall into the same category. Perhaps all people
fall have fallen into this category at one time in their lives. I have.
I can now see the truck behind Brian.
My hope is that Brian will look and will see the ramifications of the
truck coming towards him. My hope is that Brian will want to step out
of the way. My fear, though, is that Brian will instead choose to glue himself
to the middle of the highway, where he will certainly get run over. But if
he so chooses, he so chooses, and there is nothing I can do beyond that
to change his mind. For it is his choice. But at this very moment,
Brian hasn't gotten even that far. He is still at the point where he
does not want to look. Sure he moves his eyeball to appease me, but his
head will not turn around to see the entire picture. So far he is
satisfied with his glimpse of the mountains off in the distance.
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I'll post a summary after I get enough information. I'll include
tips like "how to know when the monkey is pulling your leg". Shouldn't
monkey's have to be bonded and insured before they work on bikes?
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919
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Doug, those stats are great! they help immensely. I tried to E-Mail
you with some comments on them but my mail server does not recognize
your address. Could you E-Mail me with some info on how to get E-Mail
to you? Thanks!
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That reminds me of one of Texas's ads...you hear a guy speaking in
French (like it's a letter home), then the French moves to the
background, and a French-accented voice come to the foreground, talking
about how he went walking on the beach, and it felt so much like
home that he decided to take his shoes off...and the rest of his
clothes. It ended with "please send bail." :-)
I normally have an unloaded Colt Delta in my glove box with a loaded
magazine handy (which is perfectly legal in Oklahoma). For those
times that I'm travelling inter-state, I keep an unloaded
S&W .44 Magnum revolver in the glove box, with a speed-loader
in my pocket (which is legal everywhere, under Federal law, Illinois
State Police be hanged).
As I've said before, this is stricly for defense; my insurance
will pay to replace my car, but I only have one life...
James
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My little Nash has sat for about a year (had been running), but now I must move
a long distance and there are too many things to carry with me. Here are the
details of the car:
1958 Hardtop--Exterior condition:
Rocker panels rusted out at weld points, no rust at typical spots like
door hinge mounting points, back battery box, etc. Missing front bumper,
front pan dented up, one weld popped in front. This is for the most part
a solid, restorable automobile.
Interior Condition:
Missing original steering wheel, has one of the smaller aftermarket
wheels, seats need reupholstered, general fair condition.
Mechanical Condition:
Had been running, but now does not want to start...needs new rings (which
I have) also have extra parts such as complete long block, extra steering
shaft, etc.
For a car that has not been touched since 1958, it is in solid shape. It will
obviously need some work, but will make a good project.
PRICE: Well, this is a tough one, I would like to get around 800.00, but will
consider any serious offers by individuals willing to come and get it. If you
have things to trade such as tools, toys, cameras, comics, cards, etc.,
anything easily movable to Florida, I may consider that as well.
Hit <r>, or my e-mail address is Ellis.15@osu.edu
(614) 777-0791 home (leave message)
Thanks
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I am a novice (at best) in working with pc networks, and am in the
process of planning a small accounting system for a small business.
The particular need in this case is for three machines, each in a
different office of the same building, each having access to a
Windows-based accounting system.
My first thought is to set up MS Windows for Workgroups on each of the
machines (likely a 486 and two 386's) along with the appropriate Ethernet
cards and cabling that come with the Windows for Workgroups starter kit (one
additional user kit will be necessary). It then seems logical to purchase
a simple multi-user accounting system, along the lines of DacEasy or
M.Y.O.B., and fire it all up! The 486 will more or less act as server with
a report/check printer attached to it.
Cable runs of 30-40 feet will be necessary for this setup.
Well, this all seems too easy to me. Would any of you network gurus out
there tell me if I am out of my mind here? Any and all suggestions, however
trivial, will be immensely appreciated. My apologies if this has been
brought up before.
Thanks!
John
--
John E. Martin jemartin@nyx.cs.du.edu University of Puget Sound '92
Kent, WA (formerly martin@ups.edu) SeinfeldSuperSonicsRushBelaFleck
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I just mailed this:
I noticed a 2-3in long cut in the tread of the rear tire on my VFR.
The cut is only about as deep as the tread block, and looks like it
only scratched the rubber at the base, but the weird thing is, it's
way over on the edge where I haven't scuffed the tire in yet.
