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2004/7/7 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:31196 Activity:kinda low |
7/7 The congressmen who want U.N. observers in U.S. vote http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39318 \_ Because we need the third world to help us have clean elections? Ours are the cleanest the planet has ever seen and that includes the dirty ballot box stuffing in Chicago and Philidelphia every year. |
2004/7/7 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:31197 Activity:nil |
7/7 Yikes! Scotty has alzheimers! http://tinyurl.com/3ckj9 \_ Dude! Scotty has a 4 year-old daughter! Wow! |
2004/7/7 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:31198 Activity:insanely high |
7/7 For all those that still think we're bringing democracy to Iraq: http://csua.org/u/82s (yahoo news) \_ Patriot Act? \_ I've heard that being stupid is kind of like being drunk all the time. Is that true for you too? \_ Ah, I love the smell of content-free ad hominem in the morning. \_ Just responding in kind. \_ You didn't read the URL at all, did you? Gotta love the motd freepers. \_ Given the amount of unrest in the country, a period of curfews and martial law may be exactly what is needed to clean things up. Of \_ More like a fleet of C-130s loaded with Daisy Cutters... -John course, it wouldn't have worked if the US had tried it; it would have been seen as more American oppression, and the insurgents would have had a field day. If done humanely, however, this could could go a long way toward a safe and secure Iraq. Big if, of course. - motd practicalist course. - motd pragmaticalist \_ It might work... But given Iraq's history, there's a good chance that these temporary measures could become permanent. We shall see. \_ Yeah, that worries me, too. - motd practicalist \_ Yeah, that worries me, too. - motd pragmaticalist ??? This edit is funny how? _/ \_ Without a period of forced stability there is no chance for long term voluntary stability. Without a bigtime crackdown on the bad guys how do you think the rest of the country can just sort of magically recover and move on? At any time the car or bus you're in could blow up, you can get shot, kid- napped, etc. Safety is a prerequisite for long term freedom. Freedom without safety is anarchy which Iraq has seen enough of recently. \_ Spoken like a true fascist. Should we station soldiers on American street corners as well? People are getting shot here, too you know. \_ Red herring. People get shot everywhere but not in sufficient numbers nor blown up on buses, cars, and just walking down the street that the other places could fairly be described as anarchy. I ask again, how do you expect peaceful democracy to magically emerge from a place in chaos without a period of martial law? The happy goodness feeling vibes coming from your sending love notes to the wannabe warlords stomping around and killing people? Get real. If I was a true fascist, I'd have dumb people such as yourself shot. I wouldn't try to educate you. \_ You know, you should read up on the post WWII Europe situation. For instance, material on the bloody revenge against the 'nazi sympathizers' (which by some definitions was half of the population) in liberated France is an informative read. The situation there is interesting to compare to the situation in Iraq today. Also, the word fascist is overused. These days it has the effect opposite of what you want. -- ilyas |
2004/7/7-8 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:31199 Activity:very high |
7/7 Has anyone tried Datahand (datahand.com) keyboards? Does it reduce the fucking wrist/finger pain one gets as a programmar? Is it worth $1000 to spend? \_ The coder in my group just got a touchstream zeroforce keyboard for $300. It takes some getting used to, but his wrist doesn't hurt anymore and he doesn't have to wear those wrist braces anymore. \_ Don't know about datahand, but I love my kinesis professional keyboard, and it makes a huge difference... takes some getting used to at first, but awesome after the first few hours. \_ If your company offers it, try to get an ergonomic expert to study your work area. There may be additional remedies that could help you in addition to changing keyboards. Once you get carpal, these injuries are slow to heal - a friend had to change professions because of it. \_ USE DVORAK AND SAVE YOUR $$$ AND YOUR FINGERS. \_Yeah, Dvorak rules man! \_ "TYPING ERRORS - The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A in the hottest new case against markets. But the evidence has been cooked." http://reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml \_ Doh! Another misconception shattered. Thanks for the link. \_ http://www.microsphere.com \_ The keyboard in the pic is the old-style one. http://www.keybowl.com \_ No CTRL key? REALLY awsome, should check it out! \_ I've been typing for 25 years without any pain. Maybe it's your typing style? Over 25 years I've typed on every crappy keyboard ever made without lasting pain. |
2004/7/7 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:31200 Activity:insanely high |
