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| 1999/8/13 [Science/Physics] UID:16305 Activity:high |
8/12 Is it possible to take 37 units in one semester?
\_ With approval you are allowed to try anything. You won't pass
37 units unless it's mostly crap courses.
\_ Not sure if it's physically possible, but you have to get Dean's
approval to go past 20 or 21.
\_ It's possible if you need them for graduation; a friend of
mine did 38 his last semester. -calbear
\_ Are you sure he didn't attempt to slit his own throat?
\_ Pretty sure. He seems happy to me. He's currently
involved in a start-up for a couple of months before
leaving to New York to work as an attorney in mergers
and acquistions. -calbear
\_ Wait a second. Attorney? That explains everything.
His units were probably mostly in the humanities
and social sciences. I'd like to see someone take
38 units of science or engineering. --dim
\_ Everyone's different. I would die with that many
units of humanities, cuz I can't write worth shit
term papers.
\_ But clearly you could easily do 38 units
of science and engineering classes? Come on.
All you're admitting to is being a moron that
can't write. I submit that it would be
almost *impossible* for an undergrad to take 38
units of science and engineering courses
and pass with grades of C or better in each.
The reason? Problem sets and labs. Papers
are not near as time-consuming, ignoring
whether or not they are "easier". --dim
\- i think if you are one of these amazing
people [there were classes it took me 20hrs/week to
to the homework, while people i knew took 40 minutes,
but they also got 3 digit scores on the putnam ...
and didnt ever bring a pen or pencil or paper to
class to take notes] it can done. for a normal person
this would be impossible. i took 5 problem set classes
plus one political science class one semester and i
basically sleeped under 30hrs a week for the whole
semeser and only went home every few days [it was
also my highest gpa semester, but i was in a black
mood the whole time]. i think you couldnt physically
do the reading for 7 heavy reading classes, however
for many of those classes you can do quite well in
without doing much of the reading. --psb
\_ I guess I didn't have it as bad, but it was still
a pretty horrible experience for me. CS 164 with
Hilfinger, CS 184 with Sequin, EE 122, Polisci 2,
and project partners that were either lazy,
incompetent, or just ditched me half way through
a project. I didn't sleep much that semester but
boy did I learn a lesson about choosing classes.
--jeff
\_ I'm currently in my 5th year of EECS however
there was a semester in which I thought i should do
philosophy instead, so I took 4 philosophy courses
philos 12(foundations of logic), philos 25a(ancient),
philos 133 (language), philos 132 (mind)
and cs61c. This was all without approval from my
faculty advisor. Anyways to make a long story short,
I didn't do jack shit in any of the philosophy courses
and got 4 A's and a B. You can guess where the B came from.
I spent roughly 30 hours for the entire semester outside
of class for each philosophy course.
Compare that with two weeks of an upper div CS or EE class.
I now think that any dumbass can get a Berkeley degree,
but which kind of degree is what counts. I spend
15 hrs a week outside of class for each EE/CS course.
\-try taking h104, h113, 115, physics 137a+105.
one problem set due on wed, 2 on thr, 2 on fri.
you are too wiped out to do anything all weekend.
you learn a lot more about fear and trmbling that way
than reading kierkegaard.
\_ go go math power pack! -- ilyas
\_ Of course i don't mean to diss physics. as an
eecs major i respect math and physics
as more difficult, and realize it requires
much more thought. i couldn't do most upper div math.
and i know history is alot of work. im just saying
generally, that most non-science (anthro, poli sci,
bus, econ, etc.) don't know the meaning of blood
sweat and tears. i do think english and history
are siginificantly harder than other humanities
but getting through
math/physics/ee/cs/mcb/bio-e/meche/chem-e
means you are a bad mo-fo.
\_ Just to let you all know, the first two years of medical school
on most campuses is about 30 units or so, and it wasn't that bad.
A lot of work in amount, but not that hard conceptually. -drex |
| 1999/8/13-14 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW] UID:16306 Activity:nil |
8/12 Web Wackos of the Week Winner: http://www.newamerica.org \_ Web Sickos of the Week: Tie between http://www.necrobabes.com and \_ www.csua/~aspolito http://www.geek.org/ucsc-archive/ROOT/offensive/vomit |
| 1999/8/13-15 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:16307 Activity:kinda low |
8/13 Does FreeBSD or Linux support PC-compatibles that have multiple
processors?
\_ Yes.
\_ Which one? Both?
\_ Linux supports SMP since 2.0. If you're adventurous you
can try the experimental 2.3 kernels which supposedly
fixes many of the performance bottlenecks involved in
SMP or you can wait for 2.4 to come out. Don't know
about FreeBSD. I assume they're working on it too.
\_ FreeBSD supports SMP since 3.0.
\_ who cares.. run solaris.
\_ FreeBSD as of 3.1 supports SMP pretty well. I've talked to
a fair number of people who run 3.2 on multiproc machines
very reliably. -John |
| 1999/8/13-15 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Industry/Startup] UID:16308 Activity:high |
8/13 Have you sold your Redhat IPO shares yet?
\_ You can use the money to buy ASWX ... there is a company with
actual revenue in the IPOs of this week. Big upside potential
if you aren't a day-trading moron and can hold the stock.
\_ yes, at $89. thanks much.
\_ i always thought that ipo's usually dip down after the first
day surge.
\_ Ebay did the opposite. There are many different patterns.
\_ It's the stock market. There's no science or predictable
factors involved.
\_ You mean my double major in economics means nothing?
\_ It might mean something for running a business but
it means nothing for determining whether a net IPO
is going anywhere and for how long.
\_ That's for your average stupid overinflated piece of drivel.
more. quit whining.
