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| 2005/10/9-10 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:40027 Activity:very high |
10/9 Dear MOTD, I'm looking to give a bunch of windows users access to a
filesharing solution on a unix box. They're not terribly technical,
and have mainly browser access. Is there some sort of open source
web based toy running over SSL that mimicks what they would see on a
windows fileshare, with drag&drop/copy&paste? -John
\_ WebDAV on Apache might work for you. I think that recent
versions of Windows have native support.
\_ Do you have some objection to SAMBA?
\_ Sorry, should have specified--this is over the Internet. -John
\_ SAMBA works over the internet. Just install a VPN...
\_ any tips on VPNs? (anything free out there that is
good?) - !op
\_ Well, you can just buy VPN enabled routers like the
one from Linksys. This makes VPN very easy and it
offloads the service onto the router. Alternatively
you can just configure Linux/*BSD to run IPSec. If
you don't like kernel plumbing too much you can use
Free S/WAN to do IPSec. It's not too hard once you
get the hang of it. You of course need a static IP
to make this happen.
\_ M0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall is great for this,
especially on Soekris or PCEngines WRAP. I can't
do this via VPN--has to be over a browser. -John |
| 2005/10/9 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:40028 Activity:high |
10/7 While doing apartment hunting, I decided to have some fun and checked
out a few waterfront 1bdrm and studio rentals. Most of them range
from $2500/month to $6000/month!! For me, paying $1200/month rent
is a waste of money. Who the heck would rent something for that
price when you can just buy something, perhaps a bit farther and
at least have complete ownership? In another word, who fits in
the insane profile of wasting $6000/month on a frigging
rental property?
\_ Someone I know recently sold her small, squalid, old apartment
overlooking Central park for about 2.5 million dollars. What
do you think is a reasonable rent for a 2.5 million dollar aprtment?
If a homeowner pays about 1000/mo for their 100,000 dollar home,
wouldn't it make sense for the rent to be 25,000 on the 2.5 million
dollar place? Looked at in that light, 6000/mo is cheap.
\_ I don't know how it is in SF, but in a lot of European cities (and
from what I've seen, in NYC) it's either wealthy single (for the
small places) yuppies who can afford it -- traders, executives,
etc., wealthier people who want a nice city apartment because
their big villa is somewhere inconvenient for commuting, or, more
significantly, expats on a company housing allowance. A friend
of mine is blowing $4500/mo. of his company's cash on a NY upper
east side 1-bedroom. Why? Because he can. Like many luxury
goods, of course it's completely absurd if you have limited
resources like most of us, and better things to spend them on. -John
\_ The answer is: because those rents are probably a really good deal
right now. $2500/month is probably 1/2 of what you'd pay in
interest + tax + maintenance - tax deductions. Now, note that I
didn't include principal. So really, if the non-investment portion
of purchase is higher than the rent, you're losing money buying
vs. renting. In a few years the balance will shift and it'll be
about even, or a better deal to buy. |
| 2005/10/9-10 [Industry/Jobs] UID:40029 Activity:moderate |
10/9 Is it legal for a developer or someone to use your homeowner's
association fee for anything other than community improvement?
Is it possible for some of the money to go back to the developer?
\_ It depends on what you agreed to. It might be okay for them
to use some of the money for "administrative expenses", but
if they are pocketing a large portion of it you might have
something to complain about. |
| 2005/10/9-10 [Academia/UCLA] UID:40030 Activity:very high |
10/9 UCLA and thier football team can burn!!!
Anybody else watch? If not for thier #21 Drew they wouldn't have
scored half thier points. -mrauser
\_ Fuck off. The only universities for whose football programs I have
any respect are University of Chicago and Caltech.
\_ Cal didn't deserve to win the game. Our QB sucks, our special teams
sucks. And even if we did win, we still wouldn't beat USC given
that we couldn't stop Drew who's a poor man's Reggie Bush.
\_ Yeah, they couldn't score half the time in the red zone.
Let's face it, Cal football just isn't up to par to the likes
of UCLA and USC. We have never been and will never be known
as a football school. Anyway, I don't really give a crap
because compared to our academics both schools blow chunks.
\_ Up to par with UCLA?! are you kidding? why don't you
check out our record against them for the past few years.
\_ Uhm, hate to burst your bubble, but in the past, what
forty to fifty years Cal hasn't appeared once in the
Rose Bowl, while UCLA has shown up about half a dozen
times, and they won it twice. UCLA also produced
Troy Aikman and also has the winningest coach in
Pac 10 history. Cal hasn't won a title since the
Pac 10 became the Pac 10 and you'd have to go back
to the early fifties to find Cal in a Rose Bowl
game. As for overall athletics, UCLA has the most
NCAA championships in the nation. And don't even
compare Cal football to USC. The whole purpose of
USC is to have a football program, that and I suppose
the medical center in downtown to serve all the poor
folks. Heck, Cal's record is probably worse than
\_ you forgot film school
Stanford overall. When we actually win a Rose Bowl
in our lifetime, that's when I would consider Cal
to have a football program on par with UCLA/USC.
BTW, Cal has NEVER won a Rose Bowl under the Pac-10.
You'd have to go all the way back to the 1920s to
find Cal winning a Bowl.
\_ For a little historical perspective, Street & Smith's recently
published their "50 Greatest College Football Programs of All
Time". In the Pac-10, USC was 2, Washington 20, Cal 27, UCLA 31,
Stanford 33. Personally, I would agree that over the past 50
years UCLA has had a more impressive program, but our Pappy
Waldorf and Wonder Team squads were better than anything UCLA
has ever put on the field.
\_ let's talk about the modern era, please.
