10/9    What's the origin of the phrase: "When the shit hits the fan"
        \_ stfw. gawd.
           \_ Haven't you heard? "vi /etc/motd.public" is now a search
              engine.

10/7    Talk about full circle: SBC may rename itself AT&T after merger:
        http://tinyurl.com/bkdbn (news.yahoo.com)

10/7    Heading to Miami and the Florida Keys around Thanksgiving for
        6 days with my gf.  Any recommendations on where to visit and what
        to do?  Hotel and restaurant recommendations?  My only plan so
        far is to do some snorkeling and kayaking at the reefs off the Keys.

10/7    Talk about full circle: SBC may rename itself AT&T after merger:
        http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=677&e=5&u=/usatoday/20051007/bs_usatoday/atampttoliveonaftermerger

10/7    He's getting there...
        http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/5962/disapproval2bb.gif
        \_ Very nice graphic. -mrauser

10/6    New BOINC project Rosetta@home now available.  Does anyone know how
        it's different from Predictor@home and the non-BOINC Stanfraud project
        Folding@home?  Thx.

10/5    Any recommendations for a dedicated server provider.

10/5    What's the best bang-for-the-buck color laser printer for a small
        office (<10 people) environment?

10/4    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9582206
        "Victims are eligible to receive up to $26,200 based on a means
         test, enough for 18 months of living expenses"
        Excuse me. 18 months where, INDIA?
        \_ Aren't the co-ops like $700/mo room and board?
           \_ You know that there are spoiled kids on soda, right?
        \_ It's much higher than the Federal minimum wage of $16,112, taxable,
           per 18 months.
           \_ There are spoiled kids on soda, you know.

10/5    "Gen. Peter Pace, the new Joint Chiefs chairman, gave a notably bleak
        Iraq briefing recently to the White House, breaking with his
        relentlessly optimistic predecessor, Gen. Richard Myers."
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558117/site/newsweek
        "... Pace's devotion to his troops that under the glass on his desk at
        the Pentagon, he keeps a photo of Lance Corporal Guido Farinaro, the
        first Marine he lost in combat in Vietnam" (Parade magazine)
        \_ And you didn't know this about him?

10/4    Can someone recommend a MetLife network dentist in the silicon
        valley area (around Sunnyvale)? Thanks.

10/4    I have two files that seem to only differ only in the number of
        blank lines in between some of the text. Any easy way to confirm this
        with diff or maybe to pipe it through something to remove blank lines?
        \_ Well, a quick "man diff" says: diff -B file1 file2 --dbushong
           \_ I tried that but thought I was doing somethign wrong.
              Thanks, I see the difference in the files now!
              \- you can use an appropriate incantation of "tr" to squeeze
                 whitespace. different trs support different options so
                 i cant give you an optimal command line.

10/3    A Cal athletics program with an... interesting name:
        http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~dannyant/stuff/barebacker.jpg
        \_ Is that for real?  What's the date one it?
           \_ This is for real, and the flier was picked up a few months ago.
        \_ We need to make football more homoerotic!
           \_ Is that even possible?
        \_ It's "bear backer"
           http://calinthecommunity.berkeley.edu/programs/CIC_2002_08_09_4.htm
           \_ Doesn't make the name less worrisome.
              \_ It's unfortunate to enunciate ("Are you a bear/bare backer?"),
                 but the print advertisements are fine, IMO.
        \_ I have been a proud Bear Backer for many years. -ausman

10/3    It's nice to be able to hear again.
        \_ what happened?

10/3    Dear motd, what are some of the options you have taken in
        purchasing property for own use outside of the US?
        \_ Purchased a condo in BJ.

10/2    I am now getting messages like this almost daily.  Argh!!!
        http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2005/09/25/more-myspace-and-friendster-spam

10/2    Mystery pic of the day. Guess the context.
        http://news.com.com/i/ne/p/photo/edited2a_450x589.jpg
        \_ http://static.flickr.com/31/48473864_0eec1894f7.jpg?v=0
        \_ Neat photo but not very hard to guess if you're up on local news.
        \_ Some kind of fake-snow skiing competition in SF?  I heard something
           like that on the radio.

10/2    "Typhoon Longwang slammed into the Chinese coast late Sunday ..." -CNN
        \_ I prefer the Fark version: "Longwang penetrates Taiwan"
        \_ BTW, "Longwang" means "Dragon King."  It's severely weaken
           by the time it reaches mainland.
           \_ The cold water caused shrinkage.

9/30    Long, ugly, stupid, racist thread censored.
                                          - LUSR censor #1 fan

9/30    Author's Guild v Google:
        http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/google/aggoog92005cmp.pdf
        (yes its a few days old, but still interesting)

9/30    "Earlier this month, Google sold 14,159,265 shares in the
        biggest-ever U.S. secondary stock offering. The company's
        side-splitting sense of humor was on display in the choice of that
        number, which mimics the digits to the right of the decimal point
        on the mathematical constant pi."
        \_ Last time it took some digits from the constant e, right?
           \_ Yes.  It was an eBillion.

