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| 2005/1/17-18 [Reference/History/WW2] UID:35741 Activity:low |
1/16 Are harddrives 100.00% axis-independent? In another word, will
they get 100.00% same efficiency/reliability if you run them
the right side up, up side down, side-ways, etc?
\_ The chimp says ***Evil Axis*** must die
\_ No, they're only 99.99% axis- independent. Due to gravity there
are slight fluctuations on the rotational axis of the drive which
the internal logic attempts to compensate for, but is not 100%
effective. Also, moving the drive around to different parts of
the room will affect it because of the magnetic field of the earth.
We spent about 10 years measuring this and we know that the
effect can be as high as .0000001% of the drive speed. So, get
out your magnenometer and start optimizing the placement of your
hard drive! |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:35742 Activity:high |
1/17 My DMA is in fact turned on, but I'm hardly getting the 133 rate
in my ATA133 as claimed by my motherboard and hard-drive. What
are some culprits in the lack of performance? ok thx.
\_ How are you measuring the throughput?
\_ You know nothing can sustain ATA133 throughput, right?
\_ And you're running which OS?
\_ Bottleneck is hard drive heads reading data off the spinning
platter. I think you max out around 20-30 MB / second these days
for a 7200rpm drive for not too fragmented large files.
Heck, notebooks have ATA133, why are their hard drives slow? Duh.
\_ I've tried transfering 50Gig of content (mostly movies,
very little HD head movements) and according to the XP
estimation it will take 160 min. So that means the
rate is approx 5.2M/sec. That is nowhere close to 20-30MB
rate you're saying. I'm very dissappointed...
\_ if your source hard drive is defragged and your dest
hard drive is empty, you are not doing this across a 100Mbps
network or some crappy FireWire / USB 2.0 controller, and
5.2 MB/s turned out to be the user-measured result (as opposed
to what Windoze estimates), I'd be disappointed too.
\_ yes. Drive 1 is Maxtor 250Gig drive, empty.
Drive 2 is WD 200Gig drive, no fragmentation.
Both are on the same ATA133 cable. Transfering
from 2 to 1 is about 5MB/sec. WHAT IS GOING ON?
Why is it so slow???
\_ That *is* slow. Do you have any anti-virus apps doing
on-the-fly scanning?
\_ nope! Disabled the "real-time" scan. ARGGGGGGGGGGG
\_ Okay, now why didn't you give this information from the
start? If they're on the same cable, you're running in
half-duplex. So your theoretical best is half the max.
\_ no. 133ATA means 130000Mb/sec, or 16.6MB/sec.
So theoretical limit is 16.6, and assuming
half-duplex, it's 8.3MB/sec. I'm getting 5.2MB/sec.
I guess 5.2 out of 8.3 is not too bad, but still
very disappointing. -op
\_ 133 means 133 MB/s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths
Anyway, re-install Windoze and measure again.
\_ Is your NTFS drive compressed?
\_ NOPE -op
\_ Did you check your primary/secondary IDE channel settings
(in Manage Hardware) and verify that DMA is in fact
selected?
\_ I have run performance tests on literally dozens of
drives and they are all like that. 5MB is kind of slow,
but you are never going to see 10MB/sec.
\_ I just timed a dump of a 2 GB DVD image from drive
to /dev/null on my Thinkpad T41. Average 20 MB/s, and
watching a realtime monitor it was more like 24 MB/s
and then a pause at 0 MB/s while Linux did some
poorly timed swapping. I am sure I get better speeds
than OP copying from drive to Ipod over USB2.
\_ There's also seek time when the sectors you try to read are non-
contiguous in the same track, and when the sectors are in
different tracks.
\_ I believe it's called "latency" when the data resides in
the same track. Seek time is moving heads, as you noted.
Access time is the overall result.
\_ The only time you'll see 133 is when it's reading data that's in the
drive's memory buffer.
\_ if the little pixies are on strike there will be some slow down
\_ Dude where are the true SCSI-files? ATA has always make outrageous
claims. It is a combination of the fact ATA just not "robust"
enough to support that many drives and Windoze sucks at FS. |
| 2005/1/17 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:35743 Activity:insanely high |
1/16 Dear libertarians (ie "all man for himself") and conservatives
(ie "flat tax means equality"), what is your opinion on the
following article and why is it flawed? -moderate
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/wealth.gap.ap/index.html
\_ Dear moderate (ie "I am too dumb to make up my mind"),
please fuck off.
