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| 2003/12/22 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:11557 Activity:nil |
12/21 Whoever said Winamp 5 is not a resource hog should go to hell.
I have a Pentium 3/600 MHZ labtop. That thing eats up most of the
CPU cycle. For those who want something light, go for Winamp 5 lite.
Then again, I don't see any reason for upgrade to winamp 5 light from
winamp 2.9x, since most of the cool features are in the "full" version
\_ i run winamp 5 on a celeron 500, and it doesn't use more than 5%
on mp3s. maybe about 10% on ogg.
\- all yer cpu cycles belong to us
\_ I said that it wasn't as much of a hog as ver. 3. |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Recreation/Media] UID:11558 Activity:low |
12/21 Yet another Philip K. Dick story going to the big screen!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337
Too bad it's Ben Afleck.
\_ Old news. How about Ray Bradbury and "A Sound of Thunder"
and remake of "Farenheit 451"?
\_ Ooooh. That's one of my favorite short stories. I hope they don't
screw it up.
\_ It's being turned into a movie. Of course they'll ruin it.
\_ Yeah, just like Lord of the Rings
</sarcasm>
\_ LotR went out with a wimper. No sarcasm. It was lame
after all that to squirm in my seat waiting for the
closing credits.
\_ Apparently the "true Tolkien fans" would have only
been happy with a word-for-word 36 hour miniseries.
\_ Two words. Darth Faramir.
\_ Flying Flaming Denethor!
\_ Forest for the trees, eh guys?
\_ Don't even get me started on the trees.
\_ What, you mean how a slightly-less-than-average
intellectually endowed hobbit outsmarted the
oldest being in Middle Earth?
\_ Nah, I mean, how the stays on Elrond's
corset were completely realistic, and
how any true fan of Tolkien could tell
that he was speaking Sindarin with an
Telerin accent.... Whaddya mean, it's
just a movie?
\_ Pfft. Any Tolkien fan would know that
Elrond would not speak with a Telerin
accent, being the son of a Noldo.
Legolas, on the other hand, would.
-- ilyas
\_ Seen the marketing for "I, Robot" yet? Looks like they've turned
Asimov's clever little short story collection into a dumb Will
Smith action vehicle. |
| 2003/12/22 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11559 Activity:high |
12/21 Hah! Clinton managed to 'connect the dots' between Iraq and Al Qaeda,
why couldn't your little bush leaguer do it? Muahahahaha!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/527uwabl.asp
\_ Post the printer-friendly link if you're going to post a story:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=3527&R=79F61E497
\_ Okay, so now you are agreeing with the Iraqi war because we caught
Saddam? Now it's cool to be Pro-War you're digging up articles
showing that the dems are agreeing that there is an Al Qaida and
Saddam connection? Boy, you commie left wing liberals sure are
standing on your last leg... You were wrong about Afghanistan, you
were wrong about Reagan, you were wrong about Iran, and you were
wrong about Iraq. The only thing you dems are good for is dragging
us into lost causes like Vietnam and Korea. Way to go.
\_ Whoa, whoa, whoa there. Since when was Korea a lost cause?
Yeah, we failed to unite the whole country, but the part we
saved sure turned out well. You should have said Solmolia.
(BTW the difference between Korean and Vietnam or Somolia,
that while the S. Korean's didn't love our soldiers all the
time, the did generally want us there.)
\_ Apparently you don't read enough history. Korea was a lost
cause and it cost Truman the election. The only reason the reds
stopped attacking was that relations were breaking down between
the USSR and Red China. They would've whipped them off of the
peninsula if the USSR had kept on supporting the war (it was,
after all, their jetfighters and their pilots). And I didn't
say Somolia because that's small potatos compared to Cuba (yep,
you dems lost Cuba too, and you also technically lost China to
after all, their jetfighters and their pilots). And I didn't say
Somolia because that's small potatos compared to Cuba (yep, you
dems lost Cuba too, and you also technically lost China to
the Reds, but then the Chang-Kai-Shek gov't was way too corrupt
to keep things under control).