My questions are:
1. How dangerous is this, should I replace the tire right away?
and
2. If I should, since the cut is on the unscuffed portion and the
tire only has about 330 mi on it, what do you think my chances of
getting it replaced under warranty are?
To the nedod mailing list, and Jack Tavares suggested I check out
how old the tire is as one tactic for getting it replaced. Does
anyone have the file on how to read the date codes handy?
Thanks,
Dean
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Yeah, make darn sure you cover all the glass, so the driver can't
reasonably expect to be able to drive with the things on the car.
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Apple IIgs
Imagewriter II COLOR printer
Color RGB monitor
3.5" DRIVE
5.25" drive
keyboard
Mouse
lots of disks
some applications
most manuals
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Dumbest options? Well here in the UK, BMW offer a 'no-smokers' option...
It just means they take the fag lighter out.... big deal....
BTW - I just bought a Honda CRX F1..... its neat... did consider an MR2 targa,
MX5 (you guys call it Miata?).... but that CRX just one my heart with that
body kit and 8-spokes....
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Look, asshole, I got him confused with somebody else. I didn't flame
you, and I would appreciate it if you extended me the same courtesy.
No, I don't know everything in the world. Does that surprise you?
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They have a few problems. The biggest technical problem is the need to find
two satellites going to the same rough orbit for a luanch.
They also don't show much interest in commercial launches. There is more
money to be made churning out Titan IV's for the government. After all,
it isn't every day you find a sucker, er, customer who thinks paying
three times the commercial rate for launch services is a good idea!
Allen
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The idea of the card is bull in and of its self, but I'm curious to know, do
they plan on making it a requirement to *always* have it on you, or is it
only going to be required to be *presented* when trying to ge medical aid?
BTW, anybody planning on shaving Hillary's head to look for *666*? 8^)
Later Dave,
Days
^^^^^^^^
Goverment logic or just the Clintons?
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[it has to do with honoring the laws of the state, and]
I would go further: if a couple are unwilling to have their commitment
publicly witnessed and recorded, that's prima facie evidence that the
commitment isn't really there.
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We developed a toolkit running on the X Window System.
The toolkit copes with any languages based on X11R5's i18n
facility. As you know, there are 2 kinds of i18n implementation from MIT's
X11R5 release -- Xsi and Ximp. Our original implementation of the toolkit
uses Xsi.
Our toolkit manages each character's size based on our own font management system.
In order to do that, the 'wchar_t' typed character strings must be decomposed
to character sets. This means that if one wchar_t type compound string with
ASCII and Kanji mixed, for example, is given, each element of the wchar_t
array must be checked its corresponding character set based on a bit layout
and application environment's locale. In this case if the locale is 'japanese',
each wchar_t character will be classified either to iso8859-1, jisx0208 or so.
We need a function to do this. The function must check how many characters
from the top are the same character set and what the character set is.
We could not find any public X11R5 function to do that and inevitably, used
Xsi's internal functions to construct that function. The following is the
source code of that function 'decomposeCharacterSet()'.
//I18N.h
// This may look like C code, but it is really -*- C++ -*-
// $Id: I18N.h,v 1.1 1992/01/21 12:05:24 iima Exp iima $
#ifndef _I18N_H
#define _I18N_H
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
extern int decomposeCharacterSet(const wchar_t *wc_str, /* IN */
int wc_len, /* IN */
char *buf, /* OUT */
int *buflen, /* IN/OUT */
int *scanned_len, /* OUT */
char **charset); /* OUT */
extern XmString wcharToXmString(const wchar_t *wc_str);
extern XmStringCharSet charsetOfWchar(const wchar_t wc);
#endif /* _I18N_H */
//I18N.cc
/* $Id: I18N.cc,v 1.1 1992/01/21 12:05:05 iima Exp $ */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <X11/Xlibint.h>
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include "I18N.h"
extern "C" {
#include <X11/wchar.h>
#define _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset XXX_XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset
#define _Xmbfscs XXX_Xmbfscs
#define _Xmbctidtocsid XXX_Xmbctidtocsid
#include "Xlocaleint.h"
#undef _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset
#undef _Xmbfscs
#undef _Xmbctidtocsid
extern int _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset(XLocale, const wchar_t*, int,
char*, int*, int*, int*);
extern Charset *_Xmbfscs(XLocale, _CSID);
extern _CSID _Xmbctidtocsid(XLocale, _CSID);
};
int decomposeCharacterSet(const wchar_t *wc_str,/* IN */
int wc_len, /* IN */
char *buf, /* OUT */
int *buf_len, /* IN/OUT */
int *scanned_len, /* OUT */
char **charset) /* OUT */
{
XLocale xlocale = _XFallBackConvert();
int ctid;
int status;
Charset *xcharset;
status = _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset(xlocale, wc_str, wc_len, buf,
buf_len, scanned_len, &ctid);
if (status == Success) {
xcharset = _Xmbfscs(xlocale, _Xmbctidtocsid(xlocale, ctid));
*charset = (xcharset) ? xcharset->cs_name : NULL;
}
else
*charset = NULL;
return status;
}
----------------
An included file above, "Xlocaleint.h", is also Xsi internal and we copied
the file to the toolkit directory and compiled.
