HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:05:24 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ken Pronovici (2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu) wrote:
: In reply to a rewrite of Omar's bio, Ted Frank writes:
: 
: >Not bad.  The charming fellows at RHIT seem to have moved from open 
: >ridicule of someone different from them to good old-fashioned racial
: >stereotypes.  I guess we're learning the real reason everyone picks on
: >Omar.
: 
: 	Aw, lighten up.

i think he's got a point. this reminds me of junior high or high
school, when all the self-appointed "cool" people ganged up on people
who were different. it's not as if omar were in on the fun, even. the
"buffalo hair" episode really annoyed me; the guy has a severe hearing
loss, misheard something, and it gets treated like it's really stupid
and therefore funny.

: (Excerpt from Omar's bio:)
: 
: >>IQ: 145 (last time ah' checked (3 years ago))
: 
: 			Besides, anyone who has to brag about his IQ......

i'm not denying that his bio makes him sound like an arrogant,
insecure nerd. but if you start flaming people on the net for that,
rhpi alone would provide fodder for a massive waste of bandwidth.

grow up.

--
sine nomine | debbie martinson
what's red and invisible?
no tomatoes.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: chris@cs.toronto.edu (Chris Beck)
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:08:16 GMT

greg@Quotron.COM (Greg "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
> 
> >>Ted "hey, at least I didn't complain about 'group of girls'" Frank
> >
> >Covey? Gaggle? Pride?
> 
> Batch.

Well if we're talking about "girls" as opposed to women, how about: giggle?

Chris
From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Why is it called a Res Hall and not a dorm?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:25:50 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

Kevin Murphy writes:
>
>Ok... Some things are obvious.. I mean, I can see that 
>feminists might be offended by policeMAN, etc... but
>why is it politically incorrect to call the place whree
>students live on campus a Dorm?

Don't know, but I always refused to call my dorm anything
but a dorm.  It really annoyed the people in the "Residence
Hall Association."  One of them even wrote me a letter
explaining why my dorm was actually a residence hall and not
really a dorm at all.  I was glad to finally be set straight.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
From: sauron@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Amy Rich)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:08:14 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1ebetjINN4a9@bigboote.WPI.EDU> terrylee@pitt.WPI.EDU (The Cookie Goddess) writes:
>In article <1e96iqINNin1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James) writes:
>
>>Ya ever run into Ned Ames...the bane of the physics dept...
>
>
>PLEASE not NED!!!  DON'T get Zoner started on Ned!  Ned practically _lived_
>in his apartment for half of last year.
>
>I won't post stories about Ned, because they aren't mine to tell, but suffice
>to say he is one of the most annoying people I have ever met.


i dunno, i happen to think Jay Phelps beats him out there...... ;}
HE liven in Riley (or at least i think he did, he was there all last
year!).  but i think it would be a close contest between the two......



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dbrod@eng.clemson.edu (Douglas Brod)
Subject: Re: What Omar told me.
Reply-To: dbrod@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:45:53 GMT

In article 28574@midway.uchicago.edu, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
{ A bunch of crap about racism at Rose-Hulman, etc.}

Gee, I thought I was reading alt.folklore.college, not alt.flame.

HEY GUYS, GIVE IT A REST!!!  Let's get back to the point of this group.

Take it to e-mail, PLEASE!

Doug Brod
dbrod@eng.clemson.edu
From: techie@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Bob Vaughan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Omar again!
Date: 20 Nov 1992 11:16:52 GMT
Organization: Stanford University Amateur Radio Club, California USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: w6yx.stanford.edu

In article <1992Nov18.033507.20401@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>>
>>>Not sure if this is an Omar story, but:
>>>
>>>Friday 11/13 at around 15:45 or so local time I was in the UTSA computer
>>>lab and on a lark logged on the IRC and started checking out channels.
>>>Well, I hit channel 3 and laneded right in the middle of a discussion
>>>between a user named Pekka in Norway and a user named....OMAR!
>>>The time this Omar gave as his local time was 14:45 (EST), so could this
>>>have been the infamous Omar who is so often talked about in this
>>>newsgroup??
>>>Simon
>>
>Sorry about the typo-I meant 16:45 as the time given by this 'Omar' on the
>IRC.  I have trouble using the IRC when logged in from my home PC (bad modem
>software, lousy terminal emulation) so I'll be in the computer lab on Friday.
>Now, what do I do if it is indeed the infamous Omar?? Is he really as bad as
>you all say he is??      Simon

I just checked with nickserv (the IRC nickname server), and the nickname
"Omar" is registered to someone at princeton.. So, no, it's not him..



