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Huh? | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,536 | Picture if you will, the Habs going into the last couple minutes of the
game, leading 2-0. The Nords get a power play, pull Hextall, and get
a goal. Bout a minute later, they get another one. Then they win in
overtime......
A bad dream?.......
How's that Red Hot Chili Peppers song go...
"Give it away,give it away, give it away now...."
Oh well. Suppose I can always watch the Leafs win tomorrow night....
(smilies.....)
Am I the only female hockey fan in the world? | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,191 | THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Vancouver, British Columbia)
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 4, 1993
PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT
WITH RUSSIAN PRESS
Canada Place
Vancouver, British Columbia
2:46 P.M. PDT
Q I had two questions for both Presidents, so you
could probably answer for Boris, too. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: I'll give you my answer, then I'll
give you Yeltsin's answer. (Laughter.)
Q The first is that this is the meeting of the
Presidents, so the money that's being promised is government
money, and naturally it's going to be distributed through the
government. But you've indicated that three-quarters are going
to be going to businesses. So the question is how the Russian
businesses themselves are going to be consulted, if ever? What
are the priorities, because there are several association of
Russian businessmen existing already, so will they be invited to
participate in setting up priorities for investment?
This is the first. And second, to you. We know
that polls, public polls in America do not show that Americans
are very enthusiastic about giving this aid. Like Newsweek polls
say that about 75 percent don't approve it, and New York Times
published that 52 percent support if it just prevents civil war;
42 percent if it fosters democratic reform; and only 29 percent
if it just personally supports Yeltsin. How are you going to
sort of handle this problem that Americans themselves are not
very enthusiastic? Thank you.
Q I have a question, I'm sorry -- is there going
to be a translation of everything into Russian? No, just the
answers. Just the answers. Okay.
THE PRESIDENT: The answer to the first question is,
it depends on what kind of aid we're discussing. For example,
the funds that will be set up for financing new businesses will
obviously go to those businesses who apply and who seem to be
good risks and make the application. The privatization fund will
be used to support the privatization of existing public
enterprises. Then there are some other general funds in the
Democracy Corps and other things which people in Russia will have
some influence over the distribution of.
With regard to your second question, let me say that
I would think that there would be people in both countries who
would not feel too warmly toward simply the American government
giving money to the Russian government. There's opposition to
that in Russia. And in our country, throughout our whole history
there has been an opposition to foreign aid of all kinds. That
is, this has nothing to do with Russia. If you look at the whole
history of America, any kind of aid program has always been
unpopular.
What I have tried to tell the American people is, is
this is not an aid program, this is an investment program; that
this is an investment in our future. We spent $4 trillion --
trillion -- on armaments on soldiers and other investments
because of the Cold War. Now, with a democratic government in
Russia, with the newly independent states, the remainder of them
working on a democracy and struggling to get their economies
going, it seems to me very much in our interest to make it
possible to do whatever we can for democracy to survive, for the
economy of Russia to grow because of the potential for trade and
investment there, and for us to continue the effort to reduce
nuclear weapons and other elements of hostility on both sides, on
our side and on the Russian side.
So I don't see this as an aid program; this is an
investment for the United States. This is very much in the
interest of the United States. The things I announced today, the
second stage of the program, which I hope to put together next
week, in my view are things that are good for my country and for
the taxpayers and workers of my country.
Russia is a very great nation that needs some
partnership now, some common endeavor with other people who share
her goals. But it would be a great mistake for anyone to view
this as some sort of just a charity or an aid issue. That's not
what it is, it's an investment for America and it's a wonderful
investment.
Like all investments, there is some risk. But
there's far less risk with a far greater potential of return than
the $4 trillion we spent looking at each other across the barrier
of the Cold War.
Q Mr. President, first of all thank you very
much, indeed, for coming here and talking to us. In the memory
of the living correspondents, this is the first time an American
President is doing this to the Russian press corps, so it's kind
of a very measured breakthrough.
I have two questions. One, in your introductory
remarks of the other press conference, you mentioned in brief
that you discussed the START II and START I issues. Could you
tell us: Did you reach an agreement with President Yeltsin as to
what might be done in order to have Ukraine join the ratification
of START I and the NPT regime? And my second question is, how
confident you are that the United States Congress would be eager
to support you in lifting Jackson-Vanik and other restrictions
inherited from the Cold War?
PRESIDENT CLINTON: First, we discussed the issue of
Ukraine with regard to START I and NPT, and generally, with
regard to the need to proceed to have the other independent
states all be non-nuclear; but also to have the United States
develop strong relationships with them. We know that one thing
that we could do that would increase, I think, the willingness of
the Ukraine to support this direction is to successfully conclude
our own negotiations on highly enriched uranium, because that
would provide not only an important economic opportunity for
Russia, but also for Ukraine, and it would show some reaching out
on our part. But we agreed that basically the people who signed
off on the Lisbon Protocol have got to honor what they did, and
we agreed to continue to press that.
I, myself, have spent a good deal of time trying to
reassure Ukraine's leaders, specifically the President and the
Foreign Minister, that I want strong ties with Ukraine, that the
United States very much wants a good relationship with Ukraine,
but that, in order to do what we need to do together to
strengthen the economy of Ukraine and to have the United States
be fully supportive, the commitment to ratify START I and to join
the NPT regime is critical.
What was the second question?
THE PRESIDENT: With regard to Jackson-Vanik and
COCOM, I would make two points: First, I have agreed with the
Republican and Democratic leaders in the Congress that we will,
as soon as I return, have a list of all the legislative and other
restrictions, some of them are regulatory in nature, imposed on
relations between the United States and Russia, that are legacies
of the Cold War. And we will see whether they're -- how many of
them we could agree to do away with right now, at least among the
leadership of the Congress.
With regard to Jackson-Vanik, I think there will be
an openness to change the law if the Congress is convinced there
are, in fact, no more refusniks, no more people who wish to
emigrate who are not being allowed to. If the fact is that there
is no one there who would have been -- who the law was designed
to affect, then I think that the desire to keep the law will be
much less.
With regard to COCOM, my guess is, and it's nothing
more than a guess, that the leadership of Congress and indeed my
own advisers, might prefer to see some sort of phased movement
out of the COCOM regime. But I think they would be willing to
begin it in the fairly near future.
Q Mr. Clinton, when I read your speech in
Annapolis, I got the impression that you have a completely
different personal -- and I stress that -- personal, not
political approach towards Russia, compared to the approach of
Mr. Bush. Could you formulate in a few words, what is the
difference between you as a personality and your approach -- the
difference between your approach to Russia and the approach of
Mr. Bush? And who made you -- why did you cite Akhmatova in the
last part of your speech?
THE PRESIDENT: Let me say, first, I do not wish to
compare myself with President Bush or anyone else. I can't say
what was in his heart about Russia. I can say that since I was a
boy, I have been personally fascinated with the history, the
music and the culture, and the literature of Russia. I have been
thrilled by Russian music since I was a serious student of music
for more than 30 years now. I have read major Russian novelists
and many of your poets and followed your ballet and tried to know
as much as I could about your history.
And I went to the Soviet Union -- but it was then
the Soviet Union -- you may know it was a big issue in the last
presidential campaign that I spent the first week of 1970 alone
in Moscow and did not return again until three days before Mr.
Yeltsin was elected President. But all that time I was away, I
was following events there very closely and hoping for the day
when we could be genuine partners. So I have always had a
personal feeling about Russia.
I remember, for example -- a lot of you know I like
music very much. One of the most moving experiences for me as a
musician was when Leonard Bernstein took the New York
Philharmonic to Moscow and played Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
to the Russians. And he played the last movement more rapidly
than anyone had ever played it before because it was technically
so difficult. That is something I followed very closely when it
occurred.
These are things that have always had a big impact
on my life. And I had just always hoped that someday, if I ever
had the chance to, I could play a role in seeing our two
countries become closer partners. (Applause.)
THE PRESS: Thank you. | 13 | trimmed_train |
580 |
What I've been saying is that moral behavior is likely the null behavior.
That is, it doesn't take much work to be moral, but it certainly does to
be immoral (in some cases). Also, I've said that morality is a remnant
of evolution. Our moral system is based on concepts well practiced in
the animal kingdom.
But, this doesn't get us anywhere. Your particular beliefs are irrelevant
unless you can share them or discuss them... | 8 | trimmed_train |
3,045 |
Local to the Joe Louis Arena? You mean local to Olympia Stadium, where
Red Wings games were played until fairly recently (early 80s comes to
mind). As far as I know, the rest of the post is basically correct. If
what you meant by local was simply Detroit and I'm being incredibly
picky, okay, sorry about that.
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9,724 |
So, how did you guys *learn* this? Is it something you were
born with, or did you make horrible grinding noises the first few
times? (how many times?)
I would think you'd have to have a certain amount of "feel"
for it to begin with. Some people would never get it, and others
(like me) would never have the guts to try it, unless maybe you
were planning to buy a new transmission anyway...
(BTW, I've heard that quite a few truckers and race car
drivers shift this way). | 4 | trimmed_train |
429 | This past winter I found myself spending a ridiculous amout of time in front
of my computer. Since my eyes were going berserk, I decided to shell out
some serious money to upgrade from a 14" to a 17" monitor. I'm running
800x600 at 72 Hz. My eyes are very grateful. However, I find myself using
a smaller font with less eye strain. Has anyone else had this kind of
experience? I thought that small fonts were the culprit but it seems that
flicker was my real problem. Any comments? | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,265 | Getting back to the original question in this thread:
I experienced breathing difficulties a few years ago similar to those
described. In my case, it turned out that I was developing Type I
diabetes. Although I never sought direct confirmation of this from my
doctor, I think that the breathing problem was associated with the
presence of ketones due to the diabetes.
I think that ketosis can occur in lesser degree if one is restricting
their food intake drastically. I don't know if this relevant in this
case, but you might ask your daughter if she has been eating
properly. | 19 | trimmed_train |
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equipment, Covers, and MUCH MORE.
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11,234 | Subject says it all. Do any exist? Are they shareware? Where?
Phil Trodwell | 18 | trimmed_train |
6,234 | # # "labor" is a tough one. Labor is defined, economically, as the efforts,
# # both mental and physical, of humans. Capital is defined as intermediate
# # goods used to create other goods and services. Now, if a slave is considered
# # an intermediate good, then the slave has now been dehumanized and is
# # simply a machine. Not good for the anti-slave (i.e. pro-human rights)
# # argument. So, slaves are humans, and they produce labor.
#
# Sorry. The question of defining slave "labor" is no "tough(er)" than
# defining the "labor" of a horse, an ox, or any other livestock. Both
# legally and economically in a slave-economy, "slaves are (NOT) humans,"
# they are livestock.
Can you provide some evidence that the slave states regarded slaves as
not humans? They were "outside our society" and similar phrases that
basically meant that they didn't have to recognized as having the same
rights as a free person, but they were never considered "not human" to
my knowledge.
# Like a horse that pulls a plow, a slave's "labor" is the return on the
# capital required to purchase and feed him. The parallel is so obvious
# I'm not sure how you missed it. After all, its was the "liberty" to
# use their "property" as they saw fit that motivated Southern planters
# to emphasize the importance of "states' rights."
If that were the case, the slave states would not have passed so many
laws that restricted the freedom of slave owners to do as they wished
with their property. Examples: laws prohibiting manumission without
legislative grant; laws prohibiting teaching slaves to read & write.
# #Craig.
# Steve Hendricks | DOMAIN: [email protected] | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,820 | The XDM on Solaris 2.1 *WAS* broke. Since two weeks, Sun distributes
a patched release, which works fine (supports /etc/shadow and all).
We have it up and running ever since and have not experienced any
problems. Call your local Sun rep.
Dick. | 16 | trimmed_train |
9,883 |
That's an interesting statement. There's quite a difference between
Hollywood's "Old West" and the real one. Yes, there were drunks,
saloons, mining camps, and thugs. However, as McGrath showed, the
thugs preyed almost exclusively on one another. McGrath claims that
this was due to the fact that no one much cared if someone who
insisted on getting into a fight got his way, even if he lost, while
they really did care when thugs preyed on others.
We haven't figured out that those distinctions don't actually work.
Machine guns have been strictly regulated since 1934. Said regulation
is both perfect (legally owned machine guns aren't ever used
criminally) and a complete waste of time (the criminal use of machine
guns hasn't change at all). The result - we're now arguing about
guns that LOOK like machine guns, but are no different than other
guns.
-andy | 9 | trimmed_train |
7,394 |
Mel is alive and well and playing in Japan. (The Yanks let him go because
he was asking for too much money, and because they thought that they were
going to get Barry Bonds, making Hall obsolete. Oopsie! Well, at least
they got O'Neill to replace the Mel-man).
--I'm outta here like Vladimir!
-Alan | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,776 |
Whoah whoah whoah WHOAH!!! What?!?
That last paragraph just about killed me. The Deuterocanonicals have
ALWAYS been accepted as inspired scripture by the Catholic Church,
which has existed much longer than any Protestant Church out there.
It was Martin Luther who began hacking up the bible and deciding to
REMOVE certain books--not the fact that the Catholic Church decided
to add some much later--that is the reason for the difference between
"Catholic" and "Protestant" bibles. | 0 | trimmed_train |
6,471 | I'm told that corn allergy is fairly common. My wife has it and it seems
to be exacerbated if sugar is eaten with the corn.
I suppose that in a person just on the verge of having epilepsy, an
allergic reaction might cause a seizure, but I don't really know.
Gordon?
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530 | I've recently got hold of a PC with an S3 card in it, and I'd like to do some
C programming with it, are there any libraries out there that will let me
access the high resolution modes available via Borland Turbo C? | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,354 | [..]
This statement simply amazes me! "Through no fault of ATF, the element of
surprise was lost"! What element of surprise? In the paragraph preceding this
one, he said "... the special agents announced who they were and their purpose
for being at the compound", which was to serve the federal warrant. No element
of surprise was even needed for that.
No, the element of surprise that they lost was that needed for a preemptive
first strike, without warning.
Read: They need to wait until they see how it comes out before they fabricate
anymore, which could get disproven.