A serious issue occured when we tried to compile a toolkit application on
our HP machine with its OS version of HP-UX9.01.
When we tried to link an application based on our toolkit,
link errors occured saying that the following functions are missing:
_Xmbctidtocsid (code)
_Xmbfscs (code)
_XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset (code)
_XFallBackConvert (code)
We had used MIT release version of X11R5 and its Xsi implementation until
HP-UP9.0 and ran applications successfully. One of the reasons to use Xsi was that
because HP did not release HP's X11R5 until the OS 9.0 and we had no way to
know how HP's R5 would be implemented. We had hoped Xsi's popularity and used
its internal functions.
The HP's linker complains that there are no Xsi internal functions implemented.
We observe from HP's libX11.a, they used some Ximp implementation but we are
not sure if they used MIT's vanilla Ximp version or their own version of Ximp and
therefore, finding just counter part functions in MIT's Ximp for Xsi does not
seem to lead us a solution.
My question and goal is to know how we can construct a function like
'decomposeCharacterset()' listed above. Is there any function to check
character set of each element of wchar_t type strings depending on locales?
If it is a public function, that is perfect but even if it is not, we
want to use any internal functions in HP's X11R5 as we did for MIT's R5.
In order to render a 'wchar_t' type string, there must be some machinery
to judge character sets and that is how the proper fonts are selected for
the string. We have no way to find out that without any HP's X11R5 source
files. We want to know how we can use that for our goal.
Any help or comments would be highly appreciated.
I also appreciate if anyone tell me about Ximp treating around this area
even if it is not HP's implementation.
Thank you.
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Hi...
I need information on scaring. Particularly as a result of grazing the skin
I really wanted to know of
1. would a scar occur as a result of grazing
2. if yes, then would it disappear?
3. how long does a graze take to heal?
4. will hair grow on it once it has healed?
5. what is 'scar tissue'?
6. should antiseptic cream be applied to it regularly?
7. is it better to keep it exposed and let fresh air at it?
Please help - any info - no matter how small will be appreciated greatly.
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: Where can I get xman source? I would like to get the binaries for
: xman for an HP 9000/700, but I would settle for source.
:
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Try xport.lcs.mit.edu, in direcotry /contrib.
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I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on
our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are
there other sources of MSG?
I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,
I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each
causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat
and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.
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Is there a ftp.cica.indiana.edu mirror anyware that isn't so !@#$@# busy?
Thanks
Phil Trodwell
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A transporter operator!?!? That better be one important transport. Usually
it is a nameless ensign who does the job. For such a guest appearance I would
have expected a more visible/meaningful role.
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When I left, it was 4-3, Blues with 2:00 to go! As I predicted in
"@#$%! I was right in the first place!!!" Blues in 6! YES!!!
Of course it's only one game -- that could be the 'Hawks stab in the face to
wake them up -- that's what playoffs are about, on any given day... :-)
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I am not an expert in the cryptography science, but some basic things
seem evident to me, things which this Clinton Clipper do not address.
The all pertain to opportunites for abuse, and conclusions based on what
I have seen the membership of this group (except for two notable persons)
agree to. If anything bad is possible by the government in theory, it
almost always ends up happening in fact. So the key is to make abuse
IMPOSSIBLE. Question authority, and remember power DOES corrupt.
I think one has to regard this whole idea in the sense that it WILL be
expanded to include other data forms, such as data transfer and stored
data. and as such should be treated as if it were expanded (or such
expansion will be almost impossible to stop, using Clipper as a precident).
