HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Help!  None of the PassWord stuff works anymore!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:32:59 GMT

The other day I was trying to come up with a way to protect the
GS from the unfriendlies (i.e. my roommates who think clones running
Windows 3.1 is the end-all, be-all of personal computing...),
and I came upon the discovery...

None of them works anymore, at least not with System 6.0!

Okay, before I start a major panick spell, let me explain:

I've used the StartPass init from Guy T. Rice (sp?), and it works.
I've also used LockOut NDA by Roy LeCates, it works too.
Just for the heck of it, I tried SoftLock from GS+ magazine, and
no surprise there, it works too.

				BUT...

If you press <shift> at the startup time, all DAs and Inits will NOT
be loaded, leaving the system (MY SYSTEM!) vulnerable to nosy heads
and sticky fingers... not a pretty picture...

So:  Does anyone know of a gizmo for the GS that will protect the
GS at startup, with or without the <shift> key being pressed?
(short of pulling out the 65816, or taking the ADB cable connector
with me :)

Thanks in advance.

Jimmy

(Sorry if my message sounds a bit goofy, it's 5:33 AM, and I haven't
slept in close to 36 hours now...)



--
Jimmy Shaw			 RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
jimmys@ics.uci.edu
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From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: UtilityWorks
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:51:14 GMT
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Originator: ltchean@rambutan


After reading GS+ about UtilityWorks and UtilityLaunch (it says, throw away
Finder 6.0!), I decided to try out the 2 programs. Unfortunately, I can only 
find UtilityLaunch at the used-to-be tybalt.caltech.edu (is this the latest
version for 6.0?), but NOT UtilityWorks.

Anybody know where can I get the latest versions of both programs?

BTW: where I can get the DOS 3.3 programmer runner for Finder? I can't find it
     in tybalt too.


Thye Chean
-- 
    %% GS Lover Loves GS %%    Author of Super Magic 3 & Mandelbrot II GS
    %%  and Avatar too.  %%   
          Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.
     My address: LTCHEAN@ISS.NUS.SG, or 9, College Green, Singapore 1129 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Subject: Hardware handshaking modem cable
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:29:55 GMT
X-Disclaimer:  Material posted in this article is the sole responsibility of
                the poster and does not represent MCSNet or the system owners.


	Thanks for the comments regarding a high-speed modem.  What's the
best source for a hardware handshaking cable? I looked in Resource Central
at their $15 cables, but they didn't specify that they were hardware
handshaking.. are they?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dfm2@engr.uark.edu (Douglas Miles)
Subject: Apple //gs ftp sites? (other than ftp.apple.com)
Summary: what are some?
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:31:11 GMT

I would like to know some of the ftp sites that support the
Apple //gs. Thanks!

Douglas Miles
dfm2@engr.uark.edu
From: drh@dpfe.UUCP (David R. Huddleston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IIc to DOS transfer
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:23:14 GMT
Reply-To: drh@dpfe.UUCP ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Division of AT&T

Does anyone have a program which will convert text files from an Apple to DOS
formats.  My children do most of their school work on IIc/e and would like to 
use our PC(DOS 5) at home.  I would like to convert simple text files from 
their apple disks to dos and back.  I know there are boards, etc, but surely
someone has written a program to do this.
From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL ("ERIC S FORD")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:Weather.shk....
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:19:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Well, I tried the stripper program on both weather.shk and
weathergs.shk.  The indication was that a Macbinary header was present,
however, deleting it did not help.  Neither file is recognized as a
known archive even after stripping.  I went back in with the block
editor and found that there is still a slight difference from a normal
Shrinkit processed file.  I don't have the Shrinkit file format notes in
front of me so I can't analyze exactly what the proper heading should
be.  I can see, however, in the two bad files (after the Macbinary
header is stripped) that there are still some inconsistencies.  For
example, in a proper file the word 'NuFILE' starts at byte 0, 'NuFX'
occurs at byte $30 and the original filename occurs at byte $09C.  In
the Weather.SHK file the 'NuFX' occurs one byte earlier and the original
filename occurs at byte $09A.

Any suggestions what to try next?

Eric S. Ford


Xref: sparky comp.sys.super:944 comp.lang.fortran:3569
From: mckenney@CIMS.NYU.EDU (Alan McKenney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Compiler directives to enforce scalar (non-vector) mode
Summary: What are the compiler directives for scalar mode on
         various vector machines?
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:20:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.super
Organization: Courant Institute, NYU, NY, NY, USA


    I am currently writing (well, updating) a code which is
supposed to be (a) portable and (b) have one loop which will be
vectorized (on vector machines) and another, very similar, which will
not be.  (The scalar version is for the case when the loop will
only iterate a very few times.)

