4/1     Yay! We're running out of oil.
        http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d5213f46-a21a-11d9-8483-0000e2511c8.html

4/1     Okay, you got your commodities pullback.  Now it's going back up.

3/31    Fully mechanized bot, shooting 48 40mm grenades at enemies. Now you
        can serve at the comfort of your seat. It's like playing video games.
        \_ what do you do about tk'ers?
        \_ combine this with the remote hunting setup and we can have armchair
            soldiers!

3/31    [commentless url excised]

3/31    Nearly every metal object in my office keeps zapping me with static
        charges every other time I touch it. Is there something wrong with
        me or my office?
        \_ Your carpets could just suck, check the soles of your shoes (I
           think leather is a bit better), maybe the humidity is too low,
           or maybe it's the CIA brain implant malfunctioning.  -John
        \_ Hold a key or a coin and use it to touch other metal objects before
           you touch them with bare hards.
        \_ Make sure to include some pins in your tinfoil hat, pointing outward.
           The sharp points will dissipate the static charge back into the
           air for you.
        \_ There could be problems with the grounding in the office.

3/31    Is there a PDF reader installed on soda like xpdf or acroread?

3/31    Alan Dundes dies
        \_ Who?
        \_ famous Cal folklore professor, maybe you had a class with him. - danh

3/30    Has anyone else had a monitor that makes a really high pitched noise?
        I changed the refresh from 75 Hz to 85 Hz and it stopped, though.
        \_ It most likely means one of your caps is bad. Take it back to
           manufacturer for a replacement. If out of warranty open it up
           and find out which cap is singing. Get a replacement cap from
           Radio Shack or Digikey if it's a rare one. You'll need to be
           semi-decent at soldering if the singing cap is on a multilayer
           PCB to prevent burning the pad ring off.
           BTW, it WILL get worse over time.
           \_ #include <be_careful_dont_kill_yourself.h>
           \_ Are you giving out advice on how to kill the original poster?
              Do not fix it yourself, please.
           \_ That's okay, I wasn't planning on fixing it anyway. The monitor
              is like 6 or 7 years old now, but I was just wondering. Thanks.
        \_ Maybe the noise doesn't stop when you changed from 75Mz to 85Hz,
           and it just goes beyond the auditable range which is about 20Hz
           - 20kHz.
        \_ Is the monitor a trinitron (apeture grill) tube?  It could be
           "trinitron whine", as the horizontal wires holding the grill
           grow loose and the wires resonate with the electron beam.
           Noisy but not a physical problem:  Give the monitor to
            your parents who don't have high frequency hearing anymore.

3/30    Is it ethical to read the motd at work? What if I work for the
        evil empire?
        \_ You mean microsoft?
        \_ Dude, we all work for evil empires.
           \_ Not me, I work for the angel of light.
              \_ What, you work for Dubya?
        \_ Ethical? It's MANDATORY!

3/30    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000740038020
        Fake ATMs. Apparently, other countries have even more sophisticated
        scams (read the comments!)
        \_ These have been around for about 2 years.  A couple of years back
           in the NE US some guys put entire fake ATMs in a few shopping
           centers to harvest card info.  A more common one here consisted
           of Romanian gangs just hooking a truck up to an ATM and yanking
           it out of its housing (not attacking the customer but the machine
           itself.)  In fact, ramming burglaries and the likes were a huge
           problem in a lot of Europe over the last 3-4 years, which is why
           you see big concrete blocks or stones in front of a lot of
           jewelery stores and banks here.  -John

3/30    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000717038088
        "Cingular tops in consumer complaints"

3/29    If a couple elopes, do you still get them a (nice) present?
        \_ Are you a friend, and want to get them something?  Or a parent
           who's really fucking pissed about it?
           \_ Are there motd-active sodans with kids that old?
              \_ No, no one here who is older than class of '89 or so, tbmk.
                 (Well, except johnr, but I doubt he posts here). -alexf
           \_ Some parents actually encourage the sprogs to elope to avoid
              all the hassle.  -John
        \_ nope.
        \_ If you are close to them, yes. If you're unsure, don't worry
           about it.
           \_ If you got a friend a nice present the first time he/she got
              married, do you have to get them a present the second time...
              can it be less nice?
              \_ Giving a present *is* optional.  Do whatever you want.
                 \_ You are too dumb to give advice.  Try again in a few
                    years.

