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| 2005/7/14-8/4 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/Security] UID:38609 Activity:nil |
7/13 Scotch will be coming down tonight. Expect disruption in CSUA service
between 7pm and wheneverweactuallyfinish. We don't intend on bringing
soda down for more than a few minutes to rotate it in the rack (so
that it cooks evenly). Probability of list disruption will be high.
Office accounts will be unavailable. Njh will be piss drunk. - jvarga
\_ 7/14 Soda is back up, scotch is back up, lists are down, office
accounts are down. We're working on things, but I have to be
up at 6am for work. - jvarga
\_ 7/15 Office accounts are working again after much mudwrestling with
all systems involved. Debian mirror and other services on
screwdriver are back up. Send booze to root. - jvarga
\_ 7/24 Just realized that soda's FTP was being mounted off of scotch
(wtf?) and that's the cause of people's complaining. Am
looking at possible solutions. Please be patient. - jvarga
\_ 7/24 Lounge machines should be working again for the most part.
Still screwing with xterm logins. Send booze. Now. - jvarga
/
/
July 12, 2005
Root is planning to swap out scotch.CSUA for a newer machine in the next few
days as part of planned server upgrades. Scotch serves DNS, NIS for the
office, mailing lists, and is soda's backup mail server. During the
downtime, some or all of these services will be unavailable. The length of
the outage depends on our luck, but we hope to have everything back
available within a few hours with as little disruption as possible. Note
that the soda motd will continue to be as troll-filled as usual.
Additionally, the scotch replacement will bring in phase 1 of the new soda
upgrade. We will be unifying soda logins and office logins (but not home
directories), which means that I will be pulling the password database off
of soda to serve as the master list for office logins. This means that if
you have an office account, your office password will be the same as your
soda password. If you did not have an office account before, this change
will not grant you an office account.
The exact date and time of this switchover will be announced soon. Please
direct all questions/comments/concerns to root.
jvarga |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Reference/History/WW2/Germany, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:38610 Activity:nil |
7/13 Dear German John, I'm learning German and it's a lot of fun. Grammar
is very similar, and some words are similar. However, I have problem
pronouncing certain words, like (how you spell in English)
"IcHHHH SpriHHHHHen NicHHHHt English" probably cuz I don't normally
use the throat often. In fact, I find that after only 20 mins of
practicing, my throat gets really dry. Is this normal, or am I
using my throat the wrong way? Danke Deutche John.
\_ Drink a lot of hefeweizen and smoke some stinky eurofag cigarettes,
the next morning you'll get that special born & bred in der
teutonic vunderland hockaloogie sound. -John
\_ Are you serious this works? I tried it but my throat
sound is still weak. I want to sound very throaty like those
speakers on my language CD
\_ You don't have to sound throaty. My german relatives never
had that deep throat thing. It varies by region too. They were
from Bavaria.
\_ So is it better to use lots of throat or little throat? Just
as I don't want to learn Ebonics English, I also don't want
to learn German that sounds low-class. I do like the idea of
using a lot of throat. It sounds aggressive, persuasive,
somewhat charming, and really gets your attention. In
another word I really like the way Hitler talks even though
I disagree with his methods.
\_ He was Austrian. They've got more of a jolly rolling vowel
thing than an "ACHTUNG, ZE PANZERS ARE ROLLING" accent. Same
with Bavarians, but they have sort of an edge to it--like they
can get the entire Hofbrauhaus to jump up and go invade
Poland. Scotch & Sodas, Los! -John |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/Security] UID:38611 Activity:moderate |
7/13 Soda is back up, and the rest of the servers are slowly being brought
back. We're fixing lots of errors on all machines. We'll keep you
all posted. - jvarga
\_ DikuMUD doesn't work anymore. Can you please restore it, or if
you can't find it at least install a new version? I'd like to
start as level 29, one level before immortal. Thanks jvarga!
\_ Office accounts are going to be dead until I can figure out why the
*(#)&^*)#$ debian doesn't like netgroups. Anyone with insight on
this, please email me/root. Thanks. - jvarga
\_ Looks like I've fixed office accounts on everything but martini.
