Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/26/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1094. Monday, 26 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 20:10:59 CST (11 lines) From: "Christopher W. Donald" <DONALD@UKANVM> Subject: PD Dictionary (2) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 14:36:18 EST (25 lines) From: Niko Besnier <UTTANU@YALEVM> Subject: Laptops and airlines (3) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 90 11:40:00 EST (19 lines) From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: limiting access to macs? (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 20:10:59 CST From: "Christopher W. Donald" <DONALD@UKANVM> Subject: PD Dictionary I am looking for a Public Domain dictionary, (or a real cheap commercial product) that contains simply words, and their parts of speech. This is going to be used with a simple parser. Christopher Donald The University of Kansas Division of Government (2) --------------------------------------------------------------33---- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 14:36:18 EST From: Niko Besnier <UTTANU@YALEVM> Subject: Laptops and airlines A down-to-earth query: I'm about to hop over to London for a working weekend on the 1st of March and have to take my Zenith 286 laptop along. I haven't taken a computer on an international flight in several years, and suspect that security has gotten tighter. What sort of experience have fellow Humanists had in the last few months in this respect? If I'm forced to feed the machine through the x-ray machine, how dangerous is this? (Of course, I'll be making a backup of everything on the hard disk before leaving, but I still need software and files when I get to London!) Is airport security (at JFK in this case) happy to have laptops booted in front of their eyes these days? I tried asking some of these Qs to the airline (BA) on a couple of different occasions, but got very muddled and contradictory answers every time. I'll be grateful for any piece of wisdom. Niko Besnier Department of Anthropology Yale University (3) --------------------------------------------------------------26---- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 90 11:40:00 EST From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: limiting access to macs? One of my tasks is to act as advisor to the student newspaper. They produce the paper on a Macintosh computer and laser printer, using Aldus Pagemaker. They work in a room frequented by many students, a number of whom have started using the computer and printer for their own projects (some academic, others not). The editor and I are concerned about the cost of laserprinting and the safety of newspaper files and programs. Is there some kind of program we could install that would limit access to the hard disk and/or to the printer -- maybe something using a password or personal id numbers? We aren't especially worried about people using the computer to write essays or play games -- but the budget won't support infinite printer usage, and we've already suffered through one hard disk crash... Thanks Kevin Berland