3/29    What's a good place (very trustworthy, okay prices) to order computer
        parts these days?  I'm looking for a place similar to B&H for photo
        gear.  Thanks.
        \_ ah, newegg? next question! ;)
           \_ Seconded.  Big selection, low prices, and no funny business.

3/28    Anyone know of a linux program to view MS project files?

3/28    So who's going to heaven first, Terri or the Pope?
        \_ Is this a trick question?  I always figured that Popes actually
           go to hell.
        \_ I think they are both stuck coming back here.

3/28    I am a liberal, but I have sided with the parents in the
        Schiavo's case. From what I've gathered, I just don't trust
        the husband and what he's saying. My blessing goes to Terri
        and her parents for what they have to go through. May her rest
        in peace. I wish she had married someone better.
        \_ Yep.  It's not a political struggle, but the commentators have made
           it one.

3/27    And now an easter message for you:
        http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=crucifictionbrblol0018xc.jpg

3/27    how do i be
        "Daniel Holliman" <danh@csua.berkeley.edu>
        when using /usr/bin/mail - danh?
        \_ I think mail uses the gecos field in /etc/passwd,
           so you would have to change that info. You might
           be able to use the env var REPLYTO change your
           reply to addr though.

3/27    Ward Churchill yesterday, with that sign guy:
        http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/03/1729781.php - danh

3/26    Someone please recommend a good shareware that displays slide shows
        and gives you decent transitions, etc? And flexibility, like showing
        certain GIFs in the morning (weather, traffic) and showing family
        pictures at night? -ok thx
        \_ xv + cron + imagemagick

3/26    Terri Bleeding From Eyes and Mouth
        http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/26/80255.shtml
        \_ I wonder if all the people who talk about starving to death as
           peaceful are referring to the elderly who simply stop eating and
           drinking as they near death?  It seems to me the body naturally
           shutting down is different than yanking a feeding tube. -emarkp
           \_ All the more reason to allow physician-assisted suicide.
           \_ Feeding tubes are considered an "extraordinary measure," and
              are a recent (1970s) innovation.  Though different than a
              respirator, the outcome is essentially the same - the person
              cannot live without the machine.  FWIW, Schiavo will die from
              dehydration long before she dies of starvation.

3/26    i feel like asking congress to trim a few lines off of the motd.
        \_ Don't make me file an appeal to the USSC, punk.  The motd has a
           right to exist in its current state.
        \_ Make sure they buy you a calendar, too!

3/24    T. Rex soft tissue found:
        http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683
        \_ CLONE THE BITCH!  They can always replace the missing bits with
           frog DNA or something.

3/24    Would people be interested in a mailing list for all the finance
        related opinions?
        \_ You should name it:
           i-want-to-be-like-martha-list
        \_ how about be-like-martha-list?

3/26    Can LCDs be transparent, without the back whitelight? I'm asking
   \_ Wrong date dumbass
        because I think it would be REALLY cool if you can layer one
        transparent LCD after another. And if would be cool if there is
        an eye focus webcam that can track your eyes and make whatever
        layer you're looking at brighter than the other LCDs. Someday...
        \_ try google Organic LED (OLED)
        \_ Wouldn't it be even better if it can bring the layer you're looking
           at to the front instead of just making it brighter?  Oh wait, it
           already exists.  It's called windowing GUI, and it requires one LCD.

3/24    I deleted all my porn!
        \_ how many GIGs did you have?
        \_ needed more room for warez?

3/26    Can LCDs be transparent, without the back whitelight? I'm asking
        because I think it would be REALLY cool if you can layer one
        transparent LCD after another. And if would be cool if there is
        an eye focus webcam that can track your eyes and make whatever
        layer you're looking at brighter than the other LCDs. Someday...
        \_ try google Organic LED (OLED)
        \_ Wouldn't it be even better if it can bring the layer you're looking
           at to the front instead of just making it brighter?  Oh wait, it
           already exists.  It's called windowing GUI, and it requires one LCD.

3/26    This reminds me of my marriage:
        http://www.yirmumah.net
        \_ Yuck

3/23    Araft was killed by an Israeli laser attack!
        http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=124651
        \_ He was poisoned by the laser attack.  Yeah right.
        \_ They blinded him with science.