As always, no facts, just my opinions/observations.
Jim
--
[email protected] | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,996 |
Better yet, instead of thrashing around on the DOS file system, take
it a step further. Write yourself a minimal "file system" program that
is used to create/delete files, en/decrypt them to ramdisk, list a
directory. Put the util, password protected, on a floppy.
The catch is that the storage space used by this util is NOT part
of the DOS file system. Instead, defrag your disk, thus packing all
allocated clusters into clusters 0-n. Then use the back end of the
partition to hold your 'stealth' file system. Or, leave a small 2nd
partition on the disk that is not assigned to DOS. Another approach
might be to use a directory that contains a set of invariant files (DOS
system files, for instance). Due to DOS allocating a minimum storage
unit of a "cluster" there is unused physical space on the disk between
the tail end of each file and the end of its associated cluster. These
dead spaces could be concatenated and used to hold your stealth file
system.
Now you have a situation where no encrypted data "appears" on your
disk at all :-). | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,941 |
There is no such thing as "completely secure," especially when dealing
with High Technology. It's all a question of cost: what cost are you
willing to bear to protect your information vs. what rewards the "bad guys"
are going to get if they break it. The rewards of breaking such a single ID
system would be high indeed. | 9 | trimmed_train |
8,434 | My fiance has a pc-junior and wants to upgrade to a full 386. Does anyone
know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine? I heard
it's MCGA or EGA, but not sure which. Also, does it use cards, so we can
use the drive controller, floppy, etc?
Thanks for the help!
-Bryan
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10,391 |
It just goes to show that not all evangelical fundamentalists are pharisitical!
I wear a black leather jacket, like classic rock, but no longer have the long
locks I once had. However, I too rely upon the Bible as a basis for Christian
ethics. | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,098 |
Hmmm... people in the americas before the time of Christ, children who
die young, etc. ?
But of course, the popular conception of hell (correct or incorrect) is
something akin to eternal perpetuation of consciousness, at the very least.
I think a good number of atheists believe there is nothing beyond
bodily death, but it is simply an abuse of language to say they believe
they're going to hell. They believe they're going to _die_. Understand
that you've turned Hell into a verb. Using the same logic, it also follows
that all animals are 'going to Hell.' Are you sure this is what you want
to say? (presumably animals don't have the opportunity to get to heaven,
but this still doesn't change the fact that they're going to Hell (die
a final death))
I don't claim to know whether or not there is an afterlife of _some_
sort, but if Hell is as you described (final death, and
not eternal perpetuation of consciousness) it will be true that
there will never be a moment when I am aware of my non-existence.
(assuming I 'go to Hell' and not to Heaven) In other words, I'll
never know I'm dead. Hmmm...
Ever hear people say of a loved one who was ill, and has died:
"At least she's not suffering any more; She's in Heaven now." ?
Consider the following statement:
"At least she's not suffering any more; She's in Hell now."
The above statement sounds odd, but according to your definition of Hell,
it would be a true statement. The person in Hell would not be suffering.
Granted, they wouldn't be *anything* (wouldn't be having any
conscious experience whatsoever).
You say Hell (death) is eternal. However, this loses its meaning
to a dead person. And to me, it seems that the threat of some sort
of eternal punishment only makes sense/has force if one expects to
be conscious throughout this eternity.
Many atheists believe that the thirst for an afterlife is simply the
product of propaganda ("Friend, do you want the FREE gift of e-ternal life?"
It's my understanding that the early jews did not believe in an afterlife.
Can anyone back me up on this?) combined with the survival instinct all
animals share. The difference is we have consciousness, and once we get the
idea of eternal life drilled into our brains, we then desire a sort of
super-survival.
That would depend on what Heaven is like. If God is a King, and
an eternity in heaven consists of giving thanks and praise to the King,
I might opt for Hell. I read a lovely account of a missionary trying to
convert Eskimos to Christianity in the book _The Illusion of Immortality_
by Corliss Lamont. The missionary started to speak about Heaven.
"Are there seals in heaven? Will we be able to go hunting?" asked an
Eskimo. The missionary said no. The group of Eskimos then said something
to the effect of, "Well what good is your Heaven if there's no hunting?
Scram." I highly recommend the above book (IOI) to anyone who wants an
account of the other side of the immortality coin (that there is no
immortality).
Pax, | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,852 | I have a '71 Buick Skylark with 148K on it. I bought it in California, and if
it'll let me, I'd like to keep it for another year. The only problem is these
Indiana winters--my heater controls don't work.
The car has vacuum operated control switches for the vents. Right now it is
stuck in the "vent" mode. It will blow warm air, but I can't switch the air
flow to either the floor (I can live without this) or the defrost (I can't
live without this). I probably could just jam the air deflector to the
defrost position, but this blows a lot of air in my face and is, well,
kind of like putting a vacuum cleaner in reverse.
I have taken parts of the dash off and looked at the vacuum system and I think
the problem (or part of it) is with the two diaphragms which control up/down
and outside/inside air flow. THe diaphragm which controls outside(vent)/in-
side(no vent) air is cracked most of the way around, and the other one is
probably damaged too, considering the advanced age of the car.
Two questions:
1) Is there anything I should be aware of about this (other than
the fact that I should move from Indiana) ?
2) In the event that replacement diaphragms aren't available, is there
a way to "fix" this?
THanks for any advice/info
selah, | 4 | trimmed_train |
8,930 |
Why not? Ford owns Aston-Martin and Jaguar, General Motors owns Lotus
and Vauxhall. Rover is only owned 20% by Honda.
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5,693 | I have been trying to compile some source code for a mpeg animation viewer for
X Windows. I got the code from a ftp site. I have modified the Makefile as
they instructed, no errors there. What happens is that I get the following
message when everything is going to be linked:
cc util.o video.o parseblock.o motionvector.o decoders.o fs2.o fs2fast.o fs4.o hybrid.o hybriderr.o 2x2.o gdith.o gray.o mono.o main.o jrevdct.o 24bit.o util32.o ordered.o ordered2.o mb_ordered.o /lib/libX11.so /lib/libXext.so -lm -o mpeg_play
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
getnetpath /lib/libX11.so
t_alloc /lib/libX11.so
t_unbind /lib/libX11.so
t_open /lib/libX11.so
t_rcvdis /lib/libX11.so
netdir_free /lib/libX11.so
t_error /lib/libX11.so
netdir_getbyname /lib/libX11.so
getnetconfigent /lib/libX11.so
t_look /lib/libX11.so
t_errno /lib/libX11.so
t_close /lib/libX11.so
netdir_getbyaddr /lib/libX11.so
t_listen /lib/libX11.so
t_rcv /lib/libX11.so
setnetpath /lib/libX11.so
t_bind /lib/libX11.so
t_connect /lib/libX11.so
t_accept /lib/libX11.so
nc_perror /lib/libX11.so
inet_addr /lib/libX11.so
ld: mpeg_play: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to mpeg_play
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
make: fatal error.
Does anyone know where these missing functions are located? If you do can you
help me with it?
I posted before to one of the other Unix groups, I tried their suggestions but
always get this error.
If you have to know: I am using Unix system V. The machines here are 486's. The
terminals I want to use are separate and just called X-terminals and they seem
dedicated to that. I'm not sure as to what they really are, since it is one of
my first times out with this X-windows gidget! That is, first time programming
for it, so to speak. I use them alot just for the graphics things.
If you can help, mail me soon. | 16 | trimmed_train |
4,980 | The traditions of the church hold that all the "apostles" (meaning the 11
surviving disciples, Matthias, Barnabas and Paul) were martyred, except for
John. "Tradition" should be understood to read "early church writings other
than the bible and heteroorthodox scriptures". | 8 | trimmed_train |
1,275 | I am looking out for an inexpensive fax modem card for PC. If you have one to sell, please e-mail
| 5 | trimmed_train |
454 |
Just a question.
As a provider of a public BBS service - aren't you bound by law to gurantee
intelligble access to the data of the users on the BBS, if police comes
with sufficent authorisation ? I guessed this would be a basic condition
for such systems. (I did run a bbs some time ago, but that was in Switzerland)
Friendly greetings,
Germano Caronni | 7 | trimmed_train |
2,958 |
A brain abscess is an infection deep in the brain substance. It is
hard to cure with antibiotics, since it gets walled off, and usually,
it needs surgical drainage.
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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 |
11,012 | Here are the standings after game 1 of each of the divisional semi-finals.
(Hey, look who's #4!) I'll try to post the standings after "each game"
(i.e. every two days).
I managed to recover the email lost up to Saturday night, so all I'm missing
is mail that arrived between early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
Many people re-sent their teams, so you may have received two replies back
from me. If your team name is not on this list, please resend your team
to me and I'll see what I can do. Any kind of "proof" you sent it on the
weekend will help your case. :-) Seriously, this is only a fun pool and
I trust each person to be honest.
Again, sorry for any inconvenience, and I hope the pool is still fun for you.
- Andrew
USENET Hockey Playoff Draft Standings
Posn Team Pts Rem Last Posn
1. Sneddon Scorers 43 25 (--)
2. The Borg 42 25 (--)
Dave Wessels 42 25 (--)
4. Bruce's Rented Mules 41 25 (--)
Great Expectations 41 25 (--)
Hurricane Andrew 41 25 (--)
Jerky Boys 41 24 (--)
Homesick Hawaiian 41 25 (--)
9. give you money monday 40 25 (--)
Einstien's Punk Band 40 25 (--)
11. Zipper Heads 39 25 (--)
Tapio Repo 39 25 (--)
Detroit Homeboy 39 25 (--)
the dead ducks 39 25 (--)
Mike Burger 39 25 (--)
Test Department 39 25 (--)
Team Elvis 39 25 (--)
Craig team 39 25 (--)
19. Skate or Die 38 25 (--)
Debbie Bowles 38 25 (--)
Fuzzfaces Galore 38 25 (--)
suds 38 25 (--)
The Campi Machine 38 25 (--)
zachmans wingers 38 25 (--)
Sean Forbes 38 25 (--)
Threepeat 38 25 (--)
Flamming Senators 38 25 (--)
Team Awesome 38 25 (--)
A.P. BURY 38 25 (--)
PURDUE RICKS PENS 38 25 (--)
GB Flyers 38 25 (--)
Seppo Kemppainen 38 25 (--)
33. Paige Faults 37 25 (--)
weenies 37 25 (--)
chris roney 37 25 (--)
Rednecks from Hockey Hell 37 25 (--)
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Mind Sweepers 37 25 (--)
Teem Kanada 37 25 (--)
Northern Lights 37 25 (--)
Fugazi 37 25 (--)
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Mopar Muscle Men 37 25 (--)
Lance Hill The Boston Bruins Fa 37 25 (--)
garryola 37 25 (--)
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Sam & His Dogs 37 25 (--)
Cluster Buster 37 24 (--)
Jan Stein 37 25 (--)
frank's little wankers 37 25 (--)
Milton Keynes Kings 37 25 (--)
The promise land 37 25 (--)
Rangers Of Destiny 37 25 (--)
54. New Zealand Leafs 36 25 (--)
Loaded Weapons 36 25 (--)
Bloom County All-Stars 36 25 (--)
Robarts Research Rebels 36 25 (--)
Tiger Chung Lees 36 25 (--)
goddess of fermentation 36 25 (--)
make beliefs 36 25 (--)
Rob Del Mundo 36 25 (--)
Heikki Salmi 36 25 (--)
The Underwriters 36 25 (--)
Muller n Walker 36 25 (--)
Controversy Warriors 36 25 (--)
Bjorkloven 36 25 (--)
Norway Killerwhales 36 25 (--)
Holsteins SFB 36 25 (--)
buffalo soldiers 36 25 (--)
Lemon Pepper Grizzly Bears 36 25 (--)
FRACK ATTACK 36 25 (--)
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The ^&#@$#$% Rangers of 1940 36 24 (--)
Rangers Blow 36 25 (--)
75. Dave Hiebert 35 25 (--)
Yan Loke 35 25 (--)
Canadian Gladiators 35 25 (--)
littlest giants 35 25 (--)
Alf's All-Stars 35 25 (--)
The Ice Kickers 35 25 (--)
Beer Makes Me An Expert 35 25 (--)
Force 25 35 25 (--)
Mr Creosote 35 25 (--)
The Goobmeister 35 25 (--)
The Mulberry Maulers 35 25 (--)
Rev's Rebels 35 25 (--)
BOSSE 35 25 (--)
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Kramer George and Jerry 35 25 (--)
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Sludge 35 25 (--)
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Grant Marven 35 25 (--)
Arctic Circles 35 25 (--)
all the kane's men 35 25 (--)
trevor's triumph 35 25 (--)
Mark And Steve Dreaming Again 35 25 (--)
Goaldingers 35 25 (--)
Bjoern Leaguen 35 25 (--)
Habs Playing Golf 35 25 (--)
102. Shigella 34 25 (--)
New Jersey Rob 34 25 (--)
Steves Superstars 34 25 (--)
Big Bay Bombers 34 25 (--)
Doug Bowles 34 25 (--)
Neural Netters 34 25 (--)
LIPPE 34 25 (--)
Lets Go Pandas 34 25 (--)
Les Raisins 34 25 (--)
Daves knee jerk picks 34 25 (--)
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RENEB 34 25 (--)
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IceMachine 34 25 (--)
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On Thin Ice 34 25 (--)
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Comfortably Numb 33 25 (--)
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gee man 33 25 (--)
But Wait Theres more 33 25 (--)
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triple X 33 25 (--)
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Commitments 32 25 (--)
bure's blur 32 25 (--)
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weasels 32 25 (--)
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Whiters 32 25 (--)
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Oz 32 25 (--)
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Mann Mariners 32 24 (--)
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La Coupe Stainless 32 25 (--)
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Arm & Hammer 31 25 (--)
Legzryx 31 25 (--)
Chapman Chaps 31 25 (--)
Dean Martin 31 25 (--)
Cherry Bombers 31 25 (--)
173. Sluggo's Hosers 30 25 (--)
Anson Mak 30 25 (--)
Knights on a Power Play 30 25 (--)
176. Canuck Force 29 25 (--)
butt ends 29 25 (--)
beam team 29 25 (--)
JUKURIT 29 25 (--)
Chapman Sticks 29 25 (--)
Ken De Cruyenaere 29 25 (--)
gax goons 29 25 (--)
Tampere Salami 29 25 (--)
Sparky's Select 29 25 (--)
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Eldoret Elephants 28 25 (--)
Jane's World 28 25 (--)
the ALarmers 28 25 (--)
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Chip n Dale 27 25 (--)
Brian Bergman 27 25 (--)
192. Killer Kings 26 25 (--)
Montys Nords 26 25 (--)
194. Arsenal Maple Leafs 25 18 (--)
Martin's Gag 25 25 (--)
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HP IDACOM Telecom Operation | (403) 462-0666 ext. 253 | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,191 | I have a problem with intersections between two surfaces.
