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1	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
2			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
3			> about anything else.
4			>
5			> Why is it like that?
6
7			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
8
9			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
10			%
11			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
12
13			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
14			>>
15			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
16			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
17			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
18			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
19			>
20			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
21
22			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
23			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
24			%
25			(partial) Beaufort Table
26			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
27			Calm 0 0 0
28			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
29			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
30			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
31			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
32			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
33			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
34			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
35			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
36			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
37			%
38			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
39			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
40			%
41			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
42			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
43			%
44			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
45			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
46			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
47			on the cards.
48			%
49			[random comment from amule sources]
50			// trust noone ;-)
51			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
52			// wtf you guys are weird.
53			%
54	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
55			- Kin Hubbard
56			%
57			[random .sig]
58			I'm a muslim.
59
60			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
61			%
62			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
63			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
64			before.
65
66			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
67			%
68			<imho>
69
70			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
71			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
72			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
73			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
74
75			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
76			Java - public static void not fun.
77			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
78			C - usually not fun.
79
80			What about modern scripting languages?
81
82			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
83			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
84			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
85
86			</imho>
87
88			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
89			%
90			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
91			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
92			%
93
94			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
95			*
96			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
97
98			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
99			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
100			%
101			# The user is always right.
102			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
103			[autoconf]
104			%
105			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
106
107			/*
108			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
109			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
110			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
111			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
112			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
113			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
114			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
115			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
116			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
117			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
118			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
119			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
120			*/
121			%
122			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
123			was new to me:
124
125			switch(c)
126			{
127			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
128			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
129			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
130			case 'd': base=-10; }
131			switch(type)
132			{
133			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
134			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
135			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
136			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
137			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
138			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
139			default:val=0; break;
140			}
141			cp = __numout(val,base);
142			if(0) {
143			case 's':
144			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
145			}
146			%
147			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
148			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
149			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
150			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
151			extra second and see how far you get :-)
152			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
153			%
154			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
155			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
156			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
157			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
158			>
159			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
160			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
161
162			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
163			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
164
165			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
166			%
167			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
168			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
169			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
170
171			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
172
173			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
174			%
175			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
176			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
177			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
178			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
179			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
180			settings)
181
182			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
183			%
184			How do I deal with memory leaks?
185
186			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
187
188			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
189			%
190			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
191			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
192
193			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
194			%
195			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
196			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
197			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
198			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
199
200			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
201			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
202			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
203			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
204			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
205			rewarded for their creativity.
206
207			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
208			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
209			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
210			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
211			would never have made it in the first place.
212
213			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
214			%
215			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
216			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
217			%
218			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
219			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
220			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
221			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
222			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
223
224			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
225			%
226			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
227			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
228			- Mohandas Gandhi
229			%
230			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
231			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
232			handiwork of the Lord."
233			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
234			%
235			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
236
237			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
238			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
239			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
240
241			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
242			Scientist A publishes results.
243
244			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
245			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
246			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
247
248			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
249			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
250			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
251			A: ...
252			B: You fraud!
253
254			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
255
256			A publishes results.
257
258			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
259			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
260			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
261			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
262			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
263			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
264
265			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
266			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
267			%
268			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
269			them because they need the money to operate]
270
271			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
272			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
273			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
274			site or its bottom line."
275			%
276			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
277			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
278			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
279			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
280			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
281			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
282			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
283			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
284			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
285			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
286			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
287			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
288			%
289			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
290
291			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
292
293			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
294			%
295			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
296
297			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
298			>>>> and the beating of children?
299			>>>
300			>>> Subjugation of women...
301			>>
302			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
303			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
304			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
305			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
306			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
307			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
308			>> shake partner.
309			>
310			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
311			>
312			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
313			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
314			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
315			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
316			>
317
318			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
319			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
320			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
321			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
322			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
323			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
324			and your wife.
325			%
326			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
327			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
328			still kill you. - arestheblue
329			%
330			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
331			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
332			specifications for GSS-API.
333
334			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
335			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
336
337			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
338			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
339
340			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
341			%
342			[from the minix 3 users guide]
343
344			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
345			%
346			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
347
348			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
349			[...]
350			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
351			complaintant to guess this is true.
352			%
353			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
354			- Ken Thompson.
355			%
356			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
357
358			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
359
360			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
361			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
362			source code excerpt:
363
364			int sn()
365			{
366			char pwr;
367
368			int input1 = 0;
369			double output1 = 0;
370
371			system("clear");
372			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
373			cin>>input1;
374			output1 = (sin(input1));
375			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
376			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
377			cin>>pwr;
378			if(pwr == 'a')
379			sq();
380			if(pwr == 'm')
381			system("pause");
382
383			}
384			%
385			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
386			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
387
388			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
389
390			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
391			%
392			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
393			app for me" department:
394
395			From: Evan LeCompte
396
397			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
398			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
399			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
400			%
401			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
402			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
403			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
404
405			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
406			%
407			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
408			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
409			– Steve Jobs[47]
410
411			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
412			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
413			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
414			%
415			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
416			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
417			%
418			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
419			From: Patrick Horgan
420			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
421			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
422
423			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
424			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
425			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
426			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
427			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
428			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
429
430			[...]
431			%
432	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
433			— Peter Abelard
434			%
435			A man said to the universe:
436			"Sir I exist!"
437			"However," replied the universe,
438			"The fact has not created in me
439	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
440			- Steven Crane
441	root	1.431	%
442			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
443
444			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
445
446			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
447
448			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
449
450			– Sanskrit Saying
451			%
452			[anonymised discussion]
453			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
454			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
455			%
456			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
457
458	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
459	root	1.431
460			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
461			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
462			appear.
463			%
464			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
465			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
466			- Douglas Adams
467			%
468			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
469			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
470			%
471			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
472			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
473			%
474			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
475			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
476			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
477			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
478			%
479			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
480			%
481			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
482			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
483			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
484			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
485			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
486			%
487			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
488			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
489			or her career.
490			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
491			%
492			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
493			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
494			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
495			%
496			I LOVE YOU
497			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
498			%
499			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
500			the air impeller.
501
502			Alan Cox
503			%
504			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
505			with a minimum computer science background."
506			%
507			From: Eric Sosman
508			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
509			Subject: Re: about graphics
510
511			prince wrote:
512			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
513
514			#include <stdio.h>
515			int main(void) {
516			puts("graphics\rcommand");
517			return 0;
518			}
519			%
520			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
521			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
522			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
523			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
524			%
525			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
526
527			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
528			it still is a constant-time attack.
529			%
530			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
531			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
532			%
533			From: David Damerell
534
535			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
536			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
537			>caps to make it different.
538
539			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
540			painful but will take less typing.
541			%
542			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
543			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
544			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
545
546			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
547			%
548			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
549
550			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
551			> free than the BSD.
552			>
553			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
554
555			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
556			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
557			%
558			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
559
560			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
561			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
562			from incompatible pointer type
563			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
564			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
565			makes pointer from integer without a cast
566			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
567			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
568			%
569			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
570			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
571			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
572			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
573			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
574			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
575
576			[Chandon Seldon]
577			%
578			[Wikipedia]
579			Differences between vi and Emacs
580
581			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
582			%
583			[lost the reference]
584			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
585			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
586			%
587			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
588			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
589			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
590			%
591			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
592
593			Subject: Re: fcrack help
594			From: puezalb024@aol.com
595			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
596			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
597			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
598
599			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
600			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
601			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
602			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
603			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
604			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
605			piss on your leg.
606
607			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
608			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
609			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
610
611			[then, a day later]
612
613			Subject: Re: fcrack help
614			From: puezalb024@aol.com
615			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
616			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
617			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
618
619			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
620			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
621			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
622			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
623			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
624			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
625			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
626			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
627			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
628
629
630			-----Original Message-----
631			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
632			To: puezalb024@aol.com
633			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
634			Subject: Re: fcrack help
635
636
637
638			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
639	root	1.432	>
640	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
641
642			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
643
644			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
645			I hope you don't object :)
646			%
647			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
648			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
649
650			You made my day
651			%
652			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
653
654			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
655			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
656			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
657
658			Linus
659			%
660			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
661
662			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
663
664			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 ...
665
666			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
667
668			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
669			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
670			when sending emails to other people:
671			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
672
673			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
674
675			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
676			%
677			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
678			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
679			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
680			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
681			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
682			%
683			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
684			be used if run as administrator in windows.
685
686			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
687			%
688			[on italy]
689
690			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
691
692			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
693			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
694			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
695			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
696
697			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
698			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
699			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
700			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
701			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
702			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
703
704			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
705
706			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
707			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
708			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
709			from fascism period.
710
711			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
712			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
713			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
714			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
715			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
716			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
717			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
718			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
719			SIAE.
720
721			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
722			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
723			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
724			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
725			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
726			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
727			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
728			electronic ones
729
730			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
731
732			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
733			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
734			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
735			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
736			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
737			western country.
738
739			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
740			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
741			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
742			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
743			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
744			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
745			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
746			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
747			also the governments of "center-left".
748
749			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
750
751			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
752			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
753			without any restriction.
754
755			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
756			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
757			world.
758
759			Long life to the Bay, forever.
760			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
761			Thank you for reading.
762			%
763			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
764			>
765			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
766
767			How very ironic.
768			%
769			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
770			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
771			takes religion."
772
773			--Steve Weinberg
774			%
775			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
776			%
777			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
778			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
779			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
780
781			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
782			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
783			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
784			%
785			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
786			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
787			the right tool for me.
788			%
789			[deliantra]
790			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
791			%
792			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
793			%
794			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
795			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
796			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
797			%
798			From the CFA633 datasheet:
799
800			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
801			%
802			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
803			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
804
805			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
806			actually tells you it's American.
807			%
808			[better do not hire this programmer]
809			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
810			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
811			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
812
813			Hi
814
815			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
816			someone here can advise me.
817
818			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
819			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
820			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
821			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
822			happens with the customer looking on!!).
823
824			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
825			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
826			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
827			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
828			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
829			corresponding thing in C?
830
831			Thanks!
832			%
833			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
834
835			// See bug 53763.
836			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
837			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
838			if (shell) {
839			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
840			%
841			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
842			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
843
844			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
845			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
846			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
847			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
848			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
849			%
850			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
851			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
852			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
853			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
854			“display quality too high”).
855
856			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
857			%
858			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
859
860	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
861	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
862
863			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
864
865			x / y * z
866
867			and
868
869			x / y * z
870
871			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
872
873			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
874			design decisions.)
875			%
876			endergt:
877			> snoofle:
878			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
879			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
880			> > you understand what you are doing...
881			>
882	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
883	root	1.431
884	root	1.432	debug
885	root	1.431	%
886			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%.
887
888			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
889			%
890			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
891			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
892			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
893
894			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
895			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
896			6 Decompilation
897
898			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
899			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
900			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
901			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
902			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
903			conditions are met: [...]"
904			%
905			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
906			%
907			Why Linux Sux ?
908
909			Easy .
910			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
911			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
912			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 .
913			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
914			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
915			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
916			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! ) .
917			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 .
918			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
919
920			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
921			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
922			working ones . Screw linux users .
923			%
924			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
925			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
926			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
927			%
928			> The Dell 30"...
929
930			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
931			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
932			%
933	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
934	root	1.431
935			> > 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".
936	root	1.432	>
937	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!
938	root	1.432	>
939	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
940	root	1.432
941	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
942
943			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
944			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.
945			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
946	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.
947	root	1.431	%
948			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
949			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
950			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
951			%
952			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
953
954			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
955			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
956			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
957
958			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
959			anderen betriebssystemen.
960
961			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
962			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
963
964			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
965			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
966			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
967			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
968			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
969
970			Frage?
971			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
972			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
973			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
974
975			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
976			%
977			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
978			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
979			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
980			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
981			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
982			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
983			%
984			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
985			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
986			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
987			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
988			%
989			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
990			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
991
992			God bless the re-inventers
993
994			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
995			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
996
997	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
998	root	1.431
999			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1000			one.
1001			%
1002			[rfc2665]
1003			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1004			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1005			useful in theory than in practice.
1006			%
1007			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1008	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1009	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1010			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1011			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1012			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1013			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1014			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1015	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1016	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1017			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1018	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1019	root	1.431	15:30
1020			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1021			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1022			%
1023			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1024			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1025			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1026			%
1027			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1028
1029			Strictly for beginners
1030
1031			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1032			[...]
1033			%
1034			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1035			%
1036			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1037			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1038			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1039			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1040			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1041			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1042			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1043			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1044			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1045			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1046			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1047			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1048			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1049			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1050			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1051			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1052			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1053			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1054			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1055			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1056			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1057			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1058			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1059			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1060			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1061			%
1062			[A Gentoo User]
1063			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1064			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1065			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1066			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1067			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1068			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1069			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1070			%
1071			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1072			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1073			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1074			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1075			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1076	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1077			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1078	root	1.431	can do
1079			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1080			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1081			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1082			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1083			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1084			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1085			%
1086			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1087	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1088			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1089			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1090	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1091			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1092	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1093			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1094	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1095			%
1096			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1097			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1098			%
1099			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1100
1101			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1102			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1103			be slow in Windows 2000"
1104
1105			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1106			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1107			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1108			%
1109			[so much for type-safety]
1110			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1111			lst.add(null);
1112			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1113			%
1114			[just for reference]
1115			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1116			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1117			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1118			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1119			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1120			es nicht.
1121
1122			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1123			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1124			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1125			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1126			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1127			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1128
1129			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1130			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1131			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1132			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1133			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1134			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1135			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1136			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1137			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1138			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1139			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1140			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1141			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1142			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1143
1144			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1145			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1146			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1147			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1148			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1149			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1150			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1151
1152			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1153			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1154			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1155			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1156			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1157			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1158			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1159			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1160			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1161			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1162			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1163			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1164			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1165			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1166			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1167			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1168			alternativ' Idioten!
1169
1170			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1171			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1172			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1173			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1174			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1175			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1176			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1177			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1178			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1179			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1180			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1181			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1182			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1183			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1184
1185			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1186			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1187			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1188
1189			Ich will R A C H E !
1190
1191			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1192			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1193			Dinge zu sagen:
1194
1195			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1196
1197			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1198			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1199			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1200			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1201			anfange.
1202
1203			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1204			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1205			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1206			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1207			dieser verdammten schule!
1208
1209			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1210			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1211
1212			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1213
1214			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1215			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1216			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1217			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1218			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1219			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1220			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1221			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1222			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1223			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1224
1225			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1226			Einschulung.
1227
1228			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1229			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1230			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1231			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1232			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1233			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1234			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1235			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1236			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1237			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1238
1239			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1240			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1241
1242			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1243			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1244			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1245			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1246			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1247			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1248			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1249			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1250
1251			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1252			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1253			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1254			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1255			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1256			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1257			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1258			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1259
1260			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1261			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1262
1263			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1264			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1265			Hand genommen.
1266
1267			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1268			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1269
1270			Ich bin weg...
1271			%
1272			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1273			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1274			%
1275	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1276			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1277			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1278			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1279	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1280			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1281			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1282			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1283			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1284			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1285			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1286			%
1287			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1288			%
1289			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1290			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1291
1292			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1293			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1294			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1295			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1296			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1297			%
1298			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1299			%
1300			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1301			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1302			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1303			%
1304			[very funny read]
1305			Hack-a-Bike
1306			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1307			%
1308			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1309			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1310			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1311			still can.
1312
1313			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1314			%
1315	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1316			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1317	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1318			%
1319			[without words]
1320			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1321			%
1322			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1323			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1324			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1325			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1326			actual kid in an actual bath.
1327			%
1328			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1329			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1330			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1331			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1332			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1333			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1334			what happened to you.
1335			%
1336	root	1.432	--
1337	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1338
1339			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1340			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1341			%
1342			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1343	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1344			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1345	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1346
1347			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1348			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1349			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1350			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1351			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1352
1353			- Ted
1354			%
1355			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1356			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1357			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1358			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1359			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1360			me, but we have the truth!"
1361			%
1362			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1363			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1364			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1365			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1366			%
1367			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1368			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1369			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1370			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1371			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1372			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1373			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1374			genociding every monster.
1375
1376			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1377			genocide them for good measure!
1378			%%
1379			[nethack instadeath faq]
1380
1381			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1382
1383			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1384			%
1385			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1386			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1387	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1388	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1389			17:58 <Murch> lol
1390			%
1391			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1392			%
1393			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1394			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1395			%
1396			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1397			%
1398			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1399
1400			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1401			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1402			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1403			%
1404			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1405
1406			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1407			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1408			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1409			the Eastern Time Zone.
1410			[...]
1411			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1412			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1413			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1414			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1415			%
1416			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1417
1418			_dl_profile_output
1419			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1420			%
1421			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1422			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1423			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1424			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1425			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1426			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1427			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1428
1429			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1430			%
1431			[famous last words]
1432			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1433			%
1434			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1435
1436			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1437
1438			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1439
1440			--
1441			Jay Hennigan
1442			%
1443			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1444			%
1445			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1446			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1447			of homeland security]
1448			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1449			%
1450			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1451	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1452	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1453			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1454			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1455			range of spyware available to us?"
1456
1457			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1458			%
1459			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1460			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1461			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1462			%
1463	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1464	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1465			%
1466			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1467			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1468			%
1469			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1470			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1471			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1472			shooter.
1473
1474			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1475			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1476			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1477			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1478			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1479			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1480
1481			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1482			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1483			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1484			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1485			way.
1486
1487			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1488			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1489			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1490
1491			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1492			%
1493			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1494			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1495			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1496			> above comment about Hitler).
1497
1498			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1499			mention Hitler loses.
1500			%
1501			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1502			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1503			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1504			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1505			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1506			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1507			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1508			including <windows.h>.
1509			[...]
1510			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1511			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1512			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1513			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1514			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1515			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1516			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1517			environments.
1518			%
1519			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1520			%
1521			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1522			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1523			%
1524			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1525			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1526			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1527			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1528			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1529			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1530			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1531			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1532			companies want to own your computer.
1533
1534			Some examples:
1535
1536			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1537			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1538			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1539			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1540			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1541			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1542			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1543			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1544			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1545	root	1.432
1546	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1547			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1548			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1549			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1550			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1551
1552			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1553			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1554			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1555			from Microsoft? You can't.
1556
1557			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1558			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1559			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1560			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1561			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1562			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1563			adversely affect its business partners.
1564
1565			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1566			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1567			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1568			about your behavior.
1569
1570			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1571			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1572			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1573			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1574			presumed infractions.
1575
1576			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1577			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1578			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1579
1580			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1581			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1582			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1583			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1584			user's device against him.
1585			[...]
1586			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1587			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1588			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1589			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1590			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1591			back-room marketing deals.
1592			%
1593			[John Carmack on Java]
1594			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1595			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1596			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1597			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1598			performance.
1599			%
1600			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1601
1602			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1603			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1604			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1605			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1606			%
1607			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1608			%
1609			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1610			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1611			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1612			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1613			%
1614			http://funroll-loops.org/
1615			%
1616			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1617			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1618			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1619			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1620			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1621			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1622			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1623			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1624			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1625			Fahrenheit documentation.
1626			%
1627			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1628			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1629			sure its much slower than CVS]
1630			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1631			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1632			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1633	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1634	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1635			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1636	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1637	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1638			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1639	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1640	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1641			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1642			%
1643	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1644
1645			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1646			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1647	root	1.431	%
1648	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1649
1650			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1651			> systems ?
1652
1653			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1654			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1655
1656			Jesper
1657			%
1658	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1659
1660			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1661			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1662
1663	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1664	root	1.429	%
1665	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1666			%
1667	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1668
1669			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1670			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1671			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1672			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1673			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1674			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1675			but that's the truth.
1676			%
1677	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1678
1679			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1680
1681	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1682			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1683			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1684			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1685	root	1.424
1686			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1687	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1688			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1689	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1690
1691			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1692			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1693	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1694	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1695			in Richtung Boden.
1696
1697			[...]
1698
1699	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1700	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1701	root	1.424
1702			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1703	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1704	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1705
1706			[...]
1707
1708			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1709	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1710	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1711	root	1.424
1712			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1713	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1714			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1715			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1716	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1717			sofort.
