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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
2			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
3			%
4			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
5			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
6			out with a problem I'm having?
7
8			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
9
10			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
11
12			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
13			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
14			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
15			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
16
17			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
18
19			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
20
21			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
22
23			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
24			[http://c2.com/]
25			%
26			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
27			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
28			right-parenthesis.
29			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
30			%
31			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
32			yourself?
33			Software development is the career for you!
34
35			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
36			%
37	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
38			-- Richard Dawkins
39			%
40			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
41			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
42			and security.
43
44			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
45			%
46			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
47
48			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
49			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
50			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
51			%
52			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
53			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
54			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
55			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
56			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
57			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
58
59			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
60			%
61			tiny hsv2rgb
62			float3 h2r(float h,float s,float v){return lerp(saturate((abs(frac(h+float3(1,2,3)/3)6-3)-1)),1,s)v;}
63
64			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
65			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
66			}
67			%
68			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
69			Only Java makes it possible!
70
71			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
72			%
73			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
74			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
75			extremely poettering''
76			%
77			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
78			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
79			%
80			"I drank what?!"
81			-- Socrates
82			%
83			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
84			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
85			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
86
87			Jon Callas in
88			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
89			%
90			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
91			-- Conway's Law
92			%
93			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
94			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
95			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
96			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
97			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
98			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
99			untangling this mess right now so).
100
101			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
102			%
103			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
104			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
105			enabled on platforms that support it.
106			[xorg.conf(5)]
107			%
108			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
109			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
110			> would work on code.
111
112			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
113			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
114			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
115			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
116			%
117	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
118			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
119			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
120			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
121			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
122			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
123			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
124			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
125			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
126			%
127			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
128			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
129			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
130			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
131			very beginning.
132			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
133			%
134			systemd creates user session information in
135			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
136			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
137			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
138			allowed one session per user.
139			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
140			%
141	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
142			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
143			> about anything else.
144			>
145			> Why is it like that?
146
147			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
148
149			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
150			%
151			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
152
153			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
154			>>
155			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
156			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
157			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
158			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
159			>
160			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
161
162			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
163			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
164			%
165			(partial) Beaufort Table
166			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
167			Calm 0 0 0
168			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
169			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
170			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
171			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
172			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
173			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
174			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
175			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
176			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
177			%
178			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
179			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
180			%
181			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
182			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
183			%
184			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
185			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
186			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
187			on the cards.
188			%
189			[random comment from amule sources]
190			// trust noone ;-)
191			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
192			// wtf you guys are weird.
193			%
194	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
195			- Kin Hubbard
196			%
197			[random .sig]
198			I'm a muslim.
199
200			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
201			%
202			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
203			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
204			before.
205
206			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
207			%
208			<imho>
209
210			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
211			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
212			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
213			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
214
215			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
216			Java - public static void not fun.
217			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
218			C - usually not fun.
219
220			What about modern scripting languages?
221
222			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
223			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
224			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
225
226			</imho>
227
228			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
229			%
230			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
231			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
232			%
233
234			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
235			*
236			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
237
238			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
239			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
240			%
241			# The user is always right.
242			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
243			[autoconf]
244			%
245			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
246
247			/*
248			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
249			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
250			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
251			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
252			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
253			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
254			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
255			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
256			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
257			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
258			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
259			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
260			*/
261			%
262			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
263			was new to me:
264
265			switch(c)
266			{
267			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
268			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
269			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
270			case 'd': base=-10; }
271			switch(type)
272			{
273			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
274			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
275			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
276			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
277			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
278			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
279			default:val=0; break;
280			}
281			cp = __numout(val,base);
282			if(0) {
283			case 's':
284			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
285			}
286			%
287			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
288			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
289			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
290			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
291			extra second and see how far you get :-)
292			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
293			%
294			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
295			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
296			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
297			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
298			>
299			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
300			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
301
302			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
303			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
304
305			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
306			%
307			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
308			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
309			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
310
311			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
312
313			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
314			%
315			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
316			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
317			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
318			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
319			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
320			settings)
321
322			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
323			%
324			How do I deal with memory leaks?
325
326			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
327
328			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
329			%
330			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
331			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
332
333			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
334			%
335			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
336			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
337			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
338			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
339
340			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
341			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
342			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
343			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
344			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
345			rewarded for their creativity.
346
347			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
348			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
349			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
350			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
351			would never have made it in the first place.
352
353			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
354			%
355			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
356			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
357			%
358			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
359			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
360			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
361			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
362			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
363
364			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
365			%
366			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
367			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
368			- Mohandas Gandhi
369			%
370			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
371			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
372			handiwork of the Lord."
373			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
374			%
375			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
376
377			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
378			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
379			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
380
381			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
382			Scientist A publishes results.
383
384			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
385			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
386			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
387
388			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
389			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
390			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
391			A: ...
392			B: You fraud!
393
394			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
395
396			A publishes results.
397
398			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
399			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
400			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
401			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
402			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
403			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
404
405			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
406			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
407			%
408			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
409			them because they need the money to operate]
410
411			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
412			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
413			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
414			site or its bottom line."
415			%
416			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
417			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
418			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
419			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
420			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
421			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
422			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
423			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
424			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
425			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
426			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
427			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
428			%
429			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
430
431			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
432
433			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
434			%
435			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
436
437			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
438			>>>> and the beating of children?
439			>>>
440			>>> Subjugation of women...
441			>>
442			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
443			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
444			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
445			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
446			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
447			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
448			>> shake partner.
449			>
450			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
451			>
452			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
453			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
454			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
455			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
456			>
457
458			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
459			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
460			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
461			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
462			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
463			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
464			and your wife.
465			%
466			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
467			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
468			still kill you. - arestheblue
469			%
470			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
471			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
472			specifications for GSS-API.
473
474			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
475			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
476
477			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
478			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
479
480			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
481			%
482			[from the minix 3 users guide]
483
484			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
485			%
486			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
487
488			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
489			[...]
490			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
491			complaintant to guess this is true.
492			%
493			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
494			- Ken Thompson.
495			%
496			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
497
498			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
499
500			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
501			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
502			source code excerpt:
503
504			int sn()
505			{
506			char pwr;
507
508			int input1 = 0;
509			double output1 = 0;
510
511			system("clear");
512			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
513			cin>>input1;
514			output1 = (sin(input1));
515			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
516			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
517			cin>>pwr;
518			if(pwr == 'a')
519			sq();
520			if(pwr == 'm')
521			system("pause");
522
523			}
524			%
525			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
526			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
527
528			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
529
530			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
531			%
532			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
533			app for me" department:
534
535			From: Evan LeCompte
536
537			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
538			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
539			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
540			%
541			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
542			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
543			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
544
545			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
546			%
547			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
548			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
549			– Steve Jobs[47]
550
551			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
552			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
553			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
554			%
555			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
556			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
557			%
558			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
559			From: Patrick Horgan
560			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
561			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
562
563			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
564			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
565			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
566			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
567			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
568			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
569
570			[...]
571			%
572	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
573			— Peter Abelard
574			%
575			A man said to the universe:
576			"Sir I exist!"
577			"However," replied the universe,
578			"The fact has not created in me
579	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
580			- Steven Crane
581	root	1.431	%
582			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
583
584			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
585
586			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
587
588			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
589
590			– Sanskrit Saying
591			%
592			[anonymised discussion]
593			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
594			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
595			%
596			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
597
598	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
599	root	1.431
600			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
601			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
602			appear.
603			%
604			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
605			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
606			- Douglas Adams
607			%
608			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
609			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
610			%
611			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
612			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
613			%
614			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
615			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
616			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
617			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
618			%
619			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
620			%
621			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
622			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
623			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
624			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
625			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
626			%
627			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
628			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
629			or her career.
630			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
631			%
632			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
633			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
634			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
635			%
636			I LOVE YOU
637			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
638			%
639			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
640			the air impeller.
641
642			Alan Cox
643			%
644			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
645			with a minimum computer science background."
646			%
647			From: Eric Sosman
648			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
649			Subject: Re: about graphics
650
651			prince wrote:
652			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
653
654			#include <stdio.h>
655			int main(void) {
656			puts("graphics\rcommand");
657			return 0;
658			}
659			%
660			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
661			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
662			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
663			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
664			%
665			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
666
667			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
668			it still is a constant-time attack.
669			%
670			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
671			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
672			%
673			From: David Damerell
674
675			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
676			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
677			>caps to make it different.
678
679			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
680			painful but will take less typing.
681			%
682			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
683			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
684			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
685
686			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
687			%
688			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
689
690			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
691			> free than the BSD.
692			>
693			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
694
695			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
696			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
697			%
698			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
699
700			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
701			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
702			from incompatible pointer type
703			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
704			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
705			makes pointer from integer without a cast
706			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
707			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
708			%
709			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
710			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
711			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
712			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
713			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
714			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
715
716			[Chandon Seldon]
717			%
718			[Wikipedia]
719			Differences between vi and Emacs
720
721			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
722			%
723			[lost the reference]
724			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
725			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
726			%
727			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
728			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
729			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
730			%
731			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
732
733			Subject: Re: fcrack help
734			From: puezalb024@aol.com
735			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
736			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
737			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
738
739			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
740			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
741			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
742			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
743			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
744			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
745			piss on your leg.
746
747			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
748			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
749			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
750
751			[then, a day later]
752
753			Subject: Re: fcrack help
754			From: puezalb024@aol.com
755			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
756			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
757			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
758
759			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
760			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
761			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
762			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
763			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
764			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
765			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
766			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
767			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
768
769
770			-----Original Message-----
771			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
772			To: puezalb024@aol.com
773			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
774			Subject: Re: fcrack help
775
776
777
778			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
779	root	1.432	>
780	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
781
782			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
783
784			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
785			I hope you don't object :)
786			%
787			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
788			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
789
790			You made my day
791			%
792			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
793
794			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
795			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
796			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
797
798			Linus
799			%
800			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
801
802			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
803
804			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 ...
805
806			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
807
808			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
809			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
810			when sending emails to other people:
811			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
812
813			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
814
815			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
816			%
817			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
818			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
819			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
820			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
821			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
822			%
823			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
824			be used if run as administrator in windows.
825
826			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
827			%
828			[on italy]
829
830			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
831
832			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
833			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
834			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
835			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
836
837			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
838			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
839			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
840			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
841			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
842			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
843
844			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
845
846			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
847			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
848			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
849			from fascism period.
850
851			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
852			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
853			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
854			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
855			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
856			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
857			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
858			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
859			SIAE.
860
861			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
862			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
863			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
864			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
865			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
866			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
867			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
868			electronic ones
869
870			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
871
872			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
873			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
874			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
875			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
876			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
877			western country.
878
879			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
880			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
881			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
882			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
883			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
884			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
885			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
886			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
887			also the governments of "center-left".
888
889			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
890
891			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
892			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
893			without any restriction.
894
895			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
896			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
897			world.
898
899			Long life to the Bay, forever.
900			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
901			Thank you for reading.
902			%
903			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
904			>
905			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
906
907			How very ironic.
908			%
909			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
910			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
911			takes religion."
912
913			--Steve Weinberg
914			%
915			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
916			%
917			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
918			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
919			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
920
921			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
922			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
923			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
924			%
925			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
926			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
927			the right tool for me.
928			%
929			[deliantra]
930			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
931			%
932			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
933			%
934			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
935			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
936			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
937			%
938			From the CFA633 datasheet:
939
940			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
941			%
942			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
943			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
944
945			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
946			actually tells you it's American.
947			%
948			[better do not hire this programmer]
949			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
950			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
951			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
952
953			Hi
954
955			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
956			someone here can advise me.
957
958			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
959			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
960			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
961			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
962			happens with the customer looking on!!).
963
964			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
965			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
966			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
967			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
968			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
969			corresponding thing in C?
970
971			Thanks!
972			%
973			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
974
975			// See bug 53763.
976			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
977			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
978			if (shell) {
979			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
980			%
981			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
982			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
983
984			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
985			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
986			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
987			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
988			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
989			%
990			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
991			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
992			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
993			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
994			“display quality too high”).
995
996			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
997			%
998			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
999
1000	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1001	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1002
1003			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1004
1005			x / y * z
1006
1007			and
1008
1009			x / y * z
1010
1011			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1012
1013			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1014			design decisions.)
1015			%
1016			endergt:
1017			> snoofle:
1018			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1019			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1020			> > you understand what you are doing...
1021			>
1022	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1023	root	1.431
1024	root	1.432	debug
1025	root	1.431	%
1026			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%.
1027
1028			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1029			%
1030			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1031			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1032			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1033
1034			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1035			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1036			6 Decompilation
1037
1038			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1039			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1040			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1041			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1042			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1043			conditions are met: [...]"
1044			%
1045			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1046			%
1047			Why Linux Sux ?
1048
1049			Easy .
1050			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1051			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1052			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 .
1053			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1054			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1055			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1056			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! ) .
1057			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 .
1058			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1059
1060			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1061			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1062			working ones . Screw linux users .
1063			%
1064			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1065			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1066			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1067			%
1068			> The Dell 30"...
1069
1070			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1071			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1072			%
1073	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1074	root	1.431
1075			> > 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".
1076	root	1.432	>
1077	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!
1078	root	1.432	>
1079	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1080	root	1.432
1081	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1082
1083			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1084			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.
1085			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1086	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.
1087	root	1.431	%
1088			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1089			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1090			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1091			%
1092			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1093
1094			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1095			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1096			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1097
1098			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1099			anderen betriebssystemen.
1100
1101			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1102			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1103
1104			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1105			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1106			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1107			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1108			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1109
1110			Frage?
1111			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1112			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1113			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1114
1115			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1116			%
1117			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1118			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1119			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1120			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1121			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1122			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1123			%
1124			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1125			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1126			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1127			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1128			%
1129			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1130			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1131
1132			God bless the re-inventers
1133
1134			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1135			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1136
1137	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1138	root	1.431
1139			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1140			one.
1141			%
1142			[rfc2665]
1143			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1144			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1145			useful in theory than in practice.
1146			%
1147			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1148	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1149	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1150			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1151			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1152			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1153			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1154			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1155	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1156	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1157			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1158	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1159	root	1.431	15:30
1160			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1161			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1162			%
1163			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1164			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1165			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1166			%
1167			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1168
1169			Strictly for beginners
1170
1171			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1172			[...]
1173			%
1174			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1175			%
1176			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1177			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1178			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1179			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1180			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1181			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1182			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1183			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1184			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1185			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1186			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1187			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1188			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1189			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1190			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1191			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1192			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1193			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1194			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1195			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1196			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1197			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1198			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1199			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1200			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1201			%
1202			[A Gentoo User]
1203			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1204			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1205			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1206			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1207			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1208			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1209			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1210			%
1211			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1212			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1213			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1214			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1215			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1216	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1217			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1218	root	1.431	can do
1219			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1220			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1221			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1222			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1223			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1224			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1225			%
1226			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1227	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1228			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1229			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1230	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1231			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1232	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1233			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1234	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1235			%
1236			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1237			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1238			%
1239			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1240
1241			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1242			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1243			be slow in Windows 2000"
1244
1245			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1246			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1247			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1248			%
1249			[so much for type-safety]
1250			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1251			lst.add(null);
1252			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1253			%
1254			[just for reference]
1255			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1256			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1257			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1258			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1259			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1260			es nicht.
1261
1262			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1263			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1264			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1265			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1266			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1267			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1268
1269			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1270			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1271			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1272			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1273			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1274			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1275			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1276			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1277			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1278			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1279			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1280			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1281			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1282			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1283
1284			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1285			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1286			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1287			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1288			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1289			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1290			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1291
1292			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1293			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1294			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1295			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1296			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1297			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1298			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1299			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1300			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1301			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1302			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1303			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1304			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1305			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1306			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1307			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1308			alternativ' Idioten!
1309
1310			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1311			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1312			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1313			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1314			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1315			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1316			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1317			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1318			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1319			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1320			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1321			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1322			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1323			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1324
1325			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1326			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1327			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1328
1329			Ich will R A C H E !
1330
1331			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1332			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1333			Dinge zu sagen:
1334
1335			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1336
1337			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1338			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1339			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1340			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1341			anfange.
1342
1343			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1344			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1345			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1346			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1347			dieser verdammten schule!
1348
1349			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1350			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1351
1352			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1353
1354			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1355			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1356			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1357			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1358			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1359			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1360			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1361			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1362			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1363			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1364
1365			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1366			Einschulung.
1367
1368			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1369			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1370			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1371			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1372			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1373			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1374			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1375			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1376			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1377			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1378
1379			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1380			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1381
1382			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1383			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1384			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1385			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1386			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1387			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1388			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1389			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1390
1391			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1392			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1393			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1394			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1395			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1396			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1397			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1398			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1399
1400			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1401			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1402
1403			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1404			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1405			Hand genommen.
1406
1407			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1408			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1409
1410			Ich bin weg...
1411			%
1412			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1413			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1414			%
1415	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1416			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1417			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1418			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1419	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1420			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1421			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1422			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1423			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1424			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1425			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1426			%
1427			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1428			%
1429			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1430			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1431
1432			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1433			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1434			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1435			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1436			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1437			%
1438			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1439			%
1440			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1441			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1442			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1443			%
1444			[very funny read]
1445			Hack-a-Bike
1446			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1447			%
1448			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1449			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1450			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1451			still can.
1452
1453			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1454			%
1455	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1456			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1457	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1458			%
1459			[without words]
1460			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1461			%
1462			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1463			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1464			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1465			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1466			actual kid in an actual bath.
1467			%
1468			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1469			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1470			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1471			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1472			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1473			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1474			what happened to you.
1475			%
1476	root	1.432	--
1477	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1478
1479			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1480			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1481			%
1482			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1483	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1484			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1485	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1486
1487			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1488			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1489			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1490			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1491			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1492
1493			- Ted
1494			%
1495			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1496			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1497			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1498			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1499			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1500			me, but we have the truth!"
1501			%
1502			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1503			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1504			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1505			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1506			%
1507			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1508			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1509			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1510			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1511			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1512			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1513			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1514			genociding every monster.
1515
1516			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1517			genocide them for good measure!
1518			%%
1519			[nethack instadeath faq]
1520
1521			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1522
1523			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1524			%
1525			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1526			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1527	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1528	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1529			17:58 <Murch> lol
1530			%
1531			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1532			%
1533			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1534			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1535			%
1536			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1537			%
1538			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1539
1540			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1541			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1542			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1543			%
1544			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1545
1546			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1547			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1548			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1549			the Eastern Time Zone.
1550			[...]
1551			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1552			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1553			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1554			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1555			%
1556			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1557
1558			_dl_profile_output
1559			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1560			%
1561			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1562			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1563			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1564			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1565			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1566			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1567			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1568
1569			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1570			%
1571			[famous last words]
1572			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1573			%
1574			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1575
1576			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1577
1578			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1579
1580			--
1581			Jay Hennigan
1582			%
1583			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1584			%
1585			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1586			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1587			of homeland security]
1588			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1589			%
1590			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1591	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1592	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1593			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1594			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1595			range of spyware available to us?"
1596
1597			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1598			%
1599			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1600			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1601			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1602			%
1603	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1604	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1605			%
1606			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1607			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1608			%
1609			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1610			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1611			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1612			shooter.
1613
1614			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1615			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1616			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1617			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1618			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1619			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1620
1621			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1622			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1623			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1624			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1625			way.
1626
1627			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1628			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1629			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1630
1631			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1632			%
1633			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1634			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1635			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1636			> above comment about Hitler).
1637
1638			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1639			mention Hitler loses.
1640			%
1641			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1642			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1643			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1644			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1645			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1646			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1647			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1648			including <windows.h>.
1649			[...]
1650			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1651			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1652			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1653			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1654			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1655			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1656			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1657			environments.
1658			%
1659			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1660			%
1661			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1662			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1663			%
1664			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1665			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1666			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1667			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1668			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1669			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1670			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1671			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1672			companies want to own your computer.
