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                goodbye motd...
\_ Isn't totoro supposed to be in there somewhere?

5/24    <DEAD>www.urlwithoutcomment.com<DEAD>
        \_ You should be so lucky to get this deleted.

5/24    [stupid thread about request for pun deleted.]

5/24    I don't want to resurrect the whole thread but I did want to express
        my sorrow for the poor dumb bastard from Sweden.
        \_ now, now...that was uncalled for.
           \_ No.  It's true.  I really feel badly for him.  I'm glad he's
              here now though so maybe he'll learn what a real country is like.
        \_ huh?

5/24    http://www.bondioffshore.com/promote/noregrets/products/gift/corporate_gift/corporate_gift.htm
        \_ I guess we know what the tda is doing in 311 Soda.

5/24    ~ilyas/pub/listcompression.txt.  Anyone have insight into this problem?
        (I am nowhere near the answer myself).  -- ilyas
        \_ in what real life problem did this come up? -ali
           \_ This comes up in rule-processing.  But I hope the problem is
              interesting in its own right. -- ilyas
              \_ [banter deleted]
              \_ [blather restored]
              \_ it's not interesting. -ali
                 \_ yes it is. --ilyas
                    \_ no it isn't. -ali
                       \_ are you prepared to explain why? --ilyas
                          \_ are you prepared to suck my dick? -ali
                             \_ is that an objective insult? --ilyas
                                \_ no it's a contrived one. -ali
                                   \_ don't you mean, contrived to you? --il
                                      \_ no, i mean contrived in an absolute...
                                         \_ how do you plan to suck my dick? -
                                            \_ ... [etc.]
              \_ oops, you were wrong  -- someone else's name
              \_ [blather removed again] (you know it's alright to try to be
                 funny, but please don't sign someone else's name).

5/22    Anyone know of a web site or a good book about breeder
        reactors?
        \_ <DEAD>www.anarchistscookbook.org/nuke/boom.html<DEAD>

5/23    I saw an ad for a cordless anti-static wrist strap.  The ad says it
        "[utilizes] the Corona principle to harmlessly rid your body of
        static electricity...".  What is the Corona principle?
        \_ The Corona principle doesn't work with cable modem.
        \_ Never heard of it.
        \_ Corona of your ass.
        \_ Corona beer. Drink enough and you won't get static electricity.
        \_ The CP is related to the phase coil distortion caused by the
           flux capacitor in the temporal modification thrusters in the
           warp core shielding.  If you over apply CP effects you're certain
           to plunge the entire quadrant into an alternate dimension.
           \_ is this a joke?
              \_ If you had to ask.....
                 \_ no seriously... can I get one of these special
                    capacitors at Radio Shak?
                        \_ You need to pre-order as they're almost never in
                           stock.  Very popular.
        \_ Maybe Mr. Corona is the owner of the company?
        \_ so is this thing totally bogus?

5/23    "What Fresh Hell Is This?  A Guy Marooned in Women's Studies"
        http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Spring2001c.shtml
        The "iwf" is the Independent Women's Forum.  Here's their Mission
        Statement: http://www.iwf.org/about/mission.shtml
        \_ INDEPENDENT WOMEN ARE EVIL COMMIE LIBERALS. ALL WOMEN SHOULD
           BE CONFINED TO THE MANACLES OF MEN FOR BEER RETRIEVAL PURPOSES.
           \_ That's essentially what Eve does in Paradise Lost.  It's the way
              God ordained things to be!
        \_ ow.  Thanks for posting the first url.  The second url is refreshing
           though.
           \_ I didn't post the http://www.academia.org url.  Never visited the site.
              The main reason I posted the women's studies one was all the
              head nodding.  I've experienced the exact same thing at Cal and
              found it really disturbing.  Anyone else been in this sort of
              class before?

5/22    Bad news. Somebody set up us the bomb. Again.

5/22    What are the best ways to get summer employment at this time?
        No McD jobs, please.
        \_ The best way by far is to be intelligent.  It's trivial to find
           a rewarding job if you are intelligent.
           \_ okay.  You are an intelligent person sitting there.  How do
              the job offers come at this present time?  (you have to look
              for them, but what are the best ways?)
              \_ Well, I am not looking for a job currently, because I am very
                 happy at my current job.  However, if I was, I would look on
                 the web for a company I liked, and send them my resume.
                 Given what is on my resume I would most likely be called in
                 on an interview, and given that I am intelligent, I would
                 most likely be offered a position.  It's really not very
                 difficult, the problem comes when hordes of idiots try to do
                 this, and then don't understand why it doesn't work.