7/7 Why aren't there instructions on the CSUA web site on how to post to the motd and/or wall? \_ Use "me" to edit the motd. It locks the motd (to some degree) and uses the editor in your EDITOR env variable. Don't overwrite if your editor complains upon saving. Try to minimize the amount of time the motd is locked by typing your post before locking the motd. For wall, go to any terminal and type "wall y" to start receiving walls. Type wall to enter a message and ctrl-d to send. Feel the cruftiness wash over you in a wave. \_ since OP posted to the motd just fine and knows about wall, i'm going to assume OP means why don't we have instructions to tell the less knowledeable how to do this. OP: mail politburo and ask them about it. \_ Perhaps there should be a new policy: all new accounts must send at least 10 walls within the first week or their account is killed! \_ No one gives a fuck about wall because wall is full of assholes and that fact is coming home to roost. \_ No one gives a fuck about wall because wall is full of assholes and that fact is coming home to roost. \_ shut the fuck up, kchang \_ kchang didn't log in when the above was posted \_ more than one person scp's \_ which also shows. whatever. some people like you *think* they're so damned clever but they're not. there is no true anonymity on the motd. if you had any clue you'd know that scp isn't a way of hiding any better than just editing it raw and posting to the wall which changes you made and signing them. \_ well now... is this some sort of revelation to you? don't look too closely at the motd either then. \_ The motd often has useful non-asshole comments as well. Reading a few random hours of wall logs on any day shows boredom and assholes, not much else. |
2004/7/7 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:31201 Activity:moderate |
7/7 What is the attendance rate of politburo nowadays? 91 alum \_ Hasn't it been a steady 6-12 ppl including politburo members for the past 8 years now? \_ In general low attendance at meetings either means people are sufficiently happy or the member list has dropped like a rock because everyone has given up on the org. We know the latter isn't the case so low attendance is a good thing. |
2004/7/7 [Transportation/PublicTransit] UID:31202 Activity:moderate |
7/7 How come some BART trains have announcers to the destinations and some are silent? \_ the Train operator on the silent train is mute. \_ I prefer they remain silent. Except the guy with the southern accent who told jokes. The rest are just annoying. |
2004/7/7-8 [Transportation/Motorcycle] UID:31203 Activity:moderate |
7/7 Someone please repost the URL for the bicycle/motorcycle-sound attachment? Thanks. \_ http://www.turbospoke.com/global/products.asp |
2004/7/7-8 [Consumer/TV] UID:31204 Activity:moderate |
7/7 Has anyone tried the NEC ND-2510A dual layer DVD burner? How good is it? Thanks. \_ I don't have personal experience, but check the http://newegg.com user comments and http://cdfreaks.com forums/reviews. I've also read the NEC does better at 8x than the LITE-ON. You're probably fine getting the NEC, but I like all the extra user-created tools and the CD-burning quality of LITE-ON. \_ CD burning quality? |
2004/7/7-12 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Languages/Python] UID:31205 Activity:high |
7/7 If you're interested in working at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, there are quite a few openings. The first opening I heard about today was for working on parallel file systems in Linux, a good OS hacking job. See it at: /csua/pub/jobs/LLNL. However, there are always a lot of jobs for scientific programmers (Familiariry with Math, Physics, and/or biology are big pluses). There's also some sys admin jobs and other miscelleous things. You can check out: http://csua.org/u/82x click "search by organization", and select \_ All I get is a PeopleSoft8 error page: "Webserver appears to be incorrectly configured." \_ It's a government facility. Someone will take a look at the logs next week and submit the "Form a committee to discuss error log issue" paperwork a week later. Quit yer bitichin', take your pension and stop stirring the water. You trying to get someone in trouble? \_ Works for me, but you could also go to ww.llnl.gov and click "Jobs" then click "advanced search" "Computation." Or search more generally. Or email me. -jrleek \_ thanks for the post. can you comment on the quality of life issues of living out there? I.e. rent, ease of getting around with or without a car, traffic, access to parks and such, how easy it is to get back to the bay area, etc.? Could one buy a decent home out there on a LLNL salary? \_ Do you have to be a genius to work there? \_ I think you're confusing LLNL with the apple store \- LLNL has a reputation of having a lot of politics ... although maybe a hacking job isnt especially affected. what do you think? --psb \_ The genius I met at apple store is positively retarded. \_ No, but it helps. Basically, LLNL is fully of self-modivated geniuses. If you want to get ahead and be self-motivated geniuses. If you want to get ahead and be really important, yeah, you should have both a PhD and a genius level