5/18    ZNGA    -13.42%
        LNKD    - 5.65%
        GRPN    - 6.69%
        YELP    -12.36%
        RENN    -20.99%
        Thank you FaceBook!
        \_ Wow, there was a lot of talk about the FB IPO boosting ZNGA.  I
           thought that was bunk, but I didn't think it was going to make it
           dump to it's lowest level ever AFAIK.  I guess that was the
           disappointment of the people who be on a boost selling out.

5/18    ZNGA    -13.4%
        LNKD    -5.65%
        GRPN    -6.69%
        YELP    -12.36%
        Thank you FaceBook!

5/18    On my Win7 machine, I've been using a PuTTY ssh session to soda as a
        proxy for my FireFox to bypass my company's OpenDNS when I visit
        http://tv.yahoo.com and so on.  It has been working fine for a long while.
        However, in the past couple weeks or so, my FireFox would either take
        several minutes to load the page, or failes to load it after several
        minutes.  I haven't changed any settings on my Win7 machine.  Rebooting
        didn't help either.  Is there any change on soda recently that could
        cause this?  Thanks.

5/17    Anyone have the guts to short Facebook out of the gate?  I think it's
        overvalued, but at this point it looks like there are enough
        suckers to float this castle in the air for quite a while
        \_ I don't think you can find the shares to short yet. I am long
           personally, but only with 200 shares. It is a moon shot kind of
           stock.

5/15    "Jim Ausman is now connected to Scott Thompson (Internet Executive)
        from Your LinkedIn Network Updates" <--- most hilarious update

5/12    Fresh Air 2: 2 Fresh 2 Furious:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZKuN-g

5/10    Nude in NYC (NSFW):
        http://animalnewyork.com/2011/03/photographer-exposes-the-nyc-experience-herself
        \_ What a stone cold hottie. Mad props to her for doing this
           in that weather.
           \_ Would be much hotter without the tramp stamp.
              \_ I dunno, it works for her. Personally, I could go with
                 something tribal on her arm to match.
        \_ Her boobs look biggest in the 7th pic and the smallest in the 8th.

5/9     "Viewing child pornography online not a crime: New York court ruling"
        http://www.csua.org/u/wcp (news.yahoo.com)

5/9     "Science Reveals How Not to Spill Your Coffee When Walking"
        http://www.csua.org/u/wcr
        No wonder the UC is short in funding.  Just put a damn lid on!
        \_ Before you complain "Now that there are studies for everything,
           some day we'll hear about studiets on studies", please note that the
           Pentagon is always one step ahead of you:
           "This Is Not a Joke: Government Issues Study of a Study About
           Studies"  http://www.csua.org/u/we6 (news.yahoo.com)

5/8     Hello everyone!  This is Josh Hawn, CSUA Tech VP for Spring 2012.
        About 2 weeks ago, someone brought to my attention that our script
        to periodically merge /etc/motd.public into /etc/motd wasn't
        running.  When I looked into it, the cron daemon was running, but
        there hadn't been any root activity in the log since April 7th.  I
        looked into it for a while, but got lost in other things I was
        working on (Studying for finals and what-not).
        Anyway, I decided to look into it again today and just restarted
        the crond daemon using:
            `/etc/init.d/cron restart`
        And it seems to be working now.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  I
        should have noticed that I wasn't getting any cron daemon emails
        from soda for so long.  Please continue to enjoy using motd.
        Sorry for the service interruption.
        \_ Thank you Josh! Are you guys still giving out awesome
           @csua.berkeley.edu mailing addresses so that future alum
           like yourself can enjoy perks like Amazon Prime
           for students?
           \_ I was able to use this account to sign up for FB
              before the masses, what other perks have you seen?
        \_ Ah that'd explain why my (cron based) motd archiver was broken too.
           -ERic

5/4     "9-Month-Olds Show Racial Bias When Looking at Faces"
        http://www.csua.org/u/wac (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ RACIST!!!
           \_ 9-month-old racists, yeah.
        \_ I tell you, my daughters hated white ladies at that age.  (White
           Dad, asian Mom.)