5/22    Got an English degree? Check out this job posting:
        http://www.headhunter.net/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.asp?did=J24C3752VMRRDTNWXM&CiBookMark=1&strCrit=QID%3DA3844739826108%3Bst%3Da%3Buse%3DALL%3BrawWords%3Dpronunciation%3BCID%3DUS%3BSID%3D%3F%3BTID%3D0%3BENR%3DNO%3BDTP%3DALL%3BYDI%3DYES%3BIND%3DAll%3BPDQ%3DAll%3BJN%3DAll%3BPAY%3DALL%3BPOY%3DNO%3BETD%3DALL%3BRE%3DALL%3BMGT%3DDC%3BSUP%3DDC%3BFRE%3D30%3BCHL%3DAL%3BQS%3Dhhr%5Fwww%2Eheadhunter%2Enet%2F%3BSS%3DNO&ch=al
        \_ url shortened by removing a shitload of unnecessary cgi args. -alexf
        \_ Is that job posting a joke?
           \_ No.
           \_ they're making fun of G.W. Bush, read it again.

5/21    'tsort' on linux core dumps on a circular dependency. how pathetic.
        \_ What's tsort?
           \_ man tsort
        \_ U53 7H3 5RC D00D!
           \_ if i was joe hackerboy and this was my box, sure

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05/17   Soda crashed, but we know the reason, and we've bludgeoned him. -root

05/17   Official ls cs commencement program:
        http://ugrad.csua.berkeley.edu/commenceProg01.doc

5/17    What's the best cheapass domain nic provider out there?

5/16    What can you do with a degree in English Lit?  Have a profound
        influence on the subconscious minds of geeks everywhere:
        http://avclub.theonion.com/avclub3303/avfeature3303.html
        \_ *LAUGH* having an English Lit degree does not make you into a
           Douglas Adams.  If that were so, HHttG wouldn't stand out.  Books
           and series of similar quality and humor would be everywhere.
           Instead, we have fry dunkers and burger flippers everywhere.
           \_ j00 are just bitter, elyt hax0r, that you had to work for your
              degree...as opposed to reading fun books and writing stuff.
           \_ why do geeks admire Douglas Adams so much? also, was that reply
              of his to someone criticizing his anecdotes and dismissing them
              as urban legend supposed to impress me?

5/16    Bush'Akbhar!
        \_ They might say that in Kuwait I suppose.

5/16    Look at these two frightened little girls! hilarious.
        http://www.latimes.com/sports/reports/2001/nbaplay/shaq300_ga27h9ke.jpg

5/16    No Wireless Screen Is Too Small for Porn
        http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010516/wr/column_nettrends_dc_11.html

5/15    8:30am: Anyone else having exodus problems right now?  I'm wondering
        how wide spread my network issue is.

5/15    What song did Bob Dylan sing live at this year's
        (Grammy|Emmy|Peabody|Darwin) Awards?
        \_ "Things have changed" for which he won the Academy Award
        \_ he sang "I am a hippie, can anyone remember where i put my
           poly-dent?"

5/15    Poll: Should Brazill (the 14yr old Florida boy who shot his teacher)
        be convited of 1st deg murder?
        Fuck Yes!:      .
        Yes:    .
        No:
        If he's a minority and the teacher is white, then No: .
        This is the fault of society.  We should do it for the children!:
        Kill em all and let God sort it out: .
        \_ Why do people still bother with conducting polls on the motd? As if
           this will give anywhere close to an accurate representation of
           opinions on the motd. And when's the last time you saw more than
           4-5 votes for any poll anyway?

5/14    You and your talk of hot asian chic make me sick to the stomach.
        \_ Would talk of hot asian guys make you feel good then?

5/13    Your goal is fame. The more you get, the longer you'll be remembered.
        Accomplishing great tasks, righting wrongs, or just participating in
        significant activities can improve your fame. To see your current fame,
        money, and other information, tap F6 for party information.
        \_ Anti-fame or infamy is much more powerful than fame. For example,
           how many people will remember FDR or Truman in 200 years? That's
           right, zero, zip, nada, null! But me, they will never forget me!
           - Adolf
           \_ FDR?  A positive force?  Creating a welfare state of dependent
              slackers forever?  Ask not what your country can do for you.
              \_ I totally agree. FDR was way overrated. Did he ever make
                 the trains run on time?!? - B. Mussolini
           \_ Yeah, make a few heads roll and you will never be forgotten!
              - Mary Q of S
           \_ and yet they all remember me after 2000 years. - J. C.
                \_  infamy.  Think about it godboy.  And besides the
                    Buddha said most of what you did 500 years earlier.
                \_ They remember me, too.   -Brutus
                        \_ Et tu?
              \_ but *every day* people are murdering each other in your name!
                 \_ infamy, JC is infamous. Most of the world hates the dude.
              \_ Who are you?
              \_ They will remember me much longer! - Lucifer
           \_ I am not so sure.  Who the fuck knows who is Tamerlane?  Or Mengke?
              \_ Counterpoint, Geghis Khan is still reviled, so is Rasputin and
                 Pope Urban and King George etc.
                 \_ actually your average person probably has no clue about any
                    of these people except maybe genghis. and in that case,
                    i wouldn't say he's reviled, everything i ever saw gave him
                    respect and stuff, even admiration. funny how these things
                    work. kill a man, you're a murderer, kill a million, you're
                    a conqueror...
                    \_ Of course I know Rasputin!  He owns that record store
                       down on Telegraph ......

