Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 13191
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2004/4/14-15 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:13191 Activity:nil
4/14    amazing. simply amazing.
        http://csua.com
        (thanks psb via james)  - rory
        \_ What the... He goes through and stores and indexs the motd
           everyday?
                \_ no it's fully automatic
        \_ All the more so since I thought that kchang's account was sorried
           ages ago, though I don't really follow these things. -- ulysses
           \_ Well, I can't find a kchang though finger, so he must be
              gone.  The motd is available on the web though, right?
              But the real question is, why does he care?  WHY? -jrleek
              \_ Why do we care?
                 \_ I have a facination with the bizzare.
                 \_ because the motd is actually a huge wealth of knowledge
                    on unix, c++, etc interspersed with obnoxious uselss
                    (though entertaining) ranting, and a categorized and
                    well-done archive actually makes all the information
                    accessible and useful.   - rory
              \_ grep kchang /etc/passwd
                   kchang:*:8710:100:Kevin Chang,none,none,
                   none:/home/apollo/kchang:/usr/local/bin/tcsh
            \_ Why was he sorried?
                http://csua.com/?entry=10961
                http://csua.com/?q=kchang+sorried
                \_ it's lame if he were really tricked.
                   \_ insulting him on the MOTD isn't "tricking him into
                      writing a motd deletion script."
                      \_ fag is 'hate speech' not insult.
                      \_ Automatically adding stuff should be squishable
                         too.  Was that guy found and sorried as well?
                         \_ I wasn't here, but i'd bet not.  It seems like a
                            bunch of crap that he was sorried, and i'm glad
                            to see he's back, especially since this motd
                            thing is cool. -phuqm
                \_ oh my, this is IRONIC!!! checking out why he got squished
                   on his own very creation. it's killing Mr. Winchester
                   with his own gun.
        \_ should he be squished again?
               from http://csua.com/?entry=faq1
        Couldn't I break the system by totally messing up the motd entries?
        \_ You sure could. Please do try, preferably using a motd mudging
           script, croned, forked bombed, that uses a lot of cpu time.
        \_ search, auto categorized, and prefetched/cached contents. it's
           a csua-killer app. there was a time when I thought he was an
           idiot, but now i think he is a really cool idiot.
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csua.com -> compilers.cs.ucla.edu/%7Ekchang/motd/
Kais Motd - Kevin' Archived, Indexed, and Searcheable Motd
Cache (262 bytes)
csua.com/?entry=10961 -> compilers.cs.ucla.edu/%7Ekchang/motd/?entry=10961
How long has it been since the last official squishing? OK to have automatic scripts deleting the MOTD. Is that really why kchang was sorried? If so, thats fucked up. Dont believe the hype. Ask someone who was on politburo at the time if youre really interested.
Cache (119 bytes)
csua.com/?q=kchang+sorried -> compilers.cs.ucla.edu/%7Ekchang/motd/?q=kchang+sorried
Is there any chance of the CSUA powers to make a simple archive script and a little dedicated space part of the system?
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csua.com/?entry=faq1 -> compilers.cs.ucla.edu/%7Ekchang/motd/?entry=faq1
Comparison of entries is not simple unix diff, rather it is independent of white spaces and words. If one entry is at least 85 similar to another entry, the later entry is taken while both the responses are merged. How come entries on Kais Motd seem longer than the other primitive, RCS/CVS motd archivers? So even if some responses are changed and/or censored, Kais Motd does its best merging new responses. Case in point, look at the following highly censored post that lasted for 6 days. So trying to time a highly controversial troll to be archived is futile because itll most likely be deleted by other people before its polled. In addition, even if its polled and archived, other Kais Motd superusers not me will most likely delete it. Polling is done anywhere between 1-4 times a day on a PURE RANDOM schedule. So if your entry got deleted, then it didnt get lucky enough to be polled and saved at the right time. If you want a comprehensive motd, there are other RCSed entries motd,v you can look at. To go a step further, how would a computer categorize the following sentence: How many Republicans does it take to screw a lightbulb? Well, its easy for human beings to recognize that it is a prelude to a joke, but I know of no algorithm that could recognize this highly context sensitive sentence, reliably. If youd like to help, you can volunteer to be a Kais Motd superuser and manually categorize and/or set rules. Couldnt I break the system by totally messing up the motd entries? In contrast my UCLA account has about 3000X more space than my CSUA account, 4X the processor speed per processor, and has 4 processors. Also I can run power hungry lexical/context matching algorithms exponential time if I seriously want to for a whole night without getting squished.