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Windows NT is a giant Windows Operating System. Unline Win3.1, it does not run on top of DOS. It is its own OS, with (Billy Gates assures us) true multi-tasking/multithreading, meets DOD security specs, will run win3.1 programs as well as DOS programs, has multi-processor support, and is primarily a Server program. It's overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users. Speaking of overhead, it requires at least a 386 with 16 megs of RAM. It iwll run with 12, but that's like running OS/2 2.0 with 4 megs. And that's just to run it. Also, I have heard that the system files take up 30-50 Megs, and it is recommended that your drive be a half gig! The SKD is distributed on CD-ROM. Chicogo is what I want to use. It is, like NT, a true OS with thrue multitasking and multithreading, but has much smaller hardware requirements, and does not meet DOD security specs (but that's okay since it will probably be more of a client OS). there are a few otehr differences, but those are the main ones. There was an article about Chicogo in PC Week last August. The Chicogo and NT development groups at Micro$oft are in intense competition, so it is said. However, I think a different relationship will arise: NT will be the server (*N*etowrk *T*echonology), Chicogo will be the client machine. It is entirely possible for different OS's to work together, partly because Chicogo is just a small NT (think of it that way, anyway). (Novell Netware creates an OS on the server that is truly not DOS, so don't scorn the concept.) Anyway, don't expect it soon. Windows 4 and DOS 7 are supposed to be released next year (read: see it in 95), so I expect that Chicogo won't be out til '96. With luck, I'll be proven wrong! =) Rob

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I also have a pair of size 11-11.5 Raichle Flexon Comps. These boots are black and yellow. they are in good condition. I would like around $100 for them also but feel free to make an offer. Please reply to: [email protected] Thanks,

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^^^^^ My understanding was that Chicago **was** DOS 7.

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how do you know this? did lasorda say, before the game, "here's the lineup i'm using. i'm batting strawman fourth because the primadonna insists on batting cleanup"? if this is true (note that i don't think it is), lasorda should be fired for at least two reasons: 1) publicly humiliating his players; 2) knuckling under to his players wishes. however, i think that the more likely explanation is that lasorda wanted strawberry to bat fourth, and that you hate strawberry.

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On 23-Apr-93 in Serbian genocide Work of God? Bingo - that and there's no oil there. On 23-Apr-93 in Serbian genocide Work of God? If this is the "work of god" then I'm doubly glad that I don't worship him. David Hunt - Graduate Slave | My mind is my own. | Towards both a Mechanical Engineering | So are my ideas & opinions. | Palestinian and Carnegie Mellon University | <<<Use Golden Rule v2.0>>> | Jewish homeland! ====T=H=E=R=E===I=S===N=O===G=O=D=========T=H=E=R=E===I=S===N=O===G=O=D===== Email: [email protected] Working towards my "Piled Higher and Deeper"

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[stuff about RHD deSoto's deleted] Australians still do drive on the "wrong" side of the road. I believe Sweden changed in 1968. The way I heard it was that they swapped all the traffic signs around one Sunday....

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Looking for an amateur radio operator that needs a variable power linear amplifier for 2-30MHz. Looks and works like new. Runs off 12v for mobile use. Input: 5-10 watts Output: ~175 watts AM, ~350 watts PEP SSB. I need $150 out of it. If that's too much, I also have a Tornado 100 that takes 5w in and 100/250w out for $100. Reply with your callsign, address and phone number for verification of license. Prices do NOT include shipping/packaging.

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Is anyone reading this message involved with the new BMW plant? (does BMW corporate even have a net-connection?)

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Hate to be simple minded about this Tim, but I think its really very simple. He was a dirty Jew. And the only good Jew, in some peoples mind, is a dead Jew. Thats what 40 years of propaganda that fails to discriminate between Jew and Zionist will do. Thats what 20 years of statements like the ones I've appended will do to someones mind. They make people sick. They drag down political discourse to the point where killing your opponent is an honorable way to resolve a dispute. What else can come of such demagogery? Peace? Adam Arafat on political pluralism: ``Any Palestinian leader who suggests ending the intifada exposes himself to the bullets of his own people and endangers his life. The PLO will know how to deal with him.'' --- Arafat, Kuwaiti News Agency, 1/2/89 Arafat on the massacre at Tienamin Square: ``... on behalf of the Arab Palestinian People, their leadership, and myself... [I] take this opportunity to express extreme gratification that you were able to restore normal order after the recent incidents in People's China.'' --- Arafat in telegram sent to the head of the Chinese Communist Party Yassir Arafat, humanitarian: ``Open fire on the new Jewish immigrants ... be they from the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, or anywhere else. It would be a disgrace if we did not lift a finger while herds of immigrants settle our territory. I want you to shoot... It makes no difference if they live in Jaffa or Jericho. I give you explicit orders to open fire. Do everything to stop the flow of immigration.'' --- Yassir Arafat, Al Muharar (Lebanese weekly), April 10, 1990 Yassir Arafat on genocide: ``When the Arabs set off their volcano, there will only be Arabs in this part of the world. Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated...'' --- Yasser Arafat, AP, 3/12/79 Adam Shostack [email protected]

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Does anyone have a radon transform in C that they could send me? Any help accepted,

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Yeah, me. Both the Slickmeister and Hillary's buddy Janet say they're responsible... I want both their resignations on my desk yesterday. I also want both thier butts up on federal civil rights violations.... something which carries life in prison as a penalty. Oh, and I'll contribute $20 to Arlen Specter's presidential campaign for having the 'nads to launch the Senate investigation.

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try comp.dcom - I was reading a thread a while back about an 800 number that you could dial. worked here. It was a sales line for sprint I think telling you that you could have all your customers numbers using there ANI, then it told you your number. Should work with any modern switch. mycal

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I _know_ I shouldn't get involved, but... :-) [bit deleted] Righto, DAN, try this one with your Cornflakes... The book says that Muhammad was either a liar, or he was crazy ( a modern day Mad Mahdi) or he was actually who he said he was. Some reasons why he wouldn't be a liar are as follows. Who would die for a lie? Wouldn't people be able to tell if he was a liar? People gathered around him and kept doing it, many gathered from hearing or seeing how his son-in-law made the sun stand still. Call me a fool, but I believe he did make the sun stand still. Niether was he a lunatic. Would more than an entire nation be drawn to someone who was crazy. Very doubtful, in fact rediculous. For example anyone who is drawn to the Mad Mahdi is obviously a fool, logical people see this right away. Therefore since he wasn't a liar or a lunatic, he must have been the real thing. --

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Me> The understanding and ability to swerve was essentially absent among Me> the accident-involved riders in the Hurt study. Mike> I would agree entirely with these three paragraphs. But did the Hurt Mike> study make any distinction between an *ability* to swerve and a *failure* Mike> to swerve? Yes, it was specifically the *ability* or understanding of the technique which was absent. We have made a lot of progress between rider education and responsibility over the last ten-twenty years... but I am still amazed anytime I teach an ERC how many people of many year riding experience "discover" countersteering for cornering or swerving. Mike> everything else. Hard braking and swerving tend to be mutually exclusive Mike> manouvres - did Hurt draw any conclusions on which one is generally Mike> preferable? The specific recommandation cited in the Hurt study was that a formal "street strategy", like SIPDE for example, was the most important component of any rider education curriculum. The specific skills of emergency braking, cornering and swerving must be taught and practiced as well, but more significant was that 35% of rider did NOTHING confronted with a potential accident, and another third collided or fell over as a result of rider error. The choice of specific maneuver is much less significant to the outcome than early detection and the proper execution of ANY effective countermeasure.

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a lot of batters lean in when pitches come. rickey's crouch tends to exaggerate that, i think. "a great player to watch if you forget who he is" - "unbiased"... hmmm...

