HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: david@skimad.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: SNOW, HOW MUCH IS LEFT?
Reply-To: david@skimad.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:42:45 GMT


David (Jones),

I just rang Kosciusko Thredbo (064 576275) to confirm they were opening the
resort for a bit of skiing and got the following details:

They plan to open the Basin T-bar for "downhill" skiing tomorrow, and keep it
going until the snow runs out.  I'm planning to go down after boxing day with
some friends for a while and ski, golf, bludge, etc.

The cost will be $23/day (or $13/day for Thredbo card holders) and it sounds
like it will be a fair amount of fun.  I hope it lasts until New Year, so I can
boast of skiing in Australia in January!	8^)

The main range still has lots of snow, and bushwalking is awkward if not
impossible in some areas...

Hope that helps,

David Holloway
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Canberra Australia

skimad is a DEC 3000 model 500 AXP workstation - one of those 64bit monsters!
Newsgroups: aus.snow
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (Mr. Tickle Monster)
Subject: Re: How's the snow on the main range 8/12/92
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:58:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.025301.1105@csc.canberra.edu.au> Kim Holburn <kim@csc.canberra.edu.au> writes:
>I was up there 3 weeks ago and it was great. Anyone up last weekend?
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     Where in Australia does it snow?

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Newsgroups: aus.stats.s
From: hxg@dar.csiro.au (Henry Granek)
Subject: using FORTRAN win S+
Summary: problem finding externals for loaded Fortran code
Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:58:00 GMT

I have a very short test routine in FORTRAN, which I am trying to use with
S+ on an SGI work station. After compilation (as per the book on S+) I try
to load it using say 

	dyn.load("test.o")

where S+ responds with messages about missing externals (these have to do 
with internal I/O of the test routine). I tried to use the command

	ld -r -d -o test1.o -lF77 -lI77 test.o

but this does not seem to have any effect, i.e. either the externals are not 
in these libraries, or this ld command does not have the desired effect.

Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this correctly?

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Newsgroups: aus.flame
Subject: Re: Hey : sick & tired
From: christo@wehi.edu.au
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:07:29 +1000
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

Singo writes: "The usual newbie....."

Dickhead, if you were as good at flame history as you are at puerile
declarations, you'd see I was posting here while you were still a 
stain on a Mac.

Yes, Kate. But isn't Christo so much nicer?

-christo.     back

Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain Sinclair)
Subject: Re: Singo...
Reply-To: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:23:25 GMT

Singular@csc.canberra.edu.au violates my cyberspace with:
 >>Gauze stretched tightly across blancmange,
 >>oozes through regular arrays patterned and strange.

Kate <kate@black_hole_of_calcutta> writes:
 >You've seen Ian Sinclair in a singlet then?

Still got an old Snake cartoon about Ian Sinclair, clipped from the
Western Advocate in a past life.

Phone:      We've got Snake, and you better pay the ransom!
Aborigine:  I don't believe you... put him on.
Phone:      <snif> <sob> everybody hates me... nobody loves me...
Phone:      <sob> I've got no friends...
Aborigine:  They haven't got Snake, they've got Ian Sinclair!


"Blancmange"?  She must have read it somewhere.


--
 Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Newsgroups: aus.flame
Subject: what? No gravy??
From: christo@wehi.edu.au
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:32:13 +1000
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

Well done Singo. 
Everyone who posts is, by definition, a dickhead. Admitting the problem is the
first step. The second is laughing yourself silly at the slugs who take all
this seriously.
I think I like you but that's probably due to these little blue pills.

Let the slugfest continue.

-christo

Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: ta@labserver.canberra.edu.au (The Avatar)
Subject: Re: Elle's IQ - Who gives a shit? 
Organization: University of the Clouds
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:20:21 GMT

mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au (Mark Deitch) writes:

>Silly Avatar. Contadicted yourself. By implying that I had no intelligence, 
               ^^^^^^^^^^^
Oohh you are awful ducky, I DID NOT!


mutatis mutandis mutato nomine nonsum qualis eram note bene
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: Singular@csc.canberra.edu.au (Singo)
Subject: Re: <None> - typical.
Organization: Discontinuous
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 05:15:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.125317.24831@wehi.edu.au> christo@wehi.edu.au writes:

>Competence is no measure of wisdom. Still a dickhead, sorry.

