5/16    for over a week my id_dsa.pub is no longer accepted on soda, did
        something change on soda?
        \_ wait I noticed that all my files are "nobody", what's up?
           \_ The folowing people are screwed, please donate more
              money to CSUA
drwxr-xr-x   5 nobody       csua             33 2009-06-28 19:33 bowman/
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody       nogroup           2 2006-12-13 02:59 clamav/
drwxr-xr-x   5 nobody       csua             39 2005-08-03 23:01 domo/
drwxr-xr-x   3 nobody       csua             10 2005-08-03 23:01 dyamada/
drwx--x--x  14 nobody       csua             63 2010-05-17 13:52 kchang/
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody       csua             12 2005-08-03 23:00 kenyang/
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody       csua             10 2005-08-03 23:00 letuan/
drwxr-xr-x  34 nobody       csua            103 2010-05-05 16:10 mehlhaff/
drwxr-xr-x   3 nobody       csua             10 2006-08-18 00:48 sage/
drwx--x--x  11 nobody       csua             79 2010-05-17 11:02 yuen/
              \_ What are you talking about? Also, clam antiviru what
          \_ Email root@csua if you care to actually get a response...

5/6     A bit tardy, but please welcome our new politburo! Nathan Fair is very
        diplomatic, and sharp to boot. He'll be an excellent interface for the
        CSUA to the outside world. Mikey is reprising his role as VP. Samantha
        Dove is our new Treasurer, and we hope that her penny-pinching will
        serve us well. Angie is moving from Treasurer to Secretary, where she
        plans to walk all over the hosers who mess up the office, rather than
        the other way around ;). Finally, there is Jessica Pan for Events, who
        has been doing her part running events behind-the-scenes already, and
        will be responsible for keeping up the good work!

4/24    Why is soda being retired in ~70 days? What's going to happen
    to the physical box?
        \_ What? Where did you get that information? Also, soda hasn't
           physically existed for like a year or two now.
           \_ Hmm, then what does "There are 71 days remaining" mean?
          \_ No clue. Some random person having fun. We leave the text blob  up
             because what reason would we have to interfere and take it down?
              \_ this is who we are
                 \_ "This is who we are."
              \_ No clue. Some random person having fun. We leave the text
                 blob up because what reason would we have to interfere and
                 take it down?
        \_ you know, AWS is so cheap these days, we should just host it
           on AWS. Advantage: alumni can handle the sysadm job... it's
           hosted outside of Berkeley.
           \_ You know, I think the csua should stay inside berkeley. and
              not be "amazon campus outreach".
           \_ Seattle is nice I hear, how's Amazon paying you these days?
           \_ Sweet you should just start up a host and not tell the undergrads.
           \_ im not sure you know what you are talking about.  Amazon bucket
              storage is very cheap.  Hosting VMs at Amazon, not cheap.
           \_ An alumnus can technically handle the sysadm job now, because our
           machines are all virtualized anyway.
           \_ Whoa. I had no idea. Who owns/runs the physical hosts?
              \_ The VP. Who did you expect?
                 \_ Sorry, the syntax, "our machines are all virtualized" made
                    me think that CSUA no longer owned physical machines, just
                    VMs hosted elsewhere. (Hey, UCB should build a cloud?)
                    \_ Wow are you in marketing?  What other buzzwords do you
                       recite?
              \_ Nothing is stopping you from doing it now, just set up your
                 AWS and leave.  Seriously.  Quit bitching and moaning- we are
                 lucky this exists.  Just leave.
                  \_ WORD. What part of "This is BEAR TERRITORY" does Amazon
                     Lackey not get?
                 \_ Seconded. -grateful alum.

4/13    Oh noes!  soda rebooted and /csua/ is empty!

2/18    What happened to wall?
        \_ Died a natural death?
        \_ phase 1: soda got hacked, politburo disabled EVERYONE's account,
           most people didn't bother going through the procedure to get turned
           back on.
           phase 2:  vp didnt figure out how to keep soda successfully mounting
           NFS storage until recently, so a lot of people had trouble logging
           over the last few months.  I'm shocked i can log in now !
           kind of sucks, but i guess all things end.
           \_ recently? it's still dying.
                \_ as i write this, it is currently dead.
        \_ what do you suppose the end game for soda is?   just turn
           it into a forum on something like yahoogroups?   motd become a
           google wave doc?
           \_ The end game is it will be thrown into E&S, with all the disks,
              and put into a box and shelved in a giant warehouse in emeryville
              as the camera pans out and harrison ford goes "Fools."
              \_ Lol that explains the countdown timer.
              \_ Wrong. Soda is already gone. This is a VM. Didn't you know?

12/24   First!
        \_ awesome CSUA is back up! Who revived it?

9/8     Apparently Prof. Sequin has decided that the CSUA will move to
        311 Soda.  Dwight (president) talked to him a few hours ago
        and he was not amenable to us keeping our office and lounge.
        \_ i do not know how things work anymore.  Sequin controls the
           building ?  the old XCF office isnt so bad.
        \_ What does this mean to the operation of http://csua.berkeley.edu?
           \_ Nothing.
        \_ Who is moving into the current CSUA space?
           \_ It'll become an administrative office for two people. The new room
              will become a fire hazard.
              \_ Waah waah.  Dude they need space.  Why is that so hard to
                 accept?
                 \_ Because according to another professor, due to groups
                    moving to CITRIS (Dai Hall), and fairly major department
                    staff layoffs, there is /not/ a space crunch.
        \_ Doesn't CSUA have a faculty sponsor. Harvey to the rescue!

9/6 A professor is trying to take 337 Soda from us. He sent us an
    email at 6 on Friday before the 3-day weekend. Apparently it's
    almost final and we _JUST_ got notified. >:(
    \_ I can donate $100. Will that help?
       \_ It will help the CSUA, but it will not help the room situation.
          \_ What if I donate $100 to the professor?
             \_ Gee, how ethical. That's sure to convince him of our integrity!
                \_ Integrity can be bought.     -Republican Party
                \_ Money sometimes oils the wheels of justice.
    \_ Who is it? Let's email him/her/it.
          \_ Professor Sequin
       \_ That would be a bad idea. He doesn't like the CSUA and he has the
          power to do it, so I don't think alumni could help by talking nicely.
          \_ We could email the alumni association and tell them that the
             main reason we give to the school is because of the CSUA. Are
             you going to get another office? -ausman
             \_ Yes. It will be 80% the size of our old office, and < 50%
                of our current office. Calculations say that it will be a fire
                hazard given our level of membership. It's keypadded so it may
                mean we can't have an open door. It has a toilet that the
                janitorial staff does not clean, and no door to Soda proper.
                It's the former help desk 'not a help desk' room. 337 will
                become an administrative office for two people.
                \_ That's the old XCF office. What happened to 343?
                   \_ It'll still be ours, but the question of whether it
                      can be reverted to the CSUA office is in the air. In
                      the case we can't, we'll probably still have to supervise
                      it, from across the building. Fucking astounding.
                          \_ The old XCF office is probably a lot more
                             reasonable for what the CSUA does these days.
                             \_ I disagree. What do you think the CSUA does
                                these days?
                                \_ Play video games?