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Do you have a terminal cold? Karabag is 'Turkish' and will remain 'Turkish'. Here we are, almost at the end of the 20th century, and a whole community, the Azeri Turks of x-Soviet Armenia and Karabag, is facing forced assimilation, torture and murder on one hand and forced exodus, expulsion and genocide on the other, all because of their ethnic and religious background. And one should ask herself: is the world community really so powerless? Where are all those human rights advocates? Where are all the decent people? Are we going to let this human tragedy go on and do nothing about it? The number of Azeris murdered by the terrorist Armenian army and its savage gangs is increasing. On the one hand they wish to distort the truth and on the other, they beg mercy from Turkiye. The Age...Melbourne...6/3/92 By Helen WOMACK .... Agdam, Azerbaijan, Thursday The exact number of victims is still unclear, but there can be little doubt that Azeri civilians were massacred by Armenian fighters in the snowy mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh last week. Refugees from the enclave town of Khojaly, sheltering in the Azeri border town of Agdam, give largely consistent accounts of how their enemies attacked their homes on the night of 25 February, chased those who fled and shot them in the surrounding forests. Yesterday, I saw 75 freshly dug graves in one cemetery in addition to four mutilated corpses we were shown in the mosque when we arrived in Agdam late on Tuesday. I also saw women and children with bullet wounds in a makeshift hospital in a string of railway carriages. Khojaly, an Azeri settlement in the enclave mostly populated by Armenians, had a population of about 6000. Mr. Rashid Mamedov Commander of Police in Agdam, said only about 500 escaped to his town. " So where are the rest?". Some might have taken prisoner, he said, or fled. Many bodies were still lying in the mountains because the Azeris were short of helicopters to retrieve them. He believed more than 1000 had perished, some of cold in temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees. One refugee, Rami Nasiru, described how Khojaly residents at first thought the attack was no more than the routine shooting to which they had become accustomed in four years of conflict. But when they saw the Armenians with a convoy of armored personnel carriers, they realised they could not hope to defend themselves with machineguns and grenades, and fled into the forests. In the small hours, the massacre started. Mr. Nasiru, who believes his wife and two children were taken prisoner, repeated what many other refugees have said - that troops of the former Soviet army helped the Armenians to attack Khojaly. "It is not my opinion, I saw it with my own eyes." Serdar Argic

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[stuff deleted] There are two 'problems': (1) the BIOS TOD routine which updates the BIOS clock uses only 1 bit for day increment, so a second wrapping of the clock past midnight will get lost if no one calls the BIOS to read the clock in the meantime, and (2) the BIOS resets the day wrap indicator on the first 'get date' call from ANYBODY (after the wrap indicator has been set). So unless the first BIOS 'get date' call after midnight is done by the DOS 'kernel' (which is the only part of DOS which knows how to increment the date, the day wrap indication is normally lost. My guess is that Kevin's 'menu' system uses BIOS calls to read the clock (in order to display the time), and is hence the entity which causes the day wrap indication to get lost. Even if the 'menu' system 'notices' the day 'wrap' (which I think is indicated by a non-zero value in AL), there really isn't any particularly good way to tell DOS about it, so that DOS can update the day. The menu system 'should' use DOS calls to get the time, which would cause the DOS 'kernel' to do the BIOS call, and the wrap indicator would hence be processed properly. Possibly, though, the 'menu' system can't easily use DOS calls for time, because DOS is not reentrant, and perhaps time incrementing ofters occur while the 'menu' system is 'inside' some other DOS call.

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I know what the 68HC811E2 is all about, but I'm trying to figure out what the 68SEC811E2 is... specifically, what does the SEC stand for?

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Tom Prince is a 28 year old no-hit catcher. Think of him as a young Dann Bilardello. I can't begin to fathom why the Pirates have been so afraid of losing this guy, who's been in AAA most of the last 5 seasons. The Pirates released Kirk Gibson last year because Prince was out of options, then eventually sent Prince down anyway, and he cleared waivers without a peep. He's another year older, and still can't hit; why do they think he wouldn't clear waivers now? Why would they care?

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k Guys, guys, (and gals), let's lay off Jason here. Though he stepped in it, he has been very good so far about admitting he doesn't know what he's talking about, and even more stunning is that he seems

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W4WG requires DOS drives. I use LASTDRIVE=J which makes my first Novell drive K and leaves me drives G, H, I and J for W4WG. My local DOS drives use A-F.

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Ditto... If we allow people like him to continue to do what he does, it's a shame. People say that cheap shots and drawing penalties by fake- ing is part of the game, I say "Bullsh-t!". If he ever tried some like that on a Yzerman, he'd would have to deal with Probert now wouldn't he? What Ulf does isn't even retaliatory! There's now way one could justify what he does and if they do they're fools.

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I have a Onkyo integrated amplifier that I am looking to get rid of. 60w/ch integra series works great not a problem Asking $100 OBO If your interested call me at (317)743-2656 or email this address. MAKE ME AN OFFER!!! Todd

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Including all the ones who think that they countersteer all the way through a corner?? Agreed! This is really the only thing we disagree on. Maybe we should agree to disagree?? I still think that telling newbies to steer left to turn to the right is unnecessarily confusing, when they'll do it anyway if they just get on the bike and ride the damn thing. Me too!! :-) Jeez, Ed, when you started talking about traction management policies I thought you were making some weird reference to looking after railway locomotives... The official line here (though I do have my doubts about it) is that the front brake is applied first, followed by the rear brake, the idea being that you avoid locking up the rear after weight transfer takes place. In practice I suspect most people do what you describe. If you don't slide the tyre, you have no way of knowing whether you've achieved maximum braking or not. I'm not suggesting that you should always aim to brake as hard as you possibly can - but if you want to find the limits of the machine, you have to go beyond them.

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The only fungus I know of from California is Coccidiomycosis. I hadn't heard that it attacked bone. It attacks lung and if you are especially unlucky, the central nervous system. Nothing new about it. It's been around for years. THey call it "valley fever", since it is found in the inland valleys, not on the coast. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and [email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."

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I once thought it would be easiest fitting a sine to the times. But not. This gave discrepancy of upto six minutes. If you fit a sine series you'll get a very good fit after just three or four terms though. This presumably has to do with the eccentricity of the Earths orbit.

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I tend to agree that players are not hurt by early play in the big leagues. The BRaves organization is a fertile ground to test this hypothesis, as they had little talent on their roster for some time. Steve Avery, for example, was rushed to the majors, and he fared very poorly during his initial campaign. His subsequent pitching has not been affected by his 5+ ERA during his rookie year. Bill James pointed out that it was relatively unusual to struggle so and then rebound. Bob Horner was also rushed to the majors (out of Arizona State directly) had good numbers immediately. I am not certain of the ages of people like Pete Smith, Craig McMurty, and Derek Lilliquist. The Braves pitching staffs were so bad when they came up that they might have been rushed. Lilliquist and Smith struggled, but it didn't hurt PS and DL may have been overhyped. I seem to recall CM pitching well initially, though I don't have stats handy.

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Have you tried the library? Since you go to WPI (so do I), go to AK and look on the first floor, a professor has posted an IEEE (i believe) spec sheet on the 68060 which is around 10 pages long. I'm sure the library has the info you request, It's just a matter of finding it. Hope this helps, Bret Chase

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Apple doesn't make such a card, though I suppose a third party could. One big problem is that there isn't room for a standard NuBus card inside the LC III. noah

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It's great that all these other cars can out-handle, out-corner, and out- accelerate an Integra. But, you've got to ask yourself one question: do all these other cars have a moonroof with a sliding sunshade? No wimpy pop-up sunroofs or power sliding roofs that are opaque. A moonroof that can be opened to the air, closed to let just light in, or shaded so that nothing comes in. You've just got to know what's important :^).

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United States Coverage: Sunday April 18 N.J./N.Y.I. at Pittsburgh - 1:00 EDT to Eastern Time Zone ABC - Gary Thorne and Bill Clement St. Louis at Chicago - 12:00 CDT and 11:00 MDT - to Central/Mountain Zones ABC - Mike Emerick and Jim Schoenfeld Los Angeles at Calgary - 12:00 PDT and 11:00 ADT - to Pacific/Alaskan Zones ABC - Al Michaels and John Davidson Tuesday, April 20 N.J./N.Y.I. at Pittsburgh - 7:30 EDT Nationwide ESPN - Gary Thorne and Bill Clement Thursday, April 22 and Saturday April 24 To Be Announced - 7:30 EDT Nationwide ESPN - To Be Announced Canadian Coverage: Sunday, April 18 Buffalo at Boston - 7:30 EDT Nationwide TSN - ??? Tuesday, April 20 N.J.D./N.Y. at Pittsburgh - 7:30 EDT Nationwide TSN - ???

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Curtis Mathes VHS VCR Remote included and it works with universal remotes. 2 heads, Works great but I replaced it with a Stereo VCR. paid $300 years ago, will sell for $125 delivered OBO. Radio Shack stereo amp. 2 inputs, tone, and left and right volume. Speakers not included. Compact 12W unit for $20 plus shipping. Great for Amiga Stereo output or Soundblaster output. If you are interested in either of the above mail me, Keith, at [email protected] or call me at 919-968-7779.