5/14    Shinjan Majumder, 1988 - 2001:
        http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/news/times/05-13-CCQR1VHB.html
        \_ we give a fuck why?
           \_ #t
              \_ i believe the question was meant as "we should we give a fuck?"

5/13    Hello -- we've bought all new everyday place settings (dishes, etc.)
        and we have a _bunch_ of our old place settings (in fine working
        condition, just a bit worn) -- where can we donate this stuff?
        \_ yeah. do you by any chance have a small kitchen table? round
           one preferred, but will take any.
        \_ Goodwill or Hope

5/11    Motd poll:
        I have met IRL with people I first knew online ....
        I haven't
        I have slept IRL with people I first knew online ..
        I have neither met nor slept with people I first knew online

5/12    Who will save the children?

5/11    How do I hook up with the Milpitas street drag races?
        \_ Membership requires extremely small penis
           \_ Membership.
              \_ Membership.

5/11    How the hell do you quote search string on Yahoo? I want to
        search for "A & J" in yellow page. It's the & that it won't take.
        Thanks.

5/12    What's a good site to have cellphone tones sent to your phone?
        I already searched gooogle...only came up with european stuff.

5/12    http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=880019288&channel=10000001
        So what is your take on the "programmable microchip" is it just
        hype? Is it the way to go? --cuek@post.com
        \_ Mostly hype.  Coarse grained reconfigurable devices, instead
           of fine grained ones like Xilinx.  It still comes down to
           applications and (ease/difficulty of) programming.  Yawn.
                -nweaver

5/10    if it ain't b0rken, screw it anyways.
        \_ http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082679,00.html
                \_ McVeigh bombed the wrong organization...

5/13    Hell Hath No Fury Like A Mother Scorned on Mother's Day
        \_ Oh SHIT!

5/10    There was this place in Monterey that rented sea kayaks and wet
        suits for $30. Is there something like that in the bay area?

12/8/41 Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a day which will live in infamy.

5/9/1945 Germany exterminated for excessive suck.
        \_ boring! go back to that infamy guy.

5/10  McVeigh exterminated for not being an interesting topic.
        \_ we should air the execute primetime just like the good ole
         days in france. that's about the only thing the french ever did
         that was useful/good/beneficial to humanity, that and inventing
         the white flag (only they could come up with that).
        \_ McVeigh may not be executed.  http://www.drugereport.com

5/10    Some motd cleaning.  Go to the archives if you care.
        \_ Where?

5/8     How do I make majordomo not send me 2 copies of emails sent to
        lista@foo.com and listb@foo.com when I'm on both mailing lists?
        I have perms on http://foo.com, but dont want to go from 1.9.4 to mj2
        \_ Unsubscribe from one of the lists.  :-)

5/8     Motd re-nuked. Bastard won't stay down.
        \_ And there goes my erection.
        \_ aw, poor baby's stupidity tolerance exceeded?
           \_ shaddup nweaver
           \_ I'm not ashamed to admit that my stupidity tolerance is
              very low
              \_ I second that remark.
              \_ you need to work at it, build it. mental discipline.
                 mere exposure to stupidity isn't enough, and can
                 lower your tolerance if not endured correctly.

5/8     Check out Mayday Reclaim the Streets, http://xinet.com/rts
        Massive renegade street party!
        \_ "Bay Area Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is part of a global,
            decentralized direct action movement. Direct action means
            that, rather hoping and waiting for the powers that be to
            make the world all better, we personally set about the
            urgent task of reclaiming the streets (and the planet and
            our lives) from the destructive tyranny of global capitalism."
        \_ "Bay Area Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is part of a global, decentralize\
d direct action movement. Direct action means that, rather hoping and waiting fo\
r the powers that be to make the world all better, we personally set about the u\
rgent task of reclaiming the streets (and the planet and our lives) from the des\
tructive tyranny of global capitalism."

        \_ Just more whacky socialists/communists/anarchists/whatever just
           doing their thing.  Odd but mostly harmless.
           Fuck off and die, (or better yet, get a fucking job).

5/8     cyber problems public:
        http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51965-2001May6.html

5/7     So what's wrong with the breasts thread? Is it really that
        offensive?
        AA:
        A: ...
        \_ Why do A and AA bother with bras ?
           \_ That's the great beauty. They don't (some at least).
           \_ Padded bras make them look bigger.
        B: ..
        C: ... 34c is perfect! .
              \_ 6.5" is perfect too! :)
                 \_ if Cs are the equivalent to 6.5"...
              \_ 36c!!!
        D: ...... 34dd, mmm
                  \_ 34d is very good too.
        > D:
        \_ Only if they're malformed.
        \_ If they're more than a handful, she's more than a handful.
        \_ Anything more than a mouthful is wasted
                \_ I dont subscribe to the 'handfull' theory, for me they
           \_ yer on crack.
           \_ There is such a thing as too big.
                \_ I dont subscribe to the 'handful' theory, for me they
                   need to be big enough to titty-f. Granted they'd need to
                   be at least C's. I like D's.
                   \_ it works both ways.  if your hands are too small,
                      then you shouldnt try to take on too much.
        \_ Of all the followups this thread has generated, I'm willing
           to bet that 99% were posted by g33k5 who have yet to get any.
           to bet that 99% were posted by geeks who have yet to get any.
           \_ I got some from yermom!
              \_ MILF!

