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2005/2/19-21 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:36246 Activity:high |
2/19 Did you, as an undergrad, watch Animaniacs, listen to Beatles, and sing Russian peasant drinking songs on Hearst? If you did, can you say something about yourself, like when you were there, who you're with, etc? I'm trying to locate old friends. ok thx. \_ yes, yes, no(at least I don't remember,but maybe I was too drunk) \_ Budu zhdat' tebja zaranee U izluchiny reki. Prihodi zhe na svidanie, Ja prochtu tebe stihi, -- Pro podruzhek pro veselyh I zatejlivyh rebjat, Pro tebja, moja ljubimaja, Srazu tri stiha podrjad. \_ someone please translate this??? \_ Everyday I'd watch Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Batman on Fox from 3:30 to 5:00. If time didn't allow I'd watch them on pre-recorded VHS tape. WEB (Workstations at Evan's Basement) was too far at night, so I'd dial into Berkeley's free PPP connection and telnet to http://soda.berkeley.edu using my state of the art 33Mhz 386 with 16M RAM via my blazingly fast 14.4K baud modem. From there I'd do a lot of stuff, like checking email, reading motd, and stuff like that. I'd listen to Arthur Rubenstein playing Chopin from a tape set using my dad's old Panasonic tape player. Usually there were a lot of work to be done, but since they're not urgent, I'd play DikuMUD, chat/nwrite/ytalk to people online while listening to Chopin's Noctures (on cassette tapes), on rainy, quiet, somewhat lonely nights. That was over a decade ago. I'm now ssh'ed into soda (now known as http://csua.berkeley.edu) using my P4 3Ghz 1G RAM machine via broadbnd. There are a lot of things I have to do but since they're not urgent, I'm just checking motd, gmail, surfing, and chatting people on AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Yes, it's a raining, quiet, somewhat lonely night, and I'm listening to Chopin's Noctures, on MP3. It's amazing how some things have changed, and how some things haven't. I guess when you get old you start to treasure things that do not change, or things that seemed insignificant at the time, but now you have this strange fond memories of, like logging into soda. I love soda and I hope it will never go away. -old man \_ I'm not sure whether I should join in the reminiscing or mock you. \_ both is acceptable \_ Did you ever get a girlfriend all those years? \_ I was across the street drinking myself to sweet oblivion. |
2005/2/19-20 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:36247 Activity:nil |
2/18 Emacs guru please help. I am running shell within emacs and have a couple hundred lines of text beyond the current prompt, which I use one by one as some command argument. Somehow it just all disappeared (from the current prompt to the end). It is not a c-w because I couldn't yank it back. I didn't save it to another file/buffer. Is there anyway to get it back? |
2005/2/19 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:36248 Activity:nil 75%like:38773 |
2/19 So, do we still have to call them Freedom Fries? http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries |
2005/2/19-20 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:36249 Activity:nil |
2/19 Looking for quotes that are syntactially different, but are equivalent semantically. I'll start: \_ BlockBuster: "There is NO LATE FEE. There is a restocking fee after 7 days" \_ "The end of late fees... the start of more." Clinton: "I did not have sex with that woman. Monica Lewinski. I did have oral actions with her." Bush: "There will be NO DRAFT. Extended volunteer will be required for some people." \_ who are already in the military... Nice one troll. \_ Some soldiers who were already scheduled to leave or wanted to leave have not been allowed. --> Draft. \_ Is that "equivalent"? |
2005/2/19 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:36250 Activity:nil |
2/19 emarkp, jrleek, did it piss you guys off when Clinton had sex with all these women? Did you think that he was an incapable president for having sex in white house and that he should have been impeached for it? \_ I have a related question. How many of you were pissed off that the President of the Nnited States had to settle for a fat ugly LA girl? If he's going to be boining in the White House it should have been a HOTTIE. \_ I'm getting tired of these anonymous questions directed at me. I'll just comment that Clinton was not impeached for having sex in the white house. -emarkp |