5/3     Scott Thompson. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_Thompson_%28businessman%29&diff=490513783&oldid=487188814
        \_ It doesn't matter if he has a real CS degree or not. The fact
           of the matter is, he didn't go a real college.       -berkeleyan
        \_ In case, like me, you had no idea why this was relevant:
           http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-ceo-resume-20120504,0,7614923.story
        \_ I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman, Miss Stonehill College

5/3     What's the best way to take a medical leave of absence? Do they actually
        need a doctor's note, or is it usually on a trust basis?
        \_ I've never needed a doctor's note.  I have heard of people being
           asked for one after they return from a long leave, though, so you
           might want to make sure your doctor at least has a record of how
           long you've been sick in case it comes up.
        \_ Obviously it depends on the company.  My previous company had
           unlimited sick leave, and no doctor's note was needed.  Yet I didn't
           know of anyone who "became sick" frequently.
           \_ READING COMPREHENSION. sick leave != leave of absence
              \_ Oh, so "medical leave of absence" == "leave of absence" ?

5/3     Kate Upton's video to brighten your day:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=34hWlRJHCqs

5/3     Does anyone know what happened to the cypherpunks mailing list archive
        that used to be on soda?

4/30    Anyone know if Apple has employee shuttles that travel to the East
        Bay? If so, which of the 80s, Hwy 880, 580, and/or 680?
        \_ RPG or IED?
           \_ I don't know what this means.
              \_ Rocket-propelled grenade or improvised explosive device.
                 Which way are you going to intercept and bomb the shuttle? :-)
                 \_ Sure does sound stalker-ish, at the least.
        \_ Google tells me that there are shuttles to East Bay but not the
           route.
        \_ Googling tells me that there are shuttles to East Bay but not the
           exact route.
           http://www.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/articlefiles/ProfilesofEmployer-SupportedTransportationPrograms.pdf
           \_ This is good enough, thanks!

4/29    My company is a public company and is talking to a private equity
        firm. Is it ALWAYS a bad news when PEs are involved?  -not Yahoo
        \_ Pretty much. This was written for Yahoo! but could be for any
           company being bought up by private equity:
           http://preview.tinyurl.com/4yha2xp -still at Yahoo

4/27    I'm looking for an inexpensive sofa bed (small, for 1-2 people tops).
        Ikea's stuff is a bit TOO cheap. Any recommendations for similar
        stores that may have slightly higher quality goods? I'm in SoCal
        if it makes a difference. Thanks.
        \_ ikea << sears << bed bath and beyond = crate and barrel << macys
           that is as far as i have gotten

4/27    I wrote a little shell script to collect iostat data:
        #!/bin/bash
        DATE=`date +%m%d`
        DATADIR=/var/tmp/user
        OUTPUTFILE=$DATADIR/$DATE.out
        while true
        do
        date; /usr/bin/iostat -x 1 > $OUTPUTFILE
        done

        Is there a better way to do this? Open source tool perhaps?
        \_ It's the easiest way. If you want to go fancy, Graphite is
           pretty nice for app level stuff.
           \_ Wow, this Graphite?
              http://graphite.wikidot.com
              Do you have it installed?

4/26    I see that soda has an ipv6 address but ipv6 traffic from this box
        doesn't actually work (ping6 <DEAD>ipv6.google.com<DEAD>, ping6 http://www.v6.facebook.com
        Is this expected to work?
        \_ Soda doesn't have a real IPv6 address.  The IPv6 addresses you see
           in ifconfig are just link-local addresses; any IPv6-capable machine
           will autogenerate these, whether or not it's connected to an IPv6
           will autogenerate those, whether or not it's connected to an IPv6
           router.  They're useful when you do things like connect two machines
           directly with an ethernet cable: they'll both assign themselves
           addresses and it just works.  You need a real address to talk to the
           directly with an ethernet cable: each machine will assign itself an
           address and it just works.  You need a real address to talk to the
           internet, though.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address

4/23    I love greasy comfort food but as I'm approaching mid 30 I
        can't eat them anymore. Anyone else have the same problem?
        \_ 42 and still happily scarfing down the greasy comfort
           food, just not in the same quantities. It's a genetic
           thing.
        \_ 47 and eating greasy food, but not as much. McDonalds grosses
           me out, but I can still eat a bacon cheeseburger and fries. My
           main problem with this is that I need to watch my weight more,
           so I tend to eat less of everything, especially high calorie
           greasy food.
        \_ 40. I need to eat Pepcid or else I'd die. Getting old. :(
        \_ No wonder the undergrads don't post here!
           \_ Whaddya mean? I'm 54 and an undergrad. Oh, who am I
              kidding.

