3/10    "Speeding motorist dies in Emeryville pileup"
        http://www.csua.org/u/q9q (http://www.sfgate.com
        YES!
        "No one else was hurt."
        Another YES!

3/9     "Prius with stuck accelerator glides to safe stop"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_runaway_prius
        "After the car decelerated to about 50 mph, Sikes turned off the
        engine and coasted to a halt."  Hmm, then why didn't he turn off the
        engine when the car was going at 94mph?

3/9     http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele
        I failed to see why you must starve the CPU of electricity. Why
        can't you just simulate that in software?
        \_ And if you can simulate that in software, why not just single-
           stepping the simulated CPU and get the key out?

3/9     Someone's gonna post about breasts, so I'll beat you to the punch:
        http://www.good.is/post/fifteen-things-you-should-know-about-breasts

3/8     I have a mod_rewrite question that I think should be straight-
        forward but I think I'm not getting something.

        I have a virtual server with some root, say /home/user/public_html/
        and in there I have two subdirs, say /app1/ and /app2/
        and i want the following:
        http://mysite/app1   -->   /home/user/public_html/app1
        http://mysite/(.*   -->   /home/user/public_html/app2/$1
        so for ex, http://mysite/app2   -->   /home/user/public_html/app2/app2

        So anything that's not "app1" would map into the app2 subdir ...
        but I guess this causes an infinite loop in the processing? Since it
        just keeps prefixing /app2/ onto the path until it crashes? any
        advice? thx -
        \_ IIRC it matches in order. However, the way you have it, it looks like
           http://mysite/app1 or http://mysite/app1/(.* might not be matched by
           your first rule. Perhaps "http://mysite/app1(/.*)?" or something may
           work better (untested though, but you should get the idea)
           \_ ok sure you're right. But my main question is how to get the
              2nd rule to work w/out generating an infinite loop. ie,
              http://mysite      should go to  home/user/public_html/app2/
              http://mysite/foo  should go to  home/user/public_html/app2/foo
              http://mysite/app2 should go to  home/user/public_html/app2/app2
              etc, but w/out infinite loop. possible? thx
                  \_ Oh, I see. You probably want
                     http://mysite/app2 -> /home/user/public_html/app2/
                         as a separate rule, or perhaps...
                         http://mysite/([^/]*)(/.*?) -> /home/user/public_html/app2/$1$2
                         ...maybe? I don't know why it would be rewriting it to a path on
                         your filesystem...it's been a while, but I thought it rewrote
                         URLs, not filesystem paths. I'm just guessing...

3/8     Hey guys, Piaw Na's book is ready! I got a copy and it's pretty
        informative and inspiring. Worth every penny.   -CSUA startup dude
        http://books.piaw.net/guide
        \_ He worked at 3 successfule pre-IPO statups.  Does anyone know how
           much his net worth is roughly?
           \_ I am pretty sure that 90% of his net worth comes from Goog,
              so you can pretty safely discount the rest.
           \_ why does it matter to know? would it help you in any way?
              \_ No.  I just want to see how much better other people do than
                 I.  -- PP

3/7     My sister is graduating soon with a decree in information management.
        She was orignally CS, but couldn't cut the math, so her GPA sucks.
        However, she has had a couple of internships and did fine.  She did
        desktop support at RockYou and is currently doing web programming
        at UC Santa Cruz, but they can't keep her on after graduation.
        Anyone got any jobs?  She wanted to be a network admin, but right now
        she'll take anything. Probably work cheap too.  -jrleek
        \_ Where does she want to work (geographic location)?
           \_ She was hoping to get out of the states, but she's not picky.
              She currently lives in Santa Cruz.
              \_ out of states to... Canada? Mexico? Can you be more specific?
                 \_ Preferably somewhere English or Japanese speaking, those
                    are the languages she knows.  She's not picky here
                    either, although Afganistan is probably out.

