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| 2004/3/23 [Uncategorized] UID:12810 Activity:nil |
*/* <waves wand of anti-censorp over motd> |
| 2004/3/23 [Recreation/Dating] UID:12811 Activity:nil |
3/22 Solider arrested for being horny and poor.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=38268
It's not written there but supposedly the expense for conventional
arrangement costs 5000 US$!
\_ uhm... wow. I'm glad I live in the first world. |
| 2004/3/23 [Computer/HW] UID:12812 Activity:nil |
3/22 Time on soda is ~ 10 seconds faster than my pc, which takes time
from some time server (although I am not sure if it actually works).
So is soda's clock synchronized with some time server regularly?
\_ man ntpd
\_ soda%> ntpq -pn
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*169.229.15.5 .GPS. 1 u 821 1024 377 0.783 -7.552 0.151
+192.6.38.127 .GPS. 1 u 535 1024 377 73.467 25.477 0.091
+204.34.198.40 .USNO. 1 u 534 1024 377 71.644 -4.707 0.020 |
| 2004/3/23 [ERROR, uid:12813, category id '18005#9.18625' has no name! , ] UID:12813 Activity:nil |
3/22 What media bias?
List on the page reads like a whos who of slimy Commies,
oh sorry 'progressives', installed at your favorite
media outlets.
http://truthout.org/docs_03/121003A.shtml |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Recreation/Celebrity/WilliamHung] UID:12814 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
3/23 William Hung Inspiration (iTMS Exclusive):
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=5892661 |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Transportation/Car] UID:12815 Activity:moderate |
3/23 Car experts, I need some advice/help. Steering wheel vibrates
slightly when car is stopped (after warming up), but vibration
goes away as soon as I hit the gas padel. also at speed around
75+ mph, does not seem to run as smooth as it did before
(steering wheel vibrates very slightly) what could be the cause? i
am fairly certain it is not the tire balance as these are new
tires and I have another place check the tire balance and all
4 are pretty good. so is this: idle speed adjustment needed?
fuel injector cleaning? (dealer recommends it but i never did
it, car is around 65k, 5 years maxima) all maintenance and
service was up to date. thanks a lot. Engine tune up?? Thx!!
\_ I suppose you think homeopathy doesn't work, right?
4 are pretty good. so is this: idle speed adjustment needed?
fuel injector cleaning? (dealer recommends it but i never did
it, car is around 65k, 5 years maxima) all maintenance and
service was up to date. thanks a lot. Engine tune up?? Thx!!
\_ Are you sure that only the steering wheel vibrates or does
the rest of the car too. I think the only link between the
steering and the engine is the power steering pump. Vibrating
steering wheel during braking is usually an indicator of
a warped brake rotor which you would need to have replaced
or refinished. Vibration during acceleration on a front-wheel-
drive car is an indicator of a bad CV joint.
\_ it does not vib on breaking, nor on accelerating.
\_ easy first test - buy a pack of the chevron fuel injector
cleaner from costco or grand auto (much cheaper at costco),
and see if that helps. Oh, and check your power steering
fluid level. Check ALL of the fluid levels, since it's easy.
\_ dumb question, so i put the fuel injector cleaner into the gas
tank and just drive as normal? my dealer wants $100 to do the
fuel injector service. would the cleaner do the job equally good?
\_ No, but probably 80% if you've never used it before. Note
that it's a bad idea to overuse the cleaner as it can
corrode the rubber seals. Since you're asking, I'd
\_ that's interesting, I didn't know that - where did you
hear about that? - injector cleaner recommender from above
\_ Various mechanics, as well as the warnings written on
bottles (varies from product to product). One guy told
me I could double up on the regular "fuel treatment"
stuff (2 bottles/tank) for my older model car and it
wouldn't hurt, but I believe fuel injector cleaner is
somewhat harsher, and should only be used every
few years or so. It's not as bad as those "seal
conditioners" or "stop leak" treatments, (which soften
the rubber and cause it to expand-- stops the leak but
the rubber will then rot away much faster), but
somewhat corrosive nonetheless.
recommend the cleaner over the dealer this time around.