5/7     So what's wrong with the breasts thread? Is it really that
        offensive?
        AA:
        A: ...
        B: ..
        C: .. 34c is perfect! .
              \_ 6.5" is perfect too! :)
        D: ..... 34dd, mmm
        > D:
        \_ Only if they're malformed.
        \_ If they're more than a handful, she's more than a handful.
        \_ Anything more than a mouthful is wasted
           \_ yer on crack.

5/7     What's the difference between weight training and strength training?

5/7     Why do the simpsons have no episodes dealing with islam?
        \_ http://iSlam.com ?  Is that like a basketball site or something?

5/7     Glad I'm not running Win32:
        http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18734.html
        I wonder how it feels to be 0WNZ3D?
        \_ damn you. stop being a little kid. Stop using numbers as letters
           and capitalizing crap.
           \_ Sounds like someone is bitter about being R0X0R3D.

5/7     Anyone see 'Finding Forrester'? Any good?
        \_ "who's the man now, dog?"
           \_ I'd pay seven bucks to hear Connery deliver that line.
              Connery on SNL celebrity jeopardy = hilarious, btw.
              \_ "buck futter"?

5/7     Today is "Put Your Entire Porn Collection in Your Public HTML
        Directory Day."
        \_ D00D, N0 1 DL5 pr0n FR0M 7H3 W3B, 37337 H4X0R5 U53 H1!
           7H3 B1G R3D H RU13Z!

5/5     I get cup O noodle from the northside market:      .
        I never visited the northside market by Soda Hall:

5/5     <DEAD>www.masterdisc2000.com<DEAD> - see it while it lasts

5/5     States of rebellion are coooool.  -geordan
        \_ Is that next to Wisconsin?  -John
                           \_ no dumbbass
                              \_ what's a smart bass?

04/20   rh7.1 isos: http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/iso/redhat (they work now)

05/01   http://www.mijunglist.com/~komplex/mc_effort_and_crew-skimpys.ram

05/01   http://nbadraft.net/profiles/largepics/ming.jpg

4/30    get a sex change, for free!
        \_ are you talking about the good ol' "pull your zipper up
           real quick before you put it back in" method?

4/30    What's going on with http://autobahn.org/baycis.com
        \_ they went out of business about a year ago, modems have been
           turned off, pop still works.

4/30    What's a good alternative to http://deja.com for posting?
        \_ Your ISP's news server?
        \_ if you have to use a web front-end, http://mailandnews.com

4/29    I've been looking for a warez site all day and haven't found one yet.
        All of them are click spams.  What does it take to get some warez
        these days???  Suggestions?

4/28    Need to satisfy your craving for computer equipment
        and women's clothing? There are now two one stop shops:
        http://www.pcdiag.com.au
        http://www.symmic.com

4/28    This motd is boring. Somebody say something interesting.

4/27    In workouts, why are free weights better than machines even if I'm
        using the same weight?
        [just cleaning up. it's archived if you want the info.]
              \_ Thanks for all the info, guys.  I'll start switching to free
                 weights.

4/27    IBM flat screens.  Skip down to the last two paragraphs.  The rest
        is just a free sales pitch for IBM.
        http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5081976,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
        \_ how does one do "industrial design" anyway? say I doodled a neato
           pc design. who would I talk to to get it manufactured?
        \_ When is someone going to sell an OLED/LEP monitor?
        \_ pix please.
        \_ IBM brought one of the 20" ones by our company to demo last month
                 - they are nice!

4/27    http://www.dotcode.com/cool_things/karate_chimp.mpe

04/26   Starting 5/9 (after instruction ends):
        pres: paolo vp: galen sexy: chialea money: twohey liberator: ajani

4/26    http://strider.animenet.org/fight.swf Cool stick figure fu fighting
        \_ This was posted two days ago already.

4/26    The medical establishment has finally decided how long you're allowed
        to live.  Welcome to the new world where It Takes A Village.
        http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20010426.shtml
        \_ Amusing, but he comes to the wrong conclusion.
        \_ This is horseshit

4/25    Wasn't someone keeping some sort of motd archive?
        \_ ~mehlhaff

4/24    http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight3.swf
        Stick figure martial arts
        \_ also check out http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight2.swf
           (there are three animations per set)
           Is there an actual game coming out from this?
        \_ also check out http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight.avi
           Is there an actual game coming out from this?
        \_ excellent!  stick around long enough for the Matrix bit....
           \_ actually, i thought that was the weakest part... too many
              matrix spoofs out there already.
              \_ it was still more entertaining than CTHD...
           \_ Can people identify all the "references"?  The flexible
              staff stuff was in "Tai Chi Master", as might have
              been the kicking-while-pushing-off-the-ground-at-an-
              acute-angle bit.  The double-take replay on the smash-
              down was perhaps from Romeo Must Die, but definitely
              Jet Li in any case.  Were there non-Jet moves on the part
              of the "hero", other than the Matrix silliness?
              \_ These were completely generic moves.  You can find all of
                 them in many, many movies.