3/5     A while back, I mentioned the possibility of hyperinflation in the US
        Looks like I'm not the crazy one:
        http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1969231,00.html
        \_ Stands to reason it will happen. We want a weak dollar to pay
           back debt with devalued dollars and we printed a lot of them.
           I invested a lot in TIPS.
        \_ Yawn. Right now the problem is deflation, not inflation. That
           article says that taxes are going to go up instead, and I tend
           to agree.
           \_ Taxes will probably rise, but inflation is inevitable given
              how many dollars we printed and scarcity of natural resources.
              I would (and did) bet heavily against deflation.
              \_ How do you explain Japan's two decade long experience with
                 deflation then? They printed lots of money, have ran massive
                 budget deficits, have a scarcity of natural resources and
                 have not been able to shake the deflation bug.
         \_ "As Washington ponders its taxation options, it might also wish
             to cast its gaze toward the NYSE and Nasdaq, whose companies add
             very little to the public till."
             Only if you completely ignore the payroll taxes and sales
             taxes these companies pay and the taxes their employees pay
             out of their salaries.

3/3     Bad joke from Google:
        http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
        \_ This is several years old.

3/3     If you read this
        http://www.net.berkeley.edu/dhcp/faq.shtml
        and find why it's funny, you're an old Soda geek.  -John
        \_ Nice. Any idea who might have written this? erikk, maybe? There
           are probably a lot of Sodans in IST. -not-that-old-Soda-geek
           \_ Jon?
        \_ Scanning it, I see reference to Phil. What others?

3/2     http://www.businessinsider.com/the-world-needs-autistic-people-like-einstein-mozart-and-tesla-2010-2
        Autistic people RULE!!! Einstein rules!

3/2     If you're reading this, chances are you're a Soda geek.
        This may help:
        http://www.upgradereality.com/how-to-attract-hot-girls

3/1     so given all the compromises (goog + a bunch of other companies),
        is the goog dns safe to use?
        \_ why use it? it's slower than verizon dns (4.2.2.2). also, goog dns
           breaks akamai.
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/12/googles-new-dns-service-has-one-major-flaw-poor-performance.html

3/1     http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/25/which-supplements-re.html
        Supplements that look promising vs. strong evidence that they work.

3/1     http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/27/can-entrepreneurs-be-made
        Surprise, your entrepreneurialship spririt does *NOT* correlate
        withi your personality (it is not genetic). Is very much environmental.

2/26    Why did it take so long to get the Min-Nan language a unified pronunciation
        system? Mandarin did it looong time ago with Jhuying, then Tongyong Pinyin, and
        finally Hanyu Pingyin. Now if only the Cantonese pronunciation system
        is unified as well:
        http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/02/23/2003294235
        \_ unified under nuclear fire.

2/25    http://www.regretsy.com/2010/02/24/goats-exe-nsfw
        best macbook covers ever.

2/26    "US Navy lifts ban on women in submarines: officials"
        http://www.csua.org/u/q6v (news.yahoo.com)
        Some top brass must have thought this is a great idea after watching
        the JAG episode which Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie (Catherine Bell)
        inadvertently had intense chest contact with a sailor when they're
        squeezing through a tight corridor on-board in opposite directions.
        \_ this has got to be a really bad idea
           \_ women are probably more suited to submarine conditions,
              actually.
              \_ explain please?
                 \_ Check out the sub museum in San Francisco and you should
                    be able to figure it out pretty quickly.
                    \_ Argh!!! I'm over 2000 miles away from SF.
                       \_ subs are small.  women are small.
                          \_ Bell's chest isn't small.
           \_ No, it hasn't: http://bit.ly/a7tezZ (Canadian Navy report on
              mixed-gender staffing on submarines)
           \_ I think it's a bad idea to mix the genders, but an all-female
              sub sounds like a great idea.
              \_ Isn't that the plot of a James Bond movie?

