8/10    Anyone know of any decent inline skate shops in the East Bay?
        I need to replace a couple of frame spacers. --vchang
        \_ Hey, it's kchang with a 'v'.  Get him!
                \_ bleh. No relation. We're different. I suck less --vchang
                   \_ harshness! oh wait, this is the motd.

8/7     Does www.csua provide counters and clocks like Count.cgi?
        \_ No - counters are wildly inaccurate, pointless wastes of bandwidth.
           Clocks are 1 line of javascript, and pointless for us to provide
           \_ You can also write a counter yourself; it doesn't need
              privilege.

8/7     You want proof?  Here's the proof!
        http://www.appledaily.com.hk/pages/980808/newr902.jpg
        (From IHCC - Indonesian Huaren Crisis Center)

8/7     Stupid grandmother junk deleted

8/7     The only thing stupider than Rebecca Eisenberg is this argument. -tom
        \_ My grandmother knew this already.
        \_ who?
           \_ A local computer columnist.  What argument?

8/6     http://www.jailbabes.com
        \_ Don't post this!  No one else can write to my girlfriends!

8/6     Microsoft Campus in Mountain View.
        \_ TP! TP! TP! TP! TP!
           \_ Follow the Berkeley tradition bud.  Send a mail bomb like
              all the crazy people here.

8/7     Anyone know anything aobut H. 323 gateways and programs that allow
        you to call a phone over an internet connection?  Is it possible
        to call phones with MS NetMeeting (it has H. 323 support)?
        \_ There are services like that I heard, but they all charge
           some amount of money.
                \_ GASP!

8/3     Does anyone know a public domain IEEE-754
        compliant 64 bit floating point library?

]7/31   Homefinders is not proving to be very useful in finding a place
        for me to live, IE: everything very far away or too much money.
        Anyone have any experience with Berkeley Connection?
        \_ they can't find what doesn't exist.
           \_ There is no housing, only Zuul.
        \_ The Coops are calling you, my friend.

7/30    What the heck does that little girl say in the British Airways
        commercial?
        \_ I give better blowjobs than Monica

7/29    what is the cheapest way to get rid of a very old couch legally?
        (How much do dumpsters charge?)
        \_ I am always on the lookout for ancient couches,
           clean or not too dirty, if you really want it to
           disappear email me - danh
        \_ if you leave it on the street it will disappear
        \_ put it up "for sale" somewhere in Berkeley... Say "$5". Or offer
           to take someone out to lunch if they'll take it off your hands.
        \_ put in in your cube/office at work.  my couch is very popular
           with my coworkers.  -meyers
        \_ it is clean? I'm looking for a couch for my office...   -dxu
        \_ leave it in karen's backyard for a couple of months to get nice
           and moldy.

7/27    What do you guys think about overclocking the k6-2?
        \_ All overclocking is a waste of time.

7/26    What are some cgi mailers that I can use for the "guest sign" page?
        \_ http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts

7/26    "Saving Private Ryan" is just the best Spielberg. Gawd damn
        I want a war.

7/26    Has anyone had any experience with cs 9E? Is it worth taking?
        \_ The class material was good, but standing in line for hours at
           the Self-Paced Center to get any help or to get your assignments
           graded was a nightmare.  At least that was the case in 1990.
           -- yuen

7/26    A Survey of Soda Breastsize.  Please add your entries.
        36Q
        30AA (Asian CSUAers - male _and_ female)
                I thought android/choice was bigger

7/26    A Survey of Soda Breastsize.  Please add your entries.

7/24    poliburo proposes that we sodomize tom!
        \_ i second that motion
          \_ h0zer, I am not a homosexual, and even if I were, you aren't
             my type.  Go play with seano.  -tom

7/24    ssh 1.2.26 installed, bugs to mconst.

