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7,718 | Can anybody recommend a good, application-oriented beginner's reference
to RF circuits?
I am pretty good on theory & know what different types of modulation mean,
but don't have a lot of practical experience. A book detailing working
circuits of different types (modulation, power, frequency, what is legal,
what is not, et cetera), would be very helpful.
Thanks.
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Steve Klinkner AT&T Bell Labs [email protected]
att!boeing!srk | 11 | trimmed_train |
7,428 |
My choice for the escow house would be the Smithsonian, and someplace on
the west coast. My biggest concern isn't that the escrow house could
be compromised (it will be), but the fact it has been compromised will
be kept secret.
The keys could be kept under glass, with 24-hour C-SPAN coverage. If you
thought your key had been stolen just turn on the cable, and wait until
the roving camera reachs the musuem case with your key. Or if you think the
C-SPAN satellite has been compromised, take a tour of the Smithsonian
yourself, and view the seal on your key.
| 7 | trimmed_train |
7,807 | One of the local dealers has a used (7k miles) '93 Probe GT
on the lot with a photocopy of a document taped to the
window saying the dealership bought the car back from
the previous owner because of "Engine noises", but that
the Ford district rep had OK'ed the car saying those
noises were "normal". I thought it was worth looking
into (the car seems otherwise clean) and mentioned this
to a co-worker, who proceeded to tell me a horror story
about her son's '93 Probe GT, which had several problems,
ending with engine noises which she said "was something
with the heads", that Ford acknowledged the noise, said
they were working on it, but didn't have a cure as of
yet. Her son traded the car in (and I checked -- not
the same car). So I have some evidence of a reoccuring
problem with the V6 in the Probe GT's, and by extension
with the Madza 626 and MX-6. | 4 | trimmed_train |
10,443 |
Here at Lewis and Clark College we have recently installed a Digital Film
system (based on the Mac Quadra) that does non-linear, full digital editing.
If you're considering such a system, here are the pros and cons:
For the educational environment, this system is excellent. We use it to
produce a variety of educational materials for disemination on our local
network. Because this programming is going to be viewed on other Macs, the
image quality is not as important as the ability to directly export the
video to the Net.
We also use it to produce orientiation and promotional video programs for
use by the Lewis & Clark community. Since these programs are not meant for
commercial or broadcast use, image quality is not critical.
The Digital Film system, for those of you who are uninitiated, is an A/B roll
digitizing system on one $5000 JPEG compression card. It was promoted as
an inexpensive online editing system with SVHS quality. SuperMac, the maker
of the card, is trying to achieve this quality level, but as yet, has been
unable to deliver. Our system produces "near VHS" quality at 30 fields per
second (640x480 overscan). The card repeats every other field to get 60
fields per second. This results in a kind of Super 8 film look that some
find distracting.
If you can get past this problem, you'll find the Adobe Premier editing
software quite enjoyable with which to work. It produces thousands of
different effects from crystalize filters to DVE transitions to color matting.
Because of its non-linear nature, editing is fast and easy. If you've ever
used (or seen used) an AVID or Montage system, you'll recognize the methodology
and the user interface.
The total system with Quadra 950 (40Megs of RAM), 1 gig drive, 21" Apple mon-
itor, Panasonic SVHS 1960 edit deck, audio gear (cassette, CD, EQ, mixer, etc),
Composite monitor, Digital Film card will set you back about $20,000.
For you video cowboys and girls, this system will not output at a quality
that will satisfy most of your clients. Even though you can perform more
effects than a toasterhead can imagine, an Amiga based off-line based system
will look better.
We use both Macs and Amigas for our video work. Each for what each does best!
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9,237 | ..stuff deleted...
...more stuff deleted...
Hmm, USENET got it's collective hooks into me around 1987 or so right after I
switched to engineering. I'd say I started reading alt.atheism around 1988-89.
I've probably not posted more than 50 messages in the time since then though.
I'll never understand how people can find the time to write so much. I
can barely keep up as it is.
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11,066 | [ ... ]
Then it also supports basing such regulations on ignorance.
Miller had disappeared, and nobody bothered to present _his_
side to the Supreme Court -- in particular, that sawed-off
shotguns were used in the World War I trenches, and in other
tight spots ever since guns had been invented. Would _you_
turn one down if you had to "clean" an alley in E. St. Louis? | 9 | trimmed_train |
871 | Help!
I'm trying to run dxterm's (DECs' xterm) on a DECstation 5000/240
(Ultrix 4.3, X11R4, Motif 1.1.3) with the DISPLAY variable set to an
Apollo DN2500 (Domain/OS 10.3, X11R4, Motif ?.?).
I get these errors appearing on the DECstation:
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCharDel " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCopy " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apCut " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apPaste " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apUpBox " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apDownBox " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apRightBar " to type VirtualBinding
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>apLeftBar " to type VirtualBinding
Segmentation fault
Any ideas? Is it a Motif problem...are the DEC and Apollo versions of Motif
incompatible? Or something to do with XKeysymDB?
(xterms run fine on DEC displaying on Apollo..arggh)
I need to run dxterm because the package we are using on the DEC's, Oracle Case,
uses dxterm by default, and we have a lab of Apollo workstations we would like
to run Oracle from.
Andrew "Alf" Leahy, [email protected] | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,755 |
Obviously, it wouldn't be of much help to treat one problem by knowingly
introducing another. Cancer mestastizes. My imperfect understanding of
the facts are that gonadal cancer is particularly dangerous in this regard.
I haven't done the research on it, but I don't recall ever hearing of a
case of cancer being transmitted by a blood transfusion. Probably just a
common sense kind of arbitrary precaution. Transmissable diseases like
malaria though are obviously another story.
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3,713 | Subject line says it all. Thanks in advance. Please email
[email protected]
Go Cubs!
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9,986 | Archive-name: space/groups
Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:08 $
SPACE ACTIVIST/INTEREST/RESEARCH GROUPS AND SPACE PUBLICATIONS
GROUPS
AIA -- Aerospace Industry Association. Professional group, with primary
membership of major aerospace firms. Headquartered in the DC area.
Acts as the "voice of the aerospace industry" -- and it's opinions
are usually backed up by reams of analyses and the reputations of
the firms in AIA.
[address needed]
AIAA -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Professional association, with somewhere about 30,000-40,000
members. 65 local chapters around the country -- largest chapters
are DC area (3000 members), LA (2100 members), San Francisco (2000
members), Seattle/NW (1500), Houston (1200) and Orange County
(1200), plus student chapters. Not a union, but acts to represent
aviation and space professionals (engineers, managers, financial
types) nationwide. Holds over 30 conferences a year on space and
aviation topics publishes technical Journals (Aerospace Journal,
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, etc.), technical reference books
and is _THE_ source on current aerospace state of the art through
their published papers and proceedings. Also offers continuing
education classes on aerospace design. Has over 60 technical
committees, and over 30 committees for industry standards. AIAA acts
as a professional society -- offers a centralized resume/jobs
function, provides classes on job search, offers low-cost health and
life insurance, and lobbies for appropriate legislation (AIAA was
one of the major organizations pushing for IRAs - Individual
Retirement Accounts). Very active public policy arm -- works
directly with the media, congress and government agencies as a
legislative liaison and clearinghouse for inquiries about aerospace
technology technical issues. Reasonably non-partisan, in that they
represent the industry as a whole, and not a single company,
organization, or viewpoint.
Membership $70/yr (student memberships are less).
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The Aerospace Center
370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW
Washington, DC 20077-0820
(202)-646-7400
AMSAT - develops small satellites (since the 1960s) for a variety of
uses by amateur radio enthusiasts. Has various publications,
supplies QuickTrak satellite tracking software for PC/Mac/Amiga etc.
Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)
P.O. Box 27
Washington, DC 20044
(301)-589-6062
ASERA - Australian Space Engineering and Research Association. An
Australian non-profit organisation to coordinate, promote, and
conduct space R&D projects in Australia, involving both Australian
and international (primarily university) collaborators. Activities
include the development of sounding rockets, small satellites
(especially microsatellites), high-altitude research balloons, and
appropriate payloads. Provides student projects at all levels, and
is open to any person or organisation interested in participating.
Publishes a monthly newsletter and a quarterly technical journal.
Membership $A100 (dual subscription)
Subscriptions $A25 (newsletter only) $A50 (journal only)
ASERA Ltd
PO Box 184
Ryde, NSW, Australia, 2112
email: [email protected]
BIS - British Interplanetary Society. Probably the oldest pro-space
group, BIS publishes two excellent journals: _Spaceflight_, covering
current space activities, and the _Journal of the BIS_, containing
technical papers on space activities from near-term space probes to
interstellar missions. BIS has published a design study for an
interstellar probe called _Daedalus_.
British Interplanetary Society
27/29 South Lambeth Road
London SW8 1SZ
ENGLAND
No dues information available at present.
ISU - International Space University. ISU is a non-profit international
graduate-level educational institution dedicated to promoting the
peaceful exploration and development of space through multi-cultural
and multi-disciplinary space education and research. For further
information on ISU's summer session program or Permanent Campus
activities please send messages to '[email protected]' or
contact the ISU Executive Offices at:
International Space University
955 Massachusetts Avenue 7th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)-354-1987 (phone)
(617)-354-7666 (fax)
L-5 Society (defunct). Founded by Keith and Carolyn Henson in 1975 to
advocate space colonization. Its major success was in preventing US
participation in the UN "Moon Treaty" in the late 1970s. Merged with
the National Space Institute in 1987, forming the National Space
Society.
NSC - National Space Club. Open for general membership, but not well
known at all. Primarily comprised of professionals in aerospace
industry. Acts as information conduit and social gathering group.
Active in DC, with a chapter in LA. Monthly meetings with invited
speakers who are "heavy hitters" in the field. Annual "Outlook on
Space" conference is _the_ definitive source of data on government
annual planning for space programs. Cheap membership (approx
$20/yr).
[address needed]
NSS - the National Space Society. NSS is a pro-space group distinguished
by its network of local chapters. Supports a general agenda of space
development and man-in-space, including the NASA space station.
Publishes _Ad Astra_, a monthly glossy magazine, and runs Shuttle
launch tours and Space Hotline telephone services. A major sponsor
of the annual space development conference. Associated with
Spacecause and Spacepac, political lobbying organizations.
Membership $18 (youth/senior) $35 (regular).
National Space Society
Membership Department
922 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003-2140
(202)-543-1900
Planetary Society - founded by Carl Sagan. The largest space advocacy
group. Publishes _Planetary Report_, a monthly glossy, and has
supported SETI hardware development financially. Agenda is primarily
support of space science, recently amended to include an
international manned mission to Mars.
The Planetary Society
65 North Catalina Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106
Membership $35/year.
SSI - the Space Studies Institute, founded by Dr. Gerard O'Neill.
Physicist Freeman Dyson took over the Presidency of SSI after
O'Neill's death in 1992. Publishes _SSI Update_, a bimonthly
newsletter describing work-in-progress. Conducts a research program
including mass-drivers, lunar mining processes and simulants,
composites from lunar materials, solar power satellites. Runs the
biennial Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing.
Membership $25/year. Senior Associates ($100/year and up) fund most
SSI research.
Space Studies Institute
258 Rosedale Road
PO Box 82
Princeton, NJ 08540
SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. Founded in
1980 at MIT and Princeton. SEDS is a chapter-based pro-space
organization at high schools and universities around the world.
Entirely student run. Each chapter is independent and coordinates
its own local activities. Nationally, SEDS runs a scholarship
competition, design contests, and holds an annual international
conference and meeting in late summer.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
MIT Room W20-445
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)-253-8897
email: [email protected]
Dues determined by local chapter.
SPACECAUSE - A political lobbying organization and part of the NSS
Family of Organizations. Publishes a bi-monthly newsletter,
Spacecause News. Annual dues is $25. Members also receive a discount
on _The Space Activist's Handbook_. Activities to support pro-space
legislation include meeting with political leaders and interacting
with legislative staff. Spacecause primarily operates in the
legislative process.
National Office West Coast Office
Spacecause Spacecause
922 Pennsylvania Ave. SE 3435 Ocean Park Blvd.
Washington, D.C. 20003 Suite 201-S
(202)-543-1900 Santa Monica, CA 90405
SPACEPAC - A political action committee and part of the NSS Family of
Organizations. Spacepac researches issues, policies, and candidates.
Each year, updates _The Space Activist's Handbook_. Current Handbook
price is $25. While Spacepac does not have a membership, it does
have regional contacts to coordinate local activity. Spacepac
primarily operates in the election process, contributing money and
volunteers to pro-space candidates.
Spacepac
922 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202)-543-1900
UNITED STATES SPACE FOUNDATION - a public, non-profit organization
supported by member donations and dedicated to promoting
international education, understanding and support of space. The
group hosts an annual conference for teachers and others interested
in education. Other projects include developing lesson plans that
use space to teach other basic skills such as reading. Publishes
"Spacewatch," a monthly B&W glossy magazine of USSF events and
general space news. Annual dues:
Charter $50 ($100 first year)
Individual $35
Teacher $29
College student $20
HS/Jr. High $10
Elementary $5
Founder & $1000+
Life Member
United States Space Foundation
PO Box 1838
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
(719)-550-1000
WORLD SPACE FOUNDATION - has been designing and building a solar-sail
spacecraft for longer than any similar group; many JPL employees lend
their talents to this project. WSF also provides partial funding for the
Palomar Sky Survey, an extremely successful search for near-Earth
asteroids. Publishes *Foundation News* and *Foundation Astronautics
Notebook*, each a quarterly 4-8 page newsletter. Contributing Associate,
minimum of $15/year (but more money always welcome to support projects).
World Space Foundation
Post Office Box Y
South Pasadena, California 91301
PUBLICATIONS
Aerospace Daily (McGraw-Hill)
Very good coverage of aerospace and space issues. Approx. $1400/yr.
Air & Space / Smithsonian (bimonthly magazine)
Box 53261
Boulder, CO 80332-3261
$18/year US, $24/year international
ESA - The European Space Agency publishes a variety of periodicals,
generally available free of charge. A document describing them in
more detail is in the Ames SPACE archive in
pub/SPACE/FAQ/ESAPublications.
Final Frontier (mass-market bimonthly magazine) - history, book reviews,
general-interest articles (e.g. "The 7 Wonders of the Solar System",
"Everything you always wanted to know about military space
programs", etc.)
Final Frontier Publishing Co.
PO Box 534
Mt. Morris, IL 61054-7852
$14.95/year US, $19.95 Canada, $23.95 elsewhere
Space News (weekly magazine) - covers US civil and military space
programs. Said to have good political and business but spotty
technical coverage.
Space News
Springfield VA 22159-0500
(703)-642-7330
$75/year, may have discounts for NSS/SSI members
Journal of the Astronautical Sciences and Space Times - publications of
the American Astronautical Society. No details.
AAS Business Office
6352 Rolling Mill Place, Suite #102
Springfield, VA 22152
(703)-866-0020
GPS World (semi-monthly) - reports on current and new uses of GPS, news
and analysis of the system and policies affecting it, and technical
and product issues shaping GPS applications.
GPS World
859 Willamette St.
P.O. Box 10460
Eugene, OR 97440-2460
(503)-343-1200
Free to qualified individuals; write for free sample copy.