2005/2/19-20 [Recreation/Humor, Recreation/Stripclub] UID:36251 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
2/19 http://tinyurl.com/6q6vu Strip Club becomes an Art Club |
2005/2/19-21 [Uncategorized] UID:36252 Activity:nil |
2/19 Simple request to whoever maintains the "wall" program: Add in the timezone of the waller into the date format. \_ aaron used to be the wall keeper (back in 1997 he modified the binary to make it output funny messages). He no longer maintains the wall binary and the wall archive. RIP lwall. |
2005/2/19-21 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:36253 Activity:nil |
2/19 So I spend hours loading pics to yahoo photo albums and arranging them in the order that I want. And then I go back and all the pictures in every album are out of order. Why does this happen? And maybe more importantly, what's a similar service that people recommend that won't have this problem. Basically just somewhere I can load my pics to that anyone can look at, even without them having a passwd or account or anything. -pissed off at yahoo \_ Definitely send them a pissed off email. Maybe someone will get yelled at. \_ shutterfly. |
2005/2/19-20 [Uncategorized] UID:36254 Activity:nil |
2/19 Remember when the Congress changed the name of French Fries to "Freedom Fries"? Did they ever change the name back or do they still call them that in the House cafeteria? |
2005/2/19-22 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:36255 Activity:kinda low |
2/19 What are the best anti-spyware programs? I am looking for something that my parents can run occasionally to try to keep their windows machine clean. I'm a BSD user so I don't deal with this type of stuff much. Thanks --jwm \_ For PC's use "spybot search & destroy" and "adAware". \_ My detected spyware has dropped to almost nil after switching browsers away from IE. \_ ditto. The best way would be to re-install M$oft, then install Firefox for them. \_ I gave my parents a clean Win2k install, then put Firefox on it and added Spybot and SpywareBlaster just in case someone unwittingly ran IE. But I switched them over to a mac about 6 months ago, which works fine for all the websites that don't suck in Safari. |
2005/2/19-22 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:36256 Activity:moderate |
2/19 Looking for DVD players that play AVI/DIVX/misc files, recommendation? \_ Hacked xbox (+ airport express for wireless file transfer, if needed). The only limitation is that xbm can only up-convert un-encrypted vobs, so you have to rip your dvds and re-burn or ftp them to the xbox before you can watch movies in HD. \_ how hard is it to hack xbox? and do you install linux on it? \_ http://www.xbox-scene.com/tutorials.php?p=14|#14 If you're not handy with a soldering iron, you can always hire someone to do it. \_ The Xbox is pretty noisy. It's not a problem for gaming, but it's distracting when watching movies. \_ The Philips 642 is fairly nice/cheap. It tends to crop subtitles on some of the divx files I've played though \_ can I put 10 400M AVI's and make it play 10 hours? That's what I really need.. \_ Seriously get a hacked xbox. Just drop in a 120 gb hd and forget about wasting cds and dvds. \_ Right, the DVP642 is the standard DivX player currently. It's $63 on Amazon but sometimes back-ordered. I have one, it's fine; actually, many, many people have one. \_ I'm still waiting for a portable DVD player that plays AVI/DIVX/etc. |
2005/2/19-20 [Computer/SW/Graphics, Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:36257 Activity:nil |
2/19 M$ on '1337 Speak: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx \_ I guess when you have billions of dollars, you can waste money on useless primers like this. \_ This is old and has already been posted: http://csua.com/?entry=36232 |
2005/2/19-21 [Computer/SW/Unix, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:36258 Activity:low |
2/19 EQII's new /pizza command is really quite brilliant, but they're missing out on dozens of other marketing opportunities. What sort of ideas can you think of? \_ /hooker \_ Yay! \_ /term paper \_ /shower \_ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/17/48hours/main525965.shtml http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2000dec/gam20010105003667.htm I recommend "/psychologist" \_ You mean M-x doctor \_ /quit |
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