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| 2002/6/29-7/1 [Uncategorized] UID:25239 Activity:high |
6/28 What are the adverse effects of replacing a circuit breaker with
one not specifically designed for the breaker box?
\_ It breaks. :-)
\_ Go for it. Fire hazards are FUN!
\_ No, seriously-- the amperage rating is the same, and it fits
in perfectly. What are the specific hazards/pitfalls?
\_ self-immolation?
\_ No, seriously, call an electrician.
\_ As it turns out, it's largely alright-- home
inspectors like to see all the breakers under a single
brand, but as long as it's a tight fit the only
potential problem is the bus arcing over and causing
pitting/corrosion. That may generate heat, which is
bad if your box is surrounded by oily rags and tinder,
but in my case this doesn't apply. All of this came
from a licensed electrician.
\_ Why not just replace the breaker with the same
brand? I don't get it. Are you *that* cheap? --dim
\_ why don't you just run windows?
\_ is this OP? |
| 2002/6/29-7/1 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:25240 Activity:moderate |
6/28 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25940.html Analysis of MS Palladium scheme. It's even worse than I'd first thought. Very ugly stuff. \_ You expected any less? \_ It didn't occur to me such evil was possible but I'm not at all surprised it was MS that came up with it. \_ see also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html \_ What is stopping people from just replacing the "fritz" chip with a FPGA that says yes to every query? \_ Destroying your MB because it'll be built in that way? Or worse, it'll be part of the CPU in v2? |
| 2002/6/29-7/1 [Computer/SW/Mail, Recreation/Music] UID:25241 Activity:moderate |
6/28 ok, so audiogalaxy is now broken, napster is dead, gnotella always
sucked, and has gotten worse. where do we go to get free music now?
\_ I use Grokster - neutered so that it doesn't phone home. You can
find howto's on the net.
\_ Sam Goody's.
\_ You use the old FiveFingers client?
\_ Real pros only need and use the TwoFingers client.
\_ http://www.kazaalite.com
\_ Qtrax max and blubster
\_ I've been quite traumatized by the loss of audiogalaxy... I've
started using WinMX a bit... and it seems ok. nothing too great...
but it seems a lot of audiogalaxy people are going there which
means the music selection should be great. If they can just
improve their infrastructure, they'll be good.
\_ Gnucleus is a pretty decent gnutella client; it's GPLed and
lacks spyware.
\_ Which almost makes up for the fact that gnutella sucks.
\_ Qtrax max and blubster. These are the two best clients that I've
found after playing with about 15 of them. I'm unemployed so I have
lots of time to compare the quality of the various MP3 engines. |
| 2002/6/29 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:25242 Activity:very high |
6/28 Cheney takes over government!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62584-2002Jun28.html
\_ It's only the second time that the 25th Amendment is invoked, and in
both times it's because the President of the United States of
America has his anus poked.
\_ When was the other time? Carter getting his hemrhoids(sp)
removed?
\_ "The only other time Section 3 was invoked was July 13, 1985,
when President Reagan underwent surgery for colon cancer."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_medical
\_ "Bush said he decided to transfer powers to Cheney out of extra
caution because the nation is at war."
One last time... did Congress actually declare war? -geordan
\_ you know the answer. why don't you count how many times
the bush administration has violated the constitution
and tell us.
\_ I feel so violated. -- the Constitution
\_ I believe that FDR was the last president to actually
request a declaration of war and get it..
\_ Yawn... here come the lawyers! Yes, sure, 'war' has a
specific legal meaning in this country which requires, oh
fuck it. You know all this. Fucking motd. So pedantic
in a pathetic attempt to score some 'points' on some
mythical scoreboard somewhere.
\_ How does Bush violate the Constitution by just saying that
we are a nation at war?
\_ Only Congress has the power to declare war. The terrorism
thing is a MEOW (Moral Equivalent Of War) type war. Like
the "war" on drugs.
\_ And the war on desert storms.
\_ And the Korean and Vietnam wars?
\_ Oh please, both you and Mr. Mythical Scoreboard up
there. I asked if Congress actually declared war.
Suddenly people are pulling "Geordan said that Bush is
violating the Constitution" out of their ass. And I
don't know about any "mythical scoreboard" you're
referring to. Get a life, or at least sign your name.
-geordan |
| 2002/6/29-30 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:25243 Activity:high |
6/28 I have been repeatedly warned *not* to write shell scripts in
csh/tcsh. Is there any validity to these warnings? If so, why?
\_ Warned by? I write all my personal stuff in whatever the fuck I
want (csh/tcsh/perl). I write anything for init.d in /bin/sh
because /bin/sh should always work so the scripts are 100%
guaranteed portable. (heh). /bin/sh pretty much sucks and has
near-zero useful features but it's there.
