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| 1997/12/3-1998/4/30 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:13520 Activity:nil |
11/30 Welcome to Soda Mark V. There have been changes from Soda Mark IV.
Add /csua/bin to your path. this is where user contrib stuff goes now.
A more complete list of changes will be compiled shortly and a
pointer to it will be posted here. |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:32167 Activity:nil 50%like:13517 |
FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 30 19:17:07 PST 1997 |
| 1997/12/3 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:32168 Activity:nil |
12/2 Soda is running an experimental lottery scheduler. Read
/csua/share/doc/lottery_info. --dpetrou |
| 1997/12/3 [Politics/Domestic] UID:32169 Activity:nil |
11/27 General Meeting Wed, Dec 3, 1997 6:30 306 Soda Hall
Elections Elections Elections. Read http://ucb.org.csua for more. |
| 1997/12/3 [Uncategorized] UID:32170 Activity:nil |
11/26 Problems with the ethernet card have been resolved thanks to
a donation by PeterM. --jon |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:32171 Activity:nil |
12/2 Does Perl's dbm package let you synchronize correctly, when
different threads access the same dbm file at the same time? |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:32172 Activity:nil |
12/2 Pentium II sucks big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\_ Explain
\_ It's a tad expensive but if you can't afford it you don't need
it in the first place. Buy an AMD or Cyrix or something. |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:32173 Activity:nil |
12/2 Can someone please explain the *.asp format on web sites? What kind
of language is it, and why is it prefered over traditional UNIX
scripts?
\_ it's not.
\_ The above person means to say it's not prefered over UNIX scripts.
In short, asp is yet another crime MS is trying to inflict on the
rest of the world. As far as I know, only MS's IIS uses it. |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:32174 Activity:nil |
12/1 why is my display all messed up? the screen isn't scrolling
and clearing properly when reading mail. is it still vt100?
\_ works perfectly for me, get a new client.
i'm using telnet
\_ you are an idiot.
\_ I FIND IT FASCINATING THAT YOUR ***** ASS WOULD NEVER
BE ABLE TO CALL SOMEONE AN IDIOT IN REAL LIFE, OR EVEN
SAY EXCUSE ME WHEN THEY'RE IN YOUR WAY. IS THIS A
POWER TRIP FOR YOU? YOU'RE AN IDIOT BECAUSE YOU USE
TELNET? YOU'RE PATHETIC, YOU LITTLE SHIT-FACED
CYBER-JACK-OFF MOMMA'S BOY. YOU BETTER HOPE YOU NEVER
SEE ME IN A DARK ALLEY, MOTHER FUCKER.
\_ Yet you didn't have the balls to sign that? -ax
\_ I call people idiots in real life all the time. I
specifically called YOU an idiot (if you were the
idiot who said "get a new client, I'm using telnet")
because telnet has absolutely nothing to do with
terminal emulation, and the client is almost certainly
not the problem, anyway. -tom
\_ I wrote the "get a new client" line. I did *not*
write "I'm using telnet". Relax Tom, it's only the
MOTD. You'll have a heart attack before you're 30 at
this rate. sign me, Concerned For Tom's Health
BTW, I did *not* write that long ALL CAPS diatribe
or call anyone an idiot, etc. I'm just thinking of
Tom.
\_ "before" he turns 30? hahaahahaah.
\_ How old is Tom? I figured about 28 or so.
--Concerned Even If Tom Is Older Than I Thought
\_ 29. -tom
\_ Well, see? Slow down or you could be
dead before your next birthday.
--Concerned About Tom At Any Age |
| 1997/12/3 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/Domains] UID:32175 Activity:nil |
12/1 Why does pine now require fully qualified hostnames for other
computers in the http://berkeley.edu domain?
\_ Name resolution weirdness being investigated. |
| 1997/12/3 [Uncategorized] UID:32176 Activity:nil |
12/1 Mark V is slower than its predecessor.
\_ at what?
\_ what are you smoking and where can i get some?
\_ It's a fourth rate cpu from a third rate cpu cloner. You expected
something? |
| 1997/12/3 [Academia/Berkeley, Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:32177 Activity:nil |
12/1 Join the protest against UCB offering scholarship to Chinese
dissident Wei
- why would you be against? you some kind of commie?
\_ I have never figured out why U.S. schools give free
education and so much money to foreign students.
This kind of activity should be banned by law.
\_ Uh, this isn't any random student. It's a politcal
gesture. It has zero effect on your financial aid or
ability to get an education.
\_ I totally agree. The US policy is causing too
much of a brain drain and money drain for other
countries. Educating their youth for free for
12 years, only to have them go to a US university,
to drain another $100000 from their country for
school fees and living expenses, and then have
the now productive person work in the US and pay
US taxes to pay for the education of US kids.
What a deal!
