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From: elaine@mhs.oz.au (Elaine Pensabene)
Subject: Net access in Brisbane?
Organization: Message Handling Systems
Distribution: aus
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:41:38 GMT

<From news Thu Nov 19 09:10:09 1992
<From: sgreen@neumann.une.edu.au (Stephen Green)
<Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
<Subject: Net access in Brisbane?
<Date: 18 Nov 92 08:48:17 GMT
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<What possabilities of net access are there in Brisbane?
<A friend is moving there and needs access and was wondering how to obtain it
<there....
<Any help is welcome
<Thank you

The Message eXchange (TMX) is a service provided by Message Handling
Systems that allows dial-in connections to the net and we have recently set
up this service in Brisbane (TMXBRIS) and Melbourne (TMXMELB).

Operational costs are $8 per connect hour and with an annual prepayment 
this reduces to $4 per hour.

The initial establishment charge is $50 (available for UUCP, DOS* or Mac*
platforms) with an optional $495 offering that includes the MHSnet software.

Please contact me for further information.

				Elaine Pensabene
				Tel: (02) 550-4448

*  DOS and Mac connection software is currently being beta tested.
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From: p8dw001@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Ming Lee)
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
Subject: Re: Where is netfind in Australia?
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:17:05 GMT
Distribution: aus
Organization: Comp. Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia

phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
>I know this came up some time ago, but I forgot to save the message.  Could
>someone e-mail/post where netfind is in Australia and how to access it.

Telnet to archie.au and login as netfind.
 
Just press enter if you get the password prompt (can't remember if there
was/wasn't one).
 
btw. If from unix you type:
  telnet archie.au |& tee log
All the stuff that appears on screen during your telnet session is saved
on a file called "log" (change to whatever name you want).
It took me ages to discover this use of pipes... use it!!! :-)

 
Catch ya,
 
Ming
 
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From: pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford)
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
Subject: Networkshop 1992 IS FULL
Date: 23 Nov 1992 05:39:27 GMT
Organization: Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
Reply-To: Peter Elford <P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.130.204.4


Registrations for Networkshop 1992 have closed. The conference limit of
400 has been reached, so if you wanted to come along you are too late -
see you next year!

Peter Elford,                             e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Network Co-ordinator                      phone: +61 6 249 3542
Australian Academic Research Network      fax:   +61 6 249 1369
c/o, Computer Services Centre             pager: +61 6 245 3035
Australian National University            post: GPO Box 1142     
Canberra, AUSTRALIA                             Canberra ACT 2601
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Canberra, AUSTRALIA                             Canberra ACT 2601
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
From: root@splat.aarnet.EDU.AU (Conan the System Operator)
Subject: Re: Where is netfind in Australia?
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:19:27 GMT

phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:

>I know this came up some time ago, but I forgot to save the message.  Could
>someone e-mail/post where netfind is in Australia and how to access it.

It's on archie.au. Just telnet there and use netfind as the account name.

Dave
Newsgroups: aus.sport
Subject: Re: NBL: NEWS..........
From: baragry@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU (Jason M Baragry)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:44:41 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

In article <1dvhttINNp10@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bryan Lip) writes:
|> in todays newspaper (west australian)
|> 
|> 13/nov/92
|> 
|> they following things were stated (not to quote!):
|> 
|> 1. wildcats have a VERY big contract with hinchen, highest next to
|> vlahov?
|> 2. therefore, hinchen's 17.1ppg, 4.6apg last season was good, however
|> he was not as the newspaper put it, "a game breaker" and had poor form
|> in the playoffs (poor? how about ridiculous!)
|> 

	I heard that Hansen and Hinchen were both let go by the Wildcats.
(Read it in the Paper in the weekend).

|> 
|> 4. murray! what is this!, has flown to adelaide to have an interview
|> with the 36ers management!!! murray arnold for adelaide? (would be nice
|> actually - hope nobody goes with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

	Adelaide has signed him but I don't think anyone went with him.


Jason
From: blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bryan Lip)
Newsgroups: aus.sport
Subject: ******* NBL FREE AGENTS LIST FOR 1993 *********
Date: 17 Nov 1992 04:31:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

OK OK, EVERYBODY IS DRIBBLING IN AWE, SO HERE IS THE FREE AGENTS LIST
(IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT ALREADY)

WILL WRITE MORE LATER (COMMENTS FROM WEST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER)


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

ADELAIDE :

kubank, taylor, corkeron

BRISBANE :

fox, rees, breifes, joyce, gribble, marshall, branch, mat moore, smith

CANBERRA :

kennedy, smyth, hood, reese, zauner,  armour.