8/10    From Aug 9th minutes:
        "Evelyn is resigning as President. Jesse will take over all duties of
        the president, temporarily."
        So, I've been around for a while (since F03), and seen 3 csua pres-
        idents resign now.  For those of you who have been here (much) longer
        than me, is this pretty common every two years or so? -mrauser
        \_ reason(s) for resigning?
           \_ <sexist>women</sexist>
              \_ http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1607#comic
           \_ You'll never get it!
              \_ By hook or by crook, we will.
                 \_ I will not be NUMBERED!
           \_ I'm not really certain.  I heard she just said "personal
              reasons." -mrauser
              \_ pregnant?

7/27    Minutes from politburo: We should migrate email to Google Apps instead
        of hosting it ourselves, since managing the mail server takes up too
        much of VP's time website needs: *RSS *calendar *static pages
        \_ Why is CSUA mail such a problem?  Please discuss?
        \_ Bahahahahaha. CSUA should just outsource UNIX to India.
           While you're at it, move motd to Yahoo Groups, irc+ntalk to Google
           Talk, and picture hosting to Flickr. I'll miss alt.binaries.erotic.*
           but that's the price we have to pay, I guess.
                \_ politburo, i will run email for you if you want.  i have
                   a decade experience doing it.
                   \_ who are you?
                      \_ #2.New()
                         \_ whois number.1
        \_ Relevant discussion happening on csua@csua mail list
           \_ summary: vaheder rejects outsourcing and wants to use the the
              antiquated light saber. the force in vaheder is strong.
              there is hope in this one.
           \_ summary: tom[holub] says sysadm for <10 alumni isn't going to
              be very interesting. however, Amazon donated EC2 and cloud
              computing could be the future, and it'll probably be more
              fun using a canon than a light sabre.
              \_ lol@cloud computing
        \_ If we had a filer, I am of the opinion that much of the pain of
           keeping our services up and running services would be mitigated. Most
           of our uptime problems were because of crashy keg. Another server to
           run VMWare e-sex or whatever it's called now would be nice, but no
           doubt out of our reach
           \_ Who are you? I can probably wrangle a filer to donate. -ausman
              \_ I am politburo. I am root. I am nobody.

7/4     I'm accessing soda by typing ssh -X jhcooper@csua.berkeley.edu
        at a Linux prompt.  At the soda prompt, I can type "xmessage hello &",
        and I get a nice little greeting from myself popping up on my display.
        But if I type xterm &, the process runs ok, but nothing appears on
        my screen.  What am I doing wrong?
        \_ Works just fine for me...  try turning on SSH debug with -v ?

6/29    /csua/bin/wallall seems to work now.
        Please report any oddities to root@csua --steven

6/10    Hi all,

It's that time again!

Unfortunately, earlier this week we discovered a rootkit on soda.
Please consider any passwords and private keys stored on CSUA
machines to be compromised.  We'll get back to you when we
have more information and information on the rebuild...

Best,
Steven Schlansker
CSUA Root Staff
People who install rootkits are so annoying...

Linux soda 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Welcome to Soda Mark VII, a dual Xeon 2.8GHz, please enjoy your stay.

2/6     The 2/5 meeting minutes say:
            "T-shirts going to the printers tomorrow, get them by Thursday
             if possible"
        How does a crufty alum buy one of these T-shirts?
        \_ I want an "I partied with Nick Weaver" t-shirt.
           \_ Shouldn't that be "I partied with nweaver"?
          \_ Those are for the Hackathon, although we do have CSUA
             shirts available as well.  They are $13 apiece.  You can
             drop by the office and buy one, or if you're willing to pay
             shipping and handling and such email politburo@ and we'll
             see if we can send one off to you --steven
             \_ Is it the same one from a few years ago with the ascii
                cow on the back?

12/30   Where are the current descriptions of the "CSUA" and the "Announce"
        mailing lists?  Some old mail from a year ago said they were at:
        http://CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csua
        http://CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce
        But these links don't work anymore.  Thanks.

12/19   Where are you soda?

12/9    A new politburo has been elected. --t
        \_ I'm glad at least you guys could fill all seven offices this time.
           Its really a shame that the amendment failed, the politburo is
           too heavyweight at 7 officers (some of whom are so superflous,
           there is little need for them to give a crap).  I wish you guys
           had proposed the amendment in a way that might actually convince
           some people rather than "hey, so we want to do this." -mrauser
           \_ hey, is it kosher to top-post like this? anyways, I dunno, if we
              have enough officers to fill the 7 spots (as we did), I'd rather
              have the larger offices. Part of my consideration in voting
              against (I was initially for) was that I wanted to pull some more
              people in to the CSUA, and so we can rely on others if some of us
              happen to be busy (especially since 3/7th of Politburo will be in
              CS150). --t
              \_ You have been here for a week, don't start becoming a format
                 nazi.  I find it astounding that you voted down the amendment
                 seeing as I could not find a single place where you voiced
                 any dissenting opinion to it.  Why didn't you voice your
                 concern instead of silently hoping for failure.  The concern
                 you gave was the original reason for the amendment but it
                 completely failed.  Do you not remember an entire semester
                 where steven held two offices because you couldnt find a
                 single person who could act as events director? The rationale
                 for the amendment is clear from your description.  Right now
                 the "larger" offices are the offices taking up the majority
                 of the responsibility and work burden for the csua.  The
                 amendment would have left you with positions with more
                 balance between them instead of the large disparity now. -mr
                 \_ I've been here for two weeks, at least. Also, I have no
                    obligation to email you when I change my opinion, but FYI
                    I did talk with other members of politburo about this,
                    outside of politburo. That I sent out the email surveying
                    possible candidates for each of the position should indicate
                    to you (after the fact) that it wasn't a sudden decision,
                    and (though it's also not something I'd email you about) I
                    CSUA members for intent to run should indicate to you
                    (after the fact) that it wasn't a sudden decision, and
                    (though it's also not something I'd email you about) I
                    okay'ed it with a few politburo members. And of course I
                    took into account Steven's dual-position. Do you think I'm
                    an idiot? To me, balance was not really the issue; if
                    anything the low-stress positions such as librarian and
                    secretary are IMO a good gateway for members to test how
                    much they want to involve themselves in managing CSUA
                    affairs. It's why I ran for secretary in the first place.
                    I could go on, but my lock time just expired. --t

