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From: painter@cactus.org (Tom Painter)
Newsgroups: austin.general,tx.general,ut.general
Subject: CACTUS Meeting agenda
Keywords: PSI Net, Modems
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: attend@cactus.org
Followup-To: attend@cactus.org
Distribution: tx
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx

Just Reposting :-)     

RSVP's should be sent to attend@cactus.org (you can reply to this post, too)

From: schafer@cactus.org (Raymond C. Schafer)
>  
> The CACTUS meeting agenda for this Thursday's Meeting has been
> decided.  (Yeah!)  The talk we had scheduled for the Netblazer
> has been postponed.  Instead the main topic will be on PSI net.
> PSI offers dialup Internet connections for under $40.00 per month.
> 
> Texas Internet Consulting will present the services offered by PSI
> and be available for questions and discussions.  The main topic
> will be preceeded by a the first of two tutorials on Modems by Chip
> Rosenthal.  Chip will discuss various topics such as signaling rate
> vs. data rate, "What is a modem?", and "Introduction to Modulation".
> 
> -- 
> Ray Schafer                 schafer@cactus.org
> CACTUS                  ..!cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!schafer 
-- 
Tom Painter                             | painter@cactus.org
President                               | {...}!cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!painter
Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society |
From: pojee@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: roommate/roomates (indian)
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:30:43 GMT
Reply-To: pojee@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ()
Distribution: austin
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: pojee@happy.cc.utexas.edu


        Hi,
                If you are looking for an apartment for summer,fall and spring
than I have a very good deal for you. I am signing a lease for the above term
and  I am looking for 3 roommates who are graduate students and willing to take
turns in cooking and keeping the house clean. The apartment is located just
adjacent to the university ( 30th and speedway ). The rent will come to arond
$130 for the summer and $150 for fall and spring per person. The heating is by
gas and the rooms are very big . The living room is damn big and beautiful. Ther
e are walkin closets and it is a 2-2 br apartment. It hs  very big swimming pool
For your info I am a northie and am in EE
 for further info contact me on the following phone no. 512 476 7134.
 
                                                        Pankaj Bishnoi
From: cabler@dvorak.amd.com (C. Dru Cabler)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: Where Can I Sign The Ross Perot Petition?
Date: 6 Apr 92 01:10:48 GMT
Distribution: austin.general
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <69713@ut-emx.uucp> dnehme@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Nehme) writes:
>In article <MARTIN.92Apr3131657@ayers-rock.tivoli.com> martin@ayers-rock.tivoli.com (Martin Neath) writes:
>>Does anyone know where I can  sign  the Ross Perot  ballot petition? When you
>>call the national 1-800-685-7777 number, the  recording  says that in Austin,
>>you should go by 6010 Balcones, but there are several "Balcones" in Austin!

There was someone with a petition a Barton Creek Mall today (April 5).  I'd
assume that he'll probably be there most any time.  We signed one that was
going around Zilker park on Saturday during the dog events.

Dru Cabler
cabler@dvorak.amd.com
From: jcw3776@zeus.tamu.edu (JEFF WYTHE)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Drive Repair Shop
Keywords: computers, pc's, hard disks
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:39:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Recently, some discussion in austin.forsale referred to a disk drive
repair shop in Austin which sells used drives. I would appreciate info
on such a shop. I'm looking for a used hard disk. 

BTW, I think the name mentioned was Triple A Drives or something 
similar.

Jeff Wythe
wythe@cs.tamu.edu 
or
409-847-9029
From: gadbois@MCC.COM (David Gadbois)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: Ross Perot for President Information
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:32:40 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


    Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:56 CDT
    From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F Haugh II)

    [Haugh replies to an article from Herrick asking for factual support
     of da Silva's complaints about Perot.]

    Just a few facts from EDS -
	    1). Unmarried women were not allowed to have live-in
		boyfriends, even if the women weren't religiously
		affiliated and didn't believe in marriage.
	    2). New employees were required to sign promisory notes
		obligating them to "re-pay" EDS for the value of
		their training should they leave.
	    3). Freedom of expression at EDS was completely
		stiffled.  Either you towed the party line or you
		left.

    I lived in an apartment complex that had half a dozen or so kids
    straight out of college who worked for EDS.  It was the corporate
    equivalent of boot camp.  And while it WAS Perot's company, I hardly
    want a President who ignores religious differences, practices
    indentured servitude and restricts individual expression.

I have heard similar stories about how awful working for EDS is.  About
seven years ago, while Perot was still running it, a good friend of mine
went to work for the company, and we kept in touch while he was going
through the "boot camp."