    My first attempt had the first loop be written in a typical
vectorizable form, the second I put enough scalars into to make
it scalar on one machine I used.  I later found that other
compilers were smarter, and *both* loops vectorized.  I suspect
that as compiler technology improves, any code which foils the
vectorizer now will either (a) soon be vectorizable or (b)
be so obfuscated that it will be slower than vector mode
with vector length one anyway.

    So, I am now going to try just putting in compiler directives,
enough so that most any vector machine should recognize one.  CONVEX
machines require "C$DIR SCALAR" just before the DO, while CRI machines
want "CDIR$ NOVECTOR" in the same place, so my scalar loop currently
starts out:

C$DIR SCALAR
CDIR$ NOVECTOR
      DO ....
 

Any other compiler directives that I should add to the list?

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	* Please send me E-mail, and I will try to *
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(Boy, I wish someone would come up with a standard for such
compiler directives.)



Alan McKenney
E-mail: mckenney@cims.nyu.edu  <-- "accept no substitutes!"
Newsgroups: ut.supercomputer,ut.general,comp.sys.super
From: edwest@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Dr. Edmund West)
Subject: MPP vendor presentations scheduled
Keywords: MPP, parallel, supercomputer
Organization: UofT High Performance Computing
Distribution: tor
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:18:47 GMT

  University of Toronto High Performance Computing will be sponsoring
in-depth presentations by two vendors of Massively Parallel Processing
(MPP) products.
  Preliminary descriptions are shown below. Mark these two events on
your calendars now. Detailed announcements (showing locations and full
agendas) will be circulated later.

(1) 22-Sep (Tue):  nCUBE Corporation
        10-12:     "Overview of the nCUBE product line (2E, 2W, 3)"
         2- 4:     "nCUBE Technical Features"

(2) 24-Sep (Thu):  Kendall Square Research Corporation
        10-12:     "Overview of the KSR1"
         2- 4:     "KSR1 Technical Features"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:29:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

September 14, 1992 - Meeting notice -- The PARALLEL Processing 
Connection

MasPar - Supercomputing With a SIMD Architecture

The high performance computing world is becoming increasingly focused 
on MIMD based machines;  MasPar believes that the "MIMD hysteria" has 
clouded the real problem, delivering application performance. Their VP of 
Technology and Architecture, Tom Blank, will discuss the applications 
which best utilize the MasPar autonomous SIMD architecture. Tom is 
uniquely qualified to do this; it is our understanding that he was the prime 
developer of the architecture. Too, this will be the first public presentation 
of their new I/O system which provides solid state disk, I/O buffering and a 
shared extended memory with transfer rates up to 1GB/sec. As usual, we 
will explore third party opportunities for our members with MasPar. And 
we will want to know if they are targeting industrial and commercial 
customers for their machine.

The meeting will take place at 7:30PM at Sun Microsystems at 901 East San 
Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. This is just off the southbound 
San Antonio exit of 101; northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and
take the overpass to the other side of 101.

Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left out or 
left standing. There is a $8 fee for non-members and members are admitted 
free.

-- 
B. Mitchell Loebel                                      parallel@netcom.COM
PARALLEL Processing Connection                                 408-732-9869
From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: CMSSL routine for solving 2D finite difference?
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:30:58
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA
Distribution: comp.sys.super
NNTP-Posting-Host: underprize.think.com
In-reply-to: jamartin@nmsu.edu's message of Sun, 6 Sep 1992 05:06:55 GMT

In article <JAMARTIN.92Sep5220655@gauss.nmsu.edu> jamartin@nmsu.edu (Jay Martinez) writes:

      I am trying to do a two-dimensional finite difference formulation
      on a CM-200.  For the resulting system of equations Ax=B, I get an
      A maxtrix that looks like this:

Lennart Johnsson (Director of Computational Sciences) made the following
comments:

To: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@Think.COM>
Subject: Re: CMSSL routine for solving 2D finite difference? 
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:35:22 EDT
From: Lennart Johnsson <johnsson@Think.COM>

	They can solve it iteratively using the grid-sparse matrix-vector
	routine, or embed it in a block tridiagonal system (not necessarily 
	very efficient)

	The performance of an iterative solver should be further enhanced
	by the Stencil compiler in 3.1.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: giordano@tamaro.cscs.ch (Silvia Giordano)
Subject: Information System
Organization: Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico / CH-6928 Manno
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:20:04 GMT


In order to provide a good level of support to our users we intend to realize an 
efficient information service, offering:
- on-line information service (documentation, user guide, etc.)
- Frequently Asked Questions service
- Other generic information on major programs and packages.
Do you get similar system? Could you suggest us some IRS? There is someone having
experience in this area? I'm certainly interested in knowing what kind of
user support is offered by other supercomputing cetner.

