5/12    I'm trying to make a line graph in the open office spreadsheet
        (Calc), and I can't get the X axis labels formatted the
        way I want.  I would like them to be at even numbers, by
        thousands, regaurdless of my data points. Does anyone know how to
        do this?
        \_ Use a MS product.
           \_ Not an option.  (besides, aside from this one problem, I'm
              very happy with Calc)

5/12    Prozac does a body good! Make sure to take your daily allowance
        today aaron, mkay??

5/11    This is the best article I've read in a long time, and it's very
        positive too.  It's about Taguba:
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18916-2004May11.html

5/11    Partha, I like Bengalis, they seem to be quite educated and clean
        and have manners. But I have a lot of problems with Southern Indians.
        We have a bunch of Southernersss and they're 1) loud 2) smell badly
        3) they seem very righteous and insist they're always right and that
        you're wrong 4) they tend to be quite rude and interrupt me when I
        speak and seem to have very little manners. Is this common among
        Southerners and why?
        \_ Partha is a southy.
           \- Your brain has been classified as: small.
        \- Bengalis have the reputation as the Righteous/Arguing Kings.
           Southerners are often quiet and polite. As for the rest, maybe it
           is the Coconut oil, or your small sample size. --psb
           \_ This is consistent with my limited experience. The most polite
              member of my lab in Seattle was from Hyderabad, for example. I
              don't know if Hyderabad is considered "South", though he refered
              to it as such. -- ulysses
        \_ I don't know, but I think Tamil tigresses are the most beautiful,
           not like ugly northern Indian girls.

5/10    Everyday here is death to politics day.  Don't bother.  Mehlhaff and
        kchang aren't the only archive sources.  restored as usual.

5/10    LED ZEPPELIN IS SATANIC!
        http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm
        \_ But there's still time to change the road you're on.

5/10    They replaced the two-tiered admission process?
        http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/november21/ENTRANCE.HTM

5/9     Infinity in your web browser: http://zongrila.net/swirl.htm

5/9     http://www.movie-list.net/exclusive/shaun-of-the-dead.mov
        Zombies rule.
        \_ Brilliant.  Can't wait for the US release.

5/9     RIP Alan King.
        \- Thom Gunn -> dead. --psb

5/9     I HAVE CRUSHED ALL MY OPPONENTS ON THE MOTD!  I HAVE THE POWAH!  MY
        PENIS IS THE GREATEST!  YEAAAAAARGHHHH!!!!

5/9     Buddies turn in Sasser worm creator.  Inquire whether they can receive
        $250K Microsoft reward.  Yay!
        \_ so... i'll write a worm... you be my friend, we split 50/50
           \_ ok, cool... and you'll do the jail time, right?

5/8     I'm traveling to Dublin next week. Other than Newgrange, any
        recommendations on things to see within a few hrs drive or
        train ride from the city? tia.
        \_ Dublin, Ireland or Dublin, CA?
           \_ Ireland.
              \_ Sasanach ithean cac!
        \_ Anyone seen Seano around lately?  -John
        \_ Take a train to Cork in South Ireland. It's beautiful. (3hr train
           ride)

5/8     Has anyone seen "Supersize Me"? Is it worth seeing?
        \_ No. You'll get sick.
        \_ Don't know, but I did see Van Helsing and it was a great ride.
           Just remember that the entire thing is a tongue-in-cheek homage
           to the classic horror films, and you won't be disappointed.
           \_ You sound like one of those mysterious movie critics from
              WBAI in Chicago, or whatever, that are always quoted on
              the posters for complete turkeys: "A fabulous rollercoaster
              ride!  I loved it!" or "An amazing journey into a new world!"
              \_ Well, it _was_ a rollercoaster of a ride, and I didn't
                 want to bother with spoilers, so what should I have said?
                 \_ Just don't quit your day job, is all I'm saying.

5/8     WHO censored my April never ended post? ARGH!!!!
        \_ you should it wasn't the CDC?
        \_ you sure it wasn't the CDC?

5/7     To colorize your ls output on soda, set the LSCOLORS env var, ie:
        setenv LSCOLORS=BxDxFxdxCxdxdxBxBxBxBx
        then set terminal to xterm-color/linux
        finally alias ls 'ls -CFG'

5/8     ROCK OUT WITH YOUR COCK OUT! (NSFW)
        http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/i/01/a9/e5/cf_1_b.JPG

5/7     McGriddles?  Yay or nay?
        \_ Bring back the McDLT!
           \_ Big yay.  Very big.
           \_ Keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool!
           \_ Where's the Ribwich?
              \_ Look!  I don't mind the taste!
              \_ Uhmm, the animal they made that out of is extinct.
              \_ the McRib? I love how those are formed to look like
                 they have the rib bone intact.  wft is that all about?