Does anybody have a easy to understand algorithm for that or maybe
even C source??
| 1 | trimmed_train |
3,887 | Hello everybody,
I am searching for (business) information of Windows application, to create a
TOP-30 of most used WordProcessors, Spreadsheets, Drawing programs, Schedulers
and Fax programs, etc..
Please mail me all your information or references. I will summaries the
results on this media.
Thank you in advance,
Anton de Ruiter. | 18 | trimmed_train |
2,334 |
If you need just to change the wallpaper, then I've written a short
program in VB that does this by using SystemParametersInfo-function.
The bad news is that you need VBRUN200.DLL to run it, and the DLL is
some 350kb (the program is about 7kb). The order of pictures depends
on the system date and the number of BMP-files in the directory, so
the picture remains the same if you execute the program multiple times
during the same day and the number of BMPs has not changed.
If you feel this is what you need then I could uuencode it and email
it to you. (It is unavailable via ftp.)
| 18 | trimmed_train |
3,778 |
Had an '83 Alliance for a long time. It was a comfortable but sluggish
car. I got very used to the horn on the stalk, after a couple months worth
of getting used to it. After I bought my next car, a Chevy, it took me
for-EVER to get used to the horn on the steering wheel again!
jim grey
[email protected] | 4 | trimmed_train |
10,740 | good job to whoever posted the article. I'd
been saving that NYTimes edition for a while, planning to ytpe it
in myself, but now I don't have to.
For all of those people who were worried about whether or not
the media would even question the raid, we owe it to the
NY Times (despite their rabidly anti-gun editorials) for
being willing to talk to these 4 BATF agents. | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,819 |
So I should be very comfortable that 500,000,000 people want to convert me to
Islam. Or, to convert me to ANYTHING.
There are many types of violence, physical murder is only one.
'Trying' to convert is an insult. It's like trying to tell me that me and/or
my God/my lack of God are just crap, that I need a new, 'converted' one.
This does not apply for muslims only, of course. Same for jews and for some
friendly, nicely dressed neighbours who show on sunday with empty speaches
and cheap booklets about some church ....
And when the objective is (I think, however that you are wrong) to convert
everybody, it's just a matter of time when violence will occur.
Aren't we able to learn anything from thouthands of years of 'conversion related
violence' ?
Why not let 'the other, more inferiour' people live as they wish and take care
your business?. You do assume that they are inferiour (or their beliefs are)
as long as you want to change their thinking.
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9,193 |
[Note: I just tried to figure this stuff out about a month ago myself, from
various people on the net, so I could be wrong.]
The data is only ever read once (barring mistracks and such, of course),
and eventually gets turned into 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, two channel data.
Oversampling takes two discrete data points, and interpolates n-1 points
between them for n times oversampling. When I asked, people said that the
interpolation was not simply linear interpolation, but significantly more
complicated.
Anyway, then, the purpose of oversampling is to move the "effective"
sampling rate up to n times 44.1 KHz, in order to use higher frequency
antialiasing filters. For the same quality filter, higher oversampling
lets you build cheaper filters, whereas for the same price filter, higher
oversamplings lets you build better filters. So, assuming the quality of
all other components in a CD player remained the same, oversampling should
allow a manufacturer to produce _slightly_ better sound due to anti-alias
filtering. | 11 | trimmed_train |
4,702 | [email protected] (Not a Boomer) writes...
First, people should be aware that Brett's (no last name listed)
posts on bit.listserv.politics indicate that he has been
hostile toward GM's hiring policies and to the Moseley verdict
when it came out. Equal opportunity disagreement, I guess. :-)
My guess, without seeing the judge's opinion, is that GM's motion
was denied on due diligence grounds. Otherwise, a party to a
case could always keep one or two semi-credible witnesses in
reserve to spring if they lose. Not exactly a way to promote
repose.
Daniel Reitman | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,056 |
In NY City, the number to dial is 958... It seems to be different in different
areas. | 11 | trimmed_train |
8,748 | 9 | trimmed_train |
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10,320 |
I don't claim to be an expert on the branch Davidians, but I might know more
than most.
The Branch Davidian group (led by Koresh) is actually one of two off-shoots
of a group known as the Shephard's Rod. The Shephard's Rod (now
defunct as far as I know)broke off from the SDA Church in the 30's.
The Shephard's Rod broke away from the SDA Church because they felt that the
SDA Church was becoming weak and falling into apostacy. They felt that they
were the remnant spoken about in Revelation.
About the Koresh group, Koresh gained control of it in 1987 or 1988. Once
in control, he made himself the center of it. He proclaimed himself as
Christ.
Koresh himself came from an SDA background. He was excommunicated as a young
adult by the local congregation for trying to exert too much control over
the youth in the church. After this, he joined the Branch Davidians.
They were/are a survivalist cult. This is why they had the stockpile of
weapons, food, a bomb shelter, etc. They had no intent of raiding the US
government or anything. They were preparing for Armaggedon and were
putting themselves in a self defense position.
In my opinion, if the ATF and the FBI had left well enough alone, we wouldn'
t have the blood of 20+ children crying out from the ashes in Waco.
If you want to know about The Shephard's Rod, you might want to visit the
local SDA church and talk to some of the older people. They could give you
some insight into where Koresh got his theology. | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,997 | This is fascinating. Atheists argue for abortion, defend homosexuality
as a means of population control, insist that the only values are
biological and condemn war and capital punishment. According to
Benedikt, if something is contardictory, it cannot exist, which in
this case means atheists I suppose.
I would like to understand how an atheist can object to war (an
excellent means of controlling population growth), or to capital
punishment, I'm sorry but the logic escapes me.
And why just capital punishment, what is being questioned here, the
propriety of killing or of punishment? What is the basis of the
ecomplaint? | 8 | trimmed_train |
10,403 |
All right. Not saying I know any more than the average salesguy, I'll give
your question a shot.
The key issue that I bought my BJ-200 on was ink drying speed. You really
have to try awful hard to get the BJ-200 ink to smear. The HP DeskJets need
10-15 seconds to completely dry. In both cases, however, do not get your
pages wet. Unlike laser printers, the material on your pages is INK, not
toner. But that should go without saying.
My PC has very little memory (only 2Meg RAM), so the BJ-200 takes a little
while to print ----- but every application I use takes a while to run. Once
the computer is solely printing, it purs like a kitten and puts pages out
every 15-30 seconds, depending on how detailed your graphics are.
The BJ-200 can do Windows soft fonts. I'm assuming that the DeskJet can, or
HP wouldn't sell many......
Size is another factor. The BJ-200 is much smaller, but the HP is built
like a tank. I bet the BJ-200 would get damaged first.
Finally, the print quality. I LOVE the BJ-200's resolution. It looks like
a good laser quality print. The HP's I've used.....they look like ink. Not
as impressive. | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,386 |
In fairness, we should note that if you look up "speculum" in the
dictionary (which I did when this question first surfaced), the first
definition is "a mirror or polished metal plate used as a reflector in
optical instruments."
Which doesn't mean the name fits in this context, but it's not as far
off as you might think. | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,116 |
As usual, David Sternlight is demonstrating his inability to read. The
proposal clearly states:
=> The initiative will involve the creation of new products to
=> accelerate the development and use of advanced and secure
=> telecommunications networks and wireless communications links.
It speaks about telecommunications in general. Read it again, David.
Maybe you'll understand it the next time... Nah, probably not.
That's exactly what the government wants all sheep-minded people to
think. Let's look at the current situation. It allows to almost
anybody to eavesdrop almost everybody, unless secure (and I mean
secure) encryption is used. What will happen when ("if"? Ha!
optimists...) the new proposal gets accepted? Almost nobody EXCEPT
SOME will be able to eavesdrop everybody else, but the ability of
these "some" to eavesdrop will be guaranteed! The proposal emphasizes
on the former ("almost nobody") - which is clearly an improvement -
and "forgets" to mention the drawbacks of the latter ("guaranteed").
Yes, my statement assumes that the next step will be to make the
strong crypto unlawful. You think that it will not happen? Good luck.
It's not just "continued ability". It's -guaranteed- ability.
Yeah, that's exactly what your government wants you to think. Let's
take small steps, one at a time. Concentrate on the current one, don't
think about the future. Trust us.
It's not asked because the proposal clearly says that this is the
intention. They, unlike you, read what they write.
Yes, it will. It will stop the jerk who is eavesdropping now. It will
allow only to the government to eavesdrop. (If the scheme is secure,
of course, which is yet to be proven.) But how do you know that the
jerk you are fearing now will not get a government job tomorrow? The
new proposal -guarantees- him the ability to eavesdrop then. Hell,
that will even motivate him to get that job - if he indeed is that
mentally pervert...
Great. The Greatest Cryptographer of All Times David Sternlight (tm)
has succeeded to evaluate the new system in the absense of any
details whatsoever and has concluded that it is "highly secure". I
guess, that comes from the background of working some 50 years for the
two major crypto evaluating companies, right? Gee, now the government
can save all that money and trouble to ask a secret council of crypto
experts to secretly analyse the new secret method - for David
Sternlight has already done all the job for them...
"Trust us, we're from the Government and we're here to help you."
"Those who are prepared to trade their liberties for the promises of
future safety, do not deserve either." This (or something like that; I
don't have the exact quote, but the meaning is the same) has been said
by one of your great men. Maybe you should study their works more
carefully, if you have the brains to understand them, of course.
The main question is to guarantee to availability of -really- secure
cryptography to the masses. Gee, if the proposal was saying "we
guarantee that every American will still have the full right to use
any kind of encryption s/he would like and regard this proposal as
just a default, voluntary implementation", there would have been much
less opposition... For some reason, they didn't even try to promise
you that. I wonder why... Was Orwell off only by 10 years?
No, in return you get crypto that is guaranteed to be crippled.
While the above is just rumors, and while even if it is true, it is
not done -easily-, the new scheme can is guaranteed to be easily
breakable by anybody who has the two keys. It might be also breakable
by somebody who does not have them but knows the right trick. Or who
has only one of them. NSA also told you that DES is secure, why don't
you simply trust them, huh?
It is -guaranteed- to be -easily- breakable - just get the keys. It
might be even easier, but until there is some evidence, this is just a
wild speculation.
The trapdoors -are- there. In government's hands. The keys.
Legitimate? And who decides what communications are legitimate? Oh, I
guess, it's the government, right? The guys who already have the keys?
It's kinda if I have the keys from your car and I am asked to decide
who has the right to use it "legitimately"...
Impossible, since you are demonstrating the same level of incompetence
and ignorance as in the provious threads.
Unfortunately, I have yet to see you posting a technically competent
message.
Regards,
Vesselin | 7 | trimmed_train |
7,328 | For those of you with motorcycles of the liquid-cooled persuasion,
what brand of coolant do you use and why? I am looking for aluminum-safe
coolant, preferably phosphate-free, and preferably cheaper than $13/gallon.
(Can you believe it: the Kaw dealer wants $4.95 a QUART for the Official
Blessed Holy Kawasaki Coolant!!! No way I'm paying that usury...)
Thanks, | 12 | trimmed_train |
4,101 | Mr. Freeman:
Please find something more constructive to do with your time rather
than engaging in fantasy..... Not that I have a particular affinty
to Arafat or anything.
John
| 6 | trimmed_train |
9,100 |
There has been NO hard info provided about MSG making people ill.
That's the point, after all.
That's because these "peer-reviewed" studies are not addressing
the effects of MSG in people, they're looking at animal models.
You can't walk away from this and start ranting about gloom and
doom as if there were any documented deleterious health effects
demonstrated in humans. Note that I wouldn't have any argument
with a statement like "noting that animal administration has pro-
duced the following [blah, blah], we must be careful about its
use in humans." This is precisely NOT what you said.
It most certainly is for neurotoxicology. You know, studies of
glutamate involve more than "food science".
So, point us to the studies in humans, please. I'm familiar with
the literature, and I've never seen any which relate at all to
Olney's work in animals and the effects of glutamate on neurons.
Well, actually, they HAVE to tolerate some phenylalanine; it's a
essential amino acid. They just try to get as little as is healthy
without producing dangerous levels of phenylalanine and its metabolites
in the blood.
Goodness, I'm not saying that it's good to feed infants a lot of
glutamate-supplemented foods. It's just that this "projected safety
margin" is a construct derived from animal models and given that,
you can "prove" anything you like. We're talking prudent policy in
infant nutrition here, yet you're misrepresenting it as received wisdom.
You mean "asserting". You're being intellectually dishonest (or just
plain confused), because you're conflating reports which do not necessarily
have anything to do with each other. Olney's reports would argue a potential
for problems in human infants, but that's not to say that this says anything
whatsoever about the use of MSG in most foods, nor does he provide any
studies in humans which indicate any deleterious effects (for obvious
reasons.) It says nothing about MSG's contribtion to the phenomenon
of the "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome". It says nothing about the frequent
inability to replicate anecdotal reports of MSG sensitivity in the lab.
Probably one of the dumber remarks you've made.
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7,279 | I think you are too optimistic! PostScript is a very big language and
so the fig format can not be able to be an interpreter of ANY arbitrary
ps code. The only program I know to manipulate PostScript files is
IslandDraw.
I for myself use xfig and include the PostScript files (converted to
epsi format). Small changes then are possible (erasing some letters,
adding text and so on).