RedHat is better than 90% of most of the "internet IPO" crap
out there. But I expect it will eventually stabilize at
50-60, then gradually climb up to 80 again over the next
6-12 months.
\_ Oh really? What makes RH so special other than fanatic
followers who are mostly cash poor? How much do they
make every quarter and what's their profit margin?
\_ Have you ever seen that Simpsons spoof episode
where Homer starts his own "Internet Company" that
does nothing. Well, that exactly what most
Internet stocks are. Seriously, what the hell
does Halcyonsoft do?
\_ Ask them.
\_ I don't see what could be more clear than their
own proclamation:
Halcyon Software, a leading
developer of Active Server
Framework technology, gives IT
professionals the ability to
deploy Web-based applications
with unrivaled compatibility
across multiple server platforms.
-giggle
\_ You know that has nothing to do with stock price any
more. quit whining. Oh, and Dell is offering Redhat
on their computers, dummy.
\_ If nothing means anything anymore, than again, I ask
what makes RH so damned special? It was stated as a
fact that RH "is better than 90% of most of the
'internet IPO' crap out there". Better in what way?
Just by the mere fact that it went up? Is this a
post-facto determination? Had it gone no where,
you'd be the first saying a RH IPO was stupid?
\_ it was definately a PRE-determination,
seeing as how I had the forsight to buy at $50
\_ Well, that's nice. Now then, what makes RH
fall into the non-crap 10% other than OS
religious fanatacism? Still waiting on
this one. I don't expect a non-fanatic answer
because there isn't one. There is *nothing*
special about RH and it sure as hell isn't
worth $5b as a company. That's ridiculous.
Disgusting as they are, at least MS sells a
lot of it's product for a much higher price
than it costs them to produce it. RH does
no such thing.
\_ They do a lot of front end development
contracted by people like SGI and Dell.
They also do a lot of consulting and tech
support which MS doesn't do no matter
what they tell you. In other words, it's
not just another stupid company putting
up another stupid web page claiming
to be the official portal to the Internet
\_ They have backing from Intel,
IBM, and Dell. Enough said.
\_ that means shit if nobody buys these preloads...
\_ they probably will. otherwise, dell marketing
isn't stupid enough to preload their computers
with something nobody buys. look at sgi, they're
developing now for linux and ditching their
nt line completely because it was "unprofitable"
\_ Dell always gets it right? *ALWAYS*? Why
this assumption that big companies are run
by smart people? And are smart people
*ALWAYS* right? No.
\_Big companies can spend enough
money to make it right.
\_ i'm going to kick myself for not signing up with etrade.
\_ don't. It sucks. It was a serious fluke if you were
on ETrade and didn't get bumped from the Red Hat IPO
list. ETrade sucks. I'm moving to Schwab.
\_ Don't. Etrade sucks less(tm)
I missed the IPO window. I still managed to buy
at 50 (through "regular" trading, with etrade)
["Double your money, double your fun..."]
My trade went through INSTANTLY, and I was
notified of it immediately.
Schwab sucks.
\_ etrade sucks less than schwab. |
| 1999/8/13-15 [Industry/Jobs] UID:16309 Activity:low |
8/13 Help, I think my new manager is bored. He keeps coming to my cube,
asks me how to do this and that (it is not like he is ever going to
apply any technical skill he learns from me), trys to go through
the development process with me (and creates shit for me to clean
up). How do I make him stop?
\_ I think he probably misses being a developer and/or is bored.
\_ Is this at Administrative Computing?
\_ NO COMMENT
\_ Gun.
\_ turn off the -i (interactive) flag in the inetd.conf |
| 1999/8/13-14 [Uncategorized] UID:16310 Activity:nil |
8/13 Stupid shipley comments purged. Too stupid even for the motd.
Tough shit. |
| 1999/8/13-15 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:16311 Activity:kinda low |
8/13 How can I use two different programming libraries that share many of
the same function names. I don't want to go through and change the
function names everywhere and recompile--it's not really possible
in this situation. Basically is there anyway to say that everything
from a library should be prefaced with LIB1__ to be used (but NOT
have to recompile the lib)? -drex
\_ you could write a program using libbfd
\_ you ahve to write your own wrapper for every single
function in one of the libraries, and use dlopen()
\_ sed
\_ write a perl script to prefix the function names and recompile
the lib sources
\_ cpp.
\_ Why is this still up here? I answered it definitively.
You have to make wrappers for each conflicting function,
and use dlopen(), etc to make the wrappers actually
work. |
| 1999/8/13-15 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Computer/SW/Security] UID:16312 Activity:kinda low |
8/13 Anyone seen this? I wonder if we could determine if it's for real:
http://www.iacr.org/~iacr/misc/china
I'm trying to find alternate sources of verification. -brain
\_ It's obviously a hoax. No one is going to hand over $300m in gold
because someone found a tablet. It's ridiculous.
\_ i"ve just decyphered it. The text tells of the location of
the Ark of the Covenent
\_ I saw a problem with the date, it says ROC year 1933, but
there's no ROC year 1933. Obviously, it's western year
1933, which is ROC year 22.
\_ Another problem is that the "Hua" character in "Chung Hua Min
Kwo" (Republic of China) is in Simplified character which was
not used in ROC and in present Taiwan. Simplified character
is only used by Communist China which was founded in 1949.
-- yuen
\_ I have discovered the solution to this problem, but the motd is
too small to contain it. -fermat
\_ umm, okay, really I was asking, "I wonder if there are actual
gold bars with valid encrypted data on them, and if so, what
the encrypted message is." The transaction detailed by the
story is actually irrelevant, because, as you say, it's a
sure bet that the account is no longer valid. -brain |