9/29    Serenity comes out Tomorrow!! Go see it!!
        http://www.serenitymovie.com
        \_ great!  Looking forward to it! - firefly fan

9/28    Does openWRT wear out the WRT54G flash by doing lots of writes?

9/28    "US millionaires reaches record 9m"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20050928/bs_ft/fto092820050059491081
        \_ When do we get our favelas and armed compounds?

9/28    Serenity comes out Friday!! Go see it!!
        http://www.serenitymovie.com
        \_ great!  Looking forward to it! - firefly fan

9/28    What's the best aftermarket firmware to put in a WRT45G?

9/27    Penguins secure b/c of minefield:
        http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/27/falklands.penguins.reut/index.html

9/26    Butch from Little Rascals.. R.I.P

9/26    Don Adams R.I.P:  We'll miss him by _that_ much.
                                            \_ Awesome reference.  I'm sure
                                               he'd approve.

9/26    I have set some local filesystems not to mount at boot in vfstab
        When I do go to mount them, though, i'd like to go through the whole
        fsck pass like it would if it was set up to do so at boot.  What is
        the_standard/an_easy way to do this?  tnx.
        \_ Make up an alias that basically does "fsck -p /foo && mount /foo"
           \_ I may resort to this (except not -p because slowlaris doesn't
              have that option on it's fsck) but the regular boot up process
              - if i'm not mistaken - only does this if it detects that the
                filesystem is "dirty" right?  or it has been X mounts or Y
                days since last FSCKing. Is there no way to just do exactly
                what it would have done at boot time?
           \- i think some OSes have an option to say "fsck every N mounts".
              not sure about solaris [which is what i assume you have].

9/24    Has anyone used an ORDBMS? Is it very different than an RDBMS? Are
        there free ORDBMS out there to play around with? I'm trying to map
        a lot of structured, hierarchical XML to mySQL's RDBMS schema, and
        it is pretty adhoc and ugly.
        \_ If you don't need to query based on the details but only store and
           retrieve the structure, you might think about just serializing the
           contents and storing that in a blob, accompanied by columns with
           whatever keys you _do_ need.  It's a real time-saver.
           \_ I have over 1 GIG of data and need to retrieve AVG and stuff.

9/24    Lecture on imaging other "earths" in Zellerbach on 7 Oct:
        http://www.otherworldslecture.org

9/24    Scopes trial pt 2:
        http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller.htm

9/22    11:15PM  151 users, load averages: 35.97, 28.68, 14.67

9/22    Hi azarm, is OpenTV still in Marina Village in Alameda?  Just curious.
        \_ We're in downtown SF now.  Much nicer!
           \_ Are Eric del Sesto and Ian Porteous still there?
        \_ POOOOORRRRKKKK!!!!! --oj

9/22    Does anyone know how to do auto edge selection in Gimp?  I have a
        logo where I want to make all white transparent.  It seems like
        there should be some easy way to do this.
        Addendum: Never mind.  Select->By Color.  I can't believe I missed
        that.

9/21    This reminds me of the motd
        http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/comics/09042005.gif
        \_ In that it's not funny?
           \_ More or less.

9/20    recommendation for inexpensive driving school in east bay?
        \_ A.S.W.A.D.S.
           http://homepage.mac.com/gillian_tan/iMovieTheater33.html

9/20    Here comes another hurricane.

9/20    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000003058917
        Record keyboard sound, guess password with 90% accuracy.

9/20    awall, do you wall? Do you read the motd?
        \_ just filter out his emails if you don't like him

9/19    Can anyone recommend the best way to get CCNP certified. Who to go
        through, what resources to use to study, etc..
        \_ Do CCNA first, you can do that by yourself.  I really liked the
           courses from Global Knowledge, but that was a few years ago (I
           understand they're not so great anymore.)  Cisco press has good
           study books for the individual tests too.  -John

9/18    This Berkeley professor is still too full of himself.
        http://media3.dumpalink.com/media/a4vyEm7x9Ywz/R05yk4geJ9B2.wmv
        \_ Hope this boy enjoys his ass raping in federal prison.
        \_ So has he gotten his laptop back yet?

9/18    The touching story of, Doggie Poo.  (This is something only Korea
        could come up with.)
        http://www.doggypooworld.com
        http://www.doggypooworld.com/extra.html (trailers)
        \_ Wow.  "Move over Japan!"

9/18    People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens:
        http://www.stopalienautopsies.org

9/18    http://media3.dumpalink.com/media/a4vyEm7x9Ywz/R05yk4geJ9B2.wmv
        \_ Hope this boy enjoys his ass raping in federal prison.

