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| 2002/12/6 [Politics/Domestic/California, Reference/Tax] UID:26728 Activity:high |
12/5 Any recommendations for a good computer store in Berkeley, or nearby?
I'm building a desktop linux box. want it quiet and quality parts.
\_ my basement - danh
\_ Fry's. And obL1NSUX!
\_ In Berkeley?
\_ Said nearby, fremont is nearby.
\_ well there is a best buy in e-ville
\_ There are none in Berkeley city limits. I suggest visiting large
stores like Fry's and Compusa to look at pretty boxes and then buy
over the net to dodge CA sales tax and get lower prices overall.
\_ mmmm shipping costs
\_ I've done the math. For expensive parts the sales tax is
often higher than shipping *and* you get a lower base price.
And oh, btw, fuck CA's brutal and crushing sales tax.
\_ then move back to russia, jewboy!
\_ i buy cases locally, because they have a bad weight/cost
ratio. everything else i tend to do mail order, except
for the occasional fry's special. non-special prices
at fry's are awful.
\_ Hell, boy, you shoulda asked! We don't pay no stinkin'
case shipping charges! http://www.electroseller.com
\_ man, them be pricey cases. last case i bought
was for $10 at a surplus place off brokaw in sjc. |
| 2002/12/6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:26729 Activity:high |
12/5 Is the name of the suspect always release when someone is arrested for
a crime but before a trial is conducted? Thx.
\_ Arrest records are public records, meaning that anyone who
wants to can go down to the courthouse and look at them.
\_ Unless the feds believe that the records could compromise
nat. sec. or since 9/11 if the person is arrested on the
assumption that he/she is a "terrorist".
\_ Was this ObOurRightsOurBeingVioledIHateGWB?
\_ Its ObOurRightsAreBeingViolatedIHateJohnAshcroft.
\_ Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
\_ There is a subtle difference. I don't hate
GWB. He seems like some of the frat boys I
used to meet at Cal. Not so bright, but lots
of fun at parties and can help boring geeks
get dates with cute chix.
The one problem with frat boys is that they
often get mixed up with the wrong crowd (ie
Rumsfeld, Cheney, Poindexter, Ashcroft, etc).
\_ So you think frat guys are nice? Exactly what
do you think your wrong crowd types were doing
in school? Avoiding frats?
\_ I didn't say that all frat guys are nice,
just some of them. The problem is that
the nice ones often get screwed over by
the not so nice ones as is most likely
the case with GWB.
\_ I voted for him bc I think he's a hard ass.
I don't think he's nice at all.
\_ I voted for GWB because I expected
him to get medieval with some intern's
ass with the iron rod of capitalism.
\_ I was hoping for an inanimate, carbon
rod.
\_ i believe minors are an exception -- caliban |
| 2002/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:26730 Activity:very high |
12/5 Anybody used VMware for linux? What did you think of it?
\_ works great, i run win2k in it. haven't gotten
it to work with esd yet but i haven't tried very hard.
\_ What's esd?
\_ It's what your mom whispers in my ear when i do her, son.
\_ Damn it, Dad, go home. You're drunk.
\_ enlightenment sound daemon, you can pipe sound
out of the windows inside of vmware through
/dev/esddsp, or so i hear, i haven't
been able to make it work yet
\_ I ran it on FreeBSD. It was dirt slow with Win2k (plenty of
memory allocated.) -John
\_ on what type/speed computer? is "dirt slow" slower than
a pentium1, or a 486? I'm buying a new machine with the
intention of running linux everyday. How fast of a machine
to I need to buy to have windows95 running inside vmware
seem as fast as a pentium 133?
\_ I thought it was a pain in the ass. With 5 computers at my desk
it was easier to just install whatever I wanted on whatever.
\_ do you jest? How big a hassle is it to have 5 computers
at your desk?