5/7     "I've said today that there are a lot more photographs and videos that
        exist. If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to
        make matters worse. That's just a fact. ... I mean I looked at them
        last night and they're hard to believe." -Rummy
        \_ okay, i don't know the context of this quote, but what is he
           saying, "fire me now?" or "it's not my fault?"
           \_ I listened to the whole testimony.  I think what he's saying
              is "I/we fucked up.  This is really bad, and could get worse.
              I'm sorry.  There will probably be another series of massive
              media bombshells over the next few months, so be prepared. "
           \_ I think he's saying "I'll resign when I think I need to."

5/7     This Poll will be deleted in:
        \_ less than 2 hours
        \_ more than 2 hours
        \_ when ______________ gets to it.

5/6     Long range missile downed in test by anti-missile laser:
        http://tinyurl.com/ypq3m (news.myway.com)

5/7     HL2 WinHEC demo (crazy!):
        link:tinyurl.com/25bm5 (ntlworld.com)
        \_ That footage is pretty old

5/6     Nice lefty work erasing the Jim Angle and criticism of FAIR.
        \_ Who deleted the FAIR link in the first place, hypocrite?

5/6     Survey: so how many people on soda have gmail accounts now?
        \_ i do (but dont use it)
        \_ I do.  Use it a little, considering using it more.
        \_ i do, but don't plan to use it. It's just a matter of time before
           spammers get the address and start trashing it with well written
           spams that easily bypass the latest and greatest anti-spam
           technology.
        \_ i do.  started sending all my daily/weekly news to it and
           it's worked quite well.
        \_ i do
        \_ I do, I use it for mailing list mail

5/6     I'm getting spam at op@cal.berkeley.edu. I've never given the addr
        to anyone. What's going on?
        \_ spammers "guess" at addresses.  If they have op@anythingelse in
           their database, they'll try it at all their major mail servers. -tom

5/6     You people who keep posting the same old political bullshit, nobody
        on either the right or the left really gives a flaming fuck about
        your opinion or your regurgitation of what's going on in the world.
        \_ Go Beah!
        \_ Why do you hate America?
           \_ Because I can! WooHoo!
        \_ "You people"?  Take your racist crap to yermom.  She might care.
        \_ In all honesty, I truly believe that posting the same old
           political bullshit will destabalize the middle east for years
           to come.

5/5     I've noticed a decrease in http://csua.org and http://tinyurl.com usage. There
        used to be a lot more, now I hardly ever see them. What's going on?
        \_ Decreased usage of http://csua.org will destabilize the Middle East for
           years to come!

5/5     Dancing spiderman (worksafe, with sound)
        http://starterupsteve.servepics.com/swf/gayspiderman.html
        \_ only maybe worksafe, depends on the place.
           \_ I can't imagine where you work that watching a fully dressed
              pixilated spiderman dance like a faq for 30 seconds could be
              considered unsafe.
              \_ Well, I think the theme "spiderman made you gay" can be
                 considered offensive and may be enough for a lawsuit aginst
                 the company.

5/5     Okay, you princes of the web, you queens of research, clue me in.
        Where does this thing come from?
        http://caustic.org/~jan/mov/school.mov (work-safe, requires sound)
        \_ I don't get it.
        \_ No, I don't know where it comes from, but it's hilarious.
           Thanks for making my day.
           \_ Anytime. :)

5/4     PacMan irl: http://www.pacmanhattan.com

5/4     Matrix Director's "Cut":
        http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/0430sexchange.html

5/3     Medal of Honor, Vietnam, yay or nay?                    -BF1942 fan

5/3     Did anyone here read Junior Great Books as a kid in elemntary
        school? I've found a bit of stuff about it on the web, but I
        remember reading this one story about a kid who was trying to
        be perfect and ended up just drinking tea and doing nothing
        all day. or something like that. Anyone have any idea what
        I'm talking about?                      - rory
        \_ Yes! I don't know what Junior Great really is, but I do
           know that book specifically. It was called Be A Perfect
           Person In 3 Days, and the kid did stuff like sitting around
           in a dark room for an entire day and sip tea, or eat broccoli,
           or respond to people's questions with weird responses. Good
           book.
           \_ I think it was a longer period (3 weeks) and he had to wear
              the broccoli around his neck.  Also, the book was smarter
              than the kid, and when he tried to sneak a peek at the last
              page, it warned him that he had to follow the rules to a T.
           \_ ah. cool, thanks... that's it. I loved this book as a
              kid. I dont think its actually associated w/ JGB though.
              I must've gotten confused.

