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From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Subject: Re: RAID 7 and Nynorsk
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:45:42 EST

God Morgon!  Regarding interest in Norway about RAID 7, Nynorsk speakers can
call or fax Storage Computer headquarters in New Hampshire if they prefer to
communicate in Nynorsk!  Apparently Storage Computer headquarters in Frankfurt
does not have any Nynorsk speakers--no Bokmal either :-)  The person to talk
to in New Hampshire is Norunn Heilevang.  -- Mike W.

Regarding John Scoggin's request for information on RAID systems for
VINES, Storage Computer of Nashua, N.H. is currently showing its new high
performance RAID 7 disk array platforms at the September International VINES
User Meeting.  SCSI-based, they work equally well with NetWare, workstations,
IBM systems, VAXes, etc.  I found out that Storage Computer has just opened
up its new European headquarters in Frankfurt.  The telephone there is
(49) 6917-2145.  The FAX is (49) 6917-2149.  The Vice President-Europe
can be contacted there.  He is in charge of all the Nordic countries there.

Standards-based, RAID 7 is designed for enterprise-wide computing and
overcomes performance limitations of earlier RAID architectures, providing
a  "real world sustained application performance improvement of 200% to
400%" and dropping the cost of storage to 16 cents/MB.  Their brochures
say they can "mix and match" up to 48 SCSI commodity (3.5 or 5.25 inch)
drives, up to 150 GB.  The RAID 7 disk array platforms come with an embedded
operating system and up to 12 SCSI-2 based host interfaces.  Besides servers,
Storage Computer's RAID 7 disk array platforms can connect to workstations
and midrange systems in addition to IBM's.  Multiple CPUs can be attached to
same disk array platform.

The RAID 7 platforms come with up to 256 MB of cache, eliminating any
reason for using performance-damaging CPU main memory disk RAM.  The
drives are "hot plugable" for uninterrupted, transparent operation,
with a hot standby drive automatically replacing a failed drive.

There was a lot of activity this week at the Storage Computer RAID 7 booth
at the Boston Banyan show as I walked by.  They were demoing what happens if
a drive goes down, showing the backup drive taking over.

For further information on Storage Computer's RAID 7 for any system, their
key US contact is indicated to be John O'Brien, Director of Technical
Services at Tel. 603-880-3005 or FAX 603-889-7232.  John is the original
"guru" of the RAID 7 advances, and a well-known RAID industry figure.
However, they said it would probably be better to call their European
headquarters first.  Maybe they'll put on a RAID 7 seminar sometime soon
in Europe if they get enough requests.  If so, let me know and I'll try
to attend also.  I haven't been in the Nordic Area for a couple years now.

Does anyone know the Email address of the Trondheim Computer Society?

----------------- Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com----------------------
From: lars@cs.arizona.edu (Lars C. Hansen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: information on arctic pidgins
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:17:52 GMT



Would anyone know the whereabouts of Ernst Hakon Jahr from the University
of Tromso?  I was trying to find information about a linguistics symposium 
this past summer involving arctic pidgins.

If you have any information, please email me at:
        lars@caslon.cs.arizona.edu

Thank you in advance,
Lars Hansen
.

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From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Why did Denmark say no to Maastricht?
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:11:08 GMT

smudge@alfred.carleton.ca (Sandra Mudge) writes:
: I am a university student in Ottawa, Canada, working towards my
: Master's degree in Political Science.  I am doing research on the
: Maastricht agreement and the future of European integration.
: 
: One element of that I am interested in is why Denmark voted no.  Can
: anyone tell me the basic arguments, for and against, that were used
: during the referendum campaign?
: 
: Thanks
: 
: Sandra Mudge
: smudge@ccs.carleton.ca

Hi,
A Dane can answer more about the contents of the campign.
What the Danish authorities did they translated the Maastricht Treaty
into the Danish language and it was sent to every home.
(This was the biggest mistake:-)

For instance in Finland, which is applying the membership this error
will not be made because of different " democratical" traditions.
When it was asked from a representant of the Foreign Minister why the
Maastricht Treaty is not translated into Finnish he answered it is 
too difficult and people however would not understand its contents.
Your answer still remains unaswered but a Dane can give further details.
But still I think one should know this background of the Referendum
 in Danemark.

