Most commercial switchers do NOT use magnetics for their energy storage;
that's handled by the big caps on the primary side, those which in a
linearly-regulated power supply would be considered the "filter" caps,
coming right after the bridge.  The transformer is just that - a
transformer.  It's there primarily to step the voltage up or down.  (Although
the inductance seen by the switch transistor on the primary side is NOT
negligible, as anyone who's zapped said transistor from either failing to
get one with a high enough breakdown voltage or neglecting to include a
"snubber" diode across it would tell you.  Actually, many transistors intended
for switcher use today have the diode built in.)

The basic switched-mode power supply operates something like this (in
a somewhat simplified manner):  The AC line is rectified to produce a
high voltage, more-or-less unregulated DC rail.  The energy storage (or
"filter") caps appear across this rail, as does the switching transistor.
The transistor chops the current into the primary side of the transformer,
resulting in stepped-up or stepped-down pulses out the secondary, which
are then rectified and filtered.  At least one of the transformer's outputs
is sampled and fed back to the control circuit for the switching transistor,
which acts in a "pulse-width modulation" (PWM) fashion to control (by varying
the pulse width) the amount of energy being dumped into the primary, and
therefore the voltage coming out at the secondary.  The remaining outputs
may be allowed to simply run at whatever value they will, more-or-less
tracking the regulated output, or they may have some additional linear
regulation added.  You may also note that the feedback between the
regulated output and the PWM control (which is most typically an IC)
is not done via a direct electrical connection; this is due to various
safety standards which require primary and secondary circuits to be
electrically isolated.  Often, the feedback path involves an optoisolator
to meet this requirement.

While the transformer isn't the primary energy-storage device in these
designs, this does not mean that the energy stored in the transformer can
be ignored; besides the inductive "kick" giving the switch transistor a
bad time (as noted above), you also need to worry about getting all the
energy that went *in* to the transformer back *out* again, one way or another.
In some designs, this happens more or less automatically - but in others,
you need to take special care to ensure that the transformer core doesn't
saturate, which again would have disastrous results (best left to the
imagination! :-)).

I'm NOT by any stretch of the imagination a power-supply designer;
hopefully, a real one will come along soon and clean up any gross errors
in the above.


[...]
[...]

Again -- I'm extremely sorry about this..  I got this message several
months ago (quite a bit before the clipper chip proposal) when it was posted
to a different newsgroup.  It was very startling to me as well, and I guess
I should of verified the source at least to some extent before reposting..

Aaack..


:
: Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap.
:
: I have a system from Micron computers:
:
: 486-2-50, 16 meg ram, 245 Maxtor HD, Local bus IDE / 2 meg video card, and
: the same 15" monitor.  The system with shipping came to $2200.  I sold the
: sx-33 chip that came with it and bought a dx2-50.  Total price $2300-2400.

I think you got something wrong here.  You state that the system was a
486dx250, then say that you sold the sx-33 chip that came with it.  This
does not make sense.

--


I am aware of the restrictions imposed by the munitions act
on the export of cryptographic technology, however, is it illegal to
transmit encrypted data from the U.S. to another country?  If so,
then which laws apply to this situation?


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        ONCE A YEAR...FOR A LIFETIME VIDEO KIT.  This kit
        includes a 25-minute VHS videotape that presents common
        misconceptions about mammography.  It tells of the
        benefits gains by the early detection of breast cancer.
        Jane Pauley and Phylicia Rashad are the narrators.  Kit
        includes a guide, poster, flyer, and pamphlets on
        mammography.  This kit is available directly by writing
        to:  Modern, 5000 Park Street North, St. Petersburg, FL
        33709-9989.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

     COMBINED HEALTH INFORMATION DATABASE (CHID).  A computerized
     bibliographic database developed and managed by agencies of
     the U.S. Public Health Service.  It contains references to
     health information and health education resources.  The
     database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for
     journal articles, books, reports, pamphlets, audiovisuals,
     product descriptions, hard-to-find information sources, and
     health promotion and education programs under way in state
     and local health departments and other locations.  In
     addition, CHID provides source and availability information
     for these materials, so that users may obtain them directly.

     At present, there are twenty-one subfiles on CHID. The
     National Cancer Institute created the Cancer Patient
     Education subfile in 1990. It serves as a resource for the
     CHID user who is interested in identifying patient education
     programs for specific cancer patient populations, as well as
     for the user who is trying to locate educational resources
     available for patient or family cancer education.  Citations
     include the contact person at cancer centers, so the user
     can follow up directly with the appropriate person.

     To access CHID, check with your local library.  Most medical
     school, university, hospital, and public libraries subscribe
     to commercial database vendors.

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     FINAL REPORT:  AN INTEGRATED ONCOLOGY WORKSTATION (revised
     5/92).  This book provides a conceptual overview of what a
     clinical information system for practicing oncologists might
     include:  a database of electronic patient chart records
     combined with access to a knowledge base of information
     resources such as PDQ, CANCERLIT, and MEDLINE--an
     integration of data and knowledge combined to create a
     clinical "oncology workstation."  The concept was developed
     as a means to assist the oncologist and his or her office
     staff in the daily management of patient care and clinical
     trials.  This book can be obtained by contacting:  Dr.
     Robert Esterhay, Project Officer, Computer Communications
     Branch, Building 82, Room 201, Bethesda, MD 20892.

     SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CANCER
     INSTITUTE. (91-2683). This booklet from the International
     Cancer Information Center (ICIC) describes each ICIC product
     or service, including scientific journals (Journal of the
     National Cancer Institute and NCI Monographs), specialized
     current awareness publications (CANCERGRAMS, and ONCOLOGY
     OVERVIEWS), and online databases (PDQ and CANCERLIT). To
     obtain copies of the booklet, write to: International Cancer
     Information Center, Dept. JJJ, National Cancer Institute,
     Bldg. 82, Rm. 123, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 or fax your
     request to 301-480-8105.

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            Publications for Patients Available from the NCI (1/93)

Free copies of the following patient education materials are available (in
single copy or bulk) by calling the NCI's Publication Ordering Service, 1-800-
4-CANCER.

CANCER PREVENTION

     CHEW OR SNUFF IS REAL BAD STUFF.  This brochure, designed
for seventh and eighth graders, describes the health and social
effects of using smokeless tobacco products.  When fully opened,
the brochure can be used as a poster.

     CLEARING THE AIR:  A GUIDE TO QUITTING SMOKING.  This
pamphlet, designed to help the smoker who wants to quit, offers a
variety of approaches to cessation. [24 pages]

     DIET, NUTRITION & CANCER PREVENTION:  THE GOOD NEWS.  This
booklet provides an overview of dietary guidelines that may
assist individuals in reducing their risks for some cancers.  It
identifies certain foods to choose more often and others to
choose less often in the context of a total health-promoting
diet. [16 pages]

     WHY DO YOU SMOKE?  This pamphlet contains a self-test to
determine why people smoke and suggests alternatives and
substitutes that can help them stop.

EARLY DETECTION

     BREAST EXAMS:  WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW.  This pamphlet provides
answers to questions about breast cancer screening methods,
including mammography, the medical checkup, breast self-
examination, and future technologies.  Includes instructions for
breast self-examination. [10 pages]

     CANCER TESTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:  A GUIDE FOR PEOPLE 65
AND OVER.  This pamphlet describes the cancer tests important for
people age 65 and older.  It informs men and women of the exams
they should be requesting when they schedule checkups with their
doctors.  It provides a checklist for men and women to record
when the cancer tests occur, and it describes the steps to follow

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should cancer be found. [14 pages]

     DO THE RIGHT THING:  GET A MAMMOGRAM.  This brochure targets
black women age 40 or older.  It describes the importance of
regular mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer.  It
states the NCI guidelines for mammography.

     ONCE A YEAR FOR A LIFETIME.  This brochure targets all women
age 40 or older.  It describes the importance of regular
mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer.  It states
the NCI guidelines for mammography.

     QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT BREAST LUMPS.  This pamphlet
describes some of the most common noncancerous breast lumps and
what can be done about them.  Includes instructions for breast
self-examination. [22 pages]

     QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT CHOOSING A MAMMOGRAPHY FACILITY.
This brochure lists questions to ask in selecting a quality
mammography facility.  Also discusses typical costs and coverage.

     TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION.  This pamphlet contains
information about risks and symptoms of testicular cancer and
provides instructions on how to perform testicular self-
examination.

     THE PAP TEST:  IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!  This easy-to-read
pamphlet tells women the importance of getting a Pap test.  It
explains who should request one, how often it should be done, and
where to go to get a Pap test.

GENERAL

     RESEARCH REPORTS.  In-depth reports covering current
knowledge of the causes and prevention, symptoms, detection and
diagnosis, and treatment of various types of cancer.  Individual
reports are available on the following topics:

     Bone Marrow Transplantation
     Cancer of the Colon and Rectum
     Cancer of the Lung
     Cancer of the Pancreas
     Melanoma

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     Oral Cancers

     THE IMMUNE SYSTEM - HOW IT WORKS.  This booklet, written at
a high school level, explains the human immune system for the
general public.  It describes the sophistication of the body's
immune responses, the impact of immune disorders, and the
relation of the immune system to cancer therapies present and
future. [28 pages]

     WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER.  This series of
pamphlets discusses symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, emotional
issues, and questions to ask the doctor.  Includes glossary of
terms and other resources.  Individual pamphlets are available on
the following topics:

     Bladder
     Bone
     Brain
     Breast
     Cervix
     Colon and Rectum
     Dysplastic Nevi
     Esophagus
     Hodgkin's Disease
     Kidney
     Larynx
     Lung
     Melanoma
     Multiple Myeloma
     Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
     Oral Cancers
     Ovary
     Pancreas
     Prostate
     Skin
     Testis
     Uterus

PATIENT EDUCATION

     ANTICANCER DRUG INFORMATION SHEETS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH.  Two-
sided fact sheets (in English and Spanish) provide information
about side effects of common drugs used to treat cancer, their

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proper usage, and precautions for patients.  The fact sheets were
prepared by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., for
distribution by the National Cancer Institute.  Single sets only
may be ordered.