2/26    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252734/Domesday-Book-2010-Strip-clubs-soaring-libraries-disappearing--figures-lay-bare-life-modern-Britain.html
        Strip clubs rising, schools falling

2/26    http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/painful-truth-about-age-discrimination-in-tech-209?page=0%2c0
        There are bold programmers, but no old programmers
        \_ This is true, mot ppl i knokw who are older seem to want to "get out
           of programming."  They have kids, they want to do other things.
           \_ There was an article about how programming isn't that rewarding
              as an end game to most normal (non psychologically troubled) folk
              \_ show us the article. Yeah a lot of the old farts at my work
                 who still program seem psychologically... different.

2/25    iTunes has two job openings for production support engineers. It's
        mostly chasing production issues so that the engineers don't have to.
        Lots of SQL, some scripting, no actual coding. Pager required. Sorry
        if I'm not selling it. Check the website or email me if you're
        interested. -abe
        \_ can we do this remotely?
        \_ an aside, not derogatory, but in the effort to understand terms
           is (in general) a Prod. Support. Eng. basically Help desk guy++
           for that specific product?
           \_ Yes.
           \_ the lack of answer already made a deep impression for me WRT
              to working for Steve Jobs the Crazy Slave Master.
              \_ Or the fact that soda's not as reliable as it used to and
                 I hadn't logged in for several days. If you're interested,
                 send me an email. As for slave driving, the hours at Apple
                 seem to vary greatly by group, and even within groups.
               \_ Good reading RE: Slavedriving at Apple:
http://www.chuqui.com/2008/08/mobileme-problems-show-apple-needs-an-infrastructure-lesson
        \_ Is Apple really a slave shop? I am thinking of applying for a
           Director of Ops job there, how many hours a week would this guy
           expect to put in?

2/23    Look, Angry Sysadmin has his own following now:
        http://seekingalpha.com/author/karl-denninger
        \_ have our cities turned into free-fire zones yet?

2/20    There was a failure validating the SSL/TLS certificate for the server
                                          <DEAD>mail.csua.berkeley.edu<DEAD>
        The reason for the failure was
                          self signed certificate in certificate chain (details)
        We have not verified the identity of your server. If you ignore this certificate validation
        problem and continue, you could end up connecting to an imposter server.
        If the certificate validation failure was expected and permanent you may avoid seeing this
        warning message in the future by adding the option
                                             /novalidate-cert
        to the name of the folder you attempted to access. In other words, where\
ver you see the characters
                                          <DEAD>mail.csua.berkeley.edu<DEAD>
        in your configuration, replace those characters with
                                  <DEAD>mail.csua.berkeley.edu/novalidate-cert<DEAD>
        Is anyone else getting this error trying to send email?
        \_ motd format policy was here.

2/20    wtf happened to soda again?
        \_ aand again just now?!
           \_ aaand again 3 x in one day, wtf is going on?!

2/20    ChromeOS: Can anyone comment on how it performs, specifically on
        older systems?  Some sort of "min system reqs" would be nice to know
        if you can't comment on performance due to NDA.  Thank you.

2/20    http://www.cnbc.com/id/35440326 is this just pro-apple hype?

2/20    http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/20/app-store-rules-sexy
        wtf.
        \_ Hello China+Apple!!! Soon anti-communist rhetoric and anything
           suggestive of it will be banned on the iPhone apps as well.

2/18    Why is there now Firefox 3.5.8 when there was already 3.6 a month ago?
        \_ Why is there Windows XP SP3 when there was already Vista?
           Generally companies manage patches for at least two levels of
           product.  -tom
           \_ I see.  So Fx 3.6 is more like a new version than an update to
              3.5.x.  --- OP
              \_ 3.6 is not an automatic update from 3.5, at least yet, so
                 they're both being maintained.  -tom

2/18    What happened to wall?
        \_ Died a natural death?
        \_ phase 1: soda got hacked, politburo disabled EVERYONE's account,
           most people didn't bother going through the procedure to get turned
           back on.
           phase 2:  vp didnt figure out how to keep soda successfully mounting
           NFS storage until recently, so a lot of people had trouble logging
           over the last few months.  I'm shocked i can log in now !
           kind of sucks, but i guess all things end.
           \_ recently? it's still dying.
                \_ as i write this, it is currently dead.
        \_ what do you suppose the end game for soda is?   just turn
           it into a forum on something like yahoogroups?   motd become a
           google wave doc?
           \_ The end game is it will be thrown into E&S, with all the disks,
              and put into a box and shelved in a giant warehouse in emeryville
              as the camera pans out and harrison ford goes "Fools."
              \_ Lol that explains the countdown timer.
              \_ Wrong. Soda is already gone. This is a VM. Didn't you know?