        \_ There are also plans for a forum to replace motd.  Yah!
           \_ No there aren't. There are plans to pilot a forum to see if any of
              you crochety old folks can be arsed into using this newfangled web
              technology to connect with undergrads. --t (president-elect)
           \_ No there aren't. There are plans to pilot a forum to see if any
              of you crochety old folks can be arsed into using this
              newfangled web technology to connect with undergrads. --t
              (president-elect)
              \_ if there are gals as hot as karen@csua circa 2004-5 I'll
                 definitely donate and connect with you undergrads.
                 \_ Pics of karen please?
                    \_ karen likes fruits, but does she like gay people?
                    \_ Commence stalking now:
                       http://karenism.com/blog
                       \_ I'm in LOOOOOVE. Time to donate to the CSUA.
                          \_ She's taken.
                       \_ oh man, karen is really creative. impressive
                       \_ I thought Karen has big breasts.  Guess not.
                    \_ http://xcf/~paolo/brc2004/3444600-R1-034-15A.jpg
                       \_ Blown out highlights in the back, typical when
                          you're trying to save details in front. Actually
                          I'm surprised to see how much shadow (subject)
                          was saved despite this high contrast scene.
                          Was a fill-in flash used in this situation?
                          What camera+flash if any was used here?
                       \_ She's VERY taken.
                          \_ I'm still going to jerk off to her pics.
                    \_ http://xcf/~paolo/brc2004/3444600-R1-034-15A.jpg
                       http://csua.org/u/91p
                       \_ I thought someone on motd once said Karen had big
                          breasts.  I guess not.
                          \_ they're bigger than mine. certainly bigger
                             than typical Japanese and Taiwanese ones.
                 \_ I guess you could call that hot...
              \_ oh boy, another web forum to ignore.
                 \_ just like motd
            \_ Ummm, do you really want these guys connecting with the
               undergrads?

12/9    Here's an idea for a CSUA project (I think it's been done before, but
        never in a way that took off)... a web-page that lets you create
        polls, authenticated against soda. e.g. "How much do you make?"
        "What OS do you use?". Poll results would be "pseudo"-anonymous.
        Good idea: ...
        Bad idea:
        Meh:
        RIDE BIKE: .
        \_ Will mention to politburo, sounds reasonable. Also sounds like a
           one-man job. I may play w/ python-ldap & Pylons over winter break --t

12/6    Is email reception working?  The last mail I received was
        Friday (12/5/08) morning (8:49am).  I isolated it to a receiving
        problem (sending is fine)--does anyone else have the same problem?
        Can root help me look into this?  Thanks.
        \_ email politburo and ask. Oh...
           \_ email is off until it can be moved to an i7 processor
              \_ thanks for the info/update!
                 \_ uh, i think that was supposed to be a joke.
           \_ No, don't. Email root@csua.berkeley.edu. Root not politburo.
              \_ Yeah, and as soon as email is working, they will get the
                 email telling them that email is down... think about it.
                 \_ What are you thinking? This is a no-thinking zone.
                 \_ How embarrassing.

12/4    Maybe you should have the CSUA initiate an ongoing CS project it could
        be known for, and thereby have more of a raison d'etre for the hardware
        choices.  For example a game development thing open to any and only
        members.  It could perhaps offer experience/tutelage in more practical
        aspects of CS than the academic stuff, but not just pointless IT
        exercises like you guys seem to be focused on now.
        \_ Not a bad idea, but last time we started projects, they died from
           neglect. --toulouse
           \_ So do something small.  Get an ipod touch and have an iphone
              development contest.  Give people 1 month to come up with
              something cool and give away the touch to the top prize.
              The CSUA should be all about getting people interested in
              CS.  There was a time when "having a unix computer that was
              on the internet" was a good way to give people an incentive
              to learn about cool computer stuff.  That day is long gone.
           \_ The lottery scheduler was the last project I remember. What
              other projects were there? -crufty-alum
        \_ Didn't help the XCF.  (RIP)
           \_ Well, maybe their project and club is too boring.  CSUA starts
              from being a social club; a project like this would have to
              be lightweight enough to keep people interested as an aside from
              their school work.  I don't think some OS research project is
              appropriate, for example.
           \_ XCF had other problems, but honestly, CSUA is getting less
              and less relevant these days.
        \_ Maybe you can start by organizing small groups interested in
           contributing some feature to an open source project. People working
           alone or towards a non-well-defined goal tend to be unmotivated.

12/2    You might have noticed the shitty uptime. Keg went down, and upon
        coming back up, immediately died again. It's up -- for now --, but
        who knows how long that will last! Politburo will be discussing this
        at tomorrow's meeting. Steven will also be sending an email shortly
        on the state of our equipment. More later. --toulouse

11/19   An hour ago I saw this:
         11:02:56 up 21 days,  7:30, 28 users,  load average: 595.04, 732.07,
         766.67
        What happened?

        And now "top" says:
        Mem:   2076388k total,  1935992k used,   140396k free,  184428k buffers
        Swap:  3903784k total,      104k used,  3903680k free,  531404k cached
        Only 104K swap space used out of 3.9G?  That's strange.
        \_ lulz
       \_ the   reason Soda keeps screwing up is        the LDAP server that ssh
          needs to communicate    with to  let you      log in,  'keg', is always
           screwing up.            politely ask politburo   to fix      this situation.
           And      your next point... I am not sure        'free'      or 'top'        means what
           you      think it  means in linux.    the OS     is possibly smarter than you
           might think    about freeing up       memory     for use.
           \_ your emacs fu is low
        \_ I miss the days when SODA went down, there is actually a public
           motd that explains what happened.
        \_ Maybe Soda needs a cron job that reboots every week.

11/19   politburo:  why are you running LDAP at all?  or alternatively,
        run it on soda.

11/7    Does this guy have a soda account?
        http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10926276?source=rss (online stalker)
        \_ boring
        \_ I wonder if Sold Intel Secrets To AMD guy has a soda account.

