*** Compiled, edited & written by Ian Douglas Issue #14: October 1996 iandoug@lia.co.za http://www.lia.co.za/users/iandoug/ $ Introduction: A little bit late this month... I actually spent my birthday compiling it. Lots of thanks to Ambience, Cyd Athens, Dorinda Knepper, Istvan Banhegyi, and Deborah DeStefano for their kind fan mail. From: Ambience Hey Lord Ian! I really enjoyed F13 this month, in particular, the Netscape info and Beatles songs for the computer age Got any more of these? Excellent! From: Athens Thank you for sharing your adventures. I am moving and will not be able to continue receiving email until I get a new account setup. When I have done so, I will contact you to resubscribe. However, at this time, I need to cancel my subscription. Thanks again. From: Dorinda Knepper As to the content of your publication...an informative, yet interesting, montage of information, fully enjoyable! I thought the piece, "Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride", quite funny, haven't we changed in the past one hundred years, or have we? No, I think not, on a whole, I think people are not a lot different, just not so, "subtle", anymore. "A slipper and subtle knave, a finder-out of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself; a devilish knave! Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after; a pestilent complete knave! and the woman hath found him already." Boy, Howdy. :) From: Istvan Banhegyi I enjoy your monthly posting. Keep it up. From: Deborah DeStefano Hi, Hope you're doing well. I've been meaning to send you a little note letting you know, once again, how much I enjoy and appreciate F13. It's the only thing I ever look forward to, print out, and read completely. Your hard work is not going unnoticed, that's for sure. When I'm through reading it, I send it to a friend of mine, and he is enjoying it as much as I do. Thanks again. Thanks to Leon Treunich, Simon Taplin, Frank Oliver, Istvan Banhegyi, and Glenna Mileson for sending me some of the material in this issue. CONTENTS: ~~~~~~~~~ 1. Quotations 2. How To Play Games 3. Computer Security 4. Interesting Stuff 5. The Farsian Chronicles 6. Motivational / Inspirational 7. Science / Technology 8. Advertising / The Media 9. Health 10. Humour 11. NetNews 12. Recipes 13. Things to Think About =========================================================================== 1. Quotations "A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it." unknown "Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference." Libbie Fudim "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." John Ruskin "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." Samuel Butler "By using 'hooking and clamping' techniques, you can excite and arrest people. Hooking and clamping talk involves speaking in a manner which is now the same, now different. Considering the thoughts going on in their minds, examine their ideas to know what they like and dislike; then speak of what they value, using exciting and arresting words to hold them fast by hooking onto what they like." from "The Master of Demon Valley" "Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it to himself if he'd just spend a little time practising? Why should that be so hard?" from Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" "The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions." from "Dune," by Frank Herbert "But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality - the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind." Francisco d'Anconia in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" =========================================================================== $ 2. How To Play Games This month's rules require no further explanation... Rule 24: Every game has at least one weak point. Find it and use it. Rule 25: Practice makes perfect. ============================================================================ $ 3. Computer Security In a showdown with the USA Justice Department, the wireless communications industry voted yesterday to reject Government-backed technology that would make it possible for law enforcement agencies to keep closer tabs on cellular phone users. The Justice Department contends that the Government has the right to use powerful new surveillance technology under a 1994 law to bring law-enforcement techniques into the modern era. Among other abilities, the Justice Department wants to be able for the first time to determine the location of a cellular phone caller within a half-second and almost instantly monitor the status of cellular-phone voice mail, conference calls and other wireless communications features. In addition to traditional eavesdropping, the F.B.I. wants to know within a half-second the precise location of a wireless user and be able to determine such things as whether that user has sent or received voice mail, made conference calls or used other features like call waiting. Hackers recently hacked their way into the CIA home page, and made a few alterations. This next message relates to a mirror of the new version. Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:46:57 +1000 (EST) From: Skeeve Stevens Subject: Go away CIA Well well... After putting up the CIA hack mirror page on http://www.skeeve.net/cia/ I learnt a few things. o it got 50,000 hits in 1 day o everyone from the cia, senate, fbi, nsa (ncsc) and every other bloody US gov department looked at it masses of times. The CIA looked at it every 10-15 minutes. o Even the CIA tries to hack you. o Dozens of in.fingerd/in.telnetd attempts from ucia.gov, some mil sites and ncsc.mil sites. as I speak the house are looking at it. Mitch Dove from Gas Software writes as follows: [regarding the Hare Krishna virus] "No real problems per se. A number of disinfection took place prior to the Activation dates using the F-HARE disinfection routine which was place on our Web Page as a free service to the general public. The sites were mirrored on Various other local sites as well. We personnally recorded approx 3500 hits between the 20th and 21st of August. One unfortunate Computer User reported an activation on the 22 August, strange thing was that he had already downloaded the F-HARE but did not bother to run it on his system!!!! 