1718			%
1719	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1720			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1721			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1722			software from Microsoft.)
1723	root	1.424	%
1724	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1725	root	1.424	%
1726	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1727
1728			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1729			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1730			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
1731			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
1732	root	1.424	%
1733	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
1734	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
1735	root	1.424	%
1736	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
1737			From: Rodrigo Severo
1738			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
1739			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
1740
1741			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
1742
1743			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
1744			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
1745			obviously-broken regulations like this.
1746
1747			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
1748			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
1749			brazilian ;)
1750			Rodrigo Severo
1751	root	1.424	%
1752	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
1753	root	1.417
1754			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
1755	root	1.424	%
1756	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
1757
1758			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
1759
1760			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
1761
1762			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
1763			squid (in mostly default debian config).
1764
1765			sigh
1766	root	1.424	%
1767	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
1768			By Bertrand Russell
1769
1770			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
1771			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
1772			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
1773			might be set forth as follows:
1774
1775			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
1776
1777			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
1778			evidence is sure to come to light.
1779
1780			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
1781
1782			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
1783			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
1784			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
1785
1786			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
1787			contrary authorities to be found.
1788
1789			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
1790			do the opinions will suppress you.
1791
1792			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
1793			was once eccentric.
1794
1795			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
1796			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
1797			agreement than the latter.
1798
1799			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
1800			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
1801
1802			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
1803			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
1804
1805			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
1806			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
1807	root	1.424	%
1808	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
1809	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
1810			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
1811			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
1812
1813			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
1814			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
1815			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
1816			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
1817			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
1818			United States."
1819	root	1.413	---
1820			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
1821			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
1822			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
1823	root	1.414	---
1824			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
1825			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
1826			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
1827			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
1828			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
1829
1830			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
1831			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
1832	root	1.424	%
1833	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
1834			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
1835	root	1.424	%
1836	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
1837
1838			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
1839			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
1840
1841			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
1842			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
1843
1844			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
1845
1846			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
1847			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
1848	root	1.424	%
1849	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
1850			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
1851	root	1.424	%
1852	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
1853			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
1854			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
1855			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
1856			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
1857			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
1858	root	1.424	%
1859	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
1860
1861			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
1862			they care about it?"
1863			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
1864	root	1.407
1865			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
1866	root	1.424	%
1867	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
1868			-- Gregory Chaitin
1869	root	1.424	%
1870	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
1871	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
1872			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
1873			[...]
1874	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
1875			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
1876	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
1877	root	1.424	%
1878	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
1879			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
1880			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
1881			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
1882			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
1883			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
1884	root	1.424	%
1885	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
1886
1887			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
1888	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
1889			return 0;
1890	root	1.424	%
1891	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
1892	root	1.401
1893			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
1894			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
1895			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
1896			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
1897			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
1898			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
1899			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
1900			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
1901			> transparent.
1902
1903			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
1904			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
1905			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
1906			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
1907	root	1.424	%
1908	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
1909			aber falsche Lösungen.
1910	root	1.424	%
1911	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
1912			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
1913			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
1914			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
1915	root	1.424	%
1916	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
1917			>
1918			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
1919			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
1920			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
1921			> than useful to the user.
1922
1923			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
1924
1925			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
1926			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
1927			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
1928			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
1929
1930			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
1931
1932			Linus
1933	root	1.424	%
1934	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
1935			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
1936			setzer [?]: what about 9d
1937			theodore [22k?]: they control it
1938	root	1.424	%
1939	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
1940			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
1941
1942	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
1943	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
1944			--
1945			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
1946
1947			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
1948	root	1.424	%
1949	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
1950			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
1951
1952			Person: What do you do?
1953			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
1954			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
1955
1956			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
1957			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
1958			exactly getting off on the right foot.
1959	root	1.394
1960			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
1961			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
1962	root	1.424	%
1963	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
1964			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
1965			illegal downloaders."
1966
1967			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
1968
1969			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
1970			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
1971			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
1972			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
1973			have to emerge."
1974
1975			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
1976	root	1.424	%
1977	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
1978	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
1979
1980			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
1981			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
1982
1983			Bye, Andy
1984	root	1.424	%
1985	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
1986	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
1987	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
1988	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
1989	root	1.390
1990			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
1991			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
1992			System, die das wegstrippen :(
1993			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
1994			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
1995			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
1996			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
1997			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
1998			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
1999			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2000			alle Benutzer.
2001			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2002			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2003			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2004			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2005			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2006			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2007			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2008			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2009			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2010			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2011			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2012	root	1.424	%
2013	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2014
2015			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2016			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2017			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2018			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2019			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2020			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2021			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2022			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2023			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2024			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2025			unfinished operations, etc.
2026			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2027
2028			Valid options:
2029			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2030			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2031
2032			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2033	root	1.424	%
2034	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2035			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2036			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2037			to provide.
2038			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2039	root	1.424	%
2040	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2041
2042			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2043			alarm people more.
2044
2045			-Nate
2046
2047			[...]
2048
2049			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2050			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2051			image of the language that is created here.
2052
2053			Juerd
2054
2055			[...]
2056
2057			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2058			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2059			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2060
2061	root	1.432	--
2062	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2063	root	1.387	%
2064	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2065	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2066	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2067			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2068	root	1.387	%
2069	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2070			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2071	root	1.387	%
2072	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2073			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2074	root	1.387	%
2075	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2076			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2077			[...]
2078			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2079			"Windows is broken."
2080	root	1.387	%
2081	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2082			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2083			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2084	root	1.387	%
2085	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2086			on being able to kill their children legally]
2087			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2088	root	1.387	%
2089	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2090			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2091			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2092	root	1.387	%
2093	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2094			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2095			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2096			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2097			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2098			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2099	root	1.378	--
2100			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2101			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2102			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2103			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2104			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2105			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2106			wasteful government spending."
2107	root	1.387	%
2108	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2109			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2110	root	1.387	%
2111	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2112			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2113	root	1.387	%
2114	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2115			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2116	root	1.387	%
2117	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2118			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2119	root	1.387	%
2120	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2121	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2122	root	1.387	%
2123	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2124			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2125	root	1.387	%
2126	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2127			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2128	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2129	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2130			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2131	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2132	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
2133			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2134	root	1.387	%
2135	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2136			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2137	root	1.387	%
2138	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2139			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2140			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2141			their weapons over our heads."
2142			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2143	root	1.387	%
2144	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2145			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2146	root	1.387	%
2147	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2148			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2149			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2150			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2151			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2152	root	1.387	%
2153	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2154	root	1.387	%
2155	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2156			several requests for clarification.
2157
2158			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2159			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2160			unter TCG definitions.
2161	root	1.387	%
2162	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2163			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2164			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2165			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2166	root	1.387	%
2167	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2168			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2169			get people on board.
2170			%
2171	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2172			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2173			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2174			DRM.
2175
2176			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2177			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2178	root	1.387	%
2179	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2180			switch ($decade) {
2181			case "the 50's":
2182			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2183			break;
2184			case "the 60's":
2185			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2186			break;
2187			case "the 70's":
2188			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2189			break;
2190			case "the 80's":
2191			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2192			break;
2193			case "the 90's":
2194			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2195			break;
2196			case "the 00's":
2197			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2198			break;
2199			}
2200	root	1.387	%
2201	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2202
2203			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2204			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2205			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2206			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2207
2208			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2209			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2210			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2211
2212			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2213			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2214			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2215			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2216			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2217			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2218			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2219			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2220			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2221			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2222	root	1.387	%
2223	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2224			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2225			married or unmarried."
2226
2227			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2228			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2229			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2230			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2231			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2232	root	1.387	%
2233	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2234
2235			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2236			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2237			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2238			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2239			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2240			conditioning.
2241
2242			[And this is religion at its best:]
2243			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2244			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2245			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2246	root	1.387	%
2247	root	1.361	[Racism]
2248			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2249	root	1.387	%
2250	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2251			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2252	root	1.387	%
2253	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2254			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2255
2256			I apologise for this.
2257
2258			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2259			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2260	root	1.387	%
2261	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2262			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2263			el says: ich kenn da wen
2264			el says: bei dem wars so
2265			[...]
2266			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2267			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2268			el says: gehirntumor auch
2269			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2270	root	1.387	%
2271	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2272	root	1.387	%
2273	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2274			no sense in the kernel]
2275			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2276
2277			[...]
2278
2279			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2280			models.
2281
2282			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2283			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2284			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2285	root	1.387	%
2286	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2287			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2288			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2289			--
2290			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2291	root	1.355	--
2292			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2293			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2294			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2295			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2296	root	1.387	%
2297	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2298			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2299			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2300			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2301			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2302			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2303			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2304			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2305	root	1.387	%
2306	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2307			which you currently do not posess]
2308			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2309	root	1.387	%
2310	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2311			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2312	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2313	root	1.387	%
2314	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2315	root	1.387	%
2316	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2317			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2318	root	1.387	%
2319	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2320			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2321			paragraphs.
2322	root	1.387	%
2323	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2324			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2325			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2326	root	1.387	%
2327	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2328			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2329
2330			Most catholics aren't American.
2331	root	1.387	%
2332	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2333
2334			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2335			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2336			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2337			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2338			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2339
2340			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2341			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2342	root	1.387	%
2343	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2344			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2345			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2346			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2347			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2348			criminals."
2349	root	1.387	%
2350	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2351			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2352	root	1.387	%
2353	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2354			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2355	root	1.387	%
2356	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2357			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2358	root	1.387	%
2359	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2360			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2361			card (They went up in flames).
2362	root	1.387	%
2363	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2364			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2365			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2366			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2367	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2368	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2369	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2370	root	1.387	%
2371	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2372			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2373			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2374
2375			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2376
2377			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2378	root	1.387	%
2379	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2380			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2381			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2382			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2383			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2384			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2385			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2386			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2387			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2388			--
2389			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2390			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2391			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2392			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2393			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2394			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2395	root	1.387	%
2396	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2397			The Obfuscated V contest
2398	root	1.387	%
2399	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2400			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2401			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2402			cigarette lighters."
2403			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2404	root	1.387	%
2405	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2406			Does it run under Windows ?
2407			- Who cares?
2408	root	1.387	%
2409	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2410	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2411	root	1.387	%
2412	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2413			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2414			[...]
2415			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2416			[...]
2417			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2418			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2419			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2420	root	1.387	%
2421	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2422	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2423			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2424			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2425	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2426	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2427	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2428	root	1.330	> mehr!
2429			> richy.
2430
2431			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2432	root	1.387	%
2433	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2434	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2435			> zugetragen hat?
2436
2437			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2438			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2439	root	1.388	[später]
2440			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2441	root	1.329
2442			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2443			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2444			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2445			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2446			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2447
2448			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2449
2450			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2451			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2452			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2453	root	1.387	%
2454	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2455	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2456			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2457	root	1.387	%
2458	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2459			/* give the hook another try */
2460			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2461			break;
2462	root	1.387	%
2463	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2464	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2465	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2466			#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))
2467	root	1.387	%
2468	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2469	root	1.387	%
2470	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2471	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2472	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2473	root	1.432	>
2474			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2475			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2476	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2477	root	1.432	>
2478			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2479			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2480	root	1.324	> as TO).
2481	root	1.432	>
2482	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2483
2484			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2485			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2486			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2487			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2488			being discourteous to.
2489
2490			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2491			--
2492			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2493	root	1.387	%
2494	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2495	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2496	root	1.387	%
2497	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2498			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2499			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2500			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2501			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2502	root	1.387	%
2503	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2504			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2505			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2506			you don't have any'."
2507	root	1.323
2508			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2509			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2510			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2511			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2512	root	1.387	%
2513	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2514			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2515			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2516			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2517	root	1.387	%
2518	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2519			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2520			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2521			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2522			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2523			reason will not win many fans.
2524
2525			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2526			documents in the algorithm section]
2527	root	1.387	%
2528	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2529			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2530			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2531			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2532			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2533
2534			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2535	root	1.387	%
2536	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2537			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2538			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2539	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2540	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2541			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2542	root	1.387	%
2543	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2544	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2545	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2546	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2547			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2548	root	1.387	%
2549	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2550			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2551			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2552			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2553			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2554			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2555	root	1.387	%
2556	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2557			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2558	root	1.387	%
2559	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2560	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2561	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2562			* at their price list.
2563	root	1.387	%
2564	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2565			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2566			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2567			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2568			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2569			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2570			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2571	root	1.387	%
2572	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2573			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2574	root	1.387	%
2575	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2576			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2577			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2578			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2579	root	1.387	%
2580	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2581	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2582	root	1.387	%
2583	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2584			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2585	root	1.387	%
2586	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2587	root	1.387	%
2588	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2589			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2590			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2591			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2592			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2593			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2594			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2595			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2596	root	1.387	%
2597	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2598			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2599	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2600	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2601	root	1.387	%
2602	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2603	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2604	root	1.387	%
2605	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2606	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2607			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2608			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2609	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2610
2611			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2612
2613			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2614			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2615	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2616	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2617
2618			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2619
2620			[usw.]
2621
2622			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2623	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2624	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2625
2626			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2627			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2628			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2629			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2630			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2631	root	1.387	%
2632	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2633	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2634			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2635	root	1.387	%
2636	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2637			Which fanboy are you?
2638
2639			1. Windows
2640
2641			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2642			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2643			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2644			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2645			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2646			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2647			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2648			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2649			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2650
2651			2. Apple
2652
2653			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2654			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2655			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2656			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2657			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2658			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2659			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2660			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2661
2662			3. Linspire
2663
2664			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2665			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2666			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2667			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2668			installed Linspire on your machine.
2669
2670			4. Umbongo
2671
2672			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2673			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2674			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2675			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2676			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2677			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2678			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2679			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2680			themselves.
2681
2682			5. Gentoy
2683
2684			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2685			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2686			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2687			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2688			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2689			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2690			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2691			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2692
2693			6. Linux From Scratch
2694
2695			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2696			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2697			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2698			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2699			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2700			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2701			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2702	root	1.387	%
2703	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2704			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2705	root	1.387	%
2706	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2707
2708			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2709			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2710
2711			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2712	root	1.387	%
2713	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2714
2715			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2716	root	1.432	>
2717	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2718	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2719	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2720			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2721			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2722	root	1.432	>
2723			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2724	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
2725	root	1.432	>
2726	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2727			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2728	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2729	root	1.387	%
2730	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
2731	root	1.387	%
2732	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
2733	root	1.387	%
2734	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
2735	root	1.387	%
2736	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
2737			show "Correspondent"]
2738	root	1.288
2739			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
2740			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
2741
2742			[so know we know who creates reality now]
2743			%
2744	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
2745			cock sucking, blowjob
2746			=> fellatio, fellation
2747			=> oral sex, head
2748			=> perversion, sexual perversion
2749			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
2750			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
2751			=> organic process, biological process
2752			=> process
2753			=> phenomenon
2754	root	1.387	%
2755	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
2756			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
2757	root	1.387	%
2758	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
2759			[slightly edited]
2760			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
2761			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
2762			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
2763			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
2764
2765			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
2766			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
2767			laws on terrorism and drugs.
2768
2769			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
2770			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
2771	root	1.387	%
2772	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
2773			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
2774	root	1.387	%
2775	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
2776	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
2777	root	1.387	%
2778	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
2779	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
2780			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
2781	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2782	root	1.387	%
2783	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
2784			- oesi
2785	root	1.387	%
2786	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
2787			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
2788	root	1.387	%
2789	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
2790	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
2791	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
2792			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
2793
2794			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
2795			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
2796			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
2797			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
2798			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
2799			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
2800			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
2801			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
2802			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
2803			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
2804			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
2805			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
2806			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
2807			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
2808			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
2809			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
2810			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
2811			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
2812			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
2813			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
2814			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
2815			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
2816			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
2817			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
2818
2819			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
2820			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
2821			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
2822			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
2823			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
2824
2825			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
2826			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
2827			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
2828			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
2829			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
2830			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
2831			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
2832			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
2833			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
2834			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
2835			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
2836
2837			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
2838			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
2839			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
2840			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
2841			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
2842			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
2843			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
2844			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
2845			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
2846			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
2847			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
2848			sovereign nation.
2849
2850			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
2851			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
2852			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
2853			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
2854			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
2855			CSPAN, don't post here.
2856
2857			-scott
2858	root	1.387	%
2859	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
2860			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
2861			capacity to feel pain.
2862
2863			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
2864			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
2865	root	1.387	%
2866	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
2867			From: Sven Neumann
2868
2869			Hi,
2870
2871	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
2872	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
2873	root	1.273
2874			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
2875			that
2876
2877			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
2878
2879			does not do what you would expect it to do.
2880	root	1.387	%
2881	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
2882	root	1.272	the original comment says:
2883			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
2884			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
2885	root	1.387	%
2886	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
2887			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
2888			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
2889			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
2890			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
2891			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
2892	root	1.387	%
2893	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
2894	root	1.270	interesting read]
2895			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
2896	root	1.387	%
2897	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
2898			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
2899			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
2900	root	1.387	%
2901	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
2902			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
2903			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
2904			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
2905			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
2906			locks can open the gate.
2907
2908			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
2909			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
2910			with different locks in parallel and in series.
2911	root	1.387	%
2912	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
2913			Safecracking for the computer scientist
2914	root	1.387	%
2915	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
2916
2917			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
2918
2919			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
2920			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
2921			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
2922			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
2923			explanation of this.
2924
2925			Theory: An explanation of an observation
2926
2927			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
2928			which explains why the hammer falls.
2929
2930			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
2931			how a population's genome can change over time.
2932
2933	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
2934			mathematical relationship between two values.
2935	root	1.265
2936			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
2937			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
2938
2939			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
2940			acceleration.
2941
2942			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
2943			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
2944			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
2945			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
2946			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
2947			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
2948			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
2949			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
2950			false.
2951
2952			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
2953	root	1.387	%
2954	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
2955	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
2956
2957			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
2958			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
2959	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
2960			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
2961			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
2962	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
2963
2964	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
2965			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
2966			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
2967			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
2968			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
2969			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
2970			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
2971	root	1.264
2972			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
2973	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
2974			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
2975			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
2976			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
2977	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
2978	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
2979	root	1.264	sportlich.
2980
2981	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
2982			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
2983			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
2984			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
2985			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
2986	root	1.264
2987	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
2988	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
2989	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
2990			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
2991	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
2992
2993			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
2994			Forscher.
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
2997			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
2998			EULA-style license]
2999	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3000	root	1.387	%
3001	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3002			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3003			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3004			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3005			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3006			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3007			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3008	root	1.387	%
3009	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3010	root	1.387	%
3011	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3012			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3013			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3014			00:24 <schmorp> re
3015	root	1.387	%
3016	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3017	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3018			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3019	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3020			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3021	root	1.387	%
3022	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3023			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3024			proponents of such theories.]
3025			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3026			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3027			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3028			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3029			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3030			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3031			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3032			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3033			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3034			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3035			(below, right)."
3036	root	1.387	%
3037	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3038			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3039			[useful info...]
3040			http://www.snopes.com/
3041	root	1.387	%
3042	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3043			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3044	root	1.387	%
3045	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3046			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3047	root	1.387	%
3048	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3049	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3050			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3053			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3054			#!/usr/bin/sh
3055			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3056			# All Rights Reserved
3057
3058			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3059			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3060			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3061
3062			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3063	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3064	root	1.387	%
3065	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3066			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3067			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3068	root	1.387	%
3069	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3070			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3071			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3072			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3073			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3074			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3075			#
3076			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3077	root	1.387	%
3078	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3079	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3080			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3081			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3082	root	1.387	%
3083	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3084	root	1.387	%
3085	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3086	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3087			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3088	root	1.387	%
3089	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3090			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3091			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3092	root	1.387	%
3093	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3094	root	1.387	%
3095	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3096			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3097			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3098			that you have a problem.)
3099			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3100	root	1.387	%
3101	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3102			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3103	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3104	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3105
3106			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3107			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3108	root	1.387	%
3109	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3110			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3111
3112			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3113			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3114			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3115			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3116			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3117			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3118			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3119			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3120			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3121			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3122			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3123			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3124			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3125			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3126
3127			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3128			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3129			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3130			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3131			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3132			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3133			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3134	root	1.387	%
3135	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3136	root	1.239
3137			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3138			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3139			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3142			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3143			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3144	root	1.387	%
3145	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3146
3147			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3148			;)
3149	root	1.387	%
3150	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3151			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3152			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3153			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3154
3155			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3156
3157	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3158			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3159	root	1.387	%
3160	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3161			using so many abbreviations...]