GEELONG :

locke, alexander, cleary, griffin, hultgren, crothers, lamont, chris
harris

GOLD COAST :

mitchell, jim bateman, hutchins, sengstock, radliff, smith, magick,
jennette, john harris.


HOBART :

**calvin bruton!!, stiff, hurst.

ILLAWARRA :

melvin thomas, craig adams, chuck harmison, doug overton, steven vos,
greg hubbard, justin wither, dene mcdonald.


MELBOURNE :

copeland, purchase, simmons, vickerman

NEWCASTLE :

morgan-lowe, chris steele, martin mclean, neil turner


NORTH MELB. :

leader, maley, fisher, graham, simons, o'donnel, borner


**PERTH :

hinchen, hansen (TOWNESVILLE ARE INTERESTED IN HIM), steve davis (WONT
LEAVE PERTH).

SE MELB. MAGIC :

ninnis, rose, lemanis, lucas agrums

SYDNEY :

jody austin, brad dalton.



OTHERS...............

norman taylor, willie simmons..




more later!    c ya
From: mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Prior)
Newsgroups: aus.sport
Subject: Re: NBL: NEWS..........
Date: 24 Nov 1992 01:16:01 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, University of Adelaide
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jarrah.itd.adelaide.edu.au

In article <1992Nov16.024441.16929@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, baragry@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU
(Jason M Baragry) writes:
|> In article <1dvhttINNp10@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bryan
|> Lip) writes:
|> |> 
|> |> 4. murray! what is this!, has flown to adelaide to have an interview
|> |> with the 36ers management!!! murray arnold for adelaide? (would be nice
|> |> actually - hope nobody goes with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
|> 
|> 	Adelaide has signed him but I don't think anyone went with him.
|> 
Adelaide signed a college coach from the US not Arnold.

Mark.
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Newsgroups: aus.sport
From: logan@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Richard Scott)
Subject: ABL standings
Summary: wanted
Keywords: post them please
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:15:03 GMT

Does anyone have the Australian Baseball League Standings they can post?


Thanks,
       Richard


(or email me at logan@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)

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From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Re: Problem with SONY KV2964 68cm Television
Date: 20 Nov 92 06:03:14 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.22.8
Keywords: sony tv large-screen

The era of top quality seems to have passed for Sony. I have a Sony video,
brand new, which has this sound drop-out problem when receiving TV. Sony
Australia insisted that I should have an outdoor antenna installed, which
they said is the minimum requirement for reception.

I thought this weird, since the transmitters are only 2 km away from my
home. I said OK if I install this antenna will you refund the cost if the
problem persist? They said no. :-(

Then I decided to take the video to the repairer to try on his outdoor
antenna, which adequately showed the defect of the video.

Sony promised to order some new parts for it, saying it'd be ready in 6-8
Weeks but it's now nine wks and I'm still waiting. :-(

Jie

Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
From: mpulver@research.canon.oz.au (Mark Pulver)
Subject: Re: digital eq.  Good?
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:07:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.200259.13316@phillip.edu.au> t8800568@phillip.edu.au writes:
>I was hoping that someone could give me some info on so-called digital
>equilzers.  A friend of mine tells me that, because they are digital,
>that do NOT degrade the signal path, as do analog designs.  Is this true?
>
>I am a little skepitical about this.  I guess i am definately part
>of Scotts 'European (or British to be more accurate) sounding' class.

I haven't looked at the commerical market for equilizers, but I don't
don't beleive there is such a beast a real digital equilizer. I say this
because at the last company I work for built a one based on a FFT chip
we made.  We beleive it was first true digital equilizer. (Equilization
was only one of the function it could do.)

Back to the question, of course they "degrade" the signal path, because
they change it, but this change was exactly what you wanted, (to about
100db if they use enough bits).   So the idea to degrade the signal path in
the inverse way that you speaker do.
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Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Re: American, Australian and European Hi-Fi tastes...
From: MATGBB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BYRNES,Graham)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:58:04 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1e7bg5INNdnp@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> scott@psy.uwa.oz.au writes:
Yeah Scott, we needed a new fight down here in the audio slum...
> gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green (+61 6 276 6813)) writes:
> 
> [me deleted...]
> 
> >Heres a bit more petrol to the fire.
> 
> >Americans also seem to go heavily for 'digital' EVERTHING. If it ain't
> >digital it ain't worth a f!*?.
Dunno about that. How about all those mega-dollar valve amps, not to mention
all the analogue hard liners on rec.audio.

