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2,265 | To: [email protected] (Lost Boy)
LB> I know from personal experience that men CAN get yeast infections. I
LB> get rather nasty ones from time to time, mostly in the area of the
LB> scrotum and the base of the penis.
I used to have problems with recurrent athlete's foot until I
started drying between my toes with my blow drier after each time
I bathe. I also dry my pubic area while I am at it to prevent
problems. You might want to try it. | 19 | trimmed_train |
5,939 | I thought that under emergency conditions, the STS can
put down at any good size Airport. IF it could take a C-5 or a
747, then it can take an orbiter. You just need a VOR/TAC
I don't know if they need ILS.
pat | 10 | trimmed_train |
9,777 |
What follows is my opinion. It is not asserted to be "the truth" so no
flames, please. It comes out of a background of 20 years as a senior
corporate staff executive in two Fortune 50 companies.
I'd be happy to use a crypto system supplied by the NSA for business, if
they told me it was more secure than DES, and in particular resistant to
attempts by Japanese, French, and other competitive companies and
governments to break.
I'd be happy to do so even with escrowed keys, provided I was happy about
the bona fides of the escrow agencies (the Federal Reserve would certainly
satisfy me, as would something set up by one of the big 8 accounting firms).
I'd trust the NSA or the President if they stated there were no trap
doors--I'd be even happier if a committee of independent experts examined
the thing under seal of secrecy and reported back that it was secure.
I'd trust something from the NSA long before I'd trust something from some
Swiss or anybody Japanese.
This may seem surprising to some here, but I suggest most corporations would
feel the same way. Most/many/some (pick one) corporations have an attitude
that the NSA is part of our government and "we support our government", as
one very famous CEO put it to me one day.
Just some perspective from another point of view.
| 7 | trimmed_train |
1,227 | I thought that all coolants were aluminum safe any more. But I would
like to know more since I must tear down my Kawasaki (again I must add).
| 12 | trimmed_train |
785 | : I'm searching for a phonetic TrueType font for Windows 3.1. If
: anybody knows one, please mail me!
:
: Thanks.
:
: dw
:
:
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: [email protected] # D-4600 Dortmund 50 #
: Phone ++49 231 1084-250 # >> Dr. B.: "Koennten Sie das #
: Fax ++49 231 1084-401 # MAL EBEN erledigen?" << #
Yes, I'm looking for phonetic font(s) too! So if you know one,
please mail me too! | 18 | trimmed_train |
9,092 | I saw once an article about a new line of Macs configured to
work more optimally as file servers.
Anyone know any more details?
| 14 | trimmed_train |
8,851 |
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/>I always thought GD's Fighter plants were in Long Island.
/>
/No, Northrup has a plant on Long Island.
I don't think Northrup ever had a plant on Long Island. The two main airframe
manufacturers there were (Fairchild)/Republic which closed its doors after the
T-46 cancellation, and Grumman (which is still hanging on last I time I called).
I think Sperry also started there. If you're ever in the area check out the
Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell field (now mostly parking lots behind the
Nassau Coliseum and the community college). Good display of vehicles from Long
Island, including a LEM flight article. | 10 | trimmed_train |
4,013 |
Ah, there's the rub. And a catch-22 to boot. For the purposes of a
contest, you'll probably not compete if'n you can't afford the ride to get
there. And although lower priced delivery systems might be doable, without
demand its doubtful that anyone will develop a new system. Course, if a
low priced system existed, there might be demand...
I wonder if there might be some way of structuring a contest to encourage
low cost payload delivery systems. The accounting methods would probably
be the hardest to work out. For example, would you allow Rockwell to
'loan' you the engines? And so forth...
This depends on the how soon the new launch system comes on line. In other
words, perhaps a great deal of worthwhile technology (life support,
navigation, etc.) could be developed prior to a low cost launch system.
You wouldn't want to use the expensive stuff forever, but I'd hate to see
folks waiting to do anything until a low cost Mac, oops, I mean launch
system comes on line.
I guess I'd simplify this to say that 'waste' is a slippery concept. If
your goal is manned lunar exploration in the next 5 years, then perhaps its
not 'wasted' money. If your goal is to explore the moon for under $500
million, then you should put of this exploration for a decade or so.
Craig
| 10 | trimmed_train |
1,015 | Gilligan = Sloth
Skipper = Anger
Thurston Howell III = Greed
Lovey Howell = Gluttony
Ginger = Lust
Professor = Pride
Mary Ann = Envy
| 0 | trimmed_train |
10,131 |
Let us not forget about the genocide of the Azeri people in 'Karabag'
and x-Soviet Armenia by the Armenians. Between 1914 and 1920, Armenians
committed unheard-of crimes, resorted to all conceivable methods of
despotism, organized massacres, poured petrol over babies and burned
them, raped women and girls in front of their parents who were bound
hand and foot, took girls from their mothers and fathers and appropriated
personal property and real estate. And today, they put Azeris in the most
unbearable conditions any other nation had ever known in history.
AREF SADIKOV sat quietly in the shade of a cafe-bar on the
Caspian Sea esplanade of Baku and showed a line of stitches in
his trousers, torn by an Armenian bullet as he fled the town of
Hojali just over three months ago, writes Hugh Pope.
"I'm still wearing the same clothes, I don't have any others,"
the 51-year-old carpenter said, beginning his account of the
Hojali disaster. "I was wounded in five places, but I am lucky to
be alive."
Mr Sadikov and his wife were short of food, without electricity
for more than a month, and cut off from helicopter flights for 12
days. They sensed the Armenian noose was tightening around the
2,000 to 3,000 people left in the straggling Azeri town on the
edge of Karabakh.
"At about 11pm a bombardment started such as we had never heard
before, eight or nine kinds of weapons, artillery, heavy
machine-guns, the lot," Mr Sadikov said.
Soon neighbours were pouring down the street from the direction
of the attack. Some huddled in shelters but others started
fleeing the town, down a hill, through a stream and through the
snow into a forest on the other side.
To escape, the townspeople had to reach the Azeri town of Agdam
about 15 miles away. They thought they were going to make it,
until at about dawn they reached a bottleneck between the two
Armenian villages of Nakhchivanik and Saderak.
"None of my group was hurt up to then ... Then we were spotted by
a car on the road, and the Armenian outposts started opening
fire," Mr Sadikov said.
Azeri militiamen fighting their way out of Hojali rushed forward
to force open a corridor for the civilians, but their efforts
were mostly in vain. Mr Sadikov said only 10 people from his
group of 80 made it through, including his wife and militiaman
son. Seven of his immediate relations died, including his
67-year-old elder brother.
"I only had time to reach down and cover his face with his hat,"
he said, pulling his own big flat Turkish cap over his eyes. "We
have never got any of the bodies back."
The first groups were lucky to have the benefit of covering fire.
One hero of the evacuation, Alif Hajief, was shot dead as he
struggled to change a magazine while covering the third group's
crossing, Mr Sadikov said.
Another hero, Elman Memmedov, the mayor of Hojali, said he and
several others spent the whole day of 26 February in the bushy
hillside, surrounded by dead bodies as they tried to keep three
Armenian armoured personnel carriers at bay.
As the survivors staggered the last mile into Agdam, there was
little comfort in a town from which most of the population was
soon to flee.
"The night after we reached the town there was a big Armenian
rocket attack. Some people just kept going," Mr Sadikov said. "I
had to get to the hospital for treatment. I was in a bad way.
They even found a bullet in my sock."
Victims of war: An Azeri woman mourns her son, killed in the
Hojali massacre in February (left). Nurses struggle in primitive
conditions (centre) to save a wounded man in a makeshift
operating theatre set up in a train carriage. Grief-stricken
relatives in the town of Agdam (right) weep over the coffin of
another of the massacre victims. Calculating the final death toll
has been complicated because Muslims bury their dead within 24
hours.