7/24    Soon it will be as easy as:  cp psb1 psb.backup.
        http://www.nature.com/Nature2/serve?SID=25602728&CAT=NatGen&PG=mice
                 clone-home.html
        \_ Sigh.  When will they start cloning humans?
          \_ what makes you sure they aren't already?  They've already taken
             samples from psb's opressive white penis to start the new
             MASTER RACE.
                                        \_ I thought it's blue or orange
        \_ This isn't possible.  There is only one psb who is all.  How
           can you copy that which already exists everywhere?  --psb #1 Fan
                \_ One psb to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

7/26    Blade Runner on a reasonably large screen. 408-457-7726 for info.
        6PM-9PM
        \_ Director's cut or the sucky version?

7/23    short men are so sexy. *SMOOCH*

7/23    Any accusation on M$, M$ spokes person will always say:
        "It was not intention."
        \_ [sic]P
           \_ Wow, I never thought I'd see the letters "SICP" used together
              outside of Abelson and Sussman ... cool.
        \_ They even do it with identically bad grammar.
        \_ Why not?  Someone in the Oklahoma City bombing case even argued
           that the defendant shouldn't be guilty of murder because "even
           thought he knew that setting off a bomb in that building would
           cause death, his intention was not to kill people."  Hey Mister,
           I want to pull the trigger on your head.  I don't have any
           intention to kill you.  I just have an intention to pull the
           trigger.

7/23    Lila Patton
Home Phone:     (510) 841-9818
Work Phone:     (650) 526-2667
Pager:          (888) 220-8692
                lila-page@veritas.com

7/22    Anyone using Linux/Sparc?  Is it reasonably good? -PeterM

7/21    Any recommendations for cheap local sources for custom t-shirts in
        small quantities (1-5), 1 color?  I am interested in some shirts for
        personal use, not for an organization. -- schoen
        \_ Anywhere but Inky Fingers.
        \_ Cinder Block in Oakland - 658-2917 - danh

7/22    http://www.psb.co.kr
        \_http://www.quit.com

7/22    bang zoom to the moon, ethel!

07/22   I told you to stay away from Bessie.
        \_ But Bessie was so god damn good.. where else can you get cheap
           thrills for $4.95 a pop?

You have new mail.
\_ fucking moron.

                             Welcome to HappySoda

5/19    TOTAL Hosersness.
          3772  xxxxxx    (/usr3)        2663  xxxxxx
                \_find . -name \* -exec compress {} \;
          3750  xxxxxx    (/usr3)        2619  xxxx
          3105  xxxxxx    (/usr3)        2609  xxx
          2851  xxxxxxxx                 2589  xxxxx
          2680  xxxxx     (/usr3)        2505  xx

7/20    context free URL deleted.
        \_ screw you.  http://www.doge.nl/~hero

7/20    http://www.doge.nl/~hero

care kchang

7/20 With which device should k c h a n g be sodomized with?
        \_ seano's white male oppressive penis
        \_ The CSUA bat

 be sodomized?

7/20    Which device should kchang be sodomized with?

7/20    question deleted by kchang.

7/20    ass-polito
        \_ cle-ver
        \_ talausman
           \_ businausman
        \_ esJORary
        \_ uncle tom
        \_ col' kane

7/19    question deleted for lack of context.

7/19    WindowMaker or AfterStep?

7/15    Don't work for Debacle!!!
        \_ What happened Senor CSUA-person?
                \_ too easy, boring, not challenging, unset goal, stupid work
                   Something about db companies... person at Slimbase
                   said the same thing.

7/15    I don't know anything about ipfilter fix and so on, but about all the
        scheduler tweaks that have been going on, how much do they actually
        improve performance?  Just curious.  -- yuen
        \_ the last changes were done for profiling reasons.  we are gathering
           extensive information that will help improve performance.

07/16   Soda will reboot in the early hours of 07/17 to fix problems
        with the IPFILTER firewall and to adjust a process scheduler
        parameter.  Downtime should be 10 minutes.
        \_ Ooops, perhaps that was 7/17 EDT and its been moved up
           a bit anyway.  7:25PM PDT. downtime estimates same as before.

You all suck.

Yer Mom sucks too.

You are all going down.
You have new mail.

You all suck.

no

07/15   We're now running the CAM patches. Based on the much-reduced
        fsck and quotacheck times, we got a nice performance benefit.

