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From: ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Rebel without a grant
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:28:10 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <RSHOLMES.92Aug19123132@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>In article <17861@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:
>
>>ObAngst: Milk producers putting half a litre of milk into a pint carton
>>       and charging the same price. Look, instant profit increase !
>>       In the UK our pints, pounds and miles are under constant attack
>>       from those nasty metric foreigners.
>
>Eh? You're complaining about getting 1.06 pints for the price of 1?
>
>Liters are BIGGER than quarts, son.
>
>--
>Inspected by number 23

ObAngst: Wasting bandwidth just to point out that UK pints and US pints
         are not the same. 1 pint = 568ml.
         Should have spotted the superior spelling of 'litre' there Rich :-)

Alex.
From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Friends (was Re: a girl in McDonalds)
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:13:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <mumble> steve@cse.fau.edu (Steve Smith) writes:

>PS: I have more than 2 friends.

That's your problem.  Too many friends.

Regards.
-- 
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despair@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Rebel without a grant (was fat, smelly)
In-reply-to: ABienek@acorn.co.uk's message of 18 Aug 92 17:30:56 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<17861@acorn.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:40:46 EDT

In article <17861@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:

>ObAngst: Milk producers putting half a litre of milk into a pint carton
>	 and charging the same price. Look, instant profit increase !
>	 In the UK our pints, pounds and miles are under constant attack
>	 from those nasty metric foreigners.

Eh? You're complaining about getting 1.06 pints for the price of 1?

Liters are BIGGER than quarts, son.

--
Inspected by number 23
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Angst comparison (was Re: money angst)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:02:34 GMT

In article <77863@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>
>hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>
>: Interesting....of late, I had been thinking to myself that it's been a long
>: time since I've felt...well, I guess 'involved'.  I've got a good job which
>: I enjoy, etc. etc. etc., but I don't have any thrills in my life.  

>i felt like that about three years ago. i was 25, just finishing my
>degree, married to a boring person, living a yuppie kinda life...
>lotsa stuff, but nothing that was really interesting or pulled me out
>of myself.


What the hell is it about being 25 that causes this!?!?!
Post-college/real-job Trauma Stress Syndrome?  I'm 25 and I've got it,
too. 



>so i got divorced, moved to a completely new town where i knew no one,
>and did a lot of things i'd never even considered before. some of them
>were pretty dumb, and i've had some really shitty times <and sometimes
>it feels like i'm still kinda on the edge of reality>, but i've had a
>lot of times where i've been walking along, going to do whatever, and
>sudddenly been so incredibly happy with the world i didn't know if i
>was big enough to hold it all, if that makes snnse.


I've been seriously considering your "Lifequake Theory" for the last few
months now.  Maybe I should just jump.



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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: fat smelly pretentious auteur (presumed innocent)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:47:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.210132.19132@u.washington.edu> reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler) writes:
>>>>I think Kate Bush should be required listening for all angsters.
>>
>Woody Allen should be required viewing. 

An angstful kind of guy, true.  But I've always had this problem with him.
You'd think a director of his caliber should have a more sophisticated
philosophy of casting than "Hmm, who should play the female lead in this
next movie?  Well, who am I boinking this week?  Yeah, she's obviously 
the best-qualified person for the job."  They call this "ART".

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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: PIB(Was Re:fat smelly boyfriend)
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:01:11 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug20.043923.2333@nmsu.edu> storm@acca.nmsu.edu (Keith C. Estanol) writes:
>
>[ don't accuse me of cascading ]
[Me either]
>>ObAngst:everybody here is angsting about their boyfriends and girlfriends and
>>PIBs. I just wish I HAD a girlfriend to angst over....
>>
>
>I hate to ask this, but ... What's a PIB?

PartnerInBoink....see yesterdays posting for a full desc...

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: ignore this unless you are chris ulrich
Summary: bounced email
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:09:58 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


hey, chris. didn't want you to think i was ignoring your email. in fact. i 
wrote a long long response, but it bounced. please let me know if you have
an account i can mail to.

bah.

