2/19    Speed of light reduced to 38mph in a Bottle of Bosons!
        <DEAD>ars-www.uchicago.edu/~grier/jficol/winter/hau<DEAD>
        \_ You can now say that you drive faster than the speed of light.
        \_ Physics police: I think you meant "propagation speed of light",
           or something similar.           NOT the same thing.
           \_ thats how a physicist would use "speed of light", and for what peo
              ple generaly refer to as the "speed of light" would be the speed
              of light in a vacuum.
              -arrogant cs guy who pretends to know physics police
        \_ They actually expect to slow it to 120 feet/hour. Here's a more
           complete story: http://www.hotcoco.com/stories/light0218.htm
           \_ cool link. One of the things they didn't state is that it sounds
              like this may allow for ultra-high-res visible-spectrum
              microscopes and telescopes
        \_ I guess "Warp Speed" is a reality now
                \- in an interesting personal note, einstein's son taught here
                and S.N. Bose's grandson went here. --psb

2/19    It's still lila's birthday.
        \_ You only care because you think it increases your odds of scoring.
           \_ lila's only 20!?
                \_ "only"?  That's old enough.  You have an age 21 minimum on
                   getting laid?  Is this some bizarre Catholic thing?

2/19    I don't know why this question keeps getting erased, but why are
        "dict" and "webster" not working?
        \_ Encyclopaedia Britannica changed their dictionary CGI,
           which webster/dict uses. it's been fixed. -jwang
           \_ dict has now been replaced by a much better dictionary client.
              webster remains unchanged.
              \_ What is the name of the new client?
        \_ I dont why root never gets mail like this.

2/19    Is something wrong with "dict" and "webster" commands?

2/19    I can't remember what was the command to convert text into an
        ASCII graphic...  Any clues?
        \_ use a scanner?
           \_ No no no.  i mean that Unix function that takes a text
              string say Hello and outputs text made up of letters and
              symbols and stuff.. it was posted on motd before..
              \_     _  _          _                   _         _
                    | \| |___   __| |_  _ ___  __ __ _| |_  __ _| |_
                    | .` / _ \ / _| | || / -_) \ V  V / ' \/ _` |  _|
                    |_|\_\___/ \__|_|\_,_\___|  \_/\_/|_||_\__,_|\__|
                     _  _ ___ _  _   _ __  ___ __ _ _ _
                    | || / _ \ || | | '  \/ -_) _` | ' \ _
                     \_, \___/\_,_| |_|_|_\___\__,_|_||_(_)
                     |__/
                \_ figlet?
                   \_ that's not it.
                        \_ piglet
                           \_ sniglet

2/19    Something is wrong with both "dict" and "webster".
        \_ gee now that's a useful bug report...

2/18    I would like to wish everyone on soda a happy day.
        \_ well I will wish them all a _rainy_ day. -ERic
           \_ i will go on a hunger strike and boycott the outdoors until
              stops raining.

2/18    What's the difference between *.php pages and *.cgi pages? As a
        sys admin/web meister at SGI I am pretty familiar with *.cgi, but
        what is *.php, and where can I read about them? Thanks.

2/17    Is "High Output Management" by Andrew Grove any good?  I'm definitely
        getting "Only the paranoid survive" but I'm not sure if I want to buy
        "High Output" also.  Recommendations?
        \_ ask HKN, the CSUA is all low power.
           \_ what the heck does this mean?

2/17    cs174 wants for a reader, mail dag@cs if you qualify

2/16    Anyone want a perfectly good couch/endtable?  We're moving,
        and don't want to take them with us.  They're in San Jose, so
        if you want them, let me know and come and get them. -brianm

2/16    Only 5000-7200 tigers left in this world!  Save the species.
        http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9902/16/tigers.enn
        \_ In the wild, or total?
        \_ Only a handful of sensible homo sapiens left on Earth!
          \_ theyre doomed anyway.
                \_ The tigers or the people?
                   \_ And if you're a person born in the year of the Tiger?
                      \_ then I will hunt you for your warm pelt
                         \_ meow meow meow meow
                            meow meow meow meow
                            meow meow meow meow
                            meow meow meow meow
                            meow. meow. meow!
                            \_ meow at the cops!
                                \_ NO, BARK AT THE COPS!
                                   Fools jump out of cars to count dogs and
                                   give tickets to kids for TOO MANY DOGS.
                                   \_ What are you taking?  Me too?
                                      \_ Gosh, I wonder hasn't been reading
                                         the paper for the last year or so...
                                        \_ I read it everyday.  Rather than
                                           the snittish reply you could have
                                           just answered.  Actually, it's
                                           quite likely I was reading the
                                           paper everyday before you could
                                           read but that's not your fault.
                                        \_ stock up on tiger balm while
                                           you still can.
             \_ http://www.vhemt.org

2/15    Strange, more just core dumped on me. I didn't think a program that
        simple and primitive could do that.
        \_ FreeBSD "more" is really a hacked copy of an old version of less.
           Have a look at /usr/src/usr.bin/more.