He said he noticed that the company preferred to hire folks with lower
middle class backgrounds after graduating from podunk schools in an
effort to get employees whose loyalty would be ensured by their lack of
any other opportunities.

He also said that there was a book of company morals that employees were
expected to follow.  He said that at long-term engagements where
employees were put up in company housing, the cleaning staff would
report evidence of "bad" behavior.  In one incident, the maids found
lipstick in a male employee's room (he had been having his girlfriend
sleep over), they reported it, and he got in big trouble.

My friend eventually quit EDS (after he got out of the training
contract) and joined the Navy -- I can only imagine what things must
have been like if he thought the military was a better place to work.

I have heard stories about a lot of the big management consulting firms
as to how anti-individualistic they are, but EDS sounds like a really
extreme case.

All of this is a bit (but only a bit) peripheral to whether or not Perot
would make a good President.  I don't like his ideology, and I think he
would be another Carter, antagonizing Congress and the entrenched
bureaucracy to the extent that any policy moves would be paralyzed.  On
the other hand, given the apparent demographics of his supporters, he
would probably steal enough votes from Bush that we could get Clinton
elected.

--David Gadbois
From: aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: in return for our defense of their countries (was: Ross Per
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:33:47 GMT
Reply-To: aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen)
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX

patrik@cup.portal.com (Patrick M Crumhorn) writes:
>While several people here think Japan-bashing is a great sport to 
>engage in, please remember that Japan voluntarily has financed the
>Reagan-Bsuh budget deficits (at least a third of them) since the early 80s.
>Japan itself is now in a slow-growth period, and is only able to buy
>1/5 of our treasury bonds instead of the 1/3 they have been buying.  
>Any time their government decides they've had enough cr*p from the US
>government, they can just decline to pick up the tab...

clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements) wrote:
>Pick up the tab, hell.   You and I are picking up the tab, not Japan.
>Investing in the most stable, reliable securities on the planet for
>a good interest rate is not "picking up the tab", it's just wise
>investment.   I see no evidence that any Japanese philanthropy was
>involved, and suggest that assigning this motive to the Japanese is
>as incorrect as assigning blame for our economic mess.    

   "Most stable, reliable securities on the planet?"  Mwahahahahahhahah,
   whew, wheeze, pant, that was a good one!  Say, do _you_ pile all your
   money into US bonds?
   
   Good investment or not, those same securities would go unsold if the
   Japanese and the Germans did not buy them.  (Not to say that the Japanese
   did not have other motives, like propping the US surrency & economy.)
   The problem was the _sheer_volume_ of the debt being brokered, not the
   ability of the US to pay back.

   We have gotten to the point where even the amount needed to finance
   the deficit is beginning to look like the deficits of years past!

-- 
Andy Nguyen / Team Paranoid
(212) 267-7722				...!uunet!tivoli!aqn  OR  aqn@tivoli.com
Xref: sparky ut.general:414 austin.general:1519
From: croteau@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ed Croteau)
Newsgroups: ut.general,austin.general
Subject: LOOKING for HOUSE (2 people) in Central Austin
Keywords: house roommates housemates
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:21:28 GMT
Reply-To: croteau@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ed Croteau)
Followup-To: ut.general
Distribution: austin
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: croteau@doc.cc.utexas.edu

My friend and I are looking for an unfurnished or partially furnished
house to rent starting in May (before June 1).  We are open to moving
into an existing situation also.  Mainly we are looking for a 3 or 4
bedroom house near UT and roomates who are liberal, considerate, and
like occasional partying. We are no longer students but are more than
willing to live with either undergrads or grads.  Please email me
with responses to the above address.  

Ed Croteau
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: The Deadline Has Passed ...
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:37:36 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Organization: On the Beach, Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, Nederland Antilles
X-Random-Thought: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty

... for contributing to buying a copy of "Handbook of Family Violence"
for the Austin Public Library.

There were no contributors.

I will still be ordering a copy and donating it to the public library on
my own.  If you are interested in participating, please send a check or
money order made out to me (John Haugh) and mail it to my address below.
I will bring it to an area restaurant for you to write you dedication in.
The books are $75 each, and I can only afford to buy at most one on my
own.

If you think family violence is an issue that doesn't affect you, remember
that 1 in 5 boys and 1 in 3 girls will be the victim of sexual abuse.  If
you weren't one, you can count 1-2-3-you're-it and find someone who was.

This is an oppurtunity for you to personally help educate the City of
Austin about family violence.  Think globally, act locally.