     ADVANCED CANCER:  LIVING EACH DAY.  This booklet addresses
coping with a terminal illness by discussing practical
considerations for the patient, the family, and friends. [30
pages]

     CHEMOTHERAPY AND YOU:  A GUIDE TO SELF-HELP DURING
TREATMENT. This booklet, in question-and-answer format, addresses
problems and concerns of patients receiving chemotherapy.
Emphasis is on explanation and self-help. [64 pages]

     EATING HINTS:  RECIPES AND TIPS FOR BETTER NUTRITION DURING
CANCER TREATMENT.  This cookbook-style booklet includes recipes
and suggestions for maintaining optimum nutrition during
treatment.  All recipes have been tested. [92 pages]

     FACING FORWARD: A GUIDE FOR CANCER SURVIVORS.  This booklet
presents a concise overview of important survivor issues,
including ongoing health needs, psychosocial concerns, insurance,
and employment.  Easy-to-use format includes cancer survivors'
experiences, practical tips, recordkeeping forms, and resources.
It is recommended for cancer survivors, their family, and
friends. [43 pages]

     PATIENT TO PATIENT:  CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS AND YOU.  This
15-minute videocassette provides simple information for patients
and families about the clinical trials process (produced in
collaboration with the American College of Surgeons Commission on
Cancer).

     QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PAIN CONTROL:  A GUIDE FOR
PEOPLE WITH CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES.  This booklet discusses
pain control using both medical and nonmedical methods.  The
emphasis is on explanation, self-help, and patient participation.
This booklet is also available from the American Cancer Society.
[44 pages]

     RADIATION THERAPY AND YOU:  A GUIDE TO SELF-HELP DURING
TREATMENT. This booklet addresses concerns of patients receiving
forms of radiation therapy.  Emphasis is on explanation and
self-help. [52 pages]

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     TAKING TIME:  SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER AND THE PEOPLE
WHO CARE ABOUT THEM.  This sensitively written booklet for
persons with cancer and their families addresses the feelings and
concerns of others in similar situations and how they have coped.
[68 pages]

     WHAT ARE CLINICAL TRIALS ALL ABOUT?  This booklet is
designed for patients who are considering taking part in research
for new cancer treatments.  It explains clinical trials to
patients in easy-to-understand terms and gives them information
that will help them decide about participating. [24 pages]

     WHEN CANCER RECURS:  MEETING THE CHALLENGE AGAIN.  This
booklet details the different types of recurrence, types of
treatment, and coping with cancer's return. [28 pages]

BREAST CANCER EDUCATION SERIES

     BREAST BIOPSY:  WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW.  This booklet
     discusses biopsy procedures.  It describes what to expect in
     the hospital and while awaiting a diagnosis. [16 pages]

     BREAST CANCER:  UNDERSTANDING TREATMENT OPTIONS. This
     booklet summarizes the biopsy procedure and examines the
     pros and cons of various types of breast surgery.  It
     discusses lumpectomy and radiation therapy as primary
     treatment, adjuvant therapy, and the process of making
     treatment decisions. [19 pages]

     MASTECTOMY:  A TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER.  This booklet
     presents information about the different types of breast
     surgery.  It explains what to expect in the hospital and
     during the recovery period following breast cancer surgery.
     Breast self-examination for mastectomy patients is also
     described. [25 pages]

     AFTER BREAST CANCER:  A GUIDE TO FOLLOWUP CARE.  This
     booklet is for the woman who has completed treatment.  It
     explains the importance of checking for possible signs of
     recurring cancer by receiving regular mammograms, getting
     breast exams from a doctor, and continuing monthly breast
     self-exams.  It offers advice for managing the physical and
     emotional side effects that may accompany surviving breast

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     cancer. [15 pages]

     PEDIATRIC CANCER EDUCATION SERIES

     HELP YOURSELF:  TIPS FOR TEENAGERS WITH CANCER. This
     magazine-style booklet is designed to provide information
     and support to adolescents with cancer.  Issues addressed
     include reactions to diagnosis, relationships with family
     and friends, school attendance, and body image. [37 pages]

     HOSPITAL DAYS, TREATMENT WAYS. This hematology-oncology
     coloring book helps orient the child with cancer to hospital
     and treatment procedures. [26 pages]

     MANAGING YOUR CHILD'S EATING PROBLEMS DURING CANCER
     TREATMENT.  This booklet contains information about the
     importance of nutrition, the side effects of cancer and its
     treatment, ways to encourage a child to eat, and special
     diets. [32 pages]

     TALKING WITH YOUR CHILD ABOUT CANCER.  This booklet is
     designed for the parent whose child has been diagnosed with
     cancer.  It addresses the health-related concerns of young
     people of different ages; it suggests ways to discuss
     disease-related issues with the child. [16 pages]

     WHEN SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY HAS CANCER.  This booklet is
     written for young people whose parent or sibling has cancer.
     It includes sections on the disease, its treatment, and
     emotional concerns. [28 pages]

     YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CANCER:  A HANDBOOK FOR PARENTS.
     This booklet discusses the most common types of childhood
     cancer, treatments and side effects, and issues that may
     arise when a child is diagnosed with cancer.  Offers medical
     information and practical tips gathered from the experience
     of others. [86 pages]

SPANISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

Si desea hablar con un especialista en informacion sobre el
cancer, por favor llame al 1-800-422-6237 (1-800-4-CANCER).

CANCER PREVENTION

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     A TIME OF CHANGE/DE NINA A MUJER.  This bilingual fotonovela
     was developed specifically for young women.  It discusses
     various health promotion issues such as nutrition, no
     smoking, exercise, and pelvic, Pap, and breast examinations.
     [34 pages]

     DATOS SOBRE EL HABITO DE FUMAR Y RECOMENDACIONES PARA DEJAR
     DE FUMAR.  This bilingual pamphlet describes the health
     risks of smoking and tips on how to quit and how to stay
     quit. [8 pages]

     GUIA PARA DEJAR DE FUMAR.  This booklet is a full-color,
     self-help smoking cessation booklet prepared specifically
     for Spanish-speaking Americans.  It was developed by the
     University of California, San Francisco, under an NCI
     research grant. [36 pages]

EARLY DETECTION

     HAGASE LA PRUEBA PAP: HAGALO HOY...POR SU SALUD Y SU
     FAMILIA.  This bilingual brochure tells women why it is
     important to get a Pap test.  It gives brief, clear
     information about who needs a Pap test, where to go to get
     one, and how often the Pap test should be done.

     HAGASE UN MAMOGRAMA: UNA VEZ AL ANO...PARA TODA UNA VIDA.
     This bilingual brochure describes the importance of
     mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer.  It
     gives brief information about who is at risk for breast
     cancer, how a mammogram is done, and how to get one.

     LA PRUEBA PAP: UN METODO PARA DIAGNOSTICAR CANCER DEL CUELLO
     DEL UTERO.  This booklet in Spanish answers questions about
     the Pap test, including how often it should be done,
     significance of results, and other diagnostic tests and
     treatments. [16 pages]

     LO QUE USTED DEBE SABER SOBRE LOS EXAMENES DE LOS SENOS.
     This booklet in Spanish explains the importance of the three
     actions recommended by the NCI to detect breast cancer as
     early as possible:  requesting regular mammography, getting
     an annual breast exam from the doctor, and performing a
     monthly breast self-exam. [6 pages]

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     PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS SOBRE LA SELECCION DE UN CENTRO DE
     MAMOGRAFIA.  This brochure lists questions and answers to
     ask in selecting a quality mammography facility.

PATIENT EDUCATION

     ANTICANCER DRUG INFORMATION SHEETS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH.  Two-
     sided fact sheets (in English and Spanish) provide
     information about side effects of common drugs used to treat
     cancer, their proper usage, and precautions for patients.
     The fact sheets were prepared by the United States
     Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., for distribution by the
     National Cancer Institute.  Single sets only may be ordered.

     DATOS SOBRE EL TRATAMIENTO DE QUIMIOTERAPIA CONTRA EL
     CANCER.  This flyer in Spanish provides a brief introduction
     to cancer chemotherapy. [12 pages]

     EL TRATAMIENTO DE RADIOTERAPIA:  GUIA PARA EL PACIENTE
     DURANTE EL TRATAMIENTO.  This booklet in Spanish addresses
     the concerns of patients receiving radiation therapy for
     cancer.  Emphasis is on explanation and self-help. [48
     pages]

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                              AIDS News Summaries
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

               AIDS Daily Summary for April 19 to April 23, 1993

 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS
Clearinghouse makes available the following information as a public  service
only. Providing this information does not constitute endorsement  by the CDC,
the CDC Clearinghouse, or any other organization. Reproduction  of this text
is encouraged; however, copies may not be sold.  Copyright 1993, Information,
Inc., Bethesda, MD

       =================================================================
                                April 19, 1993
       =================================================================
 "Absence of HIV Transmission From an Infected Orthopedic Surgeon" Journal of
the American Medical Association (04/14/93) Vol. 269,  No. 14, P. 1807  (von
Reyn, C. Fordham)

     The risk of HIV transmission from an HIV-positive surgeon to  patient is
extremely low, provided that the surgeon strictly  adheres to universal
infection control procedures, write C.  Fordham von Reyn et al. of the
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.  The researchers contacted
2,317 former patients on whom an HIV-positive orthopedic surgeon performed
invasive  procedures between January 1, 1978 and June 30, 1992.  The
orthopedic surgeon voluntarily withdrew from practice after  testing positive
for HIV.  A total of 1,174 former patients  underwent HIV testing,
representing 50.7 percent of patients on  whom the orthopedic surgeon
performed invasive procedures during  the 13.5-year period.  Patients were
tested from each year and  from each category of invasive procedure.  All
patients were  found to be negative for HIV by enzyme-linked-immunosorbent
assay.  Two former patients reported known HIV infection prior to surgery.
The examination of AIDS case registries and vital  records neglected to detect
cases of HIV infection among former  surgical patients.  The estimated cost of
the initial patient  notification and testing was $158,000, with the single
most  expensive activity being counseling and testing.  This accounted  for 37
percent of the total expense.  The patient notification  and testing were
conducted while maintaining the confidentiality  of the orthopedic surgeon who
was an active participant in the  planning and execution of the study.
Notifying patients of the  infected surgeon's HIV-status is both disruptive
and expensive  and is not routinely recommended, the researchers conclude. \
       =================================================================
"Investigation of Potential HIV Transmission to the Patients of  an HIV-
Infected Surgeon" Journal of the American Medical Association (04/14/93) Vol.

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269,  No. 14, P. 1795  (Smith Rogers, Audrey et al.)