I think they go heavily for whatever is v. expensive :-)
>                                                       
> >While on the subject - What about AV amplifiers and associated bits. Purist
> >hi-fi retailers wouldn't be seen dead selling any A/V gear. Sure, the low end
> >stuff is a bit crappy, but the same can be said for audio stuff. I think they
> >get this idea from European mags that wont spoil themselves by even letting
> >AV products get advertised in them! 
> 
The upper end shops in Melbourne are starting to flog AV gear, Revolver Hi Fi
in adelaide was pushing Yamaha stuff a few years back, and Len Wallis in Sydney
has been for yonks.
> >Americans and the other hand are tripping over themselves to get into the AV
> >scene.
> 
See comment above :-)
> ...yeah the Americans have been known to trip over themselves to buy cars with
> fake-wood-stick-on-pannels on the outside too. 
> 
Unlike aussie academics, who buy relaible (!) british cars with real bits 
of tree stuck to the dashboard (sorry Scott, couldn't resist)
> PS: My hi-fi is connected to my hi-fi video...but...stereo is about my limit
> when watching TV...no sub-woofers, no surround-sound, just a stereo-vid,
> pre/power amps and 2 speakers :-)
> 
> Regards Scott.
Yeah, me too. In fact even stereo is a bit of  a waste: how wide an image
can you believe when the picture is only 50cm across. Most of the time
stereo isn't noticeably better than mono. Except of course on tapes,
where hi-fi stereo is sooo much better than the linear mono track.

As an interesting experiment, put your tv outside your speakers (ie to the
left of the left one, or v-v, sit well back and watch. Where does the
sound seem to come from? I find I have to close my eyes and concentrate to get
the image back where it belongs.
Cheers,
Graham B
> ______
From: tjf@adl.dmt.csiro.au (Thomas Fung)
Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Opinions on Nakamichi & Soundstream Car Amps.
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:05:02 GMT
Distribution: aus
Organization: CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Adelaide, Australia


G'day Netters,

I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with these amps
 - whether by ownership, have friends who do own them, auditioned
them while comparing with other brands, etc.

I'd like to know how highly do audiophiles rate them, do they
give the famous warm fuzzy feelings, etc.

I'm looking at amps for powering a pair of 8 ohm woofer/mid-ranges
rated at 100 watts rms. and a pair of 10 inch 4 ohm sub-woofers
rated at 180 watts rms.

Thanks in advance for any replies ( emailed or posted ).


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Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
From: hedley@ee.su.oz.au ()
Subject: VAF speakers
Reply-To: hedley@ee.su.oz.au ()
Organization: Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia
Distribution: aus
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:06:50 GMT

I you have listen to the VAF speakers, PLEASE REPLY. I posted a request
for info a couple of weeks ago and did not receive a single reply.

I read about the VAF speaker kits in electronics australia a couple of
weeks ago, and am interested in the DC5. If anyone has any comments on its
performance compared to other speakers in its price range, could they
please reply.

Mark Hedley
hedley@ee.su.oz.au

Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
From: esd@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Elliot Duff)
Subject: Problem with SONY KV2964 68cm Television
Keywords: sony tv large-screen
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:25:27 GMT

Is there a problem with the SONY KV2964 68cm Television?

Last week I bought a this television. 
After watching the SBS test pattern, I noticed that the picture was not 
horizontal. From the bottom of picture to the first white line I measured a 
drop of 8mm on the left hand side. I called the retailer, and they forwarded 
me onto their service rep. He said, that with some of the larger screens 
this is to be expected. Great! I didn't think this was acceptable, so I 
asked for another TV. This TV arrived today, and it has the same problem, 
but only 4mm this time. This might have been acceptable except that after 
10 minutes viewing I noticed a large patch of yellow discoloration in the 
top right hand corner. It is most noticeable with a blue background. 

My thought were;

	1) HiFi speakers. These were moved out of the room with no effect.
	2) Pour reception. I played a prerecorded video with no improvement. 

What should I do? [In my current preference]

1) Return this TV, and try every machine in the store.
2) Ask for my money back, and buy the same model at another store.
3) Ask for my money back.
4) Try and get the machine repaired. 
 
