JB>
JB>    Ron Roth recommends: "Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the
JB>                          proper channels, you might consider the following:..."
JB>                          [diet omitted]
JB>
JB>  1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be "proper channels"...this sounds suspiciously

  I'm glad it caught your eye. That's the purpose of this forum to
 educate those, eager to learn, about the facts of life. That phrase
 is used to bridle the frenzy of all the would-be respondents, who
 otherwise would feel being left out as the proper authorities to be
 consulted on that topic. In short, it means absolutely nothing.

JB>  like a blood chemistry...glucose tolerance and the like...suddenly chemistry
JB>  exists? You know perfectly well that this person can be saved needless trouble
JB>  and expense with simple muscle testing and hair analysis to diagnose...no
JB>  "CONFIRM" any aberrant physiology...but then again...maybe that's what you mean"

 Muscle testing and hair analysis, eh?  So what other fascinating
 space-age medical techniques do you use?  Do you sit under a pyramid
 over night as well to shrink your brain back to normal after a mind-
 expanding day at your 'Save the Earth' clinic?

JB>  2) Were you able to understand Dick King's post that "90% of diseases is not thy
JB>  evaluate the statistic you cited from the New England Journal of Medicine. Coul?

 Once I figure out what *you* are trying to say, I'll still have
 to wrestle with the possibility of you conceivably not being able
 to understand my answer to your question?!

JB>  3) Ron...have you ever thought about why you never post in misc.health.alterna-
JB>  tive...and insist instead upon insinuating your untrained, non-medical, often
JB>  delusional notions of health and disease into this forum? I suspect from your
JB>  apparent anger toward MDs and heteropathic medicine that there may be an
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 You little psychoanalytical rascal you!  Got me all figured out, ja?

JB>  underlying 'father problem'...of course I can CONFIRM this by surrogate muscle
JB>  testing one of my patients while they ponder my theory to see if one of their
JB>  previously weak 'indicator' muscles strengthens...or do you have reservations
JB>  about my unique methods of diagnosis? [......]
JB>
JB>  John Badanes, DC, CA
JB>  romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu

 Oh man, when are you going to start teaching all this stuff?  I'll
 bet everyone on this net must be absolutely dying to learn more about
 going beyond spinal adjustments and head straight for the mind for
 some Freudian subluxation.

  --Ron--


I use an H11F1   FET optoisolater to switch microphone level signals.
There is no click, since I put a .1uF cap across the LED.  Distortion
measurement are very low with mic level, and they went up to 0.03% at a
+ 14 dB line level.  All I did was put the FET in series with one leg
of the balanced line.  No hums, pops, just audio jumping out of silence.
The FET runs about 100 million ohms with the LED dark and drops to 150-200
ohms with it on.


Hi!  I will like to know if there is a FORTRAN library for MS-Windows v3+ out
there.

I have several lots of source code written by past A/Ps in MS-FORTRAN, and
recently have needed to port them to MS-Windows... I would like to avoid a
major code-rewrite if possible - maybe a WINDOWS library is all I need?

Please help - reply by E-mail to:  traversmorgan@swell.actrix.gen.nz


Hello,

I am looking for someone to help me with the proceedure for remote login, via
modem not ethernet, to our new silicon graphics iris machines.  I can log in to
them only as a vt100 terminal regardless of what I am emulating on my end.  I
have communication software, kermit, which supports tek 401x and vt102
emulation.  The x windows manual lists XTERM as the appropriate command to
change the terminal type.  When I try it the reponse is 'unable to open window'

Thanx in advance

Keith Grider


And anyone who doesn't agree with you is, by your own definitions, a
"useless fart".  Just like any text that disputes your own "findings"
is always described as "flawed" or "biased".  In other words, you
trumpet the things you like and dismiss those that might embarass you.
We've seen you play these games here for a long time.

One thing is for sure: When it comes to "useless farts", you sure know
what you're talking about.


$ The biggest hurdle for automatics (IMHO) is not shifting speed
$ per se, but rather the transmission's reaction speed when you
$ try to force it to shift manually.
$ [...]

I rented an Oldsmobile Achieva (is that a yuppie name or what?) and a
Nissan Stanza.  They both had automatics.  I'm a manual transmission
bigot but I have to admit that the transmissions on these cars were
better shifters than I am.  And yes, they responded very quickly to
kickdown requests.  The Nissan had a tachometer so I was able to figure
out which gear I was in.  (The Olds may have also, but I don't
remember.)  I believe it shifted all the way down to second at about 50
mph when my foot told it, "No I really want to accelerate quickly."

I would still prefer a manual, but I won't delude myself into thinking
that I can out-accelerate a modern automatic.  And I'm very smooth at
shifting but certainly not as good as an automatic.


Such submissions have been made before, e.g. regarding Jews.

All you Dirty Harry types, eager to pull a gun on  some scum guilty of
scratching your stupid painted metal boxes on wheels : have you ever
KILLED a human to speak so lightly about such matters  ?


One book I have which presents a fairly unbiased account of many religions
is called _Man's Religions_ by John B. Noss.  It was a textbook in a class
I had on comparative religion or some such thing.  It has some decent
bibliographies on each chapter as a jumping off point for further reading.

It doesn't "compare" religions directly but describes each one individually
and notes a few similarities.  But nothing I have read in it could be even
remotely described as preachy or Christian based.  In fact, Christianity
mercifully consumes only 90 or so of its nearly 600 pages.  The book is
divided according to major regions of the world where the biggies began
(India, East Asia, Near East).  There is nothing about New World religions
from the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, etc.  Just the stuff people kill each
other over nowadays.  And a few of the older religions snuffed out along
the way.


	When you find some new ones, I suggest donating the ones
	you have now to the Lautrec family in France... <grin>

				Michael


	...

	Again, not true. The characters in a TT or Type 1 font depend on the
	maker. If someone converts a Type 1 font to TT they'll only get the
	characters in the font of orgin. TT allows for much more flexibility
	in this area as well. You can have thousands of glyphs in a TT font
	file (Mac/PS/Windows/Unicode char set) and use the characters
	appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on.

Well, yes, both Type 1 and TrueType fonts can contain lots of characters.
And in both cases plain text fonts will be reencoded to Windows ANSI
in Windows, and to Mac standard roman encoding on the Mac.
No difference there between T1 and TT!

And as for fonts with thousands of glyphs, right know these are a liabiliaty
rather than a great new thing.  Reason is that a font with 3000 characters
is very large, and if you can only access 224 of them you are paying a heavy
price in downloading time and printer storage.  (And at the moment there
is only one program of that uses `partial font downloading')

	For instance, all or our fontpack 2 TT fonts have the Mac/Windows
	char set in them. The metrics of the fonts are such that if the font
	is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac
	char set.

Yes and T1 text fonts all have the `ISO Adobe' character set, which is
a superset of Windows ANSI and Macintosh standard roman enocding.

The question is whether you can get at the glyphs.  In Windows, for example,
you cannot get at the ligatures `fi' anfd `fl' (both T1 and TT)even though a
font may very well have them.

ANd, while it is somewhat painful to reencode a Type 1 font and to create a
new Windows metric file (PFM) for it, there are utilities out there to allow
you do this.  How do I reencode a TrueType font?  How can I get at the
`fi' and `fl' ligatures in Windows (or on the Mac)?  Are there utilities
that make it possible to circumvent the hard-wired Windows ANSI encoding?

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I read an article about the benefits of a VLB motherboard. It said that a
true VLB board supports bus mastering, otherwise it is just as good as an ISA
motherboard.

Doesn't all VLB motherboard support bus mastering? I just bought a 486-33 VLB
and the tech manual does not explicitly state the words "local bus mastering"
but it said it "supports bus master and slave modes". Are these terms
synonymous?

Thanks.


# #From the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, April 15, 1993, p. B2:
# #
# #    Male sex survey: Gay activity low
# #
# #    A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough
# #    examination of American men's sexual practices published since
# #    the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, shows about 2
# #    percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and
# #    1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
# #
# #    The figures on homosexuality in the study released Wednesday
# #    by the Alan Guttmacher Institute are significantly lower than
# #    the 10 percent figure that has been part of the conventional
# #    wisdom since it was published in the Kinsey report.
#
# 1) So what?

Homosexuals lie about the 10% number to hide the disproportionate
involvement of homosexuals in child molestation.  They also lie
about "10%" to keep politicians scared.

# 2) It will be interesting to see the reaction when 2.5million queers
#    gather in Washington DC. After all if there are only 6million of
#    us then this is an event unprecidented in history...

But many of the people who will be marching aren't homosexuals, but
other members of the leftist agenda.

# #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.
#
# Don't forget that 25% had 20 or more partners....

Not surprising.  Remember, that study includes homosexuals as well.

# #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.
#
# And what did this study show for number of sexual contacts for those
# who said they where homosexual? Or is that number to inconvient for
# you....

It wasn't published.

# #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.
#
# Fuck off

Typical homoseuxal response.


There are 3 alternatives:
1. You can try to write a small C program something like:

   int my_int_var;
   my_int_var = system("command");

   and display my_int_var value (which is the exit code of the command).

2. Or use 4dos.com instead of command.com (it has built in move command)
   you can also get any program exist code by using the exec function
   of 4dos:

   c:\>echo %@exec[command]

   will display the exit code of the command.

3. Get DOS 6, not worth buying if you already have QEMM/PCTools/Norton,
   and you only need the move utility.


By the way, what do people think about the Opel CAlibra?


I would be very wary of retail outlets selling as cheap as educational prices!
I went for a retailer, actually mail order (CDA computers), because its price
was better thant the campus computer store. I found out why later on when I
tried to get a repair done at an Apple registered repair center - the CPU was a
resale. The serial number had been removed and replaced with a non-standard
number (probably from CDA computers). Consequently, the Apple repair man could
not do ANY warrenty repairs. So I ended up with just a 90day warrenty from CDA
over the Apple 12month warrenty. Boy, was I pi**ed! Moral of the story, CAVEAT
EMPTOR.

