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| 2003/8/5 [Computer/Networking] UID:29232 Activity:very high |
8/4 To follow up my post a few days back, 3com says the 3CRPAG17 is the
only 802.11g card on the market with a retractable antenna. (patents)
Unfortunately, this card uses a new 3com propriatary chipset, the
name of which isn't available until the card starts shipping at the
end of August. No Linux drivers will ship with it. She said linux, BSD
and OSX drivers will all probably come out later. I'll wait.
\_ Of course *nix drivers won't ship on day 1 on a brand new product.
\_ Someday that will change.
\_ You mean they won't ship at all?
\_ Yeah, clearly Linux and BSD are going nowhere.
Windows is the best OS. Just ask the virus writers.
\_ Just living out here in the real world. 'Best' in
what way? Viruses or no, it's what sells. It's what
they make drivers for first and always. Any other OS
and you're waiting, maybe forever or rolling the dice.
When your mom is running *nix at home and your work-
place converts the recptionist, HR, and finance to it,
lemme know.
\_ my mom's linksys router runs linux.
\_ i run on your mom, and i run linux. does that count? |
| 2003/8/5 [Recreation/Food/Alcohol, Recreation/Food] UID:29233 Activity:very high |
8/4 What sort of food will change the color of various body fluids?
\_ if you eat enough of 'em beets'll turn pee pink
\_ Certain vitamin supplements make urine green.
\_ if you eat enough of 'em beets'll turn pee pink
\_ Asparigus makes it stinky. Vitamin C makes it REALLY yellow.
\_ b12 makes it almost orange it is so yellow.
\_ Enough wine will make your spit turn purple.
\_ cantaloupe will turn your shit green, blueberries -> blue
\_ and beets will make you convinced you are shitting blood
\_ I don't know about color, but last time I ate really hot
buffalo wings, my penis stings when I pee. Only time that
happened even though I ate spicy stuff all my life.
\_ that wasn't the food. that's an STD. get to a clinic.
\_ And for something men will prolly want to try
http://boom.net/aw?atJM
\_ Just eat lots of pineapple and don't smoke. Rumor has it
being vegan helps too, but I've never tested that one out. -aspo
\_ that's just wishful thinking, look at your teeth, do you
think man was meant to be a vegan? |
| 2003/8/5 [Consumer/Audio] UID:29234 Activity:nil |
8/4 Any recommendations for a mini audio system with the following
capabilities: am/fm, mp3, cd/cdr/cdrw support, internet
streaming radio. I know the Philips Streamium MC-I200 has these
features, but I'd like to know what else is out there. Searching the
web yields a lot of random results. I'm hoping Soda users can
provide their personal experience. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:29235 Activity:high |
8/4 Question about the computerized GRE: Does one just walk into a test
center and ask for a time? Does one call the test center? I come from
the age of paper tests and filling out forms, etc., I am not familiar
with this "first come first served" policy that http://www.gre.org states.
\_ talk to the gre people. I think you have to schedule ahead of time.
\_ uhhhhh, going back to grad school in the rat race?
\_ urrrr. doy?
\_ rofl i haven't heard doy in ages!! :P
\_ you can't just walk it, they're usually booked up 1-2 weeks in
\_ me either. we used it at my HS in the mid 80s. it's
better forgotten.
\_ you can't just walk in, they're usually booked up 1-2 weeks in
advance. Bay Area is around 3 weeks. Make sure you go to the test
site first and see what it's like. Not all test centers are the
same.
\_ which ones are the "nicest?" (oyster point, alameda,
100 california in SF?
\_ I went to the one in Pleasanton (north of Walnut Creek),
I loved it there. Not crowded, easy parking, and people
were nice. Then I was kind of disappointed with my score
and decided to take it with other people in San Jose. Do
NOT go there! Parking sucks, you'll be taking the test
with other people (and a lot of them will happen to type
fast and loudly cuz they're taking the LSAT/GMAT with
essays) and the air stinks. Lots of distractions, and the
proctors don't care about you. SAN JOSE SUCKS. I scored
100 less than the first time. Ok good luck.
\_ Pleasanton isn't north of Walnut Creek. Do you mean
Pleasant Hill?
\_ it's all on the other side of the bridge n tunnel
so who cares? |
| 2003/8/5 [Computer/Networking] UID:29236 Activity:nil |
8/4 I am a cheap bastard who knows RF, but doesn't know jack about DSL.
What exactly is a dsl filter? what rolloff frequency is needed?
can i just make a rc filter or pi filter with a pair of modular jacks,
or is it an active filter of some kind? i already stfw'd and all anyone
wants to tell me is where to buy one.