\_ I'll bite. The article points out that the income
gap has closed but the wealth gap has not. It seems
intuitive that if the gap in income and wealth
were to both close, that the income gap will come first.
That we haven't seen the wealth gap close yet does
not indicate a market failure. Also, doesn't take
into account that regional variations in wealth/income
and regional variations in race are highly correlated
(see <DEAD>www.csua.berkeley.edu/~darin/upload/black.PNG<DEAD>
--Darin (moderate libertarian)
\_ user/pass? I tried moderate/libertarian and it didn't work.
\_ I'll go in as well. Again, they point out that the income gap
has closed, but not the wealth gap. In the article they
attribute this to racism in companies giving morgages. BS.
Lack of loans don't stop people from investing in the stock
market or any other sort of saving. Basically, America has a
big problem with people not saving. There's an epidemic of
people living beyond their means in America, and blacks seem to
be particularly susceptible to the lure of conspicuous
consumption. This is cultural, if your parents didn't save
money, you probably won't either. (In this case, it may be
their parents didn't save money because some white guy would
come and steal it. It doesn't matter, the result is the same
now.) I think we should make a class in money management a
high school requirement. -jrleek
\_ I agree with everything you say, and yet I am a liberal.
This may be one of the first jrleek posts I would say that about.
\_ Ahh! You used the b**** word!!! Racist!!!
\_ People keep saying blacks don't save money. Then you go
look up life expectancy of black males and it's like 69.
The amount of money one needs to save for retirement is
vastly different depending on whether one is going to live
to 69 or 82.
to 69 or 82. White people complain a lot, but it's they
who live a long, unproductive, useless post-retirement
life on government subsidies. They should learn to die
earlier like black people, and stop wasting my tax dollars.
These days, you start getting social security at like 67,
so the average black male is only gonna get two years'
worth, whereas someone who lives till 87 is going to get
20 years' worth. So, please stop dissing on black people.
\_ Sigh. This is why a little knowledge of statistics is
such a dangerous thing.
\_ well, the same thing can be said of jrleek's post,
which is my point.
\_ I must have missed it then. Could you explain
where my post goes wrong in more detail? Your post
makes a number a wierd logical fallacies that I
makes a number of weird logical fallacies that I
don't THINK I commited, which you claim to have
understood when you posted. Please be more
specific. -jrleek
\_ Please explain what weird logical fallacies
were in my post?
\_ I don't think you know how life expectancy
works. - !jrleek
\_ That's the main problem. The way you
apply life expectency is criminal, and
the resulting argument is horrifying in
it's circularity. -jrleek
\_ This is the first time I've heard of the notion of African
Americans in general not saving money vs. other Americans. I
read last night in the Post editorial on Social Security that the
average U.S. household saves 1.5% of disposable income, compared
to 11% two decades ago.
So ... that must mean blacks are dragging down the average, even
though they make up ~ 10% of the U.S. population?
(That was an absurd statement; of course I don't believe that.)
\_ I was just using the stats from the article. I guess you
could say that blacks are "dragging down the average" but
I wouldn't. It's a huge probelm in every race. Blacks
just seem to be particularly afflicted with it. -jrleek
\_ I just updated my stats for you since I remembered my
source. Anyway, if you said, whiteys played more stocks
than black people, even if they make the same money -- I'd
agree with you.
But I think the numbers don't lie, for all Americans, when
it comes to annual savings.
I don't know if the Post's result intelligently classified
some stock market investments as savings, so I can't argue
there.
\_ Again they focus on equal outcome rather than equal opportunity.
The goal is clearly socialism.
\_ socialism is equal income.
communism is equal outcome.
\_ capitalism is equal cum.
\_ no, capitalism is equal outcome when you have enough income
\_ "Victims!" |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:35744 Activity:low |
1/17 Does anyone have experience with a cell phone retailer called Orange
Digital Land? I saw its newspaper ad saying they have a T-Mobile
plan when I can get two phones, five lines, everything free for one
year after rebates. It just sounds too good to be true. Is the store
trustworthy?
\_ If you sign up for 5 lines, I'm sure you can get 2 phones for free.
The lines are *not* free, although activation may be.
\_ I think the shop is simply using part of their "new customer"
comission to work the deal. You are basically getting a 5-line
family plan. The shop gets couple hundred dollars for each
new line they open. I did something similar before (switching
from Cingular to T-Mobile). I only switched 2 lines and got
2 new phones (around $250 retail each) for free. Oh, I didn't
use Orange Digital Land. I think all Chinese/Asian cell
companies are pretty much the same.
