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Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark (student)
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I'm looking for a job in Computer Engineering to begin around July
1988. I'm getting my Master of Science in Computer Engineering June
1988 and at present holding a degree equal to BS in Electronic
Engineering. My BS studies have included:
	
	Computer hardware (hands-on knowledge with mc68k),
	Analog electronic 
	Control engineering (analog and digital control)

My MS studies have included:

	Software development (man-machine interface, what people want
			      from programs) 
	Compiler construction (an expertsystem shell) 
	Program environment (for CCS programming) 
	Distributed operating systems (in UNIX)
 	Compiler mapping object-orinted language on parallel computers

Furthermore I do have experience in conventional programming (PASCAL,
C, postscript, UNIX (awk, shell-scripts(C-shell) and yacc/lex) (and Basic)),
functional programming (LISP and ML) and logical programming (Prolog)
and knowledge about object-oriented programming. And I
have also attended courses in VLSI design, databases, etc. I have been
working with CDC under NOS/Telex, VAX 11/750 under Ultrix, SUN 3 under
Sun OS 4.3 (UNIX), MacIntosh (LISA) under Finder and IBM S36 under IBM
property operating system.  

My spoken English is excellent and my written English is satisfactory,
good knowledge of the Scandinavian languages (Danish (of course),
Swedish and Norwegian), some speaking and reading knowledge of German
and limited knowledge of French and Spanish (and Latin). 

I have 5 years experience in group project work in engineering and
computer scinence areas, broad social interest, good health.

My interest include computer hardware and software, operating system
design, expertsystems, distributed, concurrency and teaching.

I'm open on location (outside Denmark) but I have relatives or other
reasons to be especially intereted in:

	Canada (British Colombia or Toronto)
	USA (New England or Pacific Coast)
	Pacific (New Zealand or Oceania)
	Thailand
	Scotland (Highlands)

I'll look forward to any reponds.

		Yours sincerely
			
			Jacob Baekke, Denmark

For further information:

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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!suvax1!hirayama
From: [e-mail] (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Speed Racer and the Mach 5
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Dec 87 05:28:25 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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in article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ann Schubert) says:
> Posted: Thu Dec 10 15:26:21 1987
> 
> 
>       THIS IS A RE-POST FROM REC.ARTS.TV
> 
> 
> In article <[e-mail]> (James Y. Nakamura) writes:
> 
> I have a question about Speed.  We can't figure out all the neato gadgets his
> car had I think it went like:
> 	1:	Jacks that also made the car able to jump.
> 	2:	???
> 	3:	Saw blades that cut through stuff	
> 	4:	Closes off the top so the Mach 5 becomes a sub..
> 	5:	Homing pidgeon on a rope.
> 

        Don't forget the special treads which would appear on his tires
        to allow for climbing up rough ground or driving near vertical.
        
        Every now and then, I remember that they would add a new option
        (boy, don't you wish your friendly neighborhood dealership would
         offer some of these for your car?).  Unfortunately, it has been
        many years since I last saw Speed Racer, but I do remember one 
        episode which added little winglets which would come out from under-
        neath the doors.  This added a little gliding ability.  Any one
        else remember any?
        

> Also why did Speed have a G on his shirt?  Go doesn't really wash with me and
> I don't know enough Japanese to equate letters. 
> 

        I used to know this but I can't remember anymore, though I
        suspect that it might have to do with the original name of
        the character/title of the show in Nihongo.  Help anyone?

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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!axis!matra!godefroy
From: [e-mail] (Eric Godefroy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: 8 bits on a pseudo-tty
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 3 Dec 87 13:33:27 GMT
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Eric Godefroy)
Organization: Matra Datasysteme
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On 4.2 bsd, it seems difficult to set a pseudo-tty (ptyp / ttyp) in
the pass8 mode. Is it impossible really or how can I do that ?

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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!suvax1!hirayama
From: [e-mail] (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Old TV shows
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Dec 87 05:54:39 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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Xref: alberta rec.arts.sf-lovers:9224 rec.arts.anime:249

in article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (David M. Watson) says:
> Xref: suvax1 rec.arts.sf-lovers:7102 rec.arts.anime:235
> 
> 
> I have foggy but pleasant memories of three other converted Japanese
> 	- (not anime, but...) Ultraman! (Was it: "Hiyata! The beta capsule!"?)
> 		He was a large silver "good-monster" with a red light
> 		mounted on his chest that would blink whenever his batteries	
> 		were getting low.  And in his valiant, exhausting fights
> 		against the dinosaur types that frequently showed up to
> 		menace the World, he almost always came close to running out!
> 		And I remember a obligatory post-crisis trip to the jewelery
> 		store for Hiyata and friend!
> 
> Would anyone like to refresh my memory about any of these three?
> 
       - Ultraman was one of several incredibly popular shows in Japan during
         the late 60s/early 70s/early 80s.  Actually, there were several shows
         each featuring one or more of the "Ultra" brothers, of whom Ultraman
         was the "leader/head/eldest (you get the idea)".  There was also
         Ultra 5 and a bunch of others which I can't remember and it would 
         take a long time to dig out the books.  There was something of a
         revival when UltraMan 80 (?) was released in Japan.  

