HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale)
Subject: Re: VUW Library System Upgrade
Organization: C.S.C., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keywords: ultimate dinosaur library
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:45:40 GMT
Distribution: world 
Followup-To: vuw.general, nz.general

In article <Bxtsx8.42K@comp.vuw.ac.nz> andy@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Bond) writes:
>In article <199211160414.AA16145@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Tony.Martindale@vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale) writes:
>>        Victoria University of Wellington Library System
>>
>>    Major hardware upgrade Tuesday 24/11/92 -  Thursday 26/11/92
>>
>>  The current Library System hardware, an Ultimate 3040, is being
>>upgraded to an Ultimate 7020 which will provide a noticeable
>>performance improvement and more capacity.
>
>Is a 7020 just a bigger dinosaur than the 3040 or will it provide more
>than simple performance improvements?

 The simple performance and capacity improvements will enable the
library to run additional Dynix library software modules.  In
particular a serials (periodicals) module, reserve book room (3-day
loan, closed reserve) module and a journal citation index will be added.
 Otherwise the answer is yes, it is a bigger dinosaur.

>Can we look forward to email overdue and reservation reminders?

 Sigh, no.  This can be achieved running the Dynix software with a
Pick emulator on a Un*x box - which is the only upgrade path beyond
the Ultimate 7000 series equipment.

>Let's hope the 7020 has more than a serial connection to the outside
>world so can finally lunge into the 80's with avengance.

 Again, no.  It is a bigger (in every dimension) machine, with better
serial interfaces.

 So why wasn't the Dynix/Pick emulator/Un*x box option taken at this
time?  I'm really not in a position to answer this publicly, other
than to say that I feel that the right decision was made under the
circumstances.  Am I starting to sound like a politician? :) Such
questions should be directed to the Librarian or the Library
Committee.

-- 
Tony Martindale                    Computing Services Centre,
phone: +64 4 495 5051              Victoria University of Wellington,
fax:   +64 4 471 5386              P.O. Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND.
Newsgroups: nz.general,nz.netstatus,vuw.general
From: tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale)
Subject: Re: VUW Library System Upgrade
Organization: C.S.C., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keywords: ultimate heaters
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:28:28 GMT
Distribution: world 
Followup-To: vuw.general,nz.general

In article <1992Nov16.212302.14980@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz> clear@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>In article <199211160414.AA16145@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Tony.Martindale@vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale) writes:
>>  The current Library System hardware, an Ultimate 3040, is being
>>upgraded to an Ultimate 7020 which will provide a noticeable
>>performance improvement and more capacity.
>
>The upgrade should go smoothly.  I've got an Ultimate toaster and jug, and
>both are well made and reliable.
>
>Is the 7020 the wall-mounted flash boiler with the traditional "urn" tap?

 No, but with a heat output of 7250 Kcal/hr (29000 BTU/hr) it would
probably make a great central heating unit.

-- 
Tony Martindale                    Computing Services Centre,
phone: +64 4 495 5051              Victoria University of Wellington,
fax:   +64 4 471 5386              P.O. Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND.
Newsgroups: nz.wanted
From: Richard.Darton@vuw.ac.nz (Richard Darton)
Subject: Wanted to buy - HP IIp printer
Organization: CSC, Victoria University Wellington
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:22:39 GMT

Hi, 

I am trying to track down an old HP IIp in good working order. If you know 
of one, then please let me know.

Thanks 

RAD
Newsgroups: nz.wanted
From: deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (A. J. Dean)
Subject: _cheap_ SCSI drive for mac
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:11:36 GMT

It's for my brother, he's got a mac+ and still somehow manages to get along
with floppies. Even something around 10MB and slow as poke would do, but
with a price to match (ie <$100). Bigger/better drives he may pay more for.

He's got a copy of disk manager mac. Other than that I know little more
about those machines except they have an OS that looks like a copy of
windows (and features seem to appear there before they do in windows, funny
that...). 

Antony.
Newsgroups: nz.wanted
Subject: Truetype fonts for Mac System 6.x
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 00:06:12 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

I'm after any public domain true type fonts to run on a Mac System 6.x.