The referendums are very uncommon in Europe besides Switzerland
where in effect  a representative democracy is not considered as
 a true democracy.
In a representative democracy there are representants of the people
and these representants "know better" than the people what is good
 for the people:-
Regards,
Jarmo

Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Re: travelling to DK, help needed
Reply-To: dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:06:42 GMT

lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:

>BALBUENA@EVALUN11.BITNET writes:
>: This is the first time I'm going to travel by car to Copenhagen. So,
>: I'd appreciate any info concerning ferry prices, schedules etc. from
>: Germany. Which is the easiest? Going to Kiel or other city?

>Kiel is a most unlikely place to go to. Assuming you want to go to
Kiel is a wonderful place to go! And there are even ferries from
Kiel to places like Gothenburg, Oslo and Bagenkop (<-- but this one
goes broke a lot) or Kosoer (<-- ditto).

>Copenhagen, you have two choices:
>(1) Drive up through Jutland, turn right, take the ferry from Nyborg to
>    Korsoer.
>(2) Drive to Puttgarden (Fehmarn) and take the ferry to Rodby.

And then there is
(3) Warnemuende-Gedser, which gets you approx. the same place as Rodby

I also believe there is a Rostock-Copenhagen ferry running (we have some
new Baltic ports in Germany since the reunification!), in any case there
is a Rostock-Trelleborg, you could then take in a few km of Sweden and
do either Limnhamm-Dragoer or go on up to Helsingborg-Helsingoer
(Elsinore for Shakespeare freaks) and take in Louisiana on the way back to
Copenhagen.

But (2) is probably cheapest and fastest, the ferries run every 30 min  
to 60 minutes.  

Remember, the Danes have a speed limit of 100 kmh, so don't bother
renting a Porsche!
-- 
Debora Weber-Wulff                       dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Institut fuer Informatik                 +49 30 89691 124
Nestorstr. 8-9                           (INCLUDE "standard.disclaimer")
D-W-1000 Berlin 31                       (PRINTN (WITTY-MESSAGE TODAY))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: piij@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr ID Jennings)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Scandinavian music
Keywords: Scandinavia, music
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:42:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Oct2.194239.19525
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

In <1992Oct1.102022.11812@nobeltech.se> leeu@nobeltech.se (Leif Euren) writes:

>Mr ID Jennings <piij@hippo.ru.ac.za> writes:
>>I had assumed (wrongly it now seems) that all contemporary music from
>>Scandinavia was 1) sung in English, 2) aimed at the "international"
>>(ie American) market and 3) mindnumbingly bland & derivative.

>Of course. The contemporary music from Scandinavia you hear is
>2) aimed at the "international" market
>and therefore is
>1) sung in English,
>and as that isn't our native language, the lyrics are
>3) mindnumbingly bland & derivative.

>You're not to blame. My best advice is: learn swedish (or norwegian,
>or danish); then you'll start to appreciate scandinavian music :-).
>I especially recommend Svenne Rubins and Euskefeurat.

I'm interested to hear more about these musicians & their music.
Unfortunately I'm unlikely to get the chance to learn any of the
Scandinavian languages!  But to refuse to listen to music on the grounds
that one can't understand the lyrics seems a silly prejudice to me.

>>... supposedly derived from folk sources.  Where can I find out
>>more about such music?  And is there more of it in other parts of Europe
>>(Germany, Holland, France etc)?

>From what I've seen in record shops in Europe, each country has it's
>own native music culture, just as it has it's own language.

This is interesting as well.  I had formed the impression (due mainly to
lack of media coverage, I suppose) that native European music culture -
and I'm not referring to classical music here - was not much of a going
concern - ie that it had simply wilted as a result of the overwhelming
dominance of American (and British to a certain extent) contemporary
music.  Not that I was happy with this - in fact I saw it as something
of a tragedy.