\_ So if I sign up and then cancel after one year, I get everything
for free, the retailer makes a little profit, while T-Mobile
loses money for the commission, phones and lines? Doesn't sound
like good business plan for T-Mobile.
\_ Are they offering this in the bay area now?
My sister did it last year, and my parents just did it
a couple weeks ago, but they are in LA.
\_ Yeah, the ad lists five store addresses, all here in the
Bay Area.
\_ That's pretty much it. It's the cost of acquiring a new
customer. Since most people don't change their carrier
on a regular basis, T-Mobile is hoping that you'll stay
for > 1 year. |
| 2005/1/17 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:35745 Activity:nil |
1/17 If I want to get a wireless card for my apple (desktop, not
laptop), do I need to get it from apple or can I go get one
from bestbuy? (e.g. a linksys card) |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Health/Skin] UID:35746 Activity:moderate |
1/17 i have this big ass pimple by my ear that has been there
for several months. how do i get rid of it? a lot of soap?
should i boil a needle and pop it?
\_ If there's a little dark spot in the center, it's an ingrown
hair. Ingrown hairs are harmless. Tumors are not. Have it
checked out.
\_ Several months? Maybe it's not a pimple.
\_ My prom date had a bump by her ear. After 6-12 months she had it
biopsied and it was a tumor of one of the glands. She had it
removed while under general anesthesia, didn't need to take chemo,
and is fine today. She's 31 today; that was ~ 5 years ago.
\_ It's funny, because the way you worded this it sounds like
you went to your prom when she was 26...
\_ You the mac. 18 year old taking a 26!
\_ Heh, I don't think the prom and the
discovery of the bump on her ear
occurred during the same general
time frame. |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:35747 Activity:nil |
1/17 For the person who asked about AFP over SSH, just start
a ssh tunnel on your client:
ssh -N -L [localport]:localhost:548 [user]@[afpserver]
Now you can connect using ssh via the finder using the
afp url: afp://localhost:[localport]
\_ note: must be root to bind to <1024 |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Consumer/Camera, Computer/HW/Printer] UID:35748 Activity:kinda low |
1/17 What's a good photo printer to get these days? Willing
to spend from $150 to $500000.
\_ Canon Pixma. They are a new line and start at $100 I think.
\_ Canon Pixma. They are a new line and start at $100000 I think.
\_ Costco or Walmart.
\_ How do the printers at Costco work? The printout looks and feels
like traditional photos. Are their printers inkjet or laser? Or
do the printers actually shine light on real photo paper? The
printout from my Epson Stylus Photo 1200 looks good, but it looks
pretty obvious that it's not traditional photo even though I'm
using some so-called photo paper.
\_ They are using standard photo printers that cost thousands of
\_ They are using standard photo printers that cost billions of
dollars. Same process as traditional photos. So you can
either invest in a printer, or pay $0.20 per print at Costco.
\_ Don't standard photo printers print from negatives (shine
light thru negatives on unexposed photo paper)? How do
they print from digital files?
\_ Just a guess--they use a thin lcd panel and project
light through that. Frankly I don't know, but the
process is great for my digital photos.
\_ Dye-sublimation? The Canon CP series are dye-sub
with a clear coating. Very similar to "real"
photo prints.
\_ These days many photo labs print all digitally. All
films get scanned by their professional printers.
Oh, and the Epson R series with 8 inks are supposed to
be really good. I'm waiting for the wide format version
of the R series to come out this year. I think the R
series is in direct competition to Canon Pixma series
someone mentioned above.
\_ Last I checked they charged $0.17/print. |
| 2005/1/17 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:35749 Activity:insanely high |
1/17 Iran is next!
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
\_ And Hersch (and his informer) should be executed for treason.
Didn't people complain that our intelligence in Iraq was faulty
because we didn't have human intelligence on the ground?
\_ HOW DARE HE QUESTION OUR LEADER!
\_ Let's execute all dem "newsjournalists" for tippin' off the
enemy while our boys are behind enemy lines! </troll>
\_ What is treasonous about this article? Specifically,
I want you to point out something that was published in
there that the enemy doesn't already know. Are you against
the Freedom of The Press now?
\_ *laugh* take a look at the right wing republican track record
on any subject relating to freedom of the press and decide
for yourself. Of course they don't support freedom of the
press.
\_ I did not know that we had boots on the ground in Iran. I did
not know they were the next target (thought it was Syria).
