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| 2002/9/24 [Uncategorized] UID:25987 Activity:nil |
9/23 In <DEAD>csua/skey<DEAD> should I use "computer with MD4" or "compute with MD5"? Thanks. \_ Md4 -ausman |
| 2002/9/24 [Uncategorized] UID:25988 Activity:nil 60%like:25981 |
9/22 http://csua.org/u/2fb One woman's claim to fame. \_ She looks stoned. *Really* stoned. More stoned than a Dell or Apple "it went beep! beep! beep!" commercial.... |
| 2002/9/24-25 [Recreation/Dating] UID:25989 Activity:insanely high |
9/24 What about gals (straight ones)? Are they supposed/allowed to go to
bachelor parties? What if these are not not sex/etc. ones?
\_ No, they're not. Why this insistence on breaking very simple and
easy to understand traditions? It is a *good* thing for a guy to
have a chance to spend some time with his buddies before his whole
life changes. It is an equally good thing for the woman to do the
same with her girlfriends. Men to go men things. Women go to
same with her girlfriends. Men go to men things. Women go to
women things. The two shall not mix. There's *tons* of mixed and
couples only social events after marriage.
\_ It's a bachelor party, let the bachelor decide.
\_ Bachelor parties are vile and cruel events akin to the last
mean given to convicts on death row. What would you like to
eat they ask, while everyone knows that in a few short hours
it will be "off with his head". At least on death row you
know that in a few short hours you will be free from prison,
in marriage there is no hope of reprieve or parole or execution,
just a long unbearable unspeakable torture that ends only
in death, which is longed for but never comes quickly enough.
All men should strive to prevent the cruel subjugation of thier
brothers.
\_ bdg, it's you, you're back! i missed you! - bdg #47 fan
\_ That wasn't BDG. BDG is "D"ivorced. The above thinks
marriage is til death do you part.
\_ HINT: Alimony. Divorce is not the end of marriage.
Marriage: Buy now pay FOREVER!
\_ FACT: There's no one getting alimony in CA anymore.
Child support, yes, alimony, forget it. Get a job.
\_ Hi. I know someone living in CA who is getting
alimony. She got it very recently (last few years).
You are full of shit. Go stick your FACTS up your
ASS.
\_ Bullshit alert. Thank you for playing.
\_ Sign your name and I ll e-mail you.
\_ Not all of us live in CA.
\_ So get divorced in Kentucky next time. This host,
this org, and the vast majority of the people are
all in CA. Excuuuuuse me for being so unfairly
California-centric. Whatever.
\_ So you mean... stop weddings?
\_ Stop marriages. Stop weddings. End the suffering of
your fellow man.
\_ become a professional homewrecker? where do i sign up?
\_ Check the personals for people looking for "discrete"
relationships.
\_ People choose to get married. Prisoners do not choose the
death penalty. Your analogy sucks.
\_ They chose it when they killed someone or often several
someones in cold blood. Your typical DR inmate isn't human.
\_ The point is that the analogy makes the person getting
married seem like the hapless victim but they choose
to get married.
\_ My point is that the convict and the marriage person
*both* made their choices and have to live with them.
Prisoners choose the death penalty. Men choose to get
married. Neither is a hapless victim. |
| 2002/9/24-25 [Computer/Companies/Ebay, Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:25990 Activity:insanely high |
9/24 Does anyone here have any experience with purchasing used laptops
on the Internet? If so, care to suggest a reliable site for it? Tnx.
\_ I do. eBay
\_ I did fine with ebay - found a vendor in New England that does
high volume (hundreds of postive feedbacks) and sells thinkpads
with service contracts good for another 9-12 months. -jor
\_ Reliable?
\_ Strictly speaking, it claimed to be a cancelled order (I didn't
care--it had the right specs for the right price). It works
great. The seller's rating was over 200, with nary a negative
comment, and he'd been selling for 2-3 years.
\_ I wish I had a link to the guy who had a 6300 rating, was
selling since 1997 and then skipped town with $300k stolen
from ebay. It was in the SF Comical last week.
\_ Part of the research is checking what other auctions
someone is running. If they suddenly have a lot of big
ticket items for sale and didn't before, you should be
concerned. If that's the case I'm thinking of, it's old
news, and the ripped-off people formed a community to go
after him. I haven't seen the full outcome for that guy,
but I know they ID'ed him and turned at least some of
their info in to the FBI.
\_ Ok, you're really smart, you'll never get ripped off
at ebay, you're right, I'm wrong. Good luck.
\_ I work at an eBay-related company, and we just had a
person scam $5K worth of auctions this way (in $200-$500
increments). The funny part? He lived in the I-House,
and is now at home in Turkey. The FBI is investigating.
He was likely an international student just finishing up
his time in Berkeley--going out with a bang.
\_ Mac or PC?
\_ Duh. No one uses Macs. No one with any sense anyway.
