| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 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
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| 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
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| 2008/3/13-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49451 Activity:moderate | 3/13 Firefox 3 Beta 4: Fast, cleans up memory good on minimize, stable,
can install alongside FireFox 2.x
Cons: Extensions don't work and need to install beta versions, rich
urlbar is nasty but as of today you can install oldbar extension
Ah-nold would say: Fuckin' fan-tah-stik!
\_ Does it use less memory than 2.x when not minimized? Long ago Fx
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| 2007/4/13-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46291 Activity:nil | 4/13 I use IE7 to browse a web site, and the server says the UserAgent
string is
"UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"
Is MS bowing to the Mozilla community?
\_ What are you talking about? IE has always reported its UserAgent
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| 2005/9/1-2 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:39417 Activity:nil | 9/1 I hate Yahoo. After being pushed persistently by their GUI to
upgrade to YM7, and answering questions that ask me if I'm SURE
that I don't want to install their tool bar and use their site
as the default search engine, YM7 installer still installed a
stupid Yahoo toolbar. Yahoo is getting more and more annoying
like AOL and Netscape used to be. I hate Yahoo, I'll never
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| 2005/8/31 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39387 Activity:nil | 8/31 Do any legitimate user-agents make HTTP requests without
an HTTP Host: header these days?
\_ Not since Netscape 1.1. -tom
\_ What about search engine spiders?
\_ They don't if they want to index correctly.
\_ Thanks. When GoogleBot makes requests with HTTP/1.0
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| 2005/4/30-5/3 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:37434 Activity:moderate | 4/30 In Outlook Express I get an error message everytime I check my
CSUA account, although I still get my mail. I am using POP port 995
with SSL. Is there a way I can prevent this message, it's annoying:
"The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that
could not be verified. A certificate chain processed, but terminated
in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider. Do
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| 2012/8/29-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54467 Activity:nil | 8/29 There was once a CSUA web page which runs an SSH client for logging
on to soda. Does that page still exist? Can someone remind me of the
URL please? Thx.
\_ what do you mean? instruction on how to ssh into soda?
\_ No I think he means the ssh applet, which, iirc, was an applet
that implemented an ssh v1 client. I think this page went away
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| 2012/3/29-6/4 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54351 Activity:nil | 3/29 A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
card--no game)?
\_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
most machines were custom built.
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| 2011/10/26-12/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54202 Activity:nil | 10/24 What's an easy way to see if say column 3 of a file matches a list of
expressions in a file? Basically I want to combine "grep -f <file>"
to store the patterns and awk's $3 ~ /(AAA|BBB|CCC)/ ... I realize
I can do this with "egrep -f " and use regexp instead of strings, but
was wondering if there was some magic way to do this.
\_ UNIX has no magic. Make a shell script to produce the ask or egrep
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| 2010/3/10-30 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:53751 Activity:nil | 3/10 What email program do people in Cal CS use nowadays? In my school days
people used /usr/bin/mail, then RMail in emacs, then VMail in emacs.
After my days people used Elm, Pine, Mutt (I forgot which order). In
my first two jobs we could tell the seniority of fellow engineers based
on which email program they use at work, because everyone used what
they used to use in their school years. In my last two jobs though,
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| 2009/11/13-30 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53523 Activity:nil | 11/12 How does one find out if a system has rootkit installed?
\_ Unix or m$?
\_ Unix. On M$ I always assume it's compromised.
\_ Install Tripwire before you plug your server into The Net?
The only other answer I can think of is to reinstall the
OS from scratch on another server and do an md checksum
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| 2009/7/24-29 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:53195 Activity:low | 7/24 Is dos2unix available somewhere? Someone added all those Ctrl-M's to
motd.public.
\_ %s/^V^M//g in vim. What has your editor done for you today?
\_ that works great in vi actually... in vim :set filetype=unix
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