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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
2			- Kin Hubbard
3			%
4			[random .sig]
5			I'm a muslim.
6
7			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
8			%
9			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
10			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
11			before.
12
13			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
14			%
15			<imho>
16
17			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
18			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
19			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
20			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
21
22			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
23			Java - public static void not fun.
24			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
25			C - usually not fun.
26
27			What about modern scripting languages?
28
29			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
30			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
31			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
32
33			</imho>
34
35			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
36			%
37			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
38			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
39			%
40
41			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
42			*
43			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
44
45			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
46			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
47			%
48			# The user is always right.
49			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
50			[autoconf]
51			%
52			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
53
54			/*
55			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
56			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
57			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
58			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
59			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
60			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
61			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
62			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
63			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
64			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
65			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
66			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
67			*/
68			%
69			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
70			was new to me:
71
72			switch(c)
73			{
74			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
75			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
76			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
77			case 'd': base=-10; }
78			switch(type)
79			{
80			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
81			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
82			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
83			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
84			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
85			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
86			default:val=0; break;
87			}
88			cp = __numout(val,base);
89			if(0) {
90			case 's':
91			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
92			}
93			%
94			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
95			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
96			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
97			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
98			extra second and see how far you get :-)
99			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
100			%
101			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
102			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
103			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
104			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
105			>
106			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
107			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
108
109			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
110			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
111
112			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
113			%
114			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
115			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
116			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
117
118			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
119
120			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
121			%
122			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
123			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
124			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
125			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
126			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
127			settings)
128
129			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
130			%
131			How do I deal with memory leaks?
132
133			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
134
135			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
136			%
137			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
138			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
139
140			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
141			%
142			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
143			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
144			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
145			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
146
147			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
148			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
149			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
150			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
151			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
152			rewarded for their creativity.
153
154			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
155			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
156			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
157			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
158			would never have made it in the first place.
159
160			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
161			%
162			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
163			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
164			%
165			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
166			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
167			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
168			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
169			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
170
171			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
172			%
173			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
174			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
175			- Mohandas Gandhi
176			%
177			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
178			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
179			handiwork of the Lord."
180			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
181			%
182			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
183
184			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
185			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
186			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
187
188			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
189			Scientist A publishes results.
190
191			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
192			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
193			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
194
195			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
196			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
197			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
198			A: ...
199			B: You fraud!
200
201			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
202
203			A publishes results.
204
205			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
206			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
207			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
208			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
209			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
210			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
211
212			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
213			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
214			%
215			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
216			them because they need the money to operate]
217
218			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
219			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
220			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
221			site or its bottom line."
222			%
223			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
224			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
225			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
226			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
227			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
228			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
229			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
230			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
231			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
232			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
233			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
234			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
235			%
236			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
237
238			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
239
240			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
241			%
242			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
243
244			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
245			>>>> and the beating of children?
246			>>>
247			>>> Subjugation of women...
248			>>
249			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
250			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
251			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
252			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
253			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
254			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
255			>> shake partner.
256			>
257			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
258			>
259			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
260			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
261			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
262			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
263			>
264
265			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
266			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
267			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
268			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
269			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
270			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
271			and your wife.
272			%
273			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
274			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
275			still kill you. - arestheblue
276			%
277			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
278			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
279			specifications for GSS-API.
280
281			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
282			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
283
284			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
285			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
286
287			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
288			%
289			[from the minix 3 users guide]
290
291			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
292			%
293			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
294
295			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
296			[...]
297			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
298			complaintant to guess this is true.
299			%
300			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
301			- Ken Thompson.
302			%
303			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
304
305			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
306
307			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
308			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
309			source code excerpt:
310
311			int sn()
312			{
313			char pwr;
314
315			int input1 = 0;
316			double output1 = 0;
317
318			system("clear");
319			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
320			cin>>input1;
321			output1 = (sin(input1));
322			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
323			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
324			cin>>pwr;
325			if(pwr == 'a')
326			sq();
327			if(pwr == 'm')
328			system("pause");
329
330			}
331			%
332			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
333			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
334
335			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
336
337			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
338			%
339			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
340			app for me" department:
341
342			From: Evan LeCompte
343
344			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
345			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
346			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
347			%
348			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
349			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
350			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
351
352			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
353			%
354			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
355			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
356			– Steve Jobs[47]
357
358			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
359			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
360			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
361			%
362			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
363			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
364			%
365			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
366			From: Patrick Horgan
367			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
368			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
369
370			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
371			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
372			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
373			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
374			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
375			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
376
377			[...]
378			%
379	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
380			— Peter Abelard
381			%
382			A man said to the universe:
383			"Sir I exist!"
384			"However," replied the universe,
385			"The fact has not created in me
386	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
387			- Steven Crane
388	root	1.431	%
389			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
390
391			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
392
393			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
394
395			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
396
397			– Sanskrit Saying
398			%
399			[anonymised discussion]
400			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
401			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
402			%
403			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
404
405	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
406	root	1.431
407			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
408			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
409			appear.
410			%
411			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
412			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
413			- Douglas Adams
414			%
415			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
416			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
417			%
418			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
419			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
420			%
421			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
422			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
423			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
424			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
425			%
426			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
427			%
428			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
429			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
430			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
431			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
432			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
433			%
434			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
435			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
436			or her career.
437			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
438			%
439			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
440			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
441			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
442			%
443			I LOVE YOU
444			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
445			%
446			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
447			the air impeller.
448
449			Alan Cox
450			%
451			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
452			with a minimum computer science background."
453			%
454			From: Eric Sosman
455			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
456			Subject: Re: about graphics
457
458			prince wrote:
459			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
460
461			#include <stdio.h>
462			int main(void) {
463			puts("graphics\rcommand");
464			return 0;
465			}
466			%
467			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
468			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
469			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
470			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
471			%
472			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
473
474			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
475			it still is a constant-time attack.
476			%
477			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
478			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
479			%
480			From: David Damerell
481
482			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
483			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
484			>caps to make it different.
485
486			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
487			painful but will take less typing.
488			%
489			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
490			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
491			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
492
493			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
494			%
495			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
496
497			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
498			> free than the BSD.
499			>
500			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
501
502			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
503			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
504			%
505			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
506
507			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
508			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
509			from incompatible pointer type
510			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
511			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
512			makes pointer from integer without a cast
513			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
514			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
515			%
516			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
517			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
518			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
519			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
520			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
521			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
522
523			[Chandon Seldon]
524			%
525			[Wikipedia]
526			Differences between vi and Emacs
527
528			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
529			%
530			[lost the reference]
531			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
532			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
533			%
534			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
535			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
536			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
537			%
538			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
539
540			Subject: Re: fcrack help
541			From: puezalb024@aol.com
542			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
543			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
544			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
545
546			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
547			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
548			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
549			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
550			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
551			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
552			piss on your leg.
553
554			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
555			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
556			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
557
558			[then, a day later]
559
560			Subject: Re: fcrack help
561			From: puezalb024@aol.com
562			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
563			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
564			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
565
566			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
567			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
568			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
569			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
570			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
571			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
572			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
573			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
574			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
575
576
577			-----Original Message-----
578			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
579			To: puezalb024@aol.com
580			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
581			Subject: Re: fcrack help
582
583
584
585			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
586	root	1.432	>
587	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
588
589			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
590
591			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
592			I hope you don't object :)
593			%
594			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
595			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
596
597			You made my day
598			%
599			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
600
601			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
602			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
603			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
604
605			Linus
606			%
607			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
608
609			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
610
611			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 ...
612
613			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
614
615			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
616			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
617			when sending emails to other people:
618			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
619
620			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
621
622			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
623			%
624			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
625			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
626			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
627			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
628			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
629			%
630			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
631			be used if run as administrator in windows.
632
633			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
634			%
635			[on italy]
636
637			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
638
639			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
640			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
641			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
642			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
643
644			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
645			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
646			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
647			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
648			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
649			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
650
651			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
652
653			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
654			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
655			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
656			from fascism period.
657
658			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
659			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
660			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
661			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
662			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
663			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
664			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
665			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
666			SIAE.
667
668			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
669			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
670			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
671			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
672			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
673			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
674			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
675			electronic ones
676
677			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
678
679			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
680			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
681			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
682			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
683			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
684			western country.
685
686			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
687			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
688			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
689			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
690			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
691			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
692			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
693			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
694			also the governments of "center-left".
695
696			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
697
698			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
699			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
700			without any restriction.
701
702			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
703			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
704			world.
705
706			Long life to the Bay, forever.
707			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
708			Thank you for reading.
709			%
710			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
711			>
712			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
713
714			How very ironic.
715			%
716			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
717			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
718			takes religion."
719
720			--Steve Weinberg
721			%
722			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
723			%
724			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
725			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
726			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
727
728			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
729			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
730			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
731			%
732			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
733			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
734			the right tool for me.
735			%
736			[deliantra]
737			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
738			%
739			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
740			%
741			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
742			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
743			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
744			%
745			From the CFA633 datasheet:
746
747			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
748			%
749			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
750			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
751
752			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
753			actually tells you it's American.
754			%
755			[better do not hire this programmer]
756			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
757			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
758			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
759
760			Hi
761
762			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
763			someone here can advise me.
764
765			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
766			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
767			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
768			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
769			happens with the customer looking on!!).
770
771			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
772			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
773			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
774			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
775			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
776			corresponding thing in C?
777
778			Thanks!
779			%
780			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
781
782			// See bug 53763.
783			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
784			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
785			if (shell) {
786			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
787			%
788			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
789			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
790
791			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
792			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
793			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
794			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
795			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
796			%
797			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
798			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
799			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
800			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
801			“display quality too high”).
802
803			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
804			%
805			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
806
807	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
808	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
809
810			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
811
812			x / y * z
813
814			and
815
816			x / y * z
817
818			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
819
820			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
821			design decisions.)
822			%
823			endergt:
824			> snoofle:
825			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
826			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
827			> > you understand what you are doing...
828			>
829	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
830	root	1.431
831	root	1.432	debug
832	root	1.431	%
833			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%.
834
835			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
836			%
837			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
838			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
839			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
840
841			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
842			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
843			6 Decompilation
844
845			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
846			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
847			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
848			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
849			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
850			conditions are met: [...]"
851			%
852			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
853			%
854			Why Linux Sux ?
855
856			Easy .
857			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
858			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
859			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 .
860			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
861			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
862			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
863			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! ) .
864			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 .
865			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
866
867			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
868			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
869			working ones . Screw linux users .
870			%
871			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
872			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
873			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
874			%
875			> The Dell 30"...
876
877			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
878			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
879			%
880	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
881	root	1.431
882			> > 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".
883	root	1.432	>
884	root	1.431	> 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!
885	root	1.432	>
886	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
887	root	1.432
888	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
889
890			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
891			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.
892			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
893	root	1.432	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.
894	root	1.431	%
895			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
896			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
897			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
898			%
899			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
900
901			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
902			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
903			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
904
905			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
906			anderen betriebssystemen.
907
908			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
909			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
910
911			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
912			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
913			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
914			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
915			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
916
917			Frage?
918			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
919			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
920			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
921
922			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
923			%
924			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
925			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
926			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
927			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
928			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
929			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
930			%
931			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
932			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
933			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
934			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
935			%
936			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
937			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
938
939			God bless the re-inventers
940
941			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
942			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
943
944	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
945	root	1.431
946			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
947			one.
948			%
949			[rfc2665]
950			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
951			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
952			useful in theory than in practice.
953			%
954			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
955	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
956	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
957			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
958			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
959			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
960			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
961			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
962	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
963	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
964			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
965	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
966	root	1.431	15:30
967			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
968			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
969			%
970			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
971			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
972			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
973			%
974			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
975
976			Strictly for beginners
977
978			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
979			[...]
980			%
981			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
982			%
983			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
984			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
985			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
986			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
987			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
988			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
989			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
990			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
991			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
992			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
993			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
994			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
995			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
996			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
997			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
998			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
999			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1000			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1001			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1002			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1003			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1004			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1005			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1006			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1007			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1008			%
1009			[A Gentoo User]
1010			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1011			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1012			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1013			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1014			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1015			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1016			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1017			%
1018			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1019			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1020			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1021			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1022			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1023	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1024			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1025	root	1.431	can do
1026			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1027			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1028			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1029			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1030			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1031			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1032			%
1033			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1034	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1035			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1036			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1037	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1038			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1039	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1040			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1041	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1042			%
1043			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1044			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1045			%
1046			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1047
1048			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1049			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1050			be slow in Windows 2000"
1051
1052			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1053			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1054			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1055			%
1056			[so much for type-safety]
1057			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1058			lst.add(null);
1059			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1060			%
1061			[just for reference]
1062			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1063			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1064			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1065			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1066			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1067			es nicht.
1068
1069			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1070			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1071			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1072			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1073			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1074			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1075
1076			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1077			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1078			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1079			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1080			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1081			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1082			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1083			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1084			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1085			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1086			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1087			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1088			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1089			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1090
1091			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1092			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1093			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1094			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1095			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1096			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1097			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1098
1099			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1100			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1101			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1102			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1103			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1104			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1105			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1106			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1107			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1108			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1109			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1110			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1111			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1112			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1113			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1114			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1115			alternativ' Idioten!
1116
1117			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1118			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1119			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1120			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1121			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1122			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1123			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1124			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1125			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1126			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1127			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1128			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1129			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1130			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1131
1132			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1133			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1134			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1135
1136			Ich will R A C H E !
1137
1138			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1139			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1140			Dinge zu sagen:
1141
1142			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1143
1144			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1145			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1146			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1147			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1148			anfange.
1149
1150			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1151			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1152			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1153			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1154			dieser verdammten schule!
1155
1156			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1157			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1158
1159			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1160
1161			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1162			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1163			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1164			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1165			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1166			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1167			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1168			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1169			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1170			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1171
1172			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1173			Einschulung.
1174
1175			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1176			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1177			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1178			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1179			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1180			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1181			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1182			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1183			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1184			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1185
1186			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1187			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1188
1189			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1190			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1191			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1192			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1193			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1194			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1195			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1196			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1197
1198			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1199			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1200			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1201			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1202			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1203			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1204			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1205			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1206
1207			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1208			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1209
1210			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1211			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1212			Hand genommen.
1213
1214			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1215			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1216
1217			Ich bin weg...
1218			%
1219			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1220			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1221			%
1222	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1223			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1224			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1225			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1226	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1227			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1228			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1229			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1230			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1231			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1232			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1233			%
1234			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1235			%
1236			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1237			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1238
1239			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1240			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1241			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1242			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1243			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1244			%
1245			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1246			%
1247			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1248			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1249			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1250			%
1251			[very funny read]
1252			Hack-a-Bike
1253			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1254			%
1255			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1256			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1257			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1258			still can.
1259
1260			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1261			%
1262	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1263			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1264	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1265			%
1266			[without words]
1267			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1268			%
1269			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1270			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1271			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1272			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1273			actual kid in an actual bath.
1274			%
1275			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1276			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1277			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1278			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1279			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1280			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1281			what happened to you.
1282			%
1283	root	1.432	--
1284	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1285
1286			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1287			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1288			%
1289			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1290	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1291			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1292	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1293
1294			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1295			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1296			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1297			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1298			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1299
1300			- Ted
1301			%
1302			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1303			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1304			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1305			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1306			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1307			me, but we have the truth!"
1308			%
1309			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1310			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1311			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1312			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1313			%
1314			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1315			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1316			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1317			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1318			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1319			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1320			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1321			genociding every monster.
1322
1323			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1324			genocide them for good measure!
1325			%%
1326			[nethack instadeath faq]
1327
1328			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1329
1330			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1331			%
1332			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1333			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1334	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1335	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1336			17:58 <Murch> lol
1337			%
1338			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1339			%
1340			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1341			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1342			%
1343			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1344			%
1345			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1346
1347			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1348			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1349			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1350			%
1351			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1352
1353			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1354			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1355			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1356			the Eastern Time Zone.
1357			[...]
1358			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1359			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1360			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1361			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1362			%
1363			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1364
1365			_dl_profile_output
1366			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1367			%
1368			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1369			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1370			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1371			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1372			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1373			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1374			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1375
1376			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1377			%
1378			[famous last words]
1379			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1380			%
1381			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1382
1383			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1384
1385			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1386
1387			--
1388			Jay Hennigan
1389			%
1390			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1391			%
1392			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1393			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1394			of homeland security]
1395			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1396			%
1397			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1398	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1399	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1400			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1401			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1402			range of spyware available to us?"
1403
1404			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1405			%
1406			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1407			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1408			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1409			%
1410	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1411	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1412			%
1413			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1414			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1415			%
1416			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1417			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1418			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1419			shooter.
1420
1421			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1422			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1423			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1424			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1425			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1426			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1427
1428			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1429			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1430			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1431			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1432			way.
1433
1434			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1435			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1436			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1437
1438			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1439			%
1440			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1441			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1442			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1443			> above comment about Hitler).
1444
1445			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1446			mention Hitler loses.
1447			%
1448			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1449			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1450			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1451			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1452			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1453			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1454			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1455			including <windows.h>.
1456			[...]
1457			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1458			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1459			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1460			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1461			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1462			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1463			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1464			environments.
1465			%
1466			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1467			%
1468			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1469			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1470			%
1471			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1472			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1473			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1474			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1475			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1476			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1477			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1478			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1479			companies want to own your computer.
1480
1481			Some examples:
1482
1483			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1484			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1485			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1486			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1487			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1488			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1489			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1490			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1491			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1492	root	1.432
1493	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1494			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1495			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1496			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1497			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1498
1499			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1500			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1501			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1502			from Microsoft? You can't.
1503
1504			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1505			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1506			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1507			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1508			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1509			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1510			adversely affect its business partners.
1511
1512			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1513			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1514			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1515			about your behavior.
1516
1517			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1518			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1519			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1520			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1521			presumed infractions.
1522
1523			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1524			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1525			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1526
1527			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1528			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1529			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1530			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1531			user's device against him.
1532			[...]
1533			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1534			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1535			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1536			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1537			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1538			back-room marketing deals.
1539			%
1540			[John Carmack on Java]
1541			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1542			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1543			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1544			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1545			performance.
1546			%
1547			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1548
1549			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1550			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1551			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1552			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1553			%
1554			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1555			%
1556			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1557			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1558			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1559			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1560			%
1561			http://funroll-loops.org/
1562			%
1563			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1564			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1565			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1566			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1567			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1568			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1569			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1570			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1571			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1572			Fahrenheit documentation.
1573			%
1574			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1575			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1576			sure its much slower than CVS]
1577			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1578			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1579			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1580	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1581	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1582			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1583	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1584	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1585			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1586	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1587	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1588			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1589			%
1590	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1591
1592			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1593			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1594	root	1.431	%
1595	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1596
1597			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1598			> systems ?
1599
1600			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1601			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1602
1603			Jesper
1604			%
1605	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1606
1607			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1608			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1609
1610	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1611	root	1.429	%
1612	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1613			%
1614	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1615
1616			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1617			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1618			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1619			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1620			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1621			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1622			but that's the truth.
1623			%
1624	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1625
1626			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1627
1628	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1629			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1630			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1631			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1632	root	1.424
1633			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1634	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1635			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1636	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1637
1638			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1639			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1640	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1641	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1642			in Richtung Boden.
1643
1644			[...]
1645
1646	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1647	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1648	root	1.424
1649			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1650	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1651	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1652
1653			[...]
1654
1655			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1656	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1657	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1658	root	1.424
1659			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1660	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1661			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1662			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1663	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1664			sofort.
1665			%
1666	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1667			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1668			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1669			software from Microsoft.)
1670	root	1.424	%
1671	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1672	root	1.424	%
1673	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1674
1675			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1676			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1677			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
1678			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
1679	root	1.424	%
1680	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
1681	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
1682	root	1.424	%
1683	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
1684			From: Rodrigo Severo
1685			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
1686			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
1687
1688			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
1689
1690			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
1691			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
1692			obviously-broken regulations like this.
1693
1694			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
1695			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
1696			brazilian ;)
1697			Rodrigo Severo
1698	root	1.424	%
1699	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
1700	root	1.417
1701			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
1702	root	1.424	%
1703	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
1704
1705			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
1706
1707			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
1708
1709			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
1710			squid (in mostly default debian config).