07/15   Soda's process scheduler has been tweaked.  If the system feels
        different, mail dpetrou and jwm.  (Please rule out net lag first.)

7/14    God Damn! isn't there at least ONE good looking women on this
        whole campus? !
        \_ Yes.  She's hiding from you.  (And waiting for a man who can
           spell and capitalize correctly.)
        \_ She graduated.
        \_ Try Berkeley High
           \_ Good advice. What's-her-name (blonde model, UCSC alum) went
              there. Oh, yeah... Rebecca Romijn. --dim
        \_ Yes.  She's in my office.  HA.

           \_ because dipshits like you keep nuking the motd

07/13   Another SCSI CAM panic, it looks like. Film at 11.
        \_ Quotas for several hundred users are hozed, and will be fixed RSN.
           \_ Quotas are being redone (possibly increased!), should be
              ready by ~3pm --frantic-root-people-in-csua-office

7/11    For a good time call 642-0070
        \_ Which is what?  A campus emergency number?  UCPD?
                \_ hmm that is the 1200 baud campus connection.
                        \_ Why are they wasting a perfectly good phone
                           line on that?

7/10    I have an idle job I've had running for several days and I can't
        find a way to kill it.  How do you get rid of it?
                \_ How much are you willing to pay to get rid of this
                   problem?
                \_ zombie process? try 'kill -9 -1' to kill all process.
                worked for me.

07/07   The ICMP flooding that Soda was undergoing earlier tonight
        has stopped for the time being.

7/8     So, who exactly is still getting a UUCP feed from soda these days?
        \_ Just me, I suspect, though I'm happy to help set up other accounts
                \_ You suspect WRONG twinky boy!
        \_ read /etc/sendmail.cf and you will see

7/8     tpc and geordan now demoted to commoner. Demigod status is earned
        by merit only. Demigods and angels should not vote for each other.
        Rules enforced by HappyCop (tpc and geordan). Read the new rules.
        http://soda.berkeley.edu/~kchang/happy
        \_ Shut up, cmlee.
        \_ How long until kchang sells out to u$oft and you see
           "Happy, by Microsoft", just like you did with Hotmail.
        \_They were really demoted because they discovered kchang's
          mom was no longer tight enough for her softball fetish, and
          began supplying her with volleyballs. -meyers

7/2     "DEATH! DEATH! DEATH to all who oppose us!"
        \_ Come to Butthead.

07/02   I think so, Brain, but that pair of PVC underwear just isn't cut
        for my delicate figure.

7/2     Boycott the so called Happy Point Dictatorship!
        \_ why is it dictatorship?

7/1      Anyone know the URL to the news article about they guy who is
        wearing c cup breast implants for a year on a bet ?
        \_ Dunno the URL, but the latest issue of Maxim magazine has an
           article + pictures. The bet was for $100k.
        \_ "I could never be a woman . . . if I were, I'd just stay home
            all day and play with my breasts."
               -- Steve Martin's character in _LA Story_

6/30   Massive case of motd bloat corrected.

6/30    Do you have a 4.0 browser and a desire to decapitate kchang?
        http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~seano/happy_kchang.html
        \_ you got the head and torso mixed up.

6/30    How do you start a newsgroup: ucb.os.microsoft.sucks
        \_ http://www.net.berkeley.edu/dcns/usenet/ucbcreate.html but try
           "ucb.flame.os.nt" or "ucb.os.nt.critics" or something.

6/29    what statistical packages are available on soda?
        \_ ls /usr/ports/math

06/28   billy barf and the vomitones

6/29    happy god now nominated, go vote:
        http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~kchang/happy
        \_k kchang, don't you understand that the aura of soda is
          supposed to be negative? Get out of here with yer dumbass
          happy bullshit.
          \_ People are innately good. I refuse to believe that.
        \_ Death to happiness.
                \_ There never was any happiness.  It can't die.
                \_ my gawd, you guys are overly negative.
                        \_ guys?  fuck you, sexist pig!