Photographs: Liu Heung / AP
Frederique Lengaigne / Reuter
THE INDEPENDENT, London, 12/6/'92
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,716 | 18 | trimmed_train |
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6,798 |
Maybe it milks the dogcow? 9-)
Lots of drivers are available off ftp.cica.indiana.edu in pub/pc/win3/
drivers/video. I've tried two: et4cview.zip and et4turbo.zip. These
give you a choice of turbo and non-turbo drivers. The turbo drivers
were FAST but caused mouse problems with my machine (which has a
Diamond Speedstar card). I finally got turbo drivers (wndSpeed by
Binar) from Diamond. Amazing. Blazingly fast (for a non-accelerated
card) and best of all - no GPF's for a month or so...
-- | 18 | trimmed_train |
170 | # #The article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners.
# #The median number of sexual partners for all men 20-39 was 7.3.
# #Compared to the table I have already posted from Masters, Johnson,
# #and Kolodny showing male homosexual partners, it is apparent that
# #homosexual men are dramatically more promiscuous than the general
# #male population. It's a shame that we don't have a breakdown for
# #straight men vs. gay/bi men -- that would show even more dramatically
# #how much more promiscuous gay/bi men are.
#
# Possibly because gay/bi men are less likely to get married?
Marriage isn't a requirement for a couple staying together.
# What was the purpose of this post? If it was to show a mindless obsession
# with statistics, an incredibly flawed system of reasoning, and a repellent
# hatemonger agenda, then the purpose was accomplished with panache.
#
# (a) Get a clue. (b) Get a life. (c) Get out of my face. I'm not in yours.
#
# ----bi Andrew D. Simchik SCHNOPIA!
Yes you are. When you and the rest of the homosexual community
pass laws to impose your moral codes on me, by requiring me to
hire, rent to, or otherwise associate with a homosexual against
my will, yes, you are in my face. Until homosexuals stop trying
to impose their morals on me, I will be in your face about this. | 13 | trimmed_train |
2,959 |
: 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.
I think the ink now used in the DeskJet family is water-fast.
I've had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain. These were colour pictures
from a DeskJet 500C. Mind you, it could have been acid rain:-)
I use a BJ10ex. Ink dries fast, but it really doesn't like getting wet.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
11,096 |
Oops, sorry, my words, not the words of the Qur'an.
Note that "(the celestial bodies)" in the above verse is an
interpolation (which is why it is in brackets) -- it is the translator's
(incorrect, IMHO) interpretation.
Here is Maurice Bucaille's translation (he studied Arabic for his
research into the Qur'an and science) of this verse:
"(God is) the One Who created the night, the day, the sun and the moon.
Each is travelling in an orbit with its own motion." (Qur'an :33)
The positive aspect of this verse noted by Dr. Maurice Bucaille is that
while geocentrism was the commonly accepted notion at the time (and for
a long time afterwards), there is no notion of geocentrism in this verse
(or anywhere in the Qur'an). | 8 | trimmed_train |
9,898 | The following are available for $7.00 each (includes postage if in USA): | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,629 |
The American people didn't have any problem with it too (Clinton). Actually I
think that it does not make any difference as long as they have the
qualifications to become leaders. BTW in my political view I hope (and should be
the Arab hope too) that Binyamin Netanyahu will not be ellected as prime minister
of Israel.
Naftaly
---- | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,507 |
I'm neither a doctor nor a firearms tech expert, but it would seem
that given the way a holstered gun points, accidental injuries inflicted
that way would be among the least lethal.
| 9 | trimmed_train |
8,328 | Count me interested in a Cardinal's mailing list. If anyone
finds one or starts one, please let me know.
Thanks,
Dick Detweiler | 2 | trimmed_train |
1,329 |
I just found out about the sublinguals disappearing too. I don't
know why. Perhaps because they weren't as profitable as cafergot.
Too bad, since tablets are sometimes vomited up by migraine patients
and they don't do any good flushed down the toilet. I suspect
we'll be moving those patients more and more to the DHE nasal
spray, which is far more effective.
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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 |
3,058 |
wondering
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Do you mean Juan Berenguer? He was traded for Mark Davis in the middle
of last season. Exchanged one stiff for another, as Berenguer hadn't
come back from his injury in 91. I think he's retired now.
Anyhow, as middle relief, Marvin ain't that bad. He at least can
pitch a couple of innings or do mop-up work. I don't know much
about McMichael (was he the Mexican League guy?), but
everybody else in the pen is a 1 inning man, except maybe
Mercker.
-------------------------------------------------------
Eric Roush fierkelab@ bchm.biochem.duke.edu
"I am a Marxist, of the Groucho sort"
Grafitti, Paris, 1968
TANSTAAFL! (although the Internet comes close.) | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,824 |
I somehow started to doubt technical competence of the
people who designed the system. Why on the Earth split the
80-bit key in 40-bit parts to keep them in escrow separately
(having 40 bit and large volumes of data voice links produce
it should be relatively easy to break it) when they simply
could keep 80-bit sequences in N (N>=2) independent places
and then XOR all the partial keys to get the actual key (N-1
sequences should obviously be selected randomly and Nth is the
actual key XOR-ed with the random sequences).
(Or is it a conspiracy? 1/2 :-) | 7 | trimmed_train |
22 |
)>> "The Catalog of Personal Computing Tools for Engineers and Scien-
)>> tists" lists hardware cards and application software packages for
)>> PC/XT/AT/PS/2 class machines. Focus is on engineering and scien-
)>> tific applications of PCs, such as data acquisition/control,
)>> design automation, and data analysis and presentation.
)>> If you would like a free copy, reply with your (U. S. Postal)
)>> mailing address.
I have a copy of this catalog in front of me as I write this.
It does have tons of qool stuff in it.
My impression is that they try not to send it out to "browsers". It
appears that if your not a buyer or an engineer they do not want to
waste a catalog on you. When you get a catalog there's a "VIP Code" you
have to give them "to ensure your continued subscription.".
Anyway, if you want to get in touch with them, the company is
Personal Computing Tools
550 Division Street
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 378-8400
(They also have fax #'s and toll free #'s for ordering and tech support) | 5 | trimmed_train |
1,341 |
[deleted]
I can't speak for Mr. Cavano, but I understood his comment to refer to
the idea that unrecognized pantheism is dangerous to Christians. If we
unthinkingly adopt pantheistic ideas that are opposed to Christianity,
we can pervert our faith. When we clearly recognize pantheism when we
encounter it we have the opportunity to embrace what is consistent with
Christianity and reject what isn't.
We need to be alert, always thinking and questioning. We must examine
the underlying assumptions of every book we read, tv program we watch
and socio-political movement we participate in. Ideas are important.
Philosophies and doctrines are what give form to the events of our
lives. They are the basis from which we live our lives of love and
service. The command to love God with all one's mind means no fuzzy-
headed drifting from idea to idea.
One Christian who acknowledges this is the Pope. It is a frequent theme
in his writings. Indeed, thoughtful Christians from most traditions
recognize that consumerism has no place in the lives of Christians. It
too is a perversion and dangerous to our faith. Thank you, Jack, for
pointing out the parallel. | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,035 | Does anyone recieve annoying email from Roger Maynard whenever they post an
article telling them to leave him alon and stop posting to the group??
These emails are filled with insults- more than are usual in Roger's posts
and have little if any hockey info.
I have recieved two in the last 2 days.
I am just wondering if I am special or Roger trys to bully everyone who
disagrees with him.
Gregmeister
Obligatory hockey comment: | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,359 |
In spite of my great respect for the people you speak of, I think their
cost estimates are a bit over-optimistic. If nothing else, a working SSTO
is at least as complex as a large airliner and has a smaller experience
base. It therefore seems that SSTO development should cost at least as
much as a typical airliner development. That puts it in the $3G to $5G
range.
True it and the contest would result in a much larger market. But I
don't think it would be enough to attract the investors given the
risks involved.