10/24   Sysadmin jobs at Zetta. See /csua/pub/jobs/Zetta -ccook

10/2    CS/Hedge Fund job at Bain Capital: see /csua/pub/jobs/BainCapital.txt

9/6     csua Russians, can you find me a torrent of this, but with
        English subs?  thanks.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKkc1CVSAc
        \_ google the keywords in the tags on the video, add "torrent" - non-russian sodan

7/3     Cleaned out /csua/pub/jobs moving all the ancient postings elsewhere.
        Please post anew (or if your 2007 posting is still valid feel free
        to repost it from /csua/pub/jobs/old/2007) if you have a job to offer
        me.  All your job are belong to us. -mrauser

5/14    Of course, Polar Bears' population is exploding.  Definitely time to
        declare them endangered.  Wha?
        \_ Is of course please to be AT LEAST WRITE A LEADING STATEMENT THAT
           MAKES SOME SENSE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHA?  I kill you.
        \_ Is a Polar Bear a big white senior citizen gay male?
        \_ polar bear population is increasing where?
           \_ Soda hall.  They are invisible among the pasty faced nerds.
           \_ The polar bear population has doubled over the last 50 years
              or so. I have no idea how that compares to historical
              population figures from, say, 200 years ago but in the
              near-term the population has risen dramatically.
        \_ They obviously have too much to eat.  They are in danger of obesity.

4/21    Hey everyone!  The CSUA is having its semi-regular Alumni BBQ!
        It will be May 8, 2008 in the Wozniak Lounge from 6pm.  All
        alums and current members are welcome!  Come for some free food
        and friends (hopefully disjoint sets).  Email politburo with any
        and all questions/comments/concerns.  --steven
        \_ Any hot women there?
           \_ I'll bring my girlfriend(s)
           \_ If you have to ask, you don't know.
           \_ any that are, will be "with someone".  This isn't an event to go
              to for hot women.

3/9     Can we get more spam to http://csua.berkeley.edu? Only 300 in 2 days...

2/14    Hans Reiser's days at UC Berkeley:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/ys92sn (dailycal.org)
        \_ Who is this 'Pete' fellow
           \_ Almost certainly Shipley.  Also a nut, booted off soda
              several times.  -tom

1/29    Can politburo keep it together and make sure Soda is up?
        I can't troll dans 24/7.
        \_ how about getting a life? dans (claims to) get laid all
           the time, how about you?

1/29  Soda sucks!

1/23    In case someone who's !politburo (or doesn't read their mail) but
        has root@scotch, named is down
         \_ fixed

1/16    Soda still down. (9:54am)
        \_ Why is it so unreliable? Hardware? A Linux system should not be so
           fragile.

1/3     Welcome back up, Soda!
        \_ Yay! Who do we thank? Then, who do we blame?
        \_ Yay! Whom do we thank? Then, whom do we blame?
           \_ I have come to terms with Soda, and laud those who
              man the barricades. Soda is dead. Long live Soda.
           \_ Who is the grammar nazi?
        \_ What happened?  I haven't been able to login in the past few days
           until now.  It kept on saying "permission denied" after I entered
           my password.
           \_ From what I hear, problems keeping LDAP up. -dans

12/24   How come the CSUA phone has been busy for the last three days? -dans

11/7    Did anyone have trouble logging in in the last 24 hours?  I kept
        getting "access denied"--has Soda been hacked yet again?
        \_ i had that problem too
        \_ The glorious politburo can't seem to keep the LDAP server up.
        \_ Yes.  Probably.
          \_ if you bothered to look at the wall discussions, we noted that
             there was a LDAP problem -- one of the csua LDAP servers was
             down.  -ERic
             \_ Almost no one reads wall logs. Why not post this in
                motd.official?
                \_ Didn't have access sufficient to do anything  other than
                   bellyache over wall or in the motd.  -ERic

10/17   Would people mind cleaning up their old job postings in /csua/pub/jobs?
        Thanks. -ausman
        \_ I suggest a cron'd script that erases anything more than $x days
           old.
           \_ How about nuking anything older than 2 years?
              \_ Sure, but I don't have root.

10/16   Is there any free tool on soda or in Windoze / Linux that takes a
        bunch of .jpg files (wedding pictures, etc.) and generates
        some good-looking web pages that I can host on soda?  Thanks.
        \_ I know of such a free tool on Windows, but I don't know of any
           for this Windoze thing.  Sorry.  Is Windoze / Linux sort of like
           RMS's GNU / Linux?
           \_ Windows tool please then?
        \_ Why host it on soda when it's reliability is um, non-existent
           and the quota sucks? There are tons of ad-free picture hosting
           sites (e.g. link:picasaweb.google.com with 1G quota,
           auto compression upload, folder management, unlimited
           bandwidth, 99.998% up time, etc.
           \_ Because, really, your wedding photos need four nines of uptime.
              And, in the interest of being pedantic, name *one* photo site
              with four nines of up time?  Hell, name one with three. -dans
              \_ Yahoo's Flickr. You lose.
                 \_ Are they really four 9's? Most of Yahoo certainly is not.
                    \_ they're way better than soda, anyway.
                       \_ What is soda's 9's?
                          \_ two?
                             \_ two 9's would be 3.65 days, so soda has
                                one 9.
                 \_ Flickr has had total outages > 8 hours, and has daily
                    (hourly?) localized outages.  You're just wrong.  And once
                    again, I ask, why do you need even three 9's of uptime for
                    your wedding photos? -dans
                    \_ because it sucks to have any service unavailable at
                       unpredictable times, even if it's only for an hour
                       a month.  Not that soda comes close to three 9's.
           \_ There is still quota on soda?

10/9    Soda is useless: discuss.
        \_ worksforme.  Closing bug. -dans
           \_ "sense of humor" is defined as the ability to discriminate
              funny from not-funny.  -tom

9/26    The new CSUA home page looks cool!  But where did the soda machine
        history page go?
        \_ Request: from the main page, have another page that goes to
           users' homepage. This is the best way to get our pages go
           higher on PageRank.
        \_ How about a page that introduces a totally cool retroactive chat
           system (nwrite and wall) from the 70s?
           \_ 80s, Please.

9/24    Uh, dumb question but whatever happened to /csua/tmp?
        \_ dang, looks nuked!

9/20    is wall being officially squashed?  Fingering lwall gets me
        nowhere.  Also /csua/bin/WHO: Permission denied.
        :(
        \_ can you finger any account?
           \_ i can finger it, it just has no log.

9/5     [purged.  if you harassing a csua member, don't.  if it is an
         inside joke then keep it inside.  thanks.]

8/30    CSUA office types: please contact me.  I want to give you blowjobs.
                                --brain

8/30    CSUA office types: please contact me.  I want to give you books.\
                --brain

8/29    Restored much of /csua/bin and /csua/src (root only for the moment)
        Enjoy. -mrauser

8/22    created a /csua/bin/mtd to appease the masses until those in charge
        can find the source for the real one
        \_ looks like yours does what it needs to.  problem solved.  thanks!
        \_ Did the other version do anything more than copy+append like yours
           is doing?