9/17    It's pretty common for people to feel more comfortable to be seated
        with their back to a wall.  I'm left handed and I've noticed that given
        a corner, I feel more comfortable with walls on my back and right than
        on my back and left.  How do other people feel about this?
        I am most comftable with wall(s) on my:
        Back and dominant hand:
        Back and non-dominant hand: .
        \_ I feel most comfortable with my hand up a girl's ass.
        \_ I feel most comfortable with my head up a my ass.
        \_ A very smart waiter once told me that the proper place for your
           date is with her back to the wall, so that your attention is
           focused on her. So with a woman, I sit facing her, with her
           back to the wall.
           \_ A woman should be seated with her back to a wall because
              that's what etiquette demands.
              \_ I always thought it was so none of the other chicks has
                 a chance of plugging her in the back.  -John
                 \_ Rules of etiquette are created for often sensible reasons.

9/17    Does anyone subscribe to American Scientist? I was told that it
        was "better" than SciAm (which I have been reading for years),
        but I wanted to know if anyone here could give me a comparison
        (I haven't been able to find it locally in sj to read an issue
        for myself).

9/17    Penny Arcade does MIT:
        http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-09-16&res=l

9/17    Oldboy rules!  What are some other crazy fucked up Korean movies that
        I should see?
        \_ Jigureul Jikyeora - danh

9/16    What is this burning in my eye?
        \_ need Visine?
        \_ Never put salt in your eyes.
        \_ The pointy ends go over your ears.
        \_ yermom
        \_ didn't you know semen stings?
           \_ current job is ok ... good in some ways. "change is good" ...
              sometimes.

9/15    "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I
        intend to spend it."

9/16    Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders
        http://csua.org/u/dek (wpost)

9/15    Poll, I think Allen Greenspan is:
        Doing a great job: ..
        Doing a lousy job: ..
        Doing the best he can, and it's lousy: ..
        Should have retired 10 years ago: ..
        Can be doing Cialis / Levitra commercials: .
        \_ Did he ever bang Ayn Rand?
        \_ "You're doing a heck of a job, Allen"
           \_ You missed it.  It's "and Greenie, you're doin' a heck of a job"
        \_ If you mean the Fed Reserve chief, it's Alan.
           \_ Details.  Just because we don't know his name doesn't mean we're
              not qualified to pass judgement on the job he's doing.
              \_ I didn't say anything about not being qualified.  I was just
                 pointing out a mistake.
                 \_ I think you missed the point.
           \_ it's not the same guy who invented that wrench?
              \_ No.  Mel Allen is the wrench guy.
                  \_ Mel Allen is the sportscaster.
                     \_ Mel Allen was a sportscaster. Now his image is a
                        MLB plaything.

9/14    So the NY Times is going to charge for reading Krugman, Dowd etc.
        online.  Does that mean I can stop hearing about them?
        \_ Yes, until they realize the error of their ways and move to a
           heavyweight ad supported model like Salon did.

9/14    O for a voice like thunder and a tongue
        To drown the throat of war!--When the senses
        Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
        Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed
        Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?...
        When Sin claps his broad wings over the battle,
        And sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;
        When souls are torn to everlasting fire,
        And fiends of hell rejoice upon the slain,
        O who can stand? O who hath caused this?
        O who can answer at the throne of God?
        The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!
        Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!
         --William Blake

9/14    ali rahimi, we used to work in the same lab in the mid 90s. I just
        want you to know that you had a serious attitude problem. Everyone
        in our lab hated you. But I didn't. I knew it's just part of your
        environment which is of no fault of yours, and I want to help you.
        In case you're wondering why everyone else is an idiot or dislikes
        you, it's not them, it's you. Now go work on making yourself more
        likeable. Good luck!
        \_ I sort of get the feeling your real agenda was to call Ali an
           asshole while wearing a cloak of objectivity....  --PeterM
           \_ Not to meantion anonymity. I don't know Ali, but I'm pretty
              sure I know what the op is... -jrleek
        \_ my guess is that if i was unlikable, it was because i was
           surrounded by people like you. i'm sorry you thought i was
           an asshole. but my guess is that you should share at least
           half the blame, given your silly message. are you a whiny
           girl, or do you just write like one? -ali

9/13    If i have an Cholesk decomposition for a banded diagonal matrix,
        is there an easy way to recover the corresponding bands of the
        inverse of that matrix? i am only interested in recovering the bands,
        not the full inverse.
        \_ No.
        \_ Yes.
        \_ I'm not going to answer because you were a fucking know it all
           rahimi dickhead giving people a bad time in the computer lab and
           everyone around you disliked you intensely. Thought you should
           know this so that you'll improve your personality in da future

9/12    hey ilyas i have a new link for you
        http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/cat_strange.html - danh
        \_ Awww.. the Tom Cruise story is a hoax.