The 2nd option, is based on the assumption that this store has a FRIDAY batch.
I have seen this model working in other stores - so I know that I am not 
being too demanding in expecting better performance.

The 4th option is a last resort, and is based on how difficult these
defects are to correct. 

So has anyone had any similiar experience with this TV, or with SONY?

I am aware that this is a discontinued model - thus the sale price. 
[Could this be the issue, left over defect stock!]

Thanks,

Elliot Duff,
CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology,   Telephone: +61 7 365 4197
c/- Dept. of Mining & Metallurgical Eng.,     Facsimile: +61 7 365 3711
The University of Queensland, QLD 4072.       Internet:  esd@brb.dmt.csiro.au
Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Re: Rotel 855 versus Rotel 955 CD player
From: MATGBB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BYRNES,Graham)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:03:07 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1e9ipdINN1m8@manuel.anu.edu.au> bill@rsphys.anu.edu.au writes:
> Rotel 955. I've installed the Laser Illusions spatial filter (I don't

Yee gods, excuse my ignorance, but what is it?!?

> at this stage know what difference it makes as the unit came with it in
> and I am going to find out how to remove it to see what difference it makes)
> and am waiting on a Simply Physics isodrive. 
Same question...
Cheers,
Graham
From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher)
Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Re: American, Australian and European Hi-Fi tastes...
Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:27:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: aus
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green (+61 6 276 6813)) writes:

[me deleted...]

>Heres a bit more petrol to the fire.

>Americans also seem to go heavily for 'digital' EVERTHING. If it ain't
>digital it ain't worth a f!*?.

>Europeans on the other hand still value analog in the main. CD's are an
>accepted fate but there 'almost' if you use the analog audio out.

>Australians - who knows. Most "hi-fi" stores seem to stock a lot of
>European stuff - and so push that line.

>While on the subject - What about AV amplifiers and associated bits. Purist
>hi-fi retailers wouldn't be seen dead selling any A/V gear. Sure, the low end
>stuff is a bit crappy, but the same can be said for audio stuff. I think they
>get this idea from European mags that wont spoil themselves by even letting
>AV products get advertised in them! 

Interestingly my local "Audiophile" shop "Vince Ross" (Infact Perth's largest
and most succesful audiophile store) It really is one of the best audiophile
shops I have been in.  Have recently started to stock....(gulp [for them])...
Yamaha AV products.  Before that the closest they came was their "Lowe" 
TV/Vidio distributorship.

The guys there said that they recognsise there is money in the AV market
and they found Yamaha to be of sufficient quality to push out their sacred 
doors. 

>Americans and the other hand are tripping over themselves to get into the AV
>scene.

...yeah the Americans have been known to trip over themselves to buy cars with
fake-wood-stick-on-pannels on the outside too. 

PS: My hi-fi is connected to my hi-fi video...but...stereo is about my limit
when watching TV...no sub-woofers, no surround-sound, just a stereo-vid,
pre/power amps and 2 speakers :-)

Regards Scott.
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From: steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes)
Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi
Subject: Re: Opinions on Yamaha's carousel CD players
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:17:43 GMT
Distribution: aus
Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia

In article <1992Nov17.071014.12470@bacchus.esa.oz.au> simonh@bacchus.esa.oz.au (Simon Hayes) writes:
>I am considering purchasing a 5 disk carousel CD player.  The Yamaha CDC-715
>has features I like (remote volume, full programming (with permanent memory),
>direct access to disk/tracks), at a reasonable price (< $500)

I've got one, and I'm generally happy with it, but I don't really
have any experience with other players to compare it with.
(Actually mine is a CDC 705, I think, the 715 predecessor)

>Does anyone have any experience with Yamaha multidisk players?  Are they
>reliable?  I've heard that players which let you change disks while a disk
>is currently playing sometimes jam & scratch disks while loading/unloading.
>Is this true?  Can anyone recommend other brands in this price/feature range.

I've never had this happen.  The only problem I've had is that once the
player somehow got confused as to which disk it was playing.  ie it was 
playing disk 1, but displayed '3'.  I had to do quite a bit of fiddling
to get it back.  That only happened once, though.

The "file" feature is useful.  It allows you to program all the tracks you
like from a particular disk, then, whenever that disk is inserted in the
unit again, it will only play those tracks.  Of course, you can by-pass
that if you want to play all the tracks, or do a one-off program.

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