8/20    I'm researching into properties around San Jose. They say that the
        only desirable areas in San Jose are Almaden and Evergreen. I
        did some research and property values for these two are prohibitively
        high (one in the 800K, and the other one over 1M). Is there anything
        else in San Jose that's not dumpy?
        \_ How about Willow Glen?  Depends on what you find desirable.
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1/21    One datapoint on rental prices, please post yours if applicable.
        Please don't give me this "this is why I buy a home" crap. Not
        everyone has money:
        -S Cal, $2055/month with 9 month contract expired. Signing one
         more year=$2055/month, month-to-month=$2255. Bunch of empty
         parking spots and people moving out, but according to the
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8/25    You too can have 250 sq feet for only $280K
        http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/BUTM12GQMI.DTL
        \_ Totally, utterly ridiculous. It didn't work for the tiny little
           Japanese many years ago, it's not going to work for Amerikanjins.
           \_ What do you mean it didn't work for the Japanese? I thought
              that this was a normal size for a Tokyo studio.
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10/16   Google demolishes analyst estimates.  Still holds $14B in cash.
        Is almost certainly in better shape than the broad market going
        forward.  -tom
        \_ not bad.  considering advancers vs. decliners on NYSE was something
           like 600 up vs. 2,900 down on a +400 DJIA up day.
           like 600 up vs. 2,900 down on a +400 DJIA day.
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2/6     Our parent company is considering forbidding us from taking laptops
        off the premises due to possible src code loss.  Considering that
        many of us work from home the majority of the time, this does not
        sit well.  We need to come up with a proposal for keeping the
        src (or entire disk) on an encyrpted drive.  I used PGP desktop
        a while back but never did any disk intensive activity (eg compilation)
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10/21   Lesson request:  I'm on a slow network of MS computers, with a
        huge backup running and sucking up all the bandwidth.  When i try
        computer one to to large copy a file from Windows another it is
        very slow, but if i use FTP, it is very fast.  What up?  (I'm
        hoping for something a little more technical than "MS sucks").
        \_ NetBEUI!
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12.29   Does anyone know a good automatic spelling corrector for UNIX? -jnat
        \_ There is no such thing as an "automatic spelling corrector" -
           computers can spot words that it doesn't know, but not how they
           should really be spelled.  If you want a spell checker, try ispell.
                \_ Sure there is.  The accuracy is just kinda low.  What,
                   you don't believe in AI?  Surely we can automate automation!
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1/19    People I have talked to have experienced better performance
        running NT server on their standalone desktop, even though
        MS claims NT Workstation is optimized for such a task.
        Has this been your experience, too?  -agee
        \_ Are you saying you really think M$'s claims have anything to do
           with reality?
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