>And since Steeleye Span got so great successes in England with their
>modern versions of traditional songs, such groups has emerged in
>several other countries.  The ones I remember right now are 'Folk och
>Rackare' in Sweden and 'Malicorne' in France.

>>I am planning to be in Europe next year and would like to know where to
>>get to hear the good stuff live.

>A good place for folk music (in both traditional and modern forms)
>would be Falun Folk Music Festival, in the town of Falun, Sweden. I
>don't remember exactly when it is, but it's sometime in the summer.
>It lasts a week (I think) and is truly international, with not only
>groups from all over Europe, be from all over the globe.

Any networkers able to tell me when the abovementioned festival takes
place?

>	Good luck!
>	Leif Euren
> __  __ 
>|  \   |  All opinions are my own, even if my employer claims otherwise!
>|   \  |
>|      |	Leif Euren			NobelTech Systems AB
>|  \   |	System Manager Rational  	S-175 88 JARFALLA
>|__ \__|	tel: +46-758-84072		Sweden
-- 
Ian Jennings
Philosophy Department
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
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From: myer1077@hgc.edu (David Myers)
Subject: A Danish Food Question
Followup-To: koepp@cc1.unt.edu (Cynthia Koepp)
Organization: Hartford Graduate Center
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:14:52 GMT

>difference between tykmaelk and ymer?

Since I am a big fan of Danish Cuisine your question=important-I did not know the
answer but my Dansk Svirmor (mother in law) knows:

		tykmaelk is basically curdled milk or milk that is left standing
		ymer is a culture made from pasteurized milk
I am not sure how safe it is to make these but I know my wife's Finnish 
Grandmother made a form of ymer at home for years and she is going on 88 years.
Tak for mal. David.
From: cczjtw@vax.nott.ac.uk (John Whitehorn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Swedish Tourist Board - CLOSING
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:28:30 GMT
Reply-To: cczjtw@vax.nott.ac.uk (John Whitehorn)
Organization: University of Nottingham, UK

Today, 5-Oct-1992, I recieved a letter from "Watling Sweden UK" a travel
firm. Informing me that the Swedish Tourist Board is closing down, and that
the UK office will close at the end of this month. Is this ALL the Swedish
Tourist Board, or just some, including the UK?

The firm "Watling Sweden" said that they would replace the Board, for
information required by UK citizens. 

      John Whitehorn
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Subject: Re: FLASH: Disarmament!
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 20:03:56 GMT

In article <14678@chalmers.se>, d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
 > 
 >   In response to the planned US discontinuation of nuclear testing, and the
 > defacto Russian ditto, the "VIKINGARNA" 'music'-group has decided to match
 > this with a gesture of goodwill of their own.
 > 
 >   They have decided to put in effect a one year moratorium on new recordings
 > of theirs, with the possibility of later extension.
 > 
 >   Wild recoicing has broken out all over Sweden, and is expected to spread
 > to the rest of the world soon.
 > 
 >   Experts have however expressed distress over the question of how hundreds of
 > thousands of records, cassettes and cd's can be destroyed without the risk
 > that their contents escape and lay waste to large areas.
 > 
 > -bertil-
 > :)
 > --
 > "It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or
 >  strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an
 >  exercise for your kill-file."
 > 		"Revive the Swedish-Madagascan Brigand Pact!"

I have a terrible confession to make.  This last May, I (with two friends) walked
into a fastfood/arcade game joint in Norway.  We discovered that their jukebox
contained several 'songs' by "Vikingarna".  Having quite a bit of spare change,
we committed the most evil act I've ever been guilty of.

What we did was this:  We stuffed a number of coins into the jukebox....programmed
it to play the same 'song' about ten or twenty times over....and left.  I didn't
see any reports about mass suicides in the newspaper afterwards, so I guess
everyone got out in time, and were treated by qualified psychiatrists before
long-term effects began showing.