1711
1712			sigh
1713	root	1.424	%
1714	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
1715			By Bertrand Russell
1716
1717			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
1718			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
1719			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
1720			might be set forth as follows:
1721
1722			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
1723
1724			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
1725			evidence is sure to come to light.
1726
1727			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
1728
1729			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
1730			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
1731			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
1732
1733			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
1734			contrary authorities to be found.
1735
1736			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
1737			do the opinions will suppress you.
1738
1739			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
1740			was once eccentric.
1741
1742			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
1743			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
1744			agreement than the latter.
1745
1746			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
1747			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
1748
1749			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
1750			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
1751
1752			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
1753			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
1754	root	1.424	%
1755	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
1756	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
1757			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
1758			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
1759
1760			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
1761			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
1762			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
1763			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
1764			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
1765			United States."
1766	root	1.413	---
1767			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
1768			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
1769			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
1770	root	1.414	---
1771			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
1772			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
1773			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
1774			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
1775			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
1776
1777			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
1778			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
1779	root	1.424	%
1780	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
1781			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
1782	root	1.424	%
1783	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
1784
1785			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
1786			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
1787
1788			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
1789			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
1790
1791			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
1792
1793			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
1794			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
1795	root	1.424	%
1796	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
1797			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
1798	root	1.424	%
1799	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
1800			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
1801			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
1802			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
1803			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
1804			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
1805	root	1.424	%
1806	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
1807
1808			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
1809			they care about it?"
1810			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
1811	root	1.407
1812			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
1813	root	1.424	%
1814	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
1815			-- Gregory Chaitin
1816	root	1.424	%
1817	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
1818	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
1819			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
1820			[...]
1821	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
1822			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
1823	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
1824	root	1.424	%
1825	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
1826			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
1827			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
1828			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
1829			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
1830			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
1831	root	1.424	%
1832	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
1833
1834			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
1835	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
1836			return 0;
1837	root	1.424	%
1838	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
1839	root	1.401
1840			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
1841			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
1842			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
1843			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
1844			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
1845			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
1846			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
1847			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
1848			> transparent.
1849
1850			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
1851			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
1852			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
1853			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
1854	root	1.424	%
1855	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
1856			aber falsche Lösungen.
1857	root	1.424	%
1858	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
1859			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
1860			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
1861			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
1862	root	1.424	%
1863	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
1864			>
1865			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
1866			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
1867			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
1868			> than useful to the user.
1869
1870			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
1871
1872			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
1873			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
1874			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
1875			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
1876
1877			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
1878
1879			Linus
1880	root	1.424	%
1881	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
1882			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
1883			setzer [?]: what about 9d
1884			theodore [22k?]: they control it
1885	root	1.424	%
1886	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
1887			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
1888
1889	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
1890	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
1891			--
1892			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
1893
1894			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
1895	root	1.424	%
1896	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
1897			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
1898
1899			Person: What do you do?
1900			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
1901			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
1902
1903			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
1904			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
1905			exactly getting off on the right foot.
1906	root	1.394
1907			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
1908			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
1909	root	1.424	%
1910	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
1911			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
1912			illegal downloaders."
1913
1914			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
1915
1916			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
1917			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
1918			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
1919			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
1920			have to emerge."
1921
1922			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
1923	root	1.424	%
1924	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
1925	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
1926
1927			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
1928			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
1929
1930			Bye, Andy
1931	root	1.424	%
1932	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
1933	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
1934	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
1935	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
1936	root	1.390
1937			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
1938			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
1939			System, die das wegstrippen :(
1940			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
1941			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
1942			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
1943			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
1944			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
1945			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
1946			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
1947			alle Benutzer.
1948			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
1949			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
1950			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
1951			probieren (bis es knallt)?
1952			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
1953			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
1954			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
1955			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
1956			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
1957			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
1958			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
1959	root	1.424	%
1960	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
1961
1962			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
1963			svn: Working copy '.' locked
1964			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
1965			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
1966			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
1967			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
1968			svn: Working copy '.' locked
1969			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
1970			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
1971			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
1972			unfinished operations, etc.
1973			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
1974
1975			Valid options:
1976			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
1977			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
1978
1979			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
1980	root	1.424	%
1981	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
1982			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
1983			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
1984			to provide.
1985			- perl6-language - michele dondi
1986	root	1.424	%
1987	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
1988
1989			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
1990			alarm people more.
1991
1992			-Nate
1993
1994			[...]
1995
1996			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
1997			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
1998			image of the language that is created here.
1999
2000			Juerd
2001
2002			[...]
2003
2004			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2005			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2006			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2007
2008	root	1.432	--
2009	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2010	root	1.387	%
2011	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2012	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2013	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2014			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2015	root	1.387	%
2016	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2017			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2018	root	1.387	%
2019	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2020			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2021	root	1.387	%
2022	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2023			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2024			[...]
2025			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2026			"Windows is broken."
2027	root	1.387	%
2028	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2029			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2030			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2031	root	1.387	%
2032	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2033			on being able to kill their children legally]
2034			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2035	root	1.387	%
2036	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2037			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2038			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2039	root	1.387	%
2040	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2041			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2042			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2043			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2044			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2045			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2046	root	1.378	--
2047			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2048			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2049			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2050			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2051			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2052			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2053			wasteful government spending."
2054	root	1.387	%
2055	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2056			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2057	root	1.387	%
2058	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2059			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2060	root	1.387	%
2061	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2062			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2063	root	1.387	%
2064	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2065			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2066	root	1.387	%
2067	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2068	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2069	root	1.387	%
2070	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2071			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2072	root	1.387	%
2073	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2074			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2075	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2076	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2077			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2078	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2079	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> The decision by a three-judge panel was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who sources have said is under
2080			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2081	root	1.387	%
2082	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2083			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2084	root	1.387	%
2085	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2086			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2087			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2088			their weapons over our heads."
2089			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2090	root	1.387	%
2091	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2092			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2093	root	1.387	%
2094	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2095			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2096			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2097			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2098			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2099	root	1.387	%
2100	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2101	root	1.387	%
2102	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2103			several requests for clarification.
2104
2105			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2106			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2107			unter TCG definitions.
2108	root	1.387	%
2109	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2110			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2111			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2112			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2113	root	1.387	%
2114	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2115			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2116			get people on board.
2117			%
2118	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2119			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2120			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2121			DRM.
2122
2123			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2124			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2125	root	1.387	%
2126	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2127			switch ($decade) {
2128			case "the 50's":
2129			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2130			break;
2131			case "the 60's":
2132			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2133			break;
2134			case "the 70's":
2135			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2136			break;
2137			case "the 80's":
2138			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2139			break;
2140			case "the 90's":
2141			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2142			break;
2143			case "the 00's":
2144			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2145			break;
2146			}
2147	root	1.387	%
2148	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2149
2150			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2151			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2152			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2153			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2154
2155			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2156			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2157			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2158
2159			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2160			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2161			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2162			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2163			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2164			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2165			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2166			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2167			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2168			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2169	root	1.387	%
2170	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2171			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2172			married or unmarried."
2173
2174			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2175			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2176			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2177			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2178			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2179	root	1.387	%
2180	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2181
2182			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2183			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2184			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2185			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2186			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2187			conditioning.
2188
2189			[And this is religion at its best:]
2190			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2191			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2192			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2193	root	1.387	%
2194	root	1.361	[Racism]
2195			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2196	root	1.387	%
2197	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2198			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2199	root	1.387	%
2200	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2201			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2202
2203			I apologise for this.
2204
2205			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2206			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2207	root	1.387	%
2208	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2209			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2210			el says: ich kenn da wen
2211			el says: bei dem wars so
2212			[...]
2213			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2214			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2215			el says: gehirntumor auch
2216			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2217	root	1.387	%
2218	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2219	root	1.387	%
2220	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2221			no sense in the kernel]
2222			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2223
2224			[...]
2225
2226			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2227			models.
2228
2229			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2230			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2231			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2232	root	1.387	%
2233	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2234			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2235			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2236			--
2237			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2238	root	1.355	--
2239			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2240			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2241			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2242			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2243	root	1.387	%
2244	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2245			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2246			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2247			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2248			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2249			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2250			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2251			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2252	root	1.387	%
2253	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2254			which you currently do not posess]
2255			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2256	root	1.387	%
2257	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2258			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2259	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2260	root	1.387	%
2261	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2262	root	1.387	%
2263	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2264			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2265	root	1.387	%
2266	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2267			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2268			paragraphs.
2269	root	1.387	%
2270	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2271			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2272			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2273	root	1.387	%
2274	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2275			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2276
2277			Most catholics aren't American.
2278	root	1.387	%
2279	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2280
2281			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2282			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2283			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2284			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2285			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2286
2287			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2288			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2289	root	1.387	%
2290	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2291			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2292			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2293			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2294			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2295			criminals."
2296	root	1.387	%
2297	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2298			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2299	root	1.387	%
2300	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2301			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2302	root	1.387	%
2303	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2304			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2305	root	1.387	%
2306	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2307			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2308			card (They went up in flames).
2309	root	1.387	%
2310	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2311			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2312			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2313			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2314	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2315	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2316	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2317	root	1.387	%
2318	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2319			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2320			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2321
2322			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2323
2324			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2325	root	1.387	%
2326	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2327			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2328			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2329			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2330			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2331			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2332			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2333			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2334			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2335			--
2336			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2337			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2338			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2339			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2340			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2341			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2342	root	1.387	%
2343	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2344			The Obfuscated V contest
2345	root	1.387	%
2346	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2347			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2348			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2349			cigarette lighters."
2350			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2351	root	1.387	%
2352	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2353			Does it run under Windows ?
2354			- Who cares?
2355	root	1.387	%
2356	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2357	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2358	root	1.387	%
2359	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2360			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2361			[...]
2362			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2363			[...]
2364			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2365			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2366			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2367	root	1.387	%
2368	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2369	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2370			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2371			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2372	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2373	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2374	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2375	root	1.330	> mehr!
2376			> richy.
2377
2378			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2379	root	1.387	%
2380	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2381	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2382			> zugetragen hat?
2383
2384			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2385			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2386	root	1.388	[später]
2387			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2388	root	1.329
2389			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2390			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2391			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2392			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2393			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2394
2395			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2396
2397			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2398			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2399			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2400	root	1.387	%
2401	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2402	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2403			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2404	root	1.387	%
2405	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2406			/* give the hook another try */
2407			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2408			break;
2409	root	1.387	%
2410	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2411	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2412	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2413			#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))
2414	root	1.387	%
2415	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2416	root	1.387	%
2417	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2418	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2419	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2420	root	1.432	>
2421			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2422			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2423	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2424	root	1.432	>
2425			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2426			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2427	root	1.324	> as TO).
2428	root	1.432	>
2429	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2430
2431			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2432			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2433			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2434			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2435			being discourteous to.
2436
2437			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2438			--
2439			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2440	root	1.387	%
2441	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2442	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2443	root	1.387	%
2444	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2445			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2446			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2447			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2448			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2449	root	1.387	%
2450	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2451			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2452			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2453			you don't have any'."
2454	root	1.323
2455			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2456			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2457			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2458			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2459	root	1.387	%
2460	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2461			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2462			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2463			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2464	root	1.387	%
2465	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2466			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2467			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2468			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2469			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2470			reason will not win many fans.
2471
2472			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2473			documents in the algorithm section]
2474	root	1.387	%
2475	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2476			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2477			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2478			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2479			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2480
2481			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2482	root	1.387	%
2483	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2484			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2485			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2486	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2487	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2488			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2489	root	1.387	%
2490	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2491	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2492	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2493	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2494			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2495	root	1.387	%
2496	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2497			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2498			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2499			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2500			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2501			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2502	root	1.387	%
2503	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2504			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2505	root	1.387	%
2506	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2507	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2508	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2509			* at their price list.
2510	root	1.387	%
2511	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2512			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2513			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2514			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2515			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2516			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2517			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2518	root	1.387	%
2519	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2520			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2521	root	1.387	%
2522	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2523			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2524			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2525			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2526	root	1.387	%
2527	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2528	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2529	root	1.387	%
2530	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2531			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2532	root	1.387	%
2533	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2534	root	1.387	%
2535	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2536			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2537			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2538			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2539			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2540			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2541			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2542			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2543	root	1.387	%
2544	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2545			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2546	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2547	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2548	root	1.387	%
2549	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2550	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2551	root	1.387	%
2552	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2553	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2554			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2555			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2556	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2557
2558			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2559
2560			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2561			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2562	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2563	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2564
2565			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2566
2567			[usw.]
2568
2569			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2570	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2571	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2572
2573			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2574			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2575			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2576			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2577			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2578	root	1.387	%
2579	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2580	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2581			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2582	root	1.387	%
2583	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2584			Which fanboy are you?
2585
2586			1. Windows
2587
2588			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2589			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2590			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2591			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2592			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2593			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2594			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2595			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2596			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2597
2598			2. Apple
2599
2600			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2601			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2602			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2603			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2604			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2605			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2606			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2607			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2608
2609			3. Linspire
2610
2611			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2612			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2613			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2614			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2615			installed Linspire on your machine.
2616
2617			4. Umbongo
2618
2619			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2620			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2621			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2622			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2623			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2624			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2625			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2626			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2627			themselves.
2628
2629			5. Gentoy
2630
2631			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2632			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2633			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2634			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2635			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2636			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2637			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2638			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2639
2640			6. Linux From Scratch
2641
2642			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2643			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2644			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2645			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2646			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2647			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2648			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2649	root	1.387	%
2650	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2651			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2652	root	1.387	%
2653	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2654
2655			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2656			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2657
2658			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2659	root	1.387	%
2660	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2661
2662			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2663	root	1.432	>
2664	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2665	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2666	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2667			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2668			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2669	root	1.432	>
2670			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2671	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
2672	root	1.432	>
2673	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2674			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2675	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2676	root	1.387	%
2677	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
2678	root	1.387	%
2679	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
2680	root	1.387	%
2681	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
2682	root	1.387	%
2683	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
2684			show "Correspondent"]
2685	root	1.288
2686			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
2687			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
2688
2689			[so know we know who creates reality now]
2690			%
2691	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
2692			cock sucking, blowjob
2693			=> fellatio, fellation
2694			=> oral sex, head
2695			=> perversion, sexual perversion
2696			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
2697			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
2698			=> organic process, biological process
2699			=> process
2700			=> phenomenon
2701	root	1.387	%
2702	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
2703			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
2704	root	1.387	%
2705	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
2706			[slightly edited]
2707			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
2708			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
2709			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
2710			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
2711
2712			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
2713			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
2714			laws on terrorism and drugs.
2715
2716			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
2717			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
2718	root	1.387	%
2719	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
2720			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
2721	root	1.387	%
2722	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
2723	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
2724	root	1.387	%
2725	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
2726	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
2727			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
2728	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2729	root	1.387	%
2730	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
2731			- oesi
2732	root	1.387	%
2733	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
2734			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
2735	root	1.387	%
2736	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
2737	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
2738	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
2739			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
2740
2741			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
2742			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
2743			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
2744			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
2745			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
2746			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
2747			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
2748			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
2749			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
2750			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
2751			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
2752			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
2753			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
2754			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
2755			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
2756			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
2757			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
2758			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
2759			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
2760			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
2761			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
2762			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
2763			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
2764			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
2765
2766			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
2767			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
2768			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
2769			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
2770			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
2771
2772			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
2773			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
2774			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
2775			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
2776			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
2777			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
2778			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
2779			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
2780			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
2781			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
2782			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
2783
2784			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
2785			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
2786			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
2787			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
2788			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
2789			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
2790			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
2791			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
2792			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
2793			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
2794			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
2795			sovereign nation.
2796
2797			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
2798			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
2799			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
2800			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
2801			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
2802			CSPAN, don't post here.
2803
2804			-scott
2805	root	1.387	%
2806	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
2807			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
2808			capacity to feel pain.
2809
2810			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
2811			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
2812	root	1.387	%
2813	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
2814			From: Sven Neumann
2815
2816			Hi,
2817
2818	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
2819	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
2820	root	1.273
2821			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
2822			that
2823
2824			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
2825
2826			does not do what you would expect it to do.
2827	root	1.387	%
2828	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
2829	root	1.272	the original comment says:
2830			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
2831			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
2832	root	1.387	%
2833	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
2834			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
2835			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
2836			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
2837			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
2838			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
2839	root	1.387	%
2840	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
2841	root	1.270	interesting read]
2842			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
2843	root	1.387	%
2844	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
2845			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
2846			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
2847	root	1.387	%
2848	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
2849			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
2850			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
2851			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
2852			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
2853			locks can open the gate.
2854
2855			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
2856			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
2857			with different locks in parallel and in series.
2858	root	1.387	%
2859	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
2860			Safecracking for the computer scientist
2861	root	1.387	%
2862	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
2863
2864			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
2865
2866			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
2867			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
2868			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
2869			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
2870			explanation of this.
2871
2872			Theory: An explanation of an observation
2873
2874			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
2875			which explains why the hammer falls.
2876
2877			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
2878			how a population's genome can change over time.
2879
2880	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
2881			mathematical relationship between two values.
2882	root	1.265
2883			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
2884			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
2885
2886			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
2887			acceleration.
2888
2889			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
2890			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
2891			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
2892			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
2893			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
2894			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
2895			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
2896			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
2897			false.
2898
2899			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
2900	root	1.387	%
2901	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
2902	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
2903
2904			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
2905			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
2906	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
2907			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
2908			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
2909	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
2910
2911	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
2912			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
2913			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
2914			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
2915			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
2916			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
2917			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
2918	root	1.264
2919			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
2920	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
2921			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
2922			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
2923			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
2924	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
2925	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
2926	root	1.264	sportlich.
2927
2928	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
2929			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
2930			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
2931			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
2932			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
2933	root	1.264
2934	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
2935	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
2936	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
2937			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
2938	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
2939
2940			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
2941			Forscher.
2942	root	1.387	%
2943	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
2944			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
2945			EULA-style license]
2946	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
2947	root	1.387	%
2948	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
2949			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
2950			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
2951			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
2952			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
2953			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
2954			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
2955	root	1.387	%
2956	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
2957	root	1.387	%
2958	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
2959			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
2960			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
2961			00:24 <schmorp> re
2962	root	1.387	%
2963	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
2964	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
2965			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
2966	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
2967			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
2968	root	1.387	%
2969	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
2970			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
2971			proponents of such theories.]
2972			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
2973			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
2974			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
2975			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
2976			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
2977			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
2978			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
2979			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
2980			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
2981			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
2982			(below, right)."
2983	root	1.387	%
2984	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
2985			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
2986			[useful info...]
2987			http://www.snopes.com/
2988	root	1.387	%
2989	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
2990			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
2991	root	1.387	%
2992	root	1.252	[Fun!]
2993			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
2994	root	1.387	%
2995	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
2996	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
2997			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3000			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3001			#!/usr/bin/sh
3002			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3003			# All Rights Reserved
3004
3005			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3006			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3007			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3008
3009			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3010	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3011	root	1.387	%
3012	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3013			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3014			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3015	root	1.387	%
3016	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3017			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3018			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3019			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3020			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3021			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3022			#
3023			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3026	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3027			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3028			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3029	root	1.387	%
3030	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3031	root	1.387	%
3032	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3033	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3034			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3035	root	1.387	%
3036	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3037			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3038			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3039	root	1.387	%
3040	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3041	root	1.387	%
3042	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3043			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3044			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3045			that you have a problem.)
3046			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3047	root	1.387	%
3048	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3049			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3050	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3051	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3052
3053			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3054			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3055	root	1.387	%
3056	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3057			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3058
3059			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3060			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3061			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3062			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3063			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3064			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3065			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3066			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3067			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3068			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3069			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3070			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3071			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3072			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3073
3074			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3075			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3076			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3077			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3078			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3079			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3080			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3081	root	1.387	%
3082	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3083	root	1.239
3084			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3085			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3086			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3087	root	1.387	%
3088	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3089			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3090			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3091	root	1.387	%
3092	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3093
3094			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3095			;)
3096	root	1.387	%
3097	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3098			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3099			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3100			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3101
3102			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3103
3104	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3105			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3106	root	1.387	%
3107	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3108			using so many abbreviations...]
3109
3110			Hi Volker -
3111
3112			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3113	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3114			spät ...
3115	root	1.234
3116			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3117
3118			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3119
3120	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3121			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3122	root	1.234
3123	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3124	root	1.234
3125			tom
3126	root	1.247
3127	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3128	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3129	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3130	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3131	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3132	root	1.387	%
3133	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3134			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3135			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3136
3137			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3138	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3139			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3140	root	1.233	> someone else?
3141
3142			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3143			===================================================================
3144			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3145			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3146			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3147			S: 79098 Freiburg
3148			S: Germany
3149
3150			+N: Hans Reiser
3151			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3152			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3153			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3154			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3155			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3156			+S: USA
3157			+
3158			N: Joerg Reuter
3159			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3160			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3161	root	1.387	%
3162	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3163			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3164	root	1.387	%
3165	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3166			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3167	root	1.387	%
3168	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3169			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3170	root	1.387	%
3171	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3172			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3173			[...]
3174			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3175			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3176			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3177			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3178			[...]
3179			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3180			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3181			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3182			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3183	root	1.387	%
3184	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3185			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3186			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3187			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3188			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3189			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3190	root	1.387	%
3191	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3192	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3193			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3194			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3195			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3196			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3197			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3198			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3199			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3200	root	1.387	%
3201	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3202			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3203	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3204	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3205	root	1.387	%
3206	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3207			[yes, the whole thing]
3208	root	1.387	%
3209	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3210	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3211			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3212			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3213	root	1.221	>
3214			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3215
3216			We'll use a larger wall.
3217	root	1.387	%
3218	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3219			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3220			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3221			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3222
3223			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3224			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3225
3226			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3227			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3228
3229			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3230			cost.
3231			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3232	root	1.387	%
3233	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3234
3235	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3236	root	1.219
3237			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3238
3239	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3240	root	1.387	%
3241	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3242			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3243	root	1.387	%
3244	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3245			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3246	root	1.387	%
3247	root	1.215	[translated]
3248			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3249			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3250			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3251			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3252			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3253			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3254			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3255			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3256	root	1.387	%
3257	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3258			-- Lord Balfour
3259	root	1.387	%
3260	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3261	root	1.387	%
3262	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3263			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3264			him to forgive me.
3265	root	1.387	%
3266	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3267			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3268
3269			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3270	root	1.387	%
3271	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3272			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3273			get bored during the sex scenes.
3274	root	1.387	%
3275	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3276			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3277			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3278	root	1.387	%
3279	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3280			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3281			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3282			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3283			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3284			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3285	root	1.387	%
3286	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3287			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3288			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3289			HP-UX customer. [...]
3290	root	1.387	%
3291	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3292			>>
3293			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3294			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3295			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3296			>>spelled it in UC.
3297	root	1.247	>
3298			>
3299	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3300
3301			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3302	root	1.387	%
3303	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3304			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3305
3306			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3307			usage.
3308
3309			Richard
3310	root	1.387	%
3311	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3312			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3313			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3314			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3315			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3316			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3317	root	1.387	%
3318	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3319			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3320	root	1.387	%
3321	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3322	root	1.387	%
3323	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3324			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3325			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3326			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3327			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3328			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3329			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3330			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3331			existence means and implies.
3332
3333			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3334	root	1.387	%
3335	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3336			>
3337			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3338			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3339			>
3340			> You're WRONG!
3341
3342	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3343			and §7.20.3.1).
3344	root	1.387	%
3345	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3346			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3347			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3348	root	1.387	%
3349	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3350			A. It should be obvious.
3351			Q. How is it hard?
3352			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3353			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3354	root	1.387	%
3355	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3356			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3357
3358			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3359			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3360
3361			- works ok on linux
3362			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3363
3364			Any clues why?
3365			I am new to the non windows world.
3366
3367			Thanks
3368	root	1.387	%
3369	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3370			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3371			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3372			> this ?
3373
3374			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3375			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3376	root	1.387	%
3377	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3378			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3379			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3380
3381			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3382	root	1.247	>
3383			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3384			>
3385	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3386	root	1.387	%
3387	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3388			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3389
3390			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3391	root	1.387	%
3392	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3393			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3394	root	1.387	%
3395	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3396	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3397	root	1.194
3398			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3399			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3400	root	1.387	%
3401	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3402			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3403	root	1.387	%
3404	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3405	root	1.387	%
3406	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3407			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3408	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3409	root	1.387	%
3410	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3411			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3412			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3413	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3414
3415	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3416	root	1.190
3417	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3418	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3419			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3420			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3421	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3422			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3423			schützen können.
3424	root	1.387	%
3425	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3426			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3427	root	1.387	%
3428	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3429			[...]
3430	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3431	root	1.188	[...]
3432	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3433			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3434			never get your message.
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3437			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3438			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3439	root	1.387	%
3440	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3441			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3442			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3443	root	1.387	%
3444	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3445			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3446			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3447			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3448			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3449			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3450			01:15 <schmorp> g
3451			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3452	root	1.387	%
3453	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3454			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3455			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3456			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3457			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3458			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3459			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3460			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3461	root	1.387	%
3462	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3463			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3464			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3465	root	1.387	%
3466	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3467			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3468			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3469			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3470			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3471			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3472			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3473	root	1.387	%
3474	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3475			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3476	root	1.387	%
3477	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3478			GNOME TERMINAL
3479			[...]
3480			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3481			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3482			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3483			[.. later]
3484			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3485			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3486			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3487	root	1.387	%
3488	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3489			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3490			/*
3491	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3492	root	1.179	*/
3493			void blip()
3494	root	1.247	{
3495	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3496			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3497			fflush(stderr);
3498	root	1.247	}
3499	root	1.387	%
3500	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3501			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3502
3503			Why not 666? :-).
3504	root	1.387	%
3505	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3506			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3507			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3508			users are clueless.
3509	root	1.387	%
3510	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3511			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3512	root	1.387	%
3513	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3514			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3515	root	1.387	%
3516	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3517			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3518	root	1.387	%
3519	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3520			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3521			and", and finally, ampersand.
3522	root	1.387	%
3523	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3524			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3525			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3526			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3527			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3528	root	1.387	%
3529	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3530			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3531			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3532			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3533			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3534	root	1.387	%
3535	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3536			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3537			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3538			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3539			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3540			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3541			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3542	root	1.387	%
3543	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3544	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3545			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3546	root	1.387	%
3547	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3548			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3549			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3550	root	1.387	%
3551	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3552	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3553	root	1.387	%
3554	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3555	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3556			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3557			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3558	root	1.167	%
3559	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3560	root	1.387	%
3561	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3562			<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
3563	root	1.387	%
3564	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3565			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3566	root	1.164	einfach :)
3567			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3568	root	1.387	%
3569	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3570			/*
3571			* Function compares two strings.
3572	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3573	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3574			*/
3575			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3576			{
3577			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3578			[...]
3579	root	1.387	%
3580	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3581	root	1.387	%
3582	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3583	root	1.387	%
3584	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3585			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3586			Get_Colours ();
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3589	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3590			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3591			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3592			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3593			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3594			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3595			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3596			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3597	root	1.161	[...]
3598			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3599			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3600			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3601			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3602			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3603	root	1.387	%
3604	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3605			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3606	root	1.387	%
3607	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3608			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3609	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3610	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3611			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3612			#endif
3613	root	1.387	%
3614	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3615			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3616			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3617	root	1.387	%
3618	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3619			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3620			>
3621			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3622
3623			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3624			--
3625			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3626	root	1.387	%
3627	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3628			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3629			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3630			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3631			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3632			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3633			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3634	root	1.387	%
3635	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3636			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3637	root	1.387	%
3638	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3639	root	1.387	%
3640	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3641			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3642			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3643			-- Robert Fisk
3644	root	1.387	%
3645	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3646			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3647	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3648			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3649	root	1.387	%
3650	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3651			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3652			high-violence culture"
3653			[...]
3654			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3655			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3656			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3657			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3658			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3659			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3660			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3661			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3662
3663			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3664			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3665	root	1.387	%
3666	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3667			Subject: Re: [...]
3668
3669			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3670
3671			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3672			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3673			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3674			> saved it :)
3675
3676			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3677			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
3678			[...]
3679	root	1.387	%
3680	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
3681			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
3682			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
3683			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
3684			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
3685
3686			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
3687			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
3688			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
3689			[...]
3690	root	1.387	%
3691	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3692	root	1.387	%
3693	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3694	root	1.387	%
3695	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3696	root	1.387	%
3697	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
3698			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
3699			claim to have decades of java experience]
3700			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
3701			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
3702			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
3703			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
3704	root	1.387	%
3705	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3706	root	1.387	%
3707	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3708	root	1.387	%
3709	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3710	root	1.387	%
3711	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
3712			[mail not to be delivered]
3713			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
3714	root	1.247	>
3715	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
3716
3717			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
3718			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
3719	root	1.387	%
3720	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
3721
3722			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
3723			>
3724			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
3725			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
3726			> >
3727			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
3728			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
3729			> > language which does support this?
3730			>
3731
3732			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
3733
3734			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
3735			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
3736			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
3737			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
3738			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
3739			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
3740	root	1.387	%
3741	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
3742			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
3743			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
3744	root	1.387	%
3745	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
3746			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
3747			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
3748
3749			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
3750			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
3751			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
3752			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
3753			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
3754
3755			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
3756			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
3757			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
3758			and thwart them that way.
3759	root	1.387	%
3760	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
3761			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
3762			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
3763			unfortunate decision.
3764	root	1.387	%
3765	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
3766	root	1.146	fest ;)
3767	root	1.387	%
3768	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
3769
3770			Last updated: - Invalid Date
3771	root	1.387	%
3772	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
3773	root	1.387	%
3774	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
3775			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
3776	root	1.387	%
3777	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
3778
3779			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
3780			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
3781			local object as a "he":
3782
3783			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
3784			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
3785			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
3786			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
3787			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
3788			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
3789			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
3790			EX-PARROT!"
3791
3792			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
3793	root	1.387	%
3794	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
3795			"pflichtpfandfrei"
3796	root	1.387	%
3797	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
3798			The police will shoot you.
3799
3800			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
3801			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
3802
3803	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
3804	root	1.387	%
3805	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
3806			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
3807			reply.
3808
3809			pls. cc my email address
3810
3811			tia
3812			pd
3813
3814
3815	root	1.247	--
3816	root	1.141	^X^C
3817			q
3818			quit
3819			:q
3820			^C
3821			end
3822			x
3823			exit
3824			ZZ
3825			^D
3826			?
3827			help
3828			shit
3829			.
3830	root	1.387	%
3831	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
3832	root	1.387	%
3833	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
3834			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
3835			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
3836			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
3837	root	1.387	%
3838	root	1.140	[I love it]
3839			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
3840			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
3841	root	1.387	%
3842	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
3843			- Douglas Adams
3844	root	1.387	%
3845	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
3846			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
3847			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
3848			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
3849
3850	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
3851			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
3852			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
3853			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
3854			their software properly.
3855	root	1.138
3856			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
3857			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
3858			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
3859			told the publication.
3860
3861	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
3862			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
3863			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
3864			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
3865			who want visibility and glory.
3866	root	1.387	%
3867	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
3868
3869			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
3870
3871			x Try not using it.
3872	root	1.387	%
3873	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
3874			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
3875			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
3876			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
3877			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
3878			had given.
3879
3880			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
3881			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
3882			person as well."
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
3885	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
3886			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
3887	root	1.387	%
3888	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
3889	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
3890	root	1.134
3891			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
3892	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
3893	root	1.135	[...]
3894	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
3895	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
3896	root	1.135	[...]
3897			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
3898			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
3899	root	1.387	%
3900	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
3901	root	1.387	%
3902	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
3903			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
3904			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
3905			-- Ulrich Drepper
3906	root	1.387	%
3907	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
3908			-- Ulrich Drepper
3909	root	1.387	%
3910	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
3911			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
3912	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
3913	root	1.387	%
3914	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
3915			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
3916			-- Ulrich Drepper
3917	root	1.387	%
3918	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
3919			-- Ulrich Drepper
3920	root	1.387	%
3921	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
3922	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
3923			zuverlässiger
3924	root	1.387	%
3925	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
3926			/*
3927			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
3928			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
3929			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
3930			*/
3931	root	1.387	%
3932	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
3933			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
3934			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
3935			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
3936			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
3937	root	1.387	%
3938	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
3939			Pirating Movies
3940
3941			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
3942			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
3943			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
3944	root	1.387	%
3945	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
3946			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
3947	root	1.387	%
3948	root	1.127	[Just funny]
3949			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
3950	root	1.387	%
3951	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
3952			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
3953			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
3954			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
3955			company's engineers would end up in jail?
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
3958			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
3959			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
3960			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
3961			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
3962
3963			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
3964			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
3965
3966			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
3967			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
3968			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
3969			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
3970			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
3971			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
3972			the first place!
3973	root	1.387	%
3974	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
3975			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
3976			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
3977	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
3978	root	1.387	%
3979	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
3980			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
3981	root	1.387	%
3982	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
3983			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
3986			platform."
3987			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
3988	root	1.387	%
3989	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
3990			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
3991			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
3992			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
3993			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
3994	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
3995	root	1.387	%
3996	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
3997			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
3998	root	1.387	%
3999	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4000			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4001			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4002			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4003			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4004			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4005			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4006			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4007			daily.
4008	root	1.387	%
4009	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4010	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4011			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4012	root	1.387	%
4013	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4014			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4015			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4016			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4017			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4018			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4019			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4020	root	1.387	%
4021	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4022	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4023	root	1.387	%
4024	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4025			[...so it must be good]
4026			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4027	root	1.387	%
4028	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4029			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4030			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4031	root	1.387	%
4032	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4033			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4034			No idea why I announce it here...
4035	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4036	root	1.387	%
4037	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4038			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4039	root	1.387	%
4040	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4041	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4042	root	1.387	%
4043	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4044			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4045			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4046			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4047			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4048
4049			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4050			Sacha.
4051	root	1.387	%
4052	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4053			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4054			desk one morning:
4055
4056			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4057
4058			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4059
4060			Employee: 123456
4061
4062			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4063			photograph of the employee.]
4064
4065			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4066			identification which has your picture on it?
4067
4068			Employee: Why would you need that?
4069
4070			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4071
4072			Employee: A picture of my face?
4073
4074			Security Guard: Yes
4075
4076			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4077
4078			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4079			compare against this one.
4080	root	1.387	%
4081	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4082			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4083			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4084	root	1.387	%
4085	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4086			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4087			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4088
4089			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4090			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4091	root	1.387	%
4092	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4095			"RV K-17"
4096	root	1.387	%
4097	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4098			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4099	root	1.387	%
4100	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4101			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4102			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4103			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4104	root	1.387	%
4105	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4106			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4107	root	1.387	%
4108	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4109	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4110			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4111	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4112	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4113			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4114	root	1.387	%
4115	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4116	root	1.387	%
4117	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4118			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4119	root	1.387	%
4120	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4121			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4122			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4123			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4124	root	1.387	%
4125	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4126			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4127			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4128			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4129			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4130			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4131			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4132			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4133			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4134			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4135			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4136			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4137			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4138			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4139			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4140			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4141			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4142			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4143			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4144	root	1.387	%
4145	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4146			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4147	root	1.387	%
4148	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4149			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4150	root	1.387	%
4151	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4152			Lester Moore,
4153			Shot in the head with a .44.
4154			No Les, no more.
4155	root	1.387	%
4156	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4157			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4158
4159			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4160			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4161	root	1.387	%
4162	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4163			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4164			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4165	root	1.387	%
4166	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4167			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4168			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4169			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4170			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4171	root	1.112	[...]
4172			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4173			[...]
4174			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4175			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4176			the result with SHA.
4177	root	1.387	%
4178	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4179	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4180			> ist!
4181	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4182			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4183	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4184	root	1.387	%
4185	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4186			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4187	root	1.387	%
4188	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4189	root	1.387	%
4190	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4191			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4192			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4193			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4194			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4195			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4196	root	1.387	%
4197	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4198			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4199	root	1.387	%
4200	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4201			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4202	root	1.387	%
4203	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4204			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4205	root	1.387	%
4206	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4207
4208			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4209			* control history, is that we should at least
4210			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4211			* "initialisation"? */
4212			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4213	root	1.387	%
4214	root	1.105	[man pem]
4215			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4216	root	1.387	%
4217	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4218
4219			/* ``If you can't do it in
4220	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4221	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4222	root	1.387	%
4223	root	1.104	[subculture]
4224	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4225			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4226	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4227
4228			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4229	root	1.424	%
4230	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4231			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4232	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4233	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4234	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4235	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4236			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4237	root	1.387	%
4238	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4239	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4240			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4241			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4242	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4243	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4244			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4245			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4248			aber wenig freude.
4249	root	1.387	%
4250	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4251			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4252			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4253			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4254			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4255			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4256			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4257			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4258			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4259			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4260	root	1.387	%
4261	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4262			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4263	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4264			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4265	root	1.387	%
4266	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4267			don't work well in practise.
4268			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4269	root	1.387	%
4270	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4271			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4272			"ready, fire, aim."
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4275			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4276			free countries like Germany [1].
4277			[...]
4278			Regards
4279			Henning
4280
4281			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4282			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4283			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4284	root	1.387	%
4285	root	1.98	[...]
4286			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4287			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4288			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4289			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4290			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4291			[...]
4292			Wolfgang Walter
4293	root	1.387	%
4294	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4295			burro: it seemed very clever
4296			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4297			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4298			burro: oops
4299			burro: accidental poetry
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4302			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4303			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4304	root	1.387	%
4305	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4306			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4307	root	1.387	%
4308	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4309			-- Oscar Wilde
4310	root	1.387	%
4311	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4312			"guilty until proven innocent"
4313			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4314	root	1.387	%
4315	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4316			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4317			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4318			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4319			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4320			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4321			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4322			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4323			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4324			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4325			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4326			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4327			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4328			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4329			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4330	root	1.387	%
4331	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4332			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4333			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4334			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4335			// suit particular needs.
4336			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4337	root	1.387	%
4338	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4339			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4340			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4341	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4342	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4343	root	1.387	%
4344	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4345			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4346	root	1.387	%
4347	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4348			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4349	root	1.387	%
4350	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4351			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4352			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4355			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4356	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4357			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4358	root	1.387	%
4359	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4360
4361			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4362			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4363			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4364			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4365			is not [...]
4366	root	1.387	%
4367	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4368	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4369			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4370	root	1.387	%
4371	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4372			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4373
4374	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4375	root	1.94
4376			GUI
4377			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4378			Globale Variable
4379	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4380	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4381			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4382			strukturiert
4383			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4384			Multithreaded
4385	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4386	root	1.94	Windows 95
4387	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4388	root	1.94	Emacs
4389	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4390			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4391			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4392	root	1.94	IPv6
4393			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4394			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4395			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4396			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4397	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4398			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4399	root	1.247	PHP
4400	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4401	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4402	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4403			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4404	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4405	root	1.94	Bunt.
4406	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4407			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4408			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4409	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4410	root	1.387	%
4411	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4412			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4413	root	1.387	%
4414	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4415	root	1.387	%
4416	root	1.93	[nah]
4417			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4418			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4419			paint dry."
4420	root	1.387	%
4421	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4422			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4423			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4424	root	1.387	%
4425	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4426	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4427			importance.
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4430			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4431			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4432			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4433
4434			You have to trust Microsoft.
4435
4436			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4437			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4438			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4439			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4440			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4441			useless chrome.
4442
4443			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4444			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4445			I'd like to trust them with.
4446	root	1.93	[...]
4447	root	1.387	%
4448	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4449			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4450			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4451			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4452			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4453	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4454	root	1.91	--------------^
4455	root	1.387	%
4456	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4457			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4458			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4459			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4460			English grammar, I assure you.
4461	root	1.387	%
4462	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4463			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4464			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4465			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4466			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4467			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4468			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4469
4470			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4471			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4472			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4473			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4474			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4475			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4476			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4477			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4478			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4479			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4480
4481			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4482			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4483			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4484			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4485
4486			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4487			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4488	root	1.387	%
4489	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4490			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4491			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4492			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4493			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4494			work etc first:
4495
4496			#include <stdio.h>
4497
4498			int main (void) {
4499			while (1)
4500			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4501
4502			return 0;
4503			}
4504	root	1.387	%
4505	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4506			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4507	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4508	root	1.387	%
4509	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4510			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4511			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4512			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4513	root	1.387	%
4514	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4515			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4516			proprietary and patentend technology.
4517	root	1.387	%
4518	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4519	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4520	root	1.387	%
4521	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4522	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4523	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4524			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4525			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4526	root	1.387	%
4527	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4528			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4529	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4530	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4531			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4532	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4533	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4534	root	1.87
4535	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4536			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4537			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4538			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4539			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4540			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4541	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4542			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4543
4544	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4545			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4546			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4547			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4548			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4549			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4550			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4551			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4552			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4553			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4554	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4555	root	1.387	%
4556	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4557			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4558	root	1.387	%
4559	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4560			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4561			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4562	root	1.387	%
4563	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4564			"linux" thing will fail]
4565			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4566			[...]
4567	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4568	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4569			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4570			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4571
4572			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4573			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4574			life to the public good.
4575
4576			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4577			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4578			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4579			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4580			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4581
4582			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4583			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4584			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4585			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4586			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4587			software to work on the linux kernel!
4588
4589			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4590			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4591			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4592			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4593			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4594	root	1.387	%
4595	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4596	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4597			[...]
4598			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4599	root	1.387	%
4600	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4601			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4602			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4603			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4604	root	1.387	%
4605	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4606	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4607			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4608			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4609			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4610			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4611	root	1.387	%
4612	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4613			-- Leonard Brandwein
4614	root	1.387	%
4615	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4616	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4617			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4618			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4619			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4620			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4621			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4622			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4623			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4624			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4625			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4626			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4627	root	1.387	%
4628	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4629			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4630	root	1.387	%
4631	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4632			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4633			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4634			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4635			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4636			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4637			jurisprudence fun?
4638			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4639	root	1.387	%
4640	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4641			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4642			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4643	root	1.84	[...]
4644	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4645	root	1.387	%
4646	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4647			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4648			- Paul Ginsparg.
4649	root	1.387	%
4650	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4651			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4652			home.":))
4653			[erm...]
4654	root	1.387	%
4655	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4656
4657	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4658	root	1.387	%
4659	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4660	root	1.387	%
4661	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4662
4663			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4664			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4665			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4666			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4669			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4670			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4671	root	1.387	%
4672	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
4673	root	1.83
4674			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4675	root	1.82
4676			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4677			to use in future emails?
4678	root	1.387	%
4679	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
4680			please?
4681
4682			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
4683			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
4684
4685	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
4686	root	1.387	%
4687	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
4688			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
4689			last until February 16th 2003.
4690
4691			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
4692			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
4693			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
4694			end.
4695
4696			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
4697
4698			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
4699			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
4700			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
4701			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
4702			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
4703			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
4704			take place on October 27th.
4705
4706			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
4707			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
4708			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
4709			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
4710			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
4711			the clock)...
4712	root	1.387	%
4713	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
4714			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
4715			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
4716			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
4717			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
4718
4719			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
4720			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
4721			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
4722			RedHat and SuSE).
4723
4724			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
4725
4726			Pavel
4727	root	1.387	%
4728	root	1.81	Rik
4729	root	1.247	--
4730	root	1.81	A: No.
4731			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
4732	root	1.387	%
4733	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
4734	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
4735			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
4736	root	1.81
4737			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
4738			no useful data.
4739
4740	root	1.247	--
4741	root	1.81	bill davidsen
4742	root	1.387	%
4743	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
4744			there was a long do..while construct,
4745			which contained a switch statement,
4746			which contained an if clause,
4747			which contained a break,
4748			which was intended for the if clause,
4749			but instead broke from the switch statement.
4750
4751			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
4752			network January 15, 1990
4753	root	1.387	%
4754	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
4755
4756	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
4757			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
4758			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
4759			violation of network policies.
4760	root	1.80
4761			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
4762
4763			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
4764			The format is as follows:
4765
4766			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
4767	root	1.387	%
4768	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
4769			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
4770			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
4771	root	1.387	%
4772	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
4773			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
4774			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
4775			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
4776			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
4777			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
4778			...
4779			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
4780			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
4781			the effort."
4782	root	1.387	%
4783	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
4784	root	1.387	%
4785	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
4786			gay people mad at me with this one...]
4787	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
4788	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
4789			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
4790	root	1.387	%
4791	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
4792	root	1.387	%
4793	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
4794	root	1.387	%
4795	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
4796			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
4797			[Albert Cahalan]
4798	root	1.387	%
4799	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
4800			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
4801			least as bad, but lesser known.
4802	root	1.387	%
4803	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
4804			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
4805			different.
4806	root	1.387	%
4807	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.
4808	root	1.387	%
4809	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
4810			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
4811	root	1.387	%
4812	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
4813			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
4814			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
4815			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
4816			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
4817			without a show.
4818	root	1.387	%
4819	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
4820	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
4821	root	1.387	%
4822	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
4823	root	1.387	%
4824	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
4825			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
4826	root	1.387	%
4827	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
4828			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
4829			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
4830	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
4831	root	1.71	going on.
4832			[...]
4833	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
4834			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
4835			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
4836	root	1.387	%
4837	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
4838			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
4839	root	1.387	%
4840	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
4841	root	1.387	%
4842	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
4843	root	1.387	%
4844	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
4845			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
4846			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
4849			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
4850			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
4851			returned data.
4852
4853	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
4854			FindExInfoStandard
4855			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
4856	root	1.387	%
4857	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
4858	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
4859			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
4860	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
4861	root	1.387	%
4862	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
4863			it doesn't work:]
4864			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
4865			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
4866			this MIME type as the final determination.
4867	root	1.387	%
4868	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
4869
4870			Recode 0.1.1
4871			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
4872
4873			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
4874			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
4875
4876			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
4877	root	1.387	%
4878	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
4879	root	1.387	%
4880	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
4881	root	1.387	%
4882	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4883
4884			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
4885			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
4886			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
4887			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
4888			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
4889			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
4890			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
4891			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
4892			century."
4893
4894			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
4895			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
4896			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
4897			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
4898			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
4899			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
4900			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
4901			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
4902			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
4903			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
4904			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
4905			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
4906			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
4907			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
4908
4909			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
4910			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
4911			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
4912			hilarious in light of the above.
4913			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
4914
4915			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
4916			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
4917			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
4918			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
4919			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
4920			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
4921			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
4922
4923			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
4924			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
4925			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
4926			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
4927	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
4928	root	1.387	%
4929	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
4930	root	1.387	%
4931	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
4932			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
4933	root	1.387	%
4934	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
4935			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
4936			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
4937
4938			Tony Hoare
4939	root	1.387	%
4940	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
4941			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
4942	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
4943	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
4944	root	1.387	%
4945	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
4946
4947			[...]
4948			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
4949			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
4950			system. Basically its windows computer
4951	root	1.387	%
4952	root	1.63	[go figure...]
4953	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
4954	root	1.387	%
4955	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
4956
4957			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
4958			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
4959			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
4960			> software developers...
4961
4962			Homeopathic approach to software development?
4963	root	1.387	%
4964	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
4965			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
4966			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
4967			>
4968			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
4969
4970			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
4971			badly with respect to patches, so far.
4972
4973			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
4974			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
4975
4976			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
4977			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
4978			off by throwing away the patch.
4979
4980			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
4981			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
4982			patch any time soon.
4983
4984			--
4985			Daniel
4986	root	1.387	%
4987	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
4988			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
4989			[...]
4990			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
4991			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
4992			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
4993	root	1.387	%
4994	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
4995
4996			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
4997			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
4998			Is it realy needed?
4999	root	1.387	%
5000	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5001
5002			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5003
5004			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5005			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5006			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5007	root	1.387	%
5008	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5009			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5010			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5011			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5012			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5013			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5014			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5015	root	1.387	%
5016	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5017
5018			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5019			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5020			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5021			>
5022			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5023
5024			This is an ex-parrot
5025	root	1.387	%
5026	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5027
5028			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5029			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5030			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5031			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5032			>
5033			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5034			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5035
5036			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5037
5038			while (!sorted(data))
5039			;
5040	root	1.387	%
5041	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5042			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5043
5044			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5045
5046			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5047			to computing
5048	root	1.387	%
5049	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5050
5051			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5052			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5053
5054			Common sense, one would hope.
5055	root	1.387	%
5056	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5057			[...]
5058
5059			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5060			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5061			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5062
5063			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5064
5065			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5066			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5067			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5068			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5069
5070			:-)
5071	root	1.387	%
5072	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5073			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5074			their C programs."
5075	root	1.60
5076			Robert Firth
5077	root	1.387	%
5078	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5079	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5080	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5081			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5082	root	1.387	%
5083	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5084	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5085	root	1.387	%
5086	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5087			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5088	root	1.387	%
5089	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5090	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5091	root	1.387	%
5092	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5093	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5094			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5095	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5096			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5097	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5098			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5099
5100			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5101
5102			\Gisbert
5103	root	1.387	%
5104	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5105	root	1.387	%
5106	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5107			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5108			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5109	root	1.387	%
5110	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5111			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5112
5113			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5114			[...]
5115	root	1.387	%
5116	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5117			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5118			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5119
5120			ok 1
5121			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5122			not ok 2
5123			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5124	root	1.387	%
5125	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5126
5127			Cheers,
5128
5129			Andre Hedrick
5130			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5131	root	1.387	%
5132	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5133	root	1.247	>
5134	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5135
5136			Or mutabloat :-(
5137	root	1.387	%
5138	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5139			Outlook IS the solution.
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5142	root	1.387	%
5143	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5144
5145			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5146			never bought anything from UUNet.
5147	root	1.387	%
5148	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5149			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5150			by delving below its surface meaning)
5151	root	1.387	%
5152	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5153	root	1.387	%
5154	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5155
5156			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5157			> just go to court and say:
5158
5159			Oh glorious naivety.
5160
5161			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5162			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5163			> can do the work better than I).
5164
5165			You release the code
5166
5167			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5168
5169			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5170			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5171			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5172			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5173
5174			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5175			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5176
5177			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5178			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5179
5180			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5181
5182			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5183			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5184			or that the good guys win.
5185
5186			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5187			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5188	root	1.387	%
5189	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5190
5191			[...]
5192			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5193			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5194	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5195	root	1.51	year to kill.
5196	root	1.387	%
5197	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5198			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5199
5200			[...]
5201			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5202			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5203			of for Windows desktop systems."
5204			[...]
5205			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5206			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5207			[...]
5208			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5209			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5210			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5211			turned on by default.
5212			[...]
5213			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5214			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5215			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5216			[...]
5217			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5218			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5219			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5220			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5221			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5222			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5223			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5224			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5225			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5226	root	1.387	%
5227	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5228	root	1.387	%
5229	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5230	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5231	root	1.49
5232			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5233
5234			Monday, 06. November 2000
5235	root	1.387	%
5236	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5237			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5238	root	1.387	%
5239	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5240	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5241			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5242			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5243	root	1.387	%
5244	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5245			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5246			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5247			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5250			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5251
5252			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5253			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5254			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5255	root	1.387	%
5256	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5257			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5258
5259			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5260			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5261			> dropped patches.
5262
5263			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5264	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5265	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5266			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5267			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5268			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5269	root	1.387	%
5270	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5271			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5272			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5273	root	1.387	%
5274	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5275
5276			From: Bill Huey
5277			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5278
5279			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5280
5281			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5282	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5283	root	1.45	themselves.
5284
5285			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5286			certain.
5287	root	1.387	%
5288	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5289			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5290			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5291
5292			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5293			appropriate approach to a problem.
5294	root	1.387	%
5295	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5296	root	1.44	^^^^
5297			[...]
5298			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5299			[...]
5300			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5301			-15 Nice winter day
5302			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5303			-5 Nice warm winter day
5304			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5305	root	1.387	%
5306	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5307			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5308			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5309			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5310	root	1.387	%
5311	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5312			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5313
5314			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5315
5316			-ben
5317	root	1.387	%
5318	root	1.43	[...]
5319	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5320			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5321			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5322			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5323			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5324			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5325			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5326			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5327			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5328			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5329			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5330	root	1.387	%
5331	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5332			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5333	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5334	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5335			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5336			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5337			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5338			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5339			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5340	root	1.43	statt...
5341	root	1.387	%
5342	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5343	root	1.387	%
5344	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5345			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5346			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5347			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5348			values." Who writes this stuff?
5349	root	1.387	%
5350	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5351	root	1.387	%
5352	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5353			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5354			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5355			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5356			> "Macao".
5357			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5358			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5359	root	1.387	%
5360	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5361	root	1.387	%
5362	root	1.40	Beitrag
5363	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5364	root	1.40
5365			fucklinux
5366
5367			IP: 217.83.123.198
5368
5369			1. FUCK LINUX
5370
5371	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5372	root	1.40
5373			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5374	root	1.387	%
5375	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5376	root	1.40
5377			[...]
5378			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5379			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5380			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5381			read...
5382	root	1.387	%
5383	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5384			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5385			depends on the unreasonable man.
5386
5387			-George Bernard Shaw
5388	root	1.387	%
5389	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5390
5391			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5392	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5393	root	1.387	%
5394	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:
5395	root	1.387	%
5396	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
5397			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5398			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5399			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5400			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5401	root	1.387	%
5402	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5403			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5404	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5405	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5406			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5407	root	1.387	%
5408	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5409			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5410			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5411			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5412			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5413			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5414			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5415			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).
5416			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5417			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5418	root	1.387	%
5419	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5420			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5421			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5422			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5423			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5424			removed in Windows XP.
5425
5426			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5427			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5428			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5429			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5430	root	1.387	%
5431	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5432			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5433			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5434			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5435			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5436			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5437			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5438			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5439			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5440			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5441
5442			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5443			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5444			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5445			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5446			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5447			you have no details?
5448			[...]
5449			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5450			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5451			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5452			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5453			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5454			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5455			the industrial terrorists want."
5456	root	1.387	%
5457	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5458			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5459	root	1.387	%
5460	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5461	root	1.387	%
5462	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5463			of each 50 days
5464	root	1.387	%
5465	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5466
5467			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5468			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5469			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5470	root	1.387	%
5471	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5472			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5473			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5474	root	1.387	%
5475	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5476			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5477	root	1.247	>
5478	root	1.35	> <...>
5479			>
5480			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5481			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5482			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5483	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5484	root	1.387	%
5485	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5486			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5487			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5488	root	1.387	%
5489	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5490			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5491			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5492
5493	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5494			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5495			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5496			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5497			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5498			changing run level, interactive boot.
5499	root	1.35
5500			Alan
5501	root	1.387	%
5502	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5503
5504			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5505			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5506
5507			First they came for the Communists,
5508			and I didn't speak up,
5509			because I wasn't a Communist.
5510			Then they came for the Jews,
5511			and I didn't speak up,
5512			because I wasn't a Jew.
5513			Then they came for the Catholics,
5514			and I didn't speak up,
5515			because I was a Protestant.
5516			Then they came for me,
5517			and by that time there was no one
5518			left to speak up for me.
5519
5520			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5521	root	1.387	%
5522	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5523	root	1.387	%
5524	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5525			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5526	root	1.387	%
5527	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5528			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5529			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5530			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5531
5532			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5533	root	1.387	%
5534	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5535
5536			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5537			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5538			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5539			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5540			used databases!"
5541	root	1.387	%
5542	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5543
5544			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5545
5546			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5547			change that was not?
5548			[...]
5549	root	1.387	%
5550	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5551
5552			[...]
5553
5554	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5555	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5556			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5557
5558	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5559	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5560			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5561			them anywhere else").
5562
5563			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5564			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5565	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5566	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5567			order..
5568
5569	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5570	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5573			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5574			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5575
5576			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5577	root	1.387	%
5578	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5579	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5580			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5581			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5582			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5583	root	1.387	%
5584	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5585			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5586
5587			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5588			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5589			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5590			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5591			series.
5592
5593			[...]
5594	root	1.387	%
5595	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5596	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5597	root	1.387	%
5598	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5599			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5600			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5601
5602			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5603			then save." g
5604
5605			/* Steinar */
5606	root	1.387	%
5607	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5608			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5609
5610			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5611			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5612			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5613			a bill...
5614	root	1.387	%
5615	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5616			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5617			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5618
5619			Sorry. Mea culpa
5620
5621			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5622			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5623			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5624			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5625			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5626			*/
5627			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5628			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5629			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5630			int fpu_exception;
5631	root	1.387	%
5632	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5633
5634			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5635
5636			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5637			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5638			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5639			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5640			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5641	root	1.387	%
5642	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5643
5644			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5645			people.
5646	root	1.387	%
5647	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5648			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5649
5650			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5651			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5652			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5653			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5654			the question.
5655			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5656	root	1.387	%
5657	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5658			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5659			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5660			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5661			(September)
5662	root	1.387	%
5663	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5664	root	1.387	%
5665	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5666			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5667			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5668			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5669			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5670	root	1.387	%
5671	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5672			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5673	root	1.387	%
5674	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5675			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5676			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5677			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
5678			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
5679	root	1.387	%
5680	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
5681	root	1.387	%
5682	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
5683	root	1.387	%
5684	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
5685			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
5686			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
5687			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
5688			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
5689			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
5690			you tell them.
5691	root	1.387	%
5692	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
5693			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
5694			alcohol.
5695
5696			Regards
5697			Henning
5698	root	1.387	%
5699	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
5700			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
5701			> on a desktop system.
5702
5703			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
5704			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
5705
5706			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
5707			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
5708
5709			Alan
5710	root	1.387	%
5711	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
5712			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
5713
5714			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
5715			>
5716			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
5717			> Use Welsh
5718
5719			Don't forget
5720
5721			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
5722			Use Finnish
5723
5724			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
5725
5726			And while we're at it,
5727
5728			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
5729			Use German
5730
5731			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
5732			Use English
5733
5734			MfG Kai
5735	root	1.387	%
5736	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
5737
5738			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
5739			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
5740			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
5741			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
5742			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
5743			there's no one thinking there.
5744			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
5745	root	1.387	%
5746	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
5747			scores the rules:
5748
5749			[*]
5750			Score:: =-9999
5751	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
5752	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
5753			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
5754			X-Mailer: Mozilla
5755			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
5756
5757			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
5758			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
5759			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
5760			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
5761			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
5762
5763			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
5764			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
5765			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
5766			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
5769			98 IIS servers online...
5770	root	1.387	%
5771	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
5772			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
5773			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
5774			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
5775
5776			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
5777			it to be otherwise.
5778
5779			Abigail
5780	root	1.387	%
5781	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
5782	root	1.387	%
5783	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
5784	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
5785	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
5786	root	1.387	%
5787	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
5788	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
5789	root	1.387	%
5790	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
5791			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
5792			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
5793			software people doing the same)
5794
5795			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
5796			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
5797			irrelevant
5798
5799			Alan
5800	root	1.387	%
5801	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
5802			Comments may nest.
5803	root	1.387	%
5804	root	1.22	[from findas]
5805			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
5806			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
5807			# b) the database format is nonparsable
5808			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
5809			# of course, the only source to find out about global
5810			# address distributino is... arin.
5811	root	1.387	%
5812	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
5813			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
5814	root	1.387	%
5815	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
5816			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
5817			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
5818			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
5819			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
5820	root	1.247	>
5821	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
5822
5823			$foot->insert($mouth);
5824
5825			# or is that
5826
5827			$mouth->insert($foot);
5828
5829			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
5830			How utterly optimistic :-)
5831	root	1.387	%
5832	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
5833			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
5834			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
5835			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
5836			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
5837			>can see why it happens)
5838			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
5839
5840			Well, there's perl... :)
5841	root	1.387	%
5842	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
5843			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
5844			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
5845			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
5846			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
5847	root	1.247	* boxes.
5848	root	1.387	%
5849	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
5850			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
5851			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
5852	root	1.387	%
5853	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
5854			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
5855	root	1.387	%
5856	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
5857			From: Juergen Christoffel
5858			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
5859			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
5860
5861			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
5862
5863			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
5864			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
5865			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
5866			schon;
5867
5868			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
5869			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
5870			auch mehr zum faedeln.
5871
5872			Danke, JC
5873	root	1.387	%
5874	root	1.19	[perl.c]
5875			#undef REASONABLE
5876	root	1.387	%
5877	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
5878			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
5879
5880			Alan
5881	root	1.387	%
5882	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
5883			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
5884			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
5885			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
5886	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
5887	root	1.18	> anything.
5888
5889			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
5890			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
5891	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
5892			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
5893	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
5894			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
5895
5896			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
5897			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
5898			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
5899			always a good idea.
5900	root	1.387	%
5901	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
5902			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
5903
5904	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
5905	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
5906	root	1.387	%
5907	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
5908			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
5909			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
5910			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
5911	root	1.387	%
5912	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
5913	root	1.387	%
5914	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
5915	root	1.18
5916			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
5917			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
5918	root	1.387	%
5919	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
5920			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
5921			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
5922			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
5923	root	1.387	%
5924	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
5925	root	1.387	%
5926	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
5927			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
5928			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
5929			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
5930			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
5931			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
5932	root	1.387	%
5933	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
5934
5935			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
5936			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
5937			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
5938			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
5939			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
5940			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
5941			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
5942	root	1.387	%
5943	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
5944			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
5945			future. Bleeeh]
5946
5947			From: Larry McVoy
5948
5949	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
5950	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
5951			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
5952			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
5953			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
5954			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
5955			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
5956			not for the exceptional case.
5957	root	1.387	%
5958	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
5959			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
5960			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
5961			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
5962			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
5963			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
5964			stack.
5965
5966			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
5967			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
5968			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
5969
5970			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
5971			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
5972	root	1.387	%
5973	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
5974
5975	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
5976			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
5977			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
5978			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
5979	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
5980	root	1.247	>
5981	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
5982			> on the CPU?
5983
5984			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
5985	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
5986	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
5987			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
5988
5989			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
5990			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
5991			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
5992			the point again".
5993	root	1.387	%
5994	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
5995
5996	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
5997			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
5998	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
5999	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6000	root	1.247	>
6001	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6002			> scenario.
6003
6004			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6005	root	1.387	%
6006	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6007	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6008			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6009			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6010	root	1.387	%
6011	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6012			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6013			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6014			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6015			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6016			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6017			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6018			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6019			anything.
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6022	root	1.387	%
6023	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6024			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6025	root	1.387	%
6026	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6027			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6028			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6029			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6030			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6031
6032			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6033	root	1.387	%
6034	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6035
6036			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6037
6038			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6039			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6040			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6041			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6042			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6043
6044			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6045			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6046			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6047			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6048			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6049			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6050			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6051			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6052			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6053			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6054			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6055			to work through the learning curve.
6056	root	1.387	%
6057	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6058	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6059	root	1.387	%
6060	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6061			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6062	root	1.387	%
6063	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6064			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6065	root	1.387	%
6066	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6067			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6068	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6069			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6070	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6071	root	1.387	%
6072	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6073	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6074	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6075	root	1.387	%
6076	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6077			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6078	root	1.387	%
6079	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6080			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6081			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6082			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6083			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6084			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6085			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6086			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6087
6088	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6089	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6090	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6091	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6092			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6093
6094			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6095			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6096			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6097			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6098			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6099			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6100			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6101	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6102	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6103			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6104			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6105	root	1.387	%
6106	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6107			/*---.
6108			\| ? \|
6109			`---*/
6110	root	1.387	%
6111	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6112	root	1.387	%
6113	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6114			From: Joe Buck
6115			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6116			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6117	root	1.387	%
6118	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6119			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6120	root	1.387	%
6121	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6122	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6123	root	1.387	%
6124	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6125	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6126	root	1.387	%
6127	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6128	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6129	root	1.4	...
6130			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6131	root	1.387	%
6132	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6133	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6134			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6135			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6136
6137			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6138
6139			Alan
6140	root	1.387	%
6141	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6142	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6143			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6144			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6145			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6146	root	1.387	%
6147	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6148	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6149			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6150			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6151			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6152			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6153			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6154	root	1.387	%
6155	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6156			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6157			will find an easier way to do it.
6158	root	1.387	%
6159	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6160	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6161			Paul wrote:
6162			>Marc wrote:
6163	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6164			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6165			> den richtigen.
6166	root	1.387	%
6167	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6168			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6169	root	1.387	%
6170	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6171			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6172	root	1.387	%
6173	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6174			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6175	root	1.387	%
6176	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6177			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6178			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6179			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6180			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6181	root	1.387	%
6182	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6183			[...]
6184
6185			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6186
6187			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6188	root	1.387	%
6189	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6190			> constants.
6191
6192			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6193	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6194	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6195	root	1.387	%
6196	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6197	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6198
6199			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6200			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6201			much to do with IRC.
6202	root	1.387	%
6203	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6204			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6205
6206			[...]
6207			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6208
6209			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6210			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6211	root	1.387	%
6212	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6213	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6214	root	1.387	%
6215	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6216
6217			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6218			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6219			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6220
6221			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6222			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6223			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6224			shows how much you know, pal.
6225
6226			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6227	root	1.387	%
6228	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6229			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6230			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6231	root	1.387	%
6232	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6233			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6234			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6235			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6236	root	1.387	%
6237	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6238			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6239			Your version of perl sucks.
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6242			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6243			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6244			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6245			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6246			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6247			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6248			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6249	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6250	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6251			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6252	root	1.387	%
6253	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6254			before you can understand it :)
6255	root	1.387	%
6256	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6257			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6258			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6259	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6260	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6261			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6262			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6263
6264			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6265			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6266			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6267			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6268			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6269			be worth attempting).
6270
6271			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6272			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6273			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6274
6275			Nick.
6276	root	1.387	%
6277	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6278			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6279			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6280
6281	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6282	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6283			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6284			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6285			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6286	root	1.387	%
6287	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6288			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6289			> > > to work :-)
6290	root	1.247	> >
6291	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6292	root	1.247	>
6293	root	1.1	> Eh?
6294	root	1.247	>
6295	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6296			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6297
6298			He didn't say it worked. :)
6299	root	1.387	%
6300	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6301
6302			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6303			> I find it irksome that
6304	root	1.247	>
6305	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6306
6307			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6308	root	1.387	%
6309	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6310			From: Simon Cozens
6311
6312			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6313			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6314			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6315
6316			Looks like a feature to me.
6317	root	1.387	%
6318	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6319	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6320	root	1.387	%
6321	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6322			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6323
6324			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6325			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6326			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6327			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6328
6329			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6330			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6331			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6332			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6333			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6334			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6335	root	1.387	%
6336	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6337			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6338			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6339			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6340			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6341			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6342			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6343			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6344			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6345			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6346			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6347			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6348
6349			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6350			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6351			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6352
6353			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6354	root	1.387	%
6355	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6356			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6357			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6358			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6359			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6360			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6361			replication."
6362			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6363	root	1.387	%
6364	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6365			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6366
6367			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6368			shows.
6369
6370			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6371			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6372			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6373
6374			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6375			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6376			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6377			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6378			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6379
6380			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6381			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6382			up with a saner protocol.
6383	root	1.387	%
6384	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6385			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6386			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6387
6388			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6389			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6390			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6391	root	1.387	%
6392	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6393			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6394			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6395			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6396			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6397			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6398	root	1.387	%
6399	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6400			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6401	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6402			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6403			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6404			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6405	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6406	root	1.387	%
6407	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6408	root	1.387	%
6409	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6410			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6411	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6412	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6413	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6414	root	1.387	%
6415	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6416			"ist mir egal"
6417	root	1.387	%
6418	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6419			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6420
6421			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6424			hallole
6425	root	1.387	%
6426	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6427			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6428			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6429	root	1.387	%
6430	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6431			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6432			1929 The pause that refreshes
6433			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6434			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6435			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6436			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6437			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6438			1939 Thirst stops here
6439			1942 It's the real thing
6440			1947 Have a Coke
6441			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6442			1963 Things go better with Coke
6443			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6444			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6445			1982 Coke is it!
6446			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6447	root	1.387	%
6448	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6449			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6450	root	1.387	%
6451	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6452			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6453	root	1.387	%
6454	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6455	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6456			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6457			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6458			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6459			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6460			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6461			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6462			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6463			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6464			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6465			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6466			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6467			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6468			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6469
6470			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6471			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6472	root	1.387	%
6473	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6474			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6475
6476			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6477			uncool thing to do. [...]
6478	root	1.387	%
6479	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6480			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6481			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6484	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6485	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6486	root	1.1
6487	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6488			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6489			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6490			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6491	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6492			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6493	root	1.387	%
6494	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6495			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6496			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6497			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6498			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6499			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6500			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6501
6502			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6503			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6504			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6505	root	1.387	%
6506	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6507
6508			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6509	root	1.387	%
6510	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6511			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6512			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6513			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6514			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6515	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6516	root	1.387	%
6517	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6518			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6519			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6520
6521			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6522			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6523
6524			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6525	root	1.387	%
6526	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6527	root	1.387	%
6528	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6529			From: Alan Cox
6530			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6531			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6532	root	1.247	>
6533			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6534	root	1.1
6535	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6536	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6537	root	1.387	%
6538	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6539			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6540			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6541
6542			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6543			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6544			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6545			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6546
6547			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6548
6549			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6550	root	1.387	%
6551	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6552	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6553			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6554	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6557	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6558			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6559	root	1.387	%
6560	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6561			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6562	root	1.387	%
6563	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6564	root	1.387	%
6565	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6566			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6567			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6568	root	1.387	%
6569	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6570			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6571			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6572			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6573			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6574	root	1.387	%
6575	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6576	root	1.387	%
6577	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6578			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6579			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6580			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6581			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6582			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6583			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6586			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6587	root	1.387	%
6588	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6589			perl:]
6590
6591			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6592
6593			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6594			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6595			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6596			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6597			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6598			disable the message and pray it works"]
6599	root	1.387	%
6600	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6601			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6602			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6603			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6604
6605			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6606			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6607			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6608			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6609			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6610	root	1.387	%
6611	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6612			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6613			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6614	root	1.387	%
6615	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6616			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6617			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6618			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6619			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6620	root	1.387	%
6621	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6622			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6623			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6624	root	1.387	%
6625	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6626			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6627	root	1.387	%
6628	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6629			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6630	root	1.387	%
6631	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6632			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6633			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6634			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6635			> it's a hard requirement.
6636
6637			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6638			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6639			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6640			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6641			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6642			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6643			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6644			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6645	root	1.387	%
6646	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6647			> Netscape?"
6648	root	1.247
6649	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6650			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6651	root	1.387	%
6652	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6653			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6654			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6655			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6656			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6657			the specified task step-by-step.
6658	root	1.387	%
6659	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6660
6661			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6662			be damned hard to understand."
6663	root	1.387	%
6664	root	1.1	[Linus]
6665			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6666			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6667			wrong. It's that simple.
6668	root	1.387	%
6669	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6670	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6671	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6672			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6673			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6674	root	1.247	Undernet>
6675	root	1.387	%
6676	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
6677			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
6678			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
6679			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
6680
6681			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
6682			document that contains an element or attribute named
6683	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
6684	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
6685			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
6686			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
6687			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
6688			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
6689			now appears to have unlimited credit!
6690	root	1.387	%
6691	root	1.1	["my spam"]
6692			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
6693			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
6694			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
6695			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
6696			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
6697	root	1.387	%
6698	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
6699			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
6700			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
6701			[... snip ...]
6702			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
6703			tragedy...
6704	root	1.387	%
6705	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
6706	root	1.247
6707	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
6708			>---- A notice to spammers ----
6709			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
6710			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
6711			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
6712			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
6713			>message plus attorney's fees.
6714			[SNIP long sig]
6715	root	1.247
6716	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
6717			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
6718			all you're doing is contributing to it.
6719	root	1.247
6720	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
6721			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
6722			procmailable address.
6723	root	1.247
6724	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
6725			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
6726			just a waste of bandwidth.
6727	root	1.387	%
6728	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
6729	root	1.387	%
6730	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
6731			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
6732	root	1.387	%
6733	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
6734	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
6735	root	1.387	%
6736	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
6737	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
6738			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
6739			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
6740	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
6741	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
6742			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
6743			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
6744			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
6745	root	1.387	%
6746	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
6747	root	1.387	%
6748	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
6749	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
6750	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
6751	root	1.387	%
6752	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
6753			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
6754			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
6755			immediately and not block the calling process.
6756
6757			the man pages are wrong
6758
6759			--cw
6760	root	1.387	%
6761	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
6762			...
6763			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
6764	root	1.387	%
6765	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
6766			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
6767	root	1.387	%
6768	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
6769			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
6770			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
6771
6772			How fast does it oops?
6773	root	1.387	%
6774	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
6775
6776			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6777			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
6778			> touch is 2Gig.
6779
6780			In theory, yes.
6781			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
6782			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
6783	root	1.387	%
6784	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6785			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
6786			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
6787			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
6788			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
6789			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
6790			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
6791			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
6792			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6793			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
6794			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
6795			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
6796			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6797			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6798			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6799			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6800	root	1.387	%
6801	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
6802	root	1.387	%
6803	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
6804			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
6805			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
6806			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
6807			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
6808	root	1.387	%
6809	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
6810			[Lukas Grunwald]
6811	root	1.387	%
6812	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
6813			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
6814			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
6815			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
6816
6817			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
6818			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
6819			> > prompt.
6820			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
6821			> /proc/info/authors?
6822	root	1.247
6823	root	1.1	Grand idea.
6824			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
6825			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
6826			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
6827			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
6828			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
6829	root	1.247
6830	root	1.1	NOT.
6831			[...]
6832	root	1.387	%
6833	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
6834			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
6835			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
6836	root	1.247
6837	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
6838			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
6839			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
6840			> an interesting experiment.
6841	root	1.247
6842	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
6843			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
6844			to disagree...
6845	root	1.387	%
6846	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
6847			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
6848			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
6849			[und Lukas sagt:]
6850			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
6851	root	1.387	%
6852	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
6853			report:]
6854			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
6855			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
6856			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
6857			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
6858	root	1.387	%
6859	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
6860			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
6863			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
6864			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
6865
6866			Alexander Viro wrote:
6867			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
6868			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
6869			>
6870			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
6871			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
6872			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
6873			> UNIX.
6874
6875			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
6876			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
6877			docs... ew!
6878	root	1.387	%
6879	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
6880			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
6881			> protected mode?
6882
6883			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
6884			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
6885			registers loaded ;)
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
6888			[...]
6889			> backports hurt forward progress.
6890
6891			beware of content free dogma
6892	root	1.387	%
6893	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
6894			> wondering.
6895
6896			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
6897			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
6898			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
6899			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
6900			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
6901			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
6902			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
6903
6904			Markus [G. Kuhn]
6905	root	1.387	%
6906	root	1.1	>Keith,
6907	root	1.247	>
6908	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
6909			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
6910			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
6911
6912			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
6913			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
6914			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
6915			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
6916			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
6917			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
6918			do the right thing.
6919
6920			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
6921			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
6922			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
6923			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
6924			and they have to fix it.
6925	root	1.387	%
6926	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
6927			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
6928			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
6929			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
6930	root	1.387	%
6931	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
6932			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
6933	root	1.387	%
6934	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
6935			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
6936			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
6937			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
6938
6939			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
6940			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
6941	root	1.387	%
6942	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
6943			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
6944	root	1.387	%
6945	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
6946			glibc-2.2 was released]
6947			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
6948	root	1.387	%
6949	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
6950	root	1.387	%
6951	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
6952			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
6953			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
6956			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
6957			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
6958	root	1.387	%
6959	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
6960
6961			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
6962			standards-compliant.
6963			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
6964			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
6965			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
6966			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
6967			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
6968			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
6969	root	1.387	%
6970	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
6971			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
6972			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
6973
6974			That's your problem.
6975
6976			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
6977
6978			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
6979			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
6980	root	1.387	%
6981	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
6982			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
6983			> > out there) in the foot?
6984
6985			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
6986
6987			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
6988			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
6989			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
6990	root	1.387	%
6991	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
6992			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
6993			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
6994
6995			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
6996			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
6997			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
6998			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
6999			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7000			--
7001			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7002	root	1.387	%
7003	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7004
7005			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7006			>
7007			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7008			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7009			>
7010			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7011
7012			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7013	root	1.387	%
7014	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7015			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7016			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7017	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7018	root	1.387	%
7019	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7020			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7021			Bullschildt below ;)]
7022
7023			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7024			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7025	root	1.387	%
7026	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7027			>
7028			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7029			>
7030			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7031			>
7032			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7033	root	1.387	%
7034	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7035
7036			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7037			it did the same thing.
7038
7039			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7040			a week ago. :(
7041
7042			--Jack
7043	root	1.387	%
7044	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7045	root	1.387	%
7046	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7047			-- K&R
7048	root	1.387	%
7049	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7050	root	1.387	%
7051	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7052			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7053	root	1.387	%
7054	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7055	root	1.387	%
7056	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7057			$modules => { "" => "" };
7058	root	1.387	%
7059	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7060	root	1.387	%
7061	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7062	root	1.387	%
7063	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7064			> --
7065			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7066			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7067	root	1.387	%
7068	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7069			From: "David Schwartz"
7070
7071			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7072			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7073			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7074			> pretty spiffy.
7075
7076			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7077			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7078			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7079			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7080	root	1.387	%
7081	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7082	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7083	root	1.387	%
7084	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7085			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7086			> of having bough one.
7087
7088			Not an uncommon thought :)
7089	root	1.387	%
7090	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7091
7092			Hi Marc !
7093
7094			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7095			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7096			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7097
7098			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7099	root	1.387	%
7100	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7101			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7102			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7103			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7104
7105			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7106			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7107			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7108
7109			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7110			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7111			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7112			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7113			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7114			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7115
7116			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7117			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7118
7119			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7120			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7121			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7122			right to left.
7123
7124			>But no culture
7125			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7126			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7127			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7128			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7129			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7130
7131			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7132
7133			--Alex
7134	root	1.387	%
7135	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7136			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7137			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7138
7139			[most of the reply snipped...]
7140
7141			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7142			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7143			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7144
7145			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7146
7147			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7148			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7149			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7150			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7151			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7152
7153			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7154			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7155			try to claim that they do?)
7156	root	1.387	%
7157	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7158
7159			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7160			> {
7161			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7162			> flush(load);
7163			> else
7164			> wear(load);
7165			> }
7166
7167			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7168			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7169
7170			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7171			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7172
7173			--
7174			dwmw2
7175	root	1.387	%
7176	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7177			are are overturned.
7178	root	1.387	%
7179	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7180	root	1.387	%
7181	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7182			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7183	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7184			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7185	root	1.387	%
7186	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7187			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7188			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7189			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7190			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7191			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7192			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7193	root	1.387	%
7194	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7195			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7196			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7197
7198			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7199			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7200			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7201	root	1.387	%
7202	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7203			Deadlock, n.:
7204			Deceased Rasterman.
7205	root	1.387	%
7206	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7207			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7208			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7209			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7210	root	1.387	%
7211	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7212			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7213	root	1.387	%
7214	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7215			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7216	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7217			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7218			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7219			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7220	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7221			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7222	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7223			Positionen für unwählbar.
7224	root	1.1
7225			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7226	root	1.387	%
7227	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7228			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7229			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7230
7231			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7232
7233			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7234			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7235			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7236			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7237			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7238
7239			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7240			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7241			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7242			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7243			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7244			results simply because I make a mistake!
7245
7246			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7247			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7248			errors.
7249
7250			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7251			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7252			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7253			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7254	root	1.387	%
7255	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7256			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7257			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7258			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7259			>
7260			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7263			of nothing."
7264	root	1.387	%
7265	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7266			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7267			>
7268			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7269			> CPU?
7270
7271			Root password? :)
7272
7273			John.Fulmer
7274	root	1.387	%
7275	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7276
7277			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7278	root	1.387	%
7279	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7280			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7281			> which I prefer...
7282
7283			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7284			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7285			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7286			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7287			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7288			--
7289			Horst von Brand
7290	root	1.387	%
7291	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7292
7293			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7294
7295			[...]
7296
7297			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7298	root	1.387	%
7299	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7300			at your problem:]
7301
7302			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7303			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7304			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7305	root	1.387	%
7306	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7307			cp is inherently inefficient.
7308	root	1.387	%
7309	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7310			>breaking seals on them.
7311
7312			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7313			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7314			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7315
7316			...
7317
7318			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7319			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7320			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7321			could be just an urban myth though.
7322
7323			Russell Coker
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7326			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7327
7328			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7329	root	1.387	%
7330	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7331			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7332			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7333			> > deleting.
7334			>
7335			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7336
7337			Wrong. Yury does.
7338			:(
7339
7340			--
7341			Stefan
7342	root	1.387	%
7343	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7344			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7345			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7346			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7347			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7348			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7349			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7350
7351			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7352
7353			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7354	root	1.387	%
7355	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7356	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7357	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7358	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7359			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7360	root	1.387	%
7361	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7362			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7363			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7364			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7365			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7366			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7367			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7368			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7369			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7370			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7371	root	1.387	%
7372	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7373			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7374			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7375	root	1.1	aus!
7376	root	1.387	%
7377	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7378			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7379	root	1.387	%
7380	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7381			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7382			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7383			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7384	root	1.387	%
7385	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7386			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7387	root	1.387	%
7388	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7389			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7390			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7391			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7392
7393			--tom
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7396			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7397
7398			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7399			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7400			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7401			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7402			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7403	root	1.387	%
7404	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7405			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7406			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7407			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7408			solutions.
7409
7410			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7411
7412			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7413			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7414			the background]
7415	root	1.387	%
7416	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7417			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7418			Security Response Center:
7419
7420			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7421			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7422
7423			[and later]
7424			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7425
7426			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7427
7428			[Phil closes]
7429			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7430
7431			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7432			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7433	root	1.387	%
7434	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7435			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7436			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7437			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7438			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7439			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7440			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7441	root	1.387	%
7442	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7443			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7444			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7445			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7446
7447			[Trashey / Quasars]
7448	root	1.387	%
7449	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7450			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7451			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7452
7453			Irony potential in
7454
7455			man perlrtfm
7456
7457			is left to the reader.
7458
7459			Nat
7460	root	1.387	%
7461	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7462			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7463
7464			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7465			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7468			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7469			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7470	root	1.387	%
7471	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7472			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7473			Paul Tomblin
7474	root	1.387	%
7475	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7476			>I am morally
7477			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7478
7479			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7480			possibility...
7481
7482			Dan
7483	root	1.387	%
7484	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7485	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7486	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 :)
7487			<Mr> zugabe
7488	root	1.387	%
7489	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7490			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7491	root	1.387	%
7492	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7493			[cobol, sigh]
7494	root	1.387	%
7495	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7496			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7497			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7498			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7499			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7500			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7501			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7502			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7503
7504			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7505	root	1.387	%
7506	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7507
7508			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7509			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7510			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7511			after they regain their composure."
7512
7513			-- Paul Rinaldo
7514			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7515	root	1.387	%
7516	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7517			>
7518			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7519			>
7520			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7521
7522			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7523
7524			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7525
7526			;-}
7527
7528			--
7529
7530			ciao -
7531			Stefan
7532
7533	root	1.387	%
7534	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7535			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7536
7537			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7538			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7539			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7540			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7541			one' type remarks.
7542			[Alan Cox]
7543	root	1.387	%
7544	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7545
7546			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7547			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7548
7549			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7550	root	1.387	%
7551	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7552
7553			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7554			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7555			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7556	root	1.387	%
7557	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7558			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7559			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7560			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7561	root	1.387	%
7562	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7563			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7564
7565			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7566			is to me ok.
7567	root	1.387	%
7568	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7569
7570			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7571	root	1.387	%
7572	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7573			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7574	root	1.387	%
7575	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7576			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7577	root	1.387	%
7578	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7579			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7580			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7581
7582			Ralf
7583	root	1.387	%
7584	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7585			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7586			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7587
7588			david parsons
7589	root	1.387	%
7590	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7591			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7592
7593			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7594			>so that trick is not portable.
7595
7596			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7597			127.0.0.1 localhost
7598
7599			--tom
7600	root	1.387	%
7601	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7602			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7603			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7604			> >the question is moot.
7605			>
7606			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7607
7608			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7609
7610			Ilya
7611	root	1.387	%
7612	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7613			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7614			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7615			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7616			> trying.
7617
7618			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7619			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7620	root	1.387	%
7621	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7622			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7623			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7624			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7625	root	1.387	%
7626	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7627			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7628			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7629	root	1.387	%
7630	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7631			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7632			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7633			> blocking :-)
7634
7635			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7636			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7637			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7638			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7639			reasons.
7640
7641			DS
7642	root	1.387	%
7643	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7644	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7645	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7646	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7647	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7648
7649			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7650	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7651	root	1.387	%
7652	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7653			[...]
7654			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7655			[...]
7656
7657			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7658			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7659			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7660			with each other on the same channel.
7661
7662			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7663			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7664
7665			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7666	root	1.387	%
7667	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7668			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7669	root	1.387	%
7670	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7671	root	1.387	%
7672	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7673			ANY word at all is a candidate.
7674			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7675			ok
7676	root	1.387	%
7677	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
7678			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
7679	root	1.387	%
7680	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
7681			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
7682			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
7683			<schmorp> xach: ok.
7684			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
7685			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
7686			<Xach> burrito, focus
7687			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
7688	root	1.387	%
7689	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
7690			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
7691			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
7692			tested it." ...
7693	root	1.387	%
7694	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
7695	root	1.387	%
7696	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
7697
7698			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
7699			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
7700			>
7701			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
7702			>
7703			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
7704			>
7705			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
7706			>
7707			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
7708			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
7709			>systems.
7710
7711
7712			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
7713			had.
7714
7715			--
7716			Neal Bridges
7717	root	1.387	%
7718	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
7719
7720			> Hi folks,
7721			> 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?
7722			> please reply to
7723			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
7724			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
7725
7726			Parse error.
7727
7728			---
7729			Alex
7730	root	1.387	%
7731	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
7732
7733			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
7734			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
7735
7736			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
7737			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
7738			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
7739
7740			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
7741	root	1.387	%
7742	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
7743	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
7744	root	1.387	%
7745	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
7746			ii = 44;
7747			p = &ii;
7748			p = ii/p;
7749			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
7750			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
7751	root	1.387	%
7752	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
7753			> Linux time then.
7754
7755			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
7756
7757			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
7758			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
7759
7760			Roger.
7761	root	1.387	%
7762	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
7763	root	1.387	%
7764	root	1.1	auto accident;
7765			register voters;
7766			static electricity;
7767			struct by_lightning;
7768			void *where_prohibited;
7769			char broiled;
7770			short circuit;
7771			short changed;
7772			long johns;
7773			unsigned long letter;
7774			double entendre;
7775			double trouble;
7776			union organizer;
7777			float valve;
7778			short pants;
7779			union station;
7780			void check; unsigned check;
7781			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
7782	root	1.387	%
7783	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
7784			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
7785			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
7786	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
7787	root	1.387	%
7788	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
7789
7790			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
7791			worstation.
7792	root	1.387	%
7793	root	1.1	I wrote
7794			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
7795			$/
7796
7797			Damn shift key.
7798
7799
7800			Mike Guy
7801	root	1.387	%
7802	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
7803			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
7804			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
7805			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
7806			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
7807			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
7808			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
7809			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
7810			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
7811	root	1.387	%
7812	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
7813
7814			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
7815
7816			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
7817			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
7818			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
7819			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
7820
7821			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
7822	root	1.387	%
7823	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
7824			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
7825
7826			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
7827			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
7828			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
7829			easy to bother.
7830
7831			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
7832			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
7833			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
7834			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
7835
7836			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
7837
7838			Larry
7839	root	1.387	%
7840	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
7841			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
7842			Yeah. :-)
7843	root	1.387	%
7844	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
7845			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
7846			[...]
7847			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
7848
7849			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
7850			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
7851			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
7852			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
7853
7854			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
7855			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
7856			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
7857			receipts aren't used anymore.
7858	root	1.387	%
7859	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
7860			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
7861			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
7864			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
7865			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
7866			> versteht?"
7867	root	1.387	%
7868	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
7869			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
7870			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
7871			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
7872	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
7873	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
7874	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
7875	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
7876			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
7877			ji!
7878	root	1.387	%
7879	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
7880			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
7881			[Larry Wall]
7882	root	1.387	%
7883	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
7884			Altpreussen.
7885			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
7886			de.soc.politik.deutschland
7887	root	1.387	%
7888	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
7889			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
7890			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
7891			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
7892			>
7893	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
7894			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
7895	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
7896
7897	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
7898	root	1.1	Norbert?
7899	root	1.387	%
7900	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
7901	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
7902			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
7903	root	1.387	%
7904	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
7905	root	1.387	%
7906	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
7907	root	1.387	%
7908	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
7909			From: "Steve"
7910			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
7911			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
7912			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
7913
7914			[the following was a single line, of course]
7915			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
7916			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
7917			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
7918			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
7919			assistance would be greatly appreciated
7920
7921			Thanks,
7922
7923			Steve
7924	root	1.387	%
7925	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
7926			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
7927			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
7928			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
7929	root	1.387	%
7930	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
7931			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
7932			<tigert> ahem
7933	root	1.387	%
7934	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
7935			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
7936			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
7937	root	1.387	%
7938	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
7939			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
7940			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
7941			Subject: It's soup.
7942
7943			Okay, it's there.
7944
7945			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
7946
7947			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
7948
7949			Larry
7950	root	1.387	%
7951	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
7952	root	1.387	%
7953	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
7954			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
7955			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
7956			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
7957			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
7958	root	1.387	%
7959	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
7960			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
7961			>
7962			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
7963			> And there's no mouse.
7964			>
7965			> Abigail
7966
7967			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
7968
7969			Matt.
7970	root	1.387	%
7971	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
7972			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
7973
7974			- --tom
7975	root	1.387	%
7976	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7977			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
7978
7979			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
7980			>
7981			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
7982			> 2.2.11 release?
7983
7984			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
7985
7986			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
7987
7988			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
7989	root	1.387	%
7990	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
7993			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
7994			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
7995			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
7996			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
7997			> that much ;-)
7998
7999			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8000	root	1.387	%
8001	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8002			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8003	root	1.387	%
8004	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8005			<QUOTE>
8006			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8007
8008			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8009			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8010			</QUOTE>
8011	root	1.387	%
8012	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8013			and routes around it.
8014
8015			Roger Larsson
8016	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8017	root	1.387	%
8018	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8019			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8020	root	1.387	%
8021	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8022			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8025
8026			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8027			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8028			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8029			on different JVMs.
8030
8031			[and later]
8032
8033			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8034			adventure gaming:
8035
8036			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8037			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8038	root	1.387	%
8039	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8040			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8041
8042			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8043
8044			NK> ?? -> huh?
8045
8046			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8047
8048			<chaim>
8049	root	1.387	%
8050	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8051			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8052			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8053			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8054			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8055			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8056	root	1.387	%
8057	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8058	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8059	root	1.387	%
8060	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8061			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8062			page]
8063			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8064			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8065			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8066			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8067			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8068			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8069			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8070			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8071			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8072			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8073	root	1.387	%
8074	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8075			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8076			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8077			don't actually get anything DONE.
8078	root	1.387	%
8079	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8080			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8081			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8082			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8083	root	1.387	%
8084	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8085			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8086			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8087			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8088
8089			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8090	root	1.387	%
8091	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8092			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8093			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8094	root	1.387	%
8095	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8096			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8097			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8098	root	1.387	%
8099	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8100
8101			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8102			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8103			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8104			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8105			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8106			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8107			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8108			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8109			got the T-shirt.
8110	root	1.387	%
8111	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8112			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8113			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8114			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8115			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8116			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8117			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8118
8119			Linus writes, to Craig:
8120
8121			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8122			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8123			> thus choices than gcc.
8124
8125			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8126			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8127			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8128			far more complex than the kernel.
8129
8130			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8131			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8132
8133			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8134	root	1.387	%
8135	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8136			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8137			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8138
8139			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8140			[...]
8141			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8142			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8143			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8144			>let the user be in control.
8145
8146			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8147			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8148			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8149			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8150			compilers?
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8153			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8154
8155			Linus writes:
8156			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8157			> gcc could do better?
8158
8159			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8160			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8161			before you had so many worshippers.
8162	root	1.387	%
8163	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8164			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8165			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8166			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8167			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8168
8169			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8170
8171			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8172			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8173			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8174			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8175
8176			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8177
8178			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8179
8180			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8181			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8182
8183			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8184
8185			>:->
8186
8187			Brane
8188
8189
8190			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8191			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8192			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8193			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8194			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8195
8196
8197			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8198	root	1.387	%
8199	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8200	root	1.387	%
8201	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8202			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8203			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8204	root	1.387	%
8205	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8206			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8207			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8208	root	1.387	%
8209	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8210
8211			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8212
8213			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8214	root	1.387	%
8215	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8216			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8217			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8218			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8219
8220			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8221
8222			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8223			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8224			:
8225			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8226			:
8227			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8228			:
8229			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8230	root	1.387	%
8231	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8232	root	1.387	%
8233	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8234			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8235			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8236			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8237			>
8238			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8239			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8240
8241			The classic example:
8242
8243			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8244			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8245	root	1.387	%
8246	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8247			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8248
8249			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8250			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8251			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8252
8253			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8254
8255			--tom
8256	root	1.387	%
8257	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8258			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8259			working on something for me
8260			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8261			to me nutting concerning y ok
8262			piece
8263			russ
8264	root	1.387	%
8265	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8266
8267			pico (text editor for beginners)
8268			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8269			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8270			ed (text editor for beginners)
8271	root	1.387	%
8272	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8273
8274			use Python;
8275
8276			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8277			Except maybe faster. :-)
8278
8279			Larry
8280	root	1.387	%
8281	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8282
8283			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8284			2010.
8285
8286			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8287	root	1.387	%
8288	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8289			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8290			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8291			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8292			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8293			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8294			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8295			been created.
8296	root	1.387	%
8297	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8298			>
8299			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8300			> $3.99.
8301			>
8302			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8303			>
8304			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8305			>
8306			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8307			>
8308			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8309			>
8310			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8311			>
8312			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8313			> got integrated Coke!
8314			>
8315			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8316			> to drink the Coke.
8317			>
8318			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8319			>
8320			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8321			>
8322			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8323			> inseparable.
8324			>
8325			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8326			>
8327			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8328			>
8329			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8330			>
8331			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8332			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8333			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8334	root	1.387	%
8335	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8336			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8337	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8338	root	1.387	%
8339	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8340
8341			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8342			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8343			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8344			for you to digest this book.
8345			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8346			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8347			Join The Trickle
8348			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8349			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8350			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8351	root	1.387	%
8352	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8353			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8354			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8355			complete and utter vapourware.
8356
8357			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8358	root	1.387	%
8359	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8360
8361			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8362			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8363	root	1.387	%
8364	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8365
8366			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8367			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8368			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8369			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8370			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8371			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8372			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8373			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8374			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8375			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8376			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8377			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8378			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8379			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8380			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8381			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8382			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8383			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8384			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8385			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8386			work.
8387			[...]
8388			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8389			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8390			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8391			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8392			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8393			search generically - then it has some potential.
8394			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8395			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8396			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8397			intellectual value whatsoever.
8398
8399			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8400			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8401			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8402	root	1.387	%
8403	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8404	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8405	root	1.387	%
8406	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8407			#!/usr/bin/sh
8408			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8409			# All Rights Reserved
8410
8411			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8412			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8413			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8414
8415			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8416			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8417	root	1.387	%
8418	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.
8419	root	1.387	%
8420	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8421			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8422			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8423	root	1.387	%
8424	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8425
8426			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8427			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8428
8429			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8430			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8431			machine]
8432
8433			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8434			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8435			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8436
8437			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8438	root	1.387	%
8439	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8440			spamming:]
8441
8442			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8443			>>
8444			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8445			>>------------------------------------------------------
8446			>>
8447			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8448			>>
8449			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8450
8451			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8452			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8453	root	1.387	%
8454	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8455			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8456	root	1.387	%
8457	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8458			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8459	root	1.387	%
8460	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8461			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8462
8463			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8464	root	1.387	%
8465	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8466
8467			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8468			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8469			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8470			he's full of.
8471
8472			Support BSD/Linux.
8473
8474			--tom
8475	root	1.387	%
8476	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8477	root	1.387	%
8478	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8479	root	1.387	%
8480	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8481			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8482
8483			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8484			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8485			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8486			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8487	root	1.387	%
8488	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8489
8490			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8491			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8492	root	1.387	%
8493	root	1.1	[the creation]
8494			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8495	root	1.387	%
8496	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8497
8498			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8499			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8500			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8501	root	1.387	%
8502	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8503			selbst schliesse.
8504			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8505			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8506	root	1.387	%
8507	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8508			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8509
8510			No:
8511
8512			use Borg;
8513			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8514
8515			--
8516			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8517	root	1.387	%
8518	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8519			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8520			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8521			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8522			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8523			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8524			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8525			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8526			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8527			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8528			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8529			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8530			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8531			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8532			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8533			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8534			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8535			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8536			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8537			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8538			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8539			dispensers."
8540
8541			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8542	root	1.387	%
8543	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8544			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8545			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8546			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8547	root	1.387	%
8548	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8549			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8550			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8551	root	1.387	%
8552	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8553	root	1.1
8554			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8555	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8556	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8557	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8558	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8559			Student: "..."
8560			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8561			Student: "..."
8562			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8563	root	1.387	%
8564	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8565
8566			> Just morbid curiosity,
8567			>
8568			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8569
8570			Yes. Broken ones.
8571
8572			dgris
8573	root	1.387	%
8574	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8575			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8576	root	1.387	%
8577	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8578			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8579	root	1.387	%
8580	root	1.1	...
8581
8582			<AOL>
8583
8584			Me too!
8585
8586			</AOL>
8587
8588			Tig
8589	root	1.387	%
8590	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8591	root	1.387	%
8592	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8593	root	1.387	%
8594	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8595
8596			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8597			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8598			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8599			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8600			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8601			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8602			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8603
8604			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8605
8606			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8607			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8608			get really really pissed.
8609
8610			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8611			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8612	root	1.387	%
8613	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8614			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8615			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8616			> period.
8617			>
8618			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8619			> Nic
8620			>
8621
8622			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8623
8624			-hpa
8625	root	1.387	%
8626	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8627	root	1.387	%
8628	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8629			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8630			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8631			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8632			happy."
8633			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8634	root	1.387	%
8635	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8636			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8637			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8638
8639			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8640			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8641			I also forwarded the offending code.
8642
8643			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8644			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8645			service.
8646
8647			Daniel
8648	root	1.387	%
8649	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8650			...
8651			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8652	root	1.387	%
8653	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8654			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8655			[RJL]
8656	root	1.387	%
8657	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8658			right.''
8659	root	1.387	%
8660	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8661
8662			Amazing--they actually listened.
8663	root	1.387	%
8664	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8665			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8666			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8667
8668			# less foo
8669			sh: command not found
8670			# more foo
8671			sh: command not found
8672			# emacs foo
8673			sh: command not found
8674			# ed foo
8675			0
8676			help
8677			?
8678			quit
8679			?
8680			exit
8681			?
8682			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
8683			?
8684
8685			[Albert D. Cahalan]
8686	root	1.387	%
8687	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
8688			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
8689			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
8690
8691			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
8692
8693			tim> use blib ':quiet';
8694
8695			tim> would be most correct in style.
8696
8697			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
8698			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
8699	root	1.387	%
8700	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
8701			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
8702			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
8703			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
8704			too bad --- ]
8705	root	1.387	%
8706	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
8707	root	1.387	%
8708	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
8709
8710			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
8711			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
8712
8713			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
8714			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
8715	root	1.387	%
8716	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
8717			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
8718			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
8719			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
8720			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
8721	root	1.387	%
8722	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
8723
8724			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
8725			include wrong #include files in their source.
8726	root	1.387	%
8727	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
8728
8729			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
8730			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
8731			Consider it a rite of passage.
8732	root	1.387	%
8733	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
8734			"Oops."
8735			-- MST3K
8736	root	1.387	%
8737	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
8738			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
8739			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
8740
8741			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
8742			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
8743			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
8744			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
8745			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
8746			it. ;)
8747	root	1.387	%
8748	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
8749			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
8750			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
8751			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
8752			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
8753
8754			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
8755			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
8756			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
8757			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
8758
8759			--tom
8760	root	1.387	%
8761	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
8762
8763			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
8764
8765			>Why does it end ?
8766
8767			Ask the X3J11 committee.
8768
8769			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
8770			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
8771
8772			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
8773	root	1.387	%
8774	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
8775			-- Tom Christiansen
8776	root	1.387	%
8777	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
8778
8779			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
8780			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
8781			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
8782			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
8783			of Sputnik.
8784	root	1.387	%
8785	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
8786			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
8787			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
8788			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
8789			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
8790	root	1.387	%
8791	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
8792			- Hanlons razor -
8793	root	1.387	%
8794	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
8795			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
8796	root	1.387	%
8797	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
8798			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
8799			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
8800			> offered no significant advantages.
8801
8802			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
8803	root	1.387	%
8804	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
8805			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
8806			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
8807			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
8808			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
8809			in front of me says so."
8810
8811			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
8812	root	1.387	%
8813	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
8814			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
8815			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
8816			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
8817			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
8818			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
8819			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
8820			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
8821			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
8822			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
8823			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
8824	root	1.387	%
8825	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
8826			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
8827			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
8828			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
8829			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
8830	root	1.387	%
8831	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
8832	root	1.387	%
8833	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
8834	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
8835			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
8836			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
8837			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
8838	root	1.387	%
8839	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
8840			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
8841			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
8842			>
8843			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
8844			> and/or screen.
8845
8846			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
8847	root	1.387	%
8848	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
8849			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
8850
8851			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
8852			> use pedantic;
8853			> use strict 'code';
8854			>
8855			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
8856
8857			use syntax 'python';
8858
8859			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
8860
8861	root	1.387	%
8862	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
8863			>
8864			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
8865			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
8866			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
8867			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
8868			>
8869			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
8870	root	1.387	%
8871	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
8872			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
8873	root	1.387	%
8874	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
8875			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
8876			> be time-consuming.
8877
8878			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
8881			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
8882			however, they do not handle C++...
8883			[from "learning the vi editor"]
8884	root	1.387	%
8885	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
8886			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
8887
8888			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
8889
8890			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
8891
8892			and as Ecclesiastes said:
8893
8894			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
8895			already of old time, which was before us.
8896			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
8897			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
8898
8899			Regards,
8900			Tigran.
8901	root	1.387	%
8902	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
8903	root	1.387	%
8904	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
8905			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
8906			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
8907			main(){
8908			extrn hw;
8909			putchar(0[hw]);
8910			hw=+1;
8911			putchar(0[hw]);
8912			}
8913	root	1.387	%
8914	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
8915
8916			The egg. Always. By definition.
8917	root	1.387	%
8918	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
8919			>
8920			> Better check your scsi cables.
8921	root	1.387	%
8922	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
8923			[Dirk Jagdmann]
8924	root	1.387	%
8925	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
8926			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
8927			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
8928			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
8929
8930	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
8931	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
8932			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
8933
8934	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
8935	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
8936	root	1.387	%
8937	root	1.1	>James :\
8938			>
8939			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
8940
8941			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
8942	root	1.387	%
8943	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
8944			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
8945			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
8946	root	1.387	%
8947	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
8948			> is just asking for a black eye.
8949
8950			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
8951
8952			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
8953			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
8954			translation tables are marked as pageable.
8955
8956			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
8957			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
8958			area.
8959	root	1.387	%
8960	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
8961			[Lukas Grunwald]
8962	root	1.387	%
8963	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
8964
8965			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
8966			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
8967			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
8968			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
8969			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
8970	root	1.387	%
8971	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
8972			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
8973
8974			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
8975	root	1.387	%
8976	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
8977			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
8978			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
8979
8980			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
8981
8982			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
8983
8984			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
8985
8986			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
8987			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
8988	root	1.387	%
8989	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
8990	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
8991	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
8992	root	1.387	%
8993	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
8994			longer...
8995	root	1.387	%
8996	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
8997			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
8998			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
8999	root	1.387	%
9000	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9001			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9002			> > world :) I just love it...
9003			>
9004			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9005			>
9006			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9007			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9008			practical...
9009			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9010			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9011			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9012			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9013			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9014
9015			Jan Hubicka
9016	root	1.387	%
9017	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9018			[...]
9019			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9020
9021			No, it is not. What you meant is
9022
9023			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9024	root	1.387	%
9025	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9026			> A) perl-5.00553
9027			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9028			> cc = cl.exe
9029			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9030
9031			[...]
9032
9033			Ilya
9034	root	1.387	%
9035	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9036
9037			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9038
9039			p.
9040	root	1.387	%
9041	root	1.1	[tomc]
9042			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9043			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9044
9045			+------------------------------------------+
9046			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9047			+------------------------------------------+
9048
9049			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9050			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9051
9052			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9053			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9054			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9055			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9056			interesting way.
9057			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9058			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9059			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9060			interesting things.
9061			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9062			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9063			things.
9064	root	1.387	%
9065	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9066			--Dennis Ritchie
9067	root	1.387	%
9068	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9069	root	1.387	%
9070	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9071
9072			switch (x)
9073			default:
9074			if (prime(x))
9075			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9076			process_prime(x);
9077			else
9078			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9079			process_composite(x);
9080	root	1.387	%
9081	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9082			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9083			in megabytes, required for execution?
9084
9085			Craig Milo Rogers
9086	root	1.387	%
9087	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9088			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9089			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9090
9091			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9092			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9093
9094			Ilya
9095	root	1.387	%
9096	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9097			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9098
9099			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9100			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9101			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9102
9103			Nat
9104	root	1.387	%
9105	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9106			much steroids for a while. =)
9107
9108			--Albert Dvornik
9109			<bert@genscan.com>
9110	root	1.387	%
9111	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9112			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9113			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9114
9115			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9116
9117			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9118			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9119
9120			--tom
9121	root	1.387	%
9122	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9123
9124			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9125
9126			Linus
9127	root	1.387	%
9128	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9129			devil added HTML mail...
9130	root	1.387	%
9131	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9132			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9133			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9134	root	1.387	%
9135	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9136			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9137
9138			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9139			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9140			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9141
9142			Arm the gnus!
9143	root	1.387	%
9144	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9145
9146			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9147			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9148			gcc, so go away.
9149	root	1.387	%
9150	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9151			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9152
9153			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9154
9155			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9156			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9157	root	1.387	%
9158	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9159			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9160			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9161			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9162
9163			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9164			was released today" madness.
9165	root	1.387	%
9166	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9167			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9168			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9169			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9170			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9171			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9172			>
9173			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9174			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9175			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9176			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9177			> marketing name, anyway.
9178
9179			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9180			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9181			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9182
9183			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9184			violence..." :-)
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9187			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9188	root	1.387	%
9189	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9190			> >poor drivers
9191			>
9192			> No it doesn't.
9193
9194			Indeed. Its down to
9195
9196			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9197
9198			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9199			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9200			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9201			or binaries.
9202	root	1.387	%
9203	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9204	root	1.387	%
9205	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9206	root	1.387	%
9207	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9208
9209			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9210			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9211			\|>
9212			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9213
9214			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9215
9216			Andreas.
9217	root	1.387	%
9218	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9219			...
9220			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9221
9222			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9223			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9224			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9225			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9226			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9227			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9228	root	1.387	%
9229	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9230
9231			Paul Eggert writes:
9232			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9233
9234			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9235			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9236	root	1.387	%
9237	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9238			however.
9239
9240			"We don't have the tools"
9241			"We can't support a non intel build"
9242			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9243			"Its not worth the time cost"
9244			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9245	root	1.387	%
9246	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9247
9248			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9249			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9250			>
9251			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9252			> <mailproc@fred>
9253			>
9254			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9255			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9256			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9257			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9258			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9259	root	1.387	%
9260	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9261			> No documented problem
9262			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9263			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9264			>
9265			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9266	root	1.387	%
9267	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9268			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9269	root	1.387	%
9270	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9271			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9272
9273			dave
9274	root	1.387	%
9275	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9276			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9277
9278			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9279	root	1.387	%
9280	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9281
9282			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9283			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9284
9285			Paul Eggert writes:
9286			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9287
9288			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9289			1 month before 29 March?
9290
9291			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9292
9293			1 month before 28 March?
9294
9295			28 February.
9296
9297			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9298			_before_ 27 February?
9299
9300			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9301	root	1.387	%
9302	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9303
9304			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9305			>> So make a security check first:
9306			>>
9307			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9308			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9309			>
9310			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9311			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9312			>
9313			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9314			> = instead of == error*/
9315			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9316			>
9317			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9318			>
9319			>--
9320			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9321
9322			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9323
9324			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9325			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9326	root	1.387	%
9327	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9328			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9329
9330			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9331			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9332			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9333			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9334			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9335			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9336			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9337			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9338
9339			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9340			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9341			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9342			available for that hardware from any source.
9343			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9344			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9345			sniffing!
9346	root	1.387	%
9347	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9348			technical support line that isn't"
9349	root	1.387	%
9350	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9351			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9352	root	1.387	%
9353	root	1.1	[...]
9354			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9355			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9356
9357			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9358			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9359			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9360			"Nothing else"
9361			"Sorry"
9362			[Click]
9363
9364			Alan
9365	root	1.387	%
9366	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9367			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9368	root	1.387	%
9369	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9370			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9371			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9372			> users excepted, of course!).
9373
9374			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9375			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9376			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9377			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9378			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9379			is installed"
9380
9381			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9382	root	1.387	%
9383	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9384
9385			L. Harris wrote:
9386			>
9387			> Testing
9388
9389			you failed.
9390	root	1.387	%
9391	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9392			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9393	root	1.387	%
9394	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9395			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9396			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9397			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9398	root	1.387	%
9399	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9400			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9401			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9402
9403			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9404	root	1.387	%
9405	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9406			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9407			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9408			where else...
9409	root	1.387	%
9410	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9411			[...]
9412			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9413			: about a certain topic.
9414	root	1.387	%
9415	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9416			>
9417			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9418			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9419
9420			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9421			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9422
9423			void main (void)
9424			{
9425			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9426			printf ("\n");
9427			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9428			printf ("You have died.\n");
9429			printf ("\n");
9430			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9431			}
9432
9433			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9434
9435			--
9436			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9437	root	1.387	%
9438	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9439			mistake I ever made]
9440
9441			From: "Tom Miller"
9442			Subject: Can
9443			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9444
9445			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9446			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9447			my name is Tom Miller
9448
9449			From: "Tom Miller"
9450			Subject: Wait
9451			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9452
9453			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9454			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9455	root	1.387	%
9456	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9457
9458			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9459			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9460			so why bother? [...]
9461	root	1.387	%
9462	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9463	root	1.1
9464			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9465
9466			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9467			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9468			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9469			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9470			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9471			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9472			sich dann.
9473	root	1.387	%
9474	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9475			no fs
9476			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9477			Definitely hardware or software error.
9478
9479			Unix Version 7 Manual
9480	root	1.387	%
9481	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9482			>
9483			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9484			>
9485			> =for C
9486			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9487			> =end
9488			> =for C++
9489			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9490			> =end
9491			> =for Java
9492			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9493			> =end
9494			>
9495			> :-)
9496	root	1.387	%
9497	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9498	root	1.387	%
9499	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9500
9501			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9502			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9503			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9504			turn it on.
9505	root	1.387	%
9506	root	1.1	[...]
9507			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9508			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9509			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9510			[...]
9511	root	1.387	%
9512	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9513
9514			Chad C Giffin
9515	root	1.387	%
9516	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9517			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9518			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9519			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9520			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9521			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9522
9523			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9524			through the door.
9525			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9526			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9527			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9528			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9529			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9530			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9531			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9532			usually.)
9533
9534			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9535			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9536			your tire pressure..."
9537			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9538			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9539			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9540			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9541			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9542			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9543			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9544			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9545	root	1.387	%
9546	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9547
9548			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9549	root	1.387	%
9550	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9551
9552			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9553			:-(
9554	root	1.387	%
9555	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9556			>dies alles geschieht.
9557			>Und es verging nicht.
9558
9559			So what?
9560
9561			Ich dachte eher an:
9562
9563			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9564			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9565			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9566			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9567			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9568			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9569			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9570			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9571			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9572			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9573			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9574			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9575
9576			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9577
9578			Antje
9579	root	1.387	%
9580	root	1.1	[....]
9581
9582			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9583			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9584			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9585			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9586			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9587			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9588
9589			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9590
9591			Antje
9592	root	1.387	%
9593	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9594			lalala, I love you baby..."
9595			--
9596			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9599			>
9600			> Kubys
9601
9602			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9603
9604			Linus
9605	root	1.387	%
9606	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9607
9608			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9609			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9610			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9611	root	1.387	%
9612	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9613
9614			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9615			out what it means.
9616			--
9617			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9618	root	1.387	%
9619	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9620			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9621	root	1.387	%
9622	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9623			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9624
9625			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9626
9627			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9628			> is being discussed.
9629
9630			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9631	root	1.387	%
9632	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9633
9634			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9635
9636			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9637
9638			[and the button reads]
9639
9640			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9641	root	1.387	%
9642	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9643
9644			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9645
9646			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9647			certain amount of redundancy.
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9650			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9651
9652			...
9653
9654			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9655	root	1.387	%
9656	root	1.1	>Hello,
9657			>
9658			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9659			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9660			>
9661
9662			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9663			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9664			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9665			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9666	root	1.387	%
9667	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9668			on the country as a whole.
9669			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9670			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9671			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9672	root	1.387	%
9673	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9674			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9675	root	1.387	%
9676	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9677	root	1.387	%
9678	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
9679			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
9680			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
9681
9682			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
9683
9684			--tom
9685			--
9686			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
9687			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9688	root	1.387	%
9689	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
9690			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
9691	root	1.387	%
9692	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9693
9694			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
9695			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
9696			> NO CARRIER
9697			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
9698	root	1.387	%
9699	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
9700			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
9701			> better.
9702
9703			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
9704			my finger on it. Hmmm.
9705	root	1.387	%
9706	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
9707			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
9708	root	1.387	%
9709	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
9710			\|>
9711			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
9712			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
9713			\|>
9714			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
9715			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
9716
9717			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
9718			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
9719			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
9720			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
9721			build Bison, and then cook it.
9722
9723			Viva la buffalo burgers.
9724	root	1.387	%
9725	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
9726			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
9727			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
9728			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
9729			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
9730	root	1.387	%
9731	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
9732			-- lbxproxy(1)
9733	root	1.387	%
9734	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
9735
9736			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
9737
9738			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
9739			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
9740	root	1.387	%
9741	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
9742
9743			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
9744	root	1.387	%
9745	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
9746			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
9747			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
9748			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
9749			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
9750
9751			\|> What does this mean.
9752
9753			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
9754			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
9755	root	1.387	%
9756	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9757
9758			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
9759			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
9760
9761			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
9762	root	1.387	%
9763	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
9764			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
9765			streams)."
9766			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
9767	root	1.387	%
9768	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
9769			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
9770	root	1.387	%
9771	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
9772
9773			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
9774
9775			Klaro.
9776
9777			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
9778			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
9779			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
9780			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
9781
9782	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
9783	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
9784
9785			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
9786			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
9787			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
9788			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
9789			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
9790			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
9791			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
9792
9793			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
9794			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
9795			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
9796	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
9797			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
9798			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
9799			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
9800	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
9801
9802			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
9803	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
9804			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
9805			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
9806			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
9807			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
9808			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
9809			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
9810	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
9811			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
9812
9813			cu in hell 2002
9814	root	1.387	%
9815	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
9816	root	1.387	%
9817	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
9818
9819			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
9820			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
9821			the man page for crypt(1).
9822
9823			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
9824			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
9825			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
9826
9827			man -s3 crypt
9828
9829			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
9830			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
9831
9832			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
9833			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
9834			he can figure out to use the command
9835
9836			man -s3 Intro.3
9837
9838			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
9839			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
9840
9841			man -s3c crypt
9842
9843			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
9844			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
9845			any trouble.
9846			--
9847			Michael M Rubenstein
9848	root	1.387	%
9849	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
9850
9851			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
9852
9853			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
9854
9855			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
9856
9857			Regards,
9858			Tim Bunce.
9859
9860			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
9861			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
9862			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
9863	root	1.387	%
9864	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
9865
9866			...
9867
9868			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
9869			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
9870			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
9871
9872			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
9873			its unusable, believe me I do.
9874	root	1.387	%
9875	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
9876
9877			Semour Cray
9878	root	1.387	%
9879	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
9880
9881			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
9882	root	1.387	%
9883	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
9884			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
9885
9886			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
9887			it only supports parts of it
9888	root	1.387	%
9889	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
9890			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
9891	root	1.387	%
9892	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
9893			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
9894			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
9895			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
9896			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
9897			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
9898			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
9899
9900			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
9901			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
9902			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
9903			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
9904			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
9905			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
9906			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
9907			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
9908			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
9909			with existing HP as code.) [...]
9910
9911			tq vm, (burley)
9912	root	1.387	%
9913	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
9914			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
9915			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
9916			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
9917			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
9918			typedef long int s_reg_t;
9919			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
9920	root	1.387	%
9921	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
9922			/*
9923			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
9924			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
9925			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
9926			* files won't compile.
9927			*/
9928	root	1.387	%
9929	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
9930			> great.
9931
9932			I answered only the places I can comment on.
9933
9934			> BASSAS DA INDIA
9935
9936			This rock is below water half of the time!
9937			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
9938			on a regular basis! ;-)
9939	root	1.387	%
9940	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
9941			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
9942			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
9943	root	1.387	%
9944	root	1.1	>
9945			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
9946			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
9947			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
9948
9949			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
9950	root	1.387	%
9951	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
9952
9953			>Hello!
9954
9955			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
9956			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
9957			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
9958
9959
9960			Perl.
9961
9962			regards
9963			jobst
9964	root	1.387	%
9965	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
9966			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
9967			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
9968
9969			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
9970			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
9971
9972			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
9973			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
9974			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
9975			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
9976			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
9977			the absolute pits.
9978	root	1.387	%
9979	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
9980	root	1.387	%
9981	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
9982			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
9983
9984			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
9985	root	1.387	%
9986	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
9987			ketchup and mustard
9988	root	1.387	%
9989	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
9990
9991			vimal gajjar wrote:
9992			>
9993			> Hi there,
9994			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
9995			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
9996			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
9997			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
9998			> 5% of cpu
9999			> 2 Mb of RAM
10000			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10001			>
10002			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10003
10004			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10005			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10006			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10007	root	1.387	%
10008	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10009			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10010			>
10011			> >s/usually/never/
10012			>
10013			> s/sometimes/never/
10014
10015			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10016	root	1.387	%
10017	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10018			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10019			:Perl, IMO.
10020
10021			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10022
10023			TC
10024	root	1.387	%
10025	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10026	root	1.387	%
10027	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10028
10029			Hi guys!
10030
10031			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10032	root	1.387	%
10033	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10034
10035			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10036			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10037			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10038			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10039			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10040			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10043			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10044			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10045
10046			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10047			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10048			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10049			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10050
10051			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10052			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10053			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10054			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10055
10056			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10057
10058			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10059
10060			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10061			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10062			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10063
10064			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10065			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10066
10067			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10068			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10069
10070			Did I miss any? ;-)
10071
10072			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10073			Laugh. Please.
10074
10075			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10076			--Scott
10077	root	1.387	%
10078	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10079
10080			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10081			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10082			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10083			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10086			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10087
10088			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10089
10090			This is not mail.
10091
10092			This is Usenet.
10093
10094			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10095	root	1.387	%
10096	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10097			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10098			--- ide1: reset: success
10099			-----------> I like Linux !
10100	root	1.387	%
10101	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10102			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10103
10104			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10105			do.
10106	root	1.387	%
10107	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10108			++ PLONK.
10109	root	1.387	%
10110	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10111			Re: Subraumfunk
10112
10113			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10114			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10115
10116			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10117			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10118			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10119			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10120			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10121	root	1.387	%
10122	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10123			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10124			>
10125			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10126
10127			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10128	root	1.387	%
10129	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10130			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10131	root	1.387	%
10132	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10133			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10134
10135			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10136			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10137
10138			Bill Jones
10139	root	1.387	%
10140	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10141
10142			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10143			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10144			#include <windows.h>
10145			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10146			#endif
10147	root	1.387	%
10148	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10149
10150			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10151			is, invoking the URL
10152
10153			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10154
10155			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10156	root	1.387	%
10157	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10158			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10159			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10160			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10161			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10162			"I am using CGI!"