5/3     I can't get any girls. What should I do? Switch team?
        \_ Please to tell them you are number A1 super stud!
        \_ Take $200 and go down to O'Farell's.
        \_ No, but if you TELL them you've switched teams (and dress to
           match) they'll be all over you.
        \_ Please to tell them you are number A1 super stud!
        \_ Take $200 and go down to O'Farell's.
        \_ No, but if you TELL them you've switched teams (and dress to
           match) they'll be all over you.

5/3     http://ascii.hotornot.com

5/3     Dear h0zers, do you hate Tom Holub and his twink point system? Here
        is your chance to get even. Happy Suite (est. 1998) is now back.
        http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/~kchang/happy                 -kchang
        \_ when did you get unsquished?
        \_ I bet you just earned yourself another twink point.
        \_ It's just Tom.  Who gives a damn what he says?  He couldn't even
           manage to get a 4 year degree.  He just has a giant self esteem
           issue so he acts out.  Ignore him.
           \_ so what's your self-esteem issue?
        \_ I'm not giving happy faces to twinks who use Windows XP.
           \_ The screenshots seem to pre-date XP.

5/3     To whomever was asking about utilizing Word for long manuscripts,
           \_ humane, compare with stucking broom stick and chemical lights
              right in those prisoner's ass, rape and electrical shocks
              routinely used by the US Army Intelligence unit.  (go read
              New Yorker yourself when you got a chance).
              \_ this is amusingly nonsequiter.  motdedit is lame.
        please realise that since at least Word 2000 there has been the
        option to utilize subdocuments and combine them together into one
        large document. Word is quite capable of handling complex document
        structures and pagination and TOCing and indexing if you just learn
        how. I would suggest that you or your mother invest in a good book
        on advanced MS Word functionality. --williamc
        \_ it's my friend's mom, but this is great advice. thanks. i'll make
           my friend figure out the details

5/2     http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/science/03RESE.html?pagewanted=1&hp
        US is Losing its Dominance in the Sciences
        \_ what a typically crappy article.
                \_ so now NYT articles are crappy?
        \_ Too bad we can't lose our edge in thinly veiled leftist
           media.

5/1    Don't hose the motd or get sorried.
        \_ What the heck kind of threat is that!?  @_@

5/1    Ikea's tribute to Objectivist Philosophy:
       http://tinyurl.com/2xtf4
       \_ is that really what that is, or is there some other explanation for
          the name?  do any sweedish speakers here want to comment?

5/1     link:csua.org/u/75e
        \_ what is it about good looking men who are gay? and has psb come
           out yet?

5/1     Any recommendations on good outdoor backpacks, which are
        small enough to be carry-on on an airline?
        \- TNF Double Take (large). i dont know if this is an issue for
           you, but you may want a lockable pack. this one is. --psb
           \-link:csua.org/u/75e

4/30    "Americans claim that they respect freedom and democracy but only
        in their country." - Ahmad Taher, 24, a student at Baghdad's
        Mustansiriyah University.
        \_ He's wrong -- send him a copy of the Patriot Act
           \- can someone explain to me why john walker lindh is not at the
              guantanamo holding facility? --psb
        \_ The U.S. has never been a democracy.
           \_ WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
                \_ America has always been a representative republic not
                   a democracy (as Athens was supposed to be).
        \_ Students are so cute.

4/30    It is nice outside.  What are you doing in front of your computer?
        \_ Shut up, Paolo.
        \_ trolling on the motd!
           \_ are you a Dwarf?  (vs Elf or Human)
              \_ Shut up, Paolo.
        \_ Working.  Just got back from lunch outside.
           \_ Your text here demonstrates you are (were) not working, ipso
              facto, but hey.
              \_ Working for the csua.
              \_ Waiting for compilation to finish.
              \_ Getting paid to sit in front of a machine.
                 \_ sys admin?
                    \_ just ahead of schedule and on the clock (contract).
              \_ working for the weekend?
        \_ killing kittens

4/30    Given the auction structure of google ipo as proposed in its S-1
        filing, I would be able to get share if I put my bid sufficently
        close to the upward ceiling, right?
        \_ Yes and you'll lose your shirt when it sinks like a rock after.