3162
3163			Hi Volker -
3164
3165			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3166	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3167			spät ...
3168	root	1.234
3169			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3170
3171			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3172
3173	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3174			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3175	root	1.234
3176	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3177	root	1.234
3178			tom
3179	root	1.247
3180	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3181	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3182	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3183	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3184	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3185	root	1.387	%
3186	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3187			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3188			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3189
3190			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3191	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3192			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3193	root	1.233	> someone else?
3194
3195			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3196			===================================================================
3197			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3198			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3199			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3200			S: 79098 Freiburg
3201			S: Germany
3202
3203			+N: Hans Reiser
3204			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3205			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3206			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3207			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3208			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3209			+S: USA
3210			+
3211			N: Joerg Reuter
3212			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3213			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3214	root	1.387	%
3215	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3216			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3217	root	1.387	%
3218	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3219			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3220	root	1.387	%
3221	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3222			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3223	root	1.387	%
3224	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3225			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3226			[...]
3227			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3228			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3229			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3230			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3231			[...]
3232			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3233			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3234			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3235			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3236	root	1.387	%
3237	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3238			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3239			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3240			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3241			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3242			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3243	root	1.387	%
3244	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3245	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3246			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3247			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3248			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3249			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3250			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3251			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3252			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3253	root	1.387	%
3254	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3255			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3256	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3257	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3258	root	1.387	%
3259	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3260			[yes, the whole thing]
3261	root	1.387	%
3262	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3263	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3264			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3265			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3266	root	1.221	>
3267			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3268
3269			We'll use a larger wall.
3270	root	1.387	%
3271	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3272			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3273			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3274			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3275
3276			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3277			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3278
3279			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3280			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3281
3282			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3283			cost.
3284			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3285	root	1.387	%
3286	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3287
3288	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3289	root	1.219
3290			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3291
3292	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3293	root	1.387	%
3294	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3295			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3296	root	1.387	%
3297	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3298			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3299	root	1.387	%
3300	root	1.215	[translated]
3301			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3302			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3303			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3304			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3305			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3306			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3307			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3308			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3309	root	1.387	%
3310	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3311			-- Lord Balfour
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3314	root	1.387	%
3315	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3316			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3317			him to forgive me.
3318	root	1.387	%
3319	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3320			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3321
3322			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3323	root	1.387	%
3324	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3325			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3326			get bored during the sex scenes.
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3329			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3330			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3331	root	1.387	%
3332	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3333			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3334			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3335			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3336			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3337			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3340			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3341			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3342			HP-UX customer. [...]
3343	root	1.387	%
3344	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3345			>>
3346			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3347			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3348			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3349			>>spelled it in UC.
3350	root	1.247	>
3351			>
3352	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3353
3354			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3355	root	1.387	%
3356	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3357			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3358
3359			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3360			usage.
3361
3362			Richard
3363	root	1.387	%
3364	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3365			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3366			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3367			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3368			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3369			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3370	root	1.387	%
3371	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3372			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3373	root	1.387	%
3374	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3375	root	1.387	%
3376	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3377			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3378			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3379			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3380			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3381			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3382			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3383			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3384			existence means and implies.
3385
3386			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3387	root	1.387	%
3388	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3389			>
3390			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3391			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3392			>
3393			> You're WRONG!
3394
3395	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3396			and §7.20.3.1).
3397	root	1.387	%
3398	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3399			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3400			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3401	root	1.387	%
3402	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3403			A. It should be obvious.
3404			Q. How is it hard?
3405			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3406			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3407	root	1.387	%
3408	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3409			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3410
3411			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3412			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3413
3414			- works ok on linux
3415			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3416
3417			Any clues why?
3418			I am new to the non windows world.
3419
3420			Thanks
3421	root	1.387	%
3422	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3423			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3424			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3425			> this ?
3426
3427			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3428			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3429	root	1.387	%
3430	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3431			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3432			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3433
3434			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3435	root	1.247	>
3436			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3437			>
3438	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3439	root	1.387	%
3440	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3441			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3442
3443			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3444	root	1.387	%
3445	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3446			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3447	root	1.387	%
3448	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3449	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3450	root	1.194
3451			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3452			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3453	root	1.387	%
3454	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3455			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3456	root	1.387	%
3457	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3458	root	1.387	%
3459	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3460			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3461	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3462	root	1.387	%
3463	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3464			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3465			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3466	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3467
3468	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3469	root	1.190
3470	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3471	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3472			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3473			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3474	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3475			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3476			schützen können.
3477	root	1.387	%
3478	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3479			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3480	root	1.387	%
3481	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3482			[...]
3483	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3484	root	1.188	[...]
3485	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3486			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3487			never get your message.
3488	root	1.387	%
3489	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3490			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3491			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3492	root	1.387	%
3493	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3494			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3495			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3496	root	1.387	%
3497	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3498			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3499			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3500			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3501			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3502			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3503			01:15 <schmorp> g
3504			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3505	root	1.387	%
3506	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3507			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3508			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3509			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3510			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3511			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3512			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3513			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3514	root	1.387	%
3515	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3516			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3517			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3518	root	1.387	%
3519	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3520			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3521			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3522			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3523			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3524			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3525			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3526	root	1.387	%
3527	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3528			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3529	root	1.387	%
3530	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3531			GNOME TERMINAL
3532			[...]
3533			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3534			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3535			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3536			[.. later]
3537			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3538			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3539			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3540	root	1.387	%
3541	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3542			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3543			/*
3544	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3545	root	1.179	*/
3546			void blip()
3547	root	1.247	{
3548	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3549			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3550			fflush(stderr);
3551	root	1.247	}
3552	root	1.387	%
3553	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3554			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3555
3556			Why not 666? :-).
3557	root	1.387	%
3558	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3559			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3560			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3561			users are clueless.
3562	root	1.387	%
3563	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3564			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3565	root	1.387	%
3566	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3567			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3568	root	1.387	%
3569	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3570			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3571	root	1.387	%
3572	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3573			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3574			and", and finally, ampersand.
3575	root	1.387	%
3576	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3577			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3578			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3579			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3580			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3581	root	1.387	%
3582	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3583			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3584			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3585			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3586			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3589			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3590			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3591			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3592			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3593			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3594			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3595	root	1.387	%
3596	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3597	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3598			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3599	root	1.387	%
3600	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3601			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3602			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3603	root	1.387	%
3604	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3605	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3606	root	1.387	%
3607	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3608	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3609			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3610			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3611	root	1.167	%
3612	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3613	root	1.387	%
3614	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3615			<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
3616	root	1.387	%
3617	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3618			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3619	root	1.164	einfach :)
3620			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3621	root	1.387	%
3622	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3623			/*
3624			* Function compares two strings.
3625	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3626	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3627			*/
3628			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3629			{
3630			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3631			[...]
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3634	root	1.387	%
3635	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3636	root	1.387	%
3637	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3638			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3639			Get_Colours ();
3640	root	1.387	%
3641	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3642	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3643			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3644			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3645			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3646			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3647			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3648			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3649			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3650	root	1.161	[...]
3651			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3652			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3653			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3654			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3655			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3656	root	1.387	%
3657	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3658			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3659	root	1.387	%
3660	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3661			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3662	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3663	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3664			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3665			#endif
3666	root	1.387	%
3667	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3668			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3669			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3670	root	1.387	%
3671	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3672			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3673			>
3674			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3675
3676			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3677			--
3678			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3679	root	1.387	%
3680	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3681			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3682			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3683			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3684			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3685			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3686			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3687	root	1.387	%
3688	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3689			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3690	root	1.387	%
3691	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3692	root	1.387	%
3693	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3694			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3695			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3696			-- Robert Fisk
3697	root	1.387	%
3698	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3699			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3700	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3701			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3702	root	1.387	%
3703	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3704			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3705			high-violence culture"
3706			[...]
3707			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3708			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3709			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3710			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3711			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3712			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3713			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3714			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3715
3716			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3717			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3718	root	1.387	%
3719	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3720			Subject: Re: [...]
3721
3722			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3723
3724			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3725			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3726			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3727			> saved it :)
3728
3729			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3730			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
3731			[...]
3732	root	1.387	%
3733	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
3734			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
3735			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
3736			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
3737			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
3738
3739			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
3740			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
3741			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
3742			[...]
3743	root	1.387	%
3744	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3745	root	1.387	%
3746	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3747	root	1.387	%
3748	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3749	root	1.387	%
3750	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
3751			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
3752			claim to have decades of java experience]
3753			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
3754			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
3755			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
3756			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
3757	root	1.387	%
3758	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3759	root	1.387	%
3760	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3761	root	1.387	%
3762	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3763	root	1.387	%
3764	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
3765			[mail not to be delivered]
3766			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
3767	root	1.247	>
3768	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
3769
3770			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
3771			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
3774
3775			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
3776			>
3777			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
3778			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
3779			> >
3780			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
3781			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
3782			> > language which does support this?
3783			>
3784
3785			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
3786
3787			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
3788			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
3789			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
3790			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
3791			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
3792			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
3793	root	1.387	%
3794	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
3795			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
3796			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
3797	root	1.387	%
3798	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
3799			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
3800			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
3801
3802			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
3803			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
3804			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
3805			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
3806			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
3807
3808			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
3809			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
3810			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
3811			and thwart them that way.
3812	root	1.387	%
3813	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
3814			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
3815			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
3816			unfortunate decision.
3817	root	1.387	%
3818	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
3819	root	1.146	fest ;)
3820	root	1.387	%
3821	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
3822
3823			Last updated: - Invalid Date
3824	root	1.387	%
3825	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
3826	root	1.387	%
3827	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
3828			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
3829	root	1.387	%
3830	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
3831
3832			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
3833			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
3834			local object as a "he":
3835
3836			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
3837			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
3838			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
3839			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
3840			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
3841			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
3842			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
3843			EX-PARROT!"
3844
3845			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
3846	root	1.387	%
3847	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
3848			"pflichtpfandfrei"
3849	root	1.387	%
3850	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
3851			The police will shoot you.
3852
3853			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
3854			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
3855
3856	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
3857	root	1.387	%
3858	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
3859			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
3860			reply.
3861
3862			pls. cc my email address
3863
3864			tia
3865			pd
3866
3867
3868	root	1.247	--
3869	root	1.141	^X^C
3870			q
3871			quit
3872			:q
3873			^C
3874			end
3875			x
3876			exit
3877			ZZ
3878			^D
3879			?
3880			help
3881			shit
3882			.
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
3887			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
3888			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
3889			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
3890	root	1.387	%
3891	root	1.140	[I love it]
3892			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
3893			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
3894	root	1.387	%
3895	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
3896			- Douglas Adams
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
3899			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
3900			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
3901			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
3902
3903	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
3904			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
3905			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
3906			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
3907			their software properly.
3908	root	1.138
3909			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
3910			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
3911			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
3912			told the publication.
3913
3914	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
3915			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
3916			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
3917			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
3918			who want visibility and glory.
3919	root	1.387	%
3920	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
3921
3922			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
3923
3924			x Try not using it.
3925	root	1.387	%
3926	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
3927			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
3928			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
3929			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
3930			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
3931			had given.
3932
3933			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
3934			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
3935			person as well."
3936	root	1.387	%
3937	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
3938	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
3939			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
3940	root	1.387	%
3941	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
3942	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
3943	root	1.134
3944			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
3945	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
3946	root	1.135	[...]
3947	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
3948	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
3949	root	1.135	[...]
3950			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
3951			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
3954	root	1.387	%
3955	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
3956			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
3957			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
3958			-- Ulrich Drepper
3959	root	1.387	%
3960	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
3961			-- Ulrich Drepper
3962	root	1.387	%
3963	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
3964			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
3965	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
3966	root	1.387	%
3967	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
3968			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
3969			-- Ulrich Drepper
3970	root	1.387	%
3971	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
3972			-- Ulrich Drepper
3973	root	1.387	%
3974	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
3975	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
3976			zuverlässiger
3977	root	1.387	%
3978	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
3979			/*
3980			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
3981			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
3982			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
3983			*/
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
3986			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
3987			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
3988			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
3989			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
3990	root	1.387	%
3991	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
3992			Pirating Movies
3993
3994			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
3995			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
3996			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
3997	root	1.387	%
3998	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
3999			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4000	root	1.387	%
4001	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4002			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4003	root	1.387	%
4004	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4005			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4006			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4007			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4008			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4009	root	1.387	%
4010	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4011			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4012			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4013			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4014			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4015
4016			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4017			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4018
4019			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4020			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4021			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4022			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4023			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4024			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4025			the first place!
4026	root	1.387	%
4027	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4028			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4029			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4030	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4031	root	1.387	%
4032	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4033			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4034	root	1.387	%
4035	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4036			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4039			platform."
4040			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4041	root	1.387	%
4042	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4043			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4044			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4045			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4046			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4047	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4048	root	1.387	%
4049	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4050			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4051	root	1.387	%
4052	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4053			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4054			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4055			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4056			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4057			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4058			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4059			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4060			daily.
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4063	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4064			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4065	root	1.387	%
4066	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4067			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4068			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4069			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4070			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4071			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4072			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4073	root	1.387	%
4074	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4075	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4076	root	1.387	%
4077	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4078			[...so it must be good]
4079			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4080	root	1.387	%
4081	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4082			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4083			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4084	root	1.387	%
4085	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4086			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4087			No idea why I announce it here...
4088	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4089	root	1.387	%
4090	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4091			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4092	root	1.387	%
4093	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4094	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4095	root	1.387	%
4096	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4097			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4098			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4099			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4100			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4101
4102			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4103			Sacha.
4104	root	1.387	%
4105	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4106			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4107			desk one morning:
4108
4109			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4110
4111			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4112
4113			Employee: 123456
4114
4115			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4116			photograph of the employee.]
4117
4118			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4119			identification which has your picture on it?
4120
4121			Employee: Why would you need that?
4122
4123			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4124
4125			Employee: A picture of my face?
4126
4127			Security Guard: Yes
4128
4129			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4130
4131			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4132			compare against this one.
4133	root	1.387	%
4134	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4135			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4136			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4137	root	1.387	%
4138	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4139			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4140			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4141
4142			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4143			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4144	root	1.387	%
4145	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4148			"RV K-17"
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4151			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4152	root	1.387	%
4153	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4154			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4155			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4156			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4157	root	1.387	%
4158	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4159			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4160	root	1.387	%
4161	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4162	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4163			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4164	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4165	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4166			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4167	root	1.387	%
4168	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4169	root	1.387	%
4170	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4171			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4172	root	1.387	%
4173	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4174			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4175			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4176			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4177	root	1.387	%
4178	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4179			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4180			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4181			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4182			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4183			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4184			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4185			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4186			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4187			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4188			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4189			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4190			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4191			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4192			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4193			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4194			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4195			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4196			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4197	root	1.387	%
4198	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4199			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4200	root	1.387	%
4201	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4202			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4203	root	1.387	%
4204	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4205			Lester Moore,
4206			Shot in the head with a .44.
4207			No Les, no more.
4208	root	1.387	%
4209	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4210			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4211
4212			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4213			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4214	root	1.387	%
4215	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4216			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4217			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4218	root	1.387	%
4219	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4220			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4221			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4222			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4223			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4224	root	1.112	[...]
4225			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4226			[...]
4227			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4228			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4229			the result with SHA.
4230	root	1.387	%
4231	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4232	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4233			> ist!
4234	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4235			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4236	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4237	root	1.387	%
4238	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4239			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4240	root	1.387	%
4241	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4242	root	1.387	%
4243	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4244			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4245			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4246			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4247			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4248			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4249	root	1.387	%
4250	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4251			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4252	root	1.387	%
4253	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4254			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4255	root	1.387	%
4256	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4257			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4258	root	1.387	%
4259	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4260
4261			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4262			* control history, is that we should at least
4263			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4264			* "initialisation"? */
4265			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4266	root	1.387	%
4267	root	1.105	[man pem]
4268			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4269	root	1.387	%
4270	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4271
4272			/* ``If you can't do it in
4273	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4274	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4275	root	1.387	%
4276	root	1.104	[subculture]
4277	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4278			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4279	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4280
4281			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4282	root	1.424	%
4283	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4284			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4285	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4286	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4287	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4288	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4289			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4290	root	1.387	%
4291	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4292	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4293			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4294			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4295	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4296	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4297			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4298			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4299	root	1.387	%
4300	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4301			aber wenig freude.
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4304			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4305			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4306			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4307			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4308			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4309			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4310			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4311			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4312			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4313	root	1.387	%
4314	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4315			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4316	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4317			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4318	root	1.387	%
4319	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4320			don't work well in practise.
4321			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4322	root	1.387	%
4323	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4324			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4325			"ready, fire, aim."
4326	root	1.387	%
4327	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4328			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4329			free countries like Germany [1].
4330			[...]
4331			Regards
4332			Henning
4333
4334			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4335			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4336			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4337	root	1.387	%
4338	root	1.98	[...]
4339			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4340			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4341			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4342			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4343			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4344			[...]
4345			Wolfgang Walter
4346	root	1.387	%
4347	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4348			burro: it seemed very clever
4349			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4350			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4351			burro: oops
4352			burro: accidental poetry
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4355			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4356			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4357	root	1.387	%
4358	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4359			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4360	root	1.387	%
4361	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4362			-- Oscar Wilde
4363	root	1.387	%
4364	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4365			"guilty until proven innocent"
4366			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4367	root	1.387	%
4368	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4369			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4370			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4371			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4372			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4373			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4374			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4375			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4376			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4377			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4378			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4379			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4380			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4381			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4382			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4383	root	1.387	%
4384	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4385			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4386			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4387			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4388			// suit particular needs.
4389			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4390	root	1.387	%
4391	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4392			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4393			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4394	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4395	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4396	root	1.387	%
4397	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4398			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4399	root	1.387	%
4400	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4401			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4402	root	1.387	%
4403	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4404			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4405			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4406	root	1.387	%
4407	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4408			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4409	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4410			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4411	root	1.387	%
4412	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4413
4414			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4415			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4416			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4417			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4418			is not [...]
4419	root	1.387	%
4420	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4421	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4422			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4423	root	1.387	%
4424	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4425			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4426
4427	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4428	root	1.94
4429			GUI
4430			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4431			Globale Variable
4432	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4433	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4434			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4435			strukturiert
4436			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4437			Multithreaded
4438	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4439	root	1.94	Windows 95
4440	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4441	root	1.94	Emacs
4442	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4443			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4444			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4445	root	1.94	IPv6
4446			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4447			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4448			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4449			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4450	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4451			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4452	root	1.247	PHP
4453	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4454	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4455	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4456			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4457	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4458	root	1.94	Bunt.
4459	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4460			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4461			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4462	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4463	root	1.387	%
4464	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4465			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4466	root	1.387	%
4467	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4468	root	1.387	%
4469	root	1.93	[nah]
4470			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4471			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4472			paint dry."
4473	root	1.387	%
4474	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4475			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4476			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4477	root	1.387	%
4478	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4479	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4480			importance.
4481	root	1.387	%
4482	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4483			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4484			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4485			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4486
4487			You have to trust Microsoft.
4488
4489			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4490			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4491			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4492			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4493			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4494			useless chrome.
4495
4496			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4497			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4498			I'd like to trust them with.
4499	root	1.93	[...]
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4502			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4503			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4504			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4505			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4506	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4507	root	1.91	--------------^
4508	root	1.387	%
4509	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4510			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4511			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4512			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4513			English grammar, I assure you.
4514	root	1.387	%
4515	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4516			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4517			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4518			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4519			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4520			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4521			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4522
4523			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4524			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4525			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4526			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4527			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4528			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4529			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4530			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4531			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4532			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4533
4534			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4535			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4536			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4537			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4538
4539			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4540			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4541	root	1.387	%
4542	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4543			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4544			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4545			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4546			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4547			work etc first:
4548
4549			#include <stdio.h>
4550
4551			int main (void) {
4552			while (1)
4553			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4554
4555			return 0;
4556			}
4557	root	1.387	%
4558	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4559			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4560	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4561	root	1.387	%
4562	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4563			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4564			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4565			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4568			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4569			proprietary and patentend technology.
