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| 2000/2/5-6 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17430 Activity:low |
2/4 In C, how do I tell how much memory/CPU time used/stats/etc another
process is using? Do I have to be a root process?
\_ In unix it's OS dependent but usually found somewhere under
the /proc filesystem.
\_ /proc is for pansies
\_ First off, the C language doesn't facilitate such things.
What you want to know is machine-dependant.
\_ On UNIX, install top; on NT, use Ctrl-Shift-Esc; on Win95/98,
go get the "kernel powertoys" at the ms site.
\_ BTW, where is Ctrl-Shift-ESC on NT documented? I use the key
sequence everyday, but I don't even remember where I found it
from.
\_ It's in the MS docs such as they are. I've seen it. |
| 2000/2/5-8 [Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:17431 Activity:high |
2/4 Another CVS question, how do I do reservered checkouts (like ClearCase)
on a file. I want to mark a file as in use so that no one else can
edit it, thus avoiding the stupid merges.
\_ that defeats the purpose of CVS. You can use RCS.
\_ CVS/RCS/SCCS, etc are for idiots. Just code it right the
first time. RCS type systems encourage bad programming.
\_ Ha ha ha. That was funny.
\_ No. As trolls go, it's barely at "newbie sodan"
\_ Good enough to get you two to reply plus me
makes three.
\_ There's always room in the motd for
"you fucking suck" entries.
\_ four!
\_ Me too! Five!
\_ No it doesn't. It just means for a while only one person can edit
a single file. It doesn't mean that one person only can edit
*all* of the files in the tree for the entire length of the
project.
\_ CVS is weak. Real hackers don't need it.
\_ I don't feel one way or the other about CVS, but the
stupid fools at work keep stepping on each other toes,
and I would just like to avoid that.
\_ this seems like a sensible thing to ask for, but it implies really
weird things. If homeslice already has a working copy of the files
and homeboy locks a file, your request would imply that cvs
would have to go into the checked out working directory of homeslice
and change, for example, make his checked out file read-only.
Anyways, what you're asking for is not very useful. There's a lot
more hassle involved in dealing with some asshole locking a file
overnight than there is with merging. Merging works. Use it.
Don't be lame. -ali.
\_ Actually, I hate merging. I have wasted hours merging code and
fixing mistakes of other fools. If I could lock a file with a
reserved checkout like in ClearCase then I wouldn't have to waste
\_ Exactly. Merging, CVS, etc, is bullshit. Real programmers
don't need that. Real programmers dont work with idiots
either. The best code I've ever seen was written by one
man with a vision, not a pooled team of jerkoffs in cubes.
\_ What's good enough for the people who bring you
FreeBSD is good enough for you, buddy.
\_ Fuck freebsd! Microsoft doesn't use CVS and they
built the largest, easiest to use, fastest, most
secure, easiest to administer, and stable OS ever
made and they didn't need CVS.
\_ six!
\_ ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD! 80 column formatting tool.
time merging. I'm beginning to apperciate ClearCase for its
versioned directories (and symlinks) and the reserved checkouts.
\_ CVS now supports this with "cvs edit" and "cvs watch", but you
have to compile specially or set something in CVSROOT.
Proper management avoids conflicts. Should two people really
be working on the same piece of code at once. Conflicts due
to whitespace are really annoying, though.
\_ Don't be dense. File locking is a useful feature (which is
surely why it was added). "management" is a heaviweight
solution.
\_ try cvs admin -lock or something like that
threadkiller was here. |
| 2000/2/5 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/Theory] UID:17432 Activity:nil |
2/3 /tmp/tjb-resume.pdf
\_ Isn't anyone going to do anything?? Scratch one up for the
bad guys...Somebody should anonymously be slipping a transcript
of that tirade of his under the door of the math department.
Why is it the world that assholes like this always win?
-- angry anon
\_ Actually, we should find out how danh got the resume and
see if he was breaking any laws in posting it. It looks
like a scan or fax. Which means he probably had a
physical copy. He also could have had at least the
consideration to destroy the home address and phone
number from the posted file. That alone could be
considered illegal.
\_ When you make a resume and submit it, you're doing so under
the assumption that an entire organization of people and
possibly multiple (contracting firm and the place they send
you) are going to look at it, enter it in mass databases,
etc. You _want_ lots of people to see your resume. It
isn't confidential information.
\_ Thanks for overwriting my comments. Yes you expect people
who may be considering hiring you to read the resume. You
do *not* in general expect to see it posted to a
general-access website. I wouldn't put my home phone,
cell phone and address on a website, but I would put an
email address. I think tjb could take danh to court.
\_ blah blah blah. its the motd. no one intentionally
overwrote your whine. tjb can't prove any harm and
courts are expensive. once you release your resume
you have every expectation that it _will_ become
public info. youre a fool otherwise. tough shit.