Thanks for your help.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
Newsgroups: nz.wanted
From: wjt@rda.frc.maf.govt.nz (Warwick Taylor)
Subject: House To Let   A nice 2 bedroom home suitable for a careful, mature couple is
Reply-To: wjt@rda.frc.maf.govt.nz (Warwick Taylor)
Organization: Minstry of  Agriculture and FisheriesHo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:14:37 GMT

available in Torbay, Auckland as a holiday home or for longer term
rental from December onwards. It is close to beaches and shops.
Rent $350 pw as holiday home, longer term rental - rent negotiable.

	Ph (04) 4767887.
Keywords:
From: pilcher_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: bbs wanted in auckland
Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:44:19 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: pilcher_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

at present we run a largish multi user bbs in wellington, and the
software we use can interactively network (as in shared resources
between other bbs's, like files and chat etc etc.).
we are currently looking for someone who is wanting to set up a bbs, or 
is willing to upgrade to our software so that we can run our network.
Such a move would be advantageous for both parties, allowing us to 
capitalise on the many unique features built into our bbs software

if anyone is interested, please dont hesitate to drop me a line 

at PILCHER_P@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

cheers

pat
Newsgroups: nz.archives
From: root@comp.vuw.ac.nz (The Superuser)
Subject: Recent additions to VUW Computer Science Archive
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:55:06 GMT

The Dept. of Computer Science maintains a public access archive
for software and computer related documents.

The following files have been added to the archive in the last fortnight:

   311795 Nov 21 04:08 pub/ls-lR.Z
     2437 Nov 16 16:40 pub/adm-tools/realname.tar.Z
   229073 Nov 10 19:30 pub/packages/gnu/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z
  1577946 Nov 10 19:35 pub/packages/gnu/ghostscript-2.5.2.tar.Z
  1636075 Nov 10 19:46 pub/packages/gnu/ghostscript-fonts-2.5.2.tar.Z
  7279133 Nov 13 10:15 pub/packages/gnu/gcc-2.3.1.tar.Z
   229073 Nov 10 19:30 pub/packages/X/contrib/clients/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z
   745087 Nov 16 15:18 pub/languages/tcl/PQTcl.tar.Z
   152802 Nov 16 15:18 pub/languages/tcl/graph-1.0.tar.Z
   436293 Nov 16 15:19 pub/languages/tcl/tclX6.4c-p1.tar.Z
     5491 Nov 16 15:19 pub/languages/tcl/tcl_curses.shar.Z
    34255 Nov 16 15:19 pub/languages/tcl/tclprof.shar
   368640 Nov 16 15:19 pub/languages/tcl/tclsql-1.0.tar
      113 Nov 16 08:58 pub/os/386bsd0.1/INSTALL.NOTES
      113 Nov 16 08:58 pub/os/386bsd0.1/MANIFEST
      113 Nov 16 08:58 pub/os/386bsd0.1/ROADMAP
     4676 Nov 13 16:27 rfc/rfc986.Z
    11452 Nov 20 12:21 rfc/rfc1343.Z
    10836 Nov 20 12:23 rfc/rfc1344.Z
     7608 Nov 20 12:47 rfc/rfc1342.Z

Additionally recent traffic in the comp.sources.* and alt.sources
groups is archived in the archive subtree.  See the relevant "toc" files
for new listings.

For details on how to access the archive see the monthly posting in
this group.
Newsgroups: actrix.software,nz.archives,fido.nz_os2,comp.os.os2.misc
From: baird2@lincoln.ac.nz
Newsgroups: nz.archives
Subject: NZ mirror of FTP.NOVELL.COM
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:39:59 +1300

Lincoln is now running a mirror of ftp.novell.com on tui.lincoln.ac.nz.
The novlib directories are updated weekly. Some 3rd party files are in the
misc directory, and I plan to download more such stuff in the new year.

Our link to Canterbury is only 9600 baud so response times are not brilliant,
but we plan to upgrade to a 48 Kb link soon.

Send comments and suggestions to baird2@lincoln.ac.nz, but dont expect any
response during the first 3 weeks of December when I will be on leave. 