10163
10164			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10165	root	1.387	%
10166	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10167			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10168			>
10169	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10170	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10171
10172			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10173	root	1.387	%
10174	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10175			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10176	root	1.387	%
10177	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10178			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10179			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10180			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10181	root	1.387	%
10182	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10183
10184			pcg@goof.com said:
10185			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10186
10187			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10188
10189			"It's broken."
10190			"What's wrong with it?."
10191			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10192			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10193			"It just doesn't work."
10194			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10195			"It gives an error message."
10196			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10197			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10198			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10199			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10200			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10201			letter for letter this time."
10202	root	1.387	%
10203	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10204
10205			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10206			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10207			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10208
10209			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10210			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10211			perms.
10212
10213			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10214	root	1.387	%
10215	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10216			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10217
10218			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10219
10220			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10221			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10222			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10223
10224			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10225			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10226	root	1.387	%
10227	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10228			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10229	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10230
10231			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10232			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10233			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10234			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10235			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10236			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10237			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10238			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10239			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10240			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10241			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10242
10243			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10244
10245			normarz@aol.com
10246	root	1.387	%
10247	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10248	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10249	root	1.1	>Legion
10250			>schlagen?
10251
10252			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10253
10254			Bye
10255			Andreas
10256	root	1.387	%
10257	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10258
10259			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10260			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10261
10262			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10263			companies.
10264
10265			Kind regards
10266			Henning
10267	root	1.387	%
10268	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10269			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10270			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10271
10272			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10273			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10274			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10275
10276			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10277			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10278			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10279			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10280			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10281			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10282			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10283			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10284			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10285			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10286	root	1.387	%
10287	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10288			We might support that sometime next year.
10289			-=- Microsoft
10290			(But I doubt it.)
10291			-=- Me
10292			-=- James Mastros
10293	root	1.387	%
10294	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10295			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10296			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10297			>lines.
10298
10299			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10300			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10301	root	1.387	%
10302	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10303	root	1.387	%
10304	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10305			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10306			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10307			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10308	root	1.387	%
10309	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10310
10311			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10312			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10313			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10314			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10315			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10316			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10317			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10318			it's not all his fault.
10319
10320			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10321			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10322			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10323			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10324			content.
10325
10326			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10327			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10328			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10329			learn (or pay for it;)
10330
10331			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10332			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10333			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10334			just for fun or to get the op.
10335
10336			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10337			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10338			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10339			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10340
10341			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10342
10343			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10344			course, Linux and Linux people.
10345	root	1.387	%
10346	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10347			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10348
10349			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10350			--
10351			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10352	root	1.387	%
10353	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10354
10355			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10356			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10357			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10358
10359			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10360			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10361			tradition.
10362	root	1.387	%
10363	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10364			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10365	root	1.387	%
10366	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10367			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10368	root	1.387	%
10369	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10370			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10371			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10372			Or GIRLS for short.
10373	root	1.387	%
10374	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10375	root	1.387	%
10376	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10377			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10378			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10379			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10380			5_004_03 to build!"
10381
10382			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10383			have no patience."
10384
10385			xoxo,
10386			Andy
10387	root	1.387	%
10388	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10389			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10390			We all have our cross to bear.
10391	root	1.387	%
10392	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10393
10394			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10395			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10396			Subject: Re: system() question
10397
10398			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10399			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10400			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10401			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10402			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10403			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10404			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10405			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10406			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10407			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10408			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10409			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10410			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10411			humiliating for me!)
10412
10413			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10414			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10415			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10416			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10417			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10418			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10419			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10420			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10421			really knows the answer.
10422
10423			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10424			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10425			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10426			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10427
10428			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10429			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10430			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10431			for that.
10432
10433			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10434			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10435			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10436			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10437			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10438			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10439			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10440
10441			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10442
10443			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10444			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10445			something for free.''
10446
10447			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10448
10449			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10450			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10451
10452			(Good question.)
10453
10454			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10455			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10456			once I have run it.''
10457			(Good question.)
10458
10459			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10460
10461			(Good question.)
10462
10463			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10464			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10465			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10466			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10467			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10468
10469			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10470			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10471			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10472			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10473			comp.lang.perl?
10474			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10475			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10476			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10477			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10478			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10479			in comp.lang.perl?
10480
10481			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10482			you my rate card.
10483
10484			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10485			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10486			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10487			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10488			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10489			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10490			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10491			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10492			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10493			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10494
10495			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10496			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10497			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10498			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10499			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10500			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10501			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10502			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10503			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10504			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10505			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10506			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10507			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10508			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10509			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10510			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10511
10512			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10513			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10514			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10515			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10516			someone will. Maybe I will.
10517
10518			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10519			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10520			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10521			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10522			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10523			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10524			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10525			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10526
10527			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10528			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10529			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10530			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10531			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10532			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10533			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10534			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10535			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10536			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10537			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10538			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10539			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10540			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10541
10542			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10543			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10544			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10545			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10546
10547			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10548
10549			`I want to accomplish X.
10550
10551			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10552
10553			...
10554
10555			But instead it does Y.
10556
10557			Why is that?''
10558
10559			This one is also pretty good:
10560
10561			`I want to accomplish X.
10562			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10563
10564			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10565			because of Z.
10566
10567			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10568
10569			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10570			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10571
10572
10573			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10574			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10575
10576			--
10577			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10578			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10579	root	1.387	%
10580	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10581			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10582
10583			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10584			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10585			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10586
10587			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10588
10589			bye, Georg
10590	root	1.387	%
10591	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10592			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10593			convince me.
10594
10595			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10596
10597			Linus
10598	root	1.387	%
10599	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10600			++
10601
10602			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10603			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10604
10605	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10606	root	1.1
10607			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10608			understanding the above line.
10609
10610			Abigail
10611	root	1.387	%
10612	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10613			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10614	root	1.387	%
10615	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10616			++ button?
10617			Yes.
10618
10619			++ 100 pictures or so?
10620			Yes.
10621
10622			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10623			Yes.
10624
10625			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10626			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10627
10628			Abigail
10629	root	1.387	%
10630	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10631
10632			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10633
10634			Martien
10635	root	1.387	%
10636	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10637			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10638			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10639			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10640	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10641	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10642			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10643			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10644			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10645	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10646	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10647			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10648	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10649			nicht. ;)
10650
10651	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10652			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10653			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10654	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10655			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10656	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10657	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10658
10659	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10660			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10661	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10662	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10663	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10664
10665	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10666	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10667	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10668			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10669	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10670	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10671	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10672			"unvorstellbar".
10673
10674			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10675	root	1.387	%
10676	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
10677			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
10678			^^^
10679			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
10680	root	1.387	%
10681	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
10682			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
10683	root	1.387	%
10684	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
10685			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
10686	root	1.387	%
10687	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
10688			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
10689			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
10690
10691			An artificial pile of rocks.
10692	root	1.387	%
10693	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
10694			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
10695			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
10696			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
10697			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
10698			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
10699
10700			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
10701			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
10702			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
10703			grosser Flipperautomat.
10704
10705			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
10706	root	1.387	%
10707	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
10708			>
10709			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
10710			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
10711			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
10712			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
10713			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
10714	root	1.387	%
10715	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
10716			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
10717	root	1.1
10718			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
10719	root	1.387	%
10720	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
10721
10722			The Unix shell as a 4GL
10723
10724			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
10725			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
10726			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
10727			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
10728			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
10729			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
10730			Unix environment.
10731	root	1.387	%
10732	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
10733			between these:
10734
10735			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
10736			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
10737
10738			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
10739			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
10740			;#", and the print gets executed!
10741
10742			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
10743			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
10744			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
10745			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
10746
10747			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
10748			'perl'".
10749
10750			--
10751			Randal L. Schwartz
10752	root	1.387	%
10753	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
10754
10755			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
10756			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
10757			>
10758			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
10759
10760			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
10761
10762			--
10763			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
10764	root	1.387	%
10765	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
10766	root	1.387	%
10767	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
10768			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
10769	root	1.387	%
10770	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
10771			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
10772	root	1.387	%
10773	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
10774			can have the return value of a function be itself a
10775			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
10776			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
10777			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
10778			example.
10779	root	1.387	%
10780	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
10781			resemble a nail.
10782	root	1.387	%
10783	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
10784			> I did wrong.
10785
10786			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
10787			newsgroup.
10788	root	1.387	%
10789	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
10790	root	1.387	%
10791	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
10792			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
10793	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
10794
10795			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
10796	root	1.387	%
10797	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
10798	root	1.1
10799	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
10800	root	1.387	%
10801	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
10802			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
10803			expired instantly!!!
10804	root	1.387	%
10805	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
10806			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
10807
10808			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
10809			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
10810			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
10811
10812			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
10813			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
10814			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
10815			than double Linus's programming experience?
10816
10817			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
10818			> pretty straight forward.
10819
10820			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
10821			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
10822	root	1.387	%
10823	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
10824			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
10825			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
10826			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
10827			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
10828			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
10829	root	1.387	%
10830	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
10831	root	1.387	%
10832	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
10833			Example:
10834			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
10835	root	1.387	%
10836	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
10837			Randal gets his hands on it
10838	root	1.387	%
10839	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
10840	root	1.387	%
10841	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
10842
10843			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
10844			first if you get it working.
10845	root	1.387	%
10846	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
10847			> Think different.
10848
10849			Think Again.
10850	root	1.387	%
10851	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
10852	root	1.387	%
10853	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
10854			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
10855			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
10856
10857			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
10858	root	1.387	%
10859	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
10860			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
10861	root	1.387	%
10862	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
10863			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
10864			\| top.
10865	root	1.387	%
10866	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
10867			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
10868	root	1.387	%
10869	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
10870			^^^^^^^^^
10871			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
10872
10873			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
10874	root	1.387	%
10875	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
10876			>gehen soll?
10877
10878	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
10879	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
10880			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
10881	root	1.387	%
10882	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
10883	root	1.387	%
10884	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
10885			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
10886	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
10887			>
10888			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
10889
10890			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
10891			Schuh aus!
10892	root	1.387	%
10893	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
10894
10895	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
10896	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
10897	root	1.387	%
10898	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
10899
10900
10901			First opportunity
10902			Approximate
10903			Orbit Internet
10904			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10905
10906			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
10907			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
10908			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
10909			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
10910
10911			Second opportunity
10912			Approximate
10913			Orbit Internet
10914			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10915
10916			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
10917			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
10918			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
10919			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
10920
10921			Third opportunity
10922			Approximate
10923			Orbit Internet
10924			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10925
10926			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
10927			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
10928			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
10929			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
10930
10931	root	1.387	%
10932	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
10933	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
10934			> >würden.
10935	root	1.1	>
10936			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
10937			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
10938			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
10939			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
10940			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
10941			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
10942			implizierst.
10943	root	1.387	%
10944	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
10945			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
10946	root	1.387	%
10947	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
10948			Big improvement.
10949	root	1.387	%
10950	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
10951			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
10952			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
10953			-- "Why that one?"
10954			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
10955			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
10956	root	1.387	%
10957	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
10958			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
10959			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
10960	root	1.387	%
10961	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
10962			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
10963			> etlicher Lebensformen?
10964
10965			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
10966
10967			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
10968			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
10969			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
10970
10971			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
10972
10973			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
10974			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
10975			> er eigentlich ist?
10976
10977	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
10978	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
10979	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
10980	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
10981	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
10982	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
10983	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
10984	root	1.1	Ciao
10985			Stefan
10986	root	1.387	%
10987	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
10988			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
10989			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
10990			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
10991	root	1.387	%
10992	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
10993			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
10994			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
10995			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
10996			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
10997			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
10998			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
10999			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11000			off.
11001	root	1.387	%
11002	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11003			Meet interesting people,
11004			Kill them.
11005	root	1.387	%
11006	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11007			> umwandelbar ist.
11008
11009			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11010	root	1.387	%
11011	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11012	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11013	root	1.387	%
11014	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11015			>
11016			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11017			> >> ruckartig.
11018			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11019			>
11020	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11021	root	1.1
11022			:-)
11023	root	1.387	%
11024	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11025	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11026			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11027	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11028			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11029			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11030			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11031
11032			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11033			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11034	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11035			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11036	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11037	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11038			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11039			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11040	root	1.1	Union.
11041
11042	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11043			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11044	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11045	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11046			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11047			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11048	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11049	root	1.387	%
11050	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11051			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11052	root	1.387	%
11053	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11054	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11055	root	1.1	>>
11056			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11057	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11058			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11059	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11060			>
11061			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11062			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11063	root	1.387	%
11064	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11065	root	1.387	%
11066	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11067			> into a random order???
11068			>
11069
11070			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11071			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11072
11073			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11074			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11075			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11076			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11077			number less than 42.
11078	root	1.387	%
11079	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11080			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11081			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11082			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11083			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11084			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11085			eventually invent Unix.
11086	root	1.387	%
11087	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11088			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11089			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11090			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11091			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11092			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11093			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11094			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11095			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11096			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11097			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11098			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11099			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11100			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11101			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11102			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11103	root	1.387	%
11104	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11105			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11106			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11107	root	1.387	%
11108	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11109			using a Perl CGI script?
11110	root	1.387	%
11111	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11112
11113			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11114			week.
11115	root	1.387	%
11116	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11117			Brieweb> of PERL.
11118			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11119			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11120			[Randal Schwartz]
11121	root	1.387	%
11122	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11123			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11124			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11125			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11126	root	1.387	%
11127	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11128			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11129			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11130			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11131			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11132			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11133			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11134			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11135			system and restricting their options.
11136			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11137	root	1.387	%
11138	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11139			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11140			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11141	root	1.387	%
11142	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11143			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11144			Ernie Hai
11145			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11146	root	1.387	%
11147	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11148			: results" report from the users.
11149
11150			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11151			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11152			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11153			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11154	root	1.387	%
11155	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11156			They are all owned by cats.
11157	root	1.387	%
11158	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11159			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11160			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11161	root	1.387	%
11162	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11163			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11164
11165			Yesterday it worked
11166			Today it is not working
11167			Windows is like that
11168			- - -
11169			wind catches lily
11170			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11171			segmentation fault
11172			- - -
11173			Three things are certain:
11174			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11175			Guess which has occurred.
11176			- - -
11177			A file that big?
11178			It might be very useful.
11179			But now it is gone.
11180			- - -
11181			Windows NT crashed.
11182			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11183			No one hears your screams.
11184			- - -
11185			Errors have occurred.
11186			We won't tell you where or why.
11187			Lazy programmers.
11188			- - -
11189			Seeing my great fault
11190			Through darkening blue windows
11191			I begin again
11192			- - -
11193			The code was willing,
11194			It considered your request,
11195			But the chips were weak.
11196			- - -
11197			Printer not ready.
11198			Could be a fatal error.
11199			Have a pen handy?
11200			- - -
11201			Server's poor response
11202			Not quick enough for browser.
11203			Timed out, plum blossom.
11204			- - -
11205			Chaos reigns within.
11206			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11207			Order shall return.
11208			- - -
11209			Login incorrect.
11210			Only perfect spellers may
11211			enter this system.
11212			- - -
11213			This site has been moved.
11214			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11215			have to delete you.
11216			- - -
11217			ABORTED effort:
11218			Close all that you have.
11219			You ask way too much.
11220			- - -
11221			First snow, then silence.
11222			This thousand dollar screen dies
11223			so beautifully.
11224			- - -
11225			With searching comes loss
11226			and the presence of absence:
11227			"My Novel" not found.
11228			- - -
11229			The Tao that is seen
11230			Is not the true Tao, until
11231			You bring fresh toner.
11232			- - -
11233			The Web site you seek
11234			cannot be located but
11235			endless others exist
11236			- - -
11237			Stay the patient course
11238			Of little worth is your ire
11239			The network is down
11240			- - -
11241			A crash reduces
11242			your expensive computer
11243			to a simple stone.
11244			- - -
11245			There is a chasm
11246			of carbon and silicon
11247			the software can't bridge
11248			- - -
11249			To have no errors
11250			Would be life without meaning
11251			No struggle, no joy
11252			- - -
11253			You step in the stream,
11254			but the water has moved on.
11255			This page is not here.
11256			- - -
11257			No keyboard present
11258			Hit F1 to continue
11259			Zen engineering?
11260			- - -
11261			Hal, open the file
11262			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11263			open it, please Hal
11264			- - -
11265			Out of memory.
11266			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11267			But we never will.
11268			- - -
11269			Having been erased,
11270			The document you're seeking
11271			Must now be retyped.
11272			- - -
11273			The ten thousand things
11274			How long do any persist?
11275			Netscape, too, has gone.
11276			- - -
11277			Rather than a beep
11278			Or a rude error message,
11279			These words: "File not found."
11280			- - -
11281			Serious error.
11282			All shortcuts have disappeared
11283			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11284	root	1.387	%
11285	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11286			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11287	root	1.387	%
11288	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11289			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11290
11291			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11292			early 1980s.
11293	root	1.387	%
11294	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11295			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11296			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11297			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11298
11299			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11300			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11301			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11302			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11303			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11304			many new features that it just stops working.
11305
11306			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11307
11308			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11309			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11310
11311			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11312			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11313			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11314
11315			Hope this explains what's going on
11316			Martien Verbruggen
11317	root	1.387	%
11318	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11319	root	1.387	%
11320	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11321	root	1.387	%
11322	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11323	root	1.387	%
11324	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11325			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11326			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11327	root	1.387	%
11328	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11329			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11330			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11331			>
11332			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11333
11334			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11335			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11336	root	1.387	%
11337	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11338			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11339			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11340			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11341	root	1.387	%
11342	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11343			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11344			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11345			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11346			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11347			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11348			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11349			convienience store.")
11350	root	1.387	%
11351	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11352			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11353	root	1.387	%
11354	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11355	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11356	root	1.1
11357			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11358			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11359	root	1.387	%
11360	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11361			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11362			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11363			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11364	root	1.387	%
11365	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11366			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11367			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11368	root	1.387	%
11369	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11370			(A => B) => (B => A)
11371			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11372			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11373	root	1.387	%
11374	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11375	root	1.387	%
11376	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11377			-Barry Shein
11378	root	1.387	%
11379	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11380			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11381			read the manual.
11382	root	1.387	%
11383	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11384	root	1.387	%
11385	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11386			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11387			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11388			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11389			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11390			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11391			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11392			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11393			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11394	root	1.387	%
11395	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11396	root	1.387	%
11397	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11398			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11399			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11400	root	1.387	%
11401	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11402
11403			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11404			need.
11405	root	1.387	%
11406	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11407			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11408			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11409	root	1.387	%
11410	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11411			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11412			newsreaders. You know,
11413			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11414			back
11415			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11416			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11417			out what they're saying.
11418	root	1.387	%
11419	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11420			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11421	root	1.387	%
11422	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11423			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11424			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11425
11426			But the combination.... sutters
11427	root	1.387	%
11428	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11429			Darn it.
11430	root	1.387	%
11431	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11432	root	1.387	%
11433	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11434	root	1.387	%
11435	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11436			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11437			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11438			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11439			trying to use it.
11440	root	1.387	%
11441	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11442	root	1.387	%
11443	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11444			>
11445			> Is this group active?
11446			No.
11447
11448			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11449			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11450
11451			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11452			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11453	root	1.387	%
11454	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11455			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11456	root	1.387	%
11457	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11458			Press any key to continue..."
11459	root	1.387	%
11460	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11461			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11462			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11463	root	1.387	%
11464	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11465			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11466			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11467			adjust your travel plans.
11468	root	1.387	%
11469	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11470			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11471	root	1.387	%
11472	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11473			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11474
11475			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11476			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11477
11478			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11479
11480			tak 18 12 6
11481	root	1.387	%
11482	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11483			-- Bill Gates
11484			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11485			-- Bill Gates
11486			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11487			-- logical conclusion
11488	root	1.387	%
11489	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11490			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11491			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11492			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11493			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11494			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11495			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11496			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11497			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11498			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11499			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11500			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11501			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11502			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11503			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11504			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11505			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11506			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11507			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11508			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11509			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11510	root	1.387	%
11511	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11512			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11513			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11514			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11515	root	1.387	%
11516	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.