I am truly sorry, and I promise I shall never do it again.  Maybe.

Leif the .sigless
From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: FLASH: Disarmament!
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:07:29 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.nordic
Organization: Apple

In article <14678@chalmers.se>, d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
wrote:
>   In response to the planned US discontinuation of nuclear testing, and the
> defacto Russian ditto, the "VIKINGARNA" 'music'-group has decided to match
> this with a gesture of goodwill of their own.

>   They have decided to put in effect a one year moratorium on new recordings
> of theirs, with the possibility of later extension.

... as someone said long time ago, "Peace in our lifetime". I'm sure 
they will reincarnate on the soil of the Western part of Finland within
a year or so.

Kent
who hates "Vikingarna".
	Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to	investigate. -F.M.
Knowles
-------------------
Kent Sandvik (UUCP: ....!apple!ksand; INTERNET: ksand@apple.com)
DISCLAIMER: Private activities on the Net.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Subject: Re: Finnish Military Service
Originator: tt@tarzan.math.jyu.fi
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
	<TAIPALE.92Sep21131925@node_4e6dc.kiloapo.tele.nokia.fi>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:49:28 GMT

In article <TAIPALE.92Sep21131925@node_4e6dc.kiloapo.tele.nokia.fi> taipale@kiloapo.tele.nokia.fi (Pekka J Taipale) writes:

>In article <1992Sep17.145547.5474@cs.yale.edu> berryman-harry@CS.YALE.EDU (Harry Berryman) writes:
>>The Finns are on Amnisty Internationals shit
>>list for sending concientious objecters to prison for longer than
>>the military service they would have served. 

>Not any more. The length of civil service was dropped to 13 months
>recently, so Amnesty figured that there is no longer reason to support
>those who object all kinds of service, as the civili service can no
>longer be viewed as a punishment for not doing military service.

That's correct.

>Besides, the jail term for objectors of civil service was 6 or 8
>months, which is shorter than the military service.

Huh?  Normal sentence used to be 9 months, some given more
(up to 13 months) for no easily comprehensible reason.
--
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
From: canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Scandinavian music
Keywords: Scandinavia, music
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:49:56 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Oct1.102022.11812@nobeltech.se> leeu@nobeltech.se (Leif Euren) writes:
>And since Steeleye Span got so great successes in England with their
>modern versions of traditional songs, such groups has emerged in
>several other countries.  The ones I remember right now are 'Folk och
>Rackare' in Sweden and 'Malicorne' in France.

	As a staunch folk-rock fan, I'll have to try to find some of this
"Folk och Rackare"!

Cheers,
Carl

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From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Stockholm, Sweden murder rate:
Date: 2 Oct 1992 07:40:41 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu

rerickso@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ronald D. Erickson) writes:

>Sincerely

>Ronald Erickson (Eriksson)

>rerickso @ unomaha.edu

No Murder rate listed.  Does that mean, there were no murders?
(Or...that someone got to the author of this posting, before he
completed writing it..?)

Whatever the figure, I doubt that it's worse than the rate for
Hollywood and Los Angeles.  In my neighborhood (a fairly good
area - Frank Lloyd Wright and Neutra lived and built here), you
can usually tell what the hour is, by counting the night-time
gunshots - and subtracting two.

A few weeks ago, the state of Florida was hit by the 160mph
winds of hurricane Andrew, and 10 people were killed.

Meanwhile, in sunny Los Angeles, 28 people were murdered - these
in addition to deaths from "natural causes" (like heat-stroke)
- and this was just over that WEEKEND.

And people ask me why I want to move to the Lofoten Islands...
                                                      o
(Answer:  because it's Heaven - especially Reine, and A!)