John

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   New Zealand
Newsgroups: capdist.misc
From: valoisj@polaris.cs.rpi.edu (John D. Valois)
Subject: Thinking about getting your M.S. ?
Organization: RPI Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: capdist
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:34:31 GMT

The Computer Science Department at RPI is considering ways to make its
Master's degree program more accessible to working professionals on a
part time basis.  In particular, we are considering "specialized"
programs that would focus on particular specialties in computer
science. These programs would consist of 30 credit hours (10 courses)
beyond the Bachelor's degree.

To help better determine the needs of part time students/full time
professionals in such a program, we are conducting an informal survey.
If you are interested in getting an MS, please answer the following
questions.  We also welcome more informal feedback; feel free to offer
comments to:

David Spooner					John Valois
spoonerd@cs.rpi.edu		or		valoisj@cs.rpi.edu
276-6890					276-4857

In addition, you are welcome to attend the next meeting of the Computer
Science Graduate Curriculum Committee; contact Dave or John above for
more information.

Feel free to distribute this to your colleagues as well.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- How much time would you be willing to commit to a part-time MS program ?
	- One course per semester
	- More or less ?
	- Including summers ?

- When would you prefer courses to be scheduled ? 
	- Evenings
	- Weekends
	- Video taped
	- Other

- What length of time do you prefer classes to meet for ?
	- 3 hours once a week
	- 90 minutes twice a week
	- 1 hour 3 times a week
	- Other

- Which specialties would you be interested in ?
	- Software engineering and project management
	- Management information systems
	- Telecommunications
	- Networking 
	- Artificial Intelligence
	- Numerical computing
	- Other

- Any comments ?



--------------------------------------------------
 John D. Valois                    (518) 276-4857
 Computer Science Department   valoisj@cs.rpi.edu
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
-- 
--------------------------------------------------
 John D. Valois                    (518) 276-4857
 Computer Science Department   valoisj@cs.rpi.edu
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
From: kaminl@aix.rpi.edu (Lawrence Andrew Kaminsky)
Newsgroups: capdist.misc
Subject: Do you have a framegrabber?
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:03:21 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

If so, would you consider grabbing a few frames from a TV show for me? 
Please reply by e-mail.

Thanks
Newsgroups: capdist.general
From: "John LoGalbo" <logalbo@psilink.com>
Subject: test
Reply-To: psilink-help@psi.com
Organization: PSI
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:03:11 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

testing
Newsgroups: capdist.general
From: reynoldk@unvax.union.edu (Keith Reynolds)
Subject: NCAA DIVISION III NATIONALS
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Distribution: ny
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:43:57 GMT

Coming up this weekend, November 21, Union College is hosting the Division III
Cross-Country Nationals at Saratoga State Park. This means seeing the best 
runners in the nation at the Div. III level. The course will be held on both
the 18-hole golf course and in the park itself. The men's race will start at
12 noon, whereas the women's race will start at @ 1 pm. Anyone in the area that
has ever ran for fun or competition should make it out on Saturday for this
event. The admission is $2 for adults and 1$ for students with ID. Come watch
the best in the nation compete for the National Championship. I'll be there
because I marked the course. See you there!


      Keith Reynolds Asst. Track Coach Union College

      reynoldk@unvax.union.edu
From: reynoldk@unvax.union.edu (Keith Reynolds)
Newsgroups: capdist.general
Subject: Change
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:06:17 GMT
Distribution: ny
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY

A small change is needed. The men's race will begin at 11 am and the women's
race will begin at 12 noon. Also, the tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for
kids under 18. sorry for the mistake. Keith.
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: capdist.seminars
Subject: *IX meeting - change of presentation
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:42:51 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY


                   *IX - Upstate NY UNIX User's Group
                      November 1992 Meeting Notice

                       ** note change of topic **

  The November meeting, Wednesday November 18 at 7:30pm, will feature a
presentation by V.I.corp. Products are
	o  A widget set including graphic widgets for interractive
	   or "from file" display

	o  A simple X development set for user interface prototyping

	o  dvtools, a deluxe development set which includes animation

  The presentation by Tadpole of their SPARCbook portable Sun-compatible
system has been rescheduled for Dec 17.