\_ happily on my 800 mhz p3 thinkpad, giving it about 256 MB.
use the non-persistent disk option and leave edited files in linux
(accessed over virtual net share). watch win2k never rot out
because you discard the changes from 98% of sessions while friends
running it native have to reinstall periodically for stability. |
| 2002/12/6 [Uncategorized] UID:26731 Activity:high |
12/5 http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/sby/cas/7207569.html If you can't score here, you can't score. \_ You need 2 to tango with her. \_ 5'4, 165 lbs. Pudgy. \_ You don't work out do you. You dont understand muscle weighs more than fat do you. |
| 2002/12/6 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:26732 Activity:nil |
12/5 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=358926 The American officer also had a low opinion of the Western journalists he met at Bagram. "They just hung around our base all day. Whenever we had some special operation, we'd offer the journalists some facility to go on patrol with our special forces and off they'd go - you know, 'we're on patrol with the special forces' - and they wouldn't realise we were stringing them along to get them out of the way." \_ Same author: http://www.counterpunch.org/fiskbeaten.html |
| 2002/12/6-9 [Uncategorized] UID:26733 Activity:kinda low |
12/6 Are soda disk quotas going to be increased any time soon?
\_ So looking at df, it seems that most of the mounted home dirs
are approx half-full. Maybe a sysadminy person can comment on
whether this means we have enough room to raise quotas (I would
assume that it depends on how much of their current quotas most
people are using). If this is something you would like, and you
have reasons/can show we have excess space/are willing to provide
more disks, mail vp and politburo. -librarian
\_ what are the specs of a such a disk drive?
are the /home/foo drives only 8GB?
from <DEAD>csua/Minutes/F2002/20021003.politburo<DEAD>
jhs: Does the CSUA want any TDA? The xcf has some
that it can afford to lose. |
| 2002/12/6-10 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:26734 Activity:nil |
12/6 looking for a Voice UI Designer.. details in
/csua/pub/jobs/MindSource -shac |
| 2002/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:26735 Activity:high |
12/6 I read the articles on Xp and its connections to microsoft computers.
I'm not upgrading. However, I'm worried about my windows 2000 box.
I couldn't find references to w2k doing the same thing. Is anybody
aware of w2k phoning home and sending your computer's info to MS?
\_ read up more on what is sent and such.. basically, there is no way
for microsoft to know anything about you other than a serial # and
your name.. you can even give them a bogus name. of the info sent
to them they can olny guess that your graphics card is one of 100
different ones.. you have btwn 128-256MB memory.. you have one of
100 different network interfaces.. there are several papers
written by independant parties about it... -shac
\_ for now. Who's to say the next auto-update brought over by
windows update won't bring more intrusive feedback to M$.
\_ Silly rabbit--surely you've turned off auto-update, right?
\_ Some tweaks for WinXP, including steps to disable some
of Microsoft's data collection methods:
http://tibit.com/technote/winxp.html |
| 2002/12/6-8 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:26736 Activity:nil |
12/6 In emacs20, is there any difference between find-tag and tags-search?
Thx.
\_ yes. |
| 2002/12/6-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:26737 Activity:low |
12/6 Looking for recommendations for an encryption tool to protect files
and disks. Prefer something open source, that has been subject to
public scrutiny. Ideally, freeware. Must be Windows XP compatible.
\_ use a one time pad, and put the key on a floppy disk up your ass.
\_ most asses other than yours are not large enough to accommodate
a sufficient number of floppy disks to encrypt a hard drive with
an OTP, and repeating an OTP is quite insecure.
\_ one of those USB hard drive keychain things would fit
up an ass.
\_ PGP |
| 2002/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:26738 Activity:very high |
12/6 A few years ago I saw an online rant about why firstname.lastname
email addresses are bad. I think it was by Eric Allman, but I can't
find any refrences to it. Any ideas? -John
\_ i think it's a great idea. what's the problem with it?
\_ There are going to be many people with the same first.last
combo. There are going to be many with similar first.last.
Too many will stupidly assume that first.last @ one place will
be the same first.last at other places. Much better to destroy
that false assumption using all sorts of different things at
different places. And oh yeah, older hosts can't deal with
long user names so you get into making aliases for everyone so
they now have 2 addresses.
\_ far lamer is using the first 7 letters, plus the first
initial. EVEN more duplicates. There's just no easy
answer for a large corp.
\_ not necesarily. what if it's a pretty small organization
that has it's own domain name: first.last@smalldomain.org?
\_ http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.5.
He ignores rational arguments against his position. -tom
\_ Gee, tom, imagine that...
\_ he won't disagree that it might work for some places.
he will argue that it is not a general panacea.
\_ actually, he will refuse to fix sendmail bugs related to
real name matching because he thinks you shouldn't do that.
-tom
\_ and what are rational arguments for such a system?