4/24    What's the name of that online comic thing with the plastic looking
        rabbit characters and stuff? Where he's in SF and doing QA and shit?
        \_ sluggy freelance?
        \_ http://www.leisuretown.com
           \_ thanx.

389/4   Stupid Yankees. using some non-global system of month then day
        \_ April Never Ended.
        \_ Ya, like we really want to emulate anything about the rest of the
           world.
          \_ I like mussels.
             \_ quit rattlin' yer bone box

4/23    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-002.txt.asc
        I'm glad I'm running on a non-x86 architecture. I wonder if this has
        been fixed in 37337 GN00/11NSUX
        \_ Connection refused.
            \_ I found it at
        http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/advisories/netbsd-advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-002.txt.asc

4/387   mconst 2.95.3 installed, bugs to gcc.

4/22    Who deleted the bike post? Come on, just admit it. No one will hurt
        you. Was it you tom?

4/22    Free speech cuts both ways.  Propoganda goes only one.  Here's the
        free speech version of the propoganda.
        http://www.politicsnow.co.il/realpic.html
        \_ I'd rather have a gun than some stones.
           \_ The guns come out at night after the cameras are gone.

4/22    RIP my faithful uclink4 account.

4/22    anyone know the correct ipchains incantations to  forward wins
        server info to a private subnet ?

4/387   Anyone here used PIC Basic? Is it cool? Easier/cheaper than FPGAs?

4/22    gcc 2.95.3 installed, bugs to mconst.

4/23    1337 Haxors wanted for top-secret research
        contact cindy@hotaznchix.com

4/22    bugs 2.95.3 installed, gcc to mconst.

4/22    gcc 2.95.3 installed, bugs to mconst.

this motd is boring .
        \_ not anymore.

4/21    Can't believe I still had this on my terminal:

4/22     So how many sodans go to whore houses?
         \_ 42

4/22    Eat some hot lead, evil squirrels!
        http://www.latimes.com/news/state/updates/lat_hunt010422.htm

4/21    Why R 3rd world military attacking unarmed planes having US citizens?
        \ they are missionaries. IMO that makes them combatants. they're
          "holy" purpose isn't to supposedly help people, it's to brainwash
           them into forgetting their cultural heritage. missionaries have
           been and continue to be the first effort by which western forces
           take over other cultures/countries for the purpose of exploitation

4/20    breast test:
        <DEAD>app2.playboy.com/sex/feature/salsgals/quiz.htmx<DEAD>
        \- there is no way #13 is real. someone lied.
        \_ woohoo, i score 15.

4/20    How often does network solutions do bulk deletions of expired names?
        I want to buy a name that has expired more than 3 months ago.
        \_ "When they damned well feel like it" is how they run the domain
           system.
        \_ When all attempts to auction it themselves have failed and they're
           convinced no one wants to pay them money for it.

4/18    How do i keep in.telnetd  from trying to do a DNS lookup?  Does FTP
        ever behave like this?  (Sorry for the confusion!) the question has
        been fixed.  I meant how do you keep in.telnetd from doing a reverse
        lookup on the incomming connection?
        \_ 80 columns, people.
        \_ utsl
        \_ don't run in.telnetd
                \_ sshd.
        \_ Edit the source

4/18    reviewP on nweaver's technical talk, thanks.
        \_ t.  A review exists.

4/17    Is there any way to look up the geographical location for a telephone
        area code?  Thanks.
        \_ i think that if you dial 0 an operator will give you this info
        if you ask.
        \_ do a search for "reverse yellow pages" or "reverse lookup"
        \_ http://www.555-1212.com . Lazy fuck. --dim
           \_ Thanks.
           \_ I don't think it was lazy so much as ignorant.  Never attribute
              to evil that which can be explained by ignorance or incompetence.
        \_ -rwxr-xr-x  1 jwang  contrib  1795 Jan  3 00:54 /csua/bin/areacode*
        \_ http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_ctystzip.html

4/17    How accurate is the time reported by 767-2676 (POP-CORN)?  Within
        milliseconds?  Seconds?  Minutes?  Thx.
        \_ go visit <DEAD>www.usno.navy.mil<DEAD> for the official time
           \_ Thanks for the great info!
        \_ within a few seconds.  -geordan
        \_ Compared with USNO and NIST atomic clock phone numbers,
           POP-CORN is right on. I would guestimate it is accurate to 0.1 s
           Compare it yourself :
           National Institute of Standards and Technology       +1 303 499 7111
           United States Naval Observatory Time Voice Announcer +1 202 762 1401
        \_ FYI, POP-anything works, not just POP-CORN.
           \_ POP-ROCKS? POP-BONER?
                \_ Yes.  Even POP-yermom.

