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| 2001/12/11-12 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:23206 Activity:high |
12/7 Chialea, what are you gonna put on the GRE Subject entry? Are you just
gonna leave it blank? I took the subject on Nov but wouldn't find out
my score till 12/26, by then most of the applications are already due!
\_ I put my score... I took it in april. it sucked, but I'm not
likely to do much better, given the tiny problem that I haven't
taken most of the classes it's based on. -chialea
\_ what classes didn't you take that would've helped?
\_ 150,152,162,184,186. I got theory, I got music.
-chialea
\_ Who could ask for anything more?
\_ How about rhythm, dumbass?
\_ luckily I have that too,
I'm not twohey. -chialea
\_ Here's a nickel, go buy
yourself a sense of humor.
\_ "I got my [gal|guy]. Who could
ask for anything more?"
\_ eh? you got music?
\_ indeed. -chialea
\_ since when did CS GRE care about music theory?
\_ they don't. pity. -chialea
\_ you don't really need 184 (only 1-2 questions
on linear algebra/matrices). But the other ones
are kind of important.
\_ yes. yes they are. hopefully the grad schools
understand that specialists do good research :P
(I've been so told) -chialea
\_ will you have my babies?
\_ Humans aren't interfertile with the
likes of you.
\_ heaven forbid you mail her instead of professing your love for
her on the motd.
\_ I don't want her to find out who I am. I'm that no name,
faceless coward who took a lot of the class upper div
classes with her.
\_ Er, how sweet. Yeek.
\_ A Geek Stalker. How novel... or maybe not. |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:23207 Activity:high |
12/07 Here's some benchmarks for same video/different CPUs:
http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2001q4/vidcards/index.x?pg=11
\_ in another word, the quality is so fuckin good nowadays that the
nekked eyes can't really tell the difference between a $100 and a
$300 card/CPU unless you use benchmarks. Cool.
\_ Cool. I just bought a $100 card.
\_ for raw polygon, probably not much. But then there is
anti-alias, motion-compensation, hypertexture and other
which would bog down a GeForce3. The real question is
where are the games which use these features?
\_ Nothing out right now that I know of. |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/Networking] UID:23208 Activity:moderate |
12/07 I'm a big lazy wimp who has been spoiled by the nice easy
GUI that comes with Firewall one. Anyone know a nice
easy gui frontend for managing netfilter/ipfw rules?
\_ vi
\_http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat \
=10&discrim=151
As a general tip, especially with things like ipfilter's keepstate
& similar functions under ipchains/ipfw/netfilter/whatever,
text-based firewall rules tend to be far friendlier to administer
in the long run; GUI firewalls lose you a lot of overview and
quick editing functionality, especially if you're dealing with
large numbers of rules. -John |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:23209 Activity:high |
12/10 If I use Sun's implementation of JMS (download from http://java.sun.com) does that mean I gotta use the db that comes with it (cloudscape) for persistent system message storage? is there a lighter weight solution I can download from? \_ CloudScape _is_ a light version. \_ I recommend you take a look at SwiftMQ if you are looking for a low cost JMS solution. It is a commercial, yet free, implementation of JMS. It's rock solid(v2.1.3) and the mailing list is quite good. It doesn't implement the optional parts of the 1.0.2 spec however. -payam \_ What is JMS actually used for and who uses it? Also, is OpenJMS any good? \_ stored TCP/IP stuff is useful \_ what does this mean? |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Industry/Jobs] UID:23210 Activity:low |
12/10 I found the following book pretty useful. If you're a laid off dotcomer
or who is no longer passionate about technology, buy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082424/qid=1008053251/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/104-1528290-4681515
\_ dotcommer: noun, pl dotcommers; the marketing chick who made 4 times
what she'd make in the real world. Dotcommers != techies with
skills. You'll never see a "dotcommer profile" in the papers with
a code monkey, or any sort of IT people. The one they did profile
a year or so ago turned out to be a fake. I do wonder what becomes
of all the ex-execs. One company I was at was run into the ground
by the 27-29 year old founders. Had Stanfurd degrees and Softbank
money for a year. What does someone like that do after they kill
an otherwise perfectly good little startup? |
| 2001/12/11 [Politics/Domestic/911, Reference/Religion] UID:23211 Activity:insanely high |
12/10 What is the big deal with John Walker?