     The risk of HIV transmission during surgery is so remote that it  will be
quantified only by gathering data from multiple,  methodologically similar
investigations, writes Audrey Smith  Rogers et al. of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine  in Baltimore, Md.  The researchers identified a
total of 1,131  persons in hospital databases who underwent invasive surgical
procedures between 1984 and 1990 and for whom the HIV-positive  surgeon was
listed as the operating surgeon.  The AIDS case  registries were reviewed for
all patients having undergone  invasive procedures and death certificates were
obtained.  Among  the 1,131 patients, 101 were dead, 119 had no address, 413
had  test results known, and 498 did not respond to the questionnaire. No
study patient name was found in reported AIDS case registries. One newly
detected, HIV-positive patient was determined to have  been most probably
infected in 1985 during a transfusion.  There  was no HIV transmission in 369
person-hours of surgical exposure, suggesting that HIV transmission to
patients is unlikely to occur more frequently than once per 1000 person-hours
of surgical  exposure.  The researchers determined there is no evidence to
suggest that the surgeon failed to adhere to standard  infection-control
guidelines; over 50 percent of the patients  with invasive procedures chose to
be tested, and of those whose  results were revealed, only one person was
found to be infected  with HIV.  The study patient's infection was probably
the result  of a tainted blood transfusion received in 1985.  As a result,
there is no evidence that the transmission of HIV from the  HIV-positive
surgeon to any patient transpired, the researchers  conclude.
      ==================================================================
                                April 20, 1993
      ==================================================================
 "Drug Concerns to Share AIDS Data" New York Times (04/20/93), P. C10
(Kolata, Gina)

     A total of 15 major pharmaceutical companies have decided, in a  highly
unusual move, to share AIDS drugs and information while  the drugs are
undergoing early clinical testing.  Dr. Edward  Scolnick, president of the
Merck Research Laboratory in Rahway,  N.J., arranged the collaboration.  He
said that cooperation  between companies seemed increasingly significant as it
had  become clear that combinations of drugs were likely to be more  effective
in fighting HIV than any drug used alone.  The  researchers are hopeful that
HIV, when faced with a combination  of several drugs requiring mutation at
different sites for  resistance to develop, will be unable to evolve all the
mutations at the same time.  Therefore, several drugs taken together or one
after the other could halt the spread of HIV.  Currently, the  drug companies
do not know what other drugs their competitors are developing.  The new
agreement allows companies to routinely  exchange animal data and safety data
on new AIDS drugs.  "An  agreement like this will greatly facilitate

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companies' ability to choose the best drug combinations much faster and in a
much more  efficient way," said Scolnick.  He also said that the
collaboration would not violate antitrust laws.  In creating the  agreement,
Merck spoke frequently to members of AIDS advocacy  groups, including ACT-UP.
Dr. Daniel Hoth, director of the  division on AIDS at the National Institute
of Allergy and  Infectious Disease said, "We're delighted to see the
pharmaceutical industry take this step because we think that  increasing the
information flow will likely accelerate the  discovery of better compounds for
AIDS."  Related Stories: Wall Street Journal (04/20) P. B1; Philadelphia
Inquirer (04/20) P. A3; USA Today (04/20) P. 1B
==================================================================
"The Next Step in AIDS Treatment" Nature (04/08/93) Vol. 362, No. 6420, P. 493
(Maddox, John)

     Although AZT was found to be ineffective in prolonging the lives  of
people infected with HIV, the findings do not indicate that  AZT should not be
administered in people with full-blown AIDS,  writes columnist John Maddox.
AZT has been used in the United  States in asymptomatic HIV-positive people on
the basis that  administration of the drug appeared to abate the decline of
T-cell counts.  However, a report in the Lancet demonstrated that AZT should
not be used early in the course of disease.  While the CD4 counts of the 877
people given AZT were consistently greater  than those of patients receiving
only placebo, the first three  years of follow-up have shown that the
proportions of people in  the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to
death were  not significantly different at roughly 18 percent.  The
conclusions are that AZT is not an effective AIDS drug in  HIV-infected
individuals, and that CD4 cell count may not be a  reliable proxy for the
progression to AIDS in infected people.   But nothing is implied by the study
of the utility of AZT in the  treatment of those in whom symptoms have already
appeared--there  is no case for abandoning that treatment, at least on the
evidence now available.  It is much more alarming that the CD4  count has
proven to be an unreliable mark of the efficacy of drug treatment in HIV
infection.  AIDS researchers should acknowledge  HIV is alive from the
beginning of infection and turn it into a  workable assay of the progress of
disease.  The general  application of such an assay will probably in itself
provide a  better understanding of the pathogenesis of AIDS, concludes
Maddox.
      ==================================================================
"Infective and Anti-Infective Properties of Breastmilk From  HIV-1-Infected
Women" Lancet (04/10/93) Vol. 341, No. 8850, P. 914   (Van de Perre, Philippe
et al.)

     A vaccine preparation inducing a persistent immune response of  the IgM
type in the mother's body fluids could be valuable to  prevent transmission of
HIV-1 from mother to child, write  Philippe Van de Perre et al. of the

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National AIDS Control Program in Kigali, Rwanda.  The researchers hypothesized
that  transmission of HIV-1 through breastmilk could be favored by the
presence of infected cells, by deficiency of anti-infective  substances in
breastmilk, or both factors.  A total of 215  HIV-1-infected women were
enrolled at delivery in Kigali, Rwanda; milk samples were collected 15 days, 6
months, and 18 months post partum.  HIV-1 IgG, secretory IgA, and IgM were
assayed by  western blot, for the latter two after removal of IgG with
protein G.  In the 15-day and 6-month samples, the researchers  sought viral
genome in milk cells by double polymerase chain  reaction with three sets of
primers (gag, pol, and env).  At 15  days, 6 months, and 18 months post
partum, HIV-1 specific IgG was detected in 95 percent, 98 percent, and 97
percent of breastmilk  samples; IgA in 23 percent, 28 percent, and 41 percent;
and IgM  in 66 percent, 78 percent, and 41 percent.  In children who  survived
longer than 18 months the risk of infection was  associated with lack of
persistence of IgM and IgA in their  mothers' milk.  The presence of HIV-1-
infected cells in the milk  15 days post partum was strongly predictive of
HIV-1 infection in the child by both univariate and multivariate analysis.
The  combination of HIV-1 infected cells in breastmilk and a defective IgM
response was the strongest predictor of infection.  IgM and  IgA anti-HIV-1 in
breastmilk may protect against postnatal  transmission of HIV, the researchers
conclude.
      ==================================================================
                                April 21, 1993
      ==================================================================
"Firms to Share AIDS Research in Global Venture" Journal of Commerce
(04/21/93), P. 7A

     A total of fifteen U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies  announced
Tuesday they will swap drug supplies and information on early-stage AIDS
research to hasten the search for combination  therapies to fight HIV
infection and AIDS.  The companies said  the unusual move resulted primarily
from the increasing  concentration of AIDS research on combination therapies
since  realizing that HIV is likely to develop resistance to every  individual
AIDS drug.  Edward Scolnick, president of Merck & Co.  Research Laboratories,
led the collaborative effort that took a  year of negotiations to come
together, said participants.  In  addition to Merck, the other companies
involved in the  Inter-Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development are
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Burroughs Wellcome, Glaxo Inc.,  Hoffman-La Roche,
Eli Lilly & Co., Pfizer Inc., Smithkline  Beecham, AB Astra, Du Pont Merck,
Syntex Inc., Boehringer  Ingelheim, Miles Inc., and Sigma-Tau.  The
participants said that all companies involved in AIDS drug development they
were aware  of had joined the collaboration, and that any company actively
involved in HIV anti-viral development may participate.  Scolnick said the
collaborators would most likely meet every couple of  months for a daylong
scientific meeting where they will review  for one another their preclinical

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and early clinical data.  The  American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
was pleased with  the news of the collaboration, which it hopes will lead to
the  development of drug combinations that will reduce viral  resistance.
Related Story: Financial Times (04/21) P. 1
==================================================================
"Guidance Over HIV-Infected Health-Care Workers" Lancet (04/10/93) Vol. 341,
No. 8850, P. 952  (Horton, Richard)

     The United Kingdom's Department of Health recently followed the  advice
of AIDS experts that there is no scientific reason for  routine HIV testing
among health-care workers.  Following recent  highly publicized reports of
health professionals who contracted  HIV, the department issued revised
guidelines on the management  of such cases.  Dr. Kenneth Calman, Chief
Medical Officer, said  doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health-care
workers have an  ethical duty to seek advice if they have been exposed to HIV
infection, including, if appropriate, diagnostic HIV testing.  He said,
"Infected health care workers should not perform invasive  procedures that
carry even a remote risk of exposing patients to  the virus."  The guidelines
--------- end of part 3 ------------


I heard a great Civil War story...      A guy on the battlfield is shot
in the groin,   the bullet continues on it's path, and lodges in the
abdomen of a female spectator.    Lo and behold....

As the legend goes,   both parents survived,  married,  and raised the child.


My last response in this thread fell into a bit-bucket and vanished
(though appearing locally).  I'll repost it, since I always feel
slighted when someone appears to ignore one of my postings in a
conversational thread, I don't want Rob to think I'm doing so.  Since
this is now dated, however, don't feel compelled to respond...

I suspect you meant this in context of the Jewish tradition you have
been referring to; one problem with a highly-interpreted tradition
like this is what happens when a schism occurs, and over time certain
large and influential branches of the heretical group come to favor
exactly a "face value" interpretation...

While the context of the time is important, value judgments must
ultimately be according to current understanding, or at least to some
base standard (relative stability/success of a society, e.g.).  This
is obviously true in comparing it to practices of surrounding people,
for instance: according to the Bible, the surrounding people were
immoral savages with repulsive and inhuman habits.  We need to look
rather at what those peoples were *really* like.  For instance, in
what way is it better to worship a single god whose presence is
symbolically strongest in a tent or temple over multiple gods some of
whose presence is symbolically represented in a statue?  By the
Bible's own terms idolatry is inherently evil, but I see no evidence
that the followers of the various other religions of the area and time
were particularly bad people, relative to the people in the Bible.

Sounds good, but it presupposes teeth-rending neighbors, which I see
no support for.  One can argue that post-facto assertion of inhumane
neighbors can be used to make moral points, but that doesn't mean that
the actual neighbors really were inhuman.  More to the point, such
dehumanization of the people across the river or over the mountain, or
even of a different people dwelling among us, is all too common.