\_ Well, since the modern era begins after the mid-18th
century...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_era
\_ Since 1990, Cal is 9-7 against UCLA, and 6-8-1 against
USC. -tom
\_ yea, but before 1990, Cal had not beaten UCLA for like
15 years or something. Still, the current team isn't
too bad. Those two backs are superb. All we need is
a good quarterback, and a little tweaking with the D.
Or we can try calling all run plays like the
Nebraska team of a few years back, and see how that
goes. Tedford is a good coach, but I think he got
out play-called in the UCLA game.
\_ let's talk about the modern era, please. -tom
\_ sorry young man, but my memory dates back to
before 1990. |
| 2005/10/9-11 [Politics/Foreign, Politics/Foreign/Europe, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:40031 Activity:very high |
10/9 got a speeding ticket.. a while back someone posted a
website for a school on east bay that is easy or online..
what was it? thanks
\_ http://traffic101.com is easy and online --dbushong
\_ they're morons. they ask for a state first.. then
ask for a country after you pick the state....?
\_ ...they were relatively inexpensive, you don't have to go
in to a physical testing center, and the test was pretty easy.
I wouldn't discount them solely on suboptimal interface design.
--dbushong
\_ There's nothing wrong with the interface design. It's
"county" not "country" which makes sense that they ask
you after the state.
\_ why do people go to traffic school? the points still appear on your
record and raise your insurance rates. it only matters if you got
so many you might lose your license, right?
\_ wrong, the points don't appear. the catch is that you can't
attend traffic school more than twice in an 18-month period.
\_ even then you can still appear before a judge and cry and
get multiple chances to keep going to TS to avoid more points
or having your license revoked. there was someone in my TS
session a few year ago who said she was one point from losing
hers (8 i think to lose it) and had been to traffic school
*several* times in the last year alone. fear. stay off the
streets if you want to survive with people like that around.
\_ Getting points is different than driving dangerously. I
have seen people driving below the speed limit who were
driving more dangerously than people who exceeded the
limit. Case in point, German drivers tend to drive much
faster than Americans but suffer fewer fatalities.
\_ uhm, yeah.... Points are for driving dangerously.
Where do I mention anything about the woman's speed?
I said she had a lot of points. Points are not just
for going over the speed limit. *boggle*
\_ hi mudder!
\_ Police in the US have a lot of leeway to give
tickets based on subjective criteria, which is why
you have recourse mechanisms such as going to
court. -John
\_ dura lex, sed lex
\_ OK wiseass, so where do you draw the line
between the law and its application? I.e.
do you believe in a 100% literal
application of the law (cop gives you a ticket
even though there's a burglary down the
street, because hey, you're breaking the law)?
Hey, sed lex, right? The law must always be
obeyed, citizen. Always! -John |
| 2005/10/9-10 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:40032 Activity:nil |
10/9 Bush loves it bald (warning: sound):
http://bushlovesitbald.ytmnd.com |
| 2005/10/9-11 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:40033 Activity:high |
10/9 Should I italicize the phrase "in situ"?
\_ BAH! Go find a style guide, just pick one, and follow it.
If unsure, ask or figure out which one your prof uses and just
follow it. You're "not allowed" to design your own style. Once
you start doing that you're just being random and you're
definitely not doing the right thing. Style isn't a matter of
opinion as some here would have you believe.
\_ If it's not a matter of opinion, why do the style manuals
differ? You, sir, are a fucking idiot.
\_ I'll explain even though you're too dense to get it: it is
ok to choose and follow any particular style guide you want,
it is not ok to make up your own. Was that simple enough for
you?
\_ yes -darin
\_ Thanks.
\_ I would not. I dislike it when authors reflexively italicize
in a foreign language. Why do we italicize? Two reasons: emphasis
(primary usage) or to mark a foreign phrase that could be confused
in the text. ("We believe _in absentia_ voting made a big difference
in the previous election.") When I see i.e. or e.g. or et al. or
ad hoc italicized, I find it both distracting (because
italics to me means _I'm emphasized_) and pompous. In general the
typographic rule is up to the publisher but the most common
rule is that if the phrase has been around long enough to
feel like it's part of our language, it shouldn't be
italicized (you wouldn't italicize "etc." for instance). I would
put "in situ" in that category; you may not; but that begs the
question that if you don't think it's a phrase that's part
of our language, why are you using it?
Example for my point of view:
http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=805685
Example against:
http://www.bioscience.org/guides/format.htm
\_ Woah! I'm convinced, I think. It's for a thesis, so no editor
other than my advisor gets a say in it. I'll go with the non
italicized.
\_ Outstanding. Another person converted to my Grammar Master
Plan. If you have any other need for me to tell you what you
should think, just lemme know. -pp
\_ Ok, what do you think about "Figure 5" vs. "figure 5" and
"Equation 1.4" vs. "equation 1.4"?
\_ Personally, I prefer capitalized, and I think that's
more common in my field, but either seems just fine
to me. -pp
\_ Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways.
\_ it may be a part of my usage, but not part of your redneck usage.
\_ then don't condescend to us rednecks.
\_ now if you could only learn how to use the phrase "beg the
question"...
\- i would not put "in situ" or other "standard" latin
expressions in italics. if you dont have to ask yourself
"am i sure they will know what i mean" then you can use
roman type with confidence. so i would not use italics
with say "circa" or "et al." however i would use it with
say "contra bonos mores". some are hard calls like say
"tabula rasa" or "sui generis" "prima facie" or "a priori".
oh let me say "standard and unbiquitous" rather than just
"standard". i would put "pace" and "sic" in italics because
they are kind of weird. |