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| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:12371 Activity:nil |
2/23 My snapfish account is expiring and they want to delete all my photos.
Anyone have a nice wget/curl script to get my images?
\_ You could do something really weird like actually *buy* a photo
or two. It might cost you all of 50 cents so they continue storing
your zillion gigabytes of photos for another year. If you wget them
you're not getting the original images, btw.
\_ always save your photos on cdrom or dvd. if you need to store
online, try getting a cheap web hosting solution like
http://www.onedollarhost.net (?). no bandwidth or storage space limit.
they have a setup fee, but afterwards it's $1/month. |
| 2004/2/24 [Uncategorized] UID:12372 Activity:nil |
2/23 Do you think My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance was cruel?
\_ Yes, but seeing how fuckin stupid Randi was,
saying "I did this all for you, my family" was
the most pathetic line ever muttered. That trash
(girl + family alike) deserves what happened.
\_ There was nothing wrong with the family. She was undeserving of
a family that cared for her so much. At what point were any of
the Coy family trashy? --Coy family defender #1
\_ I agreed with you, until the end when they said it was
all ok since Randi did this all for them. They're either
gullible as hell, or Fox did a great job of editing.
\_ I think that was some clever editing and the Coys trying
to make the best of a *really* ugly situation that their
stupid daughter and the producers put them in. Did you
expect them to say they'd never talk to her again? I
saw a mini-interview with her which said she and her dad
are 'working on their relationship' or some such thing,
so although the show ended with peaches and roses, the
off screen reality is much different for the Coys. I
think Steve made the show funny, she was a total loser
and the Coy family were 100% victims and decent people.
\_ I agree that the Coy family were 100% victims and
decent, good people (except Randi?)
\_ yes, except randi who was a totally selfish bitch
and a loser as well. |
| 2004/2/24 [Uncategorized] UID:12373 Activity:kinda low |
2/23 Happy Soviet Armed Forces Day! -- ilyas
\_ ah yes the good ole Red Army and Navy.. I miss it much.
\_ I don't celebrate Roman or Aztec Armed Forces Day anymore either.
\_ Why you're not even worthy of sacrificing to Queatzalcoatl.
\_ Yeah, I don't think the Aztecs played netrek to determine
who got sacrificed.
\_ how did they distribute military equipment after the USSR broke up?
\_ Looting. |
| 2004/2/24 [Uncategorized] UID:12374 Activity:nil |
2/23 Sorry I missed the answer to this last week. Reposting...
[Search motd archive] |
| 2004/2/24 [Recreation/Pets] UID:12375 Activity:nil 66%like:11664 66%like:11699 50%like:12007 50%like:13096 50%like:30147 50%like:30208 |
2/23 http://www.powergenitalia.com (work safe) |
| 2004/2/24 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:12376 Activity:nil |
2/23 there is talk about some southern states wanting to suceed because
of the liberalism in california
\_ yermom can't be in two places at the same time
\_ Yeah, and everytime a Republican gets into office Alec Baldwin
says he's going to move to Canada. Never going to happen.
What's your point? |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:12377 Activity:high |
2/23 Washington Post/ABC News poll shows only 38% of Americans support
amending the constitution to ban gay marriage. 58% said it should
be left to the states to decide. Bush is on the wrong side again!
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?date=2004/01/22/3
\_ So should I point out the bias of your source or point out that
the issue has barely hit public conciousness so the poll is invalid
or should I point out that like a lot of fuzzy feel good issues the
public is always willing to go along until they see their little
girl playing with the little girl across the street who lives with
2 lesbians and their little girl wants to spend the night there?
I'd go find the polls from last month that show the opposite but I
really don't care.
\_ Which judges? Are you just pulling stuff out of your ass? The
only court that's made a ruling on this so far was...wait for it...
a STATE court.
\_ Which judges? Are you just pulling stuff out of your ass? The
only court that's made a ruling on this so far was...wait for it...
2 lesbians and their little girl wants to spend the night there?
I'd go find the polls from last month that show the opposite but I
really don't care.
a STATE court.
\_ Well we might need an amendment that says the courts
they can't make legislators pass _new_ laws. Seems
pretty obvious already to me, but sometimes you need an
amendment to drive the point home. Maybe another one that
says once a law is passed, government officials have to obey.
-- ilyas
\_ No one said anything about judges. What are you talking
about?
\_ Agreed, brother. The constitution also finally needs to be
amended to stop all that flag burning, to keep people from
driving drunk, to make sure software jobs don't go to India,
to make sure people follow speed limits, yeah! -John
\_ Oh my god! We all know all lesbians are child molesters!
\_ what about filing Federal Taxes as a married couple? it
should be on a federal level
\_ Unfortunately, those 58% won't have their way if the judges have
their way. The only way for those 58% to get their way is to have
the constitutional amendment.