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Besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining. they still mine coal in the midwest, but now it doesn't look like the moon when theyare done.

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There is or was a microwave tower next to Florida's Turnpike, and you could watch the cars hit the breaks as they came in sight of it every morning...

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Actually this stuff from Mogilny doesn't surprise me all that much. About 4 or 5 weeks ago I read in the Toronto Sun a quote from Alex; it went something like [sarcastically]: "Yep, Patty's the man. He's responsible for the team's success...I'm a nobody around here." I was going to post it at the time...I must have forgot since nobody else was talking about him being a problem. Yep, I'd beat the shit out of him too. LaFontaine really must be a team player...makes you wonder what the Islander management was thinking. My question is what the hell is Muckler doing? Whether he wishes to admit it or not, the team is his to coach, and if he can't do the job then maybe the job should be given to somebody who can. Gee, kinda like Alex's spot on the team, isn't it?

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I hope that this comes off as a somewhat unbiased assesment of WFAN and WIP(I go to school in Philadelphia, and I listen to both stations on a consistant basis.) Now that the fan has Mike Lupica on from 10 to noon, they have a person who can get the big name guests for interviews, and not just of local importance He did have Dave Cheketts and Fred Wilpon on his show, but he had Bob Costas and Magic Johnson on too. Now here are my opinions of the two stations competing talent: Morning show: In my opinion, I think Imus is much better than Bruno, Cataldi, and Morganti, even though I would feel different if Morganti had a better crew of people to work with. To me, WIP tries to copy Imus but make it all sports as a theme. In terms of sports, Imus lacks the blanketing of the airwaves, but he interjects humor and politics into his show. 10 AM to 12 Noon: I think Chuck Cooperstein and Lupica are equal in their abilities to host a radio show, but I think Chuck has the advantage over Lupica in terms of dealing with the caller who is asking about who the local team is going to draft in the sixth round. Lupica and the other hosts on FAN get better interview guests, but I heard the PD of WIP say that they were not interested in interviews with celebrities unless it was a major story. I would consider this even because they are two different styles of host. 12 Noon to 2 PM: At this point, I would have to give a big advantage to Jody McDonald over Len Berman because Lenny has only been on for a couple of weeks. I just think JM has the ability to transcend the "homer" mentality of the Philadelphia fan base. This is most evident when the IGGLES(Philadelphia spelling) play the Cowboys because JM is a huge Dallas fan. Where else can you have people call up and predict a 93-0 score without the egging of the hosts(re:WIP morning 'guys') I do agree that JM was great on the FAN weekend overnight and I miss hearing him over the current crop of rotating hosts. I feel that JM is the best sportstalk host on either station by a good margin. If you are in NY and you can't get WIP, JM does fill in on the weekends sometimes. 2PM to 4PM: This is the time when JM goes up against Francesa and Russo(fatso and froot loops) and I become the most divided in my loyalties. Mike and the dog are very entertaining, but they often go an hour or so without calls or even 10 to 20 minutes without talking about sports. MATD do get great guests and that is the basis for their show, so it is like the 10 to 12 debate. Another plus is the appearances by Mike and Chris on Imus in the Morning, which are often hilarious. 4 PM to 7 PM: MATD go up against Fredericks and Missanelli. I like Mike Missanelli but I just can't stomach Steve Fredericks. I know that SF came from Philly originally, but when he was at the FAN, he was a NY homer as much as he is a Philly homer now. I don't listen to WIP much after 4 PM unless there is a game on that night, but you will see later for the reason. That is why I give the advantage to FAN. 7 PM to Midnight: S&M are on WIP until 8 and then it is the man who makes Eli that calls MATD all the time seem like a novice on charges of racism, G Cobb. This man is so grating on my nerves that if I listen to him for a few minutes I go nuts.(I know that is biased, but listen to his show) On FAN, there is usually a game on, Knicks, Rangers, Mets Jets, or St. John's basketball. If the game is on the west coast, then it is usually Howie Rose. Of course I think dead air would be better than G Cobb on WIP, but WIP does air Sixers and Flyers games during the season. (If this is the sports station, why did they lose the IGGLES to WYSP(home of Howard Stern in Phil.)) During the summer, it is all talk on WIP. Overall, I would have to give the advantage to WFAN, with the exception of 10 to 12, and 2 to 4 where it is even, and 12 to 2 where WIP has the advantage. Rich

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THere is a defect in the 13" hi-res monitors, bring it to a dealer and they will replace the flyback for free, I think. I just heard of this problem at work today and we are fixing them for free.

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The product you mention is XVideo from Parallax Graphics in Santa Clara, California, US. You can read our product review in the Jan/Feb '93 issue of The X Journal. That issues focuses on Multimedia and X, in which there are also a number of other useful items, including an article on Video in an X Window. Fax our New York office at 212.274.0646 for information on obtaining back issues. Steve

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We here at Utah State University Cooperative Extension have been using W4Wg for a while now. We wanted to talk to the internet with the mail package so we got the smtp gateway. You also need a tcp/ip transport package on top of that which is utterly stupid but that's what they require to get the smtp gateway to work. You need a dedicated pc for the gateway and if you are looking at remote access you need another dedicated pc for the remote mail stuff. We do not have the remote mail going but you indicate that that is what you want to do. There is a glitch somewhere in the system though. I don't know if it is MS mail, the gateway or the VAX here on campus that is choking in the mail that is sent. The scenario is this. The outgoing mail goes to a Unix system which then routes the mail where it needs to go. If that mail is routed to the VAX, the VAX has problems some times receiving the mail. Most messages do get through this way except if someone has there mail on the VAX forwarded to some other location. That is the main gotcha. Where ever the mail is forwarded to that person gets a message header then a message saying "Boudary:= (error garbage code stuff)". If you can stay away from sending to a VAX you are ok. The system people of course say that the VAX is not the problem, the gateway is probably the problem. If anyone wants to get help it is only $175.00 for one support call. (until problem is worked out) Phooey to that I say. I am looking vigorously for a better Idea. If you go forward on any of this and find out anything knew, please drop me a note - anyone. The next itteration is supposed to have tcp/ip built in THEY say........ The netxt itteration of w4wg Good Luck!!!!!

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I believe the reason is that the lung diaphram gets too tired to pump the liquid in and out and simply stops breathing after 2-3 minutes. So if your in the vehicle ready to go they better not put you on hold, or else!! That's about it. Remember a liquid is several more times as dense as a gas by its very nature. ~10 I think, depending on the gas and liquid comparision of course!

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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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My husband woke up three days ago with a small sore spot (a spot about the size of a nickel) on one of his testicles. Bottom side, no knots or lumps, just a little sore spot. He says it reminds him of how a bruise feels. He has no recollection of hitting it or anything like that that would cause a bruise. (He asssures me he'd remember something like that :-) Any clues as to what it might be? He's somewhat of a hypochondriac (sp?) so he's sure he's gonna die. . . Thanks!!

