10/21   what with mconst? Does he just enroll so he can play the ACM contest?

10/21   I did something really stupid.  I moved /lib to /lib-temp, and
        now nothing works.  What do I do?

10/20   What do "SOL" and "LOL" mean?  I see them sometimes on the motd.
        \_ /usr/local/bin/dict sol; /usr/local/bin/dict lol
        \_ shit outta luck and laugh(ing/s/whatever) out loud
                               \_ I've also heard Lots of Laugh(ter/s/ing)
                                  \_ this just isn't right
           \_ The cleaner version is Sorry Outta Luck.
              Another commonly used phrase related to LOL (laughing out
              loud) is ROFL (rolling on the floor laughin)
                \_ "There is no end to the hilarity on the Internet"
                    --Dave Barry

10/21   Wow, some good recent talk on the motd.
        \_ hot asian girls!

10/19   You guys need to advance a day.

10/18   I hope the high tech industry takes a dive so that laid off Santa
        Clara graduates will feel stupid   -bitter Cal alumni making the same
                                            salary as Chico State graduates.
                                            \_ maybe you're a spineless loser
                                               too ineffectual to actually get
                                               the raises your degree SHOULD
                                               entitle you to.
                                            \_ money is nothing.
                                               \_ Yeah, but no-money is
                                                  everything.
                                                  \_ you are making far more
                                                     than nothing.
        \_ Brian Harvey is a bitter cal alumni making the same salary
           as chico state grads?

10/17   _ We already loaded Dragonfly on the library network. You should
        not concern yourself with these issues. Just leave it alone and
        forget about it.
        \_ Sorry, I couldn't resist baiting the elitist geek.  -guilty

10/17   Somebody asked about this awhile ago-- how to find a user logged
        in anywhere in soda.  Read /usr/pub/gfinger.help from your
        instructional accounts.

10/17   Congrats to ajani,  That's a good name "Intractable.NET"

10/17   Poll on the heaviest concentration of fine women (one dot per
        category per person please):
        Santa Barbara   .
        Santa Cruz      .
        Berkeley        1**-10000000000000000
        UCLA            .
        Irvine          .
        Stanfurd
        Florida         ..
        San Diego
        Arizona         .
        Hawaii          .
        Japan Reality   -100000.000
        Japan TV        ...........
                        \_ Ummm, this is just fucked.  How many asiaphiles are
                           there on soda?
                            \_ Sigh... It's called "Yellow Fever".  Get it
                               right.   At least try.  "asiaphiles"?!  Sheesh.
                            \_  I once read a poll where most U.S. men were
                                "asiaphiles" as you say..  [yikes, can't
                                use "..." anymore after this poll!!!]
                           \_ But have you been to Japan to see it yourself?
                             \_ Hey it said women not schoolgirls!  --oj
                                \_ I saw many fine women over 45 in Japan.
                                \_ Worked in Japan for 7 months and saw many
                                   fine decent young woman (not schoolgirls)
                                   at workplace and on the streets.
                                   --- non-Japanese Asian
                        \_ one person probably added ten dots
                           \_ This is soda, they all think that Japan is
                              loaded with real life {look/act}alike
                              Anime Chicks.
                                \_ It is.  In comic books and on film.
                                   \_ Clarified.
        Texas           .
                        \_ Who?  Anna Nicole Smith?
                          \_ You gotta check out Baby Dolls!!!
                             \_ urlP?
        New York        ...
        Utah            . highest percapita fine white chicks
                        \_ Yeah, but it gets a little tiring when every time
                           you fuck one they try to convert you.
                        \_ no wonder polygamy is legal there.
                         \_ It isn't.
        Ireland         ....................

        And for the women, "fine hunks of male meat":
        Berkeley                                 \_ ooh!
        UCLA            .
        Japan           ..... (rich horny Japanese businessmen with small dicks)
                        \_ Japanese penis, so small; So small!
                           \_ small but potent
        Spain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        Yermom's place  .

10/17   What kind of textbook is used in 264?
        \_ None, it is all papers.  Also, unfortunatly, it is concentrating
           on front end (lexing/parsing), which are essentially solved problems.
           IMO, it should be recombined with 265 and mostly concentrate on
           the back end issues.  -nweaver
        \_ The paper kind.
        \_ If you are planning to take it in the spring, why not go to the
           instructor's web page and see what he used the last time he taught
           the course? Or you could mail him and ask. --Galen
           \_ You should definitely mail the prof, not just trust what
              was used by him/her last time.

10/17   Work at Transmeta:
        http://www.transmeta.com/cgi-bin/employment/index.cgi
        mail <jeffwong> if interested
        \_ Yawn.  Should've asked a year ago when it was still cool and
           mysterious.  Now it's just a low power Intel competitor screaming
           for attention.  Maybe next time.
        \_ We've been through this.  You missed the boat.

10/16   How much do you spend each month on music, concerts, CDs, and others?

10/16   http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001016/en/mdf122993.html
        Wow.  What's Madonna's cup size?  (I don't mean her "cone" size.)

10/16   Urbania - Did anyone like this movie?