  The meeting will be at the Latham NY Sun offices on Rt9R (next to the
Starlite Theater). From the Thruway take the Northway north to the Rt7
Troy exit. Take the first exit off Rt7 (you can see it from where you
get off the Northway) to Rt9 north. Follow Rt9 to the first light (stay
in the right lane), and turn right on Rt9R to Cohos (at the latham Ford
sign). The first light is Latham Ford, take a left into the driveway at
the second light. On the left side of the driveway is the Starlite
Theater, and on the right is the Sun parking lot. Enter throught the
only door you see, the meeting is in the back room of the first suite on
the left.

  For your schedule: meetings every 3rd Wednesday, no speaker in July or
August (social meeting), and December if within a week of Christmas. The
August meeting may vary in date or place as it is usually a picnic.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    Keyboard controller has been disabled, press F1 to continue.
Newsgroups: capdist.seminars,sunya.cs.general
From: hammond@csc.albany.edu (William F. Hammond)
Subject: Colloquium this Friday
To: matmsgs@csc.albany.edu
Cc: bboard
Organization: The University at Albany, Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:58:16 GMT
Return-Path: <hammond@csc.albany.edu>


	       Department of Mathematics and Statistics
		       The University at Albany

			      COLLOQUIUM

		  Visiting Professor Michael Stessin

		"An extension of a theorem of Hadamard
                  and applications to Bergman spaces"

		       Friday, November 20, 1992

			  4:00 p.m.,  ES 140

			 Tea at 3:30,  ES 152

Newsgroups: capdist.seminars,sunya.cs.general
From: halderc@nova.cs.rpi.edu (Carol Halder)
Subject: RPI Computer Science Colloquium
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: ny
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:48:00 GMT


                         Bill Lorensen
                     Information Systems Lab
                            GE CRD
                         Schenectady, NY

            Object-Oriented Technology: Methodology and Applications

The past ten years have seen object-oriented techniques move from an
interesting research topic to a practical software engineering
approach. This talk will review the Object Modeling Technique (OMT),
developed at GE's Corporate Research and Development, and will describe
a few large software systems developed using OO techniques.  OMT uses
object, dynamic and functional models throughout the software
engineering life cycle to analyze, design and develop object-oriented
application software. The speaker has been using OO techniques since
1984 to develop computer graphics applications, namely computer
animation and scientific visualization. The talk will describe these
systems, emphasizing design and implementation.

                    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1992
               AMOS EATON 214  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
                      REFRESHMENTS 3:30 pm

            The host for this colloquium is Edwin Rogers.
Newsgroups: capdist.seminars,sunya.cs.general
From: hammond@csc.albany.edu (William F. Hammond)
Subject: Next CRANTS
To: bboard
Organization: The University at Albany, Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:43:50 GMT
Return-Path: <hammond@csc.albany.edu>


        CAPITAL REGION ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR (CRANTS)

Speaker:          David Vella, Skidmore College

Date & Time:      Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4:15 p.m.     (tea at 3:45)

Place:            SUNYA, Earth Science 152A           (tea in ES 152)

Title:           "Counting Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields
                  and Other Applications of Partitions (II)"

Newsgroups: dc.housing
From: xjiang@wam.umd.edu (Xun Jiang)
Subject: house for rent in College Park
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:51:21 GMT

		Rooms For Rent in College Park

	* 5 Bedrooms, 2 full baths in a newly remodled house
	* Walking distance to U.M. 
	* Washer/Dryer, Dishwasher, CAC,
	* $250/month + 1/5 utilities
	* $1200 if renting the whole house
	* Available now

If interested, please call Lisa at 301 935-5964 
or Email to "58xie@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu" for more information.

Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian
From: mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta)
Subject: National Gallery exhibit?
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:52:36 GMT

Someone told me the National Gallery was going to have a Greek
sculpture exhibit sometime soon.  Is this true?  If so, when?

Also, does anyone post the special exhibits of all the Smithsonian
museums somewhere?  I'd be very interested.  Also NY exhibits in
the major museums would be great.
 