         Of these, I believe that only the original Ultraman was released
         and dubbed for the American market.

       - By the way, Hayata would be the way to spell his name (though it
         would be more accurately pronounced by you gaijin as "Hiyata".
         
       - Of course, there is nary a trace of him now in Japan.  Programs
         have this incredible tendency of grabbing hold of everyone, then
         they drop it for something new.  

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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!nispa
From: [e-mail] (Tapani Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Unattended dumps (BSD4.3)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 4 Dec 87 15:19:19 GMT
Sender: [e-mail]
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Xref: alberta comp.unix.wizards:5739 comp.unix.questions:4767

I have encountered a problem trying to make a shell script that would
make incremental backups at nighttime without operator attendance.
The problem results from dump(8) program requiring occasional
responses from the operator through /dev/tty.  The script is
run from another script, /usr/adm/daily, under cron control and has no
controlling terminal, so it just hangs trying to read /dev/tty.  It would
be ok if dump just aborted when facing a situation that would require
operator intervention. The script should never hang in a loop under
any circumstances, because /usr/adm/daily must do other things too
and finish after a reasonable time.

Currently I have the dump script run a background subshell that sleeps for
an hour and then kills the dump script (if it still runs) and all dump
processes.  This is very complicated, however, and the watchdog process
is almost 50% of the whole script.  It is also very slow - I would
like it to stop immediately if it finds an error, report it to log file,
rewind the tape, and let /usr/adm/daily continue its work.

Has anyone out there in the Netland have any suggestions of what to do?
Can yes(1) somehow be piped to a program that reads /dev/tty?
Could dump(8) be modified to abort at errors without any questions?
What kind of unattended backup systems do you have?

---
Tapani Lindgren, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, CS dept.
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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!kurtzman
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Cooking Wines
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Dec 87 11:38:44 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Stephen Kurtzman)
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>
>2) (more seriously) I've seen bottles of "wine for cooking" that have had
>   salt (and vinegar?) added.  These might be OK for sauces (yeah, the
>   snootier gourmets wouldn't want anything to do with them) but they
>   would obviously be horrible to drink.

I think that these wines would be particularly bad for sauces that require
wine as a major component and require reducing the wine. There are two
reasons that come to mind:

1) What is normally labeled as cooking wine is usually wine that is not good
enough to sell as table wine. If the taste is not the best, reducing it will
only concentrate its flaws.

2) Cooking wines contain salt. Reducing a cooking wine will concentrate the
salt. This could really ruin the sauce. 

There best reason I have seen for using a good wine to cook with was given
by Alexis Bespaloff in the "New Signet Book of Wine", which states

 "Furthermore, it is actually uneconomical to buy cheap wine for cooking.
  Say that an elaborate lobster dish calls for a spoonful or two of sherry
  to heighten its flavor. A cook who runs out to buy a bottle of cheap
  sherry will diminish the taste of an expensive and time-consuming dish with
  a quarter's worth of wine. What's more, because the wine is a poor example
  of its type, it may not be enjoyable to drink, so the spoonful of wine has,
  in fact, cost the full price of the bottle."

That is fairly sound reasoning. Of course, the last sentence does not
necessarily follow. You could keep the cheap wine around to diminish several
meals.

BTW, I recommend the "New Signet Book of Wine" to anyone who wants to learn
more about wine. It is available for $4.50 as a paperback. Quite a value
when you compare it to the $20-or-more, glossy coffee-table wine books out
on the market.
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Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!luth!d2c-usg
From: [e-mail] (Ulrik"Rick"Sandberg)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Yes and ELP questions......
Keywords: Tales from Topographic Oceans
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 4 Dec 87 18:28:34 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: Ulrik"Rick"Sandberg <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!psi.luth.se!d2c-usg


In article <[e-mail]> I wrote:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Burch Seymour) writes:
>>been looking for Tales on CD without success. To get to the point, is
>>it (Tales) on CD?