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| 2001/3/18 [Computer/Networking] UID:20832 Activity:high |
3/17 linksys router, only allows port 80 to be forward.
none of the other ports are forwarding. (ie: i have 2
pcs that both connect when i use port 80, test both
pcs and both work but only port 80. anyone had problems
like this? thanks
\_ Uh... say what, huh? I'd help if you made sense. |
| 2001/3/18 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:20833 Activity:high |
3/17 Are there any perl modules to handle command line flags simply?
I want something like "if (Flag1.value == foo) then {...}"
\_ man Getopt::Std
\_ Search for 'getopt' on cpan, there are lots.
\_ It's perl. Of course. |
| 2001/3/18 [Uncategorized] UID:20834 Activity:nil |
3/18 Scumbag Mulhern bashing the poor again. Wants to take away their
right to vote because they don't make as much money as he does:
http://washington-weekly.com/mar19-01/story1.html |
| 2001/3/18-19 [Consumer/Audio] UID:20835 Activity:nil |
3/18 Any recommendations for a good minidisc player?
And where to buy from?
\_ By player I'm assuming you mean a portable player and not
a player/recorder deck or a portable player/recorder.
I have two Sony portable players, one that came with my deck
another one I bought a Fry's for $99. Both of them are pretty
good (ie they sound fine in my car) and are pretty sturdy. I've
dropped them several times without damaging them or the MDs
they had inside. I also carry them around in my backpack and
haven't damaged them to date (I've had them for ~ 2 yrs).
The one that came with my deck has more buttons and a bigger
display but it needs two AA batteries and it can only play for
about 8 to 16 hrs before having to replace the batteries. The
$99 one can use either the power stick or a single AA battery
and can play for about 12 to 16 hours before needing a new battery.
My brother has a Sony portable player/recorder and its okay, but
he had to get it fixed within 3 weeks of buying it. Its been about
six months since then and he says that it works pretty well for
recording CDs and lectures. Just by looking at it, I'm pretty sure
that its not as sturdy as mine and it probably couldn't survive a
fall from a desk or a backpack.
Several people at work have the cheap sharp players and they seem
to work fine, but they are pretty big compared to the Sony players
(about 2x or 3x as thick depending on the model).
I'll post model numbers tomorrow morning.
If you are looking to buy one I'd recommend checking out
http://minidisco.com, http://minidisc.org and http://cameraworld.com along with Fry's. If
you don't mind driving to Folsom, you should also check out the Sony
outlet, they usually have good deals on new and refurb players and
player/recorders.
\_ thanks, the URLs are especially useful. Anyone used MDLP?
\_ I would recommend the MZ-E90. I've had it for about 3 months and
really like it. It's the second smallest player on the market and
is really about the size of a MD itself! The only caveat is the
40sec shock doesn't work as advertised, kinda ranges from 10-30. See
reviews on MD's at http://epinions.com, pretty accurate. The MD community
has websites in which people post problems they have had with
specific units (http://minidisc.ch/problems.asp All resources
for MD can be found at: http://www.minidisc.org I got mine for
$200 from http://shopping.yahoo.com. Haven't tried MDLC, the ATRAC
compression is the most I want my ears to handle.
\_ I have a Sharp, one of the funky looking ones with the jog dial.
I primarily use it for live music recordings, and it works very
well. I chose it over the Sony because of reports of its
reliability. It *is* fairly thick compared to the other MD
players out there, notably the Sony, but I was looking only for
something good to record with, not portability. One other thing
of note, the Sharp I have doesn't have a belt band, so I've had
to have guest speakers have fairly loose pockets to hold the MD
player when they speak. -chaos |
| 2001/3/18-19 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:20836 Activity:high |
3/17 Does anyone think the housing market will crash like the stock market?
I heard housing prices are already down some 4%
since beginning of the year.
\_ No. It's only going to get worse. Look back at 1998's prices, the
last time the housing market "crashed". Prices now are way higher
than before that so-called crash. If you have some fantasies about
buying some jobless dotcommer's house for a song, forget it.
\_ 4% is peanuts. They're still going up in my area. The town houses
are now up to where the low end houses were a year ago in my area.