Innovation (Space Technology) -- Free. Published by the NASA Office of
Advanced Concepts and Technology. A revised version of the NASA
Office of Commercial Programs newsletter.
Planetary Encounter - in-depth technical coverage of planetary missions,
with diagrams, lists of experiments, interviews with people directly
involved.
World Spaceflight News - in-depth technical coverage of near-Earth
spaceflight. Mostly covers the shuttle: payload manifests, activity
schedules, and post-mission assessment reports for every mission.
Box 98
Sewell, NJ 08080
$30/year US/Canada
$45/year elsewhere
Space (bi-monthly magazine)
British aerospace trade journal. Very good. $75/year.
Space Calendar (weekly newsletter)
Space Daily/Space Fax Daily (newsletter)
Short (1 paragraph) news notes. Available online for a fee
(unknown).
Space Technology Investor/Commercial Space News -- irregular Internet
column on aspects of commercial space business. Free. Also limited
fax and paper edition.
P.O. Box 2452
Seal Beach, CA 90740-1452.
All the following are published by:
Phillips Business Information, Inc.
7811 Montrose Road
Potomac, MC 20854
Aerospace Financial News - $595/year.
Defense Daily - Very good coverage of space and defense issues.
$1395/year.
Space Business News (bi-weekly) - Very good overview of space
business activities. $497/year.
Space Exploration Technology (bi-weekly) - $495/year.
Space Station News (bi-weekly) - $497/year.
UNDOCUMENTED GROUPS
Anyone who would care to write up descriptions of the following
groups (or others not mentioned) for inclusion in the answer is
encouraged to do so.
AAS - American Astronautical Society
Other groups not mentioned above | 10 | trimmed_train |
1,655 | Did you ever notice how many people on the net have trouble in the
comparitively easy task of spelling the nick name of our fair city? I
never knew that Philadelphia becomes Phillie or Philli when spoken of. So
for all you who don't know yet here's a _little_ clue.
IT IS SPELLED: P H I L L Y
OK...thank you.
Oh yeah, about that drug-induced trade rumor....I don't think the Sniders
are that stupid...the rumor you should be looking into is Mike Keenan
coming back to coach the FLYERS.
later
Mike
--
Mike Cornell | "There are a great many people in the country today who,
[email protected]| through no fault of their own, are sane." -Monty Python | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,958 | Does anybody know anything about the chips D6275A/D6235A/D6205A chips from
DSP Telecommunications Inc?
I'd greatly appreciate information about price, pinouts and peripherals.
Regards,
Henrik Bohre | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,019 | Despite my trendy, liberal, feminist tendencies and the fact
that I basically agree with what you are saying I will rebut:
The basic question here is "how do I know what I am supposed to do?"
This is true in every situation that comes up. Some people do not
think about it at all and merely follow their impulses. I claim
that is just as dangerous as "following authority". I could site
sexually transmitted diseases, drug abuse, all manner of criminal
activity, the savings and loan scandal, car accidents, eggs thrown
at my house, all are examples of people not "following authority".
I could easily argue that in the evil examples you gave the
problem was a leader not following _his_ authority and doing what
he wanted. Of course, where is the top of the chain? Therein lies
our search.
I don't think it's as simple as you are claiming. "Pressing need" is
ambiguous. Should I recycle or not?
Realize that I have four kids who, despite being very precocious
of course, are very tiring with their constant lack of understanding
the tremendous knowledge I wish to impart to them.
Ahh! An ironic ending.
The irony I was implying in my initial pithy retort to the bumper
sticker cliche "Question Authority" was that I was questioning
the authority of the person telling me to question authority.
It seems there is a certain segment of society that finds meaning
only in being different, only in rebelling, forsaking everything
for the sake of freedom. I question their integrity and fortitude.
There is another freedom that comes from doing a task correctly.
Different people are at different levels of development in different
areas. Part of the challenge of life is to find the right authorities
to follow, we can't know everything about everything. Often
when learning a new skill or subject I will follow the teacher,
perhaps blindly. Only when I have learned enough to ask appropriate
questions should I question him, only when I have developed
my skills enough should I challenge him. Once again, how do I know
when I get to those stages?
If you have to be told to question authority, perhaps you shouldn't. | 0 | trimmed_train |
2,130 |
Yep, it's called OS2!
| 18 | trimmed_train |
2,186 |
No, he's not missing anything. You're right that some models of the 650 ship in
the USA without FPU or Ethernet. Per Ejeklint is also right -- *all*, I repeat,
*ALL* Centris 650's sold here in New Zealand and, I assume, Europe have the FPU
and Ethernet. | 14 | trimmed_train |
7,962 | I've seen solar battery boosters, and they seem to come without any
guarantee. On the other hand, I've heard that some people use them
with success, although I have yet to communicate directly with such a
person. Have you tried one? What was your experience? How did you use
it (occasional charging, long-term leave-it-for-weeks, etc.)?
-- Robert Kennedy | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,150 | If Clipper comes to cellular phones along with legal proscriptions against
using other cipher systems on these phones, a new and potentially dangerous
class of crime is created.
Criminals who very badly want inscrutable tactical communications (specifically
the terrorists and drug dealers who proponents of key escrow cite as threats)
will be highly motivated to steal the cipher phone of a legitimate user, and
to kill this person or hold them hostage so discovery of compromise of the
device will be delayed.
Once a suitable collection of devices is stolen, criminals can communicate
with impunity (assuming the cipher system carries no trapdoors apart from
key escrow) until and unless the compromise is discovered by some other means.
Because life-is-cheap criminals are currently willing to kill people to steal
very large and conspicuous property (luxury cars), it is reasonable to assume
that they will be willing to kill people to steal small and inconspicuous
property (a cipher cellular phone). Just as we have seen in the past with
"blue box" technology, and in the present with modified cellular phones,
we can expect to see among high-stakes criminals a lucrative market for
stolen cipher phones which can be used for a few days. The high-stakes
criminals will pay the life-is-cheap types substantial amounts for stolen
instruments.
Because a person is typically discovered as missing or dead in a few days,
a stolen instrument will be usable for only a few days. There will be a
continuing demand for fresh phones: fresh bodies.
In other words, Clipper and similar systems have the potential to turn a
current inconvenience to law enforcement into a direct, vicious, and
persistent threat to the general public.
On the other hand, if a criminal were to apply some arbitrary cipher to a
device in a mostly non-ciphered network, the communication will at least
stand out as being unusual, and perhaps worthy of other means of investigation.
Finally, because there is essentially no possibility of intercepting in
realtime the scrutable content of communications between stolen instruments,
there will exist strong motivation to record and archive _all_ communications
in the network for ex-post-facto scrutiny (once some criminal act is discovered,
and the instruments involved have been identified). While recording and
archiving may not be feasible for wireline networks, it is probably feasible
across the more limited bandwidth of radio networks. The existence of these
recordings could open up vast potential for abuse. | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,382 | I was whatching The History Of The Indy 500 the other day,
and early in the film, around the '10-'20's, a name, Lois Chevrolet,
came out of the blue. I wanted to know if he is THE Chevrolet founder
or mearly a driver who's name was called the same as the other guy's?:^) | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,709 | First of all let's assume that you are right that fewer guns would make it
in to the country, that sounds great (to those that see guns as inherently
evil) except then every one of those guns would be in the hands of someone
who obviously couldn't care less about following the law, after all they
got the gun illegally, so is more likely to commit a crime with that gun.
Great then everyone with a gun is likely to use it in a crime, nice system.
Now as to reducing the number of guns coming into society by making it
illegal to manufacture, sell, or import them in this coutry, let me use
a parallel for empiric evidence. The amount of cocaine in this country is
far less since its manufacture, sale, and importation was out lawwed. If
that last statement is true then perhaps we should consider your plan. This
could also apply to drugs in general. | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,484 |
I'm still catching up from Spring Break, but bear with me...
Javy Lopez has proven, over 1400+ AB in the minor leagues, that he is
ready to play in the majors. He is *not* being rushed. Players who are
clearly too good for AA and play behind stiffs at the major league level
are wasting their time, and may actually have a court case against
major league management for keeping them, at AAA.
Unless Lopez is *me* defensively (I'm 5'7'', 165 and born to play
second base :-)), he belongs in the major leagues.
Valentine isn't saying he should back up. He's saying he should be put
in a position to *win* the job in the major leagues, which, IMHO, he
would if given the opportunity. (Val, if I'm misinterpreting, please
let me know.)
But the players who *are* ready are 1)the best and 2) the ones most
likely to benefit from being in the majors. Javy Lopez is not a middle-
of-the-road prospect. He's the real thing. NOW.
Again, the most important thing a player can do is hit. Lopez does that
miles better than Olson or Berryhill. If his defense is good enough for
Greenville, or Richmond, it's good enough for Atlanta. If he really was
awful defensively, he would no longer be a catcher. See Sprague, Ed.
Oh, where to start... OK. First of all, solid != good. I want good players.
Solid is one of those words used to describe nice white guys who really
aren't very good at baseball. Think of it as "TWG" without the caps.
It's a losing strategy to say, "We have solid guys, we don't need to improve."
You used it four times in that paragraph, BTW.
Same for experienced. I might add, though, that Greg Olson and Damon
Berryhill aren't exactly Carter and Fisk. Olson has played three years,
Berryhill five, although 90 and 91 were a wash. The only difference,
IMHO, between Olson and Valle is the supporting cast.
"Two big bats." Hrm. I like Justice, but I find Mr. Gant's trend disturbing.
Call it one and a maybe. The Braves' platoon is OK, but neither player
has *any* value outside of the platoon. Bream vs. LH and Hunter vs. RH
are awful. I'll leave the thirdbase comment alone. Pendleton has wasted
too much bandwidth already. If the CF platoon hits .300, I'll retrace
Mr. Likhani's midnight run down Forbes, and I live in NY and LA.
(Got that, Mike?)
And doesn't Cox call pitches, anyway?
Nope. They're baseball management, possible the most short-sighted
collection of people in the nation. Do you not believe this goes on,
Mark? Do you think Frank Thomas needed those three months in AAA in
1990? Or Cal Eldred wasn't *really* better than Ricky Bones last year?
You're mostly polite; make defensible, if flawed cases; have wit and
have, in the past, admitted being wrong. That does qualify you on r.s.b.
We'll make an SDCN out of you, yet :-)
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5,526 | [email protected] (A.J. Teel) writes...
Fine. If you think it's an expose of corruption and fraud,
please prevent a jury question. Don't just reassert your
opening statement.
No indication that was what happened until now. Editing down is
always possible.
It would be interesting to hear who the responding parties are.
FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY:
Don't let the IRS see this, Mr. Teel.
And, as has been noted more times than we care to count, about as
likely to stand up in court as the twenty-seven eight by ten
color glossy pictures the Stockbridge, Mass., police, took for
use as evidence against Arlo Guthrie. (As anyone who knows
Alice's Restaurant is aware, he pleaded guilty to littering, was
fined $50, and told to pick up the garbage.)
Daniel Reitman
HOW NOT TO WRITE A DEED
One case involved the construction of a conveyance to grantees "jointly, as
tenants in common, with equal rights and interest in said land, and to the
survivor thereof, in fee simple. . . . To Have and to Hold the same unto the
said parties hereto, equally, jointly, as tenants in common, with equal rights
and interest for the period or term of their lives, and to the survivor thereof
at the death of the other." | 13 | trimmed_train |
13 |
{Description of "External Tank" option for SSF redesign deleted}
Yo Ken, let's keep on-top of things! Both the "External Tank" and
"Wingless Orbiter" options have been deleted from the SSF redesign
options list. Today's (4/23) edition of the New York Times reports
that O'Connor told the panel that some redesign proposals have
been dropped, such as using the "giant external fuel tanks used
in launching space shuttles," and building a "station around
an existing space shuttle with its wings and tail removed."
Currently, there are three options being considered, as presented
to the advisory panel meeting yesterday (and as reported in
today's Times).
Option "A" - Low Cost Modular Approach
This option is being studied by a team from MSFC. {As an aside,
there are SSF redesign teams at MSFC, JSC, and LaRC supporting
the SRT (Station Redesign Team) in Crystal City. Both LeRC and
Reston folks are also on-site at these locations, helping the respective
teams with their redesign activities.} Key features of this
option are:
- Uses "Bus-1", a modular bus developed by Lockheed that's
qualified for STS and ELV's. The bus provides propulsion, GN&C
Communications, & Data Management. Lockheed developed this
for the Air Force.
- A "Power Station Capability" is obtained in 3 Shuttle Flights.
SSF Solar arrays are used to provide 20 kW of power. The vehicle
flies in an "arrow mode" to optimize the microgravity environment.
Shuttle/Spacelab missions would utilize the vehilce as a power
source for 30 day missions.
- Human tended capability (as opposed to the old SSF sexist term
of man-tended capability) is achieved by the addition of the
US Common module. This is a modified version of the existing
SSF Lab module (docking ports are added for the International
Partners' labs, taking the place of the nodes on SSF). The
Shuttle can be docked to the station for 60 day missions.
The Orbiter would provide crew habitability & EVA capability.
- International Human Tended. Add the NASDA & ESA modules, and
add another 20 kW of power
- Permanent Human Presence Capability. Add a 3rd power module,
the U.S. habitation module, and an ACRV (Assured Crew Return
Vehicle).
Option "B" - Space Station Freedom Derived
The Option "B" team is based at LaRC, and is lead by Mike Griffin.
This option looks alot like the existing SSF design, which we
have all come to know and love :)
This option assumes a lightweight external tank is available for
use on all SSF assembly flights (so does option "A"). Also, the
number of flights is computed for a 51.6 inclination orbit,
for both options "A" and "B".
The build-up occurs in six phases:
- Initial Research Capability reached after 3 flights. Power
is transferred from the vehicle to the Orbiter/Spacelab, when
it visits.
- Man-Tended Capability (Griffin has not yet adopted non-sexist
language) is achieved after 8 flights. The U.S. Lab is
deployed, and 1 solar power module provides 20 kW of power.
- Permanent Human Presence Capability occurs after 10 flights, by
keeping one Orbiter on-orbit to use as an ACRV (so sometimes
there would be two Orbiters on-orbit - the ACRV, and the
second one that comes up for Logistics & Re-supply).
- A "Two Fault Tolerance Capability" is achieved after 14 flights,
with the addition of a 2nd power module, another thermal
control system radiator, and more propulsion modules.
- After 20 flights, the Internationals are on-board. More power,
the Habitation module, and an ACRV are added to finish the
assembly in 24 flights.
Most of the systems currently on SSF are used as-is in this option,
with the exception of the data management system, which has major
changes. | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,703 | why does my keyboard not have a cents key ?
C
like to have my 2 cents worth or $ 0.02 (boaring)
-David
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6,505 | 1976 BMW 530i
The original four door sports sedan
Arctic Blue metallic with gold alloy plus-1 wheels (Rial 15")
Goodyear Eagle GT+4 racing tires (mud/snow-rated)
3.0 liter, 186 HP, fuel injected engine w/Stahl headers
adjustable gas shocks all around (Koni,BYK)
4 speed stick, 4 wheel power disc brakes, sunroof, PS, AC
Listen-Up installed hidden speaker stereo w/subwoofer
208K miles (yet much better condition than most cars w/100K)
Meticulously maintained: all records, 3K mi oil changes
Faded paint on top, otherwise excellent exterior and interior.