22 September passed without incident, I suppose this was because the date happened to fall on a Sunday. "Still of concern though is the number of reported infections of the Concept Macro viruses (Prank Macro). The majority of Anti-Virus Houses have the disinfections built into their scanners, yet we still have a problem. The main issue here, is that early solutions provided by all parties seem to address the disinfection of the Concept macro virus slightly off centre. They just removed the offending macro headers, leaving the virus strings visibly present in the Document structure, these are plainly visible if one uses a Dos based editor. The problem here is to remove the STRING using a Third party Software (AV product) and leave the document intact. Not an easy task. The best solution to clean up a document that is being reported as being infected, but which do not contain the offending macro's is to use Word itself to restructure the document. If there is a need, folk can contact me on how to do this. "Besides the normal infections like Exebug, Concept, Anti-Cmos, Stone etc, we have seen infections of Tentacle, Over.1664, Barrotes, Kampana.A, Delwin.1759 and Welcome.B. The number of international virus types are on the increase in South Africa. The main transport media being the Internet. This I see as becoming a real threat as more users attach to the more dubious areas of the Internet, you and I know what is available on these sites !!!!" Thanks to Mitch for his monthly inputs :-) ============================================================================ 4. Interesting Stuff More unwanted mail I received: "Subj: Virtual Friends "Now available for both IBM and MACINTOSH. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE "The Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend are artificial intelligence programs for your IBM PC or compatible and also for MACINTOSH. You can watch them, talk to them, ask them questions, tell them secrets, and relate with them. Watch them as you ask them to take off different clothes and guide them through many different activities. Watch and participate in the hottest sexual activities available on computer, including: several sexual positions, using many unique toys, even bringing in multiple partners. This is no doubt one of the most realistic, sexually stimulating computer games available. They will remember your name, birthday, your likes and your dislikes. Every time you start the program, they say different things, and act differently. Each time, they have a different personality. With the VGA digital graphics, The Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend software have some of the hottest, sexiest graphics out there. And with a Soundblaster or compatible card, you can actually hear their voice as they talk to you. This is the first adult software title that was designed for both heterosexual and homosexual people. I would like you to try the actual full copy out before it is put on the market. It will be sold for 1/5 of the actual price until I can get back some information on what people think of the program. When you receive the package, if it is not what you hoped, simply send it back, and receive a complete refund! Please give it a try and write back any comments. Thank you." [San Jose Mercury News] An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut. [Hickory Daily Record] Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, North Carolina, when, awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear. [Times of London] A thief who sneaked into a hospital was scarred for life when he tried to get a suntan. After evading security staff at Odstock Hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and helping himself to doctors' paging devices, the thief spotted a vertical sunbed. He walked into the unit and removed his clothes for a 45-minute tan. However, the high-voltage UV machine at the hospital, which is renowned for its treatment of burns victims, has a maximum dosage of ten seconds. After lying on the bed for almost 300 times the recommended maximum time the man was covered in blisters. Hours later, when the pain of the burns became unbearable, he went to Southampton General Hospital, 20 miles away, in Hampshire. Staff became suspicious because he was wearing a doctor's coat. After tending his wounds they called the police. Southampton police said: "This man broke into Odstock and decided he fancied a quick suntan. Doctors say he is going to be scarred for life." Last month there was a feature on the local news where two kids were in a car inhaling butane. Well, one of the guys decided that he needed a cigarette ... ... the fumes caught fire, melting their clothes to their skin. Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz gave himself five-inch-long welts in March when he tried to iron his polo shirt while wearing it. "I've ironed that way five or six times," he said, "and never had it happen." Johannesburg International Airport has been identified as one of the three airports most plagued by thefts of computer products and parts. The other two are Heathrow and Amsterdam. It is estimated that the IT industry loses 500KR to 2MR a week in thefts at Johannesburg airport. Australians have gambled away 630GR in the last 12 months - that is 3500R for every person in the country. This is just for legal gambling - if illegal bets were included, the figure would be much higher. The various state governments raked in 37% of the net takings for tax. =========================================================================== 5. The Farsian Chronicles "But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings." John F. Kennedy "To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love." George Santayana Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. Murray Edelman - Politics as Symbolic Action "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Thomas Jefferson "I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession." Woodrow Wilson "All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." James Reston "Neutrality is to side with the strongest." Aksel Sandemose (Danish/Norwegian author) "Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed - thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes - because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself - and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud." John Fowles, (The Magus,1965) The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked, "What are those?" "Soldiers." "What are soldiers?" "They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as they can." The girl held still and studied. "Do you know...I know something?" "Yes, what is it you know?" "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), "The Little Girl Saw Her First Troop Parade" in _The People, Yes_ (1936) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Ayn Rand. "Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." Thomas Jefferson Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, _Politics and the English Language_ (1946) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Up in Zimbabwe, President Mugabe finally legally married his secretary, whom he had previously married according to tribal custom. It was hailed as the Wedding of the Century in Zimbabwe, which gives you an idea of what sort of century they have had... Apparently the wedding cost a bomb, paid for by the tax payer.. Down here in South Africa, President Mandela has a new girlfriend - Graca Machel, who has been married to two previous presidents of