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[2001-09-05 21:07:00] - bleh, the young democrats meeting was boring, but it had a good person:pizza ratio and lots of cute girlies.
-jdb[2001-09-05 20:36:00] - These sort of people have stolen the word "privacy" and distorted it beyond all recognition. -logan
[2001-09-05 20:15:00] - Heh, don't you think that once you "publish" your resume (something you want to get around anyway), its dissemination is out of your hands? I'd strongly hesitate to call this "privacy." -logan
[2001-09-05 20:07:00] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10822-2001Aug28.html
[2001-09-05 17:41:00] - http://www.fair.org/press-releases/helms.html
[2001-09-05 15:10:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/22/jhelms/index.html it's about fucking time. - mig
[2001-09-05 13:51:00] - http://www.usca.org/ <-- i wish we had something like this available in blacksburg. -jdb
[2001-09-05 13:41:00] - http://Obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html
[2001-09-05 13:34:00] - http://www.privacyfoundation.org <-- checkout the reports on monster.com
[2001-09-05 13:03:00] - i remember when it was reaching 4x was a really big deal. my how times change. - mig
[2001-09-05 12:26:00] - dave: wouldnt you want a plextor drive anyways? 24/10/40 is faster than 20/10/30.... not sure if the plextor is a true 24, just as the ricoh isnt a true 20.... -cryptic
[2001-09-05 11:48:00] - the plextor 12/10/32A with BuRN proof technology is supposed to deal well with buffer underruns. Supposedly it stops writting, then continues at a point extremely close to the point where it stopped writting... I haven't experienced it doing that yet, mainly because I havent had any probs -Cryptic
[2001-09-05 10:54:00] - i'll belive it fixes underruns when i see it. - mig
[2001-09-05 10:53:00] - http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2000-07-18/index-1.gif (too big)
[2001-09-05 10:52:00] - in other tech news, micron is demoing ddr333 ram -dave
[2001-09-05 10:50:00] - new ricoh cdrw, writes at 20x and rewrites at 10x. but what's cooler is the Justlink technology that supposedly gets rid of buffer underruns: http://www.overclockersonline.com/?page=articles&num=95 -dave
[2001-09-05 10:40:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/04/mother.theresa.exorcism/index.html
[2001-09-05 10:40:00] - *josh gathers up his baseball bat and heads downstairs*
[2001-09-05 10:39:00] - i wish i was cool like you and had a laptop. -jdb
[2001-09-05 10:37:00] - jdb: Only losers use the bridge!
-logan[2001-09-05 10:30:00] - greetings from togerson bridge.
-jdb[2001-09-05 10:17:00] - It was no problem. I don't think I actually helped any. -logan
[2001-09-05 10:11:00] - logan: sorry kristin and i kept bugging you for help last night.
i hope that we arent so bad on the rest of the labs. - aba[2001-09-05 09:59:00] - Greetings from downstairs Torgerson! -logan
[2001-09-05 08:43:00] - well, i guess if they want to keep the infringing products out of the us, but they can sell them elsewhere. - mig
[2001-09-05 08:23:00] - http://the-tech.mit.edu/V121/N39/39sony.39n.html i thought sony was based in japan, so isn't this lawsuit worthless? - mig
[2001-09-05 07:44:00] - operating systems
[2001-09-05 00:45:00] - OSes
[2001-09-05 00:18:00] - os's
[2001-09-04 23:49:00] - with linux, i usually used <5% cpu average. ram usage was about the same. all OSs suck equally in their own ways.
-jdb[2001-09-04 23:46:00] - hmmm, i average less than 10% running everything... ram usage is higher though (not too much). i think it's worth it. *shrug* -jdb
[2001-09-04 23:34:00] - http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1501&p=%203 xp's favorite dish is cpu
[2001-09-04 23:21:00] - gotta love a cs dept with a big microsoft sponsorship logo on it's website.
[2001-09-04 23:17:00] - i said they went through the trouble. i never said they do a good job at it. - mig
[2001-09-04 23:01:00] - I guess they do cover a few basic elements of software design... modularity and all that. -logan
[2001-09-04 23:01:00] - And no one here teaches you good style. They teach you some lame rules of thumb that actually stifle your development of your own style. Do you think commenting every single silly statement is good style?