Also, a little vibration is not a cause for alarm; I've
noticed this in a lot of cars. If you're at a stoplight
for awhile, you can shift in and out of neutral without
pressing the button on the "shifter". Oh, and as for
usage: pour in the bottle on a nearly empty tank, then
fill it up with gas. It helps to do this prior to a long
drive, because the additives can evaporate.
\_ thanks a lot for all the answers. someone also suggested checking
the spark plug gap, could the gap cause engine performance problem?
\_ Depends. Have you been following the normal maintenance
schedule? Have they changed the spark plugs as
described in that schedule? What brand car is it?
\_ yes. yes, the spark plugs was just changed at 60k (car
now at 65k). one of my car friend mentioned this to me, not
that I really know what it means. the car is a Nissan Maxima.
\_ it means that the gap between the anode and the cathode
(where the spark fires) needs to be the right size.
You can find the proper gap size in your owner's manual,
and there are tools for bending the prong to the right
position if it's not there already.
\_ Not likely. A gap problem would be occuring during
acceleration or coasting. This sounds unrelated.
\_ Perhaps a mount has broken. This is usually more obvious at
idle and low speeds than high speeds. --dim
\_ This problem could be caused by several problems. As you mentioned
idle speed adjustment, spark plug gap-ing, but it could also be
valve clearance, fuel flter, timing belt/timing, etc...also, you
should read the manual on using gas treatments and fuel injector
cleaners. I remember my friend's maxima manual specifically said
try not to use any gas treatments.
\_ tighten the steering wheel. |
| 2004/3/23 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:12816 Activity:high |
3/23 True Southern Comedy of the Day:
McCallister, Oklahoma: The presiding judge in the Oklahoma trial
against Terry Nichols (already serving a life sentence on Federal
charges) stormed onto the bench an hour late yesterday and berated
the prosecution because 3 of the jurors were related to one of the
prosecutors. Said a representative for the prosecution, "dang, I
s'pose you'd like to try'n find 12 people in Oklahoma that warn't
relations?" (--via NPR)
\_ McNichols?
\_ I forgot to celebrate St Patrick's day and I'm compensating.
\_ He's being brought to McJustice
\_ What a knee slapper! Those hicks in flyover country sure do make
great targets for vicious humor! Thank g-d they're all white
because talking like that about anyone else would be racist!
\_ How is this racist? It's just a judge making fun of people
in Oklahoma.
\_ 1) it wasn't the judge, 2) it was npr, 3) i question if it
happened at all or was taken out of context. It's just more
of npr's holier than thou bullshit.
\_ Actually, the judge stormed up to the bench and berated
the prosecution for this. The prosecution did not make
the aformentioned remark concerning relations. Neither
did NPR. All dubious comments were added by the op for
questionable humorous effect.
\_ Ok, so the racism is home grown on the motd. Thanks
for clarifying that. I wasn't able to find it on the
web.
\_ Anytime. Gotta ask, though: have you ever really
listened to NPR? If you have, where do you get the
idea that they would even broadcast something like
this?
\_ I don't think it's racist to make fun of your own race. Since
whites are the majority, anonymous posts can be assumed to be
white people unless there is evidence to the contrary. I'm not
offended by that joke, but if it was written by a non-white I
might be a little offended. --Whitey
\_ "White" is too broad. So many people count as whites, from
nordics to mediterranean people to slavs and arabs and jews.
Clearly these groups don't all identify with each other.
But regardless of race, we can all make fun of poor rural
hicks.
\_ At Berkeley, especially in CS, you can assume it was written
by an Asian and in any event it is *not* okay to make racist
remarks about *anyone*. And in this case, even if it was a
white on white attack, it is still an insult to people in the
mid-west because "we're better than they are, they're just a
bunch of racist white ignorant inbred christians!" which is
exactly the sort of label that no one else would or should
have to tolerate or accept. If blacks were 51% of the
population would you think calling them all niggers was ok?
I suspect not.
\_ I didn't say it's OK to make fun of the majority. I said
it's OK to make fun of your own race, and that when
someone's race is unknown, it's reasonable to assume they
belong to the majority. --Whitey
\_ That's fine. The assumption here should still be
Asian and making fun of your own race is not ok because
it only furthers stereotypes and hurts not only your
race (stupid word but I'll go with it) but people of
other races by reinforcing their ignorance as well.
\_ I gather that you are an asian, but let me tell you there
are plenty of whites in CS and you refuse to notice.