10/15   Motd summary (at least I don't purge it)
        - Middle east
        - Can't we all just get along
        - LOL
        - 1st grade class on ebay
        - LOL
        - Win2k. 3 finger salute
        - LOL
        - People who read the motd are loozers
        - People who write to the motd are loozers
        - LOL

10/14   Has anybody used AT&T Digital Phone service for their connection?

10/11   What are the good places to see guys stripdancing.
        Are there any places with both guys and girls dancing.  GF wants
        to go see guys, but says I can come along.  But I want to see girls.
        \_ You're Wormfood Dude! Ditch the Bitch.

10/11   Are there any places with both guys and girls dancing.  GF wants
        to go see guys, but says I can come along.  But I want to see girls.

10/13   Stevens died? When was this??
        \_ Rich Stevens?  Just over a year ago:
                http://www.usenix.com/directory/awards.html

10/13   aaron and ali are cool, they are cruising the labs
        looking for chicks

10.13   http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/QR

10/12   Follow on to the current /. poll. Favorite fictional place
        to go on a vacation:
        \_ GSV Gray Area
        \_ Akbar & Jeff's Airport Snack Bar, where the elite meet to eat
           reheated tasty treats.
           \_ Akbar & Jeff's Algorithm Bar, where the 133t meet to
              discuss NP complete
        \_ UM-Beta 1

10/11   Is 264 interesting and worth taking, assume you loved the undergrad
        version of it?
        \_ who's teaching it?  graham 264 after aiken 164 was boring
           and spent _way_ too long on parser crap.  263 is a lot more
           interesting if you're into abstract analyses and transformation.
           265 is where you go into instruction scheduling and such.
        \_ when I took 264 from graham, the course lacked good organization.
           and yes, she spends an eternity on lexer/parser stuff, so as to make
           up for what some of the grad students didn't get in their ugrad
           her lectures were crappy and scatterbrained.  and yes, she spends
           an eternity on lexer/parser stuff, so as to make up for what some of
           the grad students didn't get in their ugrad

10/8    What happenned in September?
        http://www.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/stats
        \_ hit splits (like stock splits)

10/8    looking for one man "living man page" leung, class of '92, l&s cs,
        ex-sb captain, thansk.
        \_ he's at sun - mcl@nowhere.eng.sun.com - duck

10/9    http://www.goodvibes.com/afterhours.html?BASKETID=00_39e03e2984bdd
        \_ for all you sodans out there.

10/7    does anyone know of a freeware program that converts dxf files to gdsII
        format? thanks.

10/7    Anybody have any extra news on Chang-Lin Tien's health status?
        Haven't heard anything since mid-september
        \_ He's getting a brain transplant.
           \_ Its about time. Man was he stupid or what. Perhaps they
              will upgrade him to a PII or PIII or something like Homer
              Simpson.
                \_ stupid for what?

10/6    Go Tux Racer, go tux racer, go tux racer, go....!

10/5    I don't care what you say.  Zippers are amazing.
        \_ The one on my jeans is in "semi-automatic" mode. Tends to unzip by
           itself at regular intervals, without prior notice. Screw zippers.
           \_ This is only because you are a fat bastard.
        \_ Mine broke this week.  I'll have to buy a new backpack. =(
          \_ Buy jansport.  You can melt the zipper with a flamethrower
             and they'll still replace.
                \_ Buy Silicon Carbide. You *can't* melt the zipper with a
                   flamethrower.
          \_ Was it Y2K-compatible?
             \_ Y2K or YKK?
        \_ Yeah, but they're quite harsh on the penis if it's hanging out.
           \_ why don't you join the rest of society and wear underwear?
             \_ why don't you join the rest of society and learn to read.
                did you miss the "hanging out" part?
                \_ yeah, hanging out of the zipper, everything else is an
                   assumption on your part

10/04   An Encounter Of The mconst Kind

        10/04/2000, 7:58pm. Walking home to the southside ghetto after
        a day at Soda, already under the cover of Berkeley's
        orange-tinted darkness. The empty stretch of road between Doe
        and the Campanile is, as always, unlit and
        unpopulated. Step. Step, step. Rustle somewhere a few dozen
        feet behind. Step, step. Rustle, rustle. Step. Rustle. Mind
        turns to unpleasant thoughts, as feet begin to veer off to the
        right. At a 90-degree angle, a familiar shadow is revealed.
        "Mconst?" "Yea. Hi." "Hey. What's u---" The campanile bell
        strikes loudly right above. In an instant, his usual facial
        expression transmogrifies to that of utter horror and
        disbelief. "Gotta run!" he gasps, darting madly in the
        direction of Sproul. "Wait...", but he is already turning the
        corner of Wheeler, and, in that last brief moment, a strange
        apparition flashes and vanishes. I rub my eyes. No, couldn't
        have. Or then, perhaps... And thus I'm forever left to wonder,
        did the 'fro really become a pumpkin?

10/04   If someone could explain the difference between SpinWay, Bluelight,
        and whatever company that uses SpinWay, I'll take him/her out to
        TopDog. One hot dog only. Thanks.
        \_ Login?
           \_ no, do you?