Problems to root. Moving on to the next stupid issues that came
out of this move... - jvarga (needs a life, and a raise)
\_ Great work. Thanks.
\_ Thanks for the time and effort you've put into this.
\_ Many thanks for seeing this through.
\_ Come now, all this nicey nice is unbecoming. Where's the
obligatory alumni bitchfest?
\_ Err, I still remember what it was like being a ugrad in cs.
I appreciate the work being put in for little reward. -mice
\_ Perhaps most of us are used to the trials and tribs of this
sort of thing.
\_ Awesome, thanks. But when do we get new soda?
\_ This is the first step to getting new soda online. But in the
interim, new soda needs to stop doing things like playing the
"OS not found" game on boot, and tell me why sshd is dead.
- jvarga |
| 2005/7/14-16 [Uncategorized] UID:38612 Activity:low 60%like:38656 |
7/14 The ultimate rice mod:
http://tinyurl.com/bmg7k (ebay.com)
\_ Throw in an afterburner, and you can be sure no other drive dare to
tailgate you even if he has enough horsepower to keep up.
\_ Is this real? Where can you find jet engines so small?
\_ Helicopter or a UCAV?
\_ "I think its street legal" - ha ha ha! |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Transportation/Car, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:38613 Activity:low |
7/14 Cost Guard building a bio-diesel boat:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/uscga/newsstoriesread3462.htm
\_ Something's wrong, the whole point of biodiesel is that it
works as a replacement for petroleum diesel without any
modifications. This seems like PR spin.
\_ Isn't biodiesel a lot cruddier?
\_ I believe it has a little bit less energy per unit volume,
but has better lubricating properties.
\_ ObYermom |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:38614 Activity:nil |
7/14 Follow up re Gravity Wave lecture - mostly intended for a lay
person, though the answers to the technical questions re objects
that could generate gravity waves did have some info I didn't
know about (apparently gravity waves have been detected indirectly
by observing the rate of change of the orbits of a binary puslar
and seeing that the change is exactly the amount that would be
caused by radiating energy in the form of gravity waves). |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:38615 Activity:kinda low |
7/14 Does anyone know of a solution allowing s/key for Windows logons?
\_ You mean other than this? http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/skey
\_ Logons _to_ Windows boxes. Interested in whether there are
any similar OTP solutions not requiring one-time pads, exact
time or communication between the target host and the one
generating the response to auth challenge. -John
\_ You should have specified that. I've never heard of such an
animal.
\_ Sorry--thought "Windows logons" was pretty clear. -John |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Uncategorized] UID:38616 Activity:nil |
7/14 Happy Bastille Day
\_ obFrenchBashing.
\_ Vive la revolution. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Reference/RealEstate, Finance/CC, Recreation/Dating] UID:38617 Activity:low |
7/14 http://sportsbybrooks.com/Denise1.html - more Denise! \_ so what? fake tits and a vacant stare? there's no shortage of that in Hollywood. \_ Here's a more interesting pic: http://sportsbybrooks.com/events.html \_ Hot chicks sorted by ... \_ Is there some significance to this particular cheesecake? \_ Looks like a chick I met in a Reno stripclub who came to visit me in the Bay Area, but this was before the boob job. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38618 Activity:high |
7/14 "A suicide car bomb exploded next to US troops handing out candy and
toys yesterday, killing 27 people, including 18 children and
teenagers. A suicide car bomb exploded next to US troops handing out
candy and toys yesterday, killing 27 people, including 18 children and
teenagers."
http://csua.org/u/cpn (boston.com)
\_ It's odd that they didn't include "1 US soldier" in the "including"
list.
\_ Yeah, I saw that, just in case you thought for a millisecond that
these suicide bombers weren't total human slime.