\_ S00ry, I f0rg07 that B5D i5n'7 1337.
\_ BSD good. Mac bad. Why pay extra for Apple hardware?
There's *nothing* special or unique about it. Go run BSD
on x86 hardware at 1/3rd the price.
\_ I bought a used Vaio on eBay (in the box, w/ all orig packaging,
etc) and it worked out fine. The guy was even in China or something.
A friend however bought a PowerBook from some guy in Vietnam and
never got the box after he mailed the money.
The lesson here: buy PC's not MAcs of course... er, buy from China
not Vietnam? I dunno... interpret the results as you will.
\_ Ebay: roll the dice and get lucky sometimes.
\_ Do your research and don't get burned.
\_ You can *always* get burned on ebay. Plenty of people got
taken in ebay ripoffs by people with great ratings. You're
not super smart, just lucky not to get burned... yet.
\_ bought mine on ebay. it was traumatic, but I eventually got it.
only buy from someone with spotless feedback. better yet, only use
escrow or COD.
\_ What are some good escrow companies?
\_ I thought escrow companies are only for buying/selling real
estates.
\_ Check out escrow.ca or http://escrow.com. |
| 2002/9/24 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Domestic] UID:25991 Activity:very high |
9/23 Normally, are guys supposed/allowed to go to bridal showers? And, is
one supposed to give a gift at the bridal shower and then another one
at the wedding ceremony, only at the bridal shower, only at the wedding
ceremony, or something else? Usually, what kind of gifts are
appropriate at the bridal shower and at the wedding ceremony?
\_ Dude, look, it all comes down to "weddings are for women". Period.
The rest is bullshit. Avoid it as much as humanly possible.
\_ BDG!!!!! Where art thou!!! -your most loyal fan
\_ I applaud you for not saying "wherefore".
\_ Just as the poor hapless accused were never allowed into the
closed door deliberations of the cardinals overseeing the
inquisition, men are never allowed into the clossed door
sessions known as bridal showers. These are activities where
women gather together to share the torture techniques they have
honed through the ages.
In any case, as a man the OP should not participate in the
undoing of a fellow man. But if you (OP) truly wish to give
a gift, then give the gift of life to your fellow man by
preventing this marriage and the living hell that will follow
it.
\_ Thank you for coming through. Keep the faith bro!
-BDG's #1 fan
\_ If I can save one other soul from the eighth hell of
marriage then the suffering that was my married life
will have been worth it.
\_ Gifts are NEVER appropriate at the wedding ceremony. - Miss Manners
\_ Guys do not go to bridal showers. Gifts should be mailed to the
couple after the wedding. -tom
\_ What?! It doesn't really have to be after the wedding does
it? I'm about to mail mine to the couple, 3 weeks before
the wedding. Should I put off on it?
\_ It should be after the wedding--what if the wedding doesn't
happen?
\_ Not really. It's more a hassle thing is how I've heard it. You
send them after the wedding so the couple doesn't have to cope
with the presents (and returning of said presents for cash)
while simultaneously preparing for the ceremony.
\_ Ideally someone else is taking care of the presents (best
man, maid of honor, co-ordinator). Even sending them after
the wedding has its problems (ie. long honeymoon, both
working, delivery trouble). 'Sup to the couple to let
folks know if one method is preferable.
P.s., co-ed bridal showers are beginning to happen. I've been
to one. -- guy
\_ It's a new way to torture guys. Like the baby shower thing.
\_ hapless twinks - they are given at the reception after ceremony
\_ not according to Miss Manners. -tom
\_ ceremony != reception twink
\_ Miss Manners explicitly says that presents should
be mailed to the couple afterwards, seeing as how
they are supposed to be heading off on a honeymoon
and they probably didn't bring a U-Haul to transport
all the gifts home from the reception. -tom
\_ umm. that's what the bride's maids, best men,
and close relatives are for. Who's goign to stay
at home and wait for packages to arrive? are they
going to leave valuables on your doorstep until
your honeymooon is over. That's stupid. Miss Manners
is a liberal bitch.
\_ I've seen her called many things, but never
"liberal".
\_ She's about common sense and treating people
with due respect, no more and no less.
\_ That sounds suspiciously like something
a liberal would say.
\_ Say what? MM is great. No one here is
less liberal than me.
\_ Chinese usually do it this way.
\_ Chinese usually give hongbaos (or angbaos). |
| 2002/9/24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:25992 Activity:kinda low |
9/23 Pentagon has christened the upcoming Iraqi operation "Scorched Desert."
\_ Like creme brulee?
\_ Let's hope the Israelis don't make it operation "Glassed Desert."
\_ before the Iraqis make it operation 'gassed desert' ?
\_ I would call it "Operation Happy Fuzzy Bunny." Now who would be
against that?