8/16    CSUA theme song!
        http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=668b10cb1188d40d3370

8/7     not that you're gonna read this ROOT but you could you restore
        /csua/bin/mtd ? thanks
        \_ ObDansFlamewar
           \_ Huh? -dans
              \_ I guess he means that you're famous for flaming
                 anyone who ever complains about ROOT not doing
                 anything or not fixing things that meet the wants
                 of the alums.
                 \_ Kind of an oversimplification, but whatever. -dans
        \_ There was a setuid script /csua/bin/mtd what I assumed cron
           periodically uses to merge /etc/motd.official and /etc/motd.public .
           I just want root to put it back, and while they're at it,
           make /csua/bin/ sticky.  I mailed root@csua too.

8/6     What happened to /csua/bin?
        \_ NUKED!

7/24    My neighbor's busty 20 year old college-student
        daughter came over today to shoot the bull. Even though she's
        dumb as a post, she somehow
        manages to go to Cal Poly. She is incredibly tan and fit and
        somehow I found myself wanting to bang her silly, even though
        she's 15 years younger than I am and it's painful to have a
        conversation with her. WTF is wrong with me? She's practically a kid!
        Am I officially a dirty old man?
        \_ You're officially a healthy, normal, non-gay man.
           Congratulations.
        \_ No, just a man.
        \_ You think she came over to just chat with you?  What's up with that?
           She's an adult, do whatever.  At least you're honest with yourself
           about it.
        \_ See you've been trained by certain people to think that a 20 year
           old is a child. Reality check: she is a completely mature woman.
           She may not have the wisdom of age, but that's irrelevant. Some
           people never have that. And you don't need that to eat, sleep, or
           screw.
           \_ She's a 20 year-old. On average, 20 year-olds are not mature.
              Odds that she's "completely mature" are not high. That said, it's
              also irrelevant. She's an adult. If she's a consenting adult,
              have fun. Oh, and remember not to try borrowing your neighbor's
              power tools for a while.
              \_ "Why not, his daughter has just borrowed my power tool."
              \_ "Why not?  His daughter has just borrowed my power tool."
              \_ Adult = mature, by definition. Too much bullshit out there
                 about this.
                 \_ Give it a rest, paedophile.
                    \_ lol?
        \_ By "painful to have a conversation with her", do you mean she's a
           moron, or do you mean it's hard to hold back you urge and not
           explode in your pants when you talk to her in close range?
           explode in your pants when you talk to her?
           \_ I mean that there's a generation gap that certainly makes
              her sound like a moron. Who said I didn't explode in my pants?
        \_ I really don't know how this thread turned from "man, I want her!"
           to "she really wants you man!" just 'cause she came over to talk
           to this guy.  Maybe he can convert her craving for attention to
           a romp in the hay, but I doubt a 20-year-old college hottie is
           hard-up for sex.
           \_ This is not what the majority of my csua mbox is telling me.
           \_ She doesn't have to be hard-up to want to be schtupped. She
              might want to schtup three guys in one day. Lots of girls
              that age are sluts.
              \_ Can I have their phone numbers?

5/31    I'm trying to set up Thunderbird to read my soda mail.  Does the soda
        mail incoming server use POP or IMAP?  And what are the incoming and
        outgoing server names?  Thanks.
        \_ I think you're going to want to use mead.csua for both incoming
           and outgoing.  I am almost positive we don't have unsecured pop,
           though we should have IMAP working.  Good luck.

5/3     Cal's newest pole vaulter, Allison Stokke.
        link:tinyurl.com/23prtm
        \_ http://www.ebonyincrediblepass.com/t1/thumbs/05/b1.jpg
           \_ Not work safe.  Big black boobs.
           \_ NOT relevant to Allison.
        \_ http://i14.tinypic.com/5ym0aj4.jpg
           \_ NOT relevant to Allison. Huge Barbie boobs.
        \_ yer fu is weak
           http://www.dyestat.com/3us/6out/NikeOutdoorNats/album-vic-jumps-g
            pages/154GM8W1068.htm
        \_ Here's another pic. She's really cute, too!
           http://www.dyestat.com/3us/college/choices07/pix/Stokke.jpg
        \_ Man is she fine.  I've always been a fan of track.  At least I've
           been meaning to always be a fan of track.
        \_ http://youtube.com/watch?v=zasPlQYZEHw
        \_ Wow, I would ungay so fast for her.  Berkeley should
           feature her in their recruitment lit.
           http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=184340207
           http://urltea.com/hj6 (profile.myspace.com)
        \_ ObVaultMyPoleJoke
        \_ how much are season trach tickets?
        \_ how much are season track tickets?
        \_ That is one beautiful woman, but there are many as good-looking
           on TV.  What's all the fuss?
           \_ They don't go to CAL, DUMBASS.
              \_ Plus, since her favorite movie is LOTR, maybe a CSUA geek
                 has a shot if she happens to be in his lecture or in
                 line in front of him at Strada.
                 \_ If this mysterious CSUAer saw her in line at Strada he'd
                    do what?  "Hi, I saw on the motd that you're a LOTR fan!
                    Do you want to join my D&D game at the dorms?  We always
                    have room for hot chicks!"
                    \_ "Hi. I'm <CSUA nerd>. Can I buy you a coffee?"
                       \_ "Hi, you're hot. Can I buy you a coconut juice?
                          Hopefully you will reciprocate with eventual sex."
                       \_ Hi, I'm <CSUA nerd>.  Can I buy you a new house?
                          .com made it good to be a nerd ...
                          \_ No one standing in line at Strada ever made a dime
                             of dotcom money.
                             \_ Well, no actually. But you are probably
                                pretty close to correct.
              \_ Plus most of them are airhead bimbos; this is a smart
                 athlete.
                 \_ OK, so she's perfect 10 in two categories, how's her
                    personality?
                    \_ This is the CSUA. Breathing is usually all that's
                       required and I think she's got that covered.
                        \_ You need to breathe a lot to pole vault.
           \_ So, you're only gay due to lack of hot chicks at Berkeley?

5/2     Is the CSUA office moving?
        \_ Yes.  Although the CSUA office appears to be located in a static
           position on the surface of the earth, the earth's surface is in
           constant motion as the very thin plate of rock the office rests on
           shifts across a giant ball of magma.  The earth itself is spinning
           at roughly 24 mph.  It is also moving around the nearest star, we
           call The Sun, at a rate of one revolution per approximately 365
           days.  At roughly 93 million miles in a slightly elliptical orbit
           we leave it to the reader (or google) to find out how fast that is.
           The Sun is moving through the Milky Way galaxy once per 64 million
           years while the galaxy itself is on a collision course with another
           nearby galaxy.  But don't worry about that.  Long before this
           galaxy collides with another thereby destroying the CSUA office,
           the molecules of the office itself will be reabsorbed into the
           Great Soup Of Stuff that the universe is made of and long forgotten
           by the survivors of any current species.
           \_ the one-liner below you was funnier.
              \_ a cheap follower.  and no, not really.  reading is hard.
                 let's go shopping!
        \_ you can always find a frame of reference in which the CSUA office
           is moving...
           \_ You can always find a CSUA office for which a frame of reference
              is moving.