Note that I'm speaking of historical interpretation here, for instance
claiming that Hammurabi's "an eye for an eye" was primitive brutal
retribution, while Moses' version was an enlightened benign fine
(because the tradition has since interpreted the phrase that way).  As
of 3000 years ago or so, they probably both meant the same thing.

I don't belittle the accomplishments, particularly the intellectual
ones, of the Jewish people.  I have given up on trying to think by
analogy, since I don't know of any other 'tribe' that is at all
similar (the closest I can think of are the Romany, but I don't know
enough about them to make a meaningful comparison).  I think a
tradition of reflective study, of flexible rather than dogmatic
interpretation, is a good thing.  I think that with such an attitude a
case could be made that you could have done as well starting with a
1943 Captain America comic (or whatever the Babylonian equivalent
would have been).
--
Jim Perry   perry@dsinc.com   Decision Support, Inc., Matthews NC
These are my opinions.  For a nominal fee, they can be yours.


re: extended Ka bands.

I recently bought a 2 band detector.  You guys must all think I'm
nuts, right?  Well, I did a little research into Ka usage in this
area and found out that Ka is not currently being used in this state
as well as surrounding states.  Here's how I found out:

- A cop friend who did spend time nailing speeders doesn't even know
  what Ka is.  He's heard of K, which is what they use here and I
  explained that Ka is used for photo radar etc.. He then said, yeah,
  "Ka stands for K automatic"... duuhh.  He then went on to say that
  plans were being made for getting laser guns as far as going high
  tech were concerned, but he didn't know too much.

- My 8 year old 2 band whistler was consistently going off at speed traps,
  even the real sneaky ones.

- When I called the Escort Shop, they confirmed that Ka is not used here
  or in surrounding states.  They did claim that Laser was being used
  a lot here, which I was quite skeptical of.

So in the end, instead of spending a lot of money and/or waiting
months for a state of the art detector, I got a low priced, high
performance 2 band Escort 2200.  Incidentally its performance is equal
to their top of the line model in X and K band detection.  I know that
Escort has been surpassed by other brands lately, but I've never fully
relied on a detector and I was convinced that the Escorts would be at
least quite good, which was good enough for me and my wallet.


The 9144w4 is the date code but none of my books list a W03563.
What is it out of and can you tell us what kind of circuit it is in?

In the odd case that 9144w4 is not the date code, NTE says a 9144-60
is an AM reciever subsystem and a 9144-61 is an FM subsystem, but these
are both in 16 pin packages.


same here

I received similar information/advice about what appears to be the same problem
Benjamin has (and I still have).
NIS has all the information about the Macs
(I even put explicit entries in /etc/hosts to no avail).
Monitoring with 'snoop' on my Classic, the initial REXEC packet is sent to
the the SUN, which sends something to the correct Mac, but nothing appears
at the Mac.
'rexecd' is number one suspect, but it's more suble than the README suggests and
I haven't yet looked into it further.

--
callum.downie@brunel.ac.uk
Faculty of Technology, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
+44 895 274000 x2730


Subject: RE: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians
From: f54oguocha
Date: 13 MAY 93 02:28:53 GMT
Serbs.
1929).
Islam
not
who
Croats?
has
childhood was

You've asked a crucial question that underlies much of the genocide.
Bosnian Muslims are slavic in ethnicity. They speak Serbo-Croatian. But
there is a Christo-Slavic ideology whereby all true slavs are Christian
and anyone who converted to Islam thereby must have changed ethnicity by
changing religion.  See the poems of Ngegos or the novels of Ivo Andric
who brilliantly displays these attitudes on the part of what he calls
"the people" (i.e. Christian slavs).  For this reason, the war-criminals
call all the Bosnian Muslims "Turks" even though they are not ethnically
Turk and do not speak Turkish as their first language.  For this reason,
what is actually a genocide labeled against those who are ethnically
identical but religiously "other" is called, paradoxically, "ethnic
cleansing" rather than "religious cleansing."

Thus, while a war rages between Serbs and Croats as a continuation of
WWII, and older agenda, the annihilation of Islam and Muslims from
Bosnian, is being carried out under the cover of the Serbo-Croat war.

Regards,

Mike.


Have any of you read Harold Camping's book "1994?"? It's about
biblical evidenc that points to September of 1994 as the probable time
of Christ's second coming It's a very informative book and a must read
for all Christians.  You can get i at your local bookstore for only
$14.95.

Peace!


I have some color gifs which I would like to archive in a much smaller
size using a grayscale palette of 16 shades. The quantization to 16 grays
introduces some ugly bands in the pictures, which can be nicely eliminated
by dithering. Up to now I have used XV to process the images, but now I
would like to automate the procedure.

The problem is that XV can't (I think) convert images automatically, and the
obvious alternative PNMPLUS (PPMQUANT and PNMDITHER) don't even get close to
XV's quality. PNMDITHER apparently dithers in RGB, even though the images
are in grayscale. The dithering routine in XV seems to use the natural image
colors for the dither. Is this or any similar routine available in the
public domain? If so, where?


On the other hand, remember the old adage that a verbal agreement isn't worth
the paper it's printed on.  Once you sign, you are going to have one hell of a
time proving fraud based on a comparison to what you thought you were going to
sign ...

Being in the right is one thing, proving it is another.


  I thumbed through the Janus Report in a bookstore recently looking
  for a clue about their methodology.   They were very unclear about
  it, but as far as I could tell they relied on their professional
  associates in the psychotherapy profession to provide the subjects,
  interviews, and numbers.    If so, this would hardly represent an
  average cross-section.    I posted to Usenet at the time asking for
  more data about their methodology but answer came there none.  (I
  must have been out of my mind for even asking for factual information
  on Usenet!)

  This is the problem.  People have to have a lot of confidence in
  the anonymity of a study before they can counted on to speak
  freely about stuff like that.    But I agree that if someone's
  going to lie it will be in the direction of a gay person claiming
  to be straight rather than the other way around.

  I don't see why there's any more evidence for this figure than any
  other.    It seems totally arbitrary.


The above conveniently ignores the murder of four BATF agents by the
Branch Davidians in an unprovoked ambush.

Any government that allows tinpot dictators to set up shop and declare
a private state has drifted into anarchy. There are laws to control
the ownership of guns and the BATF had good reason to beleive that
they were being violated. They set out to obtain a legal warrant and
attempted to serve it only to be met with gunfire when they rang
the doorbell.

The paranoid assertion that the BATF fired first in an unprovoked
assault assumes that the BATF were on a death wish. Had they
expected the B-D to be anything other than peacefull citizens who
would accept a search authorized by a court they would have turned up
in a tank and broken the door down on day one.

The stupidity was the attempt to serve a warant on the place by
ludicrously underarmed and unprotected police.

If anyone on the net cares to suggest a sure fire method of bringing
the murderes of four police officers to justice perhaps we could
hear it.


NOTE:  followups to comp.dcom.modems (for obvious reasons)

the Courier is their top-of-the-line product, thus the higher price.  I've
never taken a real look at the Sportster line (only Couriers), but from what
I've gathered, it's basically more of an entry-level modem.  probably
doesn't meet the same specifications that the Courier does.  I'm not sure
if the Sportster line is fully DSP driven like the (more recent) Courier
modems are, so upgrades in the future may be an issue.

again, take all of the above with a grain of salt...I've never evaluated
the Sportster, so I'm going by bits and pieces that I've heard.  if you
want a real answer, post the question in comp.dcom.modems and you'll find
people who HAVE worked with the Sportster.

personally, though, if I were going to look at the Courier modems, I'd
buy the Dual Standard...then I'd get both HST and V.32bis.  in fact, this
is exactly what I did.  :-)  I'm sitting here looking at my USR DS right
now.

and now, to correct a few VERY incorrect statements....  folks, if you want
to get reliable answers to modem and/or UART questions, post them to
comp.dcom.modems.  if you post in other groups, you never know what you'll
get in the way of an answer (you may very well get a good answer...or you
may get something like the one below).  at least in cdm, if someone posts
complete and utter bs, you'll see a flurry of folks correcting them (to
avoid spreading faulty info).

just as it does at lower speeds, too.  there is absolutely nothing in
either CCITT Recommendation V.42 or V.42bis that says that they can only
operate on modems that are running V.32bis.  V.42bis, of course, is
currently only *STANDARDIZED* for operation on top of V.42 (in its primary
mode of operation, LAPM), but that's about as far as that goes.

and just in case there's some confusion on this, V.42/V.42bis are also
supported by the Courier line (unless you have a really ancient one).

take a second look at the original question:

                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
see the V.32bis up there?  the question was not about the Courier HST
modem, or about the Courier Dual Standard...it was about the Courier
V.32bis modem.  the modem in question does not support HST, period.  it
therefore does not support the 16.8 kb HST.

also, not all Courier HST / Courier Dual Standard modems support the 16.8 kb
version of HST.  my Dual Standard only supports HST at 14.4 kb.  there are
even older models that only run HST at 9.6 kb.

HST is USR's proprietary modulation scheme....  but we're not talking about
HST, we're talking about V.32bis.  V.32bis is most definitely *NOT* a
proprietary modulation scheme.

I do hope you didn't mean for these two sentences to be related in some
way.....

first off, V.32 and V.32bis are both synchronous and asynchronous.  this is
part of the CCITT Recommendation (i.e., part of the standard).  it isn't a
feature unique to the Sportster (I just looked at the appropriate chapter
in the Courier DS manual).

second, HST is not ``one way only.''  more correctly put, it is an
asymmetrical modulation scheme, meaning it doesn't work at the same speed
in both directions.  HST operates at [9.6 / 14.4 / 16.8] in one direction,
and has a low-speed back-channel in the other direction.  the high-speed
channel goes in the direction of the higher data flow.  this is fine if
you're logged on to say, a BBS, and type one letter and get screens of
info back, transfer files (not using bimodem), etc....  there is, of course,
a penalty for turnaround time when the high-speed channel needs to reverse
directions.