1673
1674			Some examples:
1675
1676			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1677			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1678			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1679			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1680			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1681			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1682			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1683			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1684			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1685	root	1.432
1686	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1687			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1688			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1689			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1690			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1691
1692			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1693			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1694			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1695			from Microsoft? You can't.
1696
1697			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1698			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1699			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1700			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1701			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1702			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1703			adversely affect its business partners.
1704
1705			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1706			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1707			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1708			about your behavior.
1709
1710			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1711			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1712			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1713			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1714			presumed infractions.
1715
1716			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1717			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1718			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1719
1720			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1721			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1722			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1723			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1724			user's device against him.
1725			[...]
1726			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1727			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1728			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1729			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1730			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1731			back-room marketing deals.
1732			%
1733			[John Carmack on Java]
1734			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1735			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1736			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1737			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1738			performance.
1739			%
1740			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1741
1742			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1743			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1744			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1745			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1746			%
1747			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1748			%
1749			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1750			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1751			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1752			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1753			%
1754			http://funroll-loops.org/
1755			%
1756			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1757			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1758			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1759			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1760			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1761			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1762			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1763			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1764			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1765			Fahrenheit documentation.
1766			%
1767			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1768			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1769			sure its much slower than CVS]
1770			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1771			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1772			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1773	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1774	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1775			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1776	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1777	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1778			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1779	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1780	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1781			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1782			%
1783	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1784
1785			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1786			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1787	root	1.431	%
1788	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1789
1790			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1791			> systems ?
1792
1793			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1794			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1795
1796			Jesper
1797			%
1798	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1799
1800			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1801			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1802
1803	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1804	root	1.429	%
1805	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1806			%
1807	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1808
1809			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1810			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1811			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1812			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1813			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1814			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1815			but that's the truth.
1816			%
1817	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1818
1819			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1820
1821	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1822			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1823			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1824			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1825	root	1.424
1826			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1827	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1828			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1829	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1830
1831			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1832			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1833	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1834	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1835			in Richtung Boden.
1836
1837			[...]
1838
1839	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1840	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1841	root	1.424
1842			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1843	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1844	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1845
1846			[...]
1847
1848			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1849	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1850	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1851	root	1.424
1852			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1853	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1854			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1855			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1856	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1857			sofort.
1858			%
1859	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1860			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1861			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1862			software from Microsoft.)
1863	root	1.424	%
1864	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1865	root	1.424	%
1866	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1867
1868			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1869			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1870			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
1871			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
1872	root	1.424	%
1873	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
1874	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
1875	root	1.424	%
1876	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
1877			From: Rodrigo Severo
1878			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
1879			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
1880
1881			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
1882
1883			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
1884			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
1885			obviously-broken regulations like this.
1886
1887			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
1888			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
1889			brazilian ;)
1890			Rodrigo Severo
1891	root	1.424	%
1892	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
1893	root	1.417
1894			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
1895	root	1.424	%
1896	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
1897
1898			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
1899
1900			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
1901
1902			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
1903			squid (in mostly default debian config).
1904
1905			sigh
1906	root	1.424	%
1907	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
1908			By Bertrand Russell
1909
1910			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
1911			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
1912			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
1913			might be set forth as follows:
1914
1915			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
1916
1917			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
1918			evidence is sure to come to light.
1919
1920			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
1921
1922			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
1923			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
1924			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
1925
1926			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
1927			contrary authorities to be found.
1928
1929			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
1930			do the opinions will suppress you.
1931
1932			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
1933			was once eccentric.
1934
1935			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
1936			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
1937			agreement than the latter.
1938
1939			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
1940			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
1941
1942			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
1943			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
1944
1945			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
1946			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
1947	root	1.424	%
1948	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
1949	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
1950			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
1951			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
1952
1953			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
1954			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
1955			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
1956			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
1957			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
1958			United States."
1959	root	1.413	---
1960			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
1961			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
1962			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
1963	root	1.414	---
1964			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
1965			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
1966			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
1967			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
1968			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
1969
1970			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
1971			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
1972	root	1.424	%
1973	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
1974			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
1975	root	1.424	%
1976	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
1977
1978			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
1979			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
1980
1981			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
1982			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
1983
1984			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
1985
1986			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
1987			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
1988	root	1.424	%
1989	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
1990			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
1991	root	1.424	%
1992	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
1993			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
1994			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
1995			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
1996			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
1997			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
1998	root	1.424	%
1999	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2000
2001			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2002			they care about it?"
2003			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2004	root	1.407
2005			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2006	root	1.424	%
2007	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2008			-- Gregory Chaitin
2009	root	1.424	%
2010	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2011	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2012			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2013			[...]
2014	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2015			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2016	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2017	root	1.424	%
2018	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2019			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2020			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2021			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2022			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2023			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2024	root	1.424	%
2025	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2026
2027			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2028	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2029			return 0;
2030	root	1.424	%
2031	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2032	root	1.401
2033			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2034			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2035			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2036			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2037			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2038			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2039			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2040			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2041			> transparent.
2042
2043			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2044			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2045			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2046			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2047	root	1.424	%
2048	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2049			aber falsche Lösungen.
2050	root	1.424	%
2051	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2052			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2053			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2054			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2055	root	1.424	%
2056	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2057			>
2058			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2059			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2060			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2061			> than useful to the user.
2062
2063			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2064
2065			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2066			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2067			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2068			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2069
2070			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2071
2072			Linus
2073	root	1.424	%
2074	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2075			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2076			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2077			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2078	root	1.424	%
2079	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2080			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2081
2082	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2083	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2084			--
2085			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2086
2087			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2088	root	1.424	%
2089	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2090			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2091
2092			Person: What do you do?
2093			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2094			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2095
2096			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2097			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2098			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2099	root	1.394
2100			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2101			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2102	root	1.424	%
2103	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2104			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2105			illegal downloaders."
2106
2107			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2108
2109			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2110			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2111			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2112			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2113			have to emerge."
2114
2115			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2116	root	1.424	%
2117	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2118	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2119
2120			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2121			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2122
2123			Bye, Andy
2124	root	1.424	%
2125	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2126	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2127	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2128	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2129	root	1.390
2130			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2131			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2132			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2133			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2134			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2135			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2136			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2137			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2138			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2139			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2140			alle Benutzer.
2141			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2142			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2143			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2144			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2145			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2146			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2147			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2148			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2149			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2150			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2151			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2152	root	1.424	%
2153	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2154
2155			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2156			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2157			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2158			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2159			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2160			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2161			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2162			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2163			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2164			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2165			unfinished operations, etc.
2166			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2167
2168			Valid options:
2169			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2170			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2171
2172			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2173	root	1.424	%
2174	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2175			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2176			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2177			to provide.
2178			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2179	root	1.424	%
2180	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2181
2182			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2183			alarm people more.
2184
2185			-Nate
2186
2187			[...]
2188
2189			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2190			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2191			image of the language that is created here.
2192
2193			Juerd
2194
2195			[...]
2196
2197			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2198			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2199			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2200
2201	root	1.432	--
2202	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2203	root	1.387	%
2204	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2205	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2206	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2207			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2208	root	1.387	%
2209	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2210			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2211	root	1.387	%
2212	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2213			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2214	root	1.387	%
2215	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2216			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2217			[...]
2218			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2219			"Windows is broken."
2220	root	1.387	%
2221	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2222			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2223			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2224	root	1.387	%
2225	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2226			on being able to kill their children legally]
2227			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2228	root	1.387	%
2229	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2230			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2231			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2232	root	1.387	%
2233	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2234			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2235			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2236			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2237			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2238			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2239	root	1.378	--
2240			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2241			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2242			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2243			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2244			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2245			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2246			wasteful government spending."
2247	root	1.387	%
2248	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2249			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2250	root	1.387	%
2251	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2252			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2253	root	1.387	%
2254	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2255			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2256	root	1.387	%
2257	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2258			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2259	root	1.387	%
2260	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2261	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2262	root	1.387	%
2263	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2264			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2265	root	1.387	%
2266	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2267			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2268	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2269	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2270			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2271	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2272	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
2273			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2274	root	1.387	%
2275	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2276			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2277	root	1.387	%
2278	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2279			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2280			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2281			their weapons over our heads."
2282			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2283	root	1.387	%
2284	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2285			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2286	root	1.387	%
2287	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2288			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2289			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2290			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2291			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2292	root	1.387	%
2293	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2294	root	1.387	%
2295	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2296			several requests for clarification.
2297
2298			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2299			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2300			unter TCG definitions.
2301	root	1.387	%
2302	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2303			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2304			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2305			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2306	root	1.387	%
2307	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2308			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2309			get people on board.
2310			%
2311	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2312			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2313			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2314			DRM.
2315
2316			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2317			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2318	root	1.387	%
2319	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2320			switch ($decade) {
2321			case "the 50's":
2322			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2323			break;
2324			case "the 60's":
2325			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2326			break;
2327			case "the 70's":
2328			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2329			break;
2330			case "the 80's":
2331			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2332			break;
2333			case "the 90's":
2334			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2335			break;
2336			case "the 00's":
2337			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2338			break;
2339			}
2340	root	1.387	%
2341	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2342
2343			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2344			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2345			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2346			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2347
2348			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2349			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2350			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2351
2352			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2353			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2354			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2355			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2356			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2357			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2358			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2359			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2360			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2361			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2362	root	1.387	%
2363	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2364			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2365			married or unmarried."
2366
2367			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2368			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2369			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2370			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2371			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2372	root	1.387	%
2373	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2374
2375			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2376			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2377			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2378			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2379			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2380			conditioning.
2381
2382			[And this is religion at its best:]
2383			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2384			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2385			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2386	root	1.387	%
2387	root	1.361	[Racism]
2388			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2389	root	1.387	%
2390	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2391			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2392	root	1.387	%
2393	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2394			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2395
2396			I apologise for this.
2397
2398			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2399			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2400	root	1.387	%
2401	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2402			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2403			el says: ich kenn da wen
2404			el says: bei dem wars so
2405			[...]
2406			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2407			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2408			el says: gehirntumor auch
2409			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2410	root	1.387	%
2411	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2412	root	1.387	%
2413	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2414			no sense in the kernel]
2415			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2416
2417			[...]
2418
2419			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2420			models.
2421
2422			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2423			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2424			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2425	root	1.387	%
2426	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2427			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2428			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2429			--
2430			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2431	root	1.355	--
2432			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2433			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2434			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2435			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2436	root	1.387	%
2437	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2438			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2439			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2440			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2441			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2442			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2443			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2444			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2445	root	1.387	%
2446	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2447			which you currently do not posess]
2448			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2449	root	1.387	%
2450	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2451			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2452	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2453	root	1.387	%
2454	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2455	root	1.387	%
2456	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2457			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2458	root	1.387	%
2459	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2460			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2461			paragraphs.
2462	root	1.387	%
2463	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2464			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2465			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2466	root	1.387	%
2467	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2468			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2469
2470			Most catholics aren't American.
2471	root	1.387	%
2472	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2473
2474			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2475			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2476			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2477			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2478			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2479
2480			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2481			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2482	root	1.387	%
2483	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2484			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2485			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2486			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2487			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2488			criminals."
2489	root	1.387	%
2490	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2491			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2492	root	1.387	%
2493	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2494			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2495	root	1.387	%
2496	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2497			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2498	root	1.387	%
2499	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2500			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2501			card (They went up in flames).
2502	root	1.387	%
2503	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2504			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2505			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2506			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2507	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2508	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2509	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2510	root	1.387	%
2511	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2512			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2513			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2514
2515			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2516
2517			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2518	root	1.387	%
2519	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2520			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2521			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2522			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2523			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2524			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2525			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2526			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2527			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2528			--
2529			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2530			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2531			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2532			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2533			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2534			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2535	root	1.387	%
2536	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2537			The Obfuscated V contest
2538	root	1.387	%
2539	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2540			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2541			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2542			cigarette lighters."
2543			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2544	root	1.387	%
2545	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2546			Does it run under Windows ?
2547			- Who cares?
2548	root	1.387	%
2549	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2550	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2551	root	1.387	%
2552	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2553			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2554			[...]
2555			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2556			[...]
2557			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2558			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2559			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2560	root	1.387	%
2561	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2562	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2563			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2564			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2565	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2566	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2567	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2568	root	1.330	> mehr!
2569			> richy.
2570
2571			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2572	root	1.387	%
2573	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2574	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2575			> zugetragen hat?
2576
2577			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2578			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2579	root	1.388	[später]
2580			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2581	root	1.329
2582			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2583			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2584			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2585			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2586			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2587
2588			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2589
2590			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2591			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2592			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2593	root	1.387	%
2594	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2595	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2596			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2597	root	1.387	%
2598	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2599			/* give the hook another try */
2600			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2601			break;
2602	root	1.387	%
2603	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2604	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2605	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2606			#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))
2607	root	1.387	%
2608	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2609	root	1.387	%
2610	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2611	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2612	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2613	root	1.432	>
2614			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2615			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2616	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2617	root	1.432	>
2618			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2619			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2620	root	1.324	> as TO).
2621	root	1.432	>
2622	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2623
2624			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2625			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2626			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2627			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2628			being discourteous to.
2629
2630			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2631			--
2632			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2633	root	1.387	%
2634	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2635	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2636	root	1.387	%
2637	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2638			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2639			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2640			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2641			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2642	root	1.387	%
2643	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2644			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2645			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2646			you don't have any'."
2647	root	1.323
2648			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2649			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2650			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2651			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2652	root	1.387	%
2653	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2654			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2655			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2656			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2657	root	1.387	%
2658	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2659			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2660			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2661			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2662			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2663			reason will not win many fans.
2664
2665			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2666			documents in the algorithm section]
2667	root	1.387	%
2668	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2669			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2670			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2671			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2672			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2673
2674			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2675	root	1.387	%
2676	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2677			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2678			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2679	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2680	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2681			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2682	root	1.387	%
2683	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2684	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2685	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2686	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2687			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2688	root	1.387	%
2689	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2690			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2691			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2692			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2693			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2694			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2695	root	1.387	%
2696	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2697			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2698	root	1.387	%
2699	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2700	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2701	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2702			* at their price list.
2703	root	1.387	%
2704	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2705			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2706			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2707			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2708			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2709			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2710			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2711	root	1.387	%
2712	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2713			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2714	root	1.387	%
2715	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2716			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2717			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2718			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2719	root	1.387	%
2720	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2721	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2722	root	1.387	%
2723	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2724			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2725	root	1.387	%
2726	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2727	root	1.387	%
2728	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2729			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2730			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2731			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2732			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2733			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2734			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2735			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2736	root	1.387	%
2737	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2738			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2739	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2740	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2741	root	1.387	%
2742	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2743	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2744	root	1.387	%
2745	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2746	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2747			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2748			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2749	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2750
2751			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2752
2753			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2754			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2755	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2756	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2757
2758			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2759
2760			[usw.]
2761
2762			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2763	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2764	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2765
2766			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2767			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2768			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2769			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2770			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2771	root	1.387	%
2772	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2773	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2774			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2775	root	1.387	%
2776	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2777			Which fanboy are you?
2778
2779			1. Windows
2780
2781			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2782			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2783			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2784			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2785			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2786			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2787			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2788			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2789			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2790
2791			2. Apple
2792
2793			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2794			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2795			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2796			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2797			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2798			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2799			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2800			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2801
2802			3. Linspire
2803
2804			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2805			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2806			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2807			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2808			installed Linspire on your machine.
2809
2810			4. Umbongo
2811
2812			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2813			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2814			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2815			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2816			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2817			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2818			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2819			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2820			themselves.
2821
2822			5. Gentoy
2823
2824			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2825			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2826			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2827			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2828			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2829			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2830			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2831			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2832
2833			6. Linux From Scratch
2834
2835			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2836			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2837			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2838			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2839			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2840			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2841			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2842	root	1.387	%
2843	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2844			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2845	root	1.387	%
2846	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2847
2848			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2849			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2850
2851			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2852	root	1.387	%
2853	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2854
2855			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2856	root	1.432	>
2857	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2858	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2859	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2860			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2861			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2862	root	1.432	>
2863			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2864	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
2865	root	1.432	>
2866	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2867			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2868	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2869	root	1.387	%
2870	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
2871	root	1.387	%
2872	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
2873	root	1.387	%
2874	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
2875	root	1.387	%
2876	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
2877			show "Correspondent"]
2878	root	1.288
2879			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
2880			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
2881
2882			[so know we know who creates reality now]
2883			%
2884	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
2885			cock sucking, blowjob
2886			=> fellatio, fellation
2887			=> oral sex, head
2888			=> perversion, sexual perversion
2889			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
2890			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
2891			=> organic process, biological process
2892			=> process
2893			=> phenomenon
2894	root	1.387	%
2895	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
2896			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
2897	root	1.387	%
2898	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
2899			[slightly edited]
2900			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
2901			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
2902			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
2903			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
2904
2905			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
2906			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
2907			laws on terrorism and drugs.
2908
2909			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
2910			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
2911	root	1.387	%
2912	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
2913			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
2914	root	1.387	%
2915	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
2916	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
2917	root	1.387	%
2918	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
2919	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
2920			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
2921	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2922	root	1.387	%
2923	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
2924			- oesi
2925	root	1.387	%
2926	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
2927			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
2928	root	1.387	%
2929	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
2930	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
2931	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
2932			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
2933
2934			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
2935			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
2936			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
2937			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
2938			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
2939			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
2940			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
2941			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
2942			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
2943			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
2944			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
2945			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
2946			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
2947			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
2948			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
2949			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
2950			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
2951			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
2952			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
2953			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
2954			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
2955			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
2956			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
2957			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
2958
2959			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
2960			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
2961			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
2962			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
2963			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
2964
2965			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
2966			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
2967			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
2968			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
2969			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
2970			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
2971			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
2972			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
2973			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
2974			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
2975			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
2976
2977			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
2978			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
2979			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
2980			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
2981			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
2982			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
2983			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
2984			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
2985			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
2986			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
2987			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
2988			sovereign nation.
2989
2990			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
2991			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
2992			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
2993			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
2994			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
2995			CSPAN, don't post here.
2996
2997			-scott
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3000			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3001			capacity to feel pain.
3002
3003			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3004			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3005	root	1.387	%
3006	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3007			From: Sven Neumann
3008
3009			Hi,
3010
3011	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3012	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3013	root	1.273
3014			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3015			that
3016
3017			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3018
3019			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3020	root	1.387	%
3021	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3022	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3023			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3024			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3025	root	1.387	%
3026	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3027			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3028			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3029			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3030			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3031			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3032	root	1.387	%
3033	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3034	root	1.270	interesting read]
3035			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3036	root	1.387	%
3037	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3038			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3039			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3040	root	1.387	%
3041	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3042			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3043			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3044			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3045			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3046			locks can open the gate.
3047
3048			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3049			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3050			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3053			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3056
3057			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3058
3059			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3060			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3061			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3062			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3063			explanation of this.
3064
3065			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3066
3067			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3068			which explains why the hammer falls.
3069
3070			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3071			how a population's genome can change over time.
3072
3073	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3074			mathematical relationship between two values.
3075	root	1.265
3076			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3077			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3078
3079			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3080			acceleration.
3081
3082			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3083			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3084			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3085			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3086			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3087			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3088			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3089			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3090			false.
3091
3092			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3093	root	1.387	%
3094	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3095	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3096
3097			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3098			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3099	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3100			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3101			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3102	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3103
3104	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3105			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3106			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3107			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3108			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3109			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3110			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3111	root	1.264
3112			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3113	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3114			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3115			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3116			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3117	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3118	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3119	root	1.264	sportlich.
3120
3121	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3122			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3123			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3124			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3125			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3126	root	1.264
3127	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3128	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3129	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3130			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3131	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3132
3133			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3134			Forscher.
3135	root	1.387	%
3136	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3137			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3138			EULA-style license]
3139	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3142			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3143			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3144			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3145			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3146			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3147			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3148	root	1.387	%
3149	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3150	root	1.387	%
3151	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3152			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3153			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3154			00:24 <schmorp> re
3155	root	1.387	%
3156	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3157	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3158			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3159	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3160			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3161	root	1.387	%
3162	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3163			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3164			proponents of such theories.]