\_ I pine for the days when they taught history in our
country's schools. Do the phrases "third UN offensive",
1951, and "north of the 38th parallel" mean anything to you?
Note that this was previous to any serious Sino- Soviet
breakup. -John
\_ While true that it cost Truman the election, that just means
it looked like a lost cause at the time. Also, Truman was
running the war like an idiot, so just as well he lost.
\_ Appearently, you guys have forgotten how Korean was divided
at first place. It is you arrogant American decided to allow
USSR to occupy Northeastern China and north of 38 parallel
of the Korean peninsula (instead of Chinese Nationalist
Army) after Japanese surroundered in the Yalta Conference,
in exchange for USSR declare war on Japan. Later, you
Americans decided that allowing USSR to declare war on Japan
and occupy Japanese islands was a bad idea after all, thus,
used nuclear bomb (read: WMD) on 300,000 civilians to end
the war quickly.
In all, USSR declared war on Japan for one day before
Japanese surroundered. Number of shots fired upon Japanese
by the Russians: ZERO.
\_ Except for the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 where Japan
kicked Russia out of Korea/Manchuria, started by a
Japanese suprise attack on Port Arthur.
If you guys had any respect of sovereignty of a non-
European nation at first place (i.e. China) , none of this
nuclear holocaust and Korean War would ever happen.
\_ So China would never have invaded South Korea and force
reunification as was done in Vietnam? Neato!
Then again, you guys at the time were still in that White
Supremist mode... not just Americans, but French and English
turned around continue to occupies Algeria and Indo China.
Democracy? Human Rights? give me a fucking break.
-kngharv
as well. French, after crying foul for Nazi's occupation,
turned around continue to occupies Algeria and Indo China.
Democracy? Human Rights? give me a fucking break.
-kngharv
\_ Dude, EVERYONE has problems with Human Rights.
\_ Korea wasn't supposed to "defended" the US. It was a
mistaken statement by the US Secretary of War that included
Korea as a protectorate. After that it became a pissing
match once MacArthur decided to draw China into the war.
\_ So now you are trying to pass off Clinton's bombing of the
to keep things under control).
\_ I pine for the days when they taught history in our
country's schools. Do the phrases "third UN offensive",
1951, and "north of the 38th parallel" mean anything to
you? Note that this was previous to any serious Sino-
Soviet breakup. -John
\_ While true that it cost Truman the election, that just
means it looked list a lost cause at the time. Also,
Truman was running the war like an idiot, so just as
well he lost.
asprin factory in Sudan as some kind of intelligence success?
I guess it is about as real as Bush's WMD. At least Clinton
didn't lose 500 brave Americans over his goof.
\_ That many died a week in Vietnam because of
LBJ's "goof"
\_ No, I'm saying Clinton was able to successfully make the clear
connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam's Iraq but that little
bush leaguer couldn't even when he had access to Clinton's
intelligence work. Unable to come up with anything new he went
in on the hope we'd find WMD because it was too embarassing to
use the good intel from the previous admin on the Iraq/Al Qaeda
connection. Bill Clinton: connecting the Iraq/Al Qaeda dots!
\_ Read the story. There is no "clear" connection, that is why
they call it connecting the dots. More like seeing things
that aren't there, if you ask me. |
| 2003/12/22 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:11560 Activity:nil 75%like:10794 |
12/21 Anybody have any good or bad things to say about http://togetherhost.com? |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Computer/Networking] UID:11561 Activity:nil |
12/21 My isp for residential service does not allow any commercial use.
So it means I cannot set up receive emails to me@mydomain.com at
home? How do they enforce this? Can they read my traffic to see
if it is personal or commercial in nature?
\_ Has any ISP ever enfored this?
\_ Is http://mydomain.com a commercial domain? I've been doing it for years
to my non-commercial @home domain and they don't block or send notes
or anything. The problem more recently is that several large ISPs
now block my cable provider's entire IP range for incoming mail from
my IP range and there's no way to get individually unblocked.
\_ Yes mydomain will be a commerical site, but I am not going to
put any web page there (yet). I just want to receive emails
there and avoid using a hosting service until there is a need.