Freedom of the Press does not include shouting fire in a
crowded theater.
\_ You have to consider the possibility that some of
Hersch's sources might be feeding him disinformation.
\_ That doesn't change the fact that he shouldn't be
printing it.
\_ I know we have boots on the ground in North
Korea and Pakistan, unless the SEAL who told
me he had been there in the last year was lying
to me, a distinct possibility. I assume we
put Special Ops or CIA agents in places like this.
That is their job, after all. And Hersch job as
a journalist is to make sure we have a national
coversation about war against Iran before we
say, bomb the crap out of them. If Hersch had not
exposed the Abu Gharib torture, it would probably
still be going on. Would that be the best thing
\_ do you really thikn we have forces in NK
right now? do they disguise themselves
as bowls of gruel?
\_ Are you a moron? The Army had already started
their investigation. Why do you think it would
still be going on? The process was working.
\_ If you think it's not STILL GOING ON RIGHT
NOW, you, sir, are the moron.
\_ So there are still people being abused in
Abu Ghraib right now? What is your proof?
\_ hey guys, I'm confused, are you talking
about waterboarding, pyramid pileups,
forced masturbation, sexual humiliation
in general, or forced positions?
thanks
\_ I think he is talking about the gang
raping of minor boys.
raping of minor boys. Cons always
hate sodomy, except for the non
consensual kind.
\_ I don't know, are you ? We were still
toruring people at Gitmo for quite a while
afterwards and the only reason we stopped
was because of the public outcry over Abu
Gharib.
\_ Please show a reputable reference that there
was continued abuse at Abu Ghraib after the
military began its investigation.
\_ I meant that torture would still be
going on, not necessarily torture at
Abu Gharab. We continued to torture
at Gitmo. If we had not had that national
conversation about torture, where even
"Torquemada" Gonzalez repudiated it, it
would still be going on.
for America? How bad would it have gotten before
it was exposed then?
\_ do you really thikn we have forces in NK right
now? do they disguise themselves as bowls of
gruel?
\_ Syria isn't dangerous. There's no point wasting time with
them. By the way this article is the first time I've
noticed the use of an umlaut in words like cooperation and
preemptive (pree:mptive). Is that an established thing?
\_ It's a New Yorker mag thing, don't worry about
it. - danh
\_ Doesn't Syria have WMDs? Aren't a non-negligible number
of insurgency leaders in Syria?
\_ So you think Hersch should be executed for treason
because he published a report that the US was sending
Special Ops teams into Iran. Is that your serious
contention? I think you are a loon.
\_ "I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of
a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear
weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures
to deal with it." -VP Cheney
\_ Was that the line against Iraq or Iran?
\_ VP debate, Oct 5 2004.
\_ I don't think that he should be executed, like the loony Con up
there, but I think he should have kept his mouth shut. It is not
like he is exposing government wrongdoing, like at Abu Gharib or
in the OSP case or numerous other times. -liberal
\_ Does the article say whether any special ops teams are there in
Iran right now?
\_ "The American task force, aided by the information from Pakistan,
has been penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan"
\_ thx! -khamenei
\_ Next time RTFA! |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:35750 Activity:nil |
1/17 Update on the Win2K box that couldn't get DHCP or resolve DNS. I tried
installing NetBEUI, removing TCP/IP, rebooting, installing TCP/IP, but
that didn't work. Then I installed Ad-aware and it found and removed
"VirtuMonde", an adware infection. Everything worked after that.
Removed everything else found by Ad-aware, and installed about 10
critical updates.
Looks like "VirtuMonde" tried to install and it screwed everything up.
I guess I'll run the adware scanner first next time. :-P
Thanks for all the help.
\_ LSP were f*cked. Ad-aware has a fix for that. Also look for LSP fix |
| 2005/1/17 [Transportation/Airplane] UID:35751 Activity:high |
1/17 http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/17/airbus.380.reut/index.html Why I think this is a stupid idea. You usually have one point of entry and exit per plane, and the time for all the passengers to get on/off the plane increases greatly with 500 passengers. Second point. Say you fly 1 plane that hauls 500 passengers vs. 5 planes that haul 100 passengers. If there's malfunction on the jumbo 500 seater plane, you're fucked, but you still have options when you have 4 other planes. In short, I think the bigger something is the dumber it is. -csua armchair pilot \_ But with 5 planes, your overall failure rate is multiplied by 5. Anyway I think Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner thing is more interesting. Their idea is that people want to go direct, not always get routed through giant hubs. Although I think most people will still put up with hubs if it's noticably cheaper. \_ Is your 100 passenger airplane overall operating cost 1/5 of the 500 passenger version? I would think it would cost a lot more to operate 5 100-passenger airplane across the Atlantic vs. 1 500-passenger airplane. \_ It would cost a lot more to operate a 500 passenger plane filled with 200 passengers than it would be to operate 2 100 passenger planes. How many routes do you think have that kind of demand or the ability to service a jet that large? |
| 2005/1/17 [Uncategorized] UID:35752 Activity:nil |
1/17 If our enemy gets rid of our satellites, can we still fight
effective wars?