Reinhard
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10,137 |
If the first rule of humor is never having to say you're sorry then the
second rule must be never having to explain yourself. Few things are
worse that a joke explained. In spite of this, and because of requests
for me to post my list o' nicknames, I must admit that no such list
exists. It was simply a plot device, along with me being the keeper
o' the list, to make the obvious play on the last name of Fuller and to
advance the idea that such a list should be made.
I assumed that the ol' timers would recognize it for what it is.
Nevertheless, how about a list o' nicknames for alt.atheism posters?
If you think of a good one, just post it and see if others like it.
We could start with those posters who annoy us the most, like Bobby or
Bill.
Jim "D'oh! I broke the second rule of humor" Copeland | 8 | trimmed_train |
1,557 |
(Reasoning pertinent to believing Xians deleted for space)
It strikes me, for no apparent reason, that this is reversible.
I.e., if I had proof that there existed a hell, in which I would be
eternally punished for not believing in life, would that make me a Xian?
(pardon my language) _Bloody_hell_no_!
...Of course, being merely a reversal of your thinking, this
doesn't add anything _new_ to the debate, but...
A point very well taken, IMNSHO.
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3,861 | :
[ . . . . . ]
:
: Personally, I feel that since religion have such a poweful
: psychological effect, we should let theists be. But the problem is that
: religions cause enormous harm to non-believers and to humanity as a whole
: (holy wars, inquisitions, inter-religious hatred, impedence of science
: & intellectual progress, us-&-them attitudes etc etc. Need I say more?).
: I really don't know what we can do about them. Any comments?
:
I have always held that there should be no attempt to change a persons
attitude or lifestyle as long as it makes them happy and does not tax
anybody else. This seems to be ok for atheists. You don't get an atheist
knocking on your door, stopping you in the airport, or handing out
literature at a social event. Theists seem to think that thier form of
happy should work for others and try to make it so.
My sister is a
born again, and she was a real thorn in the side for my entire family
for several years. She finally got the clue that she couldn't help.
During that period she bought me "I was atheist, now I'm Xtian" books
for my birthday and Xmas several times. Our birthday cards would contain
verses. It was a problem. I told my mom that I was going to send my
sister an atheist piece of reading material. I got a "Don't you dare".
My mom wasn't religious. Why did she insist that I not send it ??
Because our society has driven into us that religion is ok to
preach, non-religion should be self contained. What a crock of shit.
I finally told my sister that I didn't find her way of life attractive.
I have seen exactly 0 effort from her on trying to convert me since then.
I'm sick of religious types being pampered, looked out for, and WORST
OF ALL . . . . respected more than atheists. There must be an end
in sight. | 8 | trimmed_train |
2,479 | ^^^
what the hell is 'ios'?
Fix your own typos before you blame others....
| 5 | trimmed_train |
5,725 |
[FAQ and Darius' response deleted]
I am myself an SDA and I am in total agreement with what Darius has to say.
I also worship on Saturday to honor the Lord. Your mention of "[esteeming]
all days alike" IMO has to do with the fast days observed by the Jews. But
no matter how you interpret that passage, I do accept your worship on Sunday
as being done in honor of the Lord, in contrast with what many of my fellow
SDA believers may believe. To me, though, the bible overwhelmingly points
to Saturday as the day to be kept in honor of creation and of God's
deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. To those who would
attempt to point out that my observance of Saturday is being legalistic,
this is simply not the case. Rather, keeping Saturday allows me a full day
to rest and contemplate God's goodness and grace.
The idea was introduced to me once that the reason Paul wanted the
Corinthians to lay aside money for the collection on the first day of the
week was because that was when they received their weekly wages. Paul
wanted them to lay aside money for the collection as first priority, before
spending their money on other things. I do not have any proof in front of
me for this though, although it would explain why they would lay aside money
in their homes instead of a meeting.
It would seem to me that you assume that the christians in the NT regularly
worshipped on the first day. I assume that the christians in the NT
regularly worshipped on the seventh day. But I agree with you that we only
have implications because the authors did assume the reader knew when worhip
was. | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,012 | I hope you're not going to flame him. Please give him the same coutesy you'
ve given me. | 8 | trimmed_train |
8,856 |
I just implemented this and it seems I can just about achieve the display
rates (20 400x400x8 frames / sec on IPX) that I get with Sunview, though
it's a bit "choppy" at times. Also, loading the data, making an XImage,
then XPut'ing it into a pixmap is a bit cumbersome, so the animation is
slower to load than with Sunview. Is there a better way to load in the
data?
Shared memory PutImage (also mentioned by [email protected],
Nick Kisseberth) looks interesting, but I need someone to point me to some
documentation. Is this method likely to give better results than server-
resident pixmaps? I'd also be interested in looking at the XView code
mentioned above...
Thanks for the help so far. If I get something decent put together, I'll
definitely post it to the Net.
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8,839 |
The Yammie Deltabox and the Hawk frame are conceptually similar
but Yammie has a TM on the name. The Hawk is a purer 'twin spar'
frame design: investment castings at steering head and swing arm
tied together with aluminum extruded beams. The Yammie solution is
a bit more complex. | 12 | trimmed_train |
10,478 |
As usual, you are missing the whole point, Russell, because you are not
willing to even consider questionning your basic article of faith, which
is that science is merely a matter of methodology and that the highest
purpose of science is to avoid making mistakes.
This is like saying that the most important aspect of business management
is accurate bookkeeping.
If science were no more than methodology and not making mistakes, it
would be a poor thing indeed. What was the methodology of Darwin? What
was the methodology of Einstein? What was, for that matter, the
methodology of Jenner and Pasteur?
First of all, I think you are arguing against a straw man, because I
don't think that anyone here is arguing that quackery, pseudo-science,
homeopathy, chiropracty, and traditional Chinese medicine should be
accepted as science. I, in particular, think the basic ideas of
homeopathy and chiropracty seem extremely flaky.
What some of us do believe, however, is that some of these things
(including some of the flaky ideas) are deserving of serious scientific
attention.
If in fact it were true, as you have stated above, that those who do not
use the currently fashionable methodology can have no idea what is
effective and what is not, then science today would not exist. For all
of current science is based on the past work of scientists whose
methodology, by current standards, was seriously flawed.
It is certainly true that as methodology improves, we need to re-examine
those results derived in the past using less perfect methodologies. It is
also true that the results obtained by people today who still rely on
those early methodologies needs to be re-examined in a more rigorous
fashion by those qualified to do so credibly.
But to say that nobody who fails to do elaborate double-blind studies is
capable of knowing their ass from a hole in the ground and to say that no
ideas that come from outside the scientific establishment could possibly
be worthy of serious investigation ... this truly marks one's attitude as
doctrinaire, cultist. This attitude is not compatible with a belief in
reason.
--
In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems
less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,906 |
The Pens are now being broadcast on 102.5 WDVE. | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,896 |
Their should be no difference in the drive itself between IBM-PC and Mac.
The two main differences are the formatting of the disk itself (but with
the correct software each can read the others) and maybe the cable
(depends on your SCSI board on IBM-PC).
If you get some Mac softawre to allow mounting of ANY IBM-formatted disk
and the correct cable you should br able to mount and read your IBM-PC
syquest.
good luck,
--Paul
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1,028 |
Your speculation that the two proven veterans will produce better
than Lopez is also no more than speculation. It *does* make
a difference whether the speculation is well-founded or not.
Though this is a good point. The one speculation is "safer",
because it can be reversed. | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,233 | : I was posting to Alt.locksmithing about the best methods for securing
: a motorcycle. I got several responses referring to the Cobra Lock
: (described below). Has anyone come across a store carrying this lock
: in the Chicago area?
:
: Any other feedback from someone who has used this?
What about the new Yamaha "Cyclelok" ?
From the photo in Motorcyclist, it looks the same hardened steel as a
Kryptonite U lock, except it folds in five places.
It seems to extend out far enough to lock the rear tire to the tube of
a parking sign or similar.
Anyone had any experience with them, how easy is it to attack the lock
at the jointed sections ? | 12 | trimmed_train |
10,639 | 12 | trimmed_train |
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7,053 |
I wholeheartedly agree. Knowing that WE have let our law enforcement agencies
seize our property against the Fifth Amendment of OUR Constitution tells me that
we are absolving ourselves of our responsibility for SELF-GOVERNANCE. WE have
to take our government back from the self-serving politicians who create laws
and rules only to better their positions within the government. WE have allowed
them to take too much power from the people of this nation. That situation has
to be changed.
Allowing the law enforcement agencies to use the seized property to pay-off drug
informants who lie and continue to deal in drugs is tantamount to making a pact
with the Devil himself. It's a vicious cycle. The law enforcement agencies are
motivated to seize property to fund their own activities. And having no easy
way for the citizen to regain the property intact once taken gives even more
incentive for the agencies to take property.
It's also interesting to note that two months ago Rush Limbaugh said that
Clinton would have the "plumbers" out in force shortly. Clinton and his
henchmen firmly believe in strong ubiquitous government control. Anytime a
leader believes in that, the leader will use every means possible to retain that
control and take more.
WE have to take OUR government back. Otherwise we will end up living in the
equivalent of a high-tech third world dictatorship. We have to take
responsibility for ourselves, our personal welfare, and our actions. | 7 | trimmed_train |
7,080 | They don't have a conflict because technically LPT1: does not use
IRQ7!.
The Parallel printer processor (the actual number escapes
me) contains a printer control register which enables the chip
to transmit an interrupt to the interrupt controller as IRQ7,
then onto the main processor as Int 0x0F. By default the parallel
printer processor does not enable it's interrupt line therefore
no Int 0x0F's will be sourced from the printer controller chip,
thus enabling other devices to use the actual IRQ7.
Note, this applies to COM ports also which by default do not
route interrupts to the system bus, although COM's software
usually enable this feature as it make monitoring COM port
activity easier than polling the serial UART, thus probably
getting the sound card slighty confused!. | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,917 |
Steve,
If the Israelis are stupid enough to "allow" a second "Palestinian"
state (the first one is Jordon), then you will probably get your
wish - and the Israelis would get what's coming to them.
However, if the "Palestinians" were to somehow demonstrate that
they could govern themselves AND live in peace with their
Jewish neighbors, then they would have to give up the idea of
Jerusalem as a part of their state - and you would be disappointed.
Yashir Koach to this. | 6 | trimmed_train |
8,243 | --Minnesota definitely deserves an NHL franchise!!! You'll see the
Minnesota Whalers pretty soon, so fear not Minnesota fans. No Norm Green,
'cept for the team color (sorry, bad pun!)
--What a difference two years makes! Minnesota finished 29-37-14 in 1992
and made the finals. They finish with a better record at 38-38-10 thi year
and move to Dallas. Every team in the playoffs has a winning record!!!
Finally!!! It's about time, NHL!!! | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,988 | OK, I'll join in the fun and give my playoff predictions:
1st round:
----------
PITT vs NYI: PITT in 4.
WASH vs NJD: WASH in 6.
BOS vs BUF: BOS in 5.
QUE vs MON: MON in 7.
CHI vs STL: CHI in 4.
DET vs TOR: DET in 6.
VAN vs WIN: WIN in 6.
CAL vs LA: CAL in 5.
2nd round:
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PITT vs WASH: PITT in 4.
BOS vs MON: BOS in 6.
CHI vs DET: CHI in 7.
WIN vs CAL: CAL in 5.
3rd round:
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PITT vs BOS: PITT in 5.
CHI vs CAL: CHI in 5.
Finals:
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PITT vs CHI: PITT in 5.
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2,859 | The FLYERS blew a 3-0 lead over the Buffalo Sabres in the second period, but
Kevin Dineen's 7th career hat trick powered them to their 7th consecutive win,
7-4 over the Sabres who have now lost 7 in a row. Alexander Mogilny led the
comeback scoring his 75th and 76th goals of the season which tied the game at
3 in the 2nd period and 4 in the 3rd. Tommy Soderstrom stopped 41 of 45 shots
on goal to improve his own record to 20-17-6 as he was tested by Mogilny and
LaFontaine all night.
Roster move:
Andre Faust was once again recalled from Hershey, Shawn Cronin was a healthy
scratch.
Lines:
Eklund-Lindros-Recchi
Beranek-Brind'Amour-Dineen
Lomakin-Butsayev-Conroy
Faust-Acton-Brown
Galley-Bowen
Yushkevich-Hawgood
Carkner-McGill
Tommy Soderstrom
Game Summary:
Say, if anybody from Buffalo is reading this, where did you people get that
woman who sang the anthems? We had to turn down the volume!
The FLYERS defense started out the game showing everybody why the FLYERS have
been shutting teams out lately by holding the Sabres to only 8 shots in the
first period. They then showed everybody why they will be playing golf Sunday
when they gave up 37 shots in the last two periods. Maybe Tommy told them that
he was getting bored back there...
Mark Recchi opened the scoring so fast that if you blinked you missed it. After
Buffalo won the faceoff and dumped, Tommy wrapped the puck around the boards
to Eric 1/2 way up on his left. Eric dropped it to Galley, and he sent it ahead
to Recchi steaming out of the zone. Mark skated into the center circle, passed
the puck to himself through the legs of Richard Smehlik, skated around him and
in on Fuhr. Smehlik was pulling at him all the way through the zone with his
stick, Recchi drifted right, drifted back left, and slid the puck back to the
right past Fuhr for a 1-0 FLYERS lead at 0:18. It was so beautiful Eric and
Garry should turn down their assists :-).
The FLYERS kept the pressure on Fuhr for a while after that, but he was strong
and kept the FLYERS from doing further damage. The game then became a defensive
struggle for a while. The Sabres got the first chance on the power play when
Terry Carkner took a boarding minor at 10:26 for crunching Dale Hawerchuk into
the boards in the FLYERS zone. LaFontaine got the only scoring chance, and not
a terribly good one, as the FLYERS smothered the Sabres power play. Mogilny got
a post after it was over. The 25th consecutive penalty kill for the FLYERS.