\_ You don't care so much that you overwrote three other people's
posts! Way to go asshole! You're also claiming that the WaPo
has a liberal bias which makes you an idiot AND and an asshole.
\_ Serious question and not a partisan troll: Is the primary reason
why conservatives keep wanting to add all sorts of crazy
amendments to the Constitution a direct result of judicial activism
by the Supreme Court during the 60's? That is, are they just trying
to pre-empt justices legislating from the bench?
\_ You don't care so much that you overwrote three other people's
posts! Way to go asshole! You're also claiming that the WaPo
has a liberal bias which makes you an idiot AND and an asshole.
\_ Overwrote? Nonsense. You was nothing new here the split
second before I hit save. The rest of your reply is just
ad hominen ranting trash. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:12378 Activity:nil |
2/23 I need to come up with some sort of scriptable solution for controlling
various hardware-- we already have an interface that accepts
string-based commands over a socket, but no way to control it via script
(e.g. with variables, if/then/else/while, error recover/reporting).
Would perl be good for this sort of thing, or are there simpler, more
focused languages/modules available?
\_ I'm not exactly sure what your situtation is, but FORTH is often
used as a language to control hardware. It's small, effecient
and easy to write interpreters for (there are quite a few
embeddable forth interpreters out there).
\_ Python 1.5 runs on vxWorks, if you are running that OS.
\_ Expect.
\_ perl is good to know in any case. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:12379 Activity:nil |
2/23 I have to rebuild a machine, and I must use Win2k and Internet
Explorer. Given that, what are some things I can do to minimize/
prevent adwares and spywares from overwhelming the computer?
Thanks.
\_ Please use motdedit or be more careful; you overwrote my post.
\_ Not Freeware, but PopUpCop is well worth the purchase. I haven't
had any major spyware creep into my system since I've installed
it, only the occasional cookie. Oh, and it blocks popups really
well, but you can always use Google Toolbar to block popups.
\_ spybot search&destroy, ad-aware, turn off all the automatic download
and run crap on IE. Most people don't need java or javascript for
most sites. You can put those few sites into a different security
zone and enable it there if you want. you *cant* use mozilla?
\_ Win2k + IE + GoogleToolbar + SpyBot is a decent combo. 95% solution. |
| 2004/2/24 [Recreation/Food] UID:12380 Activity:nil |
2/23 eric, how often do you save the motd entries? And do you save them
more during lunch time (when it's more active), or do pure random
sampling with equal time distribution in the 24 hour period?
\_ why don't you email him to ask? or use brain: what are the odds he
sits there during lunch manually saving the motd? |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:12381 Activity:nil |
2/23 With Comcast, when I ping remote hosts at a rate > 3 pings/sec, I
experience up to 98% packet loss. The stupid regular windows ping
program that can only send 1 ping /sec. They say they don't
support Linux. Could somebody recommend a Windows2000 program that
can send multiple pings per second?
\_ why would you want to ping faster? see iperf in udp mode if
you want to measure loss rates of IP.
\_ pinging faster is just going to test their ICMP rate limiters, which
obviously throw icmp data over a certain rate. Keep the icmp rate
low and you won't see the loss. What're you trying to prove, that
the rate limiter exists?
\_ I'm trying to use mtr to determine the location of an outage.
If it is limited to one ping per second, it takes far too long
to collect enough useful statistics. Any suggestions for
an mtr-like program that doesn't use ICMP?
\- you know there is a tcp/udp "ping" or "echo" service. that
is what those lines in the inetd.conf file are. i would
try to help more but you are posting anonymously and using
windows. --psb
\_ wow, the penalties for posting anonymously are brutal!
you don't get psb's help without which the world will end
but at least you know *why* the world is ending. thanks
for letting us know, partha! you're the best!
\- when multiple anonymous people are posting it is
difficult to know if you are talking to one or
several people. hence the confusion of "is this
about windows or not?" if someone asks me to spell check
my walls, i ignore them. if i am asking someone for
help and they tell me to spellcheck my email, i probably
would. i might even help if you sign with a hash of your
login. there are a couple of leeches on soda i probably
would not help. --psb
\_ its your choice of course. no one is trying to force
you to help anyone but your holier than thou thing
is done. what exactly is a soda motd leech? there
are some people here who know stuff, a lot who don't
and a whole lot who both provide answers and ask
questions. this isn't a warez board. there are no
leeches here. is there an upload/download quota
like when i had a 300 baud modem calling dialup
bulletin boards?