3165			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3166			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3167			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3168			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3169			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3170			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3171			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3172			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3173			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3174			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3175			(below, right)."
3176	root	1.387	%
3177	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3178			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3179			[useful info...]
3180			http://www.snopes.com/
3181	root	1.387	%
3182	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3183			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3184	root	1.387	%
3185	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3186			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3187	root	1.387	%
3188	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3189	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3190			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3191	root	1.387	%
3192	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3193			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3194			#!/usr/bin/sh
3195			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3196			# All Rights Reserved
3197
3198			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3199			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3200			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3201
3202			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3203	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3204	root	1.387	%
3205	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3206			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3207			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3208	root	1.387	%
3209	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3210			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3211			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3212			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3213			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3214			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3215			#
3216			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3217	root	1.387	%
3218	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3219	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3220			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3221			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3222	root	1.387	%
3223	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3224	root	1.387	%
3225	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3226	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3227			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3228	root	1.387	%
3229	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3230			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3231			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3232	root	1.387	%
3233	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3234	root	1.387	%
3235	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3236			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3237			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3238			that you have a problem.)
3239			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3240	root	1.387	%
3241	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3242			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3243	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3244	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3245
3246			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3247			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3248	root	1.387	%
3249	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3250			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3251
3252			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3253			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3254			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3255			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3256			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3257			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3258			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3259			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3260			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3261			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3262			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3263			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3264			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3265			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3266
3267			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3268			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3269			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3270			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3271			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3272			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3273			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3274	root	1.387	%
3275	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3276	root	1.239
3277			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3278			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3279			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3280	root	1.387	%
3281	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3282			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3283			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3286
3287			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3288			;)
3289	root	1.387	%
3290	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3291			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3292			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3293			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3294
3295			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3296
3297	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3298			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3299	root	1.387	%
3300	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3301			using so many abbreviations...]
3302
3303			Hi Volker -
3304
3305			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3306	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3307			spät ...
3308	root	1.234
3309			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3310
3311			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3312
3313	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3314			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3315	root	1.234
3316	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3317	root	1.234
3318			tom
3319	root	1.247
3320	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3321	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3322	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3323	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3324	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3325	root	1.387	%
3326	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3327			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3328			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3329
3330			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3331	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3332			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3333	root	1.233	> someone else?
3334
3335			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3336			===================================================================
3337			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3338			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3339			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3340			S: 79098 Freiburg
3341			S: Germany
3342
3343			+N: Hans Reiser
3344			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3345			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3346			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3347			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3348			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3349			+S: USA
3350			+
3351			N: Joerg Reuter
3352			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3353			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3354	root	1.387	%
3355	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3356			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3357	root	1.387	%
3358	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3359			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3360	root	1.387	%
3361	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3362			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3363	root	1.387	%
3364	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3365			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3366			[...]
3367			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3368			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3369			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3370			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3371			[...]
3372			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3373			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3374			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3375			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3376	root	1.387	%
3377	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3378			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3379			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3380			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3381			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3382			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3383	root	1.387	%
3384	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3385	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3386			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3387			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3388			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3389			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3390			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3391			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3392			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3393	root	1.387	%
3394	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3395			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3396	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3397	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3398	root	1.387	%
3399	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3400			[yes, the whole thing]
3401	root	1.387	%
3402	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3403	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3404			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3405			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3406	root	1.221	>
3407			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3408
3409			We'll use a larger wall.
3410	root	1.387	%
3411	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3412			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3413			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3414			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3415
3416			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3417			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3418
3419			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3420			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3421
3422			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3423			cost.
3424			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3427
3428	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3429	root	1.219
3430			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3431
3432	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3433	root	1.387	%
3434	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3435			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3436	root	1.387	%
3437	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3438			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3439	root	1.387	%
3440	root	1.215	[translated]
3441			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3442			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3443			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3444			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3445			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3446			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3447			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3448			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3449	root	1.387	%
3450	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3451			-- Lord Balfour
3452	root	1.387	%
3453	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3454	root	1.387	%
3455	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3456			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3457			him to forgive me.
3458	root	1.387	%
3459	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3460			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3461
3462			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3463	root	1.387	%
3464	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3465			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3466			get bored during the sex scenes.
3467	root	1.387	%
3468	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3469			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3470			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3471	root	1.387	%
3472	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3473			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3474			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3475			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3476			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3477			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3478	root	1.387	%
3479	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3480			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3481			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3482			HP-UX customer. [...]
3483	root	1.387	%
3484	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3485			>>
3486			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3487			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3488			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3489			>>spelled it in UC.
3490	root	1.247	>
3491			>
3492	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3493
3494			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3497			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3498
3499			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3500			usage.
3501
3502			Richard
3503	root	1.387	%
3504	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3505			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3506			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3507			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3508			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3509			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3510	root	1.387	%
3511	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3512			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3513	root	1.387	%
3514	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3515	root	1.387	%
3516	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3517			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3518			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3519			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3520			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3521			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3522			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3523			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3524			existence means and implies.
3525
3526			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3527	root	1.387	%
3528	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3529			>
3530			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3531			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3532			>
3533			> You're WRONG!
3534
3535	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3536			and §7.20.3.1).
3537	root	1.387	%
3538	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3539			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3540			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3541	root	1.387	%
3542	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3543			A. It should be obvious.
3544			Q. How is it hard?
3545			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3546			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3547	root	1.387	%
3548	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3549			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3550
3551			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3552			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3553
3554			- works ok on linux
3555			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3556
3557			Any clues why?
3558			I am new to the non windows world.
3559
3560			Thanks
3561	root	1.387	%
3562	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3563			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3564			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3565			> this ?
3566
3567			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3568			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3569	root	1.387	%
3570	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3571			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3572			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3573
3574			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3575	root	1.247	>
3576			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3577			>
3578	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3579	root	1.387	%
3580	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3581			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3582
3583			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3584	root	1.387	%
3585	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3586			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3589	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3590	root	1.194
3591			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3592			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3593	root	1.387	%
3594	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3595			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3596	root	1.387	%
3597	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3598	root	1.387	%
3599	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3600			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3601	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3602	root	1.387	%
3603	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3604			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3605			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3606	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3607
3608	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3609	root	1.190
3610	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3611	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3612			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3613			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3614	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3615			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3616			schützen können.
3617	root	1.387	%
3618	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3619			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3620	root	1.387	%
3621	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3622			[...]
3623	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3624	root	1.188	[...]
3625	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3626			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3627			never get your message.
3628	root	1.387	%
3629	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3630			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3631			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3634			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3635			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3636	root	1.387	%
3637	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3638			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3639			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3640			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3641			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3642			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3643			01:15 <schmorp> g
3644			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3645	root	1.387	%
3646	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3647			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3648			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3649			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3650			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3651			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3652			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3653			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3654	root	1.387	%
3655	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3656			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3657			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3658	root	1.387	%
3659	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3660			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3661			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3662			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3663			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3664			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3665			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3666	root	1.387	%
3667	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3668			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3669	root	1.387	%
3670	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3671			GNOME TERMINAL
3672			[...]
3673			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3674			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3675			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3676			[.. later]
3677			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3678			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3679			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3680	root	1.387	%
3681	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3682			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3683			/*
3684	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3685	root	1.179	*/
3686			void blip()
3687	root	1.247	{
3688	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3689			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3690			fflush(stderr);
3691	root	1.247	}
3692	root	1.387	%
3693	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3694			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3695
3696			Why not 666? :-).
3697	root	1.387	%
3698	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3699			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3700			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3701			users are clueless.
3702	root	1.387	%
3703	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3704			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3705	root	1.387	%
3706	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3707			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3708	root	1.387	%
3709	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3710			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3711	root	1.387	%
3712	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3713			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3714			and", and finally, ampersand.
3715	root	1.387	%
3716	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3717			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3718			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3719			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3720			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3721	root	1.387	%
3722	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3723			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3724			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3725			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3726			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3727	root	1.387	%
3728	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3729			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3730			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3731			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3732			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3733			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3734			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3735	root	1.387	%
3736	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3737	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3738			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3739	root	1.387	%
3740	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3741			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3742			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3743	root	1.387	%
3744	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3745	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3746	root	1.387	%
3747	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3748	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3749			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3750			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3751	root	1.167	%
3752	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3753	root	1.387	%
3754	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3755			<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
3756	root	1.387	%
3757	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3758			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3759	root	1.164	einfach :)
3760			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3761	root	1.387	%
3762	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3763			/*
3764			* Function compares two strings.
3765	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3766	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3767			*/
3768			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3769			{
3770			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3771			[...]
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3774	root	1.387	%
3775	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3776	root	1.387	%
3777	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3778			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3779			Get_Colours ();
3780	root	1.387	%
3781	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3782	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3783			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3784			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3785			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3786			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3787			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3788			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3789			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3790	root	1.161	[...]
3791			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3792			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3793			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3794			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3795			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3796	root	1.387	%
3797	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3798			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3799	root	1.387	%
3800	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3801			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3802	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3803	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3804			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3805			#endif
3806	root	1.387	%
3807	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3808			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3809			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3810	root	1.387	%
3811	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3812			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3813			>
3814			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3815
3816			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3817			--
3818			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3819	root	1.387	%
3820	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3821			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3822			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3823			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3824			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3825			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3826			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3827	root	1.387	%
3828	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3829			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3830	root	1.387	%
3831	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3832	root	1.387	%
3833	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3834			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3835			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3836			-- Robert Fisk
3837	root	1.387	%
3838	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3839			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3840	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3841			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3842	root	1.387	%
3843	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3844			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3845			high-violence culture"
3846			[...]
3847			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3848			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3849			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3850			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3851			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3852			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3853			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3854			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3855
3856			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3857			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3858	root	1.387	%
3859	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3860			Subject: Re: [...]
3861
3862			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3863
3864			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3865			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3866			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3867			> saved it :)
3868
3869			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3870			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
3871			[...]
3872	root	1.387	%
3873	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
3874			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
3875			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
3876			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
3877			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
3878
3879			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
3880			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
3881			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
3882			[...]
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3887	root	1.387	%
3888	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3889	root	1.387	%
3890	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
3891			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
3892			claim to have decades of java experience]
3893			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
3894			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
3895			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
3896			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3899	root	1.387	%
3900	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3901	root	1.387	%
3902	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3903	root	1.387	%
3904	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
3905			[mail not to be delivered]
3906			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
3907	root	1.247	>
3908	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
3909
3910			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
3911			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
3914
3915			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
3916			>
3917			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
3918			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
3919			> >
3920			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
3921			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
3922			> > language which does support this?
3923			>
3924
3925			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
3926
3927			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
3928			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
3929			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
3930			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
3931			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
3932			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
3933	root	1.387	%
3934	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
3935			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
3936			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
3937	root	1.387	%
3938	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
3939			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
3940			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
3941
3942			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
3943			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
3944			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
3945			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
3946			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
3947
3948			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
3949			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
3950			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
3951			and thwart them that way.
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
3954			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
3955			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
3956			unfortunate decision.
3957	root	1.387	%
3958	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
3959	root	1.146	fest ;)
3960	root	1.387	%
3961	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
3962
3963			Last updated: - Invalid Date
3964	root	1.387	%
3965	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
3966	root	1.387	%
3967	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
3968			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
3969	root	1.387	%
3970	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
3971
3972			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
3973			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
3974			local object as a "he":
3975
3976			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
3977			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
3978			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
3979			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
3980			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
3981			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
3982			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
3983			EX-PARROT!"
3984
3985			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
3986	root	1.387	%
3987	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
3988			"pflichtpfandfrei"
3989	root	1.387	%
3990	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
3991			The police will shoot you.
3992
3993			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
3994			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
3995
3996	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
3997	root	1.387	%
3998	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
3999			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4000			reply.
4001
4002			pls. cc my email address
4003
4004			tia
4005			pd
4006
4007
4008	root	1.247	--
4009	root	1.141	^X^C
4010			q
4011			quit
4012			:q
4013			^C
4014			end
4015			x
4016			exit
4017			ZZ
4018			^D
4019			?
4020			help
4021			shit
4022			.
4023	root	1.387	%
4024	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4025	root	1.387	%
4026	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4027			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4028			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4029			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4030	root	1.387	%
4031	root	1.140	[I love it]
4032			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4033			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4034	root	1.387	%
4035	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4036			- Douglas Adams
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4039			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4040			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4041			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4042
4043	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4044			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4045			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4046			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4047			their software properly.
4048	root	1.138
4049			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4050			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4051			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4052			told the publication.
4053
4054	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4055			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4056			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4057			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4058			who want visibility and glory.
4059	root	1.387	%
4060	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4061
4062			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4063
4064			x Try not using it.
4065	root	1.387	%
4066	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4067			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4068			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4069			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4070			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4071			had given.
4072
4073			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4074			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4075			person as well."
4076	root	1.387	%
4077	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4078	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4079			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4080	root	1.387	%
4081	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4082	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4083	root	1.134
4084			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4085	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4086	root	1.135	[...]
4087	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4088	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4089	root	1.135	[...]
4090			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4091			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4092	root	1.387	%
4093	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4094	root	1.387	%
4095	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4096			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4097			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4098			-- Ulrich Drepper
4099	root	1.387	%
4100	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4101			-- Ulrich Drepper
4102	root	1.387	%
4103	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4104			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4105	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4106	root	1.387	%
4107	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4108			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4109			-- Ulrich Drepper
4110	root	1.387	%
4111	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4112			-- Ulrich Drepper
4113	root	1.387	%
4114	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4115	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4116			zuverlässiger
4117	root	1.387	%
4118	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4119			/*
4120			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4121			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4122			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4123			*/
4124	root	1.387	%
4125	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4126			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4127			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4128			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4129			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4130	root	1.387	%
4131	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4132			Pirating Movies
4133
4134			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4135			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4136			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4137	root	1.387	%
4138	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4139			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4140	root	1.387	%
4141	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4142			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4143	root	1.387	%
4144	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4145			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4146			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4147			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4148			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4151			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4152			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4153			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4154			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4155
4156			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4157			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4158
4159			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4160			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4161			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4162			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4163			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4164			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4165			the first place!
4166	root	1.387	%
4167	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4168			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4169			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4170	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4171	root	1.387	%
4172	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4173			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4174	root	1.387	%
4175	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4176			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4177	root	1.387	%
4178	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4179			platform."
4180			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4181	root	1.387	%
4182	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4183			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4184			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4185			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4186			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4187	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4190			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4191	root	1.387	%
4192	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4193			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4194			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4195			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4196			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4197			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4198			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4199			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4200			daily.
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4203	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4204			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4205	root	1.387	%
4206	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4207			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4208			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4209			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4210			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4211			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4212			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4213	root	1.387	%
4214	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4215	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4216	root	1.387	%
4217	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4218			[...so it must be good]
4219			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4220	root	1.387	%
4221	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4222			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4223			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4224	root	1.387	%
4225	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4226			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4227			No idea why I announce it here...
4228	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4229	root	1.387	%
4230	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4231			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4232	root	1.387	%
4233	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4234	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4235	root	1.387	%
4236	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4237			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4238			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4239			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4240			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4241
4242			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4243			Sacha.
4244	root	1.387	%
4245	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4246			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4247			desk one morning:
4248
4249			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4250
4251			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4252
4253			Employee: 123456
4254
4255			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4256			photograph of the employee.]
4257
4258			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4259			identification which has your picture on it?
4260
4261			Employee: Why would you need that?
4262
4263			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4264
4265			Employee: A picture of my face?
4266
4267			Security Guard: Yes
4268
4269			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4270
4271			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4272			compare against this one.
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4275			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4276			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4277	root	1.387	%
4278	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4279			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4280			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4281
4282			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4283			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4284	root	1.387	%
4285	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4286	root	1.387	%
4287	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4288			"RV K-17"
4289	root	1.387	%
4290	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4291			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4292	root	1.387	%
4293	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4294			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4295			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4296			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4297	root	1.387	%
4298	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4299			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4302	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4303			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4304	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4305	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4306			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4307	root	1.387	%
4308	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4309	root	1.387	%
4310	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4311			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4312	root	1.387	%
4313	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4314			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4315			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4316			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4319			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4320			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4321			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4322			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4323			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4324			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4325			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4326			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4327			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4328			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4329			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4330			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4331			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4332			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4333			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4334			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4335			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4336			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4337	root	1.387	%
4338	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4339			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4340	root	1.387	%
4341	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4342			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4343	root	1.387	%
4344	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4345			Lester Moore,
4346			Shot in the head with a .44.
4347			No Les, no more.
4348	root	1.387	%
4349	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4350			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4351
4352			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4353			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4354	root	1.387	%
4355	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4356			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4357			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4358	root	1.387	%
4359	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4360			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4361			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4362			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4363			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4364	root	1.112	[...]
4365			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4366			[...]
4367			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4368			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4369			the result with SHA.
4370	root	1.387	%
4371	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4372	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4373			> ist!
4374	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4375			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4376	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4377	root	1.387	%
4378	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4379			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4380	root	1.387	%
4381	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4382	root	1.387	%
4383	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4384			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4385			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4386			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4387			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4388			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4389	root	1.387	%
4390	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4391			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4392	root	1.387	%
4393	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4394			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4395	root	1.387	%
4396	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4397			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4398	root	1.387	%
4399	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4400
4401			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4402			* control history, is that we should at least
4403			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4404			* "initialisation"? */
4405			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4406	root	1.387	%
4407	root	1.105	[man pem]
4408			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4409	root	1.387	%
4410	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4411
4412			/* ``If you can't do it in
4413	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4414	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4415	root	1.387	%
4416	root	1.104	[subculture]
4417	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4418			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4419	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4420
4421			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4422	root	1.424	%
4423	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4424			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4425	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4426	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4427	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4428	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4429			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4430	root	1.387	%
4431	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4432	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4433			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4434			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4435	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4436	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4437			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4438			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4439	root	1.387	%
4440	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4441			aber wenig freude.
4442	root	1.387	%
4443	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4444			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4445			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4446			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4447			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4448			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4449			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4450			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4451			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4452			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4453	root	1.387	%
4454	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4455			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4456	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4457			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4458	root	1.387	%
4459	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4460			don't work well in practise.
4461			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4462	root	1.387	%
4463	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4464			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4465			"ready, fire, aim."
4466	root	1.387	%
4467	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4468			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4469			free countries like Germany [1].
4470			[...]
4471			Regards
4472			Henning
4473
4474			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4475			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4476			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4477	root	1.387	%
4478	root	1.98	[...]
4479			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4480			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4481			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4482			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4483			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4484			[...]
4485			Wolfgang Walter
4486	root	1.387	%
4487	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4488			burro: it seemed very clever
4489			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4490			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4491			burro: oops
4492			burro: accidental poetry
4493	root	1.387	%
4494	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4495			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4496			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4497	root	1.387	%
4498	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4499			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4502			-- Oscar Wilde
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4505			"guilty until proven innocent"
4506			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4509			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4510			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4511			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4512			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4513			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4514			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4515			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4516			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4517			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4518			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4519			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4520			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4521			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4522			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4523	root	1.387	%
4524	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4525			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4526			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4527			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4528			// suit particular needs.
4529			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4530	root	1.387	%
4531	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4532			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4533			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4534	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4535	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4536	root	1.387	%
4537	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4538			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4539	root	1.387	%
4540	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4541			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4542	root	1.387	%
4543	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4544			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4545			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4546	root	1.387	%
4547	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4548			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4549	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4550			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4551	root	1.387	%
4552	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4553
4554			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4555			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4556			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4557			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4558			is not [...]
4559	root	1.387	%
4560	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4561	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4562			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4563	root	1.387	%
4564	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4565			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4566
4567	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4568	root	1.94
4569			GUI
4570			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4571			Globale Variable
4572	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4573	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4574			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4575			strukturiert
4576			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4577			Multithreaded
4578	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4579	root	1.94	Windows 95
4580	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4581	root	1.94	Emacs
4582	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4583			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4584			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4585	root	1.94	IPv6
4586			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4587			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4588			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4589			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4590	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4591			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4592	root	1.247	PHP
4593	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4594	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4595	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4596			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4597	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4598	root	1.94	Bunt.
