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Travel time: San Fran airport to San Jose?

Yep, I am a SoCal transplant... it will be my 4th year here in the Bay Area this October. It is strange to my ears to refer to a freeway without "the". I can tell Bay Area people natives by the lack of the use of "the" when referring to freeways (but that seems to be fading), the use of...
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- Post #15
- Aug 1, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Travel time: San Fran airport to San Jose?

If you get on the 101 and drive down to the 237 freeway it should not take more than an hour at 8-9PM on a Monday night. Getting to the freeway (depending on what side of the city you are on) may add 15 - 20 mins if you are on the far side of the freeway. Taking the Bay Bridge at that hour may...
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- Post #2
- Jul 29, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How good are GT and Fuji road bikes?

I bought a 2002 Fuji Team road bike from bikesdirect.com in 2003. It has been a great bike for me. I think I paid like $1200 shipped. The frame is a very light aluminum and it has ultegra compontents throughout. It is not carbon fiber, but it has been a great bike for me that is still going...
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- Post #41
- Jun 29, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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would you ever look down on someone because he has an online graduate degree?

All the tests are proctored. There were strict guidelines about who could be proctors (no coworkers and especially no family or friends) and how they had to give the test. Pretty much the same thing as taking the SAT or any other test for that matter. My experience at CU Boulder is that the...
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- Post #55
- Jun 28, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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would you ever look down on someone because he has an online graduate degree?

This. I got my Master's in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder(CU Boulder) via distance learning. It is the same class, with the same teachers and students and the same content. The only difference is that it is taped vs. live. I have to do the same homework and same...
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- Post #42
- Jun 28, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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APA style annotated bibliographies - please kill me!

APA citations are a pain. I went to a graduate school program that required APA format and it was painful to learn all the minutiae on the formatting. We used Diana Hacker's guide (which is like the Cliff's notes of APA/CMS/MLA formatting) but there was still quite a substantial section devoted...
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- Post #18
- Jun 23, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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lady gaga is kinda ugly

When I was in Germany in July, all they had on German MTV over and over was that Lady Gaga was a hermaphrodite and they cited some German magazine which supposedly quoted Lady Gaga during an interview saying she was born a hermaphrodite. I found that somewhat amusing. Her music is okay but way...
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- Post #37
- Nov 11, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Wusthof or Henkels knives?

My fiancee and I love our Shun Classic set. They are Japanese knives that fit our hands better (we have average-small hands) and are light. We tried Henckels and Wusthof and we found them to be a bit heavy. *ANY* knife is better than the cheap $2 Ikea knives we were using before that would...
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- Post #75
- Mar 10, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What CC Company do you use?

I had the same thing happen to my Diamond Platinum Card. I got my card in the mail a few days later. When I activated the new card it automatically closed the old one down.
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- Post #65
- Mar 7, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Does ABC have the worst online streaming player??

SCIFI Replay/NBC's is the worst. They have no stream buffering so people without a "fast" (> 1.5Mbps? -- I don't know what they optimize for) connection get totally screwed with an unwatchable stream. I tried watching a replay of Battlestar Galactica over the free GoogleWiFi service in...
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- Post #11
- Mar 7, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Guy pays $10k to post on billboard complaining about cell phone laws

I see that sign going home from work everyday. Ironically that sign is extremely distracting because it has a lot of words for a billboard and some of it is in a small font. The first time I wanted to read it, I realized how distracted I was getting from the road so I stopped. I think this...
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- Post #7
- Feb 19, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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John Wayne airport, steep angle takeoffs

My parent's house is in the flight path about a mile away from the airport. The county settled with the residents in the area by providing people within a certain raidus of the airport that were in the flight path with sound retrofitting to the houses (double pane windows, sound resistant doors)...
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- Post #19
- Jan 16, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone else here a fan of Stone Brewing Co.?

I love Arrogant Bastard and Double Bastard. The UC Irvine pub used to serve it on tap! It was heaven! Stone Brewing Co also used to sponsor a lot of the UC Irvine events so there typically would be free beer there!
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- Post #10
- Dec 7, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Any So Cal (gun) Shooters?

