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| 2001/12/21 [Uncategorized] UID:23331 Activity:high |
12/20 Go IMF! Indonesia down, Argentina down, only one more for a hat trick!
\_ Indonesia down?
\_ Economic Deadpool. My money's on Brazil. --erikred
\_ I'd like to hear what all the 'objectivists' have to say about
this... that is, if they can stop choking on "Atlas Shrugged" long
enough to get a word out.
\_ of course! how could I have missed Galton's speech
on how much we need to peg our money to the dollar!
\_ I didn't read it. What does A.Rand have to do with the
Argentinian economy? Please don't tell me to read it. I'm
not *that* interested in knowing. |
| 2001/12/21 [Uncategorized] UID:23332 Activity:nil 50%like:21627 |
12/19 [ Itanic URL Deleted by OP (original poster) ] |
| 2001/12/21-22 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:23333 Activity:high |
12/21 Is there a new rule of thumb for sizing swap on systems these days?
I remember the 2xRAM+1 rule but that seems way overkill on modern
vm's.
\_ i think http://docs.sun.com has new guidelines for solaris.
\_ BTW, what's the reason behind the 2xRAM+1 rule for SunOS 4? I'd
think an OS should be able to operate with a swap file as small as
two physical pages -- it just runs out of memory when too much is
requested.
\_ Idle procs get swapped out to make space for working procs. I
leave the rest for you to figure out.
\_ I don't get it. What's so special about the number 2xRAM+1?
Should be the rule simply be "anything bigger than zero, and
and the bigger the better"?
\_ You want to optimize the swap space and minimize paging.
Too little swap, you're accessing the main disk memory too
much. Too much swap, you waste disk space and increase
swap access time. These standards are from a time when
RAM was limited and pricey and disks small and slow.
\_ Make your swap as large as your RAM so you can get core dumps.
\_ hi. why is it that none of the people who answered this question
know what they're talking about? except for the people asking the
questions. |
| 2001/12/21-22 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:23334 Activity:high |
12/21 Is there a way to send blind copies through Pine?
\_ yes... compose your message, and hit ^R to view extended header
information, which will let you select bcc recipients. you can also
go to the pine config and modify the default-composer-hdrs entry...
\_ How about a way to set default BCC's when you compose? I want
to automatically BCC another account be default, and I freq-
uently forget to add it. I looked everywhere for this but
couldn't find it.
\_ Add the following to .pinerc: customized-hdrs=Bcc: email_addr
-- misha.
\_ I won't say it but you know I'm thinking it.
\_ Admirable self-control. Well done and here here
\_ I'm working through it. My therapy group was proud of my
restraint. |
| 2001/12/21 [Uncategorized] UID:23335 Activity:kinda low |
12/20 Anyone else been getting these constant spammings from <DEAD>paid4survey.net<DEAD>? \_ No. But then again, I've got tons of anti-spam filters. |
| 2001/12/21 [Uncategorized] UID:23336 Activity:nil 72%like:23338 |
12/21 Need a job? /csua//pub/jobs/Transmeta/ReliabilityEng
--jeffwong |
| 2001/12/21-22 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Humor] UID:23337 Activity:insanely high |
12/21 So how did that craigslist pick-up meeting go?
\_ I actually went with a friend hoping to see a bunch of dufuses
walking in with flowers or something... but no one came...
except us... in which case... maybe we were the butt of the
joke. But other than that, nothing eventful.
\_ hey did you see me walk in? i'm really bald right now - danh
\_ I don't think I did. I was having coffee over on the left
side if you're facing the cash register. - rory
\_ i walked in with a couple of girls, we had some coffee
and then left to watch THE WORLD'S MOST BORING
MOVIE i mean the man who wasn't there - danh
\_ what was this? the posting was removed by the time I visited the
link.
\_ Three words: "Sexual Scavenger Hunt". I would have saved a
copy if I'd known it was going to get pulled down so fast.
\_ Someone claiming to be females and frisky posted that interested
guys should show at a particular Berkeley cafe last night between
certain hours and that "the right guy" was going to get laid a
lot over the holidays. The poster didn't give a physical
description and basically setup the world's desperate men to
show up looking stupid and desperate as part of some sick joke.
I showed early, found the girl and left by 7:25.
\_ "Someone claiming to be females" ... "I showed early, found
the girl" ... Dude, you need to get your story straight.
\_ Uh, dude, go to "humor store". Buy humor. Use. It was
a very small and simple and obvious joke. And the plural
on 'female' was simply a typo. Relax, try some valium.
Here's a big hint: I wasn't there, it was a joke. You
got that all figured out now?
\_ Damn! I got there too late. Will I find anyone out there
who will wuv me?