\_ What are you trying to do?
\_ I think he's trying to steal DSL off his phone line or something
like that and his time has zero value but I'm just guessing.
Think of Qusay's children!
\_ no, i'm paying for dsl, and already have one filter for
my phone. i just want another filter for my other phone
so it doesn't interfere with the dsl or cause odd noises
on the line. given that i spend alot of time making rf
filters anyway, this filter might well take me ten minutes
to build if i know what frequency i'm trying to filter.
since a new filter is about 15 dollars, i would have to
value my time at 90 dollars an hour for it to not be worth
my time to make the filter. since i'm a grad student, my
time is worth considerably less than that.
\_ but you've already spent more than that time Sing the FW
and typing stuff on motd. and since you already "know RF"
you aren't even learning anything.
\_ Doesn't SBC give you like 3-4 of the filters anyway?
I seem to recall having many extras, send me an email
if you're local to Berkeley and I'll bring one in - mds |
| 2003/8/5 [Recreation/Humor, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:29237 Activity:very high |
8/3 [jesus propaganda censored]
\_ "Jeesus Loves You - So Stop Mocking Him!"
\_ you moron, it was a joke. a *joke*, son, dontcha get it? it was
*funny*, son! you were supposed to *laugh*, not come on here
\_ "Jeesus Loves You - So Stop Mocking Him!"
censoring shit you didn't read and looking like an *idiot*! son.
\_ yhbt. fucker.
\_ why do anonymous people try to save face? it wasn't a
troll, you're just an idiot for deleting a good link.
\_ I was implying that the deleter was a troll, not the
original poster. and the fuckers who use the "son"
language all the time are typically among the most useless
and annoying on the motd, which is why i correctly
identified you as a stupid fucker.
\_ useless to you only because the truth hurts, SON.
\_ You know...it's not THAT hard to restore. If it matters
so much, just fuckin' restore it and be done with the
censoring weenie.
\_ if it was just deleted, sure, but to say it was
deleted because it was something it wasn't? |
| 2003/8/5 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:29238 Activity:insanely high |
8/4 Why can't U.S. allow assassination of say, Sadam or Bin Laden? Why
is bombing (which is messier) preferred over assassination? Wouldn't
both effect to take out or weaken leadership, hence both are
equivalent?
\_ AFAIR, there was a long standing executive order that assassination
is not to be used as a policy. I believe Georgie Jr. nullified that
order.
\_ Gerald Ford signed the executive order in the 70s and it has
never been revoked.
\_ you really think we haven't sent out special forces teams
to try and hunt down and kill him?
\_ I believe we used laser-guided bomb / cruise missle to do the same
thing, caused some collateral damage. But when other people
do it, it's called act of terrorism
\_ who let the tamil tiger hippie have a soda account?
\_ yeah, they really wanted to kill just that one guy who jumped off
the Twin Towers but accidently killed everyone else. Take your
hate America B.S. somewhere like Cuba or Iran or Germany
\_ Or France and Belgium. I honestly wonder sometimes if the
various EU countries lost too many real men during WWI/II and
literally just don't have the right stuff in their genes now.
\_ is this your explanation for russia, china, new zealand,
canada and most of the rest of the world as well?
\_ Yes. And California, New York and all those wussies
in Hawaii, too.
\_ No, that's just a case of trash flocking to trash.
\_ China? Pacifists? Are you nuts? The Russians aren't
either, they just can't afford an army.
\_ Who says we can't allow the assassination of anyone? That isn't a
law, it isn't in the constitution, Congress never voted on it, the
Senate never affirmed it. That was just Jimmy Carter telling the
\_ Bzzt. Read a book.
world, "we're nice! don't attack us!" shortly before the whole Iran
hostages embassy fiasco. Being nice always worked well in world
politic. We can, we do and we should. What's the question?
\_ You're an asshole.
\_ Yes, I am, but that has nothing to do with what I said above
about the US/Carter assassination policy. It is all 100%
factually correct. Maybe next time you'll show up with some
counter-facts instead of your little dirty-boy's mouth.
\_ 100% except for the Carter part. Oh, and the Iran hostage
part.
\_ You scare me. I hope someday you read a book.
\_ You still haven't corrected anything with facts, just
useless personal attack. It's too bad facts scare you.
\_ It's too bad you haven't gotten laid lately. Or
ever.
\_ only by yermom
\_ Keep trying. I'm an asshole, I get laid, and I'm
still right and you're not.
\_ Hey asshole.