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From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cruel trick
Date: 22 Nov 1992 01:33:03 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.college: 18-Nov-92 Re: Cruel trick by
>Keith A. Schneider@cco.c 
>> >Being the recipient of these prank I must forewarn others of this
>> >dastardly deed. 
>> >Get a handful of pennies and put them in the doorjam. If you do
>> >this right the handle won't be able to turn from the pressure.
>> >Be forewarned This is a criminal act.... 
>> >                               Against fire codes or something like that
>>  
>> Ah, the famous "penny stack"...  pretty common around here...
>>  
>> keith

>Okay, how do you do this exactly?

Well, you just lean really hard against the door, and jam as many pennies as
possible right next to the doorknob (and other places, if you don't want the
pennies to be shaken loose).  With all of the pressure, you won't be able to
turn the doorknob, due to the friction...

keith
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: alt.fan.omar
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:31:31 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1e0q2eINN1su@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon) writes:
> (I am thinking about posting something like this to alt.config)
> 
> I am formally proposing a new group called alt.fan.omar.
> Omar is a person with a very unique personality.  Several people have
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^

AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggghh!
Either it's unique or it isn't!!!!!!
Maybe you meant very unusual?



> 	Seth "the Lesser"
> 
> Seth L. Blumberg          
> slb22@columbia.edu (play)   

>                                       -Daemeon, Keeper of the Omar Archive
-- 
McRamm - President, Pedants Anonymous (though I'm not since you can see my
e-mail address.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon)
Subject: Med school folklore???
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: bgsu
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:34:04 GMT

Since I'm planning to attempt a career in medicine, are there any med
students out there with some cool stories?  Or even someone who knows some
med school yarns.  I heard a first year student opened her lab table in
gross anatomy only to find that her cadaver was her recently deceased
grandmother!  (Sorry, all you sensitive buddies).  Many of the schools I've
visited stated that they screen the students and cadavers to ensure that
this very sort of thing does not happen.  But I believe that cadavers
donated to science may not be transported out of state, so the possibility
exists...

Smell me,
Jim Cannon
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett)
Subject: Re: zb: Weird Building Names...
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Rice University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:42:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.145757.1366@digi.lonestar.org> lvogt@digi.lonestar.org (Lee Vogt) writes:
>Someone in Colorado help me out here: doesn't one of the larger schools in the
>state have a cafeteria named after someone convicted of cannibalism ??
>I can't recall the name of the univerisity, but I vaguely remember the name
>of the cafeteria being Packer -- please feel free to correct me on
>this !!

Yep. The Alfred Packer Memorial Cafeteria, I believe. I can't remember if 
it's at CU or University of Denver. I'm pretty sure it's one of the two. 
What's next, the Jeffrey Dahmer Residence Hall at U of Wisconsin?

Dave
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:35:31 GMT


A friend of mine locked his bicycle to a lightpost or some such thing
outside some random campus building.  Upon returning, he found the 
bike gone so he goes over to Public Safety to report the theft.  Guess
what he finds chained up outside the Public Safety office?

He thinks someone was trying to tell him he has a cheap lock. :)

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim)
Subject: Re: April Fool
Organization: Fordham University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:12:00 GMT
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: alt
X-Posted-From: mary.fordham.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <MARA.92Nov17175242@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>, 
mara@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Mara) writes...

