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I am requested to make Digital video recorder to catch the ATM transaction data to overlay with video for security i like to know any documentation on Dibold 912 and NDC+ protocols how to change it to ASCII format for DVR display

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DNS was a good example to add to Cache. --User:drj

Welcome--another belated one! I am guessing that you are an English coder named "Alex."  :-) No? --User:Larry Sanger


Yes I am a coder, how did you guess! I hope my stuff is ok for you guys :-) Alex

Alex, I've updated ATM. Could you please check it for NPOV, and edit it as you wish. I've explained about the packet jitter issues in detail, and tried to give an unbiased view of ATM. -- The Anome

And I've now at least mentioned AALs, and vaguely talked about AAL1 and AAL5. I'm ignoring the full ghastliness of AAL 3/4 and AAL2 for now. -- The Anome

So you're a Larper in the UK? Are you going to The Gathering? If so, which faction? (Da Viper Boyz!) User:Dragon Dave

Thanks for the Trainspotting info. -- Zoe

Re: cannabis not being beneficial to the lungs: Your objection is both beside the point and somewhat inaccurate. As it was based on smoking (burning), please note that using a vaporizor (which evaporates the cannabinoids without burning any plant material) does not release any of the crud that is released when burning plant material and has no negative effects on the lungs. This is becoming a more common device, especially for medicinal purposes and recreationally as well. As the "effects" section lists only effects of the drug, by whatever method of administration, the statement of beneficiality is valid; I am going to expand my discussion of this, and the qualities of various methods of administration, such as the dangers of smoking, as I proceed to revise the rest of the article.

Second, as regards smoking, there are two qualitative differences between the smoke of tobacco and cannabis: THC vs. nicotine, and levels of radioactivity. First, nicotine itself is simply a very toxic substance to the body (note that it has a low LD50 relative to other substances, whereas THC has a high LD50), and there is increasing evidence that it actually promotes cancer by reducing your bodies defenses against it. Despite what I noted in the article (which I will remedy, with more information), the studies which indicate that THC can promote cancer are largely invalid, whereas the studies which indicate that it can help prevent cancer are much more recent and have been experimental protocol, although the evidence is far from overwhelming and the jury is still out. Secondly, nicotine constricts the same air sacs that THC dilates, thus holding the crud and radioactivity (which I will note in a bit) in smoke, whereas THC enables the lungs to release it effectively. Second, tobacco leaves have radioactive elements which are extremely dangerous when inhaled (as one might expect). Long story short: tobacco is fertilized with phosphates which have various levels of, if I remember correctly, radium which decays into lead-210 and polonium-210 (of these two elements I am sure), both of which have half-lives of decades and stay in and circulate throughout the body, but are especially concentrated at the base of the lungs due to smoking. Heavy tobacco smokers have ~8 times the level of radioactivity in their urine as non-tobacco smokers. Needless to say, this causes problems, especially cancer. A former surgeon general has said that 90% of tobacco-related cancers are caused by radioactivity.

Cannabis is used by many to relieve certain kinds of asthma, and for some, smoking is their method of use, although a vaporizor is, of course, much better. Centrx 19:46, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The relevance of Nicotene and Radioactivity to this argument is nill. The risk was not added to make a good or bad comparison to tobacco. It is just a fact and with the qualification makes sense. Anyway the debate is on the [[Talk::Cannabis]] pages -- User:Alex

oi, yes I killed the page because John Mathieson is a vanity page, if it was a real page a redirect would not have been appropriate. The page is about a person of little to no significance probably (if true) put on there by a friend. It was created by an anon user. GrazingshipIV 19:41, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. Its not a vanity page although I agree its quite short. You may argue about significance but a lot of people came out of Sinclair Research and had impacts on the rest of the industry. -- Alex

Ok, I am going to yield to you (Alex) on this point. I did put a stub message though because the article is horribly short. That is my proposed compromise though I honestly will not do anything should you revert me again. I am finding it hard to understand how I was so belligerent about it before actually. Happy editing :) GrazingshipIV 15:41, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Demoscene

Nice to see you here, Alex. Keep up the great work. RaD Man 19:36, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] FAC

What's up, We're having trouble reaching the necessary number of votes needed for consensus at [[1]]. Please drop by and have a look.. 205.217.105.2 20:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Main namespace cleanup

Heya, I've moved [Wikipedians/Alex] to User:Alex/old. There's some edit history, so perhaps you want to keep it. Otherwise just delete it (or ask an admin to do so). --fvw* 20:54, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

[edit] Unattributed statement

In reference to Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the section on the five factions was taken from the Canadian Senate committee report, which in turn took that information, and that brief quote (about the manufacturing states group's strategy to "shift as much of the regulatory burden as possible to the raw-material-producing states while retaining as much of their own freedom as possible"), from W.B. McAllister's 1999 book, Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An international history. The citations have now been added.

If this satisfactorily answers your question, please cross out the appropriate text at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs to indicate your question has been resolved. Thanks, SonicSynergy 03:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Convention on Psychotropic Substances

Here is the sequel to Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Please vote. Thanks, Joo-joo eyeball 14:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Respectless image

Some users use the crossed out EU flag on their pages. Would you be willing to leave a note here in order to show them it is offensive? De mortuis... 19:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Alex

How are you? Introduce yourself. 81.223.23.159 14:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] C Programming

Hello, could you possible suggest me a website and/or a book which explains C very well? Thanks Caglarkoca 14:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Random Hello

YEEEEEAH how are u??? lol 217.238.189.178 19:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Who are you aside from someone posting from Germany?

[edit] Separation of Church & State

Technically, I shouldn't contact you about this but this is disturbing. You believe that religion should not be mixed with government. Church and state means no National Church, not not minglement between government and religion. --69.67.231.5 23:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Why is this disturbing? I don't see any reason for a national church. By all means have churches but they shouldn't be intertwined with the state the way the Church of England currently is. Bishops in the house of Lords are fine, but should be appointed by merit (or elected) and not a product of the fact the CofE is the national religion. -- User:Alex 6/3/07

[edit] National church article

I stumbled across your user page in the course of looking for info which might be useful in a discussion currently taking place at Talk:National_church. The discussion relates to just what a National Church is, or is not (as distinct from State church or National religion, both of which wikilinks redirect to State religion. From what I see on your user page, I thought you might be interested. -- Boracay Bill 03:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)