The car has required no major repair work in the more than ten years I have
owned it. It has never failed to start or broken down, even in the coldest
weather. This has been an extraordinarily reliable and economical car, and
shows every sign of staying that way. Yet it is an absolute thrill to drive
when you take it to secluded twisty mountain road! I sell it now,
reluctantly, since I just succumbed to the convertible craving and bought a
new Miata.
$2500 obo
Rich Fozzard 497-6011 or 444-3168
| 5 | trimmed_train |
6,365 |
Yes, Fred, my heart and prayers go out to the mother and others who have
been victims of these and other senseless crimes.
However, I feel that you have missed the point of the previous postings (see
top). Your statement of 'responsibility' is felt as an attack towards the
members of this group. You are attempting to make the members of this group
be REQUIRED to answer. The only people who should make a statement are people
who have experienced the problem and found a workable solution.
Many people are interested, but have no input. I will restate that your last
sentence here is seen as an attack on the members of this group. If people have
input, they will give it. If they do not, YOU should not make them feel
compelled (sp?) to respond.
If you wish to continue this conversation, PLEASE send e-mail. DO NOT repost or
attempt to bait me, I will not make another post (and may I make the same a
suggestion to other group members) on this matter.
BTW, your welcome.
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6,738 |
AAAAAAAAAAAA! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Then why are they in the process of systematically dismantling some of
their socialistic health care systems through privitization of key components?
If I hold a gun to your wife, would you respond the same way? I don't
think so. While the age of aquarius may have hit the White House, the
age of peace love and harmony hasn't hit in South Central LA nor has it
hit in former Yugoslavia. And as long as there are people in the world
who would rather see me dead than thrive, I want the protection of a
police force who will keep the peace so I *can* make love without being
shot.
The ultimate statement for equal rights (something many of the feminazis
have forgotten) is "I do not care if you are either a man or a woman,
I do not care if you are black or white, I do not care if you are gay
or straight." Once you can honistly say "I do not care about color,
race, or gender or sexual preference", then we will truly be on the
right track.
Keep shoving differences in my face and then expect us all to get along?
Get real! So long as you try to make me care if you are black, female,
or whatever, I am going to continue to balk. It's natural human behaviour.
But the moment employers searching for employees, banks looking to lend
money, and theClinton administration looking for appointees can honistly
say "I do not care about your color, race, gender, or sexual preferences;
I instend instead to treat you as a human being," crap like last year's
riots will continue to happen.
Barf.
You mean the same economic theorists who say things like "for the sake
of convenience in mathematical modeling we will first assume there is
no wealth creation" now get a crack at implementing their PhD thesis in
real life?
Go back to your textbooks on macroeconomic theory. Look in the first chapter
of that book, introducing the field of macroeconomic theory. Right there
in chapter 1, section 1, is a statement like the following:
"As it is difficult to predict and model wealth creation,
especially in an economy where wealth creation is inherently
the province of individuals who create new inventions and
discover new ideas, we will assume for the rest of this
book that there is no wealth creation.
"We do not assume the lack of weath creation in the real world,
however the mathematical modeling of such an inherently
unpredictable subject is impossible. Even though we assume
no wealth creation, we do believe that for most mathematical
economic modeling such an assumption is reasonably valid
as it allows us to make predictions which then can be tested."
So the guys who are running the store for Clinton and company are now
assuming that wealth creation does not exists. They are (borrowing an
idea from the Hitchhiker's Guide) too advanced to think of these simple
things.
To be honist, I would rather have an engineer with years of experience
building bridges design the next bridge, rather than a theoretical
physicists with a freshly minted PhD and no experience do the same job.
- Bill Woody | 13 | trimmed_train |
10,776 | Does anyone out there have any info on the up and coming fall comdex '93? I was
asked by one of my peers to get any info that might be available. Or, could
anyone point me in the right direction? Any help would be appreciated.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
5,642 | No one can answer that. If she gets reflex sympathetic dystrophy,
it could last forever. Just hope she does not. Most don't.
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. You just have to do the
best job you can reattaching and hope. You should know in a few
months.
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
[email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." | 19 | trimmed_train |
203 | I apologize if this article is slightly confusing, and late. The origonal
draft didn't make it through the moderators quote-screens. So I did
violence to it, but if you remember the article I am responding
to it should still make sence.
What, no hello for heathan netters?
I feel all left out now. :(
[deletia- table of content, intro, homosexuality]
[deletia- incorrect attributions]
Uh, you have your attributions wrong, you were responding
to my article, so Dan Johnson should be the 1st one.
[deletia- no free gifts speil nuked by moderator fiat.]
Ah, in the _cosmic_ sence.. but who lives in the cosmic sence?
Not me! Cosmicly, we don't even exist for all practical purposes.
I can hardly use the Cosmic Sence Of Stuff as a guide to life.
It would just say: "don't bother."
Luckily for mortals, there are many sences of scale you can talk
about. In a human sence, you can have big purposes.
But the influence of Aristotle, Confucious, Alexander, Ceasar and
countless others is still with us, although their works have perished.
But they have changed to course of history, and while humanity exists,
their deeds cannot be said to have come to nothing, even if they
are utterly forgotten.
One day, surely. (well, unless you believe in the Second Coming, which
I do not)
But in that time we can make a difference.
In the end. But it must be the end; until then, there is all the
point you can muster. And when that end comes, there will be nobody
to ask, "Gee, I don't think James Sledd's deeds are gonna make
much of a difference, ulitmately, ya know?".
But they will have already have made a difference, great or small,
before the end.
Why must your ends be eternal to be worthwhile?
Little is in the eye of the beholder, of course.
I don't doubt it. But I have thought about the cosmic scale. And
it does not seem to mean much to us, here, today.
I would not find this comforting. But perhaps it is merely my
definitions. Here's what I think the relevant terms are:
"Reality" That which is real.
"Illusion" That which is not real, but seems to be.
"Real" Objectively Existing
For "reality" to be an "illusion" would mean, then:
That which is real is not real, but seems to be.
Or:
That which objectively exists, does not objectively exist, but
does seem to objectively exist.
From which we can conclude, that unless you want to get a
contradiction, that no things objectively exist.
But I have a problem with this because I would like to say
that *I* objectively exist, if nothing else. Cogito Ergo Sum
and all that.
Perhaps you do not mean all that, but rather mean:
"Objective Reality is Unreachable by humans."
Which is not so bad, and so far as I know is true.
Have on. If reality is an illusion, isn't True Reality an illusion
too? And if True Reality is spirit, doens't that make Spirit an Illusion
as well?
If I am not distinctly confused, this is getting positively Buddhist.
That is one hell of a statement, although perhaps true.
Do you mean to imply that it was *intended* to be so? If so,
please show that this is true. If not, please explain how this
can give a purpose to anything.
How does it do that?
Wouldn't the world=school w/ intent idea make the world a preparation for
some *greater* purpose, rather than a purpose in itself.
What pressure?
It is not necessary to be a success in human terms, unless your
goals either include doing so or require doing so before they
themselves can be achived.
Indeed, many people have set goals for themselves that
do not include success in human terms as _I_ understand it. Check
out yer Buddhist monk type guy. Out for nirvana, which is not
at all the same thing.
Why is learning to love a goal? What happens if you fail in this
goal? To you? To God? To the mysterious Purpose?
[deletia- question about immortailty and my answer deleted because it was
mostly quote.]
I'll have a crack at that.
(1) The nature of eternal life is neatly described by its name: It is
the concept of life without death, life without end.
(2) No. We can put together word to describe it, but we cannot imagine it.
(2a) No metaphor is adequate next to eternity; if it were we could not
understand it either. (or so I suspect)
---
- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0 | 0 | trimmed_train |
649 | I told some friends of mine two weeks ago that Koresh was dead. The FBI and
the BATF could not let a man like that live. He was a testimonial to their
stupidity and lies.
Now before everyone gets crazy with me, let me say that Koresh was crazy as
a bed bug, but out government was crazier...and they lied to us.
They told us compound had been under survaillance for quite some time. Yet,
whoever was watching the place failed to see that Koresh went jogging and into
town on a regular basis. Everyone in the area claimed to have seen him and
wondered why they didn't pick him up then. There are two possible answers.
First, they didn't see him. What kind of survaillance is that? Second, they
didn't care. They wanted a confrontation. They wanted publicity and they got
it.
After the first battle, they told us that they did not know he knew they were
coming. They also said it would have been foolish to go in knowing that.
Well, we know now that they intercepted the informants call and went in anyway.
Did they explore all of the possibilities for ending the seige? According to
them they did, but according to the Hartford Courant, the woman that raised
Koresh (His Grandmother) was not allowed to go in and see him.
The FBI agent who she spoke with was Bob Ricks and according to the paper he
"A lot of people think if you just talk to them logically they will come out.
His grandmother raised Vernon Howell; (Koresh's Real name) she didn't raise
David Koresh."
Someone who raises you and loves you does not speak to you strickly on a
logical level. There is also an emotional level on which they can reach you.
Here's another one. All during this operation the FBI has been claiming that
they feared a mass suicide and that is one of the reasons that something must
be done. Now they claim they never thought he would do it?
I knew they were going to do something when they started talking about how
much money this was costing. That was the start of the "Justification" part
part of the plan. That's when I knew it would come soon.
But, back to the plan. It is considered "Cruel and Unusal Punishment" to
execute criminals in the minds of many people, but look at what's acceptable.
They knew the parents (adults) had gas masks. They did not know, or were not
sure, if the children had them. So the plan was to pour the gas into the
compound. The mothers, seeing what the gas was doing to their children were
supposed to run out and that would only leave the men to deal with.
I spent two years in the army and like everyother veteran I went through CBR
(Chemical, Biological Radiological) warfare training. Part of that training
is going into a room filled with the same stuff that the children were
subjected to. To make the stuff really interesting the gas also has a chemical
agent that irritates the skin. You think its on fire.
I have no doubts the children would become hysterical. Its not the kind of
thing you never want to do again. This was the plan, the final solution.
We waited 444 days for our hostages to come home from Iran. We gave these
people 51 days.
I stated on several occasions that there was absolutely nothing in this whole
thing that the government could point to as a success. Well, FBI agent Ricks
changed my mind. Again a newclip from the Hartford Courant:
"And while expressing regret at the loss of life, he suggested that the
operation had been at least a modified success because not a single federal
shot had been fired and not a single federal agent had been hurt."
It took 17 dead children to get us that new definition of success.
One more thought. The government claimed that they believed he had automatic
weapons on the premises.
HE HAD A LICENSE FOR THE 50 CALIBER MACHINE GUN!
THEY KNEW DAMN WELL HE HAD ONE. THEY ALSO KNEW HE HAD IT LEGALLY!
Still, without the element of surprise they sent in agents to get him.
For all of this my President takes full responsibility. What a guy!
I hope he gets it.
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891 | [Several people were involved in trying to figure out who first used
the phrase "God-shaped hole". --clh]
"There is a God shaped vacuum in all of us" (or something to that effect) is
generally attributed to Blaise Pascal.
What I want to know is how can you have a God shaped vacuum inside of you if
God is in fact infinite (or omnipresent)?
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6,305 |
I went back and looked at the review again. They claim there were
significant differences in manipulating a 27 meg test file, but with
smaller files, the two platforms were the about the same. David
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9,537 | On 12-Apr-93 in Environmentalism and paganism
And what of those of us who already have answers to their questions without
turning to christianity (or, in my case, any religion)? Whay RIGHT do you
have to presume to lecture me about what I should believe?? | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,845 |
I'd like to see this info as well. As for wavelength, I think
you're primarily going to find two - 880 nM +/- a bit, and/or 950 nM
+/- a bit. Usually it is about 10 nM either way. The two most common
I have seen were 880 and 950 but I have also heard of 890 and 940.
I'm not sure that the 10 nM one way or another will make a great deal of
difference.
Another suggestion - find a brand of TV that uses an IR remote,
and go look at the SAMS photofact for it. You can often find some very
detailed schematics and parts list for not only the receiver but the
transmitter as well, including carrier freq. specs. and tone decoding
specs. if the system uses that. | 11 | trimmed_train |
3,521 | HP 48SX calculator with 128K card. Have manuals, boxes, pc cable, etc. Only
5 months old, hardly used.
Make an offer.
Mike
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10,699 | : Hi!
: I will change my 286 soon, and i read something about the ibm ps
: value-point... anyone have one? the video card is really a 24 bit card?
: how much cost in U.S.?
: And the last question... can the ps value point 486 sx 25mhz
: upgrade to a 486 dx2 66mhz???
:
: Thank you veeery much in advance!
:
: Alejandro Cifuentes H.
: [email protected]
These questions can be answered by any dealer of IBM Value Points, but, I will
provide some unsolicited advice -- the most amusing kind of advice.
Today (Tueday 4-6-93) IBM is supposed to officially announce the introduction
of the VESA Local Bus Value Point systems. These systems still have on-board
video and disk which are far better than the prior Value Point systems, and
you get VESA Local Bus for (future?) upgrades. We are going to buy three of
them with 17" monitors (also a newly available), and one of the three will
immediately be upgraded to UltraStor 34F caching SCSI disk controller and
either the ATI GUP or the Viper graphics board.
Do not buy a 486SX sytem.
My personal philosophy on upgrade policy is that it is not loss-free. When
you earn money you pay taxes, when you spend money you pay taxes. (i.e. they
get you coming and going). Translated this means take infrequent but large
steps. You are far better off short term AND long term if you avoid the SX
models and go straight to the DX or DX-2 models. | 3 | trimmed_train |
11,218 |
That's right. Humans have gone somewhat beyond this though. Perhaps
our goal is one of self-actualization.
Now you are letting an omniscient being give information to me. This
was not part of the original premise.
Which type of morality are you talking about? In a natural sense, it
is not at all immoral to harm another species (as long as it doesn't
adversely affect your own, I guess). | 8 | trimmed_train |
9,190 |
And have Jesse Jackson picket the stadium? | 2 | trimmed_train |
371 | Nolan Ryan has torn cartlidge inhis right knee. Is having surgery and
is expected to miss 2-5 weeks. | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,886 | SMARTCAM VERSION 7 FOR SALE. Purchased in August 1992. Latest version!
Also willing to sell 486 33dx. 124mg hard drive. 17" multi scan monitor.
paid $11,000 for software and $2800 for computer. Also includes 1 yr maintanence
contract that can be updated every year for apx. $950 per year.
Make offer.
Call 1 800 940-7874
or 216-941-7400 | 5 | trimmed_train |
4,623 | Didn't the new study asked "have you engaged in homosexual intercourse
within the last two years" whereas Kinsey asked "have you ever engaged
or thought about engaging in homosexual activity". Sort of like the
difference between "did you have yogurt this morning" and "are you
allergic to lactose".
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-- Michal | 13 | trimmed_train |
68 | .d.
.d.