-logan[2001-09-04 23:00:00] - The person that designed that page about code aesthetics needs to learn a thing or two about html aesthetics. -logan
[2001-09-04 21:22:00] - http://www.chc-3.com/pub/beautifulsoftware.htm i guess this is why they go through so much trouble to teach us coding "style". - mig
[2001-09-04 20:26:00] - ok, so the character was in the novel, but not the game. at least i know where it was from now. - mig
[2001-09-04 19:04:00] - http://doomworld.com/pageofdoom/thegame/characters.html -logan
[2001-09-04 18:06:00] - http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/articles/collegeguide01.html
[2001-09-04 18:01:00] - http://www.tompaine.com/img/op_ad_010404_large.jpg
[2001-09-04 17:40:00] - for you win2k users... http://vtntug.w2k.vt.edu/daisy.html -jdb
[2001-09-04 16:49:00] - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24303 -logan
[2001-09-04 15:36:00] - i remember at the 4th of july metallica concert, where that guy fell and died, the washington post was trying to make it seem as somehow the bands were partly to blame for it. - mig
[2001-09-04 15:33:00] - a: typical journalism. when a riot occurs at a concert, it's always somehow the band's fault. - mig
[2001-09-04 14:17:00] - http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html sing in with me@privacy.net if you don't want to give your real email. - mig
[2001-09-04 12:47:00] - mig: those annoying S's!
-jdb[2001-09-04 12:31:00] - i saw a segment on the news just now about the system of a down concert. they lied, they said the riots broke out because the band refused to play.
~a[2001-09-04 12:22:00] - nevermind, i got it to work. archives.nytimes.com not archive.nytimes.com
[2001-09-04 11:05:00] - ummm, it does't work josh. still get the login page when i do it. - mig
[2001-09-04 10:06:00] - a way of avoiding nytimes login: if you receive a www.nytimes.com/etc/etc url, and don't want to login, simply replace the "www" part with "archive". no registration, yay. -jdb
[2001-09-04 09:26:00] - and why is it that government officials never get charged with inciting riots? - mig
[2001-09-04 09:23:00] - http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1448596/20010904/system_of_a_down.jhtml?headlines=true which do you think is more unruly and easier to control ... 7000 happy people or 7000 really angry people. - mig
[2001-09-04 02:07:00] - picture archives now have 717 new public thumbnails! @@@/pics ~a
[2001-09-04 01:01:00] - does anyone else remember this 'arlene' character? i've played the shit out of doom and the only character that *I* know of is the "doom guy" and a lot of monsters. - mig
[2001-09-04 00:57:00] - http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14784 here's hoping common sense prevails. - mig
[2001-09-04 00:15:00] - http://www.msnbc.com/news/623128.asp <-- a good argument for vegan pizza
-jdb[2001-09-03 23:31:00] - does that mean we get a cool hp-ux/dunix hybrid?
-jdb[2001-09-03 23:30:00] - hp is going to acquire compaq. yikes. -jdb
[2001-09-03 22:48:00] - it was funny until the end. - mig
[2001-09-03 20:38:00] - http://www.itc.virginia.edu/pubs/docs/RespComp/videos/when-I-go-to-UVA.ram
[2001-09-03 19:44:00] - i was thinking the same thing earlier. at least the screens on the mac's and pc's are good. -jdb
[2001-09-03 17:55:00] - does anybody have any idea why the screens in the bridge suck so much? ~a
[2001-09-03 17:44:00] - I should do this! http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,46416,00.html
-jdb[2001-09-03 14:22:00] - it's a shame he can't afford to defend himself however. - mig
[2001-09-03 14:21:00] - a: actually i didn't post that. - mig
[2001-09-03 13:38:00] - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/03/opinion/03SEGA.html
[2001-09-03 11:53:00] - gah, i guess you moved. ill have to come find you then. - aba
[2001-09-03 11:27:00] - hey, ad, send me an email with where you are, so i can come get my book!