Mozambique. Some religious leaders are putting pressure on Mandela to formally marry her, as an example to the youngsters. Over in Iraq, President Clinton got involved in a game of 'my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours' with Iraqi president Hussein. Clinton apparently needed to prove to the USA voters that he is NOT a wimp, and Hussein gave him a convenient excuse. The idea was to destroy Iraqi radar sites, so that USA fighters could fly with impunity over Iraqi airspace. Seems odd to me that the USA has these stealth planes which are basically invisible to radar, but they don't use them. Guess its much more fun to test your missile systems occassionally. However, Hussein is not entirely innocent in this debacle either. He has been doing nasty things to the Kurds again. Once again we see that 'gang mentality' is at the root of much human conflict... The other major news from SA is the Bantu Holimisa affair. See last months issue for background detail. Anyway, he was formally and finally kicked out of the ANC yesterday, for 'bringing the party into disrepute.' What this means is that if you are a member of the ANC and you discover corruption within the ANC or government, you must not tell the press. Instead, you must tell the party leadership, and let them deal with the matter internally. No matter if doing that is immoral, and actually aiding and abetting a crime and helping to screw the taxpayers... Holimisa intends fighting his dismissal in court. I expect more dirt to surface... The Dutch government has scrapped National Service, after 187 years. The world is finally getting rid of slavery... =========================================================================== 6. Motivational / Inspirational Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Thoreau Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington "Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." John Charles Salak When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. R. H. Grant It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonnano Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. Janet Erskine Stuart Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. Oliver Goldsmith When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller (1880-1968) "Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this Day." Sanskrit proverb People do not lack strength, they lack will. Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Napoleon I (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira Gandhi Instinct is the nose of the mind. Madame De Girardin "Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." Washington Irving Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out. Unknown "I see a world full of lonely people, people who want desperatly to be loved and accepted, as the person they are, inside, but we live in a world where being different isn't accepted. People struggle to maintain the facade, keep wearing the mask, keep hoping for the emptiness to go away, but it gets deeper and more profound. I think that people are trying to fill that emptiness, the void, with things that will never fill them...so here we are, spiriling, ever downward, crushing the very thing that can save us...honesty and truth. Isolate those who are different, harass them until they conform or move on, purge honesty and truth, lie to ourselves, pretend happiness and secretly envy those who choose a different path...no, the world hasn't really changed all that much, just the crutches we use to support our conscious. Funny thing though, even those who are different aren't so different after all, they too have their own problems." from an F13 subscriber who requested I not reveal her name The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon. Doug Rader The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence. Anne O'Hare McCormick The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce If you judge, investigate. -Seneca After the relationship has ended: Feel what you are feeling. Mourn. Take time to think about yourself. Denying what you feel doesn't work. Figure out what you have learned by being in this relationship. Only then will you be free to move on. Dr. Elaine Hatfield Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. The have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up. B.C. Forbes [$ Ah! A man after my own heart!] For those who want a relationship to continue: Communicate. Negotiate. Compromise. You must be able and willing to change. You must be able to consider another person's needs. You must talk with each other, not just guess what your partner is thinking. What else are words for? Dr. Hanna Kapit I married a man without many vices. He doesn't smoke dope, and grape juice suffices. Raising his voice, he sees as iniquity. He's willing to settle for cars of antiquity. My only compliant is despite my objections he continues to build a huge book collection. The old, dusty tomes invade my fine furniture. Our monthly budget can't bare the expenditure. He takes them to bed and reads while he's eating. Attmepts at conversing can be most defeating. And I might dare to say he becomes quite contrary if he misses the book sale at the local library. But between my laments, I see other's spouses, Many of whom, could be labeled louses. So on further reflection, I'd rather by far have a lover of books, than a lover of bars. =========================================================================== 7. Science / Technology During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil. One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek out a cute little coil to help him discharge. He picked up Milli-Amp and took her for a ride in his megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge and stopped by a Magnetic field with flowing currents and frolicked in the sine waves. Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amp's characteristic curves soon had her fully charged and proceeded to excite her resistance to a minimum. He gently laid her at ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance. With a quick arc, he pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket, connecting them in parallel. He slowly began short circuiting her resistance shunt while quickly raising her thermal conductance level to mill-spec. Fully excited, Milli- Amp mumbled "OHM...OHM...OHM" With his tube operating well into class C, and her field vibrating with his current flow, a corona formed which instantly caused her shunt to overheat just at the point when Micro-Farad rapidly discharged and drained off every electron into her grid. They fluxed all night trying various connectors and sockets untill his magnet had a soft core and lost all of its field strength. Afterwards, Milli-Amp tried self-induction and damaged her solenoids and with his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his field. Not