2011/12/20-2012/2/6 [Academia/GradSchool/MBA, Academia/GradSchool] UID:54267 Activity:nil | 12/20 Question to people in industry: I'm a transfer student, which
means I can take an extra semester to graduate. I will have met
all the requirements to graduate in May, but already have an
internship lined up for the summer and was planning to use the
semester afterward to take some courses I haven't had a chance
to yet (graphics, distributed systems (if they add the course),
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2009/9/23-10/5 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:53395 Activity:moderate | 9/23 I'm in grad school part time, and the professor I was trying to get
to advise me just sent me "What you suggest (remote, part-time, topic
formulation) doesn't fit my advising style..." Does anyone know
what "topic formulation" might mean in this context? I come with
funding from work, but the topics I can choose are somewhat limited.
Could be a reference to that...
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2009/2/2-8 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:52501 Activity:low | 2/2 Is there a PC application for creating movies, which is sort of
similar to iMovie (in terms of simplicity and power)? Thanks.
\_ MS MovieMaker is free but doesn't meet your requirements.
\_ Adobe Premier
\_ Sony Vegas. stay away from Pinnacle, I've seen some real badnes.
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2009/8/19-9/1 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53285 Activity:nil | 8/18 Hi again, new freebsd guy here again, in bash I was able to go
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/foo/lib ./runmyapp
I managed to do this in tcsh by using setenv in a shell script
that setenv's the lib path and then executes $1, just wondering
if there was a way to do it in 1 line from the cmd line as in bash?
Thanks, btw %2c or %3c worked. Freebsd, tcsh and vi forever!
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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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2008/12/2-7 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:52143 Activity:nil | 12/2 Article 1, Section 6
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the
United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof
shall have been encreased during such time
\_ Stop stomping my changes.
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2008/9/22-24 [Science/Electric, Computer/Companies/Google, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:51263 Activity:kinda low | 9/22 Gmail's "conversation feature" drives me nuts! Is there a way to
disable that and make Gmail act like every other e-mail client on the
planet? WTF thought this was a nice thing to have on by default?
\_ Umm, why don't you just use another email service then...
\_ Umm, I do, which is how I have something to compare to. I get
mail in at least 4 places only one of which is Gmail. I
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2008/6/12-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:50233 Activity:nil | 6/12 Does emacs or vi include a column paste? I sometimes have a block
text I want to insert horizntally next to another block/column. This
is common for data plotting etc. In Microsoft Word has this, I need
it in a Unix text editor.
\_ Does M-x picture-mode in emacs work for you?
\_ Yes, with the commands below, thanks.
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2008/2/21-25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:49207 Activity:nil | 2/21 Why don't people respect the lock on the motd put on by vi or
emacs? Are they that paranoid about kchang's motd watching program?
Is anyone still using motdedit?
\_ hey I still use it. Some people don't though. some sneaky folks
edit a copy of the motd offline and put it in place, not caring how
much they stomp on others' changes that might have happened in the
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2007/11/13-21 [Computer/Networking] UID:48628 Activity:low | 11/13 If I have a application on machine foo sending data really fast to
an application on machine bar via TCP, and the bar applications job
is write that to disk as fast as possible, what happens if the
network stream is faster than the disk writes?
\_ Look up the differences between TCP/IP flow control and
congestion control. The answer is in front of you.
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