3/23    Terri's bone scan the day of her accident
        http://www.earnedmedia.org/bonescan.htm
        \_ Oh, noes! Her husband was a bad man! Or, wait, did her parents
           beat her? Let's save her from her evil oppressors who have sat
           by her side for the last 15 years!!!!
        \_ seems like pretty damning evidence.  another scott peterson
           \_ I guess I'm fairly dumb, I don't know what this says.
        \_ So you think this escaped the attention of the courts for years
           and years?  Could it instead be a result of her being bulimic?

3/21    Where is ilyas? I need my daily dosage of idiocy and humour.

3/21    [Can someone recommend a motd formatter?]
        \_ emacs

3/12    Is that Hootie in those KFC commercials???
        \_ yup.
        \_ Hootie was in there? I was distracted by Brooke Burke
        \_ Don't you mean the Burger King commerical?
           \_ Are Brooke's real or fake?
              \_ she's married to a "cosmetic" surgeon
              \_ before or after I denied her sex? -tjb
                 \_ Haha! Wrong Brooke, but clever!

3/20    Has anyone tried Zinio? Does it let you keep magazines forever or do
        they expire? Can you print pages or *share* Zinio files?  -ok thx
        \_ i have magazines that don't seem to expire. it appears they are
           printable, though i haven't actually done it. not too sure about
           sharing. overall, it's not too bad, though the viewer is pretty
           resource intensive.

3/20    I am a little Chinese.
        \_ Time to eat more rice.

3/18    Videos of Terri Schiavio, who some want to starve to death.
        http://johnsipos.com/terrivideos

3/18    Advice for you dans-- motd less and ye shall find more work done.
        \_ Thanks.  My work is coming along just fine, thank you very much.
           -dans

3/18    Cleaning your computer may cut down temperature by 15 degrees:
        http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000983030814
        \_ Why people don't just use a vacume cleaner to suck the dust
           out? I do that every now and then and it works well and the
           dust doesn't end up somewhere else.

3/17    In MS Word, how do I change the bib (endnotes) so that it'll display
        [1], [2], etc instead of the default? -ok thx
        \_ Try "format bibliography" icon

3/17    How would you like a forged Koran?
        http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050315-093931-9304r.htm
        \_ I thought you said forged Korean.
        \_ I kind of thought the koran was sort of "open source"?

3/16    williamc you ARE a god. Which law school do you go to? -williamc #1 fan
        \_ Very amusing. If you really want to know post your email.

3/16    Does any-one here hyphen-ate 'hip hop'?
        \_ Yes, unless I'm being lazy.
        \_ Yes I do.
        \- I hyphenate it as "loud annoying music that seeks for bullets" or
           "obnoxious music that represents the low lifes who listen to it"
           \_ You haven't found the right hip hop.
           \_ I think I found your prunes.

3/16    Who were/are the best CS/EECS Collegiate Athletes?
        \_ I am!  I can do two push-ups in a row!  (Cough cough)
           \_ Those are girl pushups, son.
        \_ Patrick Sagisi went to two Olympics for Guam in swimming.

3/16    Does anyone here hyphenate 'hip hop'?
        \_ Yes, unless I'm being lazy.

3/16    Why do messages with subject lines containing: [SPAM:XXXXXXXXX]
        make it though Spam Assasin?
        \_ Because everything goes through SA.  That looks like it was
           tagged by SA, so that you could handle it properly.

3/15    Brian Nichols worked eight years for Hewlett-Packard, making roughly
        "six figures" annually. "He's a smart person."

3/15    Would you watch the 49ers if Aaron Rodgers plays with them?
        \_ The who if the what now?
           \_ CS geeks are not sports geeks too?
        \_ I don't think Rodgers will succeed if he goes to the 49ers, but
           not to worry, I think it's highly unlikely the 49ers draft him.
           (They'd have to pay #1 QB money).  -tom
           \_ they will have trouble trading down in this draft.
              Rodgers will do well in two years.
              \_ not without an O-line or defense.  The 49ers have much more
                 pressing needs than QB.  -tom
                 \_ It'd be kind of cool if he ends up on the Dolphins.
                    They have a lot of the same problems on the o-line as the
                    49ers, but at least they have a decent coach and an owner
                    who'll shell out the bucks if need be.
             \_ I want Rodgers to go to the Niners so we can watch him
                play in person.  O-Line will be improved.
        \_ I think Rodgers needed one more year under Tedford. I see him almost
           like Kyle Boller, struggling for awhile.