However, if you go with a reliable, trustworthy mail order firm (if they exist
- maybe someone could enlighten us with their experiences), you will probably
get a better price than your local educational outlet simply because mail order
out of state does not REQUIRE sales tax yet. Though for how much longer remains
to be seen. The addition in sales tax on a CPU purchase will probably wipe out
an educational discount. Again CAVEAT EMPTOR, some mail order companies DO
include sales tax on purchases even if they are out of state, so check!


Wow.  I was beginning to think that I had made that up.  I remember that
movie (it was about 1.5 hours long).  I don't think they ended up anywhere
in the known universe.

I remember they got a message halfway out to Proxima Centauri, that Earth
transmitted a day after they launched, timed to catch up with them at the
halfway point.  I thought it was neat, I think I was all of 10 at the time.

Space:1999 has just come out with 4 episodes released in American stores.
I will look for the Into Infinity show, I never did know that was the
name of it, I thought the show was called "the day after tomorrow", and
that was it.


I have a CASIO B.O.S.S. SF-9500 Digital Dairy/organizer for sale.
The unit has 64 kb with the expansion card slot.  Very good condition.
Asking $110.00 plus shipping.


[.....]

Oooh... now THAT hurts.  I will not suffer you through more naive
and one-sided views of mine.   Please skip my articles in the future
Oh Wise Tim, and have a good day.


   Why is this surprising? Then the _Times_ can get a few more
Pulitzers the same way they did last year.
--


Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I didn't threaten to rip your lips off, did I?
Snort.

Duh.

Listen: thrush is a recognized clinical syndrome with definite
characteristics.  If you have thrush, you have thrush, because you can
see the lesions and do a culture and when you treat it, it generally
responds well, if you're not otherwise immunocompromised.  Noring's
anal-retentive idee fixe on having a fungal infection in his sinuses
is not even in the same category here, nor are these walking neurasthenics
who are convinced they have "candida" from reading a quack book.

So?


: >DUCATI3.UUE
: >QUUNCD Ver. 1.4, by Theodore A. Kaldis.
: >BEGIN--cut here--CUT HERE--Part 3
: >MG@NH)C1M+AV4)I;^**3NYR7,*(.H&"3V'!X12(&E+AFKIN0@APYT;C[#LI2T

This GIF was GREAT!!  I have it as the backdrop on my Apollo thingy and many
people stop by and admire it.  Of course I tell them that I did it myself....

It's far too much trouble to contact archive sites to get stuff like this, so
if anybody else has any good GIFs, please, please don't hesitate to post them.

Is the bra thing still going?
--

Nick (the Idiot Biker)   DoD 1069   Concise Oxford   No Bras

M'Lud.


I note that you make no such case as you claim can be 'even more
easily made'.  Yes, the argument can (and has) been made that current
government policy creates even larger market barriers than there were
in the first place, but there is no such term as 'government failure',
since the government can change policies whenever it pleases.  The
market doesn't do that and is governed by (relatively) well-understood
forces.  This libertopican bilge about 'moral arguments' about
taxation, etc., is, at bottom, so much simplistic economic thinking.
It can only be 'justified' by cliche derision of anyone who knows more
about economics than the libertopian -- which is what invariably
happens.  Tripe a la Tommy, the new libertopian dish.

Wherever do you get this inflated idea of your own importance?

--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden


day.

Personality means something to me.  That is exactly why I like Clement
(and Emrick).  On the other hand, JD is a pompous, bull-headed, arrogant
know-it-all.  He's a real turn-off (which is exactly what I do when he's
on).  One complaint I do have about Clement is that he sometimes talks
too much.  If I wanted that I'd listen to Tim McGarver doing a baseball
game.


Sorry for bothering with a request almost irrelevant to anyone except for me:
Could some kind soul provide me with the phone number of
wycliffe center
horsley green high wycomb
bucks hp 14 3 xl
I want to surprise a friend of mine staying there, but I don't have the number.

thanks a lot in advance

Gerhard


Yeah, make darn sure you cover all the glass, so the driver can't
reasonably expect to be able to drive with the things on the car.


Well, that's the question, isn't it?  The goals are probably not all that
obvious.  We can set up a few goals, like happiness and liberty and
the golden rule, etc.  But these goals aren't inherent.  They have to
be defined before an objective system is possible.

It is not too difficult, one you have goals in mind, and absolute
knoweldge of everyone's intent, etc.

Omniscience is fine, as long as information is not given away.  Isn't
this the resolution of the free will problem?  An interactive omniscient
being changes the situation.

Well, I was speaking about an objective system in general.  I didn't
mention a specific goal, which would be necessary to determine the
morality of an action.


Hmmm... Interesting. What do you mean by WALKING distance? I lived in
Moscow for 21 years, and if I am 5 minutes walk to Belorusskaya
subway station, I CANNOT be walking distance to Kremlin. Unless
1 hour of walking is what you mean. By the way, what is
the price? I may plan a trip there (not sure yet, though) in
late summer.


Not at all.  I am not a member of the Religious Left, Right, or even
Center.  In fact I don't consider myself very religious at all [ this will
probably result in flames now :) ].  In fact Phil, you should leave
religion out of it.  It just clouds the issue.

How typical.  So you think we shouldn't avoid these 'events' [ I shall
refrain from the word disaster since it seems to upset you so much.  :( ]
when we can.  In case you didn't realize it, the natural disasters [ oops,
sorry events ] you are refering to  we have no control over.  Man-made
ones we do.

I guess you missed the show on Ch 20 earlier this week about the disaster
[ oops there I go again... I meant to say event ] on the Exxon Valdez.
Just a natural every day occurance to spread oil on 300 Miles of beach. I
would like to know which natural event [ hey I remembered not to say disaster ]
that would be similar to this.

Hmm, I suppose you could be right.  They are as natural as a tree, or a
sunrise.  NOT !

So look, if you want to worship a oil slick ( or toxic waste dump or live
in a house that has a cesspool in the front yard ), fine, you have my
permission to do so [ yea right like you need MY permission... ], it just
won't be in the neighborhood where I live.  But DON'T try to push your
shortsighted tunnelvision views off on the rest of us.


Remember the armor of God?  The sword that Christians wield is the
Word of God, the Bible.

God be with you,

Malcolm Lee  :)


You didn't mention whether or not cost is an issue.  Where
exactly are you running 100MHz??  THe digital side?  TTL?
ECL?  We run 200MHz and 100MHz all over our IC test equipment
all day long in the ECL domain, and we use DIP's along
with PLCC's, 25mil and 20mil pitch 256pin QFP's to name
a few.  I don't see a problem in packaging as long
as you adhere to sound engineering practices.

A good source of information is Motorola's MECL System Design
Handbook. The latest ed. is dated 2/88.  That is considered
to be one of the *bibles* in high-speed design.

The very fact that you need to build a test fixture means
you're most likely going to need a socket.  It in itself
has far more inductance per pin than the package you are
testing, not to mention any impedance discontinuities.  I
don't see the big concern over the packaging because it
probably isn't going to make that much difference

If you're trying to get TTL to run at 100MHz, have fun...
TTL was never designed to run in a 100MHz environment.
:-(

aaron


Does anyone really believe the Swiss have had no war within their borders
because every adult male owns a rifle? I'm a great admirer of the Swiss, but
500 years of peace on their turf has zilch to do with gun ownership. Can you
picture Hitler, with Panzers and Focke-Wulfs poised on the border, losing
sleep over a few thousand expert rifleman? Sure.
Hitler stayed out of Switzerland because the Swiss run the money in this
world. We'd do well to emulate them on that and forget about getting more
rifles on the street. Let's disband the NRA and start a National Investment
Banking Association, replete with red and black sticker for the back window
of Bubba's Mercedes 600! We could fire Charlton Heston and get Paul Volcker
for a spokesman.


 > Is there an Xt call to give me my application context?
 > I am fixing up an X/Motif program, and am trying to use XtAppAddTimeOut,
 > whose first argument is the app_context.  What call can I use
 > to give me this value?

	XtAppContext XtWidgetToApplicationContext(Widget)


The New York talk shows are just awful in this regard.  People are constantly
calling WFAN and WABC with (stuff like) "I was thinking, why don't the Yankees
trade Kaminicki and Silvestri to Seattle for Ken Griffey Jr and Randy Johnson,
that would really help the team"  or "Do you think the Yankees can get Roger
Clemens?".  The show hosts are pretty good about handling these guys, but it's
still annoying.

The best one was at the end of one show, a caller started out with "I was
thinking, why don't the Yankees trade for..." and then the host hung up on
him.  I cheered!


:I recently had a case of shingles and my doctors wanted to give me
:intravenous Acyclovir.
:
:It was a pain finding IV sites in my arms...can I have some facts about
:how advantageous it is to give intravenous antibiotics rather than oral?
:

I think some essential information must be missing here, i.e., you must be
suffering from a condition which has caused immunosuppression.  There is
no indication for IV acyclovir for shingles in an otherwise healthy
person.  The oral form can help to reduce the length of symptoms, and may
even help prevent the development of post-herpetic neuralgia, but I
certainly would not subject someone to IV therapy without a good reason.

To address your more general question, IV therapy does provide higher and
more consistently high plasma and tissue levels of a drug.  For treating a
serious infection this is the only way to be sure that a patient is
getting adequate drug levels.


 So-Called Cool-Hot boxes have been advetised for several years.  I recall
Damark advertising them in a recent catalog.  Problem with the units is they do
a sh***y job of keeping food cold/warm.  The peliter devices used just don't
seem to have enough punch to keep up.  If you want something hot, you need to
heat it up before you put it in the box, and end up hours later with food thats
only moderately warm.  Same goes for cold items.

 You'de probably be better off getting a good Coleman(tm) cooler and stocking
up on "blue ice" blocks.

 Same as above.  Not enough "punch" in them to keep/get things cold/hot.
Mike Behnke             | Senior Tech/Advisor | Quid est illuidin aqua??
Fermi Nat Accel Lab     | Equipment Suuport   |
Batavia, Il.            | Computing Div       | PISTRIX!!  PISTRIX!!
BEHNKE@FNALF.FNAL.GOV   |                     |

My opinions are my own, not of the lab. So, if you don't like them, call


Let me tell you my story.
I grew up catholic. Up until I was 14, it wasn't an issue for me. Then I met
a born-again christian, a very sweet person, not proseletyzing(sp?), not
imposing. I tried to get into being as christian as I could, as I felt I
'should'.

