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46496. Robert Johnston           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46497. Robert Johnston           Re: Phase5 Pre-orders
46498. Sean Courtney             Re: THOR in my side....
46499. Peter Gordon              Re: alt.binaries?
46500. Chris Green               Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems
46501. Peter Gordon              Re: Screenmode problems
46502. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: Phase5
46503. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46504. Ben Vost                  Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems
46505. Matthew O'Neill           Re: alt.binaries?
46506. Matthew O'Neill           Re: New ish
46507. Matthew O'Neill           Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
46508. Matthew O'Neill           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46509. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46510. Chris Green               Re: A4000 High Density Floppy Problems
46511. Edward Rowley             Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46512. Robert Johnston           Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46513. Neil Bothwick             Re: Centuries
46514. David McMinn              Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46515. Robert Johnston           Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46516. Edward Rowley             Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46517. Armin                     Re: Centuries
46518. roger buckley             Re: Spending frenzy prize draw
46519. Paul Laycock              Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46520. xatiminey                 Re: (OT) Astronomical figures (was Heart106.2 (Wa
46521. Chris Millar              Re: Internet costs
46522. Neil Bothwick             Re: THOR in my side....
46523. xatiminey                 Re: Is the Amiga a Games Machine
46524. xatiminey                 hdd probs
46525. Robert Johnston           Re: Internet costs
46526. xatiminey                 amimud probs
46527. Ben Vost                  Welcome message
46528. Daniel Thornton           Re: Welcome message
46529. Robert Johnston           Re: Welcome message
46530. Ben Vost                  Re: Welcome message
46531. Ben Vost                  Re: Welcome message
46532. Robert Johnston           Re: Welcome message
46533. Jon Barker                Re: Internet costs
46534. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: Welcome message
46535. Ben Vost                  Re: Welcome message
46536. Morgan Larsson            Re: Spending frenzy prize draw
46537. Neil Bothwick             Re: hdd probs
46538. Dave Morgan               Re: THOR in my side....
46539. Ken Walsh                 AF and =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=B3?= review
46540. Rick Hodger               Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
46541. Neil Bothwick             Re: Welcome message
46542. roger buckley             Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46543. roger buckley             Re: Unexplained gurus
46544. Alex Furmanski            Spoon-bending supremos
46545. Paul Cundle               DPaint V Media
46546. Matthew O'Neill           Re: Phase5
46547. Matthew O'Neill           Re: alt.binaries?
46548. Matthew O'Neill           tag!
46549. Matthew O'Neill           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46550. Matthew O'Neill           Re: Flickerfixer fun
46551. Matthew O'Neill           Re: MUI
46552. Matthew O'Neill           deadlines
46553. Matthew O'Neill           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46554. Chris Andrews             Re: Spoon-bending supremos
46555. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: tag!
46556. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46557. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46558. Kevin Fairhurst           Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9.
46559. Mark Wilson               Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
46560. Jonathan M. Dudley        Re: AFCD50
46561. Jonathan M. Dudley        Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
46562. Maarten Draijer           Tweakwb 1.6 problems
46563. Sandy Brownlee            Re: New ish
46564. Sandy Brownlee            Re: Phase5 Pre-orders
46565. Sandy Brownlee            Re: Internet costs
46566. Sandy Brownlee            Re: Phase5 Pre-orders
46567. Nick Darley-Jones         Re: hdd probs
46568. The Yeti                  Plug (and it's excellent too!)
46569. Alex Furmanski            Re: Spoon-bending supremos
46570. Sam Thomas                TV-Paint Probs-Solved
46571. Steve Pike                Re: Welcome message
46572. Ken Walsh                 Voyager fonts
46573. Ken Walsh                 Re: Internet costs
46574. Andy Kinsella             Re: DPaint V Media
46575. Sam Thomas                Re: AF and =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=B3?= review
46576. graeme meek               Re: motherboard revision
46577. Paul Cundle               Box for Zip drive (was POLL: Are you taking part
46578. Paul Cundle               Re: New ish
46579. Paul Cundle               Re: DPaint V Media
46580. Phil Allen                Re: Is the Amiga a Games Machine
46581. Arran Smalley             Re: motherboard revision
46582. Neil Bothwick             Re: Spoon-bending supremos
46583. Chris Andrews             Re: Spoon-bending supremos
46584. Neil Bothwick             Re: New ish
46585. Neil Bothwick             Re: AF and V review
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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:14:02 -0000
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> The one on OS3.5 should...but I haven't summoned the guts to
> try formatting
> one of my precious partitions yet...

You shouldn't have to. Just replace the "fastfilesystem" on the RDB from
within HD Toolbox.

--


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:17:26 -0000
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> Blimey, I said to leave this thread alone and we've had,
> what? Five? ten?
> emails about it since. Stop it now!

... Says Ben, perpetuating the Thread....
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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From: "Sean Courtney" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:22:54 -0500
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>> Well, I was able to send e-mails successfully, but after looking at them
>> carefully I noticed that Thor had 'em dated as "06-March-36" !!
>
>Your using an old version, upgrade.

I DID upgrade -- it was Thor 2.6a off Aminet.



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From: Peter Gordon <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:23:21 +0000
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Hi,

>>> I don't have any articles planned for Future magazines :)

>> I'd want royalties for the first two anyway :)

> Considering they've been in my tagfile for about five years, you'd have=

> a job proving ownership...

Just seems odd that they are exactly identical to the ones I thought up m=
yself. It seems we are on the same wavelength on this one :)


-- =

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
so long and thanks for all the fish
      http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Real meanings #10:
HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn




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From: "Chris Green" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:32:32 -0000
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Hi Ben

> If you read Simon's review of the Kylwalda, you'll see that it can be used
> in conjunction with the Catweasel to give you a booting High Density Amiga
> floppy drive.

No it doesn't Ben (and Simon's explanation was far from clear on this
matter). I actually have two drives connected to my Catweasel MK2, one of
which is also linked to the Kylwalda to work as DF0: Even in this
configuration, you can still only boot using a DD format disk. High-density
operation does not become available until after the Catweasel DOSDrivers and
patches have been loaded, which means you can't boot with a HD disk :(

Sadly the Catweasel's HD operation is restricted to use under AmigaOS (it
does offer a memory resident soft option, but it doesn't work at all well).
Use under emulation is possible, though equally cumbersome, and most
importantly, it is an expensive way to get this kind of functionality.

The PowerXL interface approach at least offers 100% compatibility and works
as a direct replacement for a native Amiga-compatible drive.

I'm not saying it is the best solution - but the XL interface is the
simplest we've seen so far.

Chris Green
Technical Editor - Computing
VNU Business Publications, 32-34 Broadwick Street, London, W1A 2HG
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From: Peter Gordon <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:33:11 +0000
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Hi Ben,

> try: http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html

You may want to update your tags.. :(


--
===================================
so long and thanks for all the fish
      http://fly.to/Mr_Tickle
===================================

Real meanings #10:
HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn




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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 13:37:31 +0000
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:59:41 +0000, Rick Hodger ([e-mail]) wrote:
> I watched as Kevin Fairhurst hammered "[afb] Re: Phase5" out on their
> keyboard...
>
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:16:59 +0100, Matthew O'Neill
> > ([e-mail]) wrote:
> >> Shit
>
> > I'm sorry? Is this some sort of announcement as to what you think of them?
>
> It's about the fact that phase5 filed for bankruptcy on 26-1-2000.  Hence
> why Whiteknight etc haven't heard anything from them concerning the G4
> cards.