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      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:10:01 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug18.232441.10198@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>Well, you see, KaTe inspires such devotion in us that it's hard to stomach 
>anyone not automatically falling on their face in Her presence. Some types new
>to her worship will turn this into a conversion trip. Not me. I'm as big 
>a KateHead as you're likely to find, but other's music tastes are their own
>affair. However, there are a few NonKaTeHeads here and I can't understand 
>them. :-)

Okay, well the capitalization of the K and T would explain the big 'KT' one
of the aforementioned KateHeads here has in his office carved out of carpet.
I still don't understand it. Maybe somebody will bring some of her stuff with
them to the mini-angstcon and expose me and I'll see the light.

>>ObAngst:everybody here is angsting about their boyfriends and girlfriends and
>>PIBs. I just wish I HAD a girlfriend to angst over....

>PIBs? That's a new one. What's it mean?
Its a TLA for PartnersInBoink. It expresses a relationship that is somewhat
beyond a one-nighter, but not really a deep SO-type situation. Basically
friends'n'sex. 

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org

"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: After Death Mints
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:30:00 GMT

In article <17813@acorn.co.uk> ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:
>
>This is all probably true, especially the bit about immortality. Extreme life
>extension (several thousand years) could well be possible within the next
>century or so. We could be one of the last mortal generations, how is that
>for a depressing thought. After all those millennia of human development,
>having to live their lives always in the shadow of an imminent demise, we
>should fall short of virtual immortality by a few lousy decades.

Doesn't bother me.  I'm 31; my grandfathers both died at 75.  (My
grandmothers each made at least 80.)

And I think it not at all unreasonable to expect the nanotechnology
revolution to begin before 2036.
-- 
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Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: After Death Mints
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:36:20 GMT

In article <machala.714086839@delphi> machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:
>
>So you want a few thousand more years of angst? Wow! I'm impressed. Just think
>what it would be like living with billions and billions of other virtual 
>immortals. The single _biggest_ problem facing the world as a whole is over-
>population. And you would like to end the only possible remedy for this
>problem?! 

That's why we're so much worse off than our ancestors were a hundred years
ago, right?

Eternal youth for everyone means:

- Social Security vanishes.

- The gifted don't fade and die.
  (If brilliant inventors get into a rut, well, at least they can teach.)

- People have selfish reasons to plant redwoods.

-- 
D Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:47:07 GMT
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

gary l. schroeder (schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov) wrote:
: 
: Well, the problem at Brookhaven is the deer ticks.  You must live
: in perpetual fear of contracting this most nasty disease from tiny, tiny
: insects that grab on to your ankles whenever you walk through the grass.
: you see, we have the largest wild deer population at the site that I've
: ever seen.  They run the place like vermin.  The redeeming factor is
: that they're still pretty to look at.  The damning factor is that
: they're like giant, organic vacuum cleaners for ticks.
: 
Reminds me of an incident here at GE a few months ago.  A deer decided to take
a tour of our research labs, so he leapt through the lunchroom window (big
plate glass about 8' wide x 12' high).  Ran around the lunchroom, down the
corridor, into the research lab, and into one of the test cells.  The results
are fairly predictable.

ObAngst:  Why do I always miss seeing this stuff by a few minutes?  Things always
happen when I'm either 1> out of the room, 2> on vacation, or 3> glancing
away for a moment.  I got to see the aftermath & cleanup of the whole thing.

TurboBah <stolen>

--

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: perry@ossi.com (Perry Tucker)
Subject: screen saver and mouse speed
Summary: xset does not appear to work for openwin2.0
Keywords: xset mouse acceleration screen saver
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:26:56 GMT

I am running OpenWindows 2.0 on an IPX.  I have tried to speed up
my mouse acceleration by using xset , xset m 6 2, and it did not
work.  I have tried setting the screen saver with xset s 1200 and this
does not work ( I know about screenblank and am running it). Xset will
also not turn off the darn bell. 

Could someone please give me a clue as to how to fix this stuff or
make the magic happen?

thanks

==perry
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: brianm@ecst.csuchico.edu (Brian Meyerpeter)
Subject: Performance software
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:16:20 GMT

I am looking for some performance software that will run on my workstations.
It should be able to alocate memory efficiently by its self and on a network.
If any of you have any ideas regarding this topic, please email me.

							Thanks!!