\_ It's simple math. He said whites are a majority and
therefore (his logic) it is ok to say hateful things
about whites. I've already responded to the second part
about all racism=bad. Here's the math part: whites are
not the majority. Asians are. Thus his assumption that
a white was writing the post based solely on the numbers
is incorrect. Anyway, why the hell do I have to tell
*anyone* from Berkeley that racism is bad? There is no
such thing as *good* racism. Why the heavy handed
insistence that some kinds of racism are ok for various
random 'reasons'? Go find something that is actually
funny without abusing someone for merely being different
from you. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:12817 Activity:very high |
3/23 What's the easiest way to find all files on a unix box that contain
both the words 'imap' and 'pop' on different lines. I'm trying to
find a courier authd config file that I swear had lines for turning
on and off different protocols (pop3 and imapd) but I can't find it
anywhere. and I can't find any references to it. -brett
\_ hrm.
egrep -ri '(imap|pop)' / | grep -iv 'imap.*pop' | grep -iv 'pop.*imap'
--scotsman
\_ your grep only matches if they are on the same line.
for speed, i recomend using file to *not* check binaries.
\_ Picky picky. use egrep -I, then. and no, it doesn't match
"only if they are on the same line". man egrep. And no, it
doesn't guarantee that both are in the file, but i've set you
on the road to recovery. For the task at hand, this should
be sufficient.. --scotsman
\_ find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 fgrep -iIl imap \
| perl -pe 's/\n/\0/' | xargs -0 fgrep -iH pop | fgrep -iv imap \
| cut -d: -f1 | sort -u --dbushong
(this doesn't work for files w/ : in the name; i'll think about
it.)
\_ I think I must by smoking crack, be cause the file that I'm
searching for doesn't appear to exist. I thought there was a
\_ I think I must by smoking crack, cause the file that I'm searching
for doesn't appear to exist. I thought it was a courier authd
file, but maybe I'm confusing it with something I only half remember.
\_ this is a terrible approach. strace/truss the daemon and see what
files it tries to read. -tom
\_ Unfirtunateley courier has a bunch of different daemons and
I don't know which one reads the said file.
courier config that controlled what serviced either
authdaemon or couriertcp would allow connections from. Maybe
I'm confusing it with something I only half remember. -brett
I'm confusing it with something other file that I only half
remember. Is anybody here familiar with the courier-ssl
pop/imap auth daemon? -brett
\_ Nevermind, I'm totally on crack. The file doesn't exist,
Thanks for helping me determine that. I got it to work,
I had the wrong userdb name: "poppw" instead of "pop3pw".
\_ This is a terrible approach; strace/truss the daemon and see what
files it accesses. -tom |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Recreation/Food] UID:12818 Activity:nil |
3/23 Do you tip when you get togo food? Like if you pickup a large pizza,
or get $15 in chinese togo?
\_ I tip the girl at the local pizza place. She's a cutie. The
ugly green haired chick at starbucks with the bad attitude gets
zippo.
\_ pixP (just the cutie)
\_ No. Why would you do that? They didn't do any service. Do you tip
cashiers in other stores?
\_ sometimes they're nice.
\_ Not as a general rule; but sometimes, yes. For ex, there is a great
deli I go to where the sandwhich guys cut up a huge roast beef in
front of you and make pleasant conversation... I usually tip a
buck on a $12 sandwhich just to say thanks for the good service.
\_ I usually leave my change in the tip jar.
\_ One time I tipped a pizza delivery guy and tried to say "keep the
change", but I guess he thought I was being patronizing because
he suddenly got all pissed off and threw the change on the ground
and went away. So now I'm afraid to give people small amounts of
change for fear they'll feel humiliated or something.
\_ Pizza delivery requires at least a two dollar tip.
http://www.tipthepizzaguy.com/general/amount.htm
\_ you're asking the pizza guy? $1 or 10%, whichever is
greater. -tom
\_ I gotta agree with the pizza guy that they're in the
same boat as waiters, but worse. I generally do 15%
unless it's a huge order. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:12819 Activity:nil |
3/23 What is a reasonable NFS transfer rate (cp file . for example),
100 BaseT?
\_ How busy is your network? What is on your network? What's between
the two machines on your network?
\_ Let's assume an unloaded net. The two machines are on the same
switch.
