Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 54021
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2011/1/31-2/19 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:54021 Activity:nil
1/28    can someone ntpdate the clock to the right time?
        \_ installing gdb would be nice too, plz?
           \_ THANK YOU for installing gdb and nwrite
              \_ ZOMG, someone still uses nwrite?! -- Marco
        \_ Posting requests to the motd is pointless, as the politburo
           does not read it. Email root@soda. -ausman
           \_ who is on that these days?
        \_ Sigh. The one time I look at motd in a month and there's a request
           for root. AFAIK I'm basically the only rootstaffer who reads motd
           even infrequently and will take care of simple requests like this.
           I'm such an enabler. --toulouse
           \_ you're a good guy, thanks.  It's ok, I am not in a rush.  I just
              point out stuff that used to be installed that we all use.  I
              remember mconst first showing me gdb on soda, nostalgia I
              suppose.
           \_ any chance for:
 apt-get install manpages-dev git ghc colormake erlang-nox qt4-dev-tools rats ?
           \_ any chance for: apt-get install
        rubygems manpages-dev git ghc colormake erlang-nox qt4-dev-tools rats ?
              rubygems manpages-dev git ghc colormake erlang-nox qt4-dev-tools
              rats ?
              \_ That's a lot of packages. ntpdate and gdb and nwrite are easy
                 to justify for any value of $RANDOM_USER, but lots of that is
                 pretty specific. However, I will install git and rubygems now.
                 For the rest, email root@csua. --toulouse
                 \_ since we're cool with rubygems, can we get irb please? it's
                    the ruby interpreter shell.
                    \_ Done. Also, you're tabbing your lines wrong. --toulouse
                    \_ doh you forgot ri !OP
                       \_ Goddammit. Done. You are also doing your tabs wrong.
                          --toulouse.
                          \_ you are a awesome, sir.  Thank you.
                          \_ you are a prince among men, sir.  My tabs look
                             right on my editor, I can't even tell how they are
                             off?  Is this one off?
                             \_ Allow me to demonstrate. First, everyone else:
ttttttttsssssssssssssssssssss\_ this is normal, where 1 tab is 8 wide.
tttttttsssstttttttttttttttttt\_ This is your first line.
ttttttttttttttttttttttttssssssssThis is your second line. --toulouse
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