4/17    This picture is one of those classic Life magazine type moments:
http://a799.ms.akamai.net/7/799/388/c26bc2cd5e93af/www.msnbc.com/news/979510.jpg
        \_ uh, why the <DEAD>akamai.net<DEAD> stuff?  Start at ^ works fine

4/16    Will pay $50 for valid CalNet ID.
        \_ I'm selling, who are you?

4/16    infoP on nweaver's technical talk tomorrow, thanks.     -junior
        \_ Why not just read the abstract: http://ugrad.csua.berkeley.edu

4/15    Joey Ramone, RIP. Next is Marlon Brando.
        \_ and for the better discerning motd reader; is this true:
           http://www.freeholes.com/tna/b/bialik-mayim/bia-m1.jpg
                \_ probably not
                        \_ maybe so

4/15    Happy Easter! <DEAD>vatican.rotten.com/easter<DEAD>

04/15   Air Conditioning in Soda Hall is failing.  Expect possible shutdown.
        \_ AC has been restored.  So has Soda.

4/14    Party:a tonight 2415 Dwight way apt #4.
        \_ with nweaver?
           \_ nope -nweaver
              \_ with whom then?
                 \_ last time there was doubt about a party,
        davebrok went and had a good time - so i guess you can come to
        the party, or doubt at home.  your choice.
        \_ a party w/o nweaver?  no thanks.
           \_ suit yourself. - party goer
              \_ shouldn't you be at that party right now?

4/14    For all you academic types out there... (especially psb)
        http://www.cs.rug.nl/~michael/cogno.pdf
        \_ why is psb an academic type when he does not even have a bachelors
           degree, written a single technical publication in ACM, SigX,
           gotten a patent, and what not?
               \_ I searched for Partha's name in Econlit, ProQuest, MathSci
                  and Dissertation Abstracts and found one obscure article
                  in economics by a guy in India in 1995 (our Partha lived
                  in Berkeley circa 1995) and three dissertation's before
                  1992. On the other hand, Partha is extraordinarily well
                  well read in economics and physics. He also seems to have
                  a good grasp on political philosophy and obviously
                  knows a fair bit about CS. So basicly, he doesn't produce
                  books or articles in core academic journals, but the man
                  is more informed than many academics I know. -fab
           \_ I saw a publication of his on Hamiltonian something. I think
              it was a math thing.
           \_ i believe wordnet's second and third definitions of the word
              will shed light on the author's original intent for his usage
              of the word.
              \_ the third in particular

4/13    It's Friday the 13th.
        \_ And tomorrow will be Saturday the 14th.
        \_ APRIL NEVER ENDED.

4/378   The c++ standard on ugrad has been nazzied!! please put it back!
        \_ you must apologize first!
        \_ ah, email me and we can work something out - paolo
           \_ Try to see it my way, do i have to keep talking till i can't
              go on, while you see it your way, run the risk of knowing
              that our love may soon be gone. We can work it out!.
                \_ Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be!
                   There's a shadow hanging over me,

4/378   Help! Am compiling a CD titled "nostalgic innocense", it includes
        songs such as "Season in the Sun" and "Try to Remember"... any
        recommendations on what else should go on there?
        \_ "Yermom never tasted so sweet"?
        \_ Innocence. God damn. What's the point of 'dict' if you don't
           use it? Are they letting retards into Cal these days? Do you
           think students at Harvard can't spell? Fuck. --dim
           \_ Everyone know the bad spelers go to Yail.
              \_ Do not pass Go.  Do not collect $200.
              \_ I prefer you not refer to Clown College that way.
           \_ There is actually a word "innocense." Maybe it was intended?
              \_ On the motd? Think again.
              \_ When she said "Stop calling me.  Haven't you realized by
                 now I don't want to talk to you?" she really meant she
                 wants you to call her again.
           \_ hey dim-wit, dict innocense isn't going to help you any.
              also, dyslexics aren't necessarily stupid. neither are lazy
              people.
              \_ dict sure will help, because you'll see it's not the
                 fucking word you intended, asswipe. Plus, I'm as lazy
                 as the next guy, but I know how to spell common English
                 words. How is it that people can score 740 on the verbal part
                 of the SAT and yet can't spell simple words or tell the
                 difference between "their" and "they're"? --dim
                 \_ Theirs just no pleasing dim when your a bad speller.

4/13    When was the last time you came?
        \_ with gene simmons! http://www.kissdominion.com/BEDROOM.HTM
           \_ Yes, he's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.

4/13    Anyone remeber the recent case of the unarmed guy shot multiple
        times by multiple cops?  URLp.
        \_ uh which city, so many to choose from!
        \_ troll.  no cookie.  bad.

4/13    It's a race!  Who shall overwrite whom?
jctwu            Bo       lsanca1-ar3-159- 12:11PM     - jove /etc/motd.public
tom              Cv       mojo.Berkeley.ED 23Mar01     - jove /etc/motd.public
        \_ Oh my god, mojo. What have they done to you?
        \_ I don't overwrite no one. -jctwu
           \_ So you overwrite everyone?  You jerk!
        \_ only the unenlightened use jove. Real Men use ED!
        \_ 23Mar01?

