2012/8/30-11/7 [Computer/SW/Apps, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54470 Activity:nil | 8/30 Is wall just dead? The wallall command dies for me, muttering
something about /var/wall/ttys not existing.
\_ its seen a great drop in usage, though it seems mostly functional.
-ERic
\_ Couldn't open wall log!: Bad file descriptor
Could not open wall subscription directory /var/wall/ttys: No such file or directory
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2011/11/20-2012/2/6 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54237 Activity:nil | 11/20 Are there tools that can justify a chunk of plain ASCII text by
replacing words with words of similar meaning and inserting/removing
commas into the text? I received a 40-line plain text mail where
all the lines are justified on left and right. Every word and comma
is followed by only one space, and every period is followed by two
spaces. The guy is my kid's karate instructor which I don't think is
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2011/10/26-12/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54202 Activity:nil | 10/24 What's an easy way to see if say column 3 of a file matches a list of
expressions in a file? Basically I want to combine "grep -f <file>"
to store the patterns and awk's $3 ~ /(AAA|BBB|CCC)/ ... I realize
I can do this with "egrep -f " and use regexp instead of strings, but
was wondering if there was some magic way to do this.
\_ UNIX has no magic. Make a shell script to produce the ask or egrep
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2010/11/21-2011/1/13 [Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:53988 Activity:moderate | 11/21 Lifehacker's recommending Dreamhost as a personal web hosting service.
Apart from csua, who do you guys use? --erikred
\_ What do you want to use it for? Do you need CGI or PHP? My
brother worked for Dreamhost and said they are unethical. In
fact, he sued them. This refers to their treatment of customers
and employees both. I don't know who or what "Lifehacker" is,
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2013/10/24-2014/2/5 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Computer/SW] UID:54746 Activity:nil | 9/26 I remember there was web version of the motd with search function
(originally due to kchang ?). The last time I used it it was hosted
on the csua website but I can't remember its url (onset of dementia?)
now. Can somebody plz post it, tnx.
\_ http://csua.com
\_ for some reason I couldn't log in since Sept and the archiver
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2012/9/5-11/7 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:54472 Activity:nil | 9/4 It looks like there are some issues with wallall at the moment. Any
plans for it getting fixed? I can run wall, but wallall just gives an
error.
\_ Asking questions on the motd will not get any attention from
any undergrad. You should email politburo or perhaps csua. -ausman
\_ Asking questions on the motd will not get attention from any
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2012/4/23-6/4 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:54359 Activity:nil | 4/19 Motd updater thingy seems to be broken, does anyone know why?
If not, I will take a look later in the day. -ausman
\_ /etc/motd.public is not getting copied into /etc/motd for a while.
\_ Now it works and no one knows why. Strange. -ausman
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2012/2/24-3/26 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:54313 Activity:nil | 2/24 What newsreader should I use on soda?
\_ USENIX? You serious? Everyone switched to RSS.
\_ I think you mean usenet not usenix. usenet was generally much
better than blogs / rss (cf. comp.lang.c, comp.lang.perl,
the usenet oracle, alt.* with digg, slashdot, etc.)
link:reader.google.com is the best
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