6/26    I have a coupon for Mech Cmdr for $35 at Best Buy.  Should I use it?
        \_  depends what you are looking for.  $35 is a pretty good price.
            it's Yet Another Real Time Strategy Game.  i personally like it
            because you are supposed to try and keep your mechs undamaged
            (you pay to heal between missions), and the fact that you trying
            to salvage enemy mechs for the next missions, instead of just
            harvesting gold/oil/whatever.  read rec.games.mecha --oj
                        \_ mineral & Vespene gas. - tpc
        \_ My life for Aiur.
        \_ Need a light?

6/26    What is National Marker?  Is it a set of extended parameters for X.3?
                                                -- Leec

6/26    Oh no!  The Evil Empire won again!
        \_ don't they always? get a grip of reality you techno fanatics.

6/26    Picture of soda hall from satellite:
        http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTilesByXY.asp?XId=5434&YId=3494&TileX=2&TileY=3&SrcId=1&ImgDate=07/10/1993&DSize=0

6/25    SRL show @7pm tonight. $10. Bring ear plugs. Bryant/Harrison - 3rd/4th

6/25    twinks, here is your chance for revenge. Happy Points:
        http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~kchang/happy
        \_ this has been done: ~chris/pub/sexy
        \_ how many twink points is this going to earn kchang
                \_ actually it's a pretty cool and nice looking page.
                   \_ shut up cmlee
                \_ What's a twink
                   \_ All the fat of a Twinkie with none of the taste.

6/25    Mogul is older today.
        \_ get laid.
           \_ I'd be honored if everyone celebrated my birthday by getting
              laid. -mogul
        \_ so's yer mom.

6/23    Boredcast Message from soda!psb (ttyPp) at 16:04 ...

peru -> sendero luminoso -> shining path -> shangri-la -> tibet -> nepal

                \_ why is this motd entry not fully indented, I wanna know.
                        \_ Stupid mortal!  Begone!, before thy frail mind
                           becomes consumed by the PSB! - psb#1fan
                           \_ Poser.  Find another number.  -- psb #1 Fan
                              \_ I want to be PSB NaN Fan

6/23    "Fear and Loathing" is fun for the whole family! I laughed,
        I cried, I learned things... Go see it.         -movieCritic

 6/23   Signs the apocalypse is forthcoming:
        - students roaming Soda Hall addressing nweaver as "Professor"
        - philspell used as homework in CS 61C
                \_ GO NICK!  CSUA WORLD DOMINATION! - phil

6/22    http://www.teamtaos.com/events/linux  Email me if you want more info. --chris
        \_ chris is a sucker
           \_  boohoo boohoo!
        \_ christine is a sucker HR person, say anything and she'll believe
           \_ give up, l0zer.
                \_ now she's so anal that she doesn't believe anyone's good
                  \_ except of course yer mom.  but everyone thinks she's good.

6/23    Any recomendations for network hardware and mailorder places
        to buy it?  Specifically a hub with 8 10baseT, 1 AUI and 1 BNC
        connectors and some networking cable.
         - seidl

6/23    EE job opportunities. If interested pls fwd resume  - hkg
        \_ Post to /csua/pub/jobs and make it world readable.

6/23    m$ gets injunction against Win 98 overruled:
        http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/f/AP-Microsoft.html
        Too bad justice isn't blind to cash conttibutions.
                \_ Shut up cmlee
                        \_ dude, who the hell are you?  you keep putting
                        the same crap on the motd all the time.
        \_ ye$! my M$ $tock i$ going way up! Re$i$tance i$ futile!
        \_ what ever happened to http://www.winblows98.com  Did m$ $ue them out
           of buisness too?

6/22    EE positions available - Circuit Design Engineers
        If interested please fwd resume in ascii -hkg

6/19    http://www.nra.org/exec-office/sns.html  .. be afraid; be very afraid
        \_ there goes your carjacking career, I guess...
        \_ Is it likely for NRA women to find dates who do not carry
           shoulder launched missles and integral body armors?
        \_ Perhaps you prefer a society where only the criminals can arm
           themselves?  Not to worry -- Here in the People's Republic of
           Kalifornia, ordinary citizens can't get permits to carry guns
           (unless, of course, you are a generous supporter of your local
           sheriff).  Don't take my word for it -- try it for yourself.
           Most counties reject all applications, some won't even give you
           the forms.  Don't worry though -- inanimate objects *can* be
           inherently evil, and the police will always magically appear
           just in time to save you.  There is no reason for you to accept
           responsibility for your own safety.