2/15    A survey is given to 10000 Americans in a variety of industry. The
        question asks that if you win the Super Lotto, will you quit your job?

2/15    Behave yourselves, you juvenile little freaks.  -John

2/13    What do guys like to get for Vday?
        \_ off
        \_ the day off.
        \_ yer mom.  but we like to get her every other day, too.
           \_ Uh, sorry, I don't like getting 50+ year old women. But I
              guess you do.
              \_ Experience is everything, and the money's good too.
        \_ some
        \_ Silk Boxers.
        \_ Sony Playstation -- because for him, it's like a dozen roses.

2/12    When trying to install an iomega zip plus driver on my clunky 486,
        I got an error that says "ASPI for Win32 not initialized!" and it
        wouldn't map a drive for the zip drive. What gives?

2/10    I finally got to talk to the professor at CMU. He was very informal and
        I got to call him by his first name. His first question to me was
        "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN YOUR LAST SEMESTER?" Then after about a
        minute of chatting, he said he had a meeting and would call me back.
        However, it has been a day, and he hasn't called yet. Should I wait
        patiently, or call him back?
        \_ OK, message received that you got into CMU. Now shut up.
           \_ not yet, I think he wants to find out more before making a final
              decision.

19990210JUSTTWODAYSTOBERKELEYCRITICALMASS
IWILLBEREADYWITHMYCARTORUNYOUDOWNYOUMORON

2/10    Waving Wednesday!  All bicyclists *MUST* wave to each other and enjoy
        it.  :)
           \_ [Tom's troll deleted]  -anti-tom
                  \_ the tom has spoken.

2/9     Does anyone know the name of the elevated restaurant on Great Highway
        somewhere between Fulton and Lincoln (ie. along the west border of
        Golden Gate Park) in SF?  I want to push my luck and try to make a
        reservation for VDay this late.  Thanks.
        \_ that would be the "Beach Chalet", and it's pricey, noisy, and
                I'm 100% sure booked, but you might get a cancellation :)
                \-see ~psb/beach_chalet.commentarii --psb

2/9     What happened?  Tom disagree with someone on the motd again and wipe
        the whole thing in a fit of pique?
        \_ That's Most Likely Scenario #1.
                \_ Tom's troll deleted.

2/9     motd restored from nukeage.

2/5     Industry is full of smart (AND WEALTHY) people.
        \_ Can you make your flame bait at least interesting?
        \_ And I am one of them.

2/5     Everything from before 2/3 purged.  Old crap removed.

2/4     [idiotic morrisey drivel deleted]

2/4     I hate it when my friends become successful             -morrisey

2/4     See your favorite Sodan on BTV-25 tonight..8-9 PM..
        Watch a car get flipped down Telegraph..
        \_ Phil isn't real, so he can't be on TV.  -John
                \_ Lying back turtle neck wearing Euroweenie trash!  Phil
                \_ Lying, black turtle neck wearing, Euroweenie trash!  Phil
                   does too exist!  I've run his code!  I've seen his motd
                   posts!  I know people he's talked to!  -philfan
        \_ Tom's on TV! WOW!
                \_ One more reason to not watch TV.

2/2     Earlier someone said something about Friday night swing dancing
        at Hearst Gym.  Does anyone know the exact time and location?
        \_ /csua/pub/swing for maggie's email on the matter --pld

2/2     Hello, a while ago I asked about volunteer opportunities around
        the bay area.  I have found a site that has an extensive list of
        volunteer opportunities.
        http://www.meer.net/users/taylor/index.html

2/2     Free HIV testing today, Tang Center, 4-6pm - danh
        \_ the only people who need HIV testing are people who have sex and
           you know you won't find any on CSUA.
           \_ I believe in Immaculate Infection. - danh

1/31    x11amp 0.9 for linux is here with a new GTK look. <DEAD>www.11amp.org<DEAD>

1/30    Fugazi show at The Edge in Palo Alto, sunday, feb 21st,
        buy tickets through http://www.ticketweb.com noW

1/28    Somewhere along the line of patches, my linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c
        got truncated. Rather than download the whole mess over again, does
        anyone have a correct version from a 2.2.1 source tree? It's not
        very important, as I don't link it in, but it causes patch to
        complain all the time, so it'd be nice to have again. -brg
        \_ /tmp/fbcon.c is from the released 2.2.0, so if you have the patch
           to 2.2.1, you can be current again. -- schoen
                \_ thanks -brg
                \_ thanks -brg    <-- no problem