\_ Please show me where I stated that the overwriting
was intentional. Or, what, only you can complain
about incompetence?
It's disturbing that you equate illegal with tjb's
abilities to pay for court proceedings. Just
because tjb was a jerk doesn't mean that gives
anyone license to stalk him.
\_ whine whine blah blah whine whine. It's the
motd. things get overwritten. whine blah
blah, bleah. Hardly worth mentioning no
matter how it happened. whine blah whine.
\_ Posting a resume isn't stalking. Name one
law actually broken. If sharing information
about people was illegal, credit bureaus
couldn't exist or make so much money selling
your reports to credit card companies.
\_ But posting the home address/phone number
along with deprecating remarks and
suggestions to harass tjb (all of that here
on the motd) is stalking.
\_ Under what imaginary law?
\_ So tjb can call the cops if he wants.
Good luck with that. No it isn't
stalking. At worst it shows bad taste
on dan's part. If he really feels
like doing something, he should go
get some student conduct board on dan.
Again, good luck. /tmp on a limited
access computer is hardly public,
anyway. Can you say, "Over sensitive",
"Mountain/molehile", or "Wah! Mommy!"?
\_ Look again you moron. The file in
/tmp is a symlink to danh's webpage.
That's most definitely public.
\_ Yeah, dan's soda web pages are
getting millions of hits a day.
Like I said, waah waah waah. Go
bitch to someone who might care,
like your mother.
\_ ep-sample is no more
\_ since when is it illegal to scan in someone's resume?
maybe i want to hire him. I think tjb qualifies
\_ You needed a new asshole?
\_ How can you have GSA appointment when youre an undergrad? by
definition he has to be an *undergraduate* teaching assistant.
Unless the math department is now handing out graduate
appointments to sophmores...
\_ Happens all the time. Occasionally they call them "UGSIs"
but they do everything the same except they don't get
a tuition credit (at Cal)
\_ d00d, m4d B4S1C sK1LLz!!1!!
\_ Is this just me or not? I just looked at it. IMHO, I am much much
more impressed by most of the resumes of various people posted on
<DEAD>soda.csua/~membername<DEAD> tjb's resume looks like an
average nerd type resume, the kind that usually go to grad school
after graduating. I didn't see much accomplishments (aside from
just getting good dull grades) in there. And those grades aren't the
greatest ones I have seen before.
\_ Anyone want to run a check on the 'first person in history
of university' to TA math as an undergrad claim? I'm having
a rather hard time believing that.
\_ maybe he's right about the math 55 claim, since
i bet most serious math students don't bother
taking math 55 unless they are CS majors
\_ my friend TA'd math 16a,b as an undergrad, and had
all the same responsibilities as a normal GSI. it
is quite common. the math department has somewhat of
a labor shortage and honestly does not give a shit about
undergraduate education(yes, i have evidence to back
this up, and no, i'm not saying there aren't some
great individual teachers in the department.) the pay
sucks, the workload is high, and they'll hire anyone who knows
calculus and will put up with the bullshit.
-mathmajor alumnus
\_ it's not supposed to impress you. there are several
strange things, for instance, he made double the $$$ delivering
asian food to the suburbs (??) than he did programming
computers. plus he has MAD BREAKIN' SKILLS. I haven't
seen anyone breakdance since I rented Krush Groove 10 years
ago. I would love to know under what name
he practices his turntablism (for lack of a less stupider
sounding name) skills, DJ TJB just doesn't fill me with
awe. Trevor are you reading this?
-csua member posting anonymously,
just to avoid moronic flames from this asshole
\_ what's so wrong with the type of person who goes to
grad school after graduating?
\_ May be he meant that academic success is not
all that matters in one's life or even on the
resumes.
\_ What's worse? A moron? or the moron who goes thru the
trouble of posting a moron resume and posting to the motd
about it? Okay, so danh is not a moron, but still, makes
ya wonder about these CSUAers -- do they "got life"?
\_ i am a moron today, but I had a lot of fun figuring out
how to make a pdf finally - danh
\_ Making a pdf was fun?
\_ Since it's scanned, wouldn't a jpg or even gif
have been smaller?
\_ In framemaker, it is a simple "save as" routine.
\_ shut the fuck up, cmlee. -tom
\_ obsessing over small details is not a moron trait;
it is a geek trait. Bragging on your resume about your
mad breakin' skills or whatever and listing a food
delivery job as work experience is a moron trait. And
fucking with people who have a presence in every corner
of the industry you someday plan to work in is
DEFINITELY a moron trait. -illuminatus
\_ This is the part I like. All tech resumes pass over
my desk before anyone else sees them. Only the ones
that don't go in my trash can have a chance. This
includes people referred by current employees (as if
anyone would refer this guy). I post the worst ones
outside my office for everyone to laugh at instead of
the typical array of Dilbert comics.