4/24    Is it cool that Politburo is spending $600 on XBox 360, even if it is
        ASUC money? How about hardware that doesn't crash instead.
        \_ Video games are a huge recruiting resource.  While I agree it'd be
           nice if soda wasn't probabilistic, having an xbox 360 in the office
           probably brings in more new members than anything to do with soda.
        \_ Do XBox 360s crash? They may be doing just what you suggest.
           \_ Seriously. Regardless of changes in youth culture, you can't put
              "played video games" on yer resume. I always thought there was an
              educational mission implicit in the CSUA's activities.
              \_ Nor can you put "ate food at bbq".  Clubs are clubs.  Social
                 events are part of the club.  A video game system in the
                 office is a social thing.  Previous generations had a snes
                 and a ps2, this is about the same.
                 \_ I have always viewed the CSUA primarily as a social
                    organization; the goal should be to build community.
                    Game-playing can be part of that, and game-playing has
                    certainly been a large part of the history of the CSUA,
                    dating back to netrek/nethack/griljor, not to mention
                    the Risk tournament.  I do think that the organizaton
                    needs to accomplish more than it currently is to earn
                    the credibility to spend a bunch of money on a game
                    system.  If the CSUA is viewed as "that office where
                    geeks just sit around playing Xbox," and the basic
                    business of the organization isn't being taken care of,
                    it could lead to serious problems with the CS department
                    and with the ASUC.  -tom
                    \_ Well said.

4/13    Yes, tom can be obtuse, but he's not the only one wondering why soda
        isn't reliable, why mail isn't reliable, why there aren't any help
        sessions, why meetings aren't publicized, etc. etc.  I realize the
        csua has had fallow periods, but this seems unprecedented in the
        10 years that I've been member.  I realize that times have changed
        a lot, but I would be sad if the institution that helped me so much
        in my time at Soda were to wither and fall away.  !(dans || tom)
        \_ Frankly, every alum assumes that because soda is not being
           administrated well that the students are not being served.  This
           is not the case.  Sadly, by far the majority of new memebers will
           never log into thier soda account.  The machine is no longer a
           "necessity" to new students, who all have one or more personal
           computers powerful enough for thier needs.
           The meeting publicity is a good point, and I've been talking to
           polit trying to get them to be more proactive about getting the
           word out.  But the lack of visible publicity is not a good
           indicator because events have been occuring.  We put on at least 3
           helpsessions in the first few weeks as well as 2 general meetings,
           a video game tournament, broomball, movie nights etc.  Things are
           happening, the club is not coming to an end.
           We are going to work toward making soda more reliable.  At the
           moment, there are very few people helping the VP out, and he is
           overburdened with the enormity of being responsible for fixing all
           of the current issues.  That is going to change, which will
           hopefully result in better stability and usability for soda.
           -mrauser
           \_ How can there be no one helping the VP out when there
              are 7 politburo members?  What is the role of the alumni
              relations politburo position when there is no one
              relating to the alumni except to complain about them?
              Do you really think that current students don't need to
              have information available on the CSUA web page?  (I see
              that some contact info has been put up, after 5 months
              of nothing being there--that's a start).   -tom
              \_ Sadly, the current feeling is that whenever there is a
                 problem with soda, its the VP's sole responsibility to deal
                 with it.  It actually doesn't make sense for the other
                 members of politburo to be co/assistant VPs, because they
                 each have job responsibilities that need to get done.  But
                 right now, darch isn't recieving very much support from
                 root staff, because most of them are so jaded and
                 disgruntled that they don't wish to help out (except mconst
                 who is saintly in his patience).
                 As far as I can tell, the two alumni and industry relations
                 officers have done very little at all.  This is a result of
                 us not having a good person for the job and just needing it
                 filled.
                 I think the website is a huge resource which right now the
                 current politburo is wasting.  But, seeing as I am not on
                 politburo, its not my job to fix thier screw ups.  I have
                 mentioned this to them many many times, so they know abou it,
                 but apparently its not a large enough priority to restore it's
                 functionality.  Whats even worse than the website, is lately
                 minutes of meetings have not been taken.  Both of these
                 issues are a function of the elected secretary just flaking
                 out and quitting about a month into the semester (what caused
                 that might have been _my_ bugging him about the website).
                 I don't mind answering your questions, but I've already
                 served 4 semesters on politburo and I want to let the current
                 group make thier own decisions/mistakes, though I try to
                 influence them in the right direction (by pointing out errors
                 like not taking minutes). -mrauser
              \_ Do you really think your apparent outrage, damnation with
                 faint praise, and general tone of condescension help matters?
                 -dans
                 \_ I think my questions deserve answers.  -tom
                    \_ I was getting to it. -mrauser
                    \_ I think your questions are reasonable enough.  Is it
                       reasonable to expect that they should be answered?
                       Sure.  That said, saying that your questions *deserve*
                       answers strikes me as a little presumptuous. -dans

4/12    Thank you for fixing log rotation and thinking about not
        blocking pings to soda.  I apologize for inferring
        whoever is running Soda these days is a knappy headed fucking Asperger's
        Syndrome autistic retard. - !tom
        \_ The person fixing log rotation is an alum volunteer and the csua
           politburo almost certainly had nothing to do with this.

4/8     fyi no new mail coming in
        \_ obUseSodaOnlyForMotd
        \_ embarrassing.. Google recruiter had 2 of my resumes .. one
           was with my csua email account (which i like because it
           showed off berkeley) and the other with another  acct..
           He asked me why did you move your email to gmail when
           having the http://berkeley.edu address is better for your resume
           I told him because the csua email was too unreliable..
           He told me. .that's why we like to hire stanford people.
           \_ I heard that those jerks don't like to hire people who can't
              indent one's code either.
           \_ well you could always get a <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> or
              link:alum.berkeley.edu and forward it to gmail.
           \_ And you told him, "If you can't see I graduated from Berkeley on
              my resume without having it as my email address you're not smart
              enough to hire me, thanks".  Right?  Anyway, why would you want
              to work for Google at this point in their history anyway?  Do you
              have a PhD?  If not, I see no reason to go there.
        \_ Related: It is likely that starting next year, students will
           be able to keep their @berkeley.edu addresses for life (as
           forwarding addresses).  -tom
           \_ That's cool.  Who runs this program and how do we sign up when
              it's ready?  Thanks!
              \_ Right now it's only an agreement in principle.  I expect
                 the way it will work is that when you put yourself on the
                 degree list, you'll get asked for a forwarding email address.
                 University Relations is very interested in keeping in
                 touch with young alumni.  -tom
                 \_ They're interested in keeping touch with all Alumni. Or
                    so the numberous requests for donations I get each year
                    so the numerous requests for donations I get each year
                    would seem to indicate. --erikred
                    \_ Well, of course.  But if they lose them in the first
                       five years, they rarely get them back.  They want to
                       "build lifelong relationships" so that you'll donate
                       once you're old enough to have earned money.  -tom
                       \_ Good point. --erikred
                 \_ I graduated.  Do they plan to have a way for senile grads
                    to signup?
                    \_ At the very least, you'll be able to do
                       @cal.berkeley.edu.  Dunno about @berkeley.edu.  -tom
                       \_ Thanks tom.  Please keep us informed.