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From: piij@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr ID Jennings)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Scandinavian music
Summary: Request for info on contemporary music scene in Scandinavia
Keywords: Scandinavia, music
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:42:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Sep30.184237.19949
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

I was fascinated to read a recent posting (unfortunately I didn't note
from whom it came) about the contemporary music scene in Scandinavia.  I
had assumed (wrongly it now seems) that all contemporary music from
Scandinavia was 1) sung in English, 2) aimed at the "international" (ie
American) market and 3) mindnumbingly bland & derivative.  Perhaps I can
be excused that perception given that the only Scandinavian music we get
to hear of here in South Africa are the likes of Roxette, A-ha etc, not
to mention the A-band.

The upshot of this confession is that I am interested in hearing more
about the music discussed in that now lost posting - especially that
which was supposedly derived from folk sources.  Where can I find out
more about such music?  And is there more of it in other parts of Europe
(Germany, Holland, France etc)?

I am planning to be in Europe next year and would like to know where to
get to hear the good stuff live.  I can't be too specific about my
tastes - they're quite wide - but I think the word "authentic" sums up
what I like and the word "bland" what I hate.

Looking forward to hearing more!
-- 
Ian Jennings
Philosophy Department
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: tomas_e@NMRVAX.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson)
Subject: Swedish parliament open for the season
Reply-To: tomas_e@NMRVAX.Physchem.KTH.SE
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:21:27 GMT

Well, since this group has been rather dead for the last several days, 
I'll make a contribution...

Today, Riksdagen (the Swedish Parliament) opened for the season (the 
year 1992/93). The King held a speech &c. in traditional fashion.

The Government's policy declaration for the year, read by PM Carl Bildt 
(conservative), contained one thing worth notice, or rather did *not* 
contain one item that has been found there for several decades.

The traditional phrase about "Sweden security policy is to be 
non-aligned aiming at neutrality in war" had been struck from the policy 
declaration and replaced with "Sweden is not a member of any of the 
large military alliances". The fact that the traditional Swedish policy 
of "neutrality" is somewhat out-of-date in today's Europe is not 
controversial. However, it is controversial wether Sweden should join 
the WEU or some kind of common EC/EU defence.

The speaker of Riksdagen, Ingegerd Troedsson (conservative), wrote a few 
days ago that she thinks the parliament should be in session during a 
longer part of the year. Her opinion was that the parliament should be 
finished for summer a week or two earlier than now, before June 1, but 
that the parliament should open one month earlier, about September 1. 
She would also like that the parliamentary year formally would not end 
until the parliament opens for the next season. This would make it 
easier and less dramatic to call in the parliament during the summer. 
Today, the parliament can be called in during the summer to make 
quick decisions, but hardly just to debate. Mrs. Troedssons opinion was 
that the parliament should have been in session, and been debating, 
during the financial/currency crisis a few weeks back. Also, the 
Swedish fiscal year will probably be aligned with the calendar year in a 
few years time, and no longer run from July 1 - June 30. This means that 
the Government's budget will progress through Riksdagen during the 
autumn, and not during the spring. The budget is usually presented in 
mid-January, with a batch of additional government proposals coming in 
April or so.

Tomas
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: ross@hsi.com (Michael Ross)
Subject: Radio Finland
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:46:04 GMT

Does anyone out there listen to Radio Finland? Better yet, does anyone
know how I might out whether that organization or someone in it might
be on the Internet?

Thanks.
-- 
Michael Ross                                  ...!uunet!hsi!ross
3M Health Information Systems                   ross@hsi.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: happy@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Rusty Soots)
Subject: Life ciences Institutes or Corporations in Scandinavia?
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:52:39 GMT

  I'm an undergraduate, majoring in microbiology and working on a
major in genetics, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh,
North Carolina, USA.  I will be graduating this spring and looking for
a job in life sciences research.  I was wondering if there were many
(if any) life science institutes/corporations in Scandinavia?
  Also, I was wondering if English is spoken a great deal in Scandinavia?
My concern is difficulties in working in an environment where I am
bound to have language problems.  
  Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Russell J. Soots -- North Carolina State University -- SED + SMB + minor in GN
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