HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Sig file (was: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:31:25 GMT
Organization: Organization?  You must be kidding.
NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org

In article <1992Dec5.102430.1602@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>
>		[stuff deleted]
> -- 
> Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
> The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
> diagram.

I just noticed this sig and couldn't help commenting.  A guy
I know points out that if something plots linearly on log-log
paper, you've just discovered a law of nature.

He plotted power-to-weight ratio vs. mean time to failure for
all sorts of things -- alarm clocks, cars, gas turbines,
Saturn V's, etc. on log-log paper.  You guessed it -- it's a
line.

Shag

-- 
       Rob Unverzagt        |
  shag@aerospace.aero.org   |   The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
unverzagt@courier2.aero.org |                        - Friedrich Nietzsche 
   18348@rhodes.aero.org    |
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: chrisp@wimsey.bc.ca (Chris Phillips)
Subject: Worlds wierdest system crash!
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:38:34 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I used to work in a video store that was using a Commodore XT clone running
an archaic point of sale program. It was possible to crash the machine in
such a way as to disable the power switch(No lie).You had to pull the plug
to bring it back. I took the machine apart and looked, t was a mechanical 
switch and to this day I have no idea how it was able to do that. But the
crash was repeatable.

	Any like stories?
		Chris
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: PDP-11: A Physical Threat :)
Date: 16 Dec 1992 05:59:20 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: Hit'n'Run

azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.205112.3488@cc.tut.fi> oh3mqu@ee.tut.fi (Saastamoinen Ari) writes:
>>
>>
>>Greetings, a.f.c people!
>>
>>  This is the first article I have ever written to a.f.c, but I thought since there
>>was some discussion (it was some time ago) on computers killing people, what the heck.
>>One of my friends was just leaving the local University, and when he stepped out to
>>the hall he was almost overrun by a PDP-11. The local admins were transporting the machine to an another room. :) You can imagine my friends surprise when the vast bulk of the
>>machine was rolling (noisily) towards him. Try to imagine the impression on his face :)

>Perhaps you should purchase a clue from your local retailer, and
>fix your line length. Even tho the article text is right above me, I
>have no want to read it when the lines are as fucked up like this.

>-- 
>Billy D'Augustine azog@spatula.rent.com

>Gentlemen, shall we manufacture salsa, or oven mitts?
Why don't you just CALM down just a little huh?? We were all newbies once
too you know.

I can remember setting my xterm to 83 columns for some damn reason once and
geting flameed about it being to long.

James
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Blinking Cursors (was: Slide Rules)
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 10:40:08 GMT

In <alien.01py@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
   alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Dec3.094755.9435@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
>   bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>>Just how do you get the cursor to blink on a slide-rule? :-)

>Err ... shine a bright light in its eyes? :-)

It worked! Unfortunately, not so well in bright sunlight
when wearing sunglasses. B-(

Also, the cursor appears to be going "blotchy". Is the light
too bright? :-)

>...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
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From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Arabic BASIC
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:05:44 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Dec10.120036.10446@aston.ac.uk> frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost) writes:
>Wasn't there an arabic version of the famed Sinclair ZX81???????
>
   Yes.  As a matter of fact, it was used by Iraq to compute their
   overall battle strategy as well as to compute the ballistic
   trajectory and aiming for their SCUDS in the recent
   unpleasantness.  


   >:-) as if it were needed.
From: sverkerw@csd.uu.se (Sverker Wiberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Origin of Lena pics?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 04:51:36 GMT
Organization: CS, University of Uppsala, Sweden
NNTP-Posting-Host: tirana.docs.uu.se
In-reply-to: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:36:15 GMT

jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:

   | From: mongoose@spf.trw.com (Julian Watkins)
   | 
   | Lenna Sjooblom (put umlauts over the oo in Sjooblom), November 1972
That is Lena Sj\"oblom when TeXed.

--
Sverker Wiberg  <sverkerw@student.docs.uu.se>
  o===[----	Klia din hund p} magen.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin)
Subject: Re: PIRATE BBS?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:19:20 EST

6o25@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) writes:

> mmilam@meltdown.chi.il.us (Matthew Milam) writes:
> >does anyone know any pirate bbs?
> 
> yes I do.. just send me your real name, current address, social security
> number, and your telephone number and I will rush you a copy of a list..
> it will be hand delivered by some of my friends... don't worry, they
> have papers to do what they'll do...
> 
> who gave this guy posting access?? =)
> 
> or do I smell sarcasm?

