HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: peter@kbs.citri.edu.au (Peter Wallis)
Subject: Re: Splitting Lanes
Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
Date: 11 Dec 92 01:00:05 GMT

phil@trl.oz.au (Phillip Bouchier) writes:


>Some user of this group was critical of riders riding between lanes at traffic
>lights. I believe this practice is Ok as it is safer to tear away from the traffic
>when the lights go green. This means the rider is away from those dangerous tin
>tops. Otherwise the motorcycle has all the problems that a pedel cyclist has.

Hear Hear. I use the same strategy --- but it does mean you cop more radars.

Riding on the white line between moving trafic is, I think, asking for it
though.  While moving, I try and behave like a (fast) car --- and snarl
at any car drivers that treat my personal space otherwise.
From: bob@swin.oz.au (Bob Schorer)
Newsgroups: aus.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Splitting Lanes
Date: 11 Dec 92 02:09:07 GMT
Reply-To: bob@swin.oz.au
Distribution: aus
Organization: Swinburne University of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: mo.xx.swin.oz.au


Sounds like some of you guys would be better off driving Volvos :-)
Newsgroups: aus.motorcycles
From: brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis)
Subject: Re: BMW dies 5 mins from home, every morning!
Reply-To: brent@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Distribution: aus
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:51:16 GMT

(Errol Chopping -TE) writes:


 >    Now, _every_ morning, almost exactly 5 minutes from home,
 >    it conks out momentarily, comes back to life, dies for 2 seconds
 >    fires again and is OK for the rest of the trip.

You probably have thought of all this already but:

Is it at the same piece of road (i.e. at the start of a hill or somewhere
else that puts strain on the engine)? 

Could be that the engine is still a bit cold and this is exacerbating
fuel problems. I would also hope that it isn't an intermittent
electrical fault since they're a bugger to find. I don't know how you
tune those Ks since they have all that computer stuff. How long since
it has been tuned?

                    Brent.

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 All bananas playing in the bright warm sun.      |   School of CompSci
 Over hill and highway the banana buggies go,     |   UTS
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Newsgroups: aus.motorcycles
From: geoff@cs.uwa.oz.au (Geoff Sutcliffe)
Subject: Insurance
Summary: Insurance in Queensland
Keywords: insurance Queensland
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 01:31:51 GMT

I'm about to move from WA up to Townsville. My bike (XJ900)
insurance is up for renewal, so I'm looking for recommendations
for an insurer in Queensland. Anyone had any good/bad experiences
and prices?

Cheers,

Geoff

Geoff Sutcliffe
Working at........                   Doing research at.......
Department of Computer Science       Department of Computer Science,       
Edith Cowan University               The University of Western Australia,     
2 Bradford Street                    Stirling Highway,                   
Mt Lawley, Western Australia, 6050.  Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009.
Email : G.Sutcliffe@cowan.edu.au     Email : geoff@cs.uwa.edu.au          
Phone : +61 9 370 6358               Phone : +61 9 380 2305               
FAX   : +61 9 370 2910               FAX   : +61 9 380 1089               
Newsgroups: aus.tex,comp.text.tex
From: ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Ross Moore)
Subject: <CR>s in special s
Originator: ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
Organization: School of MPCE, Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:17:28 GMT

Does anyone know how to do the following?

I want to output large amounts of PostScript code via \special
directly into the dvi-file.
How do I include <CR>s in the string?
TeX normally ignores the end-of-line.
Changing the \catcode to 11 or 12 results in ^^M .

I don't want to have to use several \specials if I can avoid it.
Ignoring the problem risks having line-breaks which split words,
obviously killing the PostScript code.

Is this a TeX problem, or a DVI problem (i.e dependent on the DVI->PS
converter used; I need it particularly with Textures on Macintosh, and
also with dvips .)

Please mail any suggestions.