I just thought of another one, in the Bible, so it's definately not because
of *lack* of religion. The Book of Esther (which I read the other day for
other reasons) describes the origin of Pur'im, a Jewish celbration of joy
and peace. The long and short of the story is that 75,000 people were
killed when people were tripping over all of the peacefull solutions
lying about (you couldn't swing a sacred cow without slammin into a nice,
peaceful solution.) 'Course Joshua and the jawbone of an ass spring to
mind...
I agree with Bobby this far: religion as it is used to kill large numbers
of people is usually not used in the form or manner that it was originally
intended for.
That doesn't reduce the number of deaths directly caused by religion, it is
just a minor observation of the fact that there is almost nothing pure in
the Universe. The very act of honestly attempting to find true meaning in
religious teaching has many times inspired hatred and led to war. Many
people have been led by religious leaders more involved in their own
stomache-contentsthan in any absolute truth, and have therefore been driven to
kill by their leaders.
The point is that there are many things involved in religion that often
lead to war. Whether these things are a part of religion, an unpleasant
side effect or (as Bobby would have it) the result of people switching
between Religion and Atheism spontaneously, the results are the same.
@Religious groups have long been involved in the majority of the bloodiest
parts of Man's history.@
Atheists, on the other hand (preen,preen) are typically not an ideological
social caste, nor are they driven to organize and spread their beliefs.
The overuse of Nazism and Stalinism just show how true this is: Two groups
with very clear and specific ideologies using religious persecution to
further their means. Anyone who cannot see the obvious - namely that these
were groups founded for reasons *entirely* their own, who used religious
persecution not because of any belief system but because it made them more
powerfull - is trying too hard. Basically, Bobby uses these examples
because there are so few wars that were *not* *specifically* fought over
religion that he does not have many choices.
Well, I'm off to Key West where the only flames are heating the bottom of
little silver butter-dishes.
-ciao | 8 | trimmed_train |
4,681 |
The number of civilian Iraqi deaths were way over-exaggerated and
exploited for anti-war emotionalism by the liberal news media. The
facts are that less Iraqis died in the Gulf War than did civilians
in any other war of comparable size this century! This was due mostly
to the short duration coupled with precise surgical bombing techniques
which were technically possible only recently.
The idea that "hundreds of thousands" of Iraqi citizens died is
ludicrous. Not even "hundreds of thousands" of Iraqi soldiers died,
and they were the ones being targeted! Or do you think that the US
and its allies were specifically out to kill and maim Iraqi civilians?
Either the smart bombs didn't hit their targets (and we know they did),
or they were targeting civilian targets (!) which is hardly condusive to
destroying Iraq's military potential. The military mission planners are
not fools, they know they have to hit *military* targets to win a war.
Hitting civilian targets does nothing but unite the people against you,
not a laudable goal if one wants the people to rise up against their
tyrant-dictator.
How about all the innocent people who died in blanket-bombing in WW2?
I don't hear you bemoaning them! War is never an exact science, but
with smart bombs, it's becoming more exact with a smaller percentage
of civilian casualties. Sometimes mistakes are made; targets are
misidentified; innocents die. That's war the way it really is.
But the alternative, to allow tyrannical dictators to treat the earth
like it's one big rummage sale, grabbing everything they can get is
worse. Like Patrick Henry said some 217 years ago, "I know not what
course others may take -- but as for me, give me liberty, or give me
death!" War is always the price one must be willing to pay if one
wishes to stay free.
Mathew, your sarcasm is noted but you are completely off-base here.
You come off sounding like a complete peace-nik idiot, although I
feel sure that was not your intent.
So the Iraqi war was wrong, eh? I'm sure that appeasement would have
worked better than war, just like it did in WW2, eh? I guess we
shouldn't have fought WW2 either -- just think of all those innocent
German civilians killed in Dresden and Hamburg. How about all the poor
French who died in the crossfire because we invaded the continent? We
should have just let Hitler take over Europe, and you'd be speaking
German instead of English right now.
Tyrants like Hussein *have* to be stopped. His kind don't understand
diplomacy; they only understand the point of a gun. My only regret is
that Bush wimped out and didn't have the military roll into Baghdad, so
now Hussein is still in power and the Iraqi people's sacrifice (not to
mention the 357 Americans who died) was for naught. Liberating Kuwait
was a good thing, but wiping Hussein off the map would've been better!
And as for poor, poor Rodney King! Did you ever stop and think *why*
the jury in the first trial brought back a verdict of "not guilty"?
Those who have been foaming at the mouth for the blood of those
policemen certainly have looked no further than the video tape.
But the jury looked at *all* the evidence, evidence which you and I
have not seen. When one makes a judgment without the benefit of a
trial where evidence can be presented on both sides, one has simply
lowered himself to the level of vigilante justice, a state-of-mind
which your sarcasm above seemingly spoke against, but instead tends
to support in the case against the policemen.
Law in this country is intended to protect the rights of the accused,
whether they be criminals or cops. One is not found guilty if there is
a reasonable doubt of one's guilt, and only the jury is in a position
to assess the evidence and render a verdict. Anyone else is simply
succumbing to verbal vigilantism.
Regards, | 8 | trimmed_train |
4,140 | Hi,
Please reply to me direct as I am not a member of this list.
I am new to X, so please excuse my lax (read: "probably incorrect")
terminology!
Environment: Sun Sparc 10, SunOs 4.1.3. X11R5 path level 23. My X process
is started by xdm.
i) I want to setup the backgroud (root window?) of the tvtwm display to
display the escherknot etc (grey is a very boring colour to work on)!
The setup is as follows:
lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 - xsetroot -bitmap ... etc
~user/.xsession - xsetroot .... etc
tvtwm
There are also .tvtwmrc and .Xdefaults files in the (~user) home
directory.
The xsetroot in Xsetup_0 displays the appropriate bitmap in the xdm
login window as expected - very nice!
Unfortunately, when the users session is started, the background of the
tvtwm window reverts to grey. If I manually type xsetroot... in an
xterm window when the session has started, the background is changed as
expected.
The question is: How do I retain the background from the login window
and/or specify a new background on a per-user basis as part of the
the users session startup?
ii) When I open an Xterm on the Sparc 10, not all of the keys are recognised
and some keys on the keyboard are not sending the correct characters.
ie: real key key shown on screen
------------ -------------------
hash back slash
tilde pipe
double quote at symbol
pound hash
cursor key not recognised
This is very annoying! Is X at fault here or the machine setup? I have
installed the xterm drivers that came with X11R5 in both terminfo and
termcap as they seemed more uptodate.
Typing set in an xterm window shows a terminal type of xterm - as
expected!
Any help on how to correct either of these problems much appreciated!
Thanks,
Dave. | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,921 |
Not provable. It's about as "provable" as the number of votes
vast for Bill Clinton in the last election. If you accept the information
available, you can prove one way or the other. If you refuse to accept
it, nothing is "provable."
Fine, support your assertation. But, you haven't supported
any assertations just yet.
The National Crime Survey, that secret Arm of the NRA, estimates
between 40,000 and 50,000 with-gun self-defenses from assaults, and
is considered to considerably under-report. When broken down by weapon,
there is no form of "self-defense" including dowing nothing which is
more effective at avoiding injury or death.
Ok, support *this* assertation. Hell, support *one*.
That's nice.
That's nice, too.
Why on Earth should we? If you're correct we've nothing to
lose by continuing to argue against it and everything to gain.
| 9 | trimmed_train |
4,193 | Farewell, Minnesota fans. Get stuffed, Dallas Stars.
As the North Stars fade to black, I hope that Minneapolis/St. Paul are
not long without an NHL team. It just seems "right" that the hotbed of
amateur hockey in the USA should have an NHL team as well. The loss of
the team is certainly not the fault of the fans (though the start of the
1989-90 season made it look real bad for a while).
I wish now that I kept the North Stars cap I bought at Maple Leaf
Gardens the morning after they eliminated Montreal in 1980. (I got it
to spite the Montreal fans in the small town where I grew up.) What a
glorious season that was for the North Stars!
dwarf | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,555 |
Oh, Bobby. You're priceless. Did I ever tell you that?
My policy with Bobby's posts, should anyone give a damn, is to flick
through the thread at high speed, searching for posts of Bobby's which
have generated a whole pile of followups, then go in and extract the
hilarious quote inevitably present for .sig purposes. Works for me.
For the guy who said he's just arrived, and asked whether Bobby's for real,
you betcha. Welcome to alt.atheism, and rest assured that it gets worse.
I have a few pearls of wisdom from Bobby which I reproduce below. Is anyone
(Keith?) keeping a big file of such stuff?
"In Allah's infinite wisdom, the universe was created from nothing,
just by saying "Be", and it became. Therefore Allah exists."
--- Bobby Mozumder proving the existence of Allah, #1
"Wait. You just said that humans are rarely reasonable. Doesn't that
contradict atheism, where everything is explained through logic and
reason? This is THE contradiction in atheism that proves it false."
--- Bobby Mozumder proving the existence of Allah, #2
"Plus, to the believer, it would be contradictory
to the Quran for Allah not to exist."
--- Bobby Mozumder proving the existence of Allah, #3
and now
"One thing that relates is among Navy men that get tatoos that say "Mom",
because of the love of their mom. It makes for more virile men. Compare
that with how homos are raised. Do a study and you will get my point."
-- Bobby Mozumder being Islamically Rigorous on alt.atheism
Mmmmm. Quality *and* quantity from the New Voice of Islam (pbuh).
Cheers
Simon | 8 | trimmed_train |
2,988 | / iftccu:talk.politics.guns / [email protected] (Strider) / 8:51 pm Apr 12, 1993 /
I've been watching this knife verses gun bit for a while now, (even
contributed a few comments) but this stuff "I'd rather face a knife than
a gun" has GOT to come from ignorance! I used to think pretty much the
same thing, then I got 'educated.'
People do not as a rule understand how deadly knives can be, or how
quickly you can be killed with one. Most people don't understand that
it takes less than an inch of penetration in some areas to cause quick
(within a minute or so) death.
The death rates from handguns and knives are within a few percentage
points of each other. Many people not realizing how deadly knives are
'try their luck' and thus more get injured by knives. A gun is deadly
only in a single direction and it's only advantage is that it is a
remote control weapon. A contact weapon such as a knife controls a
spherical area 7 to 10 feet in diameter.
Most people have never seen knife wounds, aside from slicing a finger by
accident. From 21 feet or so, a knife is very nearly an even match for
a holstered gun in experienced hands, even if the knife wielder has only
moderate skill. From inside 10 feet or so, a knife is a match for a
DRAWN gun. A knife is utterly silent, it never jams and never runs out
of ammunition. It is limited only by the speed, dexterity skill and
ability of it's wielder. Criminals in general are young, fast and
strong. It's interesting to note that the patterned slashing attacks
used by many martial artists remarkably resemble the wild uncontrolled
slashing attacks of novices. I've talked to several well trained
martial artists. They have unanimously agreed that if they ever go up
against a knife they simply plan on being cut, hopefully not as bad as
the attacker.
Practicing with firearms requires facilities and equipment. Practicing
with knives requires only a small area and something to simulate a
knife, say a popsicle stick or tooth brush. Criminals practice their
knife attacks in prison.
If you have not trained against knives with a firearm and do not realize
these facts the first inkling you will have that something is wrong is
the knife ripping through your throat, or in the case of an experienced
attacker, parts of your body falling off onto the ground. A 60 year old
man with arthritis can close that 7 yard distance and gut you in about
one and a half seconds. Dennis Tueller with a broken leg in a walking
cast managed it in two. I've seen people close that distance and strike
in 1 second. I'm old, over weight and slow. I can do it in 1.3
seconds. I've seen morgue footage of people killed with edged weapons
that you would not believe. (How about a single stab wound to the chest
with a TABLE FORK! In this case the attacker used the HANDLE, not the
pointed end.)
Add to this the 'fact' that hand gun 'stopping' power is largely a myth.
Except in the case of a central nervous system shot, or a round that
destroys the skeletal structure, it takes anywhere from 3 to twelve
seconds for a bullet wound to 'take effect.'
This is true of even heart shots. There is the case of the police woman
in L.A., the first recorded survivor of a .357 shot to the heart. That
lady not only killed her attacker, but chased him down to do it! All
four of her shots, fired after SHE had been shot, struck the perp. Atta
girl! The bullet entered her on a downward angle, went through the apex
of her heart, down through the diaphragm, clipped her liver and
destroyed her spleen. It then exited her back leaving a tennis ball
sized hole. She died about six times on the operating table, but was
out of the hospital in 15 days and was back on full duty in eight
months! She was off duty at the time and not wearing her vest. She was
on her way home so happened to have her gun. No, she doesn't think
civilians should have the same rights. Sigh.
The moral of the story is that even if you DO manage to shoot a knife
attacker, you'd better be planning on doing some dodging. A good
alternative is to shoot for and break the pelvis. People can often walk
(a little) on broken legs but a broken pelvis will nearly always anchor
them. Many firearms schools recommend pelvis shots against contact
weapons. The target is as large as the traditional 'center of mass' and
is more reliable to STOP somebody with a contact weapon, assuming a
caliber powerful enough to 'do the job.' Hot .38's on up will usually
do this.
Remember folks, the idea isn't to 'take em with you' but for you to live
and them to fail, whatever the consequences for them. This the reason
'killing them' isn't our goal, or in many cases even good enough to keep
us alive.
I don't want to face a violent attack of any sort. Knowing what I now
know, I can't rightly say I'd rather face a knife than an gun. It would
have to depend on the attacker, and if I could pick and choose, I
WOULDN'T BE THERE. This is really the bottom line. Criminals do not
fear the law. Criminals do not fear the weapon. They fear the citizen
behind the weapon that has shown the resolution and determination to do
whatever it takes. | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,295 | Archive-name: space/math
Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:12 $
PERFORMING CALCULATIONS AND INTERPRETING DATA FORMATS
COMPUTING SPACECRAFT ORBITS AND TRAJECTORIES
References that have been frequently recommended on the net are:
"Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" Roger Bate, Donald Mueller, Jerry White
1971, Dover Press, 455pp $8.95 (US) (paperback). ISBN 0-486-60061-0
NASA Spaceflight handbooks (dating from the 1960s)
SP-33 Orbital Flight Handbook (3 parts)
SP-34 Lunar Flight Handbook (3 parts)
SP-35 Planetary Flight Handbook (9 parts)
These might be found in university aeronautics libraries or ordered
through the US Govt. Printing Office (GPO), although more
information would probably be needed to order them.
M. A. Minovitch, _The Determination and Characteristics of Ballistic
Interplanetary Trajectories Under the Influence of Multiple Planetary
Attractions_, Technical Report 32-464, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif., Oct, 1963.
The title says all. Starts of with the basics and works its way up.
Very good. It has a companion article:
M. Minovitch, _Utilizing Large Planetary Perubations for the Design of
Deep-Space Solar-Probe and Out of Ecliptic Trajectories_, Technical
Report 32-849, JPL, Pasadena, Calif., 1965.
You need to read the first one first to realy understand this one.
It does include a _short_ summary if you can only find the second.
Contact JPL for availability of these reports.
"Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics", Peter C. Hughes 1986, John Wiley and
Sons.