\_ being able to send mail without first consulting directory
services, or without having to have directory services
available. There is also aesthetic appeal to name-based
addressing. It breaks down for large enterprises, but for
small groups it's usually fine. -tom
\_ "aesthetic" is not a rational argument. and I think
"firstname.lastname" is much uglier that "handle".
Anyways it seems designed for people to send email
withoug knowing the email address of the recipient.
sounds like a system designed for short term laziness
at the expense of long term simplicity and sanity.
\_ I agree. Let's ditch that DNS thing too. People
should use IP addresses, like God intended them to
do. Ascii was a bad idea too, everyone should learn
to type in hex.
\_ not the same thing, but here is something:
http://beef.berkeley.edu/report/namespace.html
\_ that idea would be great it "you" happened to own the
you@berkeley.edu name space, but if somebody else gets the
name you use: you@csua.berkeley.edu that would suck.
\_ You would own you@berkeley.edu if you own you@uclink or
you@socrates. That sort of screws people in departments
that provide their own mail servers, but it was a
necessary compromise to get the report written. -tom
\_ so it screws people in technically competent
departments for the benefit of others.
\_ if you want shorter email addresses, what about
giving uclink or socrates ailiases like
<DEAD>mail.berkeley.edu<DEAD> or <DEAD>po.berkeley.edu<DEAD>? something
that has one syllable instead of 3. |
| 2002/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:26739 Activity:nil |
12/6 Any recommendations for online bookmarking sites? I'd like to have a
master list of bookmarks that I can sync across several machines and
different browsers (IE, Netscape, Opera). Yahoo's bookmarks are
limited at 1000; I've tried http://mybookmarks.com but don't like their
interface too much. Any reference to such comparisons would help too.
Thanks in advance.
\_ If you can't find anything, why not set up something yourself?
Toys like phprojekt (http://www.phprojekt.com albeit a bit overkill
for just bookmarks, let you do just that. Or do you want the
bookmarks locally available? -John
\_ limited to 1000? Dude, you're doing way too much surfing. I've
got about 100 after surfing since there was surfing and never visit
most of those. get out. meet women. become a priest. be useful
to society in someway. limit bookmarks to under 1000. |
| 2002/12/6-7 [Transportation/Bicycle, Transportation/Motorcycle] UID:26740 Activity:high |
12/5 Has anyone tried riding a motorcycle from LA<->SF area on say, I-5
or 101? How was it? Was it doable? Tiring? Not recommended?
\_ I did Berkeley to UCLA in 7 hours on 101. It's a bit rough at
that pace, need to net about 70mph including the 2 gas stops.
It's a nice ride from San Luis Obispo to Ventura, then 101 goes
inland and sucks. -jor
\_ I thought the 580 to the 5 is faster?
\_ I thought 580 to 5 is faster?
\_ not in summer, in proper riding attire.
\_ Well, It kinda depends on the bike, amoung other things.
It's certainly doable, whether you WANT to or not is another
question entirely. :P But if the bike is comfortable, and
\_ I've driven the I5 many times and *never* seen a bike on it. Ever.
you have 8 hours, whatever. I-5 is really boring tho' -jrleek
\_ I've driven I5 many times and *never* seen a bike on it. Ever.
Not one. Maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe you'll be first
bike! like on slashdot or fc!
\_ I have a friend who has done that multiple ways. says get maps
\_ The fun foothill roads where James Dean died (in a Porsche). --dim
and follow the more fun highways parallel to I-5 in the foothills.
be sure you're up to handling strong gusty cross-winds.
\_ The fun foothill roads where James Dean died (in a Porsche).
--dim
\_ Hmm...bugs.
\_ The distance isn't that bad, but from my experiance with long
distance motorcycling, getting OFF the major highways made for
a lot more interesting and a lot less stressful (and therefore less
tiring) riding. So I'd suggest 101 over 5 and country roads over
both if possible. -aspo
\_ my husband and i caravan'd down to L.A. -- he on the bike, me in
the car. it was _not_ very comfortable for him, and since cars
weren't expecting a motorcycle on the road, not very safe at times.
we went down I-5. At Harris Ranch, we took a break and he found
it so comfortable to sit in the car that we ditched the bike and
picked it up on the way back. his motorcycle was a really fast
racing bike, not a cruiser, so it may be a different experience
on something like a BMW bike. Plus, it was the middle of winter
and it got pretty cold for him.
\_ i was expecting the story to end in sex. where's the rest of
this story? please repost! |
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