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I'm a system and network admin. One of my users has a Duo 230
([*]specifications below) that has been having slowdown problems.
Leaving the Duo on for several hours causes it to slow down
unacceptably. It can take 10-15 seconds to change applications. During
this time it is completely hung. If he reboots, the problem ... | 4 |
William December Starr writes...
in a typical lawyer baiting fashion, as usual.
(All the while ignoring every principle of the ACLU.)
Good to see your still out there WDS. Surely we've
been around the ring enough by now, that you know
you can't spin me up with expletives.
Let's see if there's anything left worth... | 18 |
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I wouldn't give baserunning that much value.
The above effect is clear, but there are other effects as well. If
Olerud hits a double, any runner on first will score; if Alomar legs an
extra base onto a hit in the gap, the runner on first may need to hold
at third. Thus Olerud's doubles have more advancement valu... | 9 |
I'm looking for a c.itoh printer driver for Windows 3.1. Does anybody
happen to know where I could find such a beast?
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
-- | 2 |
One thing I think is interesting about alt.athiesm is the fact that
without bible-thumpers and their ilk this would be a much duller newsgroup.
It almost needs the deluded masses to write silly things for athiests to
tear apart. Oh well, that little tidbit aside here is what I really wanted
write about.
How can ... | 0 |
This may be a stupid question, but how does the government know which keys
to ask for?
Will owners be required to REGISTER their phones, faxes, modems, etc.,
and inform the government when they are moved to a different phone number?
Will there be penalities if the public does not do this? Will identification
(the Nat... | 11 |
Has someone a list of CD-ROM's with no SCSI-Interface and if known
how much they are present in the market.
Please mail direcktly as I am not reguarly reading the group.
I'll post a summary if wanted.
Thanks
Ihno
==============================================================================
Ihno Krumreich |... | 3 |
->I addressed most of the key issues in this very long (284 lines) post
->by Dean Kaflowitz in two posts yesterday. The first was made into the
->title post of a new thread, "Is Dean Kaflowitz terminally irony-impaired?"
->and the second, more serious one appeared along the thread
->"A Chaney Post, and a Challenge, r... | 19 |
I need to get an Apple 40SC tape backup unit working under
Sys 7.0.x, but do not have any drivers/software to access
the device. Does anyone know where I can fidn the tools
to access this device?
Appreciate any info/comments.
--curtis | 4 |
1. There is a similar idea here in ex-USSR about how many militioners it needs
to place a new electric lamp. The answer is nine: one stays on a table and
holds the lamp, four hold the table and turn it and yet four run around the
table in opposite direction not to make the first feel bad (when being
turned... | 17 |
I have a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series II Paper Tray for sale.
Its letter size (8.5 - 11), brand new in the box and never used.
I'm asking $40.00 (bought new at Ballard Computer for $65.95) | 6 |
Boy that was really humorous. I'm impressed by your incredible senses of wit,
sarcasm and propriety. Mind if I post jokes about your mother?
| 17 |
Yes, this is certainly one of the traditional ideas about the Mithraic
cult (although not the only one.) It had many elements that seem
to have been borrowed by Catholicism (e.g. the Mass, communion, the
sharing of a sacred meal, consecration of bread and wine, etc.)
For quite an amusing novel that uses this same i... | 19 |
I will add my voice to the (hopefully) growing multitudes.
I hereby pledge $1000.00 towards the purchase of CNN, under the same conditions
as already described. I will also post this idea on the other nets I can
access (RIME and Libernet).
We may have to organize this ourselves, so I am looking for help. | 16 |
[and quotes a lot of stuff unnecessarily]
Ain't got a pair of fatigues... and I don't blast people wandering aimlessly,
I ask them what they're doing there... I only blast people who display
obvious violent intent... like black-clad men with weapons climbing thru
second-story windows, or people who break down the d... | 16 |
:
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:
:
: The fact that this happened while eating two sugar coated cereals made
: by Kellog's makes me think she might be having an allergic reaction to
: something in the coating or the cereals. Of the four of us in our
: immediate family, Kathryn shows the least signs of the hay fever, running
: nos... | 13 |
Horrors, appealing to popular principles. Can we perhaps as the
question of whether the Constitution might have been written to appeal
to the principles, rather than, as you appear to believe, it was written
with something else in mind and "propoganda" put out by its supporters.
But let's be honest abo... | 18 |
Well here is my $0.02 worth. Advice from a grad student.
I agree with the gentlemen who wrote the comment before me.
The important thing is pick what ever interest you the most and
learn as much as possible about it.