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Gee! Maybe I've misjudged you, Russell. Anyone who agrees with something I say can't be all bad. ;-) Seriously, I'm not sure whether I misjudged you or not, in one respect. I still have a major problem, though, with your insistence that science is mainly about avoiding mistakes. And I still disagree with your contention that nobody who doesn't use methods deemed "scientific" can possibly know what's true and what's not. Okay, so let's see if we agree on this: FIRST of all, there are degrees of certainty. It might be appropriate, for instance, to demand carefully controlled trials before we accept as absolute scientific truth (to the extent that there is any such thing) the effectiveness of a certain treatment. On the other hand, highly favorable clinical experience, even if uncontrolled, can be adequate to justify a *preliminary* judgement that a treatment is useful. This is often the best evidence we can hope for from investigators who do not have institutional or corporate support. In this case, it makes sense to tentatively treat claims as credible but to reserve final judgement until establishment scientists who are qualified and have the necessary resources can do more careful testing. SECONDLY, it makes sense to be more tolerant in our standards of evidence for a pronounced effect than for one that is marginal. I come to this dispute about what science is not only as a mathematician but as a veteran of many arguments in sci.psychology (and occasionally in sci.med) about NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). Much of the work done to date by NLPers can be better categorized as informal exploration than as careful scientific research. For years now I have been trying to get scientific and clinical psychologists to just take a look at it, to read a few of the books and watch some of the videotapes (courtesy of your local university library). Not for the purpose of making a definitive judgement, but simply to look at the NLP methodology (especially the approach to eliciting information from subjects) and look for ideas and hypotheses which might be of scientific interest. And most especially to be aware of the *questions* NLP suggests which might be worthy of scientific investigation. Over and over again the response I get in sci.pychology is "If this hasn't been thoroughly validated by the accepted form of empirical research then it can't be of any interest to us." To me, the ultimate reducio ad absurdum of the extreme "There've got to be controlled studies" position is an NLP technique called the Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure. Simple phobias (as opposed to agoraphobia) may not be the world's most important psychological disorder, but the nice thing about them is that it doesn't take a sophisticated instrument to diagnose them or tell when someone is cured of one. The NLP phobia cure is a simple visualization which requires less than 15 minutes. (NLPers claim that it can also be used to neutralize a traumatic memory, and hence is useful in treating Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome.) It is essentially a variation on the classic desensitization process used by behavioral therapists. A subject only needs to be taken through the technique once (or, in the case of PTSD, once for each traumatic incident). The process doesn't need to be repeated and the subject doesn't need to practice it over again at home. Now to me, it seems pretty easy to test the effectiveness of this cure. (Especially if, as NLPers claim, the success rate is extremely high.) Take someone with a fear of heights (as I used to have). Take them up to a balcony on the 20th floor and observe their response. Spend 15 minutes to have them do the simple visualization. Send them back up to the balcony and see if things have changed. Check back with them in a few weeks to see if the cure seems to be lasting. (More long term follow-up is certainly desirable, but from a scientific point of view even a cure that lasts several weeks has significance. In any case, there are many known cases where the cure has lasted years. To the best of my knowledge, there is no known case where the cure has been reversed after holding for a few weeks.) (My own cure, incidentally, was done with a slightly different NLP technique, before I learned of the Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure. Ten years later now, I enjoy living on the 17th floor of my building and having a large balcony.) The folks over in sci.psychology have a hundred and one excuses not to make this simple test. They claim that only an elaborate outcome study will be satisfactory --- a study of the sort that NLP practitioners, many of whom make a barely marginal living from their practice, can ill afford to do. (Most of them are also just plain not interested, because the whole idea seems frivolous. And since they're not part of the scientific establishment, they have no tangible rewards to gain from scientific acceptance.) The Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure is over ten years old now and the clinical psychology establishment is still saying "We don't have any way of knowing that it's effective." These academics themselves have the resources to do a study as elaborate as anyone could want, of course, but they say "Why should I prove your theory?" and "The burden of proof is on the one making the claim." One academic in sci.psychology said that it would be completely unscientific for him to test the phobia cure since it hasn't been described in a scientific journal. (It's described in a number of books and I've posted articles in sci.psychology describing it in as much detail as I'm capable of.) Actually, at least one fairly careful academic study has been done (with favorable results), but it's apparently not acceptable because it's a doctoral dissertation and not published in a refereed journal. To me, this sort of attitude does not advance science but hinders it. This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I talk about "doctrinnaire" attitudes about science. Now maybe I have been unfair in imputing such attitudes to you, Russell. If so, I apologize. -- In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects.

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(Detroit, April 19) In a development that shocked most knowledgable observers, the Detroit Redwings scored no less than six goals against the best goaltender in the world en route to a 6-3 win over the best team in the NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs could not be faulted, as they completely dominated the inferior Detroit squad and clearly deserved to win. Only the biased officiating of Andy Van Hellemond and the idiots that insisted upon throwing an octopus on the ice at every stoppage in an obvious attempt to distract the superior visiting side prevented an all-out massacre of the Wings by the league's best team. Alan

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Has anyone got multiverse to work ? I have built it on 486 svr4, mips svr4s and Sun SparcStation. There seems to be many bugs in it. The 'dogfight' and 'dactyl' simply do nothing (After fixing a bug where a variable is defined twice in two different modules - One needed setting to static - else the client core-dumped) Steve --

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I'm trying to create a button that has both a label and a bitmap using the MenuButton widget. Is this possible? Right now, all I get is the bitmap -- no sign of the label. Any help would be appreciated.

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Just a quick summary of recent findings re. high speed modems. Top three contenders seem to be AT&T Paradyne, ZyXEL, and US Robotics. ZyXEL has the biggest "cult following", and can be had for under $300, but I ignored it because I need something with Mac software, which will work without any tweaking. The AT&T Dataport earns nearly unanimous praises for reliability. They are backordered at the moment, probably because of the special $299 price in effect until May. Its fax capabilities are worse than that of the other two modems. WARNING: AT&T ads say that the modem comes with a Mac kit (cables & all), and has lifetime warranty. This applies *only* when you order directly from Paradyne! I called ElekTek (one of the distributors), and they wanted to charge me $16 for cable, and gave only 1 year warranty... USR Sportster for the Mac is also highly (but not as highly) recommended; it's only $250 from ClubMac, and if you are willing to roll your own cable and don't care about the FAXstf software, you can get the generic model from PC outlets for $190. All this assuming that you don't have a rich uncle, and can't afford a Motorola Codex... :-( I ended up ordering the Dataport; we'll see how it works in two weeks or so.

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Welcome aboard! (I think you just answered your own question, there) Most responses were against his postings that spouted the fact that all atheists are fools/evil for not seeing how peachy Islam is. I would leave the pro/con arguments of Islam to Fred Rice, who is more level headed and seems to know more on the subject, anyway. How did you know I was going to welcome you abord?!?

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i installed dos 6 last week, and had nothing but trouble afterwards. windows apps are hitting protection faults more than a kid can do to a pinata, and it does not seem to like to work with NDOS (norton dos 7.0). other probs include: set pcplus=d:\pcplus for procomm plus no longer works. many of the little utilities to written for dos no longer works either. (mostly shareware) i now have uninstalled dos 6 , and dos 5 works just fine. are there any apps that dos 6 will be able to run that dos 5 wont?

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Anyone, I am a serious motorcycle enthusiast without a motorcycle, and to put it bluntly, it sucks. I really would like some advice on what would be a good starter bike for me. I do know one thing however, I need to make my first bike a good one, because buying a second any time soon is out of the question. I am specifically interested in racing bikes, (CBR 600 F2, GSX-R 750). I know that this may sound kind of crazy considering that I've never had a bike before, but I am responsible, a fast learner, and in love. Please give me any advice that you think would help me in my search, including places to look or even specific bikes that you want to sell me. Thanks :-)

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"Teflon" is a DuPont-owned tradename for PTFE. Slick-50 does indeed use DuPont Teflon, though some other brands of such stuff may use imported PTFE of another brand. "Teflon", being a trade-name, should always by capitalized. (DuPont disclaims any benefits of PTFE in the oil supply of internal combustion engines, BTW.)

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Obviously the police officer reads the speedometer. I cannot believe the nit-picking in this group. There's 2 beams, there is not, is too, etc....

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Or, if you've got some entreprenuerial (sp?) spirit, get a cheapy clear plastic box, mount the simm inside, and sell it as a 'Pet SIMM'! I'm sure there are *plenty* of suckers out there who would go for it!

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Ah, so now we're into European player bashing? What next? No more French Canadiens? Yeah, there's an idea! Let them French- speaking Canadiens have their own hockey league! We don't want them! Are you _CRAZY_? The NHL is one of the true international leagues, and yes, there _ARE_ many Europeans who deserve to play in the NHL and are better than some North Americans, look at Teemu!!! I, for one, am glad to see Europeans in the NHL and I hope the NHL soon expands to Europe. Its nice to see all these different people come together to form the (soon to be) 26 hockey teams. Darryl Brooks University at Buffalo __ ______ /// | | / \ \ \ / / / _____ / / //// | | / /\ \ \ \___/ / ( \ ---/-/--- /// | | / /__\ \ \ / \ \ ---/-/--- /// \______/ / / \ \ | | ______/ ///////

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Four tickets available for the Paul McCartney concert at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, TX on May 29th... GROUND FLOOR SEATS. Will sell all four, or in pairs: $100 each.

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Having lived, played, and worked on and near the Navajo reservation for a number of years, I can confirm this is an ancient pattern, found in petroglyphs dated 800 to 1200 years old. Also, the Indians never stopped making rugs with this pattern - they just stopped selling them after the Nazi's pre-empted the swastika. Note also that the Indian versions use both clockwise and counter-clockwise swastikas. Ob guns: It's the rare Navaho family that doesn't own a rifle. They remember being "relocated" by the US Army, and don't intend to do it again. The Hopi, on the other hand, have a dislike for weapons, from my experience. Perhaps they just hide them better from strangers.