\_ mabey the famous heavy-metal band "basket full of puppies"
could write the CNN themes song for the war.(http://www.anthrax.com
\_ I'm totally in favor of Op HFB. Imagine Heraldo Rivera 55 miles
from the front doing his classic "we're under fire on the front!"
routine while everyone around him goes about their business and
tries to "Hi Mom!" the camera and he's going off about the
dangers right there on the front of Op HFB. Great stuff. |
| 2002/9/24 [Computer/Networking] UID:25993 Activity:nil |
9/23 Setting up a small-ish 802.11b network (5 AirPorts, ca. 30 clients
across a building with two floors and about 15 rooms.) Can someone
give me some tips as to how to set the AP frequencies? Is it best
to have them all on the same, or on incremental frequencies? Also,
is there any uniform method by which wi-fi cards pick an AP (assuming
one's in the same room, but overloaded, and one is down the hall,
with a slightly weaker signal, will a new client pick the next AP?)
Thanks. -John
\_ http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120061
"Designing AirPort Networks" has the tips you need.
\_ Mix frequences, use all 3 (i think there are only 3 real ranges?)
to maximize throughput. As for the other stuff, I don't know of
any uniform method, but is your network all airports and mac?
Never used apple, but dlink client allow you to choose an AP. Higher
end stuff like cisco might have such load-balancing features.
I think the Linksys client card just picks an AP for you.
\_ There are 11, but they overlap; there are only 3 that are
mostly distinct. Use 1, 6, and 11, and try to keep the
access points with the same frequencies away from each other.
I think a client will always pick up on the strongest signal,
there's nothing about congestion built into the protocol. -tom |
| 2002/9/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:25994 Activity:very high |
9/24 Any FREE online dating sites that have member pictures and allow
you to send messages to other members? FREE being the operative word.
All the ones I've seen so far cost money.
\_ I think the springstreet personals network (it's what
you're using when you use Nerve or The Stranger or The Onion
personals) is free. - danh
\_ Nerve? Salon?
\_ I don't think salon is free.
\_ Their stock will be free soon.
\_ It's 2002, not 1998. Free, indeed!
\_ link:romanticplanet.com
\_ The Soda MOTD. Hope her pic is up on her web page. |
| 2002/9/24-25 [Politics/Domestic/California, Recreation/Media] UID:25995 Activity:very high |
9/24 Soon, all news and media content will be controlled by one super-
company called Disney-ABC-CNN-AOL-Time-Warner, a division of Fox
Broadcasting (okay, I made that last part up).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2279094.stm
\_ At least Fox will be a porn network someday.
\_ You mean it isn't already?
\_ "Hi! I've never actually watched but I'm going to mouth off
about something I might have heard something about once in
a weak attempt to look way kewl to my equally empty headed
'friends' on the motd!" Go home. Fuck yermom. It's your
best and last hope.
\_ Cool, can you get that show on Fox?
\_ On the PPV Fox channel, yes.
\_ "Hi! I'm a festering asshole!" Go away. You're not
interesting.
\_ The truth is rarely interesting. It's much more fun
to just make shit up. You'd know about that.
\_ You mean it isn't already? --poster who's watched Fox
\_ You have a weird idea of what pr0n is. Is your
ideal 'h0t nekkid chik' a man about age 38, vote
republican and wear a grey suit? I pity you.
\_ Which will go down the drain within 18 months leaving us with a
variety of independent news sources, thank god.
\_ i wish there was a way to pay for a subscription to
a specific *journalist* with out dealing with any
paper or network. i'd be willing to pay quite a bit
of cash if i really thought i could get competent,
unedited reporting from it. i wish some journalists
with integrity would try this. i'm sure i'm not the only
one. i'm so sick of the lies and fluff.
\_ Watch or listen to the BBC. --dim
\_ Could you add a URL? Google wasn't too helpful. Thanks.
\_ Yeah, that way you can watch foreigners bash the US instead
of seeing US Citizens doing the hatchet job.
\_ I like The Week magazine. It publishes excerpts from all
over the world and from across the political specrum. If
you only read the output of one journalist, you wouldn't
want to get a balanced perspetive, you need to read from
be reading much, though maybe someday you could mix and
match as you saw fit. -ausman
\_ right wing bs. read World Press Review instead.
\_ I have never heard of that publication before, thanks
for letting me know about it. The Week isn't exactly
right wing bs, though it is pretty mainstream. It is
at least a more or less independent voice. If you really
want to get a balanced perspective, you need to read from
all over the spectrum like The Nation and The Economist.
But I try to avoid stuff published by the megacorps. -a
\_ Those happen to be the two mags that I read! --elite
\_ Uhm, just because they publish things from the right does
not mean they have a "right wing bias". They publish
from the entire spectrum. Does it hurt your little brain
to read material from a different perspective sometimes?
It's always easier to just read the same self-reinforcing
swill everyday. No thought required. No challenge. |