4/30 Whipped up a quick python script to bring wallall into the world of
RSS! Point your readers (including Safari!) at
http://csua.berkeley.edu/wallrss.cgi
and enjoy some inane fun...
--michener
\_ The undergrads rock! Moving soda off of FreeBSD was the best thing
to happen to the CSUA in years!
\_ that is the OS of sysadmins, and people who run ISPS. Not
exactly the sort that encourage new thinking/memes. how long
did it take for cardbus to be put into freebsd... anyway glad
to see ppl are doing neat things.
\_ This (and thus wall logs)may be accessible by google now.
\- pp inquiry: if freebsd is the "sysadmin/isp os" how
would you characterize linux?
\_ This is silly. All of the data on soda being deleted and
starting from scratch w/ a fresh FreeBSD install would have
had the same effect. Linux doesn't "encourage new thinking"
in its users.
\_ They infact did this, soda was first paved over with
some bsd, but no one stepped forth to port stuff. Look
Linux in general has "encouraged new thinking" hence it
supports more HW, has more drivers, and a larger user base.
\_ Really? The source, filesystems, data, everything gone?
I don't remember that.
\_ #f. The undergrads are porting old CSUA utils that
haven't been touched in years. That's gotten them making
new software, like the wall -> rss tool michener rolled.
I think that's cool. Don't you?
\_ When Soda was reinstalled with FreeBSD several years
ago, the stupid custom scripts from Dynix were
ported to FreeBSD. We're not talking rocket
science here. wall_hosers, wall, nwrite, whatever.
I'm sure most stuff will get ported to Linux
eventually. To arbitrarily say "When FreeBSD
was installed all development stopped, but
now that we have Linux the undergrads have
have a new burst of creativity and productivity
by letting fucking google crawl the wall log"
is stupid.
\_ What exactly is arbitrary about the statement?
Please point me to the 1337 archives of software
that were written by CSUA undergrads between 1997
and 2005. An undergrad took an existing CSUA
commmunity tool and extended it to make it available
via current technology, in this case, RSS. What,
exactly, is your problem with that? That it changes
things? That it makes soda no longer your personal
playground where you make the rules? Deal with it.
What part of Computer Science UNDERGRADUATE
Association don't you understand?
\_ This (and thus wall logs) may be accessible by google now.
Caveat emptor.
\_ Not "caveat wallor"?
\_ And this is bad, why? Because it cracks open our insulated
little sandbox to the world?
\_ Paolo, why do you hate my sandbox? - danh
\_ not bad. it just IS. I'm telling people so they know.
Good or Bad are niceties I don't have the time for. Cheers. |