Yes we all know that NOW but to leave it at that one word at the time was a
tad pointless.  It was only later that day that the truth became evident ...

Kev

--
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 13:20:22 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:22:08 +0200, Pekka Sippola ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Hello Kevin
>
>
> >> Get FFS43.19_patch.lha from Aminet!
> > Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
> > Get WB3.5 which comes with FS45.1!
>
> Of course, but First Aid is sometimes needed!

Presuming your hard drive is <4Gb and the partitions <2Gb then what's wrong
with DiskSalv, ReOrg et al?

Kev

--
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:01:43 +0000
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Hi Chris,

> No it doesn't Ben (and Simon's explanation was far from clear on this
> matter). I actually have two drives connected to my Catweasel MK2, one of
> which is also linked to the Kylwalda to work as DF0: Even in this
> configuration, you can still only boot using a DD format disk.
> High-density operation does not become available until after the Catweasel
> DOSDrivers and patches have been loaded, which means you can't boot with a
> HD disk :(

Bugger, sorry about that.

> I'm not saying it is the best solution - but the XL interface is the
> simplest we've seen so far.

Yes, and Tony's stopped doing them because he was selling so few as to make
it pointless.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)      /PGP key available/   T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                      F: ([phone]
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
try this: http://ter.air0day.com




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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:02:36 +0100
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On 09-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:

>> Only the ones that shouldn't be distributed freely. MP3 are the main
>> user of usenet bandwidth, warez second and pron third.

> Followed closely by the porn, which isn't as bad as pron cos that stuff is
> twisted ...

I think he meant Tron, y'know the disney film with no story? all those tron
game remakes are popular :)

Mash -
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Better to marry a man who loves you than one you love.







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:11:25 +0100
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On 08-Feb-00, Paul Cundle wrote:

>> Actually no, it's supposed to be rounded to the nearest hundred, must
>> have been missed this time.

> I thought the "more than 2,999 directories" was quite amusing. So, er,
> that would be, well, let's work this out... Nope, too difficult for me
> ;)

2,999 to the nearest hundered is 3,000, so the cd case would say more than
3000 directories, which would be a lie!.....hisssss, booooo!, unless you
rounded down which is fine :)

Mash -
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:15:39 +0100
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Hi Tim

> 2.  I tried registering MUI, but their system was up the creek, and
>    I've been waiting since last November, and get no response to
>    e-mails.

> And no, I don't consider that I should have to send any more than two
> "please explain" letters to chase things up.  If they can't be bothered
> to properly deal with customers, I can't be stuffed giving them any
> money.

(stands next to Tim) "Yeah!" ;)

I always mail or phone the authours first to make sure they still take reges
and that the address is still valid, if there's no response after a few
tries, I'll assume its dead in the water. The Visualprefs guy replied the
same day, so I sent off the same day :) now I have a regged VP (whoopie!)

Mash -
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

At last! I finally found the perfect man!







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:22:53 +0100
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On 09-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>> hmmmm, is there a newer one which wont threaten to eliminate my drive?

> Yes, the one with OS3.5.

If I had 3.1roms then I might consider it, but 60 for old rom chips and
little added functionality doesn't sound like fun

Mash -
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Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

The bigger a woman's breasts, the smaller the woman's brain.







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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 14:16:31 +0000
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:22:53 +0100, Matthew O'Neill (mash@myamiga=2Efreeser=
ve=2Eco=2Euk) wrote:
> On 09-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:
>=20
> >> hmmmm, is there a newer one which wont threaten to eliminate my drive?
>=20
> > Yes, the one with OS3=2E5=2E
>=20
> If I had 3=2E1roms then I might consider it, but =A360 for old rom chips =
and
> little added functionality doesn't sound like fun

It's =A350, and you'll be getting a fully working TESTED non beta of the FS=
=2E=20
You wouldn't want your hard drive dying would you?

And there's far more to it than that - what with glowicons (they're not
just newicons), an arexx port on workbench, a shed full of bug fixes (okay
it's a small shed), latest versions of programs, and then there's the
plethora of extras on the CD and the little things like being able to drag
a drawer from ram to the same root where that drawer already exists, and
it'll update all the files in sub dirs!  That in itself is a real time
saver - no more having to wade through the hierarchy just to get to the
files you want =2E=2E=2E

Kev

--=20
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Chris Green" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:26:38 -0000
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Hi Ben

> Bugger, sorry about that.

No problem - just don't do it again :)

> Yes, and Tony's stopped doing them because he was selling so few
> as to make
> it pointless.

Well he was selling the interface pre-bundled with an overpriced floppy
drive for a total of 60 (about 20 OTT, based on the rough pricing I did of
the components in the one I used to have) - Which was a bit steep and could
well have been a contributing factor to its poor sales. A better option
might have been (or may be in the future) to sell the interface on its own,
like the Kylwalda is sold.

But this will probably never happen - so I'll shut up now :)

Chris Green
Technical Editor - Computing
VNU Business Publications, 32-34 Broadwick Street, London, W1A 2HG
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From: "Edward Rowley" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 100 14:40:15 +0000
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> According to your interpretation, if I were able to be flying at some
> speed close to the speed of light, and somewhere else somebody started
> doing the same sort of thing, but in the opposite direction.  My flight
> speed would magically slow down, because we're not allowed to fly apart
> from each other at any speed faster than light.
>
> I just don't beleive in this speed of light limit nonsense (other than
> it be nearly impossible to find a harnessable energy source to acheive
> it).  If the speed of light is the limit, and anything travelling at the
> speed of light slows down.  Then light, itself, could not travel at the
> speed that it does.

Relativity is simple when you thick about it. First imagine you are
looking at a clock, this clock tells you the time in the Lab FOR
(Frame Of Referance) you know the time beause you are reciving
information from it at the speed of light (photons) light travels at
c no matter what FOR you are in.  You also have a wrist watch which
tells you the time in your FOR. Now start moving away from the clock,
it takes longer for the photons to reach you as they have to travel
longer so time in the Lab FOR time appers to slow down. You look at
your watch and it is not slowing down becase it is moving with you it
is in your FOR. If someone was standing in the Lab FOR they would see
the opposite becuse your watch is moving away photons take long to
reach them. To them time is slowing in your FOR hence everything is
relative.
Now on to not being able to go faster then light. F=ma that is force =
mass * accleration. As you approch the speed of light your mass
apparently increasses in terms of the F=ma equation anyway. As you get
nearer c your mass tends towards infinaty which requires an infinite
force (which is of impossible). A to think about it is that you are on
a swing there is some one pushing you the F in the equation, as you
swing faster they have less time to push each push therefore it
requires more force for the accleration to be the same to blance the
equation your mass must increase at the speed of light the timeto push
you becomes infinatly small so is immposible to reach.
Einstien never said it was impossible to break the light barraier.

note 1: this is my first post to afb hope its all right
note 2: I know my spelling is bad, why do you think im doing a phisics
degree ?

Eddie Rowley
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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:05:23 -0000
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> note 1: this is my first post to afb hope its all right
> note 2: I know my spelling is bad, why do you think im doing a phisics
> degree ?

Reply 1: Welcome!
Reply 2: Physics is Hard, but it doesn't help your spelling anywhere as much
as English (For Example)
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
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Date: 10 Feb 2000 12:55:35 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
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Ben Vost said,

> Isn't there a slight problem with this when it comes to Christian calendar
> dates though? After all, there never was a year zero in "our" calendar.