3/14    how do i suck something out of an itunes share?
        \_ getTunes.
        \_ ourTunes
        \_ Blue Coconut

3/13    iptables v.s. pf
        Which is better?

3/13    So how expensive is your daily nicotine habit?
        \_ Nicotine free:  ....
        \_ $0:  .........
        \_ 25 cents: .
                \_ That's not bad.
        \_ 2nd hand smoke is free

3/13    MMC Gunner's Palace - watch, wait for dvd, or skip?

3/12    Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy -- link:tinyurl.com/5few9
        \_ not work safe, but then again, why are you working on a weekend?

3/12    If you or anybody you know took EE 123 here in Fall 1993, could you
        email me? Specifically interested in that course, that semester
        only (long story). -alexf@cs (yes, very random question, but the
        motd is the only place I can think of where I'd have even a tiny
        chance of finding someone who did)

3/11    Berkeley Critical Mass 12th Birthday is TODAY!
        http://www.berkeleycriticalmass.org
        \_ Someone should run those hippies over with their SUV.

3/10    I'm looking for a spider program for Windows that is free and at least
        semi user-friendly.  The idea is to download the latest from my
        favorite sites for offline viewing later.  Any suggestions?

3/10    Just got Ohio Players "Fire". Yowza.

3/9     Get the UN out of US!
        http://www.moveamericaforward.org/?Page=AdCampaign
        \_ So we can finally be the Ited States!
        \_ Get that ugly ass shade of blue and red off your page!
        \_ "We're the John Birch Society, help us swell the ranks
           To get this movement started, we need lots of tools and cranks"

3/9     Best place to get inexpensive eyeglasses?
        \_ Korea
           \_ I meant, in the Bay Area.
        \_ http://www.zennioptical.com
           \_ thanks.  but how do you buy glasses online?  Don't you want
              to check how it fits, how it looks on you?
              \_ Bah.  We're nerds.  We don't have to look good.
                 \_ The line has to be drawn somewhere.  I drew it with the
                    glasses frames that my graduate advisor sarcastically called
                    "sporty".  I had gotten the cheapest frames lensecrafters
                    offered, and after than I went and got real frames from a
                    real place.

3/8     500K+ protest in Lebanon AGAINST Syrian withdrawal, when are they
        covering this on the front page of http://cnn.com?

3/8     Anyone seen john or know where he is? He hasn't logged in for a while
        \_ He posted on the motd just yesterday.

3/7     Favorite interjection(s)?
        Fuck!: .
        ASIAN!: /
        Nertz!: .
        D'oh!:
        Eek!:
        w00t: ..
        Racist!:
        \_ % webster interjection
           [... snip ...]
           1 a : the act of uttering exclamations : EJACULATION
           \_ They're usually set apart from the sentence by an exclamation
              point, or by a comma if the feeling's not as strong.
              \_ After interjection, an exclamation point becomes a comma.
              \_ In-ter-ject-ion!  Thanks for the School House Rock flashback.

3/7     Stormtrooper push it (work safe, well, uh, yeah.)
        http://www.fuckyouanddie.com/pics/16073768.swf
        \_ interesting for about 5 seconds
           \_ Well, considering it's a 1 second video on loop, I'd say 5
              seconds is pretty good.

3/6     The Geek Hierarchy - what do you guys think?
        http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif
        \_ I think you're two years behind the times.

3/4    Dear egwall, of all the anonymous cowards who attacked emarkp, you're
       the only person who stood out and signed your name. You have a lot of
       guts standing up for your belief knowing that you'll be ridiculed over
       and over again by a stubborn, annoying religious crackhead. It takes a
       lot of guts & faith to do that, and I respect that a lot in a man.
       egwall, you're one fine man in my book, and you're totally cool.

3/4     I thought soda was going down soon?
        \_ Just like yermom.

3/3     [anonymous comment to anonymous person deleted] -emarkp

3/4     What kind of devices (cheap?) can I use to measure the radiation
        level from stone things like granite counter tops, etc?
        \_ Geiger Counter

3/2     [repeated troll aggressively deleted]

3/3     Wow, another government bureaucracy, spinning out of control:
        http://csua.org/u/b8n
        \_ "wow"?  You're surprised?