1/28  0 When you try to recover from Jove 4.12 (by typing jove -r) and you get
------X-the message: "/usr/local/lib/jove/recover: execl failed!". What does
        that mean? I have the jreca* and jovea* in my home directory. Thx! -jt
        \_ It probably means /usr/local/lib/jove/recover doesn't exist.  -tom

1/28    I'm looking for any student who has gotten a job offer from the
        University during January and has a copy of the offer letter.
        Please let me know if you can help. -- schoen
        \_ It has been my experience that the univ does not send out
           actual offer letters, but simply call you.  If you just need
           the salary or benefit ranges, I can probably get you that.
           \_ Thanks, but it's political -- to verify that a particular
              paragraph is now included in all mailed offer letters.  I know I
              got some such letter when they hired me last year... -- schoen

1/25    Vollunteer your computer teaching fu: jobs/vollunteer.sp99
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1/25    I have these little white boxes going from my powersupply to
        the swich.. any ideas?
        \_ Eat them.
        \_ computer cajones - a sure sign your computer is male
        \_ What the hell are you talking about?

1/25    Is there a difference between an executable and a portable
        executable" format on wintel machines ??
        \_ The latter only runs on portables.  The formet runs on portables
        \_ The latter only runs on portables.  The former runs on portables
           but not very efficiently.
                \_ Thanks. Is there a www page where I can find out more?
                        \_ No.  It's all MS/Intel NDA stuff.

1/25    Vollunteer your computer teaching fu: jobs/vollunteer.sp99
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1/23    Sign the petition against the shtudown of www.lyrics.ch
        http://www.radiorequests.com/petition
        \_ Was there ever a petition of this sort, on or off the net, that
           has actually changed anything?
           \_ Star Trek. (yeah, i know, lame example, but hey, it worked)

1/23    i have a bunch of U-locks, with no keys
        are they useful in any way?
        \_ self defense
        \_ lockpicking practice
        \_ development of better/faster methods of bike theft
        \_ necklace
        \_ playing fetch
        \_ playing horse shoes.
        \_ prop for Jackie Chan movie

1/21    Last night's 20/20 report concludes that since 1939, on average, people
        have gained 2" in heigh, 4" in waiste line, +10 pounds (women), and
        +29 pounds (men).
        \_ Did 20/20 mention penile size and breast size?
           \_ Yes, -2" penile length for posting something stupid in the motd.

1/21    'leet new debugger?
        http://www.lwn.net/1999/0121/a/mec.html

1/20    BARK AT THE POLICE!
        \_ arf
          \_ woof!
            \_ bark
              \- I guess this is what they mean when they say "The typical
                 soda user... -leblon
                \_ BINGO!  Give that man a prize!

1/20    http://Excite.com's portal site has an adult area.
        http://www.excite.com/entertainment
        \_ get a life.
        \_ ...that explains a lot: adult content at cable modem speeds...
           \_ Uh, isn't that the Playboy channel?  Or Skinemax?  --sowings

1/19    Censorship reversed.  Get a fucking life.

1/18    screen question. If I have shadow password install, how do I make
        "screen" lock possible? Thanks
        \_ screen needs to be able to read the shadow passwd which can
           be done with setuid-ness.  you could do just the passwd part
           with appropriate setgidness but you still need setuidness
           for some of the tty/pty stuff

1/today everything from pre-1/15 cleaned up.  none of those threads were going
        anywhere.

1/15    The real URL to obtain free long distance phone service:
        http://www.broadpoint.com
        \_ Keep this crap out of the motd.

1/15    What is the best free_with_source bot/AI program around ?
        \_ achoi
           \_ i thought it was up to version c --oj
           \_ achoi is still around?

1/15    Submit your resume to the resume-book: <DEAD>www.csua/resumes<DEAD>

             and hear Entrepreneurship Guest Speaker Sameer Parekh
                      Come vote for next year's Politburo
                      Friday, May 7th - 5:30pm - 306 Soda

1/13    All stupid ^M's removed.  Get a real editor.

1/13    A quick question: I want to pop up a image when click on a link.
        In JavaScript, to pop up a window, I do "window.open(...)". But
        I only want to pop up a particular image, not the entire window.
        Is there anyway I can accomplish this? Thanks. -bkong
        \_ Put the image in a hidden layer and in the anchor tag of the
           link put an onClick="GenericChangeLayerVisibiliyFunction()"

1/13 spencer and peter mattis interview:
     http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html
     (kewl! they dis' the XCF!)
        \_ my dis, at least, was clearly a joke.  The xcf was actually
           helpful, if marginally.  Keep in mind that the GIMP was our
           personal project.  We did quite a few other cool
           projects and hacks for the xcf proper.  -- spencer
     \_ Hey, is there any way, any where to _save_ from the GIMP to
        .PSD files?  Anyone know of a project working on this?  My wife
        has a Dell at work whose mouse port doesn't play w/ the psm0 driver,
        and so any work she does on the GIMP at home is trapped there..
        --dbushong
        \_ yer wife is ugly
           \_ Pithy.  You get that from a book?
           \_ Mrs. Bushong could probably kick your ass with little effort.