4570	root	1.387	%
4571	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4572	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4573	root	1.387	%
4574	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4575	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4576	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4577			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4578			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4579	root	1.387	%
4580	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4581			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4582	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4583	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4584			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4585	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4586	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4587	root	1.87
4588	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4589			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4590			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4591			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4592			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4593			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4594	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4595			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4596
4597	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4598			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4599			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4600			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4601			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4602			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4603			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4604			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4605			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4606			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4607	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4608	root	1.387	%
4609	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4610			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4611	root	1.387	%
4612	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4613			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4614			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4615	root	1.387	%
4616	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4617			"linux" thing will fail]
4618			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4619			[...]
4620	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4621	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4622			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4623			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4624
4625			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4626			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4627			life to the public good.
4628
4629			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4630			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4631			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4632			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4633			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4634
4635			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4636			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4637			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4638			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4639			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4640			software to work on the linux kernel!
4641
4642			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4643			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4644			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4645			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4646			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4647	root	1.387	%
4648	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4649	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4650			[...]
4651			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4652	root	1.387	%
4653	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4654			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4655			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4656			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4657	root	1.387	%
4658	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4659	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4660			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4661			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4662			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4663			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4664	root	1.387	%
4665	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4666			-- Leonard Brandwein
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4669	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4670			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4671			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4672			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4673			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4674			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4675			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4676			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4677			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4678			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4679			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4680	root	1.387	%
4681	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4682			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4683	root	1.387	%
4684	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4685			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4686			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4687			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4688			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4689			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4690			jurisprudence fun?
4691			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4692	root	1.387	%
4693	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4694			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4695			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4696	root	1.84	[...]
4697	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4698	root	1.387	%
4699	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4700			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4701			- Paul Ginsparg.
4702	root	1.387	%
4703	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4704			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4705			home.":))
4706			[erm...]
4707	root	1.387	%
4708	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4709
4710	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4711	root	1.387	%
4712	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4713	root	1.387	%
4714	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4715
4716			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4717			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4718			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4719			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4720	root	1.387	%
4721	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4722			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4723			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4724	root	1.387	%
4725	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
4726	root	1.83
4727			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4728	root	1.82
4729			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4730			to use in future emails?
4731	root	1.387	%
4732	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
4733			please?
4734
4735			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
4736			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
4737
4738	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
4739	root	1.387	%
4740	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
4741			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
4742			last until February 16th 2003.
4743
4744			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
4745			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
4746			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
4747			end.
4748
4749			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
4750
4751			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
4752			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
4753			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
4754			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
4755			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
4756			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
4757			take place on October 27th.
4758
4759			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
4760			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
4761			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
4762			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
4763			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
4764			the clock)...
4765	root	1.387	%
4766	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
4767			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
4768			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
4769			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
4770			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
4771
4772			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
4773			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
4774			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
4775			RedHat and SuSE).
4776
4777			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
4778
4779			Pavel
4780	root	1.387	%
4781	root	1.81	Rik
4782	root	1.247	--
4783	root	1.81	A: No.
4784			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
4785	root	1.387	%
4786	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
4787	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
4788			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
4789	root	1.81
4790			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
4791			no useful data.
4792
4793	root	1.247	--
4794	root	1.81	bill davidsen
4795	root	1.387	%
4796	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
4797			there was a long do..while construct,
4798			which contained a switch statement,
4799			which contained an if clause,
4800			which contained a break,
4801			which was intended for the if clause,
4802			but instead broke from the switch statement.
4803
4804			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
4805			network January 15, 1990
4806	root	1.387	%
4807	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
4808
4809	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
4810			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
4811			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
4812			violation of network policies.
4813	root	1.80
4814			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
4815
4816			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
4817			The format is as follows:
4818
4819			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
4820	root	1.387	%
4821	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
4822			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
4823			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
4826			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
4827			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
4828			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
4829			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
4830			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
4831			...
4832			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
4833			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
4834			the effort."
4835	root	1.387	%
4836	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
4837	root	1.387	%
4838	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
4839			gay people mad at me with this one...]
4840	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
4841	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
4842			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
4843	root	1.387	%
4844	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
4845	root	1.387	%
4846	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
4849			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
4850			[Albert Cahalan]
4851	root	1.387	%
4852	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
4853			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
4854			least as bad, but lesser known.
4855	root	1.387	%
4856	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
4857			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
4858			different.
4859	root	1.387	%
4860	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.
4861	root	1.387	%
4862	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
4863			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
4864	root	1.387	%
4865	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
4866			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
4867			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
4868			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
4869			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
4870			without a show.
4871	root	1.387	%
4872	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
4873	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
4874	root	1.387	%
4875	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
4876	root	1.387	%
4877	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
4878			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
4879	root	1.387	%
4880	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
4881			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
4882			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
4883	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
4884	root	1.71	going on.
4885			[...]
4886	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
4887			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
4888			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
4889	root	1.387	%
4890	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
4891			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
4892	root	1.387	%
4893	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
4894	root	1.387	%
4895	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
4896	root	1.387	%
4897	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
4898			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
4899			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
4900	root	1.387	%
4901	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
4902			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
4903			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
4904			returned data.
4905
4906	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
4907			FindExInfoStandard
4908			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
4909	root	1.387	%
4910	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
4911	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
4912			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
4913	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
4914	root	1.387	%
4915	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
4916			it doesn't work:]
4917			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
4918			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
4919			this MIME type as the final determination.
4920	root	1.387	%
4921	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
4922
4923			Recode 0.1.1
4924			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
4925
4926			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
4927			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
4928
4929			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
4930	root	1.387	%
4931	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
4932	root	1.387	%
4933	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
4934	root	1.387	%
4935	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4936
4937			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
4938			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
4939			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
4940			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
4941			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
4942			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
4943			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
4944			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
4945			century."
4946
4947			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
4948			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
4949			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
4950			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
4951			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
4952			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
4953			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
4954			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
4955			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
4956			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
4957			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
4958			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
4959			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
4960			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
4961
4962			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
4963			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
4964			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
4965			hilarious in light of the above.
4966			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
4967
4968			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
4969			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
4970			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
4971			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
4972			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
4973			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
4974			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
4975
4976			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
4977			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
4978			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
4979			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
4980	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
4981	root	1.387	%
4982	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
4985			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
4986	root	1.387	%
4987	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
4988			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
4989			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
4990
4991			Tony Hoare
4992	root	1.387	%
4993	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
4994			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
4995	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
4996	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
4997	root	1.387	%
4998	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
4999
5000			[...]
5001			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5002			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5003			system. Basically its windows computer
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5006	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5007	root	1.387	%
5008	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5009
5010			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5011			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5012			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5013			> software developers...
5014
5015			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5016	root	1.387	%
5017	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5018			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5019			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5020			>
5021			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5022
5023			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5024			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5025
5026			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5027			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5028
5029			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5030			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5031			off by throwing away the patch.
5032
5033			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5034			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5035			patch any time soon.
5036
5037			--
5038			Daniel
5039	root	1.387	%
5040	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5041			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5042			[...]
5043			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5044			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5045			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5046	root	1.387	%
5047	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5048
5049			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5050			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5051			Is it realy needed?
5052	root	1.387	%
5053	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5054
5055			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5056
5057			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5058			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5059			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5060	root	1.387	%
5061	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5062			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5063			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5064			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5065			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5066			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5067			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5068	root	1.387	%
5069	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5070
5071			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5072			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5073			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5074			>
5075			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5076
5077			This is an ex-parrot
5078	root	1.387	%
5079	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5080
5081			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5082			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5083			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5084			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5085			>
5086			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5087			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5088
5089			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5090
5091			while (!sorted(data))
5092			;
5093	root	1.387	%
5094	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5095			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5096
5097			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5098
5099			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5100			to computing
5101	root	1.387	%
5102	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5103
5104			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5105			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5106
5107			Common sense, one would hope.
5108	root	1.387	%
5109	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5110			[...]
5111
5112			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5113			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5114			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5115
5116			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5117
5118			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5119			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5120			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5121			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5122
5123			:-)
5124	root	1.387	%
5125	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5126			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5127			their C programs."
5128	root	1.60
5129			Robert Firth
5130	root	1.387	%
5131	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5132	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5133	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5134			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5135	root	1.387	%
5136	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5137	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5138	root	1.387	%
5139	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5140			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5141	root	1.387	%
5142	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5143	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5144	root	1.387	%
5145	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5146	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5147			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5148	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5149			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5150	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5151			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5152
5153			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5154
5155			\Gisbert
5156	root	1.387	%
5157	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5158	root	1.387	%
5159	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5160			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5161			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5162	root	1.387	%
5163	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5164			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5165
5166			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5167			[...]
5168	root	1.387	%
5169	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5170			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5171			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5172
5173			ok 1
5174			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5175			not ok 2
5176			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5177	root	1.387	%
5178	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5179
5180			Cheers,
5181
5182			Andre Hedrick
5183			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5184	root	1.387	%
5185	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5186	root	1.247	>
5187	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5188
5189			Or mutabloat :-(
5190	root	1.387	%
5191	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5192			Outlook IS the solution.
5193	root	1.387	%
5194	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5195	root	1.387	%
5196	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5197
5198			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5199			never bought anything from UUNet.
5200	root	1.387	%
5201	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5202			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5203			by delving below its surface meaning)
5204	root	1.387	%
5205	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5206	root	1.387	%
5207	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5208
5209			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5210			> just go to court and say:
5211
5212			Oh glorious naivety.
5213
5214			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5215			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5216			> can do the work better than I).
5217
5218			You release the code
5219
5220			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5221
5222			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5223			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5224			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5225			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5226
5227			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5228			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5229
5230			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5231			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5232
5233			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5234
5235			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5236			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5237			or that the good guys win.
5238
5239			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5240			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5241	root	1.387	%
5242	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5243
5244			[...]
5245			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5246			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5247	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5248	root	1.51	year to kill.
5249	root	1.387	%
5250	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5251			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5252
5253			[...]
5254			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5255			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5256			of for Windows desktop systems."
5257			[...]
5258			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5259			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5260			[...]
5261			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5262			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5263			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5264			turned on by default.
5265			[...]
5266			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5267			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5268			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5269			[...]
5270			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5271			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5272			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5273			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5274			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5275			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5276			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5277			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5278			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5279	root	1.387	%
5280	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5281	root	1.387	%
5282	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5283	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5284	root	1.49
5285			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5286
5287			Monday, 06. November 2000
5288	root	1.387	%
5289	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5290			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5293	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5294			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5295			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5296	root	1.387	%
5297	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5298			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5299			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5300			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5301	root	1.387	%
5302	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5303			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5304
5305			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5306			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5307			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5308	root	1.387	%
5309	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5310			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5311
5312			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5313			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5314			> dropped patches.
5315
5316			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5317	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5318	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5319			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5320			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5321			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5322	root	1.387	%
5323	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5324			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5325			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5326	root	1.387	%
5327	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5328
5329			From: Bill Huey
5330			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5331
5332			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5333
5334			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5335	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5336	root	1.45	themselves.
5337
5338			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5339			certain.
5340	root	1.387	%
5341	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5342			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5343			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5344
5345			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5346			appropriate approach to a problem.
5347	root	1.387	%
5348	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5349	root	1.44	^^^^
5350			[...]
5351			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5352			[...]
5353			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5354			-15 Nice winter day
5355			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5356			-5 Nice warm winter day
5357			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5358	root	1.387	%
5359	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5360			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5361			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5362			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5363	root	1.387	%
5364	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5365			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5366
5367			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5368
5369			-ben
5370	root	1.387	%
5371	root	1.43	[...]
5372	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5373			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5374			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5375			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5376			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5377			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5378			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5379			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5380			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5381			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5382			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5383	root	1.387	%
5384	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5385			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5386	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5387	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5388			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5389			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5390			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5391			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5392			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5393	root	1.43	statt...
5394	root	1.387	%
5395	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5396	root	1.387	%
5397	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5398			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5399			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5400			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5401			values." Who writes this stuff?
5402	root	1.387	%
5403	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5404	root	1.387	%
5405	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5406			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5407			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5408			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5409			> "Macao".
5410			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5411			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5412	root	1.387	%
5413	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5414	root	1.387	%
5415	root	1.40	Beitrag
5416	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5417	root	1.40
5418			fucklinux
5419
5420			IP: 217.83.123.198
5421
5422			1. FUCK LINUX
5423
5424	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5425	root	1.40
5426			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5427	root	1.387	%
5428	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5429	root	1.40
5430			[...]
5431			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5432			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5433			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5434			read...
5435	root	1.387	%
5436	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5437			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5438			depends on the unreasonable man.
5439
5440			-George Bernard Shaw
5441	root	1.387	%
5442	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5443
5444			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5445	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5446	root	1.387	%
5447	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:
5448	root	1.387	%
5449	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
5450			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5451			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5452			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5453			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5454	root	1.387	%
5455	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5456			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5457	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5458	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5459			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5460	root	1.387	%
5461	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5462			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5463			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5464			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5465			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5466			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5467			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5468			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).
5469			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5470			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5471	root	1.387	%
5472	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5473			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5474			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5475			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5476			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5477			removed in Windows XP.
5478
5479			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5480			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5481			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5482			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5483	root	1.387	%
5484	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5485			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5486			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5487			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5488			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5489			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5490			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5491			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5492			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5493			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5494
5495			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5496			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5497			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5498			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5499			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5500			you have no details?
5501			[...]
5502			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5503			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5504			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5505			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5506			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5507			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5508			the industrial terrorists want."
5509	root	1.387	%
5510	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5511			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5512	root	1.387	%
5513	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5514	root	1.387	%
5515	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5516			of each 50 days
5517	root	1.387	%
5518	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5519
5520			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5521			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5522			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5523	root	1.387	%
5524	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5525			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5526			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5527	root	1.387	%
5528	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5529			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5530	root	1.247	>
5531	root	1.35	> <...>
5532			>
5533			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5534			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5535			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5536	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5537	root	1.387	%
5538	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5539			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5540			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5541	root	1.387	%
5542	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5543			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5544			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5545
5546	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5547			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5548			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5549			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5550			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5551			changing run level, interactive boot.
5552	root	1.35
5553			Alan
5554	root	1.387	%
5555	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5556
5557			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5558			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5559
5560			First they came for the Communists,
5561			and I didn't speak up,
5562			because I wasn't a Communist.
5563			Then they came for the Jews,
5564			and I didn't speak up,
5565			because I wasn't a Jew.
5566			Then they came for the Catholics,
5567			and I didn't speak up,
5568			because I was a Protestant.
5569			Then they came for me,
5570			and by that time there was no one
5571			left to speak up for me.
5572
5573			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5574	root	1.387	%
5575	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5576	root	1.387	%
5577	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5578			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5579	root	1.387	%
5580	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5581			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5582			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5583			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5584
5585			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5586	root	1.387	%
5587	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5588
5589			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5590			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5591			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5592			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5593			used databases!"
5594	root	1.387	%
5595	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5596
5597			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5598
5599			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5600			change that was not?
5601			[...]
5602	root	1.387	%
5603	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5604
5605			[...]
5606
5607	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5608	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5609			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5610
5611	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5612	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5613			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5614			them anywhere else").
5615
5616			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5617			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5618	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5619	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5620			order..
5621
5622	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5623	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5624	root	1.387	%
5625	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5626			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5627			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5628
5629			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5630	root	1.387	%
5631	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5632	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5633			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5634			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5635			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5636	root	1.387	%
5637	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5638			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5639
5640			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5641			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5642			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5643			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5644			series.
5645
5646			[...]
5647	root	1.387	%
5648	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5649	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5650	root	1.387	%
5651	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5652			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5653			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5654
5655			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5656			then save." g
5657
5658			/* Steinar */
5659	root	1.387	%
5660	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5661			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5662
5663			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5664			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5665			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5666			a bill...
5667	root	1.387	%
5668	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5669			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5670			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5671
5672			Sorry. Mea culpa
5673
5674			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5675			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5676			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5677			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5678			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5679			*/
5680			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5681			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5682			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5683			int fpu_exception;
5684	root	1.387	%
5685	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5686
5687			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5688
5689			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5690			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5691			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5692			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5693			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5694	root	1.387	%
5695	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5696
5697			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5698			people.
5699	root	1.387	%
5700	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5701			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5702
5703			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5704			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5705			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5706			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5707			the question.
5708			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5709	root	1.387	%
5710	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5711			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5712			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5713			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5714			(September)
5715	root	1.387	%
5716	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5719			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5720			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5721			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5722			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5725			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5726	root	1.387	%
5727	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5728			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5729			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5730			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
5731			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
5732	root	1.387	%
5733	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
5734	root	1.387	%
5735	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
5736	root	1.387	%
5737	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
5738			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
5739			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
5740			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
5741			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
5742			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
5743			you tell them.
5744	root	1.387	%
5745	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
5746			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
5747			alcohol.
5748
5749			Regards
5750			Henning
5751	root	1.387	%
5752	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
5753			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
5754			> on a desktop system.
5755
5756			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
5757			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
5758
5759			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
5760			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
5761
5762			Alan
5763	root	1.387	%
5764	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
5765			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
5766
5767			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
5768			>
5769			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
5770			> Use Welsh
5771
5772			Don't forget
5773
5774			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
5775			Use Finnish
5776
5777			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
5778
5779			And while we're at it,
5780
5781			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
5782			Use German
5783
5784			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
5785			Use English
5786
5787			MfG Kai
5788	root	1.387	%
5789	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
5790
5791			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
5792			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
5793			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
5794			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
5795			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
5796			there's no one thinking there.
5797			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
5798	root	1.387	%
5799	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
5800			scores the rules:
5801
5802			[*]
5803			Score:: =-9999
5804	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
5805	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
5806			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
5807			X-Mailer: Mozilla
5808			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
5809
5810			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
5811			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
5812			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
5813			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
5814			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
5815
5816			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
5817			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
5818			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
5819			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
5820	root	1.387	%
5821	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
5822			98 IIS servers online...
5823	root	1.387	%
5824	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
5825			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
5826			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
5827			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
5828
5829			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
5830			it to be otherwise.
5831
5832			Abigail
5833	root	1.387	%
5834	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
5835	root	1.387	%
5836	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
5837	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
5838	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
5839	root	1.387	%
5840	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
5841	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
5842	root	1.387	%
5843	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
5844			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
5845			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
5846			software people doing the same)
5847
5848			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
5849			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
5850			irrelevant
5851
5852			Alan
5853	root	1.387	%
5854	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
5855			Comments may nest.
5856	root	1.387	%
5857	root	1.22	[from findas]
5858			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
5859			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
5860			# b) the database format is nonparsable
5861			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
5862			# of course, the only source to find out about global
5863			# address distributino is... arin.
5864	root	1.387	%
5865	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
5866			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
5867	root	1.387	%
5868	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
5869			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
5870			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
5871			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
5872			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
5873	root	1.247	>
5874	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
5875
5876			$foot->insert($mouth);
5877
5878			# or is that
5879
5880			$mouth->insert($foot);
5881
5882			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
5883			How utterly optimistic :-)
5884	root	1.387	%
5885	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
5886			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
5887			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
5888			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
5889			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
5890			>can see why it happens)
5891			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
5892
5893			Well, there's perl... :)
5894	root	1.387	%
5895	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
5896			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
5897			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
5898			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
5899			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
5900	root	1.247	* boxes.
5901	root	1.387	%
5902	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
5903			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
5904			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
5905	root	1.387	%
5906	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
5907			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
5908	root	1.387	%
5909	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
5910			From: Juergen Christoffel
5911			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
5912			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
5913
5914			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
5915
5916			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
5917			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
5918			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
5919			schon;
5920
5921			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
5922			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
5923			auch mehr zum faedeln.
5924
5925			Danke, JC
5926	root	1.387	%
5927	root	1.19	[perl.c]
5928			#undef REASONABLE
5929	root	1.387	%
5930	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
5931			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
5932
5933			Alan
5934	root	1.387	%
5935	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
5936			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
5937			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
5938			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
5939	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
5940	root	1.18	> anything.