- aba[2001-09-03 11:22:00] - man, poor guy. this is about a message miguel posted a couple of days ago. http://aporter.dhs.org/lyon.txt ~a
[2001-09-03 11:19:00] - hehe. funny solaris kiosk computers in the bridge. telnet has a command to open a shell. ~a
[2001-09-03 11:08:00] - http://www.wickedwendys.com/dave/dave.html hahahahahaha - aba
[2001-09-03 09:36:00] - ugh stupid sircam, i just got 75 emails from the same guy. - mig
[2001-09-02 23:55:00] - wolf: grad students are special, they can get in-state tuition waivers
-jdb[2001-09-02 23:36:00] - new ddr pictures http://aporter.dhs.org/pics ~a
[2001-09-02 23:04:00] - And the other alternatives do not matter -- it is not the university's responsibility to make your life peachy. -logan
[2001-09-02 23:03:00] - I think it's one year, not four years. -logan
[2001-09-02 22:56:00] - you seem to be assuming logan, that the other alternatives are better. that's not always the case.
[2001-09-02 22:53:00] - you can't get in-state tuition until you've declared yourself a resident of va for at least four years. most grad students don't do that until well after their freshman year. - wolf
[2001-09-02 20:43:00] - logan: i think out of state students can get in-state status since they can be considered residents (job, etc.?) . anyway, it says something to that effect on grad student website. -jdb
[2001-09-02 20:10:00] - no one pointed a gun in the heads of the students to take the job, but no one's pointing a gun at the heads of the universities either. - mig
[2001-09-02 19:51:00] - going by that logic, the university can just igonre the complaining students. if they give in to their demands, it's still their choice. - mig
[2001-09-02 18:27:00] - I could feel that I'm entitled to your car if I mow your yard, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you refusing to let me mow your yard. -logan
[2001-09-02 18:17:00] - ah, the lovely "you always have a choice argument."
[2001-09-02 11:45:00] - After all, if the proposes benefits aren't good enough for you, why are you accepting the position? -logan
[2001-09-02 11:29:00] - Even if you go ahead and work for fewer benefits? -logan
[2001-09-02 10:53:00] - logan: well duh, if you feel like you should have some benefits for working for someone, of course you're going to feel entitled to it. - mig
[2001-09-02 10:42:00] - that was spoken my reagan's arms control director -dave
[2001-09-02 10:42:00] - my favorite quotes from the article: "My experience over many years of negotiating with the Chinese is that they take what you give and give almost nothing in return..." -dave
[2001-09-02 10:41:00] - article on missile defense and china: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30546-2001Sep1.html -dave
[2001-09-02 10:41:00] - Also note that they said "4 classes in a year." It's more likely that they're getting paid approx. $15000 for this. -logan
[2001-09-02 10:39:00] - I think $9900 is pretty low... I think the typical amount of money a GTA makes per semester is $1400+ per month for four months, plus $2100 tuition waiver (I don't know how it works for out of state students). -logan
[2001-09-02 10:32:00] - I think "comatose twelve year olds" is definitely an "underrepresented" group in the graduate program. -logan
[2001-09-02 10:31:00] - Heh, from the plan: "Increase the percentage of graduate students from underrepresented groups" -logan
[2001-09-02 10:29:00] - But this group comes off like they think they're entitled to these benefits. -logan
[2001-09-02 10:28:00] - It's one thing to say, "If you want to attract more graduate students, here's what you should do," or, "If you want to attract more graduate students with families, here's what you should do." -logan
[2001-09-02 10:27:00] - Well, I think a person that takes on that sort of work load and then turns around and complains that it's too much is confused at best. -logan
[2001-09-02 10:25:00] - and on a sour note, the strategic plan barely mentions undergrads. boo! -jdb
[2001-09-02 10:25:00] - anyways... whether there is ever a "graduate workers union," i think tech will have to address most of these issues if we plan to become a top 30 research institution (per http://www.unirel.vt.edu/stratplan/01plan.html -- where they actually do talk about many of these things) -jdb
[2001-09-02 10:12:00] - s i know don't teach anymore than 2 or so classes (for their avg. $60k or so salaries). -jdb
[2001-09-02 10:11:00] - logan: of course doing research stuff and teaching lots of classes is quite different... $9900 for teaching 4 classes sounds pretty bad. most prof
[2001-09-02 10:09:00] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22303-2001Aug30.html
[2001-09-02 06:17:00] - Bah. I'm going to be a GRA this semester, and I certainly don't feel exploited.