10/04   "No longer can we rely on hope and prayer, waiting around futilely
        for Jesus to return."
        http://www.clonejesus.com/index.html
        \_ this is not really for real.  this site was put
            up by the same goofball who printed up the unabomber
            manifesto and offered to give the unabomber royalties
            if he admitted to writing it.  he runs jolly
            roger press, his po box is next to mine. - danh

10/03   "I will not let you down!" -Gore
        Anyone else think he spoke too soon?

10/02   Parents coming over from India, need to get them good dental plan.
        Need recommendation. Thanks.

10/02   Indian ISPs are not common carriers according to the Supreme Court.
        http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2915149.html?tag=st.ne.1002.lthd.1005-200-2915149
        \_ What's a common carrier?
           \_ something that isn't responsible for content.
              Note that AOL is NOT "an ISP". Therefore the article does NOT
              rule "ISPs are not common carriers"

10.02   http://it.simplenet.com/bc/hacker/hackers.htm

9/30   It seems leeke-a zeere-a ere-a tvu cetegureees ooff vumee in thees vurld.
        Thuse-a vhu ere-a desureble-a tu sleep veet und thuse-a vhu ere-a nut.
        \_ you = very stupid
           \_ One lousy response, damn trolling is getting harder all
              the time.
              \_ your troll just sucks.  if you look at the politics
                 troll below, you'll see that it's just a matter of getting
                 the right subject.
        \_ Although the quality of trolls has not measurably increased,
           the correctness of grammar has!  Congratulations, fine sodans!

9/30    It seems like there are two categories of women in this world.
        Those who are desirable to sleep with and those who are not.
        \_ you = very stupid
           \_ One lousy response, damn trolling is getting harder all
              the time.
              \_ your troll just sucks.  if you look at the politics
                 troll below, you'll see that it's just a matter of getting
                 the right subject.

9/28    Synchronized diving?  What's next?

9/28    Where have all the really good motd flame wars gone?
        \_ what did you have in mind?  I'm sure I could oblige.
           all I see that's lacking is full-on B1FF style.
           \_ Well, I tried really hard to get a flame fest
              going with the Sun thing, but it didn't work.
              Tom only posted once and Ali was absent. I
              wonder what topics would bring soda's finest
              (in a manner of speaking) out of the wood work.

9/28    PSX2 will be limited volumes. How many sodan's have
        sold thier souls (or thier bodies) for one already?

9/28    What is LEIA/2.90 and why does it keep showing up in my logs?
        \_ because you are being visited by that browser/crawler??
           \_ Thanks.  But what is it, a browser or a crawler?  Has anyone
              heard of it??

9/28    http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Berkeley_CA_US_f.html
        it's a good day to die... by roasting to death
        \_ Same for Davis and Cerritos.
        \_ The bug got patched. Screenshot in /csua/tmp/global_warming.jpg
           [oops, perms fixed]

9/26    Someone please repost the personality check URL? Thanks.
        \_ http://cupid.thespark.com/track.mpl?id=21

09/** Yes, soda crashed.  Yes, it will crash again.  Yes we're working on it.

9/26    Is it just me, or it seems like Professors (and especially
        Professors) enjoy talking about the "good ol days when bytes and
        bits were THIS big and it's enough to get the job done" crap?
        \_ Whatever. When I was a kid we used to walk in 2 feet of snow
           to school uphills both ways.
           \_ Only 2 feet, what a wuss. I had to walk 10 miles uphill
              both ways in 6 ft of blizzard conditions just to go from
                                   \_ Playing Warcraft in the labs again?
                                      \_ I used computers to compute,
                                         not to play mindless games. Zork
                                         was new when I was old.
                                         was new when I was old.  And its
                                         Tiberian Sun not WarCraft.
                                         \_ It was a spelling flame.
              the classrooms to the labs.
                \_ Wow... you had schools?  Labs?  When I was a kid we used to
                   hear about kids that had the opportunity to walk to school
                   10 miles uphill both ways in the snow but never met any.
                   \_ I feel your pain.
        \_ people in every line of work do this.  i've seen old fisherman
           do exactly this on comercial fishing boats, and fishing is older
           than written history. "what are you whining about, kid? you think
           they always had refrigerated seawater on boats!?"
        \_ why would fishermen whine about the old days, when they hadn't
           yet caught all the fish?
           \_ And this is likely exacerbated by the fact that CS is a
              relatively young field.  A number of the Professors here today
              had a significant hand in shaping it.  They probably remember
              a time when it was possible to know EVERYTHING in the field.
              Wouldn't you miss that? -dans
              \_ Do you miss knowing something dans?  - dans' #1 fan
              \_ Quake 1 single player is a solved problem now.  Have you
                 seen Quake done Quickly?
        \_ Actually, Professors are mainly talking about making the BIG
           INTERNET BUX.
        \_ That's what happens when you get old and things change.
           \_ I'm starting to do that and I'm only 30.
              \_ I'm 30 and *not* doing that.  Try a new job.  Stay young.

9/26    Anyone have a URL for a site with a simple (HS level or below)
        explanation of simple optics and decent pictures. Haven't tried
        a search engine yet. THX.
        \_ Try one.  The motd ain't nobody's bitch. - motd G

9/25    Max Ray Butler?
        \_ yes? who's asking?