4/30    what does this do:
        soda [~] % more ~emarkp/bin/clean.pl
        /home/sequent/emarkp/bin/clean.pl: Permission denied
        \_ ~emarkp/bin is not group executable.
        \_ Why don't you email and ask him?
        \_ It takes all the evil swear words and turns them into things
           like a** and f***.  When it was world readable people were
           amusing themselves giggling over some of the words emarkp
           was so horrified of seeing he had to have them stared out.
           \_ Do tell!
           \_ Swearing f\/cking kicks AS5!
           \_ And this, ladies and gentleman, is why emarkp is the motd's
              best Mormon.

4/30    Not what I wanted to see when I go to http://cnn.com
        http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/LAW/04/30/jackson.hearing/top.jackson.fri.ap.jpg
        \_ I'm telling you, he's the freaking Joker!  Just dye his hair
           green, and I would hire him to star in the next Batman movie.

4/30    Key-escrow is back (now for your luggage):
        http://www.travelsentry.org/travelers.htm

4/29    [ recruiters are evil, and so are you for taking a head cut ]

4/29    How does one learn musical farting?

4/29    Someone is nuking motd...
        \_ omg!
        \_ anyone know why mehlhaff stopped his motd archiver?

4/29    Does it make you feely manly to nuke the motd?
        \_ why yes it does.

4/29    What should I do when I get a Bus error? take the train?
        \_ TEKKIN rrr treeeeens.
        \_ Drive the Ram.

4/29    How do I restore the motd?
        \_ ED!

4/29    Whoever is locking the motd, knock it off.  williamc, this means
        you!
        \_ he's idle, and he's got vi open

4/29    fstat just gave me a bus error.  Something's rotten in Soda

4/29    All right, who's editing with the wrong tab settings?
        \_ ED!  ED IS THE STANDARD!

4/28    How do you make a pass at the girl who call you up and ask you
        to donate money to UCB? Are they cal students? - lonely sodan

4/28    A bunch of control Gs!  How creative!

4/28    Move into the city.  Looking for a non-lame roommate:
        http://www.craigslist.org/roo/29887974.html
        Drop me an email if you have questions.
        -dans
        \_ Why are you living with a 51 year old man, Dan?  Is he your sugar
           daddy?
           \_ Duh.  Why would anyone live with a 51 year old man?  It's not
              like someone can have interesting life experiences or just be a
              good person.  No, Logan's run was clearly right, after thirty
              there's nothing left to do but be an old sugar daddy. -dans
              \_ That and have your guts splattered over an auditorium full of
                 teens and preteens.                        -mice
        \_ What if I am lame?

4/28    Frederick is charged with maltreatment, assault and indecent acts
        for posing for a photograph while sitting on top of a detainee,
        striking detainees and ordering detainees to strike each other,
        among other things.
        Frederick wrote home to his family about the treatment of prisoners.
        He said in an e-mail: "We helped getting them to talk with the way
        we handle them. We've had a very high rate with our styles of
        getting them to break; they usually end up breaking within hours."
        The pictures 60 Minutes II obtained show an Iraqi prisoner who,
        according to the U.S. Army, was told to stand on a box with his head
        covered and wires attached to his hands. That prisoner was told that
        if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted. In another
        photograph, prisoners' bodies were stacked in a pyramid - one body
        had a slur written in English on his skin.
        \_ What do you expect?  Right after 9/11, card carrying liberals
           (by no means all, but still) were speaking out to promote torture
           and brutality (some actually used these words), as long as we
           are the ones doing it.
           \_ now this is a troll
              \_ I guess you weren't paying attention back then.
                 \_ And this is a desperate troll.

4/28    Welcome to the *nix MOTD.

4/28    Has anyone used Lindows?  (Now Linspire)  What are the advantages?
        Is it worth the money?  Do they have a free distro?

4/27    Would you do it?
        http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343
        \_ It's BDG!
           \_ No.  Too much humor, not enough venom.

4/27    Scissor Sisters' version of Comfortably Numb is horribly, horribly
        wrong.  That is all.

4/27    Come on, this political stuff is too boring. Let's talk about girls.
        I think more sodans want to talk about girls. The need of many outweights
        the need of the few! So, how do I get girls??
        \_ http://www.csua.org/u/72a
           \_ http://www.deviantart.com/view/6475510 Weird geometry?

