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| 2008/4/3-9 [Consumer/Audio, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:49654 Activity:low |
4/3 Teen-repellent device!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080402/wl_uk_afp/britaineutechnologyyouth
\_ "Inventor of Teen-repellent device seeks regulation of
his invention."
\_ "British inventor of teen-repellent device wants laws regulating it"
\_ Does this work on beagles? My neighbor's beagles bark all
day long when he's gone and it's driving everyone nuts. Actually
it's not so much of a bark as it is a deep WOOWOOOWOOOO!
WOOWOOOOWOOOOO! WOWOWOOOOOOOWOOOOOOO!!! It's not your typical
bar bark bark sound. I don't know the proper name for
a beagle WOOWOOWOOOOOO!
\_ Beagles don't bark, they "bay."
\_ I don't know about 'the mosquito' but anti-freeze works great
for that problem.
\_ So does jail time for killing the dog. Idiot.
\- there is an mp3 of this you can download. i added it to
my itunes ... it's kinda interesting to see who can/cant
hear it on my MPB.
my itunes ... it's kinda fun to see who can/cant hear it
on my MPB.
\_ Hey genius, I told you last time you whined about the dog to
call the cops with a noise complaint. Did you? No. I'm
ashamed to think we went to the same school.
\_ Actually I did, the cop said if the owner is not violating
animal cruelty law (sanitation, food, shelter), and that
I should take it up with the city as there's not much
they can do about this case. Neighbor-to-neighbor disputes
need to be taken care of in civil/litigation or something.
\_ A few things then. 1) your cop/town is lame. you have a
valid noise complain in any civil place. 2) abusing the
dog will not get it to quiet down, 3) try talking to your
neighbor, 4) please accept my apologies for bashing you
earlier, I'm honestly quite shocked the police didn't take
a noise report which is the start of the process to ding
your neighbor for disturbing the peace in a normal city.
\_ Ya it's ok, motd doesn't bother me compared to what
I have to tolerate every day. I searched online for
this problem and unfortunately it's really complex
as each state and city and county ordinances are
different. The cops are right though, it's a neighbor
to neighbor dispute in which they can't arrest anyone
for it. Unless violence or harm has done they can't
really put the owner in jail. They can however write
police reports, which may prove to be helpful in
the court. |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:49655 Activity:nil |
4/2 Anyone try vmware player and notice that network performance
becomes terrible? I mean things like webpages timing out, etc.
This is in NAT mode on a windows XP host running a windows 2K guest.
\_ I use VM Server on XP Pro running XP Pro guests in NAT mode. No
such problem.
\_ I use VM Server on XP Pro running two XP Pro guests in NAT mode. No
such problem. However, if I run three or more guests, everything
becomes slow (not just network), and Task Manager on the host shows
that the CPU rarely goes to idle even though I'm not doing anything
It's not a problem with RAM since Task Manager shows that Commit
Charge Total is still less than the physical RAM.
on the host or the guests. It's not a problem with RAM since Task
Manager on the host shows that Commit Charge Total is still less
than the physical RAM.
\_ It's a little bit worse, but not much worse. Do you have enough
RAM? Everything is slow without it - and it should be allocated.
\_ I actually meant the network performance inside the guest.
It seems fine on the host. The host has 2 GB, and the guest
is allocated 512 MB, so I don't think that should be a problem.
I'm not doing anything particularly resource-intensive.
\_ 512 MB might not be enough. Increase that. In my
experience (Win XP guest on MacOS host) I started with
512 MB allocated and was unhappy until I doubled that.
\_ Hmm, Win2K should require substantially less memory than
XP, but it's worth a try I guess. My suspicion is
actually that a large number of TCP connections is
handled badly somewhere (maybe in vmware's nat service),
since webpages nowadays tend to retrieve random images
from a whole bunch of different places, etc.
