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From: mkingman@zdi.ziff.com (Matt Kingman)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Looking for Buffalo Wings
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:39:59 GMT
Organization: Ziff Desktop Information
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12X-XXDate: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:42:31 GMTLines: 14

In article <CYOUNG.92Oct7123904@virtual8.harvard.edu> Cliff Young,
cyoung@virtual8.harvard.edu writes:
>Can anyone suggest a place that serves good Buffalo Wings in the
>Boston Area?  So far Wing-It and Pizzeria Uno's are the only ones I've
>found.

Buff's Pub in Newton has (or at least used to have) the best buffalo
wings in the area.  I haven't been there in a couple of years though.....

/Matt
---
Matt Kingman
Software Engineer - Ziff Desktop Information
Disclaimer: I do not speak for my employer.
From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Looking for a Red Lobster
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:29:46 GMT
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA

In article <1992Oct7.210157.7786@netcom.com>, wcorea@netcom.com (William C. Corea) writes:
> My main complaint about Red Lobster is based on what they did to a
> very good seafood restaurant in Southern California. There, a small
> chain called Seafood Broiler was showing that good quality seafood
> could be served at reasonable prices. Red Lobster bought out Seafood
> Broiler and converted them to Red Lobsters.

Your gripe is with the owners of Seafood Broiler who chose to "sell out."
Obviously -they- are the ones who cared more about money than about
selling a quality product.

-gjc
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: wdr@world.std.com (William D Ricker)
Subject: Re: Want poppy seeds in bulk
Summary: Bulk food for all at Boston/Cambridge Harvest Coops
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:16:17 GMT

In <Bw0Mtq.AyL@apollo.hp.com> noelie@apollo.hp.com (Noelie Alito) writes:
>I am looking for a new source for buying poppy seeds "in bulk"
>(i.e., by the half-pound or pound) in west-495 area (from
>Westboro to Chelmsford) or in Framingham.

I dunno about out in the woods, but if you take the pike into the
Allston exit, you have a choice of two, one each way: the Harvest Food
Cooperatives, formerly the Boston Food Coop (449 Cambridge St.,
Allston) & the Cambridge Food Coop (Mass Ave @ Central Square,
recently moved to the West side of the street at ground level).  Both
have dropped their membership requirements or non-member surcharge
policies, so anyone can shop; members and working-memebers get
discount at the register, so net.folk can pay the marked price.  And
on Bulk items, the marked price is very reasonable.  Coming from the boonies,
I'd take the Allston turn, since there is plenty of parking behind
the Boston Harvest Market (nee' BFC); Cambridge is however on the RedLine
for city folk.

If you want semi-reasonable prices for organics, they've got 'em.
They even have semi-politically-correct meat, and very politically-correct
coffee (tastes good too).

Remember if you cook with poppy seeds and have to take a piss-quiz at
the office (or for sport) to disclose that fact on the "Prescription &
Other Drugs" form, as otherwise your boss will be told you test
positive for Opium & Heroin.  (I startled the staff at the clinic that
did mine by citing poppyseed cake as well as my antihistimine; since
they only collect'em, not process 'em, they'd forgotten the poppy
connection!)

-- 
Bill Ricker wdr@world.std.com      "The freedom of the press belongs 
(formerly wdr@wang.com)             to those who own one."
From: pimentel@earrth.enet.dec.com (John Pimentel)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Opinions about Red Lobster
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:13:50 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


It's been stated here that there were good opinions about Red Lobster
as well as bad.  IMO, the good opinions dealt with what the person thought
of their visit there, while the bad opinions simply stated not to go there.
No reason just don't.  Instead it was suggested that I go elsewhere.
One that comes to mind "There's one off Rte. 95 [in CT] on your way 
someplace else."   If you have a bad experience with either the food
or the service or the atmosphere, then relate it, simply saying not to
go there is IMO not sufficient reason comment about it.

As to the individual that suggested that I apologize, well I don't see
that I should or need to; just because I put a gun in your hand doesn't
mean you are therefore forced to use it, likewise, if a location of a
eatery is asked that act in of itself does not therefore demand muchless 
request for opinions to be aired.  If opinions are aired, then do the
person a favor who asked and explained why.  Kindly, note, that most,
if not all, people don't like opinions that are unsolicitated, so if
you are going to walk into the wall, PLEASE finish what you started...
tell why you feel/think/believe... such-and-such.