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I used the information provided in the recent resource listings and tried to ftp to: ccu1.aukland.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]: ftp/mac/architec - *VISION-3D facet and received an 'unknown host' message. mail to Paul D. Bourke ([email protected]) bounces with basically the same problem. Where'd he go???? Rick

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I had a kz440 and thought it was the best $100 bike I've ever ridden. And mind you, I've ridden many bikes. You must be mistaken. No thread in this group has ever had a point.

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Sorry again. I guess you need my address.

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How does one read the betting spreads for baseball? They tend to be something like 8-9 which means it must not be runs! Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Rex Wood -- [email protected] -- University of Colorado at Boulder

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I bought my HP48sx calculator a month ago, used once but put it back in the box. Includes manual and I'm including about 7 high density disks packed with dozens if not hundreds of games and programs. All you need to do is buy the pc cable for around $20 bucks so you could use the software. $255 shipping included or best offer.

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I thought I read that FastMicro was having some financial difficulties, is this true? I can't seem to find the posting about it and was wondering if someone can confirm this.

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Boy that was really humorous. I'm impressed by your incredible senses of wit, sarcasm and propriety. Mind if I post jokes about your mother?

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I've recently become father of twins! I don't think I can afford to keep 2 bikes and 2 babies. Both babies are staying, so 1 of the Harleys is going. 1988 883 XLHD ~4000 mi. (hey, it was my wife's bike :-) 4speed, chain secondary, laced wheels, buckhorns, tachometer, saddlebags & supports, sissy bar, SE high-flow air cleaner dark candy red $3700

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Someone in Canada asked me to send him some public domain DES file encryption code I have. Is it legal for me to send it? Thanx. -- Eschew Obfuscation Rob deFriesse Mail: [email protected] Cadre Technologies Inc. Phone: (401) 351-5950 222 Richmond St. Fax: (401) 351-7380 Providence, RI 02903

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Sorry. Wrong. This is how banks got started in the first place. Sooner or later your father and his pals will lend money to someone who eventually goes broke, and then they will realise that they havn't been managing risk very well. Then they will ask themselves what it is that they need to quantify risk, and to persuade borrowers not to take on greater loans than they can carry. And since they don't all want the worry of doing the calculations and handling the money, some of them will specialise in that. Then they'll reinvent interest, but like good Muslims, they'll call it something else. Riiiight. That's why John Major opened a new government department a couple of months ago to help to promote minority business. Because they can do it all themselves by lending one another cups of sugar.

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My Datadesk Mac 101E keyboard has similar problems. I have found that holding down the RIGHT-HAND shift key at startup will work (disable extensions), but the left-hand shift key won't (which is unfortunate, since the left one is the one I instinctively reach for). Similarly, I have trained myself to hold down the RIGHT-HAND pair of command-option for desktop rebuilds. I *is* irritating. Cheers, Michael.

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First of all, the chip doesn't do that. It runs at 16 megabits/second, which is far beyond what you need for voice. It's obviously intended for data as well, and on high-speed lines at that. Second -- what advantage is there to doing the processing in the phone? I don't care how fancy that chip is; it's not as fancy as the roomful of analyzers at Fort Meade running the program they'll have 5 years from now. They can't update every Clipper chip that's out there.

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OK, I should have said "former" enemy. I was being sarcastic about what interventionists want to do. Could we back him without forcing others to back him at the point of a gun? Have you considered a non-interventionist policy? If market reform does happen, Russia will certainly get *private* capital at *private* risk to help their economy. They will even have incentive to do so for the same reason. If they don't reform, then our government will probably consider them enemies anyway and rather spend money to hurt rather than help them. Then their's the ideological point. We want to "win" Russia over to our type of government -- a type where the rulers can rule without limit over everyone's finances? If a $1.6 billion gift was that important to our well being, couldn't it be raised voluntarilly? People already give over $100 billion a year to charity. It seems instead of gridlock on any scale, we have aid to Russia, expensive space programs, national charity that doesn't help the poor, and probably, studies of drunken goldfish. I think *limited* government is more key than how democratic it is. That was an opinion, and libertarians are very big on free speech. If you are pretty libertarian except on this one issue then you should be VERY libertarian. Consider it a compromise. How much money would your fellow Russia-aiders have to give to Russia if those you oppose weren't using the same government machine to steal money from you and your group for causes you don't support? People have been saying that for hundreds of years. All the more reason to depend on the free market which can more efficiently process information, than to depend on rulers for decisions on complex issues. Roger Collins

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You somehow missed Nabil's comments, even though you included it in your followup: >The number which could have arrived to the Holy Lands must have been >substantially less ude to the harsh desert and the killings between the >Jewish tribes on the way.. I am not aware of "killings between Jewish tribes" in the desert. The point of "typical thinking" here is that while Arabs STILL TODAY act in the manner you describe, like "any nomadic people occupying a land", killing and plundering each other with regularity, others have somehow progressed over time. It is not surprising then that Arabs often accuse others (infidels) of things that they are quite familiar with: civil rights violations, religious discrimination, ethnic cleansing, land theft, torture and murder. It is precisely this mechanism at work that leads people to say that Jewish tribes were killing each other in the desert, even without support for such a ludicrous suggestion.

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If they hadn't killed the ATF people in the original raid, I think I would laugh my ass off. (Actually, to be honest, I still might.)

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Be sure a dietician is up to date on Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis. Previously, low residue diets were recommended, but this advice has now changed. Also, there will be differences in advice in patients with and without obstructuon remaining, so input by the physician will be important. I find the dietician very important in my practice, and I send most of my patients to a dietician in the course of seeing them, since dieticians know so much better how to get diet histories and evaluate the contents of a diet than I do.