"Celestial Mechanics: a computational guide for the practitioner",
Lawrence G. Taff, (Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1985).
Starts with the basics (2-body problem, coordinates) and works up to
orbit determinations, perturbations, and differential corrections.
Taff also briefly discusses stellar dynamics including a short
discussion of n-body problems.
COMPUTING PLANETARY POSITIONS
More net references:
Van Flandern & Pullinen, _Low-Precision Formulae for Planetary
Positions_, Astrophysical J. Supp Series, 41:391-411, 1979. Look in an
astronomy or physics library for this; also said to be available from
Willmann-Bell.
Gives series to compute positions accurate to 1 arc minute for a
period + or - 300 years from now. Pluto is included but stated to
have an accuracy of only about 15 arc minutes.
_Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac_ (MICA), produced by the US
Naval Observatory. Valid for years 1990-1999. $55 ($80 outside US).
Available for IBM (order #PB93-500163HDV) or Macintosh (order
#PB93-500155HDV). From the NTIS sales desk, (703)-487-4650. I believe
this is intended to replace the USNO's Interactive Computer Ephemeris.
_Interactive Computer Ephemeris_ (from the US Naval Observatory)
distributed on IBM-PC floppy disks, $35 (Willmann-Bell). Covers dates
1800-2049.
"Planetary Programs and Tables from -4000 to +2800", Bretagnon & Simon
1986, Willmann-Bell.
Floppy disks available separately.
"Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics" (2nd ed), J.M.A. Danby 1988,
Willmann-Bell.
A good fundamental text. Includes BASIC programs; a companion set of
floppy disks is available separately.
"Astronomical Formulae for Calculators" (4th ed.), J. Meeus 1988,
Willmann-Bell.
"Astronomical Algorithms", J. Meeus 1991, Willmann-Bell.
If you actively use one of the editions of "Astronomical Formulae
for Calculators", you will want to replace it with "Astronomical
Algorithms". This new book is more oriented towards computers than
calculators and contains formulae for planetary motion based on
modern work by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the U.S. Naval
Observatory, and the Bureau des Longitudes. The previous books were
all based on formulae mostly developed in the last century.
Algorithms available separately on diskette.
"Practical Astronomy with your Calculator" (3rd ed.), P. Duffett-Smith
1988, Cambridge University Press.
"Orbits for Amateurs with a Microcomputer", D. Tattersfield 1984,
Stanley Thornes, Ltd.
Includes example programs in BASIC.
"Orbits for Amateurs II", D. Tattersfield 1987, John Wiley & Sons.
"Astronomy / Scientific Software" - catalog of shareware, public domain,
and commercial software for IBM and other PCs. Astronomy software
includes planetarium simulations, ephemeris generators, astronomical
databases, solar system simulations, satellite tracking programs,
celestial mechanics simulators, and more.
Andromeda Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 605
Amherst, NY 14226-0605
COMPUTING CRATER DIAMETERS FROM EARTH-IMPACTING ASTEROIDS
Astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker proposes the following formula, based on
studies of cratering caused by nuclear tests.
(1/3.4)
D = S S c K W : crater diameter in km
g p f n
(1/6)
S = (g /g ) : gravity correction factor for bodies other than
g e t Earth, where g = 9.8 m/s^2 and g is the surface
e t
gravity of the target body. This scaling is
cited for lunar craters and may hold true for
other bodies.
(1/3.4)
S = (p / p ) : correction factor for target density p ,
p a t t
p = 1.8 g/cm^3 for alluvium at the Jangle U
a
crater site, p = 2.6 g/cm^3 for average
rock on the continental shields.
C : crater collapse factor, 1 for craters <= 3 km
in diameter, 1.3 for larger craters (on Earth).
(1/3.4)
K : .074 km / (kT TNT equivalent)
n empirically determined from the Jangle U
nuclear test crater.
3 2 19
W = pi * d * delta * V / (12 * 4.185 * 10 )
: projectile kinetic energy in kT TNT equivalent
given diameter d, velocity v, and projectile
density delta in CGS units. delta of around 3
g/cm^3 is fairly good for an asteroid.
An RMS velocity of V = 20 km/sec may be used for Earth-crossing
asteroids.
Under these assumptions, the body which created the Barringer Meteor
Crater in Arizona (1.13 km diameter) would have been about 40 meters in
diameter.
More generally, one can use (after Gehrels, 1985):
Asteroid Number of objects Impact probability Impact energy
diameter (km) (impacts/year) (* 5*10^20 ergs)
10 10 10^-8 10^9
1 1 000 10^-6 10^6
0.1 100 000 10^-4 10^3
assuming simple scaling laws. Note that 5*10^20 ergs = 13 000 tons TNT
equivalent, or the energy released by the Hiroshima A-bomb.
References:
Gehrels, T. 1985 Asteroids and comets. _Physics Today_ 38, 32-41. [an
excellent general overview of the subject for the layman]
Shoemaker, E.M. 1983 Asteroid and comet bombardment of the earth. _Ann.
Rev. Earth Planet. Sci._ 11, 461-494. [very long and fairly
technical but a comprehensive examination of the
subject]
Shoemaker, E.M., J.G. Williams, E.F. Helin & R.F. Wolfe 1979
Earth-crossing asteroids: Orbital classes, collision rates with
Earth, and origin. In _Asteroids_, T. Gehrels, ed., pp. 253-282,
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Cunningham, C.J. 1988 _Introduction to Asteroids: The Next Frontier_
(Richmond: Willman-Bell, Inc.) [covers all aspects of asteroid
studies and is an excellent introduction to the subject for people
of all experience levels. It also has a very extensive reference
list covering essentially all of the reference material in the
field.]
MAP PROJECTIONS AND SPHERICAL TRIGNOMETRY
Two easy-to-find sources of map projections are the "Encyclopaedia
Brittanica", (particularly the older volumes) and a tutorial appearing
in _Graphics Gems_ (Academic Press, 1990). The latter was written with
simplicity of exposition and suitability of digital computation in mind
(spherical trig formulae also appear, as do digitally-plotted examples).
More than you ever cared to know about map projections is in John
Snyder's USGS publication "Map Projections--A Working Manual", USGS
Professional Paper 1395. This contains detailed descriptions of 32
projections, with history, features, projection formulas (for both
spherical earth and ellipsoidal earth), and numerical test cases. It's a
neat book, all 382 pages worth. This one's $20.
You might also want the companion volume, by Snyder and Philip Voxland,
"An Album of Map Projections", USGS Professional Paper 1453. This
contains less detail on about 130 projections and variants. Formulas are
in the back, example plots in the front. $14, 250 pages.
You can order these 2 ways. The cheap, slow way is direct from USGS:
Earth Science Information Center, US Geological Survey, 507 National
Center, Reston, VA 22092. (800)-USA-MAPS. They can quote you a price and
tell you where to send your money. Expect a 6-8 week turnaround time.
A much faster way (about 1 week) is through Timely Discount Topos,
(303)-469-5022, 9769 W. 119th Drive, Suite 9, Broomfield, CO 80021. Call
them and tell them what you want. They'll quote a price, you send a
check, and then they go to USGS Customer Service Counter and pick it up
for you. Add about a $3-4 service charge, plus shipping.
A (perhaps more accessible) mapping article is:
R. Miller and F. Reddy, "Mapping the World in Pascal",
Byte V12 #14, December 1987
Contains Turbo Pascal procedures for five common map projections. A
demo program, CARTOG.PAS, and a small (6,000 point) coastline data
is available on CompuServe, GEnie, and many BBSs.
Some references for spherical trignometry are:
_Spherical Astronomy_, W.M. Smart, Cambridge U. Press, 1931.
_A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy_, S. Newcomb, Dover, 1960.
_Spherical Astronomy_, R.M. Green, Cambridge U. Press., 1985 (update
of Smart).
_Spherical Astronomy_, E Woolard and G.Clemence, Academic
Press, 1966.
PERFORMING N-BODY SIMULATIONS EFFICIENTLY
"Computer Simulation Using Particles"
R. W. Hockney and J. W. Eastwood
(Adam Hilger; Bristol and Philadelphia; 1988)
"The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems",
L. Greengard
MIT Press, 1988.
A breakthrough O(N) simulation method. Has been parallelized.
L. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, "A fast algorithm for particle
simulations," Journal of Computational Physics, 73:325-348, 1987.
"An O(N) Algorithm for Three-dimensional N-body Simulations", MSEE
thesis, Feng Zhao, MIT AILab Technical Report 995, 1987
"Galactic Dynamics"
J. Binney & S. Tremaine
(Princeton U. Press; Princeton; 1987)
Includes an O(N^2) FORTRAN code written by Aarseth, a pioneer in
the field.
Hierarchical (N log N) tree methods are described in these papers:
A. W. Appel, "An Efficient Program for Many-body Simulation", SIAM
Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing, Vol. 6, p. 85,
1985.
Barnes & Hut, "A Hierarchical O(N log N) Force-Calculation
Algorithm", Nature, V324 # 6096, 4-10 Dec 1986.
L. Hernquist, "Hierarchical N-body Methods", Computer Physics
Communications, Vol. 48, p. 107, 1988.
INTERPRETING THE FITS IMAGE FORMAT
If you just need to examine FITS images, use the ppm package (see the
comp.graphics FAQ) to convert them to your preferred format. For more
information on the format and other software to read and write it, see
the sci.astro.fits FAQ.
SKY (UNIX EPHEMERIS PROGRAM)
The 6th Edition of the Unix operating system came with several software
systems not distributed because of older media capacity limitations.
Included were an ephmeris, a satellite track, and speech synthesis
software. The ephmeris, sky(6), is available within AT&T and to sites
possessing a Unix source code license. The program is regarded as Unix
source code. Sky is <0.5MB. Send proof of source code license to
E. Miya
MS 258-5
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
[email protected]
THREE-DIMENSIONAL STAR/GALAXY COORDINATES
To generate 3D coordinates of astronomical objects, first obtain an
astronomical database which specifies right ascension, declination, and
parallax for the objects. Convert parallax into distance using the
formula in part 6 of the FAQ, convert RA and declination to coordinates
on a unit sphere (see some of the references on planetary positions and
spherical trignometry earlier in this section for details on this), and
scale this by the distance.
Two databases useful for this purpose are the Yale Bright Star catalog
(sources listed in FAQ section 3) or "The Catalogue of Stars within 25
parsecs of the Sun" (in pub/SPACE/FAQ/stars.data and stars.doc on
ames.arc.nasa.gov).
| 10 | trimmed_train |
3,654 | What does a lack of taste of foods, or a sense of taste that seems "off"
when eating foods in someone who has cancer mean? What are the possible
causes of this? Why does it happen?
Pt has Stage II breast cancer, and is taking tamoxifin. Also has Stage IV
lung cancer with known CNA metastasis, and is taking klonopin (also had
cranial radiation treatments).
Thanks! | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,575 | Does anyone know of bigger raster fonts? I'm using a Mag 15H monitor with
a Diamond SS24X in 1280x1024 mode and would prefer to have larger characters
for the windows heading (practically for everything). I'm already using the
8514 character sets.
mark | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,047 |
Ummm.. I think you left the message out...
I get these protection faults all the time on my machine at work, a
486 33MHz with 4MB RAM, Windows 3.1, with Dos 5.0.
At home (on a 386 40MHz, 8MB RAM, Windows 3.1 and Dos 5.0) I *never* get
these.
Any idea what could be wrong? Someone already suggested I check for tmp
files in the windows/temp directory, there are none there.
The message I get is:
This application has violated system integrity due to an invalid
general protection fault and will be terminated.
I only have this problem with applications running in DOS boxes (with or
without .pif files setup for them).
Any hints/help greatly appreciated. Please post since at least one other
person is also having gpf problems.
Thanks,
Gordon
| 18 | trimmed_train |
10,811 | I'm planning to buy a new VLB/EISA system with a good graphic performance.
So far I looked at the ATI GUP VLB as my favorite graphics-card. But
recently I heard something about a new card from Miro. It was the Miro
Crystal 24s with 3 MB and True Color support up to 1024x768. It costs just a
little more than the ATI. So, can't decide which one matches better my needs.
Any technical references and performance comparisons (especially from the
Miro card) would be greatly appreciated.
-Peter-
E-Mail : [email protected] | 1 | trimmed_train |
1,907 |
I usually use "Algorithms for graphics and image processing" by
Theodosios Pavlidis, but other people here got them same idea and now
3 of 4 copies in the libraries have been stolen!
Another reference is "Digital Image Processing" by Gonzalez and
Wintz/Wood, which is widely available but a little expensive ($55
here- I just checked today). | 1 | trimmed_train |
9,422 | Archive-name: Intel-Unix-X-faq
Last-modified: 30 Mar 1993
Note: This is a major re-organization (and replacement) of my
"Frequently Asked Questions About X386" FAQ list.
This article includes answers to:
I) What options do I have for X software on my Intel-based Unix system?
1. Free options
2. Commercial options
II) What is XFree86 and where do I get it?
3. What is XFree86?
4. What OSs are supported?
5. What video hardware is supported?
6. What about accelerated boards?
7. Why doesn't XFree86 support 16-color VGA modes?
8. What other hardware or software requirements are there?
9. Where can I get source for XFree86?
10. Where can I get binaries for XFree86?
IV) What general things should I know about running XFree86?
11. Installation directories
12. Configuration files
13. Determining VGA dot clocks and monitor modes
14. Rebuilding/reconfiguring the server from the link kit
V) What OS-specific things should I know about running XFree86?
15. SVR4
16. SVR3
17. 386BSD
18. Linux
19. Mach
VI) What things should I know for building XFree86 from source?
VII) Is there anything special about building clients with XFree86?
20. BSD compatibility library
21. ANSICCOPTIONS
This article does NOT include answers to general X questions, since these
are already covered by the X FAQ that is regularly posted by David B. Lewis
<faq%[email protected]>.
If you have anything to add or change on the FAQ just let me know.
(especially if you had a problem that someone else was able to help you with)
Send changes to [email protected], please put 'FAQ' somewhere
in the subject line so that my mail filter will put it in the correct
mail folder.
Please DO NOT ask me questions that are not answered in the FAQ. I do not
have time to respond to these individually. Instead, post your question
to the net, and send me the question and answer together when you get it.
Frequently Asked Questions About X on Intel-based Unix (with answers)
=====================================================================
I) What options do I have for X software on my Intel-based Unix system?
1. Free options
The BEST option is XFree86, which is an enhanced version of X386 1.2.
Any other version of X386 will have slower performance, and will
be more difficult to compile. Information on how to obtain XFree86
is listed below.
X386 is the port of the X11 server to System V/386 that was
done by Thomas Roell ([email protected]).
It supports a wide variety of SVGA boards.
There are 2 major free versions: X386 1.1 is based on X11R4,
X386 1.2 is included in MIT's X11R5 distribution (ie. you
don't need to patch it into the MIT source any more).
X386 1.3 is the current commercial offering from SGCS (see below).