-logan[2001-09-02 00:44:00] - http://www.geocities.com/vtgrad_unionize/index.html
[2001-09-01 21:47:00] - d d r ~a
[2001-09-01 12:25:00] - what was "fuck you" directed at? ~a
[2001-09-01 12:08:00] - before anyone goes and gets offended, that was sarcasm if you couldn't tell. - mig
[2001-09-01 12:07:00] - http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/312001a.asp those gay people. they sure are evil. - mig
[2001-09-01 11:42:00] - yay for bullshit trademark... i guess.
[2001-08-31 23:35:00] - boo to comedy central! http://www.battlebots.org/
[2001-08-31 23:34:00] - fuck you
[2001-08-31 20:59:00] - http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46370,00.html - wolf
[2001-08-31 17:03:00] - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010831/tc/tech_russia_usa_dc_1.html could dimitry trigger another 'cold war'? - mig
[2001-08-31 15:07:00] - http://www.taxesarestealing.com a band for paul! - mig
[2001-08-31 14:13:00] - "and to accept nontraditional families is to accept a society bereft of Christian values" ... and that's a bad thing?? - mig
[2001-08-31 12:56:00] - http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2001_2/08_30/news_smack.html
[2001-08-31 10:26:00] - economic downturn good for linux? http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1527 -dave
[2001-08-30 22:38:00] - http://mickeyj.dhs.org/kith.html
[2001-08-30 19:48:00] - talk visual
[2001-08-30 15:23:00] - Here's something for all your English major/minors out there: http://www.planetx.com/pooh/
[2001-08-30 09:37:00] - http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7004860.html
[2001-08-30 09:28:00] - http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010829/news-02.htm athlon 1600 != 1.6ghz - mig
[2001-08-30 09:19:00] - oops who = how. - mig
[2001-08-30 09:18:00] - "Gay. Straight. It's all the same" i'm at a loss, even by christian logic, who that is hateful. - mig
[2001-08-30 00:27:00] - so much signing! and so many descriptions of urls! ~a
[2001-08-29 23:14:00] - http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20010829-18989124.htm
[2001-08-29 23:13:00] - http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20010829.shtml
[2001-08-29 23:08:00] - http://www.capalert.com/capreports/jayandsilentbob.htm they complain about the premotion of homosexuality. it was such a small part of the movie . . . very very small. ~a
[2001-08-29 22:08:00] - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/dertouzos.html
-jdb[2001-08-29 20:34:00] - http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/metro_b3d882af409ab05d009d.html
[2001-08-29 16:00:00] - wolf: at the ssa conference, we met a student group (http://www.ksu.edu/freethought/) that hosted a "religiously incorrect" show on their local radio station. it'd be great if we could do something similar. -jdb
[2001-08-29 15:43:00] - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/mewes1.shtml
[2001-08-29 12:08:00] - it'd be interesting if we could get the to air it on one of tech's stations - wolf
[2001-08-29 12:07:00] - http://www.atheistviewpoint.tv/ - wolf
[2001-08-29 07:27:00] - http://www.bway.net/~siobhan/jellyfish/vodkamelon.jpg
[2001-08-29 02:02:00] - a: there's always going to be something that someone will complain about. why worry about it then? - mig
[2001-08-29 00:09:00] - miguel, what about child pornography. there should no rule about that? or what about drug dealing. should i allow drug dealers to do their planning here? well maybe that wouldn't be so bad
~a[2001-08-28 23:09:00] - wolf: there are lots of japanese geeks on here!
-jdb[2001-08-28 22:25:00] - japanese = fun language to learn. that is all. - wolf
[2001-08-28 16:47:00] - i propose the rule of no rules.
- mig[2001-08-28 15:57:00] - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,32958,00.html ms delays x-box in japan. japan could care less. - mig
[2001-08-28 12:35:00] - kevin smith's narrating shirt keeps changing ~a
[2001-08-28 07:31:00] - http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2001/08/26/magazine/26STYLE-SS_1.html
[2001-08-28 07:20:00] - i actually am serious! they do bother me more.
-jdb[2001-08-28 01:33:00] - s/;//
[2001-08-28 01:33:00] - if you were serious, i would consider it; but i know you are not.
~a[2001-08-28 01:14:00] - if paul's comments on feminism bother me more than nudity (they do), can we ban them too?