	John Haugh
	2302 Emmett Pkwy
	Austin, TX 78728
-- 
John F. Haugh II        | Every 56 days.   | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151 | Give Blood, often.    | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
		-- Benjamin Franklin
From: mhk@cactus.org (M. H. Khan)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: No Fee Travelers Checks?
Keywords: low cost
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:51:47 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx

Up until a  couple of years ago my bank used to sell Thomas Cook/MasterCard
(I think) Travelers Checks to all its account holders without a fee.  Now that
privilege comes with age (60+).  Is there any place in Austin that still
provides them without a fee to not very senior citizens and those without say
$25,000 on deposit (another requirement I have seen) ?

In case there are none such places, how about low fee (less than 1%) places?

Please e-mail and I'll summarize next weekend. (I'm assuming that this will be
of interest to many people.)
From: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: Hey you flesh-eating apes!
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:56:06 GMT
Reply-To: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
Distribution: austin
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
Originator: johan@donald.cc.utexas.edu


 Blah blah blah
-- 
  Johan van Zanten   Unix Consulting   (remark@ccwf remark@bongo remark@emx)
  Today's HHG Quotation: "I always think the chances of finding out what
   really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is
   hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied."
From: RTEW664@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: testing...
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:26:18 GMT
Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN


     Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Hmm,
 I wonder if this baby linewraps. Seems to. Let's try a larger word. Supercalli
fragilistic.... Now I try to send...
From: RTEW664@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: testing...
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:26:18 GMT
Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN


     Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Hmm,
 I wonder if this baby linewraps. Seems to. Let's try a larger word. Supercalli
fragilistic.... Now I try to send...
Newsgroups: austin.test
From: schaedle@kbomfg.enet.dec.com (Wolfgang Schaedle)
Subject: This is a test
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:40:48 GMT


This is a test.

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

       Wolfgang Schaedle (DEC, Kaufbeuren, Germany)
       schaedle@kbomfg.enet.dec.com "Wolfgang Schaedle"
From: RTEW664@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test again
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:33:00 GMT
Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

I really don't have anything to say...
From: news@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:46:49 GMT
Reply-To: news@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Distribution: austin
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA



test
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: this is a test ...
Keywords: test
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:49:47 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin TX

Hi.  This is only a test ...
-- 
John F. Haugh II        | Every 56 days.   | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151 | Give Blood, often.    | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
		-- Benjamin Franklin
From: RTEW664@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:18:35 GMT
Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN


    Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
From: cactus.org!wixer!pro-lep.cts.com!syslep@wixer.UUCP (System Leprechaun)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: Test
Date: 9 Apr 1992 07:12:42 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

This is a test.  This is only a test.  If this were real, it wouldn't be a
test.
_____

UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!wixer!pro-lep!syslep       | GEnie: donpatrick
ARPA: wixer!pro-lep!syslep@cs.utexas.edu       | CI$:   72355,1717
INET: syslep@pro-lep.cts.com                   | AmOn:  D.Patrick
From: wrchang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wei-Ren Chang)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: Test post news
Date: 6 Apr 92 02:53:17 GMT
Distribution: ut

This is only a test, ignore it.
From: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: Test
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:01:27 GMT
Reply-To: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
Distribution: austin
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
Originator: johan@donald.cc.utexas.edu


Hi you net slugs.

-- 
  Johan van Zanten   Unix Consulting   (remark@ccwf remark@bongo remark@emx)
  Today's HHG Quotation: "I always think the chances of finding out what
   really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is
   hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied."
From: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu ( )
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:15:50 GMT
Reply-To: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu ( )
Distribution: ut
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu

test, pure test, sorry for any inconvenience
From: RTEW664@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:30:25 GMT
Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkj
From: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu ( )
Newsgroups: austin.test
Subject: test file
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:21:50 GMT
Reply-To: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu ( )
Distribution: ut
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: schen@bongo.cc.utexas.edu

test test
From: joel@cs.utexas.edu (Joel Daniel Just)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Traffic Flames
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:45:43 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.cs.utexas.edu

In article <20622@rpp386.lonestar.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Using turn signals is illegal in Texas.  Seriously.  Someone in Houston
>once signalled a turn and the guy behind him died of a heartattack.  So
>they've been illegal ever since.  Hell, I had my disconnected because I
>can't afford the fine.

I don't know if using turn signals is technically in the books as an
illegal act, but I do know that driving schools in Texas (at least Sears
driving school, which I went to) teach their students to use turn signals
before changing lanes or turning.  At Sears, they teach everything by the
book, including not breaking the speed limit.