You are talking about On Target Range That place is located down on one of the side streets (on the right going southbound) that parallels the freeway. If I remember correctly, it is in an industrial-commercial neighborhood. I always got there from Crown Valley Parkway and then turned...
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- Post #4
- Oct 18, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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CIS Major or Cisco Certifications

The best answer is go to college first and also get Cisco certs. The college degree will give you job flexibility in case the Cisco thing does not pan out. The CCIE exam is no joke... it really means you are an expert in networking in all shapes and forms. You will not pass without real working...
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- Post #5
- Sep 17, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Broadband cable network design

There is nothing like reading the entire DOCSIS 2.0 specification! The main pieces of the puzzle (at least for DOCSIS only) are: CMTS = Cable Modem Termination System (where all the CM's eventually connect to) - complete with line cards, a supervisor module and a link "somewhere else" (e.g...
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- Post #6
- Sep 17, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Moar Vegas questions: Cool places to stop by on the way to Vegas from LA?

I have stayed at Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, The Hotel at Mandalay Bay, The Venetian and many others on the stip. By far my favorite hotel in terms of room quality were the rooms at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. It is an all suites hotel that is very modern and contemporary. For the price of a normal...
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- Post #83
- Sep 10, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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CS majors

The first few classes (almost the first year's worth) of classes were weeder classes. There were a lot of people in CS at the time who "liked to play videogames" and that was why they became CS majors. Those people got swatted by the giant flyswatter that is CS. We went from 4 lectures of...
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- Post #46
- Aug 27, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Poll: How many of you still use a parallel or serial port?

I use serial ports all the time for Cisco Routers/Switches and Sun equipment. I really wish 1 DB9 serial port was still being left on notebooks. We keep around a bunch of Thinkpad T30's just because they have a serial port. USB to serial converters are a necessity, but sometimes I forget to...
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- Post #84
- Jul 24, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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1/4 asian, 3/4 white

My Girlfriend is 1/4 Japanese and 3/4 White. I think once you dilute past 1/2, the distinctive Asian facial features start waning. My GF does have the Asian body type from her mom (who is 1/2 Japanese 1/2 white). But most of her distinctive features (hair, eyes, etc) are from her Dad...
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- Post #18
- Jun 10, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Cyclone claims 22,000 lives in Myanmar/Burma

As a Burmese person, I prefer "Burma" over "Myanmar" simply because the name Myanmar comes from the Military Government and all it represents. But the world has mixed feelings about the name due to politics.
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- Post #9
- May 5, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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for those that moved to a new city for a job after college

I forgot to add, if you are going to move somewhere outside your hometown, it really helps to find a hobby. My hobby was to learn to cook, which really impressed my GF who then promptly learned to cook when she moved in with me. We now cook 5 days a week for dinner and explore the wonderful...
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- Post #5
- Mar 24, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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for those that moved to a new city for a job after college

Went to College, worked full time for a year, and worked for another year full time while going to grad school living at home (never left home). I moved out @ age 23 to work in Silicon Valley (from Orange County) and I am having a blast. I got a great job at a great company. I got my GF to move...
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- Post #4
- Mar 24, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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MOBILE BROADBAND EXPERTS: do sprint and verzion use the same wwan cards?

There is roaming but as kevnich2 said, it seems to be only for 1xRTT and not EVDO. Sprint has the best EVDO Rev. A network but they dont have the voice CDMA coverage of Verizon. They ended up signing a roaming agreement where Verizon users can roam to Sprint and vice versa but if you go Sprint...
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- Post #9
- Mar 21, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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This is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH.

Perhaps I was not clear, when I was saying if I go to a restaurant that had that equivalent sign for that language, I would leave in protest based on principle of seeing that offending sign, not because I am too ignorant to order in that language(via a phrasebook or equivalent). I still do...
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- Post #112
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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This is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH.

This is America, please use tolerance. This is an immigrant country, not everyone may be able to speak English when they get here. That sign is in my opinion crass. Its like if you go to a foreign country and don't speak the language, and you see an equivalent sign, I would be pretty pissed...
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- Post #80
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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ATOT... I humbly ask for your advice.