1/13    DON'T FUCK WITH THE NUNS!!!1!

1/12    Working condition 17" SiliconGraphics  monitor, 40$     mail nolram

1/12    Never believe anything you read in chain letters.  Nuff said.
        \_ Pass this on to 7 people within 7 days or you'll regret it.

1/11    Would someone post the email/url of a "certificate authority" who
        has a QUICK turn around time.  I'm in kind of a rush.  (What would
        it take for me to set up a cert. authority myself?)

1/11    Microsoft cooks its books:

        http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/romano0107/romano0107.shtml

        Maybe they should stop using Excel.

1/11    Questioning your manhood? Look no further than this article:
        http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/todays_stories/990108/coleman010899.html

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\_ Right. But for AI people, it IS interesting, as an indication of a possible
   common(not neccessarily 100%)  algorithm for human data storage.

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1/8     Please no flames for Windows question:
        In Win3.1, there was an accessory called "Recorder" which could
        record keystrokes, mouse events, etc. which could then be played
        back (very handy for doing many iterations of the same or
        similar keystrokes).  Is there anything like this in Win32?
        Freeware/Shareware?

1/8     Hey, who deleted that stuff about that gay who didn't know what to
        do about that Aaron gal at work?  That was good stuff.  The
        suspense was making me, a typical sodan geek, masturbate.
        I wanted to know if mated or not, but someone deleted it.  Put
        it back!

1/8     Can we have a survey to see how many Cal Alumni are working for
        Debacle, Diebase, and Inferiorix?

1/8     can someone please repost the asian women motd post? - tpc

1/8     best recipe for jello shots is?:
        \_ forget the jello, just do the shots
        \_ jello and a sterile syringe

1/7     troll on picking up asian coworker restored:

1/7     Are there any happy users of an application that takes
        batches of word97 docs and converts them into HTML?
        I've tried webconvert, very buggy app, any other recommendations?
        \_ Use macros, VBA, VB to stimulate keystrokes.
        \_ shut the fuck up, cmlee.

1/7     Hey Buddy, would you please pass the fondue? -mtbb

1/3     Go 49ers!

1/2     I don't think people should be allowed to comment going backwards.
        If you run out of space, you should write vertically down the right
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                                                             Who asked you? _/
                                                        Ditto._/
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        \_Ditto.
                \_ Ditto.
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You've got mail!

1/1     Has anyone worke at the following companies: Vantive, Siebel, and
        Broadvision? Please comment. Thanks!!!

1/1     I'm gonna party like it's 1999...
        \_ Just had to be first huh?

1/1

12/30   Hello, I am in love with my cousin.  We want to have children.
        what will we tell them?
        \_ How do you avoid the possibility of your children having bad
           genes because of blood relation between the parents?

12/29   tom returns to the motd

12/29   tom put in place for being loud mouth know it all braggart egotistical
        twink that he is.

12/28   Everytime you nuke the whole motd, you'll get this again:
       \_ hopefully, since this is only part of the motd...
          [stupid chain letter deleted]
          (btw, it's "every time", moron)
          \_ OH MY GOD!!! A TYPO!!!  WHAT A MORON!!!  OH PLEASE KILL ME NOW!!!
             I'M ASHAMED AND SO ARE ALL MY ANCESTORS!!!  YOUR BRILLIANCE IS
             ASTOUNDING!!! YOU FOUND A TYPO!!! EEEEEEEK!!!  NOW I MUST KILL
             MY SELF TO RESTORE MY FAMILY HONOR!!!  YOU ARE TRULY THE HERO OF
             ALL MANKIND AND BRINGER OF ALL GOODNESS TO THE WORLD!!!  THANK
             YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR HAVING BEEN BORN IN THESE TRYING TIMES!!!
             \_ It's MYSELF, you idiot. A typo is different from a grammatical
                error.
                \_ THANK YOU ABE!!! YOU HAVE SAVED THE WORLD!!!  THANK YOU!!!
                   THANK YOU!! THANKYOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOO!!
                   ABE, WITYHOUT YUO THE WORDL WOULD BE A LESSRE PLAEC!!!
                \_ Every time your sister gives me head, I will crow
                   about it here.
                \_ I luv Berkeleee.....
                   \_ I love you...nited Airlines.

12/21   I'm looking for a good nation-wide ISP for a friend who is a non-
        techie.  I don't like AOL.  I have had good luck with IBM, they
        seemed pretty reliable, but I have heard that that division was
        sold to AT&T.  Does anyone know of any other good ones?  Thanks...

12/21   So does anyone know if the campus actually lost power due to the
        cogeneration test yesterday?  Or did it actually work the way it
        was supposed to? -icrew
        \_ There was no outage.  -tom

1/23    Neil Gaiman @ TOCOH in Berkeley ... mark your calendars.