4/8     So what's going on with soda email? (Yes, I saw the mention in
        motd.public, but it's over a week old and is pretty vague.) I'm
        still not getting any new email, and email sent to me doesn't even
        seem to be generating bounce notices.
        \_ ...then they came for the pine users but I wasn't a pine user so I
           said nothing.  And when they finally came for the rest of the mail
           users there was no one left to speak for me.  (Stop using soda for
           email).
           \_ Soda should:
              A. Have working email.
              B. Forward email.
              C. Reject email with bounce notices.
              Right now, it does none of them.
              \_ It should.  But it doesn't.  Continuing to send your mail to
                 a broken system that doesn't appear to be getting fixed any
                 time soon is futile.  Your mail will be assimilated.

4/2     Are you a gadget freak? Do you know a gadget freak? The US District
        Court is looking for a gadgeteer to supervise just about any device
        not attached to a desk. Listing here:
        /csua/pub/jobs/courtroom_tech_spec
        E-mail me with questions. --erikred

4/2     Is Rachel Ray fat?
        \_ Doesn't look too bad.
           http://www.joncellini.com/blog/archives/images/5big.jpg
        \_ She's fat for a supermodel.  She's fat for a female
           celebrity.  She's not fat by American averages.
           \_ ob is she fat by soda standards?
           \_ ob is she fat by soda averages?
                \_ By soda's fat ugly nerd standards, she's fucking HOT.

3/30    I've been in CSUA for roughly 14 years, and during most of that
        time (13 yrs) it has been a stable environment.  It's only been the
        past year or so where it's been having a bunch of issues.  Is there any
        reason why now?  Did CSUA lose funding?  Admin Support?  Or something
        that drove it into the unstable environment it is today?  I know it's
        been a quasi-volunteer effort, so I appreciate the attention it has
        been given, but did the volunteerism just fall-off the past year?  Not
        trolling, seriously wondering.
        \_ soda moved to a linux box
           \_ That's a symptom, not a cause.
        \_ too many new hot cs girls? no time to be a geek
           \_ too many mmorpgs, no time to be a unix geek. Seriously, in
              recent years I've noticed that fresh grads are far less
              interested/knowledgeable about unix than in the late 90s
              and early 2000s. Even the ones who run Linux are way to
              dependent on guis and point and click. I think that the
              world has moved on and we crusty old geezers have been
              left behind.
              \_ Great, this week I've been called a "crusty old geezer" and
                 bought a walkman I used at Cal that is titled "vintage" on
                 eBay.
                 bought a walkman I used at Cal now labeled "vintage" on eBay.
                 \_ On my 31st birthday I was asked how it felt to be
                    a member of the AARP by an undergrad. It was ment
                    as a joke, but still being around kids who were
                    barely alive when 4.4BSD was released makes one
                    feel OLD. I wonder what it will feel like when
                    they start playing U2 on the "oldies" stations.

3/30    \_ I've been in CSUA for roughly 14 years, and during most of that
           time (13 yrs) it has been a stable environment.  It's only been the
           past year or so where it's been having a bunch of issues.  Is there any
           reason why now?  Did CSUA lose funding?  Admin Support?  Or something
           that drove it into the unstable environment it is today?  I know it's
           been a quasi-volunteer effort, so I appreciate the attention it has been
           given, but did the volunteerism just fall-off the past year?
           Not trolling, seriously wondering.

3/31    is mail working? no new mailing coming in.
        \_ i like it when I delete mail, then it comes back like i didn't
           do anything
           \_ I believe soda thinks that the mail is on a read-only FS.
              \_ Actually, mead seems to have it mounted read-only.  And it
                 looks like they're trying to move it to maildirs, and failing.
        \_ According to dans, you should now run a cost/benefit analysis
           and submit it to the politburo so they can consider whether to
           view lack of email as a problem.  -tom
           \_ I will be be bringing up whether you are good for and a danger
              to the CSUA at the next Politburo meeting.  I asked you not to
              speak about me.  Now you have gone too far. -dans
              \_ Who knew annoying dans was a squishable offense?
                 \_ Tom must be taught a lesson!
                 \_ Tom must be taught a lesson! -dans
              \_ Strength through ignorance!
           view lack of email as a problem.  And psb, stop impersonating
           other people on the MOTD.  -tom
           \_ would 2 snickers bars do?
        \_ not for me.  so sad.

3/26    Could you add more helpful instructions to /csua/soda-changes.2007.1 to
        tell me how to fix my spamassassin, unless there is something better.
        Also, why no md2mb util?
        \_ nevermind, I'm lame. -op

3/14    Hi, is Thunderbird installed on soda?  Thanks.
        \_ No, and if you run X off of Soda you are a loser.
           Run it on your local machine, or run mutt on soda.
           \_ If I run it on my local machine, does it save my mail on soda
              or on my local harddisk?  Thx.
              \_ Depends on how you configure it.

2/16    Hi csua-ers, have you sort out the pine not loading new emils
        problem? - tia
        \_ I forward my email to my gmail acct.  That seems to do the trick.
           \_ hahah...what about spam filtering?
              \_ gmail does a great job filtering spam.

2/11    \_ Is POP back up?  Haven't got it to work since Soda got back
        up.  (SSL  http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu port 995)
        \_ Legitimately curious, why use POP when you IMAP is available to you?
           -dans
           \_ Uh, isn't IMAP still down?  I still can't access it
              -pmw
              \_ I neither know nor care.  I forward mail off soda to a box
                 where I run IMAP. :) -dans
           \_ In the past (1997) when I used IMAP, it would mark my messages
              as "read" when I read them on my client machine.  I don't like
              this, I like to have the messages as two distinct instances, one
              on Soda and one on my home machine.  If I read it on my client I
              want it to still show and unread on Soda.  Also, IMAP is more for
              people with always on connections, which I don't have.  That's
              why I prefer offline processing (Pop) vs interactive processing
              (IMAP).
              \_ Hmm, I don't understand why you'd want things you've read not
                 to be marked as read, but if that's how you work, more power
                 to you.  It's worth noting that many modern IMAP clients, eg
                 OS X's Mail.app, have excellent offline modes, which serves
                 the same purposes as POP, but with IMAP's richer semantics.
                 -dans
                 \_ Thanks, maybe I'll check it out again.  10 yrs of software
                    development may have fixed my intial hang-ups.