Because the calendar was implemented some years later, retrospectively.


Neil
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The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
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       run. Unfortunately, it is often run anyway.



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:17:31 -0800
From: "David McMinn" <[e-mail]>
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> > note 1: this is my first post to afb hope its all right
> > note 2: I know my spelling is bad, why do you think im doing a
phisics
> > degree ?
>
> Reply 1: Welcome!
> Reply 2: Physics is Hard, but it doesn't help your spelling anywhere
as much
> as English (For Example)

But to qualify for a physics degree you must have bad spelling ;)

Hey, we've now also got an easy to understand standard response to all
future "speed of light threads", seeing as they appear every three
months or so.





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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:19:20 -0000
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> Hey, we've now also got an easy to understand standard response to all
> future "speed of light threads", seeing as they appear every three
> months or so.

Easy to understand?!?!?!?!?
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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From: "Edward Rowley" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 100 15:30:08 +0000
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> Reply 1: Welcome!
thanks
> Reply 2: Physics is Hard, but it doesn't help your spelling anywhere as much
> as English (For Example)
you don`t have to spell much in physics


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Date: 10 Feb 2000 16:31:10 +0100
From: Armin <[e-mail]>
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Hi Kevin,

<snip>

>> > And then there was Pope Gregory shifting things around left right and
>> > centre, and all the Roman leaders vying for as many days in their own
>> > months as possible, and all the missed leap year days ...
>>
>> > And you think you're calendar is still accurate enough to say when the
>> > millennium happend?   ;-)
>>
>> Or even when Christ was born! After all, no-one thinks he was around in the
>> crossover between BC and AD...

> The latest theory is that if he was born, it'd be 7BC, cos that's when
> there was a significant event in the night sky that could correlate to
> something the wise men would have seen as happening over Bethlehem ...

As the Christian calender came into use long after the
death of Christ, we can decide for ourselves when we
would like the new millennium to start.

It makes sense to let it coincide with the numerical
change, ie: 2000.  After all it's just a convention.

However, the "true" believers had their celebration in
the nineties, just as you have indicated.


Cheers,

Armin





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From: roger buckley <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:28:23 +0000
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Hello Eddie

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:


> For everyone else who's totally bemused by the whole thing... don't
> panic, it'll be over by the weekend (then I'll go back into lurk mode)
>
Tried to join the frenzy today at the Electronic Boutique in the Meadowhall
complex in Sheffield after reports of cheap Amiga software at their other
branches. Looked round - zilch. Asked and was informed that they don't carry
'old' software. Ah well, back to mail order :)
>
Regards
--
Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 410MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Modem,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
Reality is for people who lack imagination.




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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:47:41 -0800
From: "Paul Laycock" <[e-mail]>
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Hi Edward,

> > Reply 1: Welcome!
> thanks
> > Reply 2: Physics is Hard, but it doesn't help your spelling
anywhere as much
> > as English (For Example)
> you don`t have to spell much in physics

Well, it doesn't really matter considering the subject is totally OT...

Paul Laycock



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:46:23 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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Edward Rowley wrote:
> note 1: this is my first post to afb hope its all right

Well, its not how I'd explain it. I would have probably used an
explaination which involves the point that light always reaches you at
c, whatever the speed of the source. To do this time, space and mass
become distorted.

Oh, and c is only an upper speed limit for tadyons =)

-curry
--
I'm quite happy to solder stuff, as long as it isn't mine :)


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From: Chris Millar <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:51:31 +0000
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Hello Neil

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:

>
> With BT Together, you get 1p per minute evening calls. You lose
> PremierLine but keep F&F/BF.
>
> But the bastards won't make it available to Home Highway users.
>
Aha!  They never mentioned that when they, (BT) called me yesterday.

If ADSL is unavailable in my area, (quite probable), I'll just get ISDN
installed but then I'll lose BT Together.
Bar-stewards!

Regards

chris
--
 We fillied around with other travelers of the night, playing Hogs of the
 Road.
-- Alex, A Clockwork Orange

Powered by PowerPC Amiga in Dumfries & Galloway

A1200 Power Tower, 200Mhz PPC/060 50Mhz, BVision, 74Mb Ram, OS3.5, CGX V4.1

Panasonic 36" Wiiiiddeessccrreeennn TV, Pioneer 717 MultiRegion DVD, Denon
AC3 Decoder, JBL Speakers, Kef SubWoofer.....



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Date: 10 Feb 2000 15:27:58 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <004101bf73c9$f11e9fc0$a308f3d0@default>
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Sean Courtney said,

>>> Well, I was able to send e-mails successfully, but after looking at them
>>> carefully I noticed that Thor had 'em dated as "06-March-36" !!
>>
>>Your using an old version, upgrade.

> I DID upgrade -- it was Thor 2.6a off Aminet.

In that case, you didn't upgrade correctly. The "*-36" dates show that
THOR is using an old version of utnet.library.


Neil
--
Neil Bothwick - Connected via Wirenet
The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
http://www.wire.net.uk
--
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
References: <87rvo5$[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
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Arran Smalley wrote:
>
> Incidentally, I reckon that no one will produce anything that compares to
> Frontier, all that game on one 880K disc!

The PC version I have is on a CD =) And it doesn't have the nav aid. Or
compatible save positions =(
If theyd made the game bigger (like monkey island sized) they could have
made it much bigger and more indepth. Personally I'd like to see a net
version. Unfortunatley it would be imposible to have time acceleration
in a net game, so all the ships would have to much faster, or else stay
online for days getting from planet to planet and system to system.

Well, Id be happy with a simple combat flight sim, like airwarrio, for
now.

-curry, sorting through 1457 emails in his inbox.

--
I'm quite happy to solder stuff, as long as it isn't mine :)


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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:10:28 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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Hi,
 has anyone suffered from hard drives failing to spin up, and after a
while making a horrible ratteling and squealing noise? In particular,
with a 1.5GB Quantum fireball? More importantly have you been able to
fix it? I do know there is nothing rong with the actual disk, because it
started working again a while ago and no data loss had been incured, but
now its dead again and is refusing to play ball. Methinks its a problem
with the motor.

Cheers,
-curry, finaly asking questions Ive had for ages.

--
I'm quite happy to solder stuff, as long as it isn't mine :)


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:15:05 -0000
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> > With BT Together, you get 1p per minute evening calls. You lose
> > PremierLine but keep F&F/BF.
> >
> > But the bastards won't make it available to Home Highway users.
> >
> Aha!  They never mentioned that when they, (BT) called me yesterday.
>
> If ADSL is unavailable in my area, (quite probable), I'll
> just get ISDN
> installed but then I'll lose BT Together.
> Bar-stewards!

Incidentally, how much does it cost to connect via H/Highway on the
D-Channel (16Kbps) My ISP supports connection keepalive via this channel, so
you can shut down both B-Channels (The expensive ones) & keep the connection
running, and only connect (Instantaneously, It's ISDN remember) when someone
needs to send/recieve something.
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:15:18 -0800
From: "xatiminey" <[e-mail]>
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Hi,

Has anyone got the latest version of amimud from aminet working with
Miami? The version I had before (currently backed up on my defunct
quantum fireball) had only one executable, I'm sure, but the one on
aminet now has two... which seem to be the same, and neither work with
Miami (they ask for volume Inet: or something, looking for a lib, I
think, for the 'other' type of TCP stack)

cheers,

-curry
--
Would you like your eggs scried or frambled?


