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| 1999/1/21-24 [Industry/Jobs] UID:15264 Activity:nil |
1/20 The VA Experimental Audiology Research Laboratory in Martinez is
looking to hire a computer technician; /csua/pub/jobs/VA-tech -brg
\_ brg needs to be sodomized |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:15265 Activity:moderate |
1/20 Does anyone know what service binds to port 135 on WinNT? -Quoc
\_ One of the netbios wins name thingies.
\_ Telnet there and give it lots of garbage input and see if
it does anything kewl like crash the machine, otherwise don't
worry about it. -John
\_ Only on an unpatched NT box.
\_ Only on an unpatched NT box. Only a complete and utter
moron puts an unpatched box on the net for longer than the
5 minutes it takes to run the SP.
\_ its netbios-nameservice, aka WINS
\_ Didn't like my answer? I already said this. |
| 1999/1/21-28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:15266 Activity:nil 58%like:15371 |
01/20 Next Politburo Meeting - Tues. Jan. 26 1999 - 7:00pm - 337 Soda |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Uncategorized] UID:15267 Activity:moderate |
1/20 BARK AT THE POLICE!
\_ arf
\_ woof!
\_ bark
\- I guess this is what they mean when they say "The typical
soda user... -leblon
\_ BINGO! Give that man a prize! |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Computer/HW/Soundcard] UID:15268 Activity:moderate |
1/20 When you play an audio CD on a PC is the data read by the CDROM
read by the OS and sent to the soundcard or is there some kind of
special purpose hardware that directly sends data from the player
to the soundcard?
\_ yes
\_ open up your computer case and you'll see a wire leading from
the cdrom to the soundcard.
\_ it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to simply let the
OS handle it.
\_ it's not "that hard" to have the OS handle, for example,
modem services, but it's still stupid. -tom
\_ Not if you're a company selling sw/hw. :-)
\_ Mebbe you got cycles to spare, but most of planet earth
is trying to squeeze some useful productivity out of
hoggish Microsoft bloatware, and having the OS handle CD
audio may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
\_ The cdrom does the digital->audio conversion internally, and then
has an analog audio output connector (and headphone jacks if you
have a good cdrom player) That audio connector is usually hooked
up to the soundcard, which just amplifies it and sends it to your
speakers. -ERic |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Uncategorized] UID:15269 Activity:nil |
1/21 'leet new debugger?
http://www.lwn.net/1999/0121/a/mec.html |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15270 Activity:kinda low |
1/21 How do I easily add symbolic link like /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K15httpd, into
all the rc1 through rc6 directories?
\_ sounds like a job for a simple foreach loop
\_ bash
foreach i (`ls /etc/rc.d/ | grep rc`)
? ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd /etc/rc.d/$i/K15httpd
? end
--jeff
\_ By the way, if you're using RedHat Linux there's tksysv which
will do this for you. ~jefe/pub/tksysv
\_ (t)csh syntax is exactly the same, except of course,
you can do the foreach as 'foreach i (/etc/rc.d/rc[1-6])' -ERic
\_ fyi: The Solaris standard is a hard link. (ln, not ln -s) -ax
\_ FYI: Sun is schizophrenic. S89bdconfig, comes with the OS,
is a soft link.
All the Symon and SDS rc scripts are soft links.
\_ I didn't say Sun followed their own standards! :) -ax |
| 1999/1/21-24 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:15271 Activity:high |
1/21 CS department network services
people of questionable intellect, please view /tmp/policy.txt.
--PeterM
\_ it seems as though this policy is regarding desktop machines
within the department and has nothing to do with anyone's home
machines. is this not the case?
\_ There was an incident like this at UCLA where a dorm student had
his ethernet port disabled because he was running a multiuser
OS
\_ that's pretty lame if you can't run daemons without asking for
permissions first.
\_ impossible to enforce. You stupid fools.
\_ not impossible. Not against 95% of the people that want to
run them. They just do port scanning on specific ports.
\_ They can't force you to pay for their services or wipe your
disk with a "by running linux you have implicitly agreed to
this policy" statement. That's just some power tripping
moron making shit up. As for the rest, it's just stupid.
They don't take care of their own site security and couldn't
tell if someone else's machine was insecure so what's the
point? It's just silly. They are silly stupid people and I
fart in their general direction.
