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| 2002/12/9 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:26754 Activity:high |
12/8 Has anyone been able to get sound working when running DOS 6.22
under VMWare? I want to play old DOS games and having no sound
sucks. thx. --sky
\_ I know there is a windows program that emulates an old sound
blaster so old dos games can use sound, maybe oyu can hunt that
down and use it?
\_ VDMSound? http://ntvdm.cjb.net
\_ sweet. I will try that. thx --sky
\_ It works great! --sky
\_ Maybe http://dosbox.zophar.net Doesn't do protected mode tho.
\_ there are several dos emulators around. Which game?
\_ old DOS adventure games. VDMSound seems to work with
them all. --sky
\_ which ones? (just curious)
\_ space quest, king's quest, monkey island, maniac mansion
\_ for the LucasArts games, you should use ScummVM instead.
http://scummvm.sourceforge.net |
| 2002/12/9 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:26755 Activity:high |
12/8 Ice Wind Dale II: Finally finished this fucker after setting it
aside for a month. What a nightmare. I don't know how this game
is supposed to be beatable without cheating. And the outro was
*really* weak considering what they put you through to get there.
When playing on normal difficulty it shouldn't take multiple reloads
and abusing game bugs to finish the final battle.
\_ how many hours did you spend on this?
What are the most addicting games the rest of you have played?
\_ I find Doom 1&2 pretty damn addicting. I've been replaying them
on ultraviolence using the stuff at http://www.doomsdayhq.com
\_ Nethack.
\_ I didn't keep close track but maybe 60? Disk space recovered. |
| 2002/12/9 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:26756 Activity:high |
12/8 I'm building a Quiet PC. Anybody have opinions about the
Seagate Barracuda IV? It's supposedly the quietest drive
on the market. I'm also considering putting a 5400 RPM
Western Digital drive in a SilentDrive enclosure. But
the performance won't be as fast.
\_ Performance is loud. If you want performance you don't get
quiet. Let's be honest here, you don't need performance.
\_ i have a silent pc with a barracuda iv. works fine by me.
it is a little eerie when the computer makes no noise.
\_ Wimp. If it doesn't scream like a banshee it isn't a computer.
If you want quiet get a Palm Pilot.
\_ Hmm, ever used a laptop before?
\_ My laptop sometimes seems louder than my desktop. I *asked*
for a cool and efficient celeron, I *got* a monster that
sucks power and makes noise.
\_ Next time, tell Santa the exact model numbers to get. |
| 2002/12/9-10 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:26757 Activity:kinda low |
12/8 Has anyone installed sendmail on a RH 8 machine that is MXed
somewhere else, so doesnt need a listening sendmail? If I
remove the -bd flag, it doesnt sendmail out. Do I have to
leave the -bd flag on? [it's secure against relaying but I'd
rather not have it be listening at all].
\_ chkconfig sendmail off
\_ I hate how Linux invents new ways to do things when there's
already perfectly good old ways. And it's Linux's fault for
the spread of the evil that is the bash shell, too. |
| 2002/12/9 [Transportation/Motorcycle] UID:26759 Activity:kinda low |
12/8 What about scooters? Are they practical in Berkeley? I am thinking
of buying a 50cc model to get around the city. BTW, if 50cc enough
for a big heavy guy or does it not matter for a scooter?
\_ Walk or RIDE BIKE! you lazy fuck and you won't be so heavy(fat).
\_ Maybe it's all muscle.
\_ I weigh 150 and a 50cc scooter was barely enough to get me
to 30mph. You probably need at least an 80. |
| 2002/12/9-10 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:26760 Activity:nil |
12/6 contract position over winter break ... details in
/csua/pub/jobs/Starvine -jenn |
| 2002/12/9 [Uncategorized] UID:26761 Activity:very high |
12/9 I tried. I tried to stop fantasizing about my friend's duck. But I
failed. I avoided her for a while after our leg touching encounter at
dinner that one unforgettable night. Not seeing her only increased my
fascination with her. When I'm awake, I'm thinking about her. When
I'm asleep I'm dreaming about her. I'm going crazy over another man's
duck! My friend's duck! This is so wrong. But why does it feel so
exciting at the same time?
\_ did you repost this troll from several months ago from memory, or
do you have it saved somewhere?
\_ Hmmm... duck.
\_ To borrow a phrase: Just Do It!
