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Hello All! It is my understanding that all True-Type fonts in Windows are loaded in prior to starting Windows - this makes getting into Windows quite slow if you have hundreds of them as I do. First off, am I correct in this thinking - secondly, if that is the case - can you get Windows to ignore them on boot and...
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In <1993Apr21.211038.12363@newshub.ists.ca> dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca
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Ejon Matejevic who was a full professor at Clarkson University, last I heard, developed the process for sticking Teflon to metals. I don't think it was a NASA project, cuz i heard he held the patent on it, and had made quite a bundle off it. Anyone from Clarkson know the Exact story. I never wanted to ask him mys...
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Recently an e-mail to me mentioned: (Technically, the messengers aren't even human so it *can't* be a case of "homosexuality" -- even of rape.) [...] The Jude reference to Sodom is also meaningful only in the context of the Sodomites' "lust" for the "other flesh" of angels. Again, application to homosexual behavior ...
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On a few computers which we have here at Sheridan College there are files which we would like to make read only. I have used the Dos attrib command but some people, who carry around the attrib program in their pockets, have still been able to erase some of the more important files. Are there any software packages whi...
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In this case, it was unimportant as to who set the fire. The Davidians would have burned no matter what, ESPECIALLY if the BATF/FBI set the fire as this would make the beseiged martyrs to Vernon Howell and therefore rocket to heaven. A few comments from the remaining Davidians scattered throughout the country seemed...
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Listen guys you can talk about this the whole playoffs. I'm here in a small town in southern Illinois at school. I'm from Canada and I know that cbc and tsn have games on every night, all you have to do is go to a bar with a satellite. I have watched both games between Mon Que and toronto and detroit, not to m...
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I purchased an LCIII recently and had heard a bit about a re-work of the logic board. I opened mine up and found the same re-work, with a small chip glued to the board and a couple of green wires running from it to two other chips. I'd like to know more about it. Could anyone with any or all of the following inform...
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Regarding the feasability of retrieving the HST for repair and relaunching it: (Caution: speculation mode engaged) There is another consideration that hasn't been mentioned yet. I expect that retrieving HST would involve 'damaging' it considerably in order to return it to its cradle in the cargo bay. Most of the depl...
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I'm working on an audio mixer project, but I'm having trouble finding parts. I want to use op-amps for the gain control stages. The ones I have found that are good for audio are LM739 and LM833, but I cannot find either of these in the electronic parts places I've looked. Are there any good substitute op-amps and/or...
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Is there an "official DoD products-of-choice" list? If so would the appropriate party please post it. -Erc.
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I have a 486 DX 33 motherboard in my pc that i'd like to speed up. I'd rather not replace the whole motherboard, instead i'd like to know if i can use a DX/2 66Mhz cpu. The BIOS is late model AMI, circa 1991, and the system crystal is approx 66.3Mhz. My question is, can i just replace the original 33MHz cpu with the...
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It has nothing to do with how long they have been voting, as much as HOW they have been voting. Pick up a list of the Labor parties proposals for MK prior to the election and pay attention to the order. Correlate this with the number of Arab party members eligible to vote in party elections. Further correlate this w...
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Yes, but what if my monitor only has 3 BNC's on it, and is expecting to get a composite sync signal on the "green"? There ought to be a little black box that takes the VGA signalling (which has horiz, vert, and composite sync on different pins, plus the R, G, and B pairs) and merges the green and composite sync togeth...
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Yeah! I found beelzebub inside a worm...yeah, that's it! (actually it was vodka - Gordon's if I remember correctly... I didn't even buy it (of course, that's probably the reason I drank _so_ much of it that night...never again.)
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Are you guys talking about the Soviet "shuttle"? It's not "Soyuz", it's called "Buran" which means "snow storm." (At least that's what they call it on Russian TV).
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Warren, I agree with your premise... but... The Babe won on two teams. That's right, he was part of the Red Sox Dynasty of the 1910s. And everyone knows that the Yankee Dynsaty wouldn't have happened without thier famous bullpen catcher whose name escapes me at the moment.
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<It seems silly, but while I've located things like tgif that can edit <gif files, and various tools to convert to/from gif format, I haven't <been able to locate a program that just opens a window and displays a <gif file in it. I've looked thru various faq files, also to no avail. <Is there one lurking about in s...
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Right on. Ticket prices are set to maximize revenue. Period. For an excellent discussion on how this works, see Gerald Scully's book of a couple of years back, titled (I think) "The Business Of Baseball". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will stretch no far...