12/20   Separated at birth: David Paschich and Tom Hanks?

12/19   be a patriot and subscribe to hustler magazine!

12/19   be a patriot and subscribe to hustler mag!

12/19   What is the dial in number for Berkeley's modem pool?
        \_ (510) 642-9600

12/18           Why can't the media be consistant about when Ramadan
                starts.  It starts when the new moon is sighted.  This will
                be on Sunday night in Iraq, yet even CNN has claimed, or
                quoted others as saying that Ramadan started Friday night
                and that it starts on Saturday night.

12/17   soda.csua will be DOWN from 7:00am to 1:00pm on Sunday, Dec. 20th
        due to the Campus Cogeneration power plant testing.  -mikeh

12/16   Hot off the presses!  O'Reilly's "Tom in a nutshell" book!
Chapter  title

12/16   Stupid Questions deleted. -the stupid question deleter!
        \_ Yeah it was dumb to think Tom might actually grow up and stop
           making more noise than the trolls he deletes.
                \_ That one wasn't mine.  -tom
                   \_ I did it! It was me! I deleted the stupid
                      question. I'm flattered that you though I was Tom!
                      -the stupid question deleter!
                        \_ I didn't think it was Tom.  Don't flatter
yourself.

12/17   WordPerfect for Linux now available for free download
        ~jefe/pub/linuxwp
          \_ Why are they giving away a full-featured version?  I thought
             Corel made money buy selling software not providing support.

12/16   Need a line on a good ISP in the LA area.

12/16   How many people think that Emmanuelle is the Queen of the Galaxy?
        \_ how many people think this guys a twink?
        \_ Huh?  Yeah, sure, whatever.
        \_ Webster is not the queen of the galaxy.

12/16   Hot off the presses!  O'Reilly's "Tom in a nutshell" book!  Chapter
        title high lights:
        1) Tom and the Short Penis
        2) Tom and the Over Inflated Sense of Self Worth
        3) Tom and Why You Need His Opinion
        4) Tom and Why The Previous Chapter Title Is So Painfully Incorrect
        5) Tom and The Delete Paragraph Key
        6) Tom and Why Your Opinion Isn't Worth Posting But Is Worth Deleting
        7) Tom and Tom
        8) More Tom
        9) Tom and His Need For Attention (such as this, but I don't care)
        10) Tom and The Desire To Abuse Others To Further Boost His Sense Of
            Self Worth (advanced topics first touch on in chapter 2)
        11) Tom and his best friend: cmlee, without whom his life would
            have less meaning than it already does.
                \_ HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! This is great! Do we get to bury him alive?
                \_ stop responding to your own post.  -tom
                   \_ Tom, stop being a fucking know-it-all fuck-wit idiot.
                      I posted 1-10, someone else added 11, and I don't know
                      or care who responded to 11.  Either way, you're still
                      a fuck wit know-it-all jerk off.  -nottom
                        \_ And you're still an insipid, sophomoric coward.
                           Sign your name.  -tom
                           \_ not everyone who finds your
                              self-righteous attitude and
                              censorship annoying does so anonymosly.-lafe
                                \_ I bet you're not one of the trollers,
                                   though.  -tom
                                   \_ As if that makes a difference.  Maybe it
                                      does in TomThink.
                           \_ Ooooh aaaah, the standard 'Tom' threat... fear!
                              As if not wanting to sign my name makes your
                              abusive behavior acceptable.  I would sign if I
                              had an honest reason to believe that your
                              knowing my name would change your behavior in a
                              positive way.  All you'll do with it is give me
                              "twink points".  Talk about sophomoric.  -nottom
                        \_ For the most part, I don't delete signed trolls.
                           But most trolls, including you, are fucking pussies,
                           unwilling to stand behind their inflammatory
                           words.  -tom
                           \_ Yup.  Tom, he who would save us all from the
                              evil trolls.  Gosh, thanks!  Without you around
                              I might mistakenly read something you felt was
                              unnecessary for me to read!  Thanks for saving
                              me from impure thoughts and ideas!
                           \_ Hey, Big Brother Tom knows what's best for us.
                              He's protecting us from posts that might cause
                              us to doubt our current understandings. If he
                              says something is troll, then we must
                              immediately purge it from our minds. That is
                              the way of the Tom.
                              \_ Tom makes me feel safe.  I'm glad he purges
                                 unapproved messages for me so I don't have
                                 to think for myself.  Thanks Tom!
        \_ Two words: squish tom. -not nottom.
           \_ Tom?  Is that you?
                \_ No.  -tom
                   \_ so not not tom != tom?
                        \_ !tom is a set, but nottom is an instance.