=============================================================================
-- John Pimentel

The opinions expressed are my own.  No rights are granted to take them out of
context nor do they represent the views of my employer, whomever it might be
for the moment.
=============================================================================
From: peterco@eff.org (Peter Cohen)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Cambridge Brewery (ReFlame)
Summary: Bad service, bad time
Keywords: Cambridge Brewery Bad Service Flargh Eit Ick
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:44:26 GMT
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: peterco@eff.org
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Now that my sysadmin has been kind enough to show me how to use a text
editor (yes, I am an idiot),  I am prepared to properly flame Cambridge
Brewery/Brewing Company/Whatever the hell the name of that place at One
Kendall Square is...

Anyway, we went there this past Sunday, and had a really rotten
experience.  My fiancee, two friends, and myself had actually intended to
go to Goemon, the Japanese noodle restaraunt located right next door. 
Unfortunately, Goemon doesn't open until dinner (read: 4 pm) on Sundays. 
We opted instead for the Cambridge Brewery, which is right next door. 
I've been hearing good things about their beer for over a year, so I
thought it would be a great idea.

Things started bad, and got worse.  First of all, we couldn't even flag a
waitron down for about fifteen minutes.  The place wasn't exceptionally
busy; I'd guesstimate that over half the chairs and tables were empty.  As
a matter of fact, the most densely populated area was the bar, which
wasn't served at all by the floor waitrons.

After we initially placed our drink/appetizer order, our waitron switched
with another waitron.  No problem, but the new one took in excess of
fifteen minutes to get our drinks and our appetizer out to us.  I counted
three other tables that this kid was serving, and he wasn't busting any
marathon records on any of us.  The tato skins I can understand taking
that long, but I found the wait for the drinks inexcusable.  But wait,
this is only the beginning.

In any case, we placed our order and waited.  Half an hour later, we were
still waiting.  None of us ordered an exceptionally elaborate meal: I
believe the order came to three sandwiches and an entree.  We asked the
waitron for another round of drinks...and waited...finally, after about
forty five minutes total, our entrees were delivered.  Of course, the
waitron forgot the drinks that we were (by now) parched and desperate to
receive.

The beer was, admittedly, quite top notch.  The food was forgettable,
though, and the service was inexcusably bad.  Our waiter took so long to
collect the check that we forgot about charging it and opted for cash
instead, just to escape before we all hit middle age.

Anyway, anyone with a different eating experience at this establishment is
welcome to respond, otherwise: Caveat Emptor.

-- 
+-----------------+------------------------------------------------+
| Peter A. Cohen  |   No, I don't reflect my employer's opinions.  |
| peterco@eff.org | Heck!  My employer doesn't even know I'm here! |
+-----------------+------------------------------------------------+
From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:09:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Radio shack 199.00 special..
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

In comp.multimedia, jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf) writes:

>In article <1992Oct6.165611.2477@news.eng.convex.com> harper@convex.com (David Harper) writes:
>>In article <17270009@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) writes:
>>>Another inexpensive drive I saw recently was in DAK at $199, access was very
>>>slow, but thruput was OK...  Heard DAK went bankrupt though, dunno if they
>>>still sell stuff or not.  Anyone know?  I haven't seen a catalog in several
>>>months...
>>
>	They still do business. I just ordered the above drive from them for
>219.90 for a freind of mine. I still can't afford one though. We also went by
>our local Radio-Shack to find this CD-ROM drive for $199 and no go. They had one
>for $419, but no $199. Is this only available in certain areas? I don't suppose
>anyone has got a CD-rom lying around that they'd like to sell on credit? 8-)

Wondered about DAK, thanks for the info...  I guess I need to call them.
Dunno about the Radio Shack drive, it was in last months flyer (at least here
in the Denver area).  I haven't looked in the Rat Shack flyer I got last week.
>Oh well...
>John
I'll second that!!!  :-)
- Galen -
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: woyansky@flamingo.ece.cmu.edu (George J. Woyansky)
Subject: Need a better card than Soundblaster...
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:06:30 GMT

We recently purchased a couple of Creative Labs Soundblaster Pro cards for
use in a lab.  However, we've had some problems with them when we install them
in our 486/33 systems:

1)  They play random sounds after playing music from the demos.  This problem,
    according to Creative Labs tech support, is due to the fact that our 486
    has an Opti chipset.  There are two versions of the SB-pro - one known as
    the 1600 series and one known as the 1330 series.  The 1600 series is an 
    older model and apparently has difficulties with the Opti chipset; the 
    1330 series doesn't exhibit this problem.  A 1600-rev board can be made
    into a 1330 board by installing some sort of oscillator patch (hardware,
    presumably to resolve some bus timing issues).