\_ Just read an interesting article reinforcing the point that
(a) the "western world"'s response to "terrorism" (no you can't
fight terrorism, it's neither a group nor an ideology, just a
method) is self-defeating, as it undermines what sets "us" apart
from "them", and more significantly, that (b) it's being seen
as fighting criminal incidents while "they" are seeing this as no
less than a global war. Now if someone can come up exactly with
who "they" are, we win. -John
\_ It's just upsetting beyond words.
\_ There's probably a surat that says somewhere that innocent
children killed in jihad, go directly to heaven. I'm not
saying it's cool, but it's the justification their dark overlords
use.
\_ My acquaintance serving in Iraq said that there were always many
threats directed against kids that accepted gifts from American
soldiers.
\_ The main thing I'm concerned about is whoever was stupid enough not
to think suicide bombers would kill children too. Duh. Everyone
manning those two humvees that wasn't guarding an angle is
partially responsible. Yes, you don't have to tell me that the
suicide bomber is ultimately responsible.
\_ You're an idiot.
\_ You're the idiot, idiot.
\_ "Everyone manning those two humvees that wasn't guarding
an angle is partially responsible." That's quite
possibly the dumbest thing ever written on the motd
and that's saying a lot.
\_ Your new post still doesn't suggest to me that you're
not an idiot. Give it a rest. You think I'm saying
something that I'm actually not saying.
Let me spoon feed it to you. Remember that story a
couple days ago about how a lot of recruits got blown
up by a suicide bomber while waiting in line?
Those recruits were protected by tall concrete
barriers. The suicide bomber was dropped off at a
gap in the barriers, where he squeezed through and
blew up. In the same vein, whoever was responsible
for setting up that barrier system is partially
responsible for those deaths. And ... you don't need
to tell me the suicide bomber is ultimately
responsible.
\_ Your utter ignorance of military tactics and
situations combined with your uniquely retarded
method of assigning blame labels you a complete
and total idiot.
\_ Like I said, you still think I'm saying something
that I'm not saying. I still haven't quite spoon
fed it entirely to you, yet, though.
Has it occurred to you that, "Everyone manning
those two humvees that wasn't guarding an angle",
might actually equal 0 individuals, especially
in the context of the sentence preceding that
one?
\_ Seriously, man -- you need to do a little
more research before you can sound off in a
convincing manner. You really are showing
a lack of knowledge about the situation on
the ground. The other guy is being kind of
abrasive (to put it mildly), but he does
have a point in there somewhere.
\_ Dude, you're a putz and not worth my
time. Reread what you wrote and not what
you think you wrote.
\_ I already did, and you obviously haven't
gotten the point yet or are trolling.
Thanks for nothing, buddy.
If you really want to be serious you could
take a poll on whether the ideas I put
forward are "possibly the dumbest thing
ever written on the motd", but I think you
already have doubts about what the results
would be, and would just say, "You're a
putz and you're not worth my time".
putz and not worth my time".
\_ You're both fucking putzes.
\_ Not sure about that, but you've added
yourself to the list, although you
should be credited for being succinct
\_ Why don't we go right to where the real fault lies?
To the parents of the people who got blown up. If
they hadn't procreated in the first place, then
there wouldn't even be someone to get blown up! |
| 2005/7/14-16 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:38619 Activity:moderate |
7/14 Anybody upgrade to PGP desktop 9.0? I'm wondering how the
"Whole Disk" encryption is working out. Comments would be
appreciated. Thanks.
\_ I would also appreciate if anyone could give any feedback
on this. We are thinking about using it as an encryption
system where multiple users need access to the files.
-mrauser
\_ Go to class, mrauser. - jvarga
\_ Why? Are you hiding porn from Cisco's tough anti-porn initiatives?
\_ I consider it the ultimate crime to hide porn on any server I
administer. If you have pr0n on soda, you must make it publicly
accessible or face my wrath. Pr0n is a glorious resource that
should be shared freely with all who seek it. To summarize: no
hiding porn! - jvarga
\_ Addenum: if I have to su to get to it, you're making me do
too much work. - jvarga
\_ I vote jvarga as the most humorous admin EVER!!!