9/12    Is there any way on Google groups to have "show options" always on?
        \_ sure, install the 'customizegoogle' firefox extension
           \_ Nice extension.  Doesn't do what I want though.

9/13    As a follow-up to the telescope thread, I've put my friend Vadim's
        answers in ~john/scope if you're interested.  -John

9/11    "At times, individual freedom must be compromised to improve
        collective security." What the? Newsweek is spreading fucking
        evil ***socialistic*** rhetorics. Socialism=EVIL EVIL EVIL:
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9285514/site/newsweek/page
        \_ That's a shockingly bad turn of phrase for the point they're
           trying to make.  What car you drive is not a freedom.  Determining
           how much of this world you consume is, I suppose..  Bad columnist.
           no biscuit.
        \_ Isn't that what the Patriot Act is about?
        \_ socialist?  WTF?  This is right-wing shit.

9/10    217.212.224.142 (618) [142.128-25.224.212.217.in-addr.arpa]
        217.212.224.143 (617) [143.128-25.224.212.217.in-addr.arpa]
        217.212.224.144 (527) [144.128-25.224.212.217.in-addr.arpa]
        217.212.224.145 (460) [145.128-25.224.212.217.in-addr.arpa]
        My web site is being crawled by a bunch of these addrs.
        Where do these addresses come from?
        \_ http://www.picsearch.com ?

9/8     Has anybody played the Japanese FFXII? Thoughts? Opinions?

9/8     My Driver's Liscence is going to expire in less than 2 months.  I'd
        like to take care of it ASAP, because I'll be out of town/busy as
        the expiration date nears.  The DMV site says I can renew online if
        I'm eligible.  I can find out if I'm eligible by looking at my
        renewal notice.  When can I expect the renewal notice to arrive in
        the mail?
        \_ Time to slog down to the DMV. You should've received a notice
           to renew your license at least six months prior to the expiration.
           The renewal either got lost or the DMV fouled up and didn't
           send it to you. You need to either wait in line and get this
           cleared up (be prepared to wait a long time) or make an appointment
           and show up to get this cleared up. You do NOT want to take
           the driver test again.
        \_ I got my notice about 2 months before my birthday.  But you
           can always go in in person to have your driver's renewed
           without such notice.  Chances are, if you didn't have a
           moving violation in the past 3 years, you won't be asked to
           take a written test.

9/8     I think psb will agree this is a work of genius:
        http://csua.org/u/88w
        \- oh i read that back when i was still a NYker subscriber.
           that's not as good as "on the run with manuel noriega".
           BTW, i like pat lehey ... he gave a really good speech about
           something in the last 5-6 yrs and appeared on my radar.
           i dont remember what the speech was about. --psb

9/7     Tell us about your GPA, ilyas:
        http://csua.com/?entry=17980
        \_ "The world would be a better place if we were all a little more
            like psb.  This is truth: meditate upon it now."
           HAHAHAHAH
           \- dont drive like me. i changed lane 29 times crossing the
              bridge last time i drove from SF to Berkeley. I think if
              everybody did that, it would cause problems. i have to go now.

9/7     Hi sodans.  I have a question.  My sewage line got backed up, I called
        the plumbers, but when they turned on their equipment, they were
        swarmed by bees and ran away.  The bees are coming from my neighbor's
        rain gutter.  Who should pay for bee removal?  It costs money here
        since the bees are in a building structure.  The bees don't bother
        anyone unless they use loud equipment.  Thanks.
        \_ are you serious?  Should I laugh or feel for you?
           \_ hey man, I downloaded some core files, and brown stuff overflowed
              to the tub drain when I flushed.  i can't do a #2 until the
              sewage line gets cleared, can't do that until the neighbors get
              rid of the bee problem.
              \- um rather than see this as an abstract matter of law, it's
                 possible there is some city rule about this. you might call
                 "the city" to inquire. but it does sound like a legal
                 hypothetical. except we would have something like a
                 backhoe driver who was allergic to bees going into
                 anaphylactic shock and cutting off somebody's internet
                 connection who then suffered day trading losses while going
                 through a divorce with a handicapped spouse. --psb
                 through a divorce with a handicapped spouse.
              \_ sorry about that.  I wasn't sure if you were serious.
        \_ What did your neighbor say when you told him you are being
           attacked his 'his' bees? I think it is his responsibility to
           pay. Did he refuse?
           \_ Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees?
              Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they
              shoot bees at you?
        \_ Call the local beekeeper's association.  Tell them you have a
           hive that needs to be moved.  They will probably be able to have
           someone come and pick up the hive for free.  Also trying to get
           your neighbor to pay is lame.  Bees exist.  These sorts of things
           are noones fault.
           \_ The bees are actually 15 feet above ground, flying out of the
              ~ 3" x 5" opening of his rain gutter .  I suppose I can pay for
              half ...
           \_ It's not about fault. It's about responsibility. It's his
              property. You can't just do it. He needs to. You can offer
              to help pay, but legally it is the neighbor's problem. Like
              the person below says, they are a public nuisance.
        \_ Call your neighbor. If you get no action, call the city. Bees
           can be classified as a public nuisence. You'll need the city's
           permission to remove the hive if your neighbor is unwilling to
           to do anything about it. As for actual removal, see above or
           check Bee Removal in yellow pages/google.
           \- let slip the bees of war
           \_ A bee hive is worth money. Many bee removal places will do
              it for free.
              \_ If it is inside of a structure no one will do it for
                 free. If you find someone who does then post the name.
                 I've had bees several times. Even the county won't do it
                 free if it's up high.
                 \- #ifdef LIBERTARIAN_FRUITCAKE, you may wish to
                    read "The fable of the bees."