\_ The can block port 25 incoming or outgoing. My ISP, dslextreme,
blocks port 25 outgoing. |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Recreation/Food/Alcohol, Recreation/Food] UID:11562 Activity:high |
12/21 I want to buy some really nice fancy chocolate; what's a good place
in SF? Other than Godiva, Ghiradelli. Like the fancy chocolate place
they went to in NYC in Queer Eye.
\_ support small businesses http://www.prestonscandy.com
has been in Burlingame for over 50 years and is GREAT candy.
\_ If you can mail order, http://www.teuscher.com -John
\_ Go to Neiman Marcus, top floor. Ask for "La Maison Du Chocolat."
By far the best chocolate you've ever tasted, if you're in luck.
It often sells out VERY Quickly. Although, I believe the
boutique store in NY may ship if you desire. In that case,
just google, and look for the NY store(upper East side, iirc).
They might sell directly online, but that would be from Paris.
If it's too $$ or not fast enough, Neuhaus is _far_ better Belgium
than Godiva is. I believe Macy's cellar has Neuhaus. But I
would go with LMDC first, if possible. -nivra
\_ Other than fancy packaging and European, are they really any
better than America's own See's Candy?
\_ I've got to assume this is a troll. Ugh.
\_ Is there a difference between a Tootsie Roll and See's?
\_ Silly customer. You cannot harm the Twinkie.
\_ No one ever claimed the TR was made of chocolate.
\_ In a word, yes.
\_ In another word, wax.
\_ I didn't realize that anyone local sold La Maison Du Chocolat; it's
\- this is a real name and
not a joke ... like say
the fine purveyors of
"crunchy frog"?
yes, real name. surprised _/
you haven't come across their
stores while in paris. would not
be surprised if the name is "la maison
du chocolat" from when they were
in fact the house of chocolate.
personally not particularly fond of
their chocolates. usually buy from
madame de sevigny instead if i'm in
the pricey-chocolate-for-the-woman
mood. obtw, thanks for pointer to
nils. didn't visit the outlet with the
hot blonde, but they made still quite
good sandwiches at another location.
\- did you have the reindeer sandwich?
[this isnt xmas trolling ... that
is what i had]. the best sandwich
in paris ... in fact the best swich
i ever had in my life is at
le regency bar at the prince des
galles in the 8ieme. not cheep--psb
the one time i set out to find le _/
regency on your recommendation, i did not
realize it was in prince de galles, so i
could not find the restaurant even after
walking the length of georges v. i have not
had the time to repeat the quest the other
times i've been in paris since. - tse, obtw
oh and all of your names
are being filed away for
death when the revolution
comes --psb
\-Advisory for Garvitch:
A fun paris food guide for Paris
is E. Rubin: Gourmet Paris. For a
longer stay, P. Wells: Food Lover's
Guide to Paris. Other good s'wich
locations are Cosi on R. Seine 6e,
and (IAOC) La Maison du Cassoulet
[I am not making that up] on R. Mont-
orguil in 1er --psb
the best I've found. I usually order online from their store in
New York. Since it is their policy to only ship via next day air,
it won't take long to receive (though that does add significantly
to the cost). I'd suggest you start with their plain truffles.
If you're intent on something that originated in SF, I've heard
good things about XOX Truffles. Lots of people seem to like
Joseph Schmidt's chocolates, but I've never cared for them.
- alawrenc
\_ let me just say Herschey's Pot of Gold sucks.
\_ The Candy Jar, in SF. Their stuff gets resold at places like
Nordstroms. Good stuff. You can drop by their factory store
and pick up either the pretty packaged boxes or you can get a
box of assorted seconds that taste just as good. Give them a
ring to check hours and such. --Jon
The Candy Jar Inc
2065 Oakdale Ave
San Francisco, CA 94124-2040
Phone: (415) 550-8846
\_ has anyone tried cabaret chocolates? Were they good?
http://www.cabaretchocolates.com
\_ Depends on your idea of chocolate and your wallet. Some BA makers:
http://www.xoxtruffles.com (SF) sells fresh traditional European-style
flavored truffles (small irregular balls rolled in cocoa dust).
http://www.jschmidtconfections.com (SF) sells fresh American truffles
(chocolate shell, flavoring inside).
http://www.scharffen-berger.com (BRK) specializes in dark chocolate bars.
http://www.cabaretchocolates.com (OAK) are dark chocolate candies (not as
dense as bars).
