test-drb November 2001

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by technos＠nerdland.org

While you are right about smke essence, it is probably not applied in the same dose as you are seeing there. Also, I can assure you that no one uses mayo and mustard "mixed" (same bottle?), nor marshmallow "butter"(creme?). Whatever you're eating there is a pure bastardization of what I get here in Detroit or Kansas City or Des Moines. Mmm, greens and a juicy steak burned to a crisp. Jim On Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:39 AM, Iggy Drougge [SMTP:optimus@canit.se] wrote: > Chad Fernandez skrev: > > >Richard Erlacher wrote: > >> Americans have always been somewhat "strange" about their diet, > > >How? I've never seen anything that I thought was strange. We don't eat > >anything that is still alive, or wiggles, or whatever. Our food is > >pretty basic, with the exception maybe of some fancy stuff.... but a lot > >of that is foreign influence. > > I find it somewhat interesting how Americans define "foreign". Doesn't that > require something "indigenous"? =) > I can't say that I know much about American cousine, save for hamburgers, but > there is a shop in Stockholm which specialises in American food, and I must > say that the general impression I've got is that it's absolutely deranged. > Two examples: Mustard and mayonnaise mixed into one bottle. Smoke essence, > added to food in order to get a "grilled" quality. > And everything is very colourful. > Oh, and then there's that marshmallow butter, which I think you're supposed > to > have on your sandwich. Makes Nutella seem like a wholesome product. =) > > -- > En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. > > BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC > Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only > medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least, more > fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution". >

24 years

Recent Aquisition

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 10, 9:24, Dave McGuire wrote: > On November 10, jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote: > > > It looks like one of the HDD's (both are SMD) has a 3 phase PSU - > > What drive type? Fujitsu Eagle (14" and 8") where quite common. I have > > seen several of them, but never with 3 phase PSU. > > Huh? 14" and 8" Eagles? Every Eagle I've ever seen has been a 10" > platter drive. Are there Eagles other than the M2351 and M2361? Nope, but there are other Fujitsu SMD drives with larger and smaller platters. The Eagle and Super Eagle were two specific models, approximately 1/2GB and 1GB respectively. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

24 years

OT again Re: food

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On November 10, Carlos Murillo wrote: > I don't believe in God. But I am very aware that I may be missing > something important. I think that people with genuine faith are > lucky. I think it has a lot to do (or maybe everything to do) with personal experience. I don't believe in much of anything unless I see pretty convincing evidence. If you have a personal experience that causes you to believe in something, I think you tend to believe it *much* more strongly than if it was just learned second- or third-hand, or preached at you or something. I think this goes for pretty much anything, not just the current [very much off-topic] conversation. So, to drag us kicking and screaming back to on-topic conversation. As some of you know, I just moved from MD down to FL. My mom lives down here. I'd been here for less than an hour before she presented me with a little housewarming gift...a Commodore 64 with a 1541 disk drive, both in their [beat-up] original boxes, that she'd picked up at a yard sale for two bucks! :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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OT again Re: food

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On November 9, Marvin Johnston wrote: > > >Adam was made in God's own image, not that of a monkey. > > > > Adam who? > > > > Can't believe anybody really believes that Adam and Eve existed. > > I can't believe there is anybody who doesn't believe in God. I can't believe there's anybody who can't be tolerant of the fact that different people may have different beliefs. And yes dammit, before you flame me, I believe in God! -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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Cable and connector source

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 10, 0:36, Don McClure wrote: > PS/2 doesn't use a ground pin, or pin 2, IIRC. It does use ground, on pin 3. From (ironically) the IRIX manpage for pckeyboard: ------ / 5 3 \ | --- 1 | | --- 2 | \ 6 4 / ------ _____________________ |__Pin_Assignments___| |Pin | Description | |____|_______________| | 1 | Data | | 2 | Reserved | | 3 | Signal Ground | | 4 | Power +5V | | 5 | Clock | |_6__|_Reserved______| > So I'm going to find small female crimp on connectors to fasten to the pins > on a Radio Shack mini-DIN plug, when I can get to an electronics supply > store. Radio Shack doesn't seem to have them. I just don't solder often > enough to become proficient at it. I can think of somee alternatives. The first is to buy a cable with 6-pin miniDIN to bare ends; these usually have all 6 wires connected. Second, an old SGI or Sun cable, or any other 6-pin miniDIN cable you can cut one end off, in order to solder a 9-pin D. Thirdly, you can get heatshrink sleeves that contain solder. I'm not sure those would be very good to connect straight onto miniDIN plug pins, because the heat required might melt the plastic, but it might be OK, and neater and easier than a crimp. They're called "One-Step(TM) Solder Sleeve(TM)" terminals, and they're made by Tyco/Raychem. You can get them in the UK from Farnell (http://www.farnell.com) and probably from various US suppliers (including Farnell, I expect). Or just buy a cable from one of the SGI resellers, such as Greg Douglas (www.reputable.com)? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