V.32 and V.32bis are both symmetrical, meaning they do transfer the full
data rate in both directions at the same time.

third, synchronous vs asynchronous has absolutely nothing to do with
symmetrical vs asymmetrical...they are two completely different topics.

again, more correctly put, *SOME* of the Courier line will be upgradeable
to whatever ``V.fast'' is called when it's complete.  if you have the large
footprint Courier modems (like I do), you're S.O.L.....  there was an
upgrade plan a while back to upgrade to a small footprint variety, which
could eventually be upgraded to support V.fast, but the cost of the two
upgrades together pretty much put it higher than just buying a new modem.

later.....
   --jim

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	My god, a sane person!  Somebody asking intelligent questions rather
than spouting of unsubstantiated drivel and making comparisons to Nazi
Germany.  I question, along with others, the initial raid by the ATF.
There are some definite questions needing answers.

	Probably.  Which is why there are so many people angry at the
initial confrontation.  Why attack a compound with as many people in that
compound who are willing to die for their leader?  Further, they attacked
in the daylight hours without proper backup, medical support, etc.  That
was rather stupid...

	This I doubt.  While I question the ATF's initial raid, I believe
that the remainder of the standoff was handled fairly well with the single
exception of the psychological "warfare" by blaring music, etc.  I think
that was uncalled for and probably hindered the outcome.

	See above...

	Agreed.

	Which is actually rather refreshing nowadays.  Most of the time, the
higher-ups claim "I don't remember..." or "I had no involvement..."  :-)


Actually, the situation is even worse than that.  The *total mass* of the
Pluto Fast Flyby spacecraft is only 250ish pounds, and most of that is
support equipment like power and communications.  The mass available for
instruments is maybe 10% of that.  I don't think a BATSE will fit...

Actually, would you need the shielding?  My understanding is that it's
mostly there to give the detectors some directionality.  No point in
doing that if you've only got one.  I'm sure the burst detectors that
have flown on other deep-space missions haven't weighed that much.
(Mind you, they're probably still too heavy -- the PFF people would put
more Pluto-specific instruments on first, if they had any mass to spare.)


Kaufman,
I think we have a problem in this newsgroup: every time somebody puts
down serious questions on Israel, the first response would be "what about
the Arab countries?" ...

Most of the Arab countries governments are ruling their people with Iron
fist policy and Dark Ages democracy (if exists). Ironically, these are
the countries that the "West" would like to deal with and would wage
massive wars to protect them and their resources.

For Israel the situation is different, Israel claims it is a
democracy -- I would call it selective democracy, that abides by Western
democratic standards. If Israel is saying that then
it has to be compared to Western standards. If this comparison is the
advertized propaganda from Israel, then we have to look at seriously at
question that can and should be asked regarding any country advertizing
this standard.
That is very incorrect, I see you have been brain-washed well, I would
recommend non-Zionist history books).

Please, speak for yourself. Do not imagine that "everyone" subscribes to
your beliefs, you would be lucky if you believe them yourself.

What is this, you trying to destroy the credibility of the author, why?
all of this because he asked some serious question. These tactics of
destroying the credibility of a person beacuse you do not agree with
her/him is old and does not work anymore, go tell your superiors
(AIPAC?) to change their guide books.

Salam,

Eyad Nuweiri
Software Engineer
Unify Corp.

*** Disclaimer: This is my personal views, not of my employer ***


It was unlikely, improbable.  For the Bruins, it was the stuff of
nightmares; for the Sabres, it was a taste of heaven.
   For the first time since 1983, the Sabres have won the first three
games of a series.  Last time was a three games to none victory in a
best of five against the Canadiens.  It takes a little more work this
time.  The Sabres seem ready to put in the extra work.
   On the heels of a shutout, one that took away Boston's home ice
advantage, the Sabres came back with a four to three overtime win.  It
wasn't easy.  It wasn't always pretty.  It still worked.
   John Blue got the nod for Boston, supplanting Andy Moog as starting
goaltender.  Moog was pulled midway through game 2 on Tuesday.
Buffalo started with a goal by Mogilny, his fourth of the playoffs, on
the powerplay, with Boston's Don Sweeney and Gord Roberts in the box.
LaFontaine and Hawerchuk had the assists.  Goal number two was
Khmylev's first of the playoffs, a pretty goal scored when the Sabres
stole the puck and passed to an open and waiting Khmylev.  Smehlik and
Hannan assisted.  Determined not to be shut out, Boston tallied on a
shot by Ray Bourque on the powerplay, with Colin Patterson and Bob
Sweeney both in the box.  Period two was scoreless, a split of
penalties between the two clubs.  The third saw Boston's Smolinski get
his first, courtesy of Oates.  Buffalo resecured the lead two minutes
later, from former Bruin Bob Sweeney (Khmylev and Carney).  Neely tied
the game 3/4 of the way through the third, sending it into overtime.
Last year overtime meant a Bruin win.  Last night, it spelled sweet
revenge, as Buffalo scored with Ray Bourque in the penalty box, on a
tip in by Khmylev (Hawerchuk and LaFontaine) a minute into overtime.
Both teams finished with 34 shots.
        Power-play conversions--Boston 5-1. Buffalo 7-2.
        Referee--Rob Shick.

Comments:  Shick pocketed the whistle in the third, allowing a lot of
clutching and grabbing.  Buffalo's penalty killing unit was fantastic
again.  Mogilny was checking.  Granted he missed once and instead
flung his body into the boards, but checking like this is a novel idea
to Mogilny.  The crowd was unbelievable.  I don't think I've ever
heard a crowd that loud in the Aud for a Sabres game (remember, I was
only five when they played for the cup.  I don't remember it and no
one took me to the games).  Doug Bodger, in a postgame interview,
noted that he tried to say something to Hawerchuk, but the crowd was
too loud, even though he was shouting.  It didn't seem to matter, as
most of the Sabres and even Muckler said it was great.  Yuri Khmylev
didn't seem to realize that he was the game's third star and didn't
skate out when his name was called.  Sweeney (2) and Fuhr (1) each
were out before Yuri made his appearance, sans jersey.  When asked in
an interview later whether he knew how big a goal that was, he
responed yes (ok, it was through an interpreter and he said more than
that, even more than the interpreter said, but I digress).  The
interviewer seemed to think just because he doesn't speak English, he
must not understand playoffs.  Uh-huh.


[I'm going to cut "Rex"'s ramblings down a bit.]

[...]

   Rex, there are literally hundreds of thousands of 32nd degree
Masons in this country, and thousands of 33rds. If nasty stuff was
really going on, don't you think you'd have more than a couple of
disgruntled members "exposing" it? Heck, if what you say is true, then
Rev. Norman Vincent Peale is an Osiris worshiper.

[...
Long quote from someone named Hislop (source not given) deleted. I'm
attempting to extract from it the relevent points:

  * Osiris is actually Nimrod, a Babylonian Deity.

  * "It is admitted that the secret system of Free Masonry was originally
    founded on the Mysteries of the Egyptian Isis, the goddess-mother, or
    wife of Osiris."

  * The Babylonian Nimrod and Osiris are both connected with the building
    trade, ie, with Masonry.

  * Nimrod, as the son of Cush, was a negro. [isn't this refering to a
    Biblical Nimrod, rather than the Babylonian god?]

  *  ...there was a tradition in Egypt, recorded by Plutarch, that 'Osiris
     was black'.
...]

     There is a long tradition in Masonry of claiming ancient lineage
for the order, on the flimsiest of grounds. This dates right back to
the Constitutions of 1738, which cite Adam as the first Mason. I've
seen other claims which place Masonry among the Romans, Greeks, and
Egyptians, and Atlanteans. I even have a book which claims to prove
that Stonehenge was originally a Masonic temple.

    Claims prove nothing. Where's the beef, Rex?

[...Claims ex-Mason showed him leopard skin he wore in lodge]

   I'd have to check this. The tomb paintings I remember don't show
this.

   Can you give ancient citations for this? The druids were suppressed
over 2000 years ago. What's your point?

   This whole "leopard skin" business sounds bizarre.  I have not yet
gone through the Scottish Rite (which contains all of those "higher
degrees" anti-Masons get so excited about, and which was invented in
the 1750's), but I know enough people who have (and who are good
Christians), that I reject your claim.

Not so much a 'slap in the face' as 'a weary feeling of deja vu'. I'm
going through a very similar argument over on soc.culture.african.american.

    Why don't you try reading some serious books on Masonic history, such
as Hamill's "The Craft"?

   Because we got honest. If you can come up with actual evidence that
Masonry existed prior to 1390, I'd be VERY impressed (actually,
anything earlier than 1630 would be pretty good.)

						Peter Trei
						ptrei@mitre.org


: >the Single Launch Core Station concept.  A Shuttle external tank and solid
: >rocket boosters would be used  to launch the station into orbit.  Shuttle
: >main engines would be mounted to the tail of the station module for launch
: >and jettisoned after ET separation.

Karl Dishaw (0004244402@mcimail.com) replied:
: Why jettison the SSMEs?  Why not hold on to them and have a shuttle
: bring them down to use as spares?

One performance reason comes to mind: if you jettison the SSME's, you
don't have to drag them with you when you perform your circularization
burn(s).  On-orbit, SSME's are just dead weight, since we don't have an
SSME H2/O2 pressurization mechanism which works in zero-G.  This means
that you can't use them for re-boost or anything else.  Dead weight has
a couple of advantages, but more disadvantages.

Throw-away SSME's might let us use some of the old SSME's which are not-
quite-man-ratable.  But I doubt we'd do that; the cost of a launch
failure is too high.

-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
      kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368


I am running windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode.  The sound card I have
is the ATI Stereo F/X-CD sound card which claims Adlib and Soundblaster
compatibility.

Using Windows MediaPlayer, I can play the midi files that came with
my sound card.  However, I can't play any of the midi files that belong
to the WinJammer midi editor that I ftp'd from cica.  I also can't
play any midi files I generate with muzika (also from cica).  When I
try to play the files, a dialog box pops up saying that the music
may not play right, and it has a checkbox asking me if i wish to disable
this message in the future.

Is this normal, or do I have something set wrong?  I would really like
to be able to write music on muzika and have my computer play it.

I also ftp'd the game dare2dream for windows (from cica) and its music
won't play either - I get the same dialog box.

The MIDI Mappers that I have are ATI Ext MIDI, ATI OPL3 MIDI, and Vanilla.
I have tried using all three.

Any help, suggestions, shoulders to cry on, etc. would be appreciated
very much.

John P.


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Oh my, a REAL honest-to-goodness flamewar fired up here..... and it even has
some relevance to motorcycling. Amazing.