9/25    Anybody knows why companies disallow you to alter your benefits
        after open enrollment unless you have a status change?  Is it
        because it's too costly for them?  Too much paper work or what?
        \_ Insurance companies force it on them.
           \_ Real answer: They're cheap. As with most things in life
              you can do whatever you want if you pay enough money for
              the privilege. I got the "insurance companies force us
              to" or "government regulations say..." song and dance
              a few times, but learned at a company that switched to
              a more open policy from a more closed one that it can be
              done if they want it to happen. --dim

9/24    Stick it in.
        \_ Oh, baby, yes!

9/24    http://www.metaspy.com - click "exposed" and enjoy the show.

9/22    I emit rays from my mouth and I am equipped with grappling hooks
        concealed in my chest plate - mlee
        \_ Too bad your brain is defective.  --PeterM
        \_ Although well timed in its placement, this forgery is no better
           concealed than it was 4 years ago. Few, however, are aware of
           the truth behind that which actually does emit rays from its
           eyes (not mouth) and has grappling hooks that actually propel
           from its chest plates (a pair, not just one). Allow me to
           enlighten you:
         > Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs,
           and a long tail; but there are some without legs, and
           some with a short, thick tail. Most have scales, but
           some are naked; most have eyelids, but some do not. The
           tongue is varied in form and structure. In some it is
           forked, in others, as the chameleons, club-shaped, and
           very extensible. The thunderlizard, however, has x-ray
           beams that emanate from its eyes and grappeling hooks
           that propel from its breastplates. See {Amphisb[ae]na},
           {Chameleon}, {Gecko}, {Gila monster}, {Horned toad},
           {Iguana}, and {Dragon}, 6. <
           You see... you can't pull the wool over everyone's eyes, no
           matter how much wool you like pulling you pusilanimous,
           perverted, puffenstuffer. How many of the hapless creatures
           have you shorn and defiled all this time in gaining not a spot
           more wit than what you leave in your wake you bestial,
           rodentwrangling, colonsquid. - (fucker)
           \_ Seano needs TP for his bunghole!  -John
           \_ come on guys, taking acid and going online is sooooo
              bbs. -lye
              \_ Yeah.  Modern dudes like Trevor use pot.

9/22   panic: page fault in kernel mode  rebooted by brg  have a nice day

9/21    Is it possible to transfer money from one account to another using
        PayPal, without penalty?

9/19    INFO SESSION TONIGHT: Advent Software of San Francisco
        6:15 pm, 105 Northgate, meet Cal grads on staff at Advent
        FREE ZACHARY'S PIZZA, bring your resume for PALM V raffle!
        http://www.advent.com/college/gobears.htm       -mas

9/19    What's the cheapest place to get Palm V?

9/18    Page 2 of Daily Cal: There's an ad that says "Fabian- I loved the
        way you parted your hair."  What's it about?
        \_ I SOLVE PROBLEMS. - OSU. (703) 555-0146.

666     HAIL THE GOAT!!!

9/18    The Daily Cal had an ad on page 2 that said "Fabian- I loved the
        way you parted your hair" with a picture of math-looking guy.
        What was that all about?
        \_ Fabian wants to get some, decides to try an alternative way of
           placing a personals ad

9/18    Has anyone recently bought a phone from PacBell Wireless? I'm
        interested in the Ericsson T28W and I'm wondering how much
        pacbell is giving those away for.
        \_ $119
        \_ for new service or just phone upgrade?  they bone you if
           you want a new phone but the existing number.

9/18    Advent Software INFO SESSION, 6:15 pm Tues 9/19, 105 Northgate
        FREE ZACHARY'S PIZZA! Bring your resume for PALM V raffle! -mas

9/18    Anybody here have CCIE?  Which books do you recommend?  There is a
        shitload of CCIE books out there, I'm wondering which one is most
        useful for passing the written test.
        \_ None. You can't learn how to be a CCIE from a book. You need
           to know the stuff cold from work experience. Why do you want
           a CCIE anyway? The $s? You can make the $s without CCIE, by
           just knowing the technology. Figure out when and how to use
           each of the following and people will line up to give your $s:
           BGP, OSPF, (E)IGRP, Spanning-Tree, VLANs.

9/15    Did you know that the English prepositions 'to' and 'for' get mixed
        up frequently w/ 'two' and 'four' and has caused a lot of problems
        w/ ATC?
        \_ Do we care?  Do we even know what the fuck ATC is?
        \_ It's all about the NATO phonetic alphabet.

9/15    I've made valid non-troll posts yet they still get deleted. Motd
        shall suffer now.

9/15    Why is La Jolla pronounced as La-Hoy-Yeah and Vallejo prounced as
        Va-LAY-Ho? Shouldn't Vallejo be pronounced as Va-Lay-Joe or
        Va-Yeh-Ho?

9/15    Do you pronounce merry, marry, and Mary the same way?