But the more I tried, the more depressed I got. I felt guilty for some of my
own personal, honest feelings. I tried so hard to reconcile this conflict.
until I was 23.

Then I taught myself to think rationally. I read a lot of books, pro and con
religion in general and, specifically, catholicism. I came to a crisis point,
then it finally clicked and now I am a staunch atheist.

This is a very loose explanation, but it's the gist of it.

Now, (at 26) I feel better about myself, better self-esteem, a generally
stronger person. I have well-defined goals. I have a strong and stable sense
of morals and values. I am not a neo-nazi or a corrupt politicain, etc. I
believe in human rights and 'live and let live' among other things. I am very
anti-violent and anti-hatred. (This is to debunk the myth that atheists are
depraved.)
Religion has no place in my system.
Tough.

Bertrand Russell said that we cannot *know* god doesn't exist, we can't prove
it. So, in that sense, we can only truly be agnostic. But, for all practical
purposes there is no god.


Thus said ee92jks@brunel.ac.uk (Jonathan K Saville):

PGP is not available on the archive site rsa.com.  If it were, it
would be highly amusing, since rsa.com (actually Public Key Partners,
but it's the same entity) is the organization holding the patents
which they claim are violated if you actually "make, use or sell" PGP.
I believe those patents also apply in Canada, but I'm not a patent
lawyer or anything.

There is no such thing as freely redistributable code for RSA which
can be used in North America without legal entanglements.  You may
wish to consider RSAREF, however, which *is* available from the FTP
site rsa.com in /rsaref but probably doesn't meet your definition of
"freely redistributable" (it's readily available in source, in C, and
does RSA, MD5, etc. and comes with a license allowing noncommercial
use.  Like any other strong crypto software, it's not exportable
legally.  It can be modified with permission from RSADSI, which a
number of people have received in the past.)  For reasons that aren't
entirely clear to me, RSA says that only U.S. people should take
RSAREF from its server, although there aren't ITAR issues regarding
Canada.  The RIPEM distribution site (ripem.msu.edu) has RSAREF in its
distribution, and is OK for Canadians.
--
Marc VanHeyningen   mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu   MIME & RIPEM accepted


<-> > But, do you knew how much organization is required to training a large
<-> > group of poeple twice a year.  Just to try to get the same people
<-> > every year, provide a basic training to new people so they can
<-> > be integrated into the force, and find a suitable location, it
<-> > requires a continually standing committee of organizers.
<->
<-> Again, my response is, "so what?"  Is Mr. Rutledge arguing that since
<-> the local and federal governments have abandoned their charter to support
<-> such activity, and passed laws prohibiting private organizations from
<-> doing so, that they have eliminated the basis for the RKBA?   On the
<-> contrary, to anyone who understands the game, they have strengthened it.
<
<No, I originally argued that the Second Amendment was "a little bit
<and an anachronism."  These prohibiting laws are examples why the are
<an anachronism.  After all, laws in made by representatives of the
<people.  These representatives of the people have already decided
<that the Second Amendment does not apply or is too broad in some
<cases.  Since these representatives feel an unconditional
<interpretation is not wanted, then it is probable that they majority
<of the people feel the same way.  If this is so, it is an example
<of the people using their power of government.  If this is not
<how the people feel, the people should stand up and state their wishes.

Wrong.  Neglecting that the government and media have bullshitted the
people almost nonstop on this issue, Constitutional limitations are
there to prevent a 'tyrrany of the majority'.  For example, a majority
could vote that given ethnics have no rights, are not people, etc.
and it would fly using the logic above.

When government feels the Constitution is not right for the times,
there is a procedure called an AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.  THis
is deliberately difficult, and cumbersome, to prevent abuse of those
who decide to ignore the people, or impose unjust policies of a
majority on a minority.   A lynch mob is a majority, remember, outvoting
the hangee.

What the government is doing are VIOLATIONS, end-runs around the
limitations on the government, probably because they know that the
people would be very hard to convince that a good intention is behind
tampering with the Bill of Rights.  Government propeganda on guns has
been very strong and persistant, but not THAT strong.  And it just
shows how gullible the people have become to "I am from the government
and am here to help you sort of line".  We have been lied to, fed
half truths, rigged stats, while the government knows their control
laws have no effect on crime.  They want a government monopoly on
force, pure and simple.  Do you REALLY want the government to be able
to override Constitutional limitations by a simple vote of a bunch
of elitists (congresscritters)?  I sure don't.  The Founding Fathers
sure as hell didn't, either.

<> Mox nix, Mr. Rutledge.  YOU are the only one here claiming that the
<-> RKBA is dependent on the existence of a top-flight, well-regulated
<-> militia.  Why this is a false assumption has already been posted a
<-> number of times.
<
<No, I simple stated that the people have a right to "join a well
<organized militia."  And I have also stated that a militia that
<meets once or twice a year is clearly "well organized."  And this
<state of readiness that I have claimed the people have a "right"
<to, is the same state of readiness expected of the militia as stated
<by Hamilton.

You better read the Senate Subcommitte on the Constitution regarding the
Second Amendment, and a linguist's analisys of the Second itself.
IN the meanwhile, show us some stuff to back up your assertions.
And yes, I have the above mentioned documents (and more) online.


Hi,

Anyone has a converter from BMP to any format that xview or xv can

handle?  This converter must run Unix..  I looked at the FAQ and downloaded
several packages but had no luck...  thanks in advance.

ed


Right on the heels of the Clinton "registered encryption key" debacle comes:

Wonder how much of that extra money goes into coming up with
encryption schemes they can easily crack?


I have 16MB of memory on my 386SX.  I have been running Windows
without a swap file for several months.  Will Mathcad 4.0 be
happy with this, or insist on a swap file?


	I just got my advance program and the "card in the back" is for the
	Exhibits Plus program -- the exhibits plus admission to a number of
	conference venues, including a special general session, "Behind the
	Scenes: Computer Graphics in Film."  Admission is not free, but is a
	nominal $30 (exhibits are open August 3 -- 5).

	To get a copy of the advance program, you can call 312-321-6830; the
	advance program itself is a good indication of the excitement of the
	conference!

	Sorry -- doesn't work this year!


I've pursued and researched this question over the last month or so because I have the same requirements you do......and the long and short of it is that the windows mouse drivers don't accept mice at any but com1 and com2 using irq4 or irq3 unless you buy special drivers from someone who has them.....I've talked to Mouse Systems who say their driver doesn't support other than com1 and com2 as above , but who claim to be releasing one that will SOON!??.

The other alternative seems to be possible, but in one case prohibitively expensive, i.e. 4 port card for $600??????!!, and in the other, the author(s) of PowerBBS for Windows claim to have a 4 port serial card with buffered 16550 UARTS and drivers for windows to match (i.e. com3 irq5) for $120......

The second paragraph is hearsay, because I haven't checked it out yet.....but intend to as soon as I can free up $120 <g>


A Unix tool of cryptographic significance is available
for anonymous ftp.

"agrep 2.0.4" -- a fast approximate pattern-matching tool

source code project available from:

cs.arizona.edu

in directory "agrep"

agrep is a very fast fuzzy search tool with a tremendous
number of powerful search options.  The one most obviously
applicable to cryptography (key selection) is to be able to
specify the "similarity" of matches in the data.

For example say you make up a password/phrase of "qimwe7l".
Of course you rightly suspect that this key itself is not
in any dictionary or word list.  But how *close* is it to
en entry that could be varied by some "crack" program to
brute-force search for it?

You use agrep to find out.  Looking with argument for none,
one or two errors, no matches.  Good so far.  But

agrep -3 "qimwe7l" bigwordandphraselist

finds that the pattern "qimwe7l" is too close to the
pattern "imsel" (part of "himself" and a host of others),
to be of any cryptographic value as a key.

An error of level two corresponds to a simple transposition of
letters like "teh" for "the".  A minimally acceptable password
would have to pass as *least* level 3 in order not immediately
ruled-out as even a remote possibility of being a good password.
(In real cryptographic use, my personal passphrases clear at
*least* level 8 on my rather large [>80 meg] word and phrase lists.)

And for searching for key words in human-typed data (lots o'
typos) the tool is unexcelled.  For example, For example,
say I want to find out what people think about Gibson's
SF book "Neuromancer" in the huge SF-Lover's archives.
Even with an error distance specification as small as
of "1" I will find all those people who think the title
was "Necromancer" or other common typos.  Why miss anything?

Also, the program can look for up to 30,000 patterns IN PARALLEL
at Boyer-Moore (sublinear) speeds.  Great for a NSA wannabe
to look for your name, terrorists names, special Tagalog or
religious words, etc. in the news or e-mail spool directories.

You can even search for ciphertext by using, say, 30,000
random three-byte combinations and eliminate all texts that
don't score the X chi-square 'birthday' hits on message size Y.

You think some crypto-terrorist is try to foil you by changing
the pattern on you?  No problem.  Try agrep -p NSA to find
NSA, National Security Agency, NSecAg, No Such Agency,
National Scrabble Association, N*S*A, etc.

You can also specify "fixed" areas: looking for license
plate XYZ123 when you know that the letters are correct,
you might say:

agrep -2 <XYZ>123 licenseplatedatabase

will find all plates starting with XYZ with up to two errors
(addition, substitution, deletion) in the number area.  You can
also "weight" the relative "cost" for substiutions, additions,
or deletion errors.  For example, when searching DNA patterns
for a particular protein combination, you might know that
some kinds of damage cause the "A" nucelotide to drop out more
than other errors... you could adjust for this bias by setting
-Dc where you set the "deletion cost" to count as "c" errors.

A steganographic use (I even used "agrep -2 "<steg>eograp" E"
just now to find the correct spelling!) would be to intentionally
introduce errors of a certain type and magnitude into a plaintext
and then later recover the orginal it via an agrep pipe.  Lots of
possibilities here when only outlaws can have ciphertext...

Also with agrep's powerful extraction options it makes it easy
to abstract the "hits" into a useful form.  For example,

agrep -d "^From" 'PGP;(passphrase|Zimmerman|NSA)'

says output the entire mail record, delimited by 'From'
that contains 'PGP' and contains either 'passphrase',
'Zimmerman', or 'NSA'.