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I have posted disp135.zip to alt.binaries.pictures.utilities ****** You may distribute this program freely for non-commercial use if no fee is gained. ****** There is no warranty. The author is not responsible for any damage caused by this program. Important changes since version 1.30: Fix bugs in file management system (file displaying). Improve file management system (more user-friendly). Fix bug in XPM version 3 reading. Fix bugs in TARGA reading/writng. Fix bug in GEM/IMG reading. Add support for PCX and GEM/IMG writing. Auto-skip macbinary header. (1) Introduction: This program can let you READ, WRITE and DISPLAY images with different formats. It also let you do some special effects(ROTATION, DITHERING ....) on image. Its main purpose is to let you convert image among different formts. Include simple file management system. Support 'slide show'. There is NO LIMIT on image size. Currently this program supports 8, 15, 16, 24 bits display. If you want to use HiColor or TrueColor, you must have VESA driver. If you want to modify video driver, please read section (8). (2) Hardware Requirement: PC 386 or better. MSDOS 3.3 or higher. min amount of ram is 4M bytes(Maybe less memory will also work). (I recommend min 8M bytes for better performance). Hard disk for swapping(virtual memory). The following description is borrowed from DJGPP. Supported Wares: * Up to 128M of extended memory (expanded under VCPI) * Up to 128M of disk space used for swapping * SuperVGA 256-color mode up to 1024x768 * 80387 * XMS & VDISK memory allocation strategies * VCPI programs, such as QEMM, DESQview, and 386MAX Unsupported: * DPMI * Microsoft Windows Features: 80387 emulator, 32-bit unix-ish environment, flat memory model, SVGA graphics. (3) Installation: Video drivers, emu387 and go32.exe are borrowed from DJGPP. (If you use Western Digital VGA chips, read readme.wd) (This GO32.EXE is a modified version for vesa and is COMPLETELY compatible with original version) + *** But some people report that this go32.exe is not compatible with + other DJGPP programs in their system. If you encounter this problem, + DON'T put go32.exe within search path. *** Please read runme.bat for how to run this program. If you choose xxxxx.grn as video driver, add 'nc 256' to environment GO32. For example, go32=driver x:/xxxxx/xxxxx.grn nc 256 If you don't have 80x87, add 'emu x:/xxxxx/emu387' to environment GO32. For example, go32=driver x:/xxxxx/xxxxx.grd emu x:/xxxxx/emu387 **** Notes: 1. I only test tr8900.grn, et4000.grn and vesa.grn. Other drivers are not tested. 2. I have modified et4000.grn to support 8, 15, 16, 24 bits display. You don't need to use vesa driver. If et4000.grn doesn't work, please try vesa.grn. 3. For those who want to use HiColor or TrueColor display, please use vesa.grn(except et4000 users). You can find vesa BIOS driver from : wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/graphics godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au: /kjb/MGL (4) Command Line Switch: + Usage : display [-d|--display initial_display_type] + [-s|--sort sort_method] + [-h|-?] Display type: 8(SVGA,default), 15, 16(HiColor), 24(TrueColor) + Sort method: 'name', 'ext' (5) Function Key: F2 : Change disk drive + CTRL-A -- CTRL-Z : change disk drive. F3 : Change filename mask (See match.doc) F4 : Change parameters F5 : Some effects on picture, eg. flip, rotate .... F7 : Make Directory t : Tag file + : Tag group files (See match.doc) T : Tag all files u : Untag file - : Untag group files (See match.doc) U : Untag all files Ins : Change display type (8,15,16,24) in 'read' & 'screen' menu. F6,m,M : Move file(s) F8,d,D : Delete file(s) r,R : Rename file c,C : Copy File(s) z,Z : Display first 10 bytes in Ascii, Hex and Dec modes. + f,F : Display disk free space. Page Up/Down : Move one page TAB : Change processing target. Arrow keys, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down: Scroll image. Home: Left Most. End: Right Most. Page Up: Top Most. Page Down: Bottom Most. in 'screen' & 'effect' menu : Left,Right arrow: Change display type(8, 15, 16, 24 bits) s,S : Slide Show. ESCAPE to terminate. ALT-X : Quit program without prompting. + ALT-A : Reread directory. Escape : Abort function and return. (6) Support Format: Read: GIF(.gif), Japan MAG(.mag), Japan PIC(.pic), Sun Raster(.ras), Jpeg(.jpg), XBM(.xbm), Utah RLE(.rle), PBM(.pbm), PGM(.pgm), PPM(.ppm), PM(.pm), PCX(.pcx), Japan MKI(.mki), Tiff(.tif), Targa(.tga), XPM(.xpm), Mac Paint(.mac), GEM/IMG(.img), IFF/ILBM(.lbm), Window BMP(.bmp), QRT ray tracing(.qrt), Mac PICT(.pct), VIS(.vis), PDS(.pds), VIKING(.vik), VICAR(.vic), FITS(.fit), Usenix FACE(.fac). the extensions in () are standard extensions. Write: GIF, Sun Raster, Jpeg, XBM, PBM, PGM, PPM, PM, Tiff, Targa, XPM, Mac Paint, Ascii, Laser Jet, IFF/ILBM, Window BMP, + Mac PICT, VIS, FITS, FACE, PCX, GEM/IMG. All Read/Write support full color(8 bits), grey scale, b/w dither, and 24 bits image, if allowed for that format. (7) Detail: Initialization: Set default display type to highest display type. Find allowable screen resolution(for .grn video driver only). 1. When you run this program, you will enter 'read' menu. Whthin this menu you can press any function key except F5. If you move or copy files, you will enter 'write' menu. the 'write' menu is much like 'read' menu, but only allow you to change directory. + The header line in 'read' menu includes "(d:xx,f:xx,t:xx)". + d : display type. f: number of files. t: number of tagged files. pressing SPACE in 'read' menu will let you select which format to use for reading current file. pressing RETURN in 'read' menu will let you reading current file. This program will automatically determine which format this file is. The procedure is: First, check magic number. If fail, check standard extension. Still fail, report error. pressing s or S in 'read' menu will do 'Slide Show'. If delay time is 0, program will wait until you hit a key (except ESCAPE). If any error occurs, program will make a beep. ESCAPE to terminate. pressing Ins in 'read' menu will change display type. pressing ALT-X in 'read' menu will quit program without prompting. 2. Once image file is successfully read, you will enter 'screen' menu. Within this menu F5 is turn on. You can do special effect on image. pressing RETURN: show image. in graphic mode, press RETURN, SPACE or ESCAPE to return to text mode. pressing TAB: change processing target. This program allows you to do special effects on 8-bit or 24-bit image. pressing Left,Right arrow: change display type. 8, 15, 16, 24 bits. pressing SPACE: save current image to file. B/W Dither: save as black/white image(1 bit). Grey Scale: save as grey image(8 bits). Full Color: save as color image(8 bits). True Color: save as 24-bit image. This program will ask you some questions if you want to write image to file. Some questions are format-dependent. Finally This program will prompt you a filename. If you want to save file under another directory other than current directory, please press SPACE. after pressing SPACE, you will enter 'write2' menu. You can change directory to what you want. Then, pressing SPACE: this program will prompt you 'original' filename. pressing RETURN: this program will prompt you 'selected' filename (filename under bar). 3. This program supports 8, 15, 16, 24 bits display. 4. This Program is MEMORY GREEDY. If you don't have enough memory, the performance is poor. 5. If you want to save 8 bits image : try GIF then TIFF(LZW) then TARGA then Sun Raster then BMP then ... If you want to save 24 bits image (lossless): try TIFF(LZW) or TARGA or ILBM or Sun Raster (No one is better for true 24bits image) 6. I recommend Jpeg for storing 24 bits images, even 8 bits images. 7. Not all subroutines are fully tested 8. This document is not well written. If you have any PROBLEM, SUGGESTION, COMMENT about this program, Please send to [email protected] (140.113.11.13). I need your suggestion to improve this program. (There is NO anonymous ftp on this site) (8) Tech. information: Program (user interface and some subroutines) written by Jih-Shin Ho. Some subroutines are borrowed from XV(2.21) and PBMPLUS(dec 91). Tiff(V3.2) and Jpeg(V4) reading/writing are through public domain libraries. Compiled with DJGPP. You can get whole DJGPP package from SIMTEL20 or mirror sites. For example, wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/djgpp (9) For Thoese who want to modify video driver: 1. get GRX source code from SIMTEL20 or mirror sites. 2. For HiColor and TrueColor: 15 bits : # of colors is set to 32768. 16 bits : # of colors is set to 0xc010. 24 bits : # of colors is set to 0xc018. Acknowledgment: I would like to thank the authors of XV and PBMPLUS for their permission to let me use their subroutines. Also I will thank the authors who write Tiff and Jpeg libraries. Thank DJ. Without DJGPP I can't do any thing on PC.

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My poor old physics intuition will be very surprised if these tiny masses, sitting very close to Jupiter, play any role whatsoever in the problem. Or, to put it more technically, the extra "volume" they add to the phase space of possible capture trajectories is negligible. Jupiter is 2E27 kg, while the Galilean satellites are around 1E23. Also, as I said, the few references that I've looked at do not mention outgassing or breakup as important processes. The important thing is a Jupiter-Sun-comet "reverse slingshot" that leads to a weakly Jupiter-bound orbit for the comet (at least a temporary one).

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I agree. Adding layers of managers and bureaucrats simply eat up money that could be spent on those who actually are doing the work such as doctors and nurse, and supplies. The most efficient system is probably one that has limited management and a fixed budget such as England's or even Canada's. I'm afraid we are on the wrong track. The problem may be that the insurance lobby is too powerful. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and [email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."

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did you account for depreciation? i seriously doubt that a taurus would rack up an extra $4000 in repair costs over 5 years.

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And, I might add, vitamin C has been endorsed by a Nobel Laureate as a panacea for almost everything from the common cold to cancer. Wait a minute. S&K did NOT compare trends. If they did, they would have seen that the advent of Canada's gun law had no effect on homicides, total or handgun. Without a pre- vs. post comparison, one cannot speculate as to the utility of anything. All they have is a correlation, and correlation DOES NOT prove causality. Hold it again. You dismiss a point about demographics, then you ask about socio-economic demographics? Very slick. Once again, correlation does not prove causality. Looking at pre-vs. post data, the Canadian gun law had no effect. Sir, if you were a Canadian, and owned a gun before the restrictive gun laws were passed, and decided to hide it rather than turn it in, would you answer truthfully a question about gun ownership from someone who calls, writes, or asks you on the street? That is one problem with surveys. Nobody will answer an incriminating question. Another is that people will often tell you what they THINK you want to here. Does that mean no Vancouver citizens have handguns? I think not. You are discounting guns purchased beforehand, and guns purchased for purposes other than self-defense, which can also be used for defense. He makes valid points about demographic differences. You then resort to the kind of argument that the "Politically Correct" movement often uses to stifle any debate. Nice, real nice. One doesn't have to produce his own data in order to point out the flaws in the methodology and conclusions of another's study. Again, you resort to PC tactics.