I would go with option 3. It may still take some time and there MAY not be an offer for some unknown reason (like the sudden cutbacks due to the economy). At least this way you would have a secure promotion and all the related benefits. At least for me, I would have to say if you are leaving...
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- Post #43
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Am I getting older or does rap nowadays sound bad?

I honestly do not think rappers even rap now. I think they just "talk" on top of a beat. 50cent really is the shining example of this.
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- Post #39
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Need some San Jose county experts!

There is no way you will get a house in a good location for $450k. You may be able to get a small single family house or townhome in East Palo Alto but then why would you want to live there? And get used to having Asians around because the Bay Area is chock full of us (among everyone else)...
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- Post #22
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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DOCSIS 3.0

They don't do it through DOCSIS 2.0 because the technology and the standard were not designed that way. In simple terms, the original DOCSIS standard was based upon taking a normal 6Mhz analog TV channel and using it for data. DOCSIS 3.0 improves on this idea by bonding multiple channels...
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- Post #12
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Best Movie Intro?

I really liked the intro of the second X-Men movie where Nightcrawler is bamfing around the White House and trying to assassinate the president.
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- Post #48
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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DOCSIS 3.0

I doubt this will be massively deployed anytime soon because it is a big money upgrade requiring both changes on the head end and the CPE side (your modem). The cable companies will probably not do this move soon unless they have competition forcing them this direction or if some potentially...
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- Post #4
- Mar 19, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Routers set up incorrectly?

Here is what you want Wireless Bridge (ethernet port) -> Linksys Router (WAN port) Your PCs -> Linksys Router (LAN ports) Get your Wireless Bridge connected to the RV park WLAN. The wireless bridge should be transparent to your router which means your router should not know about it. It...
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- Post #4
- Mar 14, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Citrix's port number 1494 filtered by ISA. Can't get it to pass through.

If I were to guess with the issue, it seems that you need to get the Citrix client to launch with the domain credentials. If you don't match the username, then ISA wont let you through even if the other parts of the rule match. These rules are like all or nothing matches. I am guessing since the...
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- Post #3
- Mar 14, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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telnetting to see how HTTP works

OP, there are only a few actually HTTP commands such as GET, POST, etc. Wikipedia has a good article on HTTP which describes them. You can always read the original RFC which is where all the gory details are. If you really want to see the transactions that are going on in HTTP, you can use a...
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- Post #12
- Mar 14, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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so who's a computer engineer?

These pretty much sum up the industry. I used to work alot with Broadcom and anyone who does any sort of actual design is a PHD and a huge majority of the supporting engineers have an MS. You will not get to do any design at a big company with just a BS. Broadcom pretty much only hired grad...
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- Post #23
- Mar 14, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How much mney does it tke to live "comfortable?"

I would say $100K in Silicon Valley to live comfortably and buy all the stuff I wanted/needed for me and the g/f. Rent is $1500/month Food is $300/month for me and my g/f Netflix for entertainment $40/month Weekend fun $200/month Gas is $200/month Utilities $200/month (for winter...
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- Post #73
- Mar 7, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Need ideas for a trip

There is no way you will enjoyably get to do San Francisco and LA done in 3 or even 4 days. Don't even try it. Pick one or the other. I am from Southern California and live in the San Francisco Area now.. You will/should spend a whole day at Disneyland(from park open to park close). If you...
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- Post #9
- Dec 18, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone under 30, and not buy nicer things as your salary increases?

Well as others have said before, I think my spending has plateaued since I have almost everything I wanted. I just turned 24, and I just got a great job in Silicon Valley. As most tech people around here, I love gadgets. That means I at minimum must have the following things: HiDef TV...
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- Post #73
- Dec 5, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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tips for applying for jobs outside of my city?

Don't rely on getting long range hits from Monster.com. In fact, I have only gotten 1 hit from the 100's of applications I did that way. What worked for me was to apply directly with the company that you want to work for. For example, just think of all the companies that are in your industry...
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- Post #9
- Sep 26, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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