The latter three can be found at The Candy Store on College,
near Clarmont (across from the Safeway). The first can be found
in SF but I do remember seeing a reseller on 4th St. next to Peets.
Note that much of this stuff is the deeper dark chocolate flavor
with less sugar involved. Your tastebuds may disagree. My family is
partial to the XOX truffles...
\_Scharffen-Berger is great...if your areever in Berkeley go on
their factory tour (about an hour and free). Their chocolate
is more like chocolate for wine lovers...very rich/complex.
\_ I second this. I've tasted a hell of a lot of the world's
chocolate and there is not much better than Scharffen-Berger,
domestic or otherwise. They don't do much by way of chocolates
though - just the pure chocolate. -- ulysses
\_ Thirded. Scharffen-Berger is awesome. Kudos to mconst for
first pointing it out to me. -- ilyas
\_One of the best chocolatiers I know is Bernard Callebaut, originally
from Canada. They used to have a store in SF, but closed because of
no publicity. http://www.bernardcallebaut.com Pricey, though.
\_ Valrhona and Callebaut are widely considered to be the best
two chocolates in the world. Valrhona leads all chocolate in
percentage of cocoa used (over 80% by weight).
\_ Scharffen-Berger has a 99% one.
\_ Unsweetened, of course, and for baking not for consumption
as a treat.
\_ I ve eaten it before.
\_ None of these places hold a candle to Le Chat Bleu, an artisan
chocolate maker on the Belgian-French border.
chocolate maker on the Belgian-French border. Famous all over
France for having the best hand made chocolate.
\_ It's fucking French, dude. You don't go to France for
chocolate, you go there for cheese. Schober & Teuscher
in Zurich is IT. -John
\_ This report link from XOX says it's merely "acceptable":
http://www.xoxtruffles.com/press/press15.htm
\- does anyone else think "Leonidas" is a
\_ This report link from XOX says it's merely "acceptable":
http://www.xoxtruffles.com/press/press15.htm
pretty weird name choice for a putative
high end chocolate? --psb
\_ It's Spartan, but delicious!
See the lists on the bottom. I thought you go to Zurich
chocolate, you go there for cheese. Schober & Teuscher
\_ Don't be a hater.
chocolate maker on the Belgian-French border. Famous all over
France for having the best hand made chocolate.
in Zurich is IT. -John
See the lists on the bottom. I thought you go to Zurich
for bank accounts and watches?
for bank accounts and watches?
\_ Guns too.
\_ Guns too.
\_ This list is the "Greatest Chocolates in America". I
am not sure what that means except that it excludes
a lot of superior European chocolate.
\_ Freshness, availability, cost of transport, and
perhaps some bit of nationalism.
\_ Yermom's famous all over France, too.
\_ Don't be a hater. |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:11563 Activity:high |
12/22 I have Linux running from my PC. Before today, I'd never
tried to send mail directly from my PC to the outside world.
While connected to the internet, using pine, I sent out a
couple messages to my yahoo account as a test. They didn't
go through. They didn't bounce either.
\_ The pain.. The pain... Are you running sendmail? postfix?
What's your ISP? Yahoo blocks many blocks of IPs for their
anti-spam measures. Does your ISP have an SMTP server you can
use? Have you checked that you can connect to any of yahoo's
SMTP servers. As you mentioned pine, I'm assuming most of the
answers are "no" or "i don't know". Just go back to windows.
\_If you can send email from windows, you can do it from Linux.
There isn't a reason why Linux can't use the same SMTP server
as your Windows setup. Try using a different client, i.e. Netscape/
Mozilla email. I haven't setup pine in a while, but if you can do
it through something that is akin to a windows client then you are
that much closer to resolving your issue.