        \_ bees are so cool.  i wish i had bees.  i got all the gear.  but i'm not
           gonna tear up your neighbor's house for them, no way.  the workers need
           to just chill and learn to live with bees crawling all over them! -jnat

9/7     Test123

9/7     Suck my balls jblack.

9/7     Its about cats. in sinks.
        http://catsinsinks.com
        \_ I don't know how the owners resist turning on the water.
           \_ my friend used to do this with her kitty. mean mean person.
           \_ They value their arms?
        \_ http://www.stuffonmycat.com

9/7     Whaddya mean the other Charleston?
        link:www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12576927.htm

9/7     Does Soda support WebDAV for uploading files to a website?

9/7     Prediction: 80 years from now, Computer Archaeology will be
        a popular profession.

9/6     Where is the best place to buy ergonomic computer chairs?
        \_ I bought my steelcase leap chair on Craigslist for under $300.

9/6     what 'woman is in charge of LA', ilyas?  I don't live
        in LA and have no idea what you talk about.

9/5     I think we know what "a government small enough to drown in a bathtub"
        looks like now.

9/6     Did Rove have Rehnquist knocked off to disctract attention from NOLA?
        Yes: +
        No:

9/3     Where is Dick Cheney hiding these days?
        \_ He just got back from his vacation in Wyoming. I hear he caught
           some nice trout.
           \- He was at Burning Man
           \_ Did he catch a deli.cio.us bass?

9/5     Chuck E. Cheese plays Ministry of Truth
        http://www.truthout.org/docs/2005/090205C.shtml
        No clue if this is for real or not, but it seemed almost too silly
        to be true.  -John
        \_ 404 Not Found.
        \_ yvan eht nioj!

9/4     Why did the motd censor delete my post of the lyrics to
        "Miss New Orleans" by Louis Armstrong? Just curious. -ausman

9/5     RoboCop is a prof at Syracuse:
        http://www.nydailynews.com/09-04-2005/entertainment/col/story/343007p-292761c.html

9/3     Renchberg RIP. -rnixon

9/3     Rehnquist RIP.

9/3     Renchberg RIP. --rmn

9/3     Renchberg RIP. -- ilyas

9/3     Chirac -> Dead.

9/3     Psb -> Moron

9/3     Chirac -> RIP.

9/3     Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
        And miss it each night and day
        I know I'm not wrong... this feeling's gettin' stronger
        The longer, I stay away
        Miss them moss covered vines...the tall sugar pines
        Where mockin' birds used to sing
        And I'd like to see that lazy Mississippi...hurryin' into spring

        The moonlight on the bayou.......a Creole tune.... that fills the air
        I dream... about Magnolias in bloom......and I'm wishin' I was there

9/3     Rehnquist RIP. -- ilyas
        \_ http://tinyurl.com/d3kmw (latimes.com)
        \_ Btw, if another cocksucker modifies my post, I ll nuke the entire
           motd like in the old days. -- ilyas

9/3     ""The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
        He has stretched out the line, He hath not withdrawn His hand from
        destroying; but He has made the rampart and wall to mourn, they
        languish together."
        \_ "And the Lord punishes those who are still alive by denying these
           people KFC and hip-hop music." -motd troll

9/3     How do I force Word to use monospace font?

9/2     Carbon nano-rods are harder than diamonds:
        http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7926

9/2     According to the Red Cross, the rapes are all hoaxes.
        \_ Url please?

9/2     Any tips from sodans who have taken the GMAT? Any good study guide?

9/2     what was up with the FEMA chief dude pretending to brief
        gwbush on TV this morning?
        \_ Gimme a P!  Gimme an H!  Gimme an O!  Gimme a T!  Gimme an O!
           Gimme an O!  Gimme a P!  What's that spell?!
           \_ Pho Toop?
              \_ Do they do that at Pho 84?
        \_ He wants to live in Guantanamo Bay.