Keith Carney took a holding penalty at 13:31 for taking down Mark Recchi to
give the FLYERS a power play. The best penalty killing team in the league
didn't allow the FLYERS a shot on goal, although the FLYERS did create a
good scoring chance for Lindros who partially fanned on his shot. Towards
the end of the period the play started going end to end, but everybody kept
missing the net. Greg Hawgood took an interference penalty at 18:19 to give
the Sabres another power play, but they couldn't get anything going and the
fans expressed their displeasure, particularly when they iced the puck. Shots
were 8-6 Buffalo after the FLYERS had led 6-2 at one point.
Mike Emrick interviewed FLYERS president Jay Snider between periods. Jay was
disappointed to not make the playoffs, but not discouraged. This was considered
a rebuilding year after *The Trade* and he seemed very happy with the way the
season went. When asked if he agonized over *The Trade* he said that it was
Russ Farwell's trade and not his, that it only was an issue for him and Ed
Snider as far as the money. But yes, there was some agonizing, and they'd do
it all over again. When asked how the coaching situation would be handled for
next year he said that it's Russ' call, and Russ will evaluate things at the
end of the season. He feels that they're 3 years away from a shot at the Cup.
He expects to get into the playoffs next year, have a shot at a division title
the following year, and a shot at the finals the year after that. This based
on the current level of play and anticipated improvements over the summer.
He's very happy with the re-alignment (he called it "outstanding"). Happy with
the current expansion, feels that the talent pool is big enough with the unflux
of Europeans, but feels that they must make sure existing franchises are stable.
Seemed to like the idea of playing in the Olympics (booo) but said that there
was a definite split among owners and that this certainly would only happen in
four years if there was a consensus.
The Sabres gave the FLYERS their second power play of the game when Brad May
took a tripping penalty at 0:51 of the second. The FLYERS had a little trouble
getting started, but eventually did. Hawgood took a pass as he was moving
throug the neutral zone and handed the puck to Eklund just outside the Sabres
blue line along the right boards. Eklund carried into the zone nad passed
across to Dineen who tried a one timer from between the blue line and the
top of the left circle. He half fanned on it, and sent the puck trickling
through the slot. Fuhr didn't know where it was, though, and Hawgood won the
race to it and flipped it into essentially an open net at 2:15.
Then Mogilny on a breakaway. He slipped through two FLYERS at the blue line
and went in on Soderstrom. He went with the backhander, but Soderstrom was
all over it.
The FLYERS then took some bad discipline type penalties that really hurt them.
Viacheslav Butsayev took a double minor for roughing and high sticking when
Barnaby got under his skin and drew one minor, then according to Gary Dornhoefer
took a dive to get the other (there was no video) at 4:22. The Sabres coudln't
get started. Ryan McGill poked at the puck just after a Sabre carried into the
FLYERS zone, and after a bunch of people poked at it Dineen emerged with it and
headed the other way. It started out a 1 on 1, but Brind'Amour hustled ahead to
make it a 2 on 1 and back off the defenseman. Dineen let it rip from the top
of the right circle to make it 3-0 FLYERS at 5:40. That was all for Fuhr, John
Muckler sent in Dominik Hasek to take over.
But the Sabres still had lots of power play time. Again they took some time to
just get into the FLYERS zone, and when they finally did the FLYERS were all
over them. Boos began to ring through the building. But they finally got through
Soderstrom on an ugly goal. Smehlik took a shot from the top of the zone that
missed and kicked out to Hawerchuk in the slot. Hawerchuk tried a backhander as
he skated towards the goal line to the right as Galley dove down to block it.
Mistake #1, he should have let Soderstrom handle the backhander and worried
about A) the rebound or B) Barnaby who was camped behind the goal line right
next to the net. Well, the rebound dropped right next to Soderstrom, and
mistake #2, Galley just laid there and watched Barnaby get THREE hacks at the
puck before he finally pushed it through the goalie. He didn't even swing his
stick out to try and knock the puck away. With the goal, at 7:48, two streaks
end for the FLYERS. 150:28 of shutout hockey, and 27 straight penalty kills.
Lindros put them right back on the power play at 8:36 with a high sticking
minor, I think it was Barnaby again. This time the Sabres were able to get
set up quickly, but couldn't get too much quality on goal. The Sabres continued
to keep the puck in the FLYERS end for a while after the power play ended.
Things evetually settled down, but then the other very bad penalty. McGill
allowed Barnaby to get under his skin and slashed his stick just before a
faceoff. The gloves were dropped, and McGill started pounding the crap out of
him. But during the fight, he gave Barnaby a head butt with his helmet, and
that meant a match penalty. 2 for slashing, 5 fighting and 5 for the major,
7 minutes of power play time for the Sabres at 14:15, Barnaby only got 5.
The FLYERS were keeping them at bay for a while, but there was only so long
they could do that. After a couple of good Sabre chances, Audette handed to
Ledyard at the point, and Ledyard sent a drive that was knocked down by
Soderstrom. LaFontaine whacked at the bouncing puck from the left side of
the net, and knocked it over to Randy Wood at the right. Soderstrom had
moved over to play LaFontaine, and since Yushkevich and Carkner were waving
at the puck instead of picking up men, Wood just slid it into the empty net
at 17:34 to close the FLYERS lead to 3-2. LaFontaine was actually trying to
put it on net, but half fanned on it and got a break.
The FLYERS then got some shorthanded pressure in the Sabres zone, but Hasek
was strong. Finally it was Keith Carney passing ahead to Hawerchuk into the
neutral zone, and Hawerchuk sent a good backhand pass to Mogilny at the FLYERS
blue line. Another mini-breakaway for Mogilny, he elected to shoot from the
left circle, and he threaded the needle to get it just inside the far post at
18:56 for his 75th of the season. Ironically, the youth hockey tip between
the 1st and second period was Tommy Soderstrom talking about cutting off
angles...
That was all in the 2nd, shots were 19-7 Sabres.
Into the 3rd period, and Pelle EKlund blew a golden opportunity to get the
FLYERS the lead back. A 2 on 1, Acton with the puck, he dropped to Eklund in
the slot, and Eklund held the puck as he slid through the left circle until
he had almost no angle at all to shoot from. When he finally did shoot, he
hit the far post. That was still during the carryover power play time.
Than an incredible almost goal. Randy Wood skated around Recchi and Hawgood
untouched into Soderstrom. Soderstrom goes down, Wood pokes the puck under
Soderstrom, and a black object hits the back of the net. Red light comes on,
horn sounds, crowd cheers. But up to the video replay booth, for some strange
reason, and in the meantime Emrick and Dornhoefer try to figure out what they
could be reviewing. Well, it turns out that it was the taped up stick blade
that went into the net, not the puck. Emrick mentions that one of the criteria
for scoring a goal is that the puck must go into the net...
Dave Hannan then took out Recchi and got a holding minor at 2:35. The FLYERS
could not get anything going at all. They finally got set up 1/2 way through,
but were kept on the perimeter. As time ran out, Beranek stripped the puck
from a Sabre in the offensive zone along the right boards and passed it across
to Eklund at the top of the left circle. Eklund saw Dineen heading at the net
just inside the right circle and passed through to him. Dineen fumbled the pass,
but twice directed it at Hasek, and Eklund swooped in and chipped the bouncing
puck over the goalie for his 11th at 4:42. 4-3 FLYERS.
But the Sabres came right back. LaFontaine picked up the puck in his offensive
left corner and slid it to Bob Erry behind the FLYERS net. Erry started to skate
out, but then just dropped the puck back to nobody behind the net. Mogilny flew
in, skated around, and stuffed it through Soderstrom's 5 hole for his 76th at
5:24 to tie the game at 4.
Then Hawerchuk took a retaliatory roughing penalty at 5:55. The FLYERS set up
in the Sabres zone, and stayed there. Off a faceoff high in the Sabres zone in
the middle. While Brind'Amour wrestled for the puck, Dineen snuck through the
line and wristed a perfect shot low to Hasek's glove side at 6:44.
Play started to go back and forth until Hawgood took a roughing penalty at 8:19.
The FLYERS dumped the puck into the Sabres zone. Brind'Amour and Ledyard went
after it, and Rod got the puck. He backed away from the right boards, skated
to the right faceoff dot, and passed between his legs to Dineen crashing
through the slot all by himself. Dineen waited patiently and lifted it over
the blocker of Hasek for a 6-4 FLYERS lead at 8:39. 3rd hat trick of the season
for Dineen, 7th of his career, 2nd shorthanded goal of the game for him 35th
of the season.
Then Carney took a tripping penalty at 9:02 to kill the rest of the Sabres
power play. Not much action on the 4 on 4, and the Sabres got most of the
chances on the FLYERS resulting power play.
Play went end to end for quite a while after that and both goalies had to
make some big saves. The Sabres weren't able to pull Hasek as time was running
out as the FLYERS wouldn't allow any consistant possession for the Sabres.
Finally as time was running out Ken Sutton misplayed the puck in his own left
corner and Brind'Amour stripped it away from him. He pulled away and found
Dineen on the other side of the left circle, and Dineen found Acton at the
right of Hasek. He slid the puck between two Sabres defenders, and Acton
chipped it back to the far side of Hasek for his 8th of the season at 19:48
on his 35th birthday. That was all the scoring, shots were 18-13 Buffalo,
and the ice was showered with plastic drinking mugs handed out before the
game.
So another strong game from Tommy Soderstrom who hadn't been tested much
in his last couple of starts. Kevin Dineen has a career high 6 point night
(unless he had a better night earlier in the season, but I don't think so).
The FLYERS longest winning streak in 3 years, 30 goals for only 11 against
with three shutouts. Eric Lindros is 8th in league with 33 even strength goals
despite missing 23 games with injury. 4 points out of 4th, clinched 5th place
since the Rangers lose the tie breaker.
A couple misc notes:
Forget the Mike Keenan rumors, there will be a press conference tommorrow to
announce that he will be head coach of the New York Rangers next year.
In the last notes I mentioned that Garry Galley won the Barry Ashbee Award,
but I failed to mention that the award is for the best defenseman.
The Times of Trenton has reported that "a preeminent specialist from Oklahoma"
has looked over Tommy Soderstrom's medical record and determined that no
further tests are necessary in the near future.
Same paper had a blurb about Bill Dineen being asked about whether or not he
expected to be back next year. His response was that he wants to come back,
he feels he did a good job this year, but that he would cheerfully accept a
role scouting if Farwell didn't want him back.
FLYERS team record watch:
Eric Lindros:
41 goals, 33 assists, 74 points
(rookie records)
club record goals: club record points:
Eric Lindros 40 1992-93 Dave Poulin 76 1983-84
Brian Propp 34 1979-80 Brian Propp 75 1979-80
Ron Flockhart 33 1981-82 Eric Lindros 74 1992-93
Dave Poulin 31 1983-84 Ron Flockhart 72 1981-82
Bill Barber 30 1972-73 Pelle Eklund 66 1985-86
Mark Recchi:
52 goals, 69 assists, 121 points.
club record goals: club record points:
Reggie Leach 61 1975-76 Mark Recchi 121 1992-93*
Tim Kerr 58 1985-86,86-87 Bobby Clarke 119 1975-76
Tim Kerr 54 1983-84,84-85 Bobby Clarke 116 1974-75
Mark Recchi 52 1992-93 Bill Barber 112 1975-76
Rick Macliesh 50 1972-73 Bobby Clarke 104 1972-73
Bill Barber 50 1975-76 Rick Macliesh 100 1972-73
Reggie Leach 50 1979-80
*More than 80 games.
FLYERS career years:
Player Points Best Prior Season
Mark Recchi 121 113 (90-91 Penguins)
Rod Brind'Amour 84 77 (91-92 FLYERS)
Garry Galley 62 38 (84-85 Kings)
Brent Fedyk 59 35 (90-91 Red Wings)
That's all for now... | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,213 |
[all kinds of unacceptably racist drivel deleted]
And after that we find the man has absolutely nothing to say.
Richard J. Rauser, you are a dishonourable little man.
caustically, when necessary,
rm
| 17 | trimmed_train |
3,096 |
Kerry-- I'm guessing a little at this, because it's been a few years
since I saw the info, but you will probably want to look at Air Defense
Artillery as a specialty, or possibly Signals. The kind of thing you're
looking for is SDI-type assignments, but it'll be pretty prosaic stuff.
Things like hard-kill ATBM missiles, some of the COBRA rigs -- that kind
of thing.
Hope that gives you some ideas on where to look, though.
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10,947 |
[all deleted...]
Sam Zbib's posting is so confused and nonsensical as not to warrant a
reasoned response. We're getting used to this, too.
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105 |
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I think the hangup with digital scopes is that you have to know so much
more about them and how they work on a scope-by-scope basis, and
some of the functions are typically presented, in my opinion,
in a counter-intuitive fashion (HP has made some strides in their
54600 series, IMO). Automatic setups are fine for simple,
repetitive waveforms, but can give you some crazy results on more
complex events where you need to understand how the scope is
actually measuring/processing the event. For example, is the scope
in "equivalent time" or in "real time" sampling mode (equivalent time
being a mode where samples are built-up slowly by adding a delay to
the trigger event each sweep)? What was the scope's actual sampling
rate at the time? How is the data being massaged after capture but
before display, etc. One common misconception is the speed of the scope.
Is the HP scope you're using really a 100 MHz scope? Or is it a 20 MHz
sample rate scope (~5 MHz single shot significance) whose front
end including S/H can support 100 MHz waveforms (important for
equivalent time sampling)? The 100 MHz input in this case really
only helps you when your waveform is repetitive, or on a single
sample, when you get lucky and hit a transient event during a sample time.
So, there are a lot more variables in understanding how to get
useful information from a digital scope. I prefer an analog scope for
general use and the digital for events where I need storage for
later analysis or comparison, when the event is within the capability
of the scope. Now, for the price of true 100 MHz digital scopes to
fall...