\_ For unknown networks when I just need a reasonable number I figure
10-20% overhead for tcp, NFS, and random bad luck.
\_ So you think around 10MB/sec? I'm getting 3.6MB/s.
\_ yes as a *very* rough estimate. it assumes your net is
reasonably clean, your source and target hosts are powerful
enough to deal and not overloaded *and* that both src/tgt
hosts can retrieve and store the data on/from disk at that
speed. What's the write speed on your target hd?
\_ Thanks for your comments. Write speed is apparently good
beacause I was able to cp via NFS 10M/sec to it from
a RAID array. Apparently it was read speed on the disks
I had previously mounted via NFS.
\_ I got around 4 MB/s on a test just now over 100baseT full duplex
to a relatively robust solaris server w/ 100s of clients and
gigabit connectivity to the backbone from my linux desktop PC.
I get 12 MB/s for things like scp in the same LAN.
\_ If your disks can push it, I have seen 10MB/sec on such a
network. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:12820 Activity:nil |
3/23 SCO targeting LLNL and NERSC for using Linux:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5176308.html
NERSC is part of LBNL which is managed by the UC. The UC holds
copyright to BSD, so in a way, SCO is suing the Lab for using its own
code...
\_ BSD is going down! |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Reference/Tax] UID:12821 Activity:nil |
3/23 Self-employed sodans, is there any advantage at all in getting a
Fed Tax ID when you are not required to, i.e. when you don't employ
anyone else? I know the obligatory "it's beyond stupid to seek
* advice on the motd" but I have done some research and I do think
there are sound advice from the motd, sometimes, and advice for which
I pay $$$ is not always reliable. tia.
\_ I should add that one lawyer claimed on his web page that getting
a Fed Employer Id can protect your asset even when you have no
employee but I cannot verify that claim on any IRS regulation.
\_ It would help if you decide to incorporate (not a bad idea) or
if you MIGHT employ somebody. The IRS calls these Employer
Identity Numbers (EIN). Look up:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1635.pdf
\_ "me too" - making yourself a closely-held corporation is
easy and the taxes are easy to do yourself too- look
into the S election for small corporations. -brain
\_ Really? Did you get a lawyer when starting up? Some
books claim paperwork would be onerous. And what about
double taxation?
\_ the paperwork is not bad; I recommend one of the Nolo
books... the hardest part is drafting your articles of
incorporation. In my case, I did hire a lawyer, but
most of my friends said I was a sucker for doing so!
-brain
\_ S-corps are for small businesses. some berkeley
printing company makes do-it-yourself books for
this kinda thing. S-corps are pass-thru income
like LLC's and partnerships. the regular corps
(C-corps?) you can get double-taxed.
\_ See http://nolo.com for books.
\_ if you are the owner there is no reason you should
get double-taxed in a C-Corp even... there is no
dividend tax until 2006 ! Yay evil republicans!
\_ The best thing is that you can protect your assets
if something terrible happens to or at your job. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:12822 Activity:high |
3/23 Clarke: Iraq Teamed up with Bin Laden to Produce WMDs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104096/posts
... yes the same Clarke
\_ Clarke is no longer significant. May be you should concentrate
on Bush's facination with Iraq now two of his staff pointed out
the same thing.
\_ If Clarke is right then Bush's fascination is appropriate. I
think it's funny that you simultaneously believe we shouldn't
listen to Clarke and use Clarke's own statements as proof that
we should focus somewhere else based on what Clarke said but
whatever you do don't listen to Clarke. heh, I love the motd. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics] UID:12823 Activity:nil |
3/23 How come MS can get away with violating NDA and industrial espionage?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/technology/24soft.html
\_ They're just innovating. STFU.
\_ We don't know. IBM was facing anti-trust charges when it controled
40% of the mainframe market in the 1980s. For some reason,
the government never really bother with Microsoft eventhough it
controls 95% of the desktop market, and repeatly using its market
dominance to stiffle competition.
\_ Why do you hate capitalism? Microsoft should only be restrained
by market forces.
\_ because true hands off capitalism generally leads to monopoly.
Look at the railroad monopolies of the mid-late 1800s for
examples of what unrestrained capitalism leads to.
\_ You've just been trolled
\_ BA BAM!