\_ Maybe, except that my network performance (also
using NAT) is not anywhere near as bad as yours. |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Finance/Shopping, Transportation/PublicTransit] UID:49656 Activity:nil |
4/3 What is cheapest parking near Embarcadero / Montgomery BART?
Yes I know this is a weird question.
\_ The St. Mary's Square garage was last I checked (2006).
Anything at about $20 is good.
Anything at about $20 is good (north of Market).
\_ No, it is not weird at all. You can park in SOMA, at 2nd and
Folsom, for $12/day. The address is 303 2nd St. You can park
one block further away at 600 Harrison St, for $10/day. The
area is mildly seedy after dark, but mostly safe these days. -ausman |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49657 Activity:low |
4/3 Google to lay off 1/4 of its DoubleClick employees. Still
holding on Google from $600-700? Bahahahaha -short G guy
\_ Why are you still happy? GOOG has stopped dropping in the past
couple of weeks and I'm not happy.
\_ How's that short at 100/200/300/400 working out?
\- stock prices usually go up in the short term after
shedding employees, no?
\_ Google keeps fat and you aren't happy. Google cuts fat and
you aren't happy. What would make you happy?
\_ GOOG goes out of business and the sumg little brats with
an overactive sense of entitlement are forced to hold "will
code for food" signs on the San Antonio overpass. :-)
\_ Ah, so you are just jealous.
\_ Ah, no. Google is a perfect example of anti-
meritocracy. Those fucking AdWords kids are one of
the worst engineers to work with and they think they're
all that, when in fact, they simply got lucky and
were at the right place at the right time. Those
fucking brats are fucking unpleasant to work with.
Fuck Google.
Fuck Google. -x G
\_ Sure sounds like jealousy to me.
\_ Then you're dumb. Jealosy is wanting something
somebody else has. pp is just mad that some
people ended up with something they didn't earn
or deserve.
\_ and why didn't they earn or deserve it? pp
provides no evidence.
\_ Pissed off thinks lottery is lame.
Unpissed thinks lottery is perfectly
good meritocracy (you invested, you win).
Both have points.
\_ It's not a lottery.
\_ For employee 1000-4000, it's a lottery.
They could have joined hundreds of
startups that would have been just
as successful, but they happened to
have chosen Google. Most of the
lucky ones would tell you that it's
"fate" or that they had foresight or
something. It's bullshit.
\_ In many (most?) ways it is.
\_ Google just randomly happened to
come up with the best search engine
and the best advertising model? -tom
\_ You are confusing luck with
randomness. Almost all success has
an element of luck, even if you
purposefully try to succeed, rather
than sort of stumble around. It
is only obvious in hindsight that
the Google eigenvalue thing works
well for search (this is the case
for a lot of successful research).
In this sense, Google got lucky.
This is aside from early Google
employees who without a doubt won
the employee lottery. -- ilyas
the employee lottery (in a sense
that if you can do better than
random picking a startup that will
succeed, why aren't you rich yet?)
-- ilyas
\_
1. Not sure it's the best.
2. Not sure GOOG was the only one
to come up with this model.
3. We are not talking about the
founders here. We are talking
about the rank and file. The people
who ended up at GOOG over SUN out
of college weren't any better,
smarter, or prescient. They
made an educated guess about
where it seemed nice to work
and where they could pay their
bills. I've told the story of
the guy I knew who was one of
the first employees at SUN. He
didn't even *want* the job
because it looked like such a
rinky-dink outfit compared to
his former (large) company but
his first choice turned him down.
He would be the first to tell
you that getting that job at
SUN was like winning the lotto.
4. Even considering founders do
you really think Gates or Jobs
really made all of that money
through skill? Are they
skilled? Sure. Has Windows
been the best product on the
market for much of its
existence? No. Did Bill steal
a lot? Yes. Was it Steve Jobs or
was it Wozniak that built that
computer? There are lots of (more)
talented people who don't make
1/100 what those guys do. Be real.