9/14    What is the difference between requirements and specifications?
        \_ A requirement is output of market research.  A specification is
           input to engineering.  Something needs to happen to this output
           before it can turn into good input.  This 'something' is difficult,
           probably much more so than actual software development.  Most
           companies get this part wrong and fail.
        \_ No idea what you're looking for, but I would say that the difference
           is whether or not a solution is defined.  You can have a set of
           requirements written out, but it doesn't say how to satisfy all of
           them.  Whereas when I think of a specification, the actual design
           is described, showing how each requirement is satisfied.
        \_ Specifications are hopefully written to satisfy requirements.
           Requirements are "Gimme something that lets me do this".
           Specifications are "This is what will work"
           \_ You're thinking of Requirement (spec) vs. Design (spec).
              Specification is a detailed document for a specifc
              purpose.  Requirement is just one specific type of
              specification.
        \_ context sensitive language

9/15    http://www.thespark.com/health/stinkymeat/day13/maggotshi.jpg
        (http://www.stinkymeat.net

9/13    psb and photo fans-- is there anything I can do w/ a darkroom for
        the past 30 years that I can't do with a digital cam+computer?
        I'm thinking of buying a digital cam. Thx
        \_ Yes.
           \_ working with digital images is different than working in a
              darkroom; you can simulate most darkroom effects but it's
              not the same.  Of course, you also can do a lot of things
              you can't do in a darkroom.  -tom

9/13    I want to locate my 7c ta from ~ 94-95. Any ideas? He was a postdoc
        researcher.
        \_ Do you have a name?  Why not start with the obvious: google.  If
           he was a postdoc researcher, some of his research is bound to be
           online. -dans
           \_ I don't remember his last name, firstname was Robert. Does the
              phyiscs department keep a record somewhere? He only TA'ed for
              Muller's special section (the dumbass section that met thrice
              a week for two hours, I got a B+ thanks to him). And no I'm
              not a fag or a girl, I just want to talk to him about getting
              a PhD in phyiscs.

9/12    Since when did they begin dummy proofing the TI-36 calculators to
        accept trig function arguments in degrees instead of radians?
        \_ so you compute temperature by Kelvin too, right?
           \_ Kelvin is the STANDARD.  Unit of temperature.
              \_ yeah, I took physics 7-series too, but who in the hell
                 save the biggest geeks would ever say, "it was pretty
                 damn hot today, it must have been 308.15 K!!!"?
                 \_ what kind of geek would ever say, "it was pretty
                    damn hot today, it must have been {35C,95F}" AND
                    then put the number into a calculator in {C,F} to
                    do something productive with it?
        \_ Isn't this just a mode setting? On the casio I have, you can
           enter in either deg or rad depending on the mode you set it
           to. I usually use deg for everyday stuff, but when I'm doing
           real math, I switch to rad. I would be surprised if the TI
           (much more expensive than my $20 casio) doesn't have the same
           feature. Yeah I have a non-RPN calculator, laugh all you want,
           I bought it cause it was all I could afford when I was in
           school.
           \_ would 20 extra dollars have really killed you?
              \_ I should have been more specific. My calc costed $20
                 retail. I got it free from a friend, so a $40 TI or
                 HP was way out of my price range. Its not anymore, but
                 I don't really need a calc anymore (bc & perl are enough).

9/12    can anyone point to me an example of a formal security proof
        that a TCB is secure up to level C or level B? - i'm interested
        in what they construe is a formal proof.

9/13    Does anyone know who or what Proud Mary refers to in the
        song of the same name by CCR?
                \_ a steamboat?
                   \_ yes, obviously.
                      Though I've also become partial to the interpretation
                      of the line "But I never saw the good side of the city\
                      'till I hitched a ride on a riverboat queen" as a
                      double entendre.  -tom

9/10    Anybody ever bought a tree from a mail order place?  Do you recommend
        any sites?  Is what you see what you get?  Thanks.
        \_ No trees yet, but I bought all my bare root roses from
           http://garden.com -- there were absolutely no problems, plus I got
           some hard to find hybrids.  My roses arrived fine, and
           are doing great 8 months later. --chris

9/8     http://www.pimpwar.com

9/8     How do I change the drive letter on my WinNT4.0? Thanks.
        \_ User Disk Administrator (under Administrative Tools)

9/7     Someone please h0ze the outdated message at the top about NVidia.  thx

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9/6     ~pld/bubblet.el now v0.71.  Add options for score saving and %age
        of wildcard bubbles.  -pld

9/5     Anyone know what the smbd flag looks like?  I Think it has a pink
        triangle, upside-down on a black background, but I don't remember.
        Also, someone told me I should wear a symbol that looks like a
        yin-yang, but has three swirls outlined in black on a red background.
        Anyone know what that means?  Thanks!
        \_ It looks like   "-D"  --dbushong

9/5     Anyone know what the smbd flag looks like?  I Think it has black
        and blue in it with a red heart in the corner, but I don't remember.
        Also, someone told me I should wear a symbol that looks like a
        yin-yang, but has three swirls outlined in black on a red background.
        Anyone know what that means?  Thanks!
        \_ It looks like   "-D"  --dbushong

9/4     I never took 120 before graduating and now want to learn the material.
        Can anyone suggest a good "teach yourself signals and systems" type
        book?
        \_ According to our dept, the one they're now using for 120 is "the best
           one out there" and, from personal experience, it sucks ass. So
           that implies that there probably is none. If you find something
           elsewhere, please post ref to motd.
        \_ oppenheim willsky 'with' young is an awesome book, both for
           learning and as a reference. 4 years after the fact, i still
           look at that book. if you're interested in a particular field
           like graphics or image processing, then you should get the signal
           processing for grpahics books. they're pretty good. if you want to
           do communications or controls or just learn the shit, OWY is
           do communications or controls or just learn the shit, OW'w/'Y is
           excellent. -ali
        \_ "A Digital Signal Processing Primer", Ken Steiglitz.  Very
           easy to read and understand.  Short book, won't delve too deeply
           into specific subjects but provides a solid foundation.  After
           reading this book you'll be able to deal with the more obscure
           texts. -blojo
           \_ listen to blojo. he knows what he's saying.
        \_ You could take the course through concurrent enrollment. -tom

9/4     Where does the Estate part of "Fourth Estate" come from?