If you could gurantee the SSTO costs and gurantee that it captures
100% of the available launch market, then I think you could
do it.
Allen
| 10 | trimmed_train |
10,270 |
Koresh had a lawyer, Deguin(?) who he spoke to in person several times during
the last few weeks.
This strikes me as a tad ingenous. "If X had done/note done Y, then Z would
never have happened." I tend to place tha responsibility on the group/person
actually committing the act, not on those whon "forced them to do it".
After all, to take an extreme example, if the British were not in Northern
Ireland, the IRA would not be forced to place bombs in shopping centers.
That said, this whole sorry story was a totally unecessary, utterly fucked
up mess from the get go.
semper fi, | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,074 |
Precisely.
There's no objective medicine; some people get marvellous results from
alternative therapy, others only respond to traditional medicine.
There's no objective physics; Einstein and Bohr have told us that.
There's no objective reality. LSD should be sufficient to prove that.
I consider it to be a useful fiction; an abstract ideal we can strive
towards. Like an ideal gas or a light inextensible string, it doesn't
actually exist; but we can talk about things as if they were like it, and not
be too far wrong.
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8,541 |
No wonder in the light of that you are a probably a theist who tries
to pass as an agnostic. I still remember your post about your daughter
singing Chrismas Carols and your feelings of it well. | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,512 |
You can get the ApplicationContext associated with a widget by calling
XtWidgetToApplicationContext.
| 16 | trimmed_train |
10,494 | I have a Macc IIci and a Color scanner.
I scanned a picture at 600 dpi. When I try to print
it on my HP500 color printer, after 10 minutes of
making noise, the mac hangs. I would need to reboot it.
What does this mean? Do I need to buy more memory? I have
5.0 MB now. I also have about 50 MB of disk free, and the
scanned picture is about 12 MB.
---
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7,440 |
Let me clearify Mr. Turkish; | 6 | trimmed_train |
2,696 | I am looking for any information about the Sigma Designs
double up board. All I can figure out is that it is a
hardware compression board that works with AutoDoubler, but
I am not sure about this. Also how much would one cost? | 14 | trimmed_train |
7,530 |
NASA and related agencies apparently used this same principles to create
the loudest reported reproduced sound. They used an "analog" electrically
controlled valve to control the flow of air across a horn throat. If I
remember correctly it was called a "modulated air blast transducer". There
were reports of the thing being able to produce 106 dB @ 80 Hz @ 10 mile
distance, communicate directly with fighter pilots @ 5000 ft, etc.
Regards,
Gordon.
| 11 | trimmed_train |
11,055 | ...
I tried to respond by email, but all attempts bounced.
The condition of the Ctrl key BEFORE you press the mouse button makes no
difference whatsoever. You have to be holding the Ctrl key when you
RELEASE the mouse button if you want to force a copy operation.
Here's a simple experiment. Select a file and begin to drag it (no Ctrl
key). Notice that the file's icon disappears from the listing window. Now
watch what happens to that icon as you press and release the Ctrl key
(keeping the mouse button pressed all the while). In addition, the icon
that you are dragging will show a "+" while you are holding the Ctrl key,
indicating that the file is being copied rather than moved.
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1,785 | A related question (which I haven't given that much serious thought
to): at what lattitude is the average length of the day (averaged
over the whole year) maximized? Is this function a constant=
12 hours? Is it truly symmetric about the equator? Or is
there some discrepancy due to the fact that the orbit is elliptic
(or maybe the difference is enough to change the temperature and
make the seasons in the southern hemisphere more bitter, but
is far too small to make a sizeable difference in daylight
hours)?
I want to know where to move. | 10 | trimmed_train |
2,971 |
[Long silly discussion deleted...]
This suggestion isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Years ago in another
time and place, I used to do oil changes in boats powered by automotive
engines. In many cases, there was no way to get any sort of a tray under
the oil pan because it was boxed in by the bottom of the hull and various
floation chambers on each side. And if you *did* get something there, you'd
spill all the oil out of it for sure trying to get it back out again.
So we used a small pump powered by an electric drill to suck the oil out
the dipstick hole. There was a long/thin hose on the inlet side designed
to fit down the dipstick tube, and another, thicker/shorter hose on the
outlet side that you put into any convenient container. I'm sure these
gadgets are still available from marine hardware suppliers if you want one. | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,537 |
Or perhaps it's referring to the wife and child sitting
in the sidecar next to the one-up on the
moto?
:)
Anyone ever heard of a game called oneup-onedown?
(it's a drinking game, for all you older folx...:)
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3,075 |
We already got him under Pitchers, Overrated, Jewish.
Probably. Is SHirley P still alive? Just wondering. | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,778 |
It depends on the algorithm used. 128-bit secret keys for RSA are
definitively not secure enough.
Regards,
Vesselin | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,561 | =========================
commodore 128
epson homewriter 10 9 pin printer
1571 d/s disk drive
2 joysticks
1 mouse
lotsa software, both games and apps.
rapid fire joystick adapter
==========================
about a year old
$130 OBO
| 5 | trimmed_train |
4,635 | We are getting a memory fault and a core dump whenever we end a Motif
session under Ultrix 4.3, running on a DEC 5000/240. An examintion of the
core file leads us to believe it's from getcons. Does anyone know what
this is all about?
marc
| 16 | trimmed_train |
3,943 | I have the following Amiga software for sale:
ProVideo GOLD $50
AmigaVision $25
B.E.S.T. Plan It! $10
spreadsheet
(still in shrinkwrap)
SuperBack $10
(hard drive backup)
Certificate Maker $10
Add s&h to the above and its yours...email me at the address listed below:
| 5 | trimmed_train |
3,151 |
Terry, hi. I recently bought an LCIII and a Datadesk 101E. I can't
remember trying to rebuild the desktop with it, however it did give me
a strange problem. When I held down shift during startup to disable
all extensions, nothing happened. I tried it with another keyboard, using
the same adb connector cable- and it worked with the other keyboard.
The shift key on the Datadesk keyboard worked well otherwise. I checked
the dipswitches and they are fine. Try disabling your extensions and tell
me if it works.
I am annoyed with Datadesk. I sent them the keyboard in the mail for
inspection/repair/replacement. The technician on the phone said they
have a 10-14 day turn around time- meaning you should receive the
inspected/repaired keyboard in that time. Well, they have had the
keyboard for over 3 weeks and I still have gotten very little info
from them about it. It's annoying because it cost me $12 to send them
the keyboard (they do not refund the money) and their costumer service
lines are toll calls. Tell me if you have a similar experience.
-David | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,094 |
Dont you believe that the Branch Davidians committed suicide for one
minute. I would not put it past the FBI to lob in some incendiary grenades
while they feed your their story. Don't ever ever trust what your wonderful
government tells you. Janet Reno and the FBI have the murder of a hundred
people on their hands. Hope they can sleep at night....
P.Vasilion, kb2nmv
SUNY @ BUFFALO
<<STD.DISCLAIMERS>> | 9 | trimmed_train |
8,353 | Hi,
I recently bought an Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+. It's a real nice card,
but I'm having very big problems with it.
The basic problem is that vertical lines are missing from the display
in windows. Something like every other line or so.
Also, when I use a DOS gif viewer, namely vpic 6.0c, in Fahrenheit 1280
mode, vertical lines are swapped. It's very strange looking.
If it uses VESA standards, however, it works great! only it thinks there's
only 512K on the card. (There's 1MB on there).
I have contacted Orchid support, and they tried to be helpful, but didn't
have the answer. I don't think the card is the problem, since it works great
on my friend's computer.
Here is my setup:
Fahrenheit 1280+, 1MB, bios 1.1
386-25, Opti-chipset2, AMI bios 1990, 5MB ram.
Maxtor 120MB harddrive, (slave)
Maxtor 40Mb harddrive (master)
Panasonic c1381 monitor,
version 4.6 windows drivers.
windows 3.1
I tried taking all memory managers, etc off, and took all other cards
(besides disk controller) off.