\_ just use Mozilla Thunderbird. Best mail client.
\_ pine? is this a troll? |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Science/Disaster] UID:11564 Activity:moderate |
12/22 Feel the earthquake? San Simeon, 6.5:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-35.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/nc40148755.htm
\_ Yeah, it was pretty mellow. I thought I was feeling dizzy until I
noticed stuff swinging.
\_ Same here. I thought I was dizzy for about ten whole seconds
before I realized it was an earthquake, because the building
was swinging so slowly (frequency, not magnitude) that it wasn't
like any other earthquake I went through before.
\_ San Simeon is pretty far away. (120 miles or so from San Jose).
\_ It's by Point Reyes.
\_ no. Point Reyes is North of SF. San Simeon
is near San Luis Obispo
\_ no. |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:11565 Activity:kinda low |
12/22 Any tips for bringing a machine back to life after some sort of
ACPI-related badness? It's new Dell, FreeBSD-5.2RC1, and I tried
acpiconf -s 3. It shut down and now I can't even get the thing to
POST-- no vid display, no beeping, just the power light on and the
disk light blinking. I know/knew the risks of running -CURRENT, just
looking for any advice as to how to reset the mobo. TIA.
\_ How do you know that your motherboard or your cpu didn't fry? Rip
the mobo out and install a spare. If it exhibits the same problem
chances are it's the CPU (potentially it could be memory, but if it
was you'd see the POST beeping at you about bad memory). If it is
indeed a screwed up ACPI (I've never seen this happen) then you can
try ripping out the clock battery, waiting for two minutes, and
sticking it back in. BIOS should revert to factory setting. If you
can get the manual to your mobo then there should be a jumper short
you can do to reset the BIOS, which is the "correct" way of doing
things since you may or may not be able to do the clock battery
thing. (Although I haven't seen an encased NVRAM with builtin batt
for some years). Keep in mind that ripping out the clock battery
doesn't guarentee the BIOS settings will reset, the BIOS may have a
large capacitor associated with it to keep it alive for some time (on
the order of minutes/hours). It could also store stuff in flash, then
you're SOL until you dig up the manual for the proper jumper
settings.
\_ If it's a new dell, it should have a service tag (series of
letters and numbers) you can enter in on the Dell website and get
to the page of drivers/manuals, etc.
\_ Ah but, did you know the risks of running FreeBSD?
\_ There may be a jumper to reset the CMOS. I had to do it on an
Abit BH6 recently when I didn't know the BIOS password. Look
on the circuit board for something resembling this.
\_ How do you know that your motherboard or your cpu didn't fry? Rip the
mobo out and install a spare. If it exhibits the same problem chances
are it's the CPU (potentially it could be memory, but if it was you'd
see the POST beeping at you about bad memory). If it is indeed a
screwed up ACPI (I've never seen this happen) then you can try ripping
out the clock battery, waiting for two minutes, and sticking it back
in. BIOS should revert to factory setting. If you can get the manual
to your mobo then there should be a jumper short you can do to reset
the BIOS, which is the "correct" way of doing things since you may or
may not be able to do the clock battery thing. (Although I haven't
seen an encased NVRAM with builtin batt for some years). Keep in mind
that ripping out the clock battery doesn't guarentee the BIOS settings
will reset, the BIOS may have a large capacitor associated with it to
keep it alive for some time (on the order of minutes/hours). It could
also store stuff in flash, then you're SOL until you dig up the manual
for the proper jumper settings.
\_ Ah but, did you know the risks of running FreeBSD? |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Reference/Celebration] UID:11566 Activity:nil |
12/22 A Sun Christmas:
http://antics.com/holiday/sun2003/card.html |
| 2003/12/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:29729 Activity:high |
12/22 Wait, why are we are orange-plus threat level? I thought capturing
Saddam made us more safe!
\_ weak troll.
\_ Mission Accomplished!
\_ Bring It On!
\_ are all liberals 3 yr olds?
\_ Who is the "Bring It On", strutting rooster crowd? |
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