ready to be quiescent, they spent the rest of the evening reversing polarity and blowing each others fuses. IBM formally launched the latest version of OS/2, called Warp 4, or unofficially, Merlin. The package has several improvements over the previous version, including full voice control, and voice dictation. It can also run Java programs natively. IBM is working with Netscape to produce an OS/2 version of Netscape that is also voice controlled, and can also run Java applets downloaded from the net. Lotus Notes mail is included free, giving users the option of two mail packages: Notes Mail or Netscape Mail. The user interface has been jacked up, and IBM is pitching the software as a 'universal client' - for connecting to almost any network, including the internet. They are still aiming at the corporate market, leaving the casual home user market to toys like Windows 95. Serious home users use OS/2 of course :-) [ducks and runs for cover] OS/2 is a mature, full-32-bit OS, unlike Win95, which is a first-release hybrid 16/32-bit OS. The software will be available in SA on 8 November, as we are getting the British version, with British vocabulary and spelling etc. The package also includes a Java Development Kit, as well as 80 applications. Meanwhile, the OS/2 user group (aka OS/2 fanatics :-) ) are planning a world-wide Open Day on Saturday, 26 October. There will be a world-wide link up to demonstrate OS/2's capabilities. IBM's speech technology has advanced to the point where, for some applications, you can speak normally. The first application is called MedSpeak, a package for doctors and radiologists. Minimum hardware needed is a 200MHz Pentium and 128MB of RAM. A stripped down version of this technology is included in Warp 4, which has much lower hardware requirements. A Microsoft engineer has warned against installing the latest fixpack for Win95, claiming it is not very stable. Just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water-Dept: Recent press articles have stated that current modem technology, ie. 28,8K or 33,6K modems, are pushing the limit of the telephone network, and that we cannot get faster. However, Rockwell recently announced that they have a chipset that will allow 56,6K connections. Most modem manufacturers use Rockwell chipsets. A source deep within US Robotics, the main competing modem chip maker, revealed that they too have similar technology. However the way these new chips work is by taking advantage of the fact that most internet ISP's are connected to the telephone networks via digital lines, and that telephone exchanges themselves are connected to each other by digital lines. The weak (slow) link is from your house to your local exchange - usually a strictly analogue system. The new modems will allow to you transfer data FROM your ISP at 56,6K, but to send data TO your ISP at only 14,4K Geekerata (A UNIX Analog of Desiderata (Max Ehrman, 1927)) (mainly as addressed to a network process) Badri Krishnamoorthy badri@srtc.com Route placidly amid channel noise and network failures, And remember what throughput there may be in executing all alone. As far as possible, without overflowing buffer Be on communicative terms with all processes. Broadcast your data quietly and clearly And listen(2) to others. Even to the null and the unreachable, They too have their requests. Avoid long and argumentative sessions They are burdensome to the ether. If you compare your priority with others' You may become vain or bitter For always there will be greater and lesser processes than yourself. Enjoy your CPUtime as well as your idletime. Keep cognizance of your portmapper, however low-level It is a constant port in the changing mappings of the network. Exercise caution in your execution, For the kernel is full of traps. But let this not blind you to what swap space there is; Many channels strive for high bandwidths, and everywhere Computing is full of parallelism. Be yourself. (Check with getpid(2) frequently) Especially do not forge NFS file handles. Neither be cynical about sockets, For in the face of all congestion and delays They are as powerful as STREAMS. Take kindly the influx of new requests, Gracefully re-prioritizing the older ones. Nurture support of check-points to rollback from sudden crashes But do not thrash pages due to imagined pagefaults: Many core dumps are born of bus error or segmentation faults. Beyond a nominal consideration, Be nice(1) to other processes. You are a child in the kernel space No less than the daemons and the device drivers, You have a right to execute here. And whether or not it is apparent to you No doubt the kernel is crashing, though it shouldn't. Therefore be at peace with your programmer However geeky you think s/he is. And wherever your read(2)'s and recvfrom(2)'s, In the noisy communication channels of the network, Keep a valid (void *) buf available in your address space. With all its stopped jobs, missing arguments and broken pipes, It is still a UNIX shell. Be backward-compatible. Strive to be up and running always. The Japanese will soon be selling 'cheap' digital cameras. Vendors include Olympus and Sony. Prices range from 800US$ to 1300US$, in Japan. Banks in the USA are use a 2,50$ product to fight a 800M$ problem. The problem: cheque fraud. The solution? A simple rubberstamp ink pad, which is used to obtain a thumb print of the person cashing the cheque. During the first six months of the trial, the incidence of cheque fraud dropped by 70%. Honda in Japan can introduce a new model into production in less than 5 days - without diminshing quality or having to reconfigure the production line. Other manufacturers take up to six months. Here is a typical 60 seconds for a Honda employee: Jump into front compartment of car, pat carpeting around front console into place. Use electric screwdriver to bolt down the back seats, first doing the screws in the front, then running around the car to do the ones in the back. Then fix two plastic pieces to the rear taillights and glue the nameplate onto the tailgate. Repeat 60 times an hour. =========================================================================== $ 8. Advertising / The Media New words used by journalists and newsreaders on SABC radio and TV: Word Probable meaning ==== ================ foorin foreign ummed armed Tacky Turkey hair her Juden Jordon It still amazes me that not only are the journalists so obviously unqualified to be reporting in English, but their producers obviously don't know any better either. If they did, they would insist on doing it over.. I am also getting fed up with the increasing use of 'says' (rhymes with days) instead of 'says' (rhymes with fez). This month's prize for the best movie poster is awarded to Twister. This month's prize for "most irritating" ad is again swooped by the SABC, who continued with their "if you own an aerial, you must buy a TV licence" radio ads. The script has been