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| 1998/10/21 [Uncategorized] UID:14793 Activity:nil 80%like:14805 |
10/20 Soda was rebooted at 5 pm so that we could bring back the reasonable
256 meg MFS /tmp partition instead of the 27 meg weakling we have now. |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:14794 Activity:high |
10/20 What's our CSUA's mail server? Is it <DEAD>scotch.berkeley.edu<DEAD>? \_ No. http://csua.berkeley.edu \_ than why did someone say our mail was buffered on scotch? \_ It is when soda goes down. Scotch is the backup, not the primary. Run 'host http://csua.berkeley.edu' and notice scotch has the larger priority number (mail servers are tried from lowest to highest priorities) \_ side question: which is it really? (yes i know all 3 work) http://csua.berkeley.edu http://soda.berkeley.edu http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu \_ http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu and http://csua.berkeley.edu will stick around. csua could theoretically be changed to point to a different machine if soda ceased to be the csua's primary hoser hangout. http://soda.berkeley.edu was supposed to go away after we got the csua domain, but it hasn't yet for reasons unknown to me. \_ Tradition. I want "ucbvax.berkeley.edu"! \_ It doesn't matter - they are all the same machine. \_ I guess my question is, will there always be all the multiple domain names for 128.32.43.52? \_ soda.b.e might go away some day, but the csua controls the others so they'll be here for a long time \_ http://dr-pepper.csua.berkeley.edu \_ how about <DEAD>odwalla.csua.berkeley.edu<DEAD> \_ <DEAD>select.csua.berkeley.edu<DEAD> for the truly poor ... \_ I'm sorry, but noone should ever be this poor \_ hey I like select root beer \_ We should have accept.csua, send.csua, open.csua, creat.csua... \_ puddle-water.csua.berkeley for the destitute |
| 1998/10/21 [Uncategorized] UID:14795 Activity:nil |
10/20 How much hot air can you spew in one minute? DOWN WITH MICROSOFT!
\_ http://www.artbell.com/images/whowhat.jpg |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:14796 Activity:moderate |
10/20 What are with these rumors about phantom of the opera leaving SF?
\_ Read the damn paper. It's leaving in December - no rumor.
\_ Read the damn newspaper. It's leaving in December - no rumor.
\_ It's high time it left. It's been there for years. --PeterM
\_ what's wrong with Phantom of the Opera?
\_ nothing. it's just been here too long. bring in
another musical.
\_ Here is one good reason why it sucks:
Andrew Lloyd Webber. Give me Sondheim
Gilbert and Sullivan anyday or a good
performance of Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:14797 Activity:very high |
10/20 LucasArts has announced that their Day of the Dead-inspired 3D
adventure game Grim Fandango has been released to manufacturing and
should be available to U.S. and Canadian customers beginning the
week of October 26.
All hail the mighty mogul! --pld
\_ THE ONE REAL QUESTION: When will all of berkeley have it (burned)?
We should have a competition with other Universities:
The 100% Pure Piracy competition. Except for MS-interns who
buy at 90% discount, who buys this shit anyway? We're CS/EECS,
and who the !@#$ has time?
\_ Rumor has it that Lucasfilm is bailing on all their Macs
name? Ok how's this: --- been burned too many times
for a strictly NT network...
\_ Well, we all know Lucasfilms is in the buisness of making
things blow up. So I guess NT is a good start.
\_ Yeah whatever. Yet another shitty game for the junk heap.
name? Ok how's this: -aswan
\_ Thank you. It's nice to know how my three years of loving toil
will be rewarded. And oh yeah... SIGN YOUR NAME, BASTARD! -mogul
\_ Hey, fuck you. What makes this one so special? How many
shitty games must I buy before a decent one comes out?
I don't give a shit that you coded for it. You want my
name? Ok how's this: --burned by too many shitty games
\_ "95%. The finest adventure game ever." -PC Gamer UK
"9.5/10. Play a gaming legend today." -Our second
review. Those are just our first two reviews. I'm
sorry other games suck; it's too bad that makes you
avoid good games as well as bad. -mogul
\_ The same rags that gave crap like Red Alert top
marks. No thanks.
\_ Wow, this tears you down even better than anything I
could write.
\_ Really? So I should buy *your* shitty game on your
say so? I feel so self-torn. Peddle your shit
elsewhere. /
Since when did this become the computer game whiners association?