\_ I may have a backup of the j-pr0n archive lying around (from
around the same time as safari, I think.) Let me know if you
want this magnificent piece of CSUA history. -John
\_ upgrading to 9.0 broke a lot of stuff. we downgraded back to
8.x. |
| 2005/7/14-16 [Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:38620 Activity:nil |
7/14 What is a good package to use (Perl) to draw simple lines and
circles in GIF or JPG? I'd like to do something that draws
lines for a CGI or PHP, thanks.
\_ ImageMagik?
\_ GD?
\_ GD, but it'll (by default) do PNG. (Which is just as good).
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php --dbushong
\_ Uh, ok. So I'm trying to install GD.pm, which requires
gd (c files) to be compiles, which requires libpng, which
requires zlib. I keep going down the dependency list and
keep hacking, isn't there an easier way? BTW I don't have
root on the machine so RPM whatever is out of the question. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:38621 Activity:moderate |
7/14 Why do politicians I want to like keep trying to alienate me?
http://csua.org/u/cpl (c|net)
\_ A) Because you're part of a block the doesn't vote much.
B) Hillary has been trying to pretend she has religious right
opinions.
C) Because politicians rarely know what they're talking about.
D) All of the Above
\_ The party of social liberalism, eh? -- ilyas
\_ as a libertarian, wouldn't you agree with op in this case?
\_ What, that Hillary is being venal and betraying the
\_ What, that Hillary is being unprincipled by betraying the
'principles' of her party and trying to
appeal to religious conservatives in a calculated attempt
which also involved Rvt. Graham? You don't need to be a
libertarian to agree. -- ilyas
\_ forget the politics. I was asking about policy. That
less legislation of business and markets the better. In
this case, the legislation is targetting morality.
\_ Of course I agree. I rarely agree with the democrats,
this is just one of the first times I disagreed on
social issues. -- ilyas
\_ huh? I can't parse that. You rarely agree, yet
this is one of the first times you've disagreed?
\_ Well, it could conceivably make sense as a claim
that social issues don't come up much, but that
would also be an odd assertion.
\_ It makes sense because economic issues are more
important to me than social issues. -- ilyas
\_ First times? Ilyas, you need to google Tipper Gore
and the PMRC. Democrats are definitely not new to
playing the morality-police game.
\_ "Rockstar, like many video game developers, usually encourages
so-called mod amateur programmers who create modifications for
popular games, which often give players access to special areas,
missions or abilities." Like many? Say what? |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Health/Men] UID:38622 Activity:moderate |
7/14 Since the penis is erected by the pressure of one's blood, do people
with high blood pressure have harder penes when erect? Do drugs
treating high blood pressure make the erece penis less hard?
\_ no
\_ Why don't you ask yermom?
\_ No, especially since lots of people with high BP have poor
circulation in their extremities, including their member,
making it harder to have an erection.
\_ Thanks. So high blook pressure is not "high throughout all
blood vessels". I thought since blood is just a liquid, the
pressure had to be the same everywhere within the same liquid
body.
body since the body is not that big and bloodflow is not very
fast.
\_ Remember that the body is, at best, trying to create a
state of equlibrium (in this case, getting oxygenated blood
to the various cells); high blood pressure results when
there's something preventing the blood from effectively
reaching the cells (arterial clogging, a large wound, etc.).
In other words, the fact that you have high BP means that
you are almost certainly NOT getting enough blood in your
extremities (including your penis). As my EMT instructor
put it, it's all about pump (heart), pipes (arteries), and
fluid (blood). |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38623 Activity:high |
7/14 ok conservative pigfuckers, why does it matter whether valerie
plame authorized her husband going to Niger to report
selling yellowcake? How does this affect whether Rove should
be punished for revealing she has been a deep undercover
agent for the last 20 years?
\_ Because everything is politics. There is no right and wrong.
If you make everyone look equally sleazy, you can get away with
anything.