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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:57:43 +0000
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Hi all,

Here's my first draft of a welcome message for all new members of afb. I'd
appreciate any feedback you'd care to give:

---8<---

Welcome to afb!

Please don't delete this message! If you want to unsubscribe from afb, it
will
tell you what to do! Just keep it to one side, in your archived folder, or
somesuch.

Since the list is pretty high on traffic, I think you should know what to
expect on your first day on the list. Here is a list of points to bear in
mind.
They aren't in any particular order, so just read through them all:

*Unsubscribing* You don't actually have to unsubcribe from the list if the
traffic is too high for you, you can just switch your subscription to being
web-based, or a daily digest. If you really do want to unsubscribe, go to
http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/

*Delayed Posting* afb has a lot of messages every day. If you don't have a
permanent
network connection, you'll find that it pays to read through all the mails
before replying, since the question you are replying to may well have
already
been answered several times in the time between you receiving the initial
mail
and your reply.

*Polls* If you want to set a poll, have a careful think about it first. Mill
the question over in your mind and work out how you can best word it to fit
into a maximum of eight choices for an answer. Once you've done that, think
again on how you want to word your question so that no-one can pick a hole
in
it and say they would have chosen an option you didn't include. After that
bit,
fill out the form on the website for creating a poll, but remember to put a
date in your text! Look at the other polls on the page already for guidance
on
where to put it, and remember, if your poll doesn't have a date, it'll get
cancelled.

*Quoting* Please pay attention to how others quote on the list. We don't
like
PC-style quoting of the entire message with your reply at the top. We also
don't like "proper"-style quoting yet, with the entire original message
quoted.
There are plenty of folk on the list who have to pay to download messages,
don't make them pay more than they have to.

*Writing* If you're going to post, please wait a moment before sending it.
Does
it add to the information on afb, or merely repeat it? Are you going to
insult
someone (don't do it!)? Check your spelling and grammar, I don't think that
many on the list are English graduates, but even so.

*Replying* Make sure you quote properly (qv.), make sure you don't insult
people, make sure your reply is necessary and that someone hasn't already
given
the info.

*MANAGER posts* Please make sure you read them. There'll be a concrete
reason
for them, so you can guarantee they'll be important.

*Moderation* There is a limit of 150 posts per day on afb. The daily limit
is
from 8AM to 8AM GMT the following day (because of the fact that eGroups are
based
on the west coast of the States and are thus eight hours behind GMT). If you
receive a moderation message, this isn't a cue for you to ask the list owner
why you are being moderated (the reason for moderation is almost always
given
in the moderation message body). Just wait and if your message is really
worth
it, re-post the following day.

*Bouncing* If you find that messages aren't getting to you, simply send
yourself a message from the afb website at
http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/.
That usually clears up your bouncing. Bouncing status is checked every so
often
anyway, so it's unlikely this will happen.

v1.0

--->8---

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/      T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: "Daniel Thornton" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 17:04:50 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:57:43 +0000, [e-mail] was largin' it with these words...

> Here's my first draft of a welcome message for all new members of afb. I'd
> appreciate any feedback you'd care to give:
> ---8<---
> Welcome to afb!
> Please don't delete this message! If you want to unsubscribe from afb, it
> will
> tell you what to do! Just keep it to one side, in your archived folder, or
> somesuch.

<thunderbirds> Too...many...exclamation...marks.... can't....
concentrate....</thuderbirds> :)

The only other thing is that the lines are slightly too long, and they
might wrap and look odd on some systems, although I'm sure that's only
because it's a draft :)

--
The Wibble -- http://www.thewibble.co.uk ---------------------------------
      "The funniest website you'll ever see! (At these two domains)"
              *Buy your books & CD's online, from The Wibble*
-- Updated: 7 February, 2000 --- http://www.the-wibble.co.uk -- The Wibble


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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:08:40 -0000
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> The only other thing is that the lines are slightly too long, and they
> might wrap and look odd on some systems, although I'm sure that's only
> because it's a draft :)

Wrap standard (?) is (AFAIK) 80 Chars, although some mailers use less...
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:08:51 +0000
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Hi Daniel,

>> Here's my first draft of a welcome message for all new members of afb.
>> I'd appreciate any feedback you'd care to give: ---8<---
>> Welcome to afb!
>> Please don't delete this message! If you want to unsubscribe from afb, it
>> will
>> tell you what to do! Just keep it to one side, in your archived folder,
>> or somesuch.

> <thunderbirds> Too...many...exclamation...marks.... can't....
> concentrate....</thuderbirds> :)

I know, there are in that first para, but I wanted to get across to folk
that they *shouldn't* delete the message...

> The only other thing is that the lines are slightly too long, and they
> might wrap and look odd on some systems, although I'm sure that's only
> because it's a draft :)

Yep. v1.1 coming up...

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
*Aquarius*: /(Jan 20-Feb 18)/ If your birthday is this week, multiply
your calendar age by 4.8 to get your age in far more telling
"Aquarius years."




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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:09:15 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFC20@THE_EXCHANGE>
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Hi Robert,

>> The only other thing is that the lines are slightly too long, and they
>> might wrap and look odd on some systems, although I'm sure that's only
>> because it's a draft :)

> Wrap standard (?) is (AFAIK) 80 Chars, although some mailers use less...

Yeah, got it already. I shall wrap at 70, to be sure.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good Science: Genetic modification of minks to grow fake fur




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From: Robert Johnston <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:11:42 -0000
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> Yeah, got it already. I shall wrap at 70, to be sure.

To be sure, to be sure...

They're always after me lucky charms...
</Austin_Powers_2>
--
Robert Johnston (A.C.P.)
Customer Response Operative, Simply Computers
0870 727 4020 x657
Free delivery on the Web @ http://www.simply.co.uk


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From: Jon Barker <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:28:22 +0000
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Hello Neil

On 10-Feb-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> With BT Together, you get 1p per minute evening calls. You lose
> PremierLine but keep F&F/BF.

> But the bastards won't make it available to Home Highway users.

   I've got it :-)

   Ring up the Home Highway support number, not the normal analogue number.
They put me on straight away :-)

> Neil

Cheers
--
-----------------------------------------------
Jon Barker                         ICQ:20786000
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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 17:34:43 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:57:43 +0000, Ben Vost ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Hi all,

[snip!]

> Please don't delete this message! If you want to unsubscribe from afb, it
> will
> tell you what to do! Just keep it to one side, in your archived folder, or
> somesuch.

[snip![

somesuch - is that really meant to be all one word?

Kev

--
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Ben Vost" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:44:43 +0000
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Hi Kevin,

>> or somesuch.

> [snip![

> somesuch - is that really meant to be all one word?

yepitis. justlike nonesuch.

All the best,
--
Ben Vost (x2337)        /PGP key available/        T: ([phone]
Editor, Amiga Format                             F: ([phone]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Excuse for the day: change in Earth's rotational speed




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From: "Morgan Larsson" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 18:54:28 -0100
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> Hi all,

> I think I've got the names of most people who said they'd bought / be
> buying something this week. Anyone who's not spoken up, or is

I got the full AWebII yesterday. I got tired of the crippled version
in OS3.5 and bought it. I find it /very/ nice!  Oh, and I got C4DPro
and PPaint as well.

Ho hum, has to go, lots to install, so little time...