4599	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4600			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4601			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4602	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4603	root	1.387	%
4604	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4605			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4606	root	1.387	%
4607	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4608	root	1.387	%
4609	root	1.93	[nah]
4610			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4611			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4612			paint dry."
4613	root	1.387	%
4614	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4615			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4616			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4617	root	1.387	%
4618	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4619	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4620			importance.
4621	root	1.387	%
4622	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4623			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4624			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4625			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4626
4627			You have to trust Microsoft.
4628
4629			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4630			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4631			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4632			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4633			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4634			useless chrome.
4635
4636			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4637			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4638			I'd like to trust them with.
4639	root	1.93	[...]
4640	root	1.387	%
4641	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4642			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4643			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4644			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4645			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4646	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4647	root	1.91	--------------^
4648	root	1.387	%
4649	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4650			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4651			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4652			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4653			English grammar, I assure you.
4654	root	1.387	%
4655	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4656			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4657			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4658			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4659			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4660			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4661			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4662
4663			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4664			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4665			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4666			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4667			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4668			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4669			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4670			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4671			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4672			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4673
4674			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4675			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4676			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4677			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4678
4679			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4680			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4681	root	1.387	%
4682	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4683			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4684			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4685			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4686			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4687			work etc first:
4688
4689			#include <stdio.h>
4690
4691			int main (void) {
4692			while (1)
4693			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4694
4695			return 0;
4696			}
4697	root	1.387	%
4698	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4699			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4700	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4701	root	1.387	%
4702	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4703			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4704			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4705			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4706	root	1.387	%
4707	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4708			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4709			proprietary and patentend technology.
4710	root	1.387	%
4711	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4712	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4713	root	1.387	%
4714	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4715	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4716	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4717			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4718			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4719	root	1.387	%
4720	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4721			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4722	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4723	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4724			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4725	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4726	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4727	root	1.87
4728	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4729			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4730			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4731			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4732			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4733			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4734	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4735			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4736
4737	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4738			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4739			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4740			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4741			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4742			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4743			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4744			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4745			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4746			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4747	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4748	root	1.387	%
4749	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4750			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4751	root	1.387	%
4752	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4753			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4754			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4755	root	1.387	%
4756	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4757			"linux" thing will fail]
4758			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4759			[...]
4760	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4761	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4762			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4763			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4764
4765			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4766			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4767			life to the public good.
4768
4769			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4770			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4771			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4772			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4773			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4774
4775			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4776			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4777			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4778			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4779			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4780			software to work on the linux kernel!
4781
4782			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4783			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4784			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4785			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4786			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4787	root	1.387	%
4788	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4789	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4790			[...]
4791			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4792	root	1.387	%
4793	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4794			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4795			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4796			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4797	root	1.387	%
4798	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4799	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4800			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4801			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4802			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4803			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4804	root	1.387	%
4805	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4806			-- Leonard Brandwein
4807	root	1.387	%
4808	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4809	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4810			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4811			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4812			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4813			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4814			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4815			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4816			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4817			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4818			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4819			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4820	root	1.387	%
4821	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4822			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4823	root	1.387	%
4824	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4825			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4826			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4827			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4828			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4829			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4830			jurisprudence fun?
4831			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4832	root	1.387	%
4833	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4834			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4835			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4836	root	1.84	[...]
4837	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4838	root	1.387	%
4839	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4840			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4841			- Paul Ginsparg.
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4844			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4845			home.":))
4846			[erm...]
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4849
4850	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4851	root	1.387	%
4852	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4853	root	1.387	%
4854	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4855
4856			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4857			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4858			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4859			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4860	root	1.387	%
4861	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4862			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4863			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4864	root	1.387	%
4865	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
4866	root	1.83
4867			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4868	root	1.82
4869			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4870			to use in future emails?
4871	root	1.387	%
4872	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
4873			please?
4874
4875			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
4876			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
4877
4878	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
4879	root	1.387	%
4880	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
4881			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
4882			last until February 16th 2003.
4883
4884			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
4885			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
4886			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
4887			end.
4888
4889			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
4890
4891			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
4892			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
4893			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
4894			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
4895			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
4896			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
4897			take place on October 27th.
4898
4899			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
4900			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
4901			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
4902			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
4903			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
4904			the clock)...
4905	root	1.387	%
4906	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
4907			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
4908			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
4909			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
4910			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
4911
4912			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
4913			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
4914			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
4915			RedHat and SuSE).
4916
4917			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
4918
4919			Pavel
4920	root	1.387	%
4921	root	1.81	Rik
4922	root	1.247	--
4923	root	1.81	A: No.
4924			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
4925	root	1.387	%
4926	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
4927	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
4928			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
4929	root	1.81
4930			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
4931			no useful data.
4932
4933	root	1.247	--
4934	root	1.81	bill davidsen
4935	root	1.387	%
4936	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
4937			there was a long do..while construct,
4938			which contained a switch statement,
4939			which contained an if clause,
4940			which contained a break,
4941			which was intended for the if clause,
4942			but instead broke from the switch statement.
4943
4944			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
4945			network January 15, 1990
4946	root	1.387	%
4947	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
4948
4949	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
4950			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
4951			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
4952			violation of network policies.
4953	root	1.80
4954			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
4955
4956			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
4957			The format is as follows:
4958
4959			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
4960	root	1.387	%
4961	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
4962			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
4963			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
4964	root	1.387	%
4965	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
4966			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
4967			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
4968			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
4969			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
4970			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
4971			...
4972			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
4973			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
4974			the effort."
4975	root	1.387	%
4976	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
4977	root	1.387	%
4978	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
4979			gay people mad at me with this one...]
4980	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
4981	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
4982			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
4985	root	1.387	%
4986	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
4987	root	1.387	%
4988	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
4989			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
4990			[Albert Cahalan]
4991	root	1.387	%
4992	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
4993			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
4994			least as bad, but lesser known.
4995	root	1.387	%
4996	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
4997			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
4998			different.
4999	root	1.387	%
5000	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.
5001	root	1.387	%
5002	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5003			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5006			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5007			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5008			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5009			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5010			without a show.
5011	root	1.387	%
5012	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5013	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5014	root	1.387	%
5015	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5016	root	1.387	%
5017	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5018			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5019	root	1.387	%
5020	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5021			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5022			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5023	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5024	root	1.71	going on.
5025			[...]
5026	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5027			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5028			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5029	root	1.387	%
5030	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5031			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5032	root	1.387	%
5033	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5034	root	1.387	%
5035	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5036	root	1.387	%
5037	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5038			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5039			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5040	root	1.387	%
5041	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5042			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5043			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5044			returned data.
5045
5046	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5047			FindExInfoStandard
5048			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5049	root	1.387	%
5050	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5051	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5052			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5053	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5054	root	1.387	%
5055	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5056			it doesn't work:]
5057			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5058			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5059			this MIME type as the final determination.
5060	root	1.387	%
5061	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5062
5063			Recode 0.1.1
5064			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5065
5066			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5067			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5068
5069			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5070	root	1.387	%
5071	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5072	root	1.387	%
5073	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5074	root	1.387	%
5075	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5076
5077			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5078			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5079			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5080			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5081			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5082			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5083			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5084			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5085			century."
5086
5087			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5088			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5089			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5090			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5091			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5092			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5093			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5094			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5095			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5096			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5097			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5098			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5099			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5100			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5101
5102			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5103			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5104			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5105			hilarious in light of the above.
5106			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5107
5108			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5109			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5110			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5111			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5112			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5113			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5114			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5115
5116			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5117			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5118			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5119			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5120	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5121	root	1.387	%
5122	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5123	root	1.387	%
5124	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5125			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5126	root	1.387	%
5127	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5128			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5129			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5130
5131			Tony Hoare
5132	root	1.387	%
5133	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5134			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5135	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5136	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5137	root	1.387	%
5138	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5139
5140			[...]
5141			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5142			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5143			system. Basically its windows computer
5144	root	1.387	%
5145	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5146	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5147	root	1.387	%
5148	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5149
5150			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5151			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5152			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5153			> software developers...
5154
5155			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5156	root	1.387	%
5157	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5158			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5159			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5160			>
5161			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5162
5163			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5164			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5165
5166			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5167			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5168
5169			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5170			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5171			off by throwing away the patch.
5172
5173			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5174			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5175			patch any time soon.
5176
5177			--
5178			Daniel
5179	root	1.387	%
5180	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5181			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5182			[...]
5183			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5184			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5185			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5186	root	1.387	%
5187	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5188
5189			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5190			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5191			Is it realy needed?
5192	root	1.387	%
5193	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5194
5195			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5196
5197			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5198			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5199			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5200	root	1.387	%
5201	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5202			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5203			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5204			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5205			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5206			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5207			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5208	root	1.387	%
5209	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5210
5211			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5212			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5213			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5214			>
5215			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5216
5217			This is an ex-parrot
5218	root	1.387	%
5219	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5220
5221			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5222			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5223			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5224			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5225			>
5226			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5227			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5228
5229			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5230
5231			while (!sorted(data))
5232			;
5233	root	1.387	%
5234	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5235			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5236
5237			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5238
5239			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5240			to computing
5241	root	1.387	%
5242	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5243
5244			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5245			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5246
5247			Common sense, one would hope.
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5250			[...]
5251
5252			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5253			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5254			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5255
5256			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5257
5258			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5259			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5260			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5261			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5262
5263			:-)
5264	root	1.387	%
5265	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5266			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5267			their C programs."
5268	root	1.60
5269			Robert Firth
5270	root	1.387	%
5271	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5272	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5273	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5274			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5275	root	1.387	%
5276	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5277	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5278	root	1.387	%
5279	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5280			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5281	root	1.387	%
5282	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5283	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5284	root	1.387	%
5285	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5286	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5287			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5288	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5289			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5290	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5291			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5292
5293			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5294
5295			\Gisbert
5296	root	1.387	%
5297	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5298	root	1.387	%
5299	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5300			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5301			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5302	root	1.387	%
5303	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5304			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5305
5306			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5307			[...]
5308	root	1.387	%
5309	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5310			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5311			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5312
5313			ok 1
5314			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5315			not ok 2
5316			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5317	root	1.387	%
5318	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5319
5320			Cheers,
5321
5322			Andre Hedrick
5323			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5324	root	1.387	%
5325	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5326	root	1.247	>
5327	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5328
5329			Or mutabloat :-(
5330	root	1.387	%
5331	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5332			Outlook IS the solution.
5333	root	1.387	%
5334	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5335	root	1.387	%
5336	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5337
5338			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5339			never bought anything from UUNet.
5340	root	1.387	%
5341	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5342			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5343			by delving below its surface meaning)
5344	root	1.387	%
5345	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5346	root	1.387	%
5347	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5348
5349			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5350			> just go to court and say:
5351
5352			Oh glorious naivety.
5353
5354			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5355			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5356			> can do the work better than I).
5357
5358			You release the code
5359
5360			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5361
5362			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5363			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5364			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5365			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5366
5367			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5368			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5369
5370			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5371			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5372
5373			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5374
5375			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5376			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5377			or that the good guys win.
5378
5379			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5380			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5381	root	1.387	%
5382	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5383
5384			[...]
5385			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5386			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5387	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5388	root	1.51	year to kill.
5389	root	1.387	%
5390	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5391			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5392
5393			[...]
5394			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5395			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5396			of for Windows desktop systems."
5397			[...]
5398			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5399			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5400			[...]
5401			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5402			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5403			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5404			turned on by default.
5405			[...]
5406			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5407			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5408			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5409			[...]
5410			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5411			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5412			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5413			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5414			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5415			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5416			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5417			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5418			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5419	root	1.387	%
5420	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5421	root	1.387	%
5422	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5423	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5424	root	1.49
5425			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5426
5427			Monday, 06. November 2000
5428	root	1.387	%
5429	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5430			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5433	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5434			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5435			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5436	root	1.387	%
5437	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5438			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5439			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5440			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5441	root	1.387	%
5442	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5443			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5444
5445			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5446			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5447			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5448	root	1.387	%
5449	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5450			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5451
5452			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5453			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5454			> dropped patches.
5455
5456			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5457	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5458	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5459			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5460			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5461			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5462	root	1.387	%
5463	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5464			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5465			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5466	root	1.387	%
5467	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5468
5469			From: Bill Huey
5470			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5471
5472			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5473
5474			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5475	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5476	root	1.45	themselves.
5477
5478			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5479			certain.
5480	root	1.387	%
5481	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5482			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5483			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5484
5485			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5486			appropriate approach to a problem.
5487	root	1.387	%
5488	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5489	root	1.44	^^^^
5490			[...]
5491			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5492			[...]
5493			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5494			-15 Nice winter day
5495			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5496			-5 Nice warm winter day
5497			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5498	root	1.387	%
5499	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5500			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5501			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5502			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5503	root	1.387	%
5504	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5505			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5506
5507			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5508
5509			-ben
5510	root	1.387	%
5511	root	1.43	[...]
5512	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5513			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5514			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5515			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5516			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5517			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5518			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5519			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5520			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5521			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5522			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5523	root	1.387	%
5524	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5525			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5526	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5527	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5528			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5529			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5530			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5531			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5532			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5533	root	1.43	statt...
5534	root	1.387	%
5535	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5536	root	1.387	%
5537	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5538			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5539			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5540			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5541			values." Who writes this stuff?
5542	root	1.387	%
5543	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5544	root	1.387	%
5545	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5546			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5547			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5548			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5549			> "Macao".
5550			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5551			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5552	root	1.387	%
5553	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5554	root	1.387	%
5555	root	1.40	Beitrag
5556	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5557	root	1.40
5558			fucklinux
5559
5560			IP: 217.83.123.198
5561
5562			1. FUCK LINUX
5563
5564	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5565	root	1.40
5566			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5567	root	1.387	%
5568	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5569	root	1.40
5570			[...]
5571			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5572			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5573			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5574			read...
5575	root	1.387	%
5576	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5577			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5578			depends on the unreasonable man.
5579
5580			-George Bernard Shaw
5581	root	1.387	%
5582	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5583
5584			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5585	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5586	root	1.387	%
5587	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:
5588	root	1.387	%
5589	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
5590			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5591			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5592			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5593			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5594	root	1.387	%
5595	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5596			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5597	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5598	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5599			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5600	root	1.387	%
5601	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5602			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5603			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5604			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5605			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5606			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5607			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5608			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).
5609			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5610			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5611	root	1.387	%
5612	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5613			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5614			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5615			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5616			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5617			removed in Windows XP.
5618
5619			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5620			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5621			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5622			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5623	root	1.387	%
5624	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5625			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5626			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5627			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5628			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5629			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5630			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5631			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5632			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5633			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5634
5635			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5636			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5637			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5638			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5639			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5640			you have no details?
5641			[...]
5642			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5643			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5644			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5645			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5646			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5647			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5648			the industrial terrorists want."
5649	root	1.387	%
5650	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5651			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5652	root	1.387	%
5653	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5654	root	1.387	%
5655	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5656			of each 50 days
5657	root	1.387	%
5658	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5659
5660			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5661			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5662			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5663	root	1.387	%
5664	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5665			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5666			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5667	root	1.387	%
5668	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5669			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5670	root	1.247	>
5671	root	1.35	> <...>
5672			>
5673			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5674			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5675			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5676	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5677	root	1.387	%
5678	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5679			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5680			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5681	root	1.387	%
5682	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5683			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5684			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5685
5686	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5687			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5688			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5689			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5690			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5691			changing run level, interactive boot.
5692	root	1.35
5693			Alan
5694	root	1.387	%
5695	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5696
5697			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5698			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5699
5700			First they came for the Communists,
5701			and I didn't speak up,
5702			because I wasn't a Communist.
5703			Then they came for the Jews,
5704			and I didn't speak up,
5705			because I wasn't a Jew.
5706			Then they came for the Catholics,
5707			and I didn't speak up,
5708			because I was a Protestant.
5709			Then they came for me,
5710			and by that time there was no one
5711			left to speak up for me.
5712
5713			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5714	root	1.387	%
5715	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5716	root	1.387	%
5717	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5718			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5719	root	1.387	%
5720	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5721			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5722			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5723			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5724
5725			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5726	root	1.387	%
5727	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5728
5729			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5730			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5731			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5732			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5733			used databases!"
5734	root	1.387	%
5735	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5736
5737			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5738
5739			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5740			change that was not?
5741			[...]
5742	root	1.387	%
5743	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5744
5745			[...]
5746
5747	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5748	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5749			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5750
5751	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5752	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5753			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5754			them anywhere else").
5755
5756			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5757			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5758	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5759	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5760			order..
5761
5762	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5763	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5764	root	1.387	%
5765	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5766			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5767			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5768
5769			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5770	root	1.387	%
5771	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5772	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5773			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5774			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5775			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5776	root	1.387	%
5777	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5778			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5779
5780			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5781			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5782			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5783			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5784			series.
5785
5786			[...]
5787	root	1.387	%
5788	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5789	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5792			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5793			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5794
5795			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5796			then save." g
5797
5798			/* Steinar */
5799	root	1.387	%
5800	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5801			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5802
5803			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5804			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5805			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5806			a bill...
5807	root	1.387	%
5808	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5809			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5810			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5811
5812			Sorry. Mea culpa
5813
5814			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5815			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5816			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5817			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5818			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5819			*/
5820			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5821			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5822			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5823			int fpu_exception;
5824	root	1.387	%
5825	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5826
5827			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5828
5829			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5830			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5831			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5832			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5833			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5834	root	1.387	%
5835	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5836
5837			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5838			people.
5839	root	1.387	%
5840	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5841			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5842
5843			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5844			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5845			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5846			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5847			the question.
5848			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5849	root	1.387	%
5850	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5851			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5852			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5853			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5854			(September)
5855	root	1.387	%
5856	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5857	root	1.387	%
5858	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5859			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5860			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5861			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5862			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5863	root	1.387	%
5864	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5865			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5866	root	1.387	%
5867	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5868			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5869			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5870			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
5871			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
5872	root	1.387	%
5873	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
5874	root	1.387	%
5875	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
5876	root	1.387	%
5877	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
5878			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
5879			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
5880			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
5881			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
5882			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
5883			you tell them.
5884	root	1.387	%
5885	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
5886			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
5887			alcohol.
5888
5889			Regards
5890			Henning
5891	root	1.387	%
5892	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
5893			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
5894			> on a desktop system.
5895
5896			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
5897			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
5898
5899			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
5900			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
5901
5902			Alan
5903	root	1.387	%
5904	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
5905			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
5906
5907			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
5908			>
5909			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
5910			> Use Welsh
5911
5912			Don't forget
5913
5914			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
5915			Use Finnish
5916
5917			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
5918
5919			And while we're at it,
5920
5921			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
5922			Use German
5923
5924			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
5925			Use English
5926
5927			MfG Kai
5928	root	1.387	%
5929	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
5930
5931			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
5932			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
5933			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
5934			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
5935			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
5936			there's no one thinking there.
5937			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
5938	root	1.387	%
5939	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
5940			scores the rules:
5941
5942			[*]
5943			Score:: =-9999
5944	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
5945	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
5946			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
5947			X-Mailer: Mozilla
5948			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
5949
5950			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
5951			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
5952			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
5953			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
5954			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
5955
5956			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
5957			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
5958			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
5959			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
5960	root	1.387	%
5961	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
5962			98 IIS servers online...
5963	root	1.387	%
5964	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
5965			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
5966			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
5967			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
5968
5969			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
5970			it to be otherwise.
5971
5972			Abigail
5973	root	1.387	%
5974	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
5975	root	1.387	%
5976	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
5977	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
5978	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
5979	root	1.387	%
5980	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
5981	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
5982	root	1.387	%
5983	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
5984			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
5985			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
5986			software people doing the same)
5987
5988			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
5989			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
5990			irrelevant
5991
5992			Alan
5993	root	1.387	%
5994	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
5995			Comments may nest.
5996	root	1.387	%
5997	root	1.22	[from findas]
5998			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
5999			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6000			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6001			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6002			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6003			# address distributino is... arin.