There was a hint of that in the proposal, remember. That said, please
bear with me, I am not very articulate, so I take more words to say
what others could say much more briefly. Thank you.
As I suggested this is NOW. The hint is in the proposal that this or
similar proposals are being considered for other forms of encryptions
such as data transfer, data files, and such, largely dependent on how
this thing is accepted or flies. I think one would be wise to treat
this in the manner one would when (not if) it gets expanded to other
areas than cellular phones. I think this is guaranteed to happen, if
this proposal gets by. Salami politics. It has been and is used in
several other areas, it is certain to be used here. Government is not
going to easily give up on the idea that they should be able to eavesedrop
whenever they want to. 'Court order required' has proven to be a rather
flimsy guarantee. If the case warrants, they can always sieze the
material, and force one to give the key, or sit in jail forever on
periodically renewed contempt charges. So it is not denying the justice
system the information, nor the ability to lock someone up if guilty
(or refuses to divulge the means to access the info - this is not
protected under the Fifth - one can be forced to perform ACTS that would
result in divulging incriminating evidence). So, blocking restrictions
on private encryption is not preventing LEGITIMATE law enforcement - it
does make ILLEGITIMATE law enforcement a bunch more difficult. Especially
fishing expeditions without the target's knowlege. Don't give up the
right to be safe from that - that should be non-negotiable, and Clinton
and Co. know it (which is probably why they quietly developed this thing,
figuring if they get it this far, they can ram it on through). How come
those consulted could be roughly described as "us insiders"? They cannot
quietely IMPLIMENT it though, when they ban other schemes to ensure its
exclusive use. Hence the nice PR document to try and reassure everyone.
Don't buy into it. Has government really earned that kind of trust,
past or future? To be secure and free, one must keep government honest
and the only way to do that is to make abuse IMPOSSIBLE, not 'unlikely'
or 'difficult'.
So what? One could use information gained by re-use of the keys (saved
after the last case was finished) or other means (master key, backdoor,
easily broken algorithm) to find other evidence which, given to a judge,
would authorize a tap which wouldn't have been possible otherwise. This
has been the more common manner of abuse of wiretaps in the past... For
local cops, this might be workable to keep them honest, but the Feds
have a workaround somehow, BET on it. Does anyone really believe
for example, that the government will use a scheme NSA cannot listen
in on scanning for keywords - either easily defeated in realtime or
via a 'master key'? I sure don't.
This whole thing sounds like something to eliminate the need to use
old-fashioned police work to build a case. In the past, eavesdropping
was rather easy (with or without a court order). I think the Law
Enforcement community has become a bit spoiled, and will resist changes
that require them to revert to using old-fashioned detective work. I
just find it somewhat surprising coming from a bunch that cares so much
about civil and individual rights, that "puts people first". The question
is "put people first" to WHERE?
With the innards not being revealed, how is one to be sure there DOESN'T
exist a 'master key' for use by NSA, etc (so they can do their keyword
scan, etc on conversations they routinely monitor, without a specific
court order)? Remember, the cellular phone limitiation is only TEMPORARY.
Bet on it. And so far I have not heard about police telling people that
they have been tapped and nothing incriminating was found. What is to
keep them from simply keeping the keys on file for 'next time'? After
awhile, they would have quite a collection. Kept especially for folks
they deem 'disruptive'. And if they get only one key, that would
reduce the search space a lot, unless it is an RSA scheme. Remember
Nixon years? Need for court orders really slowed them down, didn't it?
And unless the escrow accounts are not government controlled (fat chance!
I see one ending up being under, say Treasury, the other under Justice
:-)) it could be worth some serious bucks to some folks to get keys to
a competitor's Clinton Clipper (or descendent when this idea is expanded
to be used for all non-government encryption). Enough bucks would get
one the keys or the innards for this algorithm. Perhaps not an important
concern, but given past government behavior and the other problems...
What will one do when it is expanded to data storage encryption? You
can BET that if Clipper is accepted, that will be next on the agenda.
It is even hinted at in the proposal - read it carefully... Expect the
argumet "well, if you got nothing to hide..." Fine. Then using that
argument, one should not object to video cameras being installed in
every room of one's home. Granted - an exteme expansion of the idea but
the principle holds. Private stuff should remain private, even from a
govt fishing expedition. And laws/rules may change in the future as
to 'safeguards'. When it comes to the Fed Government, safeguards are
pretty meaningless, if they want to do/get something.