You're right I am a dickhead and remember that imitation is
the sincerest form of flattery. Quite frankly everybody on
a.f is , a dickhead. The whole bloody network is a haven for
those who lack enough social weight to make it on the outside
, dickheads one and all. Unfortunately nearly all are convinced
that they are indeed rather completely devoid of 'dickheadedness'
and thus simply are. You 'christo' are the worst form of a.f dick-
head, self important and resurrected from some hiatus/exile to
again practice the search for self worth here, why ? 

I think I hate you. Its good for me to hate someone, you'll serve
me well. So how about demonstrating some of this net.legend crap
and impress this audience ?

Singo - "...what a waste of effort"
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: Singular@csc.canberra.edu.au (Singo)
Subject: Re: what? No gravy??
Organization: Discontinuous
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 21:41:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.153213.24835@wehi.edu.au> christo@wehi.edu.au writes:

>Well done Singo.

Oh shit, a 'fan'.

>The second is laughing yourself silly at the slugs who take all
>this seriously.

True, however, such tacit involvement fails. One must 'be' a slug to
live as one with slugs. Its something that role playing , D&D freaks
have not yet grapsed, by virtue of being too simple. This alter-unreality
is not dissimilar to the world of Tolkien etc. The ogres are just 
as ugly yet there are no stakes...

>I think I like you but that's probably due to these little blue pills.

Ah , the blue ones...a strong hallucinogen, circa '73. An excellent side
dish with a.f or perhaps visiting with  mother-in-law. 

Singo - "...Lager frenzy time!"
 
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: ta@labserver.canberra.edu.au (The Avatar)
Subject: Re: Slugs 
Organization: University of the Clouds
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 23:57:02 GMT

christo@wehi.edu.au writes:

>All because I've poked my nose in?

Pinoccio strikes again.

>In that case I term this recent campaign an unmitigated success.

From the latin I   Term
               Ewe Term
               ....

>It's so nice to be popular. But so far only with slugs.

But do they leave sticky trails as they crawl up your nostrils?

Radicitus, comes!
Newsgroups: aus.flame,aus.general
From: rshelswe@socs.uts.edu.au (Ryan Shelswell)
Subject: Ahhh.. bureaucracy!
Summary: She ain't gonna reply
Keywords: bureaucracy, government, Australia, letters to the dead.
Reply-To: rshelswe@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:42:50 GMT

We just received a letter to the past occupant of our house (and, being
good folk, we opened it). It read:


Dear Elector,

	Recently I wrote to inform you that I was considering removing
your name from the electoral roll for the Subdivision above.  I am required
to take this action on the ground that you no longer live within the 
Subdivision and that you have not lived there for at least one month.

          ..... <bureaucrap deleted> .....

	If you do not agree with my decision you may, at any time within
28 days after receipt of this notice, request in writing that I refer the
decision to the Australian Electoral Officer for review.


I don't think she'll complain.  We got this house on a deceased estate.

--
   All plots move deathward.
-- 

     Ryan         (rshelswe@socs.uts.edu.au)
From: chrisf@nms.otca.oz.au (Christopher Fraser)
Newsgroups: aus.flame
Subject: Re: Summer? Not here it ain't.
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:41:29 GMT

brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis) writes:
>(Ryan Shelswell) writes:
> >Even ground-breaking heroes of the feminist war still occasionally stoop 
> >to flirting with, say, Brent.
>
>That wasn't flirting, Rynie, that was old enemies exchanging ritual
>abuse. Kate can't stand me and I can't stand Kate. She smells.

Yes, she's got girl germs. 

Cheers
--
Christopher Fraser     "Todays programme was proudly brought to you by
chrisf@nms.otca.oz.au   the letters E and X, and the number 69."
~
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis)
Subject: Re: Summer?
Reply-To: brent@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:56:25 GMT

Kate <kate@black_hole_of_calcutta> writes:

 >Damn
 >you Brent, you've made my cucumber go soggy.   

