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| 2003/11/26 [Uncategorized] UID:11229 Activity:nil |
11/25 Programmers or serial killers? It's hard to tell the difference:
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz
\_ That is so September 19th, 2003. |
| 2003/11/26 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo, Politics] UID:11230 Activity:nil |
11/25 "A Muslim chaplain who served at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, was charged Tuesday with adultery and storing pornography on
a government computer".
http://csua.org/u/53p (Yahoo News)
I thought this guy was booked for spying. Not enough evidence? Next
week he's going to be charged with spitting in public.
\_ Because to charge him with espionage they'd have to reveal in
public what it was he was stealing which defeats the purpose of
charging him with espionage and trying to keep secrets in the
first place. Are you naive or just intenionally ignorant?
\_ how awfully convenient
\_ No. It was just too funny so I posted it. -- OP
\_ In other words, you just can't parody this shit. |
| 2003/11/26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:11231 Activity:nil |
11/25 Bush family values:
http://csua.org/u/53o
\_ You upset that he's more successful than you'll ever be or that he
got laid with numerous h0t az14n chicks while doing it? Jealousy
is so ugly. |
| 2003/11/26 [Uncategorized] UID:11232 Activity:nil |
11/25 Amen, a day went by without casuaty in Iraq.
\_ thank you for pointing this out.
\_ Let's pray for 2 more days like this one, so no family has to
receive news of the death of a loved one over thanksgiving.
\_ The more Americans die, the better it is because the sooner they'll
come home. My HS English teacher told us that during some other
conflict. |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Computer/SW] UID:11233 Activity:nil |
11/25 Has anyone used any "home" architecture software that doesn't suck?
I've tried Broderbund and Punch's products, both suck.
\_ circa 1995 AutoCad12, engineering student discount. great software.
I later tried a consumer program. it sucked, unistalled, returned it.
\_ ~1997 AutoCAD R14 is the fastest/best of the AutoCAD's.
\_ Autocad12 isn't available on emule but R14 is. I had previously
d/l'd Autocad 2004 and it was a dog. |
| 2003/11/26 [Uncategorized] UID:11234 Activity:nil |
11/25 Brazil might switch to Linux:
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3877289
\_ Brazil might stop killing off thousands of street kids every year
before they worry about their softare licensing issues. |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Computer/SW] UID:11235 Activity:low |
11/25 Anyone know of 'black friday' deals on computer equipment?
\_ http://fatwallet.com
\_ both fatwallet and anandtech have already been contacted by
legal departments of the stores on account of so called
DMCA violation.
\_ URL?
\_ Just read through the forums. You'll see topics editted
by site admins and people talking about it.. |
| 2003/11/26 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:11236 Activity:high |
11/26 Is there any rule on motd that prohibits deletion targeting at
certain individual, and/or using automated script to delete certain
person/types of post?
\_ No such rule. The admins would prefer not to waste their time
policing the motd. The deleter's lameness is its own punishment.
--PeterM
\_ Using an automated script should be squishable--but paolo still
has his account. -tom
\_ there are worse things than selectively or automatically
purging the motd--but tom still has his account. |
| 2003/11/26 [Uncategorized] UID:11237 Activity:nil |
11/26 Perfect. Now that someone zotted the whole motd no one has use of
it. I hope the content censor idiots are finally happy.
\_ But someone might say something I don't agree with!!! |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:11238 Activity:moderate |
11/26 Granted she and her husband got $540K for 80 of them from the Chinese
government, but what exactly is a "Military Intel486 DX2
microprocessor"? I know what an Intel 486DX2 CPU is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16259-2003Nov26_2.html
\_ maybe one of those special radiation-hardened ones like they used
in some nasa spacecraft.
\_ I don't think it costs $53,000 to harden a chip for radiation.
\_ It takes about $5 worth of lead, maybe $50 to manufacture the
specific casing, air vents, etc....
\_ and how much r&d and testing to manufacture a small number
of chips for non-commercial purposes? Yeah, you're right,
each chip should be retail price+$55+$8 s/h. Nerds....
\_ Why do you think the sale price of an item illegal to export
would be even close to the manufacturing cost?
\_ On the other hand, wasn't our own military buying $15,000
toilets during the Reagan '80s?
\_ Yeah, but they were radiation-hardened toilets.
\_ Yes, some during the Reagan era when a Reagan era audit
uncovered the problem going back through the Carter era,
but it makes the joke better if you leave out the truth.
\_ Source?
\_ I'm old enough to remember. Find your own
links if you're not. It isn't history to me.
\_ Ah, so you have none and are basically just
spewing nonsense. Thanks for clarifying that!