2/9     Who is the vp of csua?
        \_ darch -dans

2/4     Does someone have a simple working .procmailrc for the new soda?
        I can't seem to get mine working despite trying the suggestions
        on the motd.
        \_
        DEFAULT=/var/mail/USERNAME/
        :0fw
        | /usr/bin/spamassassin
        :0:
        * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
        spam/

1/31    Is anyone having luck using IMAP against http://csua.berkeley.edu? It works
        fine for me against mail.csua, but that server doesn't -appear- to have
        the same homedir and it can't access my ~/mail. Also, even with the
        DEFAULT fix, this still really seems to be screwing up procmail. Ungh.
        Need.Spam.Filtering.

1/30    Note that exim invokes pipes in .forward files directly rather than
        starting a subshell; it'll break on IFS= and similar stuff.  See
        the update to /csua/soda-changes.2007.01. -- darch

1/28    Thanks for reviving soda! Any chance of getting NMH installed?
        \_ Ok, it's installed in /usr/bin/mh.  --mconst
        \_ Thank you again, and again, and again. Your efforts are mightily
           appreciated. --erikred
        \_ Ok, I think I've installed it in /usr/bin/mh.  Let me know if
           it works for you.  --mconst
        \_ I award you a soda barnstar: *

1/26    On January 26, 2007, http://csua.berkeley.edu became operational to UCB
        students, alumni, and affiliates once again.
          ____            _         _       _                _    _
         / ___|  ___   __| | __ _  (_)___  | |__   __ _  ___| | _| |
         \___ \ / _ \ / _` |/ _` | | / __| | '_ \ / _` |/ __| |/ / |
          ___) | (_) | (_| | (_| | | \__ \ | |_) | (_| | (__|   <|_|
         |____/ \___/ \__,_|\__,_| |_|___/ |_.__/ \__,_|\___|_|\_(_)

1/26    Could someone please install curl?
        apt-get install curl
        Thanks!
        \_ Done.  --mconst
           \_ mconst rules
              \_ mconst > darch, politburo
                 \_ larry ellison > god > mconst > unix god > darch, politburo

1/26    Since no one seems to read the motd.official:
        please see /csua/soda-changes.2007.01
        before asking dumb questions    -not root

01/25   More bad stuff, and more downtime.  Also, notionally good stuff
        that might be inconvenient in the short term.  Apache will be back
        soon, and /csua will similarly be repopulated soon.  Meanwhile,
        feel free to mail root@ with stuff that's missing and we'll look
        into it.  For a longer discussion, including information about
        changes to email, see /csua/soda-changes.2007.01

1/25    One week later: so, how about a status report from csua? We've had the
        same page displayed for quite some time. --erikred
        \_ I think the bottom line is that they just don't care.
           \_ This is a great loss for the undergrads over the long term.
              The permanent loss of job contacts and technical help is
              going to hurt the current and all future generations.  Success
              isn't about what you know, your GPA, or which school gave you
              what letters on your diploma.  It has always been about who you
              know.  Oh well.  If any of the politburo are reading it would
              be nice to get a real status report or at least to see the box
              come up for a week so we can grab our files before moving on.
              \_ Spoken like a delusional alumn. "Oh we are great, they need
                 us." In reality the biggest losers are the alumni. Students
                 don't value connections with moldy alumni and thus have
                 nothing to lose in the first place.
                 \_ Troll else where.  Soda is back up so you can troll there
                    again.

1/16    CSUA Predictions:
        Machine up this Friday. Machine discovered to be hacked 3 days later.
        CS dept pissed off. Machine down two more months. Both
        http://csua.com and http://csua.org gain more popularity than http://csua.berkeley.edu.

1/14    Called the csua office on Friday and was told that the machine is fixed
        and ready to go, but UC won't allow it back on the network because it's
        been rootkitted too many times. "someone who cares," you're doing more
        harm than good. If you want to help, go through the politburo; cowboy
        rootkits are not the way to go. --erikred
        \_ "I take matters into my own hands. That's the American spirit."
                              -libural faking to be a cowboy conservative
        \_ What you guys SHOULD really have done is run soda inside the VM
           so that it's much easier to contain and to duplicate. You can run
           multiple VMs on one machine. They even have educational discounts.
        \_ Uh, does that mean it will never be back up?  Can I have my fucking
           files back from my account?
        \_ As far as I know erik you either have wrong or deprecated
           information.  The machine is still in the process of being fixed and
           darch (the vp) has given an eta of "up on wednesday."  While I think
           the dept. is growing increasingly worried that we seem to get rooted
           a bunch, I haven't heard anything substantial as to our "not being
           allowed to bring it back online."  And I was AT the office yesterday
           and at the ensuing first politburo meeting. -mrauser
           \_ ...? Your being there certainly trumps my phone call. I'll make
              sure to get the name of the undergrad next time I call. And a
              Wednesday eta sounds great. Thank you for the update. --erikred

12/29   Soda Update:
        Sorry for breaking the ever-so interesting topic of Bush bashing,
        etc.  Anyway, as most of you have probably noticed, Soda did not
        go down as we had anticipated, which is good and bad.  Basically
        card keys are not working yet, due to system issues on the UCPD
        side of getting cardkey access before the end of the term.  I am
        anticipating that cardkey access will be available immediately
        following the new year, so we will attempt to try our Soda
        maintenance again after the new year.

        In the mean time, enjoy your time and use of Soda.  I will let
        you all know when Soda will be out of service.  Until then,
        I wish everyone a happy new year.
         -- minghay
        \_ So, what, did soda get pwn3d again?
           \_ Yes, but enjoy some soda meanwhile!

12/19   Is csua mail down again?  Outgoing mail does not seem get sent
        \_ thank you~~!
        \_ Hey jvarga, if I throw in one more manpower, would you be able to
           1/2 the time to repair soda?                         -management
           \_ Not likely. - jvarga

12/6    Congrats to new Politburo!
        (P) Minghay, (VP) Darch, (T) Vaheder, (S) Michener, (L) Bordicon,
        (E) Dvd, (A) Edilaic   -mrauser
        \_ So, does Darch know how to administer a Linux box?
           \_ You should ask that of any of the last 3 or 4 VPs

12/4    So exactly what happened to soda?  Why was it taken down?
        Did hardware fail, or was the box rooted, or what?
        \_ It was eaten by a grue.
        \_ rootkit
           \_ Okay, so how was soda rooted this time?