2. Commercial options
1) Metro Link
2213 W. McNab Road
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
(305) 970-7353
Fax: (305) 970-7351
email: [email protected]
Summary: OS: QNX, SVR3, SVR4.[012], SCO, UnixWare, LynxOS,
DESQview/X, Venix, ISC, Solaris, Pyramid, SunOS
HW: EGA, VGA, SVGA, TIGA, TARGA, 8514/A, Mach,
S3, WD, Fujistu, Matrox, Microfield Graphics, R33020
Other: Motif, OpenLook/XView, XIE Imaging Extension,
Xv Video Extension, Audio Drivers, Multi Media
2) SGCS (Snitily Graphics Consulting Services)
894 Brookgrove Lane
Cupertino, CA 95014
(800) 645-5501, (408) 255-9665
Fax: (408) 255-9740
email: [email protected] or ...!mips!zok!info
Summary: OS: SVR3.2, SVR4
HW: 8514/A (ATI Ultra), S3 (Diamond Stealth), SVGA
Other: Motif, Dual-headed server
3) Consensys Corporation
1301 Pat Booker Rd.
Universal City, TX 78148
Phone: 1-800-388-1896
FAX: 1-416-940-2903
email: [email protected]
Summary: OS: Consensys V4.2, Consensys' version of
Unix System V Release 4.2
HW: X11R4 server support for VGA, SVGA
Other: MoOLIT, Motif, X11R5 Clients
4) The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
p.o. box 1900
Santa Cruz, California 95061
(408) 425 7222, (800) SCO UNIX,
FAX: (408) 458 4227
email: [email protected]
Summary: OS: ODT 1.1, ODT 2.0, SCO Unix 3.2v4
HW: X11R4 server support for SVGA, 8514/A, S3, TMS340x0,
WD90C31, XGA2, assorted local bus (see SCO Hardware
Compatabilty Guide for actual card vendors).
Other: Motif
5) Answer Software & Consulting
p.o. box 14171
Columbus, Ohio 43214
614-263-XLAB
email: [email protected]
Summary: OS: Coherent 4.0.1r72 or greater
HW: works with any VESA compliant video
NOTE: Other commercial vendors (including OS vendors describing
bundled software) are welcome to submit summary information
summary information such as the above.
II) What is XFree86 and where do I get it?
3. What is XFree86?
XFree86 is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which was distributed with
X11R5. This release consists of many bug fixes, speed improvements, and
other enhancements. Here are the highlights of the enhancements:
1) The SpeedUp package from Glenn Lai is an integral part of XFree86,
selectable at run-time via the Xconfig file. Some SpeedUps require
an ET4000 based SVGA, and others require a virtual screen width of
1024. The SpeedUps suitable to the configuration are selected by
default. With a high-quality ET4000 board (VRAM), this can yield
up to 40% improvement of the xStones benchmark over X386 1.2.
2) The fX386 packages from Jim Tsillas are included as the default
operating mode if SpeedUp is not selected. This mode is now
equivalent in performance to X386 1.1b (X11R4), and approximately
20% faster than X386 1.2.
3) Support for LOCALCONN, compile-time selectable for server, clients,
or both. This support is for both SVR3.2 and SVR4. For SVR4.0.4
with the 'Advanced Compatibility Package', local connections from
SCO XSight/ODT clients are supported.
4) Drivers for ATI and Trident TVGA8900C and TVGA9000 SVGA chipsets.
Refer to the files README.ati and README.trident for details about
the ATI and Trident drivers.
5) Support for compressed bitmap fonts has been added (Thomas Eberhardt's
code from the contrib directory on export.lcs.mit.edu).
6) Type1 Font code from MIT contrib tape has been included, and is
compile-time selectable. There are contributed Type1 fonts in the
contrib directory on export.lcs.mit.edu.
7) New configuration method which allows the server's drivers and font
renderers to be reconfigured from both source and binary
distributions.
8) Integrated support for 386BSD, Mach, and Linux.
9) A monochrome version of the server which will run on generic VGA
cards is now included.
The following key features were added with the release of XFree86 1.2
(they were not in XFree86 1.1):
1) The monochrome server has been enhanced to do bank-switching of
available SVGA memory to allow virtual screens up to 1600x1200
(see the X386(1) manual page for more information).
2) Support for the Hercules mono card has been added to the
monochrome server, and with it the ability to support a "two
headed" server - one VGA, and one Hercules. So far this has only
been tested on SVR4 (it is also reported to work under Linux).
3) SVR3 shared libraries, tested under ISC SVR3 2.2 and 3.0.1.
4) Support for SVR4.2 (There are some special considerations to
consider, due to new USL bugs; see the README.SVR4 file for
more information.)
5) Support for PS/2 mice, and Logitech MouseMan/TrackMan (some
versions of these devices were not previously compatible).
6) A new tutorial on how to develop correct video card and monitor
timing data, written by Eric Raymond (derived from previous
documentation and a lot of experimentation).
7) Greatly improved support for international keyboards, including
implementation of the Compose key functionality found on many
vendor servers (see the X386keybd(1) manual page for more
information).
8) The accuracy with which the server detects SVGA pixel clocks has
been improved, and the timings are now stored at accuracies of
0.1 MHz. Users may want to consider removing an existing Clocks
line from their Xconfig file and re-probing using the new server.
9) Many enhancements in error handling and parsing of the Xconfig
configuration file. Error messages are much more informative
and intuitive, and more validation is done. There are many new
options that can be enabled in the Xconfig file (see the X386(1)
manual page for more information on the format of this file).
Plus a number of other small things. Refer to the CHANGELOG file
in the source distribution for full details.
Also included are a tutorial on monitor timing by Eric Raymond, and the
current X386 mode database and a sample xdm configuration by David Wexelblat.
4. What OSs are supported?
XFree86 supports:
SVR4.2: Consensys V4.2
SVR4.0: Microport, Dell, Esix, ISC, AT&T, MST, Consensys, UHC
SVR3: ISC 2.2 & 3.0, AT&T 2.2
Linux, Mach 386, 386BSD 0.1
BSD/386 is not supported, but it should work. The most active
BSD/386 person is Greg Lehey <[email protected]>.
Note that Esix 3.2D and SCO are not supported yet,
but anyone should feel free to submit patches.
If you are interested in tackling this, send mail to
[email protected]
5. What video hardware is supported?
At this time, XFree86 1.2 supports the following SVGA chipsets:
Tseng ET4000
Tseng ET3000
Paradise PVGA1
Western Digital WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11 (these are supersets of
the PVGA1, and use its driver)
Genoa GVGA
Trident TVGA8900C, TVGA9000
ATI 18800, 28800
All of the above are supported in both 256 color and monochrome modes,
with the exception of the ATI chipsets, which are only supported in
256 color mode.
The monochrome server also supports generic VGA cards, using 64k of
video memory in a single bank, and the Hercules card. On the
ET3000, only 64k of video memory is supported for the monochrome
server, and the GVGA has not been tested with more than 64k.
It appears that some of the SVGA card manufacturers are going to
non-traditional mechanisms for selecting pixel-clock frequencies. To
avoid having to modify the server to accommodate these schemes XFree86
1.2 adds support for using an external program to select the pixel
clock. This allows programs to be written as new mechanisms are
discovered. Refer to the README.clkprog file for information on how
these programs work, if you need to write one. If you do develop such
a program, the XFree86 team would be interested in including it with
future XFree86 releases.
If you are purchasing new hardware for the purpose of using XFree86,
it is suggested that you purchase an ET4000-based board such as the
Orchid ProDesigner IIs. Avoid recent Diamond boards; XFree86 will not
work with them, because Diamond won't provide programming details.
In fact, the XFree86 project is actively not supporting new Diamond
products, as long as such policies remain in effect. Contributions
of code will NOT be accepted (because of the potential liabilities).
If you would like to see this change, tell Diamond about it.
Some people have asked if XFree86 would work with local bus or EISA
video cards. Theoretically, the means of communication between the
CPU and the video card is irrelevant to Xfree86 compatibility. It
could be ISA, EISA, or local bus. What should matter is the chipset
on the video card. Unfortunately, the developers don't have a lot
of access to EISA or VLB machines, so this is largely an untested
theory. However, we have yet to see any reports of things not
working on one of these buses and we have several reports of Xfree86
working fine on them.
6. What about accelerated boards?
At this time, there is no support in XFree86 for accelerated boards
like the S3, ATI Ultra (8514/A), TIGA, etc. This support is available
in commercial products from SGCS and MetroLink (for SVR3 and SVR4).
An S3 server is available for 386BSD and Linux. Contact
<[email protected]> for 386BSD or <[email protected]> for Linux.
A beta 8514/A server is available for Linux. Contact <[email protected]>
or <[email protected]>. Note: these servers are NOT part of XFree86.
7. Why doesn't XFree86 support 16-color VGA modes?
The reason that this is not supported is the way VGA implements the
16-color modes. In 256-color modes, each byte of frame buffer memory
contains 1 pixel. But the 16-color modes are implemented as bit-
planes. Each byte of frame- buffer memory contains 1 bit from each
of each of 8 pixels, and there are four such planes. The MIT frame-
buffer code is not designed to deal with this. If VGA handled
16-color modes by packing 2 4-bit pixels into each byte, the MIT code
could be modified to support this (or it already may; I'm not sure).
But for the VGA way of doing things, a complete new frame-buffer
implementation is required. Some beta testers are looking into this,
but nothing is yet available from the project.
8. What other hardware or software requirements are there?
Obviously, a supported SVGA board and OS are required. To run
X efficiently, 12-16MB of memory should be considered a minimum.
The various binary releases take 10-40MB of disk space, depending
on the OS (e.g. whether or not it supports shared libraries).
To build from sources, at least 80MB of free disk space will
be required, although 120MB should be considered a comfortable
lower bound.
9. Where can I get source for XFree86?
Source patches for the current version (1.2, based on X11R5 PL22
from MIT), are available via anonymous FTP from:
export.lcs.mit.edu (under /contrib/XFree86)
ftp.physics.su.oz.au (under /XFree86)
ftp.win.tue.nl (under /pub/XFree86)
(For the rest of this FAQ, these 3 location will be called $FTP)
Refer to the README file under the specified directory for information
on which files you need to get to build your distribution.
10. Where can I get binaries for XFree86?
Binaries are available via anonymous FTP from:
ftp.physics.su.oz.au - SVR4 binaries
under /XFree86/SVR4
ftp.win.tue.nl - SVR4 binaries
under /pub/XFree86/SVR4
ferkel.ucsb.edu - SVR4 binaries
under /pub/SVR4/XFree86
stasi.bradley.edu - SVR4 binaries
under /pub/XFree86/SVR4
blancmange.ma.utexas.edu - SVR3 (ISC) binaries
under /pub/ISC
ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de - SVR3 (ISC) binaries
under /pub/pc/isc/XFree86
tsx-11.mit.edu - Linux binaries
under /pub/linux/packages/X11
agate.berkeley.edu - 386BSD binaries
under /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86
ftp.cs.uwm.edu - Mach binaries
under /i386
Ensure that you are getting XFree86 1.2 - some of these sites may
archive older releases as well. Each binary distribution will
contain a README file that describes what files you need to take
from the archive, and which compile-time option selections were
made when building the distribution.
IV) What general things should I know about running XFree86?
11. Installation directories
The top-level installation directory is specified by the ProjectRoot
(/usr/X386, by default) variable in config/site.def. Binaries, include
files, and libraries are installed in $ProjectRoot/{bin,include,lib}.
This can be changed when rebuilding from sources, and can be modified
via symbolic links for those OSs that support them. This directory is
nonstandard, and was chosen this way to allow XFree86 to be installed
alongside a commercial/vendor-supplied X implementation.
12. Configuration files
The XFree86 server reads a configuration file ("Xconfig") on startup.
The search path, contents and syntax for this file are documented in
the server manpage, which should be consulted before asking questions.
13. Determining VGA dot clocks and monitor modes
David E Wexelblat ([email protected]) maintains a database of known
clock settings for VGA cards and monitor settings.
The database is installed in /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/modeDB.txt, and
is in the source tree under mit/server/ddx/x386/etc. This database is
also available from him (for the latest copy), and is kept on
export.lcs.mit.edu in ~/contrib/X386.modeDB.Z, which is updated
occasionally. Obtain a copy of this database. It just might have the
settings you need. If you create new settings, please send them to
David for inclusion in the database.
If this doesn't help you, the VideoModes.doc (by Eric Raymond) file
with XFree86 contains tutorials on how to come up with these timings.
It may be helpful to start with settings that almost work, and use
this description to get them right. When you do, send the information
to David Wexelblat for inclusion in the database.
NOTE: The old 'clock.exe' program is not supported any more, and
is completely unnecessary. If you need to determine dot
clock values for a new board, remove the 'Clocks' line from
your Xconfig file (if present), and start the server. The
server will probe for clocks itself and print them out.
You can use these values to put a 'Clocks' line into your
Xconfig file, which is not necessary, but will speed up
starting the server in the future.
14. Rebuilding/reconfiguring the server from the link kit
If you have installed the server Binary Link Kit, it is possible to
reconfigure the drivers and font renderers in the server. This is
fully explained in the README file that is available with the link kit.
V) What OS-specific things should I know about running XFree86?
First of all, the server must be installed suid-root (mode 4755).
15. SVR4
Why won't my xterm run properly?
If your kernel is not built with the consem module, you should define
CONSEM=no in you environment. Otherwise xterm won't run.
csh users should use 'setenv CONSEM no'
The Esix console driver patch 403019 is known to cause keymapping
problems with XFree86. It recommended that this patch not be
installed. Alternatively they keymap can be fixed with xmodmap.
16. SVR3
Make sure you look at $FTP/README.ISC, if that's what you are running.
17. 386BSD
Make sure you look at $FTP/README.386BSD.
Also, a separate 386BSD FAQ is maintained by Richard Murphey
<[email protected]>. The latest version should be available in the
file XFree86-1.2-386BSD-FAQ at the following ftp sites:
agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors4/386bsd/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2
grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr:pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2
18. Linux
You must be running Linux 0.97pl4 or greater, and have the 4.1 gcc
jump libraries installed.
Make sure the binaries X386, X386mono, xload and xterm are setuid root.
If your kernel doesn't have TCP support compiled in, you'll have to
run the server as "X -pn". The default startup configuration assumes
that TCP is not available. If it is, change the two files
/usr/X386/bin/startx and /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, removing the
-pn argument to X386.
Make sure /dev/console is either a link to /dev/tty0 or has the major
number 4, minor number 0. Also note that if /dev/console is not
owned by the user running X, then xconsole and xterm will not permit
console output redirection. Xdm will properly change the owner, but
startx won't.
When running xdm from rc.local, you will need to provide it with
a tty, for example "xdm < /dev/console &".
For more detailed information, please read the file README present
with the distribution on tsx-11.mit.edu.
19. Mach
Make sure you look at $FTP/README.Mach.
VI) What things should I know for building XFree86 from source?
This section has been removed from the FAQ, since it is
fully explained in $FTP/README and the OS-specific READMEs.
Please look at those files for information on building XFree86.
VII) Is there anything special about building clients with XFree86?
20. BSD compatibility library
A lot of clients make use of BSD functions like bcopy(), etc.