\_ Even he showed up lat, I left with the girl at
7:07. He must have left with some other chick.
\_ ...and?
\_ We saw the girl you left with. We laughed about it
just before we fucked like it was the end of the world. |
| 2001/12/21-24 [Industry/Startup] UID:23338 Activity:moderate 72%like:23336 |
12/21 Need a job? /csua/pub/jobs/Transmeta/ReliabilityEng
--jeffwong
\_ deal with ditzel much? got any knife wounds in your back to show
for it?
\_ I didn't see it in the posting, so sorry if I'm missing something
obvious, but... is this a start-now kind of thing, or should I
apply if I'm graduating in May?
\_ We'd rather not wait until May, but finish that degree.
--jeffwong
\_ What's transmeta's financial health look like these days? The
newspapers were all over problems with shipping, etc, etc, bad
quarterly results, etc.
\_ We have a lot of cash in the bank, at least enough to run for
another year, even if we sold nothing. (which I highly doubt
will be the case.) --jeffwong
\_ You think you are going to sell stuff (I mean other than
your office furniture)? Wow.
\_ TMTA already sells stuff (although mostly in Japan...)
\_ Not enough to save the company. They will probably
make more money from the office furniture auction
than from product sales. But what more would you
expect from http://YAOH.COMLSU (Yet Another Over Hyped
.COM Linux Start Up)?
\_ Uhm, Transmeta makes microprocessors. It has
NOTHING to do with .COM or Linux.
\_ Transmeta's cpus are primarily used on
linux systems. And they are underpowered
even for that application. The qualify
for .COM status because they were yet another
"tech" company that went public on hype
rather than on substance (sales/profitability).
\_ Wrong. They are primarily used on m$ systems.
\_ And .COM refers to companies that try to
use their website as a focal point of their
services or people trying to sell hoaky
"e-services". .COM doesn't refer to
microprocessor companies.
\_ I just looked at the profile for Transmeta on Yahoo
finance. According to it, Transmeta has $262.8M cash.
Its market cap is $243.7M. That is NOT promising.
\_ So they are obviously undervalued. Go out and buy some.
\_ The value reflects the fact that there is no
value in the company besides the cash.
\_ They have patents that are worth something.
\_ They have Linus who is worth something.
\_ hm, how much would MS pay TMTA to "get rid of"
Linus?
\_ I interviewed at the place next door a few months ago. Nice
parking lot but driving in was a bitch. Too many streets between
there and the freeway. Ugly, car packed streets. Hey, someone
else said your market cap was lower than your cash-on-hand. Can
I buy your company, liquidate and pocket the difference?
\_ chill out. jeffwong has done nothing more than listing
a job opportunity in a different job market. BTW, if you
are thinking about buying Transmeta, you only need to control
the board, which requires a little more than 50% shares. Let
us know if you do plan to buy it.
\_ yeah how mean of me to tell anyone where the place is or
hint at their financial condition. no one should be
allowed to know these things because the truth is really
really mean and hurtful. where's my shovel? i need a
hole in the sand to hide my head in because ya know if i
can't see it and don't know it, it must be ok!!! i dont
plan to buy it but i might place a bid on a few of the
pentium based computers the office staff use.
\_ and you assume any Sodans who may interview there
can't figure out themselves and not smart enough to
make a career choice? And your sacrastic tone isn't
helping anyone making a sane decision. It was how you
said it, not what you said, since anyone who can look
at the ticker TMTA can figure out their financial status.
\_ Just saving them the effort. I guess if you're
currently jobless then it doesn't matter if you get
laid off in 6-9 months because some money is better
than none until the economy turns around. Please
accept my sincere apologies going out to all laid
off sodans.
\_ I need a long term job.
\_ "Via One-ups Transmeta". See slashdot story for details. |
| 2001/12/21-22 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS] UID:23339 Activity:high |
12/21 DO kernel patches still need/recommended to be added in single-user
mode? Got some folks at work who add KJP in multi-user-mode.
We also get periodic system errors so they add patches but they are
patches that don't address the problem. The READMEs say the patches
R4 something totally different. Even the "lead" won't listen to me.
Either i'm an idiot or surrounded by idiots. Should i quit?
\_ Never quit a job without another job lined up. Especially now.
\_ I'd shutdown, reboot, go to single user mode, install patches,
reboot. This assumes you have a good tested backup. The first
reboot can root out problems which might have cropped up since
the last reboot (ie it's not the patches). You reboot the second
time to insure patches are loaded and confirm the patches haven't
messed anything up. Geez, it's minor downtime. Your group would
be foolish to risk having to recover from backup instead of taking
the tiny hit for outage time. Yes, you're surrounded by idiots. |