\- there are a number of people who you never
see around except when the want consultation.
i am not saying you have to do me a favor
but you ought to make an effort to be part of
the community. also helping people is simpler
when it is "stateful" as i said before. if some-
body has some anonymous question about sex, i
understand. an anon question of this flavor seems
pointless. and people do email me for more
detailed info. some kinds of help just wastes
the helpers time to do via motd instead of
interactively via email. --psb
\_ I'm using linux. mtr does not run on windows. I'm
looking for a windows program because I want to give
the comcast technician's supervisor an example of why
this is not a linux-specific issue. Can you recommend
a tcp/udp "ping" or "echo" linux program? --brett
\- use Net::Ping;
as a general note, using tcp ping is not a bad idea.
for example a sun that has crashed will probably
reply to icmp pings on the same subnet. i use a
really fast ping program to map classB sized networks
but it is pretty much customized and optimzied for
lblnet. if you have an interesting project i can
send you the codes but you have to mail me. --psb
\_ What percentage of internet nodes respond to
utp pings? tcp pings?
\_ unshielded twisted pair?
\- i mean between machines that are known
quantities ... this wont work if people
turn off the inetd echo service. i am just
sayin gif the point of the ping is to see
if the machine is up, icmp ping can be
misleading in the example i gave ... L1+a
a sun and icmp ping it from the same subnet
--psb
\_ grep echo /etc/services . |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:12382 Activity:nil |
2/24 Kerry fucks over POWs/MIAs from the Village Voice:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php
\_ Damn that right wing conspiracy. It's even infected the Villiage
Voice! |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Recreation/Dating, Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Sleeping] UID:12383 Activity:high |
2/24 Yahoo! News - Half of Young Americans to Get Sex Diseases -Study
http://csua.org/u/65j
Holy cow! I'd better stop sleeping around.
\_ I pity the poor dumb bastards at school now. I fucked my way
through school and didn't catch a thing. I used about 5 condoms
the whole time.
\_ How many other guys' semen have you indirectly touched with your
penis?
\_ it wasn't so indirect...
\_ Uh oh, homophobia hits the motd. None probably but if one or
more was slutting around and dripping with cum and I didn't
notice I think I survived. Thanks for caring!
\_ You believed it the chick said she was on the pill?
\_ What's the incubation period of AIDS again?
\_ Wow, this sounds pretty tin-foil condom to me.
\_ while I think condom is safe and all, I don't use them anymore.
When I started screwing this chick who was on the pill, I never
wanted to go back to condoms again. It just feels sooooooo much
better without the condom. It's like the difference between
getting a massage with a hammer vs. getting a massage with bare
naked hands. Having sex without condom is like, drugs, once you're
on it you get hooked forever.
\_ Agreed. And I take care of the safety issue by marrying a
virgin.
\_ Americans have the highest STD rate in the industrialized world?
But what about those amoral French? This can't be Tr00000!
\_ the french have sex-ed! Ignorance Is Truth!
\_ the french people i know seem to be quite priggish about sex.
\_ Er, I was kidding? You guys are a swift bunch here in
motdlandia.
\_ the promiscuity of the french seems to be an enduring
stereotype.
\_ Yo. Dude. I was kidding. HELLO. EARTH TO STUPID
MAN.
\_ you know, the world doesn't quite revolve you.
the fact that you were kidding is mostly
coincidental to the point that there is an
enduring stereotype.
\_ The world doesn't revolve me? Whoa dude,
that's like profound and shit.
\_ Of course the world revolves you. If it
didn't you would fly off into space. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/Rants] UID:12384 Activity:nil |
2/23 I'm looking at microsoft's career page. I'm surprised that there
are very few SW development jobs in India. It's all support and
and services. Almost all their development is done in US around
I remember reading some article that quoted Bill Gates
saying that he's not moving jobs overseas because "Microsoft is
not about making windows 5% cheaper." Anybody know more about this?
Action speaks louder than words. I'll work for Bill if
he means what he says about not moving jobs overseas and
continues to hire in the U.S. The real evil empires are run by CEOs
who move jobs overseas to cut cost and keep prices high so that they
can give themselves giant bonuses. As John Kerry calls them,
"Benedict Arnold CEOs"
\_ You're looking at the wrong page. Try MS's India page.
\_ ob economics 101 and ownership of public companies discussion.
\_ I didn't know M$ hires PRs from CSUA.
\_ I think Microsoft *contracts out* a lot of development to firms
in India.
\_ Yep - like Wipro:
http://www.wipro.com/aboutus/whoweare.htm
\_ just watch for the chinese to mass hire indian microsoft
subcontracters for their own windows-clone os. coding with
tar... just love it.
\_ Except they won't. They clone with a CD burner. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:12385 Activity:moderate |
2/23 Whoa, check it out. Looks like Andrew Sullivan's love affair with Bush
is well and truly over:
http://www.andrewsullivan.com
\_ He's a conservative. The power of the Republican party is that, no
matter how pissed people get, they'll always keep voting Republicans
into power. Check back with him after the race has boiled down to
purely Kerry vs. Bush. He'll be wishy washy for awhile and then
he'll throw in his lot with dubya despite it all.