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I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426 chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu (file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there, email me and maybe I can upload them to some other sites as well. I have a local bus based card (VL24 Bitblaster from Micron) but I think the drivers work with ISA cards (or at least includes drivers for them). I found the new drivers to be a significant improvement over the 1.2 version, improving my graphic winmarks (v3.11) by about 2 million (7.77 to 9.88) although this could be the result of intentional benchmark cheating on Cirrus's part but I don't think so. From Steve Gibson's (columnist for Info World) graphic card comparisons (also found at the cica ftp site under the name winadv.zip) I extracted the following for the sake of comparison: Wintach Winbn3.11 Word Sprsht Cad Paint Overall Steve's system: 486/33 VLB: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 9.33 10.34 20.78 8.28 14.90 13.58 my system - 486sx/33 VLB: VL24 Bitblaster 9.88 8.65 11.71 18.84 15.40 13.65 Its no Viper, but I think its a hell of a deal at about a third of the cost of the ATI card and when compared to the other cards included in Gibson's review. Micron system owner's, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the DTC 2270VL local bus disk controller. My system came with a Maxtor 7120 drive (120 MB) and at first was only giving me disk winmarks of about 16 Kb/s, I am now at 22 Kb/s. Is this about as good as it gets? I can't get a Norton's sysinfo disk reading because the contoller intercepts the calls, at least that was what the program said.

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Large bedroom for rent from June 1-Aug 15 in row house near JHU (Homewood). No smokers or pets. Share house with 2 or 3 F law students. F professional/ student wanted. 2 bath,large kitchen - remodeled last summer, hardwood floors, lr,dr, washer and dryer. Beautiful details. Rent $325 + 1/4 utilities. Located on bus lines.

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Apparently, Part 2 (defensemen numbered 2 through 19) was lost when I posted it; to make things worse, I lost my own copy. I have asked on the Sharks mailing list, on which it did get out, to see if someone can mail me a copy back. If someone responds, I will repost it when I get it; otherwise, I will re-write it in a day or two and post it. Sorry about that. #8 LARRY DEPALMA Season: 3rd Acquired: '91-92, free agent from Minnesota Grade: I (C-/D+) No netter/fan watching the Sharks, including me, knows where DePalma was at the end of the season; the Sharks appeared to still have his rights, but he wasn't in San Jose, he wasn't in Kansas City, and his name hasn't appeared on the waiver wire. And that kind of invisibility was prevalent for the most part for DePalma. After being called up October 30 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, DePalma had an excellent week, scoring 5 points in 3 games while playing good defense. Unfortunately, the 27-year-old DePalma then disappeared the rest of the way, getting just 3 more points in 15 more games, and generally looked lethargic and uninterested on both ends of the ice. He then was sent down to Kansas City, walked out from there, and was suspended and later reinstated when it was revealed that he was injured; he then promptly disappeared from the watching eyes of Shark Bytes (as the mailing list is now known to Sharks officials) faithful, and neither the Sharks nor we miss him. #10 JOHAN GARPENLOV Season: 3rd Acquired: '91-92, trade with Detroit for D Bob McGill and 8th round pick in '92 entry draft from Vancouver Grade: A/A- After an early slump, Garpenlov was nothing short of inspirational the rest of the way, finishing with 66 points in 79 games, second highest total on the team, as he clicked well with team MVP Kelly Kisio and right wing Rob Gaudreau. Kisio got most of the credit, but Garpenlov, finishing second in the MVP voting, clearly demonstrated his playmaking and scoring skills, as he was seen making excellent centering passes as well as finishing passes to him by putting the puck past opposing goaltenders, getting a club-high 14 power- play goals. Contrary to his previous rep, Garpenlov also showed that despite his small size (5' 11", 183 lbs.), he was willing to throw himself around when necessary, albeit not very successful yet. He also still needs to work on his defense, although he improved tremendously throughout the season, and was actually quite a good penalty killer by the end of the season. He will be a major key to the offense next year. #15 DAVID BRUCE Season: 5th Acquired: '91-92, from St. Louis in expansion draft Grade: I (?) After a banner '91-92, when he led the team in power-play goals (10) and was third in total scoring (38 points in 60 games), Bruce was bothered virtually all of this season with a groin injury, which kept him out of the lineup for all by 17 games this season. Of course, it is difficult to speculate how well he would have done this season had he not been affected by the injury, but the 28-year-old Bruce was effective with a man up or a man short in the Sharks' first season, and was expected to be a strong offensive leader this season as well. The injury appears serious, which is a shame, because otherwise he may have a much brighter future for now; instead, his future with the Sharks next season appears clouded. #18 MARK PEDERSON Season: 3rd Acquired: '92-93, trade with Philadelphia for C/LW Dave Snuggerud Grade: I (B) It is difficult for me to understand the Flyers' decision to unload Pederson, after a very good offensive season last season (40 points in 58 games), but after riding the pine early in the season, Pederson was summarily sent to the Sharks in exchange of the defensive-minded Snuggerud, and he finished with 41 games combined with the Flyers and the Sharks. He was also limited by injuries this season, and this limited his production (17 points). But when healthy, Pederson appears impressive, with a good scoring touch, good size (and the willingness to throw it around, although he's not considered a physical forward), and good speed. He also does not appear to be a liability on defense, but the Sharks probably have to wait until next season to see how much, exactly, Pederson can do. #20 JOHN CARTER Season: 4th Acquired: '91-92, free agent from Boston Grade: I (B+/B) Carter was definitely one of the hardest workers on the team, and the hard work worked wonders, as at times he looked great on ice. However, although he did look great at times, the fact that he received just 16 points (in 55 games) for his efforts is a sign that there is only so much his hard work can do, and the Sharks confirmed that by sending him to Kansas City with about 20 games left in the season. Carter, who will turn 30 on May 6, always hussled, but as a result, was sometimes trapped too deep within the offensive zone while forechecking, but he was generally a credit on the defensive end, but he is probably of limited utility in that capacity, and he did not impress offensively, although he was one of the best Sharks at drawing penalties. He is very unlikely to be back next season. #28 JEAN-FRANCOIS QUINTIN Season: 1st Acquired: '91-92, from Minnesota in dispersal draft Grade: I (B+/B) I don't understand why the Sharks didn't let Quintin play any more than the 14 games he played this season. He was generally hard-working and creating opportunities offensively, and appeared, at age 23, ready for regular NHL duty, at least for a team like the Sharks, finishing with 7 points in those 14 games while not being a defensive liability. Shoulder injury in training camp before the '91-92 season limited Quintin, the team's leading scorer in exhibition games despite sitting out the final two, to just 29 games with the Sharks and the Blades that season, but he looked impressive. He should be a solid contender for regular duty next season. #41 MARK BEAUFAIT Season: 1st Acquired: 2nd round pick in 1991 supplemental draft Grade: I (?) After a all-star season at Kansas City, Beaufait got a cup of coffey with the Sharks late in the season when the Blades knocked down a playoff spot and the Sharks decimated with injuries, playing 5 games and scoring a goal for his only NHL point thus far. Despite small size (5' 9", 165 lbs.), Beaufait was not shy to throw himself around when necessary, and looked pretty good at times, although it's too early to judge him based on 5 NHL games, in which he played mostly left wing, away from his center position at Northern Michigan and Kansas City. #42 JAROSLAV OTEVREL Season: 1st Acquired: 8th round pick in 1991 entry draft Grade: I (?) Like Beaufait, Otevrel also played away from his normal position when he was up for his cup of tea (7 games) midway through the season. He was generally very much of a defensive liability, and did not show much offensively either, although that may be more indicative of the lack of ice time he got in those 7 games. He may need another season to work on his defense, but once his defense is acceptable, he should be ready. #44 MICHEL PICARD Season: 1st Acquired: '92-93, trade with Hartford for LW Yvon Corriveau Grade: I (B-/C+) The 23-year-old Picard, although he perennially tore up the minors, seems to be close to being out of chances, for some reason, after being acquired by the Sharks but failing to impress the management in 25 games, scoring 4 goals for his only points, and he spent most of the rest of the way in Kansas City. He was not particularly strong defensively, and despite his offensive brilliance in the minors, he has failed thus far to score in the NHL, although he has been given limited opportunities. He may be the Sharks' bait in the expansion draft. #45 DODY WOOD Season: 1st Acquired: 3rd round pick in 1991 entry draft Grade: I (D+/D, although perhaps I shouldn't give a grade at all) I have been accused of knocking on Wood too much. :-) Then, it is probably no surprise to you that I am thoroughly unimpressed by Wood thus far, although 13 games is a small example. He was generally a nonfactor on offense, was not particularly good defensively, and took too many silly penalties, losing many fights in the process and gathering 69 penalty minutes in those 13 games, projecting to to 446(!) in an 84-game season. He's not ready, and needs at least another season at KC, where he can work on his fighting skills, if nothing else. His relatively small size (5' 11", 181 lbs.) does not give much possibility that he can survive, at this stage, as an enforcer.