9/1     Caucasian chicks are special. They are the cross between Greek
        goddesses and the Amazon Warrior. I am ready to do battle with them...
        \_ Dude, people.  it's the 2nd
           \_ Is this or the previous post a reference to something?
                I don't get it. --likes white girls, but also likes
                                  brown, black, yellow, red, etc

9/2     "I keep hearing that it's coming. This is coming. That is coming. My
        answer to that is B.S. Where is the beef?" -Mayor Ray Nagin
        \_ The only answer I can come up with is "they don't care".  Either
           that or they just squandered our resources to the point that even
           if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.

9/1     what is good command line Yahoo IM client?

9/1     Cool pic of NO:
       http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Navy-FloodedNewOrleans.jpg
       \_ Comparison (before/after) photos:
        http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm

9/1     Trolled ilyas reminds me of myself when I was in junior high.
        This jerk sat behind me, and he'd shake my desk or use a pencil to
        poke at my neck or back. I'd get so mad that I'd turn around to tell
        him to stop. The teacher would always tell me to shut up. Later on
        all he had to do was to show intent, using motion or sound, to
        annoy me the heck out of me. He used minimum amount of effort
        to get the maximum effect. I see that Ilyas has become me, and
        that I'm that jerk, and it's quite entertaining -nice guy turned jerk
        \- when i was in 7th grade english class this really annoying super
           zionist sat behind me and at point started this habit of kicking
           my chair. after asking him to stop repeatedly, finally i turned
           around and started punching him. the teacher actually let me get
           a few hits in before asking me to stop ... which was pretty cool
           of her. i dont think i got in much trouble. that teach was not
           of her. i dont think i got in much trouble. that teacher was not
           unattractive.
           \_ Gee, and I thought I was the only one who has been smacked by
              Partha.  How disappointing.
           \_ Where did you go to school?
              \- the jewish part of compton.
           \_ "super zionist"?

9/1     I was browsing news where it showed me the amount of Federal
        Petroleum Reserve on a chart, from 1970s till now. I'm trying
        to find it again but I can't. Can someone please point me to
        the right URL? Thanks.

9/1     Will they rebuild New Orleans? Should they?
        \_ Yes.  Should they? Not as it was, and most likely, not where it was.
        \_ They should restore it to a wetlands.
           \_ It's already been restored to a swamp (the non-pc term).
        \_ They will rebuild it. Too much money to be had at the mouth of
           the Mississippi. That's why it was built in the first place.
        \_ Rebuild what? After the water is pumped out/recedes/evaporates,
           the core buildings are still there.
           \_ Sigh. Let me guess, you've never built anything have you?
           \_ After having been sitting in a stew of toxic sludge for a few
              weeks?

9/1     "This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your
        http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu mailing list memberships.  It includes your
        subscription info and how to use it to change it or unsubscribe from a
        list."
        Umm, WTF?
        \_ Pretty standard mailman thing these days.  -tom

9/1     Will they rebuild New Orleasn? Should then?

8/31    Were NO residents stupid to stay put?
        http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/31/national/a153752D54.DTL

8/30    For those Flying Spaghetti Monster devotees in the audience:
        http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=357

8/30    My company debuted the public version of our radio product.  Check
        it out:
        http://www.pandora.com
        Trackback feed of related coverage:
        http://del.icio.us/tconrad/pandora-music
          -- lye
        \_ the idea behind this is fascinating. i think there are some issues
           with the UI flow.
           \_ Could you be any more specific?  I'm not involved with the UI
              programming per se but I can always pass things on to the
              person that is. --lye
              \_ i'll send you some e-mail. -pp
        \_ the idea behind this is fascinating.
        \_ This is really cool.  It's too bad you're not licensed to replay
           songs or rewind.  Can you at least play short clips of songs you've
           already heard?

8/30    They should have bought a sky-rise condo!
     http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina/top.1535.katrina.orleans.ap.jpg

8/30    So.  Much.  Space.  *twitch, twitch*          -mice
        \_ If it really hurts you, I am more than happy to mod you back down to
           20MB/25MB... - jvarga
        \_ Fill it with cream.
           \_ Creampie?
        \_ How much?

8/30    Can anyone recommend a good book on writing modules in C for Apache2?

8/29    Mail registerme@opera.com on 8/30/05 for an ad-free copy of opera.

8/29    Work out question: How important is it to wear a weight belt?
        Will I explode or get a hernia if I dont wear one?
        \_ do you strain your back?