5941
5942			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
5943			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
5944	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
5945			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
5946	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
5947			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
5948
5949			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
5950			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
5951			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
5952			always a good idea.
5953	root	1.387	%
5954	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
5955			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
5956
5957	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
5958	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
5959	root	1.387	%
5960	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
5961			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
5962			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
5963			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
5964	root	1.387	%
5965	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
5966	root	1.387	%
5967	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
5968	root	1.18
5969			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
5970			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
5971	root	1.387	%
5972	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
5973			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
5974			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
5975			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
5976	root	1.387	%
5977	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
5978	root	1.387	%
5979	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
5980			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
5981			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
5982			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
5983			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
5984			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
5985	root	1.387	%
5986	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
5987
5988			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
5989			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
5990			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
5991			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
5992			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
5993			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
5994			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
5995	root	1.387	%
5996	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
5997			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
5998			future. Bleeeh]
5999
6000			From: Larry McVoy
6001
6002	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6003	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6004			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6005			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6006			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6007			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6008			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6009			not for the exceptional case.
6010	root	1.387	%
6011	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6012			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6013			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6014			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6015			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6016			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6017			stack.
6018
6019			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6020			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6021			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6022
6023			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6024			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6025	root	1.387	%
6026	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6027
6028	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6029			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6030			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6031			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6032	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6033	root	1.247	>
6034	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6035			> on the CPU?
6036
6037			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6038	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6039	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6040			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6041
6042			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6043			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6044			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6045			the point again".
6046	root	1.387	%
6047	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6048
6049	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6050			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6051	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6052	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6053	root	1.247	>
6054	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6055			> scenario.
6056
6057			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6058	root	1.387	%
6059	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6060	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6061			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6062			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6063	root	1.387	%
6064	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6065			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6066			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6067			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6068			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6069			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6070			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6071			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6072			anything.
6073	root	1.387	%
6074	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6075	root	1.387	%
6076	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6077			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6078	root	1.387	%
6079	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6080			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6081			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6082			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6083			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6084
6085			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6086	root	1.387	%
6087	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6088
6089			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6090
6091			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6092			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6093			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6094			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6095			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6096
6097			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6098			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6099			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6100			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6101			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6102			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6103			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6104			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6105			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6106			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6107			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6108			to work through the learning curve.
6109	root	1.387	%
6110	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6111	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6112	root	1.387	%
6113	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6114			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6115	root	1.387	%
6116	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6117			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6118	root	1.387	%
6119	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6120			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6121	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6122			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6123	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6124	root	1.387	%
6125	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6126	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6127	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6128	root	1.387	%
6129	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6130			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6131	root	1.387	%
6132	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6133			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6134			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6135			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6136			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6137			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6138			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6139			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6140
6141	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6142	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6143	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6144	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6145			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6146
6147			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6148			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6149			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6150			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6151			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6152			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6153			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6154	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6155	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6156			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6157			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6158	root	1.387	%
6159	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6160			/*---.
6161			\| ? \|
6162			`---*/
6163	root	1.387	%
6164	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6165	root	1.387	%
6166	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6167			From: Joe Buck
6168			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6169			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6170	root	1.387	%
6171	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6172			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6173	root	1.387	%
6174	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6175	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6176	root	1.387	%
6177	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6178	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6179	root	1.387	%
6180	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6181	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6182	root	1.4	...
6183			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6184	root	1.387	%
6185	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6186	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6187			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6188			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6189
6190			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6191
6192			Alan
6193	root	1.387	%
6194	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6195	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6196			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6197			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6198			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6199	root	1.387	%
6200	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6201	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6202			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6203			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6204			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6205			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6206			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6207	root	1.387	%
6208	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6209			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6210			will find an easier way to do it.
6211	root	1.387	%
6212	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6213	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6214			Paul wrote:
6215			>Marc wrote:
6216	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6217			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6218			> den richtigen.
6219	root	1.387	%
6220	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6221			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6222	root	1.387	%
6223	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6224			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6225	root	1.387	%
6226	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6227			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6230			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6231			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6232			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6233			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6234	root	1.387	%
6235	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6236			[...]
6237
6238			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6239
6240			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6241	root	1.387	%
6242	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6243			> constants.
6244
6245			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6246	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6247	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6248	root	1.387	%
6249	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6250	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6251
6252			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6253			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6254			much to do with IRC.
6255	root	1.387	%
6256	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6257			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6258
6259			[...]
6260			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6261
6262			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6263			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6264	root	1.387	%
6265	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6266	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6267	root	1.387	%
6268	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6269
6270			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6271			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6272			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6273
6274			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6275			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6276			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6277			shows how much you know, pal.
6278
6279			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6280	root	1.387	%
6281	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6282			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6283			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6284	root	1.387	%
6285	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6286			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6287			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6288			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6289	root	1.387	%
6290	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6291			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6292			Your version of perl sucks.
6293	root	1.387	%
6294	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6295			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6296			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6297			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6298			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6299			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6300			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6301			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6302	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6303	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6304			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6305	root	1.387	%
6306	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6307			before you can understand it :)
6308	root	1.387	%
6309	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6310			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6311			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6312	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6313	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6314			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6315			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6316
6317			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6318			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6319			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6320			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6321			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6322			be worth attempting).
6323
6324			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6325			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6326			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6327
6328			Nick.
6329	root	1.387	%
6330	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6331			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6332			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6333
6334	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6335	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6336			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6337			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6338			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6339	root	1.387	%
6340	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6341			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6342			> > > to work :-)
6343	root	1.247	> >
6344	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6345	root	1.247	>
6346	root	1.1	> Eh?
6347	root	1.247	>
6348	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6349			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6350
6351			He didn't say it worked. :)
6352	root	1.387	%
6353	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6354
6355			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6356			> I find it irksome that
6357	root	1.247	>
6358	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6359
6360			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6361	root	1.387	%
6362	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6363			From: Simon Cozens
6364
6365			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6366			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6367			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6368
6369			Looks like a feature to me.
6370	root	1.387	%
6371	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6372	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6373	root	1.387	%
6374	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6375			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6376
6377			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6378			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6379			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6380			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6381
6382			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6383			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6384			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6385			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6386			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6387			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6388	root	1.387	%
6389	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6390			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6391			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6392			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6393			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6394			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6395			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6396			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6397			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6398			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6399			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6400			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6401
6402			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6403			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6404			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6405
6406			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6407	root	1.387	%
6408	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6409			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6410			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6411			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6412			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6413			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6414			replication."
6415			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6416	root	1.387	%
6417	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6418			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6419
6420			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6421			shows.
6422
6423			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6424			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6425			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6426
6427			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6428			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6429			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6430			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6431			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6432
6433			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6434			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6435			up with a saner protocol.
6436	root	1.387	%
6437	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6438			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6439			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6440
6441			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6442			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6443			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6444	root	1.387	%
6445	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6446			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6447			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6448			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6449			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6450			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6451	root	1.387	%
6452	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6453			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6454	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6455			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6456			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6457			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6458	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6459	root	1.387	%
6460	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6461	root	1.387	%
6462	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6463			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6464	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6465	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6466	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6467	root	1.387	%
6468	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6469			"ist mir egal"
6470	root	1.387	%
6471	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6472			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6473
6474			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6475	root	1.387	%
6476	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6477			hallole
6478	root	1.387	%
6479	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6480			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6481			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6484			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6485			1929 The pause that refreshes
6486			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6487			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6488			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6489			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6490			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6491			1939 Thirst stops here
6492			1942 It's the real thing
6493			1947 Have a Coke
6494			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6495			1963 Things go better with Coke
6496			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6497			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6498			1982 Coke is it!
6499			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6500	root	1.387	%
6501	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6502			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6503	root	1.387	%
6504	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6505			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6506	root	1.387	%
6507	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6508	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6509			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6510			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6511			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6512			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6513			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6514			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6515			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6516			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6517			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6518			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6519			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6520			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6521			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6522
6523			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6524			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6525	root	1.387	%
6526	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6527			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6528
6529			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6530			uncool thing to do. [...]
6531	root	1.387	%
6532	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6533			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6534			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6535	root	1.387	%
6536	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6537	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6538	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6539	root	1.1
6540	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6541			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6542			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6543			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6544	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6545			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6546	root	1.387	%
6547	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6548			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6549			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6550			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6551			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6552			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6553			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6554
6555			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6556			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6557			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6558	root	1.387	%
6559	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6560
6561			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6562	root	1.387	%
6563	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6564			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6565			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6566			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6567			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6568	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6569	root	1.387	%
6570	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6571			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6572			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6573
6574			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6575			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6576
6577			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6578	root	1.387	%
6579	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6580	root	1.387	%
6581	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6582			From: Alan Cox
6583			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6584			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6585	root	1.247	>
6586			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6587	root	1.1
6588	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6589	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6590	root	1.387	%
6591	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6592			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6593			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6594
6595			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6596			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6597			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6598			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6599
6600			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6601
6602			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6603	root	1.387	%
6604	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6605	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6606			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6607	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6608	root	1.387	%
6609	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6610	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6611			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6612	root	1.387	%
6613	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6614			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6615	root	1.387	%
6616	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6617	root	1.387	%
6618	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6619			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6620			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6621	root	1.387	%
6622	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6623			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6624			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6625			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6626			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6627	root	1.387	%
6628	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6629	root	1.387	%
6630	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6631			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6632			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6633			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6634			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6635			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6636			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6637	root	1.387	%
6638	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6639			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6640	root	1.387	%
6641	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6642			perl:]
6643
6644			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6645
6646			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6647			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6648			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6649			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6650			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6651			disable the message and pray it works"]
6652	root	1.387	%
6653	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6654			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6655			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6656			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6657
6658			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6659			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6660			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6661			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6662			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6663	root	1.387	%
6664	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6665			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6666			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6667	root	1.387	%
6668	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6669			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6670			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6671			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6672			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6673	root	1.387	%
6674	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6675			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6676			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6677	root	1.387	%
6678	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6679			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6680	root	1.387	%
6681	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6682			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6683	root	1.387	%
6684	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6685			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6686			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6687			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6688			> it's a hard requirement.
6689
6690			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6691			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6692			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6693			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6694			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6695			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6696			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6697			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6698	root	1.387	%
6699	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6700			> Netscape?"
6701	root	1.247
6702	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6703			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6704	root	1.387	%
6705	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6706			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6707			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6708			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6709			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6710			the specified task step-by-step.
6711	root	1.387	%
6712	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6713
6714			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6715			be damned hard to understand."
6716	root	1.387	%
6717	root	1.1	[Linus]
6718			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6719			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6720			wrong. It's that simple.
6721	root	1.387	%
6722	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6723	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6724	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6725			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6726			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6727	root	1.247	Undernet>
6728	root	1.387	%
6729	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
6730			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
6731			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
6732			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
6733
6734			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
6735			document that contains an element or attribute named
6736	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
6737	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
6738			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
6739			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
6740			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
6741			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
6742			now appears to have unlimited credit!
6743	root	1.387	%
6744	root	1.1	["my spam"]
6745			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
6746			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
6747			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
6748			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
6749			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
6750	root	1.387	%
6751	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
6752			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
6753			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
6754			[... snip ...]
6755			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
6756			tragedy...
6757	root	1.387	%
6758	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
6759	root	1.247
6760	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
6761			>---- A notice to spammers ----
6762			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
6763			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
6764			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
6765			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
6766			>message plus attorney's fees.
6767			[SNIP long sig]
6768	root	1.247
6769	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
6770			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
6771			all you're doing is contributing to it.
6772	root	1.247
6773	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
6774			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
6775			procmailable address.
6776	root	1.247
6777	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
6778			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
6779			just a waste of bandwidth.
6780	root	1.387	%
6781	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
6782	root	1.387	%
6783	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
6784			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
6785	root	1.387	%
6786	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
6787	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
6788	root	1.387	%
6789	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
6790	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
6791			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
6792			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
6793	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
6794	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
6795			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
6796			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
6797			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
6798	root	1.387	%
6799	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
6800	root	1.387	%
6801	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
6802	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
6803	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
6804	root	1.387	%
6805	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
6806			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
6807			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
6808			immediately and not block the calling process.
6809
6810			the man pages are wrong
6811
6812			--cw
6813	root	1.387	%
6814	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
6815			...
6816			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
6817	root	1.387	%
6818	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
6819			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
6820	root	1.387	%
6821	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
6822			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
6823			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
6824
6825			How fast does it oops?
6826	root	1.387	%
6827	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
6828
6829			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6830			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
6831			> touch is 2Gig.
6832
6833			In theory, yes.
6834			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
6835			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
6836	root	1.387	%
6837	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6838			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
6839			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
6840			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
6841			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
6842			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
6843			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
6844			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
6845			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6846			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
6847			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
6848			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
6849			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6850			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6851			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6852			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6853	root	1.387	%
6854	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
6855	root	1.387	%
6856	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
6857			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
6858			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
6859			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
6860			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
6863			[Lukas Grunwald]
6864	root	1.387	%
6865	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
6866			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
6867			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
6868			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
6869
6870			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
6871			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
6872			> > prompt.
6873			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
6874			> /proc/info/authors?
6875	root	1.247
6876	root	1.1	Grand idea.
6877			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
6878			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
6879			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
6880			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
6881			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
6882	root	1.247
6883	root	1.1	NOT.
6884			[...]
6885	root	1.387	%
6886	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
6887			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
6888			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
6889	root	1.247
6890	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
6891			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
6892			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
6893			> an interesting experiment.
6894	root	1.247
6895	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
6896			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
6897			to disagree...
6898	root	1.387	%
6899	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
6900			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
6901			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
6902			[und Lukas sagt:]
6903			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
6904	root	1.387	%
6905	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
6906			report:]
6907			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
6908			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
6909			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
6910			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
6911	root	1.387	%
6912	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
6913			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
6914	root	1.387	%
6915	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
6916			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
6917			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
6918
6919			Alexander Viro wrote:
6920			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
6921			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
6922			>
6923			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
6924			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
6925			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
6926			> UNIX.
6927
6928			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
6929			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
6930			docs... ew!
6931	root	1.387	%
6932	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
6933			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
6934			> protected mode?
6935
6936			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
6937			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
6938			registers loaded ;)
6939	root	1.387	%
6940	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
6941			[...]
6942			> backports hurt forward progress.
6943
6944			beware of content free dogma
6945	root	1.387	%
6946	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
6947			> wondering.
6948
6949			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
6950			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
6951			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
6952			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
6953			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
6954			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
6955			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
6956
6957			Markus [G. Kuhn]
6958	root	1.387	%
6959	root	1.1	>Keith,
6960	root	1.247	>
6961	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
6962			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
6963			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
6964
6965			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
6966			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
6967			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
6968			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
6969			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
6970			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
6971			do the right thing.
6972
6973			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
6974			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
6975			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
6976			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
6977			and they have to fix it.
6978	root	1.387	%
6979	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
6980			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
6981			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
6982			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
6983	root	1.387	%
6984	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
6985			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
6986	root	1.387	%
6987	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
6988			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
6989			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
6990			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
6991
6992			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
6993			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
6994	root	1.387	%
6995	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
6996			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
6997	root	1.387	%
6998	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
6999			glibc-2.2 was released]
7000			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7001	root	1.387	%
7002	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7003	root	1.387	%
7004	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7005			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7006			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7007	root	1.387	%
7008	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7009			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7010			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7011	root	1.387	%
7012	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7013
7014			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7015			standards-compliant.
7016			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7017			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7018			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7019			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7020			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7021			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7022	root	1.387	%
7023	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7024			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7025			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7026
7027			That's your problem.
7028
7029			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7030
7031			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7032			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7033	root	1.387	%
7034	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7035			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7036			> > out there) in the foot?
7037
7038			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7039
7040			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7041			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7042			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7043	root	1.387	%
7044	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7045			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7046			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7047
7048			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7049			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7050			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7051			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7052			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7053			--
7054			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7055	root	1.387	%
7056	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7057
7058			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7059			>
7060			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7061			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7062			>
7063			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7064
7065			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7066	root	1.387	%
7067	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7068			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7069			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7070	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7073			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7074			Bullschildt below ;)]
7075
7076			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7077			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7078	root	1.387	%
7079	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7080			>
7081			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7082			>
7083			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7084			>
7085			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7086	root	1.387	%
7087	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7088
7089			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7090			it did the same thing.
7091
7092			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7093			a week ago. :(
7094
7095			--Jack
7096	root	1.387	%
7097	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7098	root	1.387	%
7099	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7100			-- K&R
7101	root	1.387	%
7102	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7103	root	1.387	%
7104	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7105			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7106	root	1.387	%
7107	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7108	root	1.387	%
7109	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7110			$modules => { "" => "" };
7111	root	1.387	%
7112	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7113	root	1.387	%
7114	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7115	root	1.387	%
7116	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7117			> --
7118			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7119			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7120	root	1.387	%
7121	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7122			From: "David Schwartz"
7123
7124			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7125			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7126			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7127			> pretty spiffy.
7128
7129			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7130			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7131			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7132			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7133	root	1.387	%
7134	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7135	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7136	root	1.387	%
7137	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7138			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7139			> of having bough one.
7140
7141			Not an uncommon thought :)
7142	root	1.387	%
7143	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7144
7145			Hi Marc !
7146
7147			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7148			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7149			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7150
7151			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7152	root	1.387	%
7153	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7154			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7155			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7156			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7157
7158			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7159			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7160			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7161
7162			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7163			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7164			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7165			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7166			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7167			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7168
7169			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7170			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7171
7172			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7173			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7174			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7175			right to left.
7176
7177			>But no culture
7178			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7179			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7180			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7181			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7182			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7183
7184			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7185
7186			--Alex
7187	root	1.387	%
7188	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7189			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7190			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7191
7192			[most of the reply snipped...]
7193
7194			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7195			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7196			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7197
7198			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7199
7200			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7201			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7202			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7203			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7204			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7205
7206			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7207			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7208			try to claim that they do?)
7209	root	1.387	%
7210	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7211
7212			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7213			> {
7214			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7215			> flush(load);
7216			> else
7217			> wear(load);
7218			> }
7219
7220			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7221			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7222
7223			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7224			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7225
7226			--
7227			dwmw2
7228	root	1.387	%
7229	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7230			are are overturned.
7231	root	1.387	%
7232	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7233	root	1.387	%
7234	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7235			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7236	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7237			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7238	root	1.387	%
7239	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7240			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7241			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7242			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7243			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7244			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7245			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7246	root	1.387	%
7247	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7248			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7249			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7250
7251			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7252			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7253			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7254	root	1.387	%
7255	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7256			Deadlock, n.:
7257			Deceased Rasterman.
7258	root	1.387	%
7259	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7260			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7261			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7262			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7263	root	1.387	%
7264	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7265			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7266	root	1.387	%
7267	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7268			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7269	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7270			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7271			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7272			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7273	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7274			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7275	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7276			Positionen für unwählbar.
7277	root	1.1
7278			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7279	root	1.387	%
7280	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7281			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7282			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7283
7284			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7285
7286			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7287			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7288			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7289			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7290			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7291
7292			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7293			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7294			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7295			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7296			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7297			results simply because I make a mistake!
7298
7299			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7300			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7301			errors.
7302
7303			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7304			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7305			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7306			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7307	root	1.387	%
7308	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7309			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7310			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7311			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7312			>
7313			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7314	root	1.387	%
7315	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7316			of nothing."
7317	root	1.387	%
7318	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7319			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7320			>
7321			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7322			> CPU?
7323
7324			Root password? :)
7325
7326			John.Fulmer
7327	root	1.387	%
7328	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7329
7330			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7331	root	1.387	%
7332	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7333			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7334			> which I prefer...
7335
7336			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7337			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7338			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7339			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7340			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7341			--
7342			Horst von Brand
7343	root	1.387	%
7344	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7345
7346			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7347
7348			[...]
7349
7350			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7351	root	1.387	%
7352	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7353			at your problem:]
7354
7355			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7356			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7357			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7358	root	1.387	%
7359	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7360			cp is inherently inefficient.
7361	root	1.387	%
7362	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7363			>breaking seals on them.