24 years

STOP THE OT RANTS! This List is sliding off again

by sipke＠wxs.nl

About a month ago we were promised guidelines about how to behave on this list! Now I don't mind a few diversions about food practices in different regions around the world. But ....... "Nuke Redmond" is worse cause it's about computer religions.............. And RANTS about religion (or politics for that matter) are likely to inflame the spirits om many on this list. PLEASE no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I too have strong opions on this subject but the list is no place to shout-over strong opions that will ultimately regress to mudslinging or worse. May the listmaster come up with his guidelines RSN. Regards, Sipke de Wal 'Religious and political list-rants should be regarded virri. They seem selfpropagating enough. So everyone who starts one should be branded a Digital Bio-Terrorist" ----------------------------------------------------- http://xgistor.ath.cx -----------------------------------------------------

24 years

absurdity

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated Fri, 9 Nov 2001 5:03:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Gene Ehrich <gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com> writes: > First of all we should not be having this conversation but your comments > demand an answer. Politics and religion should only be discussed on lists > with that allowed. But since it needs an answer: > > More than half of the worlds population does not believe in a god. > Believing in one is certainly ones right but it is absurd. The highest form > of life in the universe is man. > > Now lets drop the conversation or make it private. First I have seen of this conversation, but like you said - YOUR comments need an answer... I am quite sure that hell will be full of people who agreed that there was no God while they were alive. Unfortunaltely it'll be too late then for them to change their mind. Now you may disagree with me, but I have one question to ask you and you can keep the reply to yourself..... Do you really want to take that chance? Rev. Linc Fessenden

24 years

(fwd) Mass liquidation of Microchannel hardware in the Washington, D.C. area.

by optimus＠canit.se

-- forwarded message -- Path: dos.canit.se!news.netg.se!news-peer-europe.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.md.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua E. Rodd <jerodd_atsign(a)rodds.dot.net> Subject: Mass liquidation of Microchannel hardware in the Washington, D.C. area. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Lines: 36 Message-ID: <ZyyF7.999$Ze5.872309(a)news1.rdc1.md.home.com> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:50:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.1.135.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse(a)home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.md.home.com 1004975417 65.1.135.172 (Mon, 05 Nov 2001 07:50:17 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 07:50:17 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: dos.canit.se comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:95480 I have assorted old Microchannel hardware I'd like to get rid of. It's all free for the ttaking--you just have to come over to my house and get it, because I couldn't be bothered to actually try shipping any of this stuff. The more you take with you, the better. Remove the .dot. and _atsign in my e-mail address to reach me and coordinate a pickup time. I have (roughly): 8580-121 (heavily modified, 80386DX 20MHz) - 8MB 8573-121 (P70 80386DX 20MHZ) - 8MB/120MB 8573-401 (P75 80486DX 33MHz) - 16MB/400MB Assorted small (under 1GB) SCSI disks Assorted options, such as: SCSI adapters XGA-2 Display Adapter Image-Adapter/A (3MB) with Print/Scan Option Serial port options IBM-specific SCSI cabling ActionMedia II Display Adapter and Capture Option with cables Three long M-Audio Capture and Playback Adapter/A and one short M-ACPA/A All kinds of other things I forgot about Piles of Token Ring network cards, Microchannel and ISA, 16/4. Two Token Ring 8228s (not sure if they work) Type 1 Token Ring cabling and dozens of Type 1 to RJ-45 baluns Intel EtherExpress 16 and Cabletron E2100 Ethernet adapters I am located in Alexandria, Virginia, near the Seminary Road exit (exit 4) of I-395. All the hardware is in working condition, for the most part. Please respond by e-mail as I may not have a chance to read the newsgroup on a regular basis. Looking forward to sending this stuff to a better home, Joshua Rodd -- end of forwarded message -- -- Vi m?ste vara r?dda om varandra - det ?r det enda reciproka pronomen vi har.

24 years

OT: food

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! ... Of course, I am the guy the puts ! powdered sugar on french fries,... Powdered suger on french fries? Sounds... wierd... but tasty. I'll have to try it. Well, you _can_ go to a carnival and get fried dough with powdered sugar on it, so I guess it's not that much of a stretch... But I have to admit, McDonalds french fries in thier choclate shake is pretty good too. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years

Cable and connector source

by mcclure3＠home.com

on 11/9/01 6:04 PM, classiccmp-digest at owner-classiccmp-digest(a)classiccmp.org wrote: > I wouldn't try to solder a mini-DIN if I didn't have to. I'd rather just cut > up a cable and solder the right end to it. > There are some tricks to soldering mini-DINs in an AppleGuide file called > "L?ten am Mac". I think one of them involves getting crimp-on solder shoes > (I'm not aware of the proper English nomenclature). I tried cutting up a PS/2 keyboard cable, but of course the pins are wired different: Personal Iris 4D/2x Keyboard Cable Mini-DIN Pin connects to DB-9 Pin ------------- -------- 1 Keybd Recv 2 2 Mouse Recv 5 3 Ground 6 4 +V 7 5 Keybd Xmit 8 6 N/C PS/2 doesn't use a ground pin, or pin 2, IIRC. So I'm going to find small female crimp on connectors to fasten to the pins on a Radio Shack mini-DIN plug, when I can get to an electronics supply store. Radio Shack doesn't seem to have them. I just don't solder often enough to become proficient at it. Unless somebody has one of those cables... ;) Don McClure Bel Air, MD

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test-drb November 2001