06/18   Put down and piss off.

6/18    Got a studio available in Redwood City sometime in July.  600/mo.
        email mch@csua.berkeley.edu if interested.
        Preferrable someone QUIET.....

6/16    Who is the Prince of Brunel and why is he such a stud?

6/16    I have an old SVGA 17" Monitor.  Does anyone know how much this
        is worth?  Does anybody want to buy it?  Thanks. -- emin
        \_ How old?  What brand/model? What condition? Max resolution/freq.?
         \_ Less than $300
          \_ Could be less than that. My boss had a MAG DX17F conk out on
             him after 2 years of sitting on his desk. If I were other ppl,
             I'd go with a new one with a bonafide warranty unless the
             price was really right or it were a friend. -jctwu
             \_ Did it sizzle when it died?  My MAG died out a few months
                ago as well.  Same model and about the same age.
                \_ It clicked! Same clicking that you hear changing
                   refresh frequencies, except this time, the little ray gun
                   never came back. :(

6/15    Due to circumstances beyond my control, I've missed the last
        2 weeks' worth of B5.  Anybody out there have it on videotape
        and would be willing to lend for a day or two?
                           -- goldfarb
        \_ obligatory get-a-life
           \_ i'd rather "Fight the future", wouldn't you?

6/13    What's a good first book in the Fantasy genre to read? Something
        that's easy to read, and not too good that any subsequent books
        in the genre I read will pale in comparison.
        \_  The Hobbit is always nice, though long and tedious.
        \_ "not too good that any subsequent books . . . will disappoint"?
           Do you only go to certain movies, afraid that a wrong choice will
           spoil your movie-going experiences for the rest of your life?  Do
           you only try to date "average" people, in the event that you'll
           enter into a long-term relationship that you might leave someday?
        \_ D3Wd!!!1!  R3AD R0B3RT J0RDUN, CUZ H3"Z TH3 K00L3ST!!!1!!!!
           And afterwards you can use his books to start a home-weightlifting
           program!  Fun n' fitness!

06/11   Go on, lick it.
        \_ Ooooooh, do it again!

6/11    submit to me, my wife. -husband

6/10  The Kingdom II!  Tonite!  UC Theatre!  7pm!  -danh

6/8  blah blah blah, you overworked corporate slaves.

6/10 So the worst thing about Spy's going out of business (yet again)
     is now I have the humiliating experience of recieving POV every
     month.

6/10 The Kingdom 2!  Tonight! 7pm! UC Theater! - danh

6/10 Sometimes when I telnet into soda through a proxy, the terminal
     displays characters that I type more than once (though this doesn't
     apear to be consistent--sometimes a character is seen once, sometimes
     more than once).  Anyone have an idea as to what it might be?

6/8  Nonsense about X-files posted by tawei erased.

6/9  Local band, The Naked Barbies, is in an onine polling contest to open
     this year's Lilith Fair.  Vote for the Barbies at:
     http://www.levi.com/backstage/sessions/lilith

6/8  Hey X-files fans.  What do you guys think is the real reason why Mulder
     is so fascinated with his sister's disappearance?  I think it has to do
     with his subconscious incestuous feelings (and maybe even a real
     incestuous relationship before she disappeared).  How else can you explain
     this fanatical enthusiasm?  Shit, if my sister got abducted by aliens I
     wouldn't be as crazy as he is.  So there has to be something more to
     the story.
        \_  You're just projecting your own incestuous desires onto Mulder.
            Any normal person would be a bit loopy if their sibling got
            abducted by aliens while they watched.

6/8 People with ugly homepages-- please remove it, you are polluting WWW
        \_ how about some examples of "ugly homepages"?