>I remember one of my friends here (Victoria University, Wellington,
>NZ) telling me that last April 1, his first year calculus class were
>all sitting ready to begin the day's lecture when a student came in
>the door of the lecture theatre and wrote on the blackboard "Mr X
>[lecturer] is sick. This lecture is cancelled".
> 
>`Yeah, sure, we're too old to fall for that', they all thought, and
>the vast majority stayed in their seats to await the lecturer who they
>felt sure was going to appear and teach them at any second, 
>congratulating themselves on their perception.  They had to wait a
>long time. He didn't turn up. He was sick.
> 
>Amy
>mara@kauri.vuw.ac.nz

When I was an undergraduate, there were fixed time limits that a class 
had to wait for a tardy faculty member, based on rank.  They ranged from
8 minutes for an Instructor or Lecturer to 20 minutes for a full Professor.
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From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Crime Stories
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:27:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

One of our Public Safety officers told a few interesting stories
over the summer:

	A group of girls had left their room unlocked one day. 
Someone came in and left a note saying if they did it again, he 
would come back and clean the place out. Suffice it to say the message
was left un heeded. The following night he came in, robbed them blind,
and even tapped each one of them to try to wake them up. They didn't
even realize what had happened until the next afternoon.

	Bikes that are not locked to fairly large objects tend to
disappear around here. One dude chained his bike to a small tree.
When he came back, the tree was cut down and the bike was gone.

(for some odd reason, the State University of New York takes its
Public Safety officers seriously........they give them guns.)

mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: Ned Ames
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:57:24 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

megazone@WPI.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>          I have several weeks worth of stories about Ned and his lack of
>contact with the environment. But this post is too long as it is...

Alt.fan.ned, anyone? ... Ted? Put the gun down, Ted.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)


Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.  
    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon)
Subject: Shacking
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: BGSU
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:05:20 GMT

Is there anyone out there with an unofficial record for shacking?  My
"roommate" this semester has spent *every* night in his girlfriend's room,
effectively leaving me with a single.  He comes home to shower and read the
mail on the computer.  I've heard of people shacking almost every night,
but Matt hasn't spent a single night in our room this semester.  His
girlfriend lives in another dorm in this quad, which makes it very
convenient for them.

In related news, BGSU offers a tuition, room, and board scholarship for
National Merit finalists.  Some students, desperately seeking to move off
campus, have retained an on-campus room and rented an apartment in the same
year.  The advantage is the food scholarship, something on the order of
$730 per semester to eat on campus (everything is ala carte).  Once again,
the roommie is left with a single.

Honest, I smell good.
Jim Cannon

"everyone has the right to my opinion"
From: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Omar: a recap of events
Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:55:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, spam+@CMU.EDU (Stephen P. Marting) says:

>Excerpts from alt.folklore.college: 17-Nov-92 Re: Omar: a recap of
>events by "Branimir Dokic"@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 
>>      Oh yeah, the discalimer.  Don't know if it'll make my post
>> sound more sincere, but I chose not to pledge a fraternity because
>> of their attitude towards blacks in general.  Even my close friends
>> said things that surprised me and caused me to back off during rush.
>
>Gee, thanks.  Just when we thought Ted Fr*nk might be leaving soon.
>
>I'd just like you (and the readers here) to keep in mind that what one
>fraternity does does not represent the entire Greek system, not even at
>that college.  Of course, people like Ted Fr*nk can, and will, turn


Sorry Sorry Sorry sorry sorry sorry
I didn't explain myself well.  I was referring to ONE frat. in
particular, ONE which I was interested in at first and
then became disinterested in.  Not ALL frats here have 
such the negative attitude that I portrayed.  As far
as I know, just that ONE did out of 4 or 5 I visited.

Thanks for your time.

Can we move on to something else, such as Alt.folklore.college?
 