updated a bit, and now talks about 'those splendid blokes at the licence department'. Rubbing it in a bit, methinks... Last months item on "Computers in Movies: The Standard Cliche List" produced this update from Frank Olivier: Subject: Re: Computers in Movies: The Standard Cliche List Heavy Sarcasm Follows: Your "Computers in the Movies" list was *totally* unaccurate: Here follows the Standard Director's Checklist On Things That Have To Be Included In Movies That Have Computers In Them. [1] All inch-high letters displayed on the screen have to be green, for extra realism. [2] Any hacker has to be able to break into a goverment institution's most secret files by using a Web Browser. The Super Secret HTML document must display a goverment logo that takes up a quarter of the screen, but it must not take more than one dramatic blink of the eye to load. (The Net) [3] To break a password, the hacker "writes some code", which will test all 70 000 000 000 possible password combinations in under 2 seconds, on a IBM XT. (Old spy movie) [4] You can spam hundreds of almost identical newsgroups, by typing the same message hundreds of times, without once copying and pasting. You will not be flamed, but whoever you're trying to reach will respond 30 minutes later, at 3 in the morning. [5] Even if you transmit only half of a secret list of undercover agents, the whole file will be useless. (Mission Implausible) [6] Modem handshakes have to be shorter than 1 second. Any longer, and it wouldn't be dramatic. Also, you never need to log on to a network. [7] Where neccesary, "Access Granted" must flash on the screen, for three dramatic seconds, to make it look realistic. (In inch-high *green* letters.) [8] Absolutely *no* computer expert may have a personality. They have to be portrayed as no-life, overweight geeks. Alternatively, not to stereotype, they should be skinny, and totally sexist. (Goldeneye) [9] When changing directories with Dosshell on computers in large offices, a password box will pop up. (Low Budget TV Series) [10] When hacking into a building's maintainance system, you will get a floating 3d model of the building on the screen. (Drop Zone) Frank Oliver DOS is dead. It's buried beneath Windows 95 Way back in issue #1 of F13, I ripped Reader's Digest to pieces for their mail campaigns. (I have the next episode of that waiting for a slow month). However I recently bought from Time-Life, and have some problems with them too... They sent me this mail shot about some books called "Atlas of..." ie, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Ancient Greece, and Central America. These are coffee table books, nicely made and profusely illustrated, priced at 150R each (except for the first, which was 100R). I have no problems with the quality of the merchandise, or the price, which is reasonable for such books. However, the mail shot showed exactly four books. The accompaning text only talked about these four books. So I figured, OK, 550R for some nice books which cover the main ancient civilisations, and which my kids (when I have them) will find useful, I can afford that. So I send away the form. The first two books arrive, and my 'free' statuette. Then book three arrives - and it is about India. India? Where was THAT mentioned? Then book four arrives - and it is about Spain and Portugal. So Ian decides to phone Johannesburg and find out what is going on... turns out there are 24 books in the series, and now instead of looking at an investment of 550R, Time-Life wants 3550R of my money - for which price I could almost buy the Encyclopedia Britannica... At which point Ian explodes and cancels the subscription. What upset me was that they were not upfront about what they were selling - they used underhanded techniques to hook me. I think this is a despicable marketing practice. The controversial movie "Kids" has been banned in SA, under the old censorship act. At the same time, the equally controversial movie "Crash" was released with no cuts at all. Apparently SA is a test market for the movie, which won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, before it is released on the USA and UK circuits. Many people walk out of the movie, finding it too much to handle. Under our NEW censorship laws, any films depicting sex acts with persons under 18 will be banned. This means that movies like "The Lover" will now be banned. This is a strange limit, given that the age of consent in SA is 16. In other words, people can legally have sex before they can legally watch a home video of themselves having sex... We have a new ad for the new Mercedes cars, which looks like it was made in Britain. Basically a traffic cop so desires to drive the new Merc that he lies about the driver being drunk, and insists on driving him home (how does the cop get back?). So now Merc drivers have to worry about being hijacked by gangsters with AK-47s AND by traffic cops... Virgin Airways is to enter the South African market, currently controlled by SAA and British Airways. They have been running a series of quality TV ads to pitch the new service. One billboard ad has an actress lying back in her luxury seat with the slogan "Lie back and think of England." This is a delightful rip-off off the standard advice given to British brides in the Victorian era, as to how to handle the awesome ordeal of sexual intercourse. Here are some letters sent to Dear Abby: (a personal helpline columnist) DEAR ABBY: A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and the other is a social worker in her mid-twenties. These two women go everywhere together and I've never seen a man go into their apartment or come out. Do you think they could be Lebanese? CURIOUS (Answer: Either that or thespians) DEAR ABBY: I've been married for six years and have five kids. No twins. My husband still wants to have sex every night and sometimes in the morning too. I told him he should get himself a hobby, and he says that is his hobby. ....I have a man I never could trust. Why, he cheats so much I'm not even sure this baby I'm carrying is his! ....I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him. ....I suspected that my husband had been fooling around, and when I confronted him with my suspicions he denied everything and said it would never happen again. ....Will you please rush me the name of a reliable illegitimate doctor? ....Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own? ....I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now how do I get out? ....My forty-year-old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50 an hour every week for two-and-a-half years. He must be crazy! ....I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober. ....Do you think it would be all right if I gave my doctor a little gift? I tried for years to get pregnant and couldn't and he finally did it. My mother is mean and short-tempered. I think she is going through her mental pause. I met this nice guy who was in the service. He's the chief petting officer. .... Then you told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex years ago and he IS a doctor. .... This is the second marriage for both of us. And when my husband said "I Will" he knew damn well he couldn't. DEAR ABBY: I've been going steady with this man for six years. We see each other every night. He says he loves me, and I know I love him, but he never mentions marriage. Do you think he's going out with me just for what he can get? GERTIE DEAR GERTIE: I don't know. What's he getting? DEAR ABBY: My husband hates to spend money! I cut my own hair and make my own clothes, and I have to account for every nickel I spend. Meanwhile he has a stock of savings bonds put away that would choke a cow. How do I get some money out of him before we are both called to our final judgment? He says he's saving for a rainy day. FORTY YEARS HITCHED DEAR HITCHED: Tell him it's raining! DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend is going to be twenty years old next month. I'd like to give him something nice for his birthday. What do you think he'd like? CAROL DEAR CAROL: Never mind what he'd like. Give him a tie. DEAR ABBY: Are birth control pills deductible? KAY DEAR KAY: Only if they don't work. DEAR ABBY: Our son was married in January. Five months later his wife had a ten-pound baby girl. They said the baby was premature. Tell me, can a baby this big be that early? WONDERING DEAR WONDERING: The baby was on time, the wedding was late. Forget it. DEAR ABBY: I know boys will be boys, but my 'boy' is seventy-three and he's still chasing women. Any suggestions? ANNIE DEAR ANNIE: Don't worry. My dog has been chasing cars for years, but if he ever caught one, he wouldn't know what to do with it. DEAR ABBY: What inspires you most to write? TED DEAR TED: The Bureau of Internal Revenue. DEAR ABBY: I am forty-four years old and I would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits. ROSE DEAR ROSE: So would I. The TV industry in the USA is also having problems - declining audiences. However, this does not stop them charging ever higher rates for TV advertising. Ads during the top rated "Seinfeld" now cost 550K$ for 30 seconds. (Guess who ends up footing the bill eventually...) =========================================================================== 9. Health South African researchers have developed a technique that allows animal body parts to be deep-frozen to -196C, and successfully revived. The body parts, which include hearts and livers, were normally damaged by other deep-freeze techniques. Applications include better availability of body parts for human transplants, and in the future, cyrogenics could become viable. The next step is to transplant a revived organ into an animal body. Human trials will presumably follow after that. Ex-South African Kathy Keeton, head of Penthouse and Omni and Longevity magazines, is battling to have a cheap new cure for cancer approved. The major pharmaceutical companies are not impressed with the new cure, because it is so cheap that they will not be able to recover the millions they have invested in research for a cure for cancer. The drug is hydrazine sulphate, which was originally used as a component for fuel in military rockets. Kathy had cancer for more than two years, and claims that taking the drug cured her. This is 15 months after doctors told her she would be dead within six weeks. All her tumours have shrunk or disappeared, and doctors admit to being 'amazed' by her recovery. The drug costs around 70R for 1Kg - enough for about 200 000 tablets. You need two a day. Researchers in England have are working to produce foodstuffs like bananas and potatoes that produce vaccines, like for cholera. The potatoe already works for mice, and further development will produce a version that works for humans. Women who wear lots of gold rings are six times more likely to suffer from depression than the average person, and twice as likely to have stress-related conditions like insomnia and PMT. Over a two year period, more than 75 000 children in the USA were hurt in shopping trolley accidents. [$ women drivers.... :-) ] A six year old boy in North Carolina, USA, has been punished for sexual harressment by his school. He kissed a girl classmate on her cheek. When asked why, he replied "Because you love them and that you're friends." His punishment included being segregated from his classmates, and missing out on an ice cream party. The girl's parents had not complained, but school officials still took action. =========================================================================== 10. Humour ELECELLERATION: Pressing an elevator button a lot to speed it up. A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?" To which she responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!" Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations." To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200?" Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Corporate South Africa: 1. Indecision is the key to flexibility. 2. You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. 3. There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. 4. Happiness is merely the remission of pain. 5. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 6. Sometimes too much to drink is not enough. 7. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant. 8. The careful application of terror is also a form of communication. 9. Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. 10. Things are more like they are today than they ever were before. 11. Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. 12. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. 13. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. 14. I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. 15. Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism. 16. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. 17. All things being equal, fat people use more soap. 18. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. 19. One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. 20. Every time you make ends meet, they move the ends. 21. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. 22. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. 23. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. 24. This is as bad as it can get, but don't count on it. 25. Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. 26. The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you realise it's a do-it-yourself thing. Australia has seven States: 1. paralysis (weekend bender) 2. torpor (lawn needs mowing / roof leaks) 3. lethargy (9-5 weekdays) 4. wide alert (whiff of barbie smoke) 5. full arousal (tv lotto draw) 6. exuberance (footie team almost scores) 7. blind fury (beer's run out) >From Usenet: Matt Beckwith expostulated: >Has there ever been a computer programming bug that resulted in someone >dying? Maybe in the old days, but nowadays programmers usually just get a stern warning. 