6/8  How about mixing faces (*.xbm) pictures with the Soda member listing
     on our web page?
        \_ i don't like the idea.  it would destroy the simple aesthetics
           of the current http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/users  there is
           already http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/faces  i don't see many
           new users flocking to adopt xbm faces, either.
           --jwang, whose cron job produces the user list.
          \_ you damn naxi. How about a new format where, once user places
             ANY picture in the ~<user>/public_html/face.jpg, the faces page
             will look for it?

6/3     How many times can we have the same stupid conversation?
          8
        \_ No.
        \_ Is this a philospohical question?
        \_ Aleph-naught times. Silly rabbit.
                \_ Aleph-1.
                        \_ Aleph-by-induction.
        \_ 42
        \_ Mu.
        \_ As long as you're reading the motd we'll do our very best to
           annoy the living hell out of you

6/8     Anyone know where I can find old questions to previous ACM
        competitions?
        \_ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~hilfingr/programming-contest

6/5     Kids these days.
        \_ ...they don't care.../Mr. Robinson!  Mr. Robinson!/What a
        horrible mess...
                \_ I broke your window with my ball... / You?!
                \_ ...and I've come to confess

6/5     Programmer vs Sys Admin vs Software Engineer.  Which is better?

6/4     loaded question about americans and expensive restaurants deleted
        for begging the question.

6/4     http://www.psbindustries.com

6/4     Has someone been recompiling MH programs?  I had repl aliased to
        repl -cc all, which used to work, but it doesn't anymore...
        \_ RTFMOTD
        \_ more specifically, read the official motd.  you realise you
           can be taken out and horsewhipped for asking a question that
           was answered there, right?  also, you should be putting stuff
           like that in your .mh_profile, not aliasing it.  -lila
           \_ fuck off - jeph (not the guy who asked in the first place)
                \_ She was obviously just teasing and also provided some
                   useful information.  jeph you're a twink.
                \_ wow, how uptight

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6/2     Wednesday.  9:00.  Casa de Nick.  B5 and Southpark. -nweaver
        \_ How many new southparks have there been since Cartman's Dad Part 2?

05/31   Soda crashed and rebooted for unknown reasons today.
        Robert Stack has been notified.  (further investigation
        is underway)

5/29  /tmp/sneakpreview.jpg

5/29  Does anyone know who the Asian actress is in that Tylenol commercial,
      where at the end she gets on an elevator and says "Wish me luck!"???
        \_  She's a lemur.  --PeterM
           \_ she's a what???
                   \_ from Lemuria...
           \_ Someone explain please? Thanks.
        \_ <DEAD>www.insertlifehere.nopornoforyou.com<DEAD>

05/29   Due to some bug complaints in mh, which hasn't been maintained
        since before fire was invented, nmh is now the default. You can
        still access the old binaries should you experience a problem,
        via /usr/local/lib/mh/bin. Notify me if there are problems. --aaron
        For diffs, see http://www.math.gatech.edu/nmh
        P.S. slocal users may benefit from using the new version,
        in /usr/local/libexec/nmh.

5/27    UCNet dumps Sprint, http://ucb.net.announce for more info
        \_ Be very afraid : "At this time, there is no announced schedule for
           the transition, but it is likely to begin fairly soon."
          \_ Flee!  Fear!  Buy your own net access.

5/28    RIP Phil Hartman -- Goodbye Phil!
        \_ Who?
           \_ Actor from Saturday Night Live, Newsradio and the Simpsons
        \_ Chris Farley, I could tolerate, but Phil was actually funny.
        \_ so lame -- killed by his wife.

5/26    I'm moving VERY soon and need to sell furniture.  Please see
        http://www.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/~lindsay/forsale.html
        Desk, dressers, shelves, chairs, and more!
        PRICED TO MOVE -- EVERYTHING MUST GO -- lindsay

05/26   Please do not send mail to root@cory.eecs asking why mail to
        instructional accounts is taking so long.  Pasteur.EECS, the
        EECS instructional mail server is very overloaded right now
        and addtional mail to root@cory will simply cause further delay
        \_ Pastuer is still an ancient DECstation 5000 - it will be
                upgraded soon to a PPro that can much better handle
                the load of 7000 users.