Garbage. Lies. I'm boring and staid. Not fantasy material in
the slightest. I even wear glasses. Play with computers.
Play video games at arcades. I watch movies like "Under Siege."

Go buy Smash Hits or Dolly and wank over Simon Denny or someone
`cute (TM)'.

                    Brent.

-----------------------------------------------------------
"I do not like them here or there.   |    Brent Curtis
 I do not like them anywhere.        |    School of CompSci
 I do not like green eggs and ham.   |    UTS
 I do not like them, Sam-I-am."      |    New South Wales
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis)
Subject: Laurie 8 - don't hold your breath.
Reply-To: brent@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:21:54 GMT

Had the misfortune to get introduced to Laurie today (you'll suffer,
Dennis). He needs a more attractive pair of glasses. He looks like
Dick Smith. 

                    Brent.

---------------------------------------------------------------
"Send me a dozen long-stemmed roses,      |   Brent Curtis         
 I'll tell you what I will do.            |   School of CompSci
 I'll bend them in to a crown of thorns,  |   UTS
 And send them right back to you."        |   New South Wales      
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: Singular@csc.canberra.edu.au (Singo)
Subject: Singo...
Organization: Discontinuous
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 05:32:30 GMT


Gauze stretched tightly across blancmange,
oozes through regular arrays patterned and strange.

Singo "...a hairy poet"
Newsgroups: aus.flame
Subject: <None>
From: christo@wehi.edu.au
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:53:16 +1000
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

Singo writes:
>Seniority is no measure of competence. Still a newbie, sorry.

Competence is no measure of wisdom. Still a dickhead, sorry.

Kate my love, you're smelling your own gas.

-christo

Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis)
Subject: Re: Early Warning - Laurie 8 in Syd/Melb
Reply-To: brent@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:17:55 GMT

(Mark Deitch) writes:

 >One thing is for sure, I am not letting my younger sister out of the house, 

Planning a big weekend, Mark?

                        Brent.

------------------------------------------------------------
"The Devil is at work. It may          |   Brent Curtis
 say Bananas or Mad House or           |   School of CompSci
 Samantha's on the outside, but it's   |   UTS
 all Disco Europa on the inside."      |   New South Wales

Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis)
Subject: Summer? Not here it ain't.
Reply-To: brent@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:08:41 GMT

(Ryan Shelswell) writes:

 >Even ground-breaking heroes of the feminist war still occasionally stoop 
 >to flirting with, say, Brent.

That wasn't flirting, Rynie, that was old enemies exchanging ritual
abuse. Kate can't stand me and I can't stand Kate. She smells.

                           Brent.

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"Come all you rambling boys of pleasure,   |   Brent Curtis
 And ladies of easy leisure,               |   School of CompSci
 We must say adios until we see,           |   UTS
 Almeria once again."                      |   New South Wales
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: Singular@csc.canberra.edu.au (Singo)
Subject: Re: Hey : sick & tired
Organization: Discontinuous
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 22:45:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.090729.24830@wehi.edu.au> christo@wehi.edu.au writes:

>Dickhead, if you were as good at flame history as you are at puerile
>declarations, you'd see I was posting here while you were still a 
>stain on a Mac.

Seniority is no measure of competence, still a newbie , sorry.

Singo.
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: ta@labserver.canberra.edu.au (The Avatar)
Subject: Re: Laurie 8 - don't hold your breath.
Organization: University of the Clouds
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 23:38:00 GMT

brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis) writes:

>Had the misfortune to get introduced to Laurie today (you'll suffer,
>Dennis). He needs a more attractive pair of glasses. He looks like
>Dick Smith. 

Hope you enjoyed Smith's Dick!

Ah Sticky Moments.

Videris humilior seniorque coram.
Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard)
Subject: Early Warning - Laurie 8 in Syd/Melb
Summary: Damn, I pressed return before I could type any keywords.
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:50:09 GMT

This is a public service announcement.