3/2     [anonymous troll deleted] -emarkp
        \_ Eerr.. that wasn't exactly anonymous. -jrleek
           \_ It wasn't signed, and the link it went to takes any string.
              Looked anonymous to me. -emarkp

3/2     BTW, about the Knuth lectures about CS & God...you can still listen to
        them free online:
        http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=50

3/2     Is there a standard network format for floats?  Perhaps the IEEE
        network standard?

3/1     When specifying a URL which ends a sentence, do you have to put
        a "." at the end?
        Example:
                The sentence ends with a http://csua.berkeley.edu
        \_ Yes.
        \_ I do it, but if you worry about parsing, you can use <>, like this:
                The sentence ends with a http://csua.berkeley.edu.

3/1     Hey sl0dans!  Did you know that Paul Wolfowitz and Carly Fiorina are
        leading contendors for the UN World Bank job?  Go Dubya!
        \_ I'd pick Wolfowitz over Fiorina on any given day.

3/1     This comic summarizes Harvard U. President Summers' comments on
        women in the sciences better than any of the articles I've read:
        http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=18634
        \_ Science giving way to policics.
           \_ panel 5
              \_ Ah yes, political correctness cancelling itself out.

3/1     How do I subscribe to the RSS feed of the motd?
        \_ email me. --peterl
           \_ Ooooh!  Is this a SUPER secret?

2/28    Jef Raskin, R.I.P.

2/28    Jeff Raskin, R.I.P.

2/28    What paper format is the standard in China? Do they use the ISO A
        paper formats, US Letter (unlikely), or something else? My Google
        fu on this is weak. Thanks.
        \_ My educated guess would be they use ISO A format. It's unlikely they
           will follow the US format when they use ISO for everything else.
        \_ The stand office page size is a4.

2/27    For those interested in the Dark Matter Galaxy. Here is the paper
        describing it:
        http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/galaxies/dark.pdf
        The research group's webpage is located at:
        http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/galaxies/latestnews.html

2/26    I just thought of a great SAT question.  "Which is not like the
        others?" And have 2 selections and 'none of the above'.  Is that too
        evil?
        \_ no, that's just not a good question

2/25    For those of you old enouogh to remember the 80's: Fry's has
        Macgyver Season 1 on sale for $20. The Fry's on Arques still
        has several copies left.
        \_ My wife and I watched the whole run on USA several months ago.  Best
           TV show ever.
           \_ Your wife's name wouldn't be Aunt Selma, would it?

2/25    Looking for mid-level desktop support.  If interested, email resume to
        resumes@goodvibes.com
        \_ $14/hr?  Do you get "other" benefits?
           \_ It's $14.07/hr
           \_ Wow, that's like what, $30,000 per year?
              \_ With the current Social Security system, you will have lost
                 $3,651/month versus private accounts!  You would have had
                 $700,148 in your private account when you retired!
                 \_ Actually, with private investing getting around $700,000
                    is not exactly hard. I'm not saying you'll get that much
                    just sticking it in a bond market fund at 3.25%, but if
                    you invest wisely you can easily get that if you dump
                    around $100,000 in a well balanced portfolio for 30
                    odd years, as long as you are willing to ride the dips
                    with the rises in the S&P.

2/25    w00t!

2/23    [duplicate deleted]

2/23    [anonymous claims of jwang nuking stuff deleted] -not jwang
        \_ This claim is backed up by my logger:
           http://csua.berkeley.edu/~kchang/intellidiff
           Every time there's a massive deletion, jwang's name's on it.
           This phenomenon has been recorded for several months. HOWEVER,
           I support his actions because he cleans up political trolls.
           \_ There is NO DOUBT that jwang possesses weapons of mass
              destruction!
              \_ WMD related program activities.
                 \_ jwang and kchang have formed an axis of evil.
                  \_ well I don't consistently nuke stuff like jwang does. I
                     do praise him for his efforts.

2/23    jwang, please stop nuking anti-conservative stuff.
        \_ are you're not just noticing his scripts that parse
           the wall_log for the web pages?  get a clue.
           \_ they deal with wall, not motd.