5/23    Where's the Shellac show tonight? Anyone? Anyone?
        \_ it was at the cyclone warehouse in SF, with
           The Seeman.  No I was not elite enough to know ahead
           of time. - danh
        \_ I hate that shite.  I asked way too many people and no one
           knew.  I heard some good guesses, though.  My favorite theory
           was that the show was @Gilman w/ Fugazi!
        \_ the roof of Tolman Hall

5/24    i need a couple of crimp-on wire connectors (spade and socket type)
        ASAP and the shops are closed.  if you got some, or if you have
        access to labs on campus, please mail jwang.

5/24    Wednesday, May 27th, Casa de Nick.  New episodes of B5 start again with
        "Meditations on the Abyss".  Showing starts at 8pm.

5/24    Who played the Genie in I Love Genie? I sware she looks almost like
        the younger version of Cathy Lee Gifford.
        \_ you are totally on crack.  barbara eden looks nothing like cathy
           lee gifford.

5/24    A moment of silence for all the dead in all the wars.
        \_ Can Ah tawk agayn, sarjunt Da-yun?

5/21 dammit, some stations are refusing to show Friday's Jerry Springer
     http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,3032,00.html
     \_ People actually *watch* Jerry Springer?!?!?!?!?! - Mr. Sheltered Life
        \_ vchang gets aroused by horses
          \_ maybe he just likes to 'ride' them ...

5/21   How hard/expensive is it to get an experimental VLSI chip fabbed,
       assuming it's already designed?  Are fabs on campus accessible?
       Purpose is to win RC5 crack contest, http://www.distributed.net
       \_ For 0.25micron the first Intel chip is only around $250,000. Cost
          goes down drastically with volume. You must be more stupid than
          I thought.
       \_ Check out MOSIS.  Depends on how many wafers you are making,
          the starting min is $10,000  (if ee143 is correct ..)
        \_ SSI's and MSI's cost almost nothing to make in bulk quantities
           and VLSI's shouldn't cost drastically more, although I don't
           think you'll find any luck finding someone to produce one VLSI
           chip for you just for the hell of it.
       \_ Bottom line is: any chip cheap enough to be worth it wont have
          an appreciably performance advantage over running tuned assembler
          on today's butt-fucking fast general-purpose CPUs.

05/21   Vote to name the new space station:
        http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacestation_name980510.html

05/21   Soda was down due to its plug being partially unplugged.  I figure
        that someone in the machine room kicked it loose accidentally.  I
        plugged it back in and everything seems fine now.  -Nick

05/22/98 "I Married A Horse!"
                 Our guests today say their clover relationships
                 disturb other people. Mark has been married for five
                 years... to his horse, Pixel. Mark claims that his
                 intimate relations with Pixel are legal where he
                 lives.  He was once married and has two adult
                 children. Mark wrote a book in 1994 about his
                 experiences with bestiality. We will also hear from a
                 woman who says her boyfriend is a dog and a man who
                 says he's not attracted to people, but to dogs
                 instead. Our guests are joined by psychologist Dr.
                 Robert Butterworth.
                 \_ JER-REE! JER-REE! Ch.2 Fri. 11am and 1am

05/20   If your utmp entry ever gets messed up, please save a copy of
        /var/run/utmp and the output of "fstat" and mail mconst.

5/20   Share your corporate stooge stories:
       "When our feed went down, we paged the manager of our 24-hour
       classical music program, but he of course never got it...
       He was at the Mall of America watching Godzilla, oblivious to
       what was happening.  Thankfully he stopped by work on his way home."
       \_ Whoa, that sure is one hell of a story!  I hate to think how
          miserable my day would have been if you hadn't shared that little
          gem!!  He he he . . .

5/19    did anyone happen to tape ally last night?  please let me know.  -lila
        \_ I did -- chucky
          \_ she gets really neurotic about a guy and screws up in a
             ridiculous court scene.  For a change.
             \_ No, last night's episode was the one where she meets B1FF!!1!!,
                falls in love, and goes so far as to bring him home to her
                parents!  (I especially liked the scene that had all of
                B1FF"Z VIC-20s in it.)