> For everyone else who's totally bemused by the whole thing... don't
> panic, it'll be over by the weekend (then I'll go back into lurk mode)

.........Morgan, re-engaging lurk mode


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Date: 10 Feb 2000 17:25:43 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
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xatiminey said,

>  has anyone suffered from hard drives failing to spin up, and after a
> while making a horrible ratteling and squealing noise?

Yes, my Quantum Viking II failed like this after a few months. The
bearings and/or motor have almost certainly failed.

> In particular,
> with a 1.5GB Quantum fireball? More importantly have you been able to
> fix it?

It's dead Jim. If you can get it to spin up for long enough to retrieve
data, do so. But don't save anything to it.

"Backup and bin it" is the only solution I'm afraid.


Neil
--
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The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
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From: Dave Morgan <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:40:42 +0000
In-Reply-To: <038e01bf7325$92c79200$a408f3d0@default>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: THOR in my side....
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Hi All,

On 09-Feb-00, Sean Courtney waxed lyrically on the theme of: [afb] Re: THOR
in my side....


>SC After some tinkering, I got it to work, though, so I can post again!

Pray tell of what this tinkering consists. I have the same problem :(


Thanks for your time, I'm out o' here.
--
<tsb>
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Amiga A1200, OS3.5, CBM 1084s 14" Monitor (which has died, now using 21"
SCART telly), Blizzard 1230/50, 68882, SCSI Kit, 2MB chip, 48MB Fast,
Western Digital 1.8Gb HD, Seagate 520MB HD, Matshita 8xSpeed Atapi/Ide
CD-ROM, Plextor 12x Speed SCSI CD-Rom, Ricoh 6201s SCSI CD-RW, Canon
bjc-4200 printer, Microtek E3 scsi scanner, Hayes Accura 56k/v.90 modem.

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From: Ken Walsh <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:59:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] AF and =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=B3?= review
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> =

> V=B3, thousands will use, but has a 1 page review
> PS4, hundereds will use, has a 4 page review

Yes I to thought the review of V=B3 was a bit lame. I've just today sent =
for the
upgrade to NC2 to NC3 with V=B3 on as well.

While I'm on about it I'm using OS3.5 will NC3 be OK or do I have to down=
load
any upgrades for any of the applications on the disk (I read that there w=
as I
think?) =


                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken =





  =




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From: Rick Hodger <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:19:16 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
MIME-Version: 1.0
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I watched as Jonathan M. Dudley hammered "[afb] MUI - was: A crappy
announcement..." out on their keyboard...

> Bauglir wrote:

>>> But OS3.5 upgrades and improves the whole system, rather than one part
>>> of it. Is MUI a *vital* component of the software that uses it? Last I
>>> checked, the OS came with a GUI built in. MUI just adds to the overall
>>> expense.
>>
>> The OS comes with a GUI built in, but it's not a particularly attractive
>> one. Yes, MUI is a vital component of the software that uses it. Just as
>> AHI is a vital component of the software that uses *that*, or CGX, or
>> ClassAct, etc. The programmer may not have to use that particular GUI,
>> but it does make their software nicer to look at and use. :)

> Heh, I phrased that badly. What I meant was; could the software have been
> programmed without using MUI? Therefore, people wanting to use the
> software wouldn't feel obliged to fork out another 20 for a GUI -
> something they got when they forked out for their computer or OS upgrade.

> As far as I can make out, MUI offers programmers an easier GUI development
> environment. In that case, doesn't that make it a developer tool? If so,
> surely the developers should pay for it, not the consumers.

> As you pointed out, "the programmer may not have to use [MUI]", but if
> they do, should they alone not have to bear the full cost of that
> decision?

But then you're going to get into a whole load of fun...should the ISP pay
for the FTP client because that's what they decided to use for users to
upload their webpages?  Should any company manufacturing radios pay for the
electricity required to run them because that's how they decided to make it
work?  Should the games coders who decide to make their games PPC only,
provide the end users with PPC cards?  Should car dealers provide a life's
time supply of petrol, because that's what their cars run on?

Most of the internet software available for the miggy simply wouldn't be
possible without MUI, it's all well and good arguing about it...but
Gadtools is very dated and limited...hell, it doesn't even have font
sensitivity...it's up to the programmer to put that in.

--
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<sb>
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Date: 10 Feb 2000 18:18:9 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFC20@THE_EXCHANGE>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Welcome message
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Robert Johnston said,

> Wrap standard (?) is (AFAIK) 80 Chars, although some mailers use less...

72-76, to allow for quoting. I prefer the lower value.


Neil
--
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The UK's first Amiga-only internet access provider
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--
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 used only for company business."



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From: roger buckley <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:53:16 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
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Hello Matthew

On 09-Feb-00, you wrote:

> If I had 3.1roms then I might consider it, but =A360 for old rom chips =
and
> little added functionality doesn't sound like fun
> =

Recently paid 35 quid for amiga magic setup. Cheaper than just buying the=
 3.1
rom chips.
 =

Regards
-- =

Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 4=
10MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Mode=
m,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein




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From: roger buckley <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:59:25 +0000
In-Reply-To: <87ud8n$[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Unexplained gurus
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Hello Peter

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:

> Hey
>
most of the
> time i leave it disconnected because the power supply i have isn't
> powerful enough to support the harddisk and cdrom drive at the same
> time.

A more powerful power supply would probably cure many of your problems.

Regards
--
Roger

Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast, Seagate 410MB
2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k Modem,
Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift Printer.
Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed.
-- Carolyn Scheppner




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From: "Alex Furmanski" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:38:23 -0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Spoon-bending supremos
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Hiya

Perusing, as you do, the various gubbins on the web (notably the CSS spec) I
came across the abbreviation URI.  At first I thought it must be a typo but
then I saw it was like that all the way throughout the whole of everything
ever.  So what's the difference between a URI and a URL?

Lovely job
--
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ICQ: 51206302

This week's lie: It is still illegal in many parts of the world to use any
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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:09:15 +0000
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] DPaint V Media
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Hi peeps,

Having just installed DpaintV from the CD version, it refuses to use
the media types.
Materials work fine, but when I choose a medium I get an error:

"Can't open media DPaintV:Media/FeltTip"

or whatever medium I chose.

Checking snoopdos, it seems to be looking for the file "FeltTip" in
the current dir, the libs subdir, in libs: and in libs:libs and fails
on all counts
I tried assigning the directory containing the media types files with
Libs: add and snoopdos reported OK, but Dpaint still failed.

Any ideas?

Ta,
Paul C,
--


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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:14:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Re: Phase5
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On 10-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:

>>>> Shit

>> I'm sorry? Is this some sort of announcement as to what you think of
>> them?

>> It's about the fact that phase5 filed for bankruptcy on 26-1-2000.  Hence
>> why Whiteknight etc haven't heard anything from them concerning the G4
>> cards.

> Yes we all know that NOW but to leave it at that one word at the time was
> a tad pointless. It was only later that day that the truth became evident
> ...

Sorry, I thought that by the time I wrote that, it'd be all over the mailing
list :/ hmm, 15 minutes after it appeared on ANN, not bad timing ;)

Mash - phasing out
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:54:28 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: alt.binaries?
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On 10-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:

> And I suppose that people who steal other peoples' and re-post it
> illegally to Usenet are actually pron crackers?

...groan.....

