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2001/4/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21090 Activity:very high |
389/4 Stupid Yankees. using some non-global system of month then day \_ April Never Ended. \_ Ya, like we really want to emulate anything about the rest of the world. \_ I like mussels. \_ quit rattlin' yer bone box |
2001/4/25 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:21091 Activity:insanely high |
4/389 I want to find out how much a StorageTek Timber Wolf 9730 tape library costs i don't want to have to wait for their sales person to get back to me. Is there a website that has the approx. cost of big ticket items like this? Or/also can someone tell me how to get google and the other search engines to search on the character $ ? \_ I found a price 8,250 Lira. Conversion anyone? \_ google. Duh. Why can't people use a friggin search engine anymore? They're easier to use and more accurate than ever. \_ kids these days are weak and pathetic. |
2001/4/25 [Recreation/Dating] UID:21092 Activity:high |
4/24 What's up with Soda guys and Asian girls. Are there non-Asian fish in the sea? \_ wouldn't know; my wife's Japanese. -erikred \_ Most sodans are asian and hence prefer asian girls. I personally fall into this category. \_ Counterexample: one girl out of the last 9 i dated was korean. 1 was white/mix. All the rest were white. - paolo \_ I said most not all. You are the exception not the rule. Though most sodans prefer asian girls, they don't actually date asian girls, because they don't actually date. \_ D00D 4ZN CH1X R H07! \_ i think asian girls are seen as being docile and stuff, and hence are less threatening to the fragile, chickless geek. \_ D00D 4ZN CH1X R H07 ! L355 7HR3473N1NG! \_ yep, just helpful little fuck receptacles, appreciative of wealth, and compatible with geek interests. |
2001/4/25 [Health/Dental] UID:21093 Activity:high |
4/24 I have medical insurance coverage through work. Whenever I go to the doctor, they ask for my medical insurance card and a $10 copay. Then a few weeks later I get something in the mail from the insurance company saying that 80% (or something like that) of my visit was covered and the other 20% (which is more than the $10 copay) is not covered. At the end of the statement there's usually something like "Patient Pays: $50" which seems to be saying that I still owe my doctor $50 (or at least $40, if you count the copay). But I almost never get a bill from my doctor for that $50 / $40, so I never end up paying it. This seems to be how it has happened as long as I can remember, even with different doctors and different insurance companies. So what happens to that $50? Why don't the doctors try to collect it? Am I cheating my doctor by not sending them that money? just curious. \_ are your visits supposed to be covered 100% after co-pay? are you sure your doctor is "in plan"? sometimes some of the bill says "not covered" when it means "not charged, because we struck a deal with the insurance company". \_ My doctors always bill me for that amount. Always. It sometimes takes them a few months, but they will (minus the co-payment). If they haven't billed you then don't worry about it. --dim \_ It could be that your doctor is being nice and charging the insurance company extra to make up for whatever they're not \_ yawn. charging you. My dentist does that. \_ This is also a reflection of the quality of service you are getting. Good doctors/dentists don't need to do this. You get what you pay for. \_ This is not true. How does the dentist working the system on your behalf make him a bad dentist? Ethics and dental maintenance skills do not have a 1:1 correlation. The system is fucked. I don't see anything wrong with *everyone* working it. You already paid for full service care through your paychecks. The medical insurance industry is worth billions but they don't improve medical care. They only leech off the doctor/patient relationship. Please explain how paying too much to buy someone in the insurance industry a new yacht improves my dental/medical health care. \_ I firmly believe in the concept of "you get what you pay for" when it comes to goods and services. But I can usualy differentiate between my choices. A lot of people seem to either not care or don't have the time to care to notice the differences and thus always go for the lowest priced item. |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:21094 Activity:nil |
4/24 Any ideas what's up with <DEAD>ftp.freesoftware.com<DEAD>? Seems to be down for several days now. \_ It's down. \_ Did their FreeBSD server crash after some many Linux ISO downloads or what? |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:21095 Activity:high 50%like:22658 |