2)  The tech at C-L also said that the boards have trouble with 486 platforms
    in general.  He recommended that we slow the bus speed down to 10MHz or
    less to avoid having problems.  He said that C-L is working on a fix for
    this but it's not ready yet.  This seems a bit foolish to me - crank my
    486/33 down to the level of an old 286 (bus-wise, anyway) so that my $200
    sound card doesn't go ballistic....

3)  There is a horrendous amount of static coming out of the speakers even
    when the board is not playing anything.  The static level seems to be
    directly related to the processor speed - when we crank the machine up to
    33 MHz, the static increases, and when we drop back to 25 MHz, the
    static subsides somewhat.  Inserting wait states and slowing the bus speed
    reduces the static further.  This problem is likely due to the fact that
    the SB-Pro has inadequate RF grounding/shielding, especially at 33MHz and
    up.


Now for the questions:

A)  Does anyone else have similar problems using the SB/SB_Pro in a 486? 
    (i.e. static, random music, bus speed, other effects?)

B)  What, if any, other sound boards perform better than this?  That is, 
    does there exist a card that plays in a fast 486 without sounding like 
    an old 45-RPM record?  I would like to believe that the demand for quality
    sound from the MM community would drive the level of performance for
    boards like this to a higher standard.  


Please send replies to woyansky@flamingo.ece.cmu.edu.  I will post a summary
in a few days.

Thanks,

-George Woyansky
 Carnegie Mellon University, LASIP Laboratory
 Pittsburgh, PA
 (412) 268-7121
From: boudot@tlaloc.inria.fr (Marianne Boudot)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: scanner on a SUN Sparcstation
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:06:43 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)



Who knows about vendors of such a thing ?
And about the price (hard and soft) ?


Thanks in advance

-- 
 Marianne Boudot
 				  
 Inria Centre de Sophia Antipolis | Tel: (33) 93 65 77 27
 2004, Route des Lucioles	  | Fax: (33) 93 65 76 02
 BP 93	 			  | Email:  Marianne.Boudot@sophia.inria.fr
 06902 Sophia Antipolis (France)  | X400 :  C=fr; A=atlas; P=inria; OU=sophia;
				  |	    S=Boudot; G=Marianne
From: aman@babs.sfsu.edu (& Khalili)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: HELP RE: 2nd monitor on a 486/50 system
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:07:06 GMT
Reply-To: aman@futon.sfsu.edu
Distribution: ba



Help I need help how to setup a monochrome monitor to my existing
486/50 Orchid local bus machine.  I have the Fahrenheit 1280 D card
and a ViewSonic 6 monitor.  I want to add the monochrome monitor to it.
I want to know what hardware and or software, including operating system,
can and will support it.

Any hint is welcomed. 
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh)
Subject: Pro 16 Multimedia Upgrade Kit Price
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:05:58 GMT

I am thinking about buying the Pro 16 Multimedia Upgrade Kit
from Media Vision and looking for the best deal.  The best
mail-order prices I've found are around $950 + shipping.  
Does anyone have, or know of, a better deal?  

Thanks in advance for any information.