\_ Hello? Did you read the part that said this is the
"CS dept. network" policy? They're not "charging you"
- this covers machines owned by the CS dept. and on
their network - they have the right to define how
their property (computers & network) is used.
\_ Read it again. They don't have the right to create
a policy that you're pre-agreed to simply by having
a linux box on the network without making sure
you're read and signed the agreement first. Wake
up. This is so incredibly open to abuse, it isn't
even laughable. Actually, its down right scary.
\_ If you've got a box on the CS dept. network
it's either owned by the CS dept. or a CS
student group who agreed to follow CS
policies.
\_ Even the ones which can cost you money
without your having been made
specifically aware of such costs. The
policy is ridiculous and scary.
\_ What's ridiculous is the idea that
you can plug whatever you want into
campus network connections. -tom
campus network connections. The CS
department owns the connection, and is
having major problems with unsupported
Unix boxes, primarily Linux. This is
happening all over campus. While I don't
agree with all the points of the policy,
I fully support the department's right to
control its own network. -tom
\_ I agree that they have a right to kick
you off, but not to say that merely
running a particular OS implies your
consent to their entire policy including
charging you a bogus security fine
without making any effort to educate
anyone about the existence of this
policy. In fact, I doubt it's either
legal or possible to assign such a bogus
charge to anyone's CARS bill.
charge to anyone's CARS bill. An empty
threat is stupid. This is a research
and educational institution. They
should educate, not slap random
punishments around they can't enforce.
\_ It doesn't mention CARS bills,
because the CS dept. doesn't allow
students to plug in their computers
in Soda Hall. This is about
how the dept. 'charges' the various
research projects in soda hall.
\_ Hahahahhahha, I'd like to see
those monkey faced little shits
try to charge my Prof. for this!
\_ Yes I did. It didn't say I could plug in my own
machine and run all those services without getting
squished. They have the right to turn off a
network connection but not to charge me for their
worthless security check/approval. Can you say,
"stupid invasive big brotherish morons invent yet
another ridiculous set of paranoid self defeating
idiotic 'policies' again"? Knew you could.
\_ YOU CAN'T PLUG IN ANY MACHINE OF YOURS TO
THE CS DEPT. NETWORK. This has nothing
to do with personal machines at home. It
ONLY COVERS MACHINES IN SODA HALL.
\_ I didn't say "at home". I _can_ and
_have_ plugged a machine in at soda hall.
Thank you for playing. Try again? (Y/n)
\_ If you plugged your laptop in to
a connection in soda hall, you are
most likely doing so without
permission and can get in much more
trouble than just breaking the
linux policy.
\_ Anyone with more info? In what situations does that policy apply?
\_ CalLUG is trying to find out more about this. It looks like
it is targeted at researchers in Soda Hall. -- schoen
\_ Well, "FreeBSD" doesn't appear anywhere in that policy; sounds
like they're just trying to get you to make a sensible OS choice.
\_ You will be absorbed. It doesn't say I can't run all those
exact same services on my far less secure win 95/nt box either. |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:15272 Activity:kinda low |
1/21 The air supply fans in Soda Hall will be shut down today from
10:30-2:30 for filter replacement. If it gets a bit warm in
any of the rooms, it is more than likely a temporary condition.
--Anne
\_ they're shutting off the air! aaaaack! <gasp>
\_ it's only engineers. no big loss.
\_ When I first read this, I thought it was referring to those
people who like the music of the band named Air Supply.
I figured someone was pissed at people playing loud Air
Supply music in Soda Hall
\_ Seek help.
\_ Immediately. |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:15273 Activity:nil |
1/21 reject your preloaded capitalist redmond OS!
http://linuxmafia.com/refund |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:15274 Activity:nil |
1/21 http://www.cnnfn.com/worldbiz/europe/wires/9901/21/lego_wg Lego loses moeny for the first time. \_ I hate losing moeny, there is so little of it as it is... |
| 1999/1/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:15275 Activity:moderate |
1/21 Last night's 20/20 report concludes that since 1939, on average, people
have gained 2" in heigh, 4" in waiste line, +10 pounds (women), and
+29 pounds (men).
\_ Did 20/20 mention penile size and breast size?
\_ Yes, -2" penile length for posting something stupid in the motd. |
| 1999/1/21-23 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:15276 Activity:nil |
1/21 Rewling ssh/telnet client for winblows...
http://www.vandyke.com
\_ Better ssh/telnet client for windows, and this one's free:
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html |
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