\_ Instead of posting your question to the motd try putting it
to google. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot
is the classic article that explains why it's not a great idea.
\_ For starters let's note this was written in 1996. A lot of the
bugs he's picking on aren't out there anymore. A lot of the
examples he's using are a bit contrived. I agree csh is not the
best thing to write in if you're going to stick it in /etc/init.d
or write a large script that does something important but for a
quick hack, why not? It's there, you know it, use it and throw
it out. Anything longer than 5 or 10 lines is probably a Perl
job anyway. /bin/sh for /etc/init.d, tcsh for fun, Perl for
real work. Just one man's world view.
\_ When are you people going to move to Ruby? Perl sucks.
\_ When Ruby has something that looks like CPAN so I don't
have to reinvent the wheel everytime I want to do something
interesting. I started Perl at 4.015. Lemme know when
Ruby is as useful as Perl was 5+ years ago.
\_ CPAN ugh. That is the worst thing to happen to perl
with the possible exception of the stupid OO crap.
Perl 4 was the last great perl, it had everything that
was missing from Perl 3 without any of the messy
non-sense of Perl 5 (about the only thing that Perl 5
add that is of any value is my).
\_ CPAN is bad uh how? And Perl5 added real structures
to the language making it much more useful. If all
you wanted was sed/awk, use sed/awk. Some of us are
too busy to reinvent the wheel or fucking around with
the broken data structures in Perl4.
\_ It was written in the 80s
\_ Even more so then. The date inside the URL said 96.
\_ It's just as relevant now. csh still can't do basic
stuff like redirect STDOUT and STDERR to different
places. It's a fine login shell, but it sucks for
programming. -tom
\_ Uhm, on that point in particular, you're wrong:
(command >stdoutgoeshere) >&stderrgoeshere
(admittedly, it can't, say, juxtapose the two, but
that's not needed too often) -alexf
\_ Why would anyone want to use (t)csh in a world
where ksh and bash exist?
Who uses ksh? _/
\_ Because bash is broken and stupid?
\_ uh... % ( some-command > someplace ) >& other-place
\_ I've never wanted to do the obscure shit he's talking
about csh not supporting. That's what perl is for
anyway. /bin/sh and perl covers everything.
\_ if /bin/sh and perl covers everything, why are
you programming in csh?
And really, it's pathetic that csh can't handle
trivial, obvious syntax like:
"if ( "$foo" == "bar" )". You run into shit like
that all the time with csh. -tom
\- writing stuff in csh to me is like using
vi for quick edits ... no matter how quick
or trivial you think it will be, about
half the time you get started doing
something more involved and regret not
starting out doing it right ... however
if you want an objective list of drawbacks
and gotchas in csh, that is a decent list.
when it comes to tcsh there are some bugs,
but everything has bugs ... those things
in the famous doc are mostly design flaws.
if csh works you you, do what you want.
a very imporant piece of "code" at lbl
consists of 3024 lines of csh ... it was
supposed to be a 20 line program.
"bill joy has a lot to answer for"
--psb |
| 2002/6/29-30 [Finance/Banking] UID:25244 Activity:nil |
6/28 Anyone have any experiences worth mentioning, positive or negative,
dealing with INGDirect (or other units of ING)?
\_ Electronic transfer takes about 5-7 working days before the fund
is available (to and from savings acct.) Had to call service
once, about 30 seconds wait before getting a real person.
Overall, the experience has been good. |
| 2002/6/29 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Recreation/Sports] UID:25245 Activity:insanely high |
6/28 Chinese Citizen first pick in NBA draft.
\_ hello and welcome to two days ago.
\_ not everyone pays attention to the NBA draft when it happens.
\_ well, you gotta figure, if you didn't care enuf to figure
out where he was drafted then, you don't care now.
\_ um, is he a decendent of the barbaric Mongolians?
\_ this is the most politically incorrect statement I have
heard from Berkeley people for such long time.
And by the way, many Chinese has some Mongolian blood in
them. -- Chinese with Mongolian relatives.
\_ Helloooo! Wake up, son. "Politcal correctness" is now
officially dead. Taken a look at Mongolia today? They're
*still* barbarians. Get over it and move on with your life.
Sometimes the truth hurts, that doesn't make it wrong.
\_ As opposed to that dumb ogre who plays center for the Lakers?
\_ No, that would be me. -- russian |
| 2002/6/29 [Uncategorized] UID:25246 Activity:nil |
6/28 Are Mongolians suppose to be giants or something and drink raw lamb
blood? What's the big deal w/ Mongolians?
\_ Is it true what they say about... er...
\_ Yep, pretty big feet. |