Mash -
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Eternity is two people and a ham -- Dorothy Parker







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:12:58 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] tag!
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On 10-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:

>> I want I want I want!!!! :))

> Then do what I do and steal them from people's emails... :)

is there a shell command to append a line of text to a file? I just want a
simple button to add:

%%
<clipboard contents>

to my yam file, I haven't seen any decent ones on aminet :/

Mash -
--
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

"People talk about LD calls like they gotta walk all the way."-Klinger







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:29:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
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On 10-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:

>> Of course, but First Aid is sometimes needed!

> Presuming your hard drive is <4Gb and the partitions <2Gb then what's
> wrong with DiskSalv, ReOrg et al?

Why would I need to use them? the fastfilesystem in my RDB is old and
threatening to go balistic, what would disksalv do?

Mash -
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Slave screams, he hears, but doesn't want to listen - NIN







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:02:32 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87tvkb$[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Flickerfixer fun
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On 10-Feb-00, Paul Laycock wrote:

> house, as I get strange "waves" (sorry I can't be more descriptive)
> running up the screen. To combat this, I have wrapped the scandoubler
> in an anti-static bag to shield it a bit. Any ideas?

This could be the output from your miffy or the low refresh rate. First, try
setting it to a higher rate by using an ntsc screen rather than pal. The
other problem causes vertical lines which dont move though, so I doubt its
that.

Mash -
--
Matthew O'Neill - MashMan
HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

  groceries in the same bag.







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:07:11 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: MUI
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On 09-Feb-00, Carl Berry wrote:

>>> Why would Stefan even consider working on it when there are people that
>>> have been using 3.x for years without paying?

>> Why would I consider paying when there wont be a new version? works both
>> ways.

> You have a basic working version of the program, the author says "give
> me some money if you want to keep using it"  theres your motivation.

He says register if you think its worth it, and I dont think it is, sorry. I
would consider registering, I~d like to, but its simply not worth how much
he's asking.

Mash -
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:23:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1AF46531C3DCD3119F6500D0B723B4B24EFC08@THE_EXCHANGE>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] deadlines
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Hi Robert

> That's easy. They're the ones written messily, with lots of crossings-outs
> and corrections...

You should see all the tipex on thier screens ;)

Mash -
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Bite my tongue and I won't say a word against anyone -Lemonheads







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From: Matthew O'Neill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:31:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
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On 10-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:

>> If I had 3.1roms then I might consider it, but 60 for old rom chips and
>> little added functionality doesn't sound like fun

> It's 50, and you'll be getting a fully working TESTED non beta of the FS.
> You wouldn't want your hard drive dying would you?

55 from everywhere plus at least 5 P&P

Mash -
--
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HTTP://www.bigwig.net/mash

Beat Me! Whip Me! Take Away My Credit Cards!







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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:22:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Andrews <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <031e01bf73f9$47727e80$41f631d4@innit>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: Spoon-bending supremos
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Alex Furmanski wrote:
> Perusing, as you do, the various gubbins on the web (notably the CSS
> spec) I came across the abbreviation URI.  At first I thought it must
> be a typo but then I saw it was like that all the way throughout the
> whole of everything ever.  So what's the difference between a URI and
> a URL?

  ...or even a URN.  There is an rfc for this, (isn't there always?), I'll
link to it shall I?  Yes I shall:

http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/rfc/2396/full.html#1.2

  How's about that then?  If you want your answer in English you could use
the always helpful whatis.com: http://whatis.com/uri.htm

  Yes, you could and probably will.


bye,
  Chris





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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:37:39 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: tag!
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:12:58 +0100, Matthew O'Neill ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On 10-Feb-00, Ben Vost wrote:
>
> >> I want I want I want!!!! :))
>
> > Then do what I do and steal them from people's emails... :)
>
> is there a shell command to append a line of text to a file? I just want a
> simple button to add:
>
> %%
> <clipboard contents>
>
> to my yam file, I haven't seen any decent ones on aminet :/

echo >>ram:myfile "%%*n"
echo >>ram:myfile <clips:0


at a guess anyway, i'm not sure how YAM handles clipboard stuff ...

Kev

--
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:38:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
MIME-Version: 1.0
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:29:04 +0100, Matthew O'Neill ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On 10-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:
>
> >> Of course, but First Aid is sometimes needed!
>
> > Presuming your hard drive is <4Gb and the partitions <2Gb then what's
> > wrong with DiskSalv, ReOrg et al?
>
> Why would I need to use them? the fastfilesystem in my RDB is old and
> threatening to go balistic, what would disksalv do?

it'd help you get the data off it?  i was just wondering what you meant
when you said "First Aid" was needed ... i thought you thought said
products were incompatible with WB3.5's filesystem, which they aren't ...

Kev

--
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:39:30 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:31:16 +0100, Matthew O'Neill (mash@myamiga=2Efreeser=
ve=2Eco=2Euk) wrote:
> On 10-Feb-00, Kevin Fairhurst wrote:
>=20
> >> If I had 3=2E1roms then I might consider it, but =A360 for old rom chi=
ps and
> >> little added functionality doesn't sound like fun
>=20
> > It's =A350, and you'll be getting a fully working TESTED non beta of th=
e FS=2E
> > You wouldn't want your hard drive dying would you?
>=20
> =A355 from everywhere plus at least =A35 P&P

From PowerC's advert, =A315 for A1200 ROMs plus =A335 for WB3=2E5 - okay, a=
dd
P&P on top of that, but =2E=2E=2E

Kev

--=20
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: "Kevin Fairhurst" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:41:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: This Hard Drive will self destruct in 10...9...8...7...
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 10 Feb 2000 19:39:30 +0000, Kevin Fairhurst (redvers@redvers=2Eu-net=2Ec=
om) wrote:

> From PowerC's advert, =A315 for A1200 ROMs plus =A335 for WB3=2E5 - okay,=
 add
> P&P on top of that, but =2E=2E=2E

Now that Blizkick allows you to put the patches performed by Setpatch into
a softkicked machine, is it now possible to run WB3=2E5 without haveing KS3=
=2E1
ROMs?

Kev, pondering =2E=2E=2E

--=20
Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM



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From: Mark Wilson <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:55:11 +0000
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: PIRACY-SUCKS
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On 09-Feb-00, Rick wrote this:

> The problem is that a lot of people don't have credit cards (myself
> included, and the reason why I still haven't registered Miami; noone in
> the UK seems to sell it anymore) and a lot of people aren't very happy
> about sending cash in the post.

Weird science are supposed to be the UK retailer for MiamiDX.

http://www.weirdscience.co.uk


--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson

Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: [e-mail]



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:22:34 +0000
From: "Jonathan M. Dudley" <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: AFCD50
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Ben Vost wrote:

>> You having a bad week there Ben?
>> You seem slightly more caustic than usual.  :/

> *Every* week is a bad week in AmigaMagazineLand these days... :(

Bummer, dude.
Let's hope Amino/ga show some product. Soon. Very soon.

Regards,
Jonny (waiting).


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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:16:35 +0000
From: "Jonathan M. Dudley" <[e-mail]>
X-Mailing-List: [e-mail]
Subject: [afb] Re: MUI - was: A crappy announcement...
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Rick Hodger wrote:

> But then you're going to get into a whole load of fun...should the ISP pay
> for the FTP client because that's what they decided to use for users to
> upload their webpages?  Should any company manufacturing radios pay for the
> electricity required to run them because that's how they decided to make it
> work?  Should the games coders who decide to make their games PPC only,
> provide the end users with PPC cards?  Should car dealers provide a life's
> time supply of petrol, because that's what their cars run on?