4/27    Do any of you like bukkake?  What's the appeal?
        \_ http://www2.b3ta.com/bukkake
           \_ So I'm going to assume that this isn't worksafe.  Punk.
        \_ The smell is awful.
        \_ Porn like this will destabilize the middle east for years to come.

4/26    Teacher threatened with cookie:
        http://www.wjactv.com/education/3031940/detail.html

4/23    I have a cute roommate, but she's not interested in me. How do I do
        her?
        \_ You don't.  Be nice to her.  Prove to her that you're a good guy.
           In time you might even become one.  Then you'll meet her friends.
           \_ but i don't really want her friends, i want to do her! :)
              \_ just go up to her and start doing her.
              \_ Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

4/23    Have there been any halfway serious attempts to explain why my
        armpit sweat output is asymmetric?
        \_ try using your left hand sometime
           \_ it happens in many different situations, and i'm a leftie.
              \- me too. --different leftie
        \_ i'm ambidextrous while you're ambiordorous

4/23    Does anyone have any in/direct experiences with the LoJack system?
        Does it do what it's supposed to do? Is it worth it? And how much
        does it actually cost? Thanks.
        \_ link:tinyurl.com/2lzj9 [Google]
        \_ Now that the message has been hacked:  OMG!  Do not install JLo!
           u totally can't uninstall it.  it totally alienates all yr pals.
           it makes you take leads in shitty movies!  I had to trash my
           system to get rid of it.  now I have MattDaemon, and I'm much
           happier.

4/22    If I have the following in my /etc/mtab (Linux):
automount(pid1754) /u autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1754,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
        Does that mean I can/cannot make directories in /u?

4/21    What are your favorite useless lines on motd? I'll start:
        -Attitudes like this will destabilitze the whole middle east.
        -ED ED ED! ED IS THE STANDARD! EDITOR!
        -emacs user was here
        -RIDE BIKE! USE L1NUX!
        -go back to English/Rhetoric/Econ/History 1A
        \_ [tech threads deleted because of censorship of political threads]
        \_ why do you hate america?
        \_ "<Useless snide comment or insult> -tom"
        \_ spelling corrections
        \_ Questions easily answered by spending 5 minutes with google
        \_ It's on Slashdot. Go post there if you care.

4/21    Yay!  "By that time, the 27 visa waiver countries will be expected
        to have so-called "biometric passports" for its citizens. Such
        passports will include fingerprint and iris identification features
        that make the documents virtually impossible to counterfeit."

4/21    What are some ways to approximate geological location from a url?
        \_ whois, nslookup
        \_ http://www.google.com/search?q=ip+address+location

4/20    mehlhaff, can you please make your archiver more user friendly? ok thx
        \_ why don't you do it? he's not your archiving bitch.

4/20    In Soviet Russia, Tron becomes YOU.
        http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume
        \_ mmm, male cameltoe
           \_ On the front AND the back!
              \_ Bruce Boxleitner he isn't but the lightup fabric is cool.
                 \_ Did you know Peter Jurasik was also in Tron?
                    \_ Yes, as an everyday wonk sort of program, IIRC.

4/19    What's the proper way to write a phone number in the U.S. for someone
        outside the U.S. (in England)?   What exactly do they have to dial?

4/18    Am I the only one who thinks that Tony Blair sounds like the guy
        who plays Ford Prefect in the old "Hitchhiker's Guide" BBC radio show?

4/18    Is there an easy way to mail an article or send an URL in safari?
        How about in X in general?
        \_ Safari->Services->Mail->Send Selection
           you can hotkey it with the keyboard prefs in 10.3

4/18    Ilyas: http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/titles/vadi/vadi_12.jpg
        (While browsing on the wilson book, i came across this.) -pst

4/16    Any interesting Cal Day events going on tomorrow that are worth
        checking out? -- alum
        \_ Kind of speaks for itself, eh?  When you're white haired and
           dragging your wrinkled carcass around campus with your grand kids
           in tow, then you'll appreciate some of the special co-ed events
           available.  Other than that, no.   -- other alum

4/16    Drivel is poorly formed thoughts, without context or relevance.  An
        occasional long post is just fine.  -- not the dog guy below.
        \_ Not to mention it is somewhat informative.  -jrleek
        \_ It's a good post, just long. Whoever it is deleting, just frikin'
           stop! -- ulysses

4/15    Well, that japenese magnet motor guy made /.
        \_ http://csua.com/?entry=13123

4/15    http://www.beatallica.com
        Beatles songs covered in a perfect Metallica-circa-1986 style.
        \_ I've been waiting for this my whole life... why didn't somebody
           tell me this earlier?
           \_ You're welcome. --op

4/14    Woohoo!  First poster after another Nuke Fest!  Does that make
        me Mad Max?

