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| 1998/8/21-22 [Academia/Berkeley] UID:14491 Activity:high |
8/21 I can't believe berkeley is tied #1 with Univ of Virginia.
\_ What are you referring to? --dim
\_ Well, definitely not college rankings... or sports...
maybe specific academic fields... or #1 in the Worst
Quality of Women.
\_ Actually it's academic rankings - UCB & UVa are
tied as #1 public universities in the latest
US News and World Made-up Statistics Report poll
\_ Come on, there are enough good looking girls on campus
already, stop being so picky unless you've already had it
with all of them.
\_ All I ask is for a girl without a mustache - is that
too much to ask? In Berkeley, apparently so. -wombat
\_ Quantity-wise, maybe that's true. But relative to
number of students @ Cal, blah.
\_ Go take more psych and am-scam classes.
Just thinking about them get my panties in a bunch.
\_ I've taken plenty of psych classes. Don't bother.
\_ That's right. Virginia is a much better school than Berkeley
is! |
| 1998/8/21-25 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:14492 Activity:high |
8/21 Hi. Does anyone know how to change the default X-Windows manager
on a Solaris system? Please give solutions, not alternatives.
\_ If you're using CDE, add "SESSIONTYPE=xdm" to your ~/.dtprofile
and it will run your ~/.xsession instead.
\_ Thanks.
\_ what window manager are you trying to run? There's mwm, twm,
fvwm, wmaker (and then there's CDE). Just add that to your
.xinitrc file (echo exec wmaker >> ~/.xinitrc)
\_ Thanks.
\_ WindowMaker is pretty bad ass. In order to get it
on your account run /usr/sww/GNUstep/bin/wmaker.inst
which should put the right files in your home dir.
And make sure you have SESSIONTYPE=xdm in .dtprofile
(Only runs on Solaris machines though)
\_ And if you're not on an EECS-Inst machine,
completely ignore the above garbage.
\_ Not true! It ought to work on any (Solaris,
apparently) machine with SWW mounted.
\_ Inst SWW != "real" SWW
The Solaris x86 Inst SWW is
especially far off from the real one
\_ For instance, there is no
WindowMaker on the real sww
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\_ twm is too complex and clutters up too much of your screen
with frivolous decoration. _I_ use 9wm, the Plan 9
window manager.
\_ Only on EECS-Inst Solaris/x86 machines you mean,
which is a very small %age of "Solaris machines"
\_ Is there any webpage that summarizes features of each wm and
compares them?
\_ Yes, there are a couple.. just do a websearch like
+X11 +window-managers +comparison
\_ Try http://www.plig.org/xwinman |
| 1998/8/21-22 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:14493 Activity:very high |
8/21 My supervisor asked that everyone in the office release their
e-mail password to her. I don't feel comfortable doing that, and
was wondering if there is some sort of UCB e-mail policy about
not releasing passwords that I can quote in response to her request.
\_ Your boss has no right to require that you give them your
password. root has the right to have full access to your
account but that's a different story. Don't do it. Tell him
shoove it up his ass if he forces you to.
\_ root has the ability, but not necessarily the right, to
full access to your account. (If at a UC or ISP, root
is prohibited from reading your e-mail for instance.)
\_ Just say "NO WAY IN HELL"
\_ You are F..I..R..E..D!!!! (do I smell million dallar law
suit?)
\_ Is it your personal email account or work account? Either one,
you have to right to not to. You should ask her her reason for
knowing password.
\_ It is my csua account which I also use for work. What
I am looking for is some sort of csua or ucop rule that
says I am not obligated to give her my password.
\_ CSUA policy forbids you from allowing anyone
else to have your password or use your account.
If she wants a password to your work e-mail,
make her give you a work e-mail account. --root
\_ in fact CSUA root will turn your account off
should we find that this is the case. --jon
\_ Employers have a legal right to access to your office workstation
and business related accounts. That does not extend outside the
office. Forward your mail outside and tell her to shove it.
If they forbid you from forwarding your mail outside the company,
be very careful what email you do with your business address. BIG
UC Policies. --jon
BOSS is WAtching YOU. -ERic
\_ But the UC/UCB e-mail policy protects the privacy of
UC employee e-mail - see
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/policy
\_ Your *e-mail* is protected, but your *password* is
not. In fact there is a campus policy that
your supervisor *must* have all the passwords you
use for business purposes (if you're UC staff).
They just can't look at it except under the
situations outlined in the e-mail and other
policies. -tom
\_ No, root never knows what your passwords
are. Having passwords stored anywhere on a
computer comprimises security. Passwords on
/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow are one way
encrypted so there's no way to derive
the original passwords without a password
cracker and a high performance computer.
\_ A 386 is powerful enough
to crack many passwords.
\_ I didn't say root, I said "your
supervisor". -tom
\_ Boy imagine that, UC managers who do not understand
or are not aware of UC Policies. --jon
btw, if you want a wider discussion, there is also
http://ucb.net.discussion. I am sure some of the more
security minded denizens of that newsgroup will have
some interesting opinions on this topic.
\_ Well its nie the the UC at least grants some expectation
of privacy to employee email. I'm just pointing out that
in the 'real world' of employment, it can be very
different. -ERic
\_ I think she likes you!
\_ I think so too!!
\_ She's married and I'm a girl. Hence, I don't think so.
\_ She could be bisexual.
\_ How about giving me your password. I am not married
and I am a guy and not gay.
\_ which company is this? |
| 1998/8/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:14494 Activity:moderate |
8/20 They should just hire a hit man and waste that sucker instead of
spending millions of dollars on missles.
\_ Clinton's finally learning that wars and conflicts deflect
attention from his extracirricular activities.
\- Hmmm, I think that would be extraCURRICULAR,
you dope.
\_ Are you REALLY that brain dead?
\_ Ok, next time I write a joke, I'll put (this is a joke)
at the end so there's no confusion. Sheesh.
\_ Your bandwagon wag-the-dog theorizing bores me sick the
way you're nothing more than a mindless fuck repeating
what you hear paying no heed to the eventuality that even
a feigned display of having a spine by our pathetic
president may be sufficient to prevent foreign psychos
from bombing our embassies, not that you'd think of
something like that, thinking being one of those things
your Barbie dolls are better at than you are, you walking
waste of carbon; may you be more useful in death as a
fossil fuel than you could ever be in life. -(fucker)
\_ Geez, are you that humor impaired?!? Shit, does anyone
really believe the above statement? Besides, when's the
last time anything serious was said on this motd
\_ The problem is that in fighting terrorism, we risk
becoming terrorists ourselves. Were any civilians
killed in this exercise?
\_ Your point is...?
If I had a point in abusing some poor ratfucker
for being a moron, which I don't in a painfully
obvious manner, you wouldn't get it anyway cause
you're just the type of inbred 'coonstuffer who
needs the meanings and points of things beaten and
hammered into your rediculously impotent brain
much in the same way lead pipes and other large
metal objects should be. -(fucker)
\_ if you have to ask...
\_ he's like a half-billionare. it'd take about $20m for the reward.
\_ Yeah, and it'd save the cost and embarassment of an impeachment
hearing...oh wait, wrong sucker.... |
| 1998/8/21-22 [Recreation/Sports, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:14495 Activity:nil |
08/20 The Match Game! Your celebrities are Richard Dawson, Mary
Tyler Moore, and Charles Nelson Reilly. "Hot Dang, them
______'s good eatin!" |
| 1998/8/21-22 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:14496 Activity:nil |
8/20 http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo.html \_ old news. |