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Does anyone have a reference to the claim that the Arabs in the Moghrabi district were "squatters"? I haven't seen this in the books I have read. I haven't seen the opposite, either...
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Gerald Belton) writes Here in our city, dialing either 940-7222 (newer exchanges) or 940-2222222 [ sic] will get a synthesized message. Works great for having people call you back at unlabeled pay phones. Regards, Bill
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So is there any problems putting a drive formatted vertically on its side horizontally? I got a drive a few years ago with the rubber feet on the side, etc. and have used it like that since (obviously designed for that orientation). However, it doesn't fit under any of the clever places I can think of to place it, so...
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I have heard that the version 7.2 printer driver is out for the apple laserwriter ls. Has ayone heard of how or where to get this driver.
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Here's the one that I used: # @(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 90/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $ # SCO 3.2.4v2 bin /usr/local/bin bboards on etc /usr/local/lib/mh mail /usr/spool/mail mailgroup mail ldoptlibs -lsocket -lcrypt_i mandir /usr/man cc gcc ccoptions -traditional manuals none chown /bin/chown mts sendmail/smtp pop on debug ...
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so. done, career Velarde hasn't been to Columbus, if I recall, for about three years. Granted, he hasn't been a full time player but when he does play I've always thought he had a good bat. He might be demoralized about not playing full time, but he hasn't been shuttled around. I think he's been in New York ever si...
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Bill, No flame intended but you're way, way off base. In simple terms Kirilian photography registers the electromagnetical fields around objects, in simple, it takes pictures of your aura. -- Greg
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Can people please stop the 'I think/know the BATF/FBI are completely responsible but they'll cover it up so that the investigation will show that Koresch is responsible' bs. In an investigation of this size with the feds, state, and civilians involved in the investigation it would be practially impossible to cover up. ...
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Well, as many a bored bike tourer can tell you, the way to steer sans hans is to push your body off to the side you want to lean. Say you want to turn left. You push your body off to the left. To do this, you have to push against something, and the only thing to push against is the ground (through the bike). Well, t...
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I have got an Adaptec SCSI card, that comes with its own version of FDISK. The problem with DOS is that it will only see two hard disks, any more need to be done by device drivers.
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Could someone please post Roger Grywalski's response? Or point me to where I could find it? Thanks a lot, S. Raj Chaudhury | Dept. of Physics | raj@phys.ksu.edu Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS 66506 |
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Oh, you mean something like moving the press back to a single location, 2 miles away from the "compound"? The press was allowing into foxholes in Vietnam, but it's "too dangerous" to allow them near the Branch Davidians?... There's something skewed about the logic here. -- Charles Scripter * cescript@phy.mtu....
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brings up the issue of how the escrow agent will be paid, and the fact that the government had financial leverage if they don't cooperate. It's an important issue, especially if one of the escrow agents decides they'd rather stop offering the service. I assume that if the escrow agent isn't the government, then the co...
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******************************************************* 1969 karmann ghia ******************************************************* This car is in excellent running condition: ********* *49,000 mi on new engine *new tires (Aug 92) *new clutch (91) *new carb (91) *original radi...
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Do you swim nude in a public swimming pool? :) I doubt sperm can penetrate swimsuit material, assuming they aren't immediately dispersed by water currents.
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1993-1994 NHL Hockey Pool By Denis Papp and Chris Stoochnoff Rules: - Pick 17 players (3 LW, 3 C, 3 RW, 3 LD, 3 RD, 2 Goalies) You may pick ANY 17 players from any team. - Points for players are as follows: - 1 point per goal - 1 point per assist - 1 point per 10 PIM - Points for goali...
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Before I even think about getting this, is it going to be posted to comp.sources.x at any time in the near future? Greg.
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Is it possible to get an xterm scrollbar to come out on the right side instead of the left? Ron Shenk
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I'm planning on writing several classes to build a raytracing/radiosity library on top of, and i'm wondering if anythink like this is freely available on the net before i go to it. What i need is classes like rays, vectors, colors, shaders, surfaces, media, primitives, worlds (containing primitives) and views/images. ...
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Could someone please tell me what the dip switches on the back of the AST Hot Shot 286 accellerator card do? I recently acquired the card and did not get any docs. any information will be appreciated. -Rob -- Robert M. Bultman | Speed Scientific School | University...
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OK I sold all but these, I had some offers and I accepted an offer of 25.00 for the pair from bdale@gag.com ( Bdale Garbee ). I don't know what happened to him but he won't reply now that I accepted it so I'll offer these again.