Actually, the iAPX86 family has a HALT instruction that causes the CPU to
cease processing instructions.  The CPU resumes processing either by being
reset or by receiving an external (hardware) interrupt.  This is different
from the power management facilities Victor mentions.  Of course, whether an
operating system's idle loop uses the HALT instruction is another matter
entirely.
--
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Oberon Software, Inc.				FAX:		 (617) 494-0414
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA  02142	Internet:     ballou@oberon.com


Cross-posted to talk.politics.guns from can.politics:

# >been to Waco, Texas lately? yes, the government takes care of us
# >all, doesn't it? as long as you belong to a government-sanctioned
# >religion.
#
# Excuse me, but didn't these gun-ladden cult members threaten, shoot and kill
# some people?

They threatened no one.  Their neighbours thought they were a little
strange but all in all the kind of people you would want to live
next door to.

One version has the BATF serving a *search* warrant by jumping out
of a horse trailer with guns and tossing concussion grenades.  If
this is the true order of events then the 'cult' could not know
that a search warrant was being served and since there was no proof
that these guys were police,  the 'cult' had every right to defend
themselves.

: Torching themselves shows briliant tactics, and convinces me
: they *realy* belong in society ...

If you watch actual footage of the fire from start to finish it
is not at all clear that fire wasn't started by the tanks.  The
people who survived are claiming that the fire was started by
the tanks knocking over some kerosene lanterns.  The FBI is
claiming that the 'cult' started the fire.

'they *realy* belong in society' is a catchy phrase but
I'm personally waiting to see what the Texas Rangers have to say
about it all before I pass judgment.   Why don't you do the same.

Some more interesting facts about the Waco incident:

1)  The original assault was conducted by BATF officers wearing
    an assorted types of camouflage.  I saw, on CNN, at least
    three different types.   I would be hard pressed to identify
    a bunch of guys in 'bring-your-own' battle fatigues as
    uniformed officers of the law even if they were claiming to
    be police.

2)  The BATF has been lying from the beginning:
    + "We only had handguns" - the original footage showed 4 BATF
      officers on a roof top getting shot at,  one had an MP-5
      assault sub-machine gun.
    + "We were out gunned" - sub-machine guns and shotguns are the
      BEST in quarters weapon,  you can't be out gunned when you
      have the best guns available for the job.
    + "We didn't know they had guns that would shoot through doors!" -
      this one is the best,  there are very few guns that won't shoot
      through a household door,  or through a house WALL for that
      matter.  Since officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
      *Firearms* should know that,  they are either lying or incredibly
      incompetent.  Not to mention criminally negligent if they are
      shooting bullets that they think will stop when the encounter
      plywood.
    + "We had a search warrant.  Actually, we had an arrest warrant.
       No, wait,  we had both.  Yeah, that's the ticket.
       Oh, and they're child molesters too.  And they make *drugs*.
       Did we mention we think they have rocket launchers."
      - The story from BATF and FBI spokespeople has changed daily
      and their claims were getting increasingly outrageous.

3)  Throughout the siege the FBI and BATF have be claiming that one
    of their biggest concerns was that Koresh and his followers would
    mass suicide.   Now they are claiming that that's what he did
    AND that they are surprised that he did.  Huh?

All in all I think that anything the FBI and BATF say should be
taken with a grain or two of salt.

Rob.


I am willing to pay a reasonable amount for AIRLINE CERTIFICATE/VOUCHER,
AM LOOKING FOR:
		1) CERTIFICATE/VOUCHER THAT IS VALID FOR A ROUND-TRIP
		   TICKET (COAST TO COAST OR ANYWHERE IN US)
		2) TRANSFERRABLE TO MY NAME


Monday, April 12, 1993

Kamloops 4 @ Spokane 1 (Kamloops wins 3-0)

***
Western Final Matchup

Kamloops @ Portland
***

Tuesday, April 13, 1993

No games necessary.

Wednesday, April 14, 1993

No games necessary.

Thursday, April 15, 1993

No games scheduled.

Friday, April 16, 1993

Regina 2 @ Swift Current 7 (Series: 0-1)
Kamloops 3 @ Portland 6 (Series: 0-1)

Saturday, April 17, 1993

Kamloops 4 @ Portland 8 (Series: 0-2)

Sunday, April 18, 1993

Swift Current 5 @ Regina 2 (Series: 2-0)

WHL Playoff Scoring Leaders
April 18, 1993

Player                                   GP  G   A  Pts
-------------------------------------------------------
Jamie Black, Tacoma                       7   7  15  22
Andy Schneider, Swift Current             8   7  13  20
Valeri Bure, Spokane                      9   6  11  17
Allan Egeland, Tacoma                     7   9   7  16
Dean McAmmond, Swift Current              8   9   6  15
Jason Krywulak, Swift Current             8   6   9  15
Cam Danyluk, Medicine Hat                10   9   5  14
Todd Holt, Swift Current                  8   5   9  14
Tyler Wright, Swift Current               8   5   9  14
Mike Mathers, Kamloops                   10   5   9  14
Jeff Friesen, Regina                     11   5   9  14
Rick Girard, Swift Current                8   3  11  14

WHL Playoff Leading Goaltenders
April 18, 1993
(minimum 60 minutes)

Player                                   MP  GA  SO GAA
-------------------------------------------------------
Scott Langkow, Portland                 295  12  0 2.44
Milan Hnilicka, Swift Current           497  21  1 2.54
Trevor Robins, Brandon                  258  11  0 2.56
Steve Passmore, Kamloops                341  16  1 2.82
Mark Dawkins, Red Deer                  269  13  0 2.90


Okay... here's some gripe"ing" (?griping?... whatever).

	(I live in Santa Barbara... for reference... I think)

	Okay, ABC showed the Kings/Flames... fine... YAWN.

	ESPN (through a fortunate rainout of a baseball game) showed the
  Red Wings/Toronto game... cool.

	But I SWEAR that the advertisements all week long had said that
  ESPN would show Pitt/NJ on Tuesday and Bos/Buff on Thursday.

	I raced home from work early (4:30 Pacific) to catch the game, but
  ALAS, it was the Boston/Buffalo game and then they promised that they would
  show the Pitt/NJ game on Thursday.  OVERNIGHT they changed their mind.

	I didn't mind THAT MUCH.  I watched the game (hockey is MUCH better
  than NO hockey).  During the game their were no video highlights from the
  Patrick division.  What the hell was going on?  At least they should show
  video highlights of the other games (especially the NYI/Caps game that was
  so close).  My father (lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky [Bumbf*ck, Egypt])
  got to watch the Pens game on ESPN.  I just don't get it.

	The biggest problem is that Buffalo or Boston fans who didn't want
  to see the Pittsburgh/New Jersey game 2, will turn on their TVs on Thursday
  and see the Pittsburgh/New Jersey game 3 instead of the Buffalo/Boston game
  3.  At least, in my case, I just had to wait 2 more days to see my game.

	If I were a big Boston or Buffalo fan and I missed the game on
  Tuesday due to false advertising on the part of ESPN, I'd be mad as
  hell.

	Oh well... hopefully we'll get better coverage next year OR
  SOMETHING.

Matt Coohill


I know this has been asked a million time, but..

What was the ftp site carrying 30-40 .ZIPs of full POV "source" files,
including JACK.ZIP and KETTLE.ZIP? I've once been there but
unfortunately lost the address.
I'm in a little hurry with it, so please e-mail me at
jtheinon@kruuna.helsinki.fi. Thanks..


Hello All!

I recently acquired a CD-ROM drive, a Mitsumi (mfg. Feb/93)   [Hey, it
was free :-)   ]    I'm quite pleased with the performance, but it seems
to crash a lot when I use PLAYCD.EXE that came with it a DESQview 2.31 -
Thoughts?  This mainly happens when my BBS is running in the background and
I load the program up.. If I load the program, it doesn't crash, and I start
the disk, stop the program and start the BBS its OK, but otherwise I have
big problems.. (IE, they can only be solved with a cold boot).

If -anybody- can mail me to help me, I would be eternally grateful
(unfortunately, my feed to this group is a little unreliable so I would appreciate
 if you could mail, but by all means, post it too because I'm sure somebody else
 would like to know...)

Cheers,
Wes


What is the basis of the idea of hell being a place of eternal
suffering?  If it is Biblical, please reference.

Here's my train of thought: If God is using the Earth to manufacture
heavenly beings, then it is logical that there would be a certain
yield, and a certain amount of waste.  The yield goes to Heaven, and
the waste is burned (destroyed) in Hell.  Why is it necessary to
punish the waste, rather than just destroy it?

Peace and joy,


    The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I
    don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18).
    Could somebody tell me which settings of these four jumpers correspond
    to what I/O addresses?

The U-B PCNIC (also OEMed by IBM for a while) is the only Ethernet card I
know of that doesn't use I/O addresses.  It only has interrupts and shared
memory.  The jumpers you see control bits 15-18 in the base address of the
shared memory.  I can't recall which is 1 and which 0, but that's easy
to determine with DEBUG.


  The "low radiation" claims one sees on monitors these days pertain to
allegedly harmful electromagnetic emissions, which does not necessarily have
anything to do wtih TEMPEST security.
  (I think the alleged hazard is BS, but that's another topic.)


The above explained propaganda which certainly has nothing to do with
the true facts is also today the main source of ASALA/SDPA/ARF terrorists'
illegal activities that still try to make money out of the bodies of
the innocent victims of the Turkish genocide.

The criminal acts of the x-Soviet Armenian Government come directly
under the scope of the Convention on Genocide adopted by the General
Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1948, containing the
following provisions:

The Contracting Parties, having considered the declaration made
by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution
95 (1) dated December 11, 1946, that genocide is a crime under
international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United
Nations and condemned by the civilized world;

Recognizing that in all periods of history genocide has inflicted
great losses on humanity; and

Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such odious
scourge, international cooperation is required;

Members agree as hereinafter provided:

Article 1. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether
committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under
international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2. In the present Convention genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:

A) Killing member of the group;
B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
   calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
   or in part;
D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
E) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group;

Article 3. The following acts shall be punishable:

a) Genocide
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide
d) Attempt to commit genocide.

Article 4. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts
enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are
constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private
individuals.