Having had enough of this silly bloody island, I am departing tomorrow in
search of civilisation. But before I go to Melbourne, I'm spending five days
in Sydney. Be very wary of your step, Sydneyites, lest you come face to face
(well presuming you are of roughly similar height. Shorter people mights come
face to neck, taller ones I don't like becuase they have a good view of my
thinning hair) with Laurie 8.

Avoiding Laurie 8 shouldn't be too difficult if you try. Stay indoors, perhaps
locking yourself in may help. Hanging around tool-hole is an effective, if
unpleasant way of avoiding Laurie 8 (since I don't think I'd try and go near
him, even if he offered to buy me lunch). 

Hardly worth bothering warning about Melbourne, who posts here from Melbourne
anyway...

obFlame - Steve Waugh

Laurie (ready to pigment Sydney at 1060 nm) 8

Laurie 8 <heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au> | Some Driveways are concrete
Theoretical Chemistry PhD student        | Some Driveways have bricks
University of Tasmania, Australia        | Other Driveways
Unashamed 70s man, glad to be glam.      | Have Pebble-Mix - Laurie 8         
Opinions expressed above are those not only of Laurie 8, but the whole world

Newsgroups: aus.flame
From: mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au (Mark Deitch)
Subject: Re: Early Warning - Laurie 8 in Syd/Melb
Reply-To: mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:39:14 GMT

teard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Teard) writes:

 >This is a public service announcement.
 >
 >Having had enough of this silly bloody island, I am departing tomorrow in
 >search of civilisation. But before I go to Melbourne, I'm spending five days
 >in Sydney. Be very wary of your step, Sydneyites, lest you come face to face
 >(well presuming you are of roughly similar height. Shorter people mights come
 >face to neck, taller ones I don't like becuase they have a good view of my
 >thinning hair) with Laurie 8.
 >
 >Avoiding Laurie 8 shouldn't be too difficult if you try. Stay indoors, perhaps
 >locking yourself in may help. Hanging around tool-hole is an effective, if
 >unpleasant way of avoiding Laurie 8 (since I don't think I'd try and go near
 >him, even if he offered to buy me lunch). 
 >
Who could give a 10 inch bog, where the fuck you go? Anyone doing a Phd in
Theoretical Chemistry must be an anti-social, google-eyed masochist, with a
horribly pale complexion. Add to this, the fact that Teard wishes he were back
in his days of youthful exuberance, writing love poetry to little girls in the
hope that personality could conqeur appearance and we have a rampant, deviant
Tasmanian nerd, loose on the streets of our home town.
One thing is for sure, I am not letting my younger sister out of the house, 
while Teard and the sexually deviated persona non grata, Laurie 8 are rampaging 
the streets of Sydney!


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

	      ** Mark **           --         University of Technology, Sydney
       mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au    --          Bachelor of Applied Science,
         I'm not always right      --              Computing Sciences,
       You're just always wrong    --                       |
             ** Deitch **          --                  Undergraduate

` Cognitive dissonance refers to any incompatibility that an individual might
perceive between two or more of his or her attitudes, or between his or her
behaviour and attitudes. It can be argued that any form of inconsistency is
uncomfortable and that individuals will attempt to reduce dissonance and, hence,
the discomfort. Therefore, individuals will seek a stable state where there is
a minimum of dissonance ' - Festinger : A theory of Cognitive Dissonance.
Newsgroups: aus.flame
Subject: Slugs 
From: christo@wehi.edu.au
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:41:29 +1000
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

All because I've poked my nose in?
In that case I term this recent campaign an unmitigated success.

It's so nice to be popular. But so far only with slugs.

Happy holocaust.
-christo
Newsgroups: aus.forsale
From: sunderl@obvius.stl.dec.com (Mike Sunderland)
Subject: furniture and stuff (syd)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:58:58 GMT

Following items for sale.

pine bunk beds 			$150
2-seater lounge			$150
pine wardrobe			$50
bookcase			$50
small desk with hutch		$50
large desk			$20

ugly 60's style coffee table - FREE to good home

other assorted items  - ask if we have it.