And agrep has been measured an order-of-magnitude faster
than the second-best similarity tool publicly available.

As usual, I will be glad to e-mail the source and docs
to those who reqest them by e-mail IF they cannot do
an anonymous FTP.

Get this now.
It is too powerful to stay in the hands of the NSA.

Grady Ward, vendor to the NSA (and proud of it)


                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Don't be so sure, the Blues played the Hawks pretty well this season,
and won twice at the Stadium. The Blues will give the Hawks a hard time.
This series is one of the best first round matchups, could go either way.
The Hawks will probably prevail in seven games.


  If the Anne Frank exhibit makes it to your small little world,
  take an afternoon to go see it.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM

They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.


Hi
I'm having a problem with TrueType fonts in WIndows 3.1. I have installed
the Cyrillic fonts I found on CICA and now a strange thing happens:
Sometimes windows uses Cyrillic when its supposed to use Times Roman.
Examples: The PC-Tools Backup (version 7.1) has one line of Cyrillic text
in its opening banner, the next to last line. Importing a Word for Windows
text written in Times into WP5.2 also results in Cyrillic.
Does anyone have an idea where to look for the problem?
Thanks


From article <1993Apr18.000152.2339@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>, by jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu:

Only irrational fools such as yourself are set against RKBA.  There are
*plenty* of people who support it.

The government will be overthrown *long* before that happens.  A *huge*
millitia composed of all available men and women who care about their
country will defeat the forces of the evil Klintonistas.  The people
*will* prevail!

Oh, so you think armed citizens alone can't overthrow the government?
Consider this:  do you think *all* law enforcement officials and members
of the Armed Forces will turn against the people that they are entrusted
to serve?  Not hardly.  You can count on a lot of people in the Army,
Marines, Air Force, Navy, National Guard, police officers, and so on
joining in the cause to defend the liberties and freedoms of American
citizens.  COUNT ON IT!  THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DISARM
EVERYONE WITHOUT STARTING A CIVIL WAR!

Wrong again.  People will just hide their guns so these "officers"
(more like jack-booted stormtroopers) will not be able to find them.

They will unless they are idiots.  They will realize that if they don't
then they will be *next* including you.  Believe me if what you describe
happens they will be coming for *more* than guns.  Disarming citizens
would require that everyone's cherished freedoms and liberties be
suspended temporarily.  More likely, they'd never be restored unless the
*people* do something about it.

Scott Kennedy,  Brewer and Patriot


I am using the GLX widget + athena widgets on a mixed-model
application, under 4Dwm, but when the dialog gets popped up, its
text entry field does not have focus. Aimilar code works perfectly if
I use "pure X" (no mixed-model). HEre is the relevant portion of
the code.

{
   int n;
   Arg wargs[16];
   Widget Button, PopUpShell, Dialog;

   /* initialize TopLevel here */
   .
   .
   .

   n = 0;
   XtSetArg(wargs[n], XtNlabel, "Foo"); n++;
   Button = XtCreateManagedWidget("FooBtn", commandWidgetClass,
                                  TopLevel, wargs, n);

   PopUpShell = XtCreatePopupShell("PupShell", overrideShellWidgetClass,
                                   Button, NULL, 0);
   XtAddCallback(PopUpShell, XtNcallback, MyPopUp, (XtPointer)PopUpShell);

   n = 0;
   XtSetArg(wargs[n], XtNvalue, ""); n++;
   Dialog = XtCreateManagedWidget("TheDialog", dialogWidgetClass,
                                  PopUpShell, wargs, n);

   .
   .
   .
}

void MyPopUp(w, popup_shell, call_data)
Widget w;
Widget popup_shell;
XtPointer call_data;
{
   XtPopup(popup_shell, XtGrabExclusive);
}

---

A way I found to give focus to the text field is to move the
application window around a little bit and place it right behind the popup.


The only reason for the death penalty is revenge?? If you are going to
try to refute a position, try to refute the whole position or acknosledge
that you are only speaking to small piece of the problem. Broad sweeping
"the only reason, " etc on as tough nut to crack as the death penalty
reallly doesn't help much.

Every year the FBI releases crime stats showing an overwhelming amount of
crime is committed by repeat offenders. People are killed by folks who
have killed (who knows how many times) before. How aobut folks who are for
the death penalty, not for revenge, but to cut down on recidivism?


Steve,
     It's nice that you find me laughable but I don't quite
understand.  Is it because you think my firearms clash with
what I'm wearing, or that my NRA sticker isn't on straight?
Please state your judgement!
     I find it sad that people won't accept the responsibility
to defend themselves.  And I laugh with the same contempt you
have for me at the sheep who expect the government to protect
them.

You and your friends sound like a bunch of smug intellectuals.

Oh,   I guess you are.  I'm still waiting for you all-knowing
academic-likes to solve the worlds problems.  Let us know when
you have the answers or punch lines as this case may be.

So it's not a "Yankee" thing?
Are Canadians actually as uncivilized as we Americans?

Well if it's anything like here it wouldn't matter if they
did; they wouldn't be able to use them.

You shouldn't waste your time watching TV, Steve. It will corrupt
your mind.

Ditto to you, Self Righteous One.
Lay your derogatory tirade on thick, Steve.  Y'all can keep laughing and
I'll keep feeling safe and secure.


I have some brand-new shrinkwrapped boxes of 8" floppy disks that I
would like to sell.  They are all 3M disks:

40 (4 boxes of 10) SS/SD 8" floppy disks
60 (6 boxes of 10) DS/DD, W/WP 8" floppy disks

Misco is selling the SS/SD 3M disks for 25.90 for a box of ten and they are
selling the DS/DD 3M disks for 31.90 for a box of ten.  I will take the
best offer I can get for the disks (as many boxes as you want).

	I also have a quantity of 8" floppy disks that
some people were getting rid of, probably due to an upgrade to a newer drive
system.  All the disks are used and most have labels on them, but they all
appear to be in good physical shape.  However, I make no guarantees of the
quality of these disks.  Here are the statistics:

Quantity	Make	Type

10		3M	Single side/Double density,soft sector,128 bytes/record
66		Memorex Single side/Double density,soft sector,128 bytes/record

I will accept the best offer I receive for the disks and I'm willing to sell
them off in different amounts, the minimum being a box of ten (if I get no
offers on these disks I would considering throwing them in with the new
disks I'm selling above).

I also have a head-cleaning kit for 8" disk drives for which I will take
the best offer I can get.

All sales are final.

I would prefer to ship COD and add the shipping costs onto the total order
cost.

Please send E-mail to formula@athena.mit.edu if interested.


[...]

With all the activity in sci.crypt these past few days, I am not supprised
you missed it... NIST got Skipjack from the NSA :)

[...]

"I am not a crook." President Richard M. Nixon
                    ^^^^^^^^^


Derian Hatcher's game-misconduct penalty was rescinded by the NHL,
allowing the Minnesota defenseman to play in the North Stars' last two
regular-season games.  Hatcher was given the penalty during a fight at
the end of a loss at St. Louis on Sunday, April 11.  But the league
didn't rescind the game-misconduct penalty Shane Churla received.  The
Stars recalled center Cal McGowan from their top minor league club in
Kalamazoo, Mich., to replace Churla.

The above is courtesy of The Washington Times on-line service.

Now, here's where I need help.  If anyone out there has a tape of Tuesday's
Chicago-Minnesota game, please contact me.  Terms will be favorable.

Also, if anyone can tape tonight's Minnesota-Detroit game, please contact
me.  This could be quite important.  Once again, I will make it worth
your trouble.

Thanks to all.


Dear Netters
I want to send EMG-signals from a running person to a computer.
Each signal is 4KHz wide and there is up to 30 of them on each
running person. The signal is only to be sent over a few hundred
meters. It seems to me that the frequency intended for this use is
about 150MHz and about 440MHz.
To make the transmitters as light as possible I suppose it will be best
the to send the signals in an analog form. As this application is rather
specialized I do not expect to be able to buy the exact transmitter-
units i need.
On the other hand I imagine that I can buy the receiver somewhere. I
need a multichannel (up to 30 channels) receiver or 30 complete
receivers in some rack system where one can add as many receivers
as needed in the particular case.
DO ANYBODY KNOW IF THERE IS EXISTING SUCH RECEIVER
SYSTEM ON THE MARKET?


 >
 > The reason is very simple:  How many people do you want to die in a riot?
 >In a new Civil War?


Many Companies package Syquest drives for the mac already.... So unless you
are using one for the IBM world, Id buy a Mac ready Config.


# # Unfortunately, homosexuals don't believe in this concept of freedom.
# # They believe that they have a right to FORCE people to hire them,
# # rent to them, and do business with them, regardless of the feelings
# # or beliefs of the other person.
#
# <ha ha ha#, oh, Clayton, you're so good, so consistent, so predictable,
# yup, that's right, they, these homosexual people want to FORCE you to
# ignore what's none of your fucking business.  IE. <I will explain slowly#
# their sexual orientation should be irrelevant, as irrelevant as their
# gender, skin colour, religious affiliation, attitude to hand-gun ownership,
# etc.  They want to FORCE you to hire the best person for the job, rent the
# accomodation to the person who will look after it, do business with whoever
# will make you money..

Yet, when a law was proposed for Virginia that extended this
philosophy to cigarette smokers (so that people who smoked away
from the work couldn't be discriminated against by employers),
the liberal Gov. Wilder vetoed it.  Which shows that liberals don't
give a damn about "best person for the job," it's just a power
play.


Count me interested in a Cardinal's mailing list.  If anyone
finds one or starts one, please let me know.

Thanks,

Dick Detweiler


Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America
as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his
North American heritage back a lot further than most of us.


you also need to set the correct switch settings on your xt
controller, which can be a pain, since most pc's don't come with
proper docs for all hardware contained inside it.


As nobody in the food industry has even bothered to address my previous
question "WHY DO YOU NEED TO PUT MSG IN ALMOST EVERY FOOD?" I must assume
that my wife's answer is closer to the truth than I hoped it was.

