5/4 /csua/tmp is full. Thanks tom:
293032 -r-xr-xr-x 1 tom wheel 299905024 Jan 29 15:51 moab-munifest.avi
\_ why post this to the MOTD instead of mailing me? Oh right, you're
an anonymous coward. -tom
\_ Because nobody likes you, everybody hates you, we think you
should eat worms...
\_ so do you plan to remove the file?
\_ certainly not because of some MOTD posting. If someone
wants to ask me directly, I'll consider it. (It was
placed there at the specific request of another CSUA
member). -tom
\- you know tom, this bit of pigheadedness
surprises even me. i dont think you are
being picked on here ... you own the largest
file there by a factor of two. has something
changed in your life to ratchet up your
bitterness level? it seem to jump up at
some point recently ... i only ask out of
intellectual curiosity. you can continue to
bray about the AMC but help everyone else
out by deleting the damn file. --psb
\_ Does 'pigheadedness' have etymology related
to 'go stick your head in a pig'? -- ilyas
\_ Publicly-readable files account for only
30% of the disk usage in /csua/tmp.
\_ do you think its usefulness to the other csua member
might have expired in the last 3 months?
\_ why don't you download it and see? -tom
\_ i am beginning to understand this general animus
towards tom.
\_ the greater your level of contact the more you'll
understand. he's just got a self esteem problem
because he never got a degree but is surrounded
by those who do or soon will.
\_ Except I personally know a few people who never
graduated, and don't have this problem...
|_ /csua/tmp should be self-monitored. It's quite rude to leave
huge files there, esp if you know that the filesystem is full.
asshole.
\_ It's also quite rude to insult someone in a public
forum, instead of asking them politely. Asshole. -tom
\_ i'll just note that bad behavior on one part does not
justify or excuse bad behavior on another, just as
rudeness on one does not justify or excuse rudeness
on another.
\_ Yes. Unless it's tom.
Speaking of resource abuse, whatever happened to the alumni
donation thing? I'd like to donate maybe 50 bucks but I still don't
see a PayPal link and what not. Maybe I should just donate to the
Stanford computing facility. -guy doing CSMS@Stanford
\_ there is a difference between what is expected
and what is justified.
\_ Being rude to tom is always justified.
\_ since I ever met tom in 1992 he's been rude and inconsiderate.
he has contributed very little except hostile, condescending
remarks, and now this. It's not the first time, and it will not
be the last. It has been 12 years since I've known him and very
little has changed. I really think we should squish him.
\_ "now this"? I put a file requested by another CSUA member
into a directory intended to allow CSUA members to share files.
How horrific! As for my contributions, I was CSUA VP for two
semesters--what have *you* done?
And there are files > 100MB which have been there for over 2
years; why do you care about mine? Oh, right, because you're
an anonymous coward.
Shit, I've been trolled. -tom
\_ I don't see what anonymity has to do with the size of the
file. And I certainly don't buy into anonymity as a
justification for pointless ad hominem. Chill, dude. -mice
\_ Why are you talking about the file? The post tom responded
to is just an anonymous smear and request to "squish him".
You're fucking insane if you think his response was somehow
out of line. What ad hominem? Wtf is wrong with u people.
\_ Uhm, did you even read the post the guy is replying to?
Train harder, grasshopper.
\- because not removing the file is "out of line" with
arguing with the fellow in the motd. nobody is saying
tom should be squished or shouldnt argue with this
fellow. but he should have done something with the
file. his stubbornness over this makes him either
stupid or an asshole ... or possibly somehow psycho-
logically disturbed. --psb
\_ Because yours was the largest file. That was hard. Try
engaging your brain occasionally.
\_ Irrelevant. It's still a relatively small usage of the
filesystem.
\_ FYI, signing as "guy doing CSMS@Stanford" does not count as
de-anonymizing yourself. You might as well not sign at all
if you're not going to give your username.
\_ I think that was about the donation part, not the tom part.
\_ Speaking of resource abuse, whatever happened to the alumni
donation thing? I'd like to donate maybe 50 bucks but I still don't
see a PayPal link and what not. Maybe I should just donate to the
Stanford computing facility. -guy doing CSMS@Stanford
\_ Why do you guys always pick on tom? Just because he's a bit rude,
hostile, and censors the motd like some nanny is no reason to abuse
him all the time. Seriously, I feel badly for him. He's working
as some IT peon at one of the greatest universities on the face
of the planet and literally surrounded by people smarter and better
educated than himself since he never graduated. Of course he's
bitter and hostile. Why don't you guys just accept him as he is
and let him feel important once in a while? He'll mellow once you
accept him as one of us.
\_ hahahahhaaha this has got to be one of the best responses
I've ever read. It deserves the best motd post of the
week.
\_ you hypocrites sound like pathetic high schoolers
\_ well apaprently there is space on /csua/tmp now, and moab*.avi
is still there, so whatever.
\_ So the moral of the story is: Most CSUAers are helpful and
cooperative, but tom is a jerk.
\_ Here is what is going on: Tom is proud of whatever is
in that file [thus the helpful suggestion "why don't you
dl it and see"] and he wants to keep it there to point to
or for people to stumble on. If he were to delete it,
putting it back without "someone asked me to put it there"
would just look pathetic. No, I don't know why he doesn't
just put it on a web page.
\_ It's really simple. I'm not going to respond to some
anonymous coward's attempt to disparage me on the MOTD.
If someone wants to make it a personal request, I'll
consider it.
The file is a video made at the 2003 Moab MUniFest,
and I think it could be of interest to people, but
the original purpose of putting it in /csua/tmp was
that randal wanted to see it, and I don't have personal
web space where I can stick 300MB. -tom
\_ You guys are bad. Tom picked on me once, but this thread is
a little mean.
\_ You reap what you sow... |
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