\_ I don't usually waste my time with morons, but since you
keep spouting the same lies, I am going to smack you down:
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/execorder12333.html#2.11
Guess who was President in Dec 1981? Not Carter, dumbass.
\_ now start your stopwatch and wait for the thread to get
nuked...
\_ Carter freed the hostages, but due to "unusual circumstances"
their flight to Germany was delayed so that it would land
a few hours into Reagan's presidency, so he could steal all
of the credit for their release.
\_ No unusual circumstances. The Iranians did it on purpose
as a final slap against Carter. Of course they did get
all of those swell spare parts, a cake, and a signed bible
from Reagan later on...
\_ Because assassinations work both ways. At a certain point in
"civilized warfare," specific targeting of enemy officers became
"uncivil." It was thought that the lack of officers would lead to
chaos in the field and uncontrolled slaughter would result. This
was a "do as I say, not as I do" policy and officer targeting
continued for the most part although officer ransoming and prisoner
exchanges were much more prevalant then. IOW, we say no assasination
but we'll do it given half a chance. If they did it, we'd call them
barbarians. Neat, huh? |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Reference/Tax] UID:29239 Activity:high |
8/5 Do I really have to give an extra 15% to the gubment for SE tax if I'm
a contractor vs. W-2? This was not in formulas previously posted
to the motd. I'm suing!
\_ extra 7.65%, dumbass. And it's deductible.
\_ i thought it was 15.3% - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p533.pdf
\_ Everyone has to pay 7.65%, SE pay it twice.
\_ or, to be a bit pedantic:
Everyone has to pay 15.3%, but employed people have the
first 7.65% taken out in the form of reduced salary which
is paid to the gubmnt by the employer. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Uncategorized] UID:29240 Activity:moderate |
8/4 Anyone have a good one page description of XForms?
\_ So you find th W3C specs a bit too long and unreadable?
\_ Do you find th W3C specs a bit too long and unreadable? |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Computer/Companies/Apple] UID:29241 Activity:very high |
8/5 I have a friend who is trying to send a PDF attachment, but it
comes encoded as: Application/MAC-BINHEX40 instead of
Application/PDF. She's using Eudora 5.2 and Mac OS 10.2.6. She says
that the choices for encoding attachments in Eudora are: Apple
Double (MIME), Apple Single, BinHex, and Uuencode data fork. and
BinHex is checked. Why would MIME not be the default?
\_ Again (somehow my previous post got deleted) Use Stuffit Expander,
that should be able to decode a Mac BinHex format to something you
can read. Yes, they have a PC version. It's shareware.
\_ Do they make a Linux version?
\_ Duh, because Apple is a proprietary company.
\_ What is the best encoding to use?
\_ Something that as many other people as possible will have such
as UU or MIME. The point of encoding is to make sure other
people can decode it at the other end, yes? So it doesn't
help if you use some encoding method that's a few % smaller
in transit but the other side can't do anything with.
\_ BinHex preserves the resource fork along with the data. Yes, it's
specific to Apple, but there should be translators (i.e., data
extractors) available for other OSes.
\_ I shouldn't need an "extractor" to read a PDF attachment.
\_ you do, it just is built into your mail reader. P.S. using
the apple mail client you don't have this problem.
\_ That's the solution, EVERYBODY USE THE SAME OS!
\_ I meant if you send mail with the apple mail client you
\_ You write so clearly and accurately. How can I
("you") send mail with the apple mail cient w/o
buying the apple OS? Do you mean if "she" sends it
with "the apple mail client", instead of eudora?
pathetic moron.
\_ How can I send mail with the apple mail cient
w/o buying the apple OS? Do you mean if "she" sends
it with "the apple mail client", instead of eudora?
When you say "you", who are you referring to?
\_ The answer is: Apple Single. Apple Double encodes both the data
and resource forks as separate MIME attachments. Apple Single
just encodes the data fork. Why can't you Apple people just give
a straight answer? Is it because you cling to the useless resource
fork, or because you're inbred and none of you use any other OS?
\_ Thank YOU! People like you keep the world moving. Apple people
can't give a straight answer because they don't understand
how their computers work. Apple should understand this and make
their computers "play well with others" by default.
\_ actually Apple has thought of this. Resource fork
is optional on the new OS X... |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:29242 Activity:nil |
8/5 Definitely work safe:
http://www.larryflynt.com/national_prayer_day.html
Go Larry! Larry Flynt for governor!
\_ amen. if lived within 100 miles of LA, i'd go. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:29243 Activity:low |
8/5 I have a motherboard that supports up to AMD Athlon 3200 with
PC3200 RAM. Say I put in Athlon 2500, which RAM should I get?