She believes that MSG is added to food to cause people to eat more of it
and not quit when they shoud be sated.  To put it a different way, she
believes that for some people MSG causes them to act toward food like an addict.
(Eat all the chips, chow down on several packages of noodle soup .... you get the
idea! }  IF she is right, then the moral and ethical standards of the
food, chemical and regulatory groups need to be addressed!!!  Can MSG
be considered a conditioning substance (not addictive but sort of habit
forming) ?

This brings up a side question of mine.   I have noticed that cats (my
children's and my parent's) seem to fixate on a particular brand of pet
food. The cat will eat any product within one brand and not any other
brand.  I have wondered if this is not a case of preference, but, some
sort of chemical training or addiction. My questions, for the net, are:
Does the FDA regulate the contents of pet food?  Is it allowed for pet
food to contain addictive or conditioning substances?  Is MSG put in
pet food?

-----------------------------------
I speak for myself and not Motorola
-----------------------------------


Please could someone in the US give me the current street
prices on the following, with and without any relevant taxes:

 8 Mb 72 pin SIMM
16 Mb 72 pin SIMM (both for Mac LC III)

Are any tax refunds possible if they are to be exported
to the UK? Can you recommend a reliable supplier?


Lindbergh's flight took place in '27, not the thirties.

Could you give examples of privately funded ones?

Your logic certainly applies to standard investment strategies.  However, the
concept of a prize for a difficult goal is done for different reasons, I
suspect.  I'm not aware that Mr Orteig received any significant economic
benefit from Lindbergh's flight.  Modern analogies, such as the prize for a
human powered helicopter face similar arguments.  There is little economic
benefit in such a thing.  The advantage comes in the new approaches developed
and the fact that a prize will frequently generate far more work than the
equivalent amount of direct investment would.  A person who puts up $ X billion
for a moon base is much more likely to do it because they want to see it done
than because they expect to make money off the deal.


The story I related is one of the seven apparitions
approved by our Church as worthy of belief.  It happened
in La Salle, France.

The moral lesson of the story is:

The Lamb of God has been sacrificed and His blood has
been used to cleanse us of our sins every moment as God perceives
worthy of being done in Heaven.  Mary weeps for The Lamb and
for the rest of her offsprings.  This will continue while we
disobey God or sin against Him.  Mary, as a messenger,
has been given the task to make us be 'aware' of the evil
serpent (communism, wars, famine, unfaithful, disobedience
to God, etc.) running after the rest of her offsprings.
The children who went astray by disobedience led by the dragon is
brought back by her peace and loving messages, reparations for sins,
to obey God's commandments and be more worthy to be in the presence
of The Lamb.

As she was conceived without sin to be worthy of bearing the
Son of God in her womb, Mary has been preparing us, the Church,
the Body of Christ, for His second coming (making sure we are
protected from the dragon).  Also, she has been preparing the new
Eden, by reversing the deed of the ancient Eve.  The new Eden will be
the sanctuary of the righteous as judged by Christ in His
next coming.

I relate the story again:
    I believe this and Mary, in one of her apparitions
    in 19th or 20th century, she appeared to these
    two children who tends goats and cows (I forgot
    the exact place).  She was  weeping and telling the
    children that she is afraid she's "going to lose her
    Son's arm".  She is mourning too for these
    townfolks because it was their fault that there
    would be drought in their harvest; not much good
    food again this year as it was last year.

    Mary tells the children:
*    Most of the townfolks in this place worked whole    *
*    week even on Sundays when they should be in church  *
*    honoring God.  These townfolks swears and           *
*    uses her Son's name in bad words.  That is          *
    why her Son's arm is so heavy in pain.
    Then she asked them if they pray.  The children
    said "hardly".  She asked them to pray every
    morning and night.  When the children went back
    from work they had to tell somebody about this.
    When the news was spred and after thorough
*    investigation of the incident, the townfolks        *
*    were converted and faith and obedience to God       *
*    were restored in their community.                   *

Once again, the Lamb succeeds.


When will you people realize that our right to keep and bear isn't
primarily intended to be for protecting against criminals and beasties
in the wild?  Granted, it is a big part, but we also need military style
weapons so we can fight off the government when they come to our door.
When ten agents come to my door, it would be nice to be able to shoot
all of them for 'not upholding the constitution to the best of their
ability'.  It will be a lot harder doing that with the puny weapons you
listed above.

Please read the Federalist papers for all clarification on RKBA.  These
documents have cleared up plenty of misnomers that friends of mine have
had.


 ajteel@dendrite.cs.Colorado.EDU (A.J. Teel) writes...

On whose authority do you have this and on what grounds was it
dismissed?

						Daniel Reitman

HOW NOT TO WRITE A DEED

One case involved the construction of a conveyance to grantees "jointly, as
tenants in common, with equal rights and interest in said land, and to the
survivor thereof, in fee simple. . . . To Have and to Hold the same unto the
said parties hereto, equally, jointly, as tenants in common, with equal rights
and interest for the period or term of their lives, and to the survivor thereof
at the death of the other."


[Much text deleted]

:   plus/minus ... it is the most misleading hockey stat available.

Not necessarily the most misleading, but you are right, it definitely
needs to be taken in the proper perspective. A shining example is
if you look at the Penguins individual +/-, you will find very few minuses.
That only makes common sense, since they didn't lose many games.

:   Until the NHL publishes a more useful quantifiable statistic including ice
:   time per game and some measure of its "quality" (i.e., is the player put out
:   in key situations like protecting a lead late in the game; is he matched up
:   against the other team's top one or two lines; short-handed, etc), I would
:   much rather see the +/- disappear altogether instead of having its dubious
:   merits trumpeted by those with little understanding of its implications.

Unfortunately, you will need to keep a ridiculous number of stats to
really come up with a statistic which really shows a player's value.
Let's just enjoy the game and not overanalyze it. (like I'm doing now,
excuse me!)


It is nonsense, Danny, if you can refute it with proof. If you are citing your
experience then you should have been there in the 1940's (the article is
comparing the condition then with that now).

Otherwise, it is you who is trying to change the facts.


This means you would support a ban if it were narrow enough.  Good.

I would hope so.  Let's define a nuclear weapon as an explosive weapon
whose majority of energy comes from fission and/or fusion of atomic
nuclei.  Let's define a biological weapon as live organisms or viruses
in such state, quantity, and with such a vector that they could cause
death or serious disease [further defined] to a significant number of
people if released in a city, similarly populated area, resevoir, or
cropland.

Nerve gas and mustard gas are well defined.  Other poisonous
gasses should be individually banned only if it can be shown that there
is no use not related to weaponry.  Licenses should be available for
research purposes on such chemicals.

I am not a lawyer, but these ideas could certainly be a basis for
definitions.

Nope.  It is not considered a weapon.

It is not defined as a weapon of mass destruction.  Many things are
banned for other reasons.


	The newspaper itself is almost certainly copyrighted in its
entirety.  Newspapers generally employ legal staffs which make sure
they get permission to use a copyrighted image or text.  Did you
do the same?
--
-John


Does anyone know the approximate prescription cost
of a 250 ml bottle of Roxonal (morphine)?


The quality of autobahns is something of a myth. The road surface
isn't much different to a typical TX freeway. They are better
in terms of lighting, safety, signs, roadmarkings etc. I'd have
no problem driving 130 on most US freeways, as it is, I save it
for the backroads, which really are more likely to be dangerous.

It would have to be quite severe. I don't recall any US freeway,
without road damage warnings, that i would regard as unsafe
at 130 in any decent, well damped car. Note that my definition
of decent, well damped, would exclude most typical American sedans.

I don't know where you live, but I would be much more worried
about cops, other traffic etc. than the road surface at 130.
It just isn't that fast or that dangerous. If you have a Probe
GT, no problem. The 4cyl models I have driven would be
likely to be unpredictable at higher speeds.


Hello all!

For few past days I've been fighting to get My NEC Multisync 3D
(predecessor of 3FG) to work properly with the internal video of Mac
IIvi.

With a VGA-adapter (as described in Dale Adams' posting about Quadra
video) it works, only some minor interferences occur, small enough not
to prevent any action on screen to be visible & clear.

But because the scanrates & stuff of 3D are well enough for emulating
Apple 13" RGB, I first made an adapter, then got one fron the local
distributor of NEC.
With both adapters I can get a picure, which looks excellent most of
the time or every now and then.
But with radical changes on screen (opening palettes, large windows
etc.) there are major interferences in sync. The picture either tilts
sideways or scrables up totally. Even when it is clear, there are some
"spiky" interferences on horizontal line alignment when accessing
pull-downs etc.
With the self-made adapter, almost identical to the VGA one, only
sense pins differ, it is sometimes impossible to even boot up with a
picture clear enough to shut down from menu...
With the adapter from NEC, everything is well most of the time, but
sometimes the picture tilts badly sideways or the sync is completely
lost. But not nearly as often as with the self-made one.

I know, with self made adapters there can always be interference, but
with the one provided by NEC... where's the source of this interference?

I'll give you the pinouts of the whole mess, and I hope that you can,
at least someone (please try =) figure out what could be the best pin
assignment for NEC 3D.
I am going to make a completely new cable with maximum shieldings and
isolations, as soon as someone figures out how the pins should be
arranged, especially syncs and groundings.

Yes, I have checked that the monitor is not defective, it works
perfectly well with all PC graphic adapters up to 1024x768 pixels and
also Atari 71Hz monochrome, which I am using now with it.