12/16   for some old memories of the bad ole days of uclink:
        ~jon/pub/unlink

12/16   Is it just me, or is Starr's case largely based on the Lewinsky
           \_ This "troll deleted" crap is getting more annoying than
              even kchang's asinine postings.
                   \_ tom or someone: define troll please.
                \_ An inflammatory, anonymous comment said just to set off
                   a stupid argument on the MOTD.
                        \_ great, now explain why it's not appropriate. -appel
                \_ who said it's not appropriate?
        \_ troll deleted                                        -tom

12/16   Is it just me, or is Starr's case largely based on the Lewinsky
        Tripp tapes?  (which were gotten illegally)
        \_ shut up cmlee

12/15   I'm bored. Where are all the single women?
        \_ they alleviate boredom?
        \_They're busy ignoring *both* of you losers.

12/15   Is Earthlink any good as an ISP?
        \_ Yes. You want Earthlink.
           \_ What about Mindspring?  Is it any good?  There's a really
              good sounding promo going now.
        \_ troll deleted                                        -tom
        \_ They're pretty good.  One of the phone numbers up here doesn't
           work very well, but the other is great.  I connect usually
           at 49,300 or so.  And if you travel around, they're great.
        \_ Their tech support people suck!
        \_ you're a geek, you should be your own tech support
        \_ support Scientology!

12/15    Me first
        \_ Me, me, me... why is everything always about me?
        \_ Yo mama first.
           \_ YER momma first.

12/14   Any reccomendation on CPmask codes ? I already have FLmask?

12/14   romanian minister of finance teaching an 8 week course PEIS140
        ~jon/pub/peis140

12/14   Doosh...(don't panic, it's in alt.motd) (229    1862   11777 /etc/motd)
        \_  /etc/motd.public was kill 1.0 for random-motd-hoser.

12/08   network outage 12/08

12/5    What physically distinguishes serial cables and 10 baseT ethernet
        cables (and any other types of communication cables) that allow
        one to transmit at 10MHz and the other to only transmit at
        115Khz?
        \_ In some cases, it's just a matter of certification -- sometimes
           a given cable can do a lot more than what it's rated for.  But
           there can be a lot of deep magic related to RF interference and
           crosstalk under certain circumstances.  (There are stories of
           people running communications spec X on cables intended for some
           other spec Y, and saving the day and lots of money.  But if you
           want to have confidence that weird RF problems won't pop up, you
           should use cables for purposes for which they are rated.)

12/5    I need to hire someone to help clean my room. I am willing to pay 5/hr
         It should take 2 or 4 hours at most. Anyone know some lib arts major
         in need of money? -nesim

12/5    Anyone worked/contracted for Network Associates?  Any
        opinions? -sky
        \_ I have a good friend who's contracting with them  - they're slave-
        drivers in the extreme sense of slave. however, they pay pretty well.
        \_ uh, slaves don't get paid.

12/1    Consider enrolling in Philos 146, Philosophy of Mathematics.
        The history of how people thought about and practiced Math.
        Really cool and in danger of being cancelled. -tcmoore

        Tactical nuke incoming --->

11/29   Antz > Bug's Life.
        Bug's Life >>>>> Antz
        dood: listen: Bug's Life >>>>>>> Antz  >> EECS life

11/29   Antz > Bug's Life.
        Bug's Life >>>>> Antz
        \_ What do you both mean, story-wise, or cgi-wise?

11/29   Anyone know where to get a good price (mail order?) on Grundig radio?
        \_ http://www.grundig.com/free.html
           \_This URL does not work!
           \_Th is URL does not work!

11/29   f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
        \_ or tech writing

11/24   http://aries.www.media.mit.edu/people/aries/dutch.mov

11/24   Anyone have a sample LaTex document I can use to write a thesis-like
        paper?

11/25   A while ago Corel released WP for linux.  Does anyone know where I
        could get screenshots of the thing running?
        \_ http://linux.corel.com

11/23   Thanksgiving, so lonely... must download alt.binaries.pictures.monica
        \_ shut up aaron!
           ^aaron^cmlee

11/23   Thanksgiving, so lonely... must download alt.binaries.pictures.oriental
        \_ shut up aaron!

11/23   http://www.newwomyn.com  Does it really work?  Any negative stories
        about this in the media?
        \_ I don't know if it works, but I like this graphic:
                http://www.newwomyn.com/run1.gif
           Someone should start <DEAD>www.newmyn.com<DEAD> for men with, ahem, little
           problems...

11/23   What do cmlee, tom, and psb have in common that make them super dorkus?
                                Hitting the +30 mark.
        \_ so it would be cooler to not make it to 30?  Can we count on you
           to slit your wrists at 29?  -tom
        \_ Can someone tell me what exactly is notable about reaching a
           specifc age that happens to be a round number?  I know many
           of you geek 'leet types think you've reached your peak of
           arrogance, but there are many more years to come, and the
           average will only rise.
           \_ The brain starts accelerated decay at 30. Kill yourself now.