We also need another kind of database, to collect accounting information of our 
users, and we would like to install a good database system to avoid security 
problems; this second dataabase is needed for internal use only.

Your suggestions will be helpful. 
Thanks. SIlvia

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                                     Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: jamartin@nmsu.edu (Jay Martinez)
Subject: CMSSL routine for solving 2D finite difference?
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.sys.super
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 05:06:55 GMT



   I am trying to do a two-dimensional finite difference formulation
   on a CM-200.  For the resulting system of equations Ax=B, I get an
   A maxtrix that looks like this:

    
               |  c    d              e                 |
               |                                        |
               |  b    c    d              e            |
               |                                        |
               |       b    c    d              e       |
               |                                        |
               |           b    c    d               e  |
               |                                        |
               |  a              b    c    d            |
               |                                        |
               |       a              b    c    d       |
               |                                        |
               |            a              b    c    d  |
               |                                        |
               |                 a             b    c   |

   where the space between the centre tridiagonal band and the outer
   bands is two.  Does anyone know of a CMSSL routine that will solve
   such a system?  Or is there anyway to transform this system into
   one that can be solved by another CMSSL sparse system routine?
   The CMSSL routine gen_penta_diag doesn't seem to have a provision
   for spaces between bands.  I would appreciate any suggestions.

   Jay Jansen Martinez (jamartin@NMSU.Edu)
   
   Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
   New Mexico State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: status of Supercomputing Review?
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:35:26 GMT

Hi Richard!
Time for another supercomputers and graphic meeting eh?
We must do it again.

In article <_ylnt!n.rchrd@netcom.com> rchrd@netcom.com
(Richard Friedman) writes:
>But it looks like what started out as
>an "add-on" feature, SUPERNET, has taken over.
>I think this is a very bad idea.  I've even said so
>on SUPERNET, only to have my comments deleted by 
>their censors.

Is this so?  Something like the Prodigy incident?
Can you elaborate?

>I found SUPERNETs interface to be so lame and
>retarded that I'm loathe to use it.  I guess one
>could search around to find the articles  you'd
>want to read, download them, print them, and then
>read them next time you go to the bathroom.
>But why?
>Its really dumb.  And especially if now they are
>going to ask us to PAY for this.




Yeah, I had a few problems with the hierarchical interface, but that's
a very common thing to do with lots of novice people.

The problem I had was that I recently got email from them asking to
come back.  The email note contained my password to their account 
>>IN THE CLEAR.  THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.  So I recommend subscribers to<<
>>       ^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<<
change their passwords to something they don't use on other hosts.
This contrasts to some of the one-way schemes used by most systems.
Didn't they have an article on supercomputer security some time ago?



The other problem I've had are occasional editorial problems (any
magazine can have them), one can tell they read this Usenet group.
E.g., David Kahaner's first name was once printed as something other than
David.

>I would complain regarding the unused $$ of your
>subscription.  Sounds to me like they are pocketing
>the cash to cover expenses.
>
>Maybe its time for some one else to pick yp the
>pieces are publish another magazine for the
>supercomputing community.
>
>How about "Supercomputer User" for starters?
>Anyone want to invest?


How about Scientific Programming?


8^)

Let me say that I think SR was trying to do something very brave in today's
economic climate, they just need a little guidance.  Their orientation
is just a tad batchy/IBMish/CRIish.  One occasionally wonders what
workstations are doing in a magazine oriented to supercomputers.  I am
certain that I and others will watch with interest what happens.  Meanwhile,
I should log in and change my passwd.