Here are the pinouts & stuff:

15 pin mini D-sub (NEC 3D)		15 pin D-sub (Mac, at least Quadra)

1  Red Video				1  Red GND
2  Green Video				2  Red Video
3  Blue Video				3  Composite Sync
4  GND					4  Sense 0
5  GND					5  Green Video
6  Red GND				6  Green GND
7  Green GND				7  Sense 1
8  Blue GND				8  NC
9  NC					9  Blue Video
10 GND					10 Sense 2
11 GND					11 C.Sync & V.Sync GND
12 NC					12 V.Sync
13 H.Sync				13 Blue GND
14 V.Sync				14 H.Sync GND
15 NC					15 H.Sync
SHELL GND				SHELL GND

Connection suggested by Apple for VGA/SVGA, sense pins changed to
emulate Apple 13" with Multisync (my self-made adapter)

Multisync (15pin mini D-sub)	Mac (15pin D-sub)

	  1  ---------------------- 2
	  2  ---------------------- 5
	  3  ---------------------- 9
	  6  ---------------------- 1
	  7  ---------------------- 6
	  8  ---------------------- 13
	  10 ---------------------- 14
	  13 ---------------------- 15
	  14 ---------------------- 12
				    4 (sense0) grounded to 11 (sync GND)

Connection measured from an adapter to make NEC 3FG/4FG
emulate Apple 13" (adapter provided by NEC representative)

	NEC (15 mini)   	Mac (15)

	1   ----------------------- 2
	2   ----------------------- 5
	3   ----------------------- 9
	4   ----------------------- SHELL GND, 1, 4, 6, 13
	5   ----------------------- same as above
	6   ----------------------- same...
	7   ----------------------- same...
	8   ----------------------- same...
	10  ----------------------- same...
	11  ----------------------- same...
	13  ----------------------- 3
	14    * Not Connected! *

Well, I am waiting for your solutions...

And thanks!


Contrary to what the "Protocols of Zion crowd" might suggest,
Judaism does not have any such goals.

The question you ask is complicated and deserves an honest answer.
I am going to provide one from my own current perspective, not a historical
one.  Currently, as a non-observant jew/Israeli/American, my own feeling
is that Jews from the diaspora do not have a greater right in Palestine or
Israel, than the palestinians or Israelis (both arab and jew) do.
With regard to Jewish Israelis, they should have the same rights
in Israel as do all other Israelis.

Who are them?  If by them you mean the non-religious Jews, I think
you should be aware by now that the majority of the settlers and their
supporters are religious.  The other part of the problem is, to my
knowledge, not that the palestinians don't want to be a part of Israel,
as much as they would accept (for the most part) being full citizens
of Israel, with all the priviliges and responsibilities accorded Israeli
citizens.  What they object to is the current limbo in which they find
themselves.


How can car be any good that has

          S     N     A    C
             U     D     N    E

written on the back with crooked letters as if a 2-year-old had
written it?  Hehhehehehahaha!

(About as silly as Crysler's attemps to make the label on the back
of some of their other cars appear like they are Mercedes.)

Sorry, I couldn't resist...


AHL CALDER CUP PLAYOFF GAME(S) PLAYED ON 4/16
Providence 3	SPRINGFIELD 2	(OT)
Baltimore 4	BINGHAMTON 3
Utica 3		ROCHESTER 2	(OT)
Cape Breton 5	FREDERICTON 2

GAME(S) SCHEDULED FOR 4/17
Capital District at Adirondack
Providence at Springfield
Baltimore at Binghamton
Utica at Rochester
Moncton vs St John's at Halifax

SERIES STATI (plural of status? :)
Adirondack leads CDI, 1-0
Springfield leads Providence, 2-1
Baltimore leads Binghamton 1-0
Utica leads Rochester, 1-0
St John's leads Moncton, 1-0
Cape Breton tied w/Fredericton, 1-1

=================================================
=================================================
FULL 1993 CALDER CUP PLAYOFF SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
home team in CAPS		*=if necesary

FIRST ROUND
Springfield Indians vs Providence Bruins
Gm 1:	Springfield 3	PROVIDENCE 2
Gm 2:	Springfield 5	PROVIDENCE 4
Gm 3:	Providence 3	SPRINGFIELD 2
Gm 4:	4/17	Providence at Springfield
Gm 5:	4/22	Springfield at Providence
Gm 6:	4/24	Providence at Springfield	*
Gm 7:	4/27	Springfield at Providence	*

CD Islanders vs Adirondack Red Wings
Gm 1:	ADIRONDACK 6	CDI 2
Gm 2:	4/17	CDI at Adirondack
Gm 3:	4/18	Adirondack at CDI
Gm 4:	4/21	Adirondack at CDI
Gm 5:	4/23	CDI at Adirondack	*
Gm 6:	4/24	Adirondack at CDI	*
Gm 7:	4/26	CDI at Adirondack	*

Baltimore Skipjacks at Binghamton Rangers
Gm 1:	Baltimore 4	BINGHAMTON 3
Gm 2:	4/17	Baltimore at Binghamton
Gm 3:	4/23	Binghamton at Baltimore
Gm 4:	4/24	Binghamton at Baltimore
Gm 5:	4/26	Baltimore at Binghamton	*
Gm 6:	4/28	Binghmaton at Baltimore	*
Gm 7:	4/30	Baltimore at Binghamton	*

Utica Devils vs Rochester Americans
Gm 1:	Utica 3		Rochester 2	(OT)
Gm 2:	4/17	Utica at Rochester
Gm 3:	4/20	Rochester at Utica
Gm 4:	4/22	Rochester at Utica
Gm 5:	4/24	Utica at Rochester	*
Gm 6:	4/26	Rochester at Utica	*
Gm 7:	4/28	Utica at Rochester	*

Moncton Hawks vs St John's Maple Leafs
Gm 1:	St John's 4	Moncton 2
Gm 2:	4/17	Moncton vs St John's at Halifax
Gm 3:	4/21	St John's at Moncton
Gm 4:	4/23	St John's at Moncton
Gm 5:	4/26	Moncton vs St John's at Halifax	*
Gm 6:	4/28	St John's at Moncton		*
Gm 7:	4/30	Moncton vs St John's at Halifax	*

Cape Breton Oilers vs Fredericton Canadiens
Gm 1:	FREDERICTON 4	Cape Breton 3	(2OT)
Gm 2:	Cape Breton 5	FREDERICTON 2
Gm 3:	4/20	Fredericton at Cape Breton
Gm 4:	4/22	Fredericton at Cape Breton
Gm 5:	4/24	Cape Breton at Fredericton
Gm 6:	4/26	Fredericton at Cape Breton	*
Gm 7:	4/28	Cape Breton at Fredericton	*


...

I think the support droid was malfunctioning and confused the disk space
limit with the virtual address space limit.  As far as the disk is
concerned, you are limited only by the amount of contiguous free space.
The limit that causes the message, "Windows will only use ...," is the
amount of virtual address space that the Virtual Memory Manager will
create, and this is a function of the amount of free memory that you have
when Windows starts.

In the [386enh] section of SYSTEM.INI, you can specify a parameter:

	PageOverCommit=multiplier

The following description is from the Windows Resource Kit:

	This entry specifies the multiplier what determines the amount of
	linear address space the VMM will create for the system, which is
	computed by rounding up the amount of available physical memory to
	the nearest 4 MB and then multiplying that value by the value
	specified for PageOverCommit=.  Increasing this value increases the
	amount of available linear address space, causing the size of data
	structures to increase.  This also increases paging activity
	proportionately and can slow down the system.  You can specify a
	value between 1 and 20.  The default is 4.  To change this entry,
	you must edit SYSTEM.INI.


There are roughly 1200 fatal, firearms-related accidents each year.
The large majority involve rifles and shotgun; there are under 500
fatal handgun accidents each year. I really doubt all of those
occur while the pistol is holstered, so the number of "self-inflicted
gunshot wounds by people wearing thigh holsters" is probably
well under 250 per year.

Handguns designs have included a "hammer block" since around 1960
or earlier. This is a metal part which physically seperates
the cartridge and the firing pin: Even under impact, the gun
cannot fire. The hammer block is connected to the trigger and
is pulled out of the way as the trigger is pulled. As a result,
modern pistols can fire _only_ if the trigger is pulled (or
in some cases, if they are cocked by hand and then dropped.)

I don't know about animal attacks, but there are 23,500 murders
each year and under 500 die in the manner you suggest. If only
2.1% of the murders were killings by "wacko"s, you would be
wrong. Worse, there are also 102,500 rapes and 1,055,000 aggravated
assaults each year. These numbers make violent attacks, and
preventing them, thousands of times more significant than the
accidents you are worried about.

(These figures, by the way, are from the FBI's "Uniform Crime
Report" for 1990. I'll stop by a library tomorrow and look at
the "National Crime Victimization Survey", which is more
specific about where and when the crimes occured.)


I have read -just today- two articles dripping of hate and offence to
a great deal of people. I could  find as much matching hatred in your
articles as I have found in some of the self-righteous "Kill-in-the-name
of God" people.

I don't know why you are so attcaking to everyone, is it a reaction to
the hatred calls on this newsgroup, or is it a reaction to hardships
you have seen and experienced from before...
I have learnt not to judge people by only what they say, but rather
try to put myself in their place and aspire to understand their
feelings.

I hope you would be able to do the same with everyone, starting by your
ownself, because only through that you could be able to understand your
feelings and act in a the manner you would aspire everyone to adopt.

Thanks for your time


: Marian CATHOLIC high school, outside of chicago:
:
: 666 south ASHLAND avenue.
:
Actually, Satanism is technically inverted Catholicism.


    That's because Lankford had a minor injury from a couple of games
before that
    and was day-to-day... only available as a pinchrunner.


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 tdarugar@tartarus.ucsd.edu or
			tdarugar@ebon.ucsd.edu


[..]

This statement simply amazes me!  "Through no fault of ATF, the element of
surprise was lost"!  What element of surprise?  In the paragraph preceding this
one, he said "... the special agents announced who they were and their purpose
for being at the compound", which was to serve the federal warrant.  No element
of surprise was even needed for that.

No, the element of surprise that they lost was that needed for a preemptive
first strike, without warning.

Read: They need to wait until they see how it comes out before they fabricate
anymore, which could get disproven.

As always, no facts, just my opinions/observations.

Jim
--
jmd@handheld.com


WINDOWS NT

I need some information on the new Windows NT.
Anything you have would be appreciated. I know nothing about it.
(Well, except that it exists.)
Some questions...

Memory requirements, hard drive space, release date? is it out?
How is IBM reacting? Intel?
Can it replace other LAN OS's?

ANYTHING else like specs, speed, etc..

Thanks in advance!

Luke


You asked a question, and now you don't want people to answer?  I believe
a legitimate question was asked.  Why shouldn't cost and safety be used
(at least in part) to determine legality?

I'd like to see you *prove* that drug legalization is an idiotic idea.
Seems to me the evidence from Great Britain is pretty convincing that
drug legalization is a good idea.  Even such a noted conservative as
William F. Buckley supports it.