8/29    Whatever happened to the Hmong sharpshooter who killed 6 whities?
        \_ STFW, dude.  There's plenty of information about that available.
        \_ squeeling like a pig in prison

8/29    There is a talk on neutrinos at SLAC tomorrow @ 7:30 PM:
        http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/lectures/info_2005/2005_08_30.htm
        \_ My brain is too dense to be penetrated by neutrinos

8/28    Can someone please gimme Hindi translations for the following Yahoo
        International Audibles? Thanks.
        aankhen hai ki batatein...dikhta nahin kya?
        bhooooooot
        OYE! chuk de patte
        \_ "Hey get loose."
        Hai Daiyya..bas bhi karo..log kya kahenge!
        Arre dil pe mat le yaar
        Kya aap mere saath coffee peene chalenge?
        abbey e..offline ho gaya kya, ya Mr.India bana baitha hai?
                Lal chasma lagaoon kya?
        e chal e shaane..hawa aane de
        \_ "Don't act all smart." Literally: "Shut your mouth and move aside
           so the air can pass."
        Arre...yahin to dhokha kha gaya India..

8/28    I have a lot of hits from 128.32.165.25 [ucdata00.Berkeley.EDU].
        Can someone tell me what this is? Gateway from the library? Research
        lab? Or something else? ok thx.
        \_ http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101
           \_ Its also my workplace, and I do like to browse. -mrauser

8/28    Can someone please gimme Hindi translations for the following Yahoo
        International Audibles? Thanks.
        aankhen hai ki batatein...dikhta nahin kya?
        bhooooooot
        OYE! chuk de patte
        Hai Daiyya..bas bhi karo..log kya kahenge!
        Arre dil pe mat le yaar
        Kya aap mere saath coffee peene chalenge?
        abbey e..offline ho gaya kya, ya Mr.India bana baitha hai?
                Lal chasma lagaoon kya?
        e chal e shaane..hawa aane de
        Arre...yahin to dhokha kha gaya India..

8/27    GRIZZLY MAN is even better than MURDERBALL. - danh

8/27    Home dir quotas mysteriously went up again.  Who knew.  Happy birthday.
        - jvarga
        \_ 9/22 Fixed a bug in my cron script on keg.  Your quotas will now
           be correctly calculated and enforced.  Sorry bout that.  Luckily
           only one of you hozers abused it. - jvarga

8/25

8/25    Anybody know of a working installation of the w3 validator
        version 0.6.7.  Because the new main site v0.7.0 can get slow!

8/25    Holy cow I missed out. How did soda get all the extra storage? I,
        I don't know what to do with all my storage!! help!!
        \_ There's this thing called pr0n.
        \_ 125 Meg is not enough for porn.

8/25    Headline on yahoo news: "Pullout leaves Sharon on slippery ground."
        Huh huh uuhhuh huuhuhuh.

8/24    I guess the insurgents haven't figured out how to use bittorrent yet.
        WHEW!           http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9067891/site/newsweek

8/24    Obviously Rove engineered Sheehan's protest, just to get himself off
        the front page.
        \_ OBVIOUSLY Rove gave Sheehan's mom a stroke, and hoped she would
           ignore her.  r00l!

8/24    R.I.P Tom Robinson
        \_ who's Tom Robinson?
           \_ To Kill a Mockingbird (Brock Peters)

8/23    I got some .att files that look like segmented mails with base64/
        MIME data. What program can view/extract attachment from such files?
        \_ munpack?  -John

8/23    Maradona admits scoring goal by hand:
        http://csua.org/u/d4j (Yahoo! Sports)
        So much for Argentine soccer.
        \_ Barry Bonds doesn't even admit to using steriods..
        \_ The only way most CSUAers know how to score is by using their hand.
           \_ That's Rosy Palm and her five sisters.

8/22    Ilya sucks.

8/22    In the Grim Future of Mankind, THERE WILL BE NO PANTS.
        http://nada.ics.uci.edu/annie/pants.html
        \_ Kind of neat until I realized there are only three entries (not
           much of an argument), two of which are both Peter Chung creations.
           much of an argument), two of which are Peter Chung creations.
        \_ Cool premise, but needs more examples to be truly funny.
        \_ http://www.nopantsday.com and http://www.utilikilts.com

8/22    Hey motd, a web devy contractor friend of mine is shortly going to be
        out of work.  Anybody know of any leads that might be worth persuing?
        TIA.     -mice
        \_ Damnit why didn't you ask me this a month ago?
           \_ heh, I'll make sure to consult my magic 8 ball sooner next time.
                                                                    -mice

8/20    Hello,  when I highlight an URL under KDE in a konsole, it pops
        up this annoying window offering to open the URL up for me.
        Does anyone know how to turn this off?  I've had no luck (for
        lack of a keyword?) in finding out how to disable this..
        Thanks for any help.  --PeterM
        \_ I think Klipper does that.  Kill klipper and it should go away.
           --dbushong
                \_ Thanks, this works!  --PeterM

8/19    Motd.official cleaned up, here is a summary:
        - Home directory quotas went up... way up... and are bound to go up
          again soon.  Soda is not almost free of the oppressive TDA.
        - NIS was put on soda, and then promptly removed.  We're working on
          LDAP
        - We're working on some serious issues with new soda's OS.  Just be
          patient
        - I think we've fixed most of the csua lists.  Most of you got a
          "Welcome to the CSUA mailing list" email recently because we forgot
          to use the "don't send welcome messages" flag when importing the old
          majordomo lists into the new software.  Sorry.
          \_ jobs@csua migrated.  email jobs-leave@csua to unsubscribe
             yourself from it. -mrauser 9/13/05
        - jvarga