Don't work so hard to give up some rather treasured rights, or establish
bad precidents, please. The price could be hell to pay, later.
People would fight laws forbidding more NOW, but in, say two years,
because we have this 'crisis' situation which MUST be addressed by some
'drastic action', just this added reasonable restriction will only bother
those who have someting to hide... etc. Please don't buy into it.
If the Clinton Clipper is so very good, why not make its algrithm public
so many people can exchange ideas and examine it, rather than a few
isolated 'respected experts' (respected by whom? for what? Perhaps a
certain professor who likes key banks would be one of the selected
experts... this does seem to expand on some ideas the person was
advocating, if I recall :-). How would anybody know that what the
experts examine is the same as what will end up being used in the Clipper
Chip, if it is kept secret? Perhaps the Clipper will use a crippled
version (with a 'master key' provision), or features not present in the
version subjected for study and evaluation by the experts. And who
chooses the expertes? The government? No conflict of interest there...
:-)
And isn't it a REQUIREMENT for any decent encryption scheme that it NOT
have its effectiveness reduced by having the algrorithm widely known?
I was lead to believe that one should assume the other side has everything
you have, except for the key(s)... I recall ideas presented to this
group are rejected if a requirement exists the algorithm be secret...
Another question - since it is a safe bet this Clipper thing would not
be used for government security, they are regarding it as not real secure
but "good enough" for common folk. I think I would like to see a full
description (not a PR non-statement) of just what "good enough" means?
I think when saying how strong it is, "good enough" really means "not
very". The excuse that other countries have these restrictions is not
acceptable: Other countries do not have our Bill of Rights and
Constitution (which the people, not the governments, of those other
countries often regard with envy - what we have as rights they have as
revokable privileges). And if we expect to retain those rights and
protections, we must not allow them to be gutted because we just GOTTA
have this thing to 'fight crime'. We have allready have our Bill of
Rights pretty much torn to shreds. We should not permit more weakining
for yet another 'noble cause', instead we should be trying to repair
the damage. Our crime problem may have a number of causes, but "too
many rights and safeguards" is not a signifigant one. A broken court
system and poor police work are a much more signifigant cause as having
"too many rights" (disregarding addressing the root causes for crime,
etc).
BTW - those who suggest that this is just an attack on Clinton, believe
this: I would be going ballistic reagardless WHO seriously proposed
this thing. It is just another step in a gradual erosion of our rights
under the Constitution or Bill of Rights. The last couple of decades
have been a non-stop series of end-runs around the protections of the
Constitution. It has to stop. Now is as good a time as any, if it
isn't too late allready.
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[Sarcastic text deleted, No value judgement implied]
At first I was going to complain that your analogy was completely
irrelevant. But then I remembered something.
Remember that move to get the U.S. to the metric system all those
years ago? As far as I know we were supposed to be there by now.
The government sold it as better for the people, easier to be in
tune with the rest of the world. They had decided it was for
our own good.
Then, when the plan was released, it soon became apparant that the
government were a bunch 'o' thickies.
Think about it, change all the railroad track widths, signs,
screws, abolish the old regime.
At the cost of millions of dollars.
Your point is well taken. You think there is nothing to worry
about, you could care less who designs your cryptography, any
more than who designs your screws or the system of measurement
you use.
Sit back, that's right, just relax, we'll take care of all your
needs Mr. Molitor.
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Yeah, but first they have to deal with the Devils,
who've had their number all year. I'm not saying
the Caps aren't a good team (they've been a thorn
on the Habs side for the past 10 years!!!), just
that they won't get past NJ...
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Hi
I am trying to implement a pointer feature in Xlib
I have multiple windows and all can take input and
show output simultaneously on all other displays
I want to implement a pointer feature
I would like to get the pointer to come up on all windows once
I choose pointer in the menu and every one should be able
to see it
Can you give me some hints as to how I should proceed
I am new to Xlib
replies will be greatly appreciated
Thank you
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Dear Defiant (or Unfaithful or Pixie):
I will take up the challenge to reply, as I am a theist.
The foundation for faith in God is reason, without which the existence
of God could not be proven. That His existence can be proven by reason
is indisputable (cf. my short treatise, "Traditional Proofs for the
Existence of God," and Summa Theologica).