Your examples (except for prostitution) fail miserably to meet both criteria
(safer AND cheaper).  Obviously, killing people is not "safe".  As for
prostitution, why shouldn't it be legal?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
...Dale Cook    "Any town having more churches than bars has a serious
                   social problem." ---Edward Abbey
The opinions are mine only (i.e., they are NOT my employer's)


The  N A T I O N A L  D A Y
                                  o f
                            P  R  A  Y  E  R

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           IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
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           :           JOIN AMERICA IN PRAYER TO:           :
           :                                                :
           :     * Acknowledge our dependence upon God;     :
           :                                                :
           :     * Give thanks for His many blessings;      :
           :                                                :
           :     * Ask God to guide our leaders and to      :
           :       bring healing, reconciliation and whole- :
           :       ness to our nation and all its people.   :
           :                                                :
           HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<

                      OUR FOUNDING FATHERS SAID...

     George Washington:  "I now make it my earnest prayer that God...
         (A.D. 1783)     would be pleased to dispose us all to do
                         justice, to love mercy, and to demean
     ourselves with charity and humility, and a pacific temper of mind,
     which were characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed
     Religion, and without an humble imitation of Whose example in
     these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."

     John Adams:  "It must be felt that there is no national security
     (A.D. 1853)  but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence
                  upon God and His overruling providence."

     Abraham Lincoln:   "It is the duty of nations, as well as of men,
       (A.D. 1863)      to own their dependence upon the overruling
                        power of God, to confess their sins and
     transgressions...and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in
     the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations
     only are blessed whose God is the Lord..."

     NOTE:  You can join with people in your area in observing the
            NATIONAL DAY Of PRAYER.  To learn who is affiliated with
            the Concerts Of Prayer group in your area, contact:


Armenia is involved in fighting with Azarbaijan.  It is Armenian
soldiers from mainland Armenia that are shelling towns in Azarbaijan.
You might wish to read more about whether or not it is Azeri aggression
only in that region.  It seems to me that the Armenians are better
organized, have more success militarily and shell Azeri towns
repeatedly.

I don't wish to get into the Cyprus discussion.  Turkey had the right to
intervene, and it did.  Perhaps the intervention was not supposed to
last for so long, but the constant refusal of the Greek governments both
on the island and in Greece to deal with reality is also to be blamed
for the ongoing standoff in the region.

Lastly, why is there not a soc.culture.armenia?  I vote yes for it.
After all, it is now free.


    1. Get the friend to uninstall it.
    2. Read the manual (though from your post I infer that you are using
    pirated software.)
    3. Go into SYS.INI and change the SHELL= line to read SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE


Is it just me, or has this part gotten beyond useful?

Gregg is not, as I understand his posts, giving any support to the bounty
on Rushdie's life.  If that's correct, end of one point...

Gregg is using the concept of legal in a way most Westerners don't accept.
His comments about Islamic Law I think make a great deal of sense to him,
and are even making a _little_ sense to me now - if a person is a member
of a group (religion or whatever) they bind themselves to follow the ways
of the group within the bounds of what the group requires as a minimum.
The big bone of contention here that I'm picking up is that in the West
we have secular governments that maintain, more or less, a level of control
and of requirements outside the requirements of optional groups.  I think
the majority of us reading this thread are in tune (note - I didn't say
"in agreement") with the idea that you are finally responsible to the
secular government,  and within that to the group or groups a person may
have chosen.

With that in mind, it not possible under secular law ("legally" as most
people would define the term) to hold a person to a particular group once
they decide to separate from it.  Only if the secular authorities agree
that there is a requirement of some sort (contractual, etc) is there
any secular _enforcement_ allowed by a group to a group member or past
group member.

A religion can, and often does, believe in and require additional duties
of a group member.  And it can enforce the fulfillment of those duties
in many ways - ostracism is common for example.  But the limit comes when
the enforcement would impose unwanted and/or unaccepted onus on a person
_in conflict with secular law_.

This is the difference.  In a theocracy, the requirements of the secular
authorities are, by definition, congruent with the religious authorities.
Outside a theocracy, this is not _necessarily_ true.  Religious requirements
_may_ coincide or may not.  Similiarly, religious consequences _may_ or
may not coincide with secular consequences (if any).

Regards,

Dew


: I have one complaint for the cameramen doing the Jersey-Pitt series:  Show
: the shots, not the hits.  On more than one occassion the camera zoomed in
: on a check along the boards while the puck was in the slot.  They panned
: back to show the rebound.  Maybe Mom's camera people were a little more
: experienced.

: Joseph Stiehm

Exactly.  That is my biggest complaint about the coverage so far.
Follow that damn puck!

--
Ravi Shah
shah+@pitt.edu


Fred Rice answered this already in an early posting:
"The problem with your argument is that you do not _know_ who is a _real_
believer and who may be "faking it".  This is something known only by
the person him/herself (and God).  Your assumption that anyone who
_claims_ to be a "believer" _is_ a "believer" is not necessarily true."

In other words it seems that nobody could define who is a true and
false Muslim. We are back to square one, Khomeini and Hussein are
still innocent and can't be defined as evil or good Islamic
worshippers.

Cheers,
Kent


Perhaps it was Trottier.  It happened behind the Habs goal if I recall.
Gainey simply didn't have his head up as he was picking up the puck.

If Gilmour was taken completely by surprise, as Gainey was, then yeah,
I would have to say that Doug wasn't playing "technically" smart
hockey.  In any case, to claim as Greg did, that Gainey *never* made
a technical mistake is absolutely ludicrous.

Good for you.  You'd only be displaying your ignorance of course, but to
each his own...

I think Gainey should feel honoured to know that he is remembered at
all.

Certainly pluggers are an integral part of any team.  And that is
simply because there are not enough solid two-way players to go
around.  Who would you rather have as your "checking" centre?  Doug
Gilmour or Doug Jarvis?  For that matter I would take either Gretzky
or Mario as my "checking" centres.  Do you think Gretzky could cover
Bob Gainey?

You're wrong again.  The Selke is awarded to the forward that does the
best job defensively and this may or may not be the best plugger.  If
Gilmour does the best defensive job in the league I don't see why he
should be out of the running simply because he also contributes offen-
sively.

Settle down?  If you think that I have likened the Selke to the Nobel
prize then I suggest that you had best "settle down".  And if you are
going to try to put words in my mouth, let me suggest that you "settle
down" before you bother following up on my postings.

You might consider developing your own style.  After all, imitation is
the sincerest form of flattery and I am quite sure that flattery is not
your intention.

cordially, as always,

rm


Is clear coat really worth it?  Yes, on the showroom floor, the cars
have this deep, lustrous shine that just can't be found on paint jobs
that aren't clear coated.  On the other hand, it seems that every clear
coated car that I've seen on the road (in a parking lot, etc.) has
fine scratches throughout the paint job.  As does, alas, my 1992 Laser.

Several weeks ago I had my car professionally polished and waxed.
When I picked it up, it had that same showroom shine that I remember
from a year ago when I bought it.  Several days ago I took my car
to the dealership for some work.  As an added bonus, they washed my
car.  Unfortunately, whoever washed it either didn't get the roof
(which is black, the rest of the car is red) completely clean before
he dried it, or he used a dirty towel.  Now my showroom shine is a
haze of fine scratches that aren't really visible until the light
hits the roof at a particular angle.

I am, to put it mildy, somewhat peeved about this.  Do I have any
chance of getting the dealership to do something about this?
My guess is 'no'.  Is there any product on the market that provides
a solution to this problem?  Or am I faced with the prospect of
having the car professionally polished again to hide the scratches?
Information, commiseration, and sympathy all greatly appreciated . . .


Which GERMAN satellite channels will show the World Championship action
from Dusseldorf & Munich?
Someone please tell me (must be able to root for the Red Machine)!

Thank you


Please cite your evidence that he was intending to use it.

Why not?

Check the sig.

Society does not have rights only individuals have rights.

OK, your a commie.

You think you have a right to rape anyone? No wonder you don't care about
the rightws of others.

Please indicate which law you feel Koresh broke, and when was he convicted of
said crime.

So you feel that owning guns makes him a threat to society. When are y ou
going to start going after knives and baseball bats as well.
Or do you feel that someone who spouts unpopular ideas is by definition a
threat to society.

It is simple if you think that there job is to assualt civilians.

In other words you don't support any of them.


Ed's heading out on the highway?

Did he finally buy a bike or is he a passanger?

Jeff Andle   DoD #3005  1976 KZ900     REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU


   Hmmmm.  I think, with really large keyspaces like this, you need to
alter the strategy discussed for DES.  Attempt decryption of several
blocks, and check the disctribution of the contents.  I don't think it's
at all feasible to keep 2**80 encryptions of a known plaintext block on
*any* amount of tape or CD-ROM.  And certainly not 2**128 such encrypted
blocks.  (Anyone know a cheap way of converting every atom in the solar
system into a one bit storage device?)

   Actually, a keysearch of this kind shouldn't be much worse than the
simpler kind in terms of speed.  It's just that you have to do it over
for *every* encrypted message.

   Dumb question:  Has anyone ever done any serious research on how many
legitimate ASCII-encoded 8-byte blocks there are that could be part of
an english sentence?  For attacking DES in ECB mode, it seems like a
dictionary of this kind might be pretty valuable....


: You know, it sounds suspiciously like no fault doesn't even do what it
: was advertised as doing---getting the lawyers out of the loop.

: Sigh.  Another naive illusion down the toilet....

Since most legislators are lawyers it is very difficult to get any
law passed that would cut down on lawyers' business.  That is why
"No-fault" insurance laws always backfire.


Well, actually now that you mention it, a few weeks ago the CBC ran a
documentary on "Ice Hockey in Harlem".  the Canadian Club of New York
(something like that) sponsors a league for kids in Harlem and based on
the TV report they all seemed to be having a lot of fun.  All playing
with regular equipment, jerseys, etc etc, on a proper outdoor rink.  It
looked just like kids playing hockey anywhere else.


 rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie) writes...

FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

On the other hand, if it can be proven, it's possible the changed
terms could be thrown out.  The question will be whether the
agreement contains a merger clause.  See UCC @ 2-202 (parol
evidence).  If we're talking about warranties, then, of course,
UCC @ 2-316 should be looked at.