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No, and in fact, that was Ferreira's original strategy, which the troika proceeded to simply continue to implement. There wasn't exactly a radical shift in policy when he was ousted (something people seem to forget). The only real question is whether they did it as well as Ferreira could have if he stayed, or whethe...
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RIght now the HST sevicing mission is listed as 11 days. before it was listed as 9 days. they just kicked up the number of spacewalks to 5, after simulations indicated that it was not do-able in 4. After all the space walking, they are going to re-boost the HST's orbit. I think right now it's sitting at 18...
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Go with the Mercedes, if you can afford it. I think the 300 wagon starts around 50k, although it could be 60k. There is no comparison with any of the other cars listed.
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A Yugo that will go 1/4mi in 7.7 seconds will _not_ lose on the street. That's just too damn quick. It might be wrapped around a telephone pole at the end of that quarter mile, but it will be there alone... Or you could replace the stock shifter with a Hurst short-throw shifter (available from Ford Motorsport), or a...
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Well, we're almost halfway through the first round, and so far things are good in general: 1. The 2 teams that I hate most: Chicago and "Basten" are down 3 zip. (even though there is a possibility either can still win their series, yet this ego-thrashing and arrogance-smashing by the underdogs (St. ...
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When I changed from SVR4 to SVR4.2 on my Intel box I discovered that some of my SVR4 xclients such as xload, etc would no longer work. They bomb out with the message: error: can't open display unix:0.0 Is this because they can't find the correct shared libraries, they need to be recompiled, or have I not used the c...
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Current votes for favorite goalie masks (3pts - 1st, 2pts - 2nd, 1pt - 3rd) Player Team Pts Votes -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ed Belfour Chicago 31 14 2. Andy Moog Boston 30 ...
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dps@nasa.kodak.com Pontificated: Can you cite an example of this. Please post an answer as I don't want to receive e-mail.
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: : Isn't there a relatively new treatment for kidney stones involving : a non-invasive use of ultra-sound where the patient is lowered : into some sort of liquid when he/she undergoes treatment? I'm sure : I've read about it somewhere. If I remember it correctly it is a : painless and effective treatme...
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Well ... Have a look at a new journal: Journal of Experimental Mathematics It has several Fields medallists on its editorial board. You want to knwo more? Try Klaus Peters in Boston or David Epstein at Warwick .
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According to what I saw in a store today, the Performa 405 is not the same as an LCIII. It only has a 16Mhz 68030 while the LCIII has a 25Mhz 030. Correct me if I am wrong, because it is possible that the dealer may have forgotten to remove the description that was next to the actual computer. Dealers who sell the Per...
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And as someone mentioned earlier, from the apocryphal Book of Enoch, satan was apparently kicked out for three times asserting his own will, "I will". Hmmm...pro-choice looks kinda creepy here.
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I am using a NEC 4FG with my Centris 610. The cable adapter was provided by NEC (you have to call to get this free adapter). I am also sharing it with my 486 (using a switch box and extra cables). My questions: How do you tell if it is 600x400 or 800x600 that was displayed? Or how do you change the mode(resolutio...
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For sale by owners who were also the builders Contemporary Cape House located in Sandwich, Ma Three bedrooms, two baths, one car oversized garage large eat-in kitchen Cathedral ceiling from to back living room deck off of kitchen and dining room 20,000 sq ft 1,696 sq ft living space full walk-out basement $139,900,...
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I think to some extent this is a case of stooping to their level. You assume that the general public "can't handle the truth" and then, based on this assumption, go for the fluff arguments. Then someone, who can understand a good argument, comes along and asks "why don't you just develop the spinoffs?" or "why ca...
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Is anyone out there knowledgeable on drug issues in Japan? I'm interested in knowing if Japan has or has ever had a problem with drugs, and how they dealt with it. I've heard, undocumented, that Japan years ago used heavy legal penalties to end a serious heroin problem. I'd like to know both sides of the story. Doe...
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Anyone know of a good software package that will allow us to keep track of who is printing what and when? Is there any way to get Print Manager to keep a log? Is there a Print Manager replacement that will do this? How about a package that will only allow access to the system for people in a password file? I looke...
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Yeh,but : 1.Biran Sutter's playoff record as the head coach in St.L wasn't very impressive. His Blues teams were eliminated very early in the playoffs. It doesn't look like this trend will change with the Bruins. 2. Bruins have never come back to win after falling behind 2-0 in their entire 68-year history. It doesn...
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Don't forget the LAMG (Los Angeles Macintosh Group) BBS! It's the BBS for the largest Mac-only user group in the country now that BMUG is multi-platform.