7364
7365			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7366			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7367			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7368
7369			...
7370
7371			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7372			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7373			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7374			could be just an urban myth though.
7375
7376			Russell Coker
7377	root	1.387	%
7378	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7379			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7380
7381			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7382	root	1.387	%
7383	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7384			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7385			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7386			> > deleting.
7387			>
7388			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7389
7390			Wrong. Yury does.
7391			:(
7392
7393			--
7394			Stefan
7395	root	1.387	%
7396	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7397			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7398			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7399			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7400			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7401			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7402			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7403
7404			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7405
7406			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7407	root	1.387	%
7408	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7409	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7410	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7411	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7412			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7413	root	1.387	%
7414	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7415			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7416			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7417			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7418			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7419			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7420			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7421			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7422			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7423			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7424	root	1.387	%
7425	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7426			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7427			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7428	root	1.1	aus!
7429	root	1.387	%
7430	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7431			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7432	root	1.387	%
7433	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7434			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7435			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7436			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7437	root	1.387	%
7438	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7439			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7440	root	1.387	%
7441	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7442			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7443			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7444			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7445
7446			--tom
7447	root	1.387	%
7448	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7449			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7450
7451			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7452			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7453			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7454			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7455			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7456	root	1.387	%
7457	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7458			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7459			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7460			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7461			solutions.
7462
7463			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7464
7465			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7466			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7467			the background]
7468	root	1.387	%
7469	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7470			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7471			Security Response Center:
7472
7473			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7474			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7475
7476			[and later]
7477			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7478
7479			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7480
7481			[Phil closes]
7482			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7483
7484			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7485			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7486	root	1.387	%
7487	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7488			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7489			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7490			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7491			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7492			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7493			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7494	root	1.387	%
7495	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7496			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7497			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7498			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7499
7500			[Trashey / Quasars]
7501	root	1.387	%
7502	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7503			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7504			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7505
7506			Irony potential in
7507
7508			man perlrtfm
7509
7510			is left to the reader.
7511
7512			Nat
7513	root	1.387	%
7514	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7515			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7516
7517			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7518			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7519	root	1.387	%
7520	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7521			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7522			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7523	root	1.387	%
7524	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7525			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7526			Paul Tomblin
7527	root	1.387	%
7528	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7529			>I am morally
7530			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7531
7532			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7533			possibility...
7534
7535			Dan
7536	root	1.387	%
7537	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7538	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7539	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 :)
7540			<Mr> zugabe
7541	root	1.387	%
7542	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7543			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7544	root	1.387	%
7545	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7546			[cobol, sigh]
7547	root	1.387	%
7548	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7549			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7550			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7551			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7552			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7553			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7554			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7555			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7556
7557			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7558	root	1.387	%
7559	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7560
7561			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7562			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7563			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7564			after they regain their composure."
7565
7566			-- Paul Rinaldo
7567			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7568	root	1.387	%
7569	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7570			>
7571			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7572			>
7573			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7574
7575			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7576
7577			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7578
7579			;-}
7580
7581			--
7582
7583			ciao -
7584			Stefan
7585
7586	root	1.387	%
7587	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7588			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7589
7590			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7591			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7592			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7593			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7594			one' type remarks.
7595			[Alan Cox]
7596	root	1.387	%
7597	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7598
7599			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7600			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7601
7602			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7603	root	1.387	%
7604	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7605
7606			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7607			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7608			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7609	root	1.387	%
7610	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7611			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7612			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7613			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7614	root	1.387	%
7615	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7616			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7617
7618			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7619			is to me ok.
7620	root	1.387	%
7621	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7622
7623			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7624	root	1.387	%
7625	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7626			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7627	root	1.387	%
7628	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7629			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7630	root	1.387	%
7631	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7632			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7633			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7634
7635			Ralf
7636	root	1.387	%
7637	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7638			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7639			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7640
7641			david parsons
7642	root	1.387	%
7643	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7644			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7645
7646			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7647			>so that trick is not portable.
7648
7649			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7650			127.0.0.1 localhost
7651
7652			--tom
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7655			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7656			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7657			> >the question is moot.
7658			>
7659			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7660
7661			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7662
7663			Ilya
7664	root	1.387	%
7665	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7666			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7667			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7668			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7669			> trying.
7670
7671			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7672			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7673	root	1.387	%
7674	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7675			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7676			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7677			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7678	root	1.387	%
7679	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7680			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7681			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7682	root	1.387	%
7683	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7684			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7685			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7686			> blocking :-)
7687
7688			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7689			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7690			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7691			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7692			reasons.
7693
7694			DS
7695	root	1.387	%
7696	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7697	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7698	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7699	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7700	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7701
7702			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7703	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7704	root	1.387	%
7705	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7706			[...]
7707			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7708			[...]
7709
7710			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7711			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7712			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7713			with each other on the same channel.
7714
7715			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7716			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7717
7718			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7719	root	1.387	%
7720	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7721			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7722	root	1.387	%
7723	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7724	root	1.387	%
7725	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7726			ANY word at all is a candidate.
7727			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7728			ok
7729	root	1.387	%
7730	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
7731			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
7732	root	1.387	%
7733	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
7734			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
7735			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
7736			<schmorp> xach: ok.
7737			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
7738			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
7739			<Xach> burrito, focus
7740			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
7741	root	1.387	%
7742	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
7743			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
7744			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
7745			tested it." ...
7746	root	1.387	%
7747	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
7748	root	1.387	%
7749	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
7750
7751			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
7752			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
7753			>
7754			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
7755			>
7756			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
7757			>
7758			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
7759			>
7760			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
7761			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
7762			>systems.
7763
7764
7765			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
7766			had.
7767
7768			--
7769			Neal Bridges
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
7772
7773			> Hi folks,
7774			> 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?
7775			> please reply to
7776			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
7777			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
7778
7779			Parse error.
7780
7781			---
7782			Alex
7783	root	1.387	%
7784	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
7785
7786			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
7787			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
7788
7789			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
7790			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
7791			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
7792
7793			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
7794	root	1.387	%
7795	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
7796	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
7797	root	1.387	%
7798	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
7799			ii = 44;
7800			p = &ii;
7801			p = ii/p;
7802			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
7803			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
7804	root	1.387	%
7805	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
7806			> Linux time then.
7807
7808			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
7809
7810			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
7811			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
7812
7813			Roger.
7814	root	1.387	%
7815	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
7816	root	1.387	%
7817	root	1.1	auto accident;
7818			register voters;
7819			static electricity;
7820			struct by_lightning;
7821			void *where_prohibited;
7822			char broiled;
7823			short circuit;
7824			short changed;
7825			long johns;
7826			unsigned long letter;
7827			double entendre;
7828			double trouble;
7829			union organizer;
7830			float valve;
7831			short pants;
7832			union station;
7833			void check; unsigned check;
7834			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
7835	root	1.387	%
7836	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
7837			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
7838			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
7839	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
7840	root	1.387	%
7841	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
7842
7843			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
7844			worstation.
7845	root	1.387	%
7846	root	1.1	I wrote
7847			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
7848			$/
7849
7850			Damn shift key.
7851
7852
7853			Mike Guy
7854	root	1.387	%
7855	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
7856			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
7857			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
7858			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
7859			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
7860			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
7861			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
7862			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
7863			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
7864	root	1.387	%
7865	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
7866
7867			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
7868
7869			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
7870			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
7871			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
7872			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
7873
7874			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
7875	root	1.387	%
7876	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
7877			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
7878
7879			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
7880			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
7881			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
7882			easy to bother.
7883
7884			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
7885			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
7886			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
7887			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
7888
7889			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
7890
7891			Larry
7892	root	1.387	%
7893	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
7894			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
7895			Yeah. :-)
7896	root	1.387	%
7897	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
7898			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
7899			[...]
7900			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
7901
7902			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
7903			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
7904			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
7905			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
7906
7907			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
7908			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
7909			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
7910			receipts aren't used anymore.
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
7913			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
7914			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
7917			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
7918			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
7919			> versteht?"
7920	root	1.387	%
7921	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
7922			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
7923			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
7924			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
7925	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
7926	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
7927	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
7928	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
7929			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
7930			ji!
7931	root	1.387	%
7932	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
7933			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
7934			[Larry Wall]
7935	root	1.387	%
7936	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
7937			Altpreussen.
7938			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
7939			de.soc.politik.deutschland
7940	root	1.387	%
7941	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
7942			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
7943			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
7944			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
7945			>
7946	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
7947			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
7948	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
7949
7950	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
7951	root	1.1	Norbert?
7952	root	1.387	%
7953	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
7954	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
7955			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
7956	root	1.387	%
7957	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
7958	root	1.387	%
7959	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
7960	root	1.387	%
7961	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
7962			From: "Steve"
7963			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
7964			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
7965			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
7966
7967			[the following was a single line, of course]
7968			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
7969			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
7970			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
7971			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
7972			assistance would be greatly appreciated
7973
7974			Thanks,
7975
7976			Steve
7977	root	1.387	%
7978	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
7979			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
7980			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
7981			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
7982	root	1.387	%
7983	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
7984			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
7985			<tigert> ahem
7986	root	1.387	%
7987	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
7988			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
7989			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
7990	root	1.387	%
7991	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
7992			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
7993			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
7994			Subject: It's soup.
7995
7996			Okay, it's there.
7997
7998			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
7999
8000			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8001
8002			Larry
8003	root	1.387	%
8004	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8005	root	1.387	%
8006	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8007			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8008			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8009			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8010			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8011	root	1.387	%
8012	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8013			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8014			>
8015			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8016			> And there's no mouse.
8017			>
8018			> Abigail
8019
8020			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8021
8022			Matt.
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8025			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8026
8027			- --tom
8028	root	1.387	%
8029	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8030			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8031
8032			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8033			>
8034			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8035			> 2.2.11 release?
8036
8037			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8038
8039			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8040
8041			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8042	root	1.387	%
8043	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8044	root	1.387	%
8045	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8046			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8047			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8048			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8049			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8050			> that much ;-)
8051
8052			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8053	root	1.387	%
8054	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8055			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8056	root	1.387	%
8057	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8058			<QUOTE>
8059			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8060
8061			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8062			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8063			</QUOTE>
8064	root	1.387	%
8065	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8066			and routes around it.
8067
8068			Roger Larsson
8069	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8070	root	1.387	%
8071	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8072			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8073	root	1.387	%
8074	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8075			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8076	root	1.387	%
8077	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8078
8079			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8080			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8081			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8082			on different JVMs.
8083
8084			[and later]
8085
8086			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8087			adventure gaming:
8088
8089			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8090			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8091	root	1.387	%
8092	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8093			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8094
8095			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8096
8097			NK> ?? -> huh?
8098
8099			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8100
8101			<chaim>
8102	root	1.387	%
8103	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8104			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8105			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8106			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8107			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8108			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8109	root	1.387	%
8110	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8111	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8112	root	1.387	%
8113	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8114			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8115			page]
8116			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8117			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8118			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8119			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8120			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8121			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8122			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8123			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8124			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8125			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8126	root	1.387	%
8127	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8128			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8129			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8130			don't actually get anything DONE.
8131	root	1.387	%
8132	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8133			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8134			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8135			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8136	root	1.387	%
8137	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8138			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8139			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8140			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8141
8142			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8143	root	1.387	%
8144	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8145			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8146			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8147	root	1.387	%
8148	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8149			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8150			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8153
8154			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8155			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8156			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8157			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8158			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8159			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8160			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8161			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8162			got the T-shirt.
8163	root	1.387	%
8164	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8165			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8166			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8167			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8168			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8169			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8170			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8171
8172			Linus writes, to Craig:
8173
8174			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8175			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8176			> thus choices than gcc.
8177
8178			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8179			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8180			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8181			far more complex than the kernel.
8182
8183			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8184			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8185
8186			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8187	root	1.387	%
8188	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8189			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8190			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8191
8192			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8193			[...]
8194			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8195			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8196			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8197			>let the user be in control.
8198
8199			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8200			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8201			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8202			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8203			compilers?
8204	root	1.387	%
8205	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8206			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8207
8208			Linus writes:
8209			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8210			> gcc could do better?
8211
8212			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8213			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8214			before you had so many worshippers.
8215	root	1.387	%
8216	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8217			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8218			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8219			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8220			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8221
8222			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8223
8224			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8225			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8226			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8227			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8228
8229			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8230
8231			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8232
8233			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8234			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8235
8236			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8237
8238			>:->
8239
8240			Brane
8241
8242
8243			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8244			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8245			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8246			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8247			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8248
8249
8250			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8251	root	1.387	%
8252	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8253	root	1.387	%
8254	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8255			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8256			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8257	root	1.387	%
8258	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8259			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8260			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8261	root	1.387	%
8262	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8263
8264			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8265
8266			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8267	root	1.387	%
8268	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8269			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8270			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8271			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8272
8273			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8274
8275			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8276			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8277			:
8278			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8279			:
8280			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8281			:
8282			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8283	root	1.387	%
8284	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8285	root	1.387	%
8286	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8287			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8288			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8289			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8290			>
8291			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8292			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8293
8294			The classic example:
8295
8296			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8297			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8298	root	1.387	%
8299	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8300			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8301
8302			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8303			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8304			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8305
8306			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8307
8308			--tom
8309	root	1.387	%
8310	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8311			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8312			working on something for me
8313			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8314			to me nutting concerning y ok
8315			piece
8316			russ
8317	root	1.387	%
8318	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8319
8320			pico (text editor for beginners)
8321			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8322			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8323			ed (text editor for beginners)
8324	root	1.387	%
8325	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8326
8327			use Python;
8328
8329			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8330			Except maybe faster. :-)
8331
8332			Larry
8333	root	1.387	%
8334	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8335
8336			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8337			2010.
8338
8339			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8340	root	1.387	%
8341	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8342			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8343			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8344			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8345			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8346			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8347			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8348			been created.
8349	root	1.387	%
8350	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8351			>
8352			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8353			> $3.99.
8354			>
8355			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8356			>
8357			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8358			>
8359			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8360			>
8361			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8362			>
8363			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8364			>
8365			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8366			> got integrated Coke!
8367			>
8368			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8369			> to drink the Coke.
8370			>
8371			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8372			>
8373			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8374			>
8375			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8376			> inseparable.
8377			>
8378			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8379			>
8380			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8381			>
8382			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8383			>
8384			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8385			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8386			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8387	root	1.387	%
8388	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8389			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8390	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8391	root	1.387	%
8392	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8393
8394			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8395			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8396			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8397			for you to digest this book.
8398			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8399			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8400			Join The Trickle
8401			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8402			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8403			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8404	root	1.387	%
8405	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8406			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8407			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8408			complete and utter vapourware.
8409
8410			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8411	root	1.387	%
8412	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8413
8414			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8415			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8416	root	1.387	%
8417	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8418
8419			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8420			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8421			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8422			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8423			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8424			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8425			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8426			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8427			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8428			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8429			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8430			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8431			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8432			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8433			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8434			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8435			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8436			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8437			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8438			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8439			work.
8440			[...]
8441			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8442			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8443			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8444			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8445			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8446			search generically - then it has some potential.
8447			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8448			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8449			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8450			intellectual value whatsoever.
8451
8452			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8453			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8454			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8455	root	1.387	%
8456	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8457	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8458	root	1.387	%
8459	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8460			#!/usr/bin/sh
8461			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8462			# All Rights Reserved
8463
8464			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8465			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8466			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8467
8468			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8469			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8470	root	1.387	%
8471	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.
8472	root	1.387	%
8473	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8474			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8475			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8476	root	1.387	%
8477	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8478
8479			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8480			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8481
8482			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8483			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8484			machine]
8485
8486			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8487			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8488			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8489
8490			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8491	root	1.387	%
8492	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8493			spamming:]
8494
8495			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8496			>>
8497			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8498			>>------------------------------------------------------
8499			>>
8500			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8501			>>
8502			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8503
8504			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8505			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8506	root	1.387	%
8507	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8508			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8509	root	1.387	%
8510	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8511			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8512	root	1.387	%
8513	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8514			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8515
8516			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8517	root	1.387	%
8518	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8519
8520			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8521			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8522			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8523			he's full of.
8524
8525			Support BSD/Linux.
8526
8527			--tom
8528	root	1.387	%
8529	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8530	root	1.387	%
8531	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8532	root	1.387	%
8533	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8534			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8535
8536			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8537			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8538			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8539			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8540	root	1.387	%
8541	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8542
8543			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8544			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8545	root	1.387	%
8546	root	1.1	[the creation]
8547			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8548	root	1.387	%
8549	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8550
8551			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8552			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8553			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8554	root	1.387	%
8555	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8556			selbst schliesse.
8557			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8558			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8559	root	1.387	%
8560	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8561			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8562
8563			No:
8564
8565			use Borg;
8566			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8567
8568			--
8569			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8570	root	1.387	%
8571	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8572			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8573			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8574			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8575			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8576			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8577			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8578			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8579			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8580			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8581			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8582			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8583			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8584			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8585			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8586			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8587			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8588			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8589			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8590			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8591			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8592			dispensers."
8593
8594			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8595	root	1.387	%
8596	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8597			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8598			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8599			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8600	root	1.387	%
8601	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8602			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8603			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8604	root	1.387	%
8605	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8606	root	1.1
8607			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8608	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8609	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8610	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8611	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8612			Student: "..."
8613			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8614			Student: "..."
8615			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8616	root	1.387	%
8617	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8618
8619			> Just morbid curiosity,
8620			>
8621			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8622
8623			Yes. Broken ones.
8624
8625			dgris
8626	root	1.387	%
8627	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8628			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8629	root	1.387	%
8630	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8631			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8632	root	1.387	%
8633	root	1.1	...
8634
8635			<AOL>
8636
8637			Me too!
8638
8639			</AOL>
8640
8641			Tig
8642	root	1.387	%
8643	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8644	root	1.387	%
8645	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8646	root	1.387	%
8647	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8648
8649			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8650			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8651			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8652			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8653			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8654			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8655			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8656
8657			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8658
8659			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8660			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8661			get really really pissed.
8662
8663			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8664			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8665	root	1.387	%
8666	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8667			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8668			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8669			> period.
8670			>
8671			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8672			> Nic
8673			>
8674
8675			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8676
8677			-hpa
8678	root	1.387	%
8679	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8682			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8683			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8684			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8685			happy."
8686			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8687	root	1.387	%
8688	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8689			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8690			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8691
8692			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8693			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8694			I also forwarded the offending code.
8695
8696			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8697			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8698			service.
8699
8700			Daniel
8701	root	1.387	%
8702	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8703			...
8704			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8705	root	1.387	%
8706	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8707			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8708			[RJL]
8709	root	1.387	%
8710	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8711			right.''
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8714
8715			Amazing--they actually listened.
8716	root	1.387	%
8717	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8718			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8719			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8720
8721			# less foo
8722			sh: command not found
8723			# more foo
8724			sh: command not found
8725			# emacs foo
8726			sh: command not found
8727			# ed foo
8728			0
8729			help
8730			?
8731			quit
8732			?
8733			exit
8734			?
8735			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
8736			?
8737
8738			[Albert D. Cahalan]
8739	root	1.387	%
8740	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
8741			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
8742			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
8743
8744			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
8745
8746			tim> use blib ':quiet';
8747
8748			tim> would be most correct in style.
8749
8750			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
8751			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
8752	root	1.387	%
8753	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
8754			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
8755			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
8756			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
8757			too bad --- ]
8758	root	1.387	%
8759	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
8760	root	1.387	%
8761	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
8762
8763			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
8764			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
8765
8766			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
8767			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
8768	root	1.387	%
8769	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
8770			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
8771			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
8772			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
8773			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
8774	root	1.387	%
8775	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
8776
8777			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
8778			include wrong #include files in their source.
8779	root	1.387	%
8780	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
8781
8782			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
8783			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
8784			Consider it a rite of passage.
8785	root	1.387	%
8786	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
8787			"Oops."
8788			-- MST3K
8789	root	1.387	%
8790	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
8791			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
8792			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
8793
8794			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
8795			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
8796			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
8797			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
8798			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
8799			it. ;)
8800	root	1.387	%
8801	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
8802			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
8803			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
8804			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
8805			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
8806
8807			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
8808			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
8809			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
8810			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
8811
8812			--tom
8813	root	1.387	%
8814	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
8815
8816			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
8817
8818			>Why does it end ?
8819
8820			Ask the X3J11 committee.
8821
8822			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
8823			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
8824
8825			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
8826	root	1.387	%
8827	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
8828			-- Tom Christiansen
8829	root	1.387	%
8830	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
8831
8832			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
8833			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
8834			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
8835			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
8836			of Sputnik.
8837	root	1.387	%
8838	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
8839			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
8840			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
8841			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
8842			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
8843	root	1.387	%
8844	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
8845			- Hanlons razor -
8846	root	1.387	%
8847	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
8848			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
8849	root	1.387	%
8850	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
8851			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
8852			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
8853			> offered no significant advantages.
8854
8855			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
8856	root	1.387	%
8857	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
8858			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
8859			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
8860			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
8861			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
8862			in front of me says so."
8863
8864			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
8865	root	1.387	%
8866	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
8867			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
8868			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
8869			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
8870			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
8871			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
8872			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
8873			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
8874			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
8875			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
8876			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
8877	root	1.387	%
8878	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
8879			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
8880			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
8881			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
8882			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
8883	root	1.387	%
8884	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
8885	root	1.387	%
8886	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
8887	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
8888			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
8889			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
8890			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
8891	root	1.387	%
8892	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
8893			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
8894			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
8895			>
8896			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
8897			> and/or screen.
8898
8899			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
8900	root	1.387	%
8901	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
8902			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
8903
8904			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
8905			> use pedantic;
8906			> use strict 'code';
8907			>
8908			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
8909
8910			use syntax 'python';
8911
8912			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
8913
8914	root	1.387	%
8915	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
8916			>
8917			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
8918			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
8919			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
8920			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
8921			>
8922			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
8923	root	1.387	%
8924	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
8925			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
8926	root	1.387	%
8927	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
8928			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
8929			> be time-consuming.
8930
8931			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
8932	root	1.387	%
8933	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
8934			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
8935			however, they do not handle C++...
8936			[from "learning the vi editor"]
8937	root	1.387	%
8938	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
8939			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
8940
8941			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
8942
8943			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
8944
8945			and as Ecclesiastes said:
8946
8947			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
8948			already of old time, which was before us.
8949			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
8950			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
8951
8952			Regards,
8953			Tigran.
8954	root	1.387	%
8955	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
8956	root	1.387	%
8957	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
8958			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
8959			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
8960			main(){
8961			extrn hw;
8962			putchar(0[hw]);
8963			hw=+1;
8964			putchar(0[hw]);
8965			}
8966	root	1.387	%
8967	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
8968
8969			The egg. Always. By definition.
8970	root	1.387	%
8971	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
8972			>
8973			> Better check your scsi cables.
8974	root	1.387	%
8975	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
8976			[Dirk Jagdmann]
8977	root	1.387	%
8978	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
8979			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
8980			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
8981			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
8982
8983	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
8984	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
8985			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
8986
8987	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
8988	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
8989	root	1.387	%
8990	root	1.1	>James :\
8991			>
8992			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
8993
8994			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
8995	root	1.387	%
8996	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
8997			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
8998			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
8999	root	1.387	%
9000	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9001			> is just asking for a black eye.
9002
9003			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9004
9005			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9006			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9007			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9008
9009			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9010			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9011			area.
9012	root	1.387	%
9013	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9014			[Lukas Grunwald]
9015	root	1.387	%
9016	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9017
9018			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9019			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9020			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9021			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9022			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9025			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9026
9027			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9028	root	1.387	%
9029	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9030			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9031			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9032
9033			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9034
9035			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9036
9037			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9038
9039			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9040			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9041	root	1.387	%
9042	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9043	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9044	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9045	root	1.387	%
9046	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9047			longer...
9048	root	1.387	%
9049	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9050			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9051			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9052	root	1.387	%
9053	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9054			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9055			> > world :) I just love it...
9056			>
9057			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9058			>
9059			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9060			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9061			practical...
9062			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9063			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9064			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9065			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9066			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9067
9068			Jan Hubicka
9069	root	1.387	%
9070	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9071			[...]
9072			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9073
9074			No, it is not. What you meant is
9075
9076			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9077	root	1.387	%
9078	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9079			> A) perl-5.00553
9080			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9081			> cc = cl.exe
9082			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9083
9084			[...]
9085
9086			Ilya
9087	root	1.387	%
9088	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9089
9090			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9091
9092			p.
9093	root	1.387	%
9094	root	1.1	[tomc]
9095			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9096			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9097
9098			+------------------------------------------+
9099			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9100			+------------------------------------------+
9101
9102			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9103			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9104
9105			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9106			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9107			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9108			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9109			interesting way.
9110			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9111			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9112			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9113			interesting things.
9114			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9115			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9116			things.
9117	root	1.387	%
9118	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9119			--Dennis Ritchie
9120	root	1.387	%
9121	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9122	root	1.387	%
9123	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9124
9125			switch (x)
9126			default:
9127			if (prime(x))
9128			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9129			process_prime(x);
9130			else
9131			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9132			process_composite(x);
9133	root	1.387	%
9134	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9135			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9136			in megabytes, required for execution?
9137
9138			Craig Milo Rogers
9139	root	1.387	%
9140	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9141			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9142			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9143
9144			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9145			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9146
9147			Ilya
9148	root	1.387	%
9149	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9150			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9151
9152			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9153			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9154			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9155
9156			Nat
9157	root	1.387	%
9158	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9159			much steroids for a while. =)
9160
9161			--Albert Dvornik
9162			<bert@genscan.com>
9163	root	1.387	%
9164	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9165			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9166			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9167
9168			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9169
9170			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9171			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9172
9173			--tom
9174	root	1.387	%
9175	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9176
9177			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9178
9179			Linus
9180	root	1.387	%
9181	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9182			devil added HTML mail...
9183	root	1.387	%
9184	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9185			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9186			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9187	root	1.387	%
9188	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9189			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9190
9191			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9192			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9193			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9194
9195			Arm the gnus!
9196	root	1.387	%
9197	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9198
9199			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9200			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9201			gcc, so go away.
9202	root	1.387	%
9203	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9204			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9205
9206			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9207
9208			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9209			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9210	root	1.387	%
9211	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9212			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9213			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9214			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9215
9216			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9217			was released today" madness.
9218	root	1.387	%
9219	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9220			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9221			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9222			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9223			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9224			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9225			>
9226			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9227			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9228			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9229			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9230			> marketing name, anyway.
9231
9232			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9233			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9234			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9235
9236			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9237			violence..." :-)
9238	root	1.387	%
9239	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9240			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9241	root	1.387	%
9242	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9243			> >poor drivers
9244			>
9245			> No it doesn't.
9246
9247			Indeed. Its down to
9248
9249			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9250
9251			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9252			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9253			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9254			or binaries.
9255	root	1.387	%
9256	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9257	root	1.387	%
9258	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9259	root	1.387	%
9260	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9261
9262			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9263			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9264			\|>
9265			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9266
9267			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9268
9269			Andreas.
9270	root	1.387	%
9271	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9272			...
9273			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9274
9275			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9276			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9277			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9278			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9279			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9280			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9281	root	1.387	%
9282	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9283
9284			Paul Eggert writes:
9285			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9286
9287			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9288			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9289	root	1.387	%
9290	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9291			however.
9292
9293			"We don't have the tools"
9294			"We can't support a non intel build"
9295			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9296			"Its not worth the time cost"
9297			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9298	root	1.387	%
9299	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9300
9301			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9302			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9303			>
9304			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9305			> <mailproc@fred>
9306			>
9307			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9308			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9309			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9310			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9311			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9312	root	1.387	%
9313	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9314			> No documented problem
9315			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9316			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9317			>
9318			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9319	root	1.387	%
9320	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9321			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9322	root	1.387	%
9323	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9324			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9325
9326			dave
9327	root	1.387	%
9328	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9329			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9330
9331			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9332	root	1.387	%
9333	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9334
9335			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9336			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9337
9338			Paul Eggert writes:
9339			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9340
9341			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9342			1 month before 29 March?
9343
9344			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9345
9346			1 month before 28 March?
9347
9348			28 February.
9349
9350			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9351			_before_ 27 February?
9352
9353			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9354	root	1.387	%
9355	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9356
9357			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9358			>> So make a security check first:
9359			>>
9360			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9361			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9362			>
9363			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9364			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9365			>
9366			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9367			> = instead of == error*/
9368			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9369			>
9370			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9371			>
9372			>--
9373			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9374
9375			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9376
9377			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9378			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9379	root	1.387	%
9380	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9381			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9382
9383			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9384			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9385			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9386			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9387			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9388			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9389			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9390			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9391
9392			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9393			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9394			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9395			available for that hardware from any source.
9396			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9397			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9398			sniffing!
9399	root	1.387	%
9400	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9401			technical support line that isn't"
9402	root	1.387	%
9403	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9404			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9405	root	1.387	%
9406	root	1.1	[...]
9407			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9408			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9409
9410			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9411			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9412			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9413			"Nothing else"
9414			"Sorry"
9415			[Click]
9416
9417			Alan
9418	root	1.387	%
9419	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9420			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9421	root	1.387	%
9422	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9423			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9424			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9425			> users excepted, of course!).
9426
9427			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9428			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9429			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9430			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9431			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9432			is installed"
9433
9434			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9435	root	1.387	%
9436	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9437
9438			L. Harris wrote:
9439			>
9440			> Testing
9441
9442			you failed.
9443	root	1.387	%
9444	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9445			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9446	root	1.387	%
9447	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9448			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9449			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9450			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9451	root	1.387	%
9452	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9453			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9454			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9455
9456			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9457	root	1.387	%
9458	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9459			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9460			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9461			where else...
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9464			[...]
9465			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9466			: about a certain topic.
9467	root	1.387	%
9468	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9469			>
9470			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9471			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9472
9473			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9474			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9475
9476			void main (void)
9477			{
9478			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9479			printf ("\n");
9480			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9481			printf ("You have died.\n");
9482			printf ("\n");
9483			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9484			}
9485
9486			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9487
9488			--
9489			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9490	root	1.387	%
9491	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9492			mistake I ever made]
9493
9494			From: "Tom Miller"
9495			Subject: Can
9496			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9497
9498			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9499			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9500			my name is Tom Miller
9501
9502			From: "Tom Miller"
9503			Subject: Wait
9504			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9505
9506			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9507			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9508	root	1.387	%
9509	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9510
9511			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9512			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9513			so why bother? [...]
9514	root	1.387	%
9515	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9516	root	1.1
9517			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9518
9519			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9520			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9521			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9522			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9523			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9524			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9525			sich dann.
9526	root	1.387	%
9527	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9528			no fs
9529			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9530			Definitely hardware or software error.
9531
9532			Unix Version 7 Manual
9533	root	1.387	%
9534	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9535			>
9536			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9537			>
9538			> =for C
9539			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9540			> =end
9541			> =for C++
9542			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9543			> =end
9544			> =for Java
9545			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9546			> =end
9547			>
9548			> :-)
9549	root	1.387	%
9550	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9551	root	1.387	%
9552	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9553
9554			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9555			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9556			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9557			turn it on.
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.1	[...]
9560			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9561			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9562			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9563			[...]
9564	root	1.387	%
9565	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9566
9567			Chad C Giffin
9568	root	1.387	%
9569	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9570			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9571			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9572			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9573			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9574			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9575
9576			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9577			through the door.
9578			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9579			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9580			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9581			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9582			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9583			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9584			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9585			usually.)
9586
9587			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9588			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9589			your tire pressure..."
9590			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9591			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9592			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9593			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9594			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9595			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9596			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9597			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9598	root	1.387	%
9599	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9600
9601			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9602	root	1.387	%
9603	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9604
9605			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9606			:-(
9607	root	1.387	%
9608	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9609			>dies alles geschieht.
9610			>Und es verging nicht.
9611
9612			So what?
9613
9614			Ich dachte eher an:
9615
9616			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9617			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9618			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9619			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9620			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9621			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9622			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9623			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9624			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9625			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9626			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9627			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9628
9629			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9630
9631			Antje
9632	root	1.387	%
9633	root	1.1	[....]
9634
9635			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9636			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9637			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9638			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9639			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9640			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9641
9642			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9643
9644			Antje
9645	root	1.387	%
9646	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9647			lalala, I love you baby..."
9648			--
9649			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9650	root	1.387	%
9651	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9652			>
9653			> Kubys
9654
9655			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9656
9657			Linus
9658	root	1.387	%
9659	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9660
9661			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9662			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9663			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9664	root	1.387	%
9665	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9666
9667			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9668			out what it means.
9669			--
9670			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9671	root	1.387	%
9672	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9673			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9674	root	1.387	%
9675	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9676			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9677
9678			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9679
9680			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9681			> is being discussed.
9682
9683			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9684	root	1.387	%
9685	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9686
9687			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9688
9689			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9690
9691			[and the button reads]
9692
9693			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9694	root	1.387	%
9695	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9696
9697			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9698
9699			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9700			certain amount of redundancy.
9701	root	1.387	%
9702	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9703			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9704
9705			...
9706
9707			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9708	root	1.387	%
9709	root	1.1	>Hello,
9710			>
9711			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9712			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9713			>
9714
9715			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9716			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9717			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9718			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9719	root	1.387	%
9720	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9721			on the country as a whole.
9722			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9723			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9724			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9725	root	1.387	%
9726	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9727			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9728	root	1.387	%
9729	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9730	root	1.387	%
9731	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
9732			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
9733			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
9734
9735			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
9736
9737			--tom
9738			--
9739			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
9740			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9741	root	1.387	%
9742	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
9743			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
9744	root	1.387	%
9745	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9746
9747			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
9748			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
9749			> NO CARRIER
9750			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
9751	root	1.387	%
9752	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
9753			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
9754			> better.
9755
9756			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
9757			my finger on it. Hmmm.
9758	root	1.387	%
9759	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
9760			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
9761	root	1.387	%
9762	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
9763			\|>
9764			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
9765			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
9766			\|>
9767			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
9768			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
9769
9770			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
9771			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
9772			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
9773			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
9774			build Bison, and then cook it.
9775
9776			Viva la buffalo burgers.
9777	root	1.387	%
9778	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
9779			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
9780			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
9781			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
9782			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
9783	root	1.387	%
9784	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
9785			-- lbxproxy(1)
9786	root	1.387	%
9787	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
9788
9789			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
9790
9791			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
9792			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
9793	root	1.387	%
9794	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
9795
9796			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
9797	root	1.387	%
9798	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
9799			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
9800			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
9801			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
9802			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
9803
9804			\|> What does this mean.
9805
9806			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
9807			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
9808	root	1.387	%
9809	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9810
9811			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
9812			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
9813
9814			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
9815	root	1.387	%
9816	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
9817			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
9818			streams)."
9819			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
9820	root	1.387	%
9821	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
9822			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
9823	root	1.387	%
9824	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
9825
9826			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
9827
9828			Klaro.
9829
9830			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
9831			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
9832			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
9833			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
9834
9835	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
9836	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
9837
9838			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
9839			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
9840			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
9841			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
9842			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
9843			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
9844			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
9845
9846			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
9847			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
9848			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
9849	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
9850			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
9851			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
9852			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
9853	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
9854
9855			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
9856	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
9857			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
9858			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
9859			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
9860			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
9861			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
9862			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
9863	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
9864			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
9865
9866			cu in hell 2002
9867	root	1.387	%
9868	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
9869	root	1.387	%
9870	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
9871
9872			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
9873			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
9874			the man page for crypt(1).
9875
9876			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
9877			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
9878			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
9879
9880			man -s3 crypt
9881
9882			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
9883			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
9884
9885			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
9886			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
9887			he can figure out to use the command
9888
9889			man -s3 Intro.3
9890
9891			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
9892			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
9893
9894			man -s3c crypt
9895
9896			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
9897			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
9898			any trouble.
9899			--
9900			Michael M Rubenstein
9901	root	1.387	%
9902	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
9903
9904			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
9905
9906			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
9907
9908			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
9909
9910			Regards,
9911			Tim Bunce.
9912
9913			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
9914			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
9915			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
9916	root	1.387	%
9917	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
9918
9919			...
9920
9921			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
9922			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
9923			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
9924
9925			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
9926			its unusable, believe me I do.
9927	root	1.387	%
9928	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
9929
9930			Semour Cray
9931	root	1.387	%
9932	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
9933
9934			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
9935	root	1.387	%
9936	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
9937			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
9938
9939			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
9940			it only supports parts of it
9941	root	1.387	%
9942	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
9943			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
9944	root	1.387	%
9945	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
9946			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
9947			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
9948			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
9949			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
9950			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
9951			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
9952
9953			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
9954			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
9955			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
9956			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
9957			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
9958			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
9959			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
9960			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
9961			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
9962			with existing HP as code.) [...]
9963
9964			tq vm, (burley)
9965	root	1.387	%
9966	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
9967			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
9968			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
9969			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
9970			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
9971			typedef long int s_reg_t;
9972			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
9973	root	1.387	%
9974	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
9975			/*
9976			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
9977			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
9978			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
9979			* files won't compile.
9980			*/
9981	root	1.387	%
9982	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
9983			> great.
9984
9985			I answered only the places I can comment on.
9986
9987			> BASSAS DA INDIA
9988
9989			This rock is below water half of the time!
9990			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
9991			on a regular basis! ;-)
9992	root	1.387	%
9993	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
9994			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
9995			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
9996	root	1.387	%
9997	root	1.1	>
9998			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
9999			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10000			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10001
10002			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10003	root	1.387	%
10004	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10005
10006			>Hello!
10007
10008			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10009			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10010			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10011
10012
10013			Perl.
10014
10015			regards
10016			jobst
10017	root	1.387	%
10018	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10019			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10020			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10021
10022			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10023			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10024
10025			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10026			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10027			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10028			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10029			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10030			the absolute pits.
10031	root	1.387	%
10032	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10033	root	1.387	%
10034	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10035			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10036
10037			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10038	root	1.387	%
10039	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10040			ketchup and mustard
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10043
10044			vimal gajjar wrote:
10045			>
10046			> Hi there,
10047			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10048			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10049			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10050			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10051			> 5% of cpu
10052			> 2 Mb of RAM
10053			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10054			>
10055			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10056
10057			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10058			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10059			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10060	root	1.387	%
10061	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10062			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10063			>
10064			> >s/usually/never/
10065			>
10066			> s/sometimes/never/
10067
10068			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10069	root	1.387	%
10070	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10071			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10072			:Perl, IMO.
10073
10074			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10075
10076			TC
10077	root	1.387	%
10078	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10079	root	1.387	%
10080	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10081
10082			Hi guys!
10083
10084			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10085	root	1.387	%
10086	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10087
10088			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10089			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10090			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10091			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10092			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10093			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10094	root	1.387	%
10095	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10096			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10097			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10098
10099			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10100			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10101			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10102			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10103
10104			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10105			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10106			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10107			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10108
10109			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10110
10111			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10112
10113			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10114			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10115			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10116
10117			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10118			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10119
10120			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10121			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10122
10123			Did I miss any? ;-)
10124
10125			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10126			Laugh. Please.
10127
10128			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10129			--Scott
10130	root	1.387	%
10131	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10132
10133			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10134			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10135			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10136			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10137	root	1.387	%
10138	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10139			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10140
10141			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10142
10143			This is not mail.
10144
10145			This is Usenet.
10146
10147			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10148	root	1.387	%
10149	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10150			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10151			--- ide1: reset: success
10152			-----------> I like Linux !
10153	root	1.387	%
10154	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10155			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10156
10157			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10158			do.
10159	root	1.387	%
10160	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10161			++ PLONK.
10162	root	1.387	%
10163	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10164			Re: Subraumfunk
10165
10166			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10167			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10168
10169			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10170			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10171			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10172			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10173			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10174	root	1.387	%
10175	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10176			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10177			>
10178			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10179
10180			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10181	root	1.387	%
10182	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10183			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10184	root	1.387	%
10185	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10186			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10187
10188			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10189			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10190
10191			Bill Jones
10192	root	1.387	%
10193	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10194
10195			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10196			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10197			#include <windows.h>
10198			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10199			#endif
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10202
10203			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10204			is, invoking the URL
10205
10206			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10207
10208			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10209	root	1.387	%
10210	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10211			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10212			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10213			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10214			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10215			"I am using CGI!"
10216
10217			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10218	root	1.387	%
10219	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10220			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10221			>
10222	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10223	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10224
10225			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10226	root	1.387	%
10227	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10228			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10229	root	1.387	%
10230	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10231			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10232			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10233			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10234	root	1.387	%
10235	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10236
10237			pcg@goof.com said:
10238			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10239
10240			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10241
10242			"It's broken."
10243			"What's wrong with it?."
10244			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10245			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10246			"It just doesn't work."
10247			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10248			"It gives an error message."
10249			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10250			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10251			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10252			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10253			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10254			letter for letter this time."
10255	root	1.387	%
10256	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10257
10258			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10259			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10260			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10261
10262			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10263			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10264			perms.
10265
10266			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10267	root	1.387	%
10268	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10269			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10270
10271			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10272
10273			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10274			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10275			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10276
10277			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10278			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10279	root	1.387	%
10280	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10281			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10282	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10283
10284			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10285			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10286			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10287			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10288			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10289			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10290			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10291			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10292			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10293			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10294			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10295
10296			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10297
10298			normarz@aol.com
10299	root	1.387	%
10300	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10301	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10302	root	1.1	>Legion
10303			>schlagen?
10304
10305			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10306
10307			Bye
10308			Andreas
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10311
10312			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10313			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10314
10315			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10316			companies.
10317
10318			Kind regards
10319			Henning
10320	root	1.387	%
10321	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10322			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10323			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10324
10325			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10326			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10327			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10328
10329			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10330			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10331			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10332			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10333			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10334			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10335			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10336			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10337			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10338			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10339	root	1.387	%
10340	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10341			We might support that sometime next year.
10342			-=- Microsoft
10343			(But I doubt it.)
10344			-=- Me
10345			-=- James Mastros
10346	root	1.387	%
10347	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10348			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10349			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10350			>lines.
10351
10352			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10353			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10354	root	1.387	%
10355	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10356	root	1.387	%
10357	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10358			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10359			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10360			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10361	root	1.387	%
10362	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10363
10364			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10365			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10366			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10367			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10368			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10369			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10370			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10371			it's not all his fault.
10372
10373			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10374			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10375			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10376			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10377			content.
10378
10379			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10380			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10381			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10382			learn (or pay for it;)
10383
10384			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10385			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10386			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10387			just for fun or to get the op.
10388
10389			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10390			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10391			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10392			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10393
10394			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10395
10396			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10397			course, Linux and Linux people.
10398	root	1.387	%
10399	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10400			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10401
10402			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10403			--
10404			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10405	root	1.387	%
10406	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10407
10408			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10409			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10410			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10411
10412			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10413			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10414			tradition.
10415	root	1.387	%
10416	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10417			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10418	root	1.387	%
10419	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10420			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10421	root	1.387	%
10422	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10423			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10424			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10425			Or GIRLS for short.
10426	root	1.387	%
10427	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10428	root	1.387	%
10429	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10430			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10431			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10432			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10433			5_004_03 to build!"
10434
10435			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10436			have no patience."
10437
10438			xoxo,
10439			Andy
10440	root	1.387	%
10441	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10442			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10443			We all have our cross to bear.
10444	root	1.387	%
10445	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10446
10447			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10448			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10449			Subject: Re: system() question
10450
10451			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10452			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10453			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10454			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10455			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10456			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10457			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10458			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10459			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10460			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10461			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10462			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10463			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10464			humiliating for me!)
10465
10466			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10467			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10468			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10469			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10470			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10471			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10472			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10473			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10474			really knows the answer.
10475
10476			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10477			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10478			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10479			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10480
10481			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10482			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10483			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10484			for that.
10485
10486			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10487			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10488			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10489			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10490			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10491			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10492			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10493
10494			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10495
10496			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10497			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10498			something for free.''
10499
10500			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10501
10502			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10503			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10504
10505			(Good question.)
10506
10507			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10508			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10509			once I have run it.''
10510			(Good question.)
10511
10512			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10513
10514			(Good question.)
10515
10516			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10517			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10518			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10519			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10520			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10521
10522			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10523			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10524			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10525			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10526			comp.lang.perl?
10527			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10528			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10529			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10530			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10531			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10532			in comp.lang.perl?
10533
10534			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10535			you my rate card.
10536
10537			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10538			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10539			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10540			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10541			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10542			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10543			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10544			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10545			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10546			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10547
10548			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10549			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10550			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10551			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10552			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10553			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10554			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10555			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10556			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10557			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10558			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10559			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10560			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10561			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10562			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10563			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10564
10565			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10566			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10567			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10568			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10569			someone will. Maybe I will.
10570
10571			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10572			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10573			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10574			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10575			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10576			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10577			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10578			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10579
10580			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10581			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10582			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10583			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10584			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10585			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10586			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10587			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10588			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10589			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10590			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10591			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10592			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10593			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10594
10595			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10596			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10597			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10598			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10599
10600			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10601
10602			`I want to accomplish X.
10603
10604			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10605
10606			...
10607
10608			But instead it does Y.
10609
10610			Why is that?''
10611
10612			This one is also pretty good:
10613
10614			`I want to accomplish X.
10615			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10616
10617			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10618			because of Z.
10619
10620			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10621
10622			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10623			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10624
10625
10626			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10627			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10628
10629			--
10630			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10631			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10632	root	1.387	%
10633	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10634			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10635
10636			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10637			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10638			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10639
10640			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10641
10642			bye, Georg
10643	root	1.387	%
10644	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10645			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10646			convince me.
10647
10648			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10649
10650			Linus
10651	root	1.387	%
10652	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10653			++
10654
10655			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10656			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10657
10658	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10659	root	1.1
10660			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10661			understanding the above line.
10662
10663			Abigail
10664	root	1.387	%
10665	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10666			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10667	root	1.387	%
10668	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10669			++ button?
10670			Yes.
10671
10672			++ 100 pictures or so?
10673			Yes.
10674
10675			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10676			Yes.
10677
10678			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10679			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10680
10681			Abigail
10682	root	1.387	%
10683	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10684
10685			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10686
10687			Martien
10688	root	1.387	%
10689	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10690			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10691			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10692			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10693	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10694	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10695			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10696			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10697			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10698	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10699	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10700			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10701	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10702			nicht. ;)
10703
10704	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10705			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10706			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10707	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10708			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10709	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10710	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10711
10712	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10713			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10714	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10715	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10716	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10717
10718	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10719	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10720	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10721			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10722	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10723	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10724	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10725			"unvorstellbar".
10726
10727			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10728	root	1.387	%
10729	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
10730			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
10731			^^^
10732			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
10733	root	1.387	%
10734	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
10735			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
10736	root	1.387	%
10737	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
10738			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
10739	root	1.387	%
10740	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
10741			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
10742			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
10743
10744			An artificial pile of rocks.
10745	root	1.387	%
10746	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
10747			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
10748			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
10749			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
10750			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
10751			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
10752
10753			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
10754			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
10755			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
10756			grosser Flipperautomat.
10757
10758			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
10759	root	1.387	%
10760	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
10761			>
10762			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
10763			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
10764			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
10765			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
10766			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
10767	root	1.387	%
10768	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
10769			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
10770	root	1.1
10771			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
10772	root	1.387	%
10773	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
10774
10775			The Unix shell as a 4GL
10776
10777			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
10778			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
10779			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
10780			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
10781			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
10782			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
10783			Unix environment.
10784	root	1.387	%
10785	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
10786			between these:
10787
10788			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
10789			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
10790
10791			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
10792			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
10793			;#", and the print gets executed!
10794
10795			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
10796			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
10797			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
10798			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
10799
10800			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
10801			'perl'".
10802
10803			--
10804			Randal L. Schwartz
10805	root	1.387	%
10806	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
10807
10808			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
10809			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
10810			>
10811			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
10812
10813			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
10814
10815			--
10816			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
10817	root	1.387	%
10818	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
10819	root	1.387	%
10820	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
10821			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
10822	root	1.387	%
10823	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
10824			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
10825	root	1.387	%
10826	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
10827			can have the return value of a function be itself a
10828			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
10829			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
10830			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
10831			example.
10832	root	1.387	%
10833	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
10834			resemble a nail.
10835	root	1.387	%
10836	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
10837			> I did wrong.
10838
10839			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
10840			newsgroup.
10841	root	1.387	%
10842	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
10843	root	1.387	%
10844	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
10845			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
10846	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
10847
10848			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
10849	root	1.387	%
10850	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
10851	root	1.1
10852	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
10853	root	1.387	%
10854	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
10855			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
10856			expired instantly!!!
10857	root	1.387	%
10858	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
10859			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
10860
10861			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
10862			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
10863			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
10864
10865			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
10866			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
10867			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
10868			than double Linus's programming experience?
10869
10870			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
10871			> pretty straight forward.
10872
10873			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
10874			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
10875	root	1.387	%
10876	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
10877			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
10878			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
10879			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
10880			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
10881			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
10882	root	1.387	%
10883	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
10884	root	1.387	%
10885	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
10886			Example:
10887			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
10888	root	1.387	%
10889	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
10890			Randal gets his hands on it
10891	root	1.387	%
10892	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
10893	root	1.387	%
10894	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
10895
10896			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
10897			first if you get it working.
10898	root	1.387	%
10899	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
10900			> Think different.
10901
10902			Think Again.
10903	root	1.387	%
10904	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
10905	root	1.387	%
10906	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
10907			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
10908			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
10909
10910			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
10911	root	1.387	%
10912	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
10913			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
10914	root	1.387	%
10915	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
10916			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
10917			\| top.
10918	root	1.387	%
10919	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
10920			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
10921	root	1.387	%
10922	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
10923			^^^^^^^^^
10924			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
10925
10926			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
10927	root	1.387	%
10928	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
10929			>gehen soll?
10930
10931	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
10932	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
10933			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
10934	root	1.387	%
10935	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
10936	root	1.387	%
10937	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
10938			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
10939	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
10940			>
10941			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
10942
10943			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
10944			Schuh aus!
10945	root	1.387	%
10946	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
10947
10948	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
10949	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
10950	root	1.387	%
10951	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
10952
10953
10954			First opportunity
10955			Approximate
10956			Orbit Internet
10957			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10958
10959			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
10960			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
10961			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
10962			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
10963
10964			Second opportunity
10965			Approximate
10966			Orbit Internet
10967			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10968
10969			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
10970			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
10971			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
10972			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
10973
10974			Third opportunity
10975			Approximate
10976			Orbit Internet
10977			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
10978
10979			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
10980			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
10981			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
10982			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
10983
10984	root	1.387	%
10985	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
10986	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
10987			> >würden.
10988	root	1.1	>
10989			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
10990			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
10991			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
10992			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
10993			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
10994			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
10995			implizierst.
10996	root	1.387	%
10997	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
10998			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
10999	root	1.387	%
11000	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11001			Big improvement.
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11004			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11005			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11006			-- "Why that one?"
11007			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11008			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11009	root	1.387	%
11010	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11011			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11012			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11013	root	1.387	%
11014	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11015			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11016			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11017
11018			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11019
11020			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11021			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11022			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11023
11024			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11025
11026			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11027			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11028			> er eigentlich ist?
11029
11030	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11031	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11032	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11033	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11034	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11035	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11036	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11037	root	1.1	Ciao
11038			Stefan
11039	root	1.387	%
11040	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11041			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11042			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11043			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11044	root	1.387	%
11045	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11046			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11047			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11048			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11049			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11050			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11051			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11052			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11053			off.
11054	root	1.387	%
11055	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11056			Meet interesting people,
11057			Kill them.
11058	root	1.387	%
11059	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11060			> umwandelbar ist.
11061
11062			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11063	root	1.387	%
11064	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11065	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11066	root	1.387	%
11067	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11068			>
11069			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11070			> >> ruckartig.
11071			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11072			>
11073	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11074	root	1.1
11075			:-)
11076	root	1.387	%
11077	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11078	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11079			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11080	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11081			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11082			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11083			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11084
11085			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11086			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11087	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11088			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11089	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11090	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11091			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11092			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11093	root	1.1	Union.
11094
11095	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11096			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11097	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11098	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11099			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11100			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11101	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11102	root	1.387	%
11103	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11104			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11105	root	1.387	%
11106	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11107	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11108	root	1.1	>>
11109			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11110	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11111			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11112	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11113			>
11114			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11115			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11116	root	1.387	%
11117	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11118	root	1.387	%
11119	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11120			> into a random order???
11121			>
11122
11123			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11124			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11125
11126			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11127			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11128			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11129			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11130			number less than 42.
11131	root	1.387	%
11132	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11133			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11134			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11135			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11136			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11137			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11138			eventually invent Unix.
11139	root	1.387	%
11140	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11141			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11142			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11143			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11144			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11145			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11146			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11147			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11148			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11149			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11150			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11151			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11152			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11153			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11154			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11155			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11156	root	1.387	%
11157	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11158			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11159			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11160	root	1.387	%
11161	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11162			using a Perl CGI script?
11163	root	1.387	%
11164	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11165
11166			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11167			week.
11168	root	1.387	%
11169	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11170			Brieweb> of PERL.
11171			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11172			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11173			[Randal Schwartz]
11174	root	1.387	%
11175	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11176			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11177			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11178			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11179	root	1.387	%
11180	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11181			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11182			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11183			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11184			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11185			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11186			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11187			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11188			system and restricting their options.
11189			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11190	root	1.387	%
11191	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11192			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11193			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11194	root	1.387	%
11195	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11196			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11197			Ernie Hai
11198			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11199	root	1.387	%
11200	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11201			: results" report from the users.
11202
11203			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11204			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11205			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11206			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11207	root	1.387	%
11208	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11209			They are all owned by cats.
11210	root	1.387	%
11211	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11212			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11213			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11214	root	1.387	%
11215	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11216			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11217
11218			Yesterday it worked
11219			Today it is not working
11220			Windows is like that
11221			- - -
11222			wind catches lily
11223			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11224			segmentation fault
11225			- - -
11226			Three things are certain:
11227			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11228			Guess which has occurred.
11229			- - -
11230			A file that big?
11231			It might be very useful.
11232			But now it is gone.
11233			- - -
11234			Windows NT crashed.
11235			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11236			No one hears your screams.
11237			- - -
11238			Errors have occurred.
11239			We won't tell you where or why.
11240			Lazy programmers.
11241			- - -
11242			Seeing my great fault
11243			Through darkening blue windows
11244			I begin again
11245			- - -
11246			The code was willing,
11247			It considered your request,
11248			But the chips were weak.
11249			- - -
11250			Printer not ready.
11251			Could be a fatal error.
11252			Have a pen handy?
11253			- - -
11254			Server's poor response
11255			Not quick enough for browser.
11256			Timed out, plum blossom.
11257			- - -
11258			Chaos reigns within.
11259			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11260			Order shall return.
11261			- - -
11262			Login incorrect.
11263			Only perfect spellers may
11264			enter this system.
11265			- - -
11266			This site has been moved.
11267			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11268			have to delete you.
11269			- - -
11270			ABORTED effort:
11271			Close all that you have.
11272			You ask way too much.
11273			- - -
11274			First snow, then silence.
11275			This thousand dollar screen dies
11276			so beautifully.
11277			- - -
11278			With searching comes loss
11279			and the presence of absence:
11280			"My Novel" not found.
11281			- - -
11282			The Tao that is seen
11283			Is not the true Tao, until
11284			You bring fresh toner.
11285			- - -
11286			The Web site you seek
11287			cannot be located but
11288			endless others exist
11289			- - -
11290			Stay the patient course
11291			Of little worth is your ire
11292			The network is down
11293			- - -
11294			A crash reduces
11295			your expensive computer
11296			to a simple stone.
11297			- - -
11298			There is a chasm
11299			of carbon and silicon
11300			the software can't bridge
11301			- - -
11302			To have no errors
11303			Would be life without meaning
11304			No struggle, no joy
11305			- - -
11306			You step in the stream,
11307			but the water has moved on.
11308			This page is not here.
11309			- - -
11310			No keyboard present
11311			Hit F1 to continue
11312			Zen engineering?
11313			- - -
11314			Hal, open the file
11315			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11316			open it, please Hal
11317			- - -
11318			Out of memory.
11319			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11320			But we never will.
11321			- - -
11322			Having been erased,
11323			The document you're seeking
11324			Must now be retyped.
11325			- - -
11326			The ten thousand things
11327			How long do any persist?
11328			Netscape, too, has gone.
11329			- - -
11330			Rather than a beep
11331			Or a rude error message,
11332			These words: "File not found."
11333			- - -
11334			Serious error.
11335			All shortcuts have disappeared
11336			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11337	root	1.387	%
11338	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11339			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11340	root	1.387	%
11341	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11342			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11343
11344			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11345			early 1980s.
11346	root	1.387	%
11347	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11348			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11349			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11350			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11351
11352			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11353			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11354			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11355			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11356			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11357			many new features that it just stops working.
11358
11359			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11360
11361			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11362			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11363
11364			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11365			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11366			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11367
11368			Hope this explains what's going on
11369			Martien Verbruggen
11370	root	1.387	%
11371	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11372	root	1.387	%
11373	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11374	root	1.387	%
11375	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11376	root	1.387	%
11377	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11378			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11379			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11380	root	1.387	%
11381	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11382			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11383			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11384			>
11385			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11386
11387			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11388			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11389	root	1.387	%
11390	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11391			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11392			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11393			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11394	root	1.387	%
11395	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11396			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11397			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11398			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11399			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11400			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11401			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11402			convienience store.")
11403	root	1.387	%
11404	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11405			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11406	root	1.387	%
11407	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11408	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11409	root	1.1
11410			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11411			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11412	root	1.387	%
11413	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11414			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11415			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11416			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11417	root	1.387	%
11418	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11419			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11420			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11421	root	1.387	%
11422	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11423			(A => B) => (B => A)
11424			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11425			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11426	root	1.387	%
11427	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11428	root	1.387	%
11429	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11430			-Barry Shein
11431	root	1.387	%
11432	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11433			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11434			read the manual.
11435	root	1.387	%
11436	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11437	root	1.387	%
11438	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11439			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11440			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11441			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11442			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11443			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11444			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11445			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11446			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11447	root	1.387	%
11448	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11449	root	1.387	%
11450	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11451			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11452			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11453	root	1.387	%
11454	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11455
11456			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11457			need.
11458	root	1.387	%
11459	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11460			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11461			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11462	root	1.387	%
11463	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11464			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11465			newsreaders. You know,
11466			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11467			back
11468			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11469			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11470			out what they're saying.
11471	root	1.387	%
11472	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11473			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11474	root	1.387	%
11475	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11476			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11477			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11478
11479			But the combination.... sutters
11480	root	1.387	%
11481	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11482			Darn it.
11483	root	1.387	%
11484	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11485	root	1.387	%
11486	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11487	root	1.387	%
11488	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11489			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11490			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11491			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11492			trying to use it.
11493	root	1.387	%
11494	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11495	root	1.387	%
11496	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11497			>
11498			> Is this group active?
11499			No.
11500
11501			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11502			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11503
11504			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11505			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11506	root	1.387	%
11507	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11508			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11509	root	1.387	%
11510	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11511			Press any key to continue..."
11512	root	1.387	%
11513	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11514			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11515			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11516	root	1.387	%
11517	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11518			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11519			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11520			adjust your travel plans.
11521	root	1.387	%
11522	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11523			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11524	root	1.387	%
11525	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11526			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11527
11528			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11529			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11530
11531			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11532
11533			tak 18 12 6
11534	root	1.387	%
11535	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11536			-- Bill Gates
11537			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11538			-- Bill Gates
11539			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11540			-- logical conclusion
11541	root	1.387	%
11542	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11543			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11544			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11545			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11546			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11547			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11548			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11549			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11550			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11551			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11552			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11553			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11554			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11555			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11556			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11557			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11558			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11559			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11560			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11561			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11562			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11563	root	1.387	%
11564	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11565			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11566			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11567			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11568	root	1.387	%
11569	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.