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In that situation there are three safe and legal answers:

* Replace the wiring with grounded cable. Expensive.

* Replace the outlet with a GFCI and label it "no equipment ground". Gives most of the safety benefits of a proper ground, and is up to code. Not that expensive.

* Use a cheater plug [1] and connect the external ground tab to a pipe or something else grounded.

What you're asking for is basically a cheater plug plus an ordinary power strip, sold as one integrated unit. Better to keep them separate so that people know what they're dealing with. Also, what the poster upthread was describing didn't have a grounding tab, so there was no way to hook it up safely.

(The landlord isn't required to set up grounded outlets out of a general principle that you only need to bring things up to code when you're modifying it, and that something that was legal at the time it was installed stays so. Your unit could legally have knob-and-tube wiring if it's old enough!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug