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1 root 1.431 "Logic has made me hated among men"
2     — Peter Abelard
3     %
4     A man said to the universe:
5     "Sir I exist!"
6     "However," replied the universe,
7     "The fact has not created in me
8     A sense of obligation."
9     - Steven Crane
10     %
11     He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
12    
13     He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
14    
15     He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
16    
17     He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
18    
19     – Sanskrit Saying
20     %
21     [anonymised discussion]
22     AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
23     Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
24     %
25     [http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
26    
27     Additions to the WGL Specification
28    
29     First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
30     existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
31     appear.
32     %
33     "All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
34     sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
35     - Douglas Adams
36     %
37     I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
38     [http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
39     %
40     “A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
41     lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
42     %
43     "This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
44     in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
45     - footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
46     http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
47     %
48     Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
49     %
50     "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
51     - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
52     President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
53     Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
54     Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
55     %
56     It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
57     programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
58     or her career.
59     [http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
60     %
61     It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
62     as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
63     Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
64     %
65     I LOVE YOU
66     ["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
67     %
68     General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
69     the air impeller.
70    
71     Alan Cox
72     %
73     "I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
74     with a minimum computer science background."
75     %
76     From: Eric Sosman
77     Newsgroups: comp.std.c
78     Subject: Re: about graphics
79    
80     prince wrote:
81     > how to get command over graphics in c language?
82    
83     #include <stdio.h>
84     int main(void) {
85     puts("graphics\rcommand");
86     return 0;
87     }
88     %
89     I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
90     amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
91     wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
92     detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
93     %
94     [Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
95    
96     While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
97     it still is a constant-time attack.
98     %
99     "Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
100     -- Karl Joseph Simrock
101     %
102     From: David Damerell
103    
104     Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
105     >Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
106     >caps to make it different.
107    
108     Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
109     painful but will take less typing.
110     %
111     Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
112     of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
113     compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
114    
115     Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
116     %
117     From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
118    
119     > The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
120     > free than the BSD.
121     >
122     > Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
123    
124     The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
125     by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
126     %
127     [C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
128    
129     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
130     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
131     from incompatible pointer type
132     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
133     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
134     makes pointer from integer without a cast
135     State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *,
136     struct CV *, struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
137     %
138     The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
139     people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
140     convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
141     rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
142     not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
143     by society to accomplish certain specific things.
144    
145     [Chandon Seldon]
146     %
147     [Wikipedia]
148     Differences between vi and Emacs
149    
150     The neutrality of this article is disputed.
151     %
152     [lost the reference]
153     Remember that openssl is generally the upper
154     bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
155     %
156     "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
157     to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
158     elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
159     %
160     [aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
161    
162     Subject: Re: fcrack help
163     From: puezalb024@aol.com
164     Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
165     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
166     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
167    
168     well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
169     ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
170     have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
171     working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
172     your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
173     yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
174     piss on your leg.
175    
176     ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
177     maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
178     spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
179    
180     [then, a day later]
181    
182     Subject: Re: fcrack help
183     From: puezalb024@aol.com
184     Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
185     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
186     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
187    
188     just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
189     aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
190     your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
191     previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
192     all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
193     quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
194     response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
195     fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
196     copies n post em on your walls too buddy
197    
198    
199     -----Original Message-----
200     From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
201     To: puezalb024@aol.com
202     Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
203     Subject: Re: fcrack help
204    
205    
206    
207     On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
208     >
209     > ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
210    
211     I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
212    
213     Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
214     I hope you don't object :)
215     %
216     >Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
217     >dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
218    
219     You made my day
220     %
221     [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
222    
223     Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
224     implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
225     the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
226    
227     Linus
228     %
229     The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
230    
231     From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
232    
233     I'll be utterly blunt now and ask this in advance: Are you being an asshole on purpose? If so, please just stop reading now and ignore a person trying t ...
234    
235     [lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
236    
237     As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
238     emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
239     when sending emails to other people:
240     http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
241    
242     [which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
243    
244     [mail quoted with permission btw.]
245     %
246     * k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
247     <k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
248     <brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
249     <k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
250     <brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
251     %
252     I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
253     be used if run as administrator in windows.
254    
255     Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
256     %
257     [on italy]
258    
259     #24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
260    
261     @youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
262     majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
263     wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
264     only politicized, but also spectacularized.
265    
266     Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
267     corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
268     by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
269     funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
270     suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
271     on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
272    
273     http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
274    
275     Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
276     during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
277     1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
278     from fascism period.
279    
280     We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
281     cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
282     them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
283     author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
284     song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
285     created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
286     royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
287     they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
288     SIAE.
289    
290     We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
291     code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
292     you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
293     elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
294     explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
295     explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
296     your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
297     electronic ones
298    
299     #25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
300    
301     Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
302     don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
303     (on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
304     CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
305     based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
306     western country.
307    
308     I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
309     very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
310     but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
311     elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
312     deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
313     Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
314     laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
315     innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
316     also the governments of "center-left".
317    
318     Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
319    
320     If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
321     great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
322     without any restriction.
323    
324     Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
325     and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
326     world.
327    
328     Long life to the Bay, forever.
329     Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
330     Thank you for reading.
331     %
332     > > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
333     >
334     > don't even attempt to post a useful comment
335    
336     How very ironic.
337     %
338     With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
339     evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
340     takes religion."
341    
342     --Steve Weinberg
343     %
344     http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
345     %
346     [Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
347     [Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
348     [if you don't understand how valgrind works]
349    
350     "I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
351     solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
352     solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
353     %
354     [From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
355     The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
356     the right tool for me.
357     %
358     [deliantra]
359     02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
360     %
361     I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
362     %
363     cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
364     /wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
365     Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
366     %
367     From the CFA633 datasheet:
368    
369     * Do not eat the LCD panel.
370     %
371     >> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
372     >> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
373    
374     It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
375     actually tells you it's *American*.
376     %
377     [better do not hire this programmer]
378     From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
379     Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
380     Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
381    
382     Hi
383    
384     I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
385     someone here can advise me.
386    
387     I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
388     that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
389     wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
390     dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
391     happens with the customer looking on!!).
392    
393     I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
394     like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
395     on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
396     Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
397     exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
398     corresponding thing in C?
399    
400     Thanks!
401     %
402     [from mozilla 1.7b sources]
403    
404     // See bug 53763.
405     nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
406     nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
407     if (shell) {
408     kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
409     %
410     [the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
411     amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
412    
413     0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
414     0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
415     0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
416     0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
417     0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
418     %
419     (A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
420     zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
421     error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
422     must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
423     “display quality too high”).
424    
425     [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
426     %
427     Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
428    
429     > I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
430     > mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
431    
432     Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
433    
434     x / y * z
435    
436     and
437    
438     x / y * z
439    
440     That'll *never* cause problems, right? :)
441    
442     (To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
443     design decisions.)
444     %
445     endergt:
446     > snoofle:
447     > > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
448     > > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
449     > > you understand what you are doing...
450     >
451     > Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
452    
453     debug
454     %
455     C# is for people who want to have one arm strapped behind their back because it reduces the probability of making a mistake by 50%.
456    
457     Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
458     %
459     Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
460     are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
461     for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
462    
463     Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
464     pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
465     6 Decompilation
466    
467     1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
468     reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
469     of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
470     necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
471     computer program with other programs, provided that the following
472     conditions are met: [...]"
473     %
474     http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
475     %
476     Why Linux Sux ?
477    
478     Easy .
479     Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
480     Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
481     Help : try get help for linux . after exploring tons of sites and forums the help you got is useless . for windows you just call them .
482     Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
483     GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
484     Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
485     Cost : install linux as server ... it is free no ? but you have to pay a sysadmin . or learn a lot . buy a lot of books . using windows ... just click next . if you are not dumb you might make it secure too (reading help does HELP! ) .
486     Virus : due to the fact that windows is so flexible it is logcal to have viruses . afterall the human body has more than a monkeys one .
487     Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
488    
489     You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
490     no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
491     working ones . Screw linux users .
492     %
493     19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
494     19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
495     19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
496     %
497     > The Dell 30"...
498    
499     It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
500     the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
501     %
502     Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
503    
504     > > u don´t use your wealth with responsibility, you only think about yourself and shrug your shoulders with comments like, "we all have the same chance", I´m a selfmade man", "everyone has to take care of themselves".
505     >
506     > yeah, that's why your little brothers decided to save the world - including your grandparents' sorry asses - from hitler, because we think only of ourselves!
507     >
508     > your welcome, pinhead!
509    
510     Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond.
511    
512     1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
513     2. You came into the war very late, and that was strictly for buisness reasons. You need countries to trade with. The true hero in WW2 was actually Russia doing alot more then US ever did, not saying that I support Russia today.
514     3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
515     4. With those retorics you will never learn anything from your own mistakes since you always can go back and talk about your effort 100 years ago.
516     %
517     [discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
518     Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
519     public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
520     %
521     ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
522    
523     Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
524     es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
525     dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
526    
527     Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
528     anderen betriebssystemen.
529    
530     Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
531     auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
532    
533     habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
534     Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
535     Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
536     Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
537     einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
538    
539     Frage?
540     Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
541     Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
542     Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
543    
544     Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
545     %
546     "In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
547     Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
548     of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
549     religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
550     has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
551     and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
552     %
553     19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
554     19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
555     19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
556     19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
557     %
558     What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
559     reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
560    
561     God bless the re-inventers
562    
563     Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
564     what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
565    
566     Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
567    
568     The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
569     one.
570     %
571     [rfc2665]
572     The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
573     Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
574     useful in theory than in practice.
575     %
576     15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
577     15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
578     mit windows zu tun
579     15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
580     15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
581     15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
582     15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
583     15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
584     15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
585     geaendert haben :->
586     15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
587     15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
588     15:30
589     15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
590     15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
591     %
592     [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
593     The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
594     If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
595     %
596     http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
597    
598     Strictly for beginners
599    
600     Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
601     [...]
602     %
603     http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
604     %
605     17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
606     17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
607     17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
608     17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
609     17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
610     17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
611     17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
612     17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
613     17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
614     17:35:48 <elmex> :->
615     17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
616     17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
617     17:36:18 <elmex> uh
618     17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
619     17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
620     17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
621     17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
622     17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
623     17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
624     17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
625     17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
626     17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
627     17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
628     17:40:42 <elmex> lol
629     17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
630     %
631     [A Gentoo User]
632     First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
633     distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
634     doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
635     [...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
636     Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
637     environment and think LFS is to much work.
638     [http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
639     %
640     20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
641     20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
642     20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
643     20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
644     20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
645     20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
646     least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
647     can do
648     20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
649     20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
650     20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
651     20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
652     20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
653     20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
654     %
655     23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
656     23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
657     between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
658     processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
659     times before) and (idiots)
660     23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
661     23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
662     general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
663     out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
664     %
665     [http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
666     Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
667     %
668     [http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
669    
670     Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
671     to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
672     be slow in Windows 2000"
673    
674     In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
675     upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
676     that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
677     %
678     [so much for type-safety]
679     List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
680     lst.add(null);
681     int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
682     %
683     [just for reference]
684     Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
685     kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
686     einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
687     dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
688     weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
689     es nicht.
690    
691     Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
692     lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
693     einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
694     letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
695     hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
696     wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
697    
698     Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
699     war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
700     das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
701     Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
702     Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
703     Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
704     die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
705     mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
706     regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
707     Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
708     man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
709     Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
710     Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
711     verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
712    
713     Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
714     Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
715     anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
716     in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
717     tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
718     verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
719     nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
720    
721     Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
722     mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
723     soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
724     letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
725     krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
726     nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
727     Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
728     Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
729     mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
730     oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
731     leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
732     Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
733     alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
734     anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
735     für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
736     slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
737     alternativ' Idioten!
738    
739     Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
740     Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
741     bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
742     euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
743     war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
744     dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
745     Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
746     ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
747     lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
748     brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
749     Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
750     damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
751     niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
752     Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
753    
754     Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
755     nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
756     Ausgestossenen beitragen!
757    
758     Ich will R A C H E !
759    
760     Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
761     gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
762     Dinge zu sagen:
763    
764     1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
765    
766     Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
767     unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
768     welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
769     diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
770     anfange.
771    
772     2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
773     denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
774     haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
775     dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
776     dieser verdammten schule!
777    
778     Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
779     die Welt zu bieten hat!
780    
781     S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
782    
783     Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
784     was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
785     Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
786     Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
787     allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
788     oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
789     eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
790     Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
791     Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
792     können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
793    
794     S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
795     Einschulung.
796    
797     Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
798     wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
799     Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
800     und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
801     Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
802     wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
803     zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
804     wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
805     Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
806     herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
807    
808     WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
809     SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
810    
811     Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
812     Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
813     müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
814     sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
815     zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
816     sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
817     Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
818     Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
819    
820     Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
821     sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
822     benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
823     Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
824     weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
825     Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
826     Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
827     NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
828    
829     Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
830     ihr dafür bezahlen!
831    
832     Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
833     einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
834     Hand genommen.
835    
836     Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
837     gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
838    
839     Ich bin weg...
840     %
841     01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
842     01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
843     %
844     19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
845     kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
846     wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
847     die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
848     abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
849     19:19 <schmorp> *rofl*
850     19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
851     19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
852     19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
853     19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
854     19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
855     %
856     http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
857     %
858     [http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
859     [The reason I left Perl 6]
860    
861     The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
862     worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
863     bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
864     considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
865     better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
866     %
867     http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
868     %
869     00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
870     00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
871     00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
872     %
873     [very funny read]
874     Hack-a-Bike
875     USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
876     %
877     Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
878     be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
879     Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
880     still can.
881    
882     http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
883     %
884     23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
885     Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
886     Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
887     %
888     [without words]
889     http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
890     %
891     [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
892     We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
893     a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
894     with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
895     actual kid in an actual bath.
896     %
897     Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
898     today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
899     makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
900     may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
901     absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
902     government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
903     what happened to you.
904     %
905     --
906     Markus Schulz
907    
908     A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
909     Q: Why is top posting bad?
910     %
911     On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
912     > 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
913     > due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
914     > important difference.)
915    
916     Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
917     you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
918     implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
919     instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
920     just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
921    
922     - Ted
923     %
924     [http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
925     "I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
926     Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
927     as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
928     Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
929     me, but we have the truth!"
930     %
931     [Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
932     (22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
933     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
934     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
935     %
936     [nethack extinctionist faq]
937     The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
938     tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
939     didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
940     monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
941     other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
942     in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
943     genociding every monster.
944    
945     I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
946     genocide them for good measure!
947     %%
948     [nethack instadeath faq]
949    
950     * eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
951    
952     Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
953     %
954     17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
955     17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
956     17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
957     Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
958     17:58 <Murch> lol
959     %
960     22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
961     %
962     [Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
963     http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
964     %
965     http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
966     %
967     http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
968    
969     There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
970     or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
971     adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
972     %
973     http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
974    
975     At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
976     announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
977     into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
978     the Eastern Time Zone.
979     [...]
980     Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
981     sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
982     allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
983     daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
984     %
985     Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
986    
987     _dl_profile_output
988     = &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
989     %
990     [CRYPTO-GRAM]
991     By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
992     a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
993     watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
994     security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
995     can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
996     that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
997    
998     http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
999     %
1000     [famous last words]
1001     11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by *plonk*?
1002     %
1003     What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1004    
1005     "We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1006    
1007     "They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1008    
1009     --
1010     Jay Hennigan
1011     %
1012     http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1013     %
1014     [latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1015     held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1016     of homeland security]
1017     http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1018     %
1019     "Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1020     seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1021     Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1022     version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1023     are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1024     range of spyware available to us?"
1025    
1026     [http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1027     %
1028     [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1029     00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1030     00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1031     %
1032     <Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1033     to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1034     %
1035     The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1036     http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1037     %
1038     Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1039     did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1040     I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1041     shooter.
1042    
1043     The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1044     done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1045     to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1046     they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1047     opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1048     puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1049    
1050     Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1051     in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1052     Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1053     apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1054     way.
1055    
1056     And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1057     bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1058     key graphic good. Make me happy."
1059    
1060     *shrugs* But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1061     %
1062     > So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1063     > D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1064     > out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1065     > above comment about Hitler).
1066    
1067     I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1068     mention Hitler loses.
1069     %
1070     [siggraph '99 course 12]
1071     Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1072     introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1073     your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1074     can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1075     program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1076     UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1077     including <windows.h>.
1078     [...]
1079     Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1080     but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1081     gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1082     wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1083     programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1084     coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1085     extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1086     environments.
1087     %
1088     http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1089     %
1090     [http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1091     "It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1092     %
1093     [CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1094     [...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1095     computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1096     do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1097     use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1098     advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1099     software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1100     their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1101     companies want to own your computer.
1102    
1103     Some examples:
1104    
1105     1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1106     distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1107     software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1108     secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1109     Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1110     Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1111     software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1112     an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1113     wanting to own its customers' machines.
1114    
1115     2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1116     Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1117     security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1118     because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1119     software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1120    
1121     3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1122     addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1123     trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1124     from Microsoft? You can't.
1125    
1126     4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1127     the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1128     blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1129     useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1130     just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1131     isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1132     adversely affect its business partners.
1133    
1134     5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1135     computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1136     their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1137     about your behavior.
1138    
1139     6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1140     try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1141     security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1142     disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1143     presumed infractions.
1144    
1145     Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1146     examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1147     Computing will only make the problem worse.
1148    
1149     There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1150     people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1151     legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1152     invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1153     user's device against him.
1154     [...]
1155     You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1156     respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1157     their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1158     like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1159     owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1160     back-room marketing deals.
1161     %
1162     [John Carmack on Java]
1163     Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1164     platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1165     the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1166     (often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1167     performance.
1168     %
1169     [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1170    
1171     "Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1172     ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1173     und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1174     Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1175     %
1176     http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1177     %
1178     "Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1179     once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1180     a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1181     http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1182     %
1183     http://funroll-loops.org/
1184     %
1185     [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1186     When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1187     initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1188     goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1189     a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1190     to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1191     of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1192     it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1193     celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1194     Fahrenheit documentation.
1195     %
1196     [Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1197     the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1198     sure its much slower than CVS]
1199     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1200     svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1201     svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1202     [Exit 1]
1203     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1204     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1205     [Exit 1]
1206     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1207     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1208     [Exit 1]
1209     [Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1210     humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1211     %
1212 root 1.430 [http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1213    
1214     ... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1215     role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1216 root 1.431 %
1217 root 1.429 Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1218    
1219     > Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1220     > systems ?
1221    
1222     Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1223     probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1224    
1225     Jesper
1226     %
1227 root 1.428 [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1228    
1229     "As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1230     YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1231    
1232     ~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1233 root 1.429 %
1234 root 1.427 http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1235     %
1236 root 1.426 [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1237    
1238     You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1239     like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1240     evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1241     measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1242     direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1243     into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1244     but that's the truth.
1245     %
1246 root 1.424 [de.alt.ufo]
1247    
1248     Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1249    
1250 root 1.425 > 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1251 root 1.424 > Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1252 root 1.425 > Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1253     > Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1254 root 1.424
1255     Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1256 root 1.425 einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1257     ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1258 root 1.424 gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1259    
1260     Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1261     was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1262 root 1.425 der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1263 root 1.424 gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1264     in Richtung Boden.
1265    
1266     [...]
1267    
1268     > Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1269 root 1.425 > Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1270 root 1.424
1271     Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1272 root 1.425 da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1273 root 1.424 Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1274    
1275     [...]
1276    
1277     > 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1278     > Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1279 root 1.425 > Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1280 root 1.424
1281     Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1282 root 1.425 mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1283     schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1284     die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1285 root 1.424 Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1286     sofort.
1287     %
1288 root 1.423 [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1289     By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1290     like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1291     software from Microsoft.)
1292 root 1.424 %
1293 root 1.422 http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1294 root 1.424 %
1295 root 1.421 > BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1296    
1297     Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1298     gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1299     afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
1300     much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
1301 root 1.424 %
1302 root 1.420 http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
1303 root 1.419 http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
1304 root 1.424 %
1305 root 1.418 Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
1306     From: Rodrigo Severo
1307     Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
1308     To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
1309    
1310     On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
1311    
1312     "David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
1313     It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
1314     obviously-broken regulations like this.
1315    
1316     I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
1317     isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
1318     brazilian ;)
1319     Rodrigo Severo
1320 root 1.424 %
1321 root 1.431 [Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
1322 root 1.417
1323     http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
1324 root 1.424 %
1325 root 1.416 [Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
1326    
1327     I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
1328    
1329     Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
1330    
1331     Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
1332     squid (in mostly default debian config).
1333    
1334     *sigh*
1335 root 1.424 %
1336 root 1.415 A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
1337     By Bertrand Russell
1338    
1339     Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
1340     decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
1341     it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
1342     might be set forth as follows:
1343    
1344     1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
1345    
1346     2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
1347     evidence is sure to come to light.
1348    
1349     3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
1350    
1351     4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
1352     or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
1353     authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
1354    
1355     5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
1356     contrary authorities to be found.
1357    
1358     6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
1359     do the opinions will suppress you.
1360    
1361     7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
1362     was once eccentric.
1363    
1364     8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
1365     for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
1366     agreement than the latter.
1367    
1368     9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
1369     more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
1370    
1371     10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
1372     paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
1373    
1374     "A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
1375     Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
1376 root 1.424 %
1377 root 1.413 [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
1378 root 1.412 John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
1379     the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
1380     Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
1381    
1382     "Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
1383     that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
1384     purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
1385     European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
1386     or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
1387     United States."
1388 root 1.413 ---
1389     It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
1390     outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
1391     communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
1392 root 1.414 ---
1393     "You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
1394     discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
1395     quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
1396     street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
1397     $1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
1398    
1399     This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
1400     play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
1401 root 1.424 %
1402 root 1.411 [gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
1403     Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
1404 root 1.424 %
1405 root 1.410 [http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
1406    
1407     Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
1408     almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
1409    
1410     Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
1411     set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
1412    
1413     Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
1414    
1415     [...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
1416     believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
1417 root 1.424 %
1418 root 1.409 [Copyright History - US view]
1419     http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
1420 root 1.424 %
1421 root 1.408 [I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
1422     X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
1423     tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
1424     the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
1425     to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
1426     656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
1427 root 1.424 %
1428 root 1.406 [Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
1429    
1430     "Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
1431     they care about it?"
1432     -- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
1433 root 1.407
1434     [see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
1435 root 1.424 %
1436 root 1.405 Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
1437     -- Gregory Chaitin
1438 root 1.424 %
1439 root 1.404 13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
1440     gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
1441     13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
1442     [...]
1443     13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
1444     wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
1445     wieder alles groß
1446 root 1.424 %
1447 root 1.403 [man perlsub]
1448     That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
1449     having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
1450     for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
1451     those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
1452     sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
1453 root 1.424 %
1454 root 1.402 [glibc's bits/socket.h]
1455    
1456     if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
1457     /* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
1458     return 0;
1459 root 1.424 %
1460 root 1.400 http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
1461 root 1.401
1462     > Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
1463     > Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
1464     > entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
1465     > unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
1466     > die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
1467     > wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
1468     > Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
1469     > und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
1470     > transparent.
1471    
1472     Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
1473     der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
1474     die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
1475     Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
1476 root 1.424 %
1477 root 1.399 Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
1478     aber falsche Lösungen.
1479 root 1.424 %
1480 root 1.398 A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
1481     and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
1482     as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
1483     is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
1484 root 1.424 %
1485 root 1.397 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
1486     >
1487     > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
1488     > listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
1489     > listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
1490     > than useful to the user.
1491    
1492     I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
1493    
1494     This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
1495     Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
1496     use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
1497     since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
1498    
1499     Please, just tell people to use KDE.
1500    
1501     Linus
1502 root 1.424 %
1503 root 1.396 Move 80, Node 81
1504     theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
1505     setzer [?]: what about 9d
1506     theodore [22k?]: they control it
1507 root 1.424 %
1508 root 1.395 [Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
1509     Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
1510    
1511 root 1.398 Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
1512 root 1.395 als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
1513     --
1514     Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
1515    
1516     Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
1517 root 1.424 %
1518 root 1.393 [Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
1519     I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
1520    
1521     Person: What do you do?
1522     Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
1523     Person: <viciously> I hate you.
1524    
1525     If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
1526     agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
1527     exactly getting off on the right foot.
1528 root 1.394
1529     [And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
1530     http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
1531 root 1.424 %
1532 root 1.392 "The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
1533     extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
1534     illegal downloaders."
1535    
1536     Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
1537    
1538     "If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
1539     profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
1540     liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
1541     to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
1542     have to emerge."
1543    
1544     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
1545 root 1.424 %
1546 root 1.425 >Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
1547 root 1.391 >einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
1548    
1549     Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
1550     immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
1551    
1552     Bye, Andy
1553 root 1.424 %
1554 root 1.398 [ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
1555 root 1.425 >einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
1556 root 1.390 >Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
1557 root 1.425 >Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
1558 root 1.390
1559     Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
1560     Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
1561     System, die das wegstrippen :(
1562     Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
1563     halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
1564     wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
1565     Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
1566     - und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
1567     Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
1568     ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
1569     alle Benutzer.
1570     Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
1571     Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
1572     irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
1573     probieren (bis es knallt)?
1574     Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
1575     der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
1576     Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
1577     Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
1578     Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
1579     insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
1580     es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
1581 root 1.424 %
1582 root 1.389 [subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
1583    
1584     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
1585     svn: Working copy '.' locked
1586     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
1587     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
1588     svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
1589     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
1590     svn: Working copy '.' locked
1591     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
1592     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
1593     cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
1594     unfinished operations, etc.
1595     usage: cleanup [PATH...]
1596    
1597     Valid options:
1598     --diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
1599     --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
1600    
1601     [Thanks for the details. Not.]
1602 root 1.424 %
1603 root 1.388 But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
1604     ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
1605     _much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
1606     to provide.
1607     - perl6-language - michele dondi
1608 root 1.424 %
1609 root 1.386 [From: perl6-language]
1610    
1611     The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
1612     alarm people more.
1613    
1614     -Nate
1615    
1616     [...]
1617    
1618     My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
1619     Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
1620     image of the language that is created here.
1621    
1622     Juerd
1623    
1624     [...]
1625    
1626     (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
1627     'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
1628     perl526 translator will dump core on those)
1629    
1630     --
1631     H.Merijn Brand
1632 root 1.387 %
1633 root 1.385 Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
1634 root 1.388 dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
1635 root 1.385 Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
1636     Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
1637 root 1.387 %
1638 root 1.384 [Come on, "kidtalk"???]
1639     http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
1640 root 1.387 %
1641 root 1.383 [Priceless :)]
1642     http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
1643 root 1.387 %
1644 root 1.382 [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
1645     >> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
1646     [...]
1647     > Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
1648     "Windows is broken."
1649 root 1.387 %
1650 root 1.381 [Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
1651     Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
1652     is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
1653 root 1.387 %
1654 root 1.380 [Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
1655     on being able to kill their children legally]
1656     http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
1657 root 1.387 %
1658 root 1.379 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
1659     The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
1660     whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
1661 root 1.387 %
1662 root 1.377 [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
1663     "They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
1664     that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
1665     the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
1666     personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
1667     by law enforcement policies all over the country."
1668 root 1.378 --
1669     "What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
1670     administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
1671     war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
1672     rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
1673     reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
1674     DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
1675     wasteful government spending."
1676 root 1.387 %
1677 root 1.376 [Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
1678     http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
1679 root 1.387 %
1680 root 1.375 [Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
1681     http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
1682 root 1.387 %
1683 root 1.375 ["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
1684     http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
1685 root 1.387 %
1686 root 1.374 [Pencil Carving]
1687     http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
1688 root 1.387 %
1689 root 1.374 [Copyright]
1690 root 1.373 http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
1691 root 1.387 %
1692 root 1.372 [Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
1693     http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
1694 root 1.387 %
1695 root 1.371 23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
1696     captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
1697     nation from terrorist attacks.
1698     23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
1699     necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
1700     States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
1701     23:10 <mmead> The decision by a three-judge panel was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who sources have said is under
1702     consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1703 root 1.387 %
1704 root 1.370 [Looks extreme]
1705     http://www.counterpunch.org/
1706 root 1.387 %
1707 root 1.369 [Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
1708     "As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
1709     foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
1710     their weapons over our heads."
1711     http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
1712 root 1.387 %
1713 root 1.368 [Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
1714     http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
1715 root 1.387 %
1716 root 1.367 [http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
1717     Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
1718     about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
1719     space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
1720     sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
1721 root 1.387 %
1722 root 1.366 [http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
1723 root 1.387 %
1724 root 1.366 The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
1725     several requests for clarification.
1726    
1727     Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
1728     not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
1729     unter TCG definitions.
1730 root 1.387 %
1731 root 1.366 But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
1732     force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
1733     policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
1734     do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
1735 root 1.387 %
1736 root 1.366 It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
1737     terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
1738     get people on board.
1739     %
1740 root 1.365 To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
1741     patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
1742     accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
1743     DRM.
1744    
1745     The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
1746     injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
1747 root 1.387 %
1748 root 1.364 [http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
1749     switch ($decade) {
1750     case "the 50's":
1751     s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
1752     break;
1753     case "the 60's":
1754     s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
1755     break;
1756     case "the 70's":
1757     s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
1758     break;
1759     case "the 80's":
1760     s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
1761     break;
1762     case "the 90's":
1763     s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
1764     break;
1765     case "the 00's":
1766     s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
1767     break;
1768     }
1769 root 1.387 %
1770 root 1.363 http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
1771    
1772     "How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
1773     in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
1774     assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
1775     suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
1776    
1777     "Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
1778     at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
1779     thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
1780    
1781     ""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
1782     why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
1783     fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
1784     that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
1785     is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
1786     sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
1787     latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
1788     question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
1789     I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
1790     plastic lover, pondering my existence."
1791 root 1.387 %
1792 root 1.362 "The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
1793     that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
1794     married or unmarried."
1795    
1796     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
1797     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
1798     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
1799     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
1800     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
1801 root 1.387 %
1802 root 1.362 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
1803    
1804     [I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
1805     Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
1806     to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
1807     watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
1808     are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
1809     conditioning.
1810    
1811     [And this is religion at its best:]
1812     Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
1813     Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
1814     this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
1815 root 1.387 %
1816 root 1.361 [Racism]
1817     http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
1818 root 1.387 %
1819 root 1.360 [A link, just a link]
1820     http://www.oilcrisis.com/
1821 root 1.387 %
1822 root 1.359 As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
1823     the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
1824    
1825     I apologise for this.
1826    
1827     If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
1828     me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
1829 root 1.387 %
1830 root 1.358 PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
1831     induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
1832     el says: ich kenn da wen
1833     el says: bei dem wars so
1834     [...]
1835     PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
1836     el says: und bekam augenkrebs
1837     el says: gehirntumor auch
1838     el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
1839 root 1.387 %
1840 root 1.357 wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
1841 root 1.387 %
1842 root 1.356 [in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
1843     no sense in the kernel]
1844     From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
1845    
1846     [...]
1847    
1848     Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
1849     models.
1850    
1851     In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
1852     models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
1853     they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
1854 root 1.387 %
1855 root 1.354 [such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
1856     There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
1857     contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
1858     --
1859     Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
1860 root 1.355 --
1861     This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
1862     you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
1863     like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
1864     jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
1865 root 1.387 %
1866 root 1.353 An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
1867     Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
1868     1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
1869     attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
1870     strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
1871     forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
1872     <http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
1873     [From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
1874 root 1.387 %
1875 root 1.352 [If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
1876     which you currently do not posess]
1877     http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
1878 root 1.387 %
1879 root 1.388 Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
1880     Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
1881 root 1.351 [Nach: Time Bandits]
1882 root 1.387 %
1883 root 1.350 http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
1884 root 1.387 %
1885 root 1.349 Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
1886     a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
1887 root 1.387 %
1888 root 1.348 Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
1889     is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
1890     paragraphs.
1891 root 1.387 %
1892 root 1.347 [the average IQ seems to be declining]
1893     http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
1894     http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
1895 root 1.387 %
1896 root 1.346 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
1897     > If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
1898    
1899     Most catholics aren't American.
1900 root 1.387 %
1901 root 1.345 [Some things possibly cannot exist...]
1902    
1903     [http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
1904     In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
1905     Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
1906     against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
1907     fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
1908    
1909     [http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
1910     How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
1911 root 1.387 %
1912 root 1.344 [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
1913     Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
1914     replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
1915     because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
1916     civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
1917     criminals."
1918 root 1.387 %
1919 root 1.343 The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
1920     [http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
1921 root 1.387 %
1922 root 1.342 To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
1923     than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
1924 root 1.387 %
1925 root 1.341 [There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
1926     http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
1927 root 1.387 %
1928 root 1.340 The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
1929     I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
1930     card (They went up in flames).
1931 root 1.387 %
1932 root 1.338 05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
1933     it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
1934     higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
1935     was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
1936     white flag factories, disabling their military.
1937 root 1.339 05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
1938     http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
1939 root 1.387 %
1940 root 1.337 [The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
1941     we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
1942     by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
1943    
1944     "The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
1945    
1946     [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
1947 root 1.387 %
1948 root 1.336 [http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
1949     Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
1950     the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
1951     application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
1952     violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
1953     elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
1954     but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
1955     a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
1956     of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
1957     --
1958     Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
1959     of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
1960     people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
1961     but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
1962     the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
1963     explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
1964 root 1.387 %
1965 root 1.335 http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
1966     The Obfuscated V contest
1967 root 1.387 %
1968 root 1.335 Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
1969     soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
1970     shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
1971     cigarette lighters."
1972     http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
1973 root 1.387 %
1974 root 1.334 <http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
1975     Does it run under Windows ?
1976     - Who cares?
1977 root 1.387 %
1978 root 1.333 [Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
1979 root 1.332 http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
1980 root 1.387 %
1981 root 1.331 http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
1982     Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
1983     [...]
1984     Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
1985     [...]
1986     Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
1987     to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
1988     is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
1989 root 1.387 %
1990 root 1.329 [de.alt.ufo]
1991 root 1.388 > Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
1992     > wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
1993     > Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
1994     > Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
1995 root 1.330 > www.ufo-finder.de
1996     > Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
1997     > mehr!
1998     > richy.
1999    
2000     Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2001 root 1.387 %
2002 root 1.330 [de.alt.ufo]
2003 root 1.329 > Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2004     > zugetragen hat?
2005    
2006     Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2007     warum behauptest Du es dann?
2008 root 1.388 [später]
2009     > Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2010 root 1.329
2011     Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2012     Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2013     naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2014     ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2015     aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2016    
2017     Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2018    
2019     Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2020     von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2021     ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2022 root 1.387 %
2023 root 1.388 [de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2024 root 1.328 Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2025     dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2026 root 1.387 %
2027 root 1.327 [res_nsend.c]
2028     /* give the hook another try */
2029     if (++loops < 42) /*doug adams*/
2030     break;
2031 root 1.387 %
2032 root 1.326 [sr_port/mdq.h]
2033     /* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2034     in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2035     #define dqadd(o,n,q) ((o)->q.fl->q.bl=(n)->q.bl,(n)->q.bl->q.fl=(o)->q.fl,(o)->q.fl=(n)->q.fl,(n)->q.fl->q.bl=(o))
2036 root 1.387 %
2037 root 1.325 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2038 root 1.387 %
2039 root 1.324 * Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2040     > No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2041     > current settings of the list.
2042     >
2043     > There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2044     > the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2045     > the original sender, not the list.
2046     >
2047     > The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2048     > All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2049     > as TO).
2050     >
2051     > Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2052    
2053     Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed. It is *your*
2054     responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2055     *is* your responsibility to see that *your* posts are properly
2056     addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2057     being discourteous to.
2058    
2059     The *fault* is *all* yours. It is/was your choice.
2060     --
2061     Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2062 root 1.387 %
2063 root 1.323 [http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2064 root 1.388 "Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2065 root 1.387 %
2066 root 1.322 An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2067     software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2068     http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2069     http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2070     http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2071 root 1.387 %
2072 root 1.322 [http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2073     "They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2074     what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2075     you don't have any'."
2076 root 1.323
2077     [I also am very fond of this quote:]
2078     "My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2079     would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2080     [Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2081 root 1.387 %
2082 root 1.321 [http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2083     Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2084     3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2085     Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2086 root 1.387 %
2087 root 1.319 [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2088     The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2089     execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2090     should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2091     Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2092     reason will not win many fans.
2093    
2094     [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2095     documents in the algorithm section]
2096 root 1.387 %
2097 root 1.318 ["Blue in the Face"]
2098     Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2099     irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2100     und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2101     die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2102    
2103     Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2104 root 1.387 %
2105 root 1.317 And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2106     Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2107     that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2108 root 1.388 of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2109 root 1.317 Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2110     [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2111 root 1.387 %
2112 root 1.316 [Better know what they actually do...]
2113 root 1.388 [Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2114 root 1.316 http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2115 root 1.315 [RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2116     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2117 root 1.387 %
2118 root 1.314 [rfc4096]
2119     The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2120     amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2121     or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2122     the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2123     Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2124 root 1.387 %
2125 root 1.313 [just a really nice md5sum]
2126     99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2127 root 1.387 %
2128 root 1.312 [a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2129     * For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2130     * WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2131     * at their price list.
2132 root 1.387 %
2133 root 1.311 [http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2134     You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2135     time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2136     wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2137     had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2138     terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2139     level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2140 root 1.387 %
2141 root 1.309 21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2142     21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2143 root 1.387 %
2144 root 1.308 03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2145     03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2146     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2147     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2148 root 1.387 %
2149 root 1.319 [ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2150 root 1.307 http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2151 root 1.387 %
2152 root 1.306 [some SPAM]
2153     Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2154 root 1.387 %
2155 root 1.305 cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized
2156 root 1.387 %
2157 root 1.304 [star wars episode guide]
2158     1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2159     2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2160     3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2161     4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2162     5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2163     6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2164     [http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2165 root 1.387 %
2166 root 1.300 [God knows his enemies]
2167     http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2168 root 1.302 [Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2169 root 1.303 http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2170 root 1.387 %
2171 root 1.299 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2172 root 1.301 [Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2173 root 1.387 %
2174 root 1.298 [http://www.bildblog.de/]
2175 root 1.388 Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2176     rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2177     hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2178 root 1.298 Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2179    
2180     Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2181    
2182     Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2183     Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2184 root 1.388 ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2185 root 1.298 Zigarette sucht.
2186    
2187     Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2188    
2189     [usw.]
2190    
2191     Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2192 root 1.388 geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2193 root 1.298 bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2194    
2195     Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2196     brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2197     Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2198     Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2199     der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2200 root 1.387 %
2201 root 1.388 [schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2202 root 1.297 http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2203     http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2204 root 1.387 %
2205 root 1.296 [http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2206     Which fanboy are you?
2207    
2208     1. Windows
2209    
2210     You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2211     would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2212     in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2213     in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2214     MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2215     to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2216     about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2217     "The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2218     dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2219    
2220     2. Apple
2221    
2222     You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2223     in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2224     next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2225     is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2226     would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2227     Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2228     they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2229     you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2230    
2231     3. Linspire
2232    
2233     You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2234     too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2235     pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2236     continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2237     installed Linspire on your machine.
2238    
2239     4. Umbongo
2240    
2241     You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2242     multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2243     operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2244     knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2245     houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2246     such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2247     very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2248     never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2249     themselves.
2250    
2251     5. Gentoy
2252    
2253     You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2254     yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2255     Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2256     from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2257     matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2258     to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2259     law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2260     read those complicated regulatory documents.
2261    
2262     6. Linux From Scratch
2263    
2264     Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2265     sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2266     matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2267     matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2268     because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2269     alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2270     and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2271 root 1.387 %
2272 root 1.295 [/usr/bin/cowsay]
2273     if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2274 root 1.387 %
2275 root 1.294 [A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2276    
2277     In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2278     in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2279    
2280     Coda 6.0.10 is out
2281 root 1.387 %
2282 root 1.293 <opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2283    
2284     > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2285     >
2286 root 1.388 > > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2287 root 1.293 > > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2288 root 1.388 > > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2289     > > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2290     > > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2291 root 1.293 >
2292 root 1.319 > What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2293 root 1.293 > smell attracting flies of course...
2294     >
2295     I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2296     request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2297 root 1.388 cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2298 root 1.387 %
2299 root 1.292 00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
2300 root 1.387 %
2301 root 1.291 War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
2302 root 1.387 %
2303 root 1.290 98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
2304 root 1.387 %
2305 root 1.289 [Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
2306     show "Correspondent"]
2307 root 1.288
2308     [...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
2309     years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
2310    
2311     [so know we know who creates reality now]
2312     %
2313 root 1.287 [from wordnet]
2314     cock sucking, blowjob
2315     => fellatio, fellation
2316     => oral sex, head
2317     => perversion, sexual perversion
2318     => sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
2319     => bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
2320     => organic process, biological process
2321     => process
2322     => phenomenon
2323 root 1.387 %
2324 root 1.286 10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
2325     10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
2326 root 1.387 %
2327 root 1.285 [SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
2328     [slightly edited]
2329     Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
2330     (in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
2331     than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
2332     that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
2333    
2334     About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
2335     sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
2336     laws on terrorism and drugs.
2337    
2338     Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
2339     told them about emancipation proclamation?).
2340 root 1.387 %
2341 root 1.284 "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
2342     (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
2343 root 1.387 %
2344 root 1.283 Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
2345 root 1.282 advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
2346 root 1.387 %
2347 root 1.281 A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
2348     I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
2349     realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
2350     - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2351 root 1.387 %
2352 root 1.279 "parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
2353     - oesi
2354 root 1.387 %
2355 root 1.278 [US, Metric]
2356     http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
2357 root 1.387 %
2358 root 1.275 [http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
2359 root 1.277 [I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
2360 root 1.275 Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
2361     Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments | #23269 ]
2362    
2363     It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
2364     started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
2365     important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
2366     increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
2367     to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
2368     post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
2369     to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
2370     that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
2371     spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
2372     have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
2373     your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
2374     seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
2375     truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
2376     days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
2377     their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
2378     more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
2379     few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
2380     yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
2381     for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
2382     Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
2383     servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
2384     becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
2385     ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
2386     petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
2387    
2388     This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
2389     rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
2390     fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
2391     more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
2392     repute yourself and initially forego payment.
2393    
2394     Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
2395     tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
2396     basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
2397     appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
2398     subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
2399     question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
2400     as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
2401     and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
2402     not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
2403     perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
2404     the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
2405    
2406     In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
2407     programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
2408     some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
2409     their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
2410     myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
2411     student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
2412     of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
2413     trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
2414     of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
2415     everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
2416     unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
2417     sovereign nation.
2418    
2419     While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
2420     jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
2421     hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
2422     sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
2423     test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
2424     CSPAN, don't post here.
2425    
2426     -scott
2427 root 1.387 %
2428 root 1.274 But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
2429     University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
2430     capacity to feel pain.
2431    
2432     "It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
2433     as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
2434 root 1.387 %
2435 root 1.273 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
2436     From: Sven Neumann
2437    
2438     Hi,
2439    
2440 root 1.388 Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
2441 root 1.273 > I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
2442    
2443     Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
2444     that
2445    
2446     ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
2447    
2448     does not do what you would expect it to do.
2449 root 1.387 %
2450 root 1.271 http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
2451 root 1.272 the original comment says:
2452     This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
2453     Waiting at the gate means you fail.
2454 root 1.387 %
2455 root 1.271 {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
2456     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
2457     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
2458     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
2459     {Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
2460     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
2461 root 1.387 %
2462 root 1.275 [Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
2463 root 1.270 interesting read]
2464     http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
2465 root 1.387 %
2466 root 1.269 [Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
2467     http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
2468     http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
2469 root 1.387 %
2470 root 1.268 In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
2471     gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
2472     various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
2473     linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
2474     the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
2475     locks can open the gate.
2476    
2477     This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
2478     simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
2479     with different locks in parallel and in series.
2480 root 1.387 %
2481 root 1.267 http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
2482     Safecracking for the computer scientist
2483 root 1.387 %
2484 root 1.265 Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
2485    
2486     Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
2487    
2488     Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
2489     species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
2490     and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
2491     'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
2492     explanation of this.
2493    
2494     Theory: An explanation of an observation
2495    
2496     Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
2497     which explains why the hammer falls.
2498    
2499     Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
2500     how a population's genome can change over time.
2501    
2502 root 1.266 Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
2503     mathematical relationship between two values.
2504 root 1.265
2505     Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
2506     brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
2507    
2508     Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
2509     acceleration.
2510    
2511     Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
2512     of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
2513     evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
2514     evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
2515     evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
2516     useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
2517     longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
2518     high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
2519     false.
2520    
2521     [by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
2522 root 1.387 %
2523 root 1.388 [Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
2524 root 1.264 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
2525    
2526     Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
2527     Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
2528 root 1.388 sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
2529     Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
2530     und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
2531 root 1.264 und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
2532    
2533 root 1.388 Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
2534     Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
2535     außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
2536     sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
2537     sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
2538     Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
2539     risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
2540 root 1.264
2541     Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
2542 root 1.388 Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
2543     (Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
2544     umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
2545     fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
2546 root 1.264 sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
2547 root 1.388 Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
2548 root 1.264 sportlich.
2549    
2550 root 1.388 Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
2551     Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
2552     ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
2553     wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
2554     Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
2555 root 1.264
2556 root 1.388 Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
2557 root 1.264 Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
2558 root 1.388 Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
2559     während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
2560 root 1.264 vorzuweisen hat.
2561    
2562     "Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
2563     Forscher.
2564 root 1.387 %
2565 root 1.263 [Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
2566     the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
2567     EULA-style license]
2568 root 1.262 http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
2569 root 1.387 %
2570 root 1.261 The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
2571     a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
2572     cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
2573     pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
2574     Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
2575     in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
2576     of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
2577 root 1.387 %
2578 root 1.260 Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
2579 root 1.387 %
2580 root 1.259 [Happy New Year]
2581     23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
2582     Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
2583     00:24 <schmorp> re
2584 root 1.387 %
2585 root 1.258 [http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
2586 root 1.388 Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
2587     liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
2588 root 1.258 sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
2589     wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
2590 root 1.387 %
2591 root 1.257 [funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
2592     bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
2593     proponents of such theories.]
2594     http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
2595     "On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
2596     evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
2597     took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
2598     `solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
2599     spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
2600     procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
2601     University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
2602     it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
2603     intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
2604     (below, right)."
2605 root 1.387 %
2606 root 1.256 [wonderful info...]
2607     http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
2608     [useful info...]
2609     http://www.snopes.com/
2610 root 1.387 %
2611 root 1.253 Computer analyst to programmer:
2612     "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
2613 root 1.387 %
2614 root 1.252 [Fun!]
2615     http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
2616 root 1.387 %
2617 root 1.388 [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
2618 root 1.251 "Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
2619     Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
2620 root 1.387 %
2621 root 1.250 [in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
2622     ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
2623     #!/usr/bin/sh
2624     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
2625     # All Rights Reserved
2626    
2627     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
2628     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
2629     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
2630    
2631     #ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
2632     ddev5:~$
2633 root 1.387 %
2634 root 1.249 22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
2635     22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
2636     22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
2637 root 1.387 %
2638 root 1.248 [Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
2639     # win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
2640     # Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
2641     # so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
2642     # and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
2643     # the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
2644     #
2645     # say it with me: "i hate win32."
2646 root 1.387 %
2647 root 1.388 Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
2648 root 1.247 Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
2649     worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
2650     -- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
2651 root 1.387 %
2652 root 1.246 http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
2653 root 1.387 %
2654 root 1.245 [http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
2655 root 1.388 Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
2656     gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
2657 root 1.387 %
2658 root 1.244 http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
2659     [I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
2660     are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
2661 root 1.387 %
2662 root 1.243 http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
2663 root 1.387 %
2664 root 1.243 [From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
2665     Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
2666     Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
2667     that you have a problem.)
2668     <http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
2669 root 1.387 %
2670 root 1.242 [top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
2671     PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2672 root 1.247 25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
2673 root 1.242 26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
2674    
2675     [I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
2676     and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
2677 root 1.387 %
2678 root 1.241 That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
2679     sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
2680    
2681     Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
2682     declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
2683     etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
2684     exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
2685     programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
2686     because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
2687     code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
2688     it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
2689     less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
2690     themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
2691     namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
2692     techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
2693     that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
2694     got implemented in main-stream compilers.
2695    
2696     Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
2697     "C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
2698     paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
2699     create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
2700     programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
2701     hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
2702     MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
2703 root 1.387 %
2704 root 1.240 [On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
2705 root 1.239
2706     Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only*
2707     have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
2708     doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
2709 root 1.387 %
2710 root 1.238 [http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
2711     "The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
2712     knows this, and it's true for software too.
2713 root 1.387 %
2714 root 1.237 > think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
2715    
2716     ... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
2717     ;)
2718 root 1.387 %
2719 root 1.235 [this is not a blogggggg]
2720     One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
2721     having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
2722     proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
2723    
2724     NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
2725    
2726 root 1.236 Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
2727     framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
2728 root 1.387 %
2729 root 1.234 [taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
2730     using so many abbreviations...]
2731    
2732     Hi Volker -
2733    
2734     alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
2735 root 1.388 Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
2736     spät ...
2737 root 1.234
2738     Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
2739    
2740     Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
2741    
2742 root 1.388 schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
2743     nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
2744 root 1.234
2745 root 1.388 herzliche Grüsse
2746 root 1.234
2747     tom
2748 root 1.247
2749 root 1.234 PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
2750 root 1.388 'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
2751 root 1.234 ... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
2752 root 1.388 Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
2753 root 1.234 schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
2754 root 1.387 %
2755 root 1.233 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
2756     Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
2757     Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
2758    
2759     On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
2760 root 1.247 > How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
2761     > oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
2762 root 1.233 > someone else?
2763    
2764     Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
2765     ===================================================================
2766     --- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
2767     +++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
2768     @@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
2769     S: 79098 Freiburg
2770     S: Germany
2771    
2772     +N: Hans Reiser
2773     +E: reiser@namesys.com
2774     +W: http://www.namesys.com/
2775     +D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
2776     +S: 6979 Exeter Dr
2777     +S: Oakland, CA 94611
2778     +S: USA
2779     +
2780     N: Joerg Reuter
2781     E: jreuter@yaina.de
2782     W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
2783 root 1.387 %
2784 root 1.232 Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
2785     [poeppel_magenta.gif]
2786 root 1.387 %
2787 root 1.231 [http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
2788     Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
2789 root 1.387 %
2790 root 1.230 [http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
2791     Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
2792 root 1.387 %
2793 root 1.229 [rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
2794     [http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
2795     [...]
2796     Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
2797     within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
2798     $50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
2799     ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
2800     [...]
2801     Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
2802     $100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
2803     (and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
2804     to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
2805 root 1.387 %
2806 root 1.228 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
2807     [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
2808     Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
2809     Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
2810     Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
2811     Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
2812 root 1.387 %
2813 root 1.226 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
2814 root 1.227 [...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
2815     button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
2816     fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
2817     be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
2818     clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
2819     to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
2820     anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
2821     anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
2822 root 1.387 %
2823 root 1.223 [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
2824     I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
2825 root 1.224 picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
2826 root 1.223 A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
2827 root 1.387 %
2828 root 1.222 [bts show 215647]
2829     [yes, the whole thing]
2830 root 1.387 %
2831 root 1.221 [bts show 254316]
2832 root 1.247 > > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
2833     > > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
2834     > > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
2835 root 1.221 >
2836     > ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
2837    
2838     We'll use a larger wall.
2839 root 1.387 %
2840 root 1.220 [Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
2841     This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
2842     horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
2843     by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
2844    
2845     The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
2846     non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
2847    
2848     There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
2849     but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
2850    
2851     It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
2852     cost.
2853     ["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
2854 root 1.387 %
2855 root 1.219 When searching on google for:
2856    
2857 root 1.225 kakerlake schabe made
2858 root 1.219
2859     Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
2860    
2861 root 1.225 kakerlake _schwabe_ made
2862 root 1.387 %
2863 root 1.218 What we learned this week;
2864     "Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
2865 root 1.387 %
2866 root 1.216 "Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
2867     Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
2868 root 1.387 %
2869 root 1.215 [translated]
2870     23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
2871     23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
2872     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
2873     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
2874     23:07 <schmorp> ...
2875     23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
2876     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
2877     23:07 <schmorp> and it works
2878 root 1.387 %
2879 root 1.214 History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
2880     -- Lord Balfour
2881 root 1.387 %
2882 root 1.213 The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
2883 root 1.387 %
2884 root 1.212 <Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
2885     I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
2886     him to forgive me.
2887 root 1.387 %
2888 root 1.211 [slashdot]
2889     > there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
2890    
2891     I have been to NZ. You have no television.
2892 root 1.387 %
2893 root 1.210 [IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
2894     "What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
2895     get bored during the sex scenes.
2896 root 1.387 %
2897 root 1.209 I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
2898     strangler is to the woman home alone.
2899     - Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
2900 root 1.387 %
2901 root 1.208 [Bruce Schneier]
2902     SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
2903     widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
2904     pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
2905     to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
2906     secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
2907 root 1.387 %
2908 root 1.207 [From Paul Eggert]
2909     [...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
2910     violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
2911     HP-UX customer. [...]
2912 root 1.387 %
2913 root 1.206 >>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
2914     >>
2915     >>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
2916     >>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
2917     >>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
2918     >>spelled it in UC.
2919 root 1.247 >
2920     >
2921 root 1.206 > BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
2922    
2923     C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
2924 root 1.387 %
2925 root 1.205 [comp.lang.c]
2926     > According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
2927    
2928     I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
2929     usage.
2930    
2931     Richard
2932 root 1.387 %
2933 root 1.204 I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
2934     tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
2935     at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
2936     creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
2937     play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
2938     repair that weakness before your program notices it."
2939 root 1.387 %
2940 root 1.203 21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
2941     21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
2942 root 1.387 %
2943 root 1.202 MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
2944 root 1.387 %
2945 root 1.201 A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
2946     competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
2947     make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
2948     don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
2949     will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
2950     anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
2951     no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
2952     nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
2953     existence means and implies.
2954    
2955     [Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
2956 root 1.387 %
2957 root 1.201 > > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
2958     >
2959     > I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
2960     > said you were wrong I'll get more...
2961     >
2962     > You're WRONG!
2963    
2964 root 1.388 void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
2965     and §7.20.3.1).
2966 root 1.387 %
2967 root 1.200 From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
2968     In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
2969     knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
2970 root 1.387 %
2971 root 1.199 [another variation, more useful]
2972     A. It should be obvious.
2973     Q. How is it hard?
2974     A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
2975     Q. Why is top-posting bad?
2976 root 1.387 %
2977 root 1.198 [windows is a good place to learn programming]
2978     Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
2979    
2980     Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
2981     The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
2982    
2983     - works ok on linux
2984     - ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
2985    
2986     Any clues why?
2987     I am new to the non windows world.
2988    
2989     Thanks
2990 root 1.387 %
2991 root 1.197 [comp.lang.c]
2992     > I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
2993     > serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
2994     > this ?
2995    
2996     This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
2997     we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
2998 root 1.387 %
2999 root 1.196 [comp.std.c]
3000     In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3001     Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3002    
3003     > In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3004 root 1.247 >
3005     > >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3006     >
3007 root 1.196 > Yup, mine!
3008 root 1.387 %
3009 root 1.195 [links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3010     Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3011    
3012     Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3013 root 1.387 %
3014 root 1.194 [an old question, revisited]
3015     http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3016 root 1.387 %
3017 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3018 root 1.247 > can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3019 root 1.194
3020     This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3021     obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3022 root 1.387 %
3023 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3024     I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3025 root 1.387 %
3026 root 1.193 according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3027 root 1.387 %
3028 root 1.192 [Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3029     Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3030 root 1.247 deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3031 root 1.387 %
3032 root 1.388 [Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3033     aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3034     Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3035 root 1.190 DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3036    
3037 root 1.388 "Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3038 root 1.190
3039 root 1.388 Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3040 root 1.190 dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3041     wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3042     Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3043 root 1.388 diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3044     abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3045     schützen können.
3046 root 1.387 %
3047 root 1.189 [Reiner Gamma]
3048     http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3049 root 1.387 %
3050 root 1.188 >> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3051     [...]
3052 root 1.187 >Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3053 root 1.188 [...]
3054 root 1.187 Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3055     crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3056     never get your message.
3057 root 1.387 %
3058 root 1.186 [http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3059     As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3060     filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3061 root 1.387 %
3062 root 1.185 [http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3063     (look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3064     a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3065 root 1.387 %
3066 root 1.184 bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3067     01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3068     01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3069     01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3070     01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3071     01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3072     01:15 <schmorp> *g*
3073     01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3074 root 1.387 %
3075 root 1.183 http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3076     [...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3077     since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3078     think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3079     when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3080     reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3081     work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3082     dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3083 root 1.387 %
3084 root 1.182 [http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3085     [...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3086     disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3087 root 1.387 %
3088 root 1.181 [Eugene Spafford]
3089     During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3090     email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3091     Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3092     systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3093     systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3094     of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3095 root 1.387 %
3096 root 1.180 [http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3097     If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3098 root 1.387 %
3099 root 1.180 [from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3100     GNOME TERMINAL
3101     [...]
3102     The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3103     author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3104     fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3105     [.. later]
3106     There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3107     bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3108     interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3109 root 1.387 %
3110 root 1.179 [I *love* X programs]
3111     [xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3112     /*
3113 root 1.247 * blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3114 root 1.179 */
3115     void blip()
3116 root 1.247 {
3117 root 1.179 fflush(stdout);
3118     fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3119     fflush(stderr);
3120 root 1.247 }
3121 root 1.387 %
3122 root 1.178 [pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3123     + int alternative_order = 999;
3124    
3125     Why not 666? :-).
3126 root 1.387 %
3127 root 1.178 [yosh on gimp-developer]
3128     It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3129     sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3130     users are clueless.
3131 root 1.387 %
3132 root 1.177 [modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3133     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3134 root 1.387 %
3135 root 1.176 [beware german translations]
3136     dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3137 root 1.387 %
3138 root 1.175 [http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3139     NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3140 root 1.387 %
3141 root 1.174 The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3142     is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3143     and", and finally, ampersand.
3144 root 1.387 %
3145 root 1.173 [xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3146     [...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3147     which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3148     themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3149     when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3150 root 1.387 %
3151 root 1.171 [linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3152     WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3153     use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3154     destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3155     or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3156 root 1.387 %
3157 root 1.170 [http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3158     Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3159     the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3160     sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3161     and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3162     from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3163     [mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3164 root 1.387 %
3165 root 1.247 17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3166 root 1.388 die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3167     17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3168 root 1.387 %
3169 root 1.168 [Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3170     Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3171     standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3172 root 1.387 %
3173 root 1.172 [cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3174 root 1.168 confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3175 root 1.387 %
3176 root 1.167 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3177 root 1.247 And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3178     is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3179     ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3180 root 1.167 %
3181 root 1.166 http://www.bash.org/?178890
3182 root 1.387 %
3183 root 1.165 [http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3184     <ig3l|Guel> If Osama B. isn't in Afghanistan, and if he isn't dead, we believe he is in another country" - US army General
3185 root 1.387 %
3186 root 1.247 00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3187     nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3188 root 1.164 einfach :)
3189     00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3190 root 1.387 %
3191 root 1.163 [spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3192     /*
3193     * Function compares two strings.
3194 root 1.247 * Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3195 root 1.163 * int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3196     */
3197     static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3198     {
3199     int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3200     [...]
3201 root 1.387 %
3202 root 1.163 http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3203 root 1.387 %
3204 root 1.388 rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3205 root 1.387 %
3206 root 1.162 [rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3207     /* grab colors before netscape does */
3208     Get_Colours ();
3209 root 1.387 %
3210 root 1.388 [oesi über apache-2.0]
3211 root 1.160 03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3212     03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3213     03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3214     03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3215     03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3216     03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3217     03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3218     03:12 <schmorp> *rofl*
3219 root 1.161 [...]
3220     03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3221     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3222     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3223     03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3224     03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3225 root 1.387 %
3226 root 1.159 [http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3227     [...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3228 root 1.387 %
3229 root 1.158 [rxvt/src/screen.C]
3230     #ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3231 root 1.247 assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3232 root 1.158 #else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3233     MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3234     #endif
3235 root 1.387 %
3236 root 1.157 [http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3237     [...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3238     UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3239 root 1.387 %
3240 root 1.156 > > Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3241     > > Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3242     >
3243     > Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3244    
3245     Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3246     --
3247     OpenVMS @ 25 | Martin Vorlaender | VMS & WNT programmer
3248 root 1.387 %
3249 root 1.388 Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3250     IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3251     Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3252     mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3253     auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3254     Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3255     Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3256 root 1.387 %
3257 root 1.154 http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3258     http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3259 root 1.387 %
3260 root 1.153 Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3261 root 1.387 %
3262 root 1.153 "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3263     victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3264     bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3265     -- Robert Fisk
3266 root 1.387 %
3267 root 1.151 [the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3268     http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3269 root 1.152 [see also the small satellites homepage]
3270     http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3271 root 1.387 %
3272 root 1.150 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3273     "Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3274     high-violence culture"
3275     [...]
3276     "[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3277     resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3278     suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3279     that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3280     This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3281     that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3282     a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3283     policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3284    
3285     Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3286     they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3287 root 1.387 %
3288 root 1.150 From: <[...]@aol.com>
3289     Subject: Re: [...]
3290    
3291     Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3292    
3293     > Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3294     > sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3295     > since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3296     > saved it :)
3297    
3298     Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3299     addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
3300     [...]
3301 root 1.387 %
3302 root 1.150 From: Alan Cox
3303     > The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
3304     > Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
3305     > deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
3306     > code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
3307    
3308     Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
3309     prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
3310     what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
3311     [...]
3312 root 1.387 %
3313 root 1.150 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3314 root 1.387 %
3315 root 1.150 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3316 root 1.387 %
3317 root 1.150 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3318 root 1.387 %
3319 root 1.149 [FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
3320     even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
3321     claim to have decades of java experience]
3322     On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
3323     > I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
3324     > willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
3325     > programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
3326 root 1.387 %
3327 root 1.149 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3328 root 1.387 %
3329 root 1.149 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3330 root 1.387 %
3331 root 1.149 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3332 root 1.387 %
3333 root 1.147 [in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
3334     [mail not to be delivered]
3335     > > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
3336 root 1.247 >
3337 root 1.147 > Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
3338    
3339     My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
3340     bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
3341 root 1.387 %
3342 root 1.147 On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
3343    
3344     > David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
3345     >
3346     > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
3347     > >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
3348     > >
3349     > > I don't *think* anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
3350     > > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
3351     > > language which does support this?
3352     >
3353    
3354     Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
3355    
3356     In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
3357     other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
3358     heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
3359     a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
3360     since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
3361     than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
3362 root 1.387 %
3363 root 1.147 echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
3364     echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
3365     --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
3366 root 1.387 %
3367 root 1.146 AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
3368     spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
3369     Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
3370    
3371     Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
3372     extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
3373     a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
3374     Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
3375     rising and setting of the sun, only God."
3376    
3377     Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
3378     explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
3379     on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
3380     and thwart them that way.
3381 root 1.387 %
3382 root 1.146 [Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
3383     There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
3384     that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
3385     unfortunate decision.
3386 root 1.387 %
3387 root 1.247 02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
3388 root 1.146 fest ;)
3389 root 1.387 %
3390 root 1.146 [http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
3391    
3392     Last updated: - Invalid Date
3393 root 1.387 %
3394 root 1.146 http://www.bash.org/?99060
3395 root 1.387 %
3396 root 1.145 [IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
3397     http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
3398 root 1.387 %
3399 root 1.144 Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
3400    
3401     A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
3402     similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
3403     local object as a "he":
3404    
3405     "He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
3406     has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
3407     He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
3408     nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
3409     metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
3410     kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
3411     the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
3412     EX-PARROT!"
3413    
3414     - Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
3415 root 1.387 %
3416 root 1.144 [ach du schande]
3417     "pflichtpfandfrei"
3418 root 1.387 %
3419 root 1.142 [a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
3420     The police will shoot you.
3421    
3422     OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
3423     arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
3424    
3425 root 1.247 Just another average day in central London.
3426 root 1.387 %
3427 root 1.141 [this signature gave me a laugh...]
3428     [...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
3429     reply.
3430    
3431     pls. cc my email address
3432    
3433     tia
3434     pd
3435    
3436    
3437 root 1.247 --
3438 root 1.141 ^X^C
3439     q
3440     quit
3441     :q
3442     ^C
3443     end
3444     x
3445     exit
3446     ZZ
3447     ^D
3448     ?
3449     help
3450     shit
3451     .
3452 root 1.387 %
3453 root 1.140 * muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
3454 root 1.387 %
3455 root 1.140 [From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
3456     Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
3457     with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
3458     because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
3459 root 1.387 %
3460 root 1.140 [I love it]
3461     http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
3462     http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
3463 root 1.387 %
3464 root 1.139 "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
3465     - Douglas Adams
3466 root 1.387 %
3467 root 1.138 Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
3468     PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
3469     to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
3470     an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
3471    
3472 root 1.247 The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
3473     wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
3474     software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
3475     this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
3476     their software properly.
3477 root 1.138
3478     He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
3479     patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
3480     because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
3481     told the publication.
3482    
3483 root 1.247 And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
3484     number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
3485     "they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
3486     malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
3487     who want visibility and glory.
3488 root 1.387 %
3489 root 1.137 [In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
3490    
3491     o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
3492    
3493     x Try not using it.
3494 root 1.387 %
3495 root 1.136 [http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
3496     The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
3497     School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
3498     to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
3499     Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
3500     had given.
3501    
3502     Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
3503     showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
3504     person as well."
3505 root 1.387 %
3506 root 1.136 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
3507 root 1.388 "Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
3508     habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
3509 root 1.387 %
3510 root 1.388 ["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
3511 root 1.135 [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
3512 root 1.134
3513     Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
3514 root 1.388 des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
3515 root 1.135 [...]
3516 root 1.134 Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
3517 root 1.388 ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
3518 root 1.135 [...]
3519     Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
3520     oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
3521 root 1.387 %
3522 root 1.134 http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
3523 root 1.387 %
3524 root 1.132 [A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
3525     on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
3526     mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
3527     -- Ulrich Drepper
3528 root 1.387 %
3529 root 1.131 GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
3530     -- Ulrich Drepper
3531 root 1.387 %
3532 root 1.131 Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
3533     written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
3534 root 1.133 correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
3535 root 1.387 %
3536 root 1.130 Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
3537     and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
3538     -- Ulrich Drepper
3539 root 1.387 %
3540 root 1.130 Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
3541     -- Ulrich Drepper
3542 root 1.387 %
3543 root 1.129 [http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
3544 root 1.388 Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
3545     zuverlässiger
3546 root 1.387 %
3547 root 1.129 [comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
3548     /*
3549     * 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
3550     * days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
3551     * being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
3552     */
3553 root 1.387 %
3554 root 1.128 [Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
3555     Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
3556     you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
3557     dlls so that they aren't shared...]
3558     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
3559 root 1.387 %
3560 root 1.128 [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
3561     Pirating Movies
3562    
3563     [...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
3564     them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
3565     illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
3566 root 1.387 %
3567 root 1.128 [Look at the time scale...]
3568     http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
3569 root 1.387 %
3570 root 1.127 [Just funny]
3571     http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
3572 root 1.387 %
3573 root 1.127 [http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
3574     The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
3575     sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
3576     hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
3577     company's engineers would end up in jail?
3578 root 1.387 %
3579 root 1.126 [http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
3580     Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
3581     and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
3582     etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
3583     sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
3584    
3585     Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
3586     left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
3587    
3588     Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
3589     9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
3590     million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
3591     $70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
3592     the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
3593     them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
3594     the first place!
3595 root 1.387 %
3596 root 1.247 Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
3597     you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
3598     a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
3599 root 1.125 -- Philip Greenspun
3600 root 1.387 %
3601 root 1.124 "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
3602     don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
3603 root 1.387 %
3604 root 1.124 "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
3605     to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
3606 root 1.387 %
3607 root 1.123 "Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
3608     platform."
3609     [Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
3610 root 1.387 %
3611 root 1.123 Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
3612     waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
3613     frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
3614     and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
3615     raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
3616 root 1.320 [http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
3617 root 1.387 %
3618 root 1.123 [The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
3619     http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
3620 root 1.387 %
3621 root 1.123 [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
3622     So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
3623     if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
3624     database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
3625     crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
3626     Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
3627     made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
3628     Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
3629     daily.
3630 root 1.387 %
3631 root 1.123 "...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
3632 root 1.388 [Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
3633     Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
3634 root 1.387 %
3635 root 1.123 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
3636     Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
3637     to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
3638     Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
3639     convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
3640     revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
3641     consideration in all articles published by the APA."
3642 root 1.387 %
3643 root 1.247 "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
3644 root 1.123 -- Bruce Schneier
3645 root 1.387 %
3646 root 1.123 [it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
3647     [...so it must be good]
3648     http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
3649 root 1.387 %
3650 root 1.123 [mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
3651     [real uses a novel protection scheme...]
3652     raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
3653 root 1.387 %
3654 root 1.120 [D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
3655     I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
3656     No idea why I announce it here...
3657 root 1.121 http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
3658 root 1.387 %
3659 root 1.119 [Oh My God!]
3660     Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
3661 root 1.387 %
3662 root 1.119 [How many squares are on a go-board?]
3663 root 1.118 http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
3664 root 1.387 %
3665 root 1.117 [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
3666     When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
3667     father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
3668     life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
3669     been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
3670    
3671     'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
3672     Sacha.
3673 root 1.387 %
3674 root 1.116 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
3675     A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
3676     desk one morning:
3677    
3678     Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
3679    
3680     Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
3681    
3682     Employee: 123456
3683    
3684     [Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
3685     photograph of the employee.]
3686    
3687     Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
3688     identification which has your picture on it?
3689    
3690     Employee: Why would you need that?
3691    
3692     Security Guard: To match against our records.
3693    
3694     Employee: A picture of my face?
3695    
3696     Security Guard: Yes
3697    
3698     Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
3699    
3700     Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
3701     compare against this one.
3702 root 1.387 %
3703 root 1.116 [Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
3704     http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
3705     [frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
3706 root 1.387 %
3707 root 1.116 MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
3708     Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
3709     my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
3710    
3711     <http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
3712     <http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
3713 root 1.387 %
3714 root 1.123 Eppur si muove!
3715 root 1.387 %
3716 root 1.116 [bwahahaha]
3717     "RV K-17"
3718 root 1.387 %
3719 root 1.116 "We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
3720     electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
3721 root 1.387 %
3722 root 1.116 [where NOT to learn german :)]
3723     [http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
3724     <= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
3725     => Son las once menos cuarto.
3726 root 1.387 %
3727 root 1.115 ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
3728     ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
3729 root 1.387 %
3730 root 1.115 [http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
3731 root 1.388 Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
3732     ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
3733 root 1.115 mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
3734 root 1.388 sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
3735     erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
3736 root 1.387 %
3737 root 1.122 http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
3738 root 1.387 %
3739 root 1.115 [D-Info 2003, on my box:]
3740     Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
3741 root 1.387 %
3742 root 1.115 [This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
3743     [patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
3744     <00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
3745     >00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
3746 root 1.387 %
3747 root 1.115 [bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
3748     This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
3749     Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
3750     an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
3751     grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
3752     RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
3753     to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
3754     She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
3755     it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
3756     Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
3757     of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
3758     entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
3759     the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
3760     tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
3761     Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
3762     code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
3763     bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
3764     diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
3765     should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
3766 root 1.387 %
3767 root 1.114 [what high dan players in go think while playing:]
3768     "Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
3769 root 1.387 %
3770 root 1.114 [the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
3771     rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
3772 root 1.387 %
3773 root 1.113 [Wasteland]
3774     Lester Moore,
3775     Shot in the head with a .44.
3776     No Les, no more.
3777 root 1.387 %
3778 root 1.113 [SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
3779     Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
3780    
3781     STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
3782     [for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
3783 root 1.387 %
3784 root 1.113 [Fallout]
3785     Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
3786     Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
3787 root 1.387 %
3788 root 1.111 [http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
3789     As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
3790     different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
3791     of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
3792     are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
3793 root 1.112 [...]
3794     It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
3795     [...]
3796     The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
3797     and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
3798     the result with SHA.
3799 root 1.387 %
3800 root 1.388 > Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
3801 root 1.111 > rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
3802     > ist!
3803 root 1.388 Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
3804     plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
3805 root 1.111 Du denn? Analphabeten?
3806 root 1.387 %
3807 root 1.388 "Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
3808     [Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
3809 root 1.387 %
3810 root 1.109 17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
3811 root 1.387 %
3812 root 1.108 [Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
3813     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
3814     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
3815     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
3816     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
3817     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
3818 root 1.387 %
3819 root 1.108 [I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
3820     tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
3821 root 1.387 %
3822 root 1.107 [links are free ;)]
3823     http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
3824 root 1.387 %
3825 root 1.106 [http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
3826     Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
3827 root 1.387 %
3828 root 1.105 [openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
3829    
3830     /* One positive side-effect of US's export
3831     * control history, is that we should at least
3832     * be able to avoid using US mispellings of
3833     * "initialisation"? */
3834     EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
3835 root 1.387 %
3836 root 1.105 [man pem]
3837     Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
3838 root 1.387 %
3839 root 1.105 [pth_native.c]
3840    
3841     /* ``If you can't do it in
3842 root 1.247 ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
3843 root 1.105 -- Unknown */
3844 root 1.387 %
3845 root 1.104 [subculture]
3846 root 1.388 ... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
3847     mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
3848 root 1.104 skillig vorkommen ...
3849    
3850     [http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
3851 root 1.424 %
3852 root 1.104 [back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
3853     this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
3854 root 1.247 00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
3855 root 1.104 gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
3856 root 1.247 00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
3857 root 1.104 ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
3858     00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
3859 root 1.387 %
3860 root 1.103 [http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
3861 root 1.388 ... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
3862     suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
3863     Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
3864 root 1.103 im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
3865 root 1.388 Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
3866     an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
3867     vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
3868 root 1.387 %
3869 root 1.102 sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
3870     aber wenig freude.
3871 root 1.387 %
3872 root 1.102 [from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
3873     - you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
3874     and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
3875     That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
3876     must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
3877     based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
3878     to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
3879     Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
3880     and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
3881     in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
3882 root 1.387 %
3883 root 1.388 17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
3884     doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
3885 root 1.101 17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
3886     fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet *g*
3887 root 1.387 %
3888 root 1.100 For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
3889     don't work well in practise.
3890     http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
3891 root 1.387 %
3892 root 1.99 [Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
3893     There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
3894     "ready, fire, aim."
3895 root 1.387 %
3896 root 1.98 [...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
3897     license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
3898     free countries like Germany [1].
3899     [...]
3900     Regards
3901     Henning
3902    
3903     [1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
3904     part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
3905     might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
3906 root 1.387 %
3907 root 1.98 [...]
3908     The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
3909     establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
3910     to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
3911     same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
3912     itself give you none of these rights at all.
3913     [...]
3914     Wolfgang Walter
3915 root 1.387 %
3916 root 1.98 burro: i once played against a computer
3917     burro: it seemed very clever
3918     burro: but then all its groups died in yose
3919     burro: it forgot to defend later..
3920     burro: oops
3921     burro: accidental poetry
3922 root 1.387 %
3923 root 1.98 [about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
3924     where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
3925     yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
3926 root 1.387 %
3927 root 1.98 [from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
3928     #define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
3929 root 1.387 %
3930 root 1.98 "In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
3931     -- Oscar Wilde
3932 root 1.387 %
3933 root 1.98 [a principle used in florida's law]
3934     "guilty until proven innocent"
3935     [http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
3936 root 1.387 %
3937 root 1.98 Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
3938     said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
3939     information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
3940     getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
3941     on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
3942     number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
3943     said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
3944     full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
3945     as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
3946     hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
3947     her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
3948     wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
3949     man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
3950     close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
3951     in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
3952 root 1.387 %
3953 root 1.98 [gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
3954     // NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
3955     // experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
3956     // hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
3957     // suit particular needs.
3958     _M_buf_size_opt = 512;
3959 root 1.387 %
3960 root 1.98 [members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
3961     [Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
3962     ... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
3963 root 1.388 Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
3964 root 1.98 kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
3965 root 1.387 %
3966 root 1.97 [Onibaba - Great Movie]
3967     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
3968 root 1.387 %
3969 root 1.97 [Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
3970     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
3971 root 1.387 %
3972 root 1.96 [<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
3973     [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
3974     Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
3975 root 1.387 %
3976 root 1.96 GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
3977     vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
3978 root 1.388 XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
3979     JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
3980 root 1.387 %
3981 root 1.96 [http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
3982    
3983     [...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
3984     [seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
3985     the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
3986     out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
3987     is not [...]
3988 root 1.387 %
3989 root 1.247 Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
3990 root 1.95 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
3991     repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
3992 root 1.387 %
3993 root 1.94 [some hilights from:]
3994     [http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
3995    
3996 root 1.388 _Einfach erklärt_
3997 root 1.94
3998     GUI
3999     Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4000     Globale Variable
4001 root 1.388 Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4002 root 1.94 objektorientiert
4003     Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4004     strukturiert
4005     dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4006     Multithreaded
4007 root 1.388 Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4008 root 1.94 Windows 95
4009 root 1.388 Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4010 root 1.94 Emacs
4011 root 1.388 Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4012     ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4013     ein vernünftiger Editor.
4014 root 1.94 IPv6
4015     $ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4016     Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4017     2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4018     2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4019 root 1.388 Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4020     Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4021 root 1.247 PHP
4022 root 1.388 Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4023 root 1.94 in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4024 root 1.388 die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4025     e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4026 root 1.247 Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4027 root 1.94 Bunt.
4028 root 1.388 Plattformunabhängig
4029     Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4030     plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4031 root 1.95 [94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4032 root 1.387 %
4033 root 1.93 [logic & fallacies]
4034     http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4035 root 1.387 %
4036 root 1.93 http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4037 root 1.387 %
4038 root 1.93 [nah]
4039     In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4040     appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4041     paint dry."
4042 root 1.387 %
4043 root 1.92 http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4044     http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4045     http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4046 root 1.387 %
4047 root 1.178 [Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4048 root 1.91 The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4049     importance.
4050 root 1.387 %
4051 root 1.91 [http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4052     [_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4053     Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4054     Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4055    
4056     You have to trust Microsoft.
4057    
4058     There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4059     Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4060     release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4061     Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4062     that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4063     useless chrome.
4064    
4065     But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4066     whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4067     I'd like to trust them with.
4068 root 1.93 [...]
4069 root 1.387 %
4070 root 1.91 [when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4071     [now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4072     XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4073     Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4074     Line Number 90, Column 15:
4075 root 1.247 <li>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4076 root 1.91 --------------^
4077 root 1.387 %
4078 root 1.91 [from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4079     [http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4080     A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4081     which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4082     English grammar, I assure you.
4083 root 1.387 %
4084 root 1.91 Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4085     a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4086     these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4087     hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4088     en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4089     hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4090     can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4091    
4092     Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4093     strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4094     entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4095     the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4096     than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4097     1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4098     hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4099     surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4100     body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4101     from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4102    
4103     This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4104     in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4105     stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4106     numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4107    
4108     Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4109     Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4110 root 1.387 %
4111 root 1.91 [http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4112     [fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4113     The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4114     crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4115     don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4116     work etc first:
4117    
4118     #include <stdio.h>
4119    
4120     int main (void) {
4121     while (1)
4122     printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4123    
4124     return 0;
4125     }
4126 root 1.387 %
4127 root 1.91 [you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4128     contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4129 root 1.90 http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4130 root 1.387 %
4131 root 1.90 [http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4132     Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4133     the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4134     rigorous government certification confirming this.
4135 root 1.387 %
4136 root 1.89 [mms_client after finishing the download]
4137     everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4138     proprietary and patentend technology.
4139 root 1.387 %
4140 root 1.88 I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4141 root 1.388 -- Aki Kaurismäki
4142 root 1.387 %
4143 root 1.87 [http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4144 root 1.388 "The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4145 root 1.87 with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4146     construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4147     the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4148 root 1.387 %
4149 root 1.388 1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4150     Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4151 root 1.87 Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4152 root 1.388 geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4153     Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4154 root 1.87 verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4155 root 1.388 kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4156 root 1.87
4157 root 1.388 2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4158     2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4159     Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4160     und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4161     gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4162     unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4163 root 1.87 Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4164     Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4165    
4166 root 1.388 3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4167     Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4168     Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4169     Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4170     einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4171     besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4172     (Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4173     überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4174     der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4175     Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4176 root 1.87 von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4177 root 1.387 %
4178 root 1.87 [just FMI (for my information)]
4179     http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4180 root 1.387 %
4181 root 1.87 [perldoc perlboot]
4182     Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4183     multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4184 root 1.387 %
4185 root 1.87 [I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4186     "linux" thing will fail]
4187     In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4188     [...]
4189 root 1.247 Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4190 root 1.87 compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4191     to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4192     effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4193    
4194     Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4195     deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4196     life to the public good.
4197    
4198     You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4199     You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4200     Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4201     so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4202     software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4203    
4204     You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4205     a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4206     treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4207     on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4208     software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4209     software to work on the linux kernel!
4210    
4211     Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4212     are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4213     stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4214     rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4215     deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4216 root 1.387 %
4217 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
4218 root 1.247 What does line 4 do here?
4219     [...]
4220     This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4221 root 1.387 %
4222 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
4223     Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4224     blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4225     program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4226 root 1.387 %
4227 root 1.86 [rise and fall of free software standards]
4228 root 1.247 * GNU Gettext and %expect
4229     GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4230     Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4231     too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4232     does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4233 root 1.387 %
4234 root 1.86 Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4235     -- Leonard Brandwein
4236 root 1.387 %
4237 root 1.85 [11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4238 root 1.247 [11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4239     [11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4240     [11:58] <schmorp> nope
4241     [11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4242     [11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4243     [12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, *sigh*
4244     [12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4245     [12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4246     [12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4247     [12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4248     [12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4249 root 1.387 %
4250 root 1.247 [11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4251     [11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4252 root 1.387 %
4253 root 1.84 A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4254     United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4255     interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4256     his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4257     collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4258     assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4259     jurisprudence fun?
4260     <http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4261 root 1.387 %
4262 root 1.247 [02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4263     [02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4264     [02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4265 root 1.84 [...]
4266 root 1.247 [03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4267 root 1.387 %
4268 root 1.84 [found at www.imdb.com]
4269     the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4270     - Paul Ginsparg.
4271 root 1.387 %
4272 root 1.84 prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4273     said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4274     home.":))
4275     [erm...]
4276 root 1.387 %
4277 root 1.84 > described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4278    
4279 root 1.247 Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4280 root 1.387 %
4281 root 1.247 [05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4282 root 1.387 %
4283 root 1.83 [http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4284    
4285     [...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4286     implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4287     UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4288     bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4289 root 1.387 %
4290 root 1.83 .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4291     / \ / \ / \ / \ /
4292     .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4293 root 1.387 %
4294 root 1.82 From: "David S. Miller"
4295 root 1.83
4296     > Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4297 root 1.82
4298     If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4299     to use in future emails?
4300 root 1.387 %
4301 root 1.82 Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
4302     please?
4303    
4304     I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
4305     a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
4306    
4307 root 1.247 Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
4308 root 1.387 %
4309 root 1.82 Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
4310     Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
4311     last until February 16th 2003.
4312    
4313     So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
4314     changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
4315     will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
4316     end.
4317    
4318     The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
4319    
4320     Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
4321     the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
4322     round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
4323     Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
4324     counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
4325     round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
4326     take place on October 27th.
4327    
4328     The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
4329     of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
4330     Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
4331     the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
4332     Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
4333     the clock)...
4334 root 1.387 %
4335 root 1.81 [boycot your enemies]
4336     > We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
4337     > helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
4338     > world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
4339     > helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
4340    
4341     Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
4342     cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay *you* to do kernel
4343     development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
4344     RedHat and SuSE).
4345    
4346     I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
4347    
4348     Pavel
4349 root 1.387 %
4350 root 1.81 Rik
4351 root 1.247 --
4352 root 1.81 A: No.
4353     Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
4354 root 1.387 %
4355 root 1.81 > Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
4356 root 1.247 > GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
4357     > disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
4358 root 1.81
4359     I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
4360     no useful data.
4361    
4362 root 1.247 --
4363 root 1.81 bill davidsen
4364 root 1.387 %
4365 root 1.80 In the switching software (written in C)
4366     there was a long do..while construct,
4367     which contained a switch statement,
4368     which contained an if clause,
4369     which contained a break,
4370     which was intended for the if clause,
4371     but instead broke from the switch statement.
4372    
4373     - Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
4374     network January 15, 1990
4375 root 1.387 %
4376 root 1.80 [From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
4377    
4378 root 1.247 They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
4379     told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
4380     stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
4381     violation of network policies.
4382 root 1.80
4383     [the same document, explaining K:Lines]
4384    
4385     K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
4386     The format is as follows:
4387    
4388     K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
4389 root 1.387 %
4390 root 1.79 [Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
4391     "People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
4392     http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
4393 root 1.387 %
4394 root 1.79 http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
4395     "I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
4396     Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
4397     developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
4398     conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
4399     customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
4400     ...
4401     "If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
4402     Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
4403     the effort."
4404 root 1.387 %
4405 root 1.79 http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
4406 root 1.387 %
4407 root 1.79 [please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
4408     gay people mad at me with this one...]
4409 root 1.78 [10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
4410 root 1.247 Lukas vergleicht :)
4411     [10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
4412 root 1.387 %
4413 root 1.76 http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
4414 root 1.387 %
4415 root 1.76 http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
4416 root 1.387 %
4417 root 1.76 I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
4418     same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
4419     [Albert Cahalan]
4420 root 1.387 %
4421 root 1.75 The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
4422     externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
4423     least as bad, but lesser known.
4424 root 1.387 %
4425 root 1.75 There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
4426     line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
4427     different.
4428 root 1.387 %
4429 root 1.75 A common disease in programs written at Berkeley is to open /dev/kmem and grub the load averages out by the dirtiest means possible.
4430 root 1.387 %
4431 root 1.76 [no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
4432     http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
4433 root 1.387 %
4434 root 1.74 [about the early CD-R dyes]
4435     The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
4436     popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
4437     of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
4438     consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
4439     without a show.
4440 root 1.387 %
4441 root 1.76 [more of a timestamp]
4442 root 1.73 "SANS, SOUCI"
4443 root 1.387 %
4444 root 1.72 http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
4445 root 1.387 %
4446 root 1.71 The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
4447     http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
4448 root 1.387 %
4449 root 1.71 [Bruce Schneier]
4450     A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
4451     the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
4452 root 1.247 they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
4453 root 1.71 going on.
4454     [...]
4455 root 1.247 People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
4456     otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
4457     as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
4458 root 1.387 %
4459 root 1.70 [06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
4460     opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
4461 root 1.387 %
4462 root 1.247 You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
4463 root 1.387 %
4464 root 1.69 http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
4465 root 1.387 %
4466 root 1.69 [practical go humor]
4467     Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
4468     id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and *insist* you've won.
4469 root 1.387 %
4470 root 1.68 [windows API rocks]
4471     The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
4472     the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
4473     returned data.
4474    
4475 root 1.247 typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
4476     FindExInfoStandard
4477     } FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
4478 root 1.387 %
4479 root 1.388 [Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
4480 root 1.67 [05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
4481     [05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
4482 root 1.247 kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
4483 root 1.387 %
4484 root 1.66 [Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
4485     it doesn't work:]
4486     1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
4487     known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
4488     this MIME type as the final determination.
4489 root 1.387 %
4490 root 1.65 [freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
4491    
4492     Recode 0.1.1
4493     by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
4494    
4495     About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
4496     three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
4497    
4498     Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
4499 root 1.387 %
4500 root 1.65 http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
4501 root 1.387 %
4502 root 1.64 $S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
4503 root 1.387 %
4504 root 1.64 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4505    
4506     Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
4507     just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
4508     claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
4509     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
4510     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
4511     A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
4512     the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
4513     keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
4514     century."
4515    
4516     Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
4517     where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
4518     that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
4519     carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
4520     has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
4521     that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
4522     such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
4523     to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
4524     decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
4525     past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
4526     naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
4527     motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
4528     clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
4529     <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
4530    
4531     At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
4532     software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
4533     much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
4534     hilarious in light of the above.
4535     <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
4536    
4537     A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
4538     secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
4539     States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
4540     been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
4541     which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
4542     said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
4543     <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
4544    
4545     Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
4546     someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
4547     numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
4548     Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
4549 root 1.65 <http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
4550 root 1.387 %
4551 root 1.64 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
4552 root 1.387 %
4553 root 1.388 ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
4554     zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
4555 root 1.387 %
4556 root 1.63 "There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
4557     so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
4558     so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
4559    
4560     Tony Hoare
4561 root 1.387 %
4562 root 1.388 Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
4563     vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
4564 root 1.63 _nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
4565 root 1.388 Maßeinheit verwendet.
4566 root 1.387 %
4567 root 1.63 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
4568    
4569     [...]
4570     The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
4571     by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
4572     system. Basically its windows computer
4573 root 1.387 %
4574 root 1.63 [go figure...]
4575 root 1.247 <JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
4576 root 1.387 %
4577 root 1.63 Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
4578    
4579     > In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
4580     > to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
4581     > Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
4582     > software developers...
4583    
4584     Homeopathic approach to software development?
4585 root 1.387 %
4586 root 1.63 > > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
4587     > > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
4588     > > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
4589     >
4590     > I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
4591    
4592     Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
4593     badly with respect to patches, so far.
4594    
4595     - Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
4596     in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
4597    
4598     - I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
4599     but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
4600     off by throwing away the patch.
4601    
4602     Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
4603     create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
4604     patch any time soon.
4605    
4606     --
4607     Daniel
4608 root 1.387 %
4609 root 1.62 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
4610     Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
4611     [...]
4612     Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
4613     be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
4614     next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
4615 root 1.387 %
4616 root 1.62 [no comments ;)]
4617    
4618     I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
4619     It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
4620     Is it realy needed?
4621 root 1.387 %
4622 root 1.62 [W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
4623    
4624     int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
4625    
4626     [...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
4627     specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
4628     an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
4629 root 1.387 %
4630 root 1.62 [www.intel.com]
4631     Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
4632     extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
4633     the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
4634     download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
4635     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
4636     and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
4637 root 1.387 %
4638 root 1.61 From: Alexander Viro
4639    
4640     On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
4641     > > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
4642     > > found in the CML2 sources.
4643     >
4644     > Btw, what happened to CML2?
4645    
4646     This is an ex-parrot
4647 root 1.387 %
4648 root 1.61 From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
4649    
4650     > > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
4651     > > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
4652     > > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
4653     > > algorithm ever" etc.
4654     >
4655     > Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
4656     > pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
4657    
4658     I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
4659    
4660     while (!sorted(data))
4661     ;
4662 root 1.387 %
4663 root 1.61 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
4664     From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
4665    
4666     > This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
4667    
4668     You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
4669     to computing
4670 root 1.387 %
4671 root 1.61 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
4672    
4673     On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
4674     >What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
4675    
4676     Common sense, one would hope.
4677 root 1.387 %
4678 root 1.61 From: Toon Moene
4679     [...]
4680    
4681     Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
4682     backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
4683     translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
4684    
4685     http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
4686    
4687     "Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
4688     Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
4689     programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
4690     created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
4691    
4692     :-)
4693 root 1.387 %
4694 root 1.247 "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
4695     lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
4696     their C programs."
4697 root 1.60
4698     Robert Firth
4699 root 1.387 %
4700 root 1.59 [miri@ccc.de]
4701 root 1.388 Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
4702 root 1.59 [and after some quarrel...]
4703     Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
4704 root 1.387 %
4705 root 1.68 [Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
4706 root 1.388 Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
4707 root 1.387 %
4708 root 1.57 [Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
4709     Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
4710 root 1.387 %
4711 root 1.68 [from windows' wininet.h]
4712 root 1.56 #define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
4713 root 1.387 %
4714 root 1.388 Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
4715 root 1.56 in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
4716     selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
4717 root 1.388 dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
4718     eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
4719 root 1.56 erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
4720     vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
4721    
4722     Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
4723    
4724     \Gisbert
4725 root 1.387 %
4726 root 1.55 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
4727 root 1.387 %
4728 root 1.55 P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
4729     world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
4730     --Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
4731 root 1.387 %
4732 root 1.54 From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
4733     Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
4734    
4735     I don't have python. Any version of python.
4736     [...]
4737 root 1.387 %
4738 root 1.54 [perldoc Test::Harness]
4739     Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
4740     Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
4741    
4742     ok 1
4743     # Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
4744     not ok 2
4745     # got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
4746 root 1.387 %
4747 root 1.54 I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
4748    
4749     Cheers,
4750    
4751     Andre Hedrick
4752     Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
4753 root 1.387 %
4754 root 1.54 > > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
4755 root 1.247 >
4756 root 1.54 > Spinaphore :-)
4757    
4758     Or mutabloat :-(
4759 root 1.387 %
4760 root 1.54 Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing
4761     Outlook *IS* the solution.
4762 root 1.387 %
4763 root 1.54 Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
4764 root 1.387 %
4765 root 1.53 From: Ricky Beam
4766    
4767     Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
4768     never bought anything from UUNet.
4769 root 1.387 %
4770 root 1.53 deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
4771     that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
4772     by delving below its surface meaning)
4773 root 1.387 %
4774 root 1.52 http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
4775 root 1.387 %
4776 root 1.52 From: Alan Cox
4777    
4778     > and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
4779     > just go to court and say:
4780    
4781     Oh glorious naivety.
4782    
4783     > The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
4784     > sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
4785     > can do the work better than I).
4786    
4787     You release the code
4788    
4789     The next day an injunction arrives in the post
4790    
4791     The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
4792     preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
4793     by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
4794     doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
4795    
4796     Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
4797     by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
4798    
4799     A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
4800     because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
4801    
4802     Then the court costs bankrupt you.
4803    
4804     Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
4805     is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
4806     or that the good guys win.
4807    
4808     This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
4809     US, and outside of most of the EU.
4810 root 1.387 %
4811 root 1.51 From: Alan Cox
4812    
4813     [...]
4814     I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
4815     country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
4816 root 1.247 is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
4817 root 1.51 year to kill.
4818 root 1.387 %
4819 root 1.51 [CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
4820     Windows UPnP Vulnerability
4821    
4822     [...]
4823     Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
4824     center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
4825     of for Windows desktop systems."
4826     [...]
4827     eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
4828     months before Microsoft released its patch.
4829     [...]
4830     UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
4831     networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
4832     Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
4833     turned on by default.
4834     [...]
4835     The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
4836     delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
4837     these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
4838     [...]
4839     Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
4840     fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
4841     are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
4842     done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
4843     repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
4844     they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
4845     anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
4846     as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
4847     kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
4848 root 1.387 %
4849 root 1.50 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
4850 root 1.387 %
4851 root 1.49 [following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
4852 root 1.388 Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
4853 root 1.49
4854     technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
4855    
4856     Monday, 06. November 2000
4857 root 1.387 %
4858 root 1.247 [01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
4859     [01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
4860 root 1.387 %
4861 root 1.90 [http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
4862 root 1.48 * If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
4863     * the legal right to export/download/view this program.
4864     [too late, I broke the law, again!]
4865 root 1.387 %
4866 root 1.47 Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
4867     matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
4868     that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
4869     launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
4870 root 1.387 %
4871 root 1.47 > Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
4872     > manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
4873    
4874     Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
4875     existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
4876     student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
4877 root 1.387 %
4878 root 1.47 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
4879     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
4880    
4881     > It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
4882     > address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
4883     > dropped patches.
4884    
4885     Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
4886 root 1.247 wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
4887 root 1.47 people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
4888     lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
4889     know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
4890     patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
4891 root 1.387 %
4892 root 1.46 I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
4893     the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
4894     it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
4895 root 1.387 %
4896 root 1.45 From: "David S. Miller"
4897    
4898     From: Bill Huey
4899     Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
4900    
4901     Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
4902    
4903     Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
4904 root 1.247 relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
4905 root 1.45 themselves.
4906    
4907     Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
4908     certain.
4909 root 1.387 %
4910 root 1.45 > required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
4911     > something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
4912     > complains about kernel bloat" :)
4913    
4914     And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
4915     appropriate approach to a problem.
4916 root 1.387 %
4917 root 1.388 From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
4918 root 1.44 ^^^^
4919     [...]
4920     Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
4921     [...]
4922     -20 Long underwear is a good idea
4923     -15 Nice winter day
4924     -10 Slightly warm winter day
4925     -5 Nice warm winter day
4926     0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
4927 root 1.387 %
4928 root 1.44 No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
4929     entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
4930     of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
4931     suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
4932 root 1.387 %
4933 root 1.44 On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
4934     > select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
4935    
4936     Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
4937    
4938     -ben
4939 root 1.387 %
4940 root 1.43 [...]
4941 root 1.247 [11:55] <|Pixel|> no, not spanish :)
4942     [11:55] <|Pixel|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
4943     [11:55] <|Pixel|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
4944     [11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
4945     [11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
4946     [11:56] <|Pixel|> err
4947     [11:56] <|Pixel|> well :)
4948     [11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
4949     [11:57] <|Pixel|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
4950     [11:57] <schmorp> ;->
4951     [11:57] <|Pixel|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
4952 root 1.387 %
4953 root 1.388 Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
4954     debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
4955 root 1.43 Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
4956 root 1.388 Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
4957     unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
4958     wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
4959     Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
4960     könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
4961     debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
4962 root 1.43 statt...
4963 root 1.387 %
4964 root 1.42 http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
4965 root 1.387 %
4966 root 1.42 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
4967     Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
4968     In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
4969     to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
4970     values." Who writes this stuff?
4971 root 1.387 %
4972 root 1.42 http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
4973 root 1.387 %
4974 root 1.41 > I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
4975     > 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
4976     > See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
4977     > 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
4978     > "Macao".
4979     > 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
4980     > 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
4981 root 1.387 %
4982 root 1.247 [09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
4983 root 1.387 %
4984 root 1.40 Beitrag
4985 root 1.247 FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
4986 root 1.40
4987     fucklinux
4988    
4989     IP: 217.83.123.198
4990    
4991     1. FUCK LINUX
4992    
4993 root 1.388 Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
4994 root 1.40
4995     Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
4996 root 1.387 %
4997 root 1.388 From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
4998 root 1.40
4999     [...]
5000     Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5001     understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5002     when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5003     read...
5004 root 1.387 %
5005 root 1.39 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5006     persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5007     depends on the unreasonable man.
5008    
5009     -George Bernard Shaw
5010 root 1.387 %
5011 root 1.38 [Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5012    
5013     Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5014 root 1.247 Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5015 root 1.387 %
5016 root 1.37 > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:03:50 +0100 "A." <pcg@goof>,MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR.,UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote:
5017 root 1.387 %
5018 root 1.37 [06:46] <Arvoreen> marco kannst du mir die sources von Nvidia auf die uni kopieren. Nvidia ist aschlahhm heute 92 bytes/sec
5019     [06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5020     [06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5021     [06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5022     [06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5023 root 1.387 %
5024 root 1.37 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5025     > You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5026 root 1.247 > So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5027 root 1.37 > to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5028     > Thanks for clearing this up.
5029 root 1.387 %
5030 root 1.247 It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5031     It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5032     It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5033     It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5034     It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5035     It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5036     It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5037     It is more virtuous to write programs that are adapted to the most convenient modes of use than to be generic (example: vi is better than emacs).
5038     It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5039     It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5040 root 1.387 %
5041 root 1.36 [Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5042     Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5043     prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5044     on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5045     found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5046     removed in Windows XP.
5047    
5048     We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5049     configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5050     also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5051     crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5052 root 1.387 %
5053 root 1.36 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5054     The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5055     security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5056     Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5057     System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5058     DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5059     they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5060     was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5061     system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5062     trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5063    
5064     Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5065     without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5066     developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5067     withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5068     less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5069     you have no details?
5070     [...]
5071     <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5072     <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5073     Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5074     counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5075     said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5076     -- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5077     the industrial terrorists want."
5078 root 1.387 %
5079 root 1.36 [Bruce Schneier]
5080     Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5081 root 1.387 %
5082 root 1.247 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5083 root 1.387 %
5084 root 1.36 In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5085     of each 50 days
5086 root 1.387 %
5087 root 1.36 "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5088    
5089     >I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5090     >missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5091     >later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5092 root 1.387 %
5093 root 1.36 > Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5094     > about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5095     > with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5096 root 1.387 %
5097 root 1.35 On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5098     > I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5099 root 1.247 >
5100 root 1.35 > <...>
5101     >
5102     > Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5103     > it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5104     > want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5105 root 1.247 > cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5106 root 1.387 %
5107 root 1.35 They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5108     This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5109     -- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5110 root 1.387 %
5111 root 1.35 > more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5112     > sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5113     > really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5114    
5115 root 1.247 You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5116     graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5117     environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5118     servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5119     like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5120     changing run level, interactive boot.
5121 root 1.35
5122     Alan
5123 root 1.387 %
5124 root 1.35 [http://thefreeworld.net/]
5125    
5126     I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5127     The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5128    
5129     First they came for the Communists,
5130     and I didn't speak up,
5131     because I wasn't a Communist.
5132     Then they came for the Jews,
5133     and I didn't speak up,
5134     because I wasn't a Jew.
5135     Then they came for the Catholics,
5136     and I didn't speak up,
5137     because I was a Protestant.
5138     Then they came for me,
5139     and by that time there was no one
5140     left to speak up for me.
5141    
5142     by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5143 root 1.387 %
5144 root 1.34 http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5145 root 1.387 %
5146 root 1.34 If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5147     -- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5148 root 1.387 %
5149 root 1.33 > For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5150     > density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5151     > the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5152     > a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5153    
5154     I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5155 root 1.387 %
5156 root 1.32 [jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5157    
5158     "This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5159     area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5160     to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5161     bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5162     used databases!"
5163 root 1.387 %
5164 root 1.32 From: Alexander Viro
5165    
5166     > The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5167    
5168     Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5169     change that was not?
5170     [...]
5171 root 1.387 %
5172 root 1.31 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5173    
5174     [...]
5175    
5176 root 1.247 I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5177 root 1.31 dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5178     lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5179    
5180 root 1.247 I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5181 root 1.31 natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5182     them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5183     them anywhere else").
5184    
5185     But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5186     hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5187 root 1.247 descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5188 root 1.31 to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5189     order..
5190    
5191 root 1.247 (IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5192 root 1.31 borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5193 root 1.387 %
5194 root 1.30 On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5195     > (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5196     > corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5197    
5198     Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5199 root 1.387 %
5200 root 1.29 [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5201 root 1.247 vertauschen (links-rechts).
5202     [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5203     [02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5204     [02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5205 root 1.387 %
5206 root 1.29 From: Bill Davidsen
5207     To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5208    
5209     I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5210     management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5211     new versions of *stable* kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5212     existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5213     series.
5214    
5215     [...]
5216 root 1.387 %
5217 root 1.29 [11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5218 root 1.247 fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5219 root 1.387 %
5220 root 1.29 On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5221     >Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5222     >was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5223    
5224     Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5225     then save." *g*
5226    
5227     /* Steinar */
5228 root 1.387 %
5229 root 1.29 > I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5230     > Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5231    
5232     That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5233     You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5234     they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them*
5235     a bill...
5236 root 1.387 %
5237 root 1.29 [a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5238     >> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5239     >> additional _7_ CPUs!
5240    
5241     Sorry. Mea culpa
5242    
5243     --- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5244     +++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5245     @@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5246     * WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5247     * page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5248     */
5249     - for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5250     + for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5251     /* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5252     int fpu_exception;
5253 root 1.387 %
5254 root 1.29 From: Alexander Viro
5255    
5256     > In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5257    
5258     *ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5259     started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5260     ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5261     they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5262     a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5263 root 1.387 %
5264 root 1.29 From: Linux Torvalds
5265    
5266     In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5267     people.
5268 root 1.387 %
5269 root 1.29 Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5270     <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5271    
5272     Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5273     laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5274     week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5275     in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5276     the question.
5277     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5278 root 1.387 %
5279 root 1.29 [http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5280     1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5281     I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5282     2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5283     (September)
5284 root 1.387 %
5285 root 1.29 Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5286 root 1.387 %
5287 root 1.29 [I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5288     idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5289     throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5290     http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5291     [nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5292 root 1.387 %
5293 root 1.28 "TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5294     -- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5295 root 1.387 %
5296 root 1.28 <JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5297     <JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5298     <JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5299     <JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
5300     <JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
5301 root 1.387 %
5302 root 1.27 Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
5303 root 1.387 %
5304 root 1.27 EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
5305 root 1.387 %
5306 root 1.27 It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
5307     age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
5308     state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
5309     wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
5310     so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
5311     these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
5312     you tell them.
5313 root 1.387 %
5314 root 1.27 But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
5315     cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
5316     alcohol.
5317    
5318     Regards
5319     Henning
5320 root 1.387 %
5321 root 1.27 > handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
5322     > This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
5323     > on a desktop system.
5324    
5325     Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
5326     wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
5327    
5328     C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
5329     transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
5330    
5331     Alan
5332 root 1.387 %
5333 root 1.26 Hi Keith,
5334     kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
5335    
5336     > That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
5337     >
5338     > CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
5339     > Use Welsh
5340    
5341     Don't forget
5342    
5343     CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
5344     Use Finnish
5345    
5346     (Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
5347    
5348     And while we're at it,
5349    
5350     CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
5351     Use German
5352    
5353     CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
5354     Use English
5355    
5356     MfG Kai
5357 root 1.387 %
5358 root 1.25 [From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
5359    
5360     This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
5361     bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
5362     verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
5363     forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
5364     Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
5365     there's no one thinking there.
5366     <http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
5367 root 1.387 %
5368 root 1.24 Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
5369     scores the rules:
5370    
5371     [*]
5372     Score:: =-9999
5373 root 1.247 Content-Type: multipart/alternative
5374 root 1.24 Content-Type: text/html;
5375     X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
5376     X-Mailer: Mozilla
5377     X-Newsreader: Microsoft
5378    
5379     (right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
5380     that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
5381     getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
5382     levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
5383     going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
5384    
5385     I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
5386     Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
5387     wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
5388     clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
5389 root 1.387 %
5390 root 1.24 99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
5391     98 IIS servers online...
5392 root 1.387 %
5393 root 1.24 BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
5394     Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
5395     produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
5396     only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
5397    
5398     US law does *not* apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
5399     it to be otherwise.
5400    
5401     Abigail
5402 root 1.387 %
5403 root 1.23 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
5404 root 1.387 %
5405 root 1.23 I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
5406 root 1.247 attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
5407 root 1.23 was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
5408 root 1.387 %
5409 root 1.22 [11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
5410 root 1.247 si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
5411 root 1.387 %
5412 root 1.22 Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
5413     disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
5414     to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
5415     software people doing the same)
5416    
5417     In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
5418     and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
5419     irrelevant
5420    
5421     Alan
5422 root 1.387 %
5423 root 1.22 [from rfc2822]
5424     Comments may nest.
5425 root 1.387 %
5426 root 1.22 [from findas]
5427     # there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
5428     # a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
5429     # b) the database format is nonparsable
5430     # (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
5431     # of course, the only source to find out about global
5432     # address distributino is... arin.
5433 root 1.387 %
5434 root 1.22 Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
5435     "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
5436 root 1.387 %
5437 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
5438     On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
5439     > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
5440     > > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
5441     > > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
5442 root 1.247 >
5443 root 1.22 > Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
5444    
5445     $foot->insert($mouth);
5446    
5447     # or is that
5448    
5449     $mouth->insert($foot);
5450    
5451     You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
5452     How utterly optimistic :-)
5453 root 1.387 %
5454 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
5455     >Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
5456     >of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
5457     >Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
5458     >(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
5459     >can see why it happens)
5460     >Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
5461    
5462     Well, there's perl... :)
5463 root 1.387 %
5464 root 1.21 [From pth-1.4.0]
5465     * No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
5466     * it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
5467     * makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
5468     * fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
5469 root 1.247 * boxes.
5470 root 1.387 %
5471 root 1.21 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
5472     http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
5473     http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
5474 root 1.387 %
5475 root 1.388 Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
5476     zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
5477 root 1.387 %
5478 root 1.20 Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
5479     From: Juergen Christoffel
5480     Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
5481     To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
5482    
5483     Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
5484    
5485     a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
5486     Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
5487     einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
5488     schon;
5489    
5490     b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
5491     Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
5492     auch mehr zum faedeln.
5493    
5494     Danke, JC
5495 root 1.387 %
5496 root 1.19 [perl.c]
5497     #undef REASONABLE
5498 root 1.387 %
5499 root 1.18 And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
5500     about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
5501    
5502     Alan
5503 root 1.387 %
5504 root 1.18 George Bonser writes:
5505     > I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
5506     > the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
5507     > people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
5508 root 1.247 > client population that is out there without having to make them change
5509 root 1.18 > anything.
5510    
5511     You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
5512     who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
5513 root 1.247 care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
5514     something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
5515 root 1.18 hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
5516     eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
5517    
5518     To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
5519     chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
5520     Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
5521     always a good idea.
5522 root 1.387 %
5523 root 1.18 Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
5524     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
5525    
5526 root 1.247 First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
5527 root 1.18 years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
5528 root 1.387 %
5529 root 1.18 [From the DOSEMU homepage]
5530     We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
5531     versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
5532     as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
5533 root 1.387 %
5534 root 1.18 Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
5535 root 1.387 %
5536 root 1.247 >I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
5537 root 1.18
5538     WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
5539     enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
5540 root 1.387 %
5541 root 1.17 [the world will end soon. i promise!]
5542     I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
5543     like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
5544     to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
5545 root 1.387 %
5546 root 1.17 ..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
5547 root 1.387 %
5548 root 1.17 Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
5549     programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
5550     good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
5551     burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
5552     misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
5553     ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
5554 root 1.387 %
5555 root 1.16 From: Victor Yodaiken
5556    
5557     There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
5558     set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
5559     I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
5560     an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
5561     created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
5562     than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
5563     we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
5564 root 1.387 %
5565 root 1.16 [I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
5566     good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
5567     future. Bleeeh]
5568    
5569     From: Larry McVoy
5570    
5571 root 1.247 I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
5572 root 1.16 are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
5573     like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
5574     exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
5575     programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
5576     exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
5577     the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
5578     not for the exceptional case.
5579 root 1.387 %
5580 root 1.16 Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
5581     semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
5582     overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
5583     versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
5584     Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
5585     created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
5586     stack.
5587    
5588     Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
5589     garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
5590     relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
5591    
5592     So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
5593     going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
5594 root 1.387 %
5595 root 1.16 From: Larry McVoy
5596    
5597 root 1.247 > > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
5598     > > *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
5599     > > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
5600     > > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
5601 root 1.16 > > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
5602 root 1.247 >
5603 root 1.16 > How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
5604     > on the CPU?
5605    
5606     Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
5607 root 1.247 that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
5608 root 1.16 died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
5609     system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
5610    
5611     It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
5612     What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
5613     and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
5614     the point again".
5615 root 1.387 %
5616 root 1.16 From: Alan Cox
5617    
5618 root 1.15 > 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
5619     > 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
5620 root 1.247 > be GPL'd header files.
5621 root 1.15 > 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
5622 root 1.247 >
5623 root 1.15 > There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
5624     > scenario.
5625    
5626     Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
5627 root 1.387 %
5628 root 1.14 [configure --help]
5629 root 1.15 --enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
5630     --enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
5631     --enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
5632 root 1.387 %
5633 root 1.14 I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
5634     tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
5635     others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
5636     character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
5637     very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
5638     they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
5639     world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
5640     if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
5641     anything.
5642 root 1.387 %
5643 root 1.247 [01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
5644 root 1.387 %
5645 root 1.12 [inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
5646     http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
5647 root 1.387 %
5648 root 1.11 [long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
5649     On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
5650     > The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
5651     > official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
5652     > by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
5653    
5654     you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
5655 root 1.387 %
5656 root 1.11 From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
5657    
5658     On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
5659    
5660     >Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
5661     >It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
5662     >it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
5663     >would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
5664     >basics, I understood the power of the system.
5665    
5666     My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
5667     package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
5668     only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
5669     either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
5670     consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
5671     the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
5672     seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
5673     seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
5674     to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
5675     for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
5676     It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
5677     to work through the learning curve.
5678 root 1.387 %
5679 root 1.11 [http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
5680 root 1.247 Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
5681 root 1.387 %
5682 root 1.11 [VERY good movie]
5683     Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
5684 root 1.387 %
5685 root 1.11 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
5686     Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
5687 root 1.387 %
5688 root 1.10 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
5689     Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
5690 root 1.388 großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
5691     sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
5692 root 1.10 erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
5693 root 1.387 %
5694 root 1.9 [alt.bible]
5695 root 1.247 Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
5696 root 1.9 is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
5697 root 1.387 %
5698 root 1.247 [02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
5699     [02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
5700 root 1.387 %
5701 root 1.9 [this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
5702     Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
5703     unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
5704     die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
5705     festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
5706     E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
5707     3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
5708     Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
5709    
5710 root 1.388 Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
5711 root 1.9 "E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
5712 root 1.388 E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
5713 root 1.9 wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
5714     zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
5715    
5716     Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
5717     verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
5718     guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
5719     verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
5720     in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
5721     insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
5722     Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
5723 root 1.388 § 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
5724 root 1.9 bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
5725     vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
5726     m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
5727 root 1.387 %
5728 root 1.9 [comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
5729     /*---.
5730     | ? |
5731     `---*/
5732 root 1.387 %
5733 root 1.9 Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
5734 root 1.387 %
5735 root 1.8 [While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
5736     From: Joe Buck
5737     > Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
5738     Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
5739 root 1.387 %
5740 root 1.8 [Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
5741     Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
5742 root 1.387 %
5743 root 1.7 04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
5744 root 1.247 Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
5745 root 1.387 %
5746 root 1.4 [ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
5747 root 1.247 [07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
5748 root 1.387 %
5749 root 1.4 [about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
5750 root 1.247 [03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
5751 root 1.4 ...
5752     [03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
5753 root 1.387 %
5754 root 1.3 [From: Alan Cox]
5755 root 1.247 > The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
5756     > "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
5757     > know, we have a lot of lawyers."
5758    
5759     I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
5760    
5761     Alan
5762 root 1.387 %
5763 root 1.388 [JanMan über O'Reilly]
5764 root 1.247 [07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
5765     [07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
5766     [07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
5767     [07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
5768 root 1.387 %
5769 root 1.2 [JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
5770 root 1.247 [07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
5771     [07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
5772     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
5773     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
5774     [07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
5775     [07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
5776 root 1.387 %
5777 root 1.2 Hlade's Law:
5778     If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
5779     will find an easier way to do it.
5780 root 1.387 %
5781 root 1.388 [Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
5782 root 1.7 "Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] \(Micro$oft-Fetischist\)" gesetzt hat.]
5783     Paul wrote:
5784     >Marc wrote:
5785 root 1.2 >> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
5786     > aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
5787     > den richtigen.
5788 root 1.387 %
5789 root 1.1 [from janmans .sig]
5790     > " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
5791 root 1.387 %
5792 root 1.1 [a small perl program]
5793     :(); { :: | :: } ;
5794 root 1.387 %
5795 root 1.1 [a small fork-bomb for bash]
5796     :() { : | : ;} ; :
5797 root 1.387 %
5798 root 1.1 [messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
5799     New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
5800     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
5801     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
5802     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
5803 root 1.387 %
5804 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
5805     [...]
5806    
5807     >Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
5808    
5809     Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
5810 root 1.387 %
5811 root 1.1 > There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
5812     > constants.
5813    
5814     I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
5815 root 1.247 Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
5816 root 1.1 would be conducive for further discussion.
5817 root 1.387 %
5818 root 1.247 > Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
5819 root 1.1 > it might be useful?
5820    
5821     I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
5822     room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
5823     much to do with IRC.
5824 root 1.387 %
5825 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5826     Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
5827    
5828     [...]
5829     Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
5830    
5831     I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
5832     ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
5833 root 1.387 %
5834 root 1.1 [sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
5835 root 1.247 [07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
5836 root 1.387 %
5837 root 1.1 [http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
5838    
5839     Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
5840     Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
5841     clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
5842    
5843     Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
5844     lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
5845     man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
5846     shows how much you know, pal.
5847    
5848     The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
5849 root 1.387 %
5850 root 1.1 [messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
5851     /scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
5852     Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
5853 root 1.387 %
5854 root 1.1 [a JAPH using doubled characters only]
5855     s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
5856     y yzzyyccss;;##s
5857     s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
5858 root 1.387 %
5859 root 1.1 [from the FWP mailinglist]
5860     > OR is spelled "|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
5861     Your version of perl sucks.
5862 root 1.387 %
5863 root 1.247 [01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
5864     [01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
5865     [01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
5866     [01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
5867     [02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
5868     [02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
5869     [02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
5870     [02:04] <elmex_> ;)
5871 root 1.1 [02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
5872 root 1.247 [02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
5873     [02:05] <schmorp> *sigh*
5874 root 1.387 %
5875 root 1.1 I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
5876     before you can understand it :)
5877 root 1.387 %
5878 root 1.1 > now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
5879     > and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
5880     > would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
5881 root 1.247 > that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
5882 root 1.1 > paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
5883     > shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
5884     > would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
5885    
5886     IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
5887     There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
5888     the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
5889     easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
5890     what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
5891     be worth attempting).
5892    
5893     I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
5894     floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
5895     caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
5896    
5897     Nick.
5898 root 1.387 %
5899 root 1.1 From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
5900     Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
5901     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
5902    
5903 root 1.247 I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
5904 root 1.1 goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
5905     how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
5906     have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
5907     magic_bone@hotmail.com
5908 root 1.387 %
5909 root 1.1 > > > I guess then someone would want
5910     > > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
5911     > > > to work :-)
5912 root 1.247 > >
5913 root 1.1 > > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
5914 root 1.247 >
5915 root 1.1 > Eh?
5916 root 1.247 >
5917 root 1.1 > $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
5918     > syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
5919    
5920     He didn't say it worked. :)
5921 root 1.387 %
5922 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
5923    
5924     On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
5925     > I find it irksome that
5926 root 1.247 >
5927 root 1.1 > for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
5928    
5929     ...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
5930 root 1.387 %
5931 root 1.1 [a perl5 bug report]
5932     From: Simon Cozens
5933    
5934     On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
5935     > '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
5936     > Produces SIGSEGV.
5937    
5938     Looks like a feature to me.
5939 root 1.387 %
5940 root 1.1 [Lukilein...]
5941 root 1.388 "Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
5942 root 1.387 %
5943 root 1.1 [hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
5944     intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
5945    
5946     "There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
5947     continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
5948     is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
5949     other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
5950    
5951     "We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
5952     simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
5953     would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
5954     you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
5955     large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
5956     part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
5957 root 1.387 %
5958 root 1.1 [following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
5959     I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
5960     security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
5961     level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
5962     this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
5963     great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
5964     only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
5965     security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
5966     reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
5967     the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
5968     secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
5969     accurate and not subject to tampering."
5970    
5971     Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
5972     better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
5973     hacker might read about it and break it. Who *are* these guys?
5974    
5975     <http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
5976 root 1.387 %
5977 root 1.1 It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
5978     more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
5979     impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
5980     Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
5981     Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
5982     likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
5983     replication."
5984     <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
5985 root 1.387 %
5986 root 1.1 [just some private thoughts]
5987     Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
5988    
5989     IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
5990     shows.
5991    
5992     First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
5993     transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
5994     totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
5995    
5996     Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
5997     defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
5998     is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
5999     this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6000     MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6001    
6002     Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6003     to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6004     up with a saner protocol.
6005 root 1.387 %
6006 root 1.1 [voting by television, the american way...]
6007     "They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6008     and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6009    
6010     Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6011     cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6012     voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6013 root 1.387 %
6014 root 1.1 IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6015     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6016     ...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6017     <http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6018     A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6019     <http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6020 root 1.387 %
6021 root 1.1 [Midori-Linux FAQ]
6022     Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6023 root 1.247 A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6024     seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6025     is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6026     does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6027 root 1.1 Netscape in a loop.
6028 root 1.387 %
6029 root 1.1 Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6030 root 1.387 %
6031 root 1.1 [Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6032     marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6033 root 1.247 mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6034 root 1.1 marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6035 root 1.247 hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6036 root 1.387 %
6037 root 1.1 [2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6038     "ist mir egal"
6039 root 1.387 %
6040 root 1.1 From: Hans Reiser
6041     Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6042    
6043     Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6044 root 1.387 %
6045 root 1.1 [debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6046     hallole
6047 root 1.387 %
6048 root 1.1 I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6049     have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6050     most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6051 root 1.387 %
6052 root 1.1 1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6053     1929 The high sign of refreshment
6054     1929 The pause that refreshes
6055     1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6056     1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6057     1935 The pause that brings friends together
6058     1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6059     1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6060     1939 Thirst stops here
6061     1942 It's the real thing
6062     1947 Have a Coke
6063     1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6064     1963 Things go better with Coke
6065     1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6066     1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6067     1982 Coke is it!
6068     -- Coca-Cola slogans
6069 root 1.387 %
6070 root 1.1 [strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6071     model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6072 root 1.387 %
6073 root 1.247 [02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6074     [02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6075 root 1.387 %
6076 root 1.388 [Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6077 root 1.1 Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6078     erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6079     islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6080     Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6081     ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6082     Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6083     wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6084     erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6085     booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6086     einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6087     Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6088     - allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6089     (640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6090     Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6091    
6092     Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6093     hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6094 root 1.387 %
6095 root 1.1 [RMS about gcc snapshots]
6096     From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6097    
6098     [...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6099     uncool thing to do. [...]
6100 root 1.387 %
6101 root 1.1 "Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6102     betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6103     [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6104 root 1.387 %
6105 root 1.388 "Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6106 root 1.1 Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6107 root 1.388 Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6108 root 1.1
6109 root 1.388 "Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6110     daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6111     vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6112     von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6113 root 1.1 die Maschinen Platz."
6114     [Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6115 root 1.387 %
6116 root 1.1 My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6117     software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6118     Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6119     work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6120     doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6121     problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6122     like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6123    
6124     And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6125     run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6126     whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6127 root 1.387 %
6128 root 1.1 > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6129    
6130     US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6131 root 1.387 %
6132 root 1.1 Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6133     to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6134     to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6135     beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6136     at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6137 root 1.247 one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6138 root 1.387 %
6139 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse
6140     > Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6141     > wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6142    
6143     Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6144     is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6145    
6146     After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6147 root 1.387 %
6148 root 1.1 http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6149 root 1.387 %
6150 root 1.1 [recently on linux-kernel]
6151     From: Alan Cox
6152     > > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6153     > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6154 root 1.247 >
6155     > Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6156 root 1.1
6157 root 1.247 Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6158 root 1.1 users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6159 root 1.387 %
6160 root 1.1 From: Russell King
6161     Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6162     To: Albert D. Cahalan
6163    
6164     Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6165     > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6166     > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6167     > few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6168    
6169     iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6170    
6171     [flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6172 root 1.387 %
6173 root 1.388 [11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6174 root 1.1 der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6175     dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6176 root 1.247 [11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6177 root 1.387 %
6178 root 1.388 [über "Mediengestaltung"]
6179 root 1.247 [10:39] <elmex|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6180     [10:40] <schmorp> elmex|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6181 root 1.387 %
6182 root 1.1 [perldoc perlembed]
6183     You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6184 root 1.387 %
6185 root 1.247 [03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6186 root 1.387 %
6187 root 1.247 [09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6188     [09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6189     nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6190 root 1.387 %
6191 root 1.1 [linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6192     /* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6193     talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6194     to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6195     eloquent like `fuck'. */
6196 root 1.387 %
6197 root 1.1 [20:44] <elmex|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6198 root 1.387 %
6199 root 1.247 [09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6200     [09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6201     [09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6202     [09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6203     [09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6204     [09:41] <elmex> ?
6205     [09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6206 root 1.387 %
6207 root 1.1 [Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6208     for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6209 root 1.387 %
6210 root 1.1 [From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6211     perl:]
6212    
6213     $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6214    
6215     [now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6216     to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6217     above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6218     warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6219     in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6220     disable the message and pray it works"]
6221 root 1.387 %
6222 root 1.1 [Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6223     From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6224     Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6225     X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6226    
6227     I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6228     can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6229     i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6230     know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6231     better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6232 root 1.387 %
6233 root 1.1 [I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6234     language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6235     http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6236 root 1.387 %
6237 root 1.1 [imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6238     * This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6239     * Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6240     * passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6241     * a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6242 root 1.387 %
6243 root 1.1 [from qmail's maildir(5)]
6244     Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6245     operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6246 root 1.387 %
6247 root 1.1 [Lukas Grundwald]
6248     Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6249 root 1.387 %
6250 root 1.1 [waiting for windows...]
6251     http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6252 root 1.387 %
6253 root 1.1 [x86 really is a cool design]
6254     > For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6255     > before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6256     > general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6257     > it's a hard requirement.
6258    
6259     Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6260     if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6261     experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6262     another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6263     cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6264     a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6265     the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6266     have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6267 root 1.387 %
6268 root 1.1 > once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6269     > Netscape?"
6270 root 1.247
6271 root 1.1 can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6272     netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6273 root 1.387 %
6274 root 1.1 The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6275     commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6276     structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6277     created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6278     them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6279     the specified task step-by-step.
6280 root 1.387 %
6281 root 1.1 There is an old programmer's rule.
6282    
6283     "Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6284     be damned hard to understand."
6285 root 1.387 %
6286 root 1.1 [Linus]
6287     Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6288     will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6289     wrong. It's that simple.
6290 root 1.387 %
6291 root 1.1 [yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6292 root 1.247 09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6293 root 1.1 [09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6294     site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6295     never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6296 root 1.247 Undernet>
6297 root 1.387 %
6298 root 1.1 [character normalization might be harmful]
6299     > In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
6300     > inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
6301     > point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
6302    
6303     Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
6304     document that contains an element or attribute named
6305 root 1.388 "autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
6306 root 1.1 A forged version of the document that contained the name
6307     "autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
6308     a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
6309     might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
6310     and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
6311     now appears to have unlimited credit!
6312 root 1.387 %
6313 root 1.1 ["my spam"]
6314     99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
6315     numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
6316     protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
6317     or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
6318     TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
6319 root 1.387 %
6320 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
6321     Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
6322     who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
6323     [... snip ...]
6324     never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
6325     tragedy...
6326 root 1.387 %
6327 root 1.1 From: "Mike A. Harris"
6328 root 1.247
6329 root 1.1 On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
6330     >---- A notice to spammers ----
6331     >Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
6332     >strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
6333     >Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
6334     >advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
6335     >message plus attorney's fees.
6336     [SNIP long sig]
6337 root 1.247
6338 root 1.1 O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
6339     most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
6340     all you're doing is contributing to it.
6341 root 1.247
6342 root 1.1 I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
6343     However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
6344     procmailable address.
6345 root 1.247
6346 root 1.1 One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
6347     means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
6348     just a waste of bandwidth.
6349 root 1.387 %
6350 root 1.388 rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
6351 root 1.387 %
6352 root 1.1 [during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
6353     /bin/true --version | read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
6354 root 1.387 %
6355 root 1.1 [stefan thought this would be better]
6356 root 1.247 /bin/true --version | read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
6357 root 1.387 %
6358 root 1.1 [Java-Design]
6359 root 1.247 [02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
6360     [02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
6361     [02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
6362 root 1.1 [02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
6363 root 1.247 klasse, alles muell.
6364     [02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
6365     [02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
6366     [02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
6367 root 1.387 %
6368 root 1.247 [02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
6369 root 1.387 %
6370 root 1.247 [02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
6371 root 1.1 [02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
6372 root 1.247 missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
6373 root 1.387 %
6374 root 1.1 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
6375     The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
6376     using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
6377     immediately and not block the calling process.
6378    
6379     the man pages are wrong
6380    
6381     --cw
6382 root 1.387 %
6383 root 1.1 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
6384     ...
6385     My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
6386 root 1.387 %
6387 root 1.1 [Subject: line on linux-kernel]
6388     Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
6389 root 1.387 %
6390 root 1.1 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
6391     > tar cvpf - foo | ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
6392     > Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
6393    
6394     How fast does it oops?
6395 root 1.387 %
6396 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
6397    
6398     On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6399     > NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
6400     > touch is 2Gig.
6401    
6402     In theory, yes.
6403     In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
6404     2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
6405 root 1.387 %
6406 root 1.247 [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6407     [10:44] <elmex> | | | | | | |
6408     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |-----| | | |
6409     [10:44] <elmex> | |-------------------------| | | |
6410     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | .---------------------------.| |-------|
6411     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de|| | |
6412     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | `---------------------------'| | |
6413     [10:44] <elmex> | |----------| |-----------------------| |
6414     [10:44] <elmex> | | |-| | | | |
6415     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | |-----| |
6416     [10:44] <elmex> | |------------|-------------- | | |
6417     [10:44] <elmex> | |-----------------------------------|-| |----|
6418     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| |-| | | | |
6419     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | | | | |
6420     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | | |
6421     [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6422 root 1.387 %
6423 root 1.1 Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
6424 root 1.387 %
6425 root 1.1 "There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
6426     like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
6427     [irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
6428     take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
6429     -- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
6430 root 1.387 %
6431 root 1.1 "Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
6432     [Lukas Grunwald]
6433 root 1.387 %
6434 root 1.1 [about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
6435     From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
6436     Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
6437     To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
6438    
6439     Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
6440     > > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
6441     > > prompt.
6442     > very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
6443     > /proc/info/authors?
6444 root 1.247
6445 root 1.1 Grand idea.
6446     Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
6447     /proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
6448     /proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
6449     /proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
6450     /proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
6451 root 1.247
6452 root 1.1 NOT.
6453     [...]
6454 root 1.387 %
6455 root 1.1 [Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
6456     Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
6457     From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
6458 root 1.247
6459 root 1.1 On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
6460     > I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
6461     > selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
6462     > an interesting experiment.
6463 root 1.247
6464 root 1.1 Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
6465     about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
6466     to disagree...
6467 root 1.387 %
6468 root 1.1 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
6469     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
6470     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
6471     [und Lukas sagt:]
6472     ... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
6473 root 1.387 %
6474 root 1.1 [from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
6475     report:]
6476     ... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
6477     the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
6478     second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
6479     excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
6480 root 1.387 %
6481 root 1.1 [boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
6482     http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
6483 root 1.387 %
6484 root 1.1 ["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
6485     From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
6486     Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
6487    
6488     Alexander Viro wrote:
6489     > > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
6490     > > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
6491     >
6492     > Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
6493     > as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
6494     > codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
6495     > UNIX.
6496    
6497     Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
6498     compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
6499     docs... ew!
6500 root 1.387 %
6501 root 1.1 > Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
6502     > should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
6503     > protected mode?
6504    
6505     From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
6506     with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
6507     registers loaded ;)
6508 root 1.387 %
6509 root 1.1 > > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
6510     [...]
6511     > backports hurt forward progress.
6512    
6513     beware of content free dogma
6514 root 1.387 %
6515 root 1.1 > What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
6516     > wondering.
6517    
6518     Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
6519     has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
6520     unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
6521     Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
6522     and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
6523     machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
6524     no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
6525    
6526     Markus [G. Kuhn]
6527 root 1.387 %
6528 root 1.1 >Keith,
6529 root 1.247 >
6530 root 1.1 >Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
6531     >of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
6532     >RedHat derived Linux distributions.
6533    
6534     I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
6535     utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
6536     of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
6537     not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
6538     added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
6539     are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
6540     do the right thing.
6541    
6542     Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
6543     and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
6544     unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
6545     distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
6546     and they have to fix it.
6547 root 1.387 %
6548 root 1.1 10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
6549     [10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
6550     [10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
6551     [10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
6552 root 1.387 %
6553 root 1.1 [a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
6554     printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
6555 root 1.387 %
6556 root 1.1 On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
6557     > You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
6558     > pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
6559     > midgets and what I should expect or not.
6560    
6561     You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
6562     You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
6563 root 1.387 %
6564 root 1.1 [once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
6565     gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
6566 root 1.387 %
6567 root 1.1 [subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
6568     glibc-2.2 was released]
6569     Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
6570 root 1.387 %
6571 root 1.1 [08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
6572 root 1.387 %
6573 root 1.1 # root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
6574     # kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
6575     # elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
6576 root 1.387 %
6577 root 1.1 <JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
6578     <schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
6579     <JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
6580 root 1.387 %
6581 root 1.1 [From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
6582    
6583     (1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
6584     standards-compliant.
6585     (2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
6586     (2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
6587     entity, so the browser must use it as is.
6588     (2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
6589     must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
6590     (2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
6591 root 1.387 %
6592 root 1.1 [Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
6593     > which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
6594     > even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
6595    
6596     That's your problem.
6597    
6598     There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
6599    
6600     Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
6601     (If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
6602 root 1.387 %
6603 root 1.1 > > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
6604     > > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
6605     > > out there) in the foot?
6606    
6607     > I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
6608    
6609     True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
6610     themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
6611     for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
6612 root 1.387 %
6613 root 1.1 > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
6614     > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
6615     > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
6616    
6617     No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
6618     after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
6619     perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
6620     PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
6621     _again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
6622     --
6623     Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
6624 root 1.387 %
6625 root 1.1 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
6626    
6627     > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
6628     >
6629     > > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
6630     > > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
6631     >
6632     > Why are you talking such a nonsense?
6633    
6634     [Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
6635 root 1.387 %
6636 root 1.388 [Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
6637     daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
6638     "Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
6639 root 1.1 Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
6640 root 1.387 %
6641 root 1.1 [amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
6642     which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
6643     Bullschildt below ;)]
6644    
6645     "The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
6646     do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
6647 root 1.387 %
6648 root 1.1 Stefan Traby wrote:
6649     >
6650     > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
6651     >
6652     > > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
6653     >
6654     > Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
6655 root 1.387 %
6656 root 1.1 > This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
6657    
6658     I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
6659     it did the same thing.
6660    
6661     Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
6662     a week ago. :(
6663    
6664     --Jack
6665 root 1.387 %
6666 root 1.388 "Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
6667 root 1.387 %
6668 root 1.1 [It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
6669     -- K&R
6670 root 1.387 %
6671 root 1.1 <elmex> JanMan: "||01:42:20|| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
6672 root 1.387 %
6673 root 1.1 [please kids, don't try this at home]
6674     indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
6675 root 1.387 %
6676 root 1.1 http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
6677 root 1.387 %
6678 root 1.1 [PApp.pm]
6679     $modules => { "" => "" };
6680 root 1.387 %
6681 root 1.388 Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
6682 root 1.387 %
6683 root 1.1 <JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
6684 root 1.387 %
6685 root 1.1 [From Russel Coker's .sig]
6686     > --
6687     > If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
6688     > Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
6689 root 1.387 %
6690 root 1.1 [the two sides of the medal]
6691     From: "David Schwartz"
6692    
6693     > Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
6694     > 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
6695     > increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
6696     > pretty spiffy.
6697    
6698     Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
6699     to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
6700     factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
6701     implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
6702 root 1.387 %
6703 root 1.1 [lukas grunwald...]
6704 root 1.388 [ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
6705 root 1.387 %
6706 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
6707     > (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
6708     > of having bough one.
6709    
6710     Not an uncommon thought :)
6711 root 1.387 %
6712 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby
6713    
6714     Hi Marc !
6715    
6716     keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
6717     keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
6718     keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
6719    
6720     Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
6721 root 1.387 %
6722 root 1.1 [I hope you get the point(s)...]
6723     From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
6724     Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
6725     To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
6726    
6727     At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
6728     >But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
6729     >dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
6730    
6731     Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
6732     all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
6733     which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
6734     remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
6735     [yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
6736     and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
6737    
6738     >[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
6739     >in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
6740    
6741     And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
6742     separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
6743     them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
6744     right to left.
6745    
6746     >But no culture
6747     >has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
6748     >nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
6749     >to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
6750     >confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
6751     >nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
6752    
6753     Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
6754    
6755     --Alex
6756 root 1.387 %
6757 root 1.1 [recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
6758     From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
6759     To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
6760    
6761     [most of the reply snipped...]
6762    
6763     > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
6764     > may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
6765     > it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
6766    
6767     [[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
6768    
6769     These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
6770     the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
6771     grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
6772     forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
6773     and quotes from questions in FAQs.
6774    
6775     (Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
6776     attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
6777     try to claim that they do?)
6778 root 1.387 %
6779 root 1.1 On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
6780    
6781     > void go_take_a_dump (float load)
6782     > {
6783     > if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
6784     > flush(load);
6785     > else
6786     > wear(load);
6787     > }
6788    
6789     But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
6790     purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
6791    
6792     In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
6793     calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
6794    
6795     --
6796     dwmw2
6797 root 1.387 %
6798 root 1.1 Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
6799     are are overturned.
6800 root 1.387 %
6801 root 1.1 "Going into court is throwing the dice."
6802 root 1.387 %
6803 root 1.1 [Dipl. Ing. W******* D*******]
6804     "Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
6805 root 1.388 für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
6806     verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
6807 root 1.387 %
6808 root 1.1 [some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
6809     Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
6810     Marc gives some dumb comments.
6811     Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
6812     Marc: Yeah.. and?
6813     Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
6814     Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
6815 root 1.387 %
6816 root 1.1 [t-online is just sooo cool:]
6817     Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
6818     From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
6819    
6820     |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
6821     <service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
6822     |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
6823 root 1.387 %
6824 root 1.1 [a play with a well-known-signature:]
6825     Deadlock, n.:
6826     Deceased Rasterman.
6827 root 1.387 %
6828 root 1.1 [Jeff Williams & friends]
6829     ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
6830     http://IPv8.vrx.net/
6831     http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
6832 root 1.387 %
6833 root 1.1 [some .signature]
6834     This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
6835 root 1.387 %
6836 root 1.1 [Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
6837     Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
6838 root 1.388 mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
6839     Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
6840     zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
6841     nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
6842 root 1.1 reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
6843     das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
6844 root 1.388 Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
6845     Positionen für unwählbar.
6846 root 1.1
6847     Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
6848 root 1.387 %
6849 root 1.1 From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
6850     Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
6851     Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
6852    
6853     Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
6854    
6855     > Their opinion: "well, *everybody* knows that this is not professional,
6856     > nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
6857     > should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
6858     > but *WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN* was to write these programs in Haskell.
6859     > Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
6860    
6861     A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
6862     She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
6863     on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
6864     students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
6865     refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
6866     results simply because I make a mistake!
6867    
6868     In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
6869     students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
6870     errors.
6871    
6872     So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
6873     North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
6874     European programmers liking to do programming right and American
6875     programmers liking to chase after bugs.
6876 root 1.387 %
6877 root 1.1 On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
6878     > yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
6879     > > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
6880     > > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
6881     >
6882     > Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
6883 root 1.387 %
6884 root 1.1 "The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
6885     of nothing."
6886 root 1.387 %
6887 root 1.1 [after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
6888     Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
6889     >
6890     > So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
6891     > CPU?
6892    
6893     Root password? :)
6894    
6895     John.Fulmer
6896 root 1.387 %
6897 root 1.1 I think there is a world market for about five computers.
6898    
6899     Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
6900 root 1.387 %
6901 root 1.1 > NO. They can/will use RAW_IO *IF* this is available to them. If not, they
6902     > will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
6903     > which I prefer...
6904    
6905     Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
6906     to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
6907     works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
6908     scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
6909     updater for the new SCSI controller.
6910     --
6911     Horst von Brand
6912 root 1.387 %
6913 root 1.1 [de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
6914    
6915     >Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
6916    
6917     [...]
6918    
6919     Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
6920 root 1.387 %
6921 root 1.1 [Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
6922     at your problem:]
6923    
6924     The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
6925     a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
6926     had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
6927 root 1.387 %
6928 root 1.1 [Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
6929     cp is inherently inefficient.
6930 root 1.387 %
6931 root 1.1 >I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
6932     >breaking seals on them.
6933    
6934     Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
6935     nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
6936     hard drive then it's not strong enough!
6937    
6938     ...
6939    
6940     There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
6941     did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
6942     killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
6943     could be just an urban myth though.
6944    
6945     Russell Coker
6946 root 1.387 %
6947 root 1.1 >I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
6948     >Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
6949    
6950     Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
6951 root 1.387 %
6952 root 1.1 On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
6953     > "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
6954     > > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
6955     > > deleting.
6956     >
6957     > Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
6958    
6959     Wrong. Yury does.
6960     :(
6961    
6962     --
6963     Stefan
6964 root 1.387 %
6965 root 1.1 "Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
6966     > I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
6967     > folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
6968     > not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
6969     > Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
6970     > dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
6971     > DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
6972    
6973     DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
6974    
6975     Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
6976 root 1.387 %
6977 root 1.1 [very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
6978 root 1.388 00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
6979 root 1.1 Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
6980 root 1.388 Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
6981     einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
6982 root 1.387 %
6983 root 1.1 [Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
6984     > > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
6985     > > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
6986     > > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
6987     > > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
6988     > > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
6989     > > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
6990     > > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
6991     > > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
6992     > > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
6993 root 1.387 %
6994 root 1.388 [Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
6995     installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
6996     Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
6997 root 1.1 aus!
6998 root 1.387 %
6999 root 1.1 [IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7000     http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7001 root 1.387 %
7002 root 1.1 [On the reality of random numbers]
7003     > /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7004     > to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7005     Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7006 root 1.387 %
7007 root 1.1 [Flame Warriors]
7008     http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7009 root 1.387 %
7010 root 1.1 A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7011     functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7012     more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7013     fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7014    
7015     --tom
7016 root 1.387 %
7017 root 1.1 To: bugs@gimp.org
7018     X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7019    
7020     Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7021     problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7022     it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7023     editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7024     whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7025 root 1.387 %
7026 root 1.1 ["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7027     VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7028     lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7029     a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7030     solutions.
7031    
7032     http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7033    
7034     [Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7035     rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7036     the background]
7037 root 1.387 %
7038 root 1.1 [Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7039     Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7040     Security Response Center:
7041    
7042     This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7043     virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7044    
7045     [and later]
7046     Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7047    
7048     This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7049    
7050     [Phil closes]
7051     Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7052    
7053     [See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7054     [and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7055 root 1.387 %
7056 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7057     Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7058     2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7059     even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7060     system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7061     vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7062     Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7063 root 1.387 %
7064 root 1.1 >Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7065     >splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7066     >that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7067     >was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7068    
7069     [Trashey / Quasars]
7070 root 1.387 %
7071 root 1.1 Tom Christiansen writes:
7072     > I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7073     > switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7074    
7075     Irony potential in
7076    
7077     man perlrtfm
7078    
7079     is left to the reader.
7080    
7081     Nat
7082 root 1.387 %
7083 root 1.1 Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7084     and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7085    
7086     (Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7087     private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7088 root 1.387 %
7089 root 1.1 [Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7090     Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7091     Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7092 root 1.387 %
7093 root 1.1 "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7094     same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7095     Paul Tomblin
7096 root 1.387 %
7097 root 1.1 [recently on p5p]
7098     >I am morally
7099     >convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7100    
7101     Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7102     possibility...
7103    
7104     Dan
7105 root 1.387 %
7106 root 1.1 [after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7107 root 1.388 <jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7108 root 1.1 <Bordeaux> after listening to this crap, and hearing *zugabe zugabe* i finally have the proof that all german c64 sceners are gay :)
7109     <Mr> zugabe
7110 root 1.387 %
7111 root 1.1 "Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7112     Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7113 root 1.387 %
7114 root 1.1 DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7115     [cobol, *sigh*]
7116 root 1.387 %
7117 root 1.1 It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7118     operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7119     on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7120     desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7121     scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7122     age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7123     system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7124     so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7125    
7126     Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7127 root 1.387 %
7128 root 1.1 "Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7129    
7130     "Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7131     not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7132     may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7133     after they regain their composure."
7134    
7135     -- Paul Rinaldo
7136     [see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7137 root 1.387 %
7138 root 1.1 On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7139     >
7140     > In case you guys havn't noticed...
7141     >
7142     > http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7143    
7144     Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7145    
7146     Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7147    
7148     ;-}
7149    
7150     --
7151    
7152     ciao -
7153     Stefan
7154    
7155 root 1.387 %
7156 root 1.1 > The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7157     > Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7158    
7159     No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7160     mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7161     guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7162     'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7163     one' type remarks.
7164     [Alan Cox]
7165 root 1.387 %
7166 root 1.1 Godwin's Law
7167    
7168     As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7169     involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7170    
7171     [see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7172 root 1.387 %
7173 root 1.1 ["Stefan im IRC."]
7174    
7175     [01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7176     [01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7177     [01:53:31] <coda> haha
7178 root 1.387 %
7179 root 1.1 [remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7180     Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7181     The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7182     requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7183 root 1.387 %
7184 root 1.1 [Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7185     > No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7186    
7187     Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7188     is to me ok.
7189 root 1.387 %
7190 root 1.1 "The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7191    
7192     "I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7193 root 1.387 %
7194 root 1.1 [Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7195     Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7196 root 1.387 %
7197 root 1.1 Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7198     just nod your head and back away slowly...
7199 root 1.387 %
7200 root 1.1 The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7201     files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7202     to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7203    
7204     Ralf
7205 root 1.387 %
7206 root 1.1 It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7207     care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7208     95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7209    
7210     david parsons
7211 root 1.387 %
7212 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
7213     > ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7214    
7215     >Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7216     >so that trick is not portable.
7217    
7218     % grep localhost /etc/hosts
7219     127.0.0.1 localhost
7220    
7221     --tom
7222 root 1.387 %
7223 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
7224     On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7225     > >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7226     > >the question is moot.
7227     >
7228     > I'll send you a free Unix system.
7229    
7230     Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7231    
7232     Ilya
7233 root 1.387 %
7234 root 1.1 [Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7235     > Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7236     > using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7237     > will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7238     > trying.
7239    
7240     Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7241     fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7242 root 1.387 %
7243 root 1.1 [Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7244     ... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7245     ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7246     outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7247 root 1.387 %
7248 root 1.1 [Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7249     I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7250     his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7251 root 1.387 %
7252 root 1.1 [David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7253     > ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7254     > strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7255     > blocking :-)
7256    
7257     That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7258     validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7259     people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7260     people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7261     reasons.
7262    
7263     DS
7264 root 1.387 %
7265 root 1.1 [WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7266 root 1.388 Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7267 root 1.1 geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7268 root 1.388 und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7269 root 1.1 hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7270    
7271     Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7272 root 1.388 üblich, erschossen wurde.
7273 root 1.387 %
7274 root 1.1 > - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7275     [...]
7276     > Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7277     [...]
7278    
7279     You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7280     You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7281     Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7282     with each other on the same channel.
7283    
7284     IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7285     hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7286    
7287     This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7288 root 1.387 %
7289 root 1.1 [ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7290     "Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7291 root 1.387 %
7292 root 1.1 Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7293 root 1.387 %
7294 root 1.1 [OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7295     ANY word at all is a candidate.
7296     USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7297     ok
7298 root 1.387 %
7299 root 1.1 [SDF for POD Users]
7300     ... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
7301 root 1.387 %
7302 root 1.1 <Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
7303     <schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
7304     <Xach> schmorp: Mitch
7305     <schmorp> xach: ok.
7306     <Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
7307     <Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
7308     <Xach> burrito, focus
7309     <Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
7310 root 1.387 %
7311 root 1.1 [Paul Miller]
7312     ... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
7313     using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
7314     tested it." ...
7315 root 1.387 %
7316 root 1.1 Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
7317 root 1.387 %
7318 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
7319    
7320     Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
7321     >Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
7322     >
7323     >>So we must compete with Windows CE.
7324     >
7325     >"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
7326     >
7327     >"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
7328     >
7329     >No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
7330     >the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
7331     >systems.
7332    
7333    
7334     Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
7335     had.
7336    
7337     --
7338     Neal Bridges
7339 root 1.387 %
7340 root 1.1 On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
7341    
7342     > Hi folks,
7343     > i got some problem in using linux.When segmentation fault happens four five times continously OS is not working properly,insted of I remove the core dump and core dump bug ,Why?
7344     > please reply to
7345     > sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
7346     > and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
7347    
7348     Parse error.
7349    
7350     ---
7351     Alex
7352 root 1.387 %
7353 root 1.1 From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
7354    
7355     > Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
7356     > including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
7357    
7358     Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
7359     amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
7360     the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
7361    
7362     That doesn't mean that I don't want *my* program to be clean ANSI C.
7363 root 1.387 %
7364 root 1.1 [one of the few good us movies]
7365 root 1.388 Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
7366 root 1.387 %
7367 root 1.1 [guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
7368     ii = 44;
7369     p = &ii;
7370     *p = ii/*p;
7371     ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
7372     printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
7373 root 1.387 %
7374 root 1.1 > But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
7375     > Linux time then.
7376    
7377     Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
7378    
7379     They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
7380     Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
7381    
7382     Roger.
7383 root 1.387 %
7384 root 1.1 <Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
7385 root 1.387 %
7386 root 1.1 auto accident;
7387     register voters;
7388     static electricity;
7389     struct by_lightning;
7390     void *where_prohibited;
7391     char broiled;
7392     short circuit;
7393     short changed;
7394     long johns;
7395     unsigned long letter;
7396     double entendre;
7397     double trouble;
7398     union organizer;
7399     float valve;
7400     short pants;
7401     union station;
7402     void check; unsigned check;
7403     struct dumb by[sizeof member];
7404 root 1.387 %
7405 root 1.1 [I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
7406     22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
7407     - 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
7408 root 1.388 verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
7409 root 1.387 %
7410 root 1.1 Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
7411    
7412     I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
7413     worstation.
7414 root 1.387 %
7415 root 1.1 I wrote
7416     > I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
7417     $/
7418    
7419     Damn shift key.
7420    
7421    
7422     Mike Guy
7423 root 1.387 %
7424 root 1.1 [rfc2635]
7425     The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
7426     netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
7427     movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
7428     over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
7429     of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
7430     closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
7431     take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
7432     pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
7433 root 1.387 %
7434 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
7435    
7436     The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
7437    
7438     Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
7439     device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
7440     simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
7441     is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
7442    
7443     http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
7444 root 1.387 %
7445 root 1.1 : Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
7446     : 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
7447    
7448     It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
7449     context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
7450     now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
7451     easy to bother.
7452    
7453     The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
7454     purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
7455     sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
7456     are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
7457    
7458     That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
7459    
7460     Larry
7461 root 1.387 %
7462 root 1.1 [that one's only for insiders...]
7463     > : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
7464     Yeah. :-)
7465 root 1.387 %
7466 root 1.1 [comp.lang.forth]
7467     > Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
7468     [...]
7469     > Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
7470    
7471     Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
7472     penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
7473     I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
7474     fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
7475    
7476     Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
7477     whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
7478     with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
7479     receipts aren't used anymore.
7480 root 1.387 %
7481 root 1.1 Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
7482     installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
7483     Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
7484 root 1.387 %
7485 root 1.1 > Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
7486     > und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
7487     > Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
7488     > versteht?"
7489 root 1.387 %
7490 root 1.1 [de.alt.anime]
7491     Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
7492     "Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
7493     der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
7494 root 1.388 Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
7495 root 1.1 dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
7496 root 1.388 mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
7497 root 1.1 geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
7498     Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
7499     ji!
7500 root 1.387 %
7501 root 1.1 I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
7502     in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
7503     [Larry Wall]
7504 root 1.387 %
7505 root 1.1 Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
7506     Altpreussen.
7507     - Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
7508     de.soc.politik.deutschland
7509 root 1.387 %
7510 root 1.1 > > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
7511     > > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
7512     > > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
7513     > > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
7514     >
7515 root 1.388 > Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
7516     > geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
7517 root 1.1 > Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
7518    
7519 root 1.388 Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
7520 root 1.1 Norbert?
7521 root 1.387 %
7522 root 1.208 Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
7523 root 1.1 Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
7524     "Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
7525 root 1.387 %
7526 root 1.1 http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
7527 root 1.387 %
7528 root 1.1 <Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
7529 root 1.387 %
7530 root 1.1 Subject: GNU compiler
7531     From: "Steve"
7532     Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
7533     To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
7534     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
7535    
7536     [the following was a single line, of course]
7537     I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
7538     instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
7539     how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
7540     several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
7541     assistance would be greatly appreciated
7542    
7543     Thanks,
7544    
7545     Steve
7546 root 1.387 %
7547 root 1.1 [an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
7548     > Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
7549     > managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
7550     > 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
7551 root 1.387 %
7552 root 1.1 <tigert> xachbot, op
7553     <XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
7554     <tigert> ahem
7555 root 1.387 %
7556 root 1.1 <tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
7557     -XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records | See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
7558     <tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
7559 root 1.387 %
7560 root 1.1 [the release of perl 5.000]
7561     Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
7562     From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
7563     Subject: It's soup.
7564    
7565     Okay, it's there.
7566    
7567     ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
7568    
7569     The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
7570    
7571     Larry
7572 root 1.387 %
7573 root 1.1 l33+ h4X0rz
7574 root 1.387 %
7575 root 1.1 # A random text generator using Markov chains
7576     perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
7577     }.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
7578     &b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
7579     ($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
7580 root 1.387 %
7581 root 1.1 > && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
7582     > && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
7583     >
7584     > Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
7585     > And there's no mouse.
7586     >
7587     > Abigail
7588    
7589     Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
7590    
7591     Matt.
7592 root 1.387 %
7593 root 1.1 Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
7594     giant global interpreter lock. :-)
7595    
7596     - --tom
7597 root 1.387 %
7598 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7599     Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
7600    
7601     On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
7602     >
7603     > So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
7604     > 2.2.11 release?
7605    
7606     [ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
7607    
7608     Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
7609    
7610     Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
7611 root 1.387 %
7612 root 1.1 Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you *want* to get the point?
7613 root 1.387 %
7614 root 1.1 ["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
7615     On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
7616     > Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
7617     > ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
7618     > block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
7619     > that much ;-)
7620    
7621     IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
7622 root 1.387 %
7623 root 1.1 MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
7624     preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
7625 root 1.387 %
7626 root 1.1 [comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
7627     <QUOTE>
7628     I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
7629    
7630     (I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
7631     gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
7632     </QUOTE>
7633 root 1.387 %
7634 root 1.1 The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
7635     and routes around it.
7636    
7637     Roger Larsson
7638 root 1.388 Skellefteå
7639 root 1.387 %
7640 root 1.1 [configuring gcc]
7641     Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
7642 root 1.387 %
7643 root 1.1 'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
7644     except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
7645 root 1.387 %
7646 root 1.1 [http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
7647    
7648     Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
7649     comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
7650     finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
7651     on different JVMs.
7652    
7653     [and later]
7654    
7655     Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
7656     adventure gaming:
7657    
7658     1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
7659     2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
7660 root 1.387 %
7661 root 1.1 [the ||-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
7662     "and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
7663    
7664     >>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
7665    
7666     NK> ?? -> huh?
7667    
7668     That's a great name. The huh? operator.
7669    
7670     <chaim>
7671 root 1.387 %
7672 root 1.1 `One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
7673     code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
7674     languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
7675     people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
7676     numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
7677     specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
7678 root 1.387 %
7679 root 1.1 [Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
7680 root 1.388 Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
7681 root 1.387 %
7682 root 1.1 [Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
7683     Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
7684     page]
7685     ... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
7686     value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
7687     must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
7688     properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
7689     though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
7690     OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
7691     value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
7692     disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
7693     [Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
7694     dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
7695 root 1.387 %
7696 root 1.1 [Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
7697     Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
7698     excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
7699     don't actually get anything DONE.
7700 root 1.387 %
7701 root 1.1 Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
7702     * It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
7703     * You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
7704     * You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
7705 root 1.387 %
7706 root 1.1 > 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
7707     > number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
7708     > read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
7709     > get the serial number from the OS)?
7710    
7711     Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
7712 root 1.387 %
7713 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
7714     "Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
7715     they have continued that legacy to this day."
7716 root 1.387 %
7717 root 1.1 [From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
7718     "In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
7719     files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
7720 root 1.387 %
7721 root 1.1 > If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
7722    
7723     Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
7724     means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
7725     that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
7726     exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
7727     other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
7728     seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
7729     still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
7730     Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
7731     got the T-shirt.
7732 root 1.387 %
7733 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
7734     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
7735     Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
7736     To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
7737     Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
7738     davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
7739     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
7740    
7741     Linus writes, to Craig:
7742    
7743     > I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
7744     > and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
7745     > thus choices than gcc.
7746    
7747     No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
7748     larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
7749     conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
7750     far more complex than the kernel.
7751    
7752     [NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
7753     bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
7754    
7755     [ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
7756 root 1.387 %
7757 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
7758     From: craig@jcb-sc.com
7759     To: torvalds@transmeta.com
7760    
7761     >I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
7762     [...]
7763     >I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
7764     >information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
7765     >best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
7766     >let the user be in control.
7767    
7768     In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
7769     the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
7770     that you know, what, *nothing* about language design, and *nothing*
7771     about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
7772     compilers?
7773 root 1.387 %
7774 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
7775     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
7776    
7777     Linus writes:
7778     > Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
7779     > gcc could do better?
7780    
7781     Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
7782     matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
7783     before you had so many worshippers.
7784 root 1.387 %
7785 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
7786     From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
7787     Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
7788     To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
7789     X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
7790    
7791     Linus Torvalds wrote:
7792    
7793     > I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
7794     > revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
7795     > trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
7796     > just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
7797    
7798     Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
7799    
7800     #pragma optimize("a", on/off)
7801    
7802     around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
7803     _and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
7804    
7805     They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
7806    
7807     >:->
7808    
7809     Brane
7810    
7811    
7812     P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
7813     who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
7814     standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
7815     compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
7816     features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
7817    
7818    
7819     P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
7820 root 1.387 %
7821 root 1.1 You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose *two*
7822 root 1.387 %
7823 root 1.1 "Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
7824     fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
7825     high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
7826 root 1.387 %
7827 root 1.1 1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
7828     2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
7829     3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
7830 root 1.387 %
7831 root 1.1 [gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
7832    
7833     > Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
7834    
7835     Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
7836 root 1.387 %
7837 root 1.1 [perl is cryptic??]
7838     Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
7839     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
7840     Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
7841    
7842     We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
7843    
7844     : Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
7845     : substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
7846     :
7847     : ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }
7848     :
7849     : replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
7850     :
7851     : "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }"
7852 root 1.387 %
7853 root 1.1 Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
7854 root 1.387 %
7855 root 1.1 > |> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
7856     > |> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
7857     > |> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
7858     > |> interpreting words in any human language.
7859     >
7860     > This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
7861     > "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
7862    
7863     The classic example:
7864    
7865     "Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
7866     "Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
7867 root 1.387 %
7868 root 1.1 [do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
7869     >_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
7870    
7871     And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
7872     once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
7873     lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
7874    
7875     What's next, a String class for Perl?
7876    
7877     --tom
7878 root 1.387 %
7879 root 1.1 [some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
7880     i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
7881     working on something for me
7882     u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
7883     to me nutting concerning y ok
7884     piece
7885     russ
7886 root 1.387 %
7887 root 1.1 [From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
7888    
7889     pico (text editor for beginners)
7890     vi (text editor for advanced users)
7891     emacs (text editor for advanced users)
7892     ed (text editor for beginners)
7893 root 1.387 %
7894 root 1.1 There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
7895    
7896     use Python;
7897    
7898     and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
7899     Except maybe faster. :-)
7900    
7901     Larry
7902 root 1.387 %
7903 root 1.1 > Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
7904    
7905     just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
7906     2010.
7907    
7908     (Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
7909 root 1.387 %
7910 root 1.1 The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
7911     read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
7912     and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
7913     it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
7914     descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
7915     lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
7916     document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
7917     been created.
7918 root 1.387 %
7919 root 1.1 > Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
7920     >
7921     > Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
7922     > $3.99.
7923     >
7924     > Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
7925     >
7926     > Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
7927     >
7928     > Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
7929     >
7930     > Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
7931     >
7932     > Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
7933     >
7934     > Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
7935     > got integrated Coke!
7936     >
7937     > Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
7938     > to drink the Coke.
7939     >
7940     > Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
7941     >
7942     > Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
7943     >
7944     > Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
7945     > inseparable.
7946     >
7947     > Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
7948     >
7949     > Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
7950     >
7951     > Joe: Why did you just do that?!
7952     >
7953     > Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
7954     > two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
7955     > continuous taste across all your foods.
7956 root 1.387 %
7957 root 1.1 Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
7958     like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
7959 root 1.40 Rob Pike
7960 root 1.387 %
7961 root 1.1 From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
7962    
7963     Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
7964     Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
7965     It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
7966     for you to digest this book.
7967     Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
7968     Python: just for the whitespace of it.
7969     Join The Trickle
7970     Python: more popular than Dylan!
7971     Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
7972     Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
7973 root 1.387 %
7974 root 1.1 Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
7975     honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
7976     that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
7977     complete and utter vapourware.
7978    
7979     Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
7980 root 1.387 %
7981 root 1.1 [From "Programming Perl"]
7982    
7983     We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
7984     programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
7985 root 1.387 %
7986 root 1.1 [Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
7987    
7988     Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
7989     almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
7990     see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
7991     a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
7992     Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
7993     Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
7994     not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
7995     (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
7996     find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
7997     terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
7998     problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
7999     span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8000     everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8001     saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8002     methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8003     would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8004     proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8005     come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8006     programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8007     understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8008     work.
8009     [...]
8010     You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8011     type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8012     don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8013     what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8014     litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8015     search generically - then it has some potential.
8016     [...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8017     It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8018     profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8019     intellectual value whatsoever.
8020    
8021     [Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8022     I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8023     out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8024 root 1.387 %
8025 root 1.1 [Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8026 root 1.388 "Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8027 root 1.387 %
8028 root 1.1 [/bin/false on solaris]
8029     #!/usr/bin/sh
8030     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8031     # All Rights Reserved
8032    
8033     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8034     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8035     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
8036    
8037     #ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8038     [obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.]
8039 root 1.387 %
8040 root 1.1 <Aspirin> but ee uses imlib, and imlib is documented to take 4.7 days to start up on a 486 by Alan Cox.
8041 root 1.387 %
8042 root 1.1 When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8043     or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8044     the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8045 root 1.387 %
8046 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8047    
8048     "Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8049     rather than fixing the actual problem."
8050    
8051     [further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8052     just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8053     machine]
8054    
8055     "Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8056     of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8057     responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8058    
8059     [see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8060 root 1.387 %
8061 root 1.1 [Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8062     spamming:]
8063    
8064     >fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8065     >>
8066     >>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8067     >>------------------------------------------------------
8068     >>
8069     >>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8070     >>
8071     >>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8072    
8073     [and later, misquoting my name:]
8074     >mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8075 root 1.387 %
8076 root 1.1 [How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8077     He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8078 root 1.387 %
8079 root 1.1 > And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8080     If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8081 root 1.387 %
8082 root 1.1 According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8083     95/98 are limited to an uptime of *exactly* 49.7 days.
8084    
8085     --found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8086 root 1.387 %
8087 root 1.1 > Leave that to RMS.
8088    
8089     If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8090     RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8091     else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8092     he's full of.
8093    
8094     Support BSD/Linux.
8095    
8096     --tom
8097 root 1.387 %
8098 root 1.1 "The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8099 root 1.387 %
8100 root 1.1 We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8101 root 1.387 %
8102 root 1.1 > Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8103     > history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8104    
8105     Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8106     mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8107     and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8108     few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8109 root 1.387 %
8110 root 1.1 [on channel #gimp]
8111    
8112     [msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8113     [XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8114 root 1.387 %
8115 root 1.1 [the creation]
8116     http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8117 root 1.387 %
8118 root 1.1 THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8119    
8120     This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8121     an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8122     to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8123 root 1.387 %
8124 root 1.1 Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8125     selbst schliesse.
8126     Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8127     am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8128 root 1.387 %
8129 root 1.1 According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8130     > "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8131    
8132     No:
8133    
8134     use Borg;
8135     make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8136    
8137     --
8138     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8139 root 1.387 %
8140 root 1.1 "And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8141     the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8142     sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8143     systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8144     its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8145     appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8146     agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8147     time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8148     agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8149     non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8150     failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8151     specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8152     pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8153     concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8154     sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8155     run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8156     modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8157     'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8158     logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8159     aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8160     the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8161     dispensers."
8162    
8163     [Kenneth Albanowski]
8164 root 1.387 %
8165 root 1.1 Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8166     Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8167     unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8168     -- Kristian Koehntopp
8169 root 1.387 %
8170 root 1.1 > Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8171     > topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8172     > marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8173 root 1.387 %
8174 root 1.388 [bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8175 root 1.1
8176     Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8177 root 1.388 Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8178 root 1.1 Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8179 root 1.388 Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8180 root 1.1 Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8181     Student: "..."
8182     Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8183     Student: "..."
8184     Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8185 root 1.387 %
8186 root 1.1 Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8187    
8188     > Just morbid curiosity,
8189     >
8190     > Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8191    
8192     Yes. Broken ones.
8193    
8194     dgris
8195 root 1.387 %
8196 root 1.1 "The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8197     -- A Borges story in ten words.
8198 root 1.387 %
8199 root 1.1 "C combines the power of assembly language
8200     with the flexibility of assembly language."
8201 root 1.387 %
8202 root 1.1 ...
8203    
8204     <AOL>
8205    
8206     Me too!
8207    
8208     </AOL>
8209    
8210     Tig
8211 root 1.387 %
8212 root 1.1 ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8213 root 1.387 %
8214 root 1.1 unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8215 root 1.387 %
8216 root 1.1 From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8217    
8218     I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8219     "slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8220     wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8221     loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8222     to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8223     chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8224     NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8225    
8226     Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8227    
8228     I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8229     expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8230     get really really pissed.
8231    
8232     Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux *really* start
8233     to cut into M$'s server market share.
8234 root 1.387 %
8235 root 1.1 > Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8236     > that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8237     > need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8238     > period.
8239     >
8240     > Sorry for the insignificant post..
8241     > Nic
8242     >
8243    
8244     Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8245    
8246     -hpa
8247 root 1.387 %
8248 root 1.1 grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8249 root 1.387 %
8250 root 1.1 "If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8251     make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8252     happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8253     administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8254     happy."
8255     - - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8256 root 1.387 %
8257 root 1.1 From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8258     Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8259     To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8260    
8261     I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8262     of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8263     I also forwarded the offending code.
8264    
8265     The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8266     of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8267     service.
8268    
8269     Daniel
8270 root 1.387 %
8271 root 1.1 Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8272     ...
8273     * cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8274 root 1.387 %
8275 root 1.1 "Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8276     It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8277     [RJL]
8278 root 1.387 %
8279 root 1.1 As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8280     right.''
8281 root 1.387 %
8282 root 1.1 [Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8283    
8284     Amazing--they actually listened.
8285 root 1.387 %
8286 root 1.1 That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8287     SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8288     that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8289    
8290     # less foo
8291     sh: command not found
8292     # more foo
8293     sh: command not found
8294     # emacs foo
8295     sh: command not found
8296     # ed foo
8297     0
8298     help
8299     ?
8300     quit
8301     ?
8302     exit
8303     ?
8304     DIE!!!!!!!!!!
8305     ?
8306    
8307     [Albert D. Cahalan]
8308 root 1.387 %
8309 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
8310     From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
8311     Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
8312    
8313     tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
8314    
8315     tim> use blib ':quiet';
8316    
8317     tim> would be most correct in style.
8318    
8319     Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
8320     For the rest I'd recommend [...]
8321 root 1.387 %
8322 root 1.1 [A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
8323     No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
8324     effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
8325     [Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
8326     too bad --- ]
8327 root 1.387 %
8328 root 1.1 Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
8329 root 1.387 %
8330 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
8331    
8332     > Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
8333     > licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
8334    
8335     The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
8336     pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
8337 root 1.387 %
8338 root 1.1 [once on linux-kernel:]
8339     > >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
8340     > Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
8341     he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
8342     driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
8343 root 1.387 %
8344 root 1.1 > Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
8345    
8346     No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
8347     include wrong #include files in their source.
8348 root 1.387 %
8349 root 1.1 [unix-faq]
8350    
8351     Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
8352     "rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "*" instead of "*.foo".
8353     Consider it a rite of passage.
8354 root 1.387 %
8355 root 1.1 "There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
8356     "Oops."
8357     -- MST3K
8358 root 1.387 %
8359 root 1.1 Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
8360     claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
8361     those numeric properties than with the current situation.
8362    
8363     I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
8364     It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
8365     I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
8366     look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
8367     stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
8368     it. ;)
8369 root 1.387 %
8370 root 1.1 >I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
8371     >human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
8372     >not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
8373     >This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
8374     >testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
8375    
8376     What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
8377     documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
8378     Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
8379     did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
8380    
8381     --tom
8382 root 1.387 %
8383 root 1.1 > * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
8384    
8385     In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
8386    
8387     >Why does it end ?
8388    
8389     Ask the X3J11 committee.
8390    
8391     > * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
8392     > * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
8393    
8394     To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
8395 root 1.387 %
8396 root 1.1 "Unix *is* Perl's IDE!"
8397     -- Tom Christiansen
8398 root 1.387 %
8399 root 1.1 [Sputnik]
8400    
8401     Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
8402     A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
8403     supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
8404     wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
8405     of Sputnik.
8406 root 1.387 %
8407 root 1.1 NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
8408     even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
8409     characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
8410     the superior approach for most removable media without software control
8411     of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
8412 root 1.387 %
8413 root 1.1 Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
8414     - Hanlons razor -
8415 root 1.387 %
8416 root 1.1 Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
8417     explained by stupidity or incompetence.
8418 root 1.387 %
8419 root 1.1 According to Chris Nandor:
8420     > I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
8421     > but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
8422     > offered no significant advantages.
8423    
8424     That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
8425 root 1.387 %
8426 root 1.1 My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
8427     stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
8428     (?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
8429     reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
8430     quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
8431     in front of me says so."
8432    
8433     He took it back and bought a Gateway.
8434 root 1.387 %
8435 root 1.1 9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
8436     statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
8437     praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
8438     fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
8439     deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
8440     quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
8441     transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
8442     annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
8443     consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
8444     idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
8445     quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
8446 root 1.387 %
8447 root 1.1 You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
8448     and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
8449     did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
8450     2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
8451     the date to Feb 29, 2000.
8452 root 1.387 %
8453 root 1.1 "Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
8454 root 1.387 %
8455 root 1.388 HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
8456 root 1.1 hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
8457     Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
8458     schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
8459     get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
8460 root 1.387 %
8461 root 1.1 From: Robert Lipe
8462     > > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
8463     > > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
8464     >
8465     > But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
8466     > and/or screen.
8467    
8468     Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
8469 root 1.387 %
8470 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
8471     From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
8472    
8473     On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
8474     > use pedantic;
8475     > use strict 'code';
8476     >
8477     > or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
8478    
8479     use syntax 'python';
8480    
8481     Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
8482    
8483 root 1.387 %
8484 root 1.1 Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
8485     >
8486     > Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
8487     > past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
8488     > primarily because people *think* it will be traumatic. A panic is a
8489     > panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
8490     >
8491     > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
8492 root 1.387 %
8493 root 1.1 [rfc1925]
8494     Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
8495 root 1.387 %
8496 root 1.1 [Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
8497     > A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
8498     > be time-consuming.
8499    
8500     "Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
8501 root 1.387 %
8502 root 1.1 UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
8503     77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
8504     however, they do not handle C++...
8505     [from "learning the vi editor"]
8506 root 1.387 %
8507 root 1.1 > correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
8508     > months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
8509    
8510     Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
8511    
8512     So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
8513    
8514     and as Ecclesiastes said:
8515    
8516     Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
8517     already of old time, which was before us.
8518     There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
8519     remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
8520    
8521     Regards,
8522     Tigran.
8523 root 1.387 %
8524 root 1.1 SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
8525 root 1.387 %
8526 root 1.1 [slightly broken, though...]
8527     /* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
8528     hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
8529     main(){
8530     extrn hw;
8531     putchar(0[hw]);
8532     hw=+1;
8533     putchar(0[hw]);
8534     }
8535 root 1.387 %
8536 root 1.1 > So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
8537    
8538     The egg. Always. By definition.
8539 root 1.387 %
8540 root 1.1 > > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
8541     >
8542     > Better check your scsi cables.
8543 root 1.387 %
8544 root 1.1 Arroganz durch Wissen
8545     [Dirk Jagdmann]
8546 root 1.387 %
8547 root 1.1 [Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
8548     > Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
8549     > ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
8550     > auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
8551    
8552 root 1.388 was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
8553 root 1.1 sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
8554     Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
8555    
8556 root 1.388 Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
8557 root 1.1 bezwecken will... ^_-
8558 root 1.387 %
8559 root 1.1 >James :\
8560     >
8561     >I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
8562    
8563     I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
8564 root 1.387 %
8565 root 1.1 From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
8566     Subject: night of the undead ip stack
8567     Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
8568 root 1.387 %
8569 root 1.1 > The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
8570     > is just asking for a black eye.
8571    
8572     But Unicode for NT is such fun!
8573    
8574     For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
8575     if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
8576     translation tables are marked as pageable.
8577    
8578     Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
8579     that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
8580     area.
8581 root 1.387 %
8582 root 1.1 Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
8583     [Lukas Grunwald]
8584 root 1.387 %
8585 root 1.1 http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
8586    
8587     THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
8588     EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
8589     YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
8590     (DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
8591     FIRST-BORN CHILD.
8592 root 1.387 %
8593 root 1.1 [a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
8594     Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
8595    
8596     kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
8597 root 1.387 %
8598 root 1.1 [Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
8599     On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
8600     For example, my SGI workstation prints:
8601    
8602     0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
8603    
8604     However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
8605    
8606     0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
8607    
8608     due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
8609     the numbers are in the FPU or not.
8610 root 1.387 %
8611 root 1.388 [Grüner Tip/Arte]
8612 root 1.1 Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
8613 root 1.388 Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
8614 root 1.387 %
8615 root 1.1 Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
8616     longer...
8617 root 1.387 %
8618 root 1.1 [M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
8619     By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
8620     VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
8621 root 1.387 %
8622 root 1.1 > > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
8623     > > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
8624     > > world :) I just love it...
8625     >
8626     > Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
8627     >
8628     It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
8629     should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
8630     practical...
8631     for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
8632     person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
8633     Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
8634     one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
8635     everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
8636    
8637     Jan Hubicka
8638 root 1.387 %
8639 root 1.1 > template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
8640     [...]
8641     > I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
8642    
8643     No, it is not. What you meant is
8644    
8645     template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
8646 root 1.387 %
8647 root 1.1 Jan Dubois writes:
8648     > A) perl-5.00553
8649     > path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
8650     > cc = cl.exe
8651     A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
8652    
8653     [...]
8654    
8655     Ilya
8656 root 1.387 %
8657 root 1.1 >Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
8658    
8659     Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
8660    
8661     p.
8662 root 1.387 %
8663 root 1.1 [tomc]
8664     Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
8665     logical && and || operators. Here they are:
8666    
8667     +------------------------------------------+
8668     | Other languages, notably C++, permit it. |
8669     +------------------------------------------+
8670    
8671     This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
8672     that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
8673    
8674     * Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
8675     like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
8676     * The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
8677     infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
8678     interesting way.
8679     * Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
8680     allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
8681     * Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
8682     interesting things.
8683     * C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
8684     language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
8685     things.
8686 root 1.387 %
8687 root 1.1 Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
8688     --Dennis Ritchie
8689 root 1.387 %
8690 root 1.1 perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
8691 root 1.387 %
8692 root 1.1 [not quite duff's device, but...]
8693    
8694     switch (x)
8695     default:
8696     if (prime(x))
8697     case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
8698     process_prime(x);
8699     else
8700     case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
8701     process_composite(x);
8702 root 1.387 %
8703 root 1.1 Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
8704     after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
8705     in megabytes, required for execution?
8706    
8707     Craig Milo Rogers
8708 root 1.387 %
8709 root 1.1 Mark Mielke writes:
8710     > This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
8711     > to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
8712    
8713     This is just another reference point about the state of education in
8714     US (apparently in Canada too?).
8715    
8716     Ilya
8717 root 1.387 %
8718 root 1.1 [from p5p]
8719     > Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
8720    
8721     Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
8722     immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
8723     note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
8724    
8725     Nat
8726 root 1.387 %
8727 root 1.1 Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
8728     much steroids for a while. =)
8729    
8730     --Albert Dvornik
8731     <bert@genscan.com>
8732 root 1.387 %
8733 root 1.1 Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
8734     From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
8735     Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
8736    
8737     >*You* do not understand? Perl is slow...
8738    
8739     Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
8740     or tcl crowd instead of here.
8741    
8742     --tom
8743 root 1.387 %
8744 root 1.1 >What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
8745    
8746     Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
8747    
8748     Linus
8749 root 1.387 %
8750 root 1.1 On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
8751     devil added HTML mail...
8752 root 1.387 %
8753 root 1.1 linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
8754     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
8755     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
8756 root 1.387 %
8757 root 1.1 On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
8758     Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
8759    
8760     > Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
8761     > java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
8762     > techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
8763    
8764     Arm the gnus!
8765 root 1.387 %
8766 root 1.1 [David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
8767    
8768     Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
8769     you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
8770     gcc, so go away.
8771 root 1.387 %
8772 root 1.1 I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
8773     wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
8774    
8775     "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
8776    
8777     But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
8778     Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
8779 root 1.387 %
8780 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
8781     > So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
8782     > Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
8783     > journalists need to make them pay attention.
8784    
8785     Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
8786     was released today" madness.
8787 root 1.387 %
8788 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
8789     > elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
8790     > elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
8791     > elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
8792     > elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
8793     > elaine> we could call it Perl99.
8794     >
8795     > To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
8796     > for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
8797     > wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
8798     > it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
8799     > marketing name, anyway.
8800    
8801     Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
8802     "The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
8803     put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
8804    
8805     Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit *mindless*
8806     violence..." :-)
8807 root 1.387 %
8808 root 1.1 Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
8809     his mind in which case he still has the last say.
8810 root 1.387 %
8811 root 1.1 > >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
8812     > >poor drivers
8813     >
8814     > No it doesn't.
8815    
8816     Indeed. Its down to
8817    
8818     Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
8819    
8820     and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
8821     The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
8822     we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
8823     or binaries.
8824 root 1.387 %
8825 root 1.1 dig txt leap.yp.to
8826 root 1.387 %
8827 root 1.1 "The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
8828 root 1.387 %
8829 root 1.1 [linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
8830    
8831     |> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
8832     |> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
8833     |>
8834     |> s/optimal/stupid/
8835    
8836     What's stupid is little endian. <g>
8837    
8838     Andreas.
8839 root 1.387 %
8840 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
8841     ...
8842     A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
8843    
8844     Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
8845     Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
8846     skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
8847     arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
8848     UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
8849     not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
8850 root 1.387 %
8851 root 1.1 [D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
8852    
8853     Paul Eggert writes:
8854     > which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
8855    
8856     Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
8857     try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
8858 root 1.387 %
8859 root 1.1 For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
8860     however.
8861    
8862     "We don't have the tools"
8863     "We can't support a non intel build"
8864     "We don't have that sort of machine"
8865     "Its not worth the time cost"
8866     "Whats an Alpha ?"
8867 root 1.387 %
8868 root 1.1 On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
8869    
8870     > The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
8871     > from mini [10.0.0.3]
8872     >
8873     > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
8874     > <mailproc@fred>
8875     >
8876     > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
8877     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
8878     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
8879     > procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
8880     > 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
8881 root 1.387 %
8882 root 1.1 > Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
8883     > No documented problem
8884     > No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
8885     > No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
8886     >
8887     > Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
8888 root 1.387 %
8889 root 1.1 > This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
8890     > satisfy neither of us (:-).
8891 root 1.387 %
8892 root 1.1 By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
8893     change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
8894    
8895     dave
8896 root 1.387 %
8897 root 1.1 On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
8898     DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
8899    
8900     BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
8901 root 1.387 %
8902 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
8903    
8904     Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
8905     From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
8906    
8907     Paul Eggert writes:
8908     > * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
8909    
8910     If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
8911     1 month before 29 March?
8912    
8913     The same as 1 month before 31 March.
8914    
8915     1 month before 28 March?
8916    
8917     28 February.
8918    
8919     And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
8920     _before_ 27 February?
8921    
8922     28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
8923 root 1.387 %
8924 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
8925    
8926     >Nils Goesche wrote:
8927     >> So make a security check first:
8928     >>
8929     >> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
8930     >> launch_full_counterstrike();
8931     >
8932     >Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
8933     >do the job. Here's the revised version:
8934     >
8935     >if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
8936     > = instead of == error*/
8937     > launch_full_counterstrike();
8938     >
8939     >Now isn't that much more reliable?
8940     >
8941     >--
8942     >Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
8943    
8944     The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
8945    
8946     if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
8947     launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
8948 root 1.387 %
8949 root 1.1 It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
8950     of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
8951    
8952     He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
8953     for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
8954     to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
8955     happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
8956     essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
8957     this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
8958     check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
8959     Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
8960    
8961     The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
8962     were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
8963     of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
8964     available for that hardware from any source.
8965     What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
8966     Whats next? A *Smell* modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
8967     sniffing!
8968 root 1.387 %
8969 root 1.1 "I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
8970     technical support line that isn't"
8971 root 1.387 %
8972 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
8973     `This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
8974 root 1.387 %
8975 root 1.1 [...]
8976     And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
8977     suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
8978    
8979     "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
8980     4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
8981     "We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
8982     "Nothing else"
8983     "Sorry"
8984     [Click]
8985    
8986     Alan
8987 root 1.387 %
8988 root 1.388 Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
8989     während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
8990 root 1.387 %
8991 root 1.1 > Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
8992     > software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
8993     > we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
8994     > users excepted, of course!).
8995    
8996     Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
8997     systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
8998     their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
8999     concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9000     construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9001     is installed"
9002    
9003     [Toon Moene in private discussion]
9004 root 1.387 %
9005 root 1.1 Newsgroups: alt.config
9006    
9007     L. Harris wrote:
9008     >
9009     > Testing
9010    
9011     you failed.
9012 root 1.387 %
9013 root 1.1 Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9014     <JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9015 root 1.387 %
9016 root 1.1 Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9017     20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9018     "20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9019     group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9020 root 1.387 %
9021 root 1.1 > alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9022     > fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9023     > 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9024    
9025     What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9026 root 1.387 %
9027 root 1.1 We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9028     seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9029     choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9030     where else...
9031 root 1.387 %
9032 root 1.1 Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9033     [...]
9034     : The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9035     : about a certain topic.
9036 root 1.387 %
9037 root 1.1 Mark Robinson wrote:
9038     >
9039     > Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9040     > know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9041    
9042     Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9043     write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9044    
9045     void main (void)
9046     {
9047     printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9048     printf ("\n");
9049     printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9050     printf ("You have died.\n");
9051     printf ("\n");
9052     printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9053     }
9054    
9055     (Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9056    
9057     --
9058     John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9059 root 1.387 %
9060 root 1.1 [mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9061     mistake I ever made]
9062    
9063     From: "Tom Miller"
9064     Subject: Can
9065     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9066    
9067     Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9068     send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9069     my name is Tom Miller
9070    
9071     From: "Tom Miller"
9072     Subject: Wait
9073     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9074    
9075     Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9076     passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9077 root 1.387 %
9078 root 1.1 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9079    
9080     [...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9081     better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9082     so why bother? [...]
9083 root 1.387 %
9084 root 1.388 Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9085 root 1.1
9086     Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9087    
9088     Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9089     jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9090     Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9091     Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9092     Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9093     besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9094     sich dann.
9095 root 1.387 %
9096 root 1.1 CRASH(8)
9097     no fs
9098     A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9099     Definitely hardware or software error.
9100    
9101     Unix Version 7 Manual
9102 root 1.387 %
9103 root 1.1 On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9104     >
9105     > Maybe Pi looks like this:
9106     >
9107     > =for C
9108     > i++; /* add 1 to i */
9109     > =end
9110     > =for C++
9111     > i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9112     > =end
9113     > =for Java
9114     > system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9115     > =end
9116     >
9117     > :-)
9118 root 1.387 %
9119 root 1.1 > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
9120 root 1.387 %
9121 root 1.1 [on linux 2.1.111]
9122    
9123     The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9124     the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9125     cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9126     turn it on.
9127 root 1.387 %
9128 root 1.1 [...]
9129     its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9130     between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9131     (wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9132     [...]
9133 root 1.387 %
9134 root 1.1 I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9135    
9136     Chad C Giffin
9137 root 1.387 %
9138 root 1.1 [usenet, an anology]
9139     Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9140     worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9141     Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9142     their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9143     the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9144    
9145     "Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9146     through the door.
9147     "HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9148     "There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9149     "That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9150     you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9151     Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9152     he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9153     cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9154     usually.)
9155    
9156     "Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9157     muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9158     your tire pressure..."
9159     Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9160     even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9161     "My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9162     oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9163     "Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9164     Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9165     gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9166     three days for a cost of $175.23.
9167 root 1.387 %
9168 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9169    
9170     Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9171 root 1.387 %
9172 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9173    
9174     Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9175     :-(
9176 root 1.387 %
9177 root 1.1 >Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9178     >dies alles geschieht.
9179     >Und es verging nicht.
9180    
9181     So what?
9182    
9183     Ich dachte eher an:
9184    
9185     " 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9186     Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9187     Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9188     jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9189     unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9190     hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9191     nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9192     ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9193     die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9194     Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9195     roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9196     wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9197    
9198     Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9199    
9200     Antje
9201 root 1.387 %
9202 root 1.1 [....]
9203    
9204     Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9205     grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9206     zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9207     und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9208     Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9209     Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9210    
9211     Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9212    
9213     Antje
9214 root 1.387 %
9215 root 1.1 It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9216     lalala, I love you baby..."
9217     --
9218     Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9219 root 1.387 %
9220 root 1.1 On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9221     >
9222     > Kubys
9223    
9224     Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9225    
9226     Linus
9227 root 1.387 %
9228 root 1.1 > eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9229    
9230     .... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9231     instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9232     don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9233 root 1.387 %
9234 root 1.1 > It is *big* and never uses.
9235    
9236     That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9237     out what it means.
9238     --
9239     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9240 root 1.387 %
9241 root 1.1 [...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9242     company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9243 root 1.387 %
9244 root 1.1 From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9245     Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9246    
9247     Terry L Ridder wrote:
9248    
9249     > at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9250     > is being discussed.
9251    
9252     Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9253 root 1.387 %
9254 root 1.1 [gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9255    
9256     Drop data of type text/plain was:
9257    
9258     Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9259    
9260     [and the button reads]
9261    
9262     Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9263 root 1.387 %
9264 root 1.1 Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9265    
9266     While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9267    
9268     A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9269     certain amount of redundancy.
9270 root 1.387 %
9271 root 1.1 Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9272     the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9273    
9274     ...
9275    
9276     Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9277 root 1.387 %
9278 root 1.1 >Hello,
9279     >
9280     >I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9281     >operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9282     >
9283    
9284     Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9285     version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9286     nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9287     compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9288 root 1.387 %
9289 root 1.1 An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9290     on the country as a whole.
9291     Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9292     explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9293     prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9294 root 1.387 %
9295 root 1.1 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9296     limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9297 root 1.387 %
9298 root 1.1 There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9299 root 1.387 %
9300 root 1.1 In comp.lang.perl.misc,
9301     Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
9302     :Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
9303    
9304     $id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
9305    
9306     --tom
9307     --
9308     Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
9309     --Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9310 root 1.387 %
9311 root 1.1 Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
9312     Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
9313 root 1.387 %
9314 root 1.1 On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9315    
9316     > The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
9317     > to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
9318     > NO CARRIER
9319     > !@*&#@#%T^@&*(GU*SD*(@!&*(@#R(*FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
9320 root 1.387 %
9321 root 1.1 > People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
9322     > rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
9323     > better.
9324    
9325     There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
9326     my finger on it. Hmmm.
9327 root 1.387 %
9328 root 1.1 comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
9329     bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
9330 root 1.387 %
9331 root 1.1 |> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
9332     |>
9333     |> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
9334     |> : a free-standing implimentation.
9335     |>
9336     |> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
9337     |> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
9338    
9339     The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
9340     point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
9341     horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
9342     remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
9343     build Bison, and then cook it.
9344    
9345     Viva la buffalo burgers.
9346 root 1.387 %
9347 root 1.1 A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
9348     home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
9349     The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
9350     Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
9351     can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
9352 root 1.387 %
9353 root 1.1 The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
9354     -- lbxproxy(1)
9355 root 1.387 %
9356 root 1.1 Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
9357    
9358     |> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
9359    
9360     Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
9361     on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
9362 root 1.387 %
9363 root 1.1 Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
9364    
9365     that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
9366 root 1.387 %
9367 root 1.1 In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
9368     |> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
9369     |> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
9370     |> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
9371     |> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
9372    
9373     |> What does this mean.
9374    
9375     It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
9376     install [free|net|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
9377 root 1.387 %
9378 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9379    
9380     On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
9381     > Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
9382    
9383     Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
9384 root 1.387 %
9385 root 1.1 "Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
9386     planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
9387     streams)."
9388     -- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
9389 root 1.387 %
9390 root 1.1 "Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
9391     - Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
9392 root 1.387 %
9393 root 1.1 Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
9394    
9395     >Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
9396    
9397     Klaro.
9398    
9399     >Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
9400     >koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
9401     >wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
9402     >verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
9403    
9404 root 1.388 Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
9405 root 1.1 Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
9406    
9407     >Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
9408     >Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
9409     >Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
9410     >mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
9411     >Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
9412     >folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
9413     >einfach wegdiskutieren...)
9414    
9415     Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
9416     am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
9417     passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
9418 root 1.388 der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
9419     richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
9420     Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
9421     ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
9422 root 1.1 Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
9423    
9424     Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
9425 root 1.388 die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
9426     die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
9427     die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
9428     der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
9429     Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
9430     die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
9431     den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
9432 root 1.1 2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
9433     Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
9434    
9435     cu in hell 2002
9436 root 1.387 %
9437 root 1.1 "Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
9438 root 1.387 %
9439 root 1.1 >In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
9440    
9441     Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
9442     get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
9443     the man page for crypt(1).
9444    
9445     Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
9446     section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
9447     that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
9448    
9449     man -s3 crypt
9450    
9451     Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
9452     entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
9453    
9454     If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
9455     find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
9456     he can figure out to use the command
9457    
9458     man -s3 Intro.3
9459    
9460     to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
9461     crypt is in section 3C so he should use
9462    
9463     man -s3c crypt
9464    
9465     Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
9466     stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
9467     any trouble.
9468     --
9469     Michael M Rubenstein
9470 root 1.387 %
9471 root 1.1 Take a moment to consider these lines:
9472    
9473     %OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
9474    
9475     sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
9476    
9477     :-) I *love* Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
9478    
9479     Regards,
9480     Tim Bunce.
9481    
9482     p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
9483     p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
9484     p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
9485 root 1.387 %
9486 root 1.1 From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
9487    
9488     ...
9489    
9490     > now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
9491     > experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
9492     > keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
9493    
9494     I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
9495     its unusable, believe me I do.
9496 root 1.387 %
9497 root 1.1 Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
9498    
9499     Semour Cray
9500 root 1.387 %
9501 root 1.1 Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
9502    
9503     Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
9504 root 1.387 %
9505 root 1.1 From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
9506     Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
9507    
9508     aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
9509     it only supports parts of it
9510 root 1.387 %
9511 root 1.1 egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
9512     /* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
9513 root 1.387 %
9514 root 1.1 [...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
9515     as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
9516     let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
9517     whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
9518     of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
9519     the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
9520     *without* the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
9521    
9522     (In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
9523     which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
9524     being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
9525     smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
9526     branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
9527     and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
9528     specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
9529     botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
9530     me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
9531     with existing HP as code.) [...]
9532    
9533     tq vm, (burley)
9534 root 1.387 %
9535 root 1.1 libc/posix/regex.h:
9536     /* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
9537     wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
9538     ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
9539     types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
9540     typedef long int s_reg_t;
9541     typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
9542 root 1.387 %
9543 root 1.1 libc/db2/db.h:
9544     /*
9545     * While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
9546     * defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
9547     * it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
9548     * files won't compile.
9549     */
9550 root 1.387 %
9551 root 1.1 > UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
9552     > great.
9553    
9554     I answered only the places I can comment on.
9555    
9556     > BASSAS DA INDIA
9557    
9558     This rock is below water half of the time!
9559     If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
9560     on a regular basis! ;-)
9561 root 1.387 %
9562 root 1.1 # ./test-plugin.pl
9563     Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
9564     wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
9565 root 1.387 %
9566 root 1.1 >
9567     > The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
9568     > developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
9569     > tools from the environment and precanning software.
9570    
9571     No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
9572 root 1.387 %
9573 root 1.1 Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
9574    
9575     >Hello!
9576    
9577     >I have to write something about, what Perl is.
9578     >I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
9579     >would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
9580    
9581    
9582     Perl.
9583    
9584     regards
9585     jobst
9586 root 1.387 %
9587 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
9588     From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
9589     Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
9590    
9591     > Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' *laff*, they have
9592     > to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
9593    
9594     They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
9595     are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
9596     makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
9597     nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
9598     compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
9599     the absolute pits.
9600 root 1.387 %
9601 root 1.1 Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
9602 root 1.387 %
9603 root 1.1 > What about: . scriptname
9604     > ------------------^ this is a dot!
9605    
9606     Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
9607 root 1.387 %
9608 root 1.1 A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
9609     ketchup and mustard
9610 root 1.387 %
9611 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
9612    
9613     vimal gajjar wrote:
9614     >
9615     > Hi there,
9616     > Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
9617     > code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
9618     > the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
9619     > "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
9620     > 5% of cpu
9621     > 2 Mb of RAM
9622     > for the period of 10 Seconds.
9623     >
9624     > can one of the gurus take this challange?
9625    
9626     Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
9627     brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
9628     has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
9629 root 1.387 %
9630 root 1.1 > >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
9631     > >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
9632     >
9633     > >s/usually/never/
9634     >
9635     > s/sometimes/never/
9636    
9637     Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
9638 root 1.387 %
9639 root 1.1 :That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
9640     :were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
9641     :Perl, IMO.
9642    
9643     Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
9644    
9645     TC
9646 root 1.387 %
9647 root 1.1 'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
9648 root 1.387 %
9649 root 1.1 shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
9650    
9651     Hi guys!
9652    
9653     How check socket, alive it or die ?
9654 root 1.387 %
9655 root 1.1 --> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
9656    
9657     Miscellaneous flame-wars:
9658     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
9659     12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
9660     13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
9661     14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
9662     15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
9663 root 1.387 %
9664 root 1.1 Subject: what a week!
9665     From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
9666     Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
9667    
9668     unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
9669     and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really *do*
9670     need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
9671     running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
9672    
9673     I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
9674     THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
9675     COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
9676     ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
9677    
9678     I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
9679    
9680     GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
9681    
9682     WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
9683     WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
9684     BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
9685    
9686     I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
9687     EVIL. AND A PENTIUM *IS* A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
9688    
9689     WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
9690     DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
9691    
9692     Did I miss any? ;-)
9693    
9694     *Please* don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
9695     Laugh. Please.
9696    
9697     And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
9698     --Scott
9699 root 1.387 %
9700 root 1.1 > Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
9701    
9702     And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
9703     installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
9704     remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
9705     successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
9706 root 1.387 %
9707 root 1.1 Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
9708     : This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
9709    
9710     One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
9711    
9712     This is not mail.
9713    
9714     This is Usenet.
9715    
9716     Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
9717 root 1.387 %
9718 root 1.1 ------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
9719     --- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
9720     --- ide1: reset: success
9721     -----------> I like Linux !
9722 root 1.387 %
9723 root 1.1 > I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
9724     > the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
9725    
9726     Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
9727     do.
9728 root 1.387 %
9729 root 1.1 ++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
9730     ++ PLONK.
9731 root 1.387 %
9732 root 1.1 ++ > SSI is *not* HTML.