\_ there's an article on Salon I think today from sid blumenthal
saying that Wilson's wife never authorized the trip, and in any
case was not in a position to even authorize it. also I agree
that who cares who authorized the trip? Does anyone remember
Ed "pig biting mad" Anger? - danh
\_ They don't care if anyone actually believes. They're just trying
to spread FUD. Don't buy into it.
\_ I'm not a pigfucker, but I'll give it a go. No one is saying that
Plame authorized the trip. My understanding is that Rove was
saying to Cooper, "don't pay attention to this Wilson guy, because
he only got the trip because his wife's in the CIA". We now know
that Plame *did* recommend her husband. I've never seen his report
(which Wilson claims showed that Iraq had not been looking for U in
Niger). The point is, Wilson has already been shown to be a lying
sleezeball. It doesn't look like Rove really did anything wrong.
\_ Who cares about Wilson. No matter what happened (And I think
your whole Wilson was lieing is full of shit.) Rove LEAKED
a covert CIA agent's cover. A covert CIA agent who was working
with preventing WMD proliferation. Rove leaked the name for
no reason other than to get back at someone. In the process he
also leaked a CIA cover company and destroyed other agent's
covers. Why are you trying to defend this?
\_ read http://tinyurl.com/8obkt . The article says "
wilson's wife did not authorize the trip." but like i said,
who cares who authorized the trip? - danh
\_ dan, use motdedit. you stomped on me.
\_ How often does it have to be said. Repeating it doesn't make
it true. What did he lie about? How does it feel to defend
someone who single-handedly demolished a CIA front company?
\_ You know what's really sad? Both you and pp are both just
regurgitating talking points drafted by someone else.
The Republicans are much better at this sort of Pravdaesque
manipulation, so I expect them to survive this quite nicely.
\_ you got me, I read the same stuff everyone else does.
It infuriates me when someone prints in the media the
exact polar opposite of what actually occured. For example
read in the Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/c77w2
I am pretty sure Wilson's report said that Niger was not
selling yellowcake to Iraq. It's like the officers
beating Rodney King claiming they were beating the
crap out of him to help out his skin complexion. - danh
\_ Wilson, through his Congressional testimony that
contradicts his newspaper articles and quotes, has
already been proven a fraud. Even Kerry, who initially
appointed Wilson an advisor, backed away from him during
the election. What you likely have here is an attempt by the
Democrats and their media abettors to create a scandal
during an election season that has subsequently blown
up in their face. Of course time will tell.
Since Wilson had extensive business interests in Africa and
Middle East, including Niger, his wife's role in
his selection is very pertinent.
\_ did you read danh's link?
\_ What's most important though, is that each of these claims is
irrelevant.
irrelevant to the subject at hand. Rove outed a CIA agent.
It wouldn't matter if Joe Wilson was the seven-headed beast of
the apocalypse.
\_ Point out a lie. Please. Still waiting.
\_ So, I haven't been following this too closely, but everything
I've read seems to indicate that Rove did not actually leak
classified info. Saying 'X' works at the CIA, especially when
such fact is already known, is not a leak. It only became a
'leak' when it turned out that she was actually undercover at
the time, which apparently Rove didn't know. How can someone
leak info they don't know? Rove's actions in trying to
discredit Wilson, while not pure, are at least reasonable in
that Wilson is actually not very credible. I think that's the
only reason anyone cares about Wilson. I think danh's link was
the most balanced thing I've read though... -jrleek
\_ Did you actually read danh's link? Quote:
No, Rove didn't "reveal the name." But the law doesn't cite
that as a felony; it only specifies revealing the "identity" as
a crime. It says nothing about a "name." Rove revealed "Joe
Wilson's wife." That qualifies as an "identity." By the way,
Plame did not go by the name of Plame, but Wilson -- in other
words, Mrs. Wilson, or "Joe Wilson's wife." Rove seemed to know
that much -- her identity."
Also, what do you mean by "especially when such fact is
already known"? Are you saying it was widely known that
Plame was a NOC working in weapons of mass destruction for CIA?
I mean, it certainly became widely known she was a CIA agent
working WMDs after Novak's article.