4/13    [ no, let's delete old technical stuff too, you asswipe. ]
        \_ restored.

4/14    Nuked AGAIN?  What the heck is that?  A protest against the rules?
        At least terrorists take credit!

4/14    Has anyone read Confusion yet?  any comments?  Basically more of the
        same?
        \_ Yes.  .  Read it and find out.
        \_ it's very confusing
        \_ You have acquired a scroll entitled 'irk gleknow mizk'(n).--More--
           This is an IBM Manual scroll.--More--
           You are permanently confused.

4/13    Would people quit whining about motd censorship.  Really.  If you
        don't want to be overwritten, accidentally or not, post a link to
        your damn blog.
        \_ which assholes like you would then overwrite
           \_ Sorry, didn't overwrite anything at all, dude.  Get a life.

        7/9 woods to compensate for these irons? And should I get steel
        shaft for these woods so that they'll hit more like irons (but has
        higher loft for ease of hit)? Thanks.
        \_ fuck you, golfer bastard.

4/13    I can't hit my 3-4-5 irons very well. Should I get a set of

4/13    Bunch of MOTD stuff restored.  Fuck you, nuker.  -John
        \_ I think this is a newer version. Yours appeared to be
           from before the crash today.
           \_ Sorry--just cuntpasted from Mehlhaff's archive.  -John

4/12    AMC STrikes again!

4/11    Ok, I am not anonymous, and I will nuke kinney's stuff on sight.
        Pages worth of his barely coherent ramblings is not something that
        should end up here.
        \_ oh, the irony
                                  That it is about Iraq does not raise their
        usual quality.  What primarily pissed me off was the volume. -- ilyas

4/11      \_ 4/11  [ I said, no spam, bitch.  Just post a link ]
           \_ He's not spamming the motd.  This is a first-hand report and he
              has unreliable net access.
              \_ Oh yes he was.  Were you still asleep when there were 5 or
                 6 'blog entries' from him on the motd?  No, whoever posted
                 his rants was spamming.  It's interesting to get a perspective
                 of someone who is there, but not more interesting than lots of
                 other Iraq-based bloggers, who generally have a much better way
           \_ I'd've solidified no-fly-zone policies nationwide, and I would
              have made it clear that shooting down a passenger plane or three
              is preferable to the use of planes as bombs.  I would have
              made it clear that any lack of communication between the FBI,
              CIA, and NSA not having to do with Congressionally legislated
              limitations would result in the immediate termination of the
              various directors involved. These are old problems, and they
              should have been dealt with.
                 with the written word than kinney.  As is, the spam pisses me
                 off, so his crap will get deleted on sight.
              \_ Since the AMC has taken offense at this, could you blog-ify
                 it for us?  Free hosting at http://blogspot.com.

4/12    POR
        EWE
        ROP

4/12    campus power outage at 2:32 PDT; soda up by 3:50

4/12    One step closer to the ultimate input device...
        http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/health/13BRAI.html
        \_ urlD was here
           \_ Bah! --op
        \_ the monkey experiments remind me of System Shock 2

4/12    Wierd Al's parents die of accidental CO poisoning.
        http://www.weirdal.com/msg.htm
        \_ Dead Parents Aren't Much Fun.
           \_ Not true; sometimes they challenge you to contests of skill.

4/12    S A T O R
        A R E P O
        T E N E T
        O P E R A
        R O T A S
        \_ yay mithras!
        \_ Would someone explain this?
           \_ "Arepo the sower holds the wheels at work"
              \_ Would someone explain this?
                 \_ http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Arepo+the+sower+holds+the+wheels+at+work%22

4/12    Hey ilyas, did you like the Tobler book?  I did a couple of classes
        with Roendel daggers and lichtenhauer's take on 'em it was nift. - pst
        \_ Good stuff.  Eerie similarites to 'The Art of Not Dying'.  Of
           course that's just 'the convergence of what works.' -- ilyas
        \_ Tobler chocolate is the bomb but I prefer Scharffenberger.

4/12    Numerous dates fixed.  Don't you people have a calendar?