\_ will never happen.
\_ mebbe!!!!
\_ most likely. MTV will be offline and a lot of
Reservists will have to be called back from Iraq
to keep teenagers from rebelling. |
| 2005/1/17 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:35753 Activity:nil |
1/17 Yay, Dubya!
"The president's overall job approval rating stands at 52 percent,
unchanged in the past month. Of all presidents in the post-war era who
won reelection, only Richard M. Nixon had a lower job approval rating
at the start of his second term while the other chief executives began
their second term with job ratings of 60 percent or higher." -Wash Post
\_ Just wait till he starts his war with Iran and starts drafting
college students.
\_ AAAAGHH! The draft rumor was false last time, why would you
believe it now?
\_ What made it "false"? I still think Bush is going to have
to start drafting people. The National Guard has not met
their recruiting quota for six months running now, and
they are half of the troops in Iraq! Where is he going
to get the soldiers for this third front of his???
\_ !!!!?????`111`11one!!111eleven!!!!!
\_ Wasn't there a "Read My Lips: No Draft" moment?
Isn't Rummy anti-draft?
\_ Just a WAG, but IF there's a draft, I think they'd structure it
to be easy to get postponements for college. You want to draft
kids of those least likely to raise a stink.
\_ And Nixon also faced a press with a hard-on to publish anything bad
about him. Hmm...
\_ Dude, the press has rolled over for Dubya. Keep dreaming your
paranoid fantasies if you want, but please remember there is a
real world out there. |
| 2005/1/17-18 [Industry/Jobs] UID:35754 Activity:moderate |
1/17 Anyone interviewed recently, how is the job market?
\_ Job? Why are you asking me about the book of Job? That's not
even my field...or is there something I'm missing here? -gradstudent
\_ Guess that tells you...
\_ Guess that means the job market is good, everyone has jobs.
\_ Or that no one is hiring..
\_ Interviewed extensively in November; end result: no one hired
anyone. Am hoping January will turn out much better.
\_ Just interviewed at Google, am interviewing with Joe Random Startup
next week. The former was a cold call request for an interview,
the latter was through a friend. I'm not even looking for a job and
have told both of them so. I've had an offer of an interview at
Yahoo! from a friend. I'd say places are hiring again. (Or at
least interviewing).
\_ You're not looking for a job, but you are interviewing?!?!
\_ I'm not the previous poster, but I like to interview every
year or two. It helps me keep track of how much I should be
making, and reminds me that I could leave my job if I wanted
to (or that I couldn't, depending). Like the previous poster,
I always say up front that I'm not looking for a job. No one
seems to mind.
\_ So far 3 interviews and 0 offers :-(
\_ I hear you. Is this a pretty common situation?
\_ You tell me. |
| 2005/1/17 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:35755 Activity:nil |
1/17 I need my daily dose of troll to keep me awake and being
productive. Where are the damn trolls. The motd is too bring
damn it!! |
| 2005/1/17 [Uncategorized] UID:35756 Activity:high |
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| 2005/1/17-18 [Recreation/Dating] UID:35757 Activity:very high |
1/17 I think this is one of the most vile things I've ever seen.
(worksafe, the horror is psychological)
http://www.inspot.org/tell-them
\_ STD checks? AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaahhhhh!! Noooooooo! Next thing, you'll
post a link suggesting the use of bike helmets, seat belts, and
adequate lighting while reading! please make it stop!!!!! can
we please squish this anti-social user!?!??
\_ Who's the anti-social one? op, or the guy who thinks
sending someone an e-card that says, "I was checking my
address book, and... hey! You've got an STD!" is a good
idea?
\_ what's so bad about it?
\_ Shtuping someone and telling them after the fact via not-
particularly-clever e-card that you gave them the clap is not
the classiest thing I've ever seen. -John |
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