My friend's setup is 386sx-16, shamrock monitor.
If anyone has seen anything like this, or can otherwise help, I will be very
greatful.
Please send e-mail to [email protected] or
[email protected] | 18 | trimmed_train |
3,375 |
Then don't complain (maybe it wasn't you) that SCSI was so expensive on
PC's because all we've had until a year or two ago was the ISA bus.
(ie no one buys SCSI for ISA because ISA is slow)
Are you saying that SCSI on an ISA bus is not an automatic winner when
compared to IDE?
I get different transfer rates out of my IDE when I change my ISA bus speed.
IDE is just a variant of the old IBM- MFM AT controller. (at least that's
how it looks from a software point of view). It was never meant to be
an all-encompassing protocal/standard to be implimented across different
platforms.
Is there any argument that
IDE can (or can't) transfer data from the IDE drive at least as fast as the
drive is able to provide the data? Are SCSI versions of IDE drives able
to deliver higher sustained transfer rates to their SCSI interface (because
of a higher RPM platter, different arrangement of heads, etc?)?
If data is going from one drive to another, and if SCSI has the ability to
perform that transfer without the data having to go through the CPU or main
memory, then yes, that is the optimal way to do it. As far as I know, IDE
can't do that. But when the CPU wants data from both drives (data to be stored
in main memory) are you saying that SCSI can grab data from both drives
at the same time *and* store/transfer that data to main memory also at the
same time? Working off 1 IRQ and 1 DMA channel on an ISA (or whatever) bus?
A friend of mine just got a Maxtor 245 meg IDE drive for $320. (that's 245
million bytes, or 234 mega-bytes). With the basic $20 interface, he gets
close to 1 meg/sec transfer on his 286-20. Does your figure include a few
hundred $$$ for SCSI drivers?
So you're saying that SCSI would have been the default interface type,
considering that the vast majority of PC's don't have cd-rom drives or
tape backups or etc? That most PC's only have (or had) 1 hard drive and
run DOS? That SCSI hard drives cost a lot more than MFM or RLL drives
at the time? (and how common were SCSI drives under 80 megs 4 to 10 years
ago?) There's a lot more than the lack of a common interface card that
prevented SCSI from becoming the connection medium of choice.
But on that point, is it faster? This is what all this is about. Do you
get more performance for the money. For all the people that will only have
a single hard drive in their system (regardless of the OS) will the SCSI
choice really give them more performance than IDE?
True, but expandibility can also start on the bus, which means the option
is there for cd-rom drives or tape backups that run off their own cards.
No argument. This is always held up to the first time SCSI buyer as the
best reason. But how many SCSI devices will the first time SCSI buyer
eventually acquire? Again does it make sense to go SCSI for a single
hard drive system?
With all the postings on the SCSI I or II specs, are you really sure that
PC and Apple SCSI hard drives are compatible? And even if they are,
is the data accessible from either machine (ie are there no formatting/
partitioning or file table differences?) Is it really plug'n'play?
So the C: drive on the connor becomes a logical D: drive to DOS. Is this
really a problem?
After having two IDE drives in my system for temporary file transfers,
I have never seen any differences when switching between drives, nor
have I ever seen any differences when transfering files between drives or
to/from the same drive.
That is nice (as long as the power supply can keep up). I do believe that
there is the possibility for up to 4 IDE drives on a PC.
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10,866 |
Yes, I saw a 200 Turbo Quattro wagon on I-287 in NJ on Monday. I thought
Audi stopped selling wagons in the US after the 5000. This is exactly the
type of vehicle I would like to own. I bet its price is 4-5 times my
car budget. | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,684 |
The actual hourglass is hollow and is designed to generate a draft,
exploiting the venturi effect. Around the base of the hourglass is a
ring of water towers. Warm river water, coming from the steam condenser
in the plant, is sprayed over louvres. The draft being pulled through
the tower cools the water by both evaporation and convection. The
sensible heat extracted from the cooling water is the driving force for
draft generation.
It should be noted that the hourglass-shaped cooling towers are used on
both fossile and nuclear plants. It should also be noted that at
locations where water is plentiful, the cooling towers are only used part
time, when the discharge temperature would exceed some release limit.
It was once thought that the warm discharge water was damaging to fish.
Fishermen know that is thoroughly incorrect. Nontheless, stringent,
usually state, regulations remain in some instances. Since it typically
takes 60,000 hp worth of pumping to move the volume of water needed
to cool a 1000 MWe plant, the cost of using the towers is not insignificant. | 11 | trimmed_train |
11,214 |
Nonsense. I quite clearly state that it was Greg that made the claim
that Gainey never made an error. And he made the claim. Read below.
From rec.sport.hockey Thu Apr 15 21:22:49 1993
From: [email protected] (Greg Ballentine)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
[nonsense deleted]
Gainey is the best defensive forward ever. I stand by that assessment.
He was a very good player who belongs in the hall of fame. Did you
ever watch him play? He never made a technical error.
[more nonsense deleted]
To knowledgeable observers of the game my meaning is obvious. Your
hockey education is not my responsibility.
He was just another player. To laud him as anything more I find
bothersome. I hated the Habs. I hated Lafleur until I realized
that he was likely the most aesthetically pleasing player to ever
skate in my lifetime. Why would anyone talk about Gainey?
Did he play hockey at a high level? Was he any good? If not, why
would you bother to bring JC up? I am talking about hockey players
here. If you can't follow the conversation don't follow up. As I
said previously, it is not my responsibility to educate you.
Sure. Two journeymen. Big deal. Neither one of them is worth
discussing.
That is an excellent idea and if I decide to waste any more time
responding to any of your, or Greg's, postings then I will be sure
to implement that very macro.
Tarasov claimed that Gainey was a "hockey god." And Greg ate it up.
And that is what this thread is all about. If you didn't know
that then why are you responding?
And as for "blanket disregard for these individuals", I can remember
Leaf teams, purely populated by such "individuals", winning four
Stanley Cups. Teams. No one ran around telling us that George
Armstrong was the best hockey player in the world.
Right. I had to get to the end of your posting before I realized you were
a complete joke.
In the future, if you are going to respond to my postings I would appreciate
it if you could present a cogent argument supported by facts gleaned from a
version of reality that most of the rest of us would recognize.
cordially, as always,
rm
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6,754 |
Well, I'm not a lawyer, but from what I can tell this is completely
and utterly untrue.
You see, this country has this thing called a "constitution".
If you legitimately aquire the device, and you yourself are
not a government employee or otherwise encumbered, I don't think they
can stop you from revealing anything about the device you can
determine. Remember the Pentagon Papers precedent? The First Amendment
applies here.
The U.S. does NOT have an official secrets act. We do have laws that
will punish you for revealing what classified information you learned
in your capacity as a government official, contractor, etc, and we
have laws that prohibit stealing such information. However, if they
sell you the chip, I can't see that they can make reverse engineering
it and revealing the details illegal.
--
Perry Metzger [email protected] | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,587 |
As I remember it, the name of the program your looking for is called icofrite.
Cica was where I saw it last. It was quite a while ago.