Had the Convention on Genocide existed before the Armenian
massacres of the Turks and Kurds, it would probably have been
difficult for the x-Soviet Armenian Government and its responsibles
to start murdering of civilian, defenseless, faithful Ottoman
citizens, children and women, (GENOCIDE AND ATTEMPT TO GENOCIDE),
to make plans to exterminate, as they have done also to Urartus
and Jews, faithful Ottoman citizens (CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT GENOCIDE),
to incite Armenians to armed revolt against the legal authority
and to commit Genocide, (DIRECT AND PUBLIC INCITEMENT TO COMMIT
GENOCIDE).

Serdar Argic


Exactly.  Although this may be a dissapointing answer, there has to be an
interplay of the two.  Personal Ethos and Societal Morality.  A person's
self-generated/learned set of beliefs are usually expressed on a purely
mental/verbal level, and don't usually find expression in society except in an
impure (not in the sense of bad :) ) state.  Sometimes this has to be so.

Also, what if one feels oneself to be part of more than one society, in a very
real sense?  To use the obvious example, there is a political society, and a
racial society, and a gender society, and sometimes they do not always agree on
every issue...

Yes.  Perhaps with an infamous "do what you want so long as it doesn't hurt
others?"  The problem with this is that it is merely saying what you CAN do: it
is not a morality in that it doesn't propound any specifically preferred
behaviours.

I'll add a hearty "me two".  However, one could just as well say just because
certain actions are moral does not make them legal: one still doesn't really
get an impression of which one is truly "right".

best regards,


Yep, though my reasons for being relatively quiet are simple...last year
I woofed when we went up 3-1 on the Canucks...and look where it got me.  :)

Domi got tossed in the 2nd with a high-sticking major.  He had been
playing with Kris King and Stu Barnes...and it was this line that was
arguably the best in the first two games.

Definitely a good thing...every little cheer helps, Evan.  :)
Good thing the net doesn't need a voice to operate...I won't have one
Sunday night when I get home, I hope.  White noise here we come!  ;)

One thing, I WILL say though...Vancouver can KEEP Steve Armitage and
John Garrett as a broadcast team...those two are BAD, especially when
you are spoiled by Don Wittman.  (At least four or five times, Steve called
Barnes Selanne.  Whoops! :)


No, it is more because van drivers need a little support for driving
such underpowered pathetic and truly utilitarian vehicles.  Me and
my '71 used to wave and be waved at all across the country between
NH and CO.  Now that we live in So. Cal., though, I find you'd have
to damn near wave your arm off to keep up with all the van drivers!
This is truly vee-dub heaven.

peace,
Taffe


Because much of the public aren't even aware of the NAMES of informative
publications.  Look at the 'wealth' of material on the typical newsstand.
Unless the person is working in some kind of technical environment, with
the usual trade journals, all they ever see is the media (note: media
in this context is the popular media - TV, radio, daily newspapers, and
such publications as Time, Newsweek, and all that).  And they all say
pretty much the same thing.  I see most of them being in the range of
center-left to far Left, and generally supportive of pie-in-sky
we-will-take- care-of-you-think-for-you-cradle-to-grave.  There seems
to be an air of arrogance that the individual is not capable of
understanding major issues so the media doesn't bother to inform them
(as with Clipper, for example) or tells the people how to interpret
events in others.  What is lost sight of is that the people are not good
at understanding things because they are not TOLD accurate information
about them.  It is a lot to expect of the people for them to be
clarirvoyant.  For example, I would have been unaware of Clipper had
I not picked it up on USENET.  How much of the population has USENET,
let alone Internet access?

For access to better publications, the person has to spend time digging.
Many folks, especially who work long hours, have families, etc., do not
have TIME to go digging, and many are not (yet) aware things are wrong,
so are not motivated to dig.  Not saying its right, just saying that is
the way things are.  People aren't upset about things when they aren't
TOLD.  And the less than objective media is a major contributer to the
problem.

And then compound that with an attitude of arrogance in the civil service
(bureaucrats, politicians) that act as if the person without political
connections, or deep pockets (potential contributer) should have few if
any rights, being a resource to be used by those in control for their
polticial or financial gain.  Some Law Enforcement agencies act as if
they regard the common person with a rather intense degree of contempt,
peons that are supposed to do what they are TOLD, and get very nasty
when someone questions them.  The media pundits/editors, etc tend to
fall into those with privilege, and tend to not be upset by the current
state of affairs.  The fellow in DC, who shot the swimmer in his Jacuzzi
for daring to swim in it, with an ILLEGALLY owned gun (violating the law
he pushed to be foisted on everyone else), ends up walking where a less
well-connected person would have been crucified.  A typical example of
one standard for 'us', a much more restrictive standard for 'other folk'.

Perhaps I am not real eloquent in expressing this, but the solution
sure as hell is NOT to make it HARDER for people to find out what is
going on, or dismiss their concerns because one happens to be in a position
where one feels they are exempt or insulated.  Such as that hypocrite of
a journalist in DC described above.  One notices that these less-than
complimentary points about that double-standard was NOT covered in the
media.  I feel the reason was it dovetailed with their political views
on the subject, and it involved a 'brother' journalist.

Isn't it time for our 'objective' media, the MAIN SOURCE of info for the
average person, to start being what they claim to be, instead of spin
doctors for the Statist elements?


Germans are just more organised; you can't blitz all of Europe in a
matter of , what, 9 months, unless you're pretty organised. If we tried
that, there'd just be a whole bunch of tanks backed up at the border,
waiting for some jerk in the right lane trying to get over to make a
left turn.

"This, of course, caused Germany to invade Belgium. One of the important
lessons of history is that anything, including late afternoon
thundershowers, will cause Germany to invade Belgium."
--Dave Barry

Happy Motoring!

JMR

'93 SL2, blue-green


Hi there,
        I'm using POv-Ray on my IBM compatible at home, but I would like to
run some things at work on our VAX computer. I believe there is a version
of the source code for POV-ray that is VAX specific, but I'm not sure where
to find it (I've looked at the several sites where the IBMPC version of it
can be found). Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,


How come noone mentions Eric Hoffer when talking about
fanatic behavior anymore?


There's also a program called ODYSSEY (MODEM directory on the Simtel
archives) that emulates MNP 4 and 5 (others, too, I think, but these were
what I was interested in).  I was getting a lot of garbage when I called
one number, and MNP 4 cleared it up completely on my ordinary 2400 modem.
(Fortunately, the remote end had an MNP modem.)

I tried MNP 5, too, but it seemed to lock up the computer.  Your mileage
may vary.


I'm about to revise my resume and was wondering if I should put on there the
fact that I'm a Christian.  Give me some input on what you think.


That's one way to put it.  Keeping the algorithm classified means that
disclosure of it falls under the rubric of "national security."  Nothing like
federal marshalls to guard a monopoly...

Agreed, although this is still somewhat better than the status quo :).

Sounds like a job for the Free Software Foundation :)/2...


   >Bull shit. There is no reason in the world why we can't say that
   >taking views analogous to the KKK's or some such organization is
   >wrong. There is no reason why some morality may not be legislated. As
   >it is we do not allow theft, or murder, or rape. Why should we allow
   >hateful sppech whose only purpose is to stir anger and violence.
   >Harry.

   I think the answer to Mr. Mayamsky's question can be found in the
	 		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(Mr. Mamaysky's)
   first amendment to the US Constitution.

	   Amendment I                                           (1791)

	   Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
	   religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
	   abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
	   right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
	   the government for a redress of grievances.

   Steve

I do not say that freedom of speech should be banned. Far from it.
I am merely suggesting that there are certain things which can be
universally agreed to be morally incorrect. There are not many such
things. But there are some. As an example:

(1) murder is morally incorrect

(2) the idea that one group of people is somehow racially inferior to
another is morally incorrect

etc.

The point is that any action which serves to promote a morally
incorrect action should be forbidden. This implies that no one has the
right to say that an innocent person should be murdered. Regardless of
freedom of speech, I may not stand on a street corner and advocate the
murder of innocent people. The reason for this is that murder is a
morally incorrect action.

In the same way, since bigotry is morally incorrect in the narrow
definition which we have given it, (2), I, nor any one else, has the
right to stand on a street corner and promote bigotry. Such an
enforcement does in no way deny any one their rights as guaranteed by
the first amendment. It merely ensures that no person may be the
target of an attempt to deny him a fundamental moral right, such as
the right to not be murdered, and the right not to be discriminated
against.

I believe, Mr. Berson, that to blindly accept the constitution is a
terrific mistake. We must cinstantly question the constitution and
interpret it in a way befitting the society in which we live. Anything
short of such an effort would render us little more than trained
monkeys, who are able to merely repeat what they have heard without
paying the slightest bit of attention to the intent of the document in
question.

Would you disagree, Mr.Berson?


Just in case the original poster was looking for a serious answer,
I'll supply one.

Yes, even when steering no hands you do something quite similar
to countersteering.  Basically to turn left, you to a quick wiggle
of the bike to the right first, causing a counteracting lean to
occur to the left.  It is a lot more difficult to do on a motorcycle
than a bicycle though, because of the extra weight.  (Ok, so my
motorcycle is heavy.  Maybe yous isn't.)


Mike, Ring is the RED wire. Tip is the GREEN wire of most standard
phone lines. They two constitute the two wires most often used for
voice telephone (the two live lines). They are the two innermost
connectors of an RJ-11 phone jack.

Another way of telling is that if you measure voltage from RED to
GREEN (ring to tip. tip/green being at ground potential of the
voltmeter), it should read -48 volts in the on-hook no-ring position).
I am 98% sure it's -48 V and not +48 volts. Doesn't hurt a phone too
much if they're reversed, it's just bad if one happens to somehow get
grounded to earth ground elsewhere).

Additionally, when off-hook, the voltage drops to about -4 to -9 Volts
DC. I think it is supposed to correspond to a 36 to 40 mA current
loop. And lastly, when ringing, the two wires develop an AC potential
of about 80 V p-p at 20 to 30 Hz across them (where you get the
electromechanical old fashioned bell ringer from).


I tried to send this as private mail, but mail to benj@ossa.hq.nasa.gov was
rejected, so here it is:

Here is an extract from the README file that comes with MacX:

Users of remote commands with Sun machines may find that their remote commands
appear to do nothing and there is no output from the Sun machine.  This is due
to a feature of the Sun rexecd network daemon which quietly disconnects from
requesting machines that are not known to the Sun|s network address (/etc/hosts
or NIS hosts) database.  To successfully use remote commands with a SunOS-based
machine, there must be an entry in the network address database for the
Macintosh which is running MacX.