Young Huh
yhuh@ihlpe.att.com
From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:50:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Soundmaster II drivers for WINDOWS 3.1 please :-)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia

In comp.multimedia, thorjc@dhhalden.no (THOR JOHAN CHRISTENSEN) writes:

>I have a SoundMaster II card from covox. And I need drivers for windows 3.1. 
>Is there anyone who can tell me where I can find them ??
>Thanks. 
>Johan III- Norway

Just the following in the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc  I dunno if there
are any others (via FTP)??
Good Luck!!
- Galen -

>From: root@sean.tomsk.su (Alex Povzner)
>Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:59:50 GMT
>Subject: I've created COVOX(lpt' DAC) driver for Windows
>
>        Are You in need of COVOX (DAC) driver for Windows ? Such
>driver allows to play .WAV and .MOD files under MS-Windows !
>With simple DAC (Covox) scheme either on resistors or on DAC chip !
>Any melody can be assigned to any Windows' internal event !
>Almost any prrogram for Windows' Sound will work with Covox
>Driver !
>
>        If You don't have COVOX driver and You want to receive it,
>You send usual paper letter containing $5 and Your EMAil address
>to me and in a one day after delivering of the letter You will
>have had the driver.
>
>        My address : Russia, index 634034, town Tomsk,
>        street Uchebnaya 34, 51. Alex Povzner
From: jmj5g@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (John M. Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Saving presentations to video tape
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:37:37 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

messina@netcom.com  writes:
> 
> I was wondering if there are some either software or hardware products
> (or combination) that would allow saving animation or presentations
> (such as from Power Point) directly to video tape.  Platform would be
> PC (but I would be curious also about Mac).
> I understand that it can be achieved easily on the Amiga using Video
> Toaster.  Any equivalents on the PC side?
> 
We just bought a Videologic Mediator for abour $2000 for that
purpose.  It is a box that plugs in to any VGA card (which must
be running at 640x480) OR any Mac video source and outputs NTSC
or PAL video.  It will genlock, has SVHS output as well as
composite, will under or overscan, and has several other useful
adjustments.  It is a nice multi-purpose box that gives a very
good picture for the price.
--
John Jackson                            jmj5g@galen.med.virginia.edu
Office of Medical Education             jmj5g@virginia.edu
University of Virginia                  (804)924-5839
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: jpgorrono@ucdavis.edu (Jon Gorrono)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: CBT tools, again.
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:53:10 GMT
Organization: Instruction and Media Support, UC Davis
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2

Early last weeek I posted a question to this group and received responsed
from 2 people, one person was just saying that he was forwarding my
message.  Thank you both for responding; but, I was hoping for more
input.  With hope that most of you did not respond because others were
likely to have the same suggestions as you, I will post the original one
more time:

>This is more of a CBT question than it is a multimedia question...
>
>We have been charged with developing some training modules for some text
based information >systems.  We want to be able to target both
IBM-compatible and Mac platforms at the low end.  >The low end being XT's
and SE's respectively.
>
>Are there any authoring packages that seem ideal for this situation?
>
>Thank you in advance.

The suggestions I have received include:

Guide (or is it Guide 2?)--Mac and IBM capable, requires Windows on IBM,
probably the easiest to learn/use

Authorware (I already have Authorware for the Mac)--Mac and IBM capable,
requires Windows on IBM, moderate ease of use, more capable/flexible than
is Guide.

cT ( by Falcon Software ; originally Carnegie Mellon U?)-- Mac and IBM
capable, no WIndows needed, more difficult to use (authoring lanquage not
an authoring system), more capable/flexible than either Authorware or
Guide.


The requirement for Windows is not a good one: not loew-end enough. But
if we end up at that level, we will probably chose Authorware, since we
already own the mac half and are familiar with it.

Please respond if you have not already done so...

thanks in advance


______________________________________
Jon Gorrono
Media Integrator
Instruction and Media Support
UC Davis
(916)752-0218
jpgorrono@ucdavis.edu
_______________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Subject: Re: Info needed on CD-Rom Audio
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19:23:56 GMT


In article <1992Oct14.130445.15513@bnr.ca>, grier@bnr.ca writes:
> I am working on a CD-ROM extension to one of our systems.
> Accessing the High Sierra data is not much of a problem.
> But I need the commands to play audio CD's. If anyone has this
> information I'd appreciate it.
> 

You don't give enough information to answer yuor question.  However the
basic answer is RTFM.

Get the manual for the particular brand of CD-ROM drive you have and
look for the SCSI commands that cause it to play an audio CD through
the headphone jack (or line-out jacks) on the CD-ROM drive.