2/16    Car with stuck accelerator crashes into crowd at Georgia auction:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_car_crash_auction
        ...... But it's not a Toyota.

2/17    Picture of U.S. Marines protecting Afghan man and child from Taliban
        fire: http://www.csua.org/u/q4m  This picture can use used in US
        propaganda.

2/12    I need a way to make a really big C++ executable (~200MBs) that does
        nothing.  No static initialization either.  Any ideas?
        \_ static link in lots of libraries?
        \_ #define a   i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0; i=0;
           #define b   a a a a a a a a a a
           #define c   b b b b b b b b b b
           #define d   c c c c c c c c c c
           #define e   d d d d d d d d d d
           #define f   e e e e e e e e e e
           #define g   f f f f f f f f f f
           int main(int argc, char *argv[])
           {
               volatile int i = 0;
               if (i == 0) return 0;
               g g g
               return 0;
           }
           This should give you about 210MB in both Linux and Win32.
           This should give you about 210MB in both Linux and Win32 on x86
           machines.
           \_ I like you. Best motd answer, EVAR.
           \_ Wow, thanks.  That's cool.
        \_ Just wondering, what is this for?
           \_ At work we're porting a very large code to a new platform.
              The executable was seg faulting and I just figured out that
              the system probably can't handle executables larger than
              ~100 MBs.  (It turned out to be about 54MBs really).  I
              needed a reproducer. -op

2/10    Our president hung out with moot at TED. When an office hoser
        said 'pics or it didn't happen' she replied 'pictures
        aren't allowed at TED.'
        \_ Maybe those pics aren't for you to see.
        \_ What's "TED"?
        \_ *yawn*

2/11    http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-you-should-look-for-in-a-marriage-partne
        What you should look for in a marriage partner. Get this, you want
        someone who is BOTH conscientious (makes sense) AND neurotic (!!!).
        \_ Married men don't live longer, it just seems longer.
           \_ Married men do live longer, but they are a lot more willing to
              die.
        \_ you could just live at home with your folks:
           link:www.csua.org/u/q4p

2/11    I spend a lot of time watching TV at home. I keep seeing these
        commercials: UEI college. Let Your New Life Begin, Call
        1-800-GET-SLIM Lap Band. Check Into Cash. ITT Technical.
        Sometimes Larry H Parker. I'm in Southern Cal. What
        commercials do you guys see in the Bay Area?
        \_ ObGetALife

2/11    Is anyone watching Caprica.  Is it worth it? Do you like it?
        I recently started watching SG:U and it's not bad, oddly.
        \_ Not watching either; oddly trepidatious about Caprica, and
           SG:U lost me at SG:A. However: reviews of Caprica sound good,
           and at least one excellent hard SF writer (John Scalzi) is
           writing for SG:U, so... maybe worth checking out?
           consulting for SG:U, so... maybe worth checking out?
           \_ You should know that it was in the contract stipulation
              for working as a writer for SG:U that you could have never
              written for SG:A.  Atlantis was that bad. and they know it.
              SG:U is pretty good, if you like moral ambiguity, will to power
              and examinations of people striving for power.  Plus it has
              Begbie.
              \_ So you directly contradict this? http://tinyurl.com/yzka2hh
                 > The complete writing staff from Stargate Atlantis is
                 > back to kick off the new series,
                 \_ Yeah, I work in the industry.

2/10       Our president hung out with moot at TED. When an office hoser
           said 'pics or it didn't happen' she replied 'pictures
           aren't allowed at TED.'
        \_ Maybe those pics aren't for you to see.