16 Things That Your Dog Doesn't Understand (for The Empress) ------------------------------------------ 1. That he's not your superior 2. The word 'No!' 3. Anything else you tell hime in plain English 4. Why he shouldn't roll in the mud and then take a nap on your bed 5. Why you all suddenly leave the room when he has a wind attack 6. That you don't find it absolutely hilarious when, late one night, he suddenly starts staring at an empty corner of the room with teeth bared and hackles raised 7. Precisely what's wrong with practising his fiercest, gruffest bark at three in the morning 8. That it's not funny to carry your discarded underpants into the room with him in front of guests 9. That the furniture is not there for his personal amusement 10. Why it's wrong to back Auntie Joan into a corner and guard her 11. Why your leg doesn't enjoy it as much as he does 12. That other dog's bottoms are not the most fascinating things in the world 13. Why your cat has as much right to sit in the lounge as he has 14. Why he should get into the bathtub if he doesn't want to 15. Why he shouldn't steal the pate off the table if he can reach it 16. Why he shouldn't do exactly what he wants, basically Quotes from 11 year olds, in science tests: When you breath you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire. H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water. To collect fumes of sulpher, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries. Vanes and caterpillars. Blood flows down one leg and up the other. Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration. The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader. Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull. A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold. Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas. The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. The body consists of three parts - the brainium, the borax, and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are 5 - a,e,i,o and u. Jack and Bobgo on a fishing holiday. After a few hours, they get stuck in a snowstorm, and seek refuge at a farm. The pretty young widow there was worried about what the neighbours would say, and insisted that they sleep in the barn. Nine months later, Jack got a letter from the widow's attorney. He phoned Bob. "Bob, do you remember the pretty widow at the farm we stayed at?" "Yup" "Did you happen to get up during the night, sneak into the house, and sleep with her?" "Yup, sure did..." "Did you happen to give her my name instead of yours?" Bob gets embarressed and says, "Yes, I did.." "Well, thanks a lot old buddy... She just died and left me her farm." =========================================================================== 11. NetNews Major internet news this month was the denial-of-service attacks on various sites in the USA, especially on Panix, an ISP. The attacks exploit a flaw in the design of the TCP/IP, by continually sending a message to the victim computer, of the kind that it HAS to answer. The attacker sends thousands of these messages per second, resulting in the victim computer being so busy replying to these messages that it has no time for other activities. This effectively hangs the system for all other users. It is very difficult to safeguard against this kind of attack, although new techniques are being developed to deal with it. America Online blocked all email from five Net addresses belonging to companies AOL believes responsible for sending upwards of a million "spam" email advertising messages to AOL subscribers. According to AOL the volume of unwanted spam email is the now number-one complaint of its members. One of the alleged spammers, Cyber Promotions Inc., filed suit, and the next day a Federal judge ordered AOL to stop blocking the mailings pending a trial scheduled for November. AOL has appealed. Johan (Julf) Helsingius of Finland, who has run the anonymous email server anon.penet.fi since 1993, has shut it down. On 25 August, the British Observer newspaper had run a banner-headline front-page article titled "The Peddlers of child abuse." The article, which is both technically inaccurate and seemingly libelous (a lawsuit has in fact been filed), accuses Helsingius and the owner of England's largest ISP of willing complicity in child pornography. Helsingius attributed his decision not to the Observer article's appearance, but rather to the lack of clearly defined laws relating to the Internet. Helsingius is a scarred veteran of the anonymity wars, fighting the Church of Scientology to keep the identity of a user private. Some other anonymous remailers remain in service. I received this unsolicited message from someone in the USA, it is probably a scam (con trick). "Your Internet Service Provider is ripping you off, You can get......... "!!!!!!!!!!! FREE INTERNET ACCESS !!!!!!!!!!! "NEVER EVER pay for Internet Access AGAIN!!! E-V-E-R! "Amazing Course on Audio Tape describes STEP by STEP what your Internet Service Provider doesn't want you to know! " * How to get FREE LOCAL DIAL-UP PPP Internet Access! * How to Surf the Web,Newsgroups,and EMAIL Anonymously/Untraceable! * How to Make VOICE Phone Calls ANYWHERE in the World UNTRACEABLE! * Where you can get FREE Email Remailing * Where you can get FREE Email Addresses * Where you can get FREE Access to News Servers * How to get FREE Internet Tools for Email, News, WWW, Etc. * How to get free accounts on BBS's * MUCH MUCH More!!! "No matter where you live in the world we guarantee you will get FREE internet access legally and anonymously!" $ Resources: http://www.lia.co.za/users/iandoug/movies/index.htm Movies for Africa http://www.counsel.net/info/marketing.html how to market your WWW site http://kww.com/dema/ Direct Email Marketing Association http://pathfinder.com/photo/week/week.htm Time-Life photo of the week http://pathfinder.com/Life/60th/index.html Time-Life 60th anniversary http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/15mins/ internet training materials http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fda us gov regs on nicotine, tobacco, etc http://www.streeteye.com links to financial sites http://wwww.edirectory.com links to country-specific search engines http://www.paranoia.com/~wcs/ Why Christians Suck http://www.ora.com/reference/dictionary/ PC hardware and datacoms terms http://www.webmonkey.com HotWired's WebMonkey http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/pao/flash/marslife NASA's Life on Mars http://www.ibm.com/OtherVoices web-ezine on computing http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu The Why Files - science+news http://www.tsi.it/finanza/index.html pointers to finance sites http://adams.patriot.net/~bernkopf/ pointers to central (gov) banks