\_ if you got a chance, read Adam Smith and various classic
text on capitalism. You may find that "perfect competition"
is the fundamental building block of working capitalism.
Those who advocate competition are actually those who
prefer capitalism. |
| 2004/3/23 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:12824 Activity:nil |
3/23 Is it me, or soda crashes quite often lately?
\_ soda crashes quite often lately. |
| 2004/3/23-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:12825 Activity:nil |
3/23 A friend is going to create an email account for her small business
and post it on the net. Assuming she would get lots of spams, she
wants to know whether spam blocking at hotmail or yahoo is any good
or whether she should use a domain hosting service.
\_ Why does she want to post it on the web? Just make her a
comments form and and cgi/php script that sends her email.
Commercial spam blocking services suck ass.
\_ There are various simple b2b sites that let businesses post ads
with contact info, like a bulletin board. So it's beyond her
control. Many such sites are not spam-smart yet.
\_ I know this is not what you asked, but I highly recommend you make
some sort of "contact us!" page for the business with a HTML form,
rather than post her email address on her site. -brain
\_ Spam blocking at yahoo and hotmail is waaayyy too overzealous for
this sort of thing. I have a box set up to do
``what you want'' (TM) for email, i.e. IMAPS, non-destructive
spamassassin with well trained bayes filters, SMTP+AUTH over SSL,
redundant MX hosts, etc. As long as your friend is not going to
bandwidth hose or attract DOS attacks I would be willing to host
her email inexpensively. If your friend's business is something
cool, e.g. non-profit working to promote human rights, I'll do it
gratis. Drop me an email. -dans
\_ What method and server software do you use for SMTP+AUTH?
\_ Pretty much everyone is running Cyrus SASL for the
authentication layer. All modern MTA's that I am aware
of have the necessary plumbing to support SASL. I run
postfix, but I've also done it with sendmail (I wouldn't
want to do it again). -dans
\_ My friend is selling bio weapons to third world nations so they
can play on a level field with the evil Western powers. It is
entirely non-profit and advances the rights of women and the poor
in the third world. What do I need to do to get a free account?
\_ One meellion dollars in small, unmarked, non-consecutively
numbered bills. -dans
\_ Thanks. Are you running a commercial hosting service? Is there
any commercial hosting service that does it? (presummably with
a shell account?)
\_ No, I am not running a commercial hosting service. I just
happen to have several boxes set up to do this, and offer
service to friends, family, and friends of friends. Mostly
it is an evil ploy to get my friends off of shitty webmail
services like Hotmail and Yahoo so I don't ever have to
update my address book, resend messsages when they bounce due
to quota, etc... In particular, email account != shell
account on my boxes. Most people don't need shell accounts,
and most people lack the clue to use a shell account in a
responsible manner that won't compromise system security.
-dans
\_ I guess that is why almost no low cost hosting service
offers a shell account. But if I have a domain hosted
with email acct., is there a way to route the incoming
emails there first to a place where I have shell acct.,
say soda, filtered it w. spamassassin, and then route
back to that domain?
\_ No, I think it's mostly that shell accounts aren't in
wide demand. ftp is sufficient for most people's needs
so it's not cost effective to provide shell accounts.
You *can* route it to a place with a shell account and
filter it with spamassassin, probably easiest to do
with /etc/aliases, which I can set up. Pushing it back
to the original box is tricky to do without creating
mail loops. Of course, if you read what I wrote,
you'll note that my box is already running
spamassassin. Also, I've got my box set up to allow
mail filtering without a shell via sieve. -dans
\_ I have a yahoo account, and I seem to get a lot less spam than my
family and friends who use hotmail. |
| 2004/3/23 [Uncategorized] UID:29877 Activity:nil |
3/23 The Matrix in 2 minutes. Headphones are recommended.
http://djs.furserve.com/VA/matrixintwominutes.mp3 |
| 2004/3/23 [Uncategorized] UID:29878 Activity:nil 50%like:12715 |
3/22 [ Deleted. Fix your attitude and try again. ] |
| 2004/3/23 [Science/Space] UID:29879 Activity:nil |
3/23 Are the Periodic Table Elements the same on other planets? For
instance, if there was still spring water on Mars could I drink it like
spring water from Mt Reiner. Or are elements fundamentally different
because they are on other planets. |
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