4/9     http://hinterlands.cc/index.php?showtopic=66
        Probably not work-safe.

4/10    Bank ATM card reading scam.  It's short.  Read it.
        http://www.utexas.edu/admin/utpd/atm.html

4/9     Url without descriptive comment purged.

4/9     I'm detecting dangerous levels of non-entertainment. Why isn't
        the motd police here to cleanse this excrement?
        \_ Be more funny!

4/8     I recently got my first pussy, and I'm curious: does my accumulated
        load last longer now, or will I be masturbating according to the
        speed I was doing it when I produced it?

4/8     [Rice opinion with no additional info moved to existing thread]

4/8     A good friend of mine, who happens to be a graduate student in CS,
        sent me an email the other day asking if I knew of any internships
        still available for the summer in the San Ramon/Dublin/Pleasanton/
        Livermore area.  The ones at my work are pretty much gone, has any
        one got any leads?  Thanks, -jrleek

4/8     Condi's been FRAMED. It's all about subduing the black populace. If
        the gloves don't fit, it don't make sense.

4/7     link:csua.org/u/6sp
        Washington Post's Faces of the Fallen (flash required).

4/7     Unfortunate URL of the year award:
        http://www.powergenitalia.com   -John
        \_ Nice. -- ulysses

4/6     Packetel guy, when will the new numbers you ordered become available?
        I have been waiting....

4/6     Sigh. What happened to the "Clarke's trying to sell books" thread?
        I was looking forward to finishing that one.

4/6     Is Ilyas the guy with long black hair and long mustache?
        \_ Is the "ilyas" we speak of Ilya S. or Ilyas N. ?
           The Ilyas I know was a CS150 TA and was bald.
        \_ ilyas is Ilya S. He has long black hair/facial hair, and is
           thin. -chialea
                \_ is he the long black hair/facial hair guy who is around
                   the 4800 corrider in Boelter a lot?
                   \_ Yup, that's the bastard. -- ilyas
                      \_ Get him!

4/4     Alistair Cooke, 1908-2004. RIP

4/5     Most intriguing spam subject yet: "intense duchess"
        \_ why are two random words "intriguing"?
        \_ My favorite so far is: "valparaiso mechanic"
           \_ That's excellent!

4/5     When do Bing Cherries start to get really cheap in the bay area?
        \_ June
        \_ walk around Capp/Polk and ask.
           \_ Those are LeSkanque Cherries.

4/4/4   We're all gonna die!!!
        \_ fob alert!
        \_ Are people in China freaking out today because it's 04/04/04?
           \_ we use lunar calendars.
        \_ Yeah whatever.  The cool thing about the numerology calendar
           idiocy is how often the calendar has been arbitrarily changed
           because the universe doesn't allow itself to be evenly divided
           and clocked.  Leap years?  Leap *seconds*?  10 year gap in the
           middle ages?  Sheesh, as if this calendar came from God.

4/4     Looking for motd entries prior to 8/30/03. Where to find it? Thanks.
        \_ Need to write in complete sentences!  How to do it?  Thanks!
           \_ Am needing to find goodly English writing books, how to find?

4/3     Set your clocks forward tonight.
        \_ Why? Isn't that what xntpd is for?

4/1     There goes one more ally:
        http://csua.org/u/6q7
        \_ Link description is a blatant misrepresentation of link content.

4/1     4D Rubiks Cube:
        http://www.plunk.org/~hatch/MagicCube4dApplet

4/2     Has Sun surrendered to M$?
        \_ They got $2b and they agreed to swap IP.  That's not so bad.
           \_ Sun will collaborate with M$ instead of competing with it.
              \_ Shame on Sun.
                 \_ They need the money...
              \_ Collaborators!  Kill them in the streets!

3/31    Whatever gets you off, I guess (work safe):
        http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040331/325/eq0k4.html

3/31    Interesting/sad - woman motorcycling through the ruins near
        chernobyl.
        http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

3/31    OK, I'm bored, so here goes:
        http://www.jengajam.com/r/Saddam-Hey-Ya

4/1     teen posts nude photos of herself, charged with child pornography and
        child abuse: http://www.postgazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
        \_ classic example of a big government running amok

4/1     What were Cartman and his followers chanting in the new South Park?

4/1     Is it possible to use G++'s -g (debug symbols) flag with a project
        that is incrementally linked?  Any pointers?

4/1     Hmm, aljazeera's english site doesn't mention what happened today
        in fallujah.  Fair and balanced...
        \_ I don't think they ever said they were fair and balanced.