Now, given that God exists, and that His existence can be proven by reason,
I assert that His commands must be followed blindly, although in our fallen
condition we must always have some measure of doubt about our faith. Why?
Because God is the First Cause of all things, the First Mover of matter,
the Independent Thing that requires nothing else for its existence, the
Measure of all that is perfect, and the essential Being who gives order
to the universe (logos).
I next assert that God is all good. If this is so, then that which is
contrary to the will of God is evil; i.e., the absence of the good. And,
since God can never contradict Himself, then by His promise of a Savior
as early as the Protoevangelium of Genesis 3:5, God instructs that because
a human (Adam) was first responsible for man's alienation from the Source
of all good, a man would be required to act to restore the friendship.
Thus God became incarnate in the person of the Messiah.
Now this Messiah claimed that He is the Truth (John 14:6). If this claim
is true, then we are bound by reason to follow Him, who is truth incarnate.
You next seem to have a problem with authority. Have you tried the United
States Marine Corps yet? I can tell you first-hand that it is an excellent
instructor in authority. If you have not yet had the privilege, I will
reply that the authority which is Truth Incarnate may never be questioned,
and thus must be followed blindly. One may NOT deny the truth. For
example, when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton's head, he could
have denied that it happened, but he did not. The laws of physics must
be obeyed whether a human likes them or not. They are true.
Therefore, the Authority which is Truth may not be denied.
QED
--
boundary
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Hi Xperts,
this is a repost (no one responded to my desperate yell 8-(
I can't believe there is no XView wizards any more 8-)...
I'm using sliders in my XView apps, usually with editable numeric
field. But I seem to have no control over the length of this field.
In some apps it appears long enough to keep several characters,
in some - it cannot keep even the maximum value set by
PANEL_MAX_VALUE!
As I understand, PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH, which controls
number of characters to be displayed in text items, doesn't
work in the case of slider, despite the fact that <panel.h>
contains the following bit:
/* Panel_multiline_text_item, Panel_numeric_text_item,
* Panel_slider_item and Panel_text_item attributes
*/
PANEL_NOTIFY_LEVEL = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_ENUM, 152),
PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_INT, 182),
which gives a hint that this attribute can be used for sliders.
But 1) setting this attribute gives nothing, and 2) xv_get'ting
this attribute gives warning: Bad attribute, and returns value 0.
Strange thing is that DEC's port of XView gives plenty of space
in a text fields, but not Sun's Xview...
Can someone share his experience in managing sliders in XView with me,
and clear this problem?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Yuri
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Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America
as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his
North American heritage back a lot further than most of us.
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Since the Quadra is the only Mac able to deal with 5MB/s and Hard drives START
at 160MB I have NO idea.
For the Mac I have the following {These are ALL external}
20MB $299 {$15/MB}
52MB $379 {$7.3/MB}
80MB $449 {$5.63/MB}
120MB $569-$639 {$4.75-$5.33/MB
210MB $979-$1029{$4.67-$4.90/MB}
320MB $1499-$1549 {$4.68-$4.84/MB}
510MB $1999-$2119 ($3.92-$4.31/MB}
etc
So scsi-1/SCSI-2 for the Mac goes down in price/MB as hard drive size goes
up {and I assume the same for the PC world.}
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Hmmmm. I think, with really large keyspaces like this, you need to
alter the strategy discussed for DES. Attempt decryption of several
blocks, and check the disctribution of the contents. I don't think it's
at all feasible to keep 2**80 encryptions of a known plaintext block on
*any* amount of tape or CD-ROM. And certainly not 2**128 such encrypted
blocks. (Anyone know a cheap way of converting every atom in the solar
system into a one bit storage device?)
Actually, a keysearch of this kind shouldn't be much worse than the
simpler kind in terms of speed. It's just that you have to do it over
for *every* encrypted message.
Dumb question: Has anyone ever done any serious research on how many
legitimate ASCII-encoded 8-byte blocks there are that could be part of
an english sentence? For attacking DES in ECB mode, it seems like a
dictionary of this kind might be pretty valuable....
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I have tested this on a 230 and it does work there. So it would
seem that the 140 and 170 are out though. One way to tell is to
go and open the PowerBook control panel(7.1). There is a setting
there that allows you to set the time to wake up the Mac. If it
is present when you open the control panel, then you can assume that
SetWUTime will work.