The default configuration files are set up to link with libXbsd.a
which contains emulation for bcopy(), bzero(), bcmp(), ffs(), random(),
seed(). A better way of providing the 'b' functions is to include
<X11/Xfuncs.h> in source files that call them. Xfuncs.h provides macro
definitions for these in terms of the SYSV 'mem' functions. If you are
linking with a vendor supplied library which calls some of these
functions, then you should link with libXbsd.a
21. ANSICCOPTIONS
This is something that was added to allow a developer to get rid of the
ANSI-ness defined in the default CCOPTIONS without having to rewrite
the entire CCOPTIONS line. For example, with stock MIT, you'd see
something like
CCOPTIONS="-ansi -O2 -fwritable-strings"
and to get rid of the ANSI-ness, the developer would have to put
CCOPTIONS="-O2 -fwritable-strings"
in his Imakefile. With this change, you would see a default of
ANSICCOPTIONS="-ansi"
CCOPTIONS="-O2 -fwritable-strings"
and all the developer would have to put in the Imakefile is:
ANSICCOPTIONS=
to get rid of the ANSI-ness (many X clients will die a horrible death
with -ansi). The effect is even more dramatic in practice, because
CCOPTIONS is actually quite complex. The other issue is that one must
add 'ANSICCOPTIONS=$(ANSICCOPTIONS)' to a PassCDebugFlags definition.
XFree86 Contact Information
Ongoing development planning and support is coordinated by the XFree86
Core Team. At this time the Core Team consists of:
The original "gang of four":
David Dawes <[email protected]>
Glenn Lai <[email protected]>
Jim Tsillas <[email protected]>
David Wexelblat <[email protected]>
Those supporting non-SYSV operating systems:
Robert Baron <[email protected]> [Mach]
Rich Murphey <[email protected]> [386BSD]
Orest Zborowski <[email protected]> [Linux]
e-mail sent to <[email protected]> will reach all of the core team.
--------------------------------------------------
Thanks to all the people who already sent me corrections or additions,
especially David Wexelblat (one of the major contributors of updates). | 16 | trimmed_train |
189 |
>Hi... what alternatives to the Express modem do Duo owners have (if
>they want to go at least 9600 baud)?
>Every place in town says they are back ordered, and part of the reason
>I want a laptop mac is so I can use it as a remote terminal from
>wherever I am, but I really would hate to have to wait 2 months to get
>a modem in or have to settle with 2400 baud.
If Apple didn't put out such a good product -- I'd gladly take my
business to -- to -- the 8-bit Ataris. I think the
situation with the Express modem is inexusable for any business.
I've had mine on order since January. Apple finally called me last
week -- to tell me that I should have it "by the second week of May."
In the meantime, I've been stuck with my Duo210 without the
connectability I needed it for. I'm sure there are plenty of people
who can bite back at me, citing all sorts of reasons why Apple is
right or at least justified, but I'm just a crabby consumer and
when I order a "Duo210 with modem" that's the product I expect.
Oh, well. It's not like it's limited to the computer biz. Remember
when the Miata came out? What about those Cabbage Patch Dolls? Well,
I want my toy! ;)
--
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Kenneth Simon Dept of Sociology, Indiana University
Internet: [email protected] Bitnet: KSSIMON@IUBACS | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,790 | I am a Mac-user when it comes to graphics (that's what I own software and hardware for) and
I've recently come across a large number of TTTDDD format modeling databases. Is there any
software, mac or unix, for translating those to something I could use, like DXF? Please
reply via email. | 1 | trimmed_train |
2,720 | I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question. If not,
please forgive me and point me in the right direction.
Does anybody know of a program that converts .GIF files to .BMP files
and if so, where can I ftp it from? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Please respond via e-mail as I do not read this group very often. | 1 | trimmed_train |
5,252 |
The last name is Niedermayer, as in New Jersey's Scott's last name, because
(you guessed it) they are brothers. But Rob Niedermayer is a center, not
a defenseman.
I am not sure that the Sharks will take Kariya. They aren't saying much, but
they apparently like Niedermayer and Victor Kozlov, along with Kariya. Chris
Pronger's name has also been mentioned. My guess is that they'll take
Niedermayer. They may take Pronger, except that they already have too many
defensive prospects. | 17 | trimmed_train |
6,756 | Where's an ftp site for Trumpet? (other than wuarchive, umich,..
something off the beaten path??) | 18 | trimmed_train |
7,907 | I was wondering if anyone out in net-land have any opinions on MGs
in general. I know they are not the most reliable cars around but
summer is approaching and they are convertibles `8^). I'm interested
in a 75 MG but any opinions on MGs would be appreciated. Thanks. | 4 | trimmed_train |
8,264 | Hiya all,
I realise this has little to do with pc's but it does have a lot to do
with hardware....
So, has nay of you heard of a computer called the Connection Machine.
If so, could you e-mail me any and all info you have,
eg- references, ideas etc.
All help is appreciated.
Caviar Dreams
L.Cause
| 3 | trimmed_train |
3,722 | Thanks to all who replied to my initial question. I've been away in
New Jersey all week and was surprised to see all the responses
when I got back.
To the person asking about nicotine patches, there are four on the
market: | 19 | trimmed_train |
3,793 |
These laws written for the Israelites, God's chosen people whom God had
expressly set apart from the rest of the world. The Israelites were a
direct witness to God's existence. To disobey God after KNOWing that God
is real would be an outright denial of God and therefore immediately punishable.
Remember, these laws were written for a different time and applied only to
God's chosen people. But Jesus has changed all of that. We are living in the
age of grace. Sin is no longer immediately punishable by death. There is
repentance and there is salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. And not just
for a few chosen people. Salvation is available to everyone, Jew and Gentile
alike.
God be with you, | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,699 | : I am in the market for a bike and have recently found a 1990
: Honda VRF 750 at a dealership. The bike has about 47,000 miles
: and is around $4500. It has had two previous owners, both employees
: of the dealership who, I have been told, took very good care of the
: bike.
: I have two questions: 1) Is this too many miles for a bike? I know this
: would not be many miles for a car but I am unfamiliar with the life
: span of bikes. 2) Is this a decent price? I am also unfamilar with
: prices for used bikes. Is there a blue book for bikes like there is
: for cars?.
: Thanks for any advice you can give.
: --Mark
| 12 | trimmed_train |
5,489 | [email protected] (Wayne Smith) write:
Nice of you to DELETE BOTH YOUR responce and the item that prompted it.
to whit:
^^^
To which YOU responded:
To which I correctly pointed out the following:
As I said this is sloppy and DUMB {YOU should resounded by DISCOUNTING the Mac
NOT giving "Maxtor 245 meg IDE drive for $320" example. By giving an
example you give the IMPLIED consent that for MAC info to be INCLUDED
in the SCSI discusion.}
Ok I will do this V E R Y S L O W L Y so you can understand
REGUARDLESS of whether it is a Mac or a PC SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 are DIFFERENT
from each other as is asynchronous and synchronous SCSI-1. All of these
have DIFFERENT SPEEDS and COSTS. Lumping them all together as 'SCSI' is
dumb and sloppy. Take again the quote later on as an example of the problem
in the PC world {The spec list was so that you knew where the numbers were
coming from in the article. It shows the article is CORRECT in it
staments about SCSI but not CONSITANT}.
With the way this thread has gone how do you tell :-).
Already GAVE them. YOU keep deleting them! So here are the Specs
on everybody AGAIN {With some added info}:
SCSI-1 {SCSI-1 controler chip} asynchronous range: 0-3MB/s
synchronous range: 0-5MB/s Both common to the PC world; difference is
mainly in software not hardware.
SCSI-1 {SCSI-2 controller chip; also called SCSI-2 (8-bit)}: 4-6MB/s with
10MB/s burst. This is advertised as SCSI-2 in BYTE 4/93:159 FOR the
PC and AT THESE SPEEDS.{NOT the Mac, the PC.}
{I have not seen the following for EITHER the Mac or the PC}
SCSI-2 {16-bit/wide or fast mode}: 8-12MB/s with 20MB/s burst
SCSI-2 {32-bit/wide AND fast}: 15-20MB/s with 40MB/s burst
On the other interfaces let [email protected] speak:
asynchronous range: 0-5MB/s {infered from BYTE 4/93:159}
synchronous range: 0-8.3MB/s.
Note that I ALSO give the AVERAGE through put for SCSI-2 which holds true
a Mac OR IBM/PC clone with the correct hardware and software.
And since PC ADVERSIZEMENTS are using Theoretical performance figures WHY
CANNOT WE?
With PC articles like the following it is obvious that the problem is NOT with
SCSI but with the PEOPLE WHO REPORT IT! {Like YOU.}
Look at the inconsitant use of SCSI in the below quote:
(My comments in {})
"Although SCSI is twice as fast as ESDI,{This is asynchronous SCSI-1 with
a SCSI-1 chip} 20% faster than IDE..." {this is BOTH asynchronous SCSI-1 with
a SCSI-2 chip AND 8-bit SCSI-2} PC Magazine April 27, 1993:29
The ARTICLE is confused, NOT SCSI. The TERM is a mess from inconsitant use
NOT because the interface itself is a mess.
SCSI means "The set of SCSI interfaces composed of SCSI-1 AND SCSI-2"
NOT 'SCSI-1' as some people want to use it.
To read CONSITANTLY the quote SHOULD read:
{asynchronous SCSI-1 with a SCSI-1 chip}
"Although asynchronous SCSI-1 is twice as fast as ESDI, one third the
speed of IDE..."
or {asynchronous SCSI-1 with a SCSI-2 chip or 8-bit SCSI-2}
"Although SCSI-1 with a SCSI-2 chip and 8-bit SCSI-2 are eight times as fast as
ESDI, 20% faster than IDE..."
NOTE the NONUSE of 'SCSI' by itself. This eliminates ambaguity. | 3 | trimmed_train |
7,809 |
Arab leaders are now following by Islamic rules? (Or is it only applicable
in cases like this?) :-
I remember an article of about a year ago which stated that besides his wife,
Saddam also has a mistress. Assad's brother has a wife and *several*
mistresses, and those 'emirs' in the Gulf have, within their lifetimes,
wives in the double digitas (only they manage to keep four at a time).
This is all irrelevant. It takes a *lot* more than infidelity to make these
leaders ruthless and corrupt. Maybe Netanyahu thought he could 'cleanse'
himself by making such a public confession. Does the average secular Israeli
care, though? The Mossad probably applauded him. :-)
| 6 | trimmed_train |
8,592 | I am involve in a Distant Learning project and am in need
of Jpeg and Mpeg encode/decode source and object code.
This is a NOT-FOR PROFIT project that once completed I
hope to release to other educational and institutional
learning centers.
This project requires that TRUE photographic images be sent
over plain telephone lines. In addition if there is a REAL Good
GUI lib with 3D objects and all types of menu classes that can
be use at both end of the transaction (Server and Terminal End)
I would like to hear about it.
We recently posted an RFD announcing the OTG (Open Telematic Group)
that will concern itself with the developement of such application
and that it would incorporate NAPLPS, JPEG, MPEG, Voice, IVR, FAX
Sprites, Animation(fli, flc, etc...).
At present only DOS and UNIX environment is being worked on and it
our hope that we can generate enough interest where all the major
platform can be accomodated via a plaform independent API/TOOLKIT/SDK
We are of the mind that it is about time that such project and group
be form to deal with these issues.
We want to setup a repository where these files may be access such as
Simte20 and start putting together a OTG FAQ.
If you have some or any information that in your opinion would be
of interest to the OTG community and you like to see included in our
first FAQ please send it email to the address below.
Thanks in Advance
Ed
P.O. box 95901
Atlanta Ga. 30347-0901
(404)985-1198 zyxel 14.4
[email protected]
[email protected]
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10,394 |
I tried to do so, but people told me that even if I used DISPKT, the packets
would still be incompatible. Is this true ?
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2,497 | Hi. I am having some interesting problems with my Boca graphics card, which
is based on the Cirrus Logic chipset (I am not sure exactly which one). The
problem is as follows:
If I use any Windows driver at 800x600 except for the 64K-colour driver (ie
16 colour or 256 colour), the image on screen becomes too tall - no amount of
resizing on the monitor will make it fit. And if I use Excel with the 64K-
colour driver, it hangs as soon as it loads. Anyone out there used this
card/experienced anything similar.
Please reply by mail, and I will post any solutions here.
Regards
- Simon
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9,180 | We recently got an NCD X-terminal to evaluate. This is running XRemote over
a serial line.
I wanted to get some measurement of response time, so I wrote a small Xlib
program which simply creates a window, maps it and sends the first Expose
event to itself. The program times the delay from sending the event, to
receiving it. I thought this was the simplest way to test client/X-server
round-trip delays. It's a similar concept to the ping(8C) program.
Is this a valid test to perform ? I've also tried the xbench program, available
from ftp.uu.net, which bombards the server with graphics operations, but I
just wanted to get a quantative measure of what is "acceptable" interactive
response time. Has anyone got any ideas on this subject ?
Thanks.
Andrew. ([email protected])
| 16 | trimmed_train |
4,884 | [email protected] (Dave Mielke) writes,
I am extremely uncomfortable with this way of phrasing it. God's love
is unconditional, unqualified, unfathomable. We are capable of
rejecting God's love but He never fails to love us.
These verses do not show that God's love is qualified but rather that He
is opposed to evil.
I am uncomfortable with the tract in general because there seems to be
an innappropriate emphasis on Hell. God deserves our love and worship
because of who He is. I do not like the idea of frightening people into
accepting Christ.
I see evangelism as combining a way of living that shows God's love with
putting into words and explaining that love. Preaching the Gospel
without living the Gospel is no better than being a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal.
Here's a question: How many of you are Christians because you are
afraid of going to Hell? How many are responding to God's love? | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,852 | A co-worker of mine needs to convert a postscript file to a form readable
(ie ascii) in windows or DOS. Does anybody know of a utility that will do
this? I have a vague memory of a shareware utility someone mentioned once...
Thanks for any info, | 18 | trimmed_train |
3,205 | We have a Sun 3/80 and we have just acquired a cg8 frame buffer card.
The cg8 is supposed to support both a 24-bit color visual and a monochrome visual.
The default visual for the xnews server is the monochrome, and we are unable to change it to
the 24-bit visual. We have tried using XGetVisualInfo to get a visual of depth 24, but had no
success. xdpyinfo gives no information about a 24-bit deep visual, only monochrome.
There are two possible solutions:
If someone has patches for X11R5 Xsun server, could they forward them to us?
Otherwise, could someone instruct us how to access the 24-bit color in openwindows? | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,653 | I have two Motif Widgets. I would like to control one of them via the
keyboard and the other with the mouse. I set the keyboard focus on the first
widget, but as soon as I click the mouse on the second one, I lose the
keyboard focus on the first one.
Could some kind soul show me how to do this?
Thanks | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,466 | I am cleaning out the coffers. I have a virtually
MINT collection of HEAVY METAL magazine. This is NOT
a music mag but the really neato mag with Giger and
Moebius artwork, et al. Jam packed with amazing
sci-fi and fantasy artwork by many masters. All are
mint with the exception of the 3 that have split seam
on the cover only but are otherwise perfect, no cut
outs or missing pages. I have Sep, Nov and Dec issues
for 1978, ALL issues for 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983
and Jan thru Sep for 1984 (72 issues in all i
believe). I will not break them up. They will be
sold as a single lot. Send your offers to me.
