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| 1999/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:16752 Activity:nil |
10/23 Suggestions for decent mailling list and www message board software?
The list is small but aliases aren't good enough. Message board should
be easy for the non-techy client-side users to use. It's ok if it's a
bitch to setup. thanks |
| 1999/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:16753 Activity:nil |
10/23 mutt 1.0 released. http://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt |
| 1999/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:16754 Activity:high |
10/23 From a C programmar who knows just enuff to be dangerous,
\_ wut r u gonna do,
nibble my bun?
how to I convert a binary text file to plain text file? Do
I have to get each character one at a time, check for 0x1a, etc.
before writing it in text? Thanx - mtbb.
\_ man strings. WTF is a "binary text file" anyway? Everything is
in binary if you want to be anal about it and otherwise, it's
either binary -or- text. What are you talking about?
\_ He's referring to text files terminated with CR/LF vs. CR,
otherwise known as dos-tyle text and Unix-style text. To
the original poster: try "todos" -mogul
the original poster: try "todos". If that doesn't suit you,
and you'd rather do this with C than with tr or perl, then you
need to open the file in binary mode and do exactly what you
propose, though you can be much more efficient by working on
larger chunks of data before writing it out. --mogul
\_ Just in case you're actually trying to get this done
rather than theorize about how to do it in C:
DOS -> UNIX: perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' filename
DOS -> UNIX: perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' filenames
\_ I think you mean
perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' filenames
UNIX -> DOS: perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r\n/g' filename
UNIX -> MAC: perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r/g' filename
MAC -> UNIX: perl -pi -e 's/\r/\n/g' filename
I'll leave the DOS to MAC conversions as an exciting
exercise to the reader. --dbushong
\_ Will the dos to mac conversions be on the midterm? Do I
have to know that stuff?
\-emacs dos-mode --psb
\_ Will *that* also be on the midterm? Is it open
book?
\_ Midterm question: Do the above conversion
using only nroff
\_ Oh come on... I thought this was supposed
to be an advanced course! What's with the
baby questions? |
| 1999/10/24-26 [Industry/Startup] UID:16755 Activity:high |
10/22 Adobe is holding a College Open House next Thursday night (10/28) at
our headquarters in downtown San Jose, for those of you who are into
that new-college-grad-searching-for-job thing. More details are
posted in http://ucb.org.csua and other relevant newsgroups; E-mail me if
you have any questions. -- kahogan
\_ When are you coming on campus? I'm interested but am busy that night.
\_ Is it just me or are companies recruiting earlier?
\_ So you think this sys admin farm (CSUA) is a good place to recruit?
\_ For cheap inexperienced but enthusiastic labor, sure. Why pay
$100k+ for someone who knows what they're doing when you can have
two NCG CSUA members and have enough left over for a decent
hiring bonus to bring in the $100k+ guy after to clean up?
\_ Infosession on Nov. 11 (more details later on time and place),
interviews at career center on Nov. 16 & 17. -- kahogan
\_ As a new hire in a big ass company, how many years do I have to
spend debugging and testing before I can start doing something
interesting?
\_ 1.5 years in startups and then you'll be doing much more
interesting work at *any* company than you would otherwise
as a new college big-company-only wage slave. Day one at
any startup would be better than what you're doing now.
You might as well work for the university.
--been there, smarter now
\_ startups== lotsawork, not much pay.
\_ You're at the wrong startup. --low work, high pay
\_ most startups require a ton of work an half a
brain. after talking to people from trilogy
and lame ass startups i've found that most
of these people don't know what they're talking
about and aren't technically apt. all they know
how to do is stupid web pages and asp shit.
\_ known as "not doing proper research on your
company before signing papers". It's your own
fault if you end up at a startup like that.
\_ that is what is known as a lame startup. There
are good ones out there but you have to be
willing to look. My advice is spend a year
or two in a not so glorious job learning the
way the real world works (and why it sucks
and why a good job is a must if you want
to sane) and making contacts and then once you
have saved up some money and don't need to take
a job right away, start looking and be choosy.
Oh and if you have to convince yourself that
you won't hate a certain job, you will hate it.