Ross Moore,
ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au


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Australia                         EMail : ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
Newsgroups: aus.acs
From: tomw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Tom Worthington)
Subject: Canberra ACS Xmas Mtg & IT Trivia night this Wed at 7: 30pm
Keywords: events drinks food nibbles eats computer society
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:36:43 GMT

THE CANBERRA BRANCH OF
THE AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY INCORPORATED

Annual Canberra ACS "Information Technology Trivia Test" & Christmas Meeting
7:30pm Wednesday 16th December 1992
Canberra Workers Club
RSVP not required

Come and join the ACS Christmas meeting and celebrate with our annual IT trivia
challenge! Bring your Trivia team or form one on the night. Lots to win,
including five special imported "Silicon Valley Secret Systems Developer Kits"
from the Chairman.

ps: ACS/AUUG members with good timing could go to the 5:00pm AUUG meeting
and then walk across from University House to the ACS meeting.

Tom Worthington
Chairman
THE CANBERRA BRANCH OF
THE AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY INCORPORATED
G.P.O. Box 446
Canberra A.C.T. 2601
Australia

Ph: +61 6 247 4830 (ACS Office)
Fax: +61 6 249 6419
E-Mail: tomw@adfa.oz.au

Xref: sparky aus.acs:78 aus.ai:179
Newsgroups: melb.seminars,aus.acs,aus.ai
Subject: Victorian ACS AISIG meeting
From: sestito@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Sabrina Sestito)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 03:43:36 GMT
Distribution: melb
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia


	VICTORIAN ACS AISIG MEETING

Final meeting for the year, on

	Monday, 14th December

	at 5.45pm

	at Data General,
	100 Dorcas St. (Cnr. Kings Way).
	South Melbourne

TOPIC:	Panel discussion :
		Folk psychology + Folk biology
			= AI (Folk science?)

Panelists include:
	Dr Andrew Jennings (Telecom Research)
	Prof Terry Caelli (Uni of Melbourne)
	Dr Simon Goss (ARL).

The meeting is at the usual time and place with a group
booking for Marconi's restaurant afterwards.  We will have
some special competitions with prizes, including a copy
of AI'92 Proceedings.
	

-- 
-------------------------------------------
Dr Sabrina Sestito
Research Scientist
Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Newsgroups: aus.acs
From: jhayward@neumann.une.edu.au (Jason Hayward (Darion),,,043-907273)
Newsgroups: aus.students
Subject: Re: MAKING COLLEGE A BETTER PLACE
Date: 13 Dec 92 04:56:42 GMT
Reply-To: jhayward@neumann.une.edu.au
Originator: jhayward@neumann.une.edu.au

From article <1992Dec4.222659.4388@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, by daryl@rt1.menzies.su.edu.au (Daryl Webb):
> In article <ndasmith-021292205922@mac210.acns.nwu.edu> ndasmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Noah D. Smith) writes:
> 
>>Are they many abos at Aussie schools, or do they have their own schools?
> 
> Nice choice of language arsewipe.  Its no wonder you people have race riots,
> hope the Negros etc kick your collective butts if all americans have
> attitudes like yours. 

Hmmm.... If you had read one of his posts afterwards, you would have seen that 
he had apologised for using the above term as he didn't realise it was 
degrading to aboriginals. 

I'm not going to say anything about your language though...

Jason.
Newsgroups: aus.students
From: kim@kowari.uwa.oz.au ()
Subject: Re: no undeg account during summer holiday
Reply-To: kim@kowari.uwa.oz.au
Organization: not likely
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:57:25 GMT

In article 3605@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au, u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au () writes:
>today our uni decided to disable all the undeg account and 
>close all the computer room from undeg.. from 14 dec to 28 feb
>
>
>any others uni have such policys?
>

  Yes indeed.  Uni of West Oz does.  There are however good reasons.
  1.  It is the best time to do major work on the labs.  Our labs often
      spend a lot of time down for upgrades/repair/testing/maintainence.

  2.  It is a time when we have had problems with undergrads abusing
      the system and we have had bits pinched.

  If a student has a worth while piece of work they want to do, they can usually
  get an account for the break.
>-- 
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>|  /      \   | position  -  student            		  |
>|  \_.--\_* <-- school    -  University of New South Wales        |
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From: s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Chris Diffey)
Newsgroups: aus.students
Subject: Re: no undeg account during summer holiday
Date: 14 Dec 1992 03:22:20 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:

>today our uni decided to disable all the undeg account and 
>close all the computer room from undeg.. from 14 dec to 28 feb

>any others uni have such policys?