2/23    Apparently Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be shot out of a cannon,
        per his request.
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7018054
        \_ that's almost as cool as a Viking funeral. - danh
           \_ According to Ralph Steadman, the cannon is supposed to be
              100 feet of chromed steel with a big red "gonzo fist" on top.
        \_ I recall an Iain Banks book ("The Firm") where one of their high
           level guys has himself set up on a Viking long boat on a Scottish
           lake when he dies, and the whole thing is packed with explosives
           and ignited via flaming arrow.  Then there's this:
           http://tinyurl.com/6hgm6  Whatever, it all rocks.  -John

2/22    I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's ever subcontracted through
        SAIC--I have a few questions regarding their contracts.  -John

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2/22    In light of the topic below, are there motd'ers not involved in a
        tech field?
        \_ you mean science and tech? or tech?  There are 3 scientists below.
                \_ just tech. -op
        \_ Does biology count?  How about publishing?
        \_ Does patent law count at "tech"? That's what I'll be doing when
           I get out of LS.
           \_ No.

2/22    Poll for sysadmins: which mail server do you use?
        sendmail: ..
        \_ On work boxes where we use it for stupid historical reasons: .
        qmail:
        postfix: ..
        \_ On my boxes where I have a choice: .
        exim:
        Communigate Pro: .

2/22    I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's ever subcontracted through
        SAIC--I have a few questions regarding their contracts.  -John

2/21    What's the difference between T-showers and T-Storms? I can't decode
        http://weather.com. This rain is driving me nuts!!!
        \_ A T-Storm might not have rain.

2/19    Remember when the Congress changed the name of French Fries
        to "Freedom Fries"? Did they ever change the name back or
        do they still call them that in the House cafeteria?

2/19    Simple request to whoever maintains the "wall" program: Add in
        the timezone of the waller into the date format.
        \_ aaron used to be the wall keeper (back in 1997 he modified the
           binary to make it output funny messages). He no longer maintains
           the wall binary and the wall archive. RIP lwall.

2/18    zbgq erfgberq nsgre fbzr wnpxnff hfrq ebg13 ba vg.

2/18    motd restored after some jackass used rot13 on it.

2/18    Home directory symlinks (like /accounts/user and /home/u/user) now use
        relative pathnames, rather than absolute ones.  This shouldn't cause
        any problems, but please let me know if anything goes wrong.  --mconst

2/17    I have a Henckels forged paring knife and a while back I accidentaly
        bent the last 1" of blade about 5 degrees while cutting some frozen
        food.  Do you think a professional knife sharpener could fix this?  The
        cutting edge itself is fine (except for the slight bend).
        \_ Sounds to me like you damaged your knife while using it for
           something it wasn't meant for.  You can always try to get it
           replaced or repaired, but don't be too offended if you get
           turned down.  Henckels paring knife is what, $30-40?
           \_ I know I can get another one, but this one works fine so I can't
              justify throwing it away.  It'd just be nice to have it
              'good as new'.
        \_ Henckels are expensive but can't you just get a replacement
           knife (not the entire set) just by itself?
           \_ Certainly, but that's ~$45.
           \_ Certainly, but that's $35.
        \_ I don't see why not.  Pliers -> bend, then fix whatever bits were
           marred in the process.
           \_ Or just wrapped it in a towel, then bend.
        \_ doesn't henckels knives come with lifetime warranty?
           \_ Yes, but would this sort of damage be covered?

2/16    Motd poll -- favorite metasyntactic variable:
        i: .
        foo: .
        bar:
        baz:
        garply:
        corge: .
        qux:
        quux:
        waldo:
        fred:
        thud:
        grault:
        yermom: .

2/16    Lance Armstrong to be allowed to win again! doesn't he
        get it yet that they are letting him win?
        \_ Huh?

2/16    http://www.beautifulagony.com
        Not quite porn and not quite, uh, not
        \_login/password?
        \_ HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Authorization Required

2/15    My search foo is weak:  XP Pro comes with one free "CAL" for
                  \_ your spelling fu is also weak.
                     \_ Even worse, his geek fu is weak.
        terminal services. How much do extra ones cost and where can I buy?

2/15    Red Hat Enterprise 4 released today
        \_ but no season 4 for enterprise
           \_ you mean 5

2/14    Why isn't there a day for single, unattached people?
        \_ "Every day is single people's day!"
           \_ Don't you really mean that every day is couple's day?
              \_ It is at my house anyway.   RAARROOW.
        \_ There is a day for single unattached people. Its July 4th.
           INDEPENDENCE DAY.

2/12    What should I expect to pay to CoLo a box with 50GB/mo traffic?
        \_ get with the times, foolio, and use the power of the Internet.