4/13    Consider yourself lucky, unless you're this fellow:
        <DEAD>vatican.rotten.com/micropenis<DEAD>
        \_ A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
           \_ Most appropriate quote award, 2001.
        \_ that's nothing, i've seen an inverted vagina.
           \_ picsP or urlP.... wait, on second thought, nevermind.

4/12    Not a good day for the DOW according to Datek:
                Thursday, 12 April 2001
                        5:40:14 pm
                DJIA 0.40 -10013.07
                NASDAQ 1961.43 +62.48
                S & P 500 1183.50 +17.61

motd? where'd you go?

4/12    [unfunny post deleted]
        \_ are you implying that the remaining posts are funny?!!
        \_ does deleting posts give you a sense of power and control?
           perhaps to compensate for your powerlessness in real life?
           \_ maybe its to compensate for his unnaturally large girth
              to length ratio.
                \_ pics?   :-)
                   \_ Below is the life-size pic.
                                :-
                                \_ That's not a cock, that's the prolog
                                   entailment symbol!

4/12    How's this for a bumper sticker: (has it been done?)
        "Don't blame me, I voted Nader-- oh wait..."

4/12    I'm going to kill the President.
        \_ Puleeze.
           \_ first i'm going to kill you

4/11    Chinese Pilot Wong Wei went the wrong way.
        \_ URL?

4/10    How can i tell what version of snoop i am running?
        \_ strings
        \_ uname -a - snoop is builtin to Solaris & doesn't have seperate
                version numbers

4/9     Government accountability: http://www.justicefiles.org

4/9     how do i get people to stop calling my pager?
        \_ throw it in the bay.
           \_ yeah, but people will still call it whether it be in his pocket
              or at the bottom of golden gate bridge -!original poster
        \_ change the number

04/07   hola, has anyone been to Ka'aha, Halape or the Waimanu Valley on
        Hawaii? Any sense if those areas will be non-crowded through the end
        of May? ok tnx --psb
        \_ It's hard to find good Indian food in Hawaii, though
           I did see canned dhal in a Longs Drugs store there once.
           \_ Thanks, this answers my question!
                \_ my impression that the big island never really
                gets crowded since it's nothing like oahu or maui
                \_ The big island is always crowded.
                \_ My gf came from Hawai'i. She said anywhere in summer is
                   crowded.
        \_ four languages in one post, you cant be beat!
                \_ spanish, english, geek, and indian?
                   \_ Hawaiian.
                        \_ Then it's 5.

4/9     this is a troll.
        \_ your momma!
        \_ no it isn't.  C'mon trolls.  Just *try*.  At least take the 30
           seconds to find a good link that would bug someone enough to delete
           it all day.  those are the best.

4/9     What happened to the URL redirectional service on http://csua.org?
        \_ why dont you ask the whois contact?
           \_ Which would be me.  The DSL line on which the server was sitting
              was run by NorthPoint.  It went boom.  If I'm lucky, Rhythms
              will have a new one up in ~ a month.  --dbushong

4/8     Al Gore in 20 years living the "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and
        the Human Spirit" life style.  He came quietly when they allowed him
        to gather some stuff from his cabin before being hauled off to jail.
        http://www.adn.com/nation/story/0,2360,255628,00.html

04/07   nweaver talk on 4/17, 7pm 306 details on http://ugrad.csua.berkeley.edu

4/7     learn to use the date command.  sheesh.

04/02   General Meeting 04/19 6:00PM in 306 Soda -- elections will occur
        \_ CORRECTION GM on 04/26

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

3/31    If I have a non-empty directory and I try to mount a another
        partition on that directory, what happens?
        \_ read the man page for mount; pay attention to the -o "union" flag.
        \_ by default, what was in that directory (and below) becomes
           inaccessible
           \_ making it a good way to hide things on the filesystem...

3/21    Croot is teaching math 115.  who is Croot?
        \_ She's hot. You're in for a treat!
           \_ pixP?
              \_http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~ecroot
                \_ That's not a she.
                   \_ She's a MAN, baby!
                        \_ Just because she has a beard?

3/21    If a user were to leave top running on a system perpetually, would
        that cause a constant, appreciable performance hit (this is actually
        happening on an ultra1, and the user is an admin, not at ucb)
        \_ Not really.  -tom
        \_ On older machines, top would take 20% or more cpu time.  It still
           isn't any more efficient now.  A faster/modern machine will have
           more cycles to kick around on this.  I suggest using top to see
           how much load top requires on that host.
        \_ Why would you want to run top all the time anyway?
                \_ Because the sysadmin is too stupid to figure out how to use
                   SNMP, sar, or a million other less intrusive tools to track
                   system resource usage.
                        \_ whereis sar? (what is it too?)
                                \_ /usr/sbin on Solaris.  See the Sun
                                   Performance Tuning book by Cockcroft for
                                   more info.