intelect. To psb: Actually, yeah, the politics here can be pretty bad. Basically, you get a good income, great benifits, great job security, and you work with geninuses. The downside is you have to put up with some petty acedemic-style politics. I consider this a reasonable trade. -jrleek \_ 1. What is academic politics like? 2. Why does government job well? I thought government job pay sucks. \_ My pay is a little less than my friends who started work at the same time, but I work a lot less, and have a lot more flexibility. And oh man, THE BENIFITS are stellar. How would you like your retirement paycheck to be 100% of what you were making when you retired? That's pretty dang good. Acedemic politics are all the piss-posturing about Phds and worring about whether something is really RESEARCH or not that you see around Universities. You know, the stuff like what professors do where they get more worried about who's who and who has what education and went where than about who's doing a good job. It's not really that bad around here, but you see it sometimes. -jrleek \_ Ok, so maybe academic politics isn't worse than office cubicle politics. But you also need security clearance to work there, right? Do people get harrassed for having brown skin? \_ yes, you do, no they don't care that you're a heavy pot user and queer, no they don't care but you will care that they're all white and very conservative. \_ This post above me ^^^^ is a little unintelligible, but correct. Brown skin's not a problem, although not being a citizen is. Our biggest "minority" is easily Chinese, but yeah, this place is mostly white. It still feels wierd after leaving Berkeley to end up in a room where all the occupants are white. That's really just a function of the citizenship rule though really. Oh, and having been a druggie in the past isn't a problem, but currently being "a big pot user" might be a problem. Being a big booze drinker is a problem. -jrleek \_ it was intelligible. i simply chose to ignore common english syntax like psb does but no one calls him unintelligble. \_ are you insane? people call psb unintelligable all the time. \_ jrleek, are you elite and what do you do? \_ http://csua.com/?entry=12410 \_ I'm about as un-elite as they come, but here's what I do: http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/components/babel.html -jrleek \_ I hope you didn't pick the color scheme. \_ Why not SWIG (swig.sourceforge.net)? \_ obItWorksWithOcaml! -- ilyas \_ SWIG actually does provide pretty good functionality. It is currently well used at the lab. The main problem is that since it's not specifically designed for scientific programming, there are some features we really need that SWIG just doesn't have, and probably shouldn't add. \_ More on SWIG. Also, in SWIG all callers must be script languages. We want the whole call stack to be mixed languages. Python calls Java, which calls C, Which calls fortran, which calls Python. Completely impossible in SWIG. -jrleek \_ Uh... what's a 'script language' jrleek? \_ Oh sure, end your hiring freeze right after I get another job elsewhere. \_ I guess I wouldn't mind but is there a Ranch 99 nearby with Boba Tea hang out place filled with cute Asian chicks? That's more important than say, pay or housing. -chinese \_ Sorry, AFAIK the nearest Ranch 99 is in Albany and there are no Boba places. As they meantion below, open a restraunt and either serve good foor or cheap prices and you'll be packed constantly. As far as single h@t 4SI4N CH1X0R, I know one at church, and one at work. This being a nerd town, there are quite a few asian chicks, but they're already married to white guys. \_ can you comment on the quality of life issues of living out there? what is the housing situation? traffic? easy access to decent stores, easy access to parks? how long does it take to get back into the bay area? do you have to own a car to get around out there? \_ I live in the area but don't work at LLNL. Housing is much easier here than in SF,Oak,Berk,SJ,SC,Penninsula,etc. You have the choice of paying less to get the same size but newer than in those places or paying the same to get much more and newer. Traffic: not too bad but getting worse. Depends which direction you're going and when. Decent stores: Costco is nearby, every chain imaginable is near by, Berkeley is 25 minutes for the rest. I live 90 seconds walk from a nice park. It's 25 to Berk, 45 to SF. Yes, you must have a car but contrary to popular opinion, you aren't legally required to drive an SUV in the suburbs. The biggest problem here now is lack of restaurants. The food is ok \_ The other side of the hills may not be Berkeley or SF, but Walnut Creek offers many fine eating choices, and the kickin'-est ribs in the Bay Area are to be found in Lafayette. -elizp but there simply aren't enough. Come out here and open one and you'll be packed at every meal as long as you're not killing people. \_ yahoo maps gives a time for driving between llnl and berkeley that is exactly double what you claim. looking at the map, it looks to me like walnut creek is just as far away as berkeley...throw in traffic, and you've got a solid hour or more to get *anywhere*. \_ yeah plus it's hot as hell in the summer out there. and you're making your living suckling at the gubmint's teat! \_ what's the pay? \_ they pay decently but not great. if you spend your career there the pension more than makes up for it as well as the other perks and benes. \_ no Ranch 99, no Boba, no Chinese radio, only 1 foreign channel, forget it. -chinese \_ For 100, do you try harder? \_ You can listen to RTHK over the Internet if you have RealAudio. \_ um, parallel file system? It's called the RAID. Stop reimplementing things that have been done decades ago. \_ That's all Linux is, isn't it? |