2/11    http://www.independentscientist.com
        Fascinating.  Doing science without federal funding.
        \_ what is fascinating about a wing nut?
           \_ I don't know, but it keeps me coming back to the motd.

2/11    What is the correct word in the phrase: "in a similar vein" or
        "in a similar vain"?
        \_ vein.
                \_ Thanks. -op

2/10    Arthur Miller, RIP.
        \_ Why do you hate McCarthyism?

2/10    I have a scream speech, v 2.0 by H. Dean
        eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaarggggghhhh!!!!!
        starts at around 41 minute mark
        rtsp://video.c-span.org/mdrive/rwh031603.rm

2/9     Jimmy Smith, king of the B-3 organ, RIP.
        \_ There is another!  Look up Mambo Kurt.  This guy rocks the house!
           Sort of.  If you've never seen a nerdy guy in polyester really get
           down on a Hammond organ, you haven't tasted life!  -John
           \_ Jack MacDuff is another one.  -tom
        \_ Just kicked on "Root Down" in iTunes in memorium.
                                                   \_ memoriam -motd latin nazi
                                           Why, you little eichmann, you! _/

2/9     There is a God! Carly Fiorina out at HP!

2/9     I watched the Tabasco ad that someone posted earlier, and I don't get
        it.
        \_ tabasco sauce is so hot it gave her a sunburn. yeah, dorky.
                \_ It gave her a sunburn on the INSIDE of her suit!
                   \_ that's only cuz she was wearing a tabasco bra.
                   \_ Got it!  Thanks!

2/8     Will the iBooks ever get the scrolling trackpad (two-point)?
        \_ Perhaps in April, but more likely it will in the fall.
           \_ Where did you find this? Are you inside Apple?
        \_ Don't all PCs already do this in SW? --apple user
           \_ obOneButtonMouseRant

2/8     ilyas, shame on you for posting a 15K political troll from January 8th
        \_ Get a life kchang. -- ilyas
          \_ Get a life both luz3rs. -- !ilyas !kchang
        \_ SHALOM ilyas, do you nkow the lyrics to Eight Little Candles?
        \_ Can't we all just get along?

2/8     Hey ilyas, do you play with dreidel? Do you know the lyrics to
        Eight Little Candles? How about Five Little Latkes? Let's LightThe
        Menorah?

2/7     Does anyone have an archive of the Boondocks strip where he accuses
        someone of being of "terrorist descent" ? TIA.
        \_ look in http://www.livejournal.com/community/boondocks_comic

2/5     Did anyone catch SNL tonight and know the name of that second
        song by the guest band, Keane (sp?) ?

3/2     I just got a spam which contained this body (and a bunch of HTML)
        "Our only aim is to get more money into own pocket at the end of
         each month" I thought it was refreshingly honest.

3/2     Bottom 50 blogs
        http://www.chickenhead.com/bottom50/blogs.asp

2/2     Conservatism is winning, hoooray!!! Down with immoral people.
        http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/02/nude.juice.bar.ap/index.html

2/2     Mardi Gras parade in Berkeley on FAT TUESDAY, Feb. 8
        http://www.berkeleymardigras.org

2/1     Who is the best dressed sodan?
        \_ Individual instance, or weighted daily average?
        \_ John, but he is European. -ausman
           \_ Thanks :) But Jim, I thought you knew me at Cal... -John

2/1     Wow, http://drudgereport.com really cracks me up.  Work safe.
        Really, you should go check.
        \_ That's awesome.
           \_ You've obviously never served.
              \_ Has ANYONE on the motd served?
                 \_ ObYerMom
                 \_ Why do you hate America?
                 \_ The answer to that is: Yes.
        \_ I wasted precious seconds of my life.
        \_ yeah "john adams" is really a unique name.
           \_ That's just an alias.  His real name is Cody.
        \_ All I see is the pope...

2/1     Jesus Christ, why don't you guys just restore it yourself instead of
        bickering here and there.
        \_ If I wanted to be non-lazy, I would be doing real work instead of
           messing around on the motd.

\_ If you're going to write anything that long, put it somewhere else, and just
   link to it.
\_ Who keeps posting this crap, and why?
   \_ What do you mean?  This is the best thing that's been on the motd in
      months.  Or would you rather we have two pages of bickering about The
      Ilyas Doctrine?