\_ motd poll:
fuck that duck: .
duck that fuck: |
| 2002/12/9 [Uncategorized] UID:26762 Activity:nil |
12/8 This Modern World: .
Red Meat:
Tom the Dancing Bug: . |
| 2002/12/9 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:26763 Activity:very high |
12/8 Just exactly how fast is USB1.1 vs USB2?
\_ Isn't this highly googlable?
\_ You think we'll all think you're cool cuz you made up
that adj. But we don't.
\_ You imply too much. "Googlable" has been around for awhile.
\_ USB 1.1 has a data rate of 12 Mbps. USB 2.0 has a data rate
between 120 and 240 Mbps. To a rough approx. 2.0 is between
10x and 20x "faster" than 1.1. You should really have google'ed
this.
\_ Thought 2.0 was 480 mbps...anyway USB is CPU dependent,
thus my experience is that when I'm pushing lotsa data
through the bus my computer starts chugging.
\_ Someone erased this, but it's 12 Mbs versus 480 Mbs. --dim
\_ The speed is also dependent on the devices. The slowest
device dictates the speed of all the devices. If you
plug in a 1.1 device on a 2.0 chain, the entire chain
degrades to 12Mbps. |
| 2002/12/9-10 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:26764 Activity:moderate |
12/9 help, i can't seem to figure out how to get the group info for a given
user from c. In perl i'd just do @theuser=getpwnam USERNAME;
$theuser[3] would be what i'm looking for. How do i do this in c?
\_ man getpwent
\_ getpwnam() |
| 2002/12/9-11 [Uncategorized] UID:26765 Activity:nil |
12/9 Christmas music, with a few solos belted out by yours truly
http://www.pacificmozart.org --scotsman |
| 2002/12/9-11 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:26766 Activity:kinda low |
12/9 How do I make the output of "tar cvfz some-directory" deterministic?
My guess is that tar is putting some kind of header in the tar file
which contains the date. I ask because I don't want to send a tar
archive to be backed up if it hasn't changed since the last time I
tar'red up 'some-directory'. Thanks
\- i dont think you can do that, but you can use "find | tar".
i'd be interested to hear if there is a way. gnu tar has a
info node that is liek 150pp, so maybe there is a way. --psb
\_ crc's and checksums.
\_ yup, and a standard feature of any build/backup/long process |
| 2002/12/9-10 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:26767 Activity:insanely high |
12/9 Where's that nvidia fanboy who recommended a ti4600? Check this out:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzk2LDM=
Beats a 4600 and will be ~$150.
\_ "will be" being the operative phrase here. --aaron
\_ well, it's still under 200 now which is msrp.
ti4200 msrp was 189. ok maybe it will be $170.
15% street discount is typical.
\_ http://mirror.ati.com/shopati/pricespcusa.html
Looks like $219 to me.
\_ damn, the article lied. that sux.
\_ 1) it doesn't yet exist. 2) time changes everything. You're trying
to compare last year's best card with next year's mediocre one. Are
you going to compare it to a Matrox Millenium version 1.0, too?
\_ 1) wrong: http://csua.org/u/68e
2) 4200's and 4600's are still the only alternative. the post i
referred to was from a couple months ago.
\_ Because months ago there was the 4600 and nothing else.
There was no alternative at all. You're still comparing a
card designed and built for the last generation with one so
new it only just started shipping. What's the point? Of
course the new card is faster than the old. And? I don't
see where you're going with this.
\_ i'm going the same place that guy (you?) went with the
4600.
\_ I never bought a 4600. I'm still using my GF2 from
when that was newish. I'm waiting on the NV30 and
AMD hammer, etc, in spring to get a new system. No
point in putting a hot video card in my 1997 box. I
keep up with all the tech and products though so I
have the best chance of getting something I'll be
happy with when the time comes. |
| 2002/12/9-10 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:26768 Activity:nil 66%like:26124 |
12/9 how do i setuid in perl?
\_ $> = newuid
(this sets the effective uid; perldoc perlvar for more.) -geordan |
| 2002/12/9-11 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:26769 Activity:insanely high |
12/9 What's the legal limit on rent increate in SF? Thanks.
\_ What's the % slav-jew ethnicity of your landlord?
\_ Hardy frickin' har.
\_ 42
\_ I thought that the rental market in SF crashed along with
the .com boom. Was that just for commercial property?