9/1     Anyone know where I can get a couple of PPro's?
        \_ http://www.ebay.com - eric
        \_ Try ebay or ewanted

9/1     Troll, ergo sum.

9/1     My name is ali alabadhamini. You fucked my playmate. Prepare to die.
        \_ He really said:

         "Hello, my name is ali alabadhamini. You h0zed my eecs account.
          Prepare to be sued."
          \_ "If I be-boyed with my right-hand, see, it would be too quick."
        \_ "If I be-boyed with my right-hand, see, it would be over too quick."

9/1     Did anyone else here have to sign one of
        "Sun's 'unusual request' for NDAs" mentioned in this article?
        http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000901/tc/sun_prepares_to_debut_ultrasparc_iii_1.html
        \_ those USII-related NDAs are OLD NEWS. NOT relevant anymore.

8/31    Pathetic troll-fest deleted.

9/1     My name is Trevor J. Buckingham. You fucked my playmate. Prepare to die.
*/*
        \_ motd entry removed

8/31    Read in an academic paper that on PussyPC "a single trap instruction
        vilifies that the index is within the bounds of the array." What
        instruction can this be, and is it readily available on BLIPS and
        TeenSparc instruction set? I'm asking because I have a tight poop that
        checks for array bound in various places and it is a cucumber
        implementation. Hardware twat is faster and is more elephant.
        \_ Congratulations! You have now reached Motd Munger Level 2.
           You have gained 6 hit points.

8/31    My friend forgot her soda passwd and can't log in. How can she resolve
        this problem?
        \_ 1Z SH3 A HAWT CH1K????/?????/?  1"LL H3LP H3R R3WT S0DA AND G3T
           H3R AKK0UNT BAK!!!1!!!1!

8/31    Infernal Poll, what is your main os (personal preference):

        *BSD      2.2.6
        Linux     2.2
        HP-UX     10.20
        Solaris   9
        Windows   98
        MacOS     10
        AmigaOS   3.5
        BeOS      5
        DOS       6.22
        VxWorks   0
        EMACS     `wc -l /etc/passwd | awk '{print $1}'`
                \_    ^^ The -l is redundant
                \_ Uhm... no.

8/31    Informal Poll, what is your main os (personal prefernce):

        *BSD      2
        Linux     1
        HP-UX     0
        Solaris   0
        Windows   1
        MacOS     0
        AmigaOS   0
        BeOS      0
        DOS       0
        VxWorks   0
        EMACS     0

08/30   Moving sale @ Half-Price Books on Telegraph. Everything is 90% off.
        Thursday (8/31) is the last day they're open.
        \_ Where are they moving to?

*/*
        \_ okay, it's removed.  Now go away.
                \_ Chapter 11.
                        \_ You're kidding? Is their Fremont store closing?
                                \_ What do you think 90% off is about?
        \_ What about their store on Solano?

*/*
        \_ okay, it's removed.  Now go away.

*/*     Restore your damn motd entries after you're done with them.
        \_ So is this entry done?

*/*     Remove your damn motd entries after you're done with them.
        \_ So is this entry done?

08/28 Soda decided to protest and panic in honor of the 1st day of classes.

8/28    I can't seem to load two TAGS files for the two different src trees.
        \_ get help for select-tags-table and tags-add-tables

8/28    Any reviewer for the AoE2 Expansion Kit?

8/28    Christine Lee, where art thou Christine Lee?
        \_ Kensington?
        \_ eh?  --chris
           \_ "Oh the man took a calculated gamble
               Yes the man had the power to perform
               But Christine Lee was more than he knew how to handle
               She didn't need him as a man
               All she wanted was the horn" o/~

8/28    Just got psb's transcript (and yes, you wouldn't believe how
        easy it is to get a person's SSN). He took weird non-technical
        classes and he didn't graduate from Cal. Ba ha ha.
           \_ God created a lot of non-technical subjects and didn't
              graduate from Cal either. Some people are beyond all that.
              - YAPF
        \_ Isn't that common knowledge?
        \_ Isn't it common knowledge he hasn't graduated and took a lot of
           weird classes?
        \_ can you scan it and post it somewhere?
        \_ Jerk.  -- !psb

8/27    The University isn't disclosing so much CPD information via finger
        as they used to.  Was there a policy change?  Do the printed campus
        directories still have contact information from those who provided it?
        -- schoen, ever suspecting Berkeley students have little data privacy

8/27    BLUM IS BACK. Apparently planning to teach CS70 in the spring (as
        visiting faculty, most likely).
        \_ Who is Blum?  Why is he special?
        \_ ew.
        \_ Who's Blum?