Also, the handbook which the state of Texas distributes to people in
driving school says that one should use turn signals.

There are a lot of strange laws on the books, and if a law against using
turn signals is one of them, I'd be surprised if it was enforced.  On the
contrary, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one could get a ticket for
failing to use his/her turn signal.
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Traffic Flames
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:03:25 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Distribution: austin
Organization: On the Beach, Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, Nederland Antilles
X-Random-Thought: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty

In article <BENEDICT.92Apr13192846@chaos.utexas.edu> benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) writes:
>First off are the pot-holes.  Take almost any stretch of street that a
>bus runs down and there'll be some serious road-damage.  A couple of
>these are bad enough that if you were to hit one, it would easily take
>out your tire and possibly your rim.  "Ah, but you can avoid them!"
>you might say.  Sure, but once it rains the entire road surface looks
>the same.  So when I *did* hit one it damn near flipped me.

You need to buy a good pair of driving glasses.  They will cut the
glare coming off the road and make it easier to see what actually
lies below the roadway.  You might spend $100 or more, but they will
be worth it.

>Enough razzing about the potholes.  Now on to other gripes I've got.
>Almost no one in Austin knows how to use turn signals!!!  I have NEVER
>been in a place where more people misuse or fail to use turn signals.

Using turn signals is illegal in Texas.  Seriously.  Someone in Houston
once signalled a turn and the guy behind him died of a heartattack.  So
they've been illegal ever since.  Hell, I had my disconnected because I
can't afford the fine.
-- 
John F. Haugh II        | Every 56 days.   | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151 | Give Blood, often.    | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
		-- Benjamin Franklin
From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Traffic Flames
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:52:40 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: boogie.cs.utexas.edu

In article <20622@rpp386.lonestar.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Using turn signals is illegal in Texas.  Seriously.  Someone in Houston
>once signalled a turn and the guy behind him died of a heartattack.  So
>they've been illegal ever since.  Hell, I had my disconnected because I
>can't afford the fine.

That would explain a thing or two.  You see, when I moved to Austin, I
was astonished to find that other drivers actually *yield* when I
signal to change lanes.  I was accustomed to Chicago, where a turn
signal tells the guy just behind you in the lane next to you to speed
up so you can get in behind him.  Here, the other guy slows down, and
I'd slow down, waiting for him to pass, and so on.  I finally clued in
that I was supposed to merge right on over in front of him.

But if turn signals are in fact illegal, that would explain this
behavior.  Those other drivers have simply never seen one before, and
are slowing down to look at it, saying to themselves, "What the hell's
that blinky thing on that car?"

Actually, the pot-holes here don't seem so bad either.  There aren't
the extremes of expansion and contraction which contribute so much to
pot-hole development and which come with months of freezing
temperatures.  And the chance of pot-holes in your neighborhood being
fixed isn't tied to the politics of your alderman.
From: dhs@cs.utexas.edu (Douglas H. Steves)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Traffic Flames
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:51:34 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: manx.cs.utexas.edu

In article <20622@rpp386.lonestar.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>In article <BENEDICT.92Apr13192846@chaos.utexas.edu> benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) writes:
>>Enough razzing about the potholes.  Now on to other gripes I've got.
>>Almost no one in Austin knows how to use turn signals!!!  I have NEVER
>>been in a place where more people misuse or fail to use turn signals.
>Using turn signals is illegal in Texas.  Seriously.  Someone in Houston
>once signalled a turn and the guy behind him died of a heartattack.  So
>they've been illegal ever since.  Hell, I had my disconnected because I
>can't afford the fine.

It should also be pointed out that failure to run a red light is
also illegal in Texas, and it is a capital offense in certain 
counties. In fact, if the car in front of you runs the red light
and you don't, the driver of the car behind you is legally entitled
(in some counties, legally required) to rear-end you, thus administering
justice while saving court costs. Hell, I had my brakes disconnected
(emergency brake, too) because I couldn't afford the fine.

Doug
"A lawyer between two countrymen is like a cat between two fish."
		-- Franklin Benjamin
From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Traffic Flames
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:11:23 GMT
Reply-To: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Distribution: austin
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <kums06INNi90@manx.cs.utexas.edu> dhs@cs.utexas.edu (Douglas H. Steves) writes:
>> Hell, I had my signals disconnected because I can't afford the fine.
>Hell, I had my brakes disconnected  because I couldn't afford the fine.

	Hell, I had my steering wheel removed since Texas roads are
all so straight and I wanted the room for a car phone.  Works fine except
that I have to stay offa 620.