3/19    http://www.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/~paolo/csua
        \_ yeah i need to update that meeting time - paolo

3/19    Dubya's dyslexia may prove to be as politically useful
        as poor Ronnie's dementia.
                \_ Reagan's alzihmers came about in 92-93 time
                   frame not while he was in office.
                   [ There are *NO* indenting rules for the MOTD
                     if you don't like it *TOUGH*. Feel free to
                     delete this, I've got a program to put it
                     back. ]

3/19    Hi everybody!
        \_ Hi Mr. Gibson!

3/18    don't you hate pants?
        \_ yes. I mainly wear shorts. I only wear pants when
           it rains.
        \_ Yeah, I hope he tells us to burn them. Mine are itching me.
        \_ Yes. I only wear skirts. Women's pants are very uncomfortable
           and almost never come with useful things like pockets. - girl
        \_ yes. I mainly wear shorts. I only wear pants when it rains.
           \_ how are third graders posting on the motd?
              \_ Uh, I'm 25.
                 \_ still not old enough to understand "subtext"?
                 \_ % dict subtext
                      No definitions found for "subtext", perhaps you mean:
                      wn:  sub-test
              \_ daddy says I'm this close to living in the yard!
        \_ "The great men of our time have all worn pants. Roosevelt,
           Churchill, de Gaulle, Ghandi -- well, almost all of them."
                              -Crow T. Robot

3/18    Scumbag Mulhern bashing the poor again.  Wants to take away their
        right to vote because they don't make as much money as he does:
        http://washington-weekly.com/mar19-01/story1.html

3/16    p160, no cdrom drive, sturdy case, 2 nics, suitable
        for sharing a broadband connection, if you want it,
        email me.  - danh

3/16    \_ [Slow motd troll purged]

3/16    For those of you who don't follow wall.log:
        http://galt.www.media.mit.edu/people/galt/goodjob.jpg
        \_ Is this some kind of joke???
           \_ Call them and find out.
              \_ No phone number and can't make out email address. I would
                 be interested in participating if its not a joke... ne1
                 have contact info?  thx
                 \_ Well, the department's webpage is:
                    http://www.utoronto.ca/otolaryngology
                    Send an email to the web master and ask about this.
                    \_ thx!!! will do. Can't believe more csua'ers aren't more
                       interested in this. it soundz 2 good 2 be true!!!!!

3/16    Question for other alums regarding the legendary FBI raid. Did
        Matt get out of this mess okay? I gather that the machine known
        as soda (at the time) escaped unharmed, but I don't remember what
        happened to Matt.
        \_ He died.  Fucking pinko liberals around here yammer on and on
           about Rosebud, but a good geek goes down and you don't hear
           *anything*.

3/16    All the secrets of the e-meter *and* Xemu all on one page!
        http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/index.html

3/16    Slow motd/news day today. Come on, find something interesting to post.
        \_ want an interesting job in the field of m-commerce?
        http://Adjectivity.com is hiring!  If you have java/c/c++ experience
        Adjectivity is looking for a qualified FT programmer.  No
        degree necessary. for info drop a line to zen@adjectivity.com
        \_ Hi Paolo!
        \_ I just took the most gratifying dump. What have you done today?
        \_ No clue required.
        \_ Once again, we're not here to entertain you, idiot.  Go away.
           \_ it's not an entertainment, it's a job! doesn't ajani@soda
              work there?
              \_ yep, so does njh@soda.

3/15    Poetry for the People invites you to attend a night of poetry and
        \_ [ purged ]   Next time sign your shit.
        \_ Uh, who the fuck are you and why are you not addressing the spam
           that you have sent to csua@csua properly?
        \_ you have 1 hour to sign this or it gets purged
                \_ get a fucking life.  who appointed you motd god and
                        required everyone to read the motd every hour?

3/15    Commercial is right: Why are only the dumbest people abducted by aliens?

3/15    Calvin's base:
                http://www.hal-9000.net/wwwboard/images/calvin.jpg
        \_ this is so passe
           \_ ALL YOUR... oh, forget it.

3/15    do Cal grad students ever participate in wall or motd nowadays?
        \_ Nick Weaver, non stop.
        \_ Yes, both. -not nweaver

3/14    someone please tell us what the DWE (Doctoral Written Exam) and
        prelims are like?
        \_ they're really hard
        \_ In which area?

3/14    getting warning in template class instantiation:
        typedef std::vector <_bstr_t> bstrVect;
        typedef std::map <_bstr_t, bstrVect> bstrVectorMap;
        any ideas what might be wrong?

3/14    This is your captain speaking. We are experiencing mild censorship
        today. Please fasten your seatbelts and return your seats to their
        upright positions.

3/14    Daily Knowledge Nugget to waste your braincells on:
        The capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Begawan.
        The capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Begawan.
        The capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Begawan.
        The capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Begawan.
        Got that? What is the capital of Brunei? No: let's try again:
        Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan.
        Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan.
        Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan.
        Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan. Bandar Seri Begawan.

3/14    Anybody know of a contracting firm that specialized in part-time
        contract jobs?  I'm looking to moonlight on nights and weekends, I'm
        wondering if anything is available.  Thanks.