--


They do interpolate - it's not linear interpolation though. You are correct
that the frequency content is not altered (more specifically, the baseband
spectrum is preserved, and so is every Nth image spectrum. The other
(N-1) in N image spectra are removed, where N is the oversampling rate)

Ideally the filter has a gain of 1 from 0Hz to 22050Hz, and a gain of 0
from 22050 to the new Nyquist frequency. In practice a finite transition
band is required, and there is also a certain amount of pass-band ripple
and stop-band leakage. With a high order (eg 200 taps) digital filter,
a very good approximation can be easily achieved.

 <<< BIT DELETED ABOUT OBSERVATIONS OF INTERPOLATION FILTER AT WORK >>>

No, they actually use a digital FIR just like yours, but built in hardware,
on custom VLSI chips for (mainly) economic reasons.

I guess that the answer is somewhere between the two.

As an interesting (?) aside, some of you out there may be aware of a scheme
used by Pioneer and Wadia, which is called (by Pioneer, at least) Legato
Link. I haven't heard one of these players, but by reading advertising
blurb, and a couple of pseudo-technical articles I deduced that all they
do is build a lousy digital oversampling filter, and let a load of the
first image (ie aliassed) spectrum through. Talking to Bob Stuart (of
Boothroyd Stuart, aka Meridian) confirmed my suspicion. He said that it
sounded awful, but then he would, wouldn't he...

Christopher


I was annoyed to find that this guy posted my private e-mail response to
him, but since I believe what I said, I'll defend it anyway.

By "almost" I mean the differential cryptanalysis attack.  The chosen
plaintext attack requires a detailed analysis of about 2^36 chosen plaintexts
drawn from a total of about 2^47 that need to be run, if I understand the
situation correctly.  This is certainly a "break" under the meaning of the
Act, but does not constitute much less work than the brute force keysearch.

The rest of his article assumes that we can figure out the Skipjack
encryption algorithm E by choosing the correct data to send through it and
observe the results.  I wish him joy of it, and choose not to try that attack.

I am not defending the system, and in fact am offended by the ideas of
escrowed keys or a secret algorithm becoming a de facto industry standard.
However, I also object to opposing it for the wrong reasons, since that
weakens the case against it.

I said (in my private e-mail):

No, it's quite different.  The government would have no percentage in
choosing F to be a weak key, since it's not to their advantage to have
anybody else know it.  The "experts" could thus assume that F is no worse
than anything else during their analysis.  Totally different situation
from unknown S-boxes.  Again, I'm not saying it would be good or
satisfactory for the experts to just be given the raw algorithm without
the rest of the surrounding details regarding the chip and protocols and
so on -- simply that I doubt that they <would> be given all the
information.


Does anyone know it the Macintosh LC has Pin 7 (the Pin that enables better
Flow Control)? I know the LC 1 & 2 doesn't have it, but what about 3? I have
had conflicting reports so far... Please help. Thank you.

(BTW, do you use RezNova's NovaLink? Yes? E-mail me!)

--- Via UCI v1.35 (C-Net Amiga)

Dennis T. Cheung
The DTC(tm) Corporation of America
America Online: DTC
Internet: DTC%MLinkNet@HotCity.Com


For the past week or so I've been trying to install a QIC-36 tape drive
and an everex 8bit full size controller in my 486dx50 EISA system with no
luck. I end up getting an error (miscompare) during the streaming read
part of the test. I am pretty certain that the port setting, irq & dma are
set properly since the tape responds properly to all commands, rewind,
retension, write and erase, I also booted the system clean and still the
same proble so I also tend to eliminate any memory conflicts. It has been
suggested that my bus speed is too fast and that I need to slow it down.
My system has an AMI BIOS and I don't have the advanced chip setting
option that I have seen on other systems so I cant do this. Am I going to
have to accept that this set up won't work? or can anyone suggest a work
around? I will be glad to hear your advice/suggestions.
Tony


If possible, I split lanes. Even if you don't get all the way to the
head of the line, at least you won't rear-ended. I always worry more when
I'm in the lane, at the front of the line, and no one in behind me. Then you
have to keep an eye on your mirrors. I also get ready to pull a hard right,
*just in case*.

Mike


Unlike the CIA, the NSA has no prohibition against domestic spying.  Read
Bamford's THE PUZZLE PALACE.


Source for "does not" comment: the CD-ROM and manuals for the March beta
-- there *is* no X windows server there.

Will there be?  Of course.  (Even) if Microsoft supplies one with NT,
other vendors will no doubt port their's to NT.


Of course they did, otherwise they wouldn't have staged the
raid in the first place.

Napalming seems a bit redundant.

The Stupidity was in the BATF mindset 'We're from Washington
We Know Better"  Execute Plan A: Storm the compound in a No-Knock
- the locals are gullible rubes, who cares that they served
warrents by knocking on the door.  Such an old fashioned, out dated
method of Law Enforcement anyway.  Gotta have the latest Armament
Technology, doncha know?

Sweet baby buddah - didn't these clown ever read "Dealing
with Paranoids"?

chus
pyotr


It's me again!


[...]

I think your performance will depend upon the X server.

I'm running Linux and XFree86 on a 33Mhz 486DX with 4MB of RAM (8MB swap) and
it runs just fine.  Its a lot better than some of the crappy old Xterminals
in the labs at school anyway.

You could probably outfit a 386SX with a minimal Linux/X setup for $900
and be better off than with an Xterminal. IMHO.

Scott
--


Hi!

Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?

Thanks in Advance!

--
=-Dave   *Tigger!*


This is quite a misrepresentation.  After WWI, many Bosnian Muslims were
killed and their land taken over by Serbs, and the motive was plunder,
not some fictitious "supression of rebellion."  Even earlier, one can
point to the destruction of mosques in Serbia itself and expulsion of
Muslims.  Here is what Dr. Vaso Cubrilovic, political adviser to the
Serbian monarchic regime, says in his memorandum "The Expulsion of the
Arnauts" which he presented to the royal government of Stojadinovic
on March 7, 1937, in Belgrade:

   The Mode of Removal
   -------------------

   [ describes how expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosova is to proceed
   through state terror and "private initiative", i.e. Chetnik plunder: ]

   Private initiative, too, can assist greatly in this direction.  We should
   distribute weapons to our colonists, as need be.  The old forms of Chetnik
   action should be organized and secretly assisted.  [...]
   ...the whole affair should be presented as a conflict between clans and,
   if need be, ascribed to economic reasons.  Finally, local riots can be
   incited.  These will be bloodily suppressed with the clans and the
   Chetniks, rather than the army.

   There remains one more means, WHICH SERBIA EMPLOYED WITH GREAT PRACTICAL
   EFFECT AFTER 1878, that is, by secretly burning down Albanian villages
   and city quarters.

(Emphasis above is mine.)  These events in Serbia itself forced out virtually
all Muslims during late 19th century.  This policy of state terrorism
against Muslims, aided by Chetnik "private initiative," has continued in WWII
and today.  For example, Muhamed Hadzijahic in his book "Od tradicije do
identiteta: Geneza nacionalnog pitanja bosanskih Muslimana" (Sarajevo:
Svjetlost, 1974) writes (pg. 235) how Serbs killed a Muslim in Foca
in WWII even though he claimed to be a Serbian patriot, explaining
their action as follows:

   "Inasmuch as you were a Serb, you sullied the Serb name, because you
   are a Turk [i.e. Muslim].  And since you helped us, we shall not
   torture you."

so the shot him instead of cutting his throat.  In the past year, Serbs
have repeated the slaughter of Muslim residents of Foca.  Destruction
of mosques, including priceless historical monuments, completes the
eradication of the Muslim presence from territories claimed by Serbs.

Which part do you claim is untrue?  Explain yourself, or withdraw your claim.

Croatia never had many Muslim citizens for historical reasons, because it
was not a part of the Ottoman Empire.  The last major battles between
Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in Croatia were at the
end of the 17th century.  Need I remind you that modern Croatian nationalism
came into being with Dr. Ante Starcevic, who saw Bosnian Muslims as the
best Croats, so much so that in 1853 he contemplated moving his operations
to Sarajevo?  You are confusing clericalist Croatianism with Croatian
nationalism here.   Political nationalism has always been stronger.  As
for your other theories, you are clearly overjoyed that Croat-Muslim
alliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina is now in trouble.  Arguments such as
yours are clearly intended to create and deepen this split.

In international relations 101 you'll learn that unless weak unite to
counterbalance the strong player, soon they are taken over and that's the
end of them.  Balance of power thinking has brought together Croats
and Bosnian Muslims.  This is only natural; all other alignments are
unstable.  I'm working on pointing out this basic fact: Croats and
Muslims have been aware of it for as long as Serbia has existed.
You are wrong if you think only "image" is at stake here.  Croatia has
a deep interest in her alliance with Bosnian Muslims, and vice versa.

I think Tudjman understands this, although he does not have much choice
at this point.  Tensions should have been defused better earlier, before
any open confrontation developed.  Although I still think Croatia will
survive, it will lose a lot; but Bosnian Muslims may end up even worse
off.  However, their position now is so horrible that perhaps they do not
see it getting any worse.  The key point is: do they still have any hope left?
If not, then all bets are off.

Mr. Stojanovic is clearly very, very happy about this.  I'm deeply hurt.
This is not about some "image" but about survival of a concept of a
partnership which I believe is natural and essential for both Croats
and Muslims.


I've tried 72105.1351@compuserve.com

Bounced twice....  Any other guesses?


Howdy all,

Hmm... 48 bit aye?
Well, it beats a 32-bit design for thee sake of ellegance.
48 bit means 16 bits per primary colour.
The 2^48 nr of colours is a bit misleading. It makes more sense to see it
as 65536 possible shades of pure red.
This might actually make some sense, since 256 shades of red (24 bit colours)
may produce visible 'jumps' in intensity.
Then again, a byte per primary colour for each pixel is the most elegant way
of doing colour graphics, because it leaves ya such a tidy (and fast) program
code.

	Take care,

		Bram


If it's any consolation, I had a similar problem. As I recall, if I exited
from a DOS session while in full-screen mode, the menu titles had changed to a
scrambled version of the icon title font (or something like that). It only
started happening after I used IconTitleFaceName in WIN.INI to change the
desktop font to Arial. So I stopped exiting from DOS sessions while in
full-screen mode.

My Mac used to do something similar. Aren't computers weird?

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