If it also applies to residential property you should
tell your landlord "Rent increase? You on crack? BYE" --PeterM
\_ Rents are still way higher than they were even four years
\_ I'm actually considering buying a house and collect rent to
ago, so if you have been in a rent controlled apt, your
rates are less than market.
\_ I'm actually considering buying a house and collecting rent to
cover (part of) the mortgage, and I'm thinking whether I
should buy in SF or in the Fremont area. Houses in SF seem to
appreciate faster, but because of rent control I might be
collecting much-lower-than-market rent 10 years down the road
if the tenant I find now doesn't move out by then.
\_ I wouldn't want to be a landlord in SF, unless it made
it possible for me to be a home-owner there. You have
almost no rights, besides charging whatever the market
will bear when you have a vancancy. Private property
means very little.
\_ Death to landlords! You have an obligation to provide
affordable housing even if it means you're paying more
in property taxes than you're taking in in rent and
losing money. Tax the rich til they aint rich no more!
\_ And yet landlords still find it profitable to
invest in San Francisco rental housing. Ain't
that something?
\_ Nonsense. As a SF landlord you're not allowed to
sell your property. Clue up before opening mouth.
\_ Don't pay more for a mortgage than you are collecting
in rent. That is bad business. --dim
\_ But the higher the mortgage payment is, the faster the
interest goes down and the faster you pay off the
principle. Doesn't this also apply to rental property?
\- if you dont pay taxes on this rental
income that could make a sizable diff
--psb
\_ Is this a troll? --dim
\_ Well, yeah, that is sort of the point of rent control,
isn't it? To stop out-of-town real estate speculators
from profiting from the housing shortage in SF.
\_ No. Not at all. Rent control is there to force private
property owners to subsidize the socialist system in SF.
If it wasn't for rent control, it wouldn't be such a
nightmare to find housing and the housing you'd find
would be better quality instead of the rat infested
closets you get now for an arm and two legs.
\_ Only if you'd made your millions on the tech
bubble. Rent control exists to prevent landlords
from evicting tenants unreasonably and raising
rents to ridiculous levels in boom times. Remove
rent control and the only place a middle-income
family could afford would be a rat-infested
closet costing an arm and a leg. --erikred
\_ do you have any real world examples of this?
on the other hand, high rents would encourage
greatly the creation of more housing, and with
rent control they have little incentive to
improve the buildings because they can't get
more rent than the other guys anyway.
\_ dont ask for evidence/proof of any hot button
socialist issues or you'll get censored.
\_ Don't you read newspapers? I have seen quite
a few articles about this with interviews
with families. I don't like rent control
though. I like building more housing, but
there are a lot of vested interest,
bureaucratic hurdles that makes that
difficult. - !op
\_ Are you actually asking for real world examples
of places with expensive rents that do not have
rent control? How about Los Altos, Hermosa
Beach, Tiburon and The Hamptons. Somehow high
rents have not had the effect you claim in
those places.
\_ Rent control as a short term solution
to housing problems is ok, but the
real solution is building more housing.
When no new housing is built and rent
control drags on and on forever, it
becomes a problem itself. Newly built
housing should not be under rent-
control.
\_ You know what? You don't find many rat-
infested closets in those places. It just
means it's an expensive area...rent control
cannot make an expensive area inexpensive.
It just fucks things up in other ways.
\_ But it does makes expensive areas
inexpensive, for people who have lived
in rent controlled apartments for a long
time. I know a bunch of long time San
Franciscans who would have had to move
if they would have suffered rent
increases like the market in the late
90s. You can argue that is unfairly
pushes the burden onto new tenants, but
you cannot claim that it does not lower
rents for most. Also, study what happened
in Boston after rent control went away.
Median rents went up much faster than
inflation.
\_ Basically what you are saying is
that the owner and new tenants
have to subsidize the "poor"
people because they have a "right"
to live in a nice neighborhood
even though they can't afford to
pay the fair market rate for that
property. Yeah that sounds fair.
I can understand if its someones
fixed income grandma, but most of
the the time its some luser arts
major who can't get a job outside
of food service because (s)he
wasted four years in college taking
worthless courses about envirno
senitivity (subsidized by donations
from eng. alumni) instead of
\- berkeley funding is pretty
float you own boat so i
think you can to some extent
avoid funding the flakes.
--psb
learning anything useful.
\_ People shouldn't be suddenly
thrown out of their homes
because of wild market
fluctuations caused by
oppurtunistic speculators.