4/24 what's up with putting linux ISOs on Soda??? \_ D00D GN00/11NSUX RUL3Z! 50D4 W111 500N B3 RUNN1NG 11NSUX! \_ um, just because _you_ don't use linux, doesnt mean other people don't use it either. afaict, the .isos are on http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/iso (not soda) - if there are any other iso's floating around these aren't the ones i put up - paolo \_ why'd you pick red hat and not, say, Mandrake 8? and why not a FreeBSD download? \_ 4.3, redhat, debian, slack are there. mandrake upcoming. - paolo. \_ Why is soda wasting disk space on this 11NSUX crap? If we have all this "disk space" lying around increase the damn quotas to 100 MB or something. \_ How about mirroring OpenBSD as well? Some of us use real OSes not this toy crap you are talking about. \_ try http://scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu- v4d1m claims to have it mirrored there. I leave it to you, the obsd afficionado to check for yourself - paolo. \_ man, you don't spell so good. \_ what is the url for the mirror page? \_ because despite mikeh's work for the csua in making freebsd available and advertising this to the vp, the vp doesnt care about anything that isnt what the vp runs. \_ the vp will run what the vp believes is best for the CURRENT interests of the UNDERGRADS in CS/EECS to run. Needless to say, the fact that the machine in question is being actively used by 162 and research code now, whereas is was unused before, proves my point. Seriously guys, you guys are alums (mikeh included). You have your own boxes at work or at home, which are much more powerful than ours. Why begrudge a current students their choice in OSes, for the projects that they want to work on? - paolo \_ soda will be converted to linux eventually, probably redhat too. \_ Bad troll, bad. \_ um. there is a 4.3-install iso on there, You know what? if you have an issue with my work, email me, Anonymous complaints will be ignored. - paolo |
2001/4/25 [Transportation/Car] UID:21096 Activity:nil |
4/25 Test. "Vadim" \_ if this test works, the above entry should be auto-deleted shortly. |
2001/4/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21097 Activity:high |
4/24 What's the name of that online comic thing with the plastic looking rabbit characters and stuff? Where he's in SF and doing QA and shit? \_ sluggy freelance? \_ http://www.leisuretown.com \_ thanx. |
2001/4/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21098 Activity:very high |
4/24 http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight3.swf Stick figure martial arts \_ also check out http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight2.swf (there are three animations per set) Is there an actual game coming out from this? \_ also check out http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight.avi Is there an actual game coming out from this? \_ excellent! stick around long enough for the Matrix bit.... \_ actually, i thought that was the weakest part... too many matrix spoofs out there already. \_ it was still more entertaining than CTHD... \_ Can people identify all the "references"? The flexible staff stuff was in "Tai Chi Master", as might have been the kicking-while-pushing-off-the-ground-at-an- acute-angle bit. The double-take replay on the smash- down was perhaps from Romeo Must Die, but definitely Jet Li in any case. Were there non-Jet moves on the part of the "hero", other than the Matrix silliness? \_ These were completely generic moves. You can find all of them in many, many movies. |
2001/4/25 [Industry/Jobs] UID:21099 Activity:high |
4/24 nweaver, you're an FPGA chip kinda guy. What's yer take on PIC Basic for prototype development vs. Xilinx/Altera solution, in terms of cost, ease of development, time to demo, debugging facility, etc? \_ Don't ask in the motd, send email. \_ dude, coding a PIC takes infinitely less time than coding an FPGA. you code your PIC in C or in basic. you get up to 20 IO pins depending on what pick you use. coding an FPGA requires IO pins depending on what PIC you use. coding an FPGA requires C. if pin count and speed are not an assue and price is, then most definitely go for the PIC. -ali you to write your shit in an HDL which is way lower level than C. if pin count and speed are not an issue and and development time price are, then most definitely go for the PIC. -ali |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:21100 Activity:high |
4/25 Where can I get the web based ssh stuff soda is running? I want to do the same thing at home to get around some workplace lame network setup issues. Thanks. \_ /usr/local/www/htdocs/ssh \_ or dl it from mindbright yourself: http://www.mindbright.com./products/mindterm \_ you do realize that it's just an ssh client in java, right? it's not ssh over http or anything, so if your network doesn't allow ssh packets to go through, it won't help you. \_ That can easily be remedied by having sshd listen to a port that the firewall allows instead of 22. \_ Ok, I dug further into it (I'm remote so this is all through email with the other person) and it appears they're doing http proxying. Nothing goes directly out. The workstation IP is 10.x.y.z. There is a unix box though, so I'm having them install sshd on that, running it on a high port, and then doing ssh NT->unix->home. The unix box has a real IP but only runs telnetd right now. You were right about the mindbright stuff not being what I wanted. \_ Hmmm... didn't know that. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for all the links and paths. \_ Ok, I found httptunnel. There's source, RPMs and a windows binary. Thanks for the help and info. Anyone bored is welcome to delete this thread. |