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7,452 | The system, or 'family', key would appear to be cryptographically
useless, since *every* chip must know it and be able to remove its
effects from the bitstream. I daresay that it will be widely known
almost immediately after this system is deployed, and since it's been
pointed out that there is not a separate decrypt key -- the same key
is used for both encryption and decryption -- there goes any benefit
to the use of a system-wide key in SkipJack. | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,754 | stuff deleted
stuff deleted
The problem mentioned last is a known Quadra SCSI problem, it was heavily
discussed last year and an Apple employee pointed out that there was a
one byte error in the SCSI driver routine for the Quadra's (at least the
700
and 900). System 7.1 should not have that problem, for most people the
solution was to get an updated driver from the drive manufactor. In my
case MASS Microsystems wrote a new driver which fixed the problem on my
Quadra
700, all that occured early last year. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,589 | This morning a truck that had been within my sight (and I within
his) for about 3 miles suddenly forgot that I existed and pulled
over right on me -- my front wheel was about even with the back
edge of his front passenger door as I was accelerating past him.
It was trivial enough for me to tap the brakes and slide behind him
as he slewed over (with no signal, of course) on top of me, with
my little horn blaring (damn, I need Fiamms!), but the satisfaction
of being aware of my surroundings and thus surviving was not enough,
especially when I later pulled up alongside the bastard and he made
no apologetic wave or anything.
Is there some way that I can memorize the license plate of an
offending vehicle and get the name and address of the owner?
I'm not going to firebomb houses or anything, I'd just like to
write a consciousness-raising letter or two. I think that it would
be good for BDI cagers to know that We Know Where They Live.
Maybe they'd use 4 or 5 brain cells while driving instead of the
usual 3. | 12 | trimmed_train |
8,794 | Hi,
I found what I believe is an undocumented feature in my windows directory,
Microsoft Diagnostics, ver 2.00. I am specifically interested in a more
in depth explanation of the legends in the memory mapping report.
Thanks. | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,558 | Usually when I start up an application, I first get the window outline
on my display. I then have to click on the mouse button to actually
place the window on the screen. Yet when I specify the -geometry
option the window appears right away, the properties specified by
the -geometry argument. The question now is:
How can I override the intermediary step of the user having to specify
window position with a mouseclick? I've tried explicitly setting window
size and position, but that did alter the normal program behaviour.
Thanks for any hints
---> Robert
PS: I'm working in plain X.
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7,496 | Archive-name: x-faq/speedups
Last-modified: 1993/4/15
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HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF X -- monthly posting
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Compiled by Art Mulder ([email protected])
More RAM, Faster CPU's, More disk space, Faster Ethernet... These
are the standard responses you hear when you ask how to improve the
performance of your workstation.
Well, more hardware isn't always an option, and I wonder if more
hardware is always even a necessity.
This "FAQ" list is a collection of suggestions and ideas from different
people on the net on how you can the best possible performance from X
Windows on your workstation, WITHOUT PURCHASING MORE HARDWARE.
Performance is a highly subjective issue. The individual user must
balance `speed' versus `features' in order to come to a personal
decision. Therefore this document can be be expected to contain many
subjective opinions in and amongst the objective facts.
This document is specifically concerned with X. There are of course
many other factors that can affect the performance of a workstation.
However, they are outside the scope of this document.
[ People seriously interested in the whole area of system
performance, might want to look at the O'Reilly Nutshell Handbook
"System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides. I'm about 25% of the
way through reading it, and it looks like a well-written
comprehensive treatment of system performance. I'm unaware of any
other similar books. --ed.]
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Table of Contents
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0. Introduction & Administrivia
1. What about the "Other X FAQ"?
2. Window Managers
3. The X Server
Which Server?
Locking the Server into RAM?
Starting your Server
Fonts
About the Resources File
! Define Your Display Properly
4. Clients
A Better Clock for X
A Better Terminal Emulator for X
Tuning your client
5. Miscellaneous Suggestions
Pretty Pictures
A Quicker Mouse
Programming Thoughts
Say What!?
6. Other Sources of Information
7. Author & Notes
! = changed since last issue.
* = new since last issue.
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Introduction & Administrivia
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What about the "Other X FAQ"?
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David B. Lewis (faq%[email protected]) maintains the informative and
well written "comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions" document.
Its focus is on general X information, while this FAQ concentrates
on performance.
The comp.windows.x FAQ does address the issue of speed, but only with
regards to the X server. The gist of that topic seems to be:
"Use X11R5, it is faster than R4".
(Please see the X FAQ for complete details).
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Window Managers
---------------
There are a lot of window managers out there, with lots of different
features and abilities. The choice of which to use is by necessity a
balancing act between performance and useful features. At this
point, most respondents have agreed upon "twm" as the best candidate
for a speedy window manager.
A couple of generic tricks you can try to soup up your window manger,
is turning off unnecessary things like "zooming" and "opaque move".
Also, if you lay out your windows in a tiled manner, you reduce the
amount of cpu power spent in raising and lowering overlapping
windows. Joe English ([email protected])
I've found that a good font for tiling is 7x13 (aka:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1 ). It is
the biggest font I know of that I can use on my Sun (1152x900 screen)
and still get two 80 column terminal windows side-by-side on the
display with no overlap. Other font suggestions will be accepted.
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The X Server
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Which Server?
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Make sure that your server is a proper match for your hardware.
If you have a monochrome monitor, use a monochrome X11 server.
On my Monochrome Sun, I haven't noticed much difference between
the Xsun (colour) server and XsunMono, however it was pointed out to
me that XsunMono is about 800k smaller and therefore should contribute
to less paging.
[ thanks to: Jonny Farringdon ([email protected]),
Michael Salmon ([email protected]) ]
How your server was compiled can also make a difference. Jeff Law
([email protected]) advises us that on a Sun system, X should be
compiled with gcc (version 2.*) or with the unbundled Sun compiler.
You can expect to get "*very* large speedups in the server" by not
using the bundled SunOS compiler. I assume that similar results
would occur if you used one of the other high-quality commercial
compilers on the market.
Locking the Server into RAM?
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Has anyone tried hacking the X server so that it is locked into RAM and
does not get paged? eg: via a call to plock(). Does this help
performance at all? I've had one inquiry on this topic, and a few
pointers to the plock() function call, but no hard evidence from someone
who's tried it. I am not in a position to give it a try.
[thanks to: Eric C Claeys ([email protected]),
Danny Backx ([email protected]),
Juan D. Martin ([email protected]) ]
Starting your Server
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Joe English ([email protected]) :
If you start up a lot of clients in your .xsession or whatever, sleep
for a second or two after launching each one. After I changed my
.xclients script to do this, logging in actually took *less* time...
we have a heavily loaded system without much core, though.
This sounds crazy, but I have confirmed that it works!
Warner Losh ([email protected]) provided me with a good explanation of
why this works, which I have summarized here:
When you start up an X server it takes a huge amount of time to
start accepting connections. A lot of initialization is done by
the server when it starts. This process touches a large number of
pages. Any other process running at the same time would fight the
server for use of the CPU, and more importantly, memory. If you
put a sleep in there, you give the Server a chance to get itself
sorted out before the clients start up.
Similarly, there is also a lot of initialization whenever an X
client program starts: toolkits registering widgets, resources
being fetched, programs initializing state and "databases" and so
forth. All this activity is typically memory intensive. Once this
initialization is done ("The process has reached a steady state"),
the memory usage typically settles down to using only a few pages.
By using sleeps to stagger the launching of your clients in your
.Xinitrc , you avoid them fighting each other for your
workstation's limited resources
This is most definitely a "Your Mileage May Vary" situation, as there
are so many variables to be considered: available RAM, local swap
space, load average, number of users on your system, which clients
you are starting, etc.
Currently in my .xinitrc I have a situation like:
(sleep 1; exec xclock ) &
(sleep 1; exec xbiff ) &
(sleep 1; exec xterm ) &
(sleep 1; exec xterm ) &
I've experimented with:
(sleep 1; exec xclock ) &
(sleep 2; exec xbiff ) &
(sleep 3; exec xterm ) &
(sleep 4; exec xterm ) &
I've even tried:
(sleep 2; exec start_X_clients_script ) &
and then in start_X_clients_script I had:
(sleep 1; exec xclock ) &
(sleep 1; exec xbiff ) &
(sleep 1; exec xterm ) &
(sleep 1; exec xterm ) &
[ The idea with this last one was to make sure that xinit had
completely finished processing my .xinitrc, and had settled down
into a "steady state" before the sleep expired and all my clients
were launched. ]
All of these yielded fairly comparable results, and so I just stuck with
my current setup, for its simplicity. You will probably have to
experiment a bit to find a setup which suits you.
Fonts
- - -
Loading fonts takes time and RAM. If you minimize the number of fonts
your applications use, you'll get speed increases in load-up time.
One simple strategy is to choose a small number of fonts (one small, one
large, one roman, whatever suits you) and configure all your clients -- or
at least all your heavily used clients -- to use only those few fonts.
Client programs should start up quicker if their font is already loaded
into the server. This will also conserve server resources, since fewer
fonts will be loaded by the server.
[ Farrell McKay ([email protected]),
Joe English ([email protected]) ]
eg: My main xterm font is 7x13, so I also have twm set up to use 7x13
in all it's menus and icons etc. Twm's default font is 8x13. Since
I don't normally use 8x13, I've eliminated one font from my server.
Oliver Jones ([email protected]):
Keep fonts local to the workstation, rather than loading them over nfs.
If you will make extensive use of R5 scalable fonts, use a font server.
About the Resources File
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Keep your .Xresources / .Xdefaults file small. Saves RAM and saves
on server startup time. Joe English ([email protected])
One suggestion:
In your .Xdefaults (.Xresources) file, try putting only the minimum
number of resources that you want to have available to all of your
applications. For example: *reverseVideo: true
Then, separate your resources into individual client-specific
resource files. For example: $HOME/lib/app-defaults. In your
.login file set the environment variable XUSERFILESEARCHPATH:
setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH $HOME/lib/app-defaults/%N
[ The "comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions" FAQ contains
an excellent explanation of how these environment variables work.
--ed.]
So, when xterm launches, it loads its resources from
.../app-defaults/XTerm. Xdvi finds them in .../app-defaults/XDvi,
and so on and so forth. Note that not all clients follow the same
XXxxx resource-file naming pattern. You can check in your system
app-defaults directory (often: /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/app-defaults/) to
find the proper name, and then name your personal resource files
with the same name.
This is all documented in the Xt Specification (pg 125 & 666).
[Thanks to: Kevin Samborn ([email protected]),
Michael Urban ([email protected]),
and Mike Long ([email protected]).
Kevin is willing mail his setup files to inquirers.]
This method of organizing your personal resources has the following
benefits:
- Easier to maintain / more usable.
- Fewer resources are stored in the X server in the RESOURCE_MANAGER
property. As a side benefit your server may start fractionally
quicker, since it doesn`t have to load all your resources.
- Applications only process their own resources, never have to sort
through all of your resources to find the ones that affect them.
It also has drawbacks:
- the application that you are interested in has to load an
additional file every time it starts up. This doesn't seem to
make that much of a performance difference, and you might
consider this a huge boon to usability. If you are modifying an
application's resource database, you just need to re-run the
application without having to "xrdb" again.
- xrdb will by default run your .Xdefaults file through cpp. When
your resources are split out into multiple resource files and
then loaded by the individual client programs, they will not.
WATCH OUT FOR THIS!!
I had C style comments in my .Xdefaults file, which cpp stripped
out. When I switched to this method of distributed resource
files I spent several frustrating days trying to figure out why
my clients were not finding their resources. Xt did *NOT*
provide any error message when it encountered the C style
comments in the resource files, it simply, silently, aborted
processing the resource file.
The loss of preprocessing (which can be very handy, e.g. ``#ifdef
COLOR'' ...) is enough to cause some people to dismiss this
method of resource management.
- You may also run into some clients which break the rules. For
example, neither Emacs (18.58.3) nor Xvt (1.0) will find their
resources if they are anywhere other than in .Xdefaults.
- when starting up a client on a machine that does not share files
with the machine where your resources are stored, your client
will not find its resources. Loading all your resources into the
server will guarantee that all of your clients will always find
their resources. Casey Leedom ([email protected])
A possible compromise suggestion that I have (and am planning on trying)
is to put resources for all my heavily used clients (eg: xterm) into my
.Xdefaults file, and to use the "separate resources files" method for
clients that I seldom use.
Define Your Display Properly
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Client programs are often executed on the same machine as the server. In
that situation, rather than setting your DISPLAY environment variable to
"<hostname>:0.0", where <hostname> is the name of your workstation, you
should set your DISPLAY variable to "unix:0.0" or ":0.0". By doing this
you access optimized routines that know that the server is on the same
machine and use a shared memory method of transferring requests.
[thanks to Patrick J Horgan ([email protected])]
See the _DISPLAY NAMES_ section of the X(1) man page for further
explanation of how to properly set your display name.
"I don't think it's stock MIT, but (at least) Data General and HP have
libraries that are smart enough to use local communication even when
the DISPLAY isn't set specially."
Rob Sartin ([email protected])
[Jody Goldberg ([email protected]) sent me an Xlib patch to change
stock R5 to use local communication even if DISPLAY is not properly set.
I don't want to get in the business of distributing or trying to juggle
non-MIT patches and so have elected not to include it here. Hopefully MIT
will apply this minor (~8 lines) patch themselves. In the meantime, if
you want to try it yourself, email Jody. --ed.]
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Clients
-------
If you only have a few megabytes of Ram then you should think
carefully about the number of programs you are running. Think also
about the _kind_ of programs you are running. For example: Is there
a smaller clock program than xclock?
Unfortunately, I haven't really noticed that programs advertise how large
they are, so the onus is on us to do the research and spread the word.
[ Suggestions on better alternatives to the some of the standard clients
(eg: Xclock, Xterm, Xbiff) are welcome. --ed.]
I've received some contradictory advice from people, on the subject
of X client programs. Some advocate the use of programs that are
strictly Xlib based, since Xt, Xaw and other toolkits are rather
large. Others warn us that other applications which you are using
may have already loaded up one or more of these shared libraries. In
this case, using a non-Xt (for example) client program may actually
_increase_ the amount of RAM consumed.
The upshot of all this seems to be: Don't mix toolkits. That is, try
and use just Athena clients, or just Xview clients (or just Motif
clients, etc). If you use more than one, then you're dragging in
more than one toolkit library.
Know your environment, and think carefully about which client
programs would work best together in that environment.