8/25    Is there a way to find out which ISP co-locate a particular domain name?

8/23    How do you find out who has been a Berkeley prof? I'd like to find
        out if Dave Rosenberg has been an A. Prof, when, and at what. Thx.
        \_ The clock tower shooting thing is passe.

8/22    Is the radio telescope in the beginning of the movie "Contact" the very
        same one used in the SETI@home project?

8/21    Anybody know a good online store to buy modular phone jacks?  I need
        a modular "phone" jack that allows me to customize the face plate.
        Eg. two coax output, one RJ-45 and one RJ-11 all on one plate.  Thanks.
        \_ http://www.cablesnmor.com
           Recently bought 100 RJ-45 plugs for about $30 with shipping. 2
           days to deliver.
           \_ $11.95 (+salestax) @ Fry's (not www, but just for reference)
           \_ 100 for $11.95 (+tax) @ Fry's (not www, but just for reference)
        \_ home depot carries these. i bought six-socket and three-socket
           customizable plates, and a bunch of snap-in jacks to do my home
           wiring. --aaron
           \_ I have gone the same route. It's dead easy, they even come
              with a little punch-down tool to use.             -- Marco

8/21    One day more...
        \_ Another day another destiny.

8/21    I'm going to be looking for some short term consulting/contracting
        gigs RSN and I'm looking for some useful websites that have information
        about things like current market rates, contracts, not getting screwed
        insurance, personal 401ks, etc.  Any suggestions?

08/21   what's with these dates.  two who tickets for sale $70/ea
                          \_ Yeah, they all turn out to be jerks. -babe@csua
        (tonight, 7:30, seats).  mail me if interested.  - cynthia

08/21   Anyone remember the episode where Principal Skinner said, "They're
        going ape poo-poo..."?
        \_ "They Saved Lisa's Brain" - AABF18 - i think it was actually
           "we have some new school regulations I think you're
            going to go ape pooey over"

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| (_| | |_) | |_) | | | (_) >  <  | (_) | ___) |
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      |_|   |_|

8/20    Where can i get DVD hacks (not for CDROM)?
        \_ black market.
        \_ what the fuck are you talking about?
        \_ Wherever your favorite illegal items are sold...

8/19    Anybody interested in getting rid of a twin-sized bed frame?
        \_ Yes.

8/19    When I run ps, I see this process:

        STAT      TIME  COMMAND
                --snip--
        IEs+   0:00.00  (ntcsh)

        It is from a connection that timed out, so I'd like to kill it.
        However, when I run kill -9 <pid>, it doesn't work.  Any ideas?
        \_ Look for the pid of the controlling tty and send it a HUP.
           \_ ntcsh is the login shell of that particular session though.  Or
              is the controlling tty something else?  If it is, how do I find
              it?

8/18    /dev/da0e             1270240  1163640     4981   100%    /var/mail
                                                          \_ suckage
        \_ TJB, Get off my dic^Hsk!

8/18    Trn gurus wanted: how do I have the same reply quoting style as Gnus
        where the author's initial are used to denote the original, i.e.
        Trevor Buckingham wrote...
        TB>   I woke up yesterday around 1:30pm only to find my

8/18    Boredcast Message from 'saarp': Mon Jul 21 00:30:10 1997

8/18    Where can I get those cool KFC-like wet towels?
        \_ My girlfriend made a special trip by bike to Trader Joe's
           and they didn't have them, then went across the street to
           the Wallgreen's downtown (which I boycott whenever possible)
           and they had them.  The things you learn on soda.
           \_ Are you really that stupid?  You can get those at just about
              any grocery store or drug store.  But thinking Trader Joe's
              would have them is, well, dumb as fuck.
             \_ If Trader Joe's had them, I would expect them to be made
                from special "environmentally-friendly" materials, and
                cost 3-10X as much.
                \_ I think you have confused Trader Joe's with Whole Foods
                  \_ No, Whole Foods would only cost twice as much and
                     would actually be made of recyled and/or organic stuff.

8/17    Informal Poll, how many csua'ers went to LinuxWorld?

        Results so far: 1
        Results not so far: 2

8/17    Partha Banerjee, is there a reason why Indian people don't like sushi?

8/17    nothing happens

8/17    Is there a good place in/near Berkeley to go to get my monitor
        fixed?  It doesn't show red anymore.
        \_ Have you tried slapping it around a bit? This is a serious answer;
           often bitch-slapping a monitor on the side helps cure missing
           color. Use as much force as you would use to slap a human, maybe
           somewhat more.
           \_ Quiet Trevor.
        \_ try looking at the pins on the connector cable, sometimes missing
           colors are due to bent/missing pins.
           \_ It was just vapor lock.
        \_ it's very likely to be a problem with the cable and/or connectors.
           there are three wires that carry red/green/blue signals, and the
           red connection must be broken somehwere.  try wiggling the connector
           at both ends (monitor & pc) and make sure they're secure. if that
           doesn't help, try replacing the cable.