In my five years of education in this field, though brief
compare to alot of people, I had t... | 4 |
I posted this several days ago for Dave Butler. He may have missed it - my
Usenet board has changed a little. Just in case he missed it, here it is again.
Dave Butler writes...
From: daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler)
Subject: Re: NEW BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS [Fallaciously] ANSWERED (Judas)
Date: Thu Apr 1 20:52... | 19 |
Is their a pd/freeware hard drive utility that can handle
a compressed IDE drive without screwwing it up?
Need to document occasional failures in reading/writing,
check overall integrity of disk's hardware and sectors.
I believe that all of my problems with DOS/Windows can
be isolated to my drive. Getting occasional... | 2 |
No rumour, IBM's clock tripling chip was seen in some trade show last
fall (COMDEX or something, I wasn't there). All you people who are
drooling after this chip do realize that it has no FPU, just like
486SX, that Evil Marketing Ploy(tm) from Intel, don't you? It has 16K
of internal cache, which probably is where the... | 3 |
This is true as evinced by the popularity of shaft-drive drag bikes. | 8 |
I thought that all coolants were aluminum safe any more. But I would
like to know more since I must tear down my Kawasaki (again I must add).
| 8 |
There seem to be many points to the speaking in tongues thing which
are problematic. It's use as prayer language seems especially troubling
to me. I understand that when you pray in tongues, the spirit is doing
the talking. And when you pray, you pray to God. And the Spirit is
God. So, the Spirit is talking to Hi... | 15 |
Does anybody have Bobby's post in which he said something like "I don't
know why there are more men than women in islamic countries. Maybe it's
atheists killing the female children"? It's my personal favorite!
| 0 |
Hi. I was doing research on subliminal suggestion for a psychology
paper, and I read that one researcher flashed hidden messages on the
TV screen at 1/200ths of a second. Is that possible? I thought the
maximum rate the TV was even capable of displaying images was 1/30th
of a second. (or 1/60th of a second for an i... | 12 |
IK> Nntp-Posting-Host: elm
IK> I know it sounds stupid, but....
IK> Does anyone know how to control individual mouse buttons.
IK> I am writing an application, which currently makes use of
IK> ButtonPressMask, however this is invoked by the pressing
IK> of any mouse button. I want to be able to restrict this
IK> to on... | 5 |
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I want to achieve an overall throughput rate of around 5 megabytes / sec
for very large data transfers. (Around 5 MB.)
I have a Quadra 950.
I have a NuBus network card that can pump data in to mac memory at 8.5 MB/s.
(using block-mode transfers)
I have a high-speed disk array (no asynchronous PB calls) that... | 4 |
In the April edition of "One Small Step for a Space Activist",
Allen Sherzer & Tim Kyger write:
"Another problem is what are called 'wraps' (or sometimes
the 'center tax'). When work for a large program like
Freedom or Shuttle is performed at a NASA center, the
center skims off a portion which goes into what... | 14 |
...
Open up the .PIF file with the PIF Editor, click on the "Advanced" button,
and then reserve the PrtSc key for the application. Any keys that you
select in this section will be passed along to the application rather than
being processed by Windows.
| 2 |
^^^
How long does he have to take in fixing it? Does he have to use new
parts when he repairs it or can he substitute used parts without your
knowledge? Can he charge you for repairs that should be under warranty
but he claims are due to improper maintenance on your part?
When it comes to local dealers:
- Hav... | 3 |
From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>
The majority of the discussion involving this "Clipper Chip" seems to
pertain to the encryption of telephone conversations. Does anyone
know if that means this chip is designed to work primarily with analog
signals? The language sort of suggests this, but it's ha... | 11 |
>Hi... what alternatives to the Express modem do Duo owners have (if
>they want to go at least 9600 baud)?
>Every place in town says they are back ordered, and part of the reason
>I want a laptop mac is so I can use it as a remote terminal from
>wherever I am, but I really would hate to have to wait 2 mont... | 4 |
Is there an FTP archive for United States Geological Services (USGS)
terrain data? If so, where?
| 1 |
Absolutely, unless you are in the U.S. Then the cager will pull a gun
and blow you away. | 8 |
Bob is indeed correct here in more than one way. A look in the old
RCA picture tube manual backs this up, as does SAMS Reference Data
handbook. The internal coating around the perimeter of the CRT
(not the aluminum or tin CRT face coating) is referred to as a
"dag" as well as the outer coating.
Thankfully, I didn't n... | 12 |
9 | |
Does anyone have a list of the clock counts for pentium instructions --
or know if the INTEGER mul is down to 1 tick?
| 3 |
Agreed. We need more folks to admit they're bi.