11/23   Is there a local mirror of the Star Wars trailer at <DEAD>.berkeley.edu<DEAD>?
        \_ If you have to ask, you don't know. - yoda-on-ganja
           \_ "If ask you must, train harder you must."
           \_ Um...no shit he doesn't know.  Whether he deserves to know is
              the ultimate question.
        \_ See /var/log/wall.log.4.gz. it might be different tomorrow. -jctwu

11/23   Anyone know how to use italic fonts on figlet...
        \_ figlet -f italic
           look in /usr/local/share/figlet for all the fonts

11/21   I hope someone didn't spend a long time making that "general
        meeting" sign on the top of the motd.
        \_ Step 1) type "figlet" at your prompt
           Step 2) type "hello world!"
           Step 3) type "Ctrl-C" to quit
                        \_ Ctrl-D
           Step 4) type "man figlet" to learn more
           There will be a quiz tomorrow...
        \_ Nope, I sure didn't. -brg

11/23   Thanksgiving is coming.  What are you thanking for this year?

11/21   PHEAR!
        [context free URL deleted]

11/21   Use a fucking phone book, twink.
        \_ Yermom's number is unlisted.

11/21   PHEAR!
         http://www.classifieds2000.com/cgi-cls/ad.exe?P391+C180+A0+R118970+Q855533216

11/21   Call us toll free at (800) 771-2003 in the USA

11/21   How do you create a digital watermark? thx - jng
        \_ Do you mean an IP watermark for digital circuits in
           FPGAs? You look for unused entries in LUTs and encode
           a fractal like digital watermark in those entries and
           then add fake logic that actually uses these LUT entries
           but doesn't do anything with it. - sagarwal
        \_  http://www.digimarc.com - tpc

*/*     You need to shut the fuck up.

11/21   /tmp/Sesame Street Theme (Techno Mix).mp3   --pld

11/19   -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  12288 Jul 15 02:00 /usr/bin/head*
        -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  12288 Aug 24 17:25 /usr/local/bin/pico*
                                ^^^^^
         Coincidence? I think not.

11/19   play this yr's int-fiction competition winner!  simply run:
                /csua/bin/fortune
                \_ /csua/bin/cmlee
                        \_ no, no, it's /csua/bin/cmlee
                                \_ it's /csua/bin/photopia, tom
           \_ The author thanks you for the kind words... He's a Cal alumnus,
              web page at http://www.retina.net/~grignr in case you want to
              send him comments.  -mogul
                \_ wasn't grignr the guy in Eye of Argon?
                     \_ Yes, it's his login, not his name.  That's the origin.
           \_ cool!
              \_ schizophrenic, aka "Short attention span theater"
                                        \_ a la pulp fiction
                \_ so which character do you identify with the most?
                   \_ definately the female from outer space.
                      Babarella, anyone?
                        \_ I hate Jane but she was looking pretty good in
                           that bear skin blanket.
                           \_ She's still Hannoing.  Did you notice that
                              Barbarella is in almost none of the rental
                              places?  Did Turner buy it up?
        \_ <wwwwaaaahhhh>....it's so beautiful!

11/18   stupid poster deleted

11/18   psychotic over hyped starwar trailer nonsense removed.

11/18   http://www.BFBC.org  -- after SEVEN years, the bike plan
        is finally completing, please send a letter of support
        (even a one-click email is a help) --jnat

11/16   Congratulations to the Berkeley teams in the ACM Pacific Northwest
        Regional Programming Contest. [summarized from ucb.cs.undergrads,
        original post by pnh] --jon
        Team #1 (1st place)             Team #2 (4th place)
        Nikita Borisov                  Robert Schneck (G, Math)
        Misha Dynin                     Alex Fabrikant
        Michael Constant                Aleksey Potashnik

11/14   http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/half-life
        Oh. My. God.
        \_ It's a game... it's only a game... relax.  Count down from 10.

11/13   Next time, Ride Bike.

11/13   How much is it to fix scratches (paint blemishes, about the size
        of 3 playing cards) on the left-rear bumper of a mid-90's $18K
        car?  Advice much appreciated.  Next time, Ride Bike.

11/12   [bizarre context free nut kicking story deleted]
        \_ What?  About my stupidity? ---shin

11/12   Anybody here read either one of the following books have any
        opinions. I would like to get a book that explains protocols
        and layers sufficiently. Which one of the two below is better?
        Any suggestions..
        -- Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
        -- Computer Networks : A Systems Approach
             by Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, Larry A. Peterson
        Thanks --marc
        \_ Can't say I've read either, but I learned most of what I know
           about networking from reading UNIX Network Programming by
           Stevens and working through writing some programs based on the
           information therein... YMMV -brg

11/09   check out the AI research at CMU: <DEAD>www.forum2000.org<DEAD> -dpetrou

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               (iC.I+ '| - *-/00  |-  \  )  ) )|RB
               (I| (  [  / -|/^^\ |   )  /_/ | *)B
               (I(. \ `` \   \m_m_|~__/ )_ .-~ F/
                \b\\=_.\_b`-+-~x-_/ .. ,._/ , F/
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                            /* /I\ *~~\
                          /~-/*  / \ \ ~~M~\
                ____----=~ // /WVW\* \|\ ***===--___

                \_ Never know what hit 'em.
                \_ I'm gone
        \_ thank God for the connectionists.