All prices negotiable.
Phone (02) 887 2779 or email to address below.
--

Mike Sunderland			sunderland@obvius.stl.dec.com
Customer Support Centre
Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia) Pty Ltd
Sydney Australia
From: pjs@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter John Swiatkowski)
Newsgroups: aus.forsale
Subject: Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA Hicolor display card for sale
Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:08:17 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
Distribution: aus
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

I have a Diamond Computer Systems Inc. VGA card that I no longer require
since upgrading to a display accelerator card. It's designated the
SpeedSTAR VGA Hicolor and is made in the USA.

The card is based on the Tseng ET4000 chipset. It can display 32768 colours
(15 bit) at resolutions up to 800x600, and 256 colours at up to its maximum
resolution of 1024x768. A mode setting program lets you set display timings
to match display scanning frequencies and refresh rates to monitors of
varying characteristics, so refresh rates of up to 72Hz (the Video 
Electronics Standards Association - VESA - standard) in most display 
modes available for use with suitable monitors, while remaining
compatible with less capable VGA and SuperVGA monitors. The 1024x768
display resolution may be run interlaced or non-interlaced to suit your
monitor.

Other provided software includes drivers for many software packages
including WordPerfect, AutoCAD and Windows 3.0 and 3.1.

The card has been well reviewed in a PC Magazine, PC Week (US) and CADence
magazine among others and remains arguably the fastest non-accelerated VGA
card available.

After that build up... How Much? you ask. I'm asking $160, plus postage
unless you can collect in Melbourne.

Peter Swiatkowski
Internet: pjs@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
From: stockman@csis.dit.csiro.au (Roy Stockman)
Newsgroups: aus.forsale
Subject: Re: MAC: *** WANTED : ROUND 8 PIN CABLE - ROUND 8 PIN CABLE
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:45:33 GMT
Distribution: aus
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology

blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bryan Lip) writes:

>I AM LOOKING TO PURCHASE A ROUND 8 PIN CABLE (MALE ) TO A ROUND 8 PIN
>CABLE (MALE)  THE CABLE MUST BE AROUND A SUITABLE LENGTH (IE AT LEAST
>80CM OR SO) IE, TO PLUG INTO AN IMAGEWRITER II TO A MAC


>SENSIBLE PRICES PLEASE


>CHEERS
>Bryan
>blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
>University of Western Australia
>Nedlands, Perth, W.A.
>Dept. of Economics/Commerce & Law.
> 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
you can get a cable from your local Dick Smith
the price is $19.95 and part number is x-2692

	roy
 
Newsgroups: aus.forsale
From: aris
Subject: 9600 baud modem, mathematica book
Keywords: math, modem
Reply-To: aris@foucault.maths.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: aus
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:38:15 GMT

Offers for either a hardcover or paperback version of the standard book  
for Mathematica 2.0 are welcome. I am looking for about $ 25, as this is  
half price.

I also have a 9600 baud Avtek modem V.32 MegaPlus model. Less than 1 year  
old. I don't use it much as I don't have a computer at home anymore.  
Offers for this are welcome, and am looking at about $ 400.

Messages can be left at 344-7416 (uni) or 387-5484 (home), or of course at  
aris@foucault.maths.mu.OZ.AU

Thanks,

 - aris

--

(Night On Earth) : Guys!  Can't live with them - can't shoot them!
(The Mandarins)  : Women? Either they're idiots or they're unbearable.
Newsgroups: aus.forsale
Subject: What's this lot worth folks?
From: brescianim@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Date: 16 Dec 92 08:06:54 GMT

What's this lot worth?

I am offering a Toshiba T1000 laptop for sale that is in excellent
condition and comes with bonus software and memory expansion board that
doubles as a virtual hard disk.

The companion DICONIX InkJet Printer with a resolution of 150 is just the
ticket to sharp, clean hard copies.

All this fits in the carry case provided together with adaptors that work
on Australian and American power.

Would anyone care to offer a suggested price for this ultra portable
computer and printer package which is ideal for a student or 'the person
on the move'.  I would like to hear what you think it's worth even if
you're not interested in buying it.

For further details contact me at brescianim@insted.unimelb.edu.au
Thanking you

Marco Bresciani