4/23    PHP sucks
        http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design

4/9     Instagram got bought for 1B dollars. Are you shitting me?
        \_ What's $1B / 13 employees? ...yeah, my calculator just keeps
           spitting out FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
           \_ I'm sure there are VC's who will get much bigger chunks than the
              employees.  But yeah, the employees' chunks should still be huge.
              \_ Founder supposedly still has 40%. FB is throwing money around.
                 Easy come, easy go, I guess.
        \_ Welcome to Dotcom 2.0. When do you think it will crash? I'm
           waiting to short the market. I doubled my earnings in 2000-2001
           (I short too early in 1999, but made it back in 2000-2001).

4/9     "Jennifer Love Hewitt Gets a (Digital) Breast Reduction in The Client
        List Ads"  http://www.csua.org/u/w0e (tv.yahoo.com)
        Why!?  NO!!
        \_ At least it is only digital. One hot friend of mine got her Ds
           reduced to Bs. It was a crime against nature.
           \_ Which reminds me of Christina Ricci and Simona Halep, both of
              which also underwent the same crime against nature.  Damn. -- OP

4/11    This looks like something that Nick Weaver writes ("if you're in
        CS for money, you're most likely an incompetent engineer"):
        http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/07/when-code-is-hot

4/16    "The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds"
        http://www.csua.org/u/w2x (gma.yahoo.com)
        I can't help noticing in the video:
        - how the doctor stayed standing up while examing this Jessica
          Schnaider sitting down,
        - how often he checked her heartbeat with his stethoscope, while
          standing up,
        - how convenient for her doctor the way she wore her button shirt was
          when she walked in to the office.
        \_ Why does her doctor need to listen to her heart so much? She isn't
           there for her heart disease.
           \_ Exactly.  I think she's building up a media presence to pave her
              way to a reality show.  And I think the doctor is knowingly in
              it.

4/18    I am an American't.
        \_ ...... in search of an Ameri-cunt.
           \_ No cunt for someone who can't.

4/18    They are back together again!
        http://www.csua.org/u/w3w
        Gee, this pedophile is good.
        \_ My hero!

4/19    My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
        version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks."  Are
        they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
        Firefox?
        \_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
           so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
           any official patch or release to fix it. Major suckage for
           those of us with PowerPC Macs, since FF4+ and Chrome don't
           run on our machines.
           \_ Try TenFourFox:
              http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox
              \_ Interesting! Now if I could just get a decent Flash plugin.

4/19    Motd updater thingy seems to be broken, does anyone know why?
        If not, I will take a look later in the day. -ausman
        \_ /etc/motd.public is not getting copied into /etc/motd for a while.
           \_ Now it works and no one knows why. Strange. -ausman

4/20    http://gizmodo.com/5903760/how-to-buy-a-facebook-girlfriend-for-5

4/23    Data driven decision for dating. Sounds like what aspergers in
        Mountain View would do:
        http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cyber_cad_dater_input_LGdBZ57ATtIGWwCqffATXM
        \_ Now that's a good solution for Big Data!

4/5     Alumni BBQ
        Please come! Reunite, be nostalgic, etc.
        April 14 6pm-9pm Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA  94720
        Top Dog will be served along with other sides probably.
        Potato Salad? Yeah!  Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream? Oh Yeah!
        Fruity Crack? Probably not :-(
    \_ Top Dog will be served along with other sides probably.
       Potato Salad? Yeah!  Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream? Oh Yeah!
       Fruity Crack? Probably not :-(
       \_ Get Off My Lawn!

