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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2011/3/26-4/20 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:54062 Activity:nil | 3/19 When you're explaining the stack to people do you draw it with the
highest addresses at the top or at the bottom?
\_ When I explain any memory layout including stacks, I draw with the
highest addresses at the bottom. But I've seen people doing the
other way. -- yuen
\_ do you by any chance have seen or have a jpg of the full memory
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2010/7/25-8/25 [Computer/SW/Graphics] UID:53897 Activity:nil | 7/25 What's up with that moving bit pattern that Win7 displays when it
boots up? (It's the one that's like in the Apple II days when you
use the graphics memory for code or data while it's still in HGR
mode.) Is there a way to disable that? It slows things down a lot
every time I reboot my Win7 VM on my office machine if I RDP to the
machine via DSL. Thanks in advance.
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2010/5/26-6/30 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53844 Activity:nil | 5/26 anyone use lxde? supposedly it is less stupid than xfce and
less bloated than gnome. thoughts?
\_ lol, does anyone still use desktop linux? Get with the times
buy a mac. Now. DO IT. Go NOW.
\_ but we prefer herring to Kool-Aid
\_ "you have to yell, he's hard of herring"
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2009/12/7-2010/1/3 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW] UID:53574 Activity:nil | 12/7 How many TCP retransmits are too many? Here is what I get:
3594143433 segments received
3760174421 segments send out
3801829561 segments retransmited
\_ rephrase. you can never have too much money. or too little.
what is, is.
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2009/7/21-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53168 Activity:moderate | 7/20 For those who care btw, it looks like eclipse is now A Standard Tool
at UCB ugrad cs, probably replaced emacs. Furthermore, people get
angry at seeing Makefiles, (since eclispe takes care of that). I
guess it's just a sign of the times.
\_ The more people at my work use eclipse the less the code is
managable in emacs. I'm not sure which application's fault
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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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2006/10/10-12 [Computer/HW/Printer] UID:44752 Activity:kinda low | 10/10 Any reccomendations for a cheap monochrome laser printer? Network
not needed. A decent-size starter toner cartridge would be nice.
\_ I got a used HP 2200D off craigslist for $250 or so. It's
great, it does postscript and prints on both sides of the
paper, which is nice. Speed is not too bad. -phr
\_ I recently bought a Samsung 3051n from Newegg for $200 ($250
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2005/11/21-23 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:40679 Activity:moderate | 11/21 I've noticed that the OS X Terminal.app and xterm etc are all
slower than xterm / rxvt on Linux/x86. Even a 500 MHz P2 has
quicker response than a 1.33 Ghz G4 when you are logged
into a server via SSH. I'm wondering what could be the cause
of this lag. Is it something that can be adjusted? I find the
sluggishness the only think holding me back from using a Mac
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2005/1/12 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:35672 Activity:very high | 1/11 Using SATA (serial ATA) as the one and only primary HD, any
problem with boot up? How about with motherboards built in say,
2002? Any problem with that? Pros/cons with SATA? Comments?
\_ You expecting to install Windoze on SATA and have it boot?
\_ I had to get a special driver floppy to install Win XP on a recent
box w/ onboard SATA. It wasn't too hard, though. YMMV. --dbushong
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2005/1/11-12 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:35661 Activity:low | 1/11 Can I install XP on an iMac Mini?
\_ You sick, sick human being.
\_ Think about this for a second: It's a G4 processor. Is there a
PowerPC version of WinXP? No. You could install VMWare on a mini
mac, and then put XP into that, but it'll be s-l-o-w.
\_ Microsoft bought Virtual PC to offer this kind of functionality,
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2004/12/21 [Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:35380 Activity:kinda low | 12/21 What are some core differences between a simulator, an emulator, and
a virtual machine?
\_ Simulator: Model the whole thing by itself; collect results.
Emulator: Model one part; hook it up to something else.
Or, run one OS on another OS.
Virtual machine: A computer inside a computer.
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2003/8/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:29396 Activity:insanely high | 8/19 How's Netscape 7.1 compared to 4.8? I have a Celeron 400 128MB and
P-III 800 256MB, both running NT. Does 7.1 (using Gecko) perform
better than 4.8 on these wimpy machines? Thanks.
\_ Shit. I use a P3-700 and used a p3-450 for years before that. I
wish I'd known they're too wimpy to do something trivial like
surf the net. Intel told me if I spent $3k on a new computer
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2003/8/11-12 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:29312 Activity:high | 8/11 Mac OS X users: is there such thing as an "emulation mode" in OS X?
90% of the apps I use have Mac OS X versions. But what's keeping me
from pulling the trigger and buying an PowerBook is that 10%. I have
some legacy windows app that doesn't have OS X version. I'm wondering
if there is emulation software and how reliable is it? Thanks.
\_ are you talking MS Windows or os9? There are both. The
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2003/6/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:28777 Activity:very high | 6/19 I want to write a script (or find any workable method) of viewing
and saving multiple sequential pages on a website. I can do this
in perl easily (just extracting data from source) except for cookies.
I generated frames to let a browser handle the cookie transaction but
mozilla won't let me save frame source (!?!). Seems like this should
be easy. Any advice? -jnat
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2003/5/10-12 [Computer/HW/Languages] UID:28402 Activity:high | 5/10 What's the difference between a simulator and an emulator?
\_ Emulation is along the lines of "perform all the same actions as"
while simulation is "a system or enviornment where conditions are
the same." The distinction is highly contextual. And as you give
absolutely no context, your question is pretty unanswerable.
\_ no, it doesn't.
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