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>but whether I would.
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What a dope! There is no value for Mohammed Elabdellaoui to be here at a Western University. Third-worldist and Islamic brain-rot has made it impossible for him to acquire and analyze facts appropriately. The history of the efforts of the Mufti of Jerusalem to serve the Nazis in the South Balkans and set up Muslim...
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Sez Dave Kingman when he used to take off for Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur on days they coincided with the season.
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Is there a tn3270 program which support xterm? I don't like x3270 at all. You can't copy with other windows. Thanks.
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: >What tube does the Viewsonic 17 use? Does is support 1600x1280? I've been : >looking a a Philips 1762DT which uses a Sony Trinitron tube, has digital : >controls, supports up to 1280x1024NI, and has .25mm dot pitch - It can be : >found for under $1000. : The original poster, John Navitsky, said that he might use ...
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$200 in Glassboro, New Jersey :(
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I'm new to the MS-Windows world, and while a fairly competent Sparc/Nextstep programmer, I have no idea which development kit to purchase. I have heard good things about Borland C++ with Application Frameworks and Microsoft's Visual C++ with SDK (?) What I would like is peoples comments on which package or set of too...
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And And Bejing = Peking, who cares about native tongue, as long as we all understand each other. Oh, not more than a few feet, I wouldn't think. I'm sorry IF your paternal grandparents died in Oswiecym or Aushwitz, which is easier to say than prove, but if so, the lesson they paid thier lives for was wasted...
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: Please reply to the seller below. : : 210M Formatted SCSI Hard Disk 3.5" : -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- : Rodime 3259TS (3 available) WARNING I have had bad experience with this model and I know several others who also have run into difficulties. The drives will work just a limited period of time and af...
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#> I heard the diesels are considered cleaner-burning than #> gas engines because the emit less of: Carbon Monoxide, #> Hydrocarbons, and Oxides of Nitrogen. (CO, HC, NOX). #> #> But they can put out a lot of particulate matter. I heard #> something about legislation being discussed to "clean up #> diesel emissions"...
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I am looking for a shareware graphics package called NeoPaint v1.1. I saw it in a shareware catalog and was hoping that I could FTP it from the net but have been unable to locate it. I have tried Archie and I have gone through the entire comp.graphics newsgroup looking for some reference to it and have found none...
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Hi there, maybe you can help me... I have an '88 Corolla with a 5 speed as the subject line says. The gearbox seems excessivly clunky. I used to have an '85 Corolla, and it was also somewhat clunky, but it had 30,000 more miles on it, and it wasn't nearly as bad as this car! Is there fluid in the 5speed case? If ...
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In a word, yes. 1989 Bonnevilles prices (avg. retail):
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If you get blown over riding your bike down your drive at home then it's too windy to ride...=8^D.
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I ordered an external floppy drive from them 2 years ago. When I placed the order, they said it was in stock and would ship the next day. A week passed and no drive. I called them up and they said they were out of stock and my drive should ship in 2 weeks or so. Since I needed the drive right away (both my internal...
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When constructing active filters, odd values of resistor are often required (i.e. something like a 3.14 K Ohm resistor).(It seems best to choose common capacitor values and cope with the strange resistances then demanded). Is there a PD program out there that will work out how best to make up such a resistance, giv...
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I dunno about hat. I have friends up there on GEnie who are now saying that Ottawa's gone soft on Daigle and is thinking hard about Pronger. Daigle has shown an Attitude the latter part of this season many folks havne't liked, and after coming back from his (second) multi-game suspension for being stupid, he's really...
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That's fascinating. I take it that you're expressing skepticism at the idea that those ignorant savages could have influenced the Constitution of the people who stole their continent. You could be right, but it sounds plausible to me. Is there any reason that you dismiss it out-of-hand? Here's some more: Recen...
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Hey, we could start a new game on the net. It's called 'Where's Roger?' It's similiar to 'Where's Waldo?' but instead of finding Waldo in a picture of people, we try to find Roger in a newsgroup on the net. I predict that he'll be in r.s.basketball.pro next.
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This story was in the LA Times a few months ago. The Clinton administration is exploring every avenue of "revenue enhancement", but not all will be chosen.
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I have a Logitech 256grays hand scanner from a PC. I'm wondering if anyone has been successful in connecting the scanner to a mac? It has the same connector and is a serial device on the pc. I can imagine the pins coniguration would need to changeed, but I'm not sure if the signal levels would be correct, and if the...