http://www.rxlist.com/ the internet drug info site http://www.newbie.net/frames/ Netscape frames tutorial http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/enduser.html guide to search engines etc http://www.lib.uconn.edu/NativeTech/ Native American technology http://www.library.knaw.nl/www/ejournals/elecjour.htm Electronic medical journals http://www.library.knaw.nl/www/main.htm Medical info centre ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/cgi/ lots of CGI scripts http://www.w3.org.pub/WWW/Tools/Filters.html HTML convertors http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive declassified NSA documents http://www.usr.com White Paper on business excellence United Nations Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Conference On Disarmament Information http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/disset.htm Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Information and Full Text http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/ctbt.htm Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/warfare.htm Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books http://www.mcp.com/3316680954417/mcp/online_books/ Macmillan Computer Publishing Home page http://www.mcp.com/mcp/ Highlight of the Macmillan Computer Publishing web site is the large collection of free online books available from its subsidiaries Que and Sams. Que's Digital Bookshelf at present contains 30 online books in topics including world wide web, web publishing, web programming, web servers, and networking, among others. Sams Publishing offers over 15 online books on topics such as web site construction, Java, Netscape 3.0, and Javascript. Also offered are _The Internet Starter Kit_, _The Computer Trainer's Personal Training Guide_, and early galleys from portions of _The Electronic Citizen: How to Speak Out and Organize on the Internet_, as well as an Internet glossary. Both the Que and Sams libraries can be searched as well as browsed. While the Macmillan site is designed to sell books, the publishers have made a staggering amount of their product freely available, and in so doing have rendered a great service to the net community. IBM has released several new internet technologies for public testing, including: Bamba, an advanced audio and video streaming technology Java Development Kit for Windows 3.1 NetRexx, a scripting language for Java PanoramIX, to easily create and view 3-D images ShockAbsorber, a TCP router to balance loads WBI (Webby), a internet surfing activity manager. The URL is http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com Notice on a site from someone who has no comprehension of how the WWW actually works: >From http://pages.prodigy.com/robin/muppetr.htm "No information or image on this page or any of the linked pages may be reproduced, stored, reprinted or downloaded." The British government has set up a watchdog to try to get pornography off the Internet. Safety-Net, which is being financed by the industry, will have a hotline to which callers can report suspected illegal material and will contact police if necessary. It will publish a "legality indicator" or rating for each public access area on the Internet known as a Usenet news group. The rating will indicate whether the group normally contains illegal or pornographic material and what kind. Internet users can contact the hotline to complain about material received from anyone via an automatic telephone, mail, e-mail or facsimile. Safety-Net operators will try to see where the material came from, contact the authors and ask them to remove it. They can ask the relevant service provider to take action and pass details to the British Police National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). "Government and the Internet industry have been working hard to come up with proposals that can offer real protection to net users while preserving free speech and recgonizing the value of the net for work, education and leisure," Taylor added in a statement. South Africa now has our own internet time server: The machine is tick.mikom.csir.co.za (146.64.58.41) and it is an 486DX2-66MHz running FreeBSD 2.2-current and xntpd 3.4e. It is getting its time from a GPS, so it should be fairly accurate and stable. (Better than 1ms.) A complete mirror of "The Nine Planets" - a complete multimedia tour of the Solar systems is available at the following address: http://www.ibi.co.za/mirror/tnp/nineplanets.html CyberCars is the virtual shopping place for new and used vehicles in South Africa. It contains hundreds of colour photo's of new and used cars for sale via dealers and private advertisers. http://www.CyberCars.co.za Ernie Hai, co-ordinator of the Singapore Government Internet Project, explains his government's policy on (lack of) internet access: "It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct." =========================================================================== 12. Recipes Red Cabbage and Carrot Salad Serves 4 450g red cabbage, trimmed and shredded 225g carrots, scraped and grated 50g raisins 2 large oranges, rinds grated, flesh segmented 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons plain low-fat yoghurt Mix cabbage, carrots, raisins and orange segments together in a bowl. Mix mayonnaise and yoghurt together, and stir in the orange rind. Just before serving, mix the dressing into the salad and toss well. =========================================================================== 13. Things to Think About Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. -Thomas Szasz Were there rainbows before Noah and the flood? =========================================================================== Sections marked with a '$' are original and CopyLeft 1996 by Ian Douglas. See Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for explanation of the '$'. The rest is part direct lift from various Net sources, and part paraphrased or directly lifted from various print media. Permission to reproduce is granted as long as source is credited. Back issues available on my web site. To subscribe, send a message to mlist@neptune.infolink.co.za. In the body of the message, put subscribe f13 Distribution: F13 is distributed with Rob Fisher's RobList, the List of all South African BBS's, which can be found on all decent SA BBS's, where it is downloaded by hundreds (thousands?) of surfers. RobList can also be found on http://www.lia.co.za F13 is also available as a read-only mailing list on the Internet, with over 260 subscribers in 29 countries at the moment. Current countries represented are: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, UK, USA. If your country is not listed, please advise me... -------------------------------------------------------------------- iandoug@lia.co.za P.O. Box 484, Sanlamhof 7532, South Africa 37 : 1,73 : 58 : blue : dark brown PGP key available http://www.lia.co.za/users/iandoug Proudly iN*T*j.