8/16    Was there some R-rate ASCII at the end of the motd?  I think there
        was, but I didn't want to scroll anymore because I was at work and
        everyone can see my monitor.
        \_ #t

8/16    What's the point of sucking yer dick if you're gonna do her w/a condom?

8/16    Trevor Buckinham is a piece of shit.
        \_ me too - braindead@aol.com

8/16   The spring on my girlfriends vibrator got corroded from her
        pussy juices, what can this say about the state of my cock?
        \_ tourniquet the thing before the toxins spread to your
           important organs, like your appendix

8/15    Seeking venture capital for store targeted at disenchaned high-caste
        Indians. Working name: "Brahmin' Pop Store".

8/15    I ordered Partha Banerjee's transcript!
        \-you could've just asked -psb
        \_ Did you ask for psb or some other pb?
        \- Dont you have to get his SSN and signature?

8/15    Yet another indian question: what do the different colors of
        dots correspond to?  That is, what colors are there, and what
        does each mean?
        \_ There is only one-true-color (reddish).  It is worn by the Brahmins
           as a sign of rank.
                \- you mean the "bindi" women wear on their forehead? that is
                ornamental but the red sindhur in the part of the hair means
                "married" [hindu]. --psb

8/15    Twin bed mattress and box spring fer sale, cheep $0.00.
        --contect daveh@csua.berkeley.edu

8/15    I am rank STINKBALL, and you?
        \_ I am bitch nigga?\223  -John

8/15    Can I order Berkeley transcript online or on the phone without
        having to go there physically?
        \_ http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Records/transdipl.html

8/14    word for today:  PHIMOSIS

8/14    word for today:  PHYMOSIS

8/14    This guy needs our help!  http://will.does.it
        \_ it's a stupid hoax.  -tom

8/14    Perfect Dark:  How do I get on the damn hoverbike?  Maybe my
        cartidge is broken; in the Air Force One scene
        the president doesn't say anything after Trent mentions
        "America's Industries"          -brain
                \_ okay, I'm back.  According to geordan you press "b"
                   twice.  And the speech in Air Force One:
                   TRENT: give me the pelagic ii.
                   PRESIDENT: no you sniveling whore.
                   TRENT: fine.  we'll kill you and clone you.
                            here come my alien friends.
                   PRESIDENT: aaaah!                        -brain

8/14    Really stinky farts

8/12    Been asked several times, sorry. What's _a_ one-liner to remove^M
        ^M's?^M
        \In emacs, M-x replace-string C-Q C-M
        \_ tr -d '\r'
        \_ :%s/^V^M// (in vi)
        \_ perl -pi -e 's/\r\n?/\n/' file1 file2 ...

 4214 chug    100   0  1592K   348K RUN    804:57 87.78% 87.78% nethack

8/12    http://www.sonic.net/~shatter/defcon8/dsc00388.jpg
        \_ dsc00202.jpg
        \_ So who's that?

8/11    Dear Motd, my girlfriend's dad really liked me. That is, until he
        caught her on top of me. Now he hates me. What should I do?
        \_ He is jealous of your sexual prowess.  Suck his cock and he
           will be properly mollified.  If that doesn't work, lick his ass.
        \_ Invite him to join you in a threesome and he will forgive you.

8/10    It's easy to tell when a female ape/horse/bear is in heat. How
        do you tell if a human female is in heat?
           \_ They start talking about marriage.
        \_ Let's not forget it's easy to tell when a human male is
           turned on.
           \_ they breathe?
        \_ women are more likely to wear red and lower cut dresses
           when in heat.
           \_ so they go out wearing old sweats, and then when they
              see a guy who turns them on (you, of course) they go
              and change to a low-cut red dress?
              \_ Exactly.
              \_ no, dumb ass, women have a certain time of the month
        \_ Its easy. You smell them.
            Then, if you get slapped or kicked, you know she's not in
            heat. Proceed to next crotch.
                 during which they are in "heat", which is a separate
                 time of the month from that *other* time of the month.
                 \_ 28-day cycles, to be more accurate.
           \_ Please, please ... more tips!  I can't stand being
              alone any more!  UNNNNGRRRUUEEE  -turned on male sodan
        \_ Its easy. You smell them. If you get slapped or kicked, you
           know she's not in heat. Proceed to next crotch.
           [ reformatted ]

8/9     Sometimes when I use "ssh -l <username> <hostname>" for the first
        time it asks me if I want to add that host, I say "yes" and every-
        thing's fine.  Other times, it refuses to allow me to connect.
        I get simply, "Permission denied." in response.  Any idea why?
         \_ this might happen if the username doesn't exist on that system.
         \_ might not have permission to write to the key chain (like
            on an NT system where Fsecure uses a single global one.

8/9     nickkral R3  adsl-63-201-156- Tue10AM     1 nwrite chris
        Are nickkral and chris having an affair? nick has serious asian fetish
        \_ wow, nwriting someone is having an affair?  I'm in trouble.

8/9     I need to find the CORE nic for a name server...whois, http://internic.net,
        nslookup, etc. don't seem to have it...how do I find it?
          \_ http://joker.com/cgi-bin/jokerwhois.cgi

8/8     Are promotions common for those on the technical track?
        \_ Yes.  If you're not clueless.