Mark Pietrasanta - mpiet@is.morgan.com
* * * * * * * * *

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

----------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: These responses are my own and in no way reflect the
            views of my employer.
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From: carm@cs.umd.edu (Richard Chimera)
Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian
Subject: Re: National Gallery exhibit? [Greek]
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:33:41 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Nov18.135236@is.morgan.com> mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta) writes:
>Someone told me the National Gallery was going to have a Greek
>sculpture exhibit sometime soon.  Is this true?  If so, when?

This is absolutely true.  According to a print ad I saw, it will be on
exhibit from Nov 22 - Feb 7.  You can call 202-842-6684 for more info.
They will have 34 marble and bronze sculptures from the 5th century BC,
almost all of which have never ever ever left Greece soil.  You can bet
I'll be there once or twice.....

+Rick

-- 
  Richard "carm" Chimera, Lab Manager   | A population of sheep will eventually
  Human Computer Interaction Lab, U Md. | beget a government of wolves.
  A.V. Williams Bldg                    |   -- William Sloan Coffin
  College Park, MD  20742-3255    USA   |
From: liu@cs.umd.edu (Yuan Liu)
Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian
Subject: Re: Star Trek Exhibit
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:47:33 GMT
Reply-To: liu@cs.umd.edu
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Nov22.223958.2422@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144) writes:
# Does anyone know what's going on with the Star Trek Exhibit? I would like info
# such as the last date it will be there, has the ticket situation loosened up
# a bit since it's been there awhile, etc...You can just reply to the sub since
# my mailbox is bursting as it is ;)
# 
# Besides this sub needs more activity anyway.

I was there on Nov. 10.  They did not require passes to the exhibit that day,
and the reason was obvious since there weren't many people.  It shouldn't take
more than half an hour to go through the exhibit, and then you can spend
another half hour watching the video special.
I think the exhibit will last till some time in January.  

Yuan Liu
liu@cs.umd.edu
Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian
From: cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144)
Subject: Star Trek Exhibit
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:39:58 GMT

Does anyone know what's going on with the Star Trek Exhibit? I would like info
such as the last date it will be there, has the ticket situation loosened up
a bit since it's been there awhile, etc...You can just reply to the sub since
my mailbox is bursting as it is ;)

Besides this sub needs more activity anyway.
From: anneb@tecsun1.tec.army.mil (Anne Brink)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: polling leaflets (was Re: BUSH/QUAYLE Signs still up!)
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:45:12 GMT
Distribution: dc
Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft. Belvoir, VA.

mproctor@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Marilyn Proctor) writes:

>At my polling place in Arlington County, there was a box by the exit
>door marked "please recycle sample ballots here".  
>Sometimes the simpliest solution is the best solution.  
>Of course, Arlington's county board is run by the D party  :-) 

I just handed mine back to the people handing them out on my way out.
I hope that they recycled them later on (-:
-- 
###############################################################################
Anne Brink			# U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center
anneb@tec.army.mil		# Ft. Belvoir, VA 
###############################################################################
Newsgroups: dc.general
From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
Subject: Re: Protest
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:54:57 GMT

In article ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
>
>Now you are talking dollars and not the safety of the population.
>I guess we as a society are going to have to decide whether we
>value all human life, or just certain ones.  If the answer is all
>human life, then the economic argument becomes irrelevant.

Safety isn't free.  Ignoring the economic aspects of this problem
just ensures that it will continue to go unresolved.  Take your
proposal for example.  Locking up all the violent criminals and
maintaining them securely for the rest of their lives sounds
just great until you try to figure out how to pay for the
necessary infrastructure.  Then it becomes just another
infeasible scheme.  I'm sure you are perfectly sincere and your
intentions are pure.  But the pursuit of infeasible schemes is
effectively a vote for the status quo, in this case the daily
execution of our fellow citizens by violent criminals.  With all
due respect, I think that's a hell of a way to express your
devotion to the sanctity of human life.
--
Richard A. Drury
drury@helix.nih.gov
Newsgroups: dc.general