6004	root	1.387	%
6005	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6006			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6007	root	1.387	%
6008	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6009			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6010			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6011			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6012			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6013	root	1.247	>
6014	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6015
6016			$foot->insert($mouth);
6017
6018			# or is that
6019
6020			$mouth->insert($foot);
6021
6022			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6023			How utterly optimistic :-)
6024	root	1.387	%
6025	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6026			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6027			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6028			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6029			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6030			>can see why it happens)
6031			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6032
6033			Well, there's perl... :)
6034	root	1.387	%
6035	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6036			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6037			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6038			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6039			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6040	root	1.247	* boxes.
6041	root	1.387	%
6042	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6043			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6044			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6045	root	1.387	%
6046	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6047			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6048	root	1.387	%
6049	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6050			From: Juergen Christoffel
6051			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6052			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6053
6054			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6055
6056			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6057			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6058			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6059			schon;
6060
6061			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6062			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6063			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6064
6065			Danke, JC
6066	root	1.387	%
6067	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6068			#undef REASONABLE
6069	root	1.387	%
6070	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6071			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6072
6073			Alan
6074	root	1.387	%
6075	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6076			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6077			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6078			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6079	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6080	root	1.18	> anything.
6081
6082			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6083			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6084	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6085			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6086	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6087			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6088
6089			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6090			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6091			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6092			always a good idea.
6093	root	1.387	%
6094	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6095			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6096
6097	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6098	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6099	root	1.387	%
6100	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6101			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6102			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6103			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6104	root	1.387	%
6105	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6106	root	1.387	%
6107	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6108	root	1.18
6109			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6110			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6113			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6114			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6115			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6116	root	1.387	%
6117	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6118	root	1.387	%
6119	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6120			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6121			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6122			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6123			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6124			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6125	root	1.387	%
6126	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6127
6128			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6129			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6130			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6131			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6132			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6133			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6134			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6135	root	1.387	%
6136	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6137			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6138			future. Bleeeh]
6139
6140			From: Larry McVoy
6141
6142	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6143	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6144			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6145			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6146			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6147			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6148			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6149			not for the exceptional case.
6150	root	1.387	%
6151	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6152			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6153			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6154			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6155			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6156			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6157			stack.
6158
6159			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6160			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6161			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6162
6163			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6164			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6165	root	1.387	%
6166	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6167
6168	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6169			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6170			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6171			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6172	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6173	root	1.247	>
6174	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6175			> on the CPU?
6176
6177			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6178	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6179	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6180			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6181
6182			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6183			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6184			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6185			the point again".
6186	root	1.387	%
6187	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6188
6189	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6190			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6191	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6192	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6193	root	1.247	>
6194	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6195			> scenario.
6196
6197			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6198	root	1.387	%
6199	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6200	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6201			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6202			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6203	root	1.387	%
6204	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6205			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6206			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6207			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6208			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6209			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6210			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6211			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6212			anything.
6213	root	1.387	%
6214	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6215	root	1.387	%
6216	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6217			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6218	root	1.387	%
6219	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6220			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6221			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6222			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6223			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6224
6225			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6226	root	1.387	%
6227	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6228
6229			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6230
6231			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6232			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6233			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6234			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6235			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6236
6237			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6238			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6239			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6240			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6241			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6242			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6243			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6244			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6245			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6246			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6247			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6248			to work through the learning curve.
6249	root	1.387	%
6250	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6251	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6252	root	1.387	%
6253	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6254			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6255	root	1.387	%
6256	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6257			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6258	root	1.387	%
6259	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6260			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6261	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6262			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6263	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6264	root	1.387	%
6265	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6266	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6267	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6268	root	1.387	%
6269	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6270			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6271	root	1.387	%
6272	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6273			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6274			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6275			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6276			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6277			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6278			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6279			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6280
6281	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6282	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6283	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6284	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6285			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6286
6287			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6288			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6289			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6290			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6291			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6292			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6293			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6294	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6295	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6296			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6297			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6298	root	1.387	%
6299	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6300			/*---.
6301			\| ? \|
6302			`---*/
6303	root	1.387	%
6304	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6305	root	1.387	%
6306	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6307			From: Joe Buck
6308			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6309			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6310	root	1.387	%
6311	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6312			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6313	root	1.387	%
6314	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6315	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6316	root	1.387	%
6317	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6318	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6319	root	1.387	%
6320	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6321	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6322	root	1.4	...
6323			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6324	root	1.387	%
6325	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6326	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6327			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6328			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6329
6330			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6331
6332			Alan
6333	root	1.387	%
6334	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6335	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6336			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6337			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6338			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6339	root	1.387	%
6340	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6341	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6342			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6343			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6344			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6345			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6346			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6347	root	1.387	%
6348	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6349			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6350			will find an easier way to do it.
6351	root	1.387	%
6352	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6353	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6354			Paul wrote:
6355			>Marc wrote:
6356	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6357			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6358			> den richtigen.
6359	root	1.387	%
6360	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6361			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6362	root	1.387	%
6363	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6364			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6365	root	1.387	%
6366	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6367			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6368	root	1.387	%
6369	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6370			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6371			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6372			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6373			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6374	root	1.387	%
6375	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6376			[...]
6377
6378			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6379
6380			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6381	root	1.387	%
6382	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6383			> constants.
6384
6385			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6386	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6387	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6388	root	1.387	%
6389	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6390	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6391
6392			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6393			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6394			much to do with IRC.
6395	root	1.387	%
6396	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6397			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6398
6399			[...]
6400			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6401
6402			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6403			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6404	root	1.387	%
6405	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6406	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6407	root	1.387	%
6408	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6409
6410			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6411			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6412			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6413
6414			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6415			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6416			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6417			shows how much you know, pal.
6418
6419			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6420	root	1.387	%
6421	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6422			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6423			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6424	root	1.387	%
6425	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6426			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6427			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6428			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6429	root	1.387	%
6430	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6431			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6432			Your version of perl sucks.
6433	root	1.387	%
6434	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6435			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6436			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6437			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6438			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6439			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6440			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6441			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6442	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6443	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6444			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6445	root	1.387	%
6446	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6447			before you can understand it :)
6448	root	1.387	%
6449	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6450			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6451			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6452	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6453	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6454			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6455			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6456
6457			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6458			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6459			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6460			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6461			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6462			be worth attempting).
6463
6464			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6465			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6466			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6467
6468			Nick.
6469	root	1.387	%
6470	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6471			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6472			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6473
6474	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6475	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6476			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6477			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6478			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6479	root	1.387	%
6480	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6481			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6482			> > > to work :-)
6483	root	1.247	> >
6484	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6485	root	1.247	>
6486	root	1.1	> Eh?
6487	root	1.247	>
6488	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6489			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6490
6491			He didn't say it worked. :)
6492	root	1.387	%
6493	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6494
6495			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6496			> I find it irksome that
6497	root	1.247	>
6498	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6499
6500			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6501	root	1.387	%
6502	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6503			From: Simon Cozens
6504
6505			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6506			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6507			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6508
6509			Looks like a feature to me.
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6512	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6513	root	1.387	%
6514	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6515			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6516
6517			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6518			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6519			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6520			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6521
6522			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6523			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6524			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6525			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6526			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6527			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6528	root	1.387	%
6529	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6530			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6531			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6532			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6533			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6534			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6535			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6536			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6537			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6538			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6539			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6540			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6541
6542			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6543			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6544			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6545
6546			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6547	root	1.387	%
6548	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6549			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6550			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6551			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6552			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6553			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6554			replication."
6555			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6556	root	1.387	%
6557	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6558			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6559
6560			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6561			shows.
6562
6563			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6564			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6565			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6566
6567			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6568			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6569			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6570			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6571			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6572
6573			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6574			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6575			up with a saner protocol.
6576	root	1.387	%
6577	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6578			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6579			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6580
6581			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6582			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6583			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6586			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6587			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6588			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6589			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6590			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6591	root	1.387	%
6592	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6593			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6594	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6595			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6596			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6597			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6598	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6599	root	1.387	%
6600	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6601	root	1.387	%
6602	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6603			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6604	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6605	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6606	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6607	root	1.387	%
6608	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6609			"ist mir egal"
6610	root	1.387	%
6611	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6612			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6613
6614			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6615	root	1.387	%
6616	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6617			hallole
6618	root	1.387	%
6619	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6620			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6621			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6622	root	1.387	%
6623	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6624			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6625			1929 The pause that refreshes
6626			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6627			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6628			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6629			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6630			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6631			1939 Thirst stops here
6632			1942 It's the real thing
6633			1947 Have a Coke
6634			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6635			1963 Things go better with Coke
6636			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6637			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6638			1982 Coke is it!
6639			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6640	root	1.387	%
6641	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6642			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6643	root	1.387	%
6644	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6645			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6646	root	1.387	%
6647	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6648	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6649			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6650			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6651			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6652			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6653			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6654			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6655			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6656			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6657			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6658			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6659			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6660			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6661			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6662
6663			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6664			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6665	root	1.387	%
6666	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6667			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6668
6669			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6670			uncool thing to do. [...]
6671	root	1.387	%
6672	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6673			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6674			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6675	root	1.387	%
6676	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6677	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6678	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6679	root	1.1
6680	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6681			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6682			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6683			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6684	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6685			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6686	root	1.387	%
6687	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6688			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6689			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6690			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6691			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6692			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6693			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6694
6695			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6696			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6697			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6698	root	1.387	%
6699	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6700
6701			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6702	root	1.387	%
6703	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6704			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6705			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6706			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6707			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6708	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6709	root	1.387	%
6710	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6711			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6712			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6713
6714			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6715			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6716
6717			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6718	root	1.387	%
6719	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6722			From: Alan Cox
6723			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6724			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6725	root	1.247	>
6726			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6727	root	1.1
6728	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6729	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6730	root	1.387	%
6731	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6732			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6733			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6734
6735			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6736			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6737			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6738			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6739
6740			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6741
6742			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6743	root	1.387	%
6744	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6745	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6746			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6747	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6748	root	1.387	%
6749	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6750	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6751			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6752	root	1.387	%
6753	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6754			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6755	root	1.387	%
6756	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6757	root	1.387	%
6758	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6759			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6760			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6761	root	1.387	%
6762	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6763			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6764			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6765			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6766			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6767	root	1.387	%
6768	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6769	root	1.387	%
6770	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6771			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6772			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6773			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6774			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6775			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6776			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6777	root	1.387	%
6778	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6779			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6780	root	1.387	%
6781	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6782			perl:]
6783
6784			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6785
6786			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6787			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6788			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6789			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6790			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6791			disable the message and pray it works"]
6792	root	1.387	%
6793	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6794			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6795			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6796			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6797
6798			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6799			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6800			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6801			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6802			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6803	root	1.387	%
6804	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6805			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6806			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6807	root	1.387	%
6808	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6809			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6810			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6811			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6812			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6813	root	1.387	%
6814	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6815			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6816			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6817	root	1.387	%
6818	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6819			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6820	root	1.387	%
6821	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6822			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6823	root	1.387	%
6824	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6825			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6826			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6827			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6828			> it's a hard requirement.
6829
6830			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6831			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6832			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6833			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6834			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6835			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6836			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6837			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6838	root	1.387	%
6839	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6840			> Netscape?"
6841	root	1.247
6842	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6843			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6844	root	1.387	%
6845	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6846			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6847			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6848			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6849			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6850			the specified task step-by-step.
6851	root	1.387	%
6852	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6853
6854			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6855			be damned hard to understand."
6856	root	1.387	%
6857	root	1.1	[Linus]
6858			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6859			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6860			wrong. It's that simple.
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6863	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6864	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6865			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6866			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6867	root	1.247	Undernet>
6868	root	1.387	%
6869	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
6870			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
6871			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
6872			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
6873
6874			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
6875			document that contains an element or attribute named
6876	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
6877	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
6878			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
6879			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
6880			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
6881			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
6882			now appears to have unlimited credit!
6883	root	1.387	%
6884	root	1.1	["my spam"]
6885			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
6886			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
6887			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
6888			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
6889			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
6890	root	1.387	%
6891	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
6892			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
6893			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
6894			[... snip ...]
6895			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
6896			tragedy...
6897	root	1.387	%
6898	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
6899	root	1.247
6900	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
6901			>---- A notice to spammers ----
6902			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
6903			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
6904			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
6905			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
6906			>message plus attorney's fees.
6907			[SNIP long sig]
6908	root	1.247
6909	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
6910			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
6911			all you're doing is contributing to it.
6912	root	1.247
6913	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
6914			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
6915			procmailable address.
6916	root	1.247
6917	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
6918			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
6919			just a waste of bandwidth.
6920	root	1.387	%
6921	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
6922	root	1.387	%
6923	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
6924			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
6925	root	1.387	%
6926	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
6927	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
6928	root	1.387	%
6929	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
6930	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
6931			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
6932			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
6933	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
6934	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
6935			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
6936			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
6937			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
6938	root	1.387	%
6939	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
6940	root	1.387	%
6941	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
6942	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
6943	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
6944	root	1.387	%
6945	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
6946			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
6947			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
6948			immediately and not block the calling process.
6949
6950			the man pages are wrong
6951
6952			--cw
6953	root	1.387	%
6954	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
6955			...
6956			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
6957	root	1.387	%
6958	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
6959			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
6960	root	1.387	%
6961	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
6962			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
6963			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
6964
6965			How fast does it oops?
6966	root	1.387	%
6967	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
6968
6969			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6970			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
6971			> touch is 2Gig.
6972
6973			In theory, yes.
6974			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
6975			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
6976	root	1.387	%
6977	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6978			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
6979			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
6980			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
6981			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
6982			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
6983			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
6984			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
6985			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6986			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
6987			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
6988			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
6989			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
6990			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6991			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
6992			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
6993	root	1.387	%
6994	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
6995	root	1.387	%
6996	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
6997			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
6998			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
6999			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7000			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7001	root	1.387	%
7002	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7003			[Lukas Grunwald]
7004	root	1.387	%
7005	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7006			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7007			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7008			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7009
7010			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7011			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7012			> > prompt.
7013			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7014			> /proc/info/authors?
7015	root	1.247
7016	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7017			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7018			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7019			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7020			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7021			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7022	root	1.247
7023	root	1.1	NOT.
7024			[...]
7025	root	1.387	%
7026	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7027			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7028			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7029	root	1.247
7030	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7031			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7032			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7033			> an interesting experiment.
7034	root	1.247
7035	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7036			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7037			to disagree...
7038	root	1.387	%
7039	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7040			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7041			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7042			[und Lukas sagt:]
7043			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7044	root	1.387	%
7045	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7046			report:]
7047			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7048			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7049			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7050			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7053			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7054	root	1.387	%
7055	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7056			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7057			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7058
7059			Alexander Viro wrote:
7060			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7061			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7062			>
7063			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7064			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7065			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7066			> UNIX.
7067
7068			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7069			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7070			docs... ew!
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7073			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7074			> protected mode?
7075
7076			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7077			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7078			registers loaded ;)
7079	root	1.387	%
7080	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7081			[...]
7082			> backports hurt forward progress.
7083
7084			beware of content free dogma
7085	root	1.387	%
7086	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7087			> wondering.
7088
7089			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7090			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7091			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7092			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7093			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7094			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7095			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7096
7097			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7098	root	1.387	%
7099	root	1.1	>Keith,
7100	root	1.247	>
7101	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7102			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7103			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7104
7105			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7106			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7107			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7108			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7109			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7110			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7111			do the right thing.
7112
7113			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7114			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7115			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7116			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7117			and they have to fix it.
7118	root	1.387	%
7119	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7120			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7121			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7122			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7123	root	1.387	%
7124	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7125			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7126	root	1.387	%
7127	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7128			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7129			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7130			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7131
7132			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7133			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7134	root	1.387	%
7135	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7136			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7137	root	1.387	%
7138	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7139			glibc-2.2 was released]
7140			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7141	root	1.387	%
7142	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7145			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7146			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7147	root	1.387	%
7148	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7149			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7150			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7151	root	1.387	%
7152	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7153
7154			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7155			standards-compliant.
7156			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7157			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7158			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7159			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7160			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7161			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7162	root	1.387	%
7163	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7164			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7165			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7166
7167			That's your problem.
7168
7169			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7170
7171			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7172			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7173	root	1.387	%
7174	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7175			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7176			> > out there) in the foot?
7177
7178			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7179
7180			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7181			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7182			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7183	root	1.387	%
7184	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7185			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7186			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7187
7188			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7189			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7190			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7191			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7192			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7193			--
7194			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7195	root	1.387	%
7196	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7197
7198			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7199			>
7200			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7201			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7202			>
7203			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7204
7205			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7206	root	1.387	%
7207	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7208			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7209			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7210	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7211	root	1.387	%
7212	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7213			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7214			Bullschildt below ;)]
7215
7216			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7217			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7218	root	1.387	%
7219	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7220			>
7221			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7222			>
7223			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7224			>
7225			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7226	root	1.387	%
7227	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7228
7229			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7230			it did the same thing.
7231
7232			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7233			a week ago. :(
7234
7235			--Jack
7236	root	1.387	%
7237	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7238	root	1.387	%
7239	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7240			-- K&R
7241	root	1.387	%
7242	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7243	root	1.387	%
7244	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7245			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7246	root	1.387	%
7247	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7248	root	1.387	%
7249	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7250			$modules => { "" => "" };
7251	root	1.387	%
7252	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7253	root	1.387	%
7254	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7255	root	1.387	%
7256	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7257			> --
7258			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7259			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7260	root	1.387	%
7261	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7262			From: "David Schwartz"
7263
7264			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7265			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7266			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7267			> pretty spiffy.
7268
7269			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7270			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7271			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7272			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7273	root	1.387	%
7274	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7275	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7276	root	1.387	%
7277	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7278			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7279			> of having bough one.
7280
7281			Not an uncommon thought :)
7282	root	1.387	%
7283	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7284
7285			Hi Marc !
7286
7287			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7288			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7289			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7290
7291			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7292	root	1.387	%
7293	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7294			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7295			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7296			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7297
7298			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7299			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7300			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7301
7302			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7303			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7304			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7305			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7306			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7307			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7308
7309			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7310			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7311
7312			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7313			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7314			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7315			right to left.
7316
7317			>But no culture
7318			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7319			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7320			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7321			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7322			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7323
7324			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7325
7326			--Alex
7327	root	1.387	%
7328	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7329			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7330			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7331
7332			[most of the reply snipped...]
7333
7334			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7335			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7336			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7337
7338			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7339
7340			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7341			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7342			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7343			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7344			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7345
7346			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7347			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7348			try to claim that they do?)
7349	root	1.387	%
7350	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7351
7352			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7353			> {
7354			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7355			> flush(load);
7356			> else
7357			> wear(load);
7358			> }
7359
7360			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7361			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7362
7363			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7364			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7365
7366			--
7367			dwmw2
7368	root	1.387	%
7369	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7370			are are overturned.
7371	root	1.387	%
7372	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7373	root	1.387	%
7374	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7375			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7376	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7377			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7378	root	1.387	%
7379	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7380			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7381			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7382			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7383			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7384			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7385			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7386	root	1.387	%
7387	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7388			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7389			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7390
7391			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7392			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7393			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7396			Deadlock, n.:
7397			Deceased Rasterman.
7398	root	1.387	%
7399	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7400			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7401			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7402			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7403	root	1.387	%
7404	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7405			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7406	root	1.387	%
7407	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7408			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7409	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7410			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7411			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7412			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7413	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7414			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7415	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7416			Positionen für unwählbar.
7417	root	1.1
7418			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7419	root	1.387	%
7420	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7421			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7422			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7423
7424			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7425
7426			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7427			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7428			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7429			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7430			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7431
7432			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7433			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7434			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7435			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7436			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7437			results simply because I make a mistake!
7438
7439			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7440			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7441			errors.
7442
7443			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7444			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7445			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7446			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7447	root	1.387	%
7448	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7449			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7450			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7451			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7452			>
7453			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7454	root	1.387	%
7455	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7456			of nothing."
7457	root	1.387	%
7458	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7459			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7460			>
7461			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7462			> CPU?
7463
7464			Root password? :)
7465
7466			John.Fulmer
7467	root	1.387	%
7468	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7469
7470			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7471	root	1.387	%
7472	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7473			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7474			> which I prefer...
7475
7476			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7477			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7478			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7479			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7480			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7481			--
7482			Horst von Brand
7483	root	1.387	%
7484	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7485
7486			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7487
7488			[...]
7489
7490			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7491	root	1.387	%
7492	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7493			at your problem:]
7494
7495			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7496			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7497			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7500			cp is inherently inefficient.
7501	root	1.387	%
7502	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7503			>breaking seals on them.
7504
7505			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7506			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7507			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7508
7509			...
7510
7511			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7512			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7513			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7514			could be just an urban myth though.
7515
7516			Russell Coker
7517	root	1.387	%
7518	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7519			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7520
7521			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7522	root	1.387	%
7523	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7524			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7525			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7526			> > deleting.
7527			>
7528			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7529
7530			Wrong. Yury does.
7531			:(
7532
7533			--
7534			Stefan
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7537			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7538			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7539			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7540			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7541			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7542			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7543
7544			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7545
7546			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7547	root	1.387	%
7548	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7549	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7550	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7551	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7552			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7553	root	1.387	%
7554	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7555			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7556			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7557			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7558			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7559			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7560			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7561			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7562			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7563			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7564	root	1.387	%
7565	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7566			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7567			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7568	root	1.1	aus!
7569	root	1.387	%
7570	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7571			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7572	root	1.387	%
7573	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7574			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7575			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7576			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7577	root	1.387	%
7578	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7579			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7580	root	1.387	%
7581	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7582			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7583			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7584			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7585
7586			--tom
7587	root	1.387	%
7588	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7589			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7590
7591			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7592			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7593			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7594			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7595			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7596	root	1.387	%
7597	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7598			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7599			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7600			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7601			solutions.
7602
7603			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7604
7605			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7606			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7607			the background]
7608	root	1.387	%
7609	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7610			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7611			Security Response Center:
7612
7613			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7614			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7615
7616			[and later]
7617			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7618
7619			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7620
7621			[Phil closes]
7622			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7623
7624			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7625			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7626	root	1.387	%
7627	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7628			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7629			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7630			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7631			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7632			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7633			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7634	root	1.387	%
7635	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7636			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7637			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7638			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7639
7640			[Trashey / Quasars]
7641	root	1.387	%
7642	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7643			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7644			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7645
7646			Irony potential in
7647
7648			man perlrtfm
7649
7650			is left to the reader.
7651
7652			Nat
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7655			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7656
7657			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7658			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7659	root	1.387	%
7660	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7661			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7662			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7663	root	1.387	%
7664	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7665			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7666			Paul Tomblin
7667	root	1.387	%
7668	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7669			>I am morally
7670			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7671
7672			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7673			possibility...
7674
7675			Dan
7676	root	1.387	%
7677	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7678	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7679	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 :)
7680			<Mr> zugabe
7681	root	1.387	%
7682	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7683			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7684	root	1.387	%
7685	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7686			[cobol, sigh]
7687	root	1.387	%
7688	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7689			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7690			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7691			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7692			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7693			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7694			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7695			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7696
7697			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7698	root	1.387	%
7699	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7700
7701			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7702			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7703			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7704			after they regain their composure."
7705
7706			-- Paul Rinaldo
7707			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7708	root	1.387	%
7709	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7710			>
7711			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7712			>
7713			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7714
7715			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7716
7717			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7718
7719			;-}
7720
7721			--
7722
7723			ciao -
7724			Stefan
7725
7726	root	1.387	%
7727	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7728			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7729
7730			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7731			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7732			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7733			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7734			one' type remarks.
7735			[Alan Cox]
7736	root	1.387	%
7737	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7738
7739			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7740			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7741
7742			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7743	root	1.387	%
7744	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7745
7746			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7747			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7748			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7749	root	1.387	%
7750	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7751			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7752			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7753			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7754	root	1.387	%
7755	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7756			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7757
7758			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7759			is to me ok.
7760	root	1.387	%
7761	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7762
7763			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7764	root	1.387	%
7765	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7766			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7767	root	1.387	%
7768	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7769			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7772			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7773			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7774
7775			Ralf
7776	root	1.387	%
7777	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7778			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7779			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7780
7781			david parsons
7782	root	1.387	%
7783	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7784			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7785
7786			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7787			>so that trick is not portable.
7788
7789			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7790			127.0.0.1 localhost
7791
7792			--tom
7793	root	1.387	%
7794	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7795			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7796			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7797			> >the question is moot.
7798			>
7799			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7800
7801			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7802
7803			Ilya
7804	root	1.387	%
7805	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7806			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7807			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7808			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7809			> trying.
7810
7811			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7812			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7813	root	1.387	%
7814	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7815			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7816			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7817			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7818	root	1.387	%
7819	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7820			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7821			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7822	root	1.387	%
7823	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7824			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7825			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7826			> blocking :-)
7827
7828			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7829			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7830			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7831			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7832			reasons.
7833
7834			DS
7835	root	1.387	%
7836	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7837	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7838	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7839	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7840	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7841
7842			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7843	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7844	root	1.387	%
7845	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7846			[...]
7847			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7848			[...]
7849
7850			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7851			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7852			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7853			with each other on the same channel.
7854
7855			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7856			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7857
7858			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7859	root	1.387	%
7860	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7861			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7864	root	1.387	%
7865	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7866			ANY word at all is a candidate.
7867			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7868			ok
7869	root	1.387	%
7870	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
7871			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
7872	root	1.387	%
7873	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
7874			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
7875			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
7876			<schmorp> xach: ok.
7877			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
7878			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
7879			<Xach> burrito, focus
7880			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
7881	root	1.387	%
7882	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
7883			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
7884			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
7885			tested it." ...
7886	root	1.387	%
7887	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
7888	root	1.387	%
7889	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
7890
7891			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
7892			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
7893			>
7894			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
7895			>
7896			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
7897			>
7898			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
7899			>
7900			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
7901			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
7902			>systems.
7903
7904
7905			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
7906			had.
7907
7908			--
7909			Neal Bridges
7910	root	1.387	%
7911	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
7912
7913			> Hi folks,
7914			> 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?
7915			> please reply to
7916			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
7917			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
7918
7919			Parse error.
7920
7921			---
7922			Alex
7923	root	1.387	%
7924	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
7925
7926			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
7927			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
7928
7929			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
7930			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
7931			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
7932
7933			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
7934	root	1.387	%
7935	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
7936	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
7937	root	1.387	%
7938	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
7939			ii = 44;
7940			p = &ii;
7941			p = ii/p;
7942			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
7943			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
7944	root	1.387	%
7945	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
7946			> Linux time then.
7947
7948			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
7949
7950			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
7951			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
7952
7953			Roger.
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
7956	root	1.387	%
7957	root	1.1	auto accident;
7958			register voters;
7959			static electricity;
7960			struct by_lightning;
7961			void *where_prohibited;
7962			char broiled;
7963			short circuit;
7964			short changed;
7965			long johns;
7966			unsigned long letter;
7967			double entendre;
7968			double trouble;
7969			union organizer;
7970			float valve;
7971			short pants;
7972			union station;
7973			void check; unsigned check;
7974			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
7975	root	1.387	%
7976	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
7977			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
7978			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
7979	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
7980	root	1.387	%
7981	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
7982
7983			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
7984			worstation.
7985	root	1.387	%
7986	root	1.1	I wrote
7987			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
7988			$/
7989
7990			Damn shift key.
7991
7992
7993			Mike Guy
7994	root	1.387	%
7995	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
7996			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
7997			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
7998			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
7999			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8000			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8001			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8002			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8003			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8004	root	1.387	%
8005	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8006
8007			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8008
8009			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8010			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8011			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8012			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8013
8014			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8015	root	1.387	%
8016	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8017			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8018
8019			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8020			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8021			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8022			easy to bother.
8023
8024			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8025			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8026			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8027			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8028
8029			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8030
8031			Larry
8032	root	1.387	%
8033	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8034			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8035			Yeah. :-)
8036	root	1.387	%
8037	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8038			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8039			[...]
8040			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8041
8042			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8043			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8044			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8045			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8046
8047			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8048			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8049			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8050			receipts aren't used anymore.
8051	root	1.387	%
8052	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8053			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8054			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8055	root	1.387	%
8056	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8057			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8058			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8059			> versteht?"
8060	root	1.387	%
8061	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8062			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8063			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8064			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8065	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8066	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8067	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8068	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8069			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8070			ji!
8071	root	1.387	%
8072	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8073			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8074			[Larry Wall]
8075	root	1.387	%
8076	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8077			Altpreussen.
8078			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8079			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8080	root	1.387	%
8081	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8082			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8083			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8084			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8085			>
8086	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8087			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8088	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8089
8090	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8091	root	1.1	Norbert?
8092	root	1.387	%
8093	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8094	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8095			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8096	root	1.387	%
8097	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8098	root	1.387	%
8099	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8100	root	1.387	%
8101	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8102			From: "Steve"
8103			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8104			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8105			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8106
8107			[the following was a single line, of course]
8108			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8109			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8110			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8111			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8112			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8113
8114			Thanks,
8115
8116			Steve
8117	root	1.387	%
8118	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8119			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8120			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8121			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8122	root	1.387	%
8123	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8124			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8125			<tigert> ahem
8126	root	1.387	%
8127	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8128			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8129			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8130	root	1.387	%
8131	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8132			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8133			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8134			Subject: It's soup.
8135
8136			Okay, it's there.
8137
8138			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8139
8140			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8141
8142			Larry
8143	root	1.387	%
8144	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8145	root	1.387	%
8146	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8147			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8148			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8149			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8150			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8153			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8154			>
8155			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8156			> And there's no mouse.
8157			>
8158			> Abigail
8159
8160			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8161
8162			Matt.
8163	root	1.387	%
8164	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8165			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8166
8167			- --tom
8168	root	1.387	%
8169	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8170			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8171
8172			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8173			>
8174			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8175			> 2.2.11 release?
8176
8177			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8178
8179			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8180
8181			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8182	root	1.387	%
8183	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8184	root	1.387	%
8185	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8186			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8187			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8188			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8189			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8190			> that much ;-)
8191
8192			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8193	root	1.387	%
8194	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8195			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8196	root	1.387	%
8197	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8198			<QUOTE>
8199			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8200
8201			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8202			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8203			</QUOTE>
8204	root	1.387	%
8205	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8206			and routes around it.
8207
8208			Roger Larsson
8209	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8210	root	1.387	%
8211	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8212			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8213	root	1.387	%
8214	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8215			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8216	root	1.387	%
8217	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8218
8219			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8220			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8221			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8222			on different JVMs.
8223
8224			[and later]
8225
8226			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8227			adventure gaming:
8228
8229			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8230			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8231	root	1.387	%
8232	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8233			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8234
8235			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8236
8237			NK> ?? -> huh?
8238
8239			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8240
8241			<chaim>
8242	root	1.387	%
8243	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8244			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8245			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8246			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8247			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8248			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8249	root	1.387	%
8250	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8251	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8252	root	1.387	%
8253	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8254			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8255			page]
8256			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8257			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8258			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8259			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8260			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8261			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8262			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8263			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8264			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8265			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8266	root	1.387	%
8267	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8268			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8269			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8270			don't actually get anything DONE.
8271	root	1.387	%
8272	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8273			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8274			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8275			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8276	root	1.387	%
8277	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8278			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8279			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8280			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8281
8282			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8283	root	1.387	%
8284	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8285			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8286			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8287	root	1.387	%
8288	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8289			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8290			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8291	root	1.387	%
8292	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8293
8294			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8295			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8296			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8297			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8298			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8299			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8300			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8301			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8302			got the T-shirt.
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8305			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8306			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8307			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8308			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8309			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8310			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8311
8312			Linus writes, to Craig:
8313
8314			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8315			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8316			> thus choices than gcc.
8317
8318			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8319			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8320			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8321			far more complex than the kernel.
8322
8323			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8324			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8325
8326			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8327	root	1.387	%
8328	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8329			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8330			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8331
8332			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8333			[...]
8334			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8335			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8336			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8337			>let the user be in control.
8338
8339			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8340			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8341			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8342			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8343			compilers?
8344	root	1.387	%
8345	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8346			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8347
8348			Linus writes:
8349			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8350			> gcc could do better?
8351
8352			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8353			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8354			before you had so many worshippers.
8355	root	1.387	%
8356	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8357			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8358			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8359			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8360			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8361
8362			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8363
8364			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8365			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8366			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8367			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8368
8369			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8370
8371			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8372
8373			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8374			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8375
8376			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8377
8378			>:->
8379
8380			Brane
8381
8382
8383			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8384			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8385			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8386			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8387			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8388
8389
8390			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8391	root	1.387	%
8392	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8393	root	1.387	%
8394	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8395			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8396			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8397	root	1.387	%
8398	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8399			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8400			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8401	root	1.387	%
8402	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8403
8404			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8405
8406			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8407	root	1.387	%
8408	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8409			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8410			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8411			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8412
8413			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8414
8415			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8416			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8417			:
8418			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8419			:
8420			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8421			:
8422			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8423	root	1.387	%
8424	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8425	root	1.387	%
8426	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8427			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8428			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8429			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8430			>
8431			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8432			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8433
8434			The classic example:
8435
8436			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8437			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8438	root	1.387	%
8439	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8440			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8441
8442			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8443			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8444			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8445
8446			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8447
8448			--tom
8449	root	1.387	%
8450	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8451			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8452			working on something for me
8453			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8454			to me nutting concerning y ok
8455			piece
8456			russ
8457	root	1.387	%
8458	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8459
8460			pico (text editor for beginners)
8461			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8462			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8463			ed (text editor for beginners)
8464	root	1.387	%
8465	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8466
8467			use Python;
8468
8469			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8470			Except maybe faster. :-)
8471
8472			Larry
8473	root	1.387	%
8474	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8475
8476			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8477			2010.
8478
8479			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8480	root	1.387	%
8481	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8482			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8483			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8484			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8485			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8486			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8487			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8488			been created.
8489	root	1.387	%
8490	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8491			>
8492			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8493			> $3.99.
8494			>
8495			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8496			>
8497			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8498			>
8499			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8500			>
8501			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8502			>
8503			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8504			>
8505			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8506			> got integrated Coke!
8507			>
8508			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8509			> to drink the Coke.
8510			>
8511			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8512			>
8513			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8514			>
8515			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8516			> inseparable.
8517			>
8518			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8519			>
8520			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8521			>
8522			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8523			>
8524			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8525			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8526			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8527	root	1.387	%
8528	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8529			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8530	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8531	root	1.387	%
8532	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8533
8534			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8535			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8536			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8537			for you to digest this book.
8538			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8539			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8540			Join The Trickle
8541			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8542			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8543			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8544	root	1.387	%
8545	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8546			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8547			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8548			complete and utter vapourware.
8549
8550			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8551	root	1.387	%
8552	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8553
8554			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8555			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8556	root	1.387	%
8557	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8558
8559			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8560			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8561			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8562			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8563			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8564			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8565			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8566			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8567			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8568			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8569			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8570			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8571			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8572			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8573			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8574			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8575			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8576			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8577			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8578			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8579			work.
8580			[...]
8581			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8582			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8583			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8584			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8585			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8586			search generically - then it has some potential.
8587			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8588			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8589			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8590			intellectual value whatsoever.
8591
8592			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8593			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8594			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8595	root	1.387	%
8596	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8597	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8598	root	1.387	%
8599	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8600			#!/usr/bin/sh
8601			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8602			# All Rights Reserved
8603
8604			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8605			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8606			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8607
8608			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8609			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8610	root	1.387	%
8611	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.
8612	root	1.387	%
8613	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8614			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8615			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8616	root	1.387	%
8617	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8618
8619			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8620			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8621
8622			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8623			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8624			machine]
8625
8626			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8627			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8628			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8629
8630			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8631	root	1.387	%
8632	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8633			spamming:]
8634
8635			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8636			>>
8637			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8638			>>------------------------------------------------------
8639			>>
8640			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8641			>>
8642			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8643
8644			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8645			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8646	root	1.387	%
8647	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8648			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8649	root	1.387	%
8650	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8651			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8652	root	1.387	%
8653	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8654			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8655
8656			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8657	root	1.387	%
8658	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8659
8660			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8661			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8662			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8663			he's full of.
8664
8665			Support BSD/Linux.
8666
8667			--tom
8668	root	1.387	%
8669	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8670	root	1.387	%
8671	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8672	root	1.387	%
8673	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8674			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8675
8676			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8677			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8678			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8679			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8682
8683			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8684			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8685	root	1.387	%
8686	root	1.1	[the creation]
8687			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8688	root	1.387	%
8689	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8690
8691			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8692			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8693			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8694	root	1.387	%
8695	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8696			selbst schliesse.
8697			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8698			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8699	root	1.387	%
8700	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8701			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8702
8703			No:
8704
8705			use Borg;
8706			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8707
8708			--
8709			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8710	root	1.387	%
8711	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8712			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8713			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8714			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8715			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8716			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8717			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8718			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8719			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8720			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8721			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8722			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8723			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8724			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8725			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8726			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8727			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8728			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8729			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8730			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8731			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8732			dispensers."
8733
8734			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8735	root	1.387	%
8736	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8737			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8738			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8739			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8740	root	1.387	%
8741	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8742			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8743			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8744	root	1.387	%
8745	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8746	root	1.1
8747			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8748	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8749	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8750	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8751	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8752			Student: "..."
8753			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8754			Student: "..."
8755			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8756	root	1.387	%
8757	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8758
8759			> Just morbid curiosity,
8760			>
8761			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8762
8763			Yes. Broken ones.
8764
8765			dgris
8766	root	1.387	%
8767	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8768			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8769	root	1.387	%
8770	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8771			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8772	root	1.387	%
8773	root	1.1	...
8774
8775			<AOL>
8776
8777			Me too!
8778
8779			</AOL>
8780
8781			Tig
8782	root	1.387	%
8783	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8784	root	1.387	%
8785	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8786	root	1.387	%
8787	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8788
8789			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8790			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8791			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8792			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8793			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8794			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8795			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8796
8797			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8798
8799			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8800			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8801			get really really pissed.
8802
8803			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8804			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8805	root	1.387	%
8806	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8807			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8808			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8809			> period.
8810			>
8811			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8812			> Nic
8813			>
8814
8815			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8816
8817			-hpa
8818	root	1.387	%
8819	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8820	root	1.387	%
8821	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8822			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8823			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8824			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8825			happy."
8826			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8827	root	1.387	%
8828	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8829			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8830			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8831
8832			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8833			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8834			I also forwarded the offending code.
8835
8836			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8837			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8838			service.
8839
8840			Daniel
8841	root	1.387	%
8842	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8843			...
8844			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8845	root	1.387	%
8846	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8847			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8848			[RJL]
8849	root	1.387	%
8850	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8851			right.''
8852	root	1.387	%
8853	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8854
8855			Amazing--they actually listened.
8856	root	1.387	%
8857	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8858			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8859			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8860
8861			# less foo
8862			sh: command not found
8863			# more foo
8864			sh: command not found
8865			# emacs foo
8866			sh: command not found
8867			# ed foo
8868			0
8869			help
8870			?
8871			quit
8872			?
8873			exit
8874			?
8875			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
8876			?
8877
8878			[Albert D. Cahalan]
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
8881			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
8882			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
8883
8884			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
8885
8886			tim> use blib ':quiet';
8887
8888			tim> would be most correct in style.
8889
8890			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
8891			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
8892	root	1.387	%
8893	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
8894			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
8895			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
8896			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
8897			too bad --- ]
8898	root	1.387	%
8899	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
8900	root	1.387	%
8901	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
8902
8903			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
8904			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
8905
8906			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
8907			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
8908	root	1.387	%
8909	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
8910			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
8911			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
8912			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
8913			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
8914	root	1.387	%
8915	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
8916
8917			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
8918			include wrong #include files in their source.