--
Michael D. Adams (starowl@a2i.rahul.net) Champaign, IL / southeast AL | 18 |
What are the consequences of the homophobic ranting of the
self-righteous? Well, I just noted this on another group,
and thought I'd pass it along. The context is talk.origins,
and a report of yet another "debate" that was nothing but an
attempt at mindless bullying and factless assertion by a
standard-issue Creation... | 19 |
I'm currently looking for information about different graphics
formats, especially PPM, PCX BMP and perhaps GIF.
Does anyone know if there exist any files at some site
that describes these formats ???
Thanks !
| 1 |
I have a new scope and I thought I'd save a few bucks by
buying one with a function generator built in. After having it awhile
I noticed two things about the function generator. For one, there
seems to be a bias even when the 'pull-offset' is pushed in. That is,
I have to pull that know and adjust it to get a signal sa... | 12 |
: }Xenophobia, both *de facto* and *de jure* as implemented
: }in legal systems, is widespread, while the Bible,
: }although not 100% egalitarian, specifically preaches
: }kindness to the stranger, and emphasizes in the Book
: }of Ruth, that a foreigner can join the nation and
: }give rise to one of the great heroes o... | 0 |
Not necessarily. I've been thinking about this, and if this chip/scheme
is to provide any real security, there must be some sort of key exchange,
either using a public-key encryption scheme, or using a key exchange scheme
like Diffie-Hellman. If there's an out-of-band transmission of a shared
session key, then w... | 11 |
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 ne... | 0 |
It likely has nothing to do with "chunks of plaque" but it sounds like
you may have a neurovascular compromise to your arm and you need medical
attention *before* doing any more weight lifting.
--
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Gordon Banks N3JXP ... | 13 |
Do I smell .sig material here?
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea. | 0 |
OK, the small programme that can be used to switch a SunCD drive into
2048 bytes/block mode for use with MSDOS/Adaptec/APSI it now available
by 'ftp' from
ftp.novell.de (193.97.1.1) pub/pc/adaptec/cdblksize.zip | 3 |
Apparently, Microsoft came out with a new product: MS-Braille it is suppose
to be "WYTIWIG". :-)
No offense.
| 2 |
10 month old stereo system for sale. Luxman R-351 receiver, Onkyo TA-RW404
tape deck, and Polk Monitor M4.6 book shelf speakers are for sale. Receiver
has 5 year warranty, and all equipment is in excellent condition. Paid $950
for the system and willing to consider the best offer. Will sell seperate
pieces also if desi... | 6 |
MLB is perfectly willing to take players from Cuba. They just have to
defect first.
Sort of like the situation used to be with Russian/Czech/etc hockey
players, until the political situation in those countries changed. | 10 |
....
Same thing to me. Everyday the same dog would chase my bicycle.
The owners thought it was cute. Even after I got the moto,
the stupid dog would do the same thing. Then one day, I was
coming home in the opposite lane...the fluff with teeth ran to
get me and played momentum sharing with a 73 Dodge pick.
The ... | 8 |
Nobody is using discrete IC's to do these functions anymore if at
all. I doubt any of the Motor electronics had any to start with.
...Much less TTL. | 7 |
How do you take off the driver side door panel from the inside
on an '87 Honda Prelude? The speaker went scratchy, and I want
to access its pins.
Why are you posting this tripe to rec.autos.vw? | 7 |
Hi!
I'm looking into buying a serial port switcher, because while my Mac has
two serial ports, I have AppleTalk, a modem, a printer, MIDI, and a sound
digitizer. (2 != 5, unfortunately.)
Specifically, I'm looking at the Axion electronic switcher, because it
seems to be fairly cheap. (About $128 at MacZone.)
... | 4 |
If you look through this newsgroup, you should be
able to find Clinton's proposed "Wiretapping" Initiative
for our computer networks and telephone systems.
This 'initiative" has been up before Congress for at least
the past 6 months, in the guise of the "FBI Wiretapping"
bill.
I strongly urge you to begin cons... | 18 |
As I understand it was considered unsafe for the tv networks to get
any closer. Surely the networks can judge the risks of reporting
for themselves. I haven't noticed CNN being banned from Baghdad
hotels yet despite the (all too real) risk of having a cruise
missile land in the lobby. Incidentally has that ever been e... | 16 |
No, this is wrong. The purpose is to preserve the substances in
the tubes longer by creating relativistic speeds and thus
time dilatation. Of course, by slowing the subjective time of
the test tubes they get less bored, which is probably what you
were thinking of. | 13 |
There is something almost comical in the fact that Yigal Arens is
important enough to have the ADL and G-d knows who else sifting through his
garbage (which happens to be legal; you throw it out, it ain't yours any more).