\_ The law also requires you to have learned the identity and/or
status from classified sources, and have the intent to expose
the agent. It appears now that Rove learned that Wilson's
wife was in the CIA from Novak (not a classified source) and
that his purpose was to warn Cooper away from trusting Wilson
as a source because he got the Niger job not because of
qualifications but because of family ties. No, Plame didn't
/approve/ the job (she didn' thave the authority), but she
/did/ present Wilson's name as a candidate (which Wilson
denies but which has been proven in a memo found by the Senate
Intelligence Committee). -emarkp
\_ I think you're chewing on RNC talking points this morning.
What would make Wilson more qualified? He served as a
diplomat in Niger, Togo, Burundi, South Africa,
Gabon, and Sao Tome, plus Iraq. The CIA claims that
Wilson was chosen based on his experiences, not because
of who his wife is. - danh
\_ Well, the CIA _did_ screw up the pre-war intel, so
we know how reliable they are....
\_ I don't think he was unqualified. But that's what Rove
was trying to say. I find it odd that Wilson denies that
his wife recommended him. At any rate, I haven't read
any "RNC talking points" this morning. -emarkp |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Recreation/Media] UID:38624 Activity:high |
7/14 Transformers: The Movie directed by Michael Bay, coming in 2007.
Possible new entry in Worst Movie Ever contest?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050714/en_movies_eo/16938
\_ Michael "Pearl Harbor" Bay? What a fucking putz.
\_ Don't worry, you'll get an earlier chance to see one by him.
The Island (Logan 5 re-make) opens next week.
\_ He also directed "The Rock" which was a pretty good action
thriller movie. He also has some decent commercials to
his name: http://www.michaelbay.com
\_ If you think "The Rock" was a good movie, you have even
worse taste than Star Trek Movie Guy.
\_ the WRATH OF KHAN is one of the best geek movies
ever, what are you talking about?
\_ The Rock was a fucking entertaining movie. -someone else
\_ I like the Ferrari vs. Hummer car chase scene. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Consumer/TV] UID:38625 Activity:nil |
7/14 For those who don't have TV. Here's a biased snapshot of TV screens
re: the rove scandal.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/14/133213/448
\_ Is that a fake Newsweek cover?
Is all that TV coverage real? I don't watch TV anymore. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Reference/Religion] UID:38626 Activity:very high |
7/14 Support for bin Laden falls in Muslim countries - Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050714/wl_nm/muslims_binladen_dc
BTW, it says: "In Lebanon, 100 percent of Muslims and 99 percent of
Christians said they had a very unfavorable view of Jews, while 99
percent of Jordanians also viewed Jews very unfavorably."
\_ Still waiting for a single fatwa against Bin Laden, al Zawahiri,
Abu Hamsa, Zarkawi or similar, from any muslim cleric with
recognized spiritual, temporal or popular authority. Pls. correct
me if I've been living in a media cave. -John
\_ Re bin Laden support falling: Except Jordan (55% -> 60% support),
and Pakistan (45 -> 51%)
\_ What the hell? Are Lebanese and Jordinians stupid? Jews are the
best race in the world. They are smart, well educated, for the
most part liberal, and funny and are best suited to run the
country. The Jewish community preaches education and compassion
for their own community, and if they were to run the country the
country would be liberated from self-righteous religious fanatic
red necks controlling our lives and screwing up the country.
Fuck religious right fanatics, fuck them all. GO JEWS.
-not a Jew (but totally worship them and would vote for any
Jews candidate in a heart beat)
\_ You need a new angle, troll.
\_ You know, I am told a lot of neocons are Jewish. -- ilyas
\_ What are you saying, that people of similar ethnic/religious
background may not share the same core beliefs? How shocking!
\_ I have not doubt that they have compassion for their own
community. One question is that how do they treat the other
communities. |
| 2005/7/14-15 [Computer/Blog] UID:38627 Activity:nil |
7/14 Someone mentioned a free (no upload limit) alternative to flickr.
What was it? |
| 5/17 |