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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Jul 11 01:35:46 1991
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 91 01:35:17 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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dhbernst (David H Bernstein):
Last login:
Wed Jul 10 14:27:57 EDT 1991
Teaching: 1.973 -- Geographic Information Systems for Transportation
Planners and Engineers
M,W 4:30 - 6:00 Room 1-242
Research: Congestion Reduction Policies
Transportation and Land-Use Interactions
Visualization and Data Management in Transportation
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harishd (Harish Devarajan):
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kagraves (Kenneth A Graves):
%!
%In article <S274.749d@looking.on.ca> gest_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) writes:
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%>How many lines of sed code does it take to change a lightbulb?
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%>I don't know... but its only 74 in Postscript.
%>--
%>Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA
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/bulb % draw a light-bulb with text `ID' in it
{gsave % called as:
translate rotate % <orientation> <x-place> <y-place> bulb
0.5 0.5 scale %
/alfa 41.40962211 def % some angle that puts the centers of
/sina alfa sin -2 mul def % the necessary arcs at coordinates
% (0,0) (-1.5, -2*sine of alfa) (or:
newpath % -1.5, sina) and (1.5, sina)
0.4 sina 0.1 270 360 arc % rounded left-bottom corner
1.5 sina 1 180 180 alfa sub arcn % outline of buld
0 0 1 alfa neg 180 alfa add arc % in three consecutive
-1.5 sina 1 alfa 0 arcn % ...outline of bulb in three consec. arc
-0.4 sina 0.1 180 270 arc % rounded right-bottom corner
closepath 0.925 setgray fill % draw it in `almost-white'
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newpath %
-0.4 sina 0.1 sub moveto % and this draws the `fitting'
0 -0.45 rlineto
-0.35 sina 0.55 sub 0.05 180 270 arc
0.7 0 rlineto
0.35 sina 0.55 sub 0.05 270 360 arc
0 0.45 rlineto
closepath 0.5 setgray fill % ...partly in half-gray
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newpath %
-0.3 sina 0.6 sub moveto %
0.1 -0.1 rlineto 0.4 0 rlineto
0.3 sina 0.6 sub lineto %
closepath 0 setgray fill % ...and partly in black
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newpath 0.9775 setgray % ...plus some `light rays'
0.025 setlinewidth
-45 rotate 1 1 7 {1.1 0 moveto
1.6 0 lineto 45 rotate pop} for
90 rotate stroke
newpath % this is the text `ID'
/Helvetica-Bold findfont %
1 scalefont setfont % ...set in the center
0 0 moveto (ID) dup %
stringwidth pop 2 div neg -0.5 rmoveto
0.5 1 1 sethsbcolor show grestore } def % ...also in black
300 425 translate 150 150 scale
0 0 0 bulb % an example of a call
showpage
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 17:15:46 +0300 (MSD)
From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim Antonov)
Subject: Re: Computers and Exporting
>Take for instance the DES export restriction. Sources for DES have been
>posted on Usenet.
The source codes and formal descriptions were publically available in USSR long
before that posting. I've first seen it being a student and hacking some Unix
sources about 1982. Isn't it stupid to continue insisting on export
restrictions of the well-known technology?
(I remember our military instructors (military education was mandatory in USSR,
sigh) talking about tactical characteristics of Soviet aircrafts referring to
the American intelligence sources! Surely, these data were "secret" inside
USSR! Familiar scenario, isn't it?)
Vadim Antonov, DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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mmcmahon (Michael G. McMahon):
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nktrang (Nancy K. Talmudge):
Great fleas have little fleas
upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn,
have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still,
and greater still, and so on.
-Augustus De Morgan
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quintero (Carlos Quintero):
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