2004/7/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:31206 Activity:very high |
7/7 In a email, what difference is conveyed between "Hi Peter and "Dear Peter"? Is the former really considered less formal and less polite? \_ Yes. \_ Less formal certainly, but less polite depends on the context. \_ If you're writing to a loved one (a situation for "dear") then do it in a letter. Email is casual/business use, where "Peter" or "Hi Peter," does fine. \_ No one writes 'dear' to a loved one as a greeting. -- ilyas \_ Dear Ilya, Tell us about the stars! Love, Joseph Stalin Kaiser Wilhelm \_ I call Godwin! \_ Only applies to German tyrants. \_ Now that was a funny edit. \_ Dear Ilyas, I love you Ilyas #1 fan \_ I use "dear" writing to my grandmother \_ Dear doesn't belong in email. If the letter is formal enough to demand a "Dear", then maybe it shouldn't be sent in email? \_ Exactly. I think email should be used like a memo. Offtopic: am I the only one who cringes when ppl say "emails"? \_ By "used like a memo" do you mean content free corporate buzzword horseshit? \_ no, unless used as a verb in the correct tense. |
2004/7/7-8 [Recreation/Travel] UID:31207 Activity:very high |
7/7 I'm really clueless about travelling. The only real vacations I've had were set up by my parents. What's the best way to figure out plane and hotel arrangements for some given place? Or are tour packages a good idea? Sorry this is pretty vague I just want people to talk about travel cuz I need vacation badly. \_ try http://expedia.com \_ it depends. try to package something yourself, and then compare the price to online packages as well as those offered by a real travel agency. I had a really good travel agent that worked wonders even after online prices shot up. \_ the flight stuff I could handle but the hotel possibilities are kind of intimidating. did you just try some random travel agent? \_ where might you be going? That will help us answer your question. \_ not really sure yet. \_ Quiz: What is your travelling personality? http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/summer.trips/quiz.html \_ wow. what an eye opener. it turns out i like to go outside and look at stuff. who knew? i'd like to take a moment to silently thank the selfless individuals who labored and sweated to bring this brilliant "quiz" into the world. \_ A lot depends on your attitude towards travel. If you're a type A person with a list of destinations to hit on your trip, book your own. If you're a walkabout person with a very relaxed idea towards sites to see, book your own. If you don't want to worry about your travel arrangements, book a tour. There are many different types of tours catering to different tastes. A little research will help. Plus if it's for first trip out, a tour is an okay overview. \_ Tours are lame. OP is better off doing a bit of research to get the overview. Since OP doesn't seem to travel an entire trip spent getting an overview is wasteful. \_ I'd normally want to do it myself but in some cases it seems like the intra-destination travel and food stuff would be a lot simpler with a tour. |
2004/7/7-8 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:31208 Activity:high |
7/7 Bike route links: http://bicycling.511.org http://vader.abag.ca.gov:8080/BikeQuest http://pages.prodigy.net/hamachi/BikeRoute http://www.klimb.org/klimb.html \_ WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA? \_ RIDE TOM! -yermom \_ USE YERMOM! -linux \_ Why do you hate yermom? \_ I don't hate yermom, yermom is interested. \_ IF YOU AREN'T WITH YERMOM, YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS \_ Did someone ask for bike route links? \_ I think this is tom's clumsy attempt at evangelizing. \_ wrong, twink. someone asked yesterday about bike route links. And I did not post the above. Presumably the OP from yesterday found some. -tom \_ where did "twink" come from originally? does it make you a better person everytime you use the word? \_ http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/twink.html http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twink |
2004/7/7 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:31209 Activity:insanely high |