8919	root	1.387	%
8920	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
8921
8922			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
8923			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
8924			Consider it a rite of passage.
8925	root	1.387	%
8926	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
8927			"Oops."
8928			-- MST3K
8929	root	1.387	%
8930	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
8931			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
8932			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
8933
8934			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
8935			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
8936			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
8937			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
8938			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
8939			it. ;)
8940	root	1.387	%
8941	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
8942			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
8943			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
8944			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
8945			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
8946
8947			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
8948			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
8949			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
8950			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
8951
8952			--tom
8953	root	1.387	%
8954	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
8955
8956			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
8957
8958			>Why does it end ?
8959
8960			Ask the X3J11 committee.
8961
8962			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
8963			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
8964
8965			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
8966	root	1.387	%
8967	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
8968			-- Tom Christiansen
8969	root	1.387	%
8970	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
8971
8972			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
8973			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
8974			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
8975			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
8976			of Sputnik.
8977	root	1.387	%
8978	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
8979			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
8980			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
8981			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
8982			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
8983	root	1.387	%
8984	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
8985			- Hanlons razor -
8986	root	1.387	%
8987	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
8988			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
8989	root	1.387	%
8990	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
8991			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
8992			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
8993			> offered no significant advantages.
8994
8995			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
8996	root	1.387	%
8997	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
8998			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
8999			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9000			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9001			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9002			in front of me says so."
9003
9004			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9005	root	1.387	%
9006	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9007			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9008			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9009			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9010			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9011			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9012			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9013			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9014			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9015			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9016			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9017	root	1.387	%
9018	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9019			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9020			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9021			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9022			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9025	root	1.387	%
9026	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9027	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9028			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9029			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9030			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9031	root	1.387	%
9032	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9033			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9034			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9035			>
9036			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9037			> and/or screen.
9038
9039			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9040	root	1.387	%
9041	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9042			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9043
9044			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9045			> use pedantic;
9046			> use strict 'code';
9047			>
9048			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9049
9050			use syntax 'python';
9051
9052			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9053
9054	root	1.387	%
9055	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9056			>
9057			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9058			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9059			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9060			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9061			>
9062			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9063	root	1.387	%
9064	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9065			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9066	root	1.387	%
9067	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9068			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9069			> be time-consuming.
9070
9071			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9072	root	1.387	%
9073	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9074			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9075			however, they do not handle C++...
9076			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9077	root	1.387	%
9078	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9079			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9080
9081			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9082
9083			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9084
9085			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9086
9087			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9088			already of old time, which was before us.
9089			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9090			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9091
9092			Regards,
9093			Tigran.
9094	root	1.387	%
9095	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9096	root	1.387	%
9097	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9098			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9099			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9100			main(){
9101			extrn hw;
9102			putchar(0[hw]);
9103			hw=+1;
9104			putchar(0[hw]);
9105			}
9106	root	1.387	%
9107	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9108
9109			The egg. Always. By definition.
9110	root	1.387	%
9111	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9112			>
9113			> Better check your scsi cables.
9114	root	1.387	%
9115	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9116			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9117	root	1.387	%
9118	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9119			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9120			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9121			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9122
9123	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9124	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9125			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9126
9127	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9128	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9129	root	1.387	%
9130	root	1.1	>James :\
9131			>
9132			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9133
9134			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9135	root	1.387	%
9136	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9137			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9138			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9139	root	1.387	%
9140	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9141			> is just asking for a black eye.
9142
9143			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9144
9145			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9146			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9147			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9148
9149			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9150			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9151			area.
9152	root	1.387	%
9153	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9154			[Lukas Grunwald]
9155	root	1.387	%
9156	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9157
9158			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9159			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9160			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9161			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9162			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9163	root	1.387	%
9164	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9165			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9166
9167			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9168	root	1.387	%
9169	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9170			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9171			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9172
9173			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9174
9175			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9176
9177			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9178
9179			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9180			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9181	root	1.387	%
9182	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9183	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9184	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9187			longer...
9188	root	1.387	%
9189	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9190			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9191			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9192	root	1.387	%
9193	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9194			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9195			> > world :) I just love it...
9196			>
9197			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9198			>
9199			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9200			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9201			practical...
9202			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9203			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9204			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9205			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9206			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9207
9208			Jan Hubicka
9209	root	1.387	%
9210	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9211			[...]
9212			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9213
9214			No, it is not. What you meant is
9215
9216			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9217	root	1.387	%
9218	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9219			> A) perl-5.00553
9220			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9221			> cc = cl.exe
9222			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9223
9224			[...]
9225
9226			Ilya
9227	root	1.387	%
9228	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9229
9230			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9231
9232			p.
9233	root	1.387	%
9234	root	1.1	[tomc]
9235			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9236			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9237
9238			+------------------------------------------+
9239			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9240			+------------------------------------------+
9241
9242			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9243			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9244
9245			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9246			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9247			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9248			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9249			interesting way.
9250			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9251			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9252			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9253			interesting things.
9254			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9255			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9256			things.
9257	root	1.387	%
9258	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9259			--Dennis Ritchie
9260	root	1.387	%
9261	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9262	root	1.387	%
9263	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9264
9265			switch (x)
9266			default:
9267			if (prime(x))
9268			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9269			process_prime(x);
9270			else
9271			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9272			process_composite(x);
9273	root	1.387	%
9274	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9275			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9276			in megabytes, required for execution?
9277
9278			Craig Milo Rogers
9279	root	1.387	%
9280	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9281			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9282			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9283
9284			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9285			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9286
9287			Ilya
9288	root	1.387	%
9289	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9290			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9291
9292			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9293			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9294			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9295
9296			Nat
9297	root	1.387	%
9298	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9299			much steroids for a while. =)
9300
9301			--Albert Dvornik
9302			<bert@genscan.com>
9303	root	1.387	%
9304	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9305			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9306			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9307
9308			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9309
9310			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9311			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9312
9313			--tom
9314	root	1.387	%
9315	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9316
9317			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9318
9319			Linus
9320	root	1.387	%
9321	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9322			devil added HTML mail...
9323	root	1.387	%
9324	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9325			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9326			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9327	root	1.387	%
9328	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9329			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9330
9331			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9332			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9333			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9334
9335			Arm the gnus!
9336	root	1.387	%
9337	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9338
9339			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9340			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9341			gcc, so go away.
9342	root	1.387	%
9343	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9344			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9345
9346			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9347
9348			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9349			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9350	root	1.387	%
9351	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9352			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9353			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9354			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9355
9356			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9357			was released today" madness.
9358	root	1.387	%
9359	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9360			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9361			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9362			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9363			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9364			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9365			>
9366			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9367			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9368			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9369			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9370			> marketing name, anyway.
9371
9372			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9373			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9374			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9375
9376			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9377			violence..." :-)
9378	root	1.387	%
9379	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9380			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9381	root	1.387	%
9382	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9383			> >poor drivers
9384			>
9385			> No it doesn't.
9386
9387			Indeed. Its down to
9388
9389			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9390
9391			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9392			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9393			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9394			or binaries.
9395	root	1.387	%
9396	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9397	root	1.387	%
9398	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9399	root	1.387	%
9400	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9401
9402			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9403			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9404			\|>
9405			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9406
9407			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9408
9409			Andreas.
9410	root	1.387	%
9411	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9412			...
9413			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9414
9415			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9416			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9417			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9418			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9419			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9420			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9421	root	1.387	%
9422	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9423
9424			Paul Eggert writes:
9425			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9426
9427			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9428			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9429	root	1.387	%
9430	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9431			however.
9432
9433			"We don't have the tools"
9434			"We can't support a non intel build"
9435			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9436			"Its not worth the time cost"
9437			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9438	root	1.387	%
9439	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9440
9441			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9442			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9443			>
9444			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9445			> <mailproc@fred>
9446			>
9447			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9448			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9449			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9450			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9451			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9452	root	1.387	%
9453	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9454			> No documented problem
9455			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9456			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9457			>
9458			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9459	root	1.387	%
9460	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9461			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9464			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9465
9466			dave
9467	root	1.387	%
9468	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9469			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9470
9471			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9474
9475			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9476			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9477
9478			Paul Eggert writes:
9479			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9480
9481			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9482			1 month before 29 March?
9483
9484			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9485
9486			1 month before 28 March?
9487
9488			28 February.
9489
9490			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9491			_before_ 27 February?
9492
9493			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9494	root	1.387	%
9495	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9496
9497			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9498			>> So make a security check first:
9499			>>
9500			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9501			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9502			>
9503			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9504			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9505			>
9506			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9507			> = instead of == error*/
9508			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9509			>
9510			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9511			>
9512			>--
9513			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9514
9515			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9516
9517			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9518			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9519	root	1.387	%
9520	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9521			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9522
9523			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9524			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9525			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9526			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9527			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9528			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9529			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9530			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9531
9532			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9533			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9534			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9535			available for that hardware from any source.
9536			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9537			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9538			sniffing!
9539	root	1.387	%
9540	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9541			technical support line that isn't"
9542	root	1.387	%
9543	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9544			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9545	root	1.387	%
9546	root	1.1	[...]
9547			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9548			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9549
9550			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9551			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9552			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9553			"Nothing else"
9554			"Sorry"
9555			[Click]
9556
9557			Alan
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9560			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9561	root	1.387	%
9562	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9563			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9564			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9565			> users excepted, of course!).
9566
9567			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9568			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9569			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9570			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9571			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9572			is installed"
9573
9574			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9575	root	1.387	%
9576	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9577
9578			L. Harris wrote:
9579			>
9580			> Testing
9581
9582			you failed.
9583	root	1.387	%
9584	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9585			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9586	root	1.387	%
9587	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9588			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9589			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9590			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9591	root	1.387	%
9592	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9593			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9594			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9595
9596			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9599			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9600			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9601			where else...
9602	root	1.387	%
9603	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9604			[...]
9605			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9606			: about a certain topic.
9607	root	1.387	%
9608	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9609			>
9610			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9611			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9612
9613			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9614			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9615
9616			void main (void)
9617			{
9618			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9619			printf ("\n");
9620			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9621			printf ("You have died.\n");
9622			printf ("\n");
9623			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9624			}
9625
9626			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9627
9628			--
9629			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9630	root	1.387	%
9631	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9632			mistake I ever made]
9633
9634			From: "Tom Miller"
9635			Subject: Can
9636			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9637
9638			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9639			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9640			my name is Tom Miller
9641
9642			From: "Tom Miller"
9643			Subject: Wait
9644			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9645
9646			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9647			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9650
9651			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9652			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9653			so why bother? [...]
9654	root	1.387	%
9655	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9656	root	1.1
9657			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9658
9659			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9660			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9661			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9662			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9663			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9664			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9665			sich dann.
9666	root	1.387	%
9667	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9668			no fs
9669			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9670			Definitely hardware or software error.
9671
9672			Unix Version 7 Manual
9673	root	1.387	%
9674	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9675			>
9676			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9677			>
9678			> =for C
9679			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9680			> =end
9681			> =for C++
9682			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9683			> =end
9684			> =for Java
9685			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9686			> =end
9687			>
9688			> :-)
9689	root	1.387	%
9690	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9691	root	1.387	%
9692	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9693
9694			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9695			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9696			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9697			turn it on.
9698	root	1.387	%
9699	root	1.1	[...]
9700			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9701			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9702			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9703			[...]
9704	root	1.387	%
9705	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9706
9707			Chad C Giffin
9708	root	1.387	%
9709	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9710			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9711			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9712			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9713			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9714			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9715
9716			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9717			through the door.
9718			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9719			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9720			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9721			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9722			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9723			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9724			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9725			usually.)
9726
9727			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9728			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9729			your tire pressure..."
9730			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9731			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9732			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9733			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9734			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9735			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9736			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9737			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9738	root	1.387	%
9739	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9740
9741			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9742	root	1.387	%
9743	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9744
9745			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9746			:-(
9747	root	1.387	%
9748	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9749			>dies alles geschieht.
9750			>Und es verging nicht.
9751
9752			So what?
9753
9754			Ich dachte eher an:
9755
9756			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9757			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9758			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9759			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9760			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9761			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9762			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9763			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9764			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9765			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9766			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9767			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9768
9769			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9770
9771			Antje
9772	root	1.387	%
9773	root	1.1	[....]
9774
9775			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9776			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9777			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9778			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9779			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9780			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9781
9782			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9783
9784			Antje
9785	root	1.387	%
9786	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9787			lalala, I love you baby..."
9788			--
9789			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9790	root	1.387	%
9791	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9792			>
9793			> Kubys
9794
9795			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9796
9797			Linus
9798	root	1.387	%
9799	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9800
9801			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9802			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9803			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9804	root	1.387	%
9805	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9806
9807			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9808			out what it means.
9809			--
9810			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9811	root	1.387	%
9812	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9813			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9814	root	1.387	%
9815	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9816			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9817
9818			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9819
9820			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9821			> is being discussed.
9822
9823			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9824	root	1.387	%
9825	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9826
9827			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9828
9829			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9830
9831			[and the button reads]
9832
9833			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9834	root	1.387	%
9835	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9836
9837			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9838
9839			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9840			certain amount of redundancy.
9841	root	1.387	%
9842	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9843			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9844
9845			...
9846
9847			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9848	root	1.387	%
9849	root	1.1	>Hello,
9850			>
9851			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9852			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9853			>
9854
9855			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9856			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9857			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9858			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9859	root	1.387	%
9860	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9861			on the country as a whole.
9862			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9863			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9864			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9865	root	1.387	%
9866	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9867			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9868	root	1.387	%
9869	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9870	root	1.387	%
9871	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
9872			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
9873			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
9874
9875			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
9876
9877			--tom
9878			--
9879			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
9880			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9881	root	1.387	%
9882	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
9883			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
9884	root	1.387	%
9885	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9886
9887			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
9888			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
9889			> NO CARRIER
9890			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
9891	root	1.387	%
9892	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
9893			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
9894			> better.
9895
9896			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
9897			my finger on it. Hmmm.
9898	root	1.387	%
9899	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
9900			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
9901	root	1.387	%
9902	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
9903			\|>
9904			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
9905			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
9906			\|>
9907			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
9908			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
9909
9910			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
9911			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
9912			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
9913			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
9914			build Bison, and then cook it.
9915
9916			Viva la buffalo burgers.
9917	root	1.387	%
9918	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
9919			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
9920			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
9921			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
9922			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
9923	root	1.387	%
9924	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
9925			-- lbxproxy(1)
9926	root	1.387	%
9927	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
9928
9929			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
9930
9931			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
9932			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
9933	root	1.387	%
9934	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
9935
9936			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
9937	root	1.387	%
9938	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
9939			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
9940			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
9941			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
9942			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
9943
9944			\|> What does this mean.
9945
9946			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
9947			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
9948	root	1.387	%
9949	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9950
9951			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
9952			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
9953
9954			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
9955	root	1.387	%
9956	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
9957			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
9958			streams)."
9959			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
9962			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
9963	root	1.387	%
9964	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
9965
9966			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
9967
9968			Klaro.
9969
9970			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
9971			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
9972			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
9973			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
9974
9975	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
9976	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
9977
9978			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
9979			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
9980			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
9981			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
9982			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
9983			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
9984			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
9985
9986			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
9987			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
9988			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
9989	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
9990			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
9991			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
9992			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
9993	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
9994
9995			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
9996	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
9997			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
9998			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
9999			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10000			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10001			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10002			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10003	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10004			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10005
10006			cu in hell 2002
10007	root	1.387	%
10008	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10009	root	1.387	%
10010	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10011
10012			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10013			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10014			the man page for crypt(1).
10015
10016			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10017			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10018			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10019
10020			man -s3 crypt
10021
10022			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10023			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10024
10025			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10026			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10027			he can figure out to use the command
10028
10029			man -s3 Intro.3
10030
10031			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10032			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10033
10034			man -s3c crypt
10035
10036			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10037			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10038			any trouble.
10039			--
10040			Michael M Rubenstein
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10043
10044			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10045
10046			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10047
10048			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10049
10050			Regards,
10051			Tim Bunce.
10052
10053			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10054			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10055			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10056	root	1.387	%
10057	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10058
10059			...
10060
10061			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10062			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10063			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10064
10065			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10066			its unusable, believe me I do.
10067	root	1.387	%
10068	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10069
10070			Semour Cray
10071	root	1.387	%
10072	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10073
10074			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10075	root	1.387	%
10076	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10077			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10078
10079			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10080			it only supports parts of it
10081	root	1.387	%
10082	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10083			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10086			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10087			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10088			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10089			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10090			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10091			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10092
10093			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10094			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10095			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10096			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10097			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10098			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10099			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10100			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10101			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10102			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10103
10104			tq vm, (burley)
10105	root	1.387	%
10106	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10107			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10108			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10109			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10110			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10111			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10112			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10113	root	1.387	%
10114	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10115			/*
10116			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10117			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10118			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10119			* files won't compile.
10120			*/
10121	root	1.387	%
10122	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10123			> great.
10124
10125			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10126
10127			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10128
10129			This rock is below water half of the time!
10130			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10131			on a regular basis! ;-)
10132	root	1.387	%
10133	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10134			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10135			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10136	root	1.387	%
10137	root	1.1	>
10138			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10139			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10140			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10141
10142			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10143	root	1.387	%
10144	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10145
10146			>Hello!
10147
10148			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10149			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10150			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10151
10152
10153			Perl.
10154
10155			regards
10156			jobst
10157	root	1.387	%
10158	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10159			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10160			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10161
10162			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10163			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10164
10165			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10166			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10167			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10168			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10169			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10170			the absolute pits.
10171	root	1.387	%
10172	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10173	root	1.387	%
10174	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10175			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10176
10177			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10178	root	1.387	%
10179	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10180			ketchup and mustard
10181	root	1.387	%
10182	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10183
10184			vimal gajjar wrote:
10185			>
10186			> Hi there,
10187			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10188			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10189			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10190			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10191			> 5% of cpu
10192			> 2 Mb of RAM
10193			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10194			>
10195			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10196
10197			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10198			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10199			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10202			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10203			>
10204			> >s/usually/never/
10205			>
10206			> s/sometimes/never/
10207
10208			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10209	root	1.387	%
10210	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10211			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10212			:Perl, IMO.
10213
10214			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10215
10216			TC
10217	root	1.387	%
10218	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10219	root	1.387	%
10220	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10221
10222			Hi guys!
10223
10224			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10225	root	1.387	%
10226	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10227
10228			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10229			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10230			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10231			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10232			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10233			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10234	root	1.387	%
10235	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10236			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10237			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10238
10239			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10240			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10241			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10242			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10243
10244			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10245			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10246			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10247			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10248
10249			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10250
10251			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10252
10253			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10254			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10255			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10256
10257			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10258			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10259
10260			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10261			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10262
10263			Did I miss any? ;-)
10264
10265			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10266			Laugh. Please.
10267
10268			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10269			--Scott
10270	root	1.387	%
10271	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10272
10273			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10274			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10275			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10276			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10277	root	1.387	%
10278	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10279			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10280
10281			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10282
10283			This is not mail.
10284
10285			This is Usenet.
10286
10287			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10288	root	1.387	%
10289	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10290			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10291			--- ide1: reset: success
10292			-----------> I like Linux !
10293	root	1.387	%
10294	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10295			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10296
10297			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10298			do.
10299	root	1.387	%
10300	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10301			++ PLONK.
10302	root	1.387	%
10303	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10304			Re: Subraumfunk
10305
10306			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10307			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10308
10309			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10310			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10311			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10312			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10313			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10314	root	1.387	%
10315	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10316			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10317			>
10318			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10319
10320			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10321	root	1.387	%
10322	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10323			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10324	root	1.387	%
10325	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10326			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10327
10328			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10329			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10330
10331			Bill Jones
10332	root	1.387	%
10333	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10334
10335			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10336			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10337			#include <windows.h>
10338			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10339			#endif
10340	root	1.387	%
10341	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10342
10343			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10344			is, invoking the URL
10345
10346			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10347
10348			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10349	root	1.387	%
10350	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10351			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10352			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10353			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10354			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10355			"I am using CGI!"