\_ When you grow up in America and are taught/shown/experience why
secular govt, freedom of religion, (classical) liberalism, and
capitalism (i.e. "consumerism") are actually good things, someone
who attends terrorist camps and shoots at Americans is fucking
annoying and a traitor to the blessings he was born with.
\_ You've made my point, from the opposing point of view, better
than I could have myself.
\_ You're too smart for me. Could you say that again using
common simple grammatical structure a 5th grader could
understand?
\_ Plus he's white.
\_ yes, that's why it's being made into a big deal.
\_ If he was anything but Arab it would have been a big deal.
How much bigger a deal would it have been if his ancestors
were from, oh... say... Japan? Get over the hate-whitey
thing.
\_ Actually, if he were an American of Arab descent,
i think it would be an even bigger deal.
\_ I disagree. It's the photos of a pale disheveled
white guy that made the news. If it was an
american of arab descent, we would just call him
an muslim who happened to speak english and spent
time in the states. |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Academia/Berkeley/Classes, Recreation/Food] UID:23212 Activity:high |
12/10 Check out starting salaries, job descriptions, and organizations
for various majors (yes there are "food servers" in the humanities
majors).
http://career.berkeley.edu/CareerExp/Major.stm
\_ looks like IB and english majors are suffering
\_ I like the "Self Employed" guy who named himself "Vice
President of Marketing and Sales".
\_ So EECS and CS are still the highest.
\_ This surprises you?
\_ Go ask a salesperson at any reasonably succesful
company in the valley how much he makes(base + commish).
Chances are it'll be at least 2x what an EECS major from Cal at
the same company makes. I didn't think this was true until I
had to find one for my company.
\_ Go ask the rest of the salespeople who haven't been at it
for 15+ years and don't have a million contacts and don't
get sent to the best contracts, etc. Yes, a sales jerk
*can* and often do make more than the typical EECS geek, but
the *average* sales jerk is eating cat food in his cold
flat on the bad side of town. The marketing chick is still
overpaid. Average EECS $$$ >> Average Sales Jerk $$$.
\_ cat food?
\_ Yes. What are you questioning about it? |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:23214 Activity:very high |
12/11 http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html \_ http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3lje5o%24n7h%40agate.berkeley.edu \_ Does "Usenet newsgroups" mean all the newsgroups I can see when I run trn? Are there newsgroups that are not Usenet newsgroups? Confused. \_ It means Usenet groups before the big re-org. talk.* and net.* stuff. It doesn't have my 1985 posts, but it does have some 1986 stuff I wrote... It scares me. \_ Say, what newsgroup did the Ahm/Blojo incident happen in? \_ ucb.erotica.sensual, but I can't find the exact original posting, just aftermath signs such as: http://groups.google.com/groups?start=100&hl=en&group=ucb.erotica.sensual&selm=4a1t98%24nk0%40agate.berkeley.edu http://groups.google.com/groups?start=100&hl=en&group=ucb.erotica.sensual&selm=frrawx7xfx.fsf%40sigma.veritas.com Anyone have the original ahm/blojo postings archived? -alexf \_ http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22tawei+liao%22&hl=en&scoring=d&rnum=8&selm=58t1r7%241ev%40agate.berkeley.edu \_ is this for real? real or not, did it work? \_ http://www.ereview.com/archive/tawei Status: single Must not have worked... \_ Hmm...what happened to Tawei? He was quite a character. \_ http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3ljdjg%24mu6%40agate.berkeley.edu http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=31jp6o%24oc2%40agate.berkeley.edu http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2ron5j%244iu%40agate.berkeley.edu |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/Networking, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:23215 Activity:high |
12/11 Alpha Chi Sigma has rooms available for the spring semester.