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I would like to get your opinions on this: when exactly does an engaged
couple become "married" in God's eyes? Some say that if the two have
publically announced their plans to marry, have made their vows to God, and
are unswervingly committed to one another (I realize this is a subjective
qualifier) they are married/joined in God's sight.
Suppose they are unable to get before the altar right at the current time
because of purely logistical reasons beyond their control. What do you
think about this?
Post or e-mail me with general responses. If you need clarification as to
what I am asking, please e-mail.
Thanks and God bless!
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Hi All,
I have heard that somewhere there exist programmable keyboards, eg. one
can program displays on the keys to show some specific characters, et.c.
Does it mean that there is some way of transmitting some "non-trivial" data
to the KB (as opposed to standard NumLock/... On-Off, typeamatic specs.) from
inside the PC software? I have not found any corresponding reference in the
specs for the 8042 PC-KB interface. Anyone have any ideas? (Except that they
may encode data by the sequences of the standard commands mentioned above,
which wouldn't look too neat, besides, what would one do from an XT?)
Great thanks in advance,
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>Loud pipes are a biligerent exercise in ego projection,
No arguements following, just the facts.
I was able to avoid an accident by revving my engine and having my
*stock* Harley pipes make enough noise to draw someones attention.
I instinctively revved my engine before I went for my horn. Don't know
why, but I did it and it worked. Thats rather important.
I am not saying "the louder the pipes the better". My Harley is loud
and it gets me noticed on the road for that reason. I personally do
not feel it is to loud. If you do, well thats to bad; welcome to
America - "Home of the Free, Land of the Atlanta Braves".
If you really want a fine tuned machine like our federal government
to get involved and pass Db restrictions; it should be generous
enough so that a move like revving your engine will get you noticed.
Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we
get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or
how long it would take me to push my horn button??
And aren't you the guy that doesn't even have a bike???
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What are the volumes that it speaks besides the fact that he leaves your
choices up to you?
I definitely agree that it's rather presumptuous for either "side" to give some
psychological reasoning for another's belief.
MAC
--
****************************************************************
Michael A. Cobb
"...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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I assume that can only be guessed at by the assumed energy of the
event and the 1/r^2 law. So, if the 1/r^2 law is incorrect (assume
some unknown material [dark matter??] inhibits Gamma Ray propagation),
could it be possible that we are actually seeing much less energetic
events happening much closer to us? The even distribution could
be caused by the characteristic propagation distance of gamma rays
being shorter then 1/2 the thickness of the disk of the galaxy.
Just some idle babbling,
--
Jim Batka | Work Email: BATKAJ@CCMAIL.DAYTON.SAIC.COM | Elvis is
| Home Email: JBATKA@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU | DEAD!
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I'm considering adding a floptical drive to my current system.
What I would like to know is which floptical drives are recommended for
their quality and performance.
My preference would be floptical drives capable of handling both 800k and
1.4k floppies, but handling 800k floppies is not a necessity.
So far, I only know a bit about the Iomega floptical and the Infinity
floptical drives. Are there any comments/recommendations for either of these?
Are there any other floptical drives that are worth looking into and where
can they be purchased (i.e. which mail order places, etc).
Thanks in advance.
Please send replies directly to umsoroko@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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The proper spelling is Kirlian. It was an effect discoverd by
S. Kirlian, a soviet film developer in 1939.
As I recall, the coronas visible are ascribed to static discharges
and chemical reactions between the organic material and the silver
halides in the films.
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1 $1
Dr. Strange #31 $1
Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Send all bids and comments to
02106@chopin.udel.edu
Thanks
Sam (the "ex" comic book collector)
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Like who, f'rinstance? When I bought my system (November), no first, second,
or third tier vendor could touch the price for the hardware/software
combination I got from GW2000.
If you were selling as many systems as fast as GW2000, you'd end up with four
or five pissed-off customers too. And four or five ecstatic ones. And lots
of satisfied ones...
Don't minimize this; if you buy mail order, it's a good thing to know that
you'll get replacements parts, no questions asked, in a day or two, via FedEx.
Which they do in the vast majority of cases. Remember that it's only the
people on the tails of the curve who are motivated to write -- the ones who
love it, and the ones who hate it. You don't hear from the folks in the
middle very often...
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