Shipping not included, these are pretty heavy. Of
course if you are local (Mass, USA) you can come get
'em in person. | 5 | trimmed_train |
4,846 | The Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus in Fort Collins, Colorado,
submitted this as a questionnaire to the city council candidates
in the upcoming election. As expected, very few of the candidates
(3 of 13) responded, but they know we're watching.
Feel free to use any and all of these questions that strike your
fancy or use them as inspiration for your own.
*****
1. Would you be willing to state, in writing, that if you are
publicly demonstrated to have violated your oath of office
you would resign and never run for office again?
2. Under what circumstances do the rights of the group come
before the rights of the individual?
3. Would you support a city charter amendment prohibiting the
city government, its officials, agents, and employees from
initiating force against any human being for any reason?
4. Please put the following list in order of precedence (from
lowest to highest): a) city ordinance, b) city resolution,
c) state law, d) federal statute, e) U.S. Constitution,
f) state constitution.
5. Do you believe that it's appropriate for any city official or
employee to be paid more than his or her average private
sector constituent?
6. Do you believe that involuntary contributions are a legitimate
means of funding council programs?
7. Would you support a program recognizing the right of
taxpayers to "earmark" their taxes (either as "must be used"
or "must not be used") for specific programs?
8. In the event that the candidate "None of the Above" were to
win a city election, which option do you believe most
appropriate? a) The candidate with the next highest vote total
fills the office. b) A special election is held to fill the
office, with none of the previous candidates eligible to run
again. c) Let the office remain unfilled and unfunded until
the next election. d) Abolish the office.
Please return your questionnaire to: [address of your choice]
A signature and date line were added here.
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire.
******
The questionnaires were sent with self-addressed, stamped envelopes.
P.S. One person _did_ get a perfect score on the questionnaire, and,
no, he didn't help write it.
Cathy Smith | 9 | trimmed_train |
11,032 | 14 | trimmed_train |
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9,982 | Awhile back someone posted some information on where you can get
kits to build an EEG. Does anyone remember where you could get
this. I'm very interested in getting some info on this. Thanks
in advance.
eric | 11 | trimmed_train |
11,163 |
No cache.
Correct.
8kB.
Was it six instructions?
80486DX without the mathematical coprocessor (FPU).
Actually, the 80486 you described above is 80486DX.
(There is no separate 80486 nor 80386, either).
This is for Intel processors. Does anyone have a complete
list with Cyrix and Ibm products?
Anssi | 3 | trimmed_train |
9,163 | OK, Doug is right, it would be obstruction of justice, blah blah blah,
BUT, saying "I forgot" is a lie, which is just as bad from a moral point
of view _IF_ you think "lawfulness" is a good in and of itself (which
admittedly most people do not.) But there's an even better way out of this.
PROVIDED the government is prosecuting you criminally, you can probably
plead the fifth amendmeent and thus LEGALLY avoid revealing your key. The
government cannot demand information from a criminal defendant which "may
tend to incriminate" that defendant. Though this has never been applied
in the cryptography context (at least as far as I can tell) it seems an
obvious application to me.
This may be a common suggestion in this group, but if it's not (I'm new
here) I'd love to hear what people have to say about it. Since I don't
really read this group (and since the subject matter is more legal than
cryptoid) maybe misc.legal.computing would be an appropriate place?
Steve.
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1,194 | The above does not tell the proper story of SCSI:
SCSI-I: 8-bit asynchronous {~1.5MB/s ave}, synchronous {5MB/s max} transfer
base.
SCSI-1{faster} this requires a SCSI-2 controller chip and provides
SCSI-2 {8-bit to 16-bit} speeds with SCSI-1 controlers.
SCSI-2: 4-6MB/s with 10MB/s burst{8-bit}, 8-12MB/s with 20MB/s burst {16-bit},
and 15-20MB/s with 40MB/s burst{32-bit/wide and fast}. 16-bit SCSI can be
wide or fast, it depends on how the port is designed{The Quadras will support
fast SCSI but not wide when the OS SCSI manager is rewritten since the
Quardas use a SCSI-1 {non-wide} port}.
The article in PC Mag 4/27/93:29 was talking about SCSI-1 {SCSI-2 uses
TEN (10) devices in it native mode, outside its native mode it behaves a
lot like SCSI-1 (7 devices, slower through put}
From your own figures SCSI-1 is indeed twice ESDI as the article pointed out
as for "20% faster then IDE" that seems to be 8-bit SCSI-1 using a SCSI-2
contoler chip {The Mac Quadra uses a SCSI-2 controler chip for its SCSI-1
and gets 6MB/s through put for asynchronous {8-bit} SCSI-1, far in excess of a
normal SYNCHRONOUS SCSI-1 output} 120% of 8.3 is 9.96 which is near
the burst of a SCSI-1 machine with a SCSI-2 controller chip.
The PC world seems to have SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 mixed up. Fact is SCSI-2
controler chips allow near SCSI-2 speeds through a SCSI-1 device
{As shown in the Mac Quadra} which skews some of the data of SCSI-1 vs
IDE or ESDI test. I agree that the article COULD have stated that the "20%
faster then IDE" came off a SCSI-1 device with a SCSI-2 chip. Maybe it
was there and the EDITOR killed it because the article was dealing with
SCSI-1 NOT SCSI-2 and he did not understand the effect of a SCSI-1 device
with a SCSI-2 controller chip.
SCSI-1 chips are limited to 5/MB max. SCSI-1 devices with SCSI-2 chips
{becoming common} produce up to 10Mb/s in 8-bit mode and 20MB/s in 16-bit
mode {the fast version, SCSI-1 ports cannot use wide SCSI}. Of cource
the prime piece of wierdness is that SCSI-1 devices HAVE SCSI-2 chips
{or more accurately the machine does}. This allows the best of BOTH
worlds: high SCSI-2 speeds and cheeper SCSI-1 costs {FULL SCSI-2 hardware
(port, electronic controller, etc) is VERY expensive. It ALSO creates
a logistic NIGHTMARE as to how fast SCSI-1 goes. | 3 | trimmed_train |
7,998 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
a) I think that he has a rather witty .sig file. It sums up a great
deal of atheistic thought (IMO) in one simple sentence.
b) Atheism isn't an "other religion".
| 8 | trimmed_train |
3,338 |
It works for me. I avoid obscenities, and try to remain calm cool and
collected, and try something like, "You almost just killed me, and I'm not
moving until you apologize." or something more or less benign like that. I
haven't been shot a single time, but I don't do it in Texas, and I do only
do it when there are plenty of witnesses around. | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,879 | My friend, David Gordon wants to sell his 1989 Honda. Some of the details of th
e car are as follows:
Five speed
A/c, AM/FM/Cassette stereo
ps/pb
Rear window defroster
EXCELLENT CONDITION
Asking 6400.00 OBO. | 4 | trimmed_train |
10,704 | Politicians want to eliminate private ownership of guns before the
general public starts violently resisting the tax increases needed
to fund the federal government as an ever higher percentage of tax
revenue goes to pay interest on the national debt (currently 57 cents
out of every tax dollar collected and rising).
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <[email protected]> | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,109 | I have the following Genesis carts for sale or trade:
Alien 3
Global gladiators
Crue ball
I have the following SNES carts for sale or trade:
Jimmy connors tennis
Super play action football
Cross system trades are fine.
Cheers
Marc
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4,706 | Forwarded from Neal Ausman, Galileo Mission Director
GALILEO
MISSION DIRECTOR STATUS REPORT
POST-LAUNCH
April 16 - 22, 1993
SPACECRAFT
1. On April 19, cruise science Memory Readouts (MROs) were performed for the
Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EUV), Dust Detector (DDS), and Magnetometer
(MAG) instruments. Preliminary analysis indicates the data was received
properly.
2. On April 19, a Command Detector Unit Signal-to-Noise Ratio (CDUSNR) test
and a Radio Frequency Subsystem Automatic Gain Control (RFSAGC) test were
performed using the LGA-1 (Low Gain Antenna #1) over DSS-63 (Madrid 70 meter
antenna) and DSS-61 (Madrid 34 meter antenna), respectively. Data analysis
is in process. These tests are periodically performed to provide detailed
information relative to the telecom command hardware integrity.
3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to
264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.
4. On April 21, the first of two suppressed carrier/DSN (Deep Space Network)
advanced receiver characterization tests was performed over DSS-14 (Goldstone
70 meter antenna). The spacecraft modulation index was varied from 43 degrees
to 90 degrees for a range of ground receiver bandwidth settings.
5. The AC bus imbalance measurement has not exhibited significant change
(greater than 25 DN) throughout this period but the DC bus imbalance
measurement has. The AC measurement reads 20 DN (4.5 volts). The DC
measurement has ranged from 43 DN (4.6 volts) to 138 DN (16.2 volts) and
currently reads 138 DN (16.2 volts). These measurements are consistent with
the model developed by the AC/DC special anomaly team.
6. The Spacecraft status as of April 22, 1993, is as follows:
a) System Power Margin - 68 watts
b) Spin Configuration - Dual-Spin
c) Spin Rate/Sensor - 3.15rpm/Star Scanner
d) Spacecraft Attitude is approximately 21 degrees
off-sun (lagging) and 5 degrees off-earth (leading)
e) Downlink telemetry rate/antenna- 40bps(coded)/LGA-1
f) General Thermal Control - all temperatures within
acceptable range
g) RPM Tank Pressures - all within acceptable range
h) Orbiter Science- Instruments powered on are the PWS,
EUV, UVS, EPD, MAG, HIC, and DDS
i) Probe/RRH - powered off, temperatures within
acceptable range
j) CMD Loss Timer Setting - 264 hours
Time To Initiation - 184 hours
TRAJECTORY
As of noon Thursday, April 22, 1993, the Galileo Spacecraft trajectory
status was as follows:
Distance from Earth 169,747,800 km (1.14 AU)
Distance from Sun 286,967,900 km (1.92 AU)
Heliocentric Speed 91,200 km per hour
Distance from Jupiter 532,735,900 km
Round Trip Light Time 18 minutes, 58 seconds
SPECIAL TOPIC | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,470 |
Nobody is using discrete IC's to do these functions anymore if at
all. I doubt any of the Motor electronics had any to start with.
...Much less TTL. | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,880 |
Devallano went earlier and more extensively to the Russian strategy
than anyone else...and was the first GM to "waste" high draft choices
on young Russians...Devallano would still be GM but he succombed to
Demers pleading to make the Oates-Federko et al trade...which is the
deal that sealed his fate.
Murray has made some decent trades...no doubt...but these are more
due to the stupidity or cheapness of other teams than brilliance on
his part...Washington was too cheap to pay Ciccarelli so they
essentially gave him away...and Carson was really a big anchor to
the team, and he was able to sucker a rookie GM to give him Paul
Coffey for deadweight.
If Detroit still fails this year because he was one defenseman short...
then he will have wasted an opportunity because Manson was available,
and he was unable to pull the trigger. It is his judgement that he
has enough with what he's got...Yzerman doesn't have that many more
years in his prime. | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,805 |
I thought the implication was that the prince destroyed one fourth of the
remaining Persian troops on the second round, and then 1/11 of those remaining
on the third round. This would mean | 6 | trimmed_train |
4,761 | Obesssive Compulsive Disorder (not to be confused with Obsessive Compulsive
_Personality_ Disorder !) is an acute anxiety disorder characterized by
either obsessions (persistent intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety when
not entertained), or compulsions (repetitive, ritualistic actions that
similarly cause intense psychological discomfort when resisted).
OCD is often associated with certain forms of depression.
Examples of obsessive thoughts are repeated impulses to kill a loved
one (though not accompanied by anger), or a religious person having
recurrent blasphemous thoughts. Generally, the individual attempts to ignore
or suppress the intrusive thoughts by engaging in other activities.
The individual realizes that the thoughts originate from the own mind, rather
than being from an external source.
Examples of compulsive actions are constant repetitive hand washing,
or other activity that is not realistically related to alleviating a
source of the anxiety.
In OCD, the obsessions or compulsions are highly distressing to the
individual, take an hour or more per day, and significantly impair their
daily routine and social relationships.
Treatments include psychotherapy, behavioral methods, and sometimes
certain anti-depressants which have recently been found effective in alleviating
obsessions and compulsions.
The standard diagnostic code for OCD, if you want to look it up in the
DSM-III manual of psychiatric diagnosis is 300.30 .
kind regards, | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,155 |
I have had the exact same problem, but have not figured out a solution.
I run a PC with Linux (free-unix) with X11r5 and OpenWindows 3.0, I
would appreciate any solutions.
ewz
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
843 | Since I'm not all too keen on this area of hooking them up, I'm
asking for help. I know better than to hook a 12v, 1a stepper line to
one, unless it can take it; however what about if I've got a 24-60v
stepper. What sort of curent limmiting circuitry would be involved (a
small schematic would probably be helpfull).
Also, I've looked into the TIPC2701N by TI, and I was wondering
if I should use the same suggested (by you replying to this message)
current limiting circuitry on each of the 7 mosfets in the package as
that illustrated in the schematic (which you the replyer would hopefully
help me with).
... hmm... different request...
Thanks.
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Inspiration | ___ |
comes to | \ o [email protected] |
those who | ( ^ ) [email protected] |
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unknown. | |
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8,244 |
I've had my Duo 230 for a few weeks now and suffer from both
of the above problems. I reinstalled my system software twice
in an effort to combat the problems - thinking they were
system software problems. Initially reinstalling the system
seemed to help but not anymore. Occasionally when I try to
wake up the Duo I get a solid screen of horizontal lines on
the screen - it freezes.
I also get the high-pitched hiss occasionally - but only at
startup.
I've called the apple hotline (800 SOS-APPL) three times
already and finally they agreed something is astray after my
Duo's screen would go dim and the hard drive spun down by
itselft and put itself to sleep. This problem only occured
twice. Apple sent me a box to ship my Duo to be looked at in
New York but the problem now is intermittent and I can't
afford to be without my Duo at this time.
Anyone out there with these same problems?
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8,125 | What has this got to do with comp.windows.x? | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,286 | Nor, to point out the obvious, are the deluded, siege-mentality
followers of a religious nut-case who thought he was Jesus Christ or possibly
The Big Guy.
Personally, much as I regard the BATF and FBI as ConDupes, I'll take
their word over a bunch of silly pinks who were stoopid enough to lock
themselves up with a goofball like "David Koresh" in a makeshift arsenal.
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11,010 | From article <[email protected]>, by Paul H. Pimentel <[email protected]>:
There is one big difference between Israel and the Arabs, Christians in this
respect.
Israel allows freedom of religion. | 6 | trimmed_train |
8,556 |
But that's just the problem. There is no such thing as
"MIME-Formatted". By analogy, MIME is a content-labelling
standard for the box, not a specification for the contents
themselves. It provides a standard for "like-minded"
individuals to exchange mail containing an agreed-upon data
format.
You say tomahto, I say tomaeto; you say postscript, I say
SGML...
Cheers,
Marc
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[email protected] | NC FreeNet: aa185 | on the fire.
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11,184 | Not on my system. | 18 | trimmed_train |