\_ Totally right on with that last line. 100%
\_ I can't speak for other peoples' experience in *other* big-ass
companies, but at Adobe I was doing something interesting within
my first week. Over the two-and-a-half years since I graduated
from Cal, I've had my own big chunk of two major products
(feature-owning, from spec-writing to implementation), as well
as a part in some researchy-prototype stuff on the side. My
occasional corporate flack). -- khogan
experience hasn't been perfect, but I'm definitely happy and not
bitter (as evidenced by my willingness to come back to Cal as an
occasional corporate flack). -- kahogan
\_ Most large companies won't be like this. Like all rules
(except this rule) there are exceptions. In short, whether
you're applying to anything from IBM to http://Dinky-Startup.Com,
you must investigate during the interview process with your
potential manager/boss what they think you'll be doing on a
daily basis in the short and long term and what they think
short/long term means. For me, short term is 2 weeks. For
people used to a slower pace, short term is two years. You
must question, question, question. Questions won't offend
and will only make you look less like a NCG idiot. Just so
you know where I'm coming from, I hop from startup to
startup just to not be bored at work. I haven't noticed
that large companies pay better than startups, but in
deference to kahogan I'll grant I've nveer applied to his
company. |
| 1999/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/HW] UID:16756 Activity:nil |
10/22 Whats a good book on client server architecture (how-to)? Need
something fairly basic.
\_ how about client/server for... dummies 3rd ed?
\_ The Linux Network Administrator's Guide by O'Reily's is pretty good. |
| 1999/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16757 Activity:nil |
10/21 Lesson request: I'm on a slow network of MS computers, with a
huge backup running and sucking up all the bandwidth. When i try
computer one to to large copy a file from Windows another it is
very slow, but if i use FTP, it is very fast. What up? (I'm
hoping for something a little more technical than "MS sucks").
\_ NetBEUI!
\_ ED! ED! ED is the STANDARD! Network Backup Tool.
\_ SMB sucks.
\_ Just as an aside, isn't it called CIFS now (Common Internet
File System)? Only M$ would believe that a piece of crap
like SMB would make the perfect file sharing protocol over
the internet. As if we don't have enough crap congesting the
network. I just wish that Sun and IBM would get thier act
together and squash M$.
\_ HAHAHAHA -IBM couldn't squash M$ when it was an 8 man
company. WHat are they goning to do now that M$ has more
money (and manpower) than GOD?
\_ MS is nothing. They're a dead struggling company holding
on to their last threads. Not long from now, MS will be
nothing but a footnote in IBM's historical notes.
\_ Yeah, like most microsoft originated networking protocols, SMB is
a piece of shit. FTP is going to be much faster.
\_ but we want a protocol that saturates a 100bT network so that
nobody else can use it. We must monopolize the network as
well as the market.
\_ SMB is a Cisco plot to sell higher end hardware.
\_ I guess rsync doesn't exist for Winblows, huh. How about
faking it with a Samba box so you can use rsync? :-) -John
\_ This will let you use MSBackup. You need to go the other
way and export nfs from your 'd0ze boxes. Either way, NT
and Bill Gates both suck my hot throbbing cock.
\_ is there a free Pc implementation of NFS?
\_ Yes there is one, but I don't recall its name.
However, all NT NFS setups I've seen were buggy,
slow kludges. Your best bet, if you need real
network services as well as all of the NT SMB
crap, is *BSD/Linux running Samba and Sharity. -John
\_ yes. it's called freebsd and linux. |
| 1999/10/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:16758 Activity:nil 66%like:16748 |
10/21 Any suggestion for (mail-order) source of photographic archival
supply (i.e. Albums, negative/slide files etc.)
\_ B&H, http://www.bhphotovideo.com
\_ But they don't carry archival stuffs like albums.
\_ How is Light Impression? (http://www.lightimpression.com |
| 1999/10/24-28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:16759 Activity:low |
10/23 Opportunities in SoCal for computer saavy people with Library
interest/experience (the kind with books in it, not the kind you
link into a program): see /csua/pub/jobs/RiversideLibrary --dbushong
\_ Uh, MS in Library Science? You gotta be kidding...
\_ No. MS in LS in hardcore. I'm *sure* _you_ couldn't earn
one. LS isn't about the Dewey Decimal system BS you learned
in 1st grade.
\_ No one is putting down MS in LS - but I doubt you'll
find anyone on soda other than cynthia who has one
and I doubt she wants to move to riverside after
just buying a house up here.
\_ College of Engineering is superior over ANY college in
Berkeley. ENGINEERING REWLS, YOU ALL SUCK!!!
\_ And knowledge of English is obviously not required
to get into Engineering.
\_ knowledge of english is overrated --pld
\_ Fuck English, speak PERL!
\_ Me fresh off boat make big engineer bucks,
go back China make China strong, beat evil
America into dirt!
\_ If "Engineering is superior over ANY college in
Berkeley" then is it "superior over" (love that
grammar) itself or has it seceded from the
University and moved out of Berkeley? You make
no sense. |