-jdb[2001-08-28 01:02:00] - *sketchy
[2001-08-28 01:01:00] - nudity doesn't bother me, nor does language or scetchy subject matter. i would just prefer no nudity on the message board unless anyone else has any objections. if anyone else has any rules they would care to propose, i'm all ears. ~a
[2001-08-28 00:59:00] - not gone here http://aporter.dhs.org/?a=2&d=106 ~a
[2001-08-28 00:58:00] - i have no children. ~a
[2001-08-28 00:51:00] - a: if you really don't want me posting certain types of things, please let me know. many of the articles i post contain subject matter that would not be appropriate for your children. -jdb
[2001-08-28 00:50:00] - well, the nudity is gone there and here. so we are all happy now. -jdb
[2001-08-28 00:48:00] - dave: i guess the answer to you question was yes. ~a
[2001-08-28 00:07:00] - a: that picture is a screenshot of the winning screen of the bunny game (shockwave, i believe). -jdb
[2001-08-28 00:06:00] - a: we really, really don't want to go down the roads of child pornography, beastiality, etc. i have views on those issues that will make most people want to shoot me.
-jdb[2001-08-28 00:05:00] - and i am very curious; that bunny game didn't work in ns4: is that picture from the bunny game and what is going on in the photograph? ~a
[2001-08-28 00:01:00] - would it be ironic if i censored child pornography? it is still censorship, right? ~a
[2001-08-27 23:59:00] - i have no problems with censorship of private places. i certianly shouldn't be able to tell you how to use your personal computing resources. however, this board is sooo full of boo-censorship articles and conversation that being censored seemed rather ironic. -jdb
[2001-08-27 23:56:00] - good job, josh. i think censorship of my own page is not evil, however. http://aporter.dhs.org/pics/download/54.gif ~a
[2001-08-27 23:42:00] - in order to please the censors... http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jbaugher/
-jdb[2001-08-27 23:29:00] - http://www.hardware-unlimited.com/reviews/pentium42ghz/ yay. 2ghz. only twice as fast as the 1ghz though. - mig
[2001-08-27 23:27:00] - a: you aren't the only person on here that i've seen cringe over boobies. hence, i said "people." -jdb
[2001-08-27 23:27:00] - that directory and file was erased once it wasn't needed anymore -jdb
[2001-08-27 22:54:00] - wow, a whole 15 messages today. ~a
[2001-08-27 19:06:00] - http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jbaugher/ i see no boobs
[2001-08-27 19:04:00] - jdb: why do you use "people" and "they" when you mean "adrian" and "he" ~a
[2001-08-27 17:29:00] - http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/272001d.asp they use the word "pornography" as if it was something bad. - mig
[2001-08-27 17:20:00] - http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5006/5006_01.asp it's amazing how they work bible stories into theses thing. - mig
[2001-08-27 16:57:00] - which looks more 'occult' to you: 5 teenagers playing D&D, or christians celebrating a bonfire? - mig
[2001-08-27 16:32:00] - http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp well, i guess everyone who uses this board is going to hell, according to this. - mig
[2001-08-27 16:30:00] - (not that very much porn is in the public domain)
[2001-08-27 16:30:00] - virginia tech wouldn't boot anyone because of porn (think about it, half of pritchard would be gone). they are more concerned about copyrighted things. you can get in a lot more trouble for mp3s than porn. -jdb
[2001-08-27 16:29:00] - a: i don't get it. you will put nudity on your webpage when someone else puts it on theirs? -dave
[2001-08-27 16:24:00] - for the record, i uploaded that image to my personal directory. i don't see why people get so uptight about boobs. i mean come on, i hope they never decide to take human sexuality or an art class. -jdb
[2001-08-27 15:49:00] - http://mail.nl.linux.org/humorix/2001-08/msg00016.html
[2001-08-27 09:03:00] - i've never been the type to put naked people on my home page. the second the poster decides to put naked pictures of people on his/her homepage is the second i allow naked people on mine. ~a
[2001-08-27 08:59:00] - not that that picture was exactly porn, but i don't want to go near any lines anyways. ~a-
[2001-08-27 08:59:00] - what, you want that i let porn on the vt network so i get kicked out of tech therefore cesoring the entire page? ~a
[2001-08-27 07:30:00] - boo! censorship.