The house is on northside, 3 blocks from soda hall and
has an ethernet behind a DSL router.
email Edward Pizzini <pizzini@jps.net> for more information
\_ Ran out of people to haze this year?
\_ c'mon, be fair... they probably just ran out of goats to
have people with. [I think this is funny and will keep
haze people with. [I think this is funny and will keep
restoring it everytime you delete it. hoser.]
\_ motd was restored. old motd. Also, don't you know ACS
is a professional Chemistry fraternity? There is a picture
of some membership on the latest College of Chemistry
alumni mag.
\_ professional, eh? Well I say, where there's hazing
there's goats.
\_ Yes, we stopped playing "Guess The Acid Taste Test" after
someone drank a whole cylinder of fuming nitric like a shot. |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:23216 Activity:moderate |
12/11 is there a way to 'uname' from a distance? ie is there some way to
'uname' a machine that i'm not logged into?
\_ Try "nslookup -query=hinfo hostname", but I think only some machines
conform to this. --- yuen
\_ some sites give out incorrect info to confound '1337 H4X0R5!
so don't trust hinfo records.
Alternatives include snmpwalk (get sysobjectid), rsh/ssh, or
HEAD / HTTP/1.0 and grok the output.
\_ That doesn't give uname info, does it? The output I'm getting
is very similar to that of 'dig'.
\_ I believe you want a tool like nmap
\_ nmap isn't very accurate, it reports MacOS 9.x as HPUX 11.x
and FreeBSD 5.0 as Darwin. |
| 2001/12/11-13 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:23217 Activity:high |
12/11 Does your pine inbox get wipe out? What happened to my read messages
in my inbox?
\_ do you have a file named "mbox" in your directory?
\_ yes, I assume this is where my inbox messages are stored? But
what happened with Pine? It just suddenly not read from mbox?
The messages were shown earlier this afternoon.
\_ Maybe your previous instance Pine wasn't killed?
\_ what happened was, I had a previous instance running while
I deleted a message in the second instance. I get the text
second message deleted a in I instance the. the text get I
"acquiring exclusive lock..." Message deleted successfully.
Realizing I have two instances of pine running, I quit from
when I startup pine again, the inbox is empty.
the second inst and kill the other session. Then later on
startup when I pine again, inbox empty is the.
\_ mh. stop using a toy mail reader. Weird how 99% of mail problems
posted to the motd are pine users. figure it out already! you
don't have to use *my* mail reader, just use something else that
works... anything else.
\_ Pine is not a bad mail client. Its relative simplicity
invites novices, that's all. Many people have no problems
with it.
\_ Yeah but c'mon.... Some one with enough mail and multiple
open shells and knows how to stop/start processes, etc
should maybe think about moving on to something more
robust. I grant that my procmail/mh solution is probably
overkill for most people but there are so many others out
there. There has to be something out there that doesn't
eat inboxes and require constant motd queries.
\_ I use procmail+pine.
\_ Pine is a terrible mail client, (n)mh + mh-e are *much*
better. The only thing that pine seems to do better is
attaching files in base64 (mime) encoded format. I haven't
been able to get mh-e to do this reliably. If I can figure
that out, I can stop using pine all together.
\_ mutt |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Uncategorized/Multicategory] UID:23218 Activity:nil |
12/11 Does anyone know of a UPS that has software for MacOS X. I'm looking
for something that will shutdown the computer gracefully when the
power goes out. I don't need all the fancy power metrics, etc. |
| 2001/12/11 [Uncategorized] UID:23219 Activity:nil |
12/11 [ restored - yeah its old, just deal ] |
| 2001/12/11-12 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:23220 Activity:moderate |
12/10 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-121101noexit.story An article on the psychology of Sharon & Arafat [One of the more interesting and educational discussion on motd restored. Let it stay for a few more days.] No. Let it go. It's done. |
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