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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2004/7/13-14 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:32251 Activity:very high | 7/12 In the news...
"Continuing security problems have eroded Internet Explorer's
popularity; the market share for Explorer has dropped by more than a
percentage point from 95.48 percent to 94.42 percent..."
Gee that's gotta hurt! Poor MS.
\_ Although if you read a report that said non IE browsers have gained
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2004/5/27 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:30447 Activity:insanely high | 5/27 Is there any way to get around the WinXP registration requirement,
besides re-installing every now and then? Has anyone tried this: set
the CMOS date to Year 2010 or so, install XP, then set the date back to
today. Would that work?
\_ Why don't you just get the corp edition and enter in a volume
license key?
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2004/2/14 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:12255 Activity:nil | 2/13 Anyone know where I can look at the leaked MS source code? google
searches don't bring up stuff yet.
\_ Use emule. lots of fakes. correct file size is 203.85MB
NT source is 229.96MB. Or you can try MUTE
\_ and don't ever tell *anyone* you've ever looked at it or you
could be tainting your career for life if you're involved in
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2003/8/13-14 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:29336 Activity:high | 8/13 Is there a security patch against the Blaster Worm for NT Workstation?
All I see on the MS web site are patches for NT Server, NT TSE, and
versions of 2k / XP / Server 2003, but not NT Workstation. Thanks.
\_ yes, just delete winnt/system32/msblaster.exe
\_ I don't think it's that easy, since that program
was constantly being called upon by some key in
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2003/2/17-18 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:27444 Activity:very high | 2/17 Does WinME or Win2K Home Ed require less CPU power and memory? Thanks.
\_ cpu/memory? That's the basis of your OS decision? ME is a flaming
pile of goose dung. Use 2k. There was never a reason for ME to
ship except maybe MS's bottom line.
\_ Yeah. I'm setting up a PC for my wife, and all she does is
running Excel and checking her Outlook mail in a browser over a
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2003/1/8-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:27030 Activity:very high | 1/8 I'm really tempted to buy a powerbook. The design and the OS is
what I like. But I'm worried about the small things. I know that
there's MS office, so no problem there. But what about:
1. sharing info on floppy with a PC?
\_ get a USB disk drive.
2. ability to use network printers with winNT print servers?
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2002/11/6 [Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:26431 Activity:low | 11/5 SourceSafe sucks. Does M$ use it interally themselves?
\_ Yes and no. MS bought SS and doesn't try to make it better.
Same with Rational and ClearCase. Don't use either.
\_ What is SourceSafe for?
\_ Storing and eventually corrupting and losing all your source
code for a company make/break project.
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2002/7/20-23 [Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:25399 Activity:moderate | 7/20 What's the "approved" way to correct a typo made in an RCS log message.
\_ ED!
\_ from rcs(1)
-mrev:msg
Replace revision rev's log message with msg.
--Jon
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2002/7/19-23 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:25392 Activity:nil | 7/19 On NT is there any way to find out which process is currently using a
certain .dll, or at least whether or not the .dll is currently being
used? Thanks.
\_ MS has some freebie tools for stuff like this. Sorry I can't
recall the name of any of it but I know they exist. There's also
third party stuff. It's thankfully been a very long time since I've
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2001/10/25 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:22824 Activity:high | 10/25 NT was supposed to be much more stable than Win3.x. Then Win2k was
supposed to be much more stable than NT. And now XP is supposed to
be much more stable than 2k. Sigh.
\_ Thing is, Win2k really is more stable than NT. Sure, it locks up
occassionally, but not the seemingly hourly BSODs in NT
\_ Also, XP supposedly "does away with the decades-old DOS fundamentals
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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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2012/9/20-11/7 [Computer/SW/Unix, Finance/Investment] UID:54482 Activity:nil | 9/20 How do I change my shell? chsh says "Cannot change ID to root."
\_ /usr/bin/chsh does not have the SUID permission set. Without
being set, it does not successfully change a user's shell.
Typical newbie sys admin (on soda)
\_ Actually, it does: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 37552 Feb 15 2011 /usr/bin/chsh
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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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2012/5/8-6/4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54383 Activity:nil | 5/8 Hello everyone! This is Josh Hawn, CSUA Tech VP for Spring 2012.
About 2 weeks ago, someone brought to my attention that our script
to periodically merge /etc/motd.public into /etc/motd wasn't
running. When I looked into it, the cron daemon was running, but
there hadn't been any root activity in the log since April 7th. I
looked into it for a while, but got lost in other things I was
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2012/2/9-3/26 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54305 Activity:nil | 2/9 Reminder: support for mail services has been deprecated for *several
years*. Mail forwarding, specifically .forward mail forwarding, is
officially supported and was never deprecated.
\_ There is no .forward under ~root. How do we mail root and how do
we get responses?
\_ root@csua.berkeley.edu is and always has been an alias.
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2011/9/14-12/28 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54172 Activity:nil | 9/12 We've restored CSUA NFS to something vaguely resembling normal
functionality -- plus, with some luck, we should now have something
vaguely resembling normal uptime, too! Ping root@csua.org if you
notice any problems. --jordan
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\_ Oh, and http://irc.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU is online again.
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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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2011/6/5-8/27 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:54127 Activity:nil | 6/5 In an effort to stabilize our services, we'll be rebuilding parts of
the CSUA infrastructure over the course of this summer. To give us
some wiggle room, I've temporarily decreased soda's allocated RAM from
8GB to 2GB. If you need to run something that requires large amounts
of memory, please send mail to root@csua.org and we'll try to
accommodate your request. --jordan
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2011/4/27-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54096 Activity:nil | 4/28 Will wall be fixed? - jsl
\_ What's wall?
\_ An anachronism from a bygone era, when computers were hard to
comeby, the dorms didn't have net, there was no airbears, and
when phones didn't come standard with twitter or sms.
\_ A non useful implementation of twitter.
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