2001/4/25 [Health/Women] UID:21101 Activity:nil |
4/25 Just saw a poster: "Exotic is not a compliment". In what ways is it not a compliment? \_ for when ethnic chicks (asian, mullatto) are called 'exotic'. They claim that 'things' are exotic, not people... \_ Only the annoying PC ones. Real women understand that it isn't meant that way and don't spend too much time flipping through a dictionary for ways to be 'offended'. Exotic just means, "not white and very attractive". Ugly not-white chicks are never called exotic. They're called ugly. \_ Agreed. \_ Your definition is wrong. White chicks are often exotic. \_ Only 4 R1C3 B015! \_ do you mean this in the same way that "nigger" isn't an offensive word? -ali \_ I wish I was exotic. -white boy \_ I wish I was white - broke and exotic \_ Go to Japan. The women there will molest you. exotic is in the eye of the beholder. Of course, they're mostly dumb women with the disgusting habit of smoking. \_ Aren't the women in Japan well dressed, demure, shy and slightly coy? - #1 anime fan \_ You are. \_ I am erotic. \_ People who post on the motd are not erotic. |
2001/4/25 [Reference/Military] UID:21102 Activity:nil |
4/25 Does anyone here still use Armor-All on their dash (cars later than '93) \_ I use it on my Camaro, after brushing my mullet. \_ nope. it is not good for the dash -- it actually dries things out. i forget what we use now, but it's not armor-all. |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:21103 Activity:very high |
4/25 What's the syntax for searching the contents of each file with find? \_ why not use grep? \_ find /my/dir -name myFile -exec grep -ne myExp {} /dev/null \; \_ More elegant is find . -type f | xargs grep "search string" \_ how about : grep "search string" `find . -type f` ? \_ You want xargs in case find returns too many files for grep to process at once. \_ How is using xargs better than using -exec? \_ MAX_ARGS! What if there are more files than MAX_ARGS?!? Think before you do something dumb. \_ God forbid... xargs performs a separate grep on each. this may not be what you want. this can make it very difficult to tell exactly which file the search matched. Think before you give blanket answers. \_ Uh, how does it make it more difficult? And where did you get this notion that xargs spawns a call to grep per file, do man xargs and look up default values of -n and -s. \_ grep -H \_ that's great. How 'bout solaris? \_ Easy: grep -r pattern . If no gnu grep: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n pattern If no find with print0 and xargs -0: find . -type f -exec grep -n pattern {} \; --dbushong |
2001/4/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21104 Activity:nil |
4/25 Wasn't someone keeping some sort of motd archive? \_ ~mehlhaff |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:21105 Activity:nil |
4/25 how to make emacs 4-space tab, not 2. \_ (setq default-tab-width 4) \_ thanks. \_ ED! --motdbot \_ BOOT TO THE HEAD!!! \_ learn how to ask questions properly. --motdbot \_ question is properly phrased in Slavic grammar. |
2001/4/25 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:21106 Activity:nil |
4/25 Does MS Office 97 include some version of MS Outlook? Thx. \_ pro does. |
2001/4/25 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Security] UID:21107 Activity:nil |
4/25 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5726313.html?tag=tp_pr We should develop tech like this for the motd. Have a phantom "virtual sodan" bot that answers the dumb questions, and emits the obligatory RIDE BIKE and 'use google' remarks, and occasionally fetches useful info. \_ That's pretty useful for spreading rumors when you short a stock. \_ You mean getting sued and ruining your life? \_ It should also periodically initiate an Asian Chix post, post some obligatory trolls, insult tom, and accidentally overwrite some posts...just like a real person. |
2001/4/25 [Reference/Tax] UID:21108 Activity:nil |
4/25 Is there a govt agency that keeps track of how many people are moving in and out of a region? I'm interesting the population growth patterns in the Bay Area. Down to the county level. And no, census data is no good because it happens once every 10 years. I need year-to-year data. Thanks. \_ Try DMV. I think that's the agency which the most people are required to register (most adults have driver's license, some of the adults who don't driver get IDs), so that's most likely the agency with the most accurate data that exist. Hmm, actually IRS may be better. Most adults file with IRS, and most children are dependents of some adults. \_ The full census may be only every ten years, but the Census Bureau is constantly collecting and tracking data like this. \_ IRS. They know more about you than the census bureau. Also county tax recorder but not as accurate. |
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