-- 
Branimir Dokic
Radio-Telivizija-Beograd
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Typewriter-printers (was Re: Wanted: ... and Modem)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 16:25:48 GMT


There was/is a machine called the Friden Flexowriter, and in at least one
case (like the one that is currently dismantled on my workbench :-)), it
consited of a modified electric typewriter. It worked roughly like this. 
An electric typewriter has a rubber roller under the chassis driven round
by the motor. Pressing a key releases a snail-cam onto the roller, which
then forces the snail cam round. Because of the shape of the snail cam,
the mounting for it is forced away from the roler, and the resulting
motion of the mounting operates the type hammer onto the paper. Well, in
the Flexowriter, Each snail-cam mounting engagedd in a notched lever that
ran under the machine. When the cam turned,this lever was moved, and
lifted some rails, but not others, that ran across the machine. Each of
these rails had a contact on the right hand side, and thus, the code for
each character was generated. Receiving was much more fun. The incoming
parallel data was fed to 8 solenoids, which controlled 8 rails running
across the machine, under the keyboard. For each valid combiation, a
vertical slot was formed into which another lever would fall - there was
one such lever for every character. Then, a camshaft would pull the lever
that had dropped into place, downwards, and then reset the mechanism. Each
of thos levers was hooked over a key lever, so the keys actually moved
during receive, like one of those old automatic pianos. 
 Another curiosity related to those machines. There are many clutches in
there, especially in the paper tape mechanism. They are identical in
design to the clutches in the paper feed mechanism of the HP laserjet 1.
-tony 'PDP11 Hacker' Duell
ard@siva.bris.ac.uk
From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Wanted: Altair 800 or
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:54:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 

DB> .Yeah, but why 110 baud, of all baud rates? (Is this a bit like
  > .the 6250bpi on a tape thread a while back?)  Why even _bother_ with
  > .it?

Because a character was 11 bits (start, two stop, 7 data, parity) and at
10 cps that adds up to 110b/s.  Not really so strange.

        D/

 * OLX 2.2 * Bring back A-N airways!!    Dick.Zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com
                      
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: pershing@teal.csn.org (Paul Pershing)
Subject: Re: What about a pdp-8? (was: value of a p
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:17:37 GMT

hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies) writes:

>In article 9780@cs.cornell.edu, chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman) writes:
>>chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman) writes:
>>
>>>Price
>>>is pretty much what you can get someone to pay (I paid $5 for the one
>>>I have) since they don't have any use for real work (unlike the pdp-11
>>                                           ^^^^^^^^^ Ever realize
>>microseconds after hitting enter that you shouldn't have said
>>something? While you cannot, to the best of my knowledge, buy a new
>>PDP-8 from DEC at this point, I'm sure there are lots in use for
>>"real work". Sorry!
>>
>>Yours,
>>Richard Chapman 


>On which note, can you still buy an '11 from DEC???

yes, you can. Of course, they come in a _smaller_ package..., but
DEC sells a lot of  11s.


Paul Pershing

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: aldavi01@terra.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:51:59 GMT
Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Organization: University of Louisville

In <1992Nov20.015335.19860@fcom.cc.utah.edu> bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) writes:

> Ah, but sometimes the magic goes away!  I was writing a program where I
> deliberately used this technique to increase the stack space between
> recursive invocations and it wouldn't work.  Come to find out, two 
> different compilers for two different systems optimized my code by
> removing the dummy array.  Quietly, without any fanfare, the compiler
> altered the meaning of my code.  Logic dictates that if the variable is
> never referenced, it must not need to be there, right!?  I included a
> stupid reference to the dummy variable and the program worked.  I recommend

> 	char magic[12];
> 	magic[0] = magic[1];

> for modern wizards.

Yes, but the latest, greatest super-swanky optimizing compiler may realize
that only the first two elements in the array are being used.  So, you have to
use the more exotic form:

	char magic[12];
	magic[0] = magic[11];

And if a compiler can squeeze /that/ down, well, I give up.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jgriffit@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan Griffitts)
Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:30:29 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>                                                           As someone posted
>earlier, the binary of any program from the beginning will run on each and
>every model.  This assumes that the implied O/S functions are present, as

Actually, this is not strictly true.

Counterexample:  the 360 model 20, which implemented only a subset of the
360 instruction set.  As I recall, it did not support fullword operations
(halfword only), nor packed BCD memory-to-memory stuff, nor other 'fancy'
operations.  It was basically just a 16-bit minicomputer instruction set.

As far as I know, though, it WAS upward compatible to the other 360s.

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