GF is technically ambitious and interesting, and Bret did a lot
of neat design work on it. I really don't care what games you like
or buy, especially now that you've shown yourself to be a kneejerk -pld
\_ Gee, could you be a bit more defensive and touchy? Talk about
kneejerk. "Some s0da h0serz wrote it s0 it must B k-RAD!!11"
\_ Let's try an analogy here. Someone posts to the Public Health
Undergrad Association's motd: Congratulations to mogul for
discovering that quinine is effective against malaria!
\_ Cool! How does it work?
\_ Yeah whatever. Another shitty bitter drink. Fuck you.
That clueless latter person is you. What a maroon! --pld
\_ Seems to me you're saying this game's gonna
be shitty because someone here is promoting
it and someone else here coded it. Or is it
automatically anytime anyone promotes a game,
it's shitty?
\_ I'm saying all games are shitty until proven
otherwise. Gimme a demo and maybe I'll come
back tomorrow and rave about it. Is there
a playable demo available?
\_ of course there is, dumbass
\_ Prove it. urlP
\_ Oh, gee, what is this?
http://www.lucasarts.com
Hey, it says "The Grim
Fandago Playable Demo" is
now avaiable for download."
Damn, now why didn't I think
of looking here? Oh yeah,
I'm a dumbass.
I downloaded and played and now I can say with %100 _/
certainty that this is Yet Another Hyped Shitty Game.
I'm not only unimpressed, but mildly offended at the wasted
download and install time.
--burned again but not dumb enough to piss away cash
\_ You must have an incredibly high standard not to like
LucasArts adventure games. Only games outside LA
that are of same quality is the Gabriel Knight series,
in my opinion.
\_ Pretty good play. However, some stupidly random
mandatory tests, and crashes all the time.
I give G.K. an 85%, personally.
\_ Probably. I expect a game to be _fun_. Silly me.
\_ most lucas arts games have been pretty crappy in comparison to
other games like doom, etc. i was extremely disappointed with dark
forces, for example. --disappointed with lucas arts
\_ Well that's pretty funny because (for example) the id Software
guys have often stated that they felt that Dark Forces was
the only good game that came out as competition for Doom.
And it also received much critical acclaim.... -blojo
\_ I dunno, I just thought that after the novelty of blowing
away Storm Troopers wore off, DF was pretty dull. At least
Duke Nukem 3d was kind of funny and Quake was pretty.. -John
\_ hmmmm, have you tried the playstation version? this is the
crappy one. maybe the pc version is better. --disappointed
\_ I've played just about every 3D shooter out there, and the only
ones I've cared to finish are Quake2, Dark Forces, and Jedi
Knight. The latter two proving technology isn't everything.
\_ Day of the Tentacle. Sam and Max. Lucas Arts games rewl. -lim
\_ Only LA, Blizzard, and iD have near perfect track records.
\_ Blizzard? Only if you like super micro management click
fests like Starcraft. AI? Hello?
\_ Name a game with good AI. Quake is not a fun game
because of its AI. Neither is Star/Warcraft. And what
kind of argument is click-fest? Heck, even Tetris is
is a click-fest. You want a game where things just
unfold for you?
\_ Nethack is not a clickfest
\_ For starters, how about my units don't stupidly stand
there while a building right next to them gets
pounded or my mutalisks don't pursue a single enemy
on their own flying right over 30 missile towers.
Apparently, that's far too much to ask. Or maybe
my units using their special powers on their own
once/century. clickclickclickclickclickclickclick!
\_ Go bret! |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:14798 Activity:nil |
10/20 Thanks to those who put soda back on-line.
\_ although down for an entire weekend that was some pretty good
uptime. How long was that one?
\_ what exactly happened anyway?
\_ soda go foom.
\_ /home was fruitful and multiplied (or divided, depending
\_ /home was multiple and fruitified (or divided, depending
on your point of view)
\_ How many day's worth of mail; if any, bounced ?
\_ Most likely not any, because scotch is a mail exchanger for
soda, and probably wouldn't have bounced any mail during that
time.
\_ Thanks to those who took soda offline so I had to go to the beach. |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Consumer/PDA] UID:14799 Activity:kinda low |
10/20 Does anyone here use Palm Pilot III or Phillips Nino? Which one is
a better deal?
\_ Palm III=$319, Palm Modem=$100, Palm PC Link=$25, Palm Total=$444
Nino 312, modem and PC link, Nino total = $369
Palm III has 2 megs. Nino has 8 megs. Palm III input device sucks.
Nino is quite flexible (like the Newton). Nino has more applications.
Palm III applications suck. Nino can voice record 16min/meg. Palm
has no such feature. Go figure
\_ Somebody hand this man a grammar book opened to the part
about articles.