--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Acting Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
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Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Unvells Ultra High Speed Supercomputer
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 08:16:03 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <d#wnc3_@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
>
>This paragraph has me puzzled.   This system has 222 processors, so
>in what sense is it a single prcocessor ("-- a single processor
>performance level ten times greater...") ?  In either case, this
>peak performance with 222 processors is about half of a Cray C-90,
>which only has 16 processors.  So I am missing something?
>

Sorry, I was confusing something when I wrote the comment about the
speed of the C-90.  It was a long day :-) .  

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Unvells Ultra High Speed Supercomputer
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:27:41 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

>(San Jose, CA September 9, 1992) --  Fujitsu Limited today
>announced that it has developed and will begin marketing
>worldwide a new supercomputer capable of delivering unprecedented
>peak performance of 355 gigaflops (355 billion floating point
>operations per second) with only 222 processors -- a single
>processor performance level ten times greater than any parallel
>system available today.  The new system, called the VPP500 vector
>parallel processor, will be available for commercial shipment in
>September of 1993.

This paragraph has me puzzled.   This system has 222 processors, so
in what sense is it a single prcocessor ("-- a single processor
performance level ten times greater...") ?  In either case, this
peak performance with 222 processors is about half of a Cray C-90,
which only has 16 processors.  So I am missing something?

John
-- 
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Partner, Quetzal Computational Associates    
3200 Carlisle N.E., Albuquerque, NM   87110-1664; 505-889-4543
john@aquarius.unm.edu -or- jkprent@cs.sandia.gov -or- prentice@rufous.cs.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: tucker@bedford.progress.COM (Kyle Tucker)
Subject: Re: /etc/dump (backup) errors
Reply-To: tucker@bedford.progress.COM
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:34:22 GMT

In article <sivbl.716535512@win4>, sivbl@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Brett L Sivies) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 
|> pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory) writes:
|> 
|> >we use /etc/dump - the filesystem dump program here.  two years ago i
|> >wrote a shell-script wrapper for it so the operators could just answer
|> >questions.  that works fine, if i tell dump to write directly to output 
|> >device.  if i tell dump to write to stdout (an allowable feature 
|> >according to the man page), it writes several error messages to the 
|> >screen at the end of the dump that say "DUMP: Failure to acquire 
|> >semaphore", "DUMP: Failure to release semaphore" and "DUMP: Possibly 
|> >corrupted archive" (i'm not sure about the exact text of the last one).
|> 
|> 1. Yes the problem has arrisen for myself, and with the help of sequent I
|> was able to fix the problem straight away... Is the Tape drive you are
|> using an Exabyte or standard .25 cartridge?
|> My problem centred around an exebyte drive on a S27.
|> We had to make sure the tape drive was getting all the right parameters
|> before it would work correctly...
|> 
|> /etc/dump 0sbdfu 15070 8 500000 /dev/rmt/<tape> /dev/dsk/<disk>
|> 
|> This is running under PTX 1.3.0 and it works fine dumping to an exabyte
|> drive.
|> 
We had the same problems with PTX 1.3 with Cybernetics 8mm drive. Sequent
FAXed us a lengthy tech note in which tehy give two options to solve the
problem.

1) Increase SEMAEM from default 16384 to 32767

2) Use a larger block size based on the file system size.

I did the former and dump runs fine now. The tech note's name/number is
snote-hw-tape-t8mm-2.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: jallen@oat2.standard.com (John Allen)
Subject: PCNFSD version 2 needed
Organization: Standard Insurance Company - Portland Oregon
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:48:48 GMT

We need makefiles and tweaks for the PCNFSD version 2
for a sequent running PTX.   Has anyone gotten the code that came with the
PC-NFS disks to compile?  Sequent only ships version 1 of the PCNFSd.

Thanx in advance

-- 
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Network Services                               Telephone: (503) 243-6189
Standard Insurance, Portland Oregon                  FAX: (503) 321-3313
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets)
Subject: Gcc for Sequent
Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
Disclaimer: Views expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:51:24 GMT

Does anyone have a copy of Gcc that is configured or has been compiled on 
Sequent Dynix 3.0.17 ???



-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory)
Subject: filesystem lookup routines
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 21:14:05 GMT

Hi - PTX 1.1.1 here...

On the subject of system tuning, I collect SAR reports from our PTX systems
daily, and I wonder if anyone with solid information can expand on the SAR
statistics iget/s, namei/s and dirblk/s .  I know they all have to do with
various forms of filesystem lookups, but I'd like to know more about this.
In particular, I'm wondering what kernel tune parameters affect these (ie.
does increasing the inode table aid in iget/s or namei/s caching?).

Thanks much...
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