This brings to mind a few possibilities other than the ADL connection:
- it is all in Aren... | 17 |
Hi, I'm just getting into PoVRay and I was wondering if there is a graphic
package that outputs .POV files. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Later'ish
Craig
| 1 |
Does anybody have a GIF of the Tiger Stadium seating chart? Thanks!
--
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Brian Curran Mead Data Central brian@meaddata.com | 9 |
Another source: There's a poly blitter for mode y (mode x in 320x200)
at sunee.uwaterloo.ca. Also there is REND386, an even faster 3D
renderer with VR extensions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1 |
Report them to your local BBB (Better Business Bureau). | 13 |
there is a file out there (look for it with archie) that is called
'theref22.zip' which has lots of info on various PC things,
amongst which is also a detailed description of all Floppy controller
commands, I think hard drive controller commands are not there.
it is possible to read an entire track including all gaps,... | 3 |
[deleted]
I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding your post, but DRAM *does not* have to
be refreshed on *each access cycle*. So cycle time does *not* have to be
twice the access time *because of refresh phase*.
The access time usually means the delay time from falling edge of raw
address strobe (RAS) to data bus driven.
... | 3 |
This thread brings back memorys of an expensive day in traffic court
a few years ago. While I was waiting my turn to state my case and
plea of why I was going 75 in a 55 in my cage, I had the opportunity
to listen to some of the "creative excuses" offered the judge by others.
After listening to a number of "Well, I ... | 8 |
And now, I interrupt your regularly scheduled news reading to bring you
another message sponsored by the Department of Really Mundane Statistics:
I passed the final individual player stats posted here the other day through
a filter to average out games, goals, assists, points, and penalty minutes
for the mythical ave... | 10 |
4 | |
=Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One
=slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know
=he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized
=swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that,
=however, b... | 13 |
Take Everything for $210
TurboGrafx-16 Base Unit (works like new) with:
1 Controller
AC Adapter
Antenna hookup
* Games:
Kieth Courage
Victory Run
Fantasy Zone
Military Madness
Battle Royal
Legendary Axe
Blazing Lasers
Bl... | 6 |
I need to bring on my VW Corrado for body work (I got hit). I was
wondering if anyone has heard of any of these South Bay body shops:
Akins Collision Center of Santa Clara - on Reed St
Auto West Collision - in San Jose
Los Gatos Acura
Royal Auto Body - in Sunnyvale
Thanks! | 7 |
I recall reading in the recently revised edition of the "Yeast Connection"
that there is indeed work by researchers to do this. Of course, they are
working on the theory that candida overbloom with penetration into mucus
membrane tissue with associated "mild" inflammatory response can and does
occur in a large numbe... | 13 |
I posted about this a while ago but without code excerpts noone was
able to help me.
The problem is that main_win.win is doing fine, but when I create
detail_win.win, it does not receive it's initial expose events until
main_win.win receives an event. Here are the relevent calls:
main_win.win = XCreateSimpleWindow (m... | 5 |
Interestingly enough, in designing the escrow, we may want to use some
rather unusual technology, such as sealed boxes of paper, or
destructive read memory, rather than typical computer databases, which
is fun for a database of hundreds of millions of keys.
The greatest danger of the escrow database, if it were kept o... | 11 |
MLB Standings and Scores for Friday, April 16th, 1993
(including yesterday's games)
NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
San Francisco Giants 06 04 .600 -- 6-4 Won 1 03-01 03-03
Houston Astros 05 04 .556 0.5 5-4 Lost ... | 9 |
Really!?
Methinks somethings wrong with _your_ bike.
Perhaps you meant _pull_?
Pushing the right side of my handlebars _will_ send me left.
It should.
REally.
I'm sure others will take up the slack...
| 8 |
First, I thank collectively all people who have given good answers
to my questions. In my follow-up to Jason Smith's posting, I will
address some issues that have caused misunderstanding:
Yes, to some degree. There was an excellent discussion in sci.skeptic
on the nature of scientific work two weeks ago, I hope it ... | 15 |
Dear Netters:
A new religious newsgroup "soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya" was pro-
posed on Oct 16, 1992. The discussion about this new proposed
newsgroup went on in various related groups. The proposal, was
supposed to enter a vote during the last week of November 92. Due
to a false Call For Votes, by some oppone... | 15 |
I was at an interesting seminar at work (UK's R.A.L. Space Science
Dept.) on this subject, specifically on a small-scale Solar Sail
proposed as a student space project. The guy giving the talk was keen to
generate interest in the project. I'll typein the handout he gave out at
the meeting. Here goes :
The Microli... | 14 |
>How about the thousands of kind teenagers who volunteer at local
>agencies to help children, seniors, the homeless?
