| 2011/2/14-4/20 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54039 Activity:nil | 2/14 You sure soda isn't running windows in disguise? It would explain the
uptimes.
\_ hardly, My winbox stays up longer.
\_ Nobody cares about uptime anymore brother, that's what web2.0 has
taught us. Everything is "stateless".
\_ You;d think gamers would care more about uptime.
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| 2010/7/11-23 [Computer/SW/Database, Recreation/Sports] UID:53880 Activity:nil | 7/11 "Paul the Oracle Octopus goes eight for eight, is amazing"
http://www.csua.org/u/r4b
How did one octopus guess something that has 1/256 probability???
\_ I once rolled eight "1"s in a row at Risk.
\_ But you would be in the spotlight only after you rolled eight
"1"s, just like lottery winners. OTOH that octopus was already
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| 2009/9/23-10/5 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:53392 Activity:nil | 9/23 I never took CS188, is there a good book that's an intro to formal
database theory, normalization, etc.? I've got experience with SQL
(MySQL & MSSQL), and understand tables, etc.
\_ You mean CS186?
\_ Oops, yah. 188 is AI or something?
\_ That's right.
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| 2013/3/21-5/18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54632 Activity:nil | 3/21 Browser Plug-In you must get: Ghostery. It gets rid of a bunch of
ad trackers on a web site, resulting in really fast load times.
For example, a typical media site will require 10-15 trackers
(you know, those URLs that track your activities so they can
target you better). Ghostery kills them.
\_ This has been working well for me, and breaks fewer things
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| 2010/8/19-9/7 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:53929 Activity:nil | 8/19 Anyone have a good MLC vs. SLC writeup that is less than a year
old? I am investigating making a big SSD order. -ausman
\_ how much performance gain are you expecting from using SSD?
Let's say your 7200RPM yields 70 MB/sec (sustained) read and
your new SSD yields 160 MB/sec read, and that your application
is mostly streaming media (so the platter is continuous read,
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| 2010/6/8-30 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:53853 Activity:nil | 6/8 Newly wed husband and wife found from old picture that they have
actually crossed path 30yrs ago: http://www.csua.org/u/qwv
My question is how do stories like this find its way to news media? Do
people just go "hey something very interesting happens in our lives.
Let's call up a news agency or two to tell the world about it."?
\_ "Your video will begin after a word from our sponsors."
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| 2007/10/2-5 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:48219 Activity:very high | 10/1 Where's the short Google at 100 guy?
\_ Me thinks it's a great time to short now.
\_ Yeah, definitely short it now! Funny thing about stock
valuation: it can sometimes be rational and sometimes
be irrational. If everyone hates a stock, and everyone
shorts it except for a few, and no one who actually owns
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| 2007/5/13-14 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:46613 Activity:nil | 5/13 Someone please give us a 411 on Windows Vista? Is activation
tougher than WinXP sp2? Is it impossible to get around now forcing
you to pay for upgrades? Let me just say that I don't like Windows
OS. I don't mind using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint,
and they actually make decent games. However, for over a decade
I've been sucked into using Windows3.0/95/98/2K/XP because
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| 2007/5/4-7 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:46528 Activity:high | 5/3 so you think microsoft will buy yahoo?
\_ If yahoo is owned by MS, perhaps they will no longer have scientology
moles within their organization farming for the email addresses of
people who are trying to avoid the COS. Fuck Yahoo, and fuck their
evil scientology moles!
\_ God I hope not. -tom
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| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:45057 Activity:moderate | 10/31 A friend of mine said he's loving Microsoft again because Bill G
is starting to donate all of his money to charity. He's boycotting
Google, Yahoo, and other mega companies because they're too big and
too power and thinks they're all becoming the old Microsoft, whereas
Microsoft has recently done a lot of good things like investing in
education and charity. He just paid for a copy of Microsoft Windows
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| 2006/9/12 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:44358 Activity:nil | 9/12 I haven't used MS windows since the win95 days. Can someone please
explain to me what in the world a "domain" is? I'm familiar with
IP addresses like 128.32.112.233 or domains like http://csua.berkeley.edu
but what are things like "\\My Workgroup" or "\\MYCOMPANY"?
Is Microsoft inventing new linguo?
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| 2006/8/27-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44164 Activity:low | 8/27 Trying to teach someone to write web pages. Microsoft Publisher
2003 writes really bad HTMLs that don't render well on FireFox,
but is pretty easy to use. What are other WYSIWYG html editors
that is better than MS Publisher?
\_ nvu?
\_ second that. I still think it is helpful to learn from the
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