\_ You guys just don't get it do ya? You're gonna lose!
\_ Who is "you guys"? I'm what you would call a dubya-hatin'
lib'ruhl.
\_ If this were a spending or military issue, I'd say you were
right, but this is an issue that directly impacts Sullivan's
life and liberties. He may not be as understanding, forgiving,
or docile as the Bush administration is hoping.
\_ I'd like to agree with you but, lemme see, how long did he
take to get over Rick Santorum's little proclamation and
take to get over Pete Santorum's little proclamation and
Bush's reply a few months back? I think it took him about a
month before he had completely moved on. This will take a
little longer.
little longer.
\_ http://www.spreadingsantorum.com
\_ Conservatives complain about Bush, but when presented with
a liberal, the conservatives will back Bush for sure.
\_ Like I said, you're gonna lose! I'm going to enjoy gloating on
the motd for awhile after it happens. The Republicans tried to
run on a culture war in 1992 without a record on the economy
and they lost. This issue is a big loser. Naked bigotry is
not pretty.
\_ How'd we do in 94 after everyone saw Clinton's first 2 years?
\_ How'd we do in 94 after everyone saw Clinton's first 2 years?
\_ Didn't the Republicans win Congress?
\_ nothing more bigotted than the gay agenda
\_ Ah yes, the ATTACK OF THE GAY AGENDA!
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/agenda.html
\_ Gore was a better candidate than Bush and he lost because
of this "But Bush is an idiot" effect. Bush is an idiot, but
I think Kerry is an even weaker opponent than Gore was.
\_ I think you're wrong. Nyaah nyaah! What an intellectual
debate we're having.
\_ What part is wrong? Gore being better than Bush or
Gore being better than Kerry?
\_ Once someone actually writes "Nyaah nyaah!" you
should just let it go. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/California] UID:12386 Activity:nil |
2/23 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/robot.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 Wired has a ling (5 pages) article on the Grand Challenge |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:12387 Activity:nil |
2/23 Is there a web based free email compatible with lynx?
\_ kinda curious why you'd want this... if you have access
to a command line, can't you use a command-line mail
program or log into a box that has one?
\_ it's useful to have throw-away mailboxes.
\_ http://spamgourmet.com
\_ throw away mailboxes don't have to be web-based...
that said, I use an extra netzero account for throw
away mail... it has POP3 mail. Perhaps there's a
reason they want web-based?
\_ why not use sneakemail for throw-away mailboxes?
\_ It's nice to have an email acct. that is 1) fully functional
with SSL login, 2) completely disposable and anonymous,
3) can be accessed anywhere, whether from a comand line host or
public library shared web machines.
\_ sure, that's nice. it's also not profitable, which is why
you don't see that kind of thing. free email services
need to serve ads, which are predominantly graphical.
\_ find a non-free service that satisfies 1 and 3, and then you
use sneakemail to satisify 2. |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:12388 Activity:nil |
2/24 ...its been asked before, but.... anyone have a suggestion for
a good data recovery program for windows? My girlfriend seems to
have corrupted or deleted some crucial file. hopefully cheap or
with a free demo or something.
\_ http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
\_ GetDataBack. Worked a charm for me. Otherwise find a friend
who does security forensics and ask him if he'll run EnCase for
you. -John |
| 2004/2/24 [Recreation/Pets] UID:12389 Activity:nil |
2/24 Freeze-dried pets:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/helling/at/petp2.htm |
| 2004/2/24-26 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:12390 Activity:nil |
2/24 OpenSSH 3.8 released:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=107764058601617&w=2
http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.8p1.tar.gz |
| 2004/2/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:12391 Activity:nil |
2/24 Recreational grieving.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1051857.htm |
| 2004/2/24-8/5 [Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:12725 Activity:nil 66%like:35793 |
2/23 php upgraded to 4.3.4; bugs to erikk |
| 2004/2/24 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:29829 Activity:nil |
2/23 Say I want to nuke the motd with an ascii picture of the atomic
blast mushroom. Where do I find these cool ascii pictures? Thanks.
\_ VE CALL ZIS SPUNKHAFTE FERNWIRKUNGEN
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THAT'S RIGHT -- SPUNK AT A DISTANCE
\_ /csua/share/hosers/ascii/ |
| 2004/2/24 [Uncategorized] UID:29830 Activity:nil |
2/24 gimble proctor lemma pi?
arslan yurgle bomar sty.
von in herlein stewmer roe,
klammar pocksnar dingle toe.
Es nicks las doorknob jumping lingle,
Sten door hicksville lemming pringle.
Guns have boring lives, it's true;
But they at least won't die like you. |
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