8/19    My root partition is pretty filled up, what are some quick and
        dirty ways to remedy this? I don't know which /var/log files are
        safe to delete, though I'd like to delete unnecessary packages
        like X, etc. How to go about that, safely?
        \_ rm -rf /
        \_ Assuming /tmp is in your / partition and not its own mount point,
           almost anything in /tmp should be safe to delete if you're in
           single-user mode.  In /var/log: if you're not going to be reading
           them, any files with .0-9 at the end (e.g. messages.9 or
           messages.9.gz) are safe to delete.

8/19    Poll: Seehan's peace movement is:
        1: the start of a lasting anti-war movement:
        2: a fleeting summertime story: .
        3: in-between: .
        4: A good place to pick up hippy chix: .
        5: A good place to practice off-road driving: .
        \_ All of the above: .

8/19    More on the gorelick intelligence wall
        http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/19/gorelick-ignorance

8/18    Please comment on the realiability and quality of comcast's internet
        service in Berkeley area.

8/17    The Old Negro Space Program
        "The shocking-but-false story of America's Blackstronauts!"
        http://www.negrospaceprogram.com
        \_ Truly, this is a great link. I especially liked the letter from
           space.
           \_ Yah, that was awesome.    -mice

8/16    OKAY, HERE IT IS [Re: Lt. Col. Shaffer/Able Danger]
        http://corner.nationalreview.com

8/15    In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X it reads "...... Malcolm's
        funeral in Harlem on February 27, 1965 at the Faith Temple Church of
        God in Christ".  Why was Malcom X's funeral held in a church instead of
        a mosque?  Thx.
        \_ If this is genuinely bugging you, I will ask a friend of mine
           who teaches AA history at UCSD. But you have to email me so I can
           know who to send the reply to. -ausman

8/14    Any experts on SFF PCs?  I'm looking for a barebones that has S/Video
        output standard, 4 drive bays in total, and is very quiet, eg. using
        a heat-pipe for CPU cooling.  I seem to be able to find 2 out of 3.
        \_ How is 4 drive bays SFF?  4 drive bays sounds line a mini-tower
           to me.
           \_ There are SFF PCs with 4 bays total, just not ones with both
              other features.  The configuration is usually 1 ext 5.25, 1 ext
              3.5, 2 int 3.5. -op

8/14    To whoever recommended DocBook a short while back, thanks. It
        was exactly what I was looking for. But quick question. What
        is the route you used to generate documents? I'm using DocBook XSL
        with xsltproc and the Apache FOP engine. It works but I wanted to
        know what the recommended way was.
        \_ I made the original suggestion but its been so long
           since I actually used it I don't remember what we used. so I
           don't really have a recommendation. sorry. but good luck. -rory

8/14    This ID vs evolution  debate is kind of like those mysterious
        circular patterns that appear overnight in cornfields.  some
        people tried to find the answer as to what created them in
        some natural phenomenon, while others tried to find out if
        it's some jokers who created them.
        \_ Amusingly, a lot of them turn out to be hoaxes created by bored
           teenagers. -- ilyas
           \_ A lot of them?  Does that mean you think there are non-hoax
              crop circles?
              \_ Well some of them turn out to be hoaxes created by bored
                 farmers in their own fields. Ilya only specified teenagers.
              \_ Lafe, is that you?  Do you know what the phrase 'existential
                 quantifier' means? -- ilyas
           \_ Does that come under the heading of "jokers" or "natural
              phenomenon"?
        \_ I saw a whole TV program where a group that goes around making
           crop circles showed exactly how they do it, with some simple
           tools and lots of free time -- why people can't buy this totally
           obvious explanation is beyond me.

8/12    Does anyone here have any experience with Windows GINA programming?  I
        would love to ask you a few questions.  -John

8/10    Eric Raymond killed in PNG by Jared Diamond
        http://www.head-hunter.com/images/9head.jpg
        \_ pointless garbage

8/11    Own a genuine cthulhu plush doll!
        http://www.kthulhukitsch.com/toys.html  -John
        \_ Okay, that's pretty darned cool.  Thanks for the link.

8/10    Does anyone know if it's possible to get the show "Wonder Years"
        on DVD?

8/10    OH-58D surveillance video from iraq of...people fucking in a car.
        Definitiely SFW if you use headphones.
        http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2675854
        \_ I click on "Watch Now!", and a window pops up and disappears right
           away.  No video.  Same in both Fx and IE.
           \_ Are you using another pop-up blocker? Try holding down Ctrl
              when you click on Watch Now!