RMIT allows accounts to be maintained on computer centre computers if you get
a form signed by a lecturer sayning that you have work to do, or will be 
returning next year. The main computer room is closed to everyone over the
holidays but the smaller one is open. Comp Sci computers you must have work
to do to keep your account up over the holidays.

in previous years all you had to do was to ask to keep your computer centre 
sccount up but this allowed unenrolled students to kep their accounts.

-- 
| |/ /		                Chris Diffey                                   |
|   < URGAN		s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au                          |
| |\ \  	_______________________________________________________________|
Newsgroups: aus.students.overseas
From: slyin@gilasun.engin.umich.edu (Shanliang Yin)
Subject: looking for an old friend
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 11:36:47 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: slyin@gilasun.engin.umich.edu


Hi Netters in OZ
I'm looking for an old friend, whom i lost
contact about 3 years ago. If anyone out there
knows him, please drop me a line with his address
(email preferably :) so i can surprise him.
His name is Lin Xiao Gang, Lim Siao Kang, and i think
he also goes by the name of Anthony. Last i remember
he was in Perth doing Year 12/13 (??). Now i guess he
should be in some University or other.

Any help will be welcomed!! thanks

				-slyin

p.s please reply via email to slyin@engin.umich.edu
as i don't read this newsgroup.
Newsgroups: aus.students.overseas
From: mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN)
Subject: Re: Bye Bye !!!
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 20:56:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.140903.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, sleejy@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec17.025145.20895@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>, mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN) writes:
>> 
>> Dear Netters,
>> 
>> 	I am leaving, I would miss you so much !!!  Here is the list of 
>> 'Good Bye' in different languages.
>> 
>> Good Bye (English)
>> Sayonara (Japan)
>> Paalam (Philippines)
>> Totsiens (Afrikaans)
>> Sala kahle, Hamba kahle (Zulu)
>> Yasou (Greek)
>> auf Wiedersehen (Deutsch, German)
>> Au Revoir (French)
>> addedee-addedee (Latin)
>> Ciao (Spanish)
>> Addio, Arrivederci (Spanish) 
>> Ha det bra, Adjoe (Norwegian)
>> Selamat Tinggal. Jumpa Lagi (Malay)
>> Favel (Danish)
>> Shalom (Hebrew)
>> Hasta la vista (Swartzeneggerian) 
>> Slan leat, Slan abhaile, Slan go foill (Gaelic, Irish)
>> 
>>    ---------------                     ------------
>>           |                            |          |
>>           |                            |          |
>>    ---------------                     ------------
>>    |      |      |                     |          |
>>    |      |      |                     |          |
>>    |    -----    |                     ------------
>>    |      |      |                     |          |
>>    |      |      |                     |          |
>> ---------------------                  ------------
>>    |             |                          /\
>>    |             |                         /  \
>>    |             |                        /    \
>>    |             |                       /      \
>>    |            \|                      /        \___|  (Chinese)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>               /\                           Michael C. KWAN
>
>	Well all the best and warmest wishes in your career... ;)
>
>*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
>*         Johnwee LEE Y.K.        Internet E-mail: SLEEJY@CC.CURTIN.EDU.AU    *
>*       Information Processing         School of Information System.          *
>*       Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia.          *
>*    Address: P.O.BOX 589, Willetton, Western Australia  6155, AUSTRALIA.     *
>*           Tel: 61-9-3101440 (Voice)            Fax: 61-9-3104986            *
>*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
>
	Thank you !!!