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2,251 | WGT is the WordUp Graphics Toolkit, designed by yours truly and my
co-programmer (and brother) Chris Egerter. It is a Turbo/Borland C++ graphics
library for programming in 320*200*256 VGA. We are currently producing it as
shareware, but in a few years it may be a commercial product (excuse typos,
there's no backspace on this terminal). Features include:
- loading and saving bit-images (called blocks from herein)
- flipping, resizing and warping blocks
- loading and saving palette, fading, several in memory at once
- graphics primitives such as line, circle, bar, rectangle
- region fill (not the usually useless floodfill)
- sprites (animated bitmaps), up to 200 onscreen at once
- joystick/mouse support
- SB support (VOC and CMF)
- tile-based game creation using 16*16 pixel tiles to create
a 320*200 tile map (or game world) like in Duke Nuke 'Em
- number of sprites increased to 1000
- Professional Sprite Creator utility and Map Maker
- routines to simplify scrolling games using maps, etc
- FLI playing routines, sprites can be animated over the FLI while playing
- PCX support, soon GIF
- EMS/XMS coming soon as well
Leave E-mail to Barry Egerter at [email protected]
Files available on: (use mget wgt*.zip)
SIMTEL20 and mirrors pd1:<msdos.turbo-c>
nic.funet.fi pub/msdos/games/programming | 1 | trimmed_train |
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3,436 |
Yeah, right. And the company was started by George Simon Ohmite. | 11 | trimmed_train |
4,924 |
My understanding from my psycology classes is that the percentage is
more like 10-12% world wide. I would really like to know your source
for the 1-2% figure. | 13 | trimmed_train |
9,521 |
Sigh.
I try to make a little joke, I try to inject some humour here
and what happens? In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn:
"I say, that was a _joke_, son."
I thought that the bit about McElwaine, not to mention the two
smileys, would indicate to even the most humour impaired that I was
JOKING.
Sigh.
(And will everyone who pat's suggestion (thanks bunches, pat)
*please* stop sending me email.)
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2,359 | Hello , I think you are probaly right, in spite of the movement
it is getting better each day. cheers | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,809 |
I am not so sure of Jewish proselytism then, but I would like to relate
an account of a recent dinner I had with Jews a few months ago.
The dinner was instigated by the aunt of the hostess, whom I had met while
visiting my wife in Galveston last October. The dear old aunt (now
deceased) was very proud of her Jewish heritage, although not especially
devout. Her parents were both murdered in Nazi concentration camps in
Austria during WWII because they were Jewish. While conversing with her
about politics, world affairs and religion, she remarked that it would
be a good idea for me to visit her niece on my return to Atlanta.
Within two days of returning to Atlanta, her niece called to invite
me over for dinner with her husband. I went, not knowing really what to
expect, other than stimulating conversation and fellowship. What I got,
however, was rather unexpected. The thrust of the evening's discussion
was to condemn the Reagan-Bush policies prohibiting abortion counseling
in federally funded family planning clinics, prohibiting the sterilization
of minorities on welfare here and in Puerto Rico, on
the ban on fetal tissue research, and against the Mexico City policy,
"which denies U.S. foreign aid to programs overseas that promote abortion."
The crux of their position was to place the blame for the problems of
"overpopulation," rampant domestic crime, African starvation, unwed
mothers, etc., on Christianity, rather on the fall of Adam. Now, this
is not what I had to come to talk about. But every time I tried to
bring up the subject of Judaism, they would condemn Jews for Jesus
and admonish me against converting to Judaism, "because it involves
too much study and effort." And I did not even raise the prospect, nor
try to convert them to the truth of Christ! There was certainly no
Jewish proselytism going on there.
And again, last November I toured a "traditional" Jewish synagogue and was
subjected to a 30-minute harangue against Jesus and Christianity in
general. I realize that these are two isolated incidents, and that the
best supervisor I ever had at work is Jewish, but from my experience,
the modern Jew is not known for his proselytism.
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2,256 |
Not necessarily. I've been thinking about this, and if this chip/scheme
is to provide any real security, there must be some sort of key exchange,
either using a public-key encryption scheme, or using a key exchange scheme
like Diffie-Hellman. If there's an out-of-band transmission of a shared
session key, then what protects that band from eavesdropping? If the phone
company or some other online central authority generates a session key and
sends it to both users, then what's the point of going to the trouble of
having some complicated key-depositories? Just ask the phone company for
a copy of the session key for each call.
Now, it's probably not practical for each user to keep an online copy of
every public key used by anyone anywhere, right? So, probably, there will
be some way of getting these keys verified. This might be a digitally-
signed (by the chip manufacturer) copy of the public key in this unit,
stored by this unit. It might also be an online directory with access to
everyone's public keys. (This would introduce another weakness to the
security of the scheme, of course.) Presumably, if you don't use your
designated key, you can't get a verified connection to other standard chips.
It might be useful to have a modified chip, which would allow you to
use either the original public/private key pair, or some other key pair
and verification scheme. Unfortunately, this would not allow you to call
most people and establish secure communications.... | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,424 |
I am resending this message because my news program may have goofed the first
time.
Terry, I recently bought an LCIII and a Datadesk 101E. I don't
remember trying to rebuild the desktop with it, however it did give me
a strange problem. When I held down shift during startup to disable
all extensions, nothing happened. I tried it with another keyboard, using
the same adb connector cable- and it worked with the other keyboard.
The shift key on the Datadesk keyboard worked well otherwise. I checked
the dipswitches and they are fine. Try disabling your extensions and tell
me if it works.
I am annoyed with Datadesk. I sent them the keyboard in the mail for
inspection/repair/replacement. The technician on the phone said they
have a 10-14 day turn around time- meaning you should receive the
inspected/repaired keyboard in that time. Well, they have had the
keyboard for over 3 weeks and I still have gotten very little info
from them about it. It's annoying because it cost me $12 to send them
the keyboard and their technical support line is not toll free. tell me
if you have a similar experience with them. | 14 | trimmed_train |
231 |
First of all, without wanting to sound nagging and bossy, yes it is
a trivial answer and that's perfectly fine ( otherwise how is one supposed
to move up to the complicated and challenging questions, we net readers so
much enjoy :) ?), and the massive crossposting of your article was not
justified...
Please refer to appropriate newsgroups next time (by the way c.o.msw.misc is
OK :) ). Now as far as your problem is concerned: try playing around with
the settings in the 'Fonts..." dialog box under the window control menu (that
little square at the top left corner of the window..).
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2,192 | COCHRANE,JAMES SHAPLEIGH writes
This group killed itself to fulfill its interpretation of prophecy
and to book a suite in Paradise, taking innocent kids along for the
ride. I hardly think the feds were motivated by persecution. If they
were, all Koresh would have had to do was surrender quietly to the
authorities, without firing a shot, to get the American people behind
him and put the feds in the hot seat. But no, God told him to play
the tough guy. There's great strength in yielding, but few appreciate
this.
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1,153 |
There are several problems with the way the game is being presented to the
fans. I feel that geographical names would enhance regional loyalties
more than names honouring personages. And of course, they would not appear
nearly as confusing to one approaching the sport for the first time.
Another thing that bothers me is the points system. Percentages, as used in
the other major sports are clearly more informative. When I look at the
NHL standings the first thing I have to do is make a quick calculation to
account for games in hand (which is almost always the case). Some will
object to percentages, claiming perhaps, that it is an "Americanization"
of the sport but I feel that using percentages is more informative and
whether it is "American" or not is irrelevant.
Even if Orr couldn't have contributed without the likes of Norris, you would
have to agree that Norris couldn't have contributed without the likes of Orr.
And taking a poll of most fans would quickly tell you who the fans feel made
the more meaningful contribution.
It doesn't look as if the division names are going to hold up either does it?
-- | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,550 | Anyone know of a phillies mailing list out there? .... they don't get much
coverage up here in Grand Rapids, MI *sob*
-- | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,761 |
Do you get a dial tone when you plug a phone into the jack?? If not,
then the line is possibly disconnected from the nearest telco junction
box. If you do get a dial tone, then surely the telco is sending a bill
for the line to *someplace* or *somebody*. Are you sure that what you
are doing is on the level. Sounds to me like you are just trying to get
at somebody's unlisted number. Fess up.
Keith
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4,999 | }>On a
}>waterski bike, you turn the handlebars left to lean right, just like on
}>a motorcycle, so this supports the move-the-contact-patch-from-beneath-the
}>centre-of-mass theory on how to *lean*. This contradicts the need for
}>gyroscopic precession to have a countersteering induced *lean*.