2/1     I wonder if they serve Freedom Fries?
        http://www.freedomstavern.com/home.htm

1/31    Any place still give out free fax numbers?
        \_ http://efax.com still gives out incoming-only fax # with 20 pages /
           month limit.

1/30    jwang, what is your problem? Why are you nuking out of order?
        \_ jwang's been deleting political trolls, you should thank him

1/30    Is there a limit to how many characters I can have on a single line
        in my .procmailrc before it doesn't work?

1/30    Interesting work from JHU re RFID chips used in cars:
        http://rfidanalysis.org

1/29    Man pees his way out of avalanche:
        http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu
        \_ This is so 3 days ago
           \_ This is so 2 days ago.

1/29    Anyone skiied lately? How's the snow? Powdery? Icy?
        Did the rainpour from 2 weeks ago help?
        \_ Yellow.  See below.

1/28    I've never been to Hooters, is it similar to South Park's raisin
        girls? Where they flirt with the guys in the restaurant and
        occasionally sing/dance?
        \_ I don't know about raisin girls, but at hooters there is
           no singing, dancing, or flirting. many of the girls even
           aren't that hot.
           \_ I got flirted with while I was at Hooters, but I am
              probably a lot better looking than you.
                \_ post your picture bitch
              \_ You do realize that it's part of their job to be friendly
                 with customers, yes?  They'll flirt with ugly-ass stinky
                 people even if they have no interest or intention of
                 following up.  Just so ya know, kid.
                 \_ I'm guessing that the quantity of flirtage is a strong
                    function of the size of expected tip.  Ugly guy
                    with fancy watch and suit will get more flirtage.
                    \_ Yes and no. This is like being at a strip club.
                       Young and rich is better than old and rich. Imagine
                       if you were paid $20 to kiss someone. Wouldn't you
                       care who they were or would you kiss everyone and
                       make more money that way? Most people do care at
                       least a little bit.

1/28    How can I get my zsh prompt to use bright colors but NOT bold font?

1/28    Did anyone from Math 128A get their socrates account yet?
        \_ wow, we have a non-alum posting on motd! That is amazing!!!

1/26    http://khaaan.com
        \_ no description, to be deleted in the next 5 min...
          \_ In this case, the URL is the description.

1/27    Can someone explain why we have /usr/include/netinet/*.h
        as well as /usr/include/linux/*.h, some files seem very
        similar with same structs but occasionally with different
        fields names?
        \_ /usr/include/linux may be for the freebsd linux compatibility.

1/26    http://khaaan.com  This URL is almost self explanatory: it's Kirk
        yelling "khaaaaan!", with graphics.  worksafe, but it has sound.
        \_ no description, to be deleted in the next 5 min...

1/26    Mr. Twig South Park torrent site doesn't let me download the
        .torrent files anymore. Got suggestions?

1/26    That was most intense and signal-laden political debate I've seen
        on the motd. Glad to know we're not all just a bunch of troglodytes.

1/25    Hey morons--it's still the 25 of Jan.
        \_ Maybe it is where you are.

1/25    Lesbian lesbian lesbian lesbian lesbian

1/26    Least likely to get opened spam email subject:
        "over 98 but lesbian"
        \_ Is it from Japan?  98 might be 98cm bust.

1/25    John, what happened to the Heil Cherman John Guy? Did you physically
        threaten or harm him?
        \_ Threaten, cajole, mock, but I think he just got bored.  -John

        [Mostly restored, fucker]
        \_ ONLY FREEPER TOPICS ARE ALLOWED ON THE MOTD
           ALL LIBERAL TOPICS WILL BE PURGED
           FOR THE EMPEROR!
        \_ Isn't that thread from yesterday?  Political posts have a half-life
           of about half a day, and trolls less than that.
           \_ I applaud whoever's deleting dirty political posts. Please
              keep the motd the way it used to be many years ago-- pristine,
              with mostly technical and useful stuff.
              \_ I too, would prefer to be ignorant. Please delete any
                 posts that you think I might not like.

1/24    What is a good international callback service?

1/24    http://www.homestarrunner.com/systemisdown.html
        \_ So 3 years ago.

1/23    ilyas, do you believe in meritocracy?
        \_ Are you asking whether he believes on exists, or whether
           he likes them?
           \_ I think Ilyas believes in philosopher kings.
        \_ Nah. -- ilyas
        \_ I believe in mediocrity! -troll