					Michael
Newsgroups: aus.students.overseas
From: sleejy@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Bye Bye !!!
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:09:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.025145.20895@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>, mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN) writes:
> 
> Dear Netters,
> 
> 	I am leaving, I would miss you so much !!!  Here is the list of 
> 'Good Bye' in different languages.
> 
> Good Bye (English)
> Sayonara (Japan)
> Paalam (Philippines)
> Totsiens (Afrikaans)
> Sala kahle, Hamba kahle (Zulu)
> Yasou (Greek)
> auf Wiedersehen (Deutsch, German)
> Au Revoir (French)
> addedee-addedee (Latin)
> Ciao (Spanish)
> Addio, Arrivederci (Spanish) 
> Ha det bra, Adjoe (Norwegian)
> Selamat Tinggal. Jumpa Lagi (Malay)
> Favel (Danish)
> Shalom (Hebrew)
> Hasta la vista (Swartzeneggerian) 
> Slan leat, Slan abhaile, Slan go foill (Gaelic, Irish)
> 
>    ---------------                     ------------
>           |                            |          |
>           |                            |          |
>    ---------------                     ------------
>    |      |      |                     |          |
>    |      |      |                     |          |
>    |    -----    |                     ------------
>    |      |      |                     |          |
>    |      |      |                     |          |
> ---------------------                  ------------
>    |             |                          /\
>    |             |                         /  \
>    |             |                        /    \
>    |             |                       /      \
>    |            \|                      /        \___|  (Chinese)
> 
> 
> 
>               /\                           Michael C. KWAN

	Well all the best and warmest wishes in your career... ;)

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
*         Johnwee LEE Y.K.        Internet E-mail: SLEEJY@CC.CURTIN.EDU.AU    *
*       Information Processing         School of Information System.          *
*       Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia.          *
*    Address: P.O.BOX 589, Willetton, Western Australia  6155, AUSTRALIA.     *
*           Tel: 61-9-3101440 (Voice)            Fax: 61-9-3104986            *
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Newsgroups: aus.students.overseas
From: mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN)
Subject: Bye Bye !!!
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:51:45 GMT


Dear Netters,

	I am leaving, I would miss you so much !!!  Here is the list of 
'Good Bye' in different languages.


Good Bye (English)
Sayonara (Japan)
Paalam (Philippines)
Totsiens (Afrikaans)
Sala kahle, Hamba kahle (Zulu)
Yasou (Greek)
auf Wiedersehen (Deutsch, German)
Au Revoir (French)
addedee-addedee (Latin)
Ciao (Spanish)
Addio, Arrivederci (Spanish) 
Ha det bra, Adjoe (Norwegian)
Selamat Tinggal. Jumpa Lagi (Malay)
Favel (Danish)
Shalom (Hebrew)
Hasta la vista (Swartzeneggerian) 
Slan leat, Slan abhaile, Slan go foill (Gaelic, Irish)

   ---------------                     ------------
          |                            |          |
          |                            |          |
   ---------------                     ------------
   |      |      |                     |          |
   |      |      |                     |          |
   |    -----    |                     ------------
   |      |      |                     |          |
   |      |      |                     |          |
---------------------                  ------------
   |             |                          /\
   |             |                         /  \
   |             |                        /    \
   |             |                       /      \
   |            \|                      /        \___|  (Chinese)



              /\                           Michael C. KWAN
       /\____/  \_                         mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au
      /           \                        mkwan@pieman.compserv.utas.edu.au
     |  Australia  |                                                         
      \   ____    /                        University of Tasmania, Launceston
       \_/    \__/                         **********************************
               __                          * P.O.Box 447, Mowbray Heights,  *
               \/ <---- Tasmania           * 7248, Tasmania, Australia.     *
                                           **********************************
_____________________________________________________________________________
  It is more important to get things right, than to get them fast but wrong !
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
From: johnd@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (John Dodson)
Subject: Dogs & Joggers
Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:18:32 GMT

A Jogger is out one day running along & a LARGE Dog suddenly leaps a fence
& sinks its teeth into his leg.

The Dog owner rushes out & pulls the dog off the jogger apologising profusely...

"gee mate I'm really sorry about this, I'll have the dog fixed up."

The jogger gets to his feet, accepting the dog owners apology & limps off.

About 3 months later the jogger is once again in the same street & the same
dog leaps the fence & gets its teeth sunk into his leg again. This time the
dog owner is even more apologetic...