Squatters are bad, but there
having people evicted all of
the time is a recipe for social
instability and an increase
in the homeless population.
Rent control should prevent
people from suddenly being
booted, but it shouldn't
\_ Restored!
depress prices once someone
moves out.
repairs? That's bs. If some landlord was that strapped he'd have
to sell his building, great. Traffic? The city is already
\_ I know this will sound
callous and insensitive
to you, but its an apt.
not a home. If you want
home buy one. If you don't
own it (and never will)
then its the same as a
motel and the owner can
and should be able to
raise the rates on you
in order to maximize his
roi on the property.
\_ Step #1 - tenant gets notice
of rent increase.
Step #2 - tenant plans to move
Step #3 - tenant moves
I don't see where
"instability" steps into the
process of an adult planning
their future. If you have any
expensive with bad traffic and I really don't think rent control
is keeping that in check. Landlords with a bad record will have
problems, well that's their own fault. I think you're over-
estimating the magnitude of these bubbles. As for a retail
shortage, actually it would just mean high retail prices. Which
is again fine, if people are willing to pay for it, if not, let
them go away.
illusions as to the
replacibility of people,
go visit a graveyard.
Letting markets work, works.
\_ Witness the numerous "family-member wants
to move in, so I'm evicting you" cases that
occurred in San Francisco circa 99-00 where
no such family member moved in and landlords
simply jacked up the rent. Also, according
to Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board,
landlord can raise rents to reflect Capital
Improvements (Reg. 1267C). There are lots
of things wrong with Rent Control, but
trusting the landlords to play fair doesn't
seem to work either. Until we get a better
proposal, I'm for keeping it. --erikred
\_ what's so wrong with letting a landlord
evict/raise rents? as long as they have
to allow enough notice time. why do they
owe you anything?
\_ There is more to life than profit.
\_ If all landlords raise rents to cash
in on economic bubbles, the only ppl
who will be able to live in a city will
be families who bought houses early or
ppl making money in the current boom.
Small business owners and retail
workers, already living on a small
profit margins, will no longer be able
to live in the city, making traffic
worse or resulting in a shortage of
retail services for the boomers.
When the bubble bursts, prices will
remain horribly inflated and no one
will be able to afford them; land-
lords will have to lower rents to
compete with each other, lowering
money available for repairs, and
new tenants will be wary of signing
leases with landlords with a rent-
raising record. It makes the whole
system unstable. --erikred
\_ Wisely spoken.
\_ Acutually, stupid opportunistic
landlords go out of business,
and the system works as usual.
If there was money available for
making repairs before this bubble
why would it not be there *after*
the bubble?
What you say doesn't make sense to me. Why would prices _/
remain horribly inflated if no one could pay them? No money for
repairs? That's bs. If some landlord was that strapped he'd
have to sell his building, great. Traffic? The city is already
expensive with bad traffic and I really don't think rent
control is keeping that in check. Landlords with a bad record
will have problems, well that's their own fault. I think
you're over- estimating the magnitude of these bubbles. As for
a retail shortage, actually it would just mean high retail
prices. Which is again fine, if people are willing to pay for
it, if not, let them go away.
\_ Look what happend to those cities without rent control in
the 1970's: Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, when people
just went away. Look at the cities with rent control:
Boston, New York and San Francisco. Which are better
off today? Societies have a vested interest in keeping
neighborhoods intact. I think this beats out a few
wealthy loudmouths complaining about not making more
money than they already are.
\_ uh, they were better off back then also. but also they
had more heavy industry that suffered nationwide.
keep in mind most people "make money off the current
boom." the wages of "little people" go up to cope.
\_ Agreed. --erikred
\_ I will agree to the correlation, but the causal?
more data please.
\_ What all of you are missing out in this SF rent control thing is
the evils of the rent controlled tenant who sublets out rooms in
the apartment for more money than the landlord is allowed to charge
this primary tenant. WTF makes it ok to let this one person make a
profit off the land lord's property and efforts for doing nothing
but sharing the same place they'd be sharing anyway if the land lord
was allowed to control his own property? Subletting out should be
illegal and instantly force the property out of rent controlled
status.
\_ This is a lot of why I didn't vote for EE. --erikred
Clarification: subletting _with_ the permission of the landlord
is fine. The right to sublet against the landlord's wishes
is not. --erikred |
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