But we have so little information that none of us can say anything
conclusive.

						Daniel Reitman


 It has some of the most impressive performance figures around, and automotive
 magazines eat it up.  One car to seriously consider in that price range.

                                                Rob Fusi
                                                rwf2@lehigh.edu


I would like to sell the following sci-fi books at Best Offer.
If you are interested, please email an offer and be sure to include
shipping and handling. I prefer not to ship COD but if you purchase
$25 or more, I will consider.

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
Han Solo's Revenge
Han Solo at Stars End
Splinter in the Minds Eye
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn
The Official Star Trek Trivia Book
Star Trek Reader Vol I
Star Trek Reader Vol II      These are the book form of the
Star Trek Reader Vol III           Original TV Series
Star Trek Reader Vol IV

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune

Altered States
Alien
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
DragonSlayer

The Mists of Avalon
The Compleat Book of Sowrds
The Lost Swords

2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey II
2061: Odyssey III

Barlowes Complete Guide to ExtraTresstials

Again, best offer and don't be shy.

Thanks


It's not a bad question: I don't have any refs that list this algorithm
either. But thinking about it a bit, it shouldn't be too hard.

1) Take three of the points and find the plane they define as well as
the circle that they lie on (you say you have this algorithm already)

2) Find the center  of this circle. The line passing through this center
perpendicular to the plane of the three points passes through the center of
the sphere.

3) Repeat with the unused point and two of the original points. This
gives you two different lines that both pass through the sphere's
origin. Their interection is the center of the sphere.

4) the radius is easy to compute, it's just the distance from the center to
any of the original points.

I'll leave the math to you, but this is a workable algorithm. :-)

An alternate method would be to take pairs of points: the plane formed
by the perpendicular bisector of each line segment pair also contains the
center of the sphere. Three pairs will form three planes, intersecting
at a point. This might be easier to implement.


I can tell you that when AMSAT launched some birds along a Spot satellite
(French), that during installation of some instruments on Spot 2, there
heavily armed legionaires who had a `take no prisoners' look on there faces.
Spot satellites are completely capable of doing some very good on orbit
surveillance.

BMc
--


Thanks for docs info. It turns out that if I leave out colormap updates between
frames and use tvtwm, my tests with 100 400x400x8 frames on an IPX using the
server-resident pixmap method give an astonishing *50* frames per second! And
VERY smooth. I think I've found the best solution (thanks to the generous help
on this group!) However, I may have colormap questions later.....

Derek

-----------------------------------------------------------


Make sure to take the Sutcliff, Fisk, ect. factor into account.


I haven't been following this thread, so appologies if this has already been
mentioned, but how about

	comp.graphics.3d


That's rich... Ozzie Smith a defensive liability...


I doubt Henderson would clear waivers.  And if he did, he would
instantly be signed for the major league minimum, with Oakland picking
up the remaining $3 million tab.

Some GMs value on-field performance too...


I was whatching The History Of The Indy 500 the other day,
and early in the film, around the '10-'20's, a name, Lois Chevrolet,
came out of the blue. I wanted to know if he is THE Chevrolet founder
or mearly a driver who's name was called the same as the other guy's?:^)


 ^^^^^^^^^^

	Well, Dale, I'd say offhand "Keel-hauling" would work pretty
well...we haven't had a good "keel-hauling" in a long time... (Sorry, it came up in a conversation yesterday and, well, I just love that phrase...)
	Or maybe just ask for folks to flood the guys mailbox with
the FAQ for net-etiquitte...sort of poetic justice for all the junk mail
he was trying to generate anyway...

Tom T


How do you set up an app to give its window a default start up
position and size?


I believe we still remember Masada, where Jews killed themselves rather
than being captured by the Romans.  While I do not agree with the
Davidians, I must admire their willingness to die for what they
believed, which Jews have had to do often.


...

Seen that movie already. Or one just like it.
Come to think of it, they might send someone on
a quest to get rid of the dang thing...


Sixteen days I had put off test driving the Honda ST1100.  Finally,
the 17th was a Saturday without much rain.  In fact it cleared up,
became warm and sunny, and the wind died.  About three weeks ago, I
took a long cool ride on the Hawk down to Cycles! 128 for a test ride.
They had sold, and delivered, the demo ST1100 about fifteen hours
before I arrived.  And the demo VFR was bike-locked in the showroom --
surrounded by 150 other bikes, and not likely to move soon.

Today was different.  There were even more bikes.  50 used dirt bikes,
50 used street bikes, 35 cars, and a big tent full of Outlandishly Fat
Touring Bikes With Trailers were all squeezed in the parking lot.
Some sort of fat bike convention.  Shelly and Dave were running one
MSF course each, at the same time.  One in the classroom and one on
the back lot.  Plus, there was the usuall free cookout food that
Cycles! gives away every weekend in the summer.  Hmmm, it seemed like
a big moto party.

After about ten minutes of looking for Rob C, cheif of sales slime,
and another 5 minutes reading and signing a long disclosure/libility/
pray-to-god form I helped JT push the ST out into the mess in the
parking lot.  We went over the the controls, I put the tank bag from
the Hawk into the right saddlebag, and my wife put everything else
into the left saddlebag.  ( Thats nice.... )  Having helped push the
ST out to the lot, I thought it best to have JT move it to the edge of
the road, away from the 100+ bikes and 100+ people.  He rode it like a
bicycle!  'It cant be that heavy' I thought.

Well I was wrong.  As I sat on the ST, both feet down, all I could
think was "big".  Then I put one foot up.  "Heavy" came to mind very
quickly.  With Cindy on the back -- was she on the back?  Hard to
tell with seat three times as large as a Hawk seat -- the bike seemed
nearly out of control just idling on the side of the road.

By 3000 rpm in second gear, all the weight seemed to dissappear.  Even
on bike with 4.1 miles on the odometer, slippery new tires, and pads that
did not yet bite the disks, things seems smooth and sure.  Cycles! is
on a section of 128 that few folks ever ride.  About 30 miles north
of the computer concentration, about five miles north of where I95
splits away, 128 is a lighly travelled, two lane limited access
highway.  It goes through heavily forested sections of Hamilton,
Manchester-by-the-Sea and Newbury on its way to Gloucester.
On its way there, it meets 133, a road that winds from the sea about
30 miles inland to Andover.  On its way it goes through many
thoroughly New England spots.  Perfect, if slow, sport touring sections.

Cindy has no difficulty with speed.  3rd gear, 4th gear, purring along
in top gear.  This thing has less low rpm grunt that my Hawk.  Lane
changes were a new experience.  A big heft is required to move this
thing.  Responds well though.   No wallowing or complaint.  Behind the
fairing it was fairly quiet, but the helmet buffeting was
non-trivial.  Top gear car passing at 85mph was nearly effortless.
Smooth, smooth, smooth.   Not sure what the v4 sound reminds me of,
but it is pleasant.  If only the bars were not transmitting an endless
buzz.

The jump on to 133 caused me to be less than impressed with the
brakes.  Its a down hill, reversing camber, twice-reversing radius,
decreasing radius turn.  A real squeeze is needed on the front binder.
The section of 133 we were on was tight, but too urban.  The ST works ok
in this section, but it shows its weight.  We went by the clam shack
oft featured in "Spencer for Hire" -- a place where you could really
find "Spencer", his house was about 15 miles down 133.  After putting
through traffic for a while, we turned and went back to 128.

About half way through the onramp, I yanked Cindy's wrist, our singal
for "hold on tight".  Head check left,  time to find redline.  Second
gear gives a good shove.  Third too.  Fourth sees DoD speed with a
short shift into top.  On the way to 133 we saw no cops and very light
traffic.  Did not cross into DoD zone because the bike was too new.
Well, now it had 25 miles on it, so it was ok.  Tried some high effort
lane changes, some wide sweeping turns.  Time to wick it up?  I went
until the buffeting was threating to pull us off the seat.  And stayed
there.  When I was comfortable with the wind and the steering,
I looked down to find an indicated 135mph.  Not bad for 2-up touring.

Beverly comes fast at more than twice the posted limit.  At the "get
off in a mile" sign, I rolled off the throttle and coasted.  I wanted
to re-adjust to the coming slowness.  It was a good idea:  there were
several manhole-sized patches of sand on the exit ramp.  Back to the
slow and heavy behavior.  Cycles! is about a mile from 128.  I could
see even more cars stacked up outside right when I got off.  I managed
to thread the ST through the cars to the edge of the concrete pad
out front.  Heavy.  It took way too much effort for Cindy and I to put
the thing on the center stand.  I am sure that if I used the side
stand the ST would have been on its side within a minute.

My demo opinion?  Heavy.  Put it on a diet.  Smooth, comfortable,
hardly notices the DoD speed.   I'd buy on for about $3000 less than
list, just like it is.  Too much $ for the bike as it is.


	I was thinking about this, also. It's quite possible the
system transmits, in clear, the serial number of the device being
used. That way they can start a tap, get the serial number, and use
the warrant for the first tap to get the key.

	If they tap someone who's apparently using encryption, but
don't find that prefix, then they'll assume it's an "un-authorized"
encryption scheme.

--
	May the Kloo Gnomes be generous to you.


Hi!

One of the ASPI-drivers (I think it's the ASPICD) supports a /NORST
paramter, which means to not reset the SCSI bus when it loads. This
fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec+tosh
3401.

Regards,


  >...
  >In the near future, federal martials will come for your arms.
  >No one will help you. You are more dangerous, to their thinking,
  >than the 'criminal'. This is your own fault.
  >
  >The 2nd amendment is dead. Accept this. Find another way.

You know, in many ways this might be just the kick we need to straighten
things out in this country.  Also, people would have a need to replace
guns with something else, perhaps deadly sprays that would make Mace and OC
seem like water.  They would be lighter and easier to conceal.

Guns are really "old" in design and as long as we have tons of them, no one
is motivated to design something better.  I'm sure we could come up with
some real nasty stuff if we tried and getting rid of these guns would get
us moving on this track asap.  This is what we really want, right?  Stuff
that's smaller, lighter and far more deadly.