I could get PC2100, 2700, or 3200, but if I use 3200 will it be
utilized at all?
\_ There's some doubt as to whether any of them take advantage of
PC3200. Go to tom's hardware guide for benchmarks.
\_ Tom Pabst is an egotistical dick. Try Anandtech instead. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:29244 Activity:high |
8/5 Does one have to be a California citizen, US citizen, a permanent
resident, etc. to win the CA lottery? Someone told me that if
someone is here on a tourist or student visa and if they don't pay
taxes here, then they are not eligible to win. Is this true?
\_ there's something ingenious about a tax that only applies to
morons who don't understand statistics. we need more idiot
taxes.
\_ I used to think the same way. But it's not true.
The lottery is essentially gambling with no risk.
You put in a very small insignificant amount of
money. Most likely you lose it all, but what
difference does it make? (If you put in $1000 a week
or some significant amount, then you are a moron.)
And 1 in a 40 million chance, it changes your life.
Sure, the expected value of a $1 ticket is less than
50 cents, but that's not the point. The point is you
lose virtually nothing and just maybe you will be
rich. Going to Vegas, on the other hand, people seem
to always lose hundreds of dollars in one weekend.
And when they win, it's typically not enough that
really makes any difference in their lives anyway.
Even though the expected earnings on each $1 you
spend in Vegas is far better, people tend to lose a
lot more in a weekend in Vegas than they do in
playing the lottery each week all year. If you play
the lottery responsibly, you can't lose (a
significant amount of money).
\_ i have no idea. on the east coast, however, this is huge
pain in the ass. everyone is eligible for all the lotteries,
so when the stakes get really really high traffic jams appear at
the borders from all the idiots driving over the border to
buy tickets. of course, the circumference to area ratio is
much higher in the little east coast states, so more people
are affected by border idiocy.
\_ No. 5: http://www.calottery.com/media/winnersqanda.asp
\_ This doesn't seem to answer my question. It says how much
they withhold in taxes if you are a US citizen or a
permanent resident. What if you are a tourist? Are you
still eligible to win?
\_ http://www.calottery.com/media/lotteryregulations.asp
\_ This only says that "No ticket shall be sold to, nor
prize paid to...anyone prohibited by law or regulation
from purchasing CA Lottery tickets ... and/or winning CA
lottery prizes." So, what is the law or regulation
about purchasing lottery tickets?
\_ Just call and ask them you lazy bastard.
http://www.calottery.com/locations/lotteryoffice.asp
\_ No one gets out of California alive without paying taxes. Even
the dead pay taxes here.
\_ that's fine, as long as the dead get to vote.
\_ woohoo! more dead money!
\_ since dead people don't have any money, they don't pay any
taxes. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Computer/Rants] UID:29245 Activity:nil |
8/5 Forget outsourcing to India, I'm going with chimpanzees:
http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/main.asp
\_ old. |
| 2003/8/5-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:29246 Activity:very high |
8/5 Be careful what you read in public. Sad what America is turning into:
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-07-17/rant.html
\_ that's nothing, http://www.csua.org/u/3tx
is much more frightening - danh
\_ The public defender even recommended 4 months, so
clearly this is not the whole unbiased story.
\_ much more frightening and much more believable.
\_ this particular type of hysteria predates 9/11 by a good 20
years. ever since Wargames came out, prosecuters and judges
have been on the lookout for "evil geniuses." unfortunately,
they set the bar pretty low both for evil and for genius.
a guy from my highschool got crucified by the local law
enforcement types for some crap on his bbs, and i'm pretty
sure the numbnuts prosecutors were convinced he was going to
start WWIII from his commodore 64.
\_ this kinda thing use to be covered by "free speech", but I
guess that's a thing of the past. Heil Bush! Heil Ashcroft!
\_ You guys do realize he was encouraging people to throw
maltav coctails at police, right? I'm not sure that was
ever ok.
\_ Here's the article that guy was reading:
http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2003-06-11/cover.html
and whine.
\_ This same rhetoric was incessant during the Reagan
administration. We saw the result - althought, granted
Bush is no Reagan. Fox news has ~ 2 million viewers,
compared to upwards of 40 million for the broadcast
networks. I enjoy reading you sissified twits squirm
and whine, so keep Raging against the Machine.
\_ are you sure it's 2 million and not closer to 100 million?
\_ This is an unreadable screed, even to one who is generally
sypathetic to the position. |
| 2003/8/5 [Uncategorized] UID:29247 Activity:nil |
8/5 Are you being massively ink spammed? |
| 5/17 |