5/20    postal auction in SF, tomorrow, info in ~danh/postal

5/20    Leonardo Di Caprio as Pat Bateman for $21 million!
        Who woulda thought?   -mlee
        \_ please PLEASE tell me this is a joke.  American Psycho, right?
        \_ Yes.  They are trying to make that unfilmable book.  It's still
        just in the talks, I don't think they even have a director so
        Leo might not have signed a contract.           -mlee
        \_ http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/americanpsycho.html
        http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/story.html?s=z/reuters/980518/entertainment/stories/film_dicaprio_1.html

5/19    May I add that most of the negative comments about sitcom, politics,
        etc etc etc are all added by tom. Post your fuckin name next time,
        twink.

5/16    anyone been to the warfield theater in sf?  which are the best
        seats to see performance?

5/16    anyone been to the warfield theater in sf?  which are the good
        seats?

5/13    Well here's yesterday's motd, for you nukers to edit to your hearts
        content.
        \_ Remember Bikini Atoll.

5/12    SUN SUING MS IN A GAMBIT TO BLOCK RELEASE OF WIN95.
        \_ It's a little late.  (Maybe Sun acquired DEC's sense of timing in
           a special deal with Compaq?)
                \_ Who says its late?  There's nothing late about it.
        \_ King's Gambit? Who's the pawn?

5/12    No, really, nothing below is worth reading.

5/11    This is now PRI territory. You have been advised.
        \_ Public Radio International? Why do I need to be advised?

5/10    Psych grad student's looking for volunteers for a psych
        experiment. We're pretty desperate, so we're willing to offer the
        bribe of FREE PIZZA, drinks and snacks. The experiment entails
        watching video tapes and rating people's emotions. This coming
        Tuesday at 6 pm on campus. Email me if interested. -- reka
        \_ Are you CPHS-approved? - randomly curious
           \_ Yes. Are you interested? -- reka
                \_ Sorry, I'm only a comp sci major-- what's CPHS?
                  \_ It means he won't harm you or fuck up your head.
                  \_ I believe it stands for the Campus Policy on Human
                     Subjects or something to the effect. It's kind of a
                     a review process to ensure that experiments are safe
                     and all that good stuff.

5/7     Whatever happened to the figlet dir?
        \_ /usr/local/share

5/7     Project documentation - are IEEE standards a good fit or
        are there more compact/less onerous standards? Looking for
        example formats on the Web didn't yield any results.

5/6     So is the BBQ still on tomorrow?

5/5     Chrysler and Benz are considering a mega-merger. Are the Germans
        STUPID or what???!?!
        \_ 560SEL with padded roof, opera windows, wire-wheel hubcaps,
           and a spare tire on the trunk!

5/5     Tomorrow is going to be the Men's Octet's final appearance on Sproul
        this year.  They're going to start singing at their usual time, 1 pm
        and they won't stop until they've exhausted their repertoire and/or
        requests.  Last year they sang until 4.
        \_ Artists in Resonance >> men's octet
        \_ Screw the octet, we wanna hear Backstreet Boys!!!
        \_ They're better than the Golden Overblowns.
           \_ but at least the overblowns have tits
             \_ In that case, wouldn't they rather more aptly be named
                the Golden Overblowers? Or Uberblowers. They'd get more
                recognition in a fun for the whole family kinda way, too,
                if you're talking about those inbred Ozark families like
                you probably are you sick, perverted bastard! People like
                you should be goalies for the Colombian World Cup team.
                \_ You know, the more I think about it, the more I see that
                   it all comes down to potstickers and LISP.  Sometimes it
                   involves geodes, too.  And large chromed stainless steel
                   toruses of unknown origin, but definite purpose.

5/5     Screen has been patched to possibly fix the recent utmp problems.
        Anyone running screen should exit and restart it.

        If your utmp entry ever gets messed up, please save a copy of
        /var/run/utmp and the output of "fstat" and mail mconst.

5/5     When is College Jeopardy broadcast on TV?
        \_7pm on ABC