                     __/~*##$%@@@******~\-__
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                /fF./  . /- /' /|/|  \_  * *\ *\R\
               (iC.I+ '| - *-/00  |-  \  )  ) )|RB
               (iC.I+ '| - *-/xx  |-  \  )  ) )|RB
               (I| (  [  / -|/^^\ |   )  /_/ | *)B
               (I(. \ `` \   \m_m_|~__/ )_ .-~ F/
                \b\\=_.\_b`-+-~x-_/ .. ,._/ , F/
                 ~\_\= =  =-*###%#x==-#  *=- =/
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                      (   [ (( I@) )))  )
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                            /* /I\ *~~\
                          /~-/*  / \ \ ~~M~\
                ____----=~ // /WVW\* \|\ ***===--___

                \_ Never know what hit 'em.
                \_ I'm gone
                \_ Somebody call for an extermintaor?
        \_ Anyone know what the story behind all this is?  It's obviously
           fake, but how much of it is based on real research?

11/6    The Wizard of Oz re-released in theaters.  They should dub the
        audio with Dark Side of the Moon.

Day One:        What is the meaning of life?

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               (iC.I+ '| - *-/00  |-  \  )  ) )|RB -why there a totoro inside
               (I| (  [  / -|/^^\ |   )  /_/ | *)B  this mushroom cloud?
               (I(. \ `` \   \m_m_|~__/ )_ .-~ F/   \_ If you understand why
                \b\\=_.\_b`-+-~x-_/ .. ,._/ , F/       you will understand
                 ~\_\= =  =-*###%#x==-#  *=- =/        the meaning of life
                    ~\**U/~  | i i | ~~~\===~           \_ may be it is not a
                            | I I \\                      mushroom cloub,but
                           / // i\ \\                    totoro on a tree
                      (   [ (( I@) )))  )               \_ It depends on your
                           \_\_VYVU_/                      perspective.
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                             | *  *\
                            /* /I\ *~~\
                          /~-/*  / \ \ ~~M~\
                ____----=~ // /WVW\* \|\ ***===--___

         Motd posted to alt.motd and nuked.  Have a nice day

Day One:        What is the meaning of life?

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               (iC.I+ '| - *-/00  |-  \  )  ) )|RB -why is there a totoro inside
               (I| (  [  / -|/^^\ |   )  /_/ | *)B  this mushroom cloud?
               (I(. \ `` \   \m_m_|~__/ )_ .-~ F/   \_ If you understand why
                \b\\=_.\_b`-+-~x-_/ .. ,._/ , F/       you will understand
                 ~\_\= =  =-*###%#x==-#  *=- =/        the meaning of life
                    ~\**U/~  | i i | ~~~\===~
                            | I I \\
                           / // i\ \\
                      (   [ (( I@) )))  )
                           \_\_VYVU_/
                             || * |
                             | *  *\
                            /* /I\ *~~\
                          /~-/*  / \ \ ~~M~\
                ____----=~ // /WVW\* \|\ ***===--___

         Motd posted to alt.motd and nuked.  Have a nice day

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                   /f=r/~_-~ _-_ --_.^-~--\=b\
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                /fF./  . /- /' /|/|  \_  * *\ *\R\
               (iC.I+ '| - *-/00  |-  \  )  ) )|RB
               (I| (  [  / -|/^^\ |   )  /_/ | *)B
               (I(. \ `` \   \m_m_|~__/ )_ .-~ F/
                \b\\=_.\_b`-+-~x-_/ .. ,._/ , F/
                 ~\_\= =  =-*###%#x==-#  *=- =/
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                           / // i\ \\
                      (   [ (( I@) )))  )
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                             || * |
                             | *  *\
                            /* /I\ *~~\
                          /~-/*  / \ \ ~~M~\
                ____----=~ // /WVW\* \|\ ***===--___

                \_ Never know what hit 'em.
                \_ I'm gone
        \_ Totoro in a tree again?
        \_ Yes!  Totoro is back.

11/6    http://www.etoys.com/html/et_promo135et.shtml -- toys for tots
        online, and with a decent discount too.  Check it out if you
        feel like donating toys for needy kids.  --tabloyd
        \_ not to be mean or anything, but we should concentrate
            on donating to the honduras area right now