}
}...FOR A WATERSKI BIKE. It contradicts nothing for a motorcycle.
Not only that, but this morning I saw a TV ad for a waterski bike
(a Sea Doo, for those who care). I watched the lengthy ad very
carefully, and in every case and at every speed the riders turned
the handlebars left to go left, and right to go right. In other
words, they were *NOT* countersteering.
So perhaps it is only *some* waterski bikes on which one countersteers... | 12 | trimmed_train |
8,902 |
There is a mini-epidemic of Coccidiodes that is occurring in,
I believe, the Owen's Valley/ Bishop area east of the Sierras.
I don't believe there has been any great insight into the
increased incidence in that area. There is a low-level
of endemic infection in that region. Many people with
evidence of past exposure to the organism did not have
serious disease. | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,960 | Hi out there!
I'm looking for (mechanic-construction)CAD-software either PD-sources
or Sun 3-binaries (respective the licence.. :-).
Who knows _ANY_ package (and a source/site to get it..) ?
Thx, Fabian
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1,317 | Hey everyone, I'm new to this newsgroup so please excuse me if this is a
dumb question....I want to build a crossover for my stereo and I need
a coil with an inductance of 6.8mH (actually I need 4). I was wondering
if anyone knew where I could buy these or how to make these. I've called
many places and no one I can find sells them. If you have the answers just
E - mail me....
Thanks in advance....
Chris
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7,870 | For sale KFC SVGA Monitor 1024X768 .28DP Non-interlaced | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,004 | Is there anyone out there in NetLand that has/has had one of these?
Can someone give me a non-Consumer Reports review (or point me to a source) ???
Thanks
Scott
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Computer Science Undergraduate,
University of California, Riverside
Internet : 138.23.166.21
[email protected]
Facilities Engineer,
SHL SystemHouse, Inc. ,Technology Network
Internet : 192.75.61.2 | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,318 |
I will sell it for $33 including shipping...
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3,074 | Well, we got some responses and are doing some interviews with interesting
responders. However, just in case the other posting was overlooked by an
incredibly talented person ... Mea Culpa for posting this here for Mike,
but we're looking for someone special:
Tandem Computers is currently looking for a software wizard to help
us architect & implement a fault-tolerant generalized instrumentation
subsystem as part of our proprietary operating system kernel (TNS
Kernel). The TNS Kernel is a proprietary, loosely-coupled parallel,
message-based operating system. The TNS Kernel has wide connectivity
to open standards.
In this key individual contributor role, you will work with other
developers working on various components of the Transaction Management
Facility.
Your background needs to encompass some of the following 4 categories
(3 of 4 would be excellent):
Category 1. Math: Working knowledge of statistics, real analysis, as
used in experimental physics or chemistry, or in engineering.
Category 2. Working knowledge of telemetry issues-- i.e. time series,
autocorrelation, and statistical correlation of data streams.
Category 3. Integration & Test -- Instrumentation of systems under test,
i.e. payloads, flight modules, etc.
Category 4: Software Engineering: programming skills, algorithms, and
systems software techniques. | 10 | trimmed_train |
3,967 | I consulted with someone working on an electronic odometer. The
design was to use a microprocessor based system to write a somewhat
ofuscated pattern into an EEPROM. The idea was to make the circuit
difficult to program arbitrary values into the EEPROM. The
secondary purpose, acutally the primary purpose from the standpoint
of practicality, was to distributed the writes so as to avoid
exceeing the maximum number of writes fof the EEPROM being used.
The microprocessor also ignored pulses coming from the Hall effect
at a rate any higher than 110 MPH so as to make spoofing the reading
by bench pulsing at least somewhat undesirable. This was for an
automobile that was not expected to ever exceed 110 MPH in
operation. The case, of course, might not be the same for your
1993 RX-7!
The ECM modules of some cars do indeed store info about conditions
under which cars have been operated. Since steering angle and
velocity data, etc is available it would not be difficult to
collect all sorts of interesting demographic information about the
drivers' use of the car. I am not aware of any manufacturer
currently trying to enforce warranty restrictions based on reading
out use data from the ECM. While it could be a potential invasion
of your privacy for manufacturers to have access to data about your
driving style, it could also provide valuable information from
actual field use conditions to help engineer more appropriate cars.
I personally wouldn't mind the dealer collecting my driving
demographics as long as it is done in an anonymous fashion.
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7,647 |
I believe you are right. Both SCSI and SCSI-2 support 8 devices on the bus
(normally that would be the host controller and 7 targets) each of which
may have up to 8 logical units (LUNs). | 3 | trimmed_train |
6,331 |
You misrepresent me, Selim. The hard evidence for my statements about
his lack of objectivity are presented quite clearly in the book
"Orientalism" by Edward Said. Edward Said, by the way, is a Christian,
not a Muslim.
Regarding Bernard Lewis:
Him being a Zionist gives him a political motive for his
giving misrepresentations and half-truths about Islam.
Read "Orientalism" by Edward Said -- see the evidence for yourself.
In fact, I may post some of it here (if it isn't too long).
I haven't read Lewis's article, so I can't comment directly upon it, and
have only spoken about his writings _in general_ so far, that his
political motives make him a biased writer on Islam. His anti-Islamic
polemics, as I understand it, are often quite subtle and are often based
on telling half-truths.
Again, read "Orientalism" by Edward Said. I am _not_ asking you to take
what I say on trust, in fact I am urging you not to do so but to get
this book (it is a well-known book) and check the evidence out for
_yourself_.
If slavery is _in reality_ (as opposed to in the practice of some
Muslims) opposed by Islam, then using slaves for sexual
purposes is necessarily opposed too.
I understand your point of view, Selim -- I think, rather, it is _us_
who are not getting through to _you_.
Some of the points you repeat above I have already answered before.
Regarding women, I have made posting after posting on this subject,
showing that Islam is not anti-woman, etc. However, have you been
completely ignoring my postings or just missing them? I just reposted a
very good one, under the title "Islam and Women", reposted from
soc.religion.islam. If this has already disappeared from your site,
then please email me telling me so and I will email you a copy of this
excellent article.
IMHO, your understanding of the issue of women in Islam is sadly deficient.
Regarding slaves, _my_ posting on slavery -- the second one I made,
which is a repost of an article I wrote early last year -- is based
completely on the Qur'an and contains numerous Qur'anic verses and
hadiths to support its point of view.
Our approaches are different -- you are arguing from a historical
standpoint and I am arguing directly from the teachings of the Qur'an
and hadiths. Now, just because people say they are Muslims and perform
a particular action, does that automatically mean that their action is
part of Islam, even if it is opposed by the Qur'an and Sunnah? No! Of
course not.
Let me give you a concrete example, which might help clarify this for
you. The Qur'an prohibits drinking. Now, if a person says "I am a
Muslim" and then proceeds to drink a bottle of beer, does this now mean
that Islam teaches that people should drink beer? Of course not, and
only an idiot would think so.
Do you see my point?
You are judging Islam here on capitalist terms. Capitalism is an
ideology based largely on the assumption that people want to maximise
their wealth -- this assumption is in opposition to Islamic teachings.
To say Islam is bad because it is not capitalist is pretty unthinking --
Islam does not pretend to be capitalist and does not try to be
capitalist. (This does not mean that Islam does not support a
free-market -- for it does in general -- but there are other parts of
capitalism which are opposed to Islam as I understand it.)
One can postulate numerous reasons for this. Your theory is that it is
because Islam is not secularist and capitalist, etc. etc.
Selim, I will give you a clear historical example to show you the
fallacy of your views if you think (as you obviously do) that
Islam => lack of education and power.
For a large part of history, the Islamic world was very powerful. For a
significant section of history, the Islamic world was the foremost in
the sciences. So to say that Islam is, for example, anti-education is
completely absurd. You try to blame this situation on Islam -- history
shows that your conclusion is false and that, instead, there must be
other reasons for this situation.