[2001-08-26 23:06:00] - ###/pics/download/53.gif
[2001-08-26 19:54:00] - http://www.b3ta.com/bunnygame/
[2001-08-26 14:07:00] - too bad http://www.junglemonkey.net/ doesn't have more users. -jdb
[2001-08-26 14:02:00] - plus according to david grogan, bearshare is spyware. ~a
[2001-08-26 14:00:00] - http://www.msnbc.com/news/618966.asp grrrrrrrr! - mig
[2001-08-26 13:45:00] - hmm, gnutella-ish has sucked majorly in the past...
[2001-08-26 13:44:00] - http://www.gnotella.com/ they just came out with v 1.0 and it's really sweet. gotten to be a lot better than bearshare imo. - mig
[2001-08-26 12:02:00] - i will come out with a new version of the message board program (that works) before september 25th. it will have a binary for linux and it will work with any server. ~a
[2001-08-26 09:28:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/26/death.aaliyah/index.html
[2001-08-25 23:54:00] - http://talkingmoose.manilasites.com/2001/08/24
[2001-08-25 23:50:00] - I too am at 256... I've never felt any problems.... - cryptic
[2001-08-25 23:49:00] - i recall gnome running horrifically slow on this computer - wolf
[2001-08-25 23:48:00] - i'm at 256 now, and it only craps out on me when i have a couple graphics programs open, two browsers, aim, and d2 idling in the background - wolf
[2001-08-25 23:47:00] - 2k was sluggish when i did a lot of cad/heavy matlab work with under 256mb ram. but the same was true for all the unix machines at the optics lab, so... - wolf
[2001-08-25 23:47:00] - i remember nt4 would use >128mb without even having run any applications yet. way back in um, fall 97 or so. -jdb
[2001-08-25 23:46:00] - maybe you aren't a manly user
[2001-08-25 23:41:00] - i ran nt4 and 2k fine with 64mb. - mig
[2001-08-25 23:38:00] - i think xp really does need 128 or so. but i'd argue that you needed that for nt4 and 2k also. and you're a dope for not having that much ram on your linux box. ram is sooo cheap now. you can get 256 meg sticks for under $100, why not max out?
-jdb[2001-08-25 23:37:00] - you need just as much ram with gnome and kde. for real. now with fvwm and such, you don't need as much of a machine. -jdb
[2001-08-25 23:32:00] - Does it use all the ram? Or does it just use as much as gnome or kde gui's like win2k does? - cryptic
[2001-08-25 23:31:00] - does it need it? or does it merely state that? - Cryptic
[2001-08-25 23:21:00] - xp i mean
[2001-08-25 23:20:00] - does anyone know why the bloody hell does it need 128 ram minimum??
[2001-08-25 22:11:00] - wolf you don't get it, *nix is good for everyone... it makes your computer go ZOOM. Why would anyone bother using windows? I mean sure it's user friendly, a moron could use it, and fullfills the needs of a lot of people.... but *nix is better... somehow.... -Cryptic
[2001-08-25 21:57:00] - so xp sucks for you, but not for some other people
- wolf[2001-08-25 20:35:00] - the person that created that site certainly must have a social life
[2001-08-25 20:08:00] - http://www.boycottxp.com
[2001-08-25 19:08:00] - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010821/od/testicle_dc_1.html
[2001-08-25 19:00:00] - the only incentive ms has ever given me to upgrade anything is the whole things about stuff mysteriously not being able to work. if it wasn't for that i'd still be using nt 4.0 now. - mig
[2001-08-25 18:53:00] - unless i want a whole lotta bloat. - mig
[2001-08-25 18:53:00] - either way, i'm not going to shell out $100 for an 'upgrade' that doesn't really add anything important. - mig
[2001-08-25 18:51:00] - personally i think xp is worse than 2000. - mig
[2001-08-25 18:13:00] - the, rather
[2001-08-25 18:13:00] - josh may not have to do any programming or *nix-related work this semester, and seems to be genuinely enjoying testing out xp. so xp might be "teh best" for him. - wolf
[2001-08-25 18:08:00] - win2k is stable on this computer, all of my software works with it, and i'm familiar enough with the os to get things done very efficiently. so win2k is "the best" in this situation. - wolf