[Thanks to: Rob Sartin ([email protected]),
Duncan Sinclair ([email protected] | [email protected]) ]
A Better Clock for X
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1) xcuckoo
suggested by: Duncan Sinclair ([email protected])
available: on export.lcs.mit.edu
Xcuckoo displays a clock in the title bar of *another* program.
Saves screen real estate.
2) mclock
suggested by: der Mouse ([email protected])
available: larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1) in /X/mclock.shar
Non Xt-based. Extensively configurable. it can be made to look
very much like MIT oclock, or mostly like xclock purely by changing
resources.
Of course, the ultimate clock --- one that consumes no resources, and
takes up no screen real estate --- is the one that hangs on your wall.
:-)
A Better Terminal Emulator for X
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From the README file distributed with xterm:
+-----
| Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
|
| This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution.
| ...
+-----
Ugly maybe, but at my site it's still the most used. I suspect that
xterm is one of the most used clients at many, if not most sites.
Laziness? Isn't there a better terminal emulator available? See below.
If you must use xterm, you can try reducing the number of saveLines
to reduce memory usage. [ Oliver Jones ([email protected]),
Jonny Farringdon ([email protected]) ]
1) Xvt
suggested by: Richard Hesketh ([email protected]) :
available: export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/xvt-1.0.tar.Z
"...if you don't need all the esoteric features of xterm, then get
hold of xvt ... it was written here just to save swap space as
xterm is rather a hog! "
This was written as a partial 'clone' of xterm. You don't have to
rename your resources, as xvt pretends to be XTerm. In it's current
version, you cannot bind keys as you can in xterm. I've heard that
there are versions of xvt with this feature, but I've not found any
yet.
UPDATE (March 1993): I recently had a few email conversations with
Brian Warkentin ([email protected]) regarding xvt. He
questions whether xvt really is at all faster than xterm. For
instance, xvt may initialize slightly faster, but compare scrolling
speed (try this quickie benchmark: /bin/time dd if=/etc/termcap
bs=40) and see which program can scroll faster. Also, while xterm
may be slightly larger in RAM requirements (We don't have any hard
numbers here, does anyone else?) shared libraries and shared text
segments mean that xterm's paging requirements are not that major.
As an experiment, he ripped out all the tek stuff from xterm, but it
made little difference, since if you never use it, it never gets
brought into memory.
So here we stand with some conflicting reports on the validity of
xvt over xterm. In summary? Caveat Emptor, your mileage may vary.
If you can provide some hard data, I'd like to see it.
Specifically: How much RAM each occupies, how much swap each needs,
relative speed of each
2) mterm
suggested by: der Mouse ([email protected])
available: larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1) in
/X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax.
"I also have my own terminal emulator. Its major lack is
scrollback, but some people like it anyway."
Tuning your client
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Suggestions on how you can tune your client programs to work faster.
From Scott Barman ([email protected]) comes a suggestion regarding Motif
Text Field Widgets:
I noticed that during data entry into Motif text field widgets, I
was getting a slight lag in response to some keystrokes,
particularly the initial one in the field. Examining the what was
going on with xscope I found it. It seems that when the resource
XmNblinkRate is non-zero and the focus is on a text field widget
(or even just a text widget) the I-beam cursor will blink.
Every time the cursor appears or disappears in those widgets, the
widget code is making a request to the server (CopyArea). The user
can stop this by setting the resource XmNblinkRate to 0. It is not
noticeable on a 40MHz SPARC, but it does make a little difference
on a [slower system].
This specific suggestion can probably be applied in general to lots
of areas. Consider your heavily used clients, are there any minor
embellishments that can be turned off and thereby save on Server
requests?
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Miscellaneous Suggestions
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Pretty Pictures
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Don't use large bitmaps (GIF's, etc) as root window backgrounds.
- The more complicated your root window bitmap, the slower the server
is at redrawing your screen when you reposition windows (or redraw, etc)
- These take up RAM, and CPU power. I work on a Sun SPARC and I'm
conscious of performance issues, I can't comprehend it when I see
people with a 4mb Sun 3/60 running xphoon as their root window.
I'll let someone else figure out how much RAM would be occupied by
having a full screen root image on a colour workstation.
- If you're anything like me, you need all the screen real estate
that you can get for clients, and so rarely see the root window anyway.
[ Thanks to Qiang Alex Zhao ([email protected])
for reminding me of this one. --ed.]
A Quicker Mouse
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Using xset, you can adjust how fast your pointer moves on the screen
when you move your mouse. I use "xset m 3 10" in my .xinitrc file,
which lets me send my pointer across the screen with just a flick of
the wrist. See the xset man page for further ideas and information.
Hint: sometimes you may want to *slow down* your mouse tracking for
fine work. To cover my options, I have placed a number of different
mouse setting commands into a menu in my window manager.
e.g. (for twm) :
menu "mouse settings" {
"Mouse Settings:" f.title
" Very Fast" ! "xset m 7 10 &"
" Normal (Fast)" ! "xset m 3 10 &"
" System Default (Un-Accelerated)" ! "xset m default &"
" Glacial" ! "xset m 0 10 &"
}
Programming Thoughts
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Joe English ([email protected]) :
To speed up applications that you're developing, there are tons of
things you can do. Some that stick out:
- For Motif programs, don't set XmFontList resources for individual
buttons, labels, lists, et. al.; use the defaultFontList or
labelFontList or whatever resource of the highest-level manager
widget. Again, stick to as few fonts as possible.
- Better yet, don't use Motif at all. It's an absolute pig.
- Don't create and destroy widgets on the fly. Try to reuse them.
(This will avoid many problems with buggy toolkits, too.)
- Use a line width of 0 in GCs. On some servers this makes a HUGE
difference.
- Compress and collapse multiple Expose events. This can make the
difference between a fast application and a completely unusable
one.
Francois Staes ([email protected]) :
Just a small remark: I once heard that using a better malloc
function would greatly increase performance of Xt based
applications since they use malloc heavily. They suggested trying
out the GNUY malloc, but I didn't find the time yet. I did some
tests on small programs just doing malloc and free, and the
differences were indeed very noticeable ( somewhat 5 times faster)
[ Any confirmation on this from anyone? --ed.]
Andre' Beck ([email protected]) :
- Unnecessary NoExpose Events.
Most people use XCopyArea/XCopyPlane as fastest blit routines, but
they forget to reset graphics_exposures in the GC used for the
blits. This will cause a NoExpose Event every blit, that, in most
cases, only puts load onto the connection and forces the client to
run through it's event-loop again and again.
- Thousands of XChangeGC requests.
This "Gfx Context Switching" is also seen in most handcoded X-Apps,
where only one or few GCs are created and then heavily changed
again and again. Xt uses a definitely better mechanism, by caching
and sharing a lot of GCs with all needed parameters. This will
remove the load of subsequent XChangeGC requests from the
connection (by moving it toward the client startup phase).
Say What!?
- - - - - -
Some contributors proposed ideas that seem right off the wall at first:
David B. Lewis (by day: [email protected], by night: david%[email protected]) :
How about this: swap displays with someone else. Run all your programs
on the other machine and display locally; the other user runs off your
machine onto the other display. Goal: reduce context switches in the
same operation between client and server.
I'm not in a situation where I can easily try this, but I have received
the following confirmation...
Michael Salmon ([email protected]):
I regularly run programs on other machines and I notice a big
difference. I try to run on a machine where I will reduce net usage
and usually with nice to reduce the impact of my intrusion. This
helps a lot on my poor little SS1+ with only 16 MB, it was
essential when I only had 8 MB.
Casey Leedom ([email protected]) :
[The X11 Server and the client are] competing for the same CPU as
your server when you run it on the same machine. Not really a
major problem, except that the X11 client and the server are in
absolute synchronicity and are context thrashing.
Timothy H Panton ([email protected]) :
Firstly it relies on the fact that most CPU's are mostly idle, X's
cpu usage is bursty. so the chances of you and your teammate
doing something cpu-intensive at the same time is small. If they
are not then you get twice the cpu+memory available for your
action.
The second factor is that context switches are expensive, using 2
cpu's halves them, you pay a price due to the overhead of going
over the network, but this is offset in most cases by the improved
buffering of a network (typically 20k vs 4k for a pipe), allowing
even fewer context switches.
----------------------------
Other Sources of Information
----------------------------
Volume 8 in O'Reilly's X Window System Series, ``X Window System
Administrator's Guide'' is a book all X administrator's should read.
Adrian Nye ([email protected]):
A lot more tips on performance are in the paper "Improving X
Application Performance" by Chris D. Peterson and Sharon Chang, in
Issue 3 of The X Resource.
An earlier version of this paper appeared in the Xhibition 1992
conference proceedings.
This paper is absolutely essential reading for X programmers.
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Author & Notes
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You may copy this document in whole or in part as long as you don't
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1,316 | Darryl Strawberry's moon shots were fun! He can hit those high and far
home runs that if he actually ran them out he'd be rounding second base
by the time they landed. We used to say that he should have to file a
flight plan at LaGuardia for some of them. Then _Bull_Durham_ came out
and that was changed. :-)
On homers he pulled that didn't go high, they were microwave home runs.
Microwave, as in they got outta there in a hurry! In a game in 1988, he
came off the bench with the flu and on the second pitch send a rocket
down the right field line that didn't even allow Bob Murphy the "luxury"
of a home run call. The story went he stayed in the clubhouse, the with
the Mets down by two and two on Davey Johnson sent for him to pinch hit.
He came out of the clubhouse saying "one swing and we go home." He hit
the homer, ran the bases, then went straight for the clubhouse to shower
and go home.
Those were the days.... | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,504 | A person posted certain stuff to this newsgroup, which were highly
selected quotes stripped of their context. Here is the complete
posting which was quoted (lacking the context of other postings in
which it was made):
Probably within 50 years, it will be possible to disassemble and
re-assemble our bodies at the molecular level. Not only will flawless
cosmetic surgery be possible, but flawless cosmetic PSYCHOSURGERY.
What will it be like to store all the prices of shelf-priced bar-coded
goods in your head, and catch all the errors they make in the store's
favor at SAFEWAY? What will it be like to mentally edit and spell-
check your responses to the questions posed by a phone caller selling
VACATION TIME-SHARE OPTIONS?
Indeed, we are today a nation at risk! The threat is not from bad genes,
but bad memes! Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes
which are the units of genetics.
We stand on the brink of new meme-amplification technologies! Harmful
memes which formerly were restricted in their destructive power will
run rampant over the countryside, laying waste to the real benefits that
future technology has to offer.
For example, Jeremy Rifkin has been busy trying to whip up emotions
against the new genetically engineered tomatoes under development at
CALGENE. This guy is inventing harmful memes, a virtual memetic Typhoid
Mary. | 19 | trimmed_train |
10,927 |
There is X for the Amiga, but it'll cost you. GfxBase Inc., owned by
Dale Luck, one of the original Amiga architects, sells X for the Amiga.
There are many options available, including Motif. Call 'em and get the
scoop.
GfxBase Inc.
1881 Ellwell Drive Phone: 408-262-1469
Milpitas, CA 95035 Fax: 408-262-8276
I've got no connection with them, other than being a satisfied customer.
| 16 | trimmed_train |
6,140 | Hello,
I just bought a copy. I can't disagree that it is a very good
book. But unfortunately I was looking for the same graphics feature
described in this book but _NOT_ in 640x480x16 or 320x200x256 mode. It
is easy to accomodate all the pixel "descriptor" (or color attributes)
in those modes into A0000-AFFFFF, but not in 640x480x256(which is what
I am interested in). I haven't finish the book but I affraid the
author didn't talk much about this mode(or other SVGA modes). If
anyone out there know any good book dealing with fast SVGA graphics
manupulation(scrolling, repainting, all other good stuff..) please
send me mail. Programming guide to SVGA card is also welcome.
Thanks in advance.
************************************************************************
* Tiang T. Foo *
* [email protected] *
************************************************************************ | 1 | trimmed_train |
2,362 | <I might have a need in the future to display rotated text. I noticed the
<"xvertext" package on the net. It looks very good, but it has one slight
<problem. The API to it assumes you have a font name, not an already loaded
<font. It shouldn't be too difficult to split up the function into two
<interface routines, one with a font name, and one with an XFontStruct, but
<I thought I would ask the author (Alan Richardson
<([email protected])) first in case he was planning this already.
<Unfortunately, his email address bounced. Does Alan R. or the current
<maintainer of "xvertext" see this?
The e-mail address you mentioned above is for use with the U.K. As you know,
the Brits do everything backwards :-) So, the real address from the states is:
[email protected]
Give it a try. | 16 | trimmed_train |
6,288 |
Sounds more like an Opel GT. Neat cars, fun to drive. Sold through
Buick from 196? through 1973 (if I remember correctly). I believe it
was in '72 that there were some engine mods made such that parts
were not interchangeable with the older models. Parts are thus much
harder to come by for the later models. Parts in general are not
too difficult to find. At one time JC Whitney carried some stuff
including a brand new (not remfg) long block. Either a GT or a
Kharman Ghia (hmm that spelling looks hosed) will be my next project. | 4 | trimmed_train |
10,229 |
First off, let me congratulate you for not posting a flame about "You sick
perverts, you are immoral, you are all going to hell.", which seems to be the
usual "religious" post found on the alt.sex.* hierarchy. Hopefully, you won't
get flamed, either.
You will, however, be argued with. I personally think that your project is
built on unsteady ground.
First, I do not believe that there is any way to find an "objective morality".
Morality and value are inherently subjective - they represent the beliefs of a
person or a group of people. They can be widely held, perhaps even
overwhelmingly held, but they are never and _can_ never be objective.
Second, I do not accept the assumptions that you make here. If, as you say,
you are trying to be objective, then why accept a morality to begin with by
using the Christian Bible? You're defeating your own purpose by doing so.
Third, call me a pessimist, but you won't stop the flamage. There will always
be people who pop upin alt.sex.* to tell us how sick and twisted and evil we
all are. Just out of curiosity, do alt.sex readers show up unprovoked in the
religion groups to tell you all that you are narrow-minded, censoring,
overbearing totalitarianists?
