3.487 various replies (202)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Sun, 24 Sep 89 15:20:32 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 487. Sunday, 24 Sep 1989.


(1) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 12:06 BST (22 lines)
From: Mike Roch <CTCMIKER@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Laptop power supplies.

(2) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 11:21:28 EDT (30 lines)
From: RREINER@YORKVM1
Subject: Re: Laptop batteries

(3) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 10:43:40 EDT (5 lines)
From: SIRC@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca
Subject: Re: 3.471 Computing & dearth of PhDs.... (24)

(4) Date: 22 Sep 89 11:36:02 EST (11 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Manuscript Manager Query

(5) Date: 22 September 1989 18:45:41 CDT (18 lines)
From: "M. R. Sperberg-McQueen " <U15440@UICVM>
Subject: German quotation

(6) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 14:39 CDT (21 lines)
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: Query on German poetry

(7) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 89 16:12:25 EDT (11 lines)
From: Michael W Jennings <MWJENNIN@PUCC>
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

(8) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 89 07:25:14 EDT (8 lines)
From: db <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

(9) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 12:56:37 EDT (21 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 12:06 BST
From: Mike Roch <CTCMIKER@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Laptop power supplies.


The problems of fully recharging laptops' batteries may be due to the
'memory effect' experienced with some types of rechargable batteries.

Such batteries apparently charge less efficiently when not fully
discharged. Deliberately letting the batteries run down completely
removes this effect and (allegedly) increases battery life.

This information was given in a supplement to a UK computer magazine,
'Personal Computer World', in August 1989. Also described was a memory
resident program called 'Battery Watch' which acts as a guage of charge
remaining. Another facility of this program is 'deep discharge' which
allows you to run down your batteries as fast as possible.

The UK distributor is Softsel (01-568 8866) and its price is 34.50 pounds.

Mike Roch

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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 11:21:28 EDT
From: RREINER@YORKVM1
Subject: Re: Laptop batteries

I can confirm the suggestion that fully discharging nickel-cadmium
batteries will restore their capacity to deliver a full charge. It may
be neccessary to discharge them several times to do it. In order to
discharge them fully, the following technique is reccomended: leave the
machine running some disk-intensive process until the power fails. Wait
half an hour, and do it again. Repeat until the machine cannot be turned
on at all after a half-hour wait.

Here is a batch file that can be used as the disk-intensive process
required:

Rem DISCHARGE.BAT: for discharging laptop batteries
echo off
cls
:TopOfLoop
dir a:
dir b:
Goto TopOfLoop
Rem DISCHARGE.BAT ends

If your computer does not have two floppy drives, this will of course
need to be changed.

Richard J. Reiner BITNET == rreiner@vm1.yorku.ca
InterNet == grad3077@writer.yorku.ca
CompuServe == 73457,3257
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 10:43:40 EDT
From: SIRC@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca
Subject: Re: 3.471 Computing & dearth of PhDs.... (24)

there are four people at this workshop. simon is a people too.
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Date: 22 Sep 89 11:36:02 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Manuscript Manager Query


If Amer. Psych. Assoc. style is the desideratum, you should at least look into
Nota Bene, which comes with several optional style sheets, including one for
Amer. Psych. Certainly a high-powered word processor (I think of it as my
Maserati, while WordPerfect is my Volvo), and might be more widely used and
supported than something more specialized (though, as with Maseratis and
Volvos, WordPerfect is still more widely used).
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Date: 22 September 1989 18:45:41 CDT
From: "M. R. Sperberg-McQueen " <U15440@UICVM>
Subject: German quotation

The lines inquired about are the opening lines of Friedrich
Hoelderlin's poem Patmos; my pocket version of Friedrich
Beissner's edition has a slightly different wording, and
the line breaks as follows:

Nah ist
Und schwer zu fassen der Gott.

I don't see anything in Beissner's notes to the poem
indicating textual variants to those first two lines, but
it's certainly possible that there are some.

--Marian Sperberg-McQueen
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 14:39 CDT
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: Query on German poetry

I believe Mike Neuman's inquiry refers to the beginning lines of Friedrich
Hoelderlin's "Patmos," which read:
Nah ist
Und schwer zu fassen der Gott.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, waechst
Das Rettende auch.
These lines are alluded to, by the way, in Paul Celan's "Tenebrae":
Nah sind wir, Herr,
nahe und greifbar.

Gegriffen schon, Herr,
ineinander verkrallt, etc.

See also Psalms 34:9, 145:18.

Michael Ossar
Kansas State University (mlo at ksuvm)
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 89 16:12:25 EDT
From: Michael W Jennings <MWJENNIN@PUCC>
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

The line should read "Nah ist / Und schwer zu fassen der Gott." It is the
first line of Friedrich Hoelderlin's poem "Patmos."

Mike Jennings
German
Princeton University
mwjennin@pucc
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 89 07:25:14 EDT
From: db <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

This is a tangential answer to the question on a wordprocessor for APA
style. I know nothing about that software, but Nota-Bene does a lovely
job with the APA style-sheet; perhpas it is not as detailed as the other
one. Daniel Boyarin Bar-Ilan University
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 12:56:37 EDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.482 queries Ger. poetry, software, Brit. law, etc (162)

Historical demography

The most sophisticated use of U.S. census materials I know is
The Great American History Machine by David Miller, Carnegie-
Mellon U.

Manfred Thaller (thalle@DGOGWDG1.BITNET) has developed
kleio for MS-DOS machines as an all-purpose historian's
workstation; and I believe that he has a good bit of
demographical data available with it.

Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107