Well, Selim, your viewpoint on women in Islam makes me question the extent
of your knowledge of Islam. I really think you are not
knowledgeable enough to be able to judge whether the Muslims are
following the Qur'an or not.
The Islamic world was at the forefront of the world in science at one
stage -- yet somehow, in your theory, it is by "following the Qur'an"
that Muslims are backwards in education. Selim, it is _your_ thesis
that is anti-historical, for you conveniently overlook this historical
fact which contradicts your theory.
You have certainly not shown this; you have merely stated it.
So far, it seems to me that your view on Islam being anti-education is
quite contrary to history. That you are so convinced of your views
makes me wonder just how objectively you are trying to look at all of
this.
I think, Selim, you should consider taking your own advice.
Here too.
Selim, you have such conviction of your viewpoint, yet you demonstrate
ignorance, not only of Islam but also of Islamic history (particularly
with respect to Muslims being leaders of science till about 1400 or so I
think). Yet you say that your viewpoint is based on history!
Selim, if I remember right, you say in one of your earlier posts that
you are an apostate from Islam. I think you should slow down and start
thinking clearly about the issues, and start _reading_ some of our
postings about Islam rather than ignoring them as you so obviously
have. | 8 | trimmed_train |
5,970 |
Uh oh. This looks a bit too much like Bobby's "Atheism Is False" stuff. Are
we really going to have to go through this again? Maybe the universe is
cyclical! :) :(
| 8 | trimmed_train |
6,169 |
Seeing as how people are willing to quote the FBI quoting cultists
who just yesterday were deranged and not to be trusted (hmm the FBI
or the cultists...) I think I'll quote the BBC quoting (actually voice
interview) one of the two British survivors. He claimed that the fire
started when the tanks caused an internal wooden wall/roof to collapse
knocking over kerosene lamps and that they had no suicide plan.
Maybe true, partly true, or false. | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,533 |
When you force people to associate with others against their will,
yes.
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9,738 | Hello,
you're not quite sure if that's a joke or not? Anyway you read the article!
--> You're right!!!
(1. The header (only this) IS a joke, 2. it's worth reading)
Perhaps some of you know my regular 'List of IDE Harddisk specs' where I
give all available information about IDE Harddrives. I am strongly
interested in contacting the manufacturers directly. But I have no money
for overseas calls, so I need
HARDDISK MANUFACTURER's EMAIL ADDRESSES
Please help if you can!
Carsten.
| 3 | trimmed_train |
10,087 | >> bad people, while not interfering with good people, I think we'd all be
>> for it. The problem is, the methods we're using now don't do the trick.
> Don't manufacture them. Don't sell them. Don't import them.
>
> Some guns will get through, but far fewer, and far less people will
> die because of them. Hunting weapons could be allowed, of course, as
> long as they are big, and bulky, and require reloading after a few
> shots (how many times can you shoot at the same animal, anyways One
> assumes they are moving!)
A better solution: | 9 | trimmed_train |
4,949 |
Actually, they won't. What they'll tell you is that if you add up the
number of suicides, murders of one drug dealer by another, legit
self-defenses of a battered spouse, and so on, you'll end up with a
number that is much larger than the number of self-defense killings
against strangers committed in the bedroom. (BTW - they didn't
honestly count the latter either, but let's not quibble.) They
try to claim that comparison is between the costs of self-defense
and the benefits, but they're wrong.
This comparison doesn't measure the costs of self-defense and it
doesn't measure the benefits either. For example, the goal is not to
kill the attacker, whatever your relationship to him, but to stop him.
While the number of killings may be proportional to the number of
stops, it isn't equal.
Anyone who confuses that comparison with an honest evaluation
is either lying or....
-andy | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,006 | Tony-
I read your post, it was nothing new, I had seen much the same in other
typical"Christian" anti-gay sentimental literature. Gay people are and will
con- tinue to be persecuted as long as such propaganda petpetuates. You may
be unaware of all the statistica "findings" concerning African-Americans that
have been published and used by various groups to re-enforce their own bias
against African-Americans. We usually think of the KKK in these instances,
but there are many other groups. Of course, the vast majority of the public
scoff at such findings and documents today, but that was not always the case.
Fortunately African-Americans had "whites" who supported their 'cause' and
public sentiment was eventually (if not entirely) turned around. There was
even a Civil War, and anti-negro sentiment increased. In fact, until laws
were put in place to protect the inalienable rights of Blacks it was pretty
much legal to discriminate against them.
I know many gays and I will NOT turn my back on them or their right to be free
form discrimination. You may think that I have been deceived or something,
that is your perogative. My church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
openly affirms the rights of oppressed people of all segments of society,
including gays. We believe the Gospel message of preaching to all creation
and making disciples. We believe in the Lord's great commandment to Love,
and we beleive in standing up for the oppressed, even if it is not popular
to do so. I really like my church for last reason the most. I can find a
church almost anywhere in the valley that stands for the Gospel and believes
in the commandment of Love (though I'm hard-pressed to find many who actually
sho Love), but not many are willing to champion the oppressed, especially
within their own community. I may have lost face with the greater Christian
community for the unpopularity of my beliefs, but so did the abolitionists
against the oppression of African-Americans. Many were even killed and
treated as runaway slaves for being "nigger-lovers" and such. I guess I've
decided the challenge is worth it.
In my talks with gay men and women I have heard tragic story after tragic
story centering around failed marriages, wives and husbands who are straight
who have been hurt in the process, etc. Funny thing is, I don't know of one
case where the parents, ex-wives, or even children have continued to reject
their gay family member (son, daughter, ex-husband, father, etc.) after they
began to take part in some form of support group, like PFLAG.
I'm apalled by the legislation which passed in Colorado, and am equally out0
raged that such slimey people as Louis Sheldon (from the Tradition Values
Coalition) have been actively working in the Christian underground to garner
support within several (8 I believe) states this coming November for more
oppressive legisation against gays.
Perhaps you don't get it, and maybe you never will. Many didn't get it in the
Middle Ages and the proclaimed God's will be done as they massacred thousands
in witch hunts and inquisitions.
The message that comes through, loud and clear, by proponents against gay
rights and against gays in general, is that there is a strong dislike, even
hatred for gays, whether you want to call it such or not (it doesn't change
the results). The major flaw in all this posturing is that in the end, the
final effect of posts like that of yours and Mr. Hudson is that YOU have a
"conditional" love for gays. Condition: Change and we'll love you. This is
sure strange coming from a group who claim that God has an "unconditional"
love, one that calls people "just as they are." Sure there are things that
will 'naturally' change, and habits (like alcoholism, wife beating, etc.) that
need to be changed through some sort of therapy. But then there are things
like left-handedness, etc. that no amount of beating it out of people, is
going to result in anything more than an outward conforminty to "other
people's expectations." In the process this coerced conformity causes many
people a great deal of harm, especially when it is caused by people who have
nothing more to gain from it that to become even more puffed up about their
own sense of pseuper-spirituality.
This is sad, but I thoroughly believe that one day it will change. It may be
unpopular to cry for justice and equality when the basis has to do with
something very personal like 'sexuality' (a taboo subject even today), but I
firmly believe in the rights of individuals to be free from impose regulation
on thier bedrooms. It's funny that most straight people have successfully
removed restrictive and oppressive legislation against invasive legislation,
but we like to maintain this little chestnut of repression...as though it
helps us maintain a sense of superiority over at least one segment of society.
Gay people are not criminals.
Another interesting thing happened recently. A very prominent charismatic
church in the Silicon Valley (here) had two of it's pastors arrested for self-
admitted charges of pederasty (men having sex with boys). This had apparently
been going on for some time (a couple years?), but since the charges were
voluntary, and the church worked closely with the police, so I imagine that
was how they managed to downplay it in the media. How could such a thing
happen when the church, itself, has an ex-gay ministry? One of my friends
recently told me he was "approached" by someone who is going through the
reparitive therapy there, and he was thoroughly convinced that the request for
dinner was not an invitation to attend the ministry.