7/7 Concerned senior citizen speaks out in support of Kerry: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/04/Jul/kerry.html \_ Dear Mr. Bush, Since the start of your presidency, membership in our club has grown by leaps and bounds; donations have quadrupled, and media coverage has been daily and constant. Keep up the good work. Yours, Osama bin Laden \_ Yeah, and when they stated as early as '93 they were out to get Americans, what did Clinton do? \_ he tried to kill him. Mind you that at the same time, you were busy trying to impeach Clinton, completely ignoring all threats imposed by Al Qaeda. \_ Laaaaaame.... try harder. \_ no lamer than the original. -tom \_ The original was actually quite amusing. The followup just tried too hard and doesn't ring as true. \_ I'd like to think you're joking, but I'm afraid I'd be terribly mistaken. \_ Apparently you have no sense of timing. I bet you find knock-knock jokes still funny... \_ but true. \_ Uhm, no... \_ It was cute the first time but now it's old as dirt and best forgotten. Don't beat a dead horse. \_ Kerry has the support of foriegn leaders! \_ And Al Gore invented the Internet, and Ketchup is a vegetable, and you REALLY need some new material. \_ Bush has the support of Al Queda! \_ Anyone that does not agree with me is a terrorist and hates America! \_ I know you're being sarcastic but I hope you don't believe anyone actually ever said that for real. \_ Anyone on the motd, the Bush administration, or the right-wing press? Take your pick. I bet I can find examples from all three. Poster below just found one from Bush himself. \_ "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -GWB |
2004/7/7 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:31210 Activity:insanely high |
7/7 From the "about f$#ing time" department" : Kenneth Lay indicted http://csua.org/u/832 (AP via Yahoo News) \_ TWO NA1MS, L1KE: ROBURT RUBIN + CIT1GROUP \_ You obviously know nothing about Rubin. \_ Financial cases with zillions of documents always take years to get to this stage. Once they file charges, they only have a short time to get it together in court. By waiting until they know wtf they're looking at in the financial papers, they can build a case sufficient for a guilty verdict. If they had filed charges shortly after Enron went to shit, Ken Lay would be a free man today and forever, not facing charges that now have a good chance of sticking. |
2004/7/7 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:31211 Activity:insanely high |
7/7 Kerry's Chinagate - Loral Money Going to DNC http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/7/150106.shtml 1996 campaign finance scandals all over again? \_ OOOOOhhhh, a NewsMax link! Why don't you post a Drudge link, a worldnetdaily, and a FreeRepublic while you're at it? \_ Translation: "Any news source that is not biased to my political thinking is completely invalid. Do not speak of them to me!" \_ Sigh... it is either true or it is not. Attack the truthfulness of the material, not the source. Attacking the source is weak and demonstates you have nothing else to say against the truthfulness of the material and lends it credence. This is basic Rhetoric 1A stuff any freshman should know. \_ Nah, they might teach it in Freshman 101, but anyone with common sense knows you don't argue with a homeless insane drunk. \_ As long as he doesn't out any CIA operatives for political gain. Whoops! Motherfucking wingnuts. --aaron \_ Anything a democrat does, evil. Anything a republican does, good. Any questions? \_ Evil? Or Eeeeevvvviiilllll!!!!! ? \_ Remember when it was "Motorola, Qualcomm and Loral" in all the Republican smear pieces? Notice how Motorola is not mentioned anymore? I wonder why that is..... http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B09 \_ Tinfoil. Hats. Safety from Martian radio waves. \_ Follow the money. \_ I really like the sector plots under Labor, Lawyers, and Media. \_ Kerry returned the money from Chung and other foreigners. But last I checked, Republicans took lots of money donated from corporate CEOs. Are you guys renouncing that as a source of fundraising, now? No more Kenny Boys? \_ Do you honestly see no difference between an american corporation and a foreign interest? \_ Schwartz is an American CEO. Loral is an American company. What is your beef? Are you upset because he is Jewish? \_ Only conservatives are allowed to be upset about anti semitism. \_ No, that's why it was ok for Clinton to take Chinese money quid pro quo for the most advanced US weapons research. \_ The Clinton haters have claimed this for years, but never offered up any real evidence. Do you believe that Hillary killed Vince Foster to cover up the evidence of their love crime, too? \- "I killed Vince Foster, just to watch him die." \_ The DNC returned hundreds of thousands of campaign contributions and paid hundreds of thousands in fines for taking money from the PLA and Riady. The PLA now has all of our nuclear weapon designs, when / where do you think they got them? What do you think 'no controlling legal authority' was about? Read the Cox report. The evidence is abundant if you would bother to look. \_ Correlation is not causation. Any idiot knows that. \_ I would classify your behavior and denial as a neurosis. Poor WJC.. disbarred by USSC and in his home state, impeached, a traitor, and hero to anyone except the VRWC. |
2004/7/7 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:31212 Activity:nil |