4/3     Counter offer: don't do it!!!
    http://news.yahoo.com/why-shouldnt-counteroffer-133221049.html

4/03    Trolling to soon be illegal:
        http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

4/02    We use Perforce at work for revision control. It seems to work okay.
        Lately, a lot of the newer developers are saying that Perforce
        sucks and we should switch to Mercurial or Git. I have done some
        searching on the Internet and some others have this opinion. Added
        advantage is that Mercurial and Git are free. However, there would
        be some work to switch for the sysadmins and the developers.
        Is it worth it or do people just like what's shiny?
        \_ I *love* git but there are good reasons to use Perforce. Do they hold
           for you? http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=50
        \_ I *love* git but there are good reasons to use Perforce. Do they
           hold for you? http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=50
           \_ That post pretty much describes my experiences with git and p4.
              Unlike the author, I do use the distributed stuff in git (it's
              nice to have a local repository when you're working from home),
              but everything else is right on.
           \_ We're moving from Perforce to Git. Too many branches and pushing
              code around is painful. Idea is to properly componentize the platform
              and apps, and have 1 repo per jar, stored our GitHub-FI. Let maven
              download the dependencies and do the build locally. We'll see...
              code around is painful. Idea is to properly componentize the
              platform and apps, and have 1 repo per jar, stored our
              GitHub-FI. Let maven download the dependencies and do the build
              locally. We'll see...
        \_ These "new" developers want the latest and greatest. Hint. It's
           not about the language or the revision control system. It's how
           you use them. There are 10000s of ways to use Git. What is the
           convention you guys agreed on? That is more important that anything
           else. What happens if architect A wants to use convention A and
           another architect insists on using convention B and they're
           incompatible and you end up with a massively distributed unmergeable
           monster and end up bifurcating the code base? You're FUCKED!!!
           Another thing: having a code-review system is much more important
           than the revision control system. If you don't know what that is
           or understand why that is more important than language/system/platform
           then you should not be in a position to make this type of decision.
           What is your position in the company and are you in the position
           to make this type of decision?
           or understand why that is more important than language/system/
           platform then you should not be in a position to make this type of
           decision. What is your position in the company and are you in the
           position to make this type of decision?

3/29    Amazing that that shows you girls around you:
        http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-without-their-knowledge-its-a-wake-up-call-about-facebook-privacy
        \_ This app doesn't work for me.
           \_ Works for me. Where do you live?
              \_ Sunnyvale.
        \_ Foursquare blocked them. Harder to be a stalker now.

3/29    A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
        good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
        card--no game)?
        \_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
           having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
           most machines were custom built.
           most machines were custom built.  -- yuen
           \_ did that make you a better programmer/gamer/etc?
              \_ No.  I was writing a pre-emptive multi-threading library as
                 part of an effort to port some floating-point-heavy Unix code
                 to DOS for CS199.  I couldn't figure out how to save the
                 "context" of Borland C++'s floating-point emulation library.
                 The options were to either mask context switching around all
                 floating point operation or get a co-processor.  I ended up
                 getting the co-procoessor.  -- yuen
                 to DOS for CS199 (http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~bilmes
                 mypubs/bilmes1992-icmcmood.pdf).  I couldn't figure out how
                 to save the "context" of Borland C++'s floating-point
                 emulation library.  The options were to either mask context
                 switching around all floating point operations or get a
                 co-processor.  I ended up getting the co-procoessor.  -- yuen
        \_ Why not Dell? What is it about Dell she doesn't like?
        \_ Fry's? HP? Lenovo? The only place I have done this is Lenovo.

3/28    Facebook trademarks the words "Face" "Book" "Wall" the letter F and the
        number 0:
        http://tinyurl.com/7j94c9e
        \_ 'F' them.

3/20    "New York Woman Blinded by Shopping Cart Dropped by Teens Forgives
        Them"  http://www.csua.org/u/vu4 (gma.yahoo.com)
        "One boy is serving six to 18 months in a non-secure facility in
        Westchester, while the other is doing six to 16 months in a
        therapeutic group home."
        What kind of justice is this?  Those thugs could have easily killed
        multiple people.
        BTW, what degree of manslugher is it for someone who discharges a
        firearm at random direction on the streets and kills people?

3/20    I own the new iPad. Behold, my enormous penis!
        \_ Huh?
           \_ He's obviously got it backwards.  He got the iPad
              *because* he's got a tiny rod and needs something else
              to boost his perceived self-esteem.
              \_ Ding ding ding! (but no dong) -OP
        \_ I am going to get one for my wife.
           \_ The new iPad or the enormous penis? :-)  -- !OP
              \_ I would be happy to get her both, but she would probably
                 only enjoy the iPad.