Bugbear virus and LEM lists

2003-03-10 Thread Dan Knight
A former member of the PCI PowerMacs list was alerted to the presence of a virus on a message purportedly sent from pci-powermacs. He emailed the following: This morning I received an email (apparantly) from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our virus scanning software, carefully updated by our professional

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread RedNight
Heh. Not all? Try *most* :) I'm amazed at the number of jacks I see with only two wires in 'em. thats what hapens when standards get changes around Shipping to Canada is *not* that expensive, and people literally *give away* LocalTalk and PhoneNet stuff on Swaplist quite often. I suggest

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread RedNight
At 12:37 PM 10/03/2003 -0500, you wrote: RedNight wrote: eventually I'll probably find some. no shipping is not expensive but Canada Customs are bastards. Yeah, they screw the few good Canadians and let the terrorists pass through. Time to vote someone out of office. Unfortunately they

Re: This is my end... for now...

2003-03-10 Thread iriXx
i'm sorry to see you go, peace m~ Mark Benson wrote: I'm afraid that the recent weeks on LEM have been fairly harrowing for me personally. I have more or less discovered that my heart is no longer in it and my mindset is no longer correct. Therefore I feel I have no option, in order to

Re: This is my end... for now...

2003-03-10 Thread R. A. Cantrell
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Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread the pickle
At 11:16 -0700 on 10/03/03, RedNight wrote: At 12:37 PM 10/03/2003 -0500, you wrote: RedNight wrote: eventually I'll probably find some. no shipping is not expensive but Canada Customs are bastards. Yeah, they screw the few good Canadians and let the terrorists pass through. Time to vote

Customs charges (Was: Anybody know the schematic...)

2003-03-10 Thread Phil Beesley
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 08:30 PM, RedNight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately they think anything computer related is expensive and thus tax the crap out of it. They don't seem to pull this crap when you order stuff from Europe, but then it's expensive as hell to ship the

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- RedNight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. Not all? Try *most* :) I'm amazed at the number of jacks I see with only two wires in 'em. thats what hapens when standards get changes around Yes, annoying, isn't it? Microsoft has decided to change yet another standard to how they want.

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread RedNight
Someone wanna 'splain how the that's legal? If you don't pay anything for it, how are they allowed to tax it of the several things I have ordered/receieved from the US one so far has had the customs forms filled out correctly. They generally stick you with a handling fee on top of it as

Re: Customs charges (Was: Anybody know the schematic...)

2003-03-10 Thread RedNight
I don't know how Canada is different from the UK but the UK customs service can hurt too. It appears to be pretty random with my purchases as to whether I am charged VAT (purchase tax) on goods from the US or Canada. One week a parcel with a declared value of $150 US is delivered without a

Import duties. Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone wanna 'splain how the that's legal? If you don't pay anything for it, how are they allowed to tax it? A value is assessed then the customs department levies an import duty on it, unless the item was produced in the country you're importing

Re: This is my end... for now...

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Willy Ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- R. A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/10/03 3:20 PM, iriXx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm sorry to see you go, peace m~ Me 2. Me 3 Me 1,024 ;) = Why do Zik-Zak Burgers come in plastic packs? Some of the