4/21    Any sodans at nVidia?
        \_ And if so, can you tell me any news on when your drivers will get
           the ability to use FSAA with framebuffer objects (FBOs)? -!pp

4/21    Alumni BBQ Poll -- What did you guys think about the bbq?  I know it
        was nice to meet a lot of you for the first time and put a face to the
        extremely disgusting links/comments I see all the time. -mrauser
        Good:
        - Steaks and sausages were excellent
        Bad:
        Ugly:
        - No tom/partha/dans cagematch, I want my money back!
          \_ I don't get why you think I care about dans.  He made some
             stupid comments on MOTD, I pointed out that they were stupid,
             he persisted (and persists).  That doesn't separate him from
             a dozen other twinks.
             My comment would be, if you create a new politburo position
             for alumni relations, you should manage to do better publicity
             than one email sent weeks in advance and complete failure to
             announce the location.  -tom
             \_ hear hear
        \_ Hear, hear.
        \_ I'd really want to know where they got the steaks from.  They
           were *that* good unmarinated.  I shoulda prolly poured beer on mine
           whilst on the grill.  I also appreciated the lack of lecturing
           going on, everyone just seemed happy to hang out and see each
           other.
        - At one point there was 8 guys, and 4 girls.  I think that's a
          record?
        Bad:
        - danh still cannot open his car. Can someone call AAA for him?
        Ugly:
        - No tom/partha/dans cagematch, I want my money back!
          \_ I don't get why you think I care about dans.  He made some
             stupid comments on MOTD, I pointed out that they were stupid,
             he persisted (and persists).  That doesn't separate him from
             a dozen other twinks.
             My comment would be, if you create a new politburo position
             for alumni relations, you should manage to do better publicity
             than one email sent weeks in advance and complete failure to
             announce the location.  -tom
             \_ hear hear
             \_ Probably because you keep responding to him.

4/21    worst thing ever
        http://youtube.com/watch?v=2FRMntm1Uec
        \_ Oh. My. God. Big. Fat. Belly. Disturbed am I? Yes.
        \_ I love lynx/w3c.  Anything worth seeing can still be seen on them
           and any danh url can not..  mmm =)
           \_ You can compile javascript and crazy pnm-to-ascii support
              into elinks. - danh

4/21    Anyone going to Maker Faire?
        http://www.makezine.com/faire
        \_ I went, it was fun.  It was good to see all the people I've been
           reading about for years.  -scottyg

4/21    Any plans to install nfrm?  Or any suggestions for alternatives?
        \_ Does /usr/bin/frm work for you?
           \_ I think that'll work.  Thanks.
           \_ I did an "alias nfrm frm -s new"
              \_ nfrm and frm at one time, used to be hardlinks to the
                 same binary.  And its behavior would be based on argv[0]
                 It appears this is no longer the case

4/22    More proof that Bush's special tax cut is stimulating the economy:
        http://foxnews.smartmoney.com/smallbiz/inthetrenches
        \_ Because clearly, Fox news is a more reliable source for economic
           information than literally hundreds of respected economists both
           in academic and practical roles who all agree the supply-side
           economics was and is a complete and utter load of garbage.
           jblack, seriously, were you dropped on your head as a baby?  Does
           it amuse you to troll the motd with badly sourced, badly reasoned
           swill?  Do you think you're convincing people to come around to
           your point of view, if so do you have any evidence that this
           approach is working?  -dans
             \_ Fuck you.  If you had any knowledge of my mother's delivery
                condition, you'd realize that's in remarkably poor taste.
                \_ That's messed up, man.     -irony guy
           \_ WHoa whoa, easy on the meth!!! Take a chill pill. The guy
              you're blaming on hasn't even been unsorried:
    jblack:x:13096:100:Justin Black:/home/apollo/jblack:/csua/adm/bin/safesorry
              You have a lot of anger. Are you still pissed at tom because
              he made you look like a total idiot and a nut case? Has it
              been embarrasing? What did the shrink say? Do tell.
              \_ Do you appreciate the irony of tom making anyone look like an
                 idiot and a nutcase? -dans
                 \_ About as much as I appreciate the irony of you making
                    anyone seem well-adjusted and rational.
                    \_ Coming from a random anonymous troll who, odds are, has
                       probably never met me, that's pretty ridiculous. -dans
           \_ s/foxnews/www/ ... happy now? It's not foxnews.  The article
              doesn't prove what op asserts anyways.  Just that some people
              have lots of money to blow.  Which we knew anyways.
           \_ Sometimes it helps to read an article before responding to
              it.
              \_ Agreed. dans' brain has been classified as: small
                 \- you must pay me 5 cents.
                    \- why? what is the ramification for not doing so? ok thx

4/22    Does anyone here in CA have either T-Mobile or Cingular GSM service?
        If so, could you tell me where you are and how good the coverage
        is there? Thanks. - ciyer
        \_ Used to have sprint, switch to cingular.  Sprint calls felt less
           staticy, and Cingular sold me a phone that died just days after
           the warrantee expired.
        \_ My girlfriend has Cingular, and says it's "pretty good" if you're
           in a populated area, but in my experience my Verizon phone gets
           better coverage although it is more expensive.
        \_ Cingular (on old AT&T network) south san jose and mountain view
           works pretty well.  I don't use my phone much, but I haven't had
           any dropped calls I can think of.
           \_ Cingular in downtown SF has been getting slowly better over the
              past three years.  It even works downstairs at BART stations,
              and occasionally keeps calls going between the four main down-
              town stations.  My calls are usually dropped after 30-40 minutes,
              though.
              \- i have cingular att. i think it is pretty good. there
                 are occasional weird issues with voice mail notifications
                 being delayed, but the coverage is much better than the
                 att non-GSM i had before [which totally sucked]. --psb
                 \_ att non-gsm started sucking once they fired up their
                    gsm.  Before this, I could get phone calls in the labs on
                    2nd floor soda.
                    \- i thought it sucked for some time before that but it
                       is possible my phone unit was having issues too.
                 \_ I had a Siemens S46 (TDMA+GSM) until recently, when
                    I discovered that the TDMA side was no longer able
                    to make calls, most likely due to Cingular's taking
                    over AT&T's accounts.  So I bought an unlocked
                    Motorola V505.  Shortly after, Cingular "upgraded"
                    my plan (+$5 and -100 minutes per month)... after
                    yelling at them on the phone for several minutes,
                    they gave me +200 minute/month.  -- tsang (seattle)
        \_ Tmobile - a company that pays their spokesperson $20 mil
           yet is still more or less bankrupt. GSM - can't pass through
           walls worth a crap.