\_ How many get a spot that a real American (read:
read human being) would have had otherwise?
\_ I don't know about that, but the last time I
checked, the software industry where there is
a huge concentration of foreign born engineers
is short of 200000 engineers, and the
unemployment rate is at an all time low.
I don't know about UC Berkeley but at a lot
of less prominent universities, the professors
just can't find enough US graduate students
willing to spend 5 years of hardship and low
pay to do research work.
\_ How idiotic: U.S. universities would be a
bunch of third-rate diploma mills were it not
for European Jewish intellectuals (ie.,
Einstein, for starters) fleeing the Nazis for
the U.S. Would you deny Enstein a fellowship?
\_ I suspect very few graduate students are
fleeing political persecution. What
happened 50 years ago is irrelevant (kinda
like your argument). Its foreign countries
that need the U.S.
The amount of academic support given to foreign
students is disgusting. Hmmm, lets educate
our competition so they can undermine
U.S. based industries. Lets educate
foreign students for free when so many
bright kids in America are deprived of a
passable education. Think about it a little
bit.
\_ Foreign born engineers and scientists is
one of the major strengths of US-based
industries.
As for US education, I thought it has improved
a great deal already. In any case, it
already has one of the highest cost per
student. Throwing more money at it is
probably not going to solve any ills that it
has. Granted, some of the inner city schools
may have financial problems, but that is more
a problem of distribution.
\_ Wei is one of the few interesting thinkers to have come
out of China since the Cultural Revolution. That is,
universities are vying for him because of his notable
and influential scholarship. And I'm all for U.S. schools
recruiting smart people, foreign or not.
\_ Intellectuals and scholars OUT of UC Berkeley! Down
with the ivory towers! Sack all departments except for the
athletic department! What do you think this is, a place
of learning ?
\_ This isn't about scholastic achievement or intellectualism.
This is about some foreigner taking a spot a real American
would have had. Not just in the classroom but housing,
jobs, and other resources. What does this clown offer us
in return?
\_ How about scoring brownie points with the wealthy
Asian donors that Chancellor Tien got to donate
millions upon millions of dollars to the University,
so that they want to donate even more?
\_ You mean to build themselves an ugly building on
campus to further their politcal agenda?
\_ This guy will write a book and will earn his US
publisher a few hundred thousand dollars in Taiwan
alone (if all you care is people taking your money).
\_ I'm glad his publishers will make money. I'm sure
every crap book that Oprah features on her show makes
money. That doesn't mean the author belongs at
Berkeley or any other decent school.
I don't know if this guy will succumb to the
disgraceful infighting of the Chinese exiles, but
he did spend 14 years in prison unlike the Tiananmen
square student leaders, so you have to give him the
benefit of the doubt.
Remember that the money for him is going to come
some Chinese/Far Eastern studies department/institute.
And his personal experience with the Chinese prison
system alone would probably bring more for the
department/institute than your typical graduate
student. Now you may want to argue that Chinese/Far
Eastern studies are useless, but that's another
argument.
\_ It's just a forum for further propaganda.
\_ He won't be coming to UCB; he accepted a fellowship offered
by Columbia University - android
\_ Good. Suckers. |
| 1997/12/3 [Uncategorized] UID:32178 Activity:nil |
12/1 in trn, i can't hit return(enter) i get a ^M char, pls advise.
\_ stty
\_ "stty -extproc" is what I need to do on http://best.com
Can't get an explnation of what it does, but it works. |
| 1997/12/3 [Uncategorized/Profanity] UID:32179 Activity:nil |
12/1 List yer Mk. V bug reports here:
- tcsh %n prompt doesn't work
- "wall -b" and "wallall -on" don't work the same any more
\_ Ya, so?
\_ If no one knows what's wrong, it can't be fixed.
\_ I meant: "wallall doesn't work, so what?"
\_ ls --colors doesn't work! where's GNU LS!
\_ it's in /usr/local/bin, buster. gnuls and its hardlinks. --aaron
\_ ls --colors is an abomination from the depths of hell
(aka linux)
\_ alias ls /csua/bin/colorls
\_ DOS had a colored DIR command years ago. Don't be a DOS
lamer. -DOS #1 Fan
\_ "ooh I'm so cool because I refuse to make use of a
useful technology since it came from DOS."
\_ Sort of like the anti MS & Intel bashers.
\_ Do we have ping? Where is it?
\_ /sbin/ping -- yuen
\_ do we have a ping that doesn't do stupid shit like provide
three decimal places of "accuracy"?
\_ Yeah, and what the fuck is with those damn decimal
points in calculators and shit???
\_ idiot.
\_ (sorely tempted to list this motd as a bug...) |
| 1997/12/3 [Uncategorized] UID:32180 Activity:nil |
12/1 If you run a majordomo mailing list and are having troubles
with it, mail me directly. - Seidl |
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