\_ I don't have a link that says Nixon resigned
either or that the hostage crisis happened
during Carter's time but I remember those,
too. Must be that they didn't happen. Or
we could apply logic and figure out that
gross abuses of budgets don't spring up
over night, it takes years for that sort of
government stupidity to fester and then
see that it had to have been going on. Hmm.
You're right. Before the web and urls there
was nothing. Time didn't exist. There was
no web at the time so anything talking about
that time can't have happened. Thanks for
clarifying. History didn't start until
Netscape, right? Here, try this although
I know you'll just dismiss the source since
it's only the President saying it:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1986/21086d.htm
\_ Thanks for the link. And I didn't ask
for a URL, I asked for a source which
you've finally provided.
Netscape, right?
\_ Thanks for the link.
\_ In my day, we had to walk 6 miles barefoot
through the snow, uphill, to find out about
government waste! |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:11240 Activity:nil |
11/26 Given that most ebay transactions I see assume a paypal transaction
is one basically writing off ebay transactions if one is too leery of
PayPal's Terms of Service to use them? I can imagine a rule of thumb to
the effect of: "Use paypal for no larger an amount than you are willing
to simply kiss away to bad luck." IMHO http://paypalsucks.org does not address
this issue very well.
\_ I see very few eBay sellers who require PayPal only. You can always
mail a check or money order, although it is slower.
\_ know of any alternatives for free low-volume fund transfers?
\_ Isn't using the PayPal bank withdrawal feature free?
\_ Yeah, for personal accounts. I'm wondering if there
is an alternative service that is also free.
\_ Given their behavior with people's credit card accounts,
I would not give paypal that kind of access to my non-credit
accounts but YMMV. |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Recreation/Pets, Recreation/Humor, Recreation/Media] UID:11241 Activity:nil |
11/26 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog was a very good movie rental-- along
the lines of Adaptation, but funnier and not so strange.
\_ This coming from someone who thought Adaptation was "strange" |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Display] UID:11242 Activity:nil |
11/26 PC about PC
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html
\_ "Master and Slave computer labels offensive"
\_ The complaint was actually about some videotape machine, but
the policy applies to all equipment.
\_ Intel knew this back in 1995, that's why the PCI specs have no
master/slave labels. Instead they use "arbitor" and other terms.
\_ yeah, LA has been getting a lot of flak over this but the truth
is if someone come up with the term master/slave for a computer
system today, he probably would be politely asked to come up
with a new term. I actually CAN see why some people would like
the term changed. They aren't storming the barricades made
about it either. Stupid geeks getting all frumphy over someone
else getting frumphy is always good for an eye roll.
\_ Well, "Promiscuous" is a valid term in networking:
http://www.tek-tips.com/gpviewthread.cfm/qid/527658/pid/729/lev2/5/lev3/60 |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Uncategorized] UID:11243 Activity:nil |
11/26 http://www.officedepot.com/promo.do?file=/promo/pages/thanksgiving.jsp Look, a 50 megapixel camera. \_ I think they mean 5.0 |
| 2003/11/26-28 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:11250 Activity:nil |
11/26 I forward mail for some people (from virtusertable) using sendmail.
However, it results in a bunch of bounced mails from ISPs that bounce
spam. I don't want my postmaster account to get these bounces,
what should i do?
\_ procmail?
\_ dude, that's like hard -n- stuff.
\_ redirect postmaster to /dev/null. who reads postmaster anymore?
\_ I was doing that actually, but at some point my ISP dropped my
PTR record and i didn't find out about it for a while.
During that time it resulted in bounced mails from places that
didn't like that i didn't have one. :( I need to know if I'm
getting blacklisted for some reason i can fix, but I don't
want to have to sift through all the bounced spam :( Looks
like procmail is the answer, but I don't relish diving in. |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Uncategorized] UID:11251 Activity:nil |
11/26 http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=myth&itemid=301835 Proposed modification to cell phones. |
| 2003/11/26 [Uncategorized] UID:29670 Activity:nil |
11/26 All lame boring techie shit purged from motd. There are more
interesting things going on in the world than whatever slashdot
is mewling about lately. |
| 2003/11/26-27 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:29671 Activity:nil 88%like:11228 |
11/26 what preprocessor macro is defind on FreeBSD so that I can write
conditional code only for FreeBSD? i am using gcc...
What about solaris? Thanks.
\_ You can use __FreeBSD__ and __sun to tell the difference between
FreeBSD and Solaris; you can also use __i386 and __sparc if you
want to know the CPU type. (These all work with Sun's C compiler
as well as with gcc.) --mconst |
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