Hm. Let me provide an example. Four people get together over dinner, to
discuss morality: you, me, a rather conservative Moslem, and a sociopath. I
start off by saying that I think it's immoral to force people to have sex with
you. You agree, but also say that it is immoral to have sex with someone of
your own gender. (Just a note: I really don't know your views on
homosexuality, I am just using this as a common view of morality for the
purposes of this example.) The Moslem says that it is immoral for women to
have their faces uncovered.
The sociopath, who has become bored, kills all three of us and eats us, but
feels no guilt because he has done nothing wrong morally in his own mind.
(Evidence deleted)
I'm not going to accept your evidence for this. You ask us to accept "The Word
of God" that everything good comes from God. This is only a valid argument for
a person who shares your beliefs.
Still, I must say that cataloging the major themes and motifs in erotica could
be interesting for other reasons than yours, so good luck with this next part.
Hmmm...do I detect just a wee bit of condescence here?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
not very objective.
One could construe this to mean that beautiful people are better, or "more
good" than non-beautiful people. I would hope that people relize that this is
not necessarily true.
^^^^
Might I suggest the word "penis"? It seems more in line with the tone of
your post.
Bravo! I respect you and your sense of humor, sir.
Yes, and this theme is usually what the better stories are about. However,
they are not always selfish - I could point to examples in the work of Elf
Sternberg, for example.
It serves the same purpose as it does in pornographic movies: it affirms the
virility of the male involved, as well as assuring the reader that he (the
character) has orgasmed.
Your Whole Picture [TM] unfortunately only applies to people who accept your
church.
In addition, if sex is for procreation, then
1) Why did God make it pleasurable, so that people would want to do it,
rather than building it in as instinct?
2) Why did God make it fallible? Not every sexual encounter results in
pregnancy, even among Catholics. Does this mean that they have sinned?
Granted.
Pornography would not tend in those directions if there were not a demand for
it. Many people have violent fantasies that they would never act out in real
life, but will think about and read about and mull over.
Later,
Jeff
| 15 | trimmed_train |
10,346 | 10 month old stereo system for sale. Luxman R-351 receiver, Onkyo TA-RW404
tape deck, and Polk Monitor M4.6 book shelf speakers are for sale. Receiver
has 5 year warranty, and all equipment is in excellent condition. Paid $950
for the system and willing to consider the best offer. Will sell seperate
pieces also if desired. Please send best offer to [email protected].
Speakers: Polk Monitor M4.6 bookshelf speakers
Paid $250 pair. Willing to consider best offer.
Receiver: Luxman R-351 receiver with 5 year (yes 5 years) warranty.
Paid $475. Willing to consider best offer.
Full remote, 2 pairs of speaker connections,
60 watts per channel, but drives like a 150 watts per channel
Has all the standard features, and more.
Tape Deck: Onkyo TA-RW404 tape deck
Paid $275. Willing to consider best offer.
Dual cassette, Dolby B, C, and HX Pro.
Input level control for recording, auto reverse both sides.
Has all standard features.
Send E-mail with best offer to [email protected] | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,446 | Replying to A.J. Teel:
Well, the two nifty letters giving concrete proof that the
Income Tax is voluntary and giving specific procedures for
stopping withholding, et cetera have been out there for a
while now.
Humbug. Those letters don't provide "concrete proof" of anything at all
in the absence of any case law that demonstrates the method will actu-
ally work for ordinary people in everyday situations.
Specifically, show us some case law in which the courts have ruled that
income tax is illegal and/or that ordinary working types do not have to
pay income tax (and that they can legally avoid paying income tax with-
out declaring themselves to be churches or some such silliness). This
issue is sufficiently important that I think we have a right to expect
something squarely on point from the US Supreme Court (in the case of
federal tax) or a state's supreme court (for a state's income tax).
Unless you can do that, I for one am unwilling to call your material
"concrete proof".
There has been no refutation to date. Have the nay-sayers
finally given up as defeated? Sure would like to hear their
reasons for disbelief at this point.
Refutation?? Refutation of what? You haven't made a case yet. You've
posted plenty of claims, but you haven't given us any valid reason to
believe that any court in the US will agree with you. Your claims seem
on the surface to deviate so radically from the legal mainstream that I
feel the burden of proof is still on =you= to show that your arguments
have any merit whatsoever. And the cases you've cited involve such
strange situations that I see no reason to assume that the rulings are
applicable to anyone else, or that they will ultimately stand on appeal
to the Supreme Court.
Why can't you just cite us a case in which Joe Schmoe, a regular
employee earning regular wages from a regular company, refuses to pay
his income tax, gets hauled into court, is convicted of wilful tax eva-
sion, and then has his conviction overturned by the US Supreme Court
with a landmark 7-2 majority ruling that income tax is indeed totally
voluntary? What, you say? No such case exists? Hmmm, I wonder why
not; why haven't you?
Shall I conclude that the point has been received and the
opposition has forfeited the field?
With all due respect, you can conclude anything you want. I just hope,
for your own sake, that you don't conclude that anyone in a position of
authority in the United States or any legitimate or illegitimate polit-
ical subdivision thereof is going to agree with your conclusions.
For that matter, I confess I'm thoroughly confused as to =why= you would
be looking for court rulings in your favor anyway -- since I thought you
told us earlier that every court in the US has been in cahoots with big
banking interests since the 1938 "admiralty jurisdiction" coverup thing.
Do you honestly expect us to believe that they'd go to all the trouble
to subvert the system, and yet would still promptly slink back into
their burrows in the face of anyone who knew enough to invoke the right
combination of magic spells and mystic mumbo-jumbo?
Not only that, but why do you even =care= what the US courts say anyway?
Didn't you tell us a while back that you've disavowed all attempts by US
officials to classify you as a "14th Amendment federal citizen"? When
the FBI comes to haul you away for tax evasion, why don't you just tell
them they're out of their jurisdiction and should go back to Washington,
D.C., where they belong?
Or maybe we should all just go back to mediaeval common law, which you
suggested would be better than all these statutes, codes, and the like.
If you want to renounce society's legal framework, fine; we can just
declare you an outlaw, OK?, and anyone who sees you driving on the roads
with no license plate on your car and no driver's license in your wallet
can just take you like a game animal and stew you for their supper (with
plenty of veggies and a pinch of salt, but WITHOUT PREJUDICE UCC 1-207).
Sorry, everyone, it's getting late, and I'm sick and tired of all this
garbage. If I know what's good for me, I'll just clam up and stop try-
ing to refute this nonsense, and if anyone falls for it and winds up in
jail for tax evasion or what-not, it'll be on their own head.
Needless to say, none of the above represents the opinions of my current
employer -- who, in any case, is a Canadian and doesn't really need to
care too much about US tax law. I, on the other hand, am a "14th Amend-
ment federal citizen", with a US passport to prove it, and plan to keep
on filing Form 1040's for the foreseeable future (though I will probably
not owe any US income tax due to the foreign earned income exclusion
and/or the foreign tax credit).
| 13 | trimmed_train |
4,086 |
I'm not sure if this is free or shareware, but you can try to look to wsmrsimtel20.army.mil,
directory PD1:<MSDOS.DESKPUB> file OCR104.ZIP .
From the file SIMIBM.LST :
OCR104.ZIP B 93310 910424 Optical character recognition for scanners.
Hope this helps. | 1 | trimmed_train |
3,113 | [email protected] (Peter Tryndoch) writes...
Yes there is. Not common for CB. The pattern is different (sort of
a cloverleaf, with four main lobes.
Use of anything under 1/4 wave for transmitting is very uncommon. (The
usual "rubber duck" uses a coil to fool itself into looking like a
quarter wave.
I reccomend the ARRL Antenna Handbook, or a good basic book. | 11 | trimmed_train |
8,914 | .
.
.
ESPN had the Houston Astros @ Chicago Cubs game scheduled for last night on the
west coast.
Since the game was rained out, they showed the Toronto Maple Leafs at the
Detroit Red Wings game instead. | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,911 |
We tried to ship an X server once that only supported a 24bit
TrueColor visual. The main problems we encountered were:
1) Clients written with logic like the following:
if (DefaultDepth() != 1)
/* Assume default depth is 8bit */
These clients need an 8bit deep visual in the root window
to run correctly.
2) Other clients didn't even bother to do that much, and just
outright assumed they had a *dynamic* visual class, with a
dynamic colormap. XStoreColors doesn't work on cmaps
associated with Static or TrueColor visual classes, but
many clients don't bother to check, they just start
throwing XStoreColor calls at you.
Though both are clearly client error, this is the case with so many
clients that it's easier for you to expose 8bit PseudoColor as a
default root window visual, than it ever would be for all these client
writers to change their clients to do the right thing.
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
542 |
One of the things I find intersting about pagan beliefs is
their belief in a feminine deity as well as a masculine deity. Being
brought up in a Christian household, I often wondered if there was God
the Father, where was the mother? Everyone I know who has a father
usually as a mother. It just seemed rather unbalanced to me.
Fortunately, my own personal theology, which will probably not
fall into line with a lot others, recognized God as a being both
without gender and posessing qualities of both genders, as being both
a masculine and feminine force. It provides a sense of balance I find
sorely lacking in most theologies, a lack which I think is responsible
for a lot of the unbalanced ways in which we see the world and treat
each other. | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,331 | Here's one I hope some knowledgeable readers will make a comment or
contribution to:
In the State of Virginia radar detectors are illegal, period. If
you are caught with one it will be confiscated on the spot and will
not be returned until after you appear in court and pay your fine.
The fine for having a radar detector accessible in a motor vehicle
(even if it is not on) is $250.00. Sorry, tourist, ignorance of
the law is no excuse - they will get you too!
It used to be that the only way the law could be enforced was for
an officer to actually see the radar detector. Not any more! Many
law enforcement agencies are now using radar detector detectors.
Right, a super sensitive receiver that is capable of picking up RF
from the radar detector itself. My first reaction was "no way!"
But, guess again, these little buggers really work and the police
are writing citations right and left for people using radar
detectors. One news story quoted an officer as saying that he had
found the radar detector in all of the cars he stopped except one,
and he could never figure out where it was - but he knew it was
there. This tends to make one assume there are few false arrest.
Now, before I get flamed, please understand that I do drive at or
near the speed limit. I do not need a radar detector to keep me
from getting a speeding ticket. But, I do like to know when my
speed is being clocked or a speed trap is functioning. My radar
detector now stays locked in my trunk when I am in Virginia (which
is what they want - and yes, what the law says, and I intend to
obey the law!) and is only used in states where it is legal.
For my fellow hams, I am not a microwave person - my mind only
works in the HF spectrum between 10 and 80 meters. Microwave
enlightment may be necessary.
So, the questions are -
What do the radar detector detectors actually detect?
Would additional shielding/grounding/bypassing shield stray RF generated by
a radar detector, or is the RF actually being emitted by the detector
antenna?
Are any brands "quieter" than others? | 11 | trimmed_train |
3,210 |
Evidence given for her prostitute status, besides the admittedly
questionable claim of the man on trial included:
1. Prior employment in a number of massage parlors, with women who
claimed that she worked as a prostitute;
2. Walking around a truck stop at 4:00 AM wearing a lace miniskirt,
a halter top, and no underwear of any sort;
3. Not having a purse or other I.D. with her.
Not enough to convict her, but enough to create reasonable doubt
whether a rape actually took place, or theft of services.
Are you just ignorant, or lying again?
The accounts on the evening news indicated that they claimed self-
defense, and the judge agreed that they were so operating.
| 13 | trimmed_train |
9,758 |
Also remember that every dollar spent keeping one spacecraft in safe mode
(probably a spin-stabilized sun-pointing orientation) is a dollar not
spent on mission analysis for a newer spacecraft. In order to turn the
spacecraft back on, you either need to insure that the Ops guys will be
available, or you need to retrain a new team.
Having said that, there are some spacecraft that do what you have proposed.
Many of the operational satellites Goddard flies (like the Tiros NOAA
series) require more than one satellite in orbit for an operational set.
Extras which get replaced on-orbit are powered into a "standby" mode for
use in an emergency. In that case, however, the same ops team is still
required to fly the operational birds; so the standby maintenance is
relatively cheap.
Finally, Pat's explanation (some spacecraft require continuous maintenance
to stay under control) is also right on the mark. I suggested a spin-
stabilized control mode because it would require little power or
maintenance, but it still might require some momentum dumping from time
to time.
In the end, it *is* a political decision (since the difference is money),
but there is some technical rationale behind the decision. | 10 | trimmed_train |
10,135 | A silly question: I frequently edit small files and need to make copies of them
on several floppy diskettes of the same size and format, but my computer is
only equipped with one 3.5" HD drive and one 5.25" HD drive; can't I do the
copying without swapping files temporarily to my hard disk (which is 99.9% full)
using standard MSDOS 5.0 commands? I know
diskcopy a: a:
works but for small selections of files,
xcopy a:*.txt a:
does not!
Maybe I'll have to write my own file copy command in C, but the idea does not
amuse me.
Thanks for your help. | 3 | trimmed_train |
6,682 |
Canada's GST is collected as a sales tax and is considered a VAT.
Funnily, the previous hidden wholesale tax that it replaces was
never referred to as a tax (or, people never paid mind to it,
thus the uproar when it was brought up front as the GST ---
one party has actually campaigned on hiding the tax again).
The stated intent of the Tories was to use the GST to write down
our deficit. Unfortunately, their legislation didn't include any
mechanism for disbursing the collected funds in such a manner and
the money is now sitting in escrow. I don't know what is involved
in releasing the funds, but one dilemna is that the Tories are not
fiscal conservatives themselves though while taxing and spending,
they've made moves to apply the breaks to a runaway locomotive by
the end of this time --- the end of their second term (~9 years).
While they do have chances of getting a third term, catching up
in the polls to their more moderate/slightly leftish pro-business
rivals, the Liberals (as in Euro/UK), the Tories' heir-apparent
for the leaders' mantle has been termed a clone of Hillary
Clinton ...
gld | 13 | trimmed_train |
2,608 |
Yes, and what about Paul saying:
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
(Ephesians 4:26).
Obviously then, we can be angry w/o sinning.
Jon
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