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To really speed up the game umps need to START CALLING STRIKES the way they used to. I'm talking about making the strike zone start at the knees and go up to the top of the letters. Forget this "the strike zone is in the general area of the groin". A lot less 3-and-2 counts and a quicker game.
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Check into the vopl and vogle libraries. I beleive that I still have them available on ftp.c-mols.siu.edu but I'm not sure. I haven't seen any new announcements for the software but I'm sure it's still around. I have used it to do real-time data display and analysis as well as just for producing graphs after the...
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It is still incestuous.... :)
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folks, I have a Panasonic kx-1124 (just inherited with no documentation) which is giving me a problem that i cant resolve. The paper out light refuses to go out . It starts to blink when ever i turn the power on which 2 beeps. It does allow be to go on line with green light lit, simultanously the red paper out ligh...
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Minor quibble back at you. I am in the same general area as the Koresh compound and I can tell you that the air was quite chilly that morning, especially with the high winds that were blowing. (Of course the swiss cheese walls made it even worse. ;-)
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+ +>This tactic depends for its effectiveness on the dog's conformance to +>a "psychological norm" that may not actually apply to a particular dog. +>I've tried it with some success before, but it won't work on a Charlie Manson +>dog or one that's really, *really* stupid. A large Irish Setter taught me +>this in *my* ...
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Mostly. The Q950 does have a SCSI2 controller chip as it's SCSI chip, but it does not have the chips to use the Wide or Fast SCSI-2 modes and therefore doesn't offer much more in the way of SCSI performance over the Q900. It does, howrever, have a faster I/O controller than the Q900; this is where the real speed ...
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: At the risk of beginning a cascade, I'll start with a possibly cheesy : good 'ol Uhmericun: : "Our shield is freedom" Or, considering what our government has been doing for the past 50 years, perhaps this would be more appropriate: "100% Debt" --
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You don't say what kind of "electronic equipment" you mean. It's hard to give a generic answer. There is essentially no solvent that won't do things like washing lubricant out of switches. When we've needed to do an emergency cleaning job on things, we've just used distilled water. The key thing to remember is to ...
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That study which was in the NEJM, I think, noted that the frequency of heart surgery on patients over seventy increase with income in California (I guess richer people have more heart disease in California -) ) whereas the frequency of surgery on patients over seventy in Canada was relatively uniform across income di...
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: PS The first posting I saw I thought was a joke in *VERY* bad taste. My appologies : to the person who broke the news. For what it's worth... : Note: This file will also be available via anonymous file : transfer from csrc.ncsl.nist.gov in directory /pub/nistnews and : via the NIST Computer Security BBS at 301-9...
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As a matter of fact, I just saw a dermatologist the other day, and while I was there, I asked him about dry skin. I'd been spending a small fortune on various creams, lotions, and other dry skin treatments. He said all I needed was a large jar of vaseline. Soak in a lukewarm tub of water for 10 minutes (ONLY 10 minut...
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Let me see if I got this right. Group of religious plinter schismatics erect a compound and after at least fifty years of peaceful co-existance with the outside community (having shoot outs only with each other) - this makes them dangerous. Prior history would seem to indicate they are only dangerous to thems...
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I have recently picked up a page scanner by the name of EZ-SCAN II model 35. The software for it was made for per-Windows 3.x windows and will not work with the newwer windows. Does any one out there kow were I could find the company that made this beast (Copyrights say 1987.) And the name GMS a division of DEST. Do...
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I am going to stop reading the homosexuality posts, at least for a while, because of the repeated seemingly personal attacks on me via post/e-mail(mainly e-mail). If anyone has a specific comment, suggestion, and/or note that does not contain any name calling, etc. that they would like for me to read, send it ...
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:>On the subject of CS/CN/tear gas: when I received my initial introduction to : :You couldn't find a window after six hours? : :-- : Daniel A. Hartung -- dhartung@chinet.chinet.com -- Ask me about Rotaract Have you ever been violently sick repeatedly? I have, and it was difficult to drag myself back to my be...
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^^^^^^^^^^ The acetaminophen is the agent of concern in overdose of this OTC medication. A single dose of acetaminophen of 10 grams or greater can cause hepatotoxicity, and doses of 25 grams or more are potentially fatal from hepatic necrosis. If I recall correctly, the metabolism of acetaminophen at high do...
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Nanao: call 1-800-800-5202. Ask for a catalog.
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I'm not sure that you can distinguish between myth and legend so neatly, or at all. A myth is more than a single story. The thought structure and world-paradigm in which that story is interpreted is as important a part of the myth as the story itself. Thus, I can think of no story which is meant to be conveyed un...
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