7/7 Mr. Bush, your presidency seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular? \_ Heh. http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=17231 \_ The last few Tom Tomorrow's sucked, but this one isn't bad. \- the opening is genius. is that supposed to be tim russert? |
2004/7/7-9 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Stripclub] UID:31213 Activity:very high |
7/8 I have a female friend who's interested in checking out some male strip clubs. I have been searching the net for some times now, but still have been able to find any around the Bay Area. Any suggestions and/or recommendations? \_ Discussed back in 2000 of October, http://csua.com/?entry=19464 \_ Why don't you bring her over to me, I'll strip for her. \_ Because we don't want to kill the last vestiges of her hetero- sexuality? \_ I only half agree with you. I don't give a damn about male heterosexuality. \_ I believe OP said female, not shemale. \_ Oh, SNAP! \_ There use to be male stripper signs on places on "Bush" in SF around Mason/Taylor or so. Not sure if they're still there. Pick up the Bay Guardian, there are ads for strip clubs (male and female) in there. \_ Here's one I think she'll love: http://www.eros-guide.com/files/ouchy1.htm \_ check out http://partyhardcore.com -- very work unsafe. It's amazing how girl next door gets so wild at strip clubs. Also, it's amazing they are having unprotected sex with a stranger. \_ Its amazing that you fell for this shit - both the man and woman are clearly paid performers. \_ I think you're the one that fell for something. -tom \_ and I think you are the one who fell for it! \_ Dude, I think tom totally played you. \_ Tom? He isn't smart enough. He's more like a pitbull than a clever little monkey. \_ In Soviet Russia, stripper plays YOU! \_ Is anyone buying this "I have a female friend" story? Someone here obviously wants to go check out some hot man-ass and can't admit it. \_ Yeah, no sodan has any female friend. \_ Why would a woman want to see men strip? Women aren't visual the way men are. If they were then male pr0n for women would be a huge industry just like the naked chick business is today. \_ Yeah! It says so right here in the Monster Manual! \_ Mod +5 Funny! \_ No male strip clubs for heteros in the bay area -- go to Las Vegas. \_ Surely women must like some kind of titilation? How else do you explain the existence of romance novels? \_ If you can't see the difference between looking at naked flesh and fantasizing about being in love, you're beyond help. \_ You are an idiot. You have no conception of what a 'romance novel' is, do you? You are just mouthing off, aren't you? You are probably think of yourself as a 'sensitive male'. 'Romance novels' are female porn, nothing more. |
2004/7/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:31214 Activity:nil |
7/8 Spidey in Lego: http://www.spiteyourface.com/spidey.html |
2004/7/7-8 [Computer/Networking] UID:31215 Activity:high |
7/8 Behind a big firewall at work. All they got is a http proxy and socks5 proxy. I would like to get some of other things to work (such as AIM, ICQ, real streaming). Any pointers on how to go about this? thanks \_ http://csua.com/?q=http+proxy \_ There are various toys you can install that will create <your protocol here> links through the company firewall/proxy. However, you will show up in the proxy logs as either a connection that is open for however many hours you're connected through your proxy toy or as a zillion connects that open/close on a short cycle. either way this will get you a warning, at a minimum, at any place that takes security seriously. I haven't been the fw admin for a few years but even then it was trivial to see who was trying to violate policy with a quick glance at the logs. Is your career worth it? Maybe you should just ask for better access? The admins have it, I'm sure. \_ Mindterm from Appgate lets you open an ssh tunnel over SSL. There are also loads of perl ssh tunnel type scripts around that allow port forwarding. For proxies with timeouts, use an xclock or random character generator every x seconds. And cover your ass, above poster is correct, this is trivial to spot if someone bothers to check, although in large outfits a ton of random shit goes outbound over HTTP ports. Don't forget to fix your http user agent info. -John \_ socksify openssh -D 1080 and run everything through that \_ Thanks all. I am merely trying to use AIM and ICQ (instead of MSN, which the company embrace). These info will get me started. -kngharv |
2004/7/7-8 [Computer/Networking] UID:31216 Activity:moderate |
7/8 Do people like the blackberries? Do they have 802-11(b/g) built in or available as a cheap expansion? info appreciated. \_ Can't you just go to their website? http://www.blackberry.com/products/handhelds/index.shtml \_ Yes; and no they don't. At least not the ones growing around east bay. \_ I have GM blackberries that have 802-11b. The lab boys are working on the sequencing for 11a and 11g as we speak. \_ O.k. it seems that they don't have 802-11 capability. What is a blackberry like device that I can connect to my wireless LAN when at home? (price matters) |
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