4/1     RFC 3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements
        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3751.txt

3/31    Remember James Yee, the U.S. Army Muslim chaplain who supposedly
        took secret documents from the detention center?
        http://csua.org/u/6p4
        \_ Why does this Palm Beach Post post something that's been a month
           old?
           \_ The charges were dropped two weekends ago (on a Friday.. big
              surprise).  He had been imprisoned for 200 days as a showpiece.
              \_ Oh, I thought those charged were dropped the same time
                 they decided to charge him with adultery and porn.
                 \_ Yes.  Actually, I'm not sure when the charges were dropped,
                    but the press release was on 20 March.
                 \_ They found porn on his work computer!
           \_ perhaps because his appeal was filed this week, along with
              their censure of the government case?  Here's a news piece:
              http://csua.org/u/6p5
           \_ link:www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8254643.htm

3/31    In Soviet Russia, motd censors YOU!

3/31    I hear a lot about Tom Robbins, but I haven't read any of his
        books. What is a good book of his to read first?
        \_ Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.
           \_ I agree.
        \_ Jitterbug Perfume hooked me.  ECGTB left me lukewarm.
        \_ Schmaltz
        \_ Tried to read Cowgirls and Woodpecker and just couldn't do it. Then
           somebody lent me Skinny Legs and All which is one of the best books
           I've read by any author, though it still suffers from TR's fondness
           for lists. -- ulysses

3/30    Here boys, go get her:
        http://raymitheminx.blogspot.com
        \_ url not read.  we're not your attack dogs.  and we certainly don't
           care what some random idiot has to say on some stupid blog.  the
           very concept of blogs is stupid thus anything on any of them is
           automatically moronic.  why are you wasting your time reading them
           or ours trying to get us to read them?
           \_ Some bored woman with a camera takes a couple of nudie shots
              and posts them in her blog.  It's amateur exhibitionism.
              \_ As opposed to pro league exhibitionism?
                 \_ Very much so.
        \_ Is it that hard to write Not Safe For Work?
           \_ sorry

Motd censor hazard level today: SOMEWHAT HIGH

3/30    Try to put http://csua.org in http://tinyurl.com, and vise versa. FUN!!!!!
        \_ Bored recursively, are we?  Gotta admit, though, it's perversely
           addictive....
        \_ Great, now http://csua.org is down.

3/17    What are some condescending sites?
        there's slashdot, http://csua.org, what else?
        \_ The Bay Area?

3/30    I love how the freepers delete discussions as soon as they are
        conclusively proven to be wrong.
        \_ Actually, the deletions seem to be more of a self-pronounced garbage
           collector.  The freepers just stop responding.
        \_ As the only person to post links from FR I can tell you I have
           never deleted a thread but have had literally hundreds
           deleted.
           \_ No you are not.

        10-10 plan with no monthly charge/minimum?
        \_ http://www.vonage.com
           This stuff's pretty cool. You need a decent broadband connection
           but you can say goodbye to SBC for almost everything (you still
           need them for DSL). I used my friend's box to call Germany and
           it worked like a charm. The line quality was crystal clear and
           it worked transparently. There's a $15 monthly charge. I think
           Circuit City has a promotion.

3/29    Didn't one of the internet map engine thingies used to include
        overhead maps from satellites or something?  Where'd it go?
        \_ i think microsoft had something called terraserver.
        \_ this is the best: http://www.acme.com/mapper

3/29    BOOM.
        \_ Pika!

3/29    Dude, James, those were still active threads.

3/29    What classic movie are you most like:
        http://similarminds.com/movie.html
        Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: .
        Schindler's List:             .
        Apocalypse Now:               ..
        The Godfather:                ..
        The Third Man:                .
        Easy Rider:                   ..
        \_ I changed the response of one question from a Neutral to a Agree
           and it went from Easy Rider to Schindler's List. the quiz sucks.

3/29    Are there going to be new episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force?  I heard
        the most recent episode was fully titled "The Last One (of 2003)"

*/*     Lame old boring shit purged.

3/26    According to the new research, even the most laid-back people can
        erupt into furious rants when debating online:
        http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1178589,00.html
        \_ F&$k you, f&$k your mother, f&$k your sister, f&$k your dog!
        \_ whoa, duuuude... this is a total bummer!

3/26    Is there a way to make IrfanView show the caption/comments
        information on the screen during a slide show?  If not, is there
        a similar freeware program that can do this?