If you want to read audio data from an audio CD into your system you are
out of luck unless your system is a Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo or
Personal IRIS 4D/35.  SGI ships a specially modified version of the
Toshiba 3301B CD-ROM drive that can read audio CD's and transfer the
data across the SCSI bus.  Currently this is the only CD-ROM drive in
the world that can do this.  SGI also ships a library,libcdaudio, that
makes it easy to take advantage of the special features and a CD player
program, cdman, that plays CD's through the Indigo's audio hardware.

If you have an Indigo, the answer is still RTFM.

	-Mark
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,sci.electronics
From: rmiller@menudo.uh.edu (Robert W. Mudge Miller)
Subject: Capturing QuickTime video w/ NuVista+ board ? 
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:44:18 GMT


Hello:

Can anyone comment on the possibility of creating QuickTime movies using
a NuVista+ board from TrueVision?  The board is a real-time framegrabber
and it would seem that it would be possible to create QT movies with it.
Is anyone aware of software that might permit this?

A related question: Is QT video capture software generic or video-board 
specific. For example, does Video Spigot come with its own capture & edit
software or is it generic with the appropriate drivers for the frame
grabber installed ?

I know how to play and otherwise manipulate QT movies I get from others
but I have never seen how they are created. I have a camcorder, frame-grabber,
and a color Mac with a big hard disk. What do I do?

Inquiring minds want to know....

Robert Miller / College of Education / Univ of Houston

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Saving presentations to video tape
Date: 12 Oct 1992 19:03:22 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

In article <1992Oct13.002950.3397@research.nj.nec.com> zilla@ccrl.nj.nec.com (John Lewis) writes:
>Most mac-II models will record direct to video with the addition of
>some init or something, which is available from apda for about $30.

I assume you are referring to VideoSync. Saying that this will allow
you to "record direct to video" is a bit misleading. What it does is
allow change the scan rate on a monitor so that it can be videotaped
*from a camera*. It also allows you to change the phase of the scan
so that the horizontal line caused by the relative phases of the monitor
and camera being out of sync is not visible. It does not work with many
monitor types, Portrait, 9", 19", and so on. I have only used it with
13" 8 bit or 24 bit video cards. It works OK, though getting the camera
tilt to match that of the monitor, trying to eliminate all glare from
the monitor glass, and constantly adjusting the phase made it frustrating
sometimes.

To truly record direct to video, you need some kind of video card that
has an NTSC output option. Someone earlier posted a list of such cards
for the Mac that were evaluated in MacUser August 1991:

Generation Systems TV Board $395
Generation Systems TV Box $395
Mass Microsystems Colorspace IIi/fx $1995
RasterOps Provideo 32 $1750
RastorOps Video Expander $575
Truevision NuVista Board $2995

I think the RastorOps products have since been replaced by the 24stv
and related boards. All of these products vary considerably in options.
I have used the Colorspace IIi/fx board. It does a lot of nifty things,
but it's only 8 bit and rather slow. The NTSC output has been fine,
though it will only operate in RGB or NTSC at one time and has to be
rebooted to change from NTSC to RGB.

>Rasterops 364 and 24stv (roughly $800-$1400) will encode video
>and digitize video, though the video cannot be saved to disk at 30fps.  
>They will also display a video source in a window.

Now digital video, i.e. QuickTime, is another matter. There are an
increasing number of boards that will record QuickTime, if that fits
your purpose, but I had understood the original question to be about
NTSC conversion. By the way, I just got a release from Vision Software
about CameraMan - an application that records to QuickTime whatever shows
on the Mac monitor. They are touting it as a way to record demos and
presentations. They are offering it to attendees of the Apple Developer's
Conference for $74.50 and giving the list price as $149.

Another application especially made for people videotaping presentations
is MacroMind's MediaMaker. You can edit and synchronize your presentation
using Director animations, sound files, audio CDs, graphic images, etc.
If you have a video card with NTSC output, MediaMaker will then control
a VCR through a control-L/M/S/P interface to automatically assemble the
presentation on videotape.

Bill Alves
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: rgupta@iti.gov.sg (Ram Gupta)
Subject: Info needed on - NeXtstep 
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:03:11 GMT

Hi,
I am looking for info on NeXtstep (mainly on software architecture & APIs
which it support). I would greatly appreciate your help.
thanks
--ram










Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,misc.forsale.computers