\_ you want some cheese with that
whine? -tom
\_ This is what you say when
confronted with facts?
\_ no, it's what I say when
confronted with content-
free drivel. -tom
\_ In other words,
you have no rebuttal.
Typical.
\_ Funny how it's
always easier to
nitpick at other
people's data than
to come up with
some of your own.
Huh? -!pp
\_ There's no data
there. -tom
\_ Unpissed just thinks it's stupid to care
someone getting something you think
they didn't deserve. Who cares what
they deserve? It doesn't hurt you.
\_ Well I for one was managed by one of
the Google kids who happened to get
lucky and he was one of the WORST
managers I've ever had to work with
and I swear to not work with people
like that again. Unfortunately,
Google seems to breed a lot of bad
or mediocre employees who are loud
mouths who think they're all that and
somehow management seems to like
hiring incompetent loud mouths in
Silicon Valley. So, to answer your
question, a company that breeds
30% really bad managers/engineers
with bad attitudes hurts everyone
in the industry. -x-Goog
\_ Why didn't you go get a job there when they
were hiring?
\_ I can't speak for GHG, but the whole
GOOG culture weirded me out so I didn't
get a job there.
\_ GHG? Isn't it HGG?
\_ GHG -> Google Hater Guy
\_ I declined to even interview there after
taking the tour. The whole thing just
seemed to be designed to keep the workers
at work as long as possible. Of course,
I have a job I love, so I didn't need it.
-jrleek
\_ How does being mad at someone for getting
something you think they don't deserve not
consititute jealousy. It's not like it hurts
you that google employees have good benefits.
Hell, the rising Google tide has lifted all
CS job boats around here. Be glad!
\_ I think it's the attitude they have that
pisses people off, which they develop when
people like Tom laud them for their
amazing intellect and ability to pick red
or black on the roulette wheel.
\_ ding ding ding! some of the original
employees have REALLY bad attitudes
and they're almost as bad as Netscape
employees who used to think they're on
the top of the world and treat everyone
else like inferior shit. You're right
many people today ARE pissed at these
fucking old timers (who are barely 4
years fresh out of college) who are
incompetent but are high up there. -x G |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:49658 Activity:nil |
4/3 Solaris experts: I've never played with ZFS. Does it have a native
dump command a la ufsdump?
\_ This might be what you are looking for:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2xqkda [sun - bigadmin] |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49659 Activity:low |
4/3 So, hates google guy, which search engine do you use?
\_ Google for search, Yahoo for news/maps/weather/subject-lookup/mail/
etc. -- one of the hate-google guys
\_ Google for non-news search, Yahoo for news, news search, maps,
weather, subject lookup, mail, etc. -- sour grape guy
\_ I am similar, although I usually try Yahoo! first before
using Google for all of my searches since I have it up
for all the rest anyway. I use Google most for the dejanews
archive, which they can't even take credit for.
\_ I'm not GHG, but I don't use GOOG for search. I find that for
the things I search for Yahoo is better. The only GOOG app I
use is gmail, but that is only b/c I need a spam collector
email address.
\_ I'm the original x-Goog guy. I still use Google. Don't get me
wrong, some of the products they have is top notch. I don't
have any problem with their early products. I do however hate
the work environment, and how the management is turning out.
Every new product is now a product of acquisition, and every
existing job today is about maintaining existing products
and integrating with new acquisitions. Management is full of
college kids who barely graduated 3-4 years ago but hopefully
they'll leave soon after they vest. A sad large percentage of
them are either technically incompetent, lack management skills,
full of "I'm so cool" attitude, or all of the above. It's
like Netscape, but getting worse by the day, and with really
amazing free lunch and dinner and video games and a nice gym.
By the way I posted the following:
http://csua.com/2008/03/26/#49572
\_ ... and some nice pianos. (I was a lunch guest once.)
\_ piano or pianos? The last time I was there they only
had 1 baby grand in building 40. At any rate, all the
good stuff you see as a guest is a facade. -x-Goog
\_ google engineers make average 150k . what are you
whining about?