"Mate I really can't understand this, after last time I thought I'd fixed this
dog by having it castrated."

The joggers reply...

"I could have told you 3 months ago the bloody dog was not interested in
F**KING me, this time get its teeth pulled"

johnd@physiol.su.oz.au
From: phs472t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
Subject: On the religion topic...
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:38:05 +1100
Organization: Monash University - Australia.

Paraphrased from a Terry Pratchet book :

Yen Buddhists  -  A religion that believes that when you die you are
re-incarnated as a bag of money

-- 
-------------------------------
  Andy Wildes                 | 	     Member of the   
Department of Physics         |   'Ban The Stupid Little Sideways Faces'
Monash University             |		           club
Clayton, Vic                  |	
-------------------------------
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
From: vasudeva@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Barath Vasudevan)
Subject: Six women were driving in this car...
Summary: ha ha
Keywords: pearly gates
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Distribution: aus
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:52:57 GMT


Six women, 3 ladies and their 3 daughters were driving along a
national highway, when all of a sudden a semi-trailor comes
out of no where and collides smack back with the car.

Nothing happened to the semi of course, but the car was
totalled and all its occupants died.

The souls of all the six females went to St Peter for
assessment.

St Peter looks at his records and says to the first lady,

"Mrs Smith, you have created misery to many. You were so
greedy that all you ever thought of was money. So much so,
that you even named your daughter Penny. You haven't got a
chance, you go to HELL!!".

The ground opens up and she is sucked into the deep labyrinths
of Hell.

The next lady then comes up for her judgement, St Peter says,

"Mrs jones, you have created misery for your whole family by
contantly being on the drink. Your passion for the poison was
so much so that you even named your daughter Sherry. You
haven't got a chance, you go to HELL!!"

The ground rumbles and opens up, a screaming Mrs Jones is sucked
into the deep dark dungeons of Hell.

The third lady then looks at her daughter in horror and says,

" Let's get out of here fast Fanny, we haven't got a chance! "

_____________________________________________________________________

G'day to Chris MacDonald ( cs.uwa. ) if you're reading. :^)

____________________________________________________________________

  
Barath Vasudevan,

e-mail: vasudeva@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
	barathv@tartarus.uwa.edu.au


Newsgroups: aus.jokes
From: rnr@YP.melb.bull.com (Richard Rawlins)
Subject: Follow the leader
Summary: Incident with scuba divers
Keywords: scuba
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:49:34 GMT

Here's an extract from a posting to rec.scuba


A local instructor was taking novice divers out for their first
open water dive.  He had several sub-instructors with him.  Approaching
a clump of kelp he withdrew his knife and swam ahead in order to cut
some and show his class.  He turned around to see his entire class
swimming along with their knives out in front of them.


Newsgroups: aus.jokes
From: summer@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: Re: Christmas is a pagan festival!
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:26:28 GMT

I wrote:

>	 Xmas each year just as the MOON goddess Istarte
>	 or Ishtar (Easter) the Queen of heaven was worshipped
>	 in the spring by those who baked her hot ox buns
					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I forgot to mention -- this is as printed.  Perhaps the moon goddess
was half human, half ox?

Mark.
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
Subject: Aussie business techniques
From: stripe@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Stripe)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:58:37 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

How do you start an aussie off in a small business?
Make him the director of a large one and leave him to it.

--
stripe@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Stripe)
The BBS Works -- +64 9 630 7739 NZL	New Zealand's Oldest BBS
From: Neville.Stradling@f356.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Neville Stradling)
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
Subject: Dinosaur joke
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:10:00

Q. What do you call a dinosaur with only one eye?
A. Doyouthinkhesaurus.

 * Origin: The Silicon Bit BBS (058) 522121 (3:632/356)
Newsgroups: aus.jokes
Subject: John McEnroe
From: gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Chief Smeghead)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:32:50 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University



McEnroe was asked recently whether he preferred grass or astro-turf
to which he replied...

"I don't know. I've never smoked astro-turf!"



Gareth.

p.s. yeah, yeah I know it's an oldie but it is topical...

-- 
gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au