Xref: sparky alt.sys.sun:3043 comp.windows.x:15273
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm link problem (SunOS 4.1.1)
Date: 15 Aug 1992 09:37:18 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Aug14.124959.7304@meiko.com> mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok) writes:
>fine except xdm which failed to link with this error message:
>ld: Undefined symbol
>   __C0095A2A

Get patch 100267 from Sun.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.x
From: lsczani@andy.bgsu.edu (Leszek J. Sczaniecki)
Subject: Problem with X11R5 on Sun 3/60
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: X11, Sun 3/60
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:59:41 GMT

I have downloaded X11R5 from MIT and compiled on Sun 3/60 SOS 4.1.1.
Works, but with an annoying bug: whenever cursor (cross) touches
left or right boundary X11 screen disappears and one can see
the last screen before starting X11. 
How I can fix it?

Thanks.
From: oreilly@scripps.edu (Patty O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Newsprint2.0 Rev B bug
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:42:59 GMT
Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Has anyone run across Newsprint2.0 Rev B's latest bug?  Don't install
it on a Sparc2 unless your cache chips are manufactured by LSI, as AT&T
chips will cause the kernel to Data fault the lpd process.  We haven't
been able to determine what the manufacturing dates are of Sparc2 CPU's
that fail, but they appear to be in the middle of the manufacturing run.

I've been in touch with numerous people at Sun and it seems this bug
will not be addressed in future Newsprint releases.  Instead, we are
encouraged to purchase a CPU board upgrade (at $430 a pop), or downgrade
our version of Newsprint to 1.0.

For those of us with third party maintenance, due to ever increasing Sun
maintenance prices,  this could get expensive!

We have nine Sparc printers on our network, eight of them are served by
Sparc2s.  And, unfortunately, Newsprint 2.0 Rev A has a really tedious
bug that manifests itself when Macintosh's try to print.  Newsprint's
eehelper process creates a file that grows and grows until /tmp is full.

What's happened to the Sun I knew and loved?  It appears they have grown
up to be yet another 3-letter computer company...

--Patty (oreilly@scripps.edu)
From: masa@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Masayoshi Habu)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:33:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Newsprint2.0 Rev B bug
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun

In alt.sys.sun, oreilly@scripps.edu (Patty O'Reilly) writes:

> Has anyone run across Newsprint2.0 Rev B's latest bug?  Don't install
> it on a Sparc2 unless your cache chips are manufactured by LSI, as AT&T
> chips will cause the kernel to Data fault the lpd process.  We haven't
> been able to determine what the manufacturing dates are of Sparc2 CPU's
> that fail, but they appear to be in the middle of the manufacturing run.

> I've been in touch with numerous people at Sun and it seems this bug
> will not be addressed in future Newsprint releases.  Instead, we are
> encouraged to purchase a CPU board upgrade (at $430 a pop), or downgrade
> our version of Newsprint to 1.0.

I heard that Sun would put 4 pull-up registers on the mother board to fix
this hardware problem with an FCP order WO_02798. This AT&T cache chip bug
showed up when one of our customers used an SBus GP-IB board. I don't know
if Sun charges any money to fix their problem. Please let me know if Sun
tells you a different story.

Masa
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: ANSI C compiler for Sun?
From: jiu1@husc9.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu)
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:09:51 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Does anyone know whether Sun will release an ANSI C compiler (at
least one that conforms to Kernighan and Ritchie 1988) any time
soon?  Or there is one already?

Bugs
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.x
From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
Subject: xdm link problem (SunOS 4.1.1)
Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:49:59 GMT

I recently built X11 R5 (witp fixes 1 to 16 applied) on a Sparcstation
1+ running SunOS 4.1.1 (with the ld patch 100170-08 and the libc patch
100266-06 installed) using Sun's cc as a compiler.  Everything built
fine except xdm which failed to link with this error message:

ld: Undefined symbol
   __C0095A2A
*** Error code 2

I have #define'd SunPost411FCSLd YES in my site.def as instructed in
fix #9.

If anyone knows what I've done wrong I'd be most grateful for any
advice.