9733     Re: Subraumfunk
9734    
9735     Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
9736     wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
9737    
9738     Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
9739     mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
9740     InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
9741     eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
9742     schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
9743 root 1.387 %
9744 root 1.1 > > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
9745     > > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
9746     >
9747     > Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
9748    
9749     Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
9750 root 1.387 %
9751 root 1.1 ++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
9752     Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
9753 root 1.387 %
9754 root 1.1 Namsuk Kim wrote:
9755     > Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
9756    
9757     I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
9758     - is the data in EBCDIC now?
9759    
9760     Bill Jones
9761 root 1.387 %
9762 root 1.1 GNU/getopt.c:
9763    
9764     #if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
9765     /* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
9766     #include <windows.h>
9767     #define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
9768     #endif
9769 root 1.387 %
9770 root 1.1 Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
9771    
9772     Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
9773     is, invoking the URL
9774    
9775     http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
9776    
9777     causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
9778 root 1.387 %
9779 root 1.1 "You need to use CGI."
9780     "I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
9781     "No, no, *use* CGI. The directive 'use'."
9782     "OK, so what directive do I use?"
9783     "No, no, you *use* *use*. Use CGI."
9784     "I *am* using CGI!"
9785    
9786     Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
9787 root 1.387 %
9788 root 1.1 > > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
9789     > > kennenlernen koennen?
9790     >
9791 root 1.388 > Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
9792 root 1.1 > Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
9793    
9794     Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
9795 root 1.387 %
9796 root 1.1 "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
9797     professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
9798 root 1.387 %
9799 root 1.1 If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
9800     If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
9801     If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
9802     To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
9803 root 1.387 %
9804 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
9805    
9806     pcg@goof.com said:
9807     > It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
9808    
9809     Hehe - I know the feeling.
9810    
9811     "It's broken."
9812     "What's wrong with it?."
9813     "I don't know - it just doesn't work."
9814     "Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
9815     "It just doesn't work."
9816     "How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
9817     "It gives an error message."
9818     "Would you care to tell me what it says?"
9819     "It says.... something about there being an error."
9820     "That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
9821     "It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
9822     "That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
9823     letter for letter this time."
9824 root 1.387 %
9825 root 1.1 From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
9826    
9827     After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
9828     had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
9829     2.6, the mode was 04555.
9830    
9831     Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
9832     might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
9833     perms.
9834    
9835     (Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
9836 root 1.387 %
9837 root 1.1 From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
9838     Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
9839    
9840     Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
9841    
9842     I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
9843     for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
9844     how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
9845    
9846     The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
9847     ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
9848 root 1.387 %
9849 root 1.388 >am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
9850     >verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
9851 root 1.1 >Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
9852    
9853     Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
9854     gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
9855     und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
9856     ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
9857     also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
9858     bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
9859     also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
9860     wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
9861     haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
9862     logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
9863     sicher nicht erkannt werden.
9864    
9865     Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
9866    
9867     normarz@aol.com
9868 root 1.387 %
9869 root 1.1 >Oder anders gesagt:
9870 root 1.388 >Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
9871 root 1.1 >Legion
9872     >schlagen?
9873    
9874     Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
9875    
9876     Bye
9877     Andreas
9878 root 1.387 %
9879 root 1.1 >Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
9880    
9881     It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
9882     justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
9883    
9884     I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
9885     companies.
9886    
9887     Kind regards
9888     Henning
9889 root 1.387 %
9890 root 1.1 From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
9891     Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
9892     Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
9893    
9894     At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
9895     into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
9896     for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
9897    
9898     There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
9899     tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
9900     be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
9901     told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
9902     standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
9903     make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
9904     that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
9905     hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
9906     issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
9907     computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
9908 root 1.387 %
9909 root 1.1 Where do you want to go today?
9910     We might support that sometime next year.
9911     -=- Microsoft
9912     (But I doubt it.)
9913     -=- Me
9914     -=- James Mastros
9915 root 1.387 %
9916 root 1.1 Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
9917     > I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
9918     > following methods, but the output was split into two
9919     >lines.
9920    
9921     If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
9922     put newlines in the middle of your string.
9923 root 1.387 %
9924 root 1.1 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
9925 root 1.387 %
9926 root 1.1 Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
9927     in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
9928     probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
9929     Einstein. -- Larry Wall
9930 root 1.387 %
9931 root 1.1 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
9932    
9933     My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
9934     mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
9935     Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
9936     correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
9937     for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
9938     least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
9939     absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
9940     it's not all his fault.
9941    
9942     The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
9943     pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
9944     course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
9945     understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
9946     content.
9947    
9948     Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
9949     spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
9950     others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
9951     learn (or pay for it;)
9952    
9953     IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
9954     people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
9955     to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
9956     just for fun or to get the op.
9957    
9958     Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
9959     your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
9960     mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
9961     mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
9962    
9963     Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
9964    
9965     Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
9966     course, Linux and Linux people.
9967 root 1.387 %
9968 root 1.1 ... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
9969     then he rewrote it as WNT.
9970    
9971     Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
9972     --
9973     Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
9974 root 1.387 %
9975 root 1.1 >Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
9976    
9977     I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
9978     rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
9979     where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
9980    
9981     I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
9982     preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
9983     tradition.
9984 root 1.387 %
9985 root 1.1 "Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
9986     I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
9987 root 1.387 %
9988 root 1.1 The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
9989     evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
9990 root 1.387 %
9991 root 1.1 "In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
9992     U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
9993     called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
9994     Or GIRLS for short.
9995 root 1.387 %
9996 root 1.1 Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
9997 root 1.387 %
9998 root 1.1 I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
9999     post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10000     mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10001     drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10002     5_004_03 to build!"
10003    
10004     This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10005     have no patience."
10006    
10007     xoxo,
10008     Andy
10009 root 1.387 %
10010 root 1.1 > I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10011     > and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10012     We all have our cross to bear.
10013 root 1.387 %
10014 root 1.1 (THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10015    
10016     From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10017     Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10018     Subject: Re: system() question
10019    
10020     There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10021     over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10022     are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10023     code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10024     code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10025     service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10026     badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10027     written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10028     are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10029     happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10030     languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10031     English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10032     Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10033     humiliating for me!)
10034    
10035     Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10036     not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10037     flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10038     questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10039     They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10040     I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10041     I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10042     go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10043     really knows the answer.
10044    
10045     The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10046     some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10047     they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10048     instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10049    
10050     Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10051     questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10052     qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10053     for that.
10054    
10055     Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10056     list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10057     it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10058     not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10059     going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10060     problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10061     hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10062    
10063     Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10064    
10065     1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10066     program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10067     something for free.''
10068    
10069     (OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10070    
10071     2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10072     ...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10073    
10074     (Good question.)
10075    
10076     3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10077     but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10078     once I have run it.''
10079     (Good question.)
10080    
10081     4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10082    
10083     (Good question.)
10084    
10085     See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10086     question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10087     very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10088     ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10089     about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10090    
10091     Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10092     addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10093     big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10094     the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10095     comp.lang.perl?
10096     Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10097     to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10098     lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10099     could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10100     external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10101     in comp.lang.perl?
10102    
10103     Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10104     you my rate card.
10105    
10106     Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10107     the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10108     here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10109     introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10110     language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10111     Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10112     examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10113     instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10114     a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10115     to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10116    
10117     The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10118     have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10119     could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10120     Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10121     My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10122     been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10123     West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10124     all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10125     He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10126     shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10127     good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10128     asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10129     that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10130     What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10131     no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10132     off his finger or something. I dunno.
10133    
10134     Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10135     today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10136     those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10137     in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10138     someone will. Maybe I will.
10139    
10140     If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10141     how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10142     I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10143     go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10144     jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10145     these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10146     that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10147     of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10148    
10149     Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10150     thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10151     `How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10152     except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10153     integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10154     these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10155     really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10156     easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10157     with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10158     always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10159     development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10160     gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10161     out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10162     manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10163    
10164     The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10165     X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10166     again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10167     filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10168    
10169     The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10170    
10171     `I want to accomplish X.
10172    
10173     I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10174    
10175     ...
10176    
10177     But instead it does Y.
10178    
10179     Why is that?''
10180    
10181     This one is also pretty good:
10182    
10183     `I want to accomplish X.
10184     I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10185    
10186     But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10187     because of Z.
10188    
10189     What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10190    
10191     When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10192     There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10193    
10194    
10195     There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10196     Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10197    
10198     --
10199     Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10200     The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10201 root 1.387 %
10202 root 1.1 >> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10203     >Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10204    
10205     If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10206     support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10207     TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10208    
10209     Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10210    
10211     bye, Georg
10212 root 1.387 %
10213 root 1.1 I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10214     (nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10215     convince me.
10216    
10217     [ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10218    
10219     Linus
10220 root 1.387 %
10221 root 1.1 ++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10222     ++
10223    
10224     Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10225     complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10226    
10227 root 1.85 $var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10228 root 1.1
10229     If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10230     understanding the above line.
10231    
10232     Abigail
10233 root 1.387 %
10234 root 1.1 I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10235     1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10236 root 1.387 %
10237 root 1.1 ++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10238     ++ button?
10239     Yes.
10240    
10241     ++ 100 pictures or so?
10242     Yes.
10243    
10244     ++ Can I do it in Perl?
10245     Yes.
10246    
10247     Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10248     newsgroup. alt.button.play
10249    
10250     Abigail
10251 root 1.387 %
10252 root 1.1 perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10253    
10254     perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10255    
10256     Martien
10257 root 1.387 %
10258 root 1.388 Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10259     nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10260     eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10261     etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10262 root 1.1 Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10263 root 1.388 Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10264     nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10265     unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10266     Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10267 root 1.1 Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10268 root 1.388 Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10269     selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10270 root 1.1 war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10271     nicht. ;)
10272    
10273 root 1.388 Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10274     nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10275     fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10276 root 1.1 Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10277     Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10278 root 1.388 daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10279 root 1.1 das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10280    
10281 root 1.388 Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10282     ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10283 root 1.1 Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10284 root 1.388 ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10285 root 1.1 wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10286    
10287 root 1.388 Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10288 root 1.1 Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10289 root 1.388 "Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10290     eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10291 root 1.1 ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10292 root 1.388 sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10293 root 1.1 nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10294     "unvorstellbar".
10295    
10296     Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10297 root 1.387 %
10298 root 1.1 Marcel Richter wrote:
10299     > Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
10300     ^^^
10301     fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
10302 root 1.387 %
10303 root 1.1 The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
10304     do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
10305 root 1.387 %
10306 root 1.1 linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
10307     printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
10308 root 1.387 %
10309 root 1.1 >>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
10310     >>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
10311     >Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
10312    
10313     An artificial pile of rocks.
10314 root 1.387 %
10315 root 1.1 > ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
10316     > marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
10317     > gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
10318     > noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
10319     > beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
10320     > - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
10321    
10322     Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
10323     Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
10324     sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
10325     grosser Flipperautomat.
10326    
10327     Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
10328 root 1.387 %
10329 root 1.1 > Kris Weilemann schrieb
10330     >
10331     > >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
10332     > >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
10333     > >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
10334     > >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
10335     > >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
10336 root 1.387 %
10337 root 1.388 ... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
10338     daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
10339 root 1.1
10340     "Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
10341 root 1.387 %
10342 root 1.1 http://www.rsw.com/
10343    
10344     The Unix shell as a 4GL
10345    
10346     Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
10347     perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
10348     functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
10349     over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
10350     of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
10351     is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
10352     Unix environment.
10353 root 1.387 %
10354 root 1.1 Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
10355     between these:
10356    
10357     time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
10358     sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
10359    
10360     Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
10361     The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
10362     ;#", and the print gets executed!
10363    
10364     There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
10365     "use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
10366     "time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
10367     (or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
10368    
10369     Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
10370     'perl'".
10371    
10372     --
10373     Randal L. Schwartz
10374 root 1.387 %
10375 root 1.1 Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
10376    
10377     > Pascal AMRAM wrote:
10378     > > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
10379     >
10380     > So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
10381    
10382     It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
10383    
10384     --
10385     Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
10386 root 1.387 %
10387 root 1.1 The management (my cats) made me say this.
10388 root 1.387 %
10389 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
10390     write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
10391 root 1.387 %
10392 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
10393     write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
10394 root 1.387 %
10395 root 1.1 Closures make sense in any programming language where you
10396     can have the return value of a function be itself a
10397     function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
10398     provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
10399     providing proper closures; the Python language, for
10400     example.
10401 root 1.387 %
10402 root 1.1 When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
10403     resemble a nail.
10404 root 1.387 %
10405 root 1.1 > but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
10406     > I did wrong.
10407    
10408     What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
10409     newsgroup.
10410 root 1.387 %
10411 root 1.1 I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
10412 root 1.387 %
10413 root 1.388 >Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
10414     >vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
10415 root 1.1 >wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
10416    
10417     Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
10418 root 1.387 %
10419 root 1.388 >Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
10420 root 1.1
10421 root 1.388 Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
10422 root 1.387 %
10423 root 1.1 ...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
10424     my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
10425     expired instantly!!!
10426 root 1.387 %
10427 root 1.1 From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
10428     To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
10429    
10430     > Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
10431     > length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
10432     > if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
10433    
10434     I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
10435     He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
10436     an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
10437     than double Linus's programming experience?
10438    
10439     > This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
10440     > pretty straight forward.
10441    
10442     Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
10443     in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
10444 root 1.387 %
10445 root 1.1 Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
10446     Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
10447     fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
10448     wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
10449     kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
10450     Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
10451 root 1.387 %
10452 root 1.1 Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
10453 root 1.387 %
10454 root 1.1 hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
10455     Example:
10456     print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
10457 root 1.387 %
10458 root 1.1 liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
10459     Randal gets his hands on it
10460 root 1.387 %
10461 root 1.1 Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
10462 root 1.387 %
10463 root 1.1 > Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
10464    
10465     No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
10466     first if you get it working.
10467 root 1.387 %
10468 root 1.1 > Macintosh.
10469     > Think different.
10470    
10471     Think Again.
10472 root 1.387 %
10473 root 1.1 Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
10474 root 1.387 %
10475 root 1.1 tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
10476     > Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
10477     > push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
10478    
10479     What do you want, Scheme? ;)
10480 root 1.387 %
10481 root 1.1 # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
10482     # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
10483 root 1.387 %
10484 root 1.1 | I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
10485     | someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
10486     | top.
10487 root 1.387 %
10488 root 1.1 I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
10489     he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
10490 root 1.387 %
10491 root 1.1 On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
10492     ^^^^^^^^^
10493     >Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
10494    
10495     Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
10496 root 1.387 %
10497 root 1.1 >Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
10498     >gehen soll?
10499    
10500 root 1.388 Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
10501 root 1.1 materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
10502     diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
10503 root 1.387 %
10504 root 1.1 Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
10505 root 1.387 %
10506 root 1.388 >> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
10507     >> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
10508 root 1.1 >> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
10509     >
10510     >Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
10511    
10512     Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
10513     Schuh aus!
10514 root 1.387 %
10515 root 1.1 >Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
10516    
10517 root 1.388 Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
10518 root 1.1 eingeleitet?
10519 root 1.387 %
10520 root 1.1 Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
10521    
10522    
10523     First opportunity
10524     Approximate
10525     Orbit Internet
10526     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10527    
10528     4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
10529     4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
10530     4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
10531     4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
10532    
10533     Second opportunity
10534     Approximate
10535     Orbit Internet
10536     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10537    
10538     4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
10539     4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
10540     4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
10541     4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
10542    
10543     Third opportunity
10544     Approximate
10545     Orbit Internet
10546     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10547    
10548     4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
10549     4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
10550     4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
10551     4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
10552    
10553 root 1.387 %
10554 root 1.1 > >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
10555 root 1.388 > >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
10556     > >würden.
10557 root 1.1 >
10558     > Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
10559     > "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
10560     Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
10561     unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
10562     (heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
10563     Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
10564     implizierst.
10565 root 1.387 %
10566 root 1.1 > You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
10567     > quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
10568 root 1.387 %
10569 root 1.1 Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
10570     Big improvement.
10571 root 1.387 %
10572 root 1.1 -- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
10573     -- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
10574     over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
10575     -- "Why that one?"
10576     -- "Because it's better, sinc.."
10577     -- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
10578 root 1.387 %
10579 root 1.1 In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
10580     Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
10581     wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
10582 root 1.387 %
10583 root 1.1 > Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
10584     > Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
10585     > etlicher Lebensformen?
10586    
10587     Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
10588    
10589     > Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
10590     > "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
10591     > die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
10592    
10593     Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
10594    
10595     > Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
10596     > ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
10597     > er eigentlich ist?
10598    
10599 root 1.388 Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
10600 root 1.1 Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
10601 root 1.388 ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
10602 root 1.1 bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
10603 root 1.388 länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
10604 root 1.1 er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
10605 root 1.388 als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
10606 root 1.1 Ciao
10607     Stefan
10608 root 1.387 %
10609 root 1.1 "These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
10610     unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
10611     all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
10612     (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
10613 root 1.387 %
10614 root 1.1 Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
10615     say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
10616     determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
10617     to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
10618     can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
10619     42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
10620     knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
10621     you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
10622     off.
10623 root 1.387 %
10624 root 1.1 Join the Army,
10625     Meet interesting people,
10626     Kill them.
10627 root 1.387 %
10628 root 1.1 > Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
10629     > umwandelbar ist.
10630    
10631     E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
10632 root 1.387 %
10633 root 1.388 >nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
10634 root 1.1 >unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
10635 root 1.387 %
10636 root 1.1 > (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
10637     >
10638     > >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
10639     > >> ruckartig.
10640     > >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
10641     >
10642 root 1.388 > Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
10643 root 1.1
10644     :-)
10645 root 1.387 %
10646 root 1.1 SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
10647 root 1.388 rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
10648     "XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
10649 root 1.1 verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
10650     Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
10651     wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
10652     entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
10653    
10654     ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
10655     Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
10656 root 1.388 gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
10657     sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
10658 root 1.1 Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
10659 root 1.388 2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
10660     Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
10661     Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
10662 root 1.1 Union.
10663    
10664 root 1.388 RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
10665     der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
10666 root 1.1 Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
10667 root 1.388 Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
10668     er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
10669     Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
10670 root 1.1 Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
10671 root 1.387 %
10672 root 1.1 * Linux Viruscan.....
10673     Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
10674 root 1.387 %
10675 root 1.1 >>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
10676 root 1.388 >>Realität?
10677 root 1.1 >>
10678     >>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
10679 root 1.388 >>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
10680     >>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
10681 root 1.1 >>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
10682     >
10683     >Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
10684     >FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
10685 root 1.387 %
10686 root 1.1 "'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
10687 root 1.387 %
10688 root 1.1 > How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
10689     > into a random order???
10690     >
10691    
10692     @array=qw(1 2 3 4);
10693     print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
10694    
10695     I've checked this against other possible random orderings
10696     of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
10697     any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
10698     that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
10699     number less than 42.
10700 root 1.387 %
10701 root 1.1 From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
10702     crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
10703     another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
10704     netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
10705     I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
10706     called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
10707     eventually invent Unix.
10708 root 1.387 %
10709 root 1.1 In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
10710     the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
10711     business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
10712     typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
10713     been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
10714     plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
10715     "Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
10716     typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
10717     copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
10718     designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
10719     some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
10720     Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
10721     Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
10722     license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
10723     in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
10724     scale than would initially seem to be the case.
10725 root 1.387 %
10726 root 1.1 [linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
10727     Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
10728     faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
10729 root 1.387 %
10730 root 1.1 Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
10731     using a Perl CGI script?
10732 root 1.387 %
10733 root 1.1 >I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
10734    
10735     One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
10736     week.
10737 root 1.387 %
10738 root 1.1 Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
10739     Brieweb> of PERL.
10740     No, that's an http *proxy* server. A simple web server is much shorter.
10741     From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
10742     [Randal Schwartz]
10743 root 1.387 %
10744 root 1.1 But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
10745     capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
10746     for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
10747     [Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
10748 root 1.387 %
10749 root 1.1 Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
10750     programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
10751     It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
10752     hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
10753     to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
10754     use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
10755     programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
10756     also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
10757     system and restricting their options.
10758     [Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
10759 root 1.387 %
10760 root 1.1 <Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
10761     <Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
10762     <BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
10763 root 1.387 %
10764 root 1.1 "It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
10765     society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
10766     Ernie Hai
10767     Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
10768 root 1.387 %
10769 root 1.1 : I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
10770     : results" report from the users.
10771    
10772     if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
10773     be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
10774     "can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
10775     TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
10776 root 1.387 %
10777 root 1.1 There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
10778     They are all owned by cats.
10779 root 1.387 %
10780 root 1.1 Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
10781     attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
10782     You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
10783 root 1.387 %
10784 root 1.1 From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
10785     Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
10786    
10787     Yesterday it worked
10788     Today it is not working
10789     Windows is like that
10790     - - -
10791     wind catches lily
10792     scatt'ring petals to the wind:
10793     segmentation fault
10794     - - -
10795     Three things are certain:
10796     Death, taxes, and lost data.
10797     Guess which has occurred.
10798     - - -
10799     A file that big?
10800     It might be very useful.
10801     But now it is gone.
10802     - - -
10803     Windows NT crashed.
10804     I am the Blue Screen of Death.
10805     No one hears your screams.
10806     - - -
10807     Errors have occurred.
10808     We won't tell you where or why.
10809     Lazy programmers.
10810     - - -
10811     Seeing my great fault
10812     Through darkening blue windows
10813     I begin again
10814     - - -
10815     The code was willing,
10816     It considered your request,
10817     But the chips were weak.
10818     - - -
10819     Printer not ready.
10820     Could be a fatal error.
10821     Have a pen handy?
10822     - - -
10823     Server's poor response
10824     Not quick enough for browser.
10825     Timed out, plum blossom.
10826     - - -
10827     Chaos reigns within.
10828     Reflect, repent, and reboot.
10829     Order shall return.
10830     - - -
10831     Login incorrect.
10832     Only perfect spellers may
10833     enter this system.
10834     - - -
10835     This site has been moved.
10836     We'd tell you where, but then we'd
10837     have to delete you.
10838     - - -
10839     ABORTED effort:
10840     Close all that you have.
10841     You ask way too much.
10842     - - -
10843     First snow, then silence.
10844     This thousand dollar screen dies
10845     so beautifully.
10846     - - -
10847     With searching comes loss
10848     and the presence of absence:
10849     "My Novel" not found.
10850     - - -
10851     The Tao that is seen
10852     Is not the true Tao, until
10853     You bring fresh toner.
10854     - - -
10855     The Web site you seek
10856     cannot be located but
10857     endless others exist
10858     - - -
10859     Stay the patient course
10860     Of little worth is your ire
10861     The network is down
10862     - - -
10863     A crash reduces
10864     your expensive computer
10865     to a simple stone.
10866     - - -
10867     There is a chasm
10868     of carbon and silicon
10869     the software can't bridge
10870     - - -
10871     To have no errors
10872     Would be life without meaning
10873     No struggle, no joy
10874     - - -
10875     You step in the stream,
10876     but the water has moved on.
10877     This page is not here.
10878     - - -
10879     No keyboard present
10880     Hit F1 to continue
10881     Zen engineering?
10882     - - -
10883     Hal, open the file
10884     Hal, open the damn file, Hal
10885     open it, please Hal
10886     - - -
10887     Out of memory.
10888     We wish to hold the whole sky,
10889     But we never will.
10890     - - -
10891     Having been erased,
10892     The document you're seeking
10893     Must now be retyped.
10894     - - -
10895     The ten thousand things
10896     How long do any persist?
10897     Netscape, too, has gone.
10898     - - -
10899     Rather than a beep
10900     Or a rude error message,
10901     These words: "File not found."
10902     - - -
10903     Serious error.
10904     All shortcuts have disappeared
10905     Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
10906 root 1.387 %
10907 root 1.1 "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
10908     to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
10909 root 1.387 %
10910 root 1.1 > What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
10911     > UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
10912    
10913     Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
10914     early 1980s.
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10916 root 1.1 > I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
10917     > the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
10918     > something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
10919     > copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
10920    
10921     I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
10922     with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
10923     control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
10924     introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
10925     you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
10926     many new features that it just stops working.
10927    
10928     This also applies to Microsoft products.
10929    
10930     > Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
10931     > help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
10932    
10933     Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
10934     really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
10935     know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
10936    
10937     Hope this explains what's going on
10938     Martien Verbruggen
10939 root 1.387 %
10940 root 1.1 ...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
10941 root 1.387 %
10942 root 1.1 X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
10943 root 1.387 %
10944 root 1.1 -------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
10945 root 1.387 %
10946 root 1.1 "Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
10947     unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
10948     Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
10949 root 1.387 %
10950 root 1.1 > ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
10951     > ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
10952     > ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
10953     >
10954     > Just make sure you understand it ;)
10955    
10956     I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
10957     think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
10958 root 1.387 %
10959 root 1.1 Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
10960     where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
10961     until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
10962     should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
10963 root 1.387 %
10964 root 1.1 But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
10965     even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
10966     individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
10967     the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
10968     attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
10969     motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
10970     are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
10971     convienience store.")
10972 root 1.387 %
10973 root 1.1 : how do i make my perl script run?
10974     Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
10975 root 1.387 %
10976 root 1.1 for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
10977 root 1.424 >>> ToiLeTGoD
10978 root 1.1
10979     Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
10980     Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
10981 root 1.387 %
10982 root 1.1 Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
10983     including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
10984     background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
10985     populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
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10987 root 1.1 Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
10988     kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
10989     -- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
10990 root 1.387 %
10991 root 1.1 The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
10992     (A => B) => (B => A)
10993     (There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
10994     (A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
10995 root 1.387 %
10996 root 1.1 cal 9 1752
10997 root 1.387 %
10998 root 1.1 Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
10999     -Barry Shein
11000 root 1.387 %
11001 root 1.1 And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11002     by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11003     read the manual.
11004 root 1.387 %
11005 root 1.1 "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11006 root 1.387 %
11007 root 1.1 I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11008     that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11009     the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11010     Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11011     in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11012     it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11013     from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11014     to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11015     for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11016 root 1.387 %
11017 root 1.1 comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11018 root 1.387 %
11019 root 1.1 I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11020     is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11021     the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
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11023 root 1.1 > Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11024    
11025     I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11026     need.
11027 root 1.387 %
11028 root 1.1 Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11029     powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11030     deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11031 root 1.387 %
11032 root 1.1 I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11033     lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11034     newsreaders. You know,
11035     those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11036     back
11037     again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11038     to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11039     out what they're saying.
11040 root 1.387 %
11041 root 1.1 It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11042     million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11043 root 1.387 %
11044 root 1.1 I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11045     U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11046     newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11047    
11048     But the combination.... *sutters*
11049 root 1.387 %
11050 root 1.1 Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11051     Darn it.
11052 root 1.387 %
11053 root 1.1 At least he didn't post in all caps.
11054 root 1.387 %
11055 root 1.1 http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11056 root 1.387 %
11057 root 1.1 I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11058     the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11059     "Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11060     school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11061     trying to use it.
11062 root 1.387 %
11063 root 1.1 "Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11064 root 1.387 %
11065 root 1.1 cdog wrote:
11066     >
11067     > Is this group active?
11068     No.
11069    
11070     If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11071     probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11072    
11073     On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11074     345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11075 root 1.387 %
11076 root 1.1 "Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11077     -comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11078 root 1.387 %
11079 root 1.1 "Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11080     Press any key to continue..."
11081 root 1.387 %
11082 root 1.1 NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11083     isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11084     itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11085 root 1.387 %
11086 root 1.1 The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11087     considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11088     it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11089     adjust your travel plans.
11090 root 1.387 %
11091 root 1.388 "Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11092     hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11093 root 1.387 %
11094 root 1.1 The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11095     highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11096    
11097     tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11098     = tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11099    
11100     For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11101    
11102     tak 18 12 6
11103 root 1.387 %
11104 root 1.1 "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11105     -- Bill Gates
11106     "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11107     -- Bill Gates
11108     "Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11109     -- logical conclusion
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11111 root 1.1 Year Name James Bond Book
11112     - ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11113     50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11114     1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11115     1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11116     1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11117     1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11118     1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11119     1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11120     1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11121     1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11122     1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11123     1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11124     1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11125     1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11126     1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11127     1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11128     1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11129     1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11130     1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11131     * -- Not a Broccoli production.
11132 root 1.387 %
11133 root 1.1 Windows NT: n.
11134     32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11135     operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11136     by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11137 root 1.387 %
11138 root 1.388 Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.