\_ Average YES, median, hell no. Average is 150k
because employee 0-4000 all make ridiculous amount
of money that bring up the salary. Almost everyone
post 2005 make regular HP/IBM +$20K salary, which
is very unimpressive.
\_ I've been out of the job market awhile, but
isn't HP/IBM salary +$20K something approaching
$150K? Certainly it can't be far off.
\_ Umm, I understand that HP average is about $80K
\_ In the Bay Area or average across all of HP?
I don't know a single person that makes
less than $100K, although I don't know any
HP employees. A person with less than 10
years experience might get $80-90K. That's
about what we hire people at with an MS
and a couple of years job experience. I talk
to a lot of people who say they make
$120-150K easy and you'd think they have
to given what the cost of living in CA is.
\_ I work at a regular medium sized company
and my friend at HP makes consistently
$15-20K lower than me. So in short new
Google employees get... regular Silicon
Valley salary... after you add in stock
options, and less if you don't add options.
\_ I went last May or June, I forgot. I saw the baby grand
near a big dining area, but I also saw a digital one next
to a staircase in another building. |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Recreation/Music] UID:49660 Activity:nil |
4/3 Is it just my imagination or Enya sounds a lot like the
Titanic music? Is there a name for this Genre?
\_ is this a joke? The trailer soundtrack IS by Enya.
that is why it sounds a lot alike. It's the same song.
the rest of the movie was scored by a friend of Celine Dion,
which is why her song fits into the soundtrack perfectly.
"new age" and yes it all sounds like that
\_ Oh cool man this is very informative thanks! I never knew
that and thought there HAD to be some connections. Thanks
for enlightening us oh mighty knowledgeable motd music guru!
\_ Total bullshit. Wiki says: "Enya was offered the chance to
compose the score for James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, but
declined. The eventual choice of Norwegian vocalist Sissel
Kyrkjebø, whose style is similar to Enya's, resulted in work
that some sources erroneously credited to Enya..."
\_ shite.
\_ iTunes says Enya is "New Age"
\_ Cf. Clannad |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:49661 Activity:nil |
4/3 In "p4 client", modtime/nomodtime sets the file timestamp to
either the modification time from submitting client or the time that
the file is fetched. Is there a way to set the file timestamp to
the time that the file was submitted, like what ClearCase does? Thx.
\_ How is this different from the modtime option? Are you concerned
about clock skew or timezone differences?
\_ Say someone has a local file with a last-modification date of
1/1/2001 in the local file system. He submits it on 4/2/2008 and
I sync to it on 4/3/2008. Now, "nomodtime" will make the last-
modification of my copy of the file 4/3/2008, while "modtime"
will make it 1/1/2001. I want 4/2/2008. -- OP |
| 2008/4/3-9 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:49662 Activity:nil |
4/3 Need some advice from tom or tom-clones. I'm actually using my
mountain bike in SF now and I bought some panniers but the metal
loops that hook onto the back of the bike rack thing are so tiny as
soon as I hit a pothole they fall off the bike. What's a good one to
get that has long loops so they won't fall off the bike? I don't know
why this is so hard, in Europe the loops are about 2-3 inches long
and much bigger so there is never an issue -eric
\_ Generally panniers have some sort of elastic cord which attaches
to the bottom of the rack and keeps them in place. Yours don't
have anything like that? -tom
\_ I was wondering how that worked -- thx tom very helpful -eric
\_ losing weight helps too.
\_ Um, what? When they are empty they are most likely to
come off.
\_ oh, nevermind. I thought it was a case of the
thing (pannier) being too heavy hence they fall
off. Then again, I have no idea what a pannier is.
I hate bikers, and I hate the SF Mass Chaos, it's
making SF as unpleasant as LA to live in.
\_ Move. Everyone will be happier.
\_ It is only once a month, how could it have that much
effect? |