Or a fool who left his workstation logged in and walked away?...


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From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: New "Hello" program
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:16:53 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

>In article <1992Dec8.194656.16401@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>#define NETWORK_WIZARD  "Daniel Max P. Drucker"
>
In article <104594@bu.edu> kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki) writes:
>
>	Take a.f.c with a grain of salt, especially when
>	the poster shares his last name with a character
>	in Green Acres.
>
   Arnold's last name was Drucker?

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: trk@palm15.cray.com (Tim Kirby)
Subject: Re: Non-English-based computer languages (was: I don't understand this either (was: Another one for the s.c.n. ...))
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:56:25 CST

Magnus Olsson (magnus@thep.lu.se) wrote:
: I've come into contact with computer languages that didn't use English
: keywords  ...

Reminds me of the time (a long time ago, now ...) I was handed the source of a
plot library that was written in 'French' FORTRAN IV. The comments (such few as
there were) were decipherable, but the majority of the variables had obviously
been made up from the French "appropriate names for variables", of which the
only one that was intuitive was "ecrit" which defined whether the "pen" was up
or down. All the rest were acronyms of the appropriate French word/phrase,
truncated to 6 characters.

It provided many hours of ... amusement ...

Tim
--
Tim Kirby --------- Cray Research Inc., Eagan, MN, USA ----------- trk@cray.com
Disclaimer: I disclaim, therefore I am. Cray Research is not responsible for me,
my views or anything I say ............... They do, however, pay my mortgage ;-)
When all else fails, Immortality may always be assured by spectacular error(JKG)
From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 16:12:19 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.202

aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman) writes:
>In article <1g5s9sINN97a@armory.centerline.com> jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
>>concluding that INed is preferred.  In the MKS case most of the users'
>>machines couldn't run a real version of emacs even if they tried, and
>>many of the machines aren't really fast enough anyway.

>That proves vi kicks emacs' butt.  The reasons being:

[Quip about emacs needing a Cray deleted; I shouldn't have put in the
 quip about the slowness of x86 machines :-)]

>	-- Vi has all the power who would ever want or need, in a editor at
>	least.  Anything that it doesn't do shouldn't be done by an editor.

Well, I have two major complaints with vi:

1. Multiple buffers.  Too bad the development machine crashed and that
   work was lost.  (Yes, indeed, vi almost had multiple buffers.)
2. A real macro facility.

I thought about adding a bunch of other complaints I have with vi, but
when it comes right down to it if you gave me those two things I'd be
a *lot* happier with it.  (I'd like syntax-based indentation too, but
I can live without it -- it just makes writing readable code fast a
little bit harder.)

Not that emacs is all roses.  Cursor motion keys should be clustered,
not spread out over the whole damn keyboard and two modifier keys.  I
deal with that because the C-mode and "compile" functionality is just
too good to pass up -- it really boosts productivity.

My original reply was meant to convey that the survey "proving" vi was
most popular was biased by the user base used in the survey.  That
will always be the case for any program, simply because different user
bases have different needs.  For the kind of work I do most often vi
simply lacks necessary features.  Perhaps that's not true for you.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: oh3mqu@ee.tut.fi (Saastamoinen Ari)
Subject: PDP-11: A Physical Threat :)
Originator: oh3mqu@ee.tut.fi
Keywords: Hit'n'Run
Organization: Hackers Anonymous
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:51:12 GMT



Greetings, a.f.c people!

  This is the first article I have ever written to a.f.c, but I thought since there
was some discussion (it was some time ago) on computers killing people, what the heck.
One of my friends was just leaving the local University, and when he stepped out to
the hall he was almost overrun by a PDP-11. The local admins were transporting the machine to an another room. :) You can imagine my friends surprise when the vast bulk of the
machine was rolling (noisily) towards him. Try to imagine the impression on his face :)
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 14:48:35 EST
From: Stacy Morang <MORANG@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: There is a future in PDP8 computer maintenance (Was Re: PDP10...
 <11158347@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <BzAusv.6KB@NeoSoft.com>
 <1992Dec16.034118.20850@netsys.com> <17DEC199211061470@rover.uchicago.edu>