Thanks,

Mike
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From: carruth@mksol.dseg.ti.com (matthew carruth)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Printer queue problems
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:52:24 GMT
Organization: internet

I have a laser printer attached to a Sun (4.1.1).  If I  send a large number of
postscript jobs to the printer a strange thing happens.  All the jobs show in the
queue and seem to be processed normally.  The problem is this:  all the jobs 
after the first 5-6 never actually print.  This can be quite frustrating.

The queue and printer are used only for postscript jobs.

Any ideas?


Keywords: 


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From: bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.intergraph
Subject: Platforms
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:10:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MN/DOT

Hello,

The organization I work for is just about done migrating from the VAX platform
and now people are beginning to ask "Which platform should we be moving toward?"
The question is pointed mainly at PC vs InterPro.  So far I am one of the very
few who has mentioned Sun as an option.

I have my opinions about platforms and several of the people I work with have
others (some agree some don't).  I would like to know how people in other
organizations feel about platforms directions.  Now, I know that there are
cases where the environment or workload dictate the platform.  That's not really
what I'm looking for.

Thanks

 bob

bob@sparkie.umn.edu
(218) 723-4914
From: cce@itd.dsto.gov.au (Chris Ekins)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.intergraph
Subject: 2D to 3D DGN File conversion problem
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:46:47 GMT
Reply-To: cce@itd.dsto.gov.au
Organization: Information Technology Division, DSTO Salisbury

I have discovered a bug in the MDL app CNVDGN called from either 
MDL LOAD CNVDGN or File->Export->3D.

When CNVDGN is being used to convert one of my 2D files to 3D, 
the MDL app crashes Microstation with the error "MicroStation 
terminating with Signal type 7".

Having read the documentation on both the 2D->3D & 3D->2D 
conversions saying that 3D->2D cannot handle type 66, level 5 
elements (reference file attachment definitions), I have removed 
all my type 66 elements from my 2D source file (using the command 
"delete 66elements all") and have tried the conversion again.  
The MDL app still crashes MicroStation with the same error.

Is there anything I can do that will stop this problem?

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From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.intergraph
Subject: Meadlock Takes Over
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:02:57 GMT

I'm hearing rumors that Meadlock has taken the reins back from Elliot
James (who's going to Dazix).

Any confirmations, denials?
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.intergraph
From: millerr@ptd475b.erim.org (Rob Miller)
Subject: Advanced Packaging Consortium
Organization: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:47:58

I have been trying for sometime now to get information out of Intergraph/Dazix
on their Advanced Packaging Consortium.  I can not get anyone - including the
director of the consortium - to send me information on the group.

Does anyone out there belong to this Consortium?  Is it worthwhile?

Any info whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

Rob Miller
ERIM
Ann Arbor, MI
e-mail: millerr@erim.org
Xref: sparky alt.sys.amiga.uucp:1878 comp.sys.amiga.applications:6567
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: pagers, testers and spoolers
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
Keywords: betatest spoolers pagers
Summary: I need a spooler and testers for amiga software that send pages
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:01:52 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

I've now got a small suite of programs that allow an Amiga to send
text to an alphanumeric pager. Applications include monitering log
files, mail to pagers, and an interface to Nag (so my Amiga in Palo
Alto can page me in Santa Cruz to tell me I have to be in San
Francisco in 15 minutes :-).

One catch: my modem is also used by UUCP, meaning that a page might
get lost because the modem is in use. My solution was to kludge files
for the uucp system so it does retries, but that's kinda clumsy and
leaves a window where pages can get lost. If I could find a sendmail
(or replacement) that checked the return value of the command when
sending mail to a command, and spooled it for later retries, that
would be marvelous. Better yet would be if it supported multiple mail
delivery systems with success checking, so this could become just
another system. Could someome provide a pointer to such a creature? 

Second, I'd like some other people to beat on the current prototype
(yes, it's a prototype), and make suggestions for improvments/bug
fixes. In particular, people who aren't running UUCP or something
similar, and people who don't have WShell installed would be nice.
Anyone with an alphanumeric pager and an Amiga with VLT installed can
participate; just drop me a note.

	<mike

P.S. - for those interested in information services to pagers but who
don't want their Amiga to play, send email to "info@radiomail.net",
subject "Help", body a single line with the word "radiomail" on it.