--patiently waiting for tjb's resume to post on door
\_ what company do you work for? it's assholes
like you, not tjb, who make people leave computers
, prefering a pay cut to totally defective pricks
as co-workers.
-scientist making 1/5 your salary who doesnt
work with pricks
\_ I'm an asshole for what exactly? Posting
the funny resumes or throwing out the 100s
of bad ones I get every week? whine blah
bleah whatever. I doubt you make enough
to make 1/5th my salary. But I'll pay
you $5 for each car you properly wash. That
should easily double your salary. But don't
come near me. I don't have time to waste on
ivory tower whiners like you. Just wash the
vehicles and go away.
\_ I agree with the scientist that you
are an anal sphincter, and lacks
basic social courtesy. Not only
are you an asshole, by attacking
tjb, you are also a hypocrite
since you are no better than him.
\_ Still waiting to hear exactly what
my crime(s) are/is. Until then,
you're easily dismissed as the
whiney spewing potty mouthed child
you seem to be. |
| 2000/2/5 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:17433 Activity:nil |
2/3 I don't get this. Why is it that certain programs that use 8-bit
color require that you have an 8 bit display rather than 24 or 32.
It seems to make sense that if your system is capable of displaying
st
24 or 32 bit color then it should certainly be able to run programs
that use 8-bit color. From Max:
Max requires colormapped graphics. Your XServer is probably setup
for true color (e.g. 16-bit or 24-bit mode). To run Max, reconfigure
your X server for 8 bit colormapped graphics.
\_ 16 and 24 bit modes are not colormapped. 8 bit almost always is.
\_ Lazy programmers
\_ Some graphics cards with some X servers can provide 8-bit and
24-bit visuals at the same time. -tom |
| 2000/2/5 [Uncategorized] UID:17434 Activity:nil |
2/4 <DEAD>www.applied-demonics.com/departments/Logic/Logic_Main.htm<DEAD> |
| 2000/2/5-8 [Uncategorized] UID:17435 Activity:nil |
2/4 IEEE is sponsoring an event aimed towards students intending to
pursue careers in engineering. Students from all majors are
invited to attend and the talks will be non-technical. It will be
on Feb 15th. Pizza will be served and expensive prizes will be
raffled but you need to register. We are at 204A/286 Cory.
http://www-ieee.eecs.berkeley.edu/spac2000.html |
| 2000/2/5 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:17436 Activity:very high 73%like:17438 |
2/5 Why does the AMD k6-3 450 cost almost 3x as much as the
400 mhz version?
\_ Because cutting edge morons will pay 3x to get a chip that's only
about 3% faster. "Dude, leik i g0t another .3 FPS in Quake4 !!1"
\_ get a fucking clue. the K6-3 450 is not cutting edge. -tom
\_ Sure it is. What's not cutting edge about it?
\_ you mean other than the fact that you can buy
chips which are twice as fast? -tom
\_ Because they can charge it. The die size on the K6-3 is
about twice that of the K6-2, so unless they can charge
much more than previous chips, they'll lose money on each
chip. Since they have much smaller yield at 450 than at
400 that means the 450's are effectively much more
expensive to manufacture. |
| 2000/2/5 [Uncategorized] UID:17437 Activity:nil |
2/5 be the first person on your block to get the american express blue. |
| 2000/2/5-7 [Computer/HW/CPU, Politics] UID:17438 Activity:moderate 73%like:17436 |
2/5 Why does the AMD K6-3 450 cost almost 3x as much as the
AMD K6-3 400 mhz version? (I mean it, both are K6-3):
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu
\_ 1. Because yields are lower on the 450
2a. Because the 400 is priced to "lose" money
2b. Because it maximizes profit (see "Intel Pentium 3")
\_ Who cares? It's dead. Dead, dead, dead.
\_ Who cares? It's dead. Dead, dead, dead. Dead, Jim, dead.
\_ What exactly is the difference between a K6-2 and a -3? -John
\_ unless you don't feel like paying $600 for a CPU.
\_ You can pay less and get more.
\_ You some sort of throw back? You'd have us all using
8088s and 6502s? Those are cheap and slow too. |
| 2000/2/5-6 [Uncategorized] UID:17439 Activity:nil |
2/5 Ma Cappella and Pa Cappella make Capellini with Canapes. 5pm tonite! |
| 2000/2/5 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:17440 Activity:nil |
2/5 Free Money! Open a new E*Trade account through http://www.gomez.com and you get a $150 credit to your account. You need $1000 to open an account and you have to keep the account open for at least 6 months. You don't actually have to buy stock, though so you can keep your money in a money market account which has almost no risk. For details see http://www.gomez.com/deals/profile.cfm?topcat_id=3&product_id=50000194 The recent issue of US News also mentions this. -emin |
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