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I hope there are some silicon jocks on the committee who can follow the algorithm through to hardware. While I doubt the NSA would pull any monkey business on this point -- they have to expect that the chip will be reverse-engineered sooner or later -- it's an obvious opportunity to introduce additional holes.

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I am looking for Super 8mm Projector with SOUNDS. If anybody out there has one for sale, send email with the name of brand, condition of the projector, and price for sale to [email protected] (IT MUST HAVE SOUND CAPABILITY)

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Come on! Most if not all Arabs are sympathetic to the Palestinian war against Israel. That is why the ADL monitors Arab organizations. That is the same reason the US monitored communist organizations and Soviet nationals only a few years ago. All of these groups have, in the past, associated with or been a part of anti- Israel activity or propoganda. The ADL is simply monitoring them so that if anything comes up, they won't be caught by surprise. No, that is why World Trade Center bombings don't happen in Israel (aside from the fact that there is no world trade center) and why people like Zein Isa ( Palestinian whose American group planned to bow up the Israeli Embassy and "kill many Jews.") are caught. As Mordechai Levy of the JDL said, Paranoid Jews live longer. They probably do.

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Actually the most flexible way to create temp files is to check for a TEMP or TMP environment variable and create the files on the drive and directory pointedto by the variable. This is pretty much a standard for DOS, Windows and OS/2 applications. -- What I have to say is my own opinion and has no bearing on any other person or organization including my employer.

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It's on page 315, about 2 1/2 inches up from the bottom and an inch in from the right. At least we know what some people *haven't* read and remembered.

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Were they palying football or baseball in Detroit on Saturday? From looking at the school, some people may think it was football. Between two games this week, the Tigers scored 40 runs!!!! The offense can carry them, I hope the pitching will hold out. I was at Camden Yards yesterday, everytime I looked up the score was getting higher. What a great site it was to see the Tigers kicking butt while enjoying a game at Camden Yards. GO TIGERS AND GO TONY PHILLIPS!!!!!!!!

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On 20-Apr-93 in Don Cherry - Coach's Corner.. This clip was shown on local news in Pittsburgh last night (KDKA), complete with animated sarcasm by the sportscaster. It's the second time Cherry has been shown on local Pittsburgh news in the last couple of weeks. Both times he was blasting Lemieux. ==================================================================== Jim Murawski Sr. Software Engineer (412) 268-2650 [office] Administrative Computing and (412) 268-6868 [fax] Information Services [email protected] Carnegie Mellon University Office: UCC 155 4910 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 "Le Mieux! Le Magnifique! Soixante Six! Claude...NON!"

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: > Not to pick on Mr. May in particular, of course, but isn't this : >kind of the domino theory? When one little country falls, its neighbor : >will surely follow, and before you know it, we're all mining salt : >in Siberia for not turning in our Captain Crunch Secret Decoder Rings. : : But, for all the wrongness of our attempt to correct it (VietNam, et. al.), : the domino theory wasn't disproved at all. Ironically, the domino theory in fact *was* a reasonable metaphor for the collapse of communism, from the liberalizations in Poland and Hungary to the border crossings in the summer of '89 to the fall of the Wall later that year....and then to the ultimate collapse of the USSR. -Tim May

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the 'Center for Policy Research' writes... Considering all the murders of innocent Israelis at the hands of Arab death merchants, I see nothing wrong with the advice. As usual, the bias of the 'Center for Policy Research' echoes through this newsgroup. Here we have an enraged Likudnik who is venting his spleen, and you portray it as if this is going to become policy. You don't say what the response to Matza's suggestion was. Do do not mention whether he was refering to terrorists caught in the act, which could be a clear cut case of self-defence. Would you care to elaborate on this, or was this all you wanted to say on the matter. Why don't you give up this 'Center for Policy Research' crap, and just post your biases without trying to legitimize them with a pompous name? A laudable precaution. Every single thing you post about Israel is posted to portray Israel as negatively as you can. Deliberate omissions are an integral part of the shtick. And it's not only the incidents that you do not mention, but even the stories you do post are fraught with omissions, which change the entire meaning. The absurdity of your respectable name cannot hide your bias. In your effort to portray Israel in an unfavorable light, you have accomplished nothing, except to prove that a respectable sounding label like the Center for Policy Research is nothing but a smoke screen for someone with a heavily biased attitude against Israel and the need to vent it. You

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I have a 486sx25 computer with a 105 Mg Seagate IDE drive and a controler built into the motherboard. I want to add a SCSI drive (a quantum prodrive 425F 425 MG formatted). I have no documentation at all and I need your help! As I understand it, here is the process of adding such a drive. Could you please tell me if I'm right.. 1- Buy a SCSI contoler. Which one? I know Adaptec is good, but they are kind of expensive. Are there any good boards in the $100 region? I want it to be compatible with OS2 and Unix if possible. Also, I have seen on the net that there are SCSI and SCSI2 drives. Is this true? Does the adapter need to be the same as the drive? What type of drive is the quantum? 2- connect the drive to the adapter via a SCSI cable and the power cable. Do i have to worry about the power supply? I think I have 200 watts and all I'm powering are two floppies and the seagate drive. 3- Setup the BIOS to recognize the drive as the second drive. What type of drive is this? I don't have the numbers for this drive. 4- Format and create partitions on the drive. Do I use format or fdisk? I think that IDE drives can't be low-level formatted. Is it the same with SCSI? How exactly does fdisk work? I have a reduced msdos 5.0 manual (clone obliges) and there is no mention of fdisk. Ideally, I would want the drive partitioned in to two partitions D: and E: how do I do this? Well that seems to be all. Is there anythiing I'm forgetting? Any help is *really* appreciated, I'm lost... -Eric

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I just got a Quadra 800 8/230 and I've noticed that I can't change the desktop color from the beautiful gray. I thought maybe I should reinstall the OS using the "Install Me First, Macintosh Centris, Quadra..." diskette because the system file on this diskette is more recent than the one on the hard disk. The easy install selects "Macintosh Cnetris System Software". Does anyone know if I should use this or customize and use "System Software for any Macintosh"? Or does it matter? THANKS in advance for any suggestions...

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I've had my Fluke 8060A here at work for just over 10 years now. It is a wonderful meter. Several colleagues here have some of the newer Fluke meters, though I still would just as soon hang on to my 8060. The 8060 a is the 1980s digial "analog" to the Simpson 260 analog DMM of the 1950-1960s. There was/is (?) an 8060B that had extended frequency response. I've got a nifty little pen shaped meter made by Soar that I keep in my toolbox at home. I've had that for six or seven years now and only replaced the batteries a couple of timees; it is more than adequate for day-to-day hobby use. I think Soar OEMs their stuff for a number of vendors. Some of JDR Microdevices' stuff looks rather similar to Soar's.

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Are you people sure his posts are being forwarded to his system operator??? Who is forwarding them??? Is there a similar file being kept on Mr. Omran??? Salam, John Absood

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Sorry to everyone for wasting space. Matt, the other day you posted that you were doing a mailing list of playoff stats. I lost your address. Please put me on that list. Thanks.

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We are in the process of evaluating X-terminals. This includes running XRemote over a serial line. I would like to run some X benchmarks to determine comparative performance. Has anyone written any such benchmarks, or know of any useful programs on the net ? I heard of a program called "Xstone", but I couldn't locate it using archie. Please reply to [email protected], as I don't get to read this newsgroup much. Thanks in advance for any help.

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You need to hop over to talk.politics.misc. Wee have been chewing on this gem for awhile. The challenge has been made to name a single supply sider who ever said this. For the last three weeks the challenge has gone unmet. I issue the same challenge to you.

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