Hear, hear! Thanks, Robbie.
You also don't read that much about violence *against* teenagers, such as
George Bush burying alive tens of thousands of unarmed Iraqi 17-year-olds,
who ... | 7 |
The test isn't whether GM knew--otherwise that would reward GM for its
stupidity. The test is whether GM reasonably should have known of their
existence. It works both ways--if GM had won the trial, and the plaintiff
turned up two witnesses who came forward after the first trial who should
have been located beforeha... | 18 |
Educate yourself before you rip on this years manager of the year.
Lankford injured himself in a previous game and Torre was resting
him.
As far as the Whitten/Gilkey controversy. Whitten adds some more
needed power, and if Jordan continues to hit the way he has been,
Gilkey will find himself in the starting lineup ... | 9 |
I think this is getting a little overheated. Highway robbers have been a
part of life since the Middle Ages at least. It's human nature to look
at history through rose colored glasses, but random acts of violence have
been a ceaseless part of our heritage. Overall, life is better now than it
ever was then. It's jus... | 7 |
+Last night, while watching the 2a.m. rebroadcast of Jerry Springer (a
+talk show) I heard this Jewel of a thought from a 12 year old racist.
+The focus of this show was on these kids and their hatred for the Jewish
+religion, and why.
[some stuff deleted]
+Interesting (and scary) no? They went on to say how the... | 0 |
88 toyota Camry - Top Of The Line Vehicle
blue book $10,500
asking 9,900.
73 k miles
auto transmission
Has Everything!
owned by a meticulous automoble mechanic
call (408) 425-8203 ask for Bob. | 6 |
MLB Standings and Scores for Tuesday, April 6th, 1993
(including yesterday's games)
NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
Atlanta Braves 01 00 1.000 -- 1-0 Won 1 00-00 01-00
Cincinnati Reds 01 00 1.000 -- 1-0 Won... | 9 |
I have the PAS16 / Toshiba 3401 combo and have no problems with it.
| 3 |
Reasonably fancy.
Standard "voice" circuits run at 56kbps inter-exchange in the US.
Therefore, you need to achieve 4:1 to get standard voice quality.
If you're willing to give up some quality, you need only 2:1. This is still
acceptable from a speech standpoint; it will be a little less faithful to
the original, bu... | 11 |
Recently while looking around in Traders Sporting Goods store, a very well
stocked firearms store, I discovered a printed document that was being
distributed by the good folks who work there. Traders, BTW, is located in
San Leandro, CA.
Granted, the document may be asking you and I to help out Traders, but in the
bi... | 16 |
Find an encyclopedia. Volume H. Now look up Hitler, Adolf. He had
many more people than just Germans enamoured with him.
P. | 0 |
They did. For $950K. | 9 |
dam9543> I get back drom work today, look at me bike before
dam9543> proceding in-side. I nearly shit, my new DRY RIDER cover is
dam9543> gone! Barely two weeks old, and already gone, GOD-AM
Somebody stole my trashed old Honda red/white/blue cover off a
KZ440LTD in residential Palo Alto a couple of weeks ago. Th... | 8 |
When you force people to associate with others against their will,
yes.
| 18 |
If I'm wrong, god is free at any time to correct my mistake. That
he continues not to do so, while supposedly proclaiming his
undying love for my eternal soul, speaks volumes.
As for the trap, you are not in a position to tell me that I don't
believe in god because I do not wish to. Unless you can know my... | 0 |
He's been playing horrible defense. Baylor said after Wednesday's game that
he wanted to shake up the lineup a little, because Bichette has been
having a rough time defensively and Jerald Clark has not been hitting.
He was true to his word; I went to Thursday's game and Gerald Young
was in right and Daryl Boston (who ... | 9 |
[Lots of trippy stuff deleted]
Wow... What is this guy smoking and WHERE can I GET SOME?
Dan | 14 |
:
: >I bought it, I tried it:
:
: >It is, truly, the miracle spooge.
:
: >My chain is lubed, my wheel is clean, after 1000km.
:
: Good, glad to hear it, I'm still studying it.
:
: >I think life is now complete...The shaft drive weenies now
: >have no comeback when I discuss shaft effect.
:
: Sure I do, even thoug... | 8 |
Snort. Ah, there go my sinuses again.
Oh, wow. A classic textbook. Hey, they laughed at Einstein, too!
Yeah, I'll bet. Tomorrow, the world.
Listen, uncontrolled studies like this are worthless.
I'm sure you are. You sound like the typical hysteric/hypochondriac who
responds to "miracle cures."
Yeah, "it ... | 13 |
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