These are difficult times we live in, but providing hostile environments and
creating and perpetuating an atmosphere that breed hate and violence is not
the call of the Christian community. The results of the passing amendment in
Colorado has created an organization who's posters are appearing all over
Colorado called "S.T.R.A.I.G.H.T." (I forget the whole definition off hand,
but the last part was Against Immoral Gross Homosexual Trash) and their motto
is "Working for a fag-free America" with an implicit advocation for violence.
This is sick, and it seems to be what you and Mr. Hudson, and others are
embracing.
We Christians have a LOOOOOOOOOONG tradition of coersion and oppression
towards those we feel don't 'measure up', and constant beratement from
organizations like The Christian Research Institute, while they do have a good
purpose also, their major work seems to be finding new and better ways of
excluding people.
The Gospel I believe is not so negative, rather it seeks ways to "include"
people. I have several of Dr. Martin's books and find them quite helpful,
especially concerning 'cults.' But it seems that CRI, has become a cult unto
itself. Why don't we just stick to the positive and find ways to bring people
to Jesus istead of taking bullwhips and driving them away?
Whatever | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,099 | I have the following problem on X11R5 servers.
When a window of my is obscured by a pop up window which has
the Save Under attribute set, the subwindows of my window are not restored.
Normally, the subwindows are redrawn when the parent window gets an expose
event, but because the save under attribute is used for the pop up window
that obscured my window, no expose event is sent.
When ExposureMask is set for the child windows, those windows are correctly
updated when the popup window disappears, however then the application
gets too many expose events and you see extra redraws.
Everything works fine with X11R4.
Is this something that is changed between X11R4 and X11R5 (obvious)?
Is it something I do wrong?
Is there something that the popup window should do (which is also mine)?
Is this a bug in X11 release 5?
Greetings,
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165 | Where can you get info (brochures...) on Differential GPS Systems and where to
buy them? | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,714 | 14 | trimmed_train |
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8,245 |
>
> Hi, everybody:
> I guess my subject has said it all. It is getting boring
> looking at those same old bmp files that came with Windows. So,
> I am wondering if there is any body has some beautiful bmp file
> I can share. Or maybe somebody can tell me some ftp site for
> some bmp files, like some scenery files, some animals files,
> etc.... I used to have some, unfortunately i delete them all.
I downloaded the CompuServe GIF of the month. A raytraced image of
a golf ball next to a hole. Very nice, 640x480x256 bitmap, easily
converted to a Windows BMP. If anyone wants, I could upload a copy
on Cica...
Eric | 18 | trimmed_train |
2,667 |
"Women are only interested in clothes and shopping"
"Whites are imperialist colonial fascists"
"Blacks are lazy uneducated scum"
"Men are rapists"
"Homosexuals support child-molesting"
Slogans, my dear Cramer, are not an adequate substitute for thought.
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1,076 |
Was THAT your argument. Well, you didn't make it very well. You started
from the questionable premise that the fire was necessarily an act of
insanity, rather than an act of negligence or an accident. Recall, one
survivor claims that the fire started when a tank knocked over a kerosene
lamp. Kind of makes arguments regarding relative sanity somewhat moot, no?
"Nice evasive maneuver, Mr. Chekov, but they're still on our tail."
Let me ask it more plainly. Which of the above complaints about David
Koresh's religious or sexual proclivities justified an armed raid by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?
It's not entirely far-fetched. Nobody outside the compound would know
EVERYBODY inside the compound. Don't forget, the BATF admits having
agents inside the compound, in any case.
I'm simply being the devil's advocate. There's reasonable doubt by the
boatload standing in the way of anybody totally swallowing the official
government story on Waco.
-- | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,732 |
And another one:
Hasn't enyone heard of a leader's recon? This is when the leader of the
assult goes and looks at the objective to see if anything has changed that
would affect the mission. Even the Freshman cadets here in ROTCland
know about them. Mostly because they know it as the part where they
lie on the cold ground for an hour or so, but they've heard about it.
Maybe the ATF should have hired out to the local ROTC guys!
--
Andrew Diederich [email protected] | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,537 |
: It means that the EFF's public stance is complicated with issues irrelevant
: to the encryption issue per se. There may well be people who care about
: the encryption issue who don't care to associate themselves with the
: network erotica issue (or may even disagree with the EFF's position).
Perhaps these encryption-only types would defend the digitized porn if it
was posted encrypted? | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,792 |
The tribe will be in town from April 16 to the 19th.
There are ALWAYS tickets available! (Though they are playing Toronto,
and many Toronto fans make the trip to Cleveland as it is easier to
get tickets in Cleveland than in Toronto. Either way, I seriously
doubt they will sell out until the end of the season.)
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7,403 | I recently had to move and forgot to update my address to the Orthodox
mailing list. Can anyone e-mail me the address for changes and what
exactly I have to put in caps, etc? (please send the original
subscription address also). Thanks ahead of time! -Ed. | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,982 | Well now that the hawks have won the division the road is a little
easier for the playoffs. Let toronto and detroit beat the hell out of
each other while Chicago sweeps st.louis. That just makes it easier in
the second round with all the rest they will get and tor/det getting
none. For the conf. champ they will have a hard time versus the division
but that div. will be pretty battered also so the advantage goes to the
Hawks again. Then bring pitt. and sure the Hawks will probably lose but
its better to get that far and lose than to not go. | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,278 |
It is silly to make this statement. Fifteen minutes after the fire
started, the "official word" out of FBI headquaters in DC was
that the DV's committed suicide. It would seem logical that the
lantern story has more credibility. You can't even to pretend to
know for sure what happened... although Clinton is doing just that.
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Too many clues, not enough substance. You ask a lot of
good questions, though, but they are questions *you* should
be worried about, not me. I'm not the inerrantist here.
Let me know when you are ready to get serious. | 15 | trimmed_train |
2,285 |
... or consider the thousands in Central America killed by those brave
CIA/NSC sponsored "Freedom Fighters."
Thus far, Slick Willie is a piker.
spl
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2,650 |
Check with Kyocera America, Inc.
24 Prime Park Way, Suite 150
Natick, MA 01760
They are one of the largest manufacturers of IC packaging in the
world.
It sounds like you would be a good candidate for wafer probing or at
least IC probing to test performance. HP, Cascade Microtech and
Tektronix should be able to help you here. One note, testing at high
frequency accurately can be an *expensive* business.
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1,051 |
as someone else already mentioned, don't "carry thru" the other 23 pins.
plan A, minimal null modem:
SG(7) - SG(7)
TD(2) - RD(3)
RD(3) - TD(2)
if you're transfering files betwen 2 PCs, this ought to work (unless
you have a persnickity comm program).
plan B, null modem with modem control:
SG(7) - SG(7)
TD(2) - RD(3)
RD(3) - TD(2)
DCD(8) - DTR(20)
DTR(20) - DCD(8)
some comm software will wait for DCD before transferring anything.
such software will raise DTR to enable the modem to accept a call.
with this cable, each side's DTR will drive the other's DCD.
plan C, null modem with hardware flow control:
SG(7) - SG(7)
TD(2) - RD(3)
RD(3) - TD(2)
RTS(4) - CTS(5)
CTS(5) - RTS(4)
for high-speed transfers, you want the flow control.
plan D, deluxe null modem (combine B and C):
SG(7) - SG(7)
TD(2) - RD(3)
RD(3) - TD(2)
RTS(4) - CTS(5)
CTS(5) - RTS(4)
DCD(8) - DTR(20)
DTR(20) - DCD(8)
this one is ideal. it leaves out DSR and RI (rarely used anymore).
if you're really paranoid, or you just have an 8th wire to spend,
you might add:
FG(1) - FG(1)
the pin numbers above are (obviously) for 25-pin connectors.
i don't have a 9-pin pinout handy.
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