[2001-08-25 18:06:00] - free bsd was more stable, but i couldn't find drivers for my old-as-all hell nic, and i was too busy with school to learn all the unix i needed to be efficient. so free bsd "sucked" in that case, too. - wolf
[2001-08-25 18:04:00] - when i tried debian on this computer, it was so unstable that i was rebooting every half hour or so. nobody could figure out why. so debian "sucked" in this case. - wolf
[2001-08-25 18:02:00] - for example, just try installing darwin on one of my 68k macs. it won't happen
- wolf[2001-08-25 18:00:00] - i dunno. i'm of the opinion that different operating systems can be useful in different situations. so it's pretty hard for an os to universally and objectively "suck" all the time. - wolf
[2001-08-25 17:09:00] - the real debate is where various *nix systems and mac os ,etc. fit in
[2001-08-25 17:08:00] - xp sucks less than 2k sucks less than nt4 sucks less than nt351 sucks less than win me sucks less than win 98 sucks less than win95 sucks less than win3.11 sucks less than win 3.1 ... it goes on and on
[2001-08-25 16:56:00] - *cough* xpsucks *cough*
[2001-08-25 16:42:00] - if any of you are running XP, install the task switcher power toy! very cool. -jdb
[2001-08-25 16:24:00] - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technology/25CODE.html this one reeks of abuse of power. - mig
[2001-08-25 13:24:00] - a: maybe you could set a title tag for each link posted? -jdb
[2001-08-25 13:23:00] - http://sffosu.org/index.php3?section=monkey&issue=wi2001&item=Essays/laf.txt
[2001-08-25 12:11:00] - http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/7/09
[2001-08-25 11:28:00] - you can get sony vaio laptop for $1000. hmmm... i need to buy a new pda, or i could get a super-slim laptop... decisions, decisions. -jdb
[2001-08-25 10:22:00] - oh wow, it says under $500. so they are sucky laptops. barely fit the definition of laptop. i guess it fits the definition of something that computes and fits on your lap. still better than our $100 and two years earlier. ~a
[2001-08-25 10:20:00] - they are probably cheap laptops. $1000? that's only a power of ten more than our $100 calculators. ~a
[2001-08-25 10:18:00] - maine? ~a
[2001-08-25 10:02:00] - http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?id=1448383 glowsticks = drug paraphanlia?? - mig
[2001-08-25 09:58:00] - http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45866,00.html if you live in main and are in seventh grade, you get a laptop. - mig
[2001-08-24 22:08:00] - http://www.angelfire.com/indie/christx/tftl.html - wolf
[2001-08-24 21:44:00] - the new jay and silent bob movie is great!
[2001-08-24 18:09:00] - super, the only of the three classes that opened up on @@@/spa.html is a class that conflicts with a class i have to take. yuck! ~a
[2001-08-24 16:13:00] - yay, server is back up.
-jdb[2001-08-24 15:30:00] - miguel, they probably wouldn't run a dry pair on campus though. otherwise katie could get a dry pair with somebody on campus. ~a
[2001-08-24 15:16:00] - bleh... i hope ethernet here isn't as expensive as ntc's web site says it is
- wolf[2001-08-24 14:57:00] - and 200mbps sure as hell beats rr/cox's 20 or so mbps transfer rates. ~a
[2001-08-24 14:46:00] - because it is 20 hops from tech to nova. with a dry pair that would make, well one big hop. ~a
[2001-08-24 14:45:00] - miguel, i care to try that. can you get a dry pair to go all the way from tech to nova? ~a
[2001-08-24 14:08:00] - does anyone know how to get javascript workinng correctly with mozilla/netscape 6.1? - mig
[2001-08-24 14:03:00] - hooray, comp is on - vinnie
[2001-08-24 13:56:00] - http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/12051-1.html fbi gotta catch the wireless drug dealers, i guess... - mig
[2001-08-24 13:55:00] - http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html anyone care to try this? - mig
[2001-08-24 13:47:00] - http://www.geocities.com/xpovos/sushi.jpg
[2001-08-24 12:10:00] - yes. it updates every hour. it just hasn't been running very long. ~a
[2001-08-24 12:04:00] - a: that's pretty cool, but you've got your film class listed twice. -- Xpovos
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