\_ 8MB of RAM on the Nino is really weak. The overhead of the OS
makes it pretty slow in comparison to the Palm devices.
\_ NO D00DZ DO NOT USE NINO, IT IS PEECEE, WIN CE BASED, AND BECAUSE
MICROSNOT SUX, NINO MUST SUCK!!! DONT GIVE IN TO THE EVIL SIDE!!!
\_ For not much more you can get something like a libretto min-laptop
and run a real OS (FreeBSD works for me).
\_ If you want to use the ricochet modem, factor in that you have
to buy a serial I/O card which is about $180. The little cable
for the Palm devices are much more reasonable. I suppose it
doesn't really matter since most of the palm-sized devices are
going wireless next year.
\_ not to mention the ricochet modem for another $300 or so...
\_ I'm holding out for the Phillip Nunez, which will blow both of those
away. - phillip #1 fan
\_ Most importantly that it can store infinite amounts of
data?
\_ Of course. It uses PhilCompress(tm).
\_ PhilOS rules!
\_ Specs of PhilWoman? |
| 1998/10/21 [Uncategorized] UID:14800 Activity:nil |
10/20 New product announcement:
512K personal organizer with 100% data-safe technology stored in
non-volatile methods on starch platters. It never crashes, works
in any language, and even comes with convenient stylus at the
ASUC store. Total Cost? $6 (4 for the organizer, 2 for 2 pens!)
\_ Does it have a TCP/IP stack?
\_ No, but it can hold a stack of post-its, and stamps too! |
| 1998/10/21-23 [Computer/SW/Languages/Functional] UID:14801 Activity:kinda low |
10/20 Who manages emacs for soda ? I want to add something to the lisp dir.
\_ And who are you?
If I tell you; will you fart in my general direction
\_ It's in /usr/local/bin, hence is managed by root. However requests
to add stuff to the lisp dir will most likely be answered with
"put it in your own damn lisp dir twink"
\_ maybe we need a /csua/lib/e-lisp added in for something cool
enough to be shared but not official enough to add to the real
emacs distribution?
\- if there isnt some really good reason to put it inthe
site-lisp dir, people should put it in their own space.
if you dont know what "good reasons" are, you probably cant
make this judgement. you should of course include an ISUCK
switch :-) --psb
\_ I want leim input method in the distribution |
| 1998/10/21-23 [Uncategorized] UID:14802 Activity:low |
10/21 How is the whistler 1510 for $77? Basically it's a Radar Detector
w/ LED Display & Super Ka Radar, Laser System
Anyone interested? tora67@hotmail.com
\_ I think radar seeking ground-to-ground missiles would be far more
effective.
\_ I'll drink to that! |
| 1998/10/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:14803 Activity:nil |
10/21 The really cool thing about having peace talks in your own country
is that if either side threatens to leave you can always lock them
up in a room until they start growing up. |
| 1998/10/21-23 [Industry/Jobs, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:14804 Activity:nil |
10/21 If I'm suppose to put job openings in /csua/pub/recruiting, then
how will people know that I put one in there? Is this a poll
instead of wait for event type of messaging system (ie,
people interested in jobs poll the directory rather than being
told that something is available)? -cliffwd
\_ Both. You may announce it concisely in /etc/motd, with something
like:
10/21 Interesting job hacking on vacuum tube design in
SF, see /csua/pub/jobs/Vacuum. -- me
\_ H3Y!!!!!1!!! 1 L00K3D 1N TH3 J0BZ D1RECT0RY, AND
1T"Z N0T TH3R3!!!!1!!! WHUT G1V3Z???/? TH1Z
S0UNDZ L13K MY DR3AM J0B -- 1 LUV W0RK1NG W1TH
VACCUM TUB3Z (TH3Y"RE T0TALLY K-RAD, 1N A RETR0
ST3AMPUNK K1NDA WAY!!!1!!!) |
| 1998/10/21-30 [Uncategorized] UID:14805 Activity:nil 80%like:14793 |
10/20 Soda was rebooted at 5 pm so that we could bring back the reasonable
256meg MFS /tmp partition instead of the 27 meg weakling we had before. |
| 1998/10/21-25 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:14806 Activity:low |
10/21 Anyone know a good perl module (or other reliable method) of
interfacing with mail spools? Specs for spools? -jnat
\_ you just want to read the spools, or do all the file locking
stuff as well?
\_ formail and procmail are pretty useful
\_ ever considered scanning CPAN under the Mail:: namespace? |
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