\_ In my area the housing prices are up. Last fall houses like mine
(okay my parents) were going for ~ 750K - 900K, today my mom and I
went walking and we saw several houses for sale with the prices
ranging from 950K - 1.1M.
I'm giving up my plan to move to Saratoga, San Jose is too expensive
for me. Guess I'll have to start looking somewhere cheaper like
Campbell or Freaqmont.
I'm giving up my plan to move to Saratoga, as even San Jose is too
expensive for me. Guess I'll have to start looking somewhere cheaper
like Campbell or Freaqmont.
\_ Fremont homes are about 630k-700k
\_ Uh no, homes in my uncle's neighborhood (Ardenwood) are
more like 350k to 450k. Still, I don't fancy living that
close to the riff-raff. Oh well, I guess I'll just have
to wait for my portfolio to recover.
\_ um. no, 600k for homes in aredenwood
\_ Well, the house two doors down from his is listed
for 425k. I just saw it today. Mind you he's near
880, Deep Creek and Paseo Padre and the houses in
his area are older ~ 15 yrs.
The nicer ones are about 600k, but I'm not
interested in paying 600k to live that close to
riff-raff.
\_ but by then, everyone else's will recover too and
prices will go back up
\_ Well, its pay 400k for a house in freqmont now
or wait till my 400k becomes 1m and buy a house
then. In Saratoga, the prices for the houses I'm
looking at have hovered around 950k to 1.25m for
the last 5 years. Not many buyers on the high end.
\_ Ardenwood? Ew.
\_ I hear Modesto is still fairly cheap.
\_ And Fremont is a pit, too.
\_ what's wrong with Fremont?
\_ is your head too big already?
\_ anyone know a good contractor or architect?
want to demolish a home, rebuild one w/ a basement
\_ Are you in CA? If so, you probably can't get a permit to build
a basement because of the earthquake zoning laws for residential
properties.
\_ a number of new homes in the Bay Area have included basements.
besides, wouldn't it be okay with some sort of rolling
foundation (like in the Winchester House)?
\_ my uncle did that with a new house after a teardown. Added
a whole other basement floor with office, big-screen movie
room, 2 bedrooms, pool-table and separate entrance
\_ which contractor did he use? can you email me- turin
\_ actually houses w/ basements are better to survive
earthquakes because you have easy access to install steel
support mounts on the main supports thus reinforcing them.
\_ Well there are other problems with basements and earth-
quakes. I remember Prof. Chopra in CE explaining in some
class, something about standing waves or something. Wish
I had been paying attention. Oh well, it was almost 6 yrs
ago and I only took CE because of some stupid department
policy.
\_ Going to pay 500k for a knock down and another 300 to build
over it?
\_ demo jobs are 20-40k and done in 2 days (demolition)
\_ Just be prepared to wait 6-9 months for them to have time.
\_ That's "to have to time to get started on it".
\_ Depend on the price-range the house is in and location.
I bet the most expensive homes will take a hit. More moderately
priced homes, maybe not so much. Those in excellent school
districts or easy commutes...you know. I personally know of two
recent sales, in Union City and San Jose, both got sold
for slightly above asking price, but each only had two bids.
But both i would consider sort of on the high-priced-end for
this uncertain economic time. My aunt sold a Los Altos home
about 1.25 year ago for an outrageous profit. The guy who bought
it did some minor remodeling and 9 mos. later put it back on the
market, asking $1,000,000 more than he bought it for. The
house is still for-sale. Not sure if it even got any offers.
\_ I have been house hunting in San Francisco for six months,
and I can tell you that houses here have definitely gone
down. About 10% for the 1M+ properties and a bit less for
the "reasonable" 500M one bedroom condos. -ausman
\_ 10% down for a million+ house isn't a big deal. The numbers
on that end of the scale are semi-random anyway and much more
dependent on the details of that particular seller and
location than the market as a whole. 500k for a one bedroom
condo is insane even if it was 600k the week before. |
| 2001/3/18-19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:20837 Activity:low |
3/18 Hotmail really running on NT now?
Or is this just the front end logon?
telnet http://www.hotmail.com 80
Trying 64.4.53.7...
Connected to http://www.hotmail.com
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:42:21 GMT
Location: <DEAD>lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login<DEAD>
Connection closed by foreign host.
\_ They started phasing in NT many months ago, /. mentioned it --oj |