In article <17DEC199211061470@rover.uchicago.edu>, frank@rover.uchicago.edu
(Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger) says:

   * Lots of text deleted*

>        No, DEC keeps supporting it because DEC still makes money doing so.
>        I can still buy parts for a 20-year-old RK05, stock, out of DEC's
>        electronic store. Long as the machines are reliable, economically
>        viable units, people will use them and buy CPUs and parts.
>
>        Also note that although DEC no longer sells PDP8's, they still sell
>        parts, and there is still a reasonable trade in used 8's and parts.
>        Again because there are enough out there still being used.
>
They certainly are- the local DEC plant (about a mile down the road) is
still using a PDP8 to test modules. Since a large percentage of DEC
plants are or have been moved out of the US, and the only way this plant
will survive is if it is profitable, they wouldn't be messing with PDP8
if it wasn't a money maker.
--
Stacy Morang -- morang @ maine.maine.edu, stacy @ adunix.uma.maine.edu
                KA1HMB @ WHO.KNOWS.USA.NA (packet radio)
Of course there's a Silicon Heaven - where would all the calculators go?
From: bugs@netsys.com (Mark Hittinger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 18 Dec 92 05:29:55 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.034118.20850@netsys.com> bugs@netsys.com (Mark Hittinger) writes:
>> Oh well - I'll just ask him when he thinks he can port WNT to the 11! 

>Why in the world would you want to port WNT to *anything*? Bad enough that
>it exists in the first place.

Oh come on - hahahaha - VMS is too expensive, I'm *still* fixing corrupted
unix file systems, WNT is inevitable.  That doesn't mean I'll be happy
though.  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: knight@santafe.santafe.edu (Bob Knight)
Subject: Re: WANTED: PDP-10 or 11
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 04:41:45 GMT
Organization: Santa Fe Institute

In article <1992Dec10.140932.14743@seas.gwu.edu> dutcher@seas.gwu.edu (Sylvia Dutcher) writes:
>controllers.  A later mod to the RSX20F allowed multiple DL11's (or were
>they DH11's?) to be added to the command and diagnostic processor to

KL-20's always had terminals serviced through the -11, and the asynch
interfaces were DH-11's.  I bought some single board Able's, and they
worked fine, too.  The primary front-end on a -20 was able to perform
diagnostics on the KL, as well as boot it through a dual-ported RP0x.
Some sites used secondary -11's for such things as ethernet before
NI's were available.  Quite the machine, 20's.  I do miss them.

Bob


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: KARGL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (ComRam)
Subject: Re: Origin of Lena pics?
Organization: Chaos Computer Club Ulm
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:27:49 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

> Can someone tell me where the original Lena pics were published? ...
> For those of you who don't know what picture I'm refering to, the Lena
> picture is the picture used in many of the image compression and
> graphics papers.

Now I get curious. Can anyone mail me this pic (uuencoded) or better tell
me an anonymous-ftp-site where I can get this pic ? After all I have to
know what you are talking about :)

Ciao ... Frank


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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Worlds wierdest system crash!
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:12:51 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <BzI8CB.JrL@wimsey.bc.ca> chrisp@wimsey.bc.ca (Chris Phillips) writes:
>I used to work in a video store that was using a Commodore XT clone running
>an archaic point of sale program. It was possible to crash the machine in
>such a way as to disable the power switch(No lie).You had to pull the plug
>to bring it back. I took the machine apart and looked, t was a mechanical 
>switch and to this day I have no idea how it was able to do that. But the
>crash was repeatable.

Perhaps the software crash made it draw so much current that the contacts 
in the switch fused?

cjl
From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: my sig; a final apology
Date: 12 Dec 92 07:58:54 GMT
Organization: Temple University EE Dept.

In article <yRuiVB1w165w@mertwig.uucp> xyzzy@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>
>> In article <D6NBVB3w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US> jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. 
>> >
>> >     I once mailed a piece of mail with 8-bit characters in it.  Just
>> >wanted to accent that "e", that's all.
>> >
>> >     The mail supposedly hung the VAX.
>> 
>> "Nothing sucks like a VAX."
>
>Why is this under this subject?
>
>
>--
>Daniel Max P. Drucker      Amateur radio: N2SXX     xyzzy%mertwig@uunet.uu.net
>______________________________________________________________________________
>"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG

Because he hit "F".
See, I just did that.