A whole load of fun indeed.

[South Park]
I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole.

> Most of the internet software available for the miggy simply wouldn't be
> possible without MUI, it's all well and good arguing about it...but
> Gadtools is very dated and limited...hell, it doesn't even have font
> sensitivity...it's up to the programmer to put that in.

Let's hope that the OS GUI gets a serious face-lift in a future
update/rewrite, thereby negating the whole issue.

Regards,
Jonny (simmering down).


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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:23:08 -0800
From: "Maarten Draijer" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [afb] Tweakwb 1.6 problems
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Help.
Who can help me?
The newest version of tweakwb (1.) f**d up al my icons.
When i remove tweakwb and restart everything is normal.
So what's wrong?

thanx
maarten




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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:32:29 +0100
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Hello Kevin

On 09-Feb-00, you wrote:

>>> 0-99 is the first hundred, 2899-2999 is the thirtieth hundred.
>>
>> Should that not be,
>>
>> 0-99 is the first hundred, 2900-2999 is the thirteenth hundred?

<Snip numbers >

> 1200-1299   <-  THIS is the 13th (thirteenth) hundred!  :-)

D'oh! I meant thirtieth (30th), but you probably knew that.

Regards

        Sandy

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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:53:00 +0100
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Hello Kevin

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:

> Wait a minute, it's going to be using WOS?   So I have to install that to
> use FusionPPC?  Why didn't they tell me this before?  ;-)


It's not that bad; *I* managed it...

Regards,

        Sandy
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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:34:33 +0100
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Hello Ken

On 09-Feb-00, you wrote:

>> If you're talking about standard BT local call rates, then it costs:
>> =

>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday 8:00-18:00 - =A32.40
>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday before 8:00 & after 18:00 - =A30.90
> =

> I thought they had changed there rate to 1p now after 6pm M-F (min 5p)

I wish it were true...

Regards

        Sandy

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From: Sandy Brownlee <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:57:47 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87ub0e$[e-mail]>
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Hello Paul

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:

> But then again, at least Songplayer worked with PowerUP ;)

Had this problem, fixed it :-)

Get the warpos version of mpega.library form aminet.

Regards

        Sandy

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:28:09 -0800
From: "Nick Darley-Jones" <[e-mail]>
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Hi,

>  has anyone suffered from hard drives failing to spin up, and after a
> while making a horrible ratteling and squealing noise? In particular,
> with a 1.5GB Quantum fireball? More importantly have you been able to
> fix it? I do know there is nothing rong with the actual disk, because
it
> started working again a while ago and no data loss had been incured,
but
> now its dead again and is refusing to play ball. Methinks its a
problem
> with the motor.

Funny you should mention this.  I bought a 10.2Gb hard drive from
'PeeCee Wurld' (sorry) and after installing it (as a secondary master)
and installing all my software it squeeked and squeeled and stopped.
This was only after a week!
The drive was a 'Western Digital', even though they are supposed to be
the
best.

Just shows that you can't trust those second rate shops (compared to
Amiga ones).

Regards,
Nick.



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From: "The Yeti" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:29:19 -0000
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Subject: [afb] Plug (and it's excellent too!)
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THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE afb-ot PROPAGANDA DIVISION

      ___
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     (_)    (League Of Badly Drawn ASCII Super Heroes)
      (_)      has asked for the opportunity to address the children
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Thanks *CAPTAIN OFFTOPIC*! You heard him, kids. Send a blank email to:

   [e-mail]

Right away! You know it makes sense.



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From: "Alex Furmanski" <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:32:13 -0000
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Hi Chris

> > Perusing, as you do, the various gubbins on the web (notably the CSS
> > spec) I came across the abbreviation URI.  At first I thought it must
> > be a typo but then I saw it was like that all the way throughout the
> > whole of everything ever.  So what's the difference between a URI and
> > a URL?
>
>   ...or even a URN.  There is an rfc for this, (isn't there always?),
I'll
> link to it shall I?  Yes I shall:
>
> http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/rfc/2396/full.html#1.2
>
>   How's about that then?  If you want your answer in English you could
use
> the always helpful whatis.com: http://whatis.com/uri.htm
>
>   Yes, you could and probably will.

Excellent.  Give that man a Curly Wurly.

Lovely job
--
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From: Sam Thomas <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:35:58 +0100
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Hello

I was having problems dearcing TV-Paint.

Sorted the problem now, the icon needed to be a proper icon and not a fake
one. (loaded iconedit and resaved it so that it had a proper icon) I
totally forgot about that, so I can dearc it. thanks anyway.  :-)


Regards
Sam Thomas



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From: Steve Pike <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:03:48 +0000
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Hello Ben

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:


> somesuch.

Not in my dictionary??

....somebody,somehow, someone, someplace,
somersault,something,sometime,sometimes,
somewhat,somewhere...

no, no somesuch here!!!

--
Regards Steve

*******************************************
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                   about reassignment."

Mulder   "For who?"

Scully  "Both of us...
  Those talks include instructions from
  the Justice  Department to close the
  X-files."

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     oh bummer

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From: Ken Walsh <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:42:42 +0000
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Hi,

    can some one tell me what config' they have for the fonts in Voyager (i'm
using the NC2 package sent of for NC3) I cannot seem to get them looking
good. IBrowse OK so is AWeb. tried to do them the same but set out dif' they
can send a screen grab if they want and email it to me (not the list)

[e-mail]

See You
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                       Ken








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From: Ken Walsh <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:08:48 +0000
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Hello Sandy

> Hello Ken
> =

> On 09-Feb-00, you wrote:
> =

>>> If you're talking about standard BT local call rates, then it costs:
>>> =

>>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday 8:00-18:00 - =A32.40
>>> For 1 hour Monday-Friday before 8:00 & after 18:00 - =A30.90
>> =

>> I thought they had changed there rate to 1p now after 6pm M-F (min 5p)=

> =

> I wish it were true...

They have ring them with the FF/BF discount


                 Cheers all the best

                       Ken =





  =



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From: Andy Kinsella <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:41:31 +0000
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Greetings  Paul

On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:

> Hi peeps,

> Having just installed DpaintV from the CD version, it refuses to use
> the media types.
> Materials work fine, but when I choose a medium I get an error:

> "Can't open media DPaintV:Media/FeltTip"

> or whatever medium I chose.

> Checking snoopdos, it seems to be looking for the file "FeltTip" in
> the current dir, the libs subdir, in libs: and in libs:libs and
> fails on all counts
> I tried assigning the directory containing the media types files
> with Libs: add and snoopdos reported OK, but Dpaint still failed.

> Any ideas?

Yes, Make sure that your file is cased correctly. i.e. "FeltTip".

These files are case sensitive for some reason; and IIRC the cd
version has this file incorrectly cased.

> Ta,
> Paul C,
Regards

Andy
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From: Sam Thomas <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:06:31 +0100
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Hello Ken

.....
> While I'm on about it I'm using OS3.5 will NC3 be OK or do I have to
> download any upgrades for any of the applications on the disk (I read that
> there was I think?)
>
>                 Cheers all the best
>
>                       Ken


Yes, you will ned not download the latest version of Voyager (The full
non-beta) as the one on the NC3 CD does not work (Or Webvision). You may as
well download all of the latest programs though.

