22 Nov
2003
22 Nov
'03
1:36 p.m.
For those of you who may have wondered where I'd gone, I really didn't
fall off the face of the Earth (and contrary to what some folks might
believe, the Earth still isn't flat).
I'm currently recovering from a multi-drive failure in my RAID-5 array. I
was very, very lucky in that only one of the drives died a horrible death,
with the 2nd having a semi-recoverable error. The second drive failed
before the array could reconstruct itself, and my spare drive was already
in use. Had I been running an OS where I didn't have the source, I
probably would have lost all of my data (roughly 25-30GB currently), but
since I had the source to the RAID software, I think I've managed to
recover most everything. Let this be a warning to anyone else with a nice
RAID setup who also doesn't keep current backups... My DAT drive died
about 6 months ago, and Sony can't seem to cough up a service manual.
[If anyone has any surplus DLTtape IIIXT tapes sitting around collecting
dust, feel free to contact me off-list. I managed to collect a DLT2000
drive right before my DAT drive died that still hasn't attracted the
proper tapes. I'd also like to find an inexpensive source for new or low
mileage 4/9/18GB UW SCSI drives, as I think it may be best for me to
replace the entire lot of old 9GB drives that made up my RAID-5 array.]
I also have a number of things that still need to get sent out to folks.
If anyone is expecting anything from me and doesn't hear from me soon,
contact me off-list and remind me.
-Toth
23 Nov
23 Nov
8:12 p.m.
Am 22 Nov 2003 21:36 meinte Tothwolf:
For those of you who may have wondered where I'd
gone, I really didn't
fall off the face of the Earth (and contrary to what some folks might
believe, the Earth still isn't flat).
Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the world needs
more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
more blasphemies thre are.
Gruss
H.
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24 Nov
24 Nov
1:27 a.m.
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the world
needs
more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
more blasphemies thre are.
Some say there's some really weird sightings of
*black*, and even
*yellow* colored people out there. Now THAT would be strange, as
we're all the same, and all have the same color, right?
(no kidding. official viewpoint, around 1500 A.D.)
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5:20 a.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Not surprising. There are some parts of America where people don't run
into anyone but white folk until they reach college.
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Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the
world needs
more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
more blasphemies thre are.
Some say there's some really weird sightings of
*black*, and even
*yellow* colored people out there. Now THAT would be strange, as
we're all the same, and all have the same color, right?
(no kidding. official viewpoint, around 1500 A.D.) 
8:17 a.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
True! A recent article about former Gov. Dean of New Hampshire(?)
said that the state is 97% white. So it is not at all unlikely
that some of those 970 people might well not run into the other 30 :)
- don
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Not surprising. There are some parts of America where people don't run
into anyone but white folk until they reach college. Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the
world needs
more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
more blasphemies thre are.
Some say there's some really weird sightings of
*black*, and even
*yellow* colored people out there. Now THAT would be strange, as
we're all the same, and all have the same color, right?
(no kidding. official viewpoint, around 1500 A.D.) Sellam Ismail
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8:38 a.m.
New subject: TCJ / Kaypro ROMS
I'm looking for a TurboROM for a K-10 i just got. anyone know where I can
get one? and if they aren't commercially available anymore, where can I
get an image so I can burn one myself...
1:57 p.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
> Not surprising. There are some parts of America
where people don't
> run into anyone but white folk until they reach college.
Back sometime 1990ish, there was a company in California that tried to
hire me; they flew me down there in an attempt to sell me on the idea.
We went to a Chinese restaurant and I didn't see one Oriental person in
the entire place, including the staff. I can't recall seeing a black
the entire visit.
I didn't take the job. I'm used to Montreal, where you can hear
anything from Polish to Arabic just taking public transit.
I _think_ the community was Santa Cruz, but I could very well have got
that incident mixed up with something else that _did_ happen in Santa
Cruz....
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3:32 p.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, der Mouse wrote:
I _think_ the community was Santa Cruz, but I could
very well have got
that incident mixed up with something else that _did_ happen in Santa
Cruz....
It could very well have been Santa Cruz. It's pretty white-washed down
there but they're all hippies anyway (peace loving and tolerant).
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25 Nov
25 Nov
12:39 a.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Hmm. Lots of
cute Mexican chix, too.
--f
that incident
mixed up with something else that _did_ happen in Santa
Cruz....
It could very well have been Santa Cruz. It's pretty white-washed down
there but they're all hippies anyway (peace loving and tolerant). 
6:16 a.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
I was in Montreal end of last month - my brother lives in Burlington - and I
thought it was great , a human sized city where you can see the tops of the
tower blocks and , as the man says , a bit of everything . I had to keep
pinching myself - I thought I was in France. Highly recommended - very
relaxed - but go in the summer/autumn, a lot of rain spoiled 2 days of an
otherwise great trip.
In contrast , I was in Detroit in 1970 and, whilst chewing on a burger
outside some McDonalds ( sorry )
we were accosted by some religious fanatic who told us that the black man
was descended from Cain who slew his brother Abel....etc. It didn't spoil
the trip in the same way as the rain in Montreal ( we still got pissed in
Montreal - at great expense on the Guinness )- in fact we laughed in the
bugger's face - but we did wonder what things were like further south.
Sorry if this is off topic.
Geoff.
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Subject: Re: OT: Re: Flat Earth?!
> Not
surprising. There are some parts of America where people don't
> run into anyone but white folk until they reach college.
Back sometime 1990ish, there was a company in California that tried to
hire me; they flew me down there in an attempt to sell me on the idea.
We went to a Chinese restaurant and I didn't see one Oriental person in
the entire place, including the staff. I can't recall seeing a black
the entire visit.
I didn't take the job. I'm used to Montreal, where you can hear
anything from Polish to Arabic just taking public transit.
I _think_ the community was Santa Cruz, but I could very well have got
that incident mixed up with something else that _did_ happen in Santa
Cruz....
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5:50 a.m.
Am 24 Nov 2003 16:27 meinte Fred N. van Kempen:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the
world needs
more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
more blasphemies thre are.
Some say there's some really weird sightings of
*black*, and even
*yellow* colored people out there. Now THAT would be strange, as
we're all the same, and all have the same color, right? (no kidding. official viewpoint, around 1500 A.D.)
Where? not necersary in Europe. Shure, Black haven't been as
common on Amsterdam streets than today, but they have been known
since ancient times.
Gruss
H
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6:39 a.m.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Where? not necersary in Europe. Shure, Black
haven't been as
common on Amsterdam streets than today, but they have been known
since ancient times.
The original 'black' people known in Northwest Europe
were the Mores,
from the area that is now known as Spain. Only much
later we saw the
people come in from African and Indian (wrong name for people from
the
area now known as Indonedia) countries, partly as a result from the
many VOC trading ships bringing back people.
This wasnt until the late 1500's- until then, All Men Were White, or
so they thought. :)
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26 Nov
26 Nov
6:54 a.m.
Am 25 Nov 2003 21:39 meinte Fred N. van Kempen:
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Where? not necersary in Europe. Shure, Black
haven't been as
common on Amsterdam streets than today, but they have been known
since ancient times.
The original 'black' people known in Northwest Europe
were the Mores,
from the area that is now known as Spain. Only much later we saw the
people come in from African and Indian (wrong name for people from the
area now known as Indonedia) countries, partly as a result from the
many VOC trading ships bringing back people. This wasnt until the late 1500's- until then, All
Men Were White, or
so they thought. :)
Well, that's maybe true for the far north of Europe, but at least in
(southern) Germany and Italy, black people have been documented in
paintings and writings way before that. So, it's aways dangerous to
oversimplyfy. True for one area might be False just a few miles away.
That's Europe :)
Gruss
H.
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