10356
10357			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10358	root	1.387	%
10359	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10360			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10361			>
10362	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10363	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10364
10365			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10366	root	1.387	%
10367	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10368			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10369	root	1.387	%
10370	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10371			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10372			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10373			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10374	root	1.387	%
10375	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10376
10377			pcg@goof.com said:
10378			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10379
10380			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10381
10382			"It's broken."
10383			"What's wrong with it?."
10384			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10385			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10386			"It just doesn't work."
10387			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10388			"It gives an error message."
10389			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10390			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10391			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10392			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10393			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10394			letter for letter this time."
10395	root	1.387	%
10396	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10397
10398			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10399			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10400			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10401
10402			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10403			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10404			perms.
10405
10406			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10407	root	1.387	%
10408	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10409			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10410
10411			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10412
10413			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10414			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10415			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10416
10417			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10418			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10419	root	1.387	%
10420	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10421			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10422	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10423
10424			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10425			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10426			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10427			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10428			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10429			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10430			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10431			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10432			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10433			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10434			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10435
10436			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10437
10438			normarz@aol.com
10439	root	1.387	%
10440	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10441	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10442	root	1.1	>Legion
10443			>schlagen?
10444
10445			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10446
10447			Bye
10448			Andreas
10449	root	1.387	%
10450	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10451
10452			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10453			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10454
10455			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10456			companies.
10457
10458			Kind regards
10459			Henning
10460	root	1.387	%
10461	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10462			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10463			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10464
10465			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10466			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10467			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10468
10469			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10470			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10471			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10472			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10473			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10474			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10475			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10476			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10477			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10478			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10479	root	1.387	%
10480	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10481			We might support that sometime next year.
10482			-=- Microsoft
10483			(But I doubt it.)
10484			-=- Me
10485			-=- James Mastros
10486	root	1.387	%
10487	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10488			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10489			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10490			>lines.
10491
10492			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10493			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10494	root	1.387	%
10495	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10496	root	1.387	%
10497	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10498			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10499			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10500			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10501	root	1.387	%
10502	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10503
10504			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10505			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10506			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10507			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10508			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10509			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10510			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10511			it's not all his fault.
10512
10513			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10514			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10515			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10516			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10517			content.
10518
10519			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10520			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10521			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10522			learn (or pay for it;)
10523
10524			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10525			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10526			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10527			just for fun or to get the op.
10528
10529			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10530			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10531			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10532			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10533
10534			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10535
10536			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10537			course, Linux and Linux people.
10538	root	1.387	%
10539	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10540			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10541
10542			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10543			--
10544			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10545	root	1.387	%
10546	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10547
10548			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10549			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10550			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10551
10552			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10553			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10554			tradition.
10555	root	1.387	%
10556	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10557			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10558	root	1.387	%
10559	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10560			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10561	root	1.387	%
10562	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10563			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10564			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10565			Or GIRLS for short.
10566	root	1.387	%
10567	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10568	root	1.387	%
10569	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10570			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10571			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10572			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10573			5_004_03 to build!"
10574
10575			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10576			have no patience."
10577
10578			xoxo,
10579			Andy
10580	root	1.387	%
10581	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10582			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10583			We all have our cross to bear.
10584	root	1.387	%
10585	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10586
10587			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10588			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10589			Subject: Re: system() question
10590
10591			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10592			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10593			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10594			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10595			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10596			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10597			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10598			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10599			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10600			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10601			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10602			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10603			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10604			humiliating for me!)
10605
10606			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10607			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10608			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10609			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10610			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10611			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10612			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10613			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10614			really knows the answer.
10615
10616			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10617			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10618			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10619			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10620
10621			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10622			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10623			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10624			for that.
10625
10626			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10627			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10628			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10629			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10630			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10631			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10632			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10633
10634			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10635
10636			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10637			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10638			something for free.''
10639
10640			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10641
10642			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10643			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10644
10645			(Good question.)
10646
10647			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10648			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10649			once I have run it.''
10650			(Good question.)
10651
10652			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10653
10654			(Good question.)
10655
10656			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10657			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10658			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10659			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10660			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10661
10662			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10663			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10664			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10665			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10666			comp.lang.perl?
10667			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10668			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10669			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10670			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10671			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10672			in comp.lang.perl?
10673
10674			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10675			you my rate card.
10676
10677			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10678			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10679			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10680			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10681			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10682			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10683			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10684			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10685			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10686			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10687
10688			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10689			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10690			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10691			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10692			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10693			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10694			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10695			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10696			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10697			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10698			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10699			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10700			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10701			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10702			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10703			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10704
10705			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10706			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10707			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10708			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10709			someone will. Maybe I will.
10710
10711			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10712			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10713			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10714			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10715			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10716			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10717			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10718			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10719
10720			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10721			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10722			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10723			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10724			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10725			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10726			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10727			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10728			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10729			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10730			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10731			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10732			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10733			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10734
10735			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10736			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10737			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10738			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10739
10740			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10741
10742			`I want to accomplish X.
10743
10744			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10745
10746			...
10747
10748			But instead it does Y.
10749
10750			Why is that?''
10751
10752			This one is also pretty good:
10753
10754			`I want to accomplish X.
10755			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10756
10757			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10758			because of Z.
10759
10760			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10761
10762			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10763			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10764
10765
10766			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10767			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10768
10769			--
10770			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10771			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10772	root	1.387	%
10773	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10774			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10775
10776			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10777			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10778			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10779
10780			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10781
10782			bye, Georg
10783	root	1.387	%
10784	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10785			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10786			convince me.
10787
10788			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10789
10790			Linus
10791	root	1.387	%
10792	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10793			++
10794
10795			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10796			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10797
10798	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10799	root	1.1
10800			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10801			understanding the above line.
10802
10803			Abigail
10804	root	1.387	%
10805	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10806			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10807	root	1.387	%
10808	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10809			++ button?
10810			Yes.
10811
10812			++ 100 pictures or so?
10813			Yes.
10814
10815			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10816			Yes.
10817
10818			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10819			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10820
10821			Abigail
10822	root	1.387	%
10823	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10824
10825			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10826
10827			Martien
10828	root	1.387	%
10829	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10830			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10831			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10832			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10833	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10834	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10835			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10836			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10837			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10838	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10839	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10840			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10841	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10842			nicht. ;)
10843
10844	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10845			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10846			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10847	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10848			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10849	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10850	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10851
10852	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10853			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10854	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10855	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10856	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10857
10858	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10859	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10860	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10861			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10862	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10863	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10864	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10865			"unvorstellbar".
10866
10867			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10868	root	1.387	%
10869	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
10870			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
10871			^^^
10872			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
10873	root	1.387	%
10874	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
10875			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
10876	root	1.387	%
10877	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
10878			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
10879	root	1.387	%
10880	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
10881			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
10882			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
10883
10884			An artificial pile of rocks.
10885	root	1.387	%
10886	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
10887			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
10888			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
10889			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
10890			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
10891			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
10892
10893			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
10894			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
10895			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
10896			grosser Flipperautomat.
10897
10898			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
10899	root	1.387	%
10900	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
10901			>
10902			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
10903			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
10904			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
10905			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
10906			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
10907	root	1.387	%
10908	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
10909			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
10910	root	1.1
10911			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
10912	root	1.387	%
10913	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
10914
10915			The Unix shell as a 4GL
10916
10917			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
10918			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
10919			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
10920			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
10921			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
10922			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
10923			Unix environment.
10924	root	1.387	%
10925	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
10926			between these:
10927
10928			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
10929			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
10930
10931			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
10932			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
10933			;#", and the print gets executed!
10934
10935			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
10936			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
10937			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
10938			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
10939
10940			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
10941			'perl'".
10942
10943			--
10944			Randal L. Schwartz
10945	root	1.387	%
10946	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
10947
10948			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
10949			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
10950			>
10951			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
10952
10953			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
10954
10955			--
10956			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
10957	root	1.387	%
10958	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
10959	root	1.387	%
10960	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
10961			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
10962	root	1.387	%
10963	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
10964			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
10965	root	1.387	%
10966	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
10967			can have the return value of a function be itself a
10968			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
10969			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
10970			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
10971			example.
10972	root	1.387	%
10973	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
10974			resemble a nail.
10975	root	1.387	%
10976	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
10977			> I did wrong.
10978
10979			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
10980			newsgroup.
10981	root	1.387	%
10982	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
10983	root	1.387	%
10984	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
10985			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
10986	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
10987
10988			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
10989	root	1.387	%
10990	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
10991	root	1.1
10992	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
10993	root	1.387	%
10994	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
10995			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
10996			expired instantly!!!
10997	root	1.387	%
10998	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
10999			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11000
11001			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11002			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11003			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11004
11005			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11006			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11007			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11008			than double Linus's programming experience?
11009
11010			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11011			> pretty straight forward.
11012
11013			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11014			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11015	root	1.387	%
11016	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11017			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11018			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11019			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11020			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11021			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11022	root	1.387	%
11023	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11024	root	1.387	%
11025	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11026			Example:
11027			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11028	root	1.387	%
11029	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11030			Randal gets his hands on it
11031	root	1.387	%
11032	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11033	root	1.387	%
11034	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11035
11036			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11037			first if you get it working.
11038	root	1.387	%
11039	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11040			> Think different.
11041
11042			Think Again.
11043	root	1.387	%
11044	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11045	root	1.387	%
11046	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11047			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11048			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11049
11050			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11051	root	1.387	%
11052	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11053			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11054	root	1.387	%
11055	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11056			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11057			\| top.
11058	root	1.387	%
11059	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11060			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11061	root	1.387	%
11062	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11063			^^^^^^^^^
11064			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11065
11066			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11067	root	1.387	%
11068	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11069			>gehen soll?
11070
11071	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11072	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11073			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11074	root	1.387	%
11075	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11076	root	1.387	%
11077	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11078			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11079	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11080			>
11081			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11082
11083			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11084			Schuh aus!
11085	root	1.387	%
11086	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11087
11088	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11089	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11090	root	1.387	%
11091	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11092
11093
11094			First opportunity
11095			Approximate
11096			Orbit Internet
11097			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11098
11099			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11100			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11101			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11102			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11103
11104			Second opportunity
11105			Approximate
11106			Orbit Internet
11107			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11108
11109			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11110			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11111			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11112			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11113
11114			Third opportunity
11115			Approximate
11116			Orbit Internet
11117			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11118
11119			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11120			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11121			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11122			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11123
11124	root	1.387	%
11125	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11126	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11127			> >würden.
11128	root	1.1	>
11129			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11130			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11131			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11132			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11133			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11134			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11135			implizierst.
11136	root	1.387	%
11137	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11138			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11139	root	1.387	%
11140	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11141			Big improvement.
11142	root	1.387	%
11143	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11144			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11145			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11146			-- "Why that one?"
11147			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11148			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11149	root	1.387	%
11150	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11151			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11152			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11153	root	1.387	%
11154	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11155			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11156			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11157
11158			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11159
11160			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11161			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11162			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11163
11164			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11165
11166			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11167			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11168			> er eigentlich ist?
11169
11170	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11171	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11172	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11173	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11174	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11175	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11176	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11177	root	1.1	Ciao
11178			Stefan
11179	root	1.387	%
11180	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11181			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11182			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11183			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11184	root	1.387	%
11185	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11186			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11187			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11188			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11189			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11190			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11191			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11192			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11193			off.
11194	root	1.387	%
11195	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11196			Meet interesting people,
11197			Kill them.
11198	root	1.387	%
11199	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11200			> umwandelbar ist.
11201
11202			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11203	root	1.387	%
11204	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11205	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11206	root	1.387	%
11207	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11208			>
11209			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11210			> >> ruckartig.
11211			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11212			>
11213	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11214	root	1.1
11215			:-)
11216	root	1.387	%
11217	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11218	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11219			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11220	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11221			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11222			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11223			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11224
11225			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11226			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11227	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11228			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11229	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11230	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11231			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11232			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11233	root	1.1	Union.
11234
11235	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11236			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11237	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11238	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11239			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11240			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11241	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11242	root	1.387	%
11243	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11244			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11245	root	1.387	%
11246	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11247	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11248	root	1.1	>>
11249			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11250	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11251			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11252	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11253			>
11254			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11255			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11256	root	1.387	%
11257	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11258	root	1.387	%
11259	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11260			> into a random order???
11261			>
11262
11263			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11264			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11265
11266			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11267			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11268			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11269			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11270			number less than 42.
11271	root	1.387	%
11272	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11273			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11274			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11275			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11276			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11277			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11278			eventually invent Unix.
11279	root	1.387	%
11280	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11281			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11282			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11283			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11284			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11285			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11286			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11287			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11288			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11289			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11290			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11291			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11292			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11293			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11294			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11295			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11296	root	1.387	%
11297	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11298			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11299			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11300	root	1.387	%
11301	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11302			using a Perl CGI script?
11303	root	1.387	%
11304	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11305
11306			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11307			week.
11308	root	1.387	%
11309	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11310			Brieweb> of PERL.
11311			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11312			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11313			[Randal Schwartz]
11314	root	1.387	%
11315	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11316			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11317			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11318			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11319	root	1.387	%
11320	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11321			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11322			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11323			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11324			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11325			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11326			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11327			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11328			system and restricting their options.
11329			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11332			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11333			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11334	root	1.387	%
11335	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11336			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11337			Ernie Hai
11338			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11339	root	1.387	%
11340	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11341			: results" report from the users.
11342
11343			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11344			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11345			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11346			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11347	root	1.387	%
11348	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11349			They are all owned by cats.
11350	root	1.387	%
11351	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11352			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11353			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11354	root	1.387	%
11355	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11356			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11357
11358			Yesterday it worked
11359			Today it is not working
11360			Windows is like that
11361			- - -
11362			wind catches lily
11363			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11364			segmentation fault
11365			- - -
11366			Three things are certain:
11367			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11368			Guess which has occurred.
11369			- - -
11370			A file that big?
11371			It might be very useful.
11372			But now it is gone.
11373			- - -
11374			Windows NT crashed.
11375			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11376			No one hears your screams.
11377			- - -
11378			Errors have occurred.
11379			We won't tell you where or why.
11380			Lazy programmers.
11381			- - -
11382			Seeing my great fault
11383			Through darkening blue windows
11384			I begin again
11385			- - -
11386			The code was willing,
11387			It considered your request,
11388			But the chips were weak.
11389			- - -
11390			Printer not ready.
11391			Could be a fatal error.
11392			Have a pen handy?
11393			- - -
11394			Server's poor response
11395			Not quick enough for browser.
11396			Timed out, plum blossom.
11397			- - -
11398			Chaos reigns within.
11399			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11400			Order shall return.
11401			- - -
11402			Login incorrect.
11403			Only perfect spellers may
11404			enter this system.
11405			- - -
11406			This site has been moved.
11407			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11408			have to delete you.
11409			- - -
11410			ABORTED effort:
11411			Close all that you have.
11412			You ask way too much.
11413			- - -
11414			First snow, then silence.
11415			This thousand dollar screen dies
11416			so beautifully.
11417			- - -
11418			With searching comes loss
11419			and the presence of absence:
11420			"My Novel" not found.
11421			- - -
11422			The Tao that is seen
11423			Is not the true Tao, until
11424			You bring fresh toner.
11425			- - -
11426			The Web site you seek
11427			cannot be located but
11428			endless others exist
11429			- - -
11430			Stay the patient course
11431			Of little worth is your ire
11432			The network is down
11433			- - -
11434			A crash reduces
11435			your expensive computer
11436			to a simple stone.
11437			- - -
11438			There is a chasm
11439			of carbon and silicon
11440			the software can't bridge
11441			- - -
11442			To have no errors
11443			Would be life without meaning
11444			No struggle, no joy
11445			- - -
11446			You step in the stream,
11447			but the water has moved on.
11448			This page is not here.
11449			- - -
11450			No keyboard present
11451			Hit F1 to continue
11452			Zen engineering?
11453			- - -
11454			Hal, open the file
11455			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11456			open it, please Hal
11457			- - -
11458			Out of memory.
11459			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11460			But we never will.
11461			- - -
11462			Having been erased,
11463			The document you're seeking
11464			Must now be retyped.
11465			- - -
11466			The ten thousand things
11467			How long do any persist?
11468			Netscape, too, has gone.
11469			- - -
11470			Rather than a beep
11471			Or a rude error message,
11472			These words: "File not found."
11473			- - -
11474			Serious error.
11475			All shortcuts have disappeared
11476			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11477	root	1.387	%
11478	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11479			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11480	root	1.387	%
11481	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11482			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11483
11484			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11485			early 1980s.
11486	root	1.387	%
11487	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11488			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11489			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11490			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11491
11492			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11493			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11494			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11495			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11496			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11497			many new features that it just stops working.
11498
11499			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11500
11501			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11502			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11503
11504			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11505			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11506			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11507
11508			Hope this explains what's going on
11509			Martien Verbruggen
11510	root	1.387	%
11511	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11512	root	1.387	%
11513	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11514	root	1.387	%
11515	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11516	root	1.387	%
11517	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11518			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11519			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11520	root	1.387	%
11521	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11522			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11523			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11524			>
11525			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11526
11527			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11528			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11529	root	1.387	%
11530	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11531			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11532			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11533			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11534	root	1.387	%
11535	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11536			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11537			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11538			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11539			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11540			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11541			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11542			convienience store.")
11543	root	1.387	%
11544	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11545			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11546	root	1.387	%
11547	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11548	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11549	root	1.1
11550			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11551			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11552	root	1.387	%
11553	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11554			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11555			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11556			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11557	root	1.387	%
11558	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11559			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11560			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11561	root	1.387	%
11562	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11563			(A => B) => (B => A)
11564			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11565			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11566	root	1.387	%
11567	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11568	root	1.387	%
11569	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11570			-Barry Shein
11571	root	1.387	%
11572	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11573			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11574			read the manual.
11575	root	1.387	%
11576	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11577	root	1.387	%
11578	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11579			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11580			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11581			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11582			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11583			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11584			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11585			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11586			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11587	root	1.387	%
11588	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11589	root	1.387	%
11590	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11591			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11592			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11593	root	1.387	%
11594	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11595
11596			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11597			need.
11598	root	1.387	%
11599	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11600			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11601			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11602	root	1.387	%
11603	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11604			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11605			newsreaders. You know,
11606			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11607			back
11608			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11609			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11610			out what they're saying.
11611	root	1.387	%
11612	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11613			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11614	root	1.387	%
11615	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11616			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11617			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11618
11619			But the combination.... sutters
11620	root	1.387	%
11621	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11622			Darn it.
11623	root	1.387	%
11624	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11625	root	1.387	%
11626	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11627	root	1.387	%
11628	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11629			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11630			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11631			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11632			trying to use it.
11633	root	1.387	%
11634	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11635	root	1.387	%
11636	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11637			>
11638			> Is this group active?
11639			No.
11640
11641			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11642			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11643
11644			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11645			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11646	root	1.387	%
11647	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11648			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11649	root	1.387	%
11650	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11651			Press any key to continue..."
11652	root	1.387	%
11653	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11654			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11655			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11656	root	1.387	%
11657	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11658			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11659			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11660			adjust your travel plans.
11661	root	1.387	%
11662	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11663			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11664	root	1.387	%
11665	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11666			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11667
11668			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11669			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11670
11671			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11672
11673			tak 18 12 6
11674	root	1.387	%
11675	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11676			-- Bill Gates
11677			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11678			-- Bill Gates
11679			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11680			-- logical conclusion
11681	root	1.387	%
11682	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11683			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11684			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11685			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11686			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11687			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11688			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11689			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11690			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11691			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11692			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11693			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11694			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11695			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11696			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11697			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11698			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11699			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11700			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11701			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11702			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11703	root	1.387	%
11704	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11705			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11706			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11707			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11708	root	1.387	%
11709	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.