Regards

Sam Thomas



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:57:59 -0800
From: "graeme meek" <[e-mail]>
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roger buckley <[e-mail]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/afb/?start=46218
> Hello graeme
>
> On 08-Feb-00, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >
> > what are the symptoms on an a1200 if you do not have a rev.1d1?  i
have
> > two rev.2b and they both crash if i put my 8mb simm instead of my
4mb
> > simm
> >
> Which accelerator do you have and is it PCMICA compatible ?.


I have a magnum '030/33 accelarator and is meant to be PCMCIA
compatible
> Regards
> --
> Roger
>
> Amiga 1200, Viper 68030 Mk V Accel with 50Mhz FPU and 8 MBFast,
Seagate 410MB
> 2.5" internal HD and 800MB SCSI HD in a midi tower with 4xCDRom. 56k
Modem,
> Power Port Junr Serial IF G.Image Hand Scanner & Citizen Swift
Printer.
> Website:-http://callnetuk.com/home/rogerbu
> ICQ-62990780 Robuck2
> Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.
> -- James P. Hogan
>
>



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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:27:13 +0000
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MSGTO: Eddie Maddock
SUBJECT: [afb] Re: POLL: Are you taking part in the spending frenzy?

> Hi Paul,

Eh, oh.

['empty' Zip drive box]

> I sent it off earlier today (Wednesday) and decided it'd be a waste of
> postage to just send the box on it's own, so I stuck an Amiga CD in
> there as well.

You did? Eh? /me goes off to get the box and check...
/me comes back.
Hey, nice! Thanks Eddie, I didn't see that stuffed between those two
tasty bits of packaging. And a letter too... :)

> You'll have to wait to see what, but it's nowt special,

Woooah, I'm scared </me-on-afb-ot>. I was considering buying that in
my little "spree" from Weird science on Sunday night, but decided
against because I decided 5 things was enough. /Weird/ coinkydinks
here, folks.

> > And it's not a pressy as such - Eddie gets a reward, y'know.

> Could it be ?... surely not ?.... am I finally getting my Mars bar ?

You'll just have to wait (and wait a bit longer, I'm afraid) and see.
But believe me, it'll be quite a nice surprise. Sort of. Depending on
whether you're the sort of person who finds watching grass grow
exciting.

> ;)

Exactly.

And to everyone else: there are at least two references to Amigas in
there so don't even /think/ about whinging ;)

> Eddie

Paul C, finishing off the packaging. Mmm, tasty.
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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:29:34 +0000
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Neil Bothwick said:

> >> Actually no, it's supposed to be rounded to the nearest hundred, must have
> >> been missed this time.

> > I thought the "more than 2,999 directories" was quite amusing.

> 0-99 is the first hundred, 2899-2999 is the thirtieth hundred.

> This should be obvious to anyone who believes that this year is the
> start of the third millennium.

But we're talking about rounding, and (for some reason unknown to me)
a 'round' number ends in zeros.

> Neil

Paul C, getting fed up with just a few /too/ many numbers
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From: "Paul Cundle" <[e-mail]>
Date: 10 Feb 2000 23:34:19 +0000
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MSGTO: Andy Kinsella
SUBJECT: [afb] Re: DPaint V Media

> > Having just installed DpaintV from the CD version, it refuses to use
> > the media types.

> Yes, Make sure that your file is cased correctly. i.e. "FeltTip".
> These files are case sensitive for some reason; and IIRC the cd
> version has this file incorrectly cased.

I've tried FeltTip and FELTTIP (as on the CD) and neither work.
Nor do Oil or OIL
Nor WaterColor or WATERCOLOR
Nor Chalk or CHALK :(

DPaint says it can't open whatever file I have chosen, even matching
the case I have the file in.

Could you give me an example?

> Andy

Paul C,
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:38:29 -0800
From: "Phil Allen" <[e-mail]>
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xatiminey wrote:
> Personally I'd like to see a net
> version. Unfortunatley it would be imposible to have time acceleration
> in a net game, so all the ships would have to much faster, or else
stay
> online for days getting from planet to planet and system to system.
>
> Well, Id be happy with a simple combat flight sim, like airwarrio, for
> now.

All very well having a net version, but did anyone ever answer an SOS
from you? I sat there for two real days transmitting "Help I've broken
down." Not a sausage did I get.

Regards, Phil



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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:37:47 +0000
From: Arran Smalley <[e-mail]>
References: <87vfpn$[e-mail]>
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> <snip>
> > Which accelerator do you have and is it PCMICA compatible ?.
>
> I have a magnum '030/33 accelarator and is meant to be PCMCIA
> compatible
> > Regards
> > --
> > Roger
> >

I have a Rev 2B, classic Squirrel works fine with Apolo '040 with 32Meg, my
old overdrive (Archos pcmcia HD jobby) doesn't work with either the Apolo
or Blizzard 1230IV with 4Meg. Still, only use it as a backup drive.

Arran




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Date: 10 Feb 2000 19:59:54 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
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Alex Furmanski said,

> Perusing, as you do, the various gubbins on the web (notably the CSS spec) I
> came across the abbreviation URI.  At first I thought it must be a typo but
> then I saw it was like that all the way throughout the whole of everything
> ever.  So what's the difference between a URI and a URL?

URI - Universal Resource Indicator
URL - Universal Resource Locator

The first is a more generic term. Put another way, URL is a specific
instance of a URI. However, last time I looked, there were no other
instances of a URI so the two terms are often used interchangeably.


Neil
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:22:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Andrews <[e-mail]>
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On 10 Feb 2000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> The first is a more generic term. Put another way, URL is a specific
> instance of a URI. However, last time I looked, there were no other
> instances of a URI so the two terms are often used interchangeably.

  The other type of URI is a URN.  The idea behind a URN is that you don't
specify where you get the file from, only what you want.  Alough,
uncannily, most URNs that I've seen to remarkably similar to URLs ;)

  i.e.  I want to search a dictionary for fish I type
urn:dictionary://fish Where the dictionary isn't a fixed resource.  As
usual with most w3 org ideas they don't fit in too well with the real
world.


bye,
  Chris



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Date: 11 Feb 2000 0:16:58 +0000
From: "Neil Bothwick" <[e-mail]>
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Paul Cundle said,

> Neil Bothwick said:

>> >> Actually no, it's supposed to be rounded to the nearest hundred, must
>> >> have been missed this time.
>
>> > I thought the "more than 2,999 directories" was quite amusing.
>
>> 0-99 is the first hundred, 2900-2999 is the thirtieth hundred.
>
>> This should be obvious to anyone who believes that this year is the
>> start of the third millennium.

> But we're talking about rounding, and (for some reason unknown to me)
> a 'round' number ends in zeros.

No it doesn't. It just means stating the number within restricted limits
of accuracy. A number rounded to three decimal places doesn't have to
end in zero. In this case, the rounding was to the nearest hundred, and
99 is the end of a hundred if you start counting at zero :)

> Paul C, getting fed up with just a few /too/ many numbers

There would be more if it weren't for the rounding :)


Neil
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Date: 11 Feb 2000 0:18:36 +0000
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Sam Thomas said,

>> While I'm on about it I'm using OS3.5 will NC3 be OK or do I have to
>> download any upgrades for any of the applications on the disk (I read that
>> there was I think?)

> Yes, you will ned not download the latest version of Voyager (The full
> non-beta) as the one on the NC3 CD does not work (Or Webvision).

You will also need the latest MicroDot, the one on the CD can no longer
post news as it is not Y2K compliant.


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