Ahh, life with the clueless...

ObHack: Converting WP5.1 files to text with "strings".

jim
are finals over yet??
From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:32:18 GMT
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.

In article JvF@NeoSoft.com, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.034118.20850@netsys.com> bugs@netsys.com (Mark Hittinger) writes:
>> Oh well - I'll just ask him when he thinks he can port WNT to the 11! 
>
>Why in the world would you want to port WNT to *anything*? Bad enough that
>it exists in the first place.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi t dn d dn?
>  'U`    
>Tarjoilija, t dm d ateria el d d viel d.


If Dave Cutler's leading the development team, it can't be *all* bad.
---


Regards,

Hugh.
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From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:22:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

In article <IISAKKIL.92Dec16131502@lk-hp-13.hut.fi>
iisakkil@lk-hp-13.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila) writes:

>kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>>Argh!  Why does EVERYONE ignore the Amiga.  :)
>
>Aaaaagghh! Now you said it! It won't take long before THEY come here

     Too late, we're already here.  }:->

>and there goes another fave newsgroup down the drain, right after
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware...

     A fitting fate.  ;-)

>Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software

     And, as pointed out in another thread in this newsgroup,
the PDP-8's 12-bit address space encourages tight code.  :-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
This sentence has threee erors.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
Subject: Re: Fools who don't log out  was: Re: PIRATE BBS?
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: Yale University--Genetics
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:59:46 GMT

In article <Bz6qq8.Ixp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
(Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) wrote:
> 
> In article <XeRmVB4w165w@bluemoon.use.com> cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:
> >Or a fool who left his workstation logged in and walked away?...
> 
> Along the same lines:
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> "X allready logged on." the screen said.
> 
> [deleted]

> I told her to go to PUCC's office (down two filghts of stairs, 5 minutes
> for directions, she had to go there to get her account.) and ask them
> to fix it.
> 

SOMETIMES IT IS NOT THE USER'S FAULT!!!

From time to time Telnet sessions on our net crash in such
a way as to leave a session hanging.  Then the only answer
is for me to log on as root and issue the command:

kill -9 -u <name>

(for non-unix types, this means zap all processes owned by
the user <name>; the -9 is the "magic number" for a really
emphatic kill command)

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Slide Rules (was Re: Swedish Adding Machine)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:33:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.030206.11957@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>In <PRENER.92Dec4012121@prener.watson.ibm.com>
>   prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec3.094755.9435@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Bernd Felsche writes:
>
>>> Just how do you get the cursor to blink on a slide-rule? :-)
>
>>With a simple patch to the microcode, of course.
>
>Please post the patch in alt.binaries.slide-rule
>
Of course, there is no such group, because a slide rule is an analog computer.
Now, how do you uuencode analog code?

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com
From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 20:39:08 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.202

lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>Does anyone have an article on the history of internet worm?

There was a pretty good article on it in JACM a couple of years ago
('90 I think but I can't remember exactly).  It should be pretty easy
to find.

Some of why the worm was designed the way it was is fascinating, but
unfortunately real details on its design tradeoffs are available only
from RTM and I suspect he's not going to want to talk about it for
awhile.

>How it worked, who got hit, and actions to prevent
>it occuring again?

Who got hit is simple: just about everyone utilizing Sun-3 and
VAX/UNIX systems who was connected to Internet.  It was really
impressive just how many sites were affected.

The JACM article does a pretty good job of describing how the worm
worked.  It's likely that something like it would still work fairly
well although the preponderance of DNS, vendor bug fixes, and improved
password protection techniques will severely limit its effectiveness.
Many sites now use a single-point-of-contact for their internet
connection which makes improved security WRT the outside world much
easier.  Some sites -- like mine -- even make use of packet filtering
at their gateways.

I never thought I'd be glad to be at a UUCP-only site until that day.
:-)

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:07:02 GMT

In article <1gdildINNee6@armory.centerline.com> jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
> I never thought I'd be glad to be at a UUCP-only site until that day.

Me too, though there was some fallout. We later had an attack of the
Jerusalem virus on the Novell network, and someone upstairs was shocked
to discover we were downloading PROGRAMS from the net and had us pull
comp.sources. Wouldn't want to get a source-code virus.

Oddly enough, a few weeks before the Internet Worm I posted a semiserious
article describing a mythical source code virus...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers