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1	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
2
3			[...]
4
5			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
6
7			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
8			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
9			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
10			%
11	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
12			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
13			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
14			"also now legal names for the UK.
15
16			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
17			%
18			From: Russ Allbery
19			To: tz@iana.org
20			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
21
22			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
23			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
24			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
25			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
26			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
27			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
28			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
29
30			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
31			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
32
33			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
34			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
35			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
36			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
37			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
38
39			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
40			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
41			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
42			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
43			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
44			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
45			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
46			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
47			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
48
49			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
50			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
51			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
52			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
53			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
54			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
55			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
56			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
57			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
58			maintainer.
59			%
60	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
61
62			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
63			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
64			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
65			"BST", but no:
66			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
67			%
68			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
69			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
70
71			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
72			> When can we expect the updated version
73
74			About three weeks ago.
75			%
76	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
77			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
78			%
79			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
80
81			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
82			%
83	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
84			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
85			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
86
87			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
88			%
89			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
90
91			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
92
93			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
94			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
95
96			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
97			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
98			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
99
100			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
101			full day per year.
102			%
103	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
104			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
105			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
106			%
107			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
108			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
109			%
110			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
111			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
112			me - lately?".
113			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
114			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
115
116			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
117			%
118			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
119			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
120			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
121			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
122
123			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
124			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
125			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
126			your lives be a living hell.
127
128			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
129			%
130	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
131			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
132			%
133			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
134			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
135			out with a problem I'm having?
136
137			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
138
139			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
140
141			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
142			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
143			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
144			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
145
146			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
147
148			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
149
150			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
151
152			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
153			[http://c2.com/]
154			%
155			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
156			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
157			right-parenthesis.
158			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
159			%
160			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
161			yourself?
162			Software development is the career for you!
163
164			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
165			%
166	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
167			-- Richard Dawkins
168			%
169			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
170			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
171			and security.
172
173			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
174			%
175			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
176
177			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
178			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
179			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
180			%
181			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
182			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
183			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
184			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
185			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
186			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
187
188			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
189			%
190			tiny hsv2rgb
191			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;}
192
193			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
194			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
195			}
196			%
197			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
198			Only Java makes it possible!
199
200			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
201			%
202			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
203			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
204			extremely poettering''
205			%
206			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
207			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
208			%
209			"I drank what?!"
210			-- Socrates
211			%
212			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
213			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
214			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
215
216			Jon Callas in
217			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
218			%
219			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
220			-- Conway's Law
221			%
222			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
223			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
224			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
225			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
226			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
227			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
228			untangling this mess right now so).
229
230			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
231			%
232			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
233			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
234			enabled on platforms that support it.
235			[xorg.conf(5)]
236			%
237			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
238			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
239			> would work on code.
240
241			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
242			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
243			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
244			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
245			%
246	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
247			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
248			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
249			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
250			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
251			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
252			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
253			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
254			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
255			%
256			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
257			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
258			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
259			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
260			very beginning.
261			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
262			%
263			systemd creates user session information in
264			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
265			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
266			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
267			allowed one session per user.
268			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
269			%
270	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
271			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
272			> about anything else.
273			>
274			> Why is it like that?
275
276			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
277
278			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
279			%
280			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
281
282			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
283			>>
284			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
285			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
286			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
287			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
288			>
289			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
290
291			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
292			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
293			%
294			(partial) Beaufort Table
295			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
296			Calm 0 0 0
297			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
298			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
299			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
300			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
301			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
302			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
303			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
304			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
305			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
306			%
307			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
308			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
309			%
310			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
311			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
312			%
313			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
314			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
315			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
316			on the cards.
317			%
318			[random comment from amule sources]
319			// trust noone ;-)
320			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
321			// wtf you guys are weird.
322			%
323	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
324			- Kin Hubbard
325			%
326			[random .sig]
327			I'm a muslim.
328
329			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
330			%
331			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
332			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
333			before.
334
335			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
336			%
337			<imho>
338
339			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
340			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
341			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
342			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
343
344			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
345			Java - public static void not fun.
346			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
347			C - usually not fun.
348
349			What about modern scripting languages?
350
351			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
352			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
353			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
354
355			</imho>
356
357			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
358			%
359			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
360			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
361			%
362
363			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
364			*
365			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
366
367			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
368			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
369			%
370			# The user is always right.
371			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
372			[autoconf]
373			%
374			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
375
376			/*
377			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
378			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
379			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
380			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
381			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
382			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
383			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
384			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
385			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
386			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
387			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
388			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
389			*/
390			%
391			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
392			was new to me:
393
394			switch(c)
395			{
396			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
397			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
398			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
399			case 'd': base=-10; }
400			switch(type)
401			{
402			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
403			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
404			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
405			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
406			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
407			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
408			default:val=0; break;
409			}
410			cp = __numout(val,base);
411			if(0) {
412			case 's':
413			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
414			}
415			%
416			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
417			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
418			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
419			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
420			extra second and see how far you get :-)
421			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
422			%
423			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
424			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
425			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
426			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
427			>
428			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
429			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
430
431			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
432			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
433
434			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
435			%
436			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
437			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
438			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
439
440			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
441
442			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
443			%
444			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
445			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
446			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
447			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
448			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
449			settings)
450
451			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
452			%
453			How do I deal with memory leaks?
454
455			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
456
457			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
458			%
459			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
460			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
461
462			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
463			%
464			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
465			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
466			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
467			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
468
469			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
470			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
471			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
472			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
473			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
474			rewarded for their creativity.
475
476			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
477			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
478			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
479			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
480			would never have made it in the first place.
481
482			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
483			%
484			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
485			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
486			%
487			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
488			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
489			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
490			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
491			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
492
493			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
494			%
495			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
496			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
497			- Mohandas Gandhi
498			%
499			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
500			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
501			handiwork of the Lord."
502			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
503			%
504			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
505
506			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
507			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
508			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
509
510			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
511			Scientist A publishes results.
512
513			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
514			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
515			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
516
517			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
518			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
519			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
520			A: ...
521			B: You fraud!
522
523			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
524
525			A publishes results.
526
527			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
528			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
529			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
530			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
531			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
532			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
533
534			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
535			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
536			%
537			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
538			them because they need the money to operate]
539
540			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
541			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
542			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
543			site or its bottom line."
544			%
545			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
546			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
547			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
548			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
549			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
550			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
551			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
552			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
553			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
554			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
555			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
556			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
557			%
558			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
559
560			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
561
562			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
563			%
564			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
565
566			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
567			>>>> and the beating of children?
568			>>>
569			>>> Subjugation of women...
570			>>
571			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
572			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
573			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
574			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
575			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
576			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
577			>> shake partner.
578			>
579			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
580			>
581			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
582			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
583			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
584			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
585			>
586
587			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
588			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
589			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
590			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
591			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
592			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
593			and your wife.
594			%
595			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
596			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
597			still kill you. - arestheblue
598			%
599			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
600			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
601			specifications for GSS-API.
602
603			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
604			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
605
606			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
607			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
608
609			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
610			%
611			[from the minix 3 users guide]
612
613			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
614			%
615			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
616
617			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
618			[...]
619			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
620			complaintant to guess this is true.
621			%
622			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
623			- Ken Thompson.
624			%
625			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
626
627			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
628
629			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
630			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
631			source code excerpt:
632
633			int sn()
634			{
635			char pwr;
636
637			int input1 = 0;
638			double output1 = 0;
639
640			system("clear");
641			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
642			cin>>input1;
643			output1 = (sin(input1));
644			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
645			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
646			cin>>pwr;
647			if(pwr == 'a')
648			sq();
649			if(pwr == 'm')
650			system("pause");
651
652			}
653			%
654			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
655			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
656
657			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
658
659			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
660			%
661			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
662			app for me" department:
663
664			From: Evan LeCompte
665
666			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
667			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
668			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
669			%
670			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
671			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
672			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
673
674			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
675			%
676			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
677			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
678			– Steve Jobs[47]
679
680			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
681			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
682			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
683			%
684			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
685			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
686			%
687			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
688			From: Patrick Horgan
689			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
690			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
691
692			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
693			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
694			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
695			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
696			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
697			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
698
699			[...]
700			%
701	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
702			— Peter Abelard
703			%
704			A man said to the universe:
705			"Sir I exist!"
706			"However," replied the universe,
707			"The fact has not created in me
708	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
709			- Steven Crane
710	root	1.431	%
711			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
712
713			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
714
715			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
716
717			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
718
719			– Sanskrit Saying
720			%
721			[anonymised discussion]
722			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
723			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
724			%
725			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
726
727	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
728	root	1.431
729			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
730			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
731			appear.
732			%
733			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
734			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
735			- Douglas Adams
736			%
737			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
738			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
739			%
740			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
741			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
742			%
743			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
744			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
745			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
746			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
747			%
748			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
749			%
750			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
751			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
752			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
753			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
754			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
755			%
756			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
757			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
758			or her career.
759			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
760			%
761			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
762			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
763			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
764			%
765			I LOVE YOU
766			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
767			%
768			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
769			the air impeller.
770
771			Alan Cox
772			%
773			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
774			with a minimum computer science background."
775			%
776			From: Eric Sosman
777			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
778			Subject: Re: about graphics
779
780			prince wrote:
781			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
782
783			#include <stdio.h>
784			int main(void) {
785			puts("graphics\rcommand");
786			return 0;
787			}
788			%
789			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
790			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
791			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
792			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
793			%
794			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
795
796			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
797			it still is a constant-time attack.
798			%
799			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
800			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
801			%
802			From: David Damerell
803
804			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
805			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
806			>caps to make it different.
807
808			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
809			painful but will take less typing.
810			%
811			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
812			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
813			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
814
815			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
816			%
817			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
818
819			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
820			> free than the BSD.
821			>
822			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
823
824			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
825			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
826			%
827			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
828
829			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
830			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
831			from incompatible pointer type
832			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
833			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
834			makes pointer from integer without a cast
835			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
836			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
837			%
838			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
839			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
840			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
841			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
842			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
843			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
844
845			[Chandon Seldon]
846			%
847			[Wikipedia]
848			Differences between vi and Emacs
849
850			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
851			%
852			[lost the reference]
853			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
854			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
855			%
856			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
857			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
858			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
859			%
860			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
861
862			Subject: Re: fcrack help
863			From: puezalb024@aol.com
864			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
865			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
866			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
867
868			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
869			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
870			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
871			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
872			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
873			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
874			piss on your leg.
875
876			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
877			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
878			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
879
880			[then, a day later]
881
882			Subject: Re: fcrack help
883			From: puezalb024@aol.com
884			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
885			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
886			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
887
888			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
889			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
890			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
891			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
892			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
893			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
894			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
895			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
896			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
897
898
899			-----Original Message-----
900			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
901			To: puezalb024@aol.com
902			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
903			Subject: Re: fcrack help
904
905
906
907			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
908	root	1.432	>
909	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
910
911			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
912
913			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
914			I hope you don't object :)
915			%
916			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
917			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
918
919			You made my day
920			%
921			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
922
923			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
924			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
925			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
926
927			Linus
928			%
929			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
930
931			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
932
933			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 ...
934
935			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
936
937			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
938			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
939			when sending emails to other people:
940			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
941
942			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
943
944			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
945			%
946			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
947			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
948			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
949			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
950			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
951			%
952			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
953			be used if run as administrator in windows.
954
955			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
956			%
957			[on italy]
958
959			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
960
961			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
962			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
963			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
964			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
965
966			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
967			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
968			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
969			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
970			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
971			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
972
973			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
974
975			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
976			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
977			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
978			from fascism period.
979
980			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
981			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
982			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
983			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
984			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
985			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
986			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
987			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
988			SIAE.
989
990			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
991			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
992			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
993			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
994			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
995			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
996			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
997			electronic ones
998
999			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1000
1001			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1002			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1003			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1004			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1005			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1006			western country.
1007
1008			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1009			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1010			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1011			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1012			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1013			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1014			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1015			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1016			also the governments of "center-left".
1017
1018			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1019
1020			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1021			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1022			without any restriction.
1023
1024			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1025			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1026			world.
1027
1028			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1029			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1030			Thank you for reading.
1031			%
1032			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1033			>
1034			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1035
1036			How very ironic.
1037			%
1038			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1039			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1040			takes religion."
1041
1042			--Steve Weinberg
1043			%
1044			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1045			%
1046			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1047			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1048			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1049
1050			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1051			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1052			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1053			%
1054			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1055			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1056			the right tool for me.
1057			%
1058			[deliantra]
1059			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1060			%
1061			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1062			%
1063			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1064			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1065			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1066			%
1067			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1068
1069			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1070			%
1071			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1072			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1073
1074			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1075			actually tells you it's American.
1076			%
1077			[better do not hire this programmer]
1078			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1079			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1080			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1081
1082			Hi
1083
1084			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1085			someone here can advise me.
1086
1087			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1088			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1089			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1090			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1091			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1092
1093			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1094			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1095			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1096			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1097			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1098			corresponding thing in C?
1099
1100			Thanks!
1101			%
1102			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1103
1104			// See bug 53763.
1105			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1106			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1107			if (shell) {
1108			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1109			%
1110			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1111			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1112
1113			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1114			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1115			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1116			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1117			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1118			%
1119			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1120			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1121			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1122			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1123			“display quality too high”).
1124
1125			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1126			%
1127			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1128
1129	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1130	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1131
1132			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1133
1134			x / y * z
1135
1136			and
1137
1138			x / y * z
1139
1140			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1141
1142			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1143			design decisions.)
1144			%
1145			endergt:
1146			> snoofle:
1147			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1148			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1149			> > you understand what you are doing...
1150			>
1151	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1152	root	1.431
1153	root	1.432	debug
1154	root	1.431	%
1155			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%.
1156
1157			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1158			%
1159			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1160			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1161			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1162
1163			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1164			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1165			6 Decompilation
1166
1167			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1168			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1169			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1170			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1171			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1172			conditions are met: [...]"
1173			%
1174			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1175			%
1176			Why Linux Sux ?
1177
1178			Easy .
1179			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1180			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1181			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 .
1182			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1183			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1184			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1185			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! ) .
1186			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 .
1187			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1188
1189			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1190			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1191			working ones . Screw linux users .
1192			%
1193			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1194			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1195			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1196			%
1197			> The Dell 30"...
1198
1199			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1200			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1201			%
1202	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1203	root	1.431
1204			> > 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".
1205	root	1.432	>
1206	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!
1207	root	1.432	>
1208	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1209	root	1.432
1210	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1211
1212			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1213			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.
1214			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1215	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.
1216	root	1.431	%
1217			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1218			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1219			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1220			%
1221			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1222
1223			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1224			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1225			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1226
1227			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1228			anderen betriebssystemen.
1229
1230			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1231			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1232
1233			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1234			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1235			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1236			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1237			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1238
1239			Frage?
1240			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1241			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1242			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1243
1244			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1245			%
1246			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1247			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1248			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1249			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1250			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1251			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1252			%
1253			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1254			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1255			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1256			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1257			%
1258			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1259			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1260
1261			God bless the re-inventers
1262
1263			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1264			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1265
1266	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1267	root	1.431
1268			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1269			one.
1270			%
1271			[rfc2665]
1272			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1273			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1274			useful in theory than in practice.
1275			%
1276			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1277	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1278	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1279			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1280			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1281			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1282			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1283			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1284	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1285	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1286			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1287	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1288	root	1.431	15:30
1289			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1290			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1291			%
1292			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1293			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1294			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1295			%
1296			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1297
1298			Strictly for beginners
1299
1300			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1301			[...]
1302			%
1303			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1304			%
1305			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1306			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1307			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1308			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1309			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1310			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1311			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1312			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1313			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1314			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1315			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1316			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1317			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1318			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1319			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1320			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1321			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1322			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1323			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1324			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1325			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1326			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1327			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1328			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1329			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1330			%
1331			[A Gentoo User]
1332			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1333			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1334			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1335			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1336			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1337			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1338			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1339			%
1340			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1341			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1342			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1343			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1344			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1345	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1346			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1347	root	1.431	can do
1348			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1349			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1350			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1351			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1352			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1353			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1354			%
1355			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1356	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1357			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1358			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1359	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1360			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1361	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1362			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1363	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1364			%
1365			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1366			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1367			%
1368			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1369
1370			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1371			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1372			be slow in Windows 2000"
1373
1374			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1375			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1376			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1377			%
1378			[so much for type-safety]
1379			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1380			lst.add(null);
1381			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1382			%
1383			[just for reference]
1384			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1385			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1386			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1387			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1388			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1389			es nicht.
1390
1391			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1392			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1393			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1394			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1395			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1396			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1397
1398			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1399			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1400			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1401			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1402			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1403			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1404			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1405			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1406			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1407			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1408			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1409			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1410			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1411			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1412
1413			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1414			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1415			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1416			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1417			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1418			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1419			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1420
1421			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1422			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1423			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1424			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1425			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1426			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1427			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1428			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1429			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1430			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1431			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1432			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1433			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1434			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1435			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1436			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1437			alternativ' Idioten!
1438
1439			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1440			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1441			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1442			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1443			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1444			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1445			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1446			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1447			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1448			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1449			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1450			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1451			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1452			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1453
1454			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1455			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1456			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1457
1458			Ich will R A C H E !
1459
1460			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1461			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1462			Dinge zu sagen:
1463
1464			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1465
1466			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1467			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1468			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1469			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1470			anfange.
1471
1472			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1473			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1474			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1475			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1476			dieser verdammten schule!
1477
1478			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1479			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1480
1481			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1482
1483			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1484			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1485			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1486			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1487			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1488			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1489			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1490			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1491			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1492			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1493
1494			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1495			Einschulung.
1496
1497			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1498			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1499			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1500			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1501			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1502			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1503			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1504			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1505			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1506			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1507
1508			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1509			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1510
1511			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1512			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1513			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1514			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1515			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1516			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1517			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1518			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1519
1520			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1521			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1522			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1523			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1524			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1525			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1526			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1527			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1528
1529			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1530			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1531
1532			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1533			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1534			Hand genommen.
1535
1536			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1537			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1538
1539			Ich bin weg...
1540			%
1541			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1542			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1543			%
1544	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1545			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1546			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1547			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1548	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1549			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1550			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1551			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1552			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1553			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1554			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1555			%
1556			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1557			%
1558			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1559			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1560
1561			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1562			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1563			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1564			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1565			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1566			%
1567			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1568			%
1569			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1570			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1571			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1572			%
1573			[very funny read]
1574			Hack-a-Bike
1575			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1576			%
1577			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1578			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1579			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1580			still can.
1581
1582			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1583			%
1584	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1585			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1586	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1587			%
1588			[without words]
1589			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1590			%
1591			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1592			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1593			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1594			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1595			actual kid in an actual bath.
1596			%
1597			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1598			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1599			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1600			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1601			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1602			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1603			what happened to you.
1604			%
1605	root	1.432	--
1606	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1607
1608			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1609			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1610			%
1611			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1612	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1613			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1614	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1615
1616			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1617			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1618			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1619			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1620			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1621
1622			- Ted
1623			%
1624			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1625			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1626			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1627			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1628			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1629			me, but we have the truth!"
1630			%
1631			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1632			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1633			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1634			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1635			%
1636			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1637			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1638			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1639			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1640			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1641			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1642			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1643			genociding every monster.
1644
1645			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1646			genocide them for good measure!
1647			%%
1648			[nethack instadeath faq]
1649
1650			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1651
1652			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1653			%
1654			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1655			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1656	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1657	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1658			17:58 <Murch> lol
1659			%
1660			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1661			%
1662			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1663			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1664			%
1665			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1666			%
1667			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1668
1669			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1670			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1671			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1672			%
1673			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1674
1675			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1676			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1677			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1678			the Eastern Time Zone.
1679			[...]
1680			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1681			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1682			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1683			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1684			%
1685			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1686
1687			_dl_profile_output
1688			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1689			%
1690			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1691			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1692			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1693			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1694			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1695			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1696			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1697
1698			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1699			%
1700			[famous last words]
1701			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1702			%
1703			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1704
1705			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1706
1707			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1708
1709			--
1710			Jay Hennigan
1711			%
1712			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1713			%
1714			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1715			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1716			of homeland security]
1717			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1718			%
1719			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1720	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1721	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1722			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1723			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1724			range of spyware available to us?"
1725
1726			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1727			%
1728			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1729			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1730			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1731			%
1732	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1733	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1734			%
1735			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1736			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1737			%
1738			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1739			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1740			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1741			shooter.
1742
1743			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1744			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1745			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1746			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1747			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1748			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1749
1750			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1751			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1752			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1753			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1754			way.
1755
1756			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1757			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1758			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1759
1760			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1761			%
1762			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1763			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1764			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1765			> above comment about Hitler).
1766
1767			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1768			mention Hitler loses.
1769			%
1770			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1771			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1772			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1773			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1774			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1775			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1776			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1777			including <windows.h>.
1778			[...]
1779			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1780			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1781			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1782			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1783			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1784			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1785			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1786			environments.
1787			%
1788			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1789			%
1790			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1791			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1792			%
1793			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1794			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1795			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1796			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1797			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1798			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1799			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1800			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1801			companies want to own your computer.
1802
1803			Some examples:
1804
1805			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1806			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1807			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1808			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1809			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1810			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1811			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1812			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1813			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1814	root	1.432
1815	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1816			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1817			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1818			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1819			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1820
1821			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1822			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1823			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1824			from Microsoft? You can't.
1825
1826			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1827			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1828			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1829			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1830			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1831			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1832			adversely affect its business partners.
1833
1834			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1835			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1836			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1837			about your behavior.
1838
1839			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1840			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1841			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1842			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1843			presumed infractions.
1844
1845			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1846			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1847			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1848
1849			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1850			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1851			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1852			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1853			user's device against him.
1854			[...]
1855			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1856			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1857			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1858			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1859			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1860			back-room marketing deals.
1861			%
1862			[John Carmack on Java]
1863			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1864			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1865			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1866			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1867			performance.
1868			%
1869			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1870
1871			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1872			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1873			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1874			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1875			%
1876			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1877			%
1878			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1879			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1880			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1881			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1882			%
1883			http://funroll-loops.org/
1884			%
1885			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1886			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1887			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1888			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1889			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1890			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1891			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1892			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1893			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1894			Fahrenheit documentation.
1895			%
1896			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1897			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1898			sure its much slower than CVS]
1899			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1900			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1901			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1902	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1903	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1904			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1905	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1906	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1907			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1908	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1909	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1910			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1911			%
1912	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1913
1914			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1915			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1916	root	1.431	%
1917	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1918
1919			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1920			> systems ?
1921
1922			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1923			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1924
1925			Jesper
1926			%
1927	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1928
1929			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1930			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1931
1932	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1933	root	1.429	%
1934	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1935			%
1936	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1937
1938			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1939			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1940			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1941			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1942			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1943			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1944			but that's the truth.
1945			%
1946	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1947
1948			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1949
1950	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1951			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1952			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1953			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1954	root	1.424
1955			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1956	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1957			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1958	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1959
1960			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1961			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1962	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1963	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1964			in Richtung Boden.
1965
1966			[...]
1967
1968	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1969	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1970	root	1.424
1971			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1972	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1973	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1974
1975			[...]
1976
1977			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1978	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1979	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1980	root	1.424
1981			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1982	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1983			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1984			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1985	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1986			sofort.
1987			%
1988	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1989			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1990			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1991			software from Microsoft.)
1992	root	1.424	%
1993	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1994	root	1.424	%
1995	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1996
1997			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1998			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1999			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2000			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2001	root	1.424	%
2002	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2003	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2004	root	1.424	%
2005	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2006			From: Rodrigo Severo
2007			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2008			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2009
2010			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2011
2012			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2013			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2014			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2015
2016			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2017			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2018			brazilian ;)
2019			Rodrigo Severo
2020	root	1.424	%
2021	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2022	root	1.417
2023			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2024	root	1.424	%
2025	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2026
2027			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2028
2029			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2030
2031			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2032			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2033
2034			sigh
2035	root	1.424	%
2036	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2037			By Bertrand Russell
2038
2039			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2040			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2041			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2042			might be set forth as follows:
2043
2044			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2045
2046			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2047			evidence is sure to come to light.
2048
2049			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2050
2051			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2052			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2053			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2054
2055			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2056			contrary authorities to be found.
2057
2058			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2059			do the opinions will suppress you.
2060
2061			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2062			was once eccentric.
2063
2064			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2065			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2066			agreement than the latter.
2067
2068			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2069			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2070
2071			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2072			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2073
2074			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2075			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2076	root	1.424	%
2077	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2078	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2079			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2080			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2081
2082			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2083			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2084			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2085			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2086			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2087			United States."
2088	root	1.413	---
2089			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2090			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2091			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2092	root	1.414	---
2093			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2094			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2095			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2096			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2097			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2098
2099			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2100			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2101	root	1.424	%
2102	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2103			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2104	root	1.424	%
2105	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2106
2107			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2108			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2109
2110			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2111			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2112
2113			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2114
2115			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2116			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2117	root	1.424	%
2118	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2119			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2120	root	1.424	%
2121	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2122			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2123			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2124			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2125			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2126			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2127	root	1.424	%
2128	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2129
2130			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2131			they care about it?"
2132			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2133	root	1.407
2134			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2135	root	1.424	%
2136	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2137			-- Gregory Chaitin
2138	root	1.424	%
2139	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2140	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2141			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2142			[...]
2143	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2144			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2145	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2146	root	1.424	%
2147	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2148			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2149			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2150			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2151			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2152			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2153	root	1.424	%
2154	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2155
2156			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2157	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2158			return 0;
2159	root	1.424	%
2160	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2161	root	1.401
2162			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2163			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2164			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2165			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2166			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2167			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2168			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2169			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2170			> transparent.
2171
2172			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2173			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2174			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2175			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2176	root	1.424	%
2177	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2178			aber falsche Lösungen.
2179	root	1.424	%
2180	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2181			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2182			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2183			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2184	root	1.424	%
2185	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2186			>
2187			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2188			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2189			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2190			> than useful to the user.
2191
2192			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2193
2194			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2195			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2196			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2197			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2198
2199			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2200
2201			Linus
2202	root	1.424	%
2203	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2204			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2205			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2206			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2207	root	1.424	%
2208	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2209			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2210
2211	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2212	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2213			--
2214			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2215
2216			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2217	root	1.424	%
2218	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2219			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2220
2221			Person: What do you do?
2222			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2223			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2224
2225			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2226			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2227			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2228	root	1.394
2229			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2230			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2231	root	1.424	%
2232	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2233			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2234			illegal downloaders."
2235
2236			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2237
2238			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2239			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2240			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2241			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2242			have to emerge."
2243
2244			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2245	root	1.424	%
2246	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2247	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2248
2249			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2250			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2251
2252			Bye, Andy
2253	root	1.424	%
2254	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2255	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2256	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2257	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2258	root	1.390
2259			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2260			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2261			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2262			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2263			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2264			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2265			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2266			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2267			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2268			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2269			alle Benutzer.
2270			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2271			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2272			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2273			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2274			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2275			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2276			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2277			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2278			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2279			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2280			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2281	root	1.424	%
2282	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2283
2284			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2285			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2286			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2287			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2288			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2289			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2290			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2291			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2292			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2293			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2294			unfinished operations, etc.
2295			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2296
2297			Valid options:
2298			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2299			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2300
2301			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2302	root	1.424	%
2303	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2304			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2305			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2306			to provide.
2307			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2308	root	1.424	%
2309	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2310
2311			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2312			alarm people more.
2313
2314			-Nate
2315
2316			[...]
2317
2318			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2319			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2320			image of the language that is created here.
2321
2322			Juerd
2323
2324			[...]
2325
2326			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2327			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2328			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2329
2330	root	1.432	--
2331	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2332	root	1.387	%
2333	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2334	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2335	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2336			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2337	root	1.387	%
2338	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2339			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2340	root	1.387	%
2341	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2342			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2343	root	1.387	%
2344	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2345			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2346			[...]
2347			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2348			"Windows is broken."
2349	root	1.387	%
2350	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2351			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2352			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2353	root	1.387	%
2354	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2355			on being able to kill their children legally]
2356			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2357	root	1.387	%
2358	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2359			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2360			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2361	root	1.387	%
2362	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2363			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2364			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2365			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2366			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2367			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2368	root	1.378	--
2369			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2370			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2371			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2372			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2373			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2374			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2375			wasteful government spending."
2376	root	1.387	%
2377	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2378			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2379	root	1.387	%
2380	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2381			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2382	root	1.387	%
2383	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2384			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2385	root	1.387	%
2386	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2387			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2388	root	1.387	%
2389	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2390	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2391	root	1.387	%
2392	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2393			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2394	root	1.387	%
2395	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2396			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2397	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2398	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2399			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2400	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2401	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
2402			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2403	root	1.387	%
2404	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2405			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2406	root	1.387	%
2407	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2408			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2409			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2410			their weapons over our heads."
2411			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2412	root	1.387	%
2413	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2414			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2415	root	1.387	%
2416	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2417			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2418			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2419			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2420			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2421	root	1.387	%
2422	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2423	root	1.387	%
2424	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2425			several requests for clarification.
2426
2427			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2428			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2429			unter TCG definitions.
2430	root	1.387	%
2431	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2432			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2433			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2434			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2435	root	1.387	%
2436	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2437			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2438			get people on board.
2439			%
2440	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2441			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2442			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2443			DRM.
2444
2445			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2446			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2447	root	1.387	%
2448	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2449			switch ($decade) {
2450			case "the 50's":
2451			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2452			break;
2453			case "the 60's":
2454			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2455			break;
2456			case "the 70's":
2457			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2458			break;
2459			case "the 80's":
2460			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2461			break;
2462			case "the 90's":
2463			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2464			break;
2465			case "the 00's":
2466			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2467			break;
2468			}
2469	root	1.387	%
2470	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2471
2472			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2473			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2474			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2475			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2476
2477			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2478			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2479			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2480
2481			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2482			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2483			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2484			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2485			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2486			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2487			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2488			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2489			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2490			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2491	root	1.387	%
2492	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2493			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2494			married or unmarried."
2495
2496			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2497			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2498			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2499			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2500			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2501	root	1.387	%
2502	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2503
2504			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2505			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2506			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2507			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2508			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2509			conditioning.
2510
2511			[And this is religion at its best:]
2512			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2513			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2514			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2515	root	1.387	%
2516	root	1.361	[Racism]
2517			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2518	root	1.387	%
2519	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2520			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2521	root	1.387	%
2522	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2523			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2524
2525			I apologise for this.
2526
2527			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2528			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2529	root	1.387	%
2530	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2531			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2532			el says: ich kenn da wen
2533			el says: bei dem wars so
2534			[...]
2535			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2536			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2537			el says: gehirntumor auch
2538			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2539	root	1.387	%
2540	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2541	root	1.387	%
2542	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2543			no sense in the kernel]
2544			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2545
2546			[...]
2547
2548			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2549			models.
2550
2551			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2552			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2553			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2554	root	1.387	%
2555	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2556			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2557			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2558			--
2559			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2560	root	1.355	--
2561			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2562			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2563			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2564			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2565	root	1.387	%
2566	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2567			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2568			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2569			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2570			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2571			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2572			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2573			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2574	root	1.387	%
2575	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2576			which you currently do not posess]
2577			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2578	root	1.387	%
2579	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2580			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2581	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2582	root	1.387	%
2583	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2584	root	1.387	%
2585	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2586			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2587	root	1.387	%
2588	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2589			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2590			paragraphs.
2591	root	1.387	%
2592	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2593			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2594			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2595	root	1.387	%
2596	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2597			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2598
2599			Most catholics aren't American.
2600	root	1.387	%
2601	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2602
2603			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2604			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2605			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2606			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2607			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2608
2609			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2610			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2611	root	1.387	%
2612	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2613			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2614			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2615			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2616			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2617			criminals."
2618	root	1.387	%
2619	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2620			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2621	root	1.387	%
2622	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2623			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2624	root	1.387	%
2625	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2626			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2627	root	1.387	%
2628	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2629			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2630			card (They went up in flames).
2631	root	1.387	%
2632	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2633			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2634			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2635			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2636	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2637	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2638	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2639	root	1.387	%
2640	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2641			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2642			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2643
2644			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2645
2646			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2647	root	1.387	%
2648	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2649			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2650			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2651			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2652			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2653			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2654			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2655			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2656			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2657			--
2658			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2659			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2660			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2661			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2662			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2663			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2664	root	1.387	%
2665	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2666			The Obfuscated V contest
2667	root	1.387	%
2668	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2669			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2670			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2671			cigarette lighters."
2672			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2673	root	1.387	%
2674	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2675			Does it run under Windows ?
2676			- Who cares?
2677	root	1.387	%
2678	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2679	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2680	root	1.387	%
2681	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2682			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2683			[...]
2684			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2685			[...]
2686			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2687			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2688			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2689	root	1.387	%
2690	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2691	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2692			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2693			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2694	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2695	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2696	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2697	root	1.330	> mehr!
2698			> richy.
2699
2700			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2701	root	1.387	%
2702	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2703	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2704			> zugetragen hat?
2705
2706			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2707			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2708	root	1.388	[später]
2709			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2710	root	1.329
2711			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2712			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2713			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2714			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2715			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2716
2717			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2718
2719			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2720			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2721			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2722	root	1.387	%
2723	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2724	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2725			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2726	root	1.387	%
2727	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2728			/* give the hook another try */
2729			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2730			break;
2731	root	1.387	%
2732	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2733	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2734	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2735			#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))
2736	root	1.387	%
2737	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2738	root	1.387	%
2739	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2740	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2741	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2742	root	1.432	>
2743			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2744			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2745	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2746	root	1.432	>
2747			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2748			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2749	root	1.324	> as TO).
2750	root	1.432	>
2751	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2752
2753			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2754			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2755			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2756			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2757			being discourteous to.
2758
2759			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2760			--
2761			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2762	root	1.387	%
2763	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2764	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2765	root	1.387	%
2766	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2767			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2768			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2769			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2770			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2771	root	1.387	%
2772	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2773			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2774			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2775			you don't have any'."
2776	root	1.323
2777			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2778			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2779			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2780			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2781	root	1.387	%
2782	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2783			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2784			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2785			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2786	root	1.387	%
2787	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2788			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2789			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2790			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2791			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2792			reason will not win many fans.
2793
2794			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2795			documents in the algorithm section]
2796	root	1.387	%
2797	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2798			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2799			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2800			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2801			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2802
2803			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2804	root	1.387	%
2805	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2806			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2807			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2808	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2809	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2810			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2811	root	1.387	%
2812	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2813	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2814	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2815	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2816			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2817	root	1.387	%
2818	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2819			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2820			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2821			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2822			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2823			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2824	root	1.387	%
2825	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2826			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2827	root	1.387	%
2828	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2829	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2830	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2831			* at their price list.
2832	root	1.387	%
2833	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2834			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2835			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2836			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2837			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2838			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2839			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2840	root	1.387	%
2841	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2842			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2843	root	1.387	%
2844	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2845			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2846			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2847			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2848	root	1.387	%
2849	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2850	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2851	root	1.387	%
2852	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2853			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2854	root	1.387	%
2855	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2856	root	1.387	%
2857	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2858			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2859			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2860			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2861			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2862			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2863			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2864			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2865	root	1.387	%
2866	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2867			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2868	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2869	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2870	root	1.387	%
2871	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2872	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2873	root	1.387	%
2874	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2875	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2876			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2877			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2878	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2879
2880			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2881
2882			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2883			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2884	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2885	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2886
2887			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2888
2889			[usw.]
2890
2891			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2892	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2893	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2894
2895			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2896			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2897			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2898			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2899			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2900	root	1.387	%
2901	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2902	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2903			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2904	root	1.387	%
2905	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2906			Which fanboy are you?
2907
2908			1. Windows
2909
2910			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2911			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2912			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2913			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2914			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2915			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2916			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2917			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2918			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2919
2920			2. Apple
2921
2922			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2923			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2924			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2925			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2926			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2927			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2928			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2929			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2930
2931			3. Linspire
2932
2933			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2934			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2935			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2936			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2937			installed Linspire on your machine.
2938
2939			4. Umbongo
2940
2941			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2942			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2943			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2944			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2945			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2946			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2947			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2948			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2949			themselves.
2950
2951			5. Gentoy
2952
2953			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2954			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2955			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2956			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2957			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2958			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2959			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2960			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2961
2962			6. Linux From Scratch
2963
2964			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2965			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2966			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2967			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2968			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2969			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2970			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2971	root	1.387	%
2972	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2973			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2974	root	1.387	%
2975	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2976
2977			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2978			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2979
2980			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2981	root	1.387	%
2982	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2983
2984			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2985	root	1.432	>
2986	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2987	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2988	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2989			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2990			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2991	root	1.432	>
2992			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2993	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
2994	root	1.432	>
2995	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2996			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2997	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3000	root	1.387	%
3001	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3002	root	1.387	%
3003	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3004	root	1.387	%
3005	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3006			show "Correspondent"]
3007	root	1.288
3008			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3009			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3010
3011			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3012			%
3013	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3014			cock sucking, blowjob
3015			=> fellatio, fellation
3016			=> oral sex, head
3017			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3018			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3019			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3020			=> organic process, biological process
3021			=> process
3022			=> phenomenon
3023	root	1.387	%
3024	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3025			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3026	root	1.387	%
3027	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3028			[slightly edited]
3029			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3030			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3031			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3032			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3033
3034			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3035			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3036			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3037
3038			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3039			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3040	root	1.387	%
3041	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3042			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3043	root	1.387	%
3044	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3045	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3046	root	1.387	%
3047	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3048	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3049			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3050	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3053			- oesi
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3056			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3057	root	1.387	%
3058	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3059	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3060	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3061			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3062
3063			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3064			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3065			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3066			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3067			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3068			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3069			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3070			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3071			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3072			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3073			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3074			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3075			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3076			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3077			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3078			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3079			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3080			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3081			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3082			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3083			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3084			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3085			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3086			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3087
3088			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3089			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3090			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3091			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3092			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3093
3094			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3095			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3096			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3097			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3098			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3099			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3100			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3101			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3102			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3103			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3104			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3105
3106			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3107			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3108			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3109			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3110			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3111			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3112			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3113			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3114			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3115			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3116			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3117			sovereign nation.
3118
3119			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3120			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3121			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3122			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3123			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3124			CSPAN, don't post here.
3125
3126			-scott
3127	root	1.387	%
3128	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3129			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3130			capacity to feel pain.
3131
3132			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3133			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3134	root	1.387	%
3135	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3136			From: Sven Neumann
3137
3138			Hi,
3139
3140	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3141	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3142	root	1.273
3143			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3144			that
3145
3146			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3147
3148			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3149	root	1.387	%
3150	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3151	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3152			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3153			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3154	root	1.387	%
3155	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3156			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3157			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3158			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3159			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3160			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3161	root	1.387	%
3162	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3163	root	1.270	interesting read]
3164			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3165	root	1.387	%
3166	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3167			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3168			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3169	root	1.387	%
3170	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3171			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3172			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3173			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3174			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3175			locks can open the gate.
3176
3177			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3178			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3179			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3180	root	1.387	%
3181	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3182			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3183	root	1.387	%
3184	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3185
3186			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3187
3188			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3189			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3190			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3191			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3192			explanation of this.
3193
3194			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3195
3196			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3197			which explains why the hammer falls.
3198
3199			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3200			how a population's genome can change over time.
3201
3202	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3203			mathematical relationship between two values.
3204	root	1.265
3205			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3206			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3207
3208			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3209			acceleration.
3210
3211			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3212			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3213			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3214			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3215			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3216			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3217			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3218			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3219			false.
3220
3221			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3222	root	1.387	%
3223	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3224	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3225
3226			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3227			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3228	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3229			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3230			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3231	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3232
3233	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3234			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3235			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3236			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3237			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3238			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3239			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3240	root	1.264
3241			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3242	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3243			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3244			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3245			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3246	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3247	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3248	root	1.264	sportlich.
3249
3250	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3251			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3252			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3253			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3254			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3255	root	1.264
3256	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3257	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3258	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3259			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3260	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3261
3262			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3263			Forscher.
3264	root	1.387	%
3265	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3266			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3267			EULA-style license]
3268	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3269	root	1.387	%
3270	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3271			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3272			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3273			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3274			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3275			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3276			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3277	root	1.387	%
3278	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3279	root	1.387	%
3280	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3281			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3282			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3283			00:24 <schmorp> re
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3286	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3287			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3288	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3289			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3290	root	1.387	%
3291	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3292			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3293			proponents of such theories.]
3294			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3295			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3296			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3297			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3298			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3299			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3300			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3301			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3302			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3303			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3304			(below, right)."
3305	root	1.387	%
3306	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3307			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3308			[useful info...]
3309			http://www.snopes.com/
3310	root	1.387	%
3311	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3312			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3313	root	1.387	%
3314	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3315			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3316	root	1.387	%
3317	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3318	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3319			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3320	root	1.387	%
3321	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3322			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3323			#!/usr/bin/sh
3324			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3325			# All Rights Reserved
3326
3327			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3328			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3329			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3330
3331			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3332	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3333	root	1.387	%
3334	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3335			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3336			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3337	root	1.387	%
3338	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3339			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3340			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3341			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3342			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3343			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3344			#
3345			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3346	root	1.387	%
3347	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3348	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3349			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3350			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3351	root	1.387	%
3352	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3353	root	1.387	%
3354	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3355	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3356			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3357	root	1.387	%
3358	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3359			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3360			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3361	root	1.387	%
3362	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3363	root	1.387	%
3364	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3365			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3366			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3367			that you have a problem.)
3368			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3369	root	1.387	%
3370	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3371			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3372	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3373	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3374
3375			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3376			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3377	root	1.387	%
3378	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3379			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3380
3381			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3382			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3383			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3384			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3385			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3386			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3387			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3388			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3389			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3390			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3391			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3392			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3393			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3394			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3395
3396			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3397			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3398			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3399			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3400			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3401			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3402			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3403	root	1.387	%
3404	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3405	root	1.239
3406			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3407			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3408			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3409	root	1.387	%
3410	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3411			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3412			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3413	root	1.387	%
3414	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3415
3416			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3417			;)
3418	root	1.387	%
3419	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3420			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3421			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3422			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3423
3424			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3425
3426	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3427			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3428	root	1.387	%
3429	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3430			using so many abbreviations...]
3431
3432			Hi Volker -
3433
3434			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3435	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3436			spät ...
3437	root	1.234
3438			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3439
3440			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3441
3442	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3443			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3444	root	1.234
3445	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3446	root	1.234
3447			tom
3448	root	1.247
3449	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3450	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3451	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3452	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3453	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3454	root	1.387	%
3455	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3456			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3457			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3458
3459			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3460	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3461			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3462	root	1.233	> someone else?
3463
3464			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3465			===================================================================
3466			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3467			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3468			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3469			S: 79098 Freiburg
3470			S: Germany
3471
3472			+N: Hans Reiser
3473			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3474			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3475			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3476			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3477			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3478			+S: USA
3479			+
3480			N: Joerg Reuter
3481			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3482			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3483	root	1.387	%
3484	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3485			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3486	root	1.387	%
3487	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3488			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3489	root	1.387	%
3490	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3491			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3492	root	1.387	%
3493	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3494			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3495			[...]
3496			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3497			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3498			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3499			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3500			[...]
3501			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3502			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3503			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3504			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3505	root	1.387	%
3506	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3507			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3508			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3509			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3510			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3511			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3512	root	1.387	%
3513	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3514	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3515			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3516			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3517			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3518			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3519			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3520			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3521			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3522	root	1.387	%
3523	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3524			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3525	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3526	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3527	root	1.387	%
3528	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3529			[yes, the whole thing]
3530	root	1.387	%
3531	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3532	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3533			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3534			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3535	root	1.221	>
3536			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3537
3538			We'll use a larger wall.
3539	root	1.387	%
3540	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3541			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3542			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3543			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3544
3545			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3546			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3547
3548			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3549			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3550
3551			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3552			cost.
3553			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3554	root	1.387	%
3555	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3556
3557	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3558	root	1.219
3559			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3560
3561	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3562	root	1.387	%
3563	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3564			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3565	root	1.387	%
3566	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3567			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3568	root	1.387	%
3569	root	1.215	[translated]
3570			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3571			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3572			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3573			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3574			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3575			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3576			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3577			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3578	root	1.387	%
3579	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3580			-- Lord Balfour
3581	root	1.387	%
3582	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3583	root	1.387	%
3584	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3585			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3586			him to forgive me.
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3589			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3590
3591			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3592	root	1.387	%
3593	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3594			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3595			get bored during the sex scenes.
3596	root	1.387	%
3597	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3598			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3599			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3600	root	1.387	%
3601	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3602			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3603			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3604			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3605			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3606			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3607	root	1.387	%
3608	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3609			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3610			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3611			HP-UX customer. [...]
3612	root	1.387	%
3613	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3614			>>
3615			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3616			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3617			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3618			>>spelled it in UC.
3619	root	1.247	>
3620			>
3621	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3622
3623			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3624	root	1.387	%
3625	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3626			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3627
3628			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3629			usage.
3630
3631			Richard
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3634			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3635			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3636			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3637			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3638			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3639	root	1.387	%
3640	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3641			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3642	root	1.387	%
3643	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3644	root	1.387	%
3645	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3646			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3647			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3648			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3649			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3650			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3651			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3652			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3653			existence means and implies.
3654
3655			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3656	root	1.387	%
3657	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3658			>
3659			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3660			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3661			>
3662			> You're WRONG!
3663
3664	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3665			and §7.20.3.1).
3666	root	1.387	%
3667	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3668			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3669			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3670	root	1.387	%
3671	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3672			A. It should be obvious.
3673			Q. How is it hard?
3674			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3675			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3676	root	1.387	%
3677	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3678			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3679
3680			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3681			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3682
3683			- works ok on linux
3684			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3685
3686			Any clues why?
3687			I am new to the non windows world.
3688
3689			Thanks
3690	root	1.387	%
3691	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3692			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3693			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3694			> this ?
3695
3696			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3697			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3698	root	1.387	%
3699	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3700			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3701			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3702
3703			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3704	root	1.247	>
3705			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3706			>
3707	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3708	root	1.387	%
3709	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3710			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3711
3712			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3713	root	1.387	%
3714	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3715			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3716	root	1.387	%
3717	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3718	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3719	root	1.194
3720			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3721			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3722	root	1.387	%
3723	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3724			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3725	root	1.387	%
3726	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3727	root	1.387	%
3728	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3729			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3730	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3731	root	1.387	%
3732	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3733			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3734			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3735	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3736
3737	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3738	root	1.190
3739	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3740	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3741			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3742			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3743	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3744			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3745			schützen können.
3746	root	1.387	%
3747	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3748			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3749	root	1.387	%
3750	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3751			[...]
3752	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3753	root	1.188	[...]
3754	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3755			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3756			never get your message.
3757	root	1.387	%
3758	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3759			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3760			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3761	root	1.387	%
3762	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3763			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3764			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3765	root	1.387	%
3766	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3767			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3768			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3769			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3770			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3771			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3772			01:15 <schmorp> g
3773			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3774	root	1.387	%
3775	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3776			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3777			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3778			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3779			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3780			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3781			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3782			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3783	root	1.387	%
3784	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3785			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3786			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3787	root	1.387	%
3788	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3789			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3790			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3791			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3792			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3793			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3794			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3795	root	1.387	%
3796	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3797			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3798	root	1.387	%
3799	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3800			GNOME TERMINAL
3801			[...]
3802			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3803			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3804			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3805			[.. later]
3806			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3807			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3808			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3809	root	1.387	%
3810	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3811			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3812			/*
3813	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3814	root	1.179	*/
3815			void blip()
3816	root	1.247	{
3817	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3818			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3819			fflush(stderr);
3820	root	1.247	}
3821	root	1.387	%
3822	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3823			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3824
3825			Why not 666? :-).
3826	root	1.387	%
3827	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3828			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3829			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3830			users are clueless.
3831	root	1.387	%
3832	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3833			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3834	root	1.387	%
3835	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3836			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3837	root	1.387	%
3838	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3839			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3840	root	1.387	%
3841	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3842			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3843			and", and finally, ampersand.
3844	root	1.387	%
3845	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3846			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3847			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3848			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3849			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3850	root	1.387	%
3851	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3852			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3853			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3854			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3855			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3856	root	1.387	%
3857	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3858			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3859			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3860			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3861			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3862			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3863			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3864	root	1.387	%
3865	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3866	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3867			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3868	root	1.387	%
3869	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3870			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3871			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3872	root	1.387	%
3873	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3874	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3875	root	1.387	%
3876	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3877	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3878			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3879			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3880	root	1.167	%
3881	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3882	root	1.387	%
3883	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3884			<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
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3887			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3888	root	1.164	einfach :)
3889			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3890	root	1.387	%
3891	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3892			/*
3893			* Function compares two strings.
3894	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3895	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3896			*/
3897			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3898			{
3899			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3900			[...]
3901	root	1.387	%
3902	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3903	root	1.387	%
3904	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3905	root	1.387	%
3906	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3907			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3908			Get_Colours ();
3909	root	1.387	%
3910	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3911	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3912			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3913			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3914			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3915			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3916			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3917			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3918			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3919	root	1.161	[...]
3920			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3921			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3922			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3923			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3924			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3925	root	1.387	%
3926	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3927			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3928	root	1.387	%
3929	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3930			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3931	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3932	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3933			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3934			#endif
3935	root	1.387	%
3936	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3937			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3938			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3939	root	1.387	%
3940	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3941			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3942			>
3943			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3944
3945			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3946			--
3947			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3948	root	1.387	%
3949	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3950			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3951			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3952			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3953			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3954			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3955			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3958			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3959	root	1.387	%
3960	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3961	root	1.387	%
3962	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3963			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3964			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3965			-- Robert Fisk
3966	root	1.387	%
3967	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3968			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3969	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3970			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3971	root	1.387	%
3972	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3973			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3974			high-violence culture"
3975			[...]
3976			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3977			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3978			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3979			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3980			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3981			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3982			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3983			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3984
3985			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3986			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3987	root	1.387	%
3988	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3989			Subject: Re: [...]
3990
3991			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3992
3993			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3994			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3995			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3996			> saved it :)
3997
3998			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3999			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4000			[...]
4001	root	1.387	%
4002	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4003			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4004			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4005			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4006			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4007
4008			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4009			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4010			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4011			[...]
4012	root	1.387	%
4013	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4014	root	1.387	%
4015	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4016	root	1.387	%
4017	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4018	root	1.387	%
4019	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4020			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4021			claim to have decades of java experience]
4022			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4023			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4024			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4025			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4026	root	1.387	%
4027	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4028	root	1.387	%
4029	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4030	root	1.387	%
4031	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4032	root	1.387	%
4033	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4034			[mail not to be delivered]
4035			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4036	root	1.247	>
4037	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4038
4039			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4040			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4041	root	1.387	%
4042	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4043
4044			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4045			>
4046			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4047			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4048			> >
4049			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4050			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4051			> > language which does support this?
4052			>
4053
4054			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4055
4056			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4057			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4058			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4059			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4060			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4061			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4062	root	1.387	%
4063	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4064			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4065			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4066	root	1.387	%
4067	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4068			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4069			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4070
4071			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4072			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4073			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4074			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4075			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4076
4077			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4078			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4079			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4080			and thwart them that way.
4081	root	1.387	%
4082	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4083			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4084			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4085			unfortunate decision.
4086	root	1.387	%
4087	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4088	root	1.146	fest ;)
4089	root	1.387	%
4090	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4091
4092			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4095	root	1.387	%
4096	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4097			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4098	root	1.387	%
4099	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4100
4101			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4102			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4103			local object as a "he":
4104
4105			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4106			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4107			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4108			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4109			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4110			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4111			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4112			EX-PARROT!"
4113
4114			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4115	root	1.387	%
4116	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4117			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4118	root	1.387	%
4119	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4120			The police will shoot you.
4121
4122			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4123			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4124
4125	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4126	root	1.387	%
4127	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4128			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4129			reply.
4130
4131			pls. cc my email address
4132
4133			tia
4134			pd
4135
4136
4137	root	1.247	--
4138	root	1.141	^X^C
4139			q
4140			quit
4141			:q
4142			^C
4143			end
4144			x
4145			exit
4146			ZZ
4147			^D
4148			?
4149			help
4150			shit
4151			.
4152	root	1.387	%
4153	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4154	root	1.387	%
4155	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4156			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4157			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4158			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4159	root	1.387	%
4160	root	1.140	[I love it]
4161			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4162			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4163	root	1.387	%
4164	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4165			- Douglas Adams
4166	root	1.387	%
4167	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4168			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4169			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4170			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4171
4172	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4173			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4174			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4175			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4176			their software properly.
4177	root	1.138
4178			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4179			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4180			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4181			told the publication.
4182
4183	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4184			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4185			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4186			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4187			who want visibility and glory.
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4190
4191			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4192
4193			x Try not using it.
4194	root	1.387	%
4195	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4196			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4197			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4198			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4199			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4200			had given.
4201
4202			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4203			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4204			person as well."
4205	root	1.387	%
4206	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4207	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4208			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4209	root	1.387	%
4210	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4211	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4212	root	1.134
4213			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4214	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4215	root	1.135	[...]
4216	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4217	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4218	root	1.135	[...]
4219			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4220			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4221	root	1.387	%
4222	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4223	root	1.387	%
4224	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4225			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4226			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4227			-- Ulrich Drepper
4228	root	1.387	%
4229	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4230			-- Ulrich Drepper
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4233			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4234	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4235	root	1.387	%
4236	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4237			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4238			-- Ulrich Drepper
4239	root	1.387	%
4240	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4241			-- Ulrich Drepper
4242	root	1.387	%
4243	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4244	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4245			zuverlässiger
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4248			/*
4249			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4250			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4251			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4252			*/
4253	root	1.387	%
4254	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4255			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4256			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4257			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4258			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4259	root	1.387	%
4260	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4261			Pirating Movies
4262
4263			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4264			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4265			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4266	root	1.387	%
4267	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4268			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4269	root	1.387	%
4270	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4271			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4272	root	1.387	%
4273	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4274			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4275			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4276			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4277			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4278	root	1.387	%
4279	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4280			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4281			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4282			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4283			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4284
4285			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4286			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4287
4288			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4289			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4290			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4291			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4292			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4293			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4294			the first place!
4295	root	1.387	%
4296	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4297			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4298			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4299	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4302			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4303	root	1.387	%
4304	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4305			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4306	root	1.387	%
4307	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4308			platform."
4309			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4310	root	1.387	%
4311	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4312			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4313			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4314			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4315			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4316	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4319			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4320	root	1.387	%
4321	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4322			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4323			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4324			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4325			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4326			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4327			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4328			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4329			daily.
4330	root	1.387	%
4331	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4332	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4333			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4334	root	1.387	%
4335	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4336			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4337			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4338			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4339			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4340			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4341			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4342	root	1.387	%
4343	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4344	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4345	root	1.387	%
4346	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4347			[...so it must be good]
4348			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4349	root	1.387	%
4350	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4351			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4352			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4355			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4356			No idea why I announce it here...
4357	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4358	root	1.387	%
4359	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4360			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4361	root	1.387	%
4362	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4363	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4364	root	1.387	%
4365	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4366			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4367			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4368			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4369			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4370
4371			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4372			Sacha.
4373	root	1.387	%
4374	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4375			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4376			desk one morning:
4377
4378			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4379
4380			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4381
4382			Employee: 123456
4383
4384			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4385			photograph of the employee.]
4386
4387			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4388			identification which has your picture on it?
4389
4390			Employee: Why would you need that?
4391
4392			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4393
4394			Employee: A picture of my face?
4395
4396			Security Guard: Yes
4397
4398			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4399
4400			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4401			compare against this one.
4402	root	1.387	%
4403	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4404			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4405			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4406	root	1.387	%
4407	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4408			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4409			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4410
4411			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4412			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4413	root	1.387	%
4414	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4415	root	1.387	%
4416	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4417			"RV K-17"
4418	root	1.387	%
4419	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4420			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4421	root	1.387	%
4422	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4423			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4424			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4425			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4426	root	1.387	%
4427	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4428			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4429	root	1.387	%
4430	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4431	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4432			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4433	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4434	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4435			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4436	root	1.387	%
4437	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4438	root	1.387	%
4439	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4440			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4441	root	1.387	%
4442	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4443			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4444			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4445			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4446	root	1.387	%
4447	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4448			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4449			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4450			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4451			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4452			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4453			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4454			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4455			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4456			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4457			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4458			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4459			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4460			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4461			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4462			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4463			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4464			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4465			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4466	root	1.387	%
4467	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4468			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4469	root	1.387	%
4470	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4471			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4472	root	1.387	%
4473	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4474			Lester Moore,
4475			Shot in the head with a .44.
4476			No Les, no more.
4477	root	1.387	%
4478	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4479			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4480
4481			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4482			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4483	root	1.387	%
4484	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4485			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4486			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4487	root	1.387	%
4488	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4489			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4490			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4491			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4492			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4493	root	1.112	[...]
4494			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4495			[...]
4496			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4497			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4498			the result with SHA.
4499	root	1.387	%
4500	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4501	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4502			> ist!
4503	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4504			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4505	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4506	root	1.387	%
4507	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4508			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4511	root	1.387	%
4512	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4513			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4514			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4515			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4516			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4517			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4518	root	1.387	%
4519	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4520			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4521	root	1.387	%
4522	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4523			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4526			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4527	root	1.387	%
4528	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4529
4530			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4531			* control history, is that we should at least
4532			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4533			* "initialisation"? */
4534			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4535	root	1.387	%
4536	root	1.105	[man pem]
4537			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4538	root	1.387	%
4539	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4540
4541			/* ``If you can't do it in
4542	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4543	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4544	root	1.387	%
4545	root	1.104	[subculture]
4546	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4547			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4548	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4549
4550			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4551	root	1.424	%
4552	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4553			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4554	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4555	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4556	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4557	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4558			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4559	root	1.387	%
4560	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4561	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4562			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4563			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4564	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4565	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4566			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4567			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4568	root	1.387	%
4569	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4570			aber wenig freude.
4571	root	1.387	%
4572	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4573			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4574			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4575			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4576			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4577			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4578			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4579			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4580			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4581			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4582	root	1.387	%
4583	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4584			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4585	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4586			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4587	root	1.387	%
4588	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4589			don't work well in practise.
4590			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4591	root	1.387	%
4592	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4593			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4594			"ready, fire, aim."
4595	root	1.387	%
4596	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4597			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4598			free countries like Germany [1].
4599			[...]
4600			Regards
4601			Henning
4602
4603			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4604			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4605			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4606	root	1.387	%
4607	root	1.98	[...]
4608			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4609			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4610			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4611			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4612			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4613			[...]
4614			Wolfgang Walter
4615	root	1.387	%
4616	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4617			burro: it seemed very clever
4618			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4619			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4620			burro: oops
4621			burro: accidental poetry
4622	root	1.387	%
4623	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4624			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4625			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4626	root	1.387	%
4627	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4628			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4629	root	1.387	%
4630	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4631			-- Oscar Wilde
4632	root	1.387	%
4633	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4634			"guilty until proven innocent"
4635			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4636	root	1.387	%
4637	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4638			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4639			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4640			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4641			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4642			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4643			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4644			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4645			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4646			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4647			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4648			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4649			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4650			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4651			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4652	root	1.387	%
4653	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4654			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4655			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4656			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4657			// suit particular needs.
4658			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4659	root	1.387	%
4660	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4661			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4662			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4663	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4664	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4665	root	1.387	%
4666	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4667			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4668	root	1.387	%
4669	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4670			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4671	root	1.387	%
4672	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4673			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4674			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4675	root	1.387	%
4676	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4677			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4678	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4679			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4680	root	1.387	%
4681	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4682
4683			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4684			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4685			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4686			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4687			is not [...]
4688	root	1.387	%
4689	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4690	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4691			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4692	root	1.387	%
4693	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4694			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4695
4696	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4697	root	1.94
4698			GUI
4699			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4700			Globale Variable
4701	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4702	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4703			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4704			strukturiert
4705			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4706			Multithreaded
4707	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4708	root	1.94	Windows 95
4709	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4710	root	1.94	Emacs
4711	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4712			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4713			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4714	root	1.94	IPv6
4715			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4716			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4717			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4718			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4719	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4720			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4721	root	1.247	PHP
4722	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4723	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4724	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4725			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4726	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4727	root	1.94	Bunt.
4728	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4729			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4730			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4731	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4732	root	1.387	%
4733	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4734			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4735	root	1.387	%
4736	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4737	root	1.387	%
4738	root	1.93	[nah]
4739			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4740			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4741			paint dry."
4742	root	1.387	%
4743	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4744			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4745			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4746	root	1.387	%
4747	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4748	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4749			importance.
4750	root	1.387	%
4751	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4752			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4753			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4754			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4755
4756			You have to trust Microsoft.
4757
4758			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4759			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4760			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4761			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4762			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4763			useless chrome.
4764
4765			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4766			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4767			I'd like to trust them with.
4768	root	1.93	[...]
4769	root	1.387	%
4770	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4771			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4772			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4773			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4774			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4775	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4776	root	1.91	--------------^
4777	root	1.387	%
4778	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4779			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4780			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4781			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4782			English grammar, I assure you.
4783	root	1.387	%
4784	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4785			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4786			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4787			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4788			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4789			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4790			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4791
4792			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4793			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4794			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4795			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4796			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4797			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4798			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4799			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4800			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4801			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4802
4803			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4804			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4805			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4806			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4807
4808			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4809			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4810	root	1.387	%
4811	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4812			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4813			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4814			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4815			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4816			work etc first:
4817
4818			#include <stdio.h>
4819
4820			int main (void) {
4821			while (1)
4822			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4823
4824			return 0;
4825			}
4826	root	1.387	%
4827	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4828			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4829	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4830	root	1.387	%
4831	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4832			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4833			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4834			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4835	root	1.387	%
4836	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4837			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4838			proprietary and patentend technology.
4839	root	1.387	%
4840	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4841	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4844	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4845	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4846			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4847			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4848	root	1.387	%
4849	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4850			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4851	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4852	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4853			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4854	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4855	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4856	root	1.87
4857	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4858			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4859			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4860			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4861			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4862			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4863	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4864			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4865
4866	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4867			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4868			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4869			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4870			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4871			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4872			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4873			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4874			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4875			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4876	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4877	root	1.387	%
4878	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4879			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4880	root	1.387	%
4881	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4882			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4883			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4884	root	1.387	%
4885	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4886			"linux" thing will fail]
4887			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4888			[...]
4889	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4890	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4891			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4892			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4893
4894			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4895			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4896			life to the public good.
4897
4898			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4899			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4900			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4901			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4902			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4903
4904			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4905			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4906			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4907			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4908			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4909			software to work on the linux kernel!
4910
4911			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4912			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4913			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4914			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4915			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4916	root	1.387	%
4917	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4918	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4919			[...]
4920			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4921	root	1.387	%
4922	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4923			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4924			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4925			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4926	root	1.387	%
4927	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4928	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4929			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4930			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4931			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4932			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4933	root	1.387	%
4934	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4935			-- Leonard Brandwein
4936	root	1.387	%
4937	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4938	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4939			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4940			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4941			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4942			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4943			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4944			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4945			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4946			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4947			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4948			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4949	root	1.387	%
4950	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4951			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4952	root	1.387	%
4953	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4954			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4955			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4956			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4957			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4958			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4959			jurisprudence fun?
4960			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4961	root	1.387	%
4962	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4963			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4964			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4965	root	1.84	[...]
4966	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4967	root	1.387	%
4968	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4969			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4970			- Paul Ginsparg.
4971	root	1.387	%
4972	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4973			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4974			home.":))
4975			[erm...]
4976	root	1.387	%
4977	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4978
4979	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4982	root	1.387	%
4983	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4984
4985			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4986			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4987			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4988			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4989	root	1.387	%
4990	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4991			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4992			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4993	root	1.387	%
4994	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
4995	root	1.83
4996			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4997	root	1.82
4998			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4999			to use in future emails?
5000	root	1.387	%
5001	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5002			please?
5003
5004			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5005			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5006
5007	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5008	root	1.387	%
5009	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5010			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5011			last until February 16th 2003.
5012
5013			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5014			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5015			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5016			end.
5017
5018			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5019
5020			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5021			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5022			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5023			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5024			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5025			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5026			take place on October 27th.
5027
5028			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5029			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5030			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5031			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5032			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5033			the clock)...
5034	root	1.387	%
5035	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5036			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5037			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5038			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5039			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5040
5041			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5042			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5043			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5044			RedHat and SuSE).
5045
5046			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5047
5048			Pavel
5049	root	1.387	%
5050	root	1.81	Rik
5051	root	1.247	--
5052	root	1.81	A: No.
5053			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5054	root	1.387	%
5055	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5056	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5057			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5058	root	1.81
5059			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5060			no useful data.
5061
5062	root	1.247	--
5063	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5064	root	1.387	%
5065	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5066			there was a long do..while construct,
5067			which contained a switch statement,
5068			which contained an if clause,
5069			which contained a break,
5070			which was intended for the if clause,
5071			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5072
5073			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5074			network January 15, 1990
5075	root	1.387	%
5076	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5077
5078	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5079			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5080			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5081			violation of network policies.
5082	root	1.80
5083			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5084
5085			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5086			The format is as follows:
5087
5088			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5089	root	1.387	%
5090	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5091			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5092			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5093	root	1.387	%
5094	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5095			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5096			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5097			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5098			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5099			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5100			...
5101			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5102			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5103			the effort."
5104	root	1.387	%
5105	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5106	root	1.387	%
5107	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5108			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5109	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5110	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5111			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5112	root	1.387	%
5113	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5114	root	1.387	%
5115	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5116	root	1.387	%
5117	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5118			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5119			[Albert Cahalan]
5120	root	1.387	%
5121	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5122			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5123			least as bad, but lesser known.
5124	root	1.387	%
5125	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5126			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5127			different.
5128	root	1.387	%
5129	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.
5130	root	1.387	%
5131	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5132			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5133	root	1.387	%
5134	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5135			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5136			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5137			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5138			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5139			without a show.
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5142	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5143	root	1.387	%
5144	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5145	root	1.387	%
5146	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5147			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5148	root	1.387	%
5149	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5150			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5151			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5152	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5153	root	1.71	going on.
5154			[...]
5155	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5156			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5157			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5158	root	1.387	%
5159	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5160			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5161	root	1.387	%
5162	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5163	root	1.387	%
5164	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5165	root	1.387	%
5166	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5167			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5168			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5169	root	1.387	%
5170	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5171			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5172			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5173			returned data.
5174
5175	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5176			FindExInfoStandard
5177			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5178	root	1.387	%
5179	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5180	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5181			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5182	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5183	root	1.387	%
5184	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5185			it doesn't work:]
5186			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5187			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5188			this MIME type as the final determination.
5189	root	1.387	%
5190	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5191
5192			Recode 0.1.1
5193			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5194
5195			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5196			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5197
5198			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5199	root	1.387	%
5200	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5201	root	1.387	%
5202	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5203	root	1.387	%
5204	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5205
5206			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5207			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5208			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5209			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5210			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5211			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5212			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5213			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5214			century."
5215
5216			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5217			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5218			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5219			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5220			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5221			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5222			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5223			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5224			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5225			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5226			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5227			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5228			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5229			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5230
5231			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5232			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5233			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5234			hilarious in light of the above.
5235			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5236
5237			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5238			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5239			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5240			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5241			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5242			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5243			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5244
5245			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5246			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5247			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5248			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5249	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5250	root	1.387	%
5251	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5252	root	1.387	%
5253	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5254			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5255	root	1.387	%
5256	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5257			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5258			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5259
5260			Tony Hoare
5261	root	1.387	%
5262	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5263			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5264	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5265	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5266	root	1.387	%
5267	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5268
5269			[...]
5270			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5271			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5272			system. Basically its windows computer
5273	root	1.387	%
5274	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5275	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5276	root	1.387	%
5277	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5278
5279			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5280			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5281			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5282			> software developers...
5283
5284			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5285	root	1.387	%
5286	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5287			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5288			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5289			>
5290			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5291
5292			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5293			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5294
5295			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5296			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5297
5298			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5299			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5300			off by throwing away the patch.
5301
5302			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5303			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5304			patch any time soon.
5305
5306			--
5307			Daniel
5308	root	1.387	%
5309	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5310			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5311			[...]
5312			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5313			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5314			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5315	root	1.387	%
5316	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5317
5318			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5319			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5320			Is it realy needed?
5321	root	1.387	%
5322	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5323
5324			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5325
5326			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5327			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5328			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5329	root	1.387	%
5330	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5331			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5332			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5333			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5334			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5335			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5336			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5337	root	1.387	%
5338	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5339
5340			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5341			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5342			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5343			>
5344			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5345
5346			This is an ex-parrot
5347	root	1.387	%
5348	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5349
5350			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5351			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5352			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5353			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5354			>
5355			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5356			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5357
5358			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5359
5360			while (!sorted(data))
5361			;
5362	root	1.387	%
5363	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5364			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5365
5366			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5367
5368			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5369			to computing
5370	root	1.387	%
5371	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5372
5373			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5374			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5375
5376			Common sense, one would hope.
5377	root	1.387	%
5378	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5379			[...]
5380
5381			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5382			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5383			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5384
5385			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5386
5387			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5388			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5389			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5390			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5391
5392			:-)
5393	root	1.387	%
5394	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5395			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5396			their C programs."
5397	root	1.60
5398			Robert Firth
5399	root	1.387	%
5400	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5401	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5402	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5403			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5404	root	1.387	%
5405	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5406	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5407	root	1.387	%
5408	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5409			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5410	root	1.387	%
5411	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5412	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5413	root	1.387	%
5414	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5415	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5416			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5417	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5418			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5419	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5420			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5421
5422			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5423
5424			\Gisbert
5425	root	1.387	%
5426	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5427	root	1.387	%
5428	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5429			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5430			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5433			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5434
5435			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5436			[...]
5437	root	1.387	%
5438	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5439			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5440			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5441
5442			ok 1
5443			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5444			not ok 2
5445			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5446	root	1.387	%
5447	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5448
5449			Cheers,
5450
5451			Andre Hedrick
5452			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5453	root	1.387	%
5454	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5455	root	1.247	>
5456	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5457
5458			Or mutabloat :-(
5459	root	1.387	%
5460	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5461			Outlook IS the solution.
5462	root	1.387	%
5463	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5464	root	1.387	%
5465	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5466
5467			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5468			never bought anything from UUNet.
5469	root	1.387	%
5470	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5471			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5472			by delving below its surface meaning)
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5475	root	1.387	%
5476	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5477
5478			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5479			> just go to court and say:
5480
5481			Oh glorious naivety.
5482
5483			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5484			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5485			> can do the work better than I).
5486
5487			You release the code
5488
5489			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5490
5491			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5492			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5493			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5494			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5495
5496			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5497			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5498
5499			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5500			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5501
5502			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5503
5504			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5505			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5506			or that the good guys win.
5507
5508			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5509			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5510	root	1.387	%
5511	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5512
5513			[...]
5514			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5515			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5516	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5517	root	1.51	year to kill.
5518	root	1.387	%
5519	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5520			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5521
5522			[...]
5523			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5524			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5525			of for Windows desktop systems."
5526			[...]
5527			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5528			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5529			[...]
5530			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5531			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5532			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5533			turned on by default.
5534			[...]
5535			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5536			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5537			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5538			[...]
5539			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5540			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5541			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5542			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5543			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5544			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5545			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5546			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5547			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5548	root	1.387	%
5549	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5550	root	1.387	%
5551	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5552	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5553	root	1.49
5554			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5555
5556			Monday, 06. November 2000
5557	root	1.387	%
5558	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5559			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5560	root	1.387	%
5561	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5562	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5563			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5564			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5565	root	1.387	%
5566	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5567			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5568			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5569			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5570	root	1.387	%
5571	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5572			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5573
5574			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5575			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5576			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5577	root	1.387	%
5578	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5579			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5580
5581			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5582			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5583			> dropped patches.
5584
5585			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5586	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5587	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5588			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5589			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5590			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5591	root	1.387	%
5592	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5593			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5594			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5595	root	1.387	%
5596	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5597
5598			From: Bill Huey
5599			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5600
5601			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5602
5603			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5604	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5605	root	1.45	themselves.
5606
5607			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5608			certain.
5609	root	1.387	%
5610	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5611			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5612			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5613
5614			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5615			appropriate approach to a problem.
5616	root	1.387	%
5617	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5618	root	1.44	^^^^
5619			[...]
5620			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5621			[...]
5622			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5623			-15 Nice winter day
5624			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5625			-5 Nice warm winter day
5626			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5627	root	1.387	%
5628	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5629			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5630			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5631			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5632	root	1.387	%
5633	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5634			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5635
5636			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5637
5638			-ben
5639	root	1.387	%
5640	root	1.43	[...]
5641	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5642			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5643			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5644			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5645			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5646			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5647			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5648			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5649			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5650			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5651			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5652	root	1.387	%
5653	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5654			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5655	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5656	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5657			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5658			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5659			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5660			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5661			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5662	root	1.43	statt...
5663	root	1.387	%
5664	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5665	root	1.387	%
5666	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5667			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5668			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5669			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5670			values." Who writes this stuff?
5671	root	1.387	%
5672	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5673	root	1.387	%
5674	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5675			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5676			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5677			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5678			> "Macao".
5679			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5680			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5681	root	1.387	%
5682	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5683	root	1.387	%
5684	root	1.40	Beitrag
5685	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5686	root	1.40
5687			fucklinux
5688
5689			IP: 217.83.123.198
5690
5691			1. FUCK LINUX
5692
5693	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5694	root	1.40
5695			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5696	root	1.387	%
5697	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5698	root	1.40
5699			[...]
5700			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5701			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5702			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5703			read...
5704	root	1.387	%
5705	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5706			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5707			depends on the unreasonable man.
5708
5709			-George Bernard Shaw
5710	root	1.387	%
5711	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5712
5713			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5714	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5715	root	1.387	%
5716	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:
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	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
5719			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5720			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5721			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5722			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5725			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5726	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5727	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5728			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5729	root	1.387	%
5730	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5731			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5732			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5733			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5734			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5735			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5736			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5737			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).
5738			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5739			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5740	root	1.387	%
5741	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5742			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5743			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5744			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5745			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5746			removed in Windows XP.
5747
5748			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5749			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5750			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5751			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5754			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5755			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5756			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5757			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5758			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5759			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5760			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5761			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5762			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5763
5764			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5765			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5766			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5767			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5768			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5769			you have no details?
5770			[...]
5771			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5772			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5773			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5774			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5775			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5776			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5777			the industrial terrorists want."
5778	root	1.387	%
5779	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5780			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5781	root	1.387	%
5782	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5783	root	1.387	%
5784	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5785			of each 50 days
5786	root	1.387	%
5787	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5788
5789			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5790			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5791			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5792	root	1.387	%
5793	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5794			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5795			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5796	root	1.387	%
5797	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5798			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5799	root	1.247	>
5800	root	1.35	> <...>
5801			>
5802			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5803			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5804			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5805	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5806	root	1.387	%
5807	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5808			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5809			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5810	root	1.387	%
5811	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5812			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5813			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5814
5815	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5816			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5817			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5818			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5819			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5820			changing run level, interactive boot.
5821	root	1.35
5822			Alan
5823	root	1.387	%
5824	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5825
5826			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5827			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5828
5829			First they came for the Communists,
5830			and I didn't speak up,
5831			because I wasn't a Communist.
5832			Then they came for the Jews,
5833			and I didn't speak up,
5834			because I wasn't a Jew.
5835			Then they came for the Catholics,
5836			and I didn't speak up,
5837			because I was a Protestant.
5838			Then they came for me,
5839			and by that time there was no one
5840			left to speak up for me.
5841
5842			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5843	root	1.387	%
5844	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5845	root	1.387	%
5846	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5847			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5848	root	1.387	%
5849	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5850			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5851			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5852			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5853
5854			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5855	root	1.387	%
5856	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5857
5858			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5859			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5860			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5861			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5862			used databases!"
5863	root	1.387	%
5864	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5865
5866			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5867
5868			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5869			change that was not?
5870			[...]
5871	root	1.387	%
5872	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5873
5874			[...]
5875
5876	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5877	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5878			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5879
5880	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5881	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5882			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5883			them anywhere else").
5884
5885			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5886			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5887	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5888	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5889			order..
5890
5891	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5892	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5893	root	1.387	%
5894	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5895			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5896			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5897
5898			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5899	root	1.387	%
5900	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5901	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5902			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5903			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5904			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5905	root	1.387	%
5906	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5907			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5908
5909			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5910			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5911			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5912			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5913			series.
5914
5915			[...]
5916	root	1.387	%
5917	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5918	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5919	root	1.387	%
5920	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5921			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5922			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5923
5924			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5925			then save." g
5926
5927			/* Steinar */
5928	root	1.387	%
5929	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5930			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5931
5932			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5933			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5934			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5935			a bill...
5936	root	1.387	%
5937	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5938			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5939			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5940
5941			Sorry. Mea culpa
5942
5943			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5944			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5945			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5946			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5947			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5948			*/
5949			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5950			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5951			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5952			int fpu_exception;
5953	root	1.387	%
5954	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5955
5956			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5957
5958			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5959			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5960			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5961			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5962			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5963	root	1.387	%
5964	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5965
5966			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5967			people.
5968	root	1.387	%
5969	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5970			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5971
5972			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5973			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5974			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5975			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5976			the question.
5977			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5978	root	1.387	%
5979	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5980			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5981			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5982			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5983			(September)
5984	root	1.387	%
5985	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5986	root	1.387	%
5987	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5988			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5989			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5990			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5991			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5992	root	1.387	%
5993	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5994			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5995	root	1.387	%
5996	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5997			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5998			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5999			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6000			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6001	root	1.387	%
6002	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6003	root	1.387	%
6004	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6005	root	1.387	%
6006	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6007			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6008			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6009			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6010			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6011			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6012			you tell them.
6013	root	1.387	%
6014	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6015			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6016			alcohol.
6017
6018			Regards
6019			Henning
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6022			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6023			> on a desktop system.
6024
6025			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6026			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6027
6028			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6029			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6030
6031			Alan
6032	root	1.387	%
6033	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6034			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6035
6036			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6037			>
6038			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6039			> Use Welsh
6040
6041			Don't forget
6042
6043			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6044			Use Finnish
6045
6046			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6047
6048			And while we're at it,
6049
6050			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6051			Use German
6052
6053			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6054			Use English
6055
6056			MfG Kai
6057	root	1.387	%
6058	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6059
6060			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6061			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6062			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6063			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6064			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6065			there's no one thinking there.
6066			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6067	root	1.387	%
6068	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6069			scores the rules:
6070
6071			[*]
6072			Score:: =-9999
6073	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6074	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6075			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6076			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6077			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6078
6079			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6080			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6081			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6082			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6083			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6084
6085			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6086			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6087			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6088			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6089	root	1.387	%
6090	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6091			98 IIS servers online...
6092	root	1.387	%
6093	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6094			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6095			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6096			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6097
6098			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6099			it to be otherwise.
6100
6101			Abigail
6102	root	1.387	%
6103	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6104	root	1.387	%
6105	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6106	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6107	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6108	root	1.387	%
6109	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6110	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6113			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6114			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6115			software people doing the same)
6116
6117			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6118			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6119			irrelevant
6120
6121			Alan
6122	root	1.387	%
6123	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6124			Comments may nest.
6125	root	1.387	%
6126	root	1.22	[from findas]
6127			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6128			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6129			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6130			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6131			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6132			# address distributino is... arin.
6133	root	1.387	%
6134	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6135			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6136	root	1.387	%
6137	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6138			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6139			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6140			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6141			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6142	root	1.247	>
6143	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6144
6145			$foot->insert($mouth);
6146
6147			# or is that
6148
6149			$mouth->insert($foot);
6150
6151			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6152			How utterly optimistic :-)
6153	root	1.387	%
6154	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6155			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6156			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6157			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6158			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6159			>can see why it happens)
6160			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6161
6162			Well, there's perl... :)
6163	root	1.387	%
6164	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6165			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6166			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6167			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6168			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6169	root	1.247	* boxes.
6170	root	1.387	%
6171	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6172			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6173			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6174	root	1.387	%
6175	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6176			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6177	root	1.387	%
6178	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6179			From: Juergen Christoffel
6180			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6181			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6182
6183			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6184
6185			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6186			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6187			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6188			schon;
6189
6190			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6191			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6192			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6193
6194			Danke, JC
6195	root	1.387	%
6196	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6197			#undef REASONABLE
6198	root	1.387	%
6199	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6200			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6201
6202			Alan
6203	root	1.387	%
6204	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6205			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6206			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6207			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6208	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6209	root	1.18	> anything.
6210
6211			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6212			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6213	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6214			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6215	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6216			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6217
6218			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6219			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6220			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6221			always a good idea.
6222	root	1.387	%
6223	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6224			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6225
6226	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6227	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6230			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6231			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6232			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6233	root	1.387	%
6234	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6235	root	1.387	%
6236	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6237	root	1.18
6238			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6239			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6242			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6243			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6244			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6245	root	1.387	%
6246	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6247	root	1.387	%
6248	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6249			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6250			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6251			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6252			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6253			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6254	root	1.387	%
6255	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6256
6257			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6258			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6259			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6260			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6261			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6262			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6263			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6264	root	1.387	%
6265	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6266			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6267			future. Bleeeh]
6268
6269			From: Larry McVoy
6270
6271	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6272	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6273			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6274			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6275			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6276			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6277			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6278			not for the exceptional case.
6279	root	1.387	%
6280	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6281			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6282			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6283			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6284			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6285			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6286			stack.
6287
6288			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6289			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6290			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6291
6292			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6293			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6294	root	1.387	%
6295	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6296
6297	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6298			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6299			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6300			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6301	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6302	root	1.247	>
6303	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6304			> on the CPU?
6305
6306			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6307	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6308	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6309			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6310
6311			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6312			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6313			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6314			the point again".
6315	root	1.387	%
6316	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6317
6318	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6319			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6320	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6321	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6322	root	1.247	>
6323	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6324			> scenario.
6325
6326			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6327	root	1.387	%
6328	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6329	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6330			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6331			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6332	root	1.387	%
6333	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6334			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6335			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6336			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6337			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6338			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6339			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6340			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6341			anything.
6342	root	1.387	%
6343	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6344	root	1.387	%
6345	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6346			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6347	root	1.387	%
6348	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6349			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6350			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6351			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6352			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6353
6354			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6355	root	1.387	%
6356	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6357
6358			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6359
6360			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6361			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6362			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6363			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6364			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6365
6366			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6367			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6368			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6369			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6370			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6371			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6372			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6373			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6374			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6375			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6376			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6377			to work through the learning curve.
6378	root	1.387	%
6379	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6380	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6381	root	1.387	%
6382	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6383			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6384	root	1.387	%
6385	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6386			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6387	root	1.387	%
6388	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6389			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6390	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6391			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6392	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6393	root	1.387	%
6394	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6395	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6396	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6397	root	1.387	%
6398	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6399			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6400	root	1.387	%
6401	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6402			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6403			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6404			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6405			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6406			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6407			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6408			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6409
6410	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6411	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6412	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6413	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6414			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6415
6416			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6417			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6418			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6419			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6420			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6421			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6422			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6423	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6424	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6425			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6426			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6427	root	1.387	%
6428	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6429			/*---.
6430			\| ? \|
6431			`---*/
6432	root	1.387	%
6433	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6436			From: Joe Buck
6437			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6438			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6439	root	1.387	%
6440	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6441			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6442	root	1.387	%
6443	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6444	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6445	root	1.387	%
6446	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6447	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6448	root	1.387	%
6449	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6450	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6451	root	1.4	...
6452			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6453	root	1.387	%
6454	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6455	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6456			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6457			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6458
6459			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6460
6461			Alan
6462	root	1.387	%
6463	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6464	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6465			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6466			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6467			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6468	root	1.387	%
6469	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6470	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6471			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6472			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6473			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6474			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6475			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6476	root	1.387	%
6477	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6478			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6479			will find an easier way to do it.
6480	root	1.387	%
6481	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6482	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6483			Paul wrote:
6484			>Marc wrote:
6485	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6486			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6487			> den richtigen.
6488	root	1.387	%
6489	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6490			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6491	root	1.387	%
6492	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6493			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6494	root	1.387	%
6495	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6496			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6497	root	1.387	%
6498	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6499			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6500			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6501			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6502			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6503	root	1.387	%
6504	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6505			[...]
6506
6507			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6508
6509			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6512			> constants.
6513
6514			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6515	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6516	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6517	root	1.387	%
6518	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6519	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6520
6521			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6522			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6523			much to do with IRC.
6524	root	1.387	%
6525	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6526			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6527
6528			[...]
6529			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6530
6531			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6532			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6533	root	1.387	%
6534	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6535	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6536	root	1.387	%
6537	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6538
6539			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6540			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6541			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6542
6543			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6544			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6545			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6546			shows how much you know, pal.
6547
6548			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6549	root	1.387	%
6550	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6551			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6552			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6553	root	1.387	%
6554	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6555			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6556			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6557			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6558	root	1.387	%
6559	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6560			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6561			Your version of perl sucks.
6562	root	1.387	%
6563	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6564			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6565			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6566			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6567			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6568			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6569			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6570			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6571	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6572	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6573			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6574	root	1.387	%
6575	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6576			before you can understand it :)
6577	root	1.387	%
6578	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6579			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6580			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6581	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6582	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6583			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6584			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6585
6586			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6587			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6588			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6589			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6590			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6591			be worth attempting).
6592
6593			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6594			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6595			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6596
6597			Nick.
6598	root	1.387	%
6599	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6600			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6601			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6602
6603	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6604	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6605			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6606			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6607			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6608	root	1.387	%
6609	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6610			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6611			> > > to work :-)
6612	root	1.247	> >
6613	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6614	root	1.247	>
6615	root	1.1	> Eh?
6616	root	1.247	>
6617	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6618			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6619
6620			He didn't say it worked. :)
6621	root	1.387	%
6622	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6623
6624			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6625			> I find it irksome that
6626	root	1.247	>
6627	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6628
6629			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6630	root	1.387	%
6631	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6632			From: Simon Cozens
6633
6634			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6635			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6636			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6637
6638			Looks like a feature to me.
6639	root	1.387	%
6640	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6641	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6642	root	1.387	%
6643	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6644			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6645
6646			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6647			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6648			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6649			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6650
6651			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6652			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6653			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6654			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6655			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6656			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6657	root	1.387	%
6658	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6659			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6660			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6661			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6662			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6663			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6664			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6665			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6666			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6667			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6668			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6669			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6670
6671			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6672			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6673			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6674
6675			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6676	root	1.387	%
6677	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6678			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6679			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6680			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6681			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6682			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6683			replication."
6684			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6685	root	1.387	%
6686	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6687			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6688
6689			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6690			shows.
6691
6692			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6693			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6694			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6695
6696			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6697			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6698			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6699			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6700			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6701
6702			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6703			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6704			up with a saner protocol.
6705	root	1.387	%
6706	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6707			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6708			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6709
6710			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6711			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6712			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6713	root	1.387	%
6714	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6715			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6716			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6717			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6718			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6719			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6722			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6723	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6724			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6725			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6726			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6727	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6728	root	1.387	%
6729	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6730	root	1.387	%
6731	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6732			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6733	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6734	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6735	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6736	root	1.387	%
6737	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6738			"ist mir egal"
6739	root	1.387	%
6740	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6741			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6742
6743			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6744	root	1.387	%
6745	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6746			hallole
6747	root	1.387	%
6748	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6749			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6750			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6751	root	1.387	%
6752	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6753			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6754			1929 The pause that refreshes
6755			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6756			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6757			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6758			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6759			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6760			1939 Thirst stops here
6761			1942 It's the real thing
6762			1947 Have a Coke
6763			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6764			1963 Things go better with Coke
6765			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6766			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6767			1982 Coke is it!
6768			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6769	root	1.387	%
6770	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6771			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6772	root	1.387	%
6773	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6774			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6775	root	1.387	%
6776	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6777	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6778			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6779			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6780			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6781			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6782			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6783			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6784			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6785			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6786			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6787			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6788			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6789			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6790			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6791
6792			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6793			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6794	root	1.387	%
6795	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6796			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6797
6798			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6799			uncool thing to do. [...]
6800	root	1.387	%
6801	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6802			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6803			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6804	root	1.387	%
6805	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6806	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6807	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6808	root	1.1
6809	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6810			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6811			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6812			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6813	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6814			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6815	root	1.387	%
6816	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6817			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6818			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6819			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6820			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6821			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6822			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6823
6824			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6825			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6826			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6827	root	1.387	%
6828	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6829
6830			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6831	root	1.387	%
6832	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6833			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6834			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6835			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6836			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6837	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6838	root	1.387	%
6839	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6840			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6841			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6842
6843			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6844			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6845
6846			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6847	root	1.387	%
6848	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6849	root	1.387	%
6850	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6851			From: Alan Cox
6852			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6853			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6854	root	1.247	>
6855			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6856	root	1.1
6857	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6858	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6859	root	1.387	%
6860	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6861			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6862			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6863
6864			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6865			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6866			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6867			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6868
6869			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6870
6871			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6872	root	1.387	%
6873	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6874	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6875			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6876	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6877	root	1.387	%
6878	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6879	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6880			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6881	root	1.387	%
6882	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6883			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6884	root	1.387	%
6885	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6888			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6889			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6890	root	1.387	%
6891	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6892			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6893			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6894			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6895			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6896	root	1.387	%
6897	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6898	root	1.387	%
6899	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6900			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6901			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6902			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6903			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6904			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6905			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6906	root	1.387	%
6907	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6908			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6909	root	1.387	%
6910	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6911			perl:]
6912
6913			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6914
6915			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6916			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6917			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6918			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6919			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6920			disable the message and pray it works"]
6921	root	1.387	%
6922	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6923			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6924			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6925			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6926
6927			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6928			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6929			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6930			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6931			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6932	root	1.387	%
6933	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6934			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6935			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6936	root	1.387	%
6937	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6938			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6939			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6940			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6941			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6942	root	1.387	%
6943	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6944			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6945			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6946	root	1.387	%
6947	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6948			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6949	root	1.387	%
6950	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6951			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6952	root	1.387	%
6953	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6954			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6955			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6956			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6957			> it's a hard requirement.
6958
6959			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6960			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6961			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6962			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6963			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6964			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6965			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6966			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6967	root	1.387	%
6968	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6969			> Netscape?"
6970	root	1.247
6971	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6972			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6973	root	1.387	%
6974	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6975			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6976			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6977			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6978			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6979			the specified task step-by-step.
6980	root	1.387	%
6981	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6982
6983			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6984			be damned hard to understand."
6985	root	1.387	%
6986	root	1.1	[Linus]
6987			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6988			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6989			wrong. It's that simple.
6990	root	1.387	%
6991	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6992	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6993	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6994			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6995			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6996	root	1.247	Undernet>
6997	root	1.387	%
6998	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
6999			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7000			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7001			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7002
7003			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7004			document that contains an element or attribute named
7005	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7006	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7007			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7008			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7009			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7010			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7011			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7012	root	1.387	%
7013	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7014			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7015			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7016			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7017			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7018			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7019	root	1.387	%
7020	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7021			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7022			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7023			[... snip ...]
7024			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7025			tragedy...
7026	root	1.387	%
7027	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7028	root	1.247
7029	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7030			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7031			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7032			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7033			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7034			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7035			>message plus attorney's fees.
7036			[SNIP long sig]
7037	root	1.247
7038	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7039			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7040			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7041	root	1.247
7042	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7043			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7044			procmailable address.
7045	root	1.247
7046	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7047			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7048			just a waste of bandwidth.
7049	root	1.387	%
7050	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7053			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7054	root	1.387	%
7055	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7056	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7057	root	1.387	%
7058	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7059	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7060			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7061			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7062	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7063	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7064			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7065			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7066			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7067	root	1.387	%
7068	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7069	root	1.387	%
7070	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7071	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7072	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7073	root	1.387	%
7074	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7075			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7076			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7077			immediately and not block the calling process.
7078
7079			the man pages are wrong
7080
7081			--cw
7082	root	1.387	%
7083	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7084			...
7085			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7086	root	1.387	%
7087	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7088			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7089	root	1.387	%
7090	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7091			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7092			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7093
7094			How fast does it oops?
7095	root	1.387	%
7096	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7097
7098			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7099			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7100			> touch is 2Gig.
7101
7102			In theory, yes.
7103			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7104			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7105	root	1.387	%
7106	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7107			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7108			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7109			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7110			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7111			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7112			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7113			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7114			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7115			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7116			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7117			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7118			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7119			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7120			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7121			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7122	root	1.387	%
7123	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7124	root	1.387	%
7125	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7126			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7127			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7128			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7129			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7130	root	1.387	%
7131	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7132			[Lukas Grunwald]
7133	root	1.387	%
7134	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7135			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7136			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7137			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7138
7139			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7140			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7141			> > prompt.
7142			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7143			> /proc/info/authors?
7144	root	1.247
7145	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7146			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7147			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7148			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7149			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7150			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7151	root	1.247
7152	root	1.1	NOT.
7153			[...]
7154	root	1.387	%
7155	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7156			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7157			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7158	root	1.247
7159	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7160			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7161			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7162			> an interesting experiment.
7163	root	1.247
7164	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7165			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7166			to disagree...
7167	root	1.387	%
7168	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7169			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7170			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7171			[und Lukas sagt:]
7172			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7173	root	1.387	%
7174	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7175			report:]
7176			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7177			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7178			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7179			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7180	root	1.387	%
7181	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7182			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7183	root	1.387	%
7184	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7185			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7186			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7187
7188			Alexander Viro wrote:
7189			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7190			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7191			>
7192			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7193			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7194			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7195			> UNIX.
7196
7197			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7198			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7199			docs... ew!
7200	root	1.387	%
7201	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7202			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7203			> protected mode?
7204
7205			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7206			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7207			registers loaded ;)
7208	root	1.387	%
7209	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7210			[...]
7211			> backports hurt forward progress.
7212
7213			beware of content free dogma
7214	root	1.387	%
7215	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7216			> wondering.
7217
7218			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7219			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7220			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7221			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7222			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7223			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7224			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7225
7226			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7227	root	1.387	%
7228	root	1.1	>Keith,
7229	root	1.247	>
7230	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7231			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7232			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7233
7234			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7235			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7236			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7237			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7238			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7239			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7240			do the right thing.
7241
7242			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7243			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7244			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7245			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7246			and they have to fix it.
7247	root	1.387	%
7248	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7249			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7250			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7251			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7252	root	1.387	%
7253	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7254			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7255	root	1.387	%
7256	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7257			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7258			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7259			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7260
7261			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7262			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7263	root	1.387	%
7264	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7265			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7266	root	1.387	%
7267	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7268			glibc-2.2 was released]
7269			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7270	root	1.387	%
7271	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7272	root	1.387	%
7273	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7274			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7275			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7276	root	1.387	%
7277	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7278			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7279			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7280	root	1.387	%
7281	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7282
7283			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7284			standards-compliant.
7285			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7286			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7287			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7288			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7289			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7290			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7291	root	1.387	%
7292	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7293			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7294			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7295
7296			That's your problem.
7297
7298			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7299
7300			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7301			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7302	root	1.387	%
7303	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7304			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7305			> > out there) in the foot?
7306
7307			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7308
7309			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7310			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7311			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7314			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7315			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7316
7317			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7318			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7319			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7320			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7321			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7322			--
7323			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7326
7327			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7328			>
7329			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7330			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7331			>
7332			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7333
7334			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7335	root	1.387	%
7336	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7337			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7338			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7339	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7340	root	1.387	%
7341	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7342			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7343			Bullschildt below ;)]
7344
7345			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7346			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7347	root	1.387	%
7348	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7349			>
7350			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7351			>
7352			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7353			>
7354			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7355	root	1.387	%
7356	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7357
7358			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7359			it did the same thing.
7360
7361			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7362			a week ago. :(
7363
7364			--Jack
7365	root	1.387	%
7366	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7367	root	1.387	%
7368	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7369			-- K&R
7370	root	1.387	%
7371	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7372	root	1.387	%
7373	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7374			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7375	root	1.387	%
7376	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7377	root	1.387	%
7378	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7379			$modules => { "" => "" };
7380	root	1.387	%
7381	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7382	root	1.387	%
7383	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7384	root	1.387	%
7385	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7386			> --
7387			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7388			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7389	root	1.387	%
7390	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7391			From: "David Schwartz"
7392
7393			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7394			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7395			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7396			> pretty spiffy.
7397
7398			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7399			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7400			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7401			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7402	root	1.387	%
7403	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7404	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7405	root	1.387	%
7406	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7407			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7408			> of having bough one.
7409
7410			Not an uncommon thought :)
7411	root	1.387	%
7412	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7413
7414			Hi Marc !
7415
7416			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7417			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7418			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7419
7420			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7421	root	1.387	%
7422	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7423			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7424			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7425			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7426
7427			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7428			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7429			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7430
7431			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7432			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7433			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7434			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7435			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7436			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7437
7438			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7439			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7440
7441			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7442			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7443			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7444			right to left.
7445
7446			>But no culture
7447			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7448			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7449			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7450			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7451			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7452
7453			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7454
7455			--Alex
7456	root	1.387	%
7457	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7458			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7459			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7460
7461			[most of the reply snipped...]
7462
7463			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7464			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7465			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7466
7467			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7468
7469			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7470			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7471			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7472			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7473			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7474
7475			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7476			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7477			try to claim that they do?)
7478	root	1.387	%
7479	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7480
7481			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7482			> {
7483			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7484			> flush(load);
7485			> else
7486			> wear(load);
7487			> }
7488
7489			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7490			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7491
7492			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7493			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7494
7495			--
7496			dwmw2
7497	root	1.387	%
7498	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7499			are are overturned.
7500	root	1.387	%
7501	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7502	root	1.387	%
7503	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7504			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7505	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7506			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7507	root	1.387	%
7508	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7509			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7510			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7511			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7512			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7513			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7514			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7515	root	1.387	%
7516	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7517			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7518			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7519
7520			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7521			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7522			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7523	root	1.387	%
7524	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7525			Deadlock, n.:
7526			Deceased Rasterman.
7527	root	1.387	%
7528	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7529			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7530			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7531			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7532	root	1.387	%
7533	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7534			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7537			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7538	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7539			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7540			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7541			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7542	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7543			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7544	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7545			Positionen für unwählbar.
7546	root	1.1
7547			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7548	root	1.387	%
7549	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7550			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7551			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7552
7553			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7554
7555			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7556			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7557			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7558			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7559			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7560
7561			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7562			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7563			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7564			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7565			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7566			results simply because I make a mistake!
7567
7568			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7569			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7570			errors.
7571
7572			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7573			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7574			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7575			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7576	root	1.387	%
7577	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7578			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7579			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7580			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7581			>
7582			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7583	root	1.387	%
7584	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7585			of nothing."
7586	root	1.387	%
7587	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7588			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7589			>
7590			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7591			> CPU?
7592
7593			Root password? :)
7594
7595			John.Fulmer
7596	root	1.387	%
7597	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7598
7599			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7600	root	1.387	%
7601	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7602			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7603			> which I prefer...
7604
7605			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7606			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7607			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7608			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7609			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7610			--
7611			Horst von Brand
7612	root	1.387	%
7613	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7614
7615			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7616
7617			[...]
7618
7619			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7620	root	1.387	%
7621	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7622			at your problem:]
7623
7624			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7625			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7626			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7627	root	1.387	%
7628	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7629			cp is inherently inefficient.
7630	root	1.387	%
7631	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7632			>breaking seals on them.
7633
7634			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7635			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7636			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7637
7638			...
7639
7640			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7641			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7642			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7643			could be just an urban myth though.
7644
7645			Russell Coker
7646	root	1.387	%
7647	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7648			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7649
7650			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7651	root	1.387	%
7652	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7653			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7654			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7655			> > deleting.
7656			>
7657			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7658
7659			Wrong. Yury does.
7660			:(
7661
7662			--
7663			Stefan
7664	root	1.387	%
7665	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7666			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7667			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7668			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7669			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7670			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7671			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7672
7673			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7674
7675			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7676	root	1.387	%
7677	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7678	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7679	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7680	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7681			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7682	root	1.387	%
7683	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7684			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7685			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7686			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7687			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7688			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7689			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7690			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7691			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7692			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7693	root	1.387	%
7694	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7695			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7696			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7697	root	1.1	aus!
7698	root	1.387	%
7699	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7700			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7701	root	1.387	%
7702	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7703			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7704			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7705			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7706	root	1.387	%
7707	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7708			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7709	root	1.387	%
7710	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7711			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7712			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7713			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7714
7715			--tom
7716	root	1.387	%
7717	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7718			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7719
7720			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7721			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7722			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7723			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7724			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7725	root	1.387	%
7726	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7727			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7728			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7729			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7730			solutions.
7731
7732			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7733
7734			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7735			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7736			the background]
7737	root	1.387	%
7738	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7739			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7740			Security Response Center:
7741
7742			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7743			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7744
7745			[and later]
7746			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7747
7748			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7749
7750			[Phil closes]
7751			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7752
7753			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7754			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7755	root	1.387	%
7756	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7757			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7758			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7759			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7760			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7761			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7762			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7763	root	1.387	%
7764	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7765			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7766			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7767			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7768
7769			[Trashey / Quasars]
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7772			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7773			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7774
7775			Irony potential in
7776
7777			man perlrtfm
7778
7779			is left to the reader.
7780
7781			Nat
7782	root	1.387	%
7783	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7784			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7785
7786			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7787			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7788	root	1.387	%
7789	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7790			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7791			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7792	root	1.387	%
7793	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7794			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7795			Paul Tomblin
7796	root	1.387	%
7797	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7798			>I am morally
7799			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7800
7801			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7802			possibility...
7803
7804			Dan
7805	root	1.387	%
7806	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7807	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7808	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 :)
7809			<Mr> zugabe
7810	root	1.387	%
7811	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7812			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7813	root	1.387	%
7814	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7815			[cobol, sigh]
7816	root	1.387	%
7817	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7818			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7819			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7820			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7821			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7822			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7823			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7824			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7825
7826			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7827	root	1.387	%
7828	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7829
7830			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7831			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7832			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7833			after they regain their composure."
7834
7835			-- Paul Rinaldo
7836			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7837	root	1.387	%
7838	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7839			>
7840			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7841			>
7842			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7843
7844			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7845
7846			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7847
7848			;-}
7849
7850			--
7851
7852			ciao -
7853			Stefan
7854
7855	root	1.387	%
7856	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7857			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7858
7859			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7860			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7861			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7862			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7863			one' type remarks.
7864			[Alan Cox]
7865	root	1.387	%
7866	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7867
7868			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7869			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7870
7871			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7872	root	1.387	%
7873	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7874
7875			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7876			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7877			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7878	root	1.387	%
7879	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7880			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7881			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7882			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7883	root	1.387	%
7884	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7885			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7886
7887			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7888			is to me ok.
7889	root	1.387	%
7890	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7891
7892			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7893	root	1.387	%
7894	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7895			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7896	root	1.387	%
7897	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7898			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7899	root	1.387	%
7900	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7901			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7902			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7903
7904			Ralf
7905	root	1.387	%
7906	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7907			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7908			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7909
7910			david parsons
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7913			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7914
7915			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7916			>so that trick is not portable.
7917
7918			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7919			127.0.0.1 localhost
7920
7921			--tom
7922	root	1.387	%
7923	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7924			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7925			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7926			> >the question is moot.
7927			>
7928			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7929
7930			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7931
7932			Ilya
7933	root	1.387	%
7934	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7935			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7936			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7937			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7938			> trying.
7939
7940			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7941			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7942	root	1.387	%
7943	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7944			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7945			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7946			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7947	root	1.387	%
7948	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7949			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7950			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7951	root	1.387	%
7952	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7953			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7954			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7955			> blocking :-)
7956
7957			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7958			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7959			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7960			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7961			reasons.
7962
7963			DS
7964	root	1.387	%
7965	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7966	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7967	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7968	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7969	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7970
7971			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7972	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7973	root	1.387	%
7974	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7975			[...]
7976			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7977			[...]
7978
7979			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7980			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7981			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7982			with each other on the same channel.
7983
7984			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7985			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7986
7987			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7988	root	1.387	%
7989	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7990			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7993	root	1.387	%
7994	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7995			ANY word at all is a candidate.
7996			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7997			ok
7998	root	1.387	%
7999	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8000			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8001	root	1.387	%
8002	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8003			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8004			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8005			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8006			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8007			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8008			<Xach> burrito, focus
8009			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8012			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8013			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8014			tested it." ...
8015	root	1.387	%
8016	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8017	root	1.387	%
8018	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8019
8020			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8021			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8022			>
8023			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8024			>
8025			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8026			>
8027			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8028			>
8029			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8030			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8031			>systems.
8032
8033
8034			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8035			had.
8036
8037			--
8038			Neal Bridges
8039	root	1.387	%
8040	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8041
8042			> Hi folks,
8043			> 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?
8044			> please reply to
8045			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8046			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8047
8048			Parse error.
8049
8050			---
8051			Alex
8052	root	1.387	%
8053	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8054
8055			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8056			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8057
8058			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8059			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8060			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8061
8062			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8063	root	1.387	%
8064	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8065	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8066	root	1.387	%
8067	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8068			ii = 44;
8069			p = &ii;
8070			p = ii/p;
8071			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8072			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8073	root	1.387	%
8074	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8075			> Linux time then.
8076
8077			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8078
8079			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8080			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8081
8082			Roger.
8083	root	1.387	%
8084	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8085	root	1.387	%
8086	root	1.1	auto accident;
8087			register voters;
8088			static electricity;
8089			struct by_lightning;
8090			void *where_prohibited;
8091			char broiled;
8092			short circuit;
8093			short changed;
8094			long johns;
8095			unsigned long letter;
8096			double entendre;
8097			double trouble;
8098			union organizer;
8099			float valve;
8100			short pants;
8101			union station;
8102			void check; unsigned check;
8103			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8104	root	1.387	%
8105	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8106			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8107			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8108	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8109	root	1.387	%
8110	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8111
8112			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8113			worstation.
8114	root	1.387	%
8115	root	1.1	I wrote
8116			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8117			$/
8118
8119			Damn shift key.
8120
8121
8122			Mike Guy
8123	root	1.387	%
8124	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8125			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8126			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8127			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8128			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8129			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8130			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8131			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8132			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8133	root	1.387	%
8134	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8135
8136			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8137
8138			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8139			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8140			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8141			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8142
8143			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8144	root	1.387	%
8145	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8146			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8147
8148			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8149			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8150			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8151			easy to bother.
8152
8153			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8154			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8155			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8156			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8157
8158			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8159
8160			Larry
8161	root	1.387	%
8162	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8163			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8164			Yeah. :-)
8165	root	1.387	%
8166	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8167			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8168			[...]
8169			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8170
8171			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8172			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8173			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8174			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8175
8176			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8177			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8178			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8179			receipts aren't used anymore.
8180	root	1.387	%
8181	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8182			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8183			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8184	root	1.387	%
8185	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8186			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8187			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8188			> versteht?"
8189	root	1.387	%
8190	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8191			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8192			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8193			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8194	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8195	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8196	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8197	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8198			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8199			ji!
8200	root	1.387	%
8201	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8202			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8203			[Larry Wall]
8204	root	1.387	%
8205	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8206			Altpreussen.
8207			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8208			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8209	root	1.387	%
8210	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8211			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8212			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8213			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8214			>
8215	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8216			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8217	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8218
8219	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8220	root	1.1	Norbert?
8221	root	1.387	%
8222	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8223	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8224			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8225	root	1.387	%
8226	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8227	root	1.387	%
8228	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8229	root	1.387	%
8230	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8231			From: "Steve"
8232			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8233			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8234			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8235
8236			[the following was a single line, of course]
8237			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8238			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8239			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8240			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8241			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8242
8243			Thanks,
8244
8245			Steve
8246	root	1.387	%
8247	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8248			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8249			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8250			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8251	root	1.387	%
8252	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8253			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8254			<tigert> ahem
8255	root	1.387	%
8256	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8257			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8258			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8259	root	1.387	%
8260	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8261			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8262			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8263			Subject: It's soup.
8264
8265			Okay, it's there.
8266
8267			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8268
8269			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8270
8271			Larry
8272	root	1.387	%
8273	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8274	root	1.387	%
8275	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8276			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8277			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8278			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8279			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8280	root	1.387	%
8281	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8282			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8283			>
8284			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8285			> And there's no mouse.
8286			>
8287			> Abigail
8288
8289			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8290
8291			Matt.
8292	root	1.387	%
8293	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8294			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8295
8296			- --tom
8297	root	1.387	%
8298	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8299			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8300
8301			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8302			>
8303			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8304			> 2.2.11 release?
8305
8306			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8307
8308			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8309
8310			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8311	root	1.387	%
8312	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8313	root	1.387	%
8314	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8315			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8316			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8317			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8318			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8319			> that much ;-)
8320
8321			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8322	root	1.387	%
8323	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8324			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8325	root	1.387	%
8326	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8327			<QUOTE>
8328			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8329
8330			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8331			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8332			</QUOTE>
8333	root	1.387	%
8334	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8335			and routes around it.
8336
8337			Roger Larsson
8338	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8339	root	1.387	%
8340	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8341			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8342	root	1.387	%
8343	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8344			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8345	root	1.387	%
8346	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8347
8348			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8349			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8350			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8351			on different JVMs.
8352
8353			[and later]
8354
8355			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8356			adventure gaming:
8357
8358			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8359			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8360	root	1.387	%
8361	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8362			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8363
8364			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8365
8366			NK> ?? -> huh?
8367
8368			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8369
8370			<chaim>
8371	root	1.387	%
8372	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8373			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8374			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8375			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8376			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8377			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8378	root	1.387	%
8379	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8380	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8381	root	1.387	%
8382	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8383			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8384			page]
8385			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8386			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8387			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8388			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8389			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8390			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8391			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8392			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8393			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8394			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8395	root	1.387	%
8396	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8397			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8398			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8399			don't actually get anything DONE.
8400	root	1.387	%
8401	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8402			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8403			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8404			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8405	root	1.387	%
8406	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8407			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8408			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8409			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8410
8411			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8412	root	1.387	%
8413	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8414			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8415			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8416	root	1.387	%
8417	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8418			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8419			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8420	root	1.387	%
8421	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8422
8423			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8424			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8425			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8426			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8427			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8428			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8429			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8430			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8431			got the T-shirt.
8432	root	1.387	%
8433	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8434			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8435			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8436			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8437			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8438			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8439			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8440
8441			Linus writes, to Craig:
8442
8443			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8444			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8445			> thus choices than gcc.
8446
8447			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8448			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8449			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8450			far more complex than the kernel.
8451
8452			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8453			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8454
8455			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8456	root	1.387	%
8457	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8458			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8459			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8460
8461			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8462			[...]
8463			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8464			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8465			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8466			>let the user be in control.
8467
8468			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8469			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8470			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8471			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8472			compilers?
8473	root	1.387	%
8474	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8475			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8476
8477			Linus writes:
8478			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8479			> gcc could do better?
8480
8481			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8482			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8483			before you had so many worshippers.
8484	root	1.387	%
8485	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8486			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8487			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8488			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8489			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8490
8491			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8492
8493			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8494			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8495			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8496			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8497
8498			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8499
8500			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8501
8502			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8503			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8504
8505			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8506
8507			>:->
8508
8509			Brane
8510
8511
8512			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8513			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8514			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8515			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8516			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8517
8518
8519			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8520	root	1.387	%
8521	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8522	root	1.387	%
8523	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8524			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8525			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8526	root	1.387	%
8527	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8528			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8529			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8530	root	1.387	%
8531	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8532
8533			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8534
8535			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8536	root	1.387	%
8537	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8538			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8539			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8540			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8541
8542			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8543
8544			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8545			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8546			:
8547			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8548			:
8549			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8550			:
8551			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8552	root	1.387	%
8553	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8554	root	1.387	%
8555	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8556			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8557			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8558			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8559			>
8560			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8561			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8562
8563			The classic example:
8564
8565			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8566			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8567	root	1.387	%
8568	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8569			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8570
8571			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8572			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8573			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8574
8575			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8576
8577			--tom
8578	root	1.387	%
8579	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8580			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8581			working on something for me
8582			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8583			to me nutting concerning y ok
8584			piece
8585			russ
8586	root	1.387	%
8587	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8588
8589			pico (text editor for beginners)
8590			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8591			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8592			ed (text editor for beginners)
8593	root	1.387	%
8594	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8595
8596			use Python;
8597
8598			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8599			Except maybe faster. :-)
8600
8601			Larry
8602	root	1.387	%
8603	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8604
8605			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8606			2010.
8607
8608			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8609	root	1.387	%
8610	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8611			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8612			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8613			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8614			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8615			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8616			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8617			been created.
8618	root	1.387	%
8619	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8620			>
8621			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8622			> $3.99.
8623			>
8624			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8625			>
8626			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8627			>
8628			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8629			>
8630			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8631			>
8632			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8633			>
8634			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8635			> got integrated Coke!
8636			>
8637			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8638			> to drink the Coke.
8639			>
8640			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8641			>
8642			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8643			>
8644			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8645			> inseparable.
8646			>
8647			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8648			>
8649			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8650			>
8651			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8652			>
8653			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8654			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8655			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8656	root	1.387	%
8657	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8658			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8659	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8660	root	1.387	%
8661	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8662
8663			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8664			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8665			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8666			for you to digest this book.
8667			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8668			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8669			Join The Trickle
8670			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8671			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8672			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8673	root	1.387	%
8674	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8675			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8676			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8677			complete and utter vapourware.
8678
8679			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8682
8683			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8684			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8685	root	1.387	%
8686	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8687
8688			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8689			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8690			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8691			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8692			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8693			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8694			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8695			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8696			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8697			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8698			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8699			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8700			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8701			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8702			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8703			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8704			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8705			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8706			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8707			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8708			work.
8709			[...]
8710			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8711			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8712			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8713			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8714			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8715			search generically - then it has some potential.
8716			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8717			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8718			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8719			intellectual value whatsoever.
8720
8721			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8722			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8723			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8724	root	1.387	%
8725	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8726	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8727	root	1.387	%
8728	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8729			#!/usr/bin/sh
8730			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8731			# All Rights Reserved
8732
8733			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8734			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8735			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8736
8737			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8738			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8739	root	1.387	%
8740	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.
8741	root	1.387	%
8742	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8743			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8744			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8745	root	1.387	%
8746	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8747
8748			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8749			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8750
8751			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8752			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8753			machine]
8754
8755			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8756			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8757			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8758
8759			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8760	root	1.387	%
8761	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8762			spamming:]
8763
8764			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8765			>>
8766			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8767			>>------------------------------------------------------
8768			>>
8769			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8770			>>
8771			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8772
8773			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8774			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8775	root	1.387	%
8776	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8777			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8778	root	1.387	%
8779	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8780			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8781	root	1.387	%
8782	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8783			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8784
8785			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8786	root	1.387	%
8787	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8788
8789			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8790			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8791			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8792			he's full of.
8793
8794			Support BSD/Linux.
8795
8796			--tom
8797	root	1.387	%
8798	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8799	root	1.387	%
8800	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8801	root	1.387	%
8802	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8803			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8804
8805			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8806			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8807			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8808			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8809	root	1.387	%
8810	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8811
8812			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8813			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8814	root	1.387	%
8815	root	1.1	[the creation]
8816			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8817	root	1.387	%
8818	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8819
8820			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8821			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8822			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8823	root	1.387	%
8824	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8825			selbst schliesse.
8826			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8827			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8828	root	1.387	%
8829	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8830			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8831
8832			No:
8833
8834			use Borg;
8835			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8836
8837			--
8838			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8839	root	1.387	%
8840	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8841			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8842			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8843			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8844			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8845			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8846			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8847			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8848			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8849			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8850			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8851			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8852			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8853			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8854			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8855			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8856			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8857			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8858			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8859			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8860			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8861			dispensers."
8862
8863			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8864	root	1.387	%
8865	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8866			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8867			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8868			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8869	root	1.387	%
8870	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8871			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8872			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8873	root	1.387	%
8874	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8875	root	1.1
8876			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8877	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8878	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8879	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8880	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8881			Student: "..."
8882			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8883			Student: "..."
8884			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8885	root	1.387	%
8886	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8887
8888			> Just morbid curiosity,
8889			>
8890			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8891
8892			Yes. Broken ones.
8893
8894			dgris
8895	root	1.387	%
8896	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8897			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8898	root	1.387	%
8899	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8900			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8901	root	1.387	%
8902	root	1.1	...
8903
8904			<AOL>
8905
8906			Me too!
8907
8908			</AOL>
8909
8910			Tig
8911	root	1.387	%
8912	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8913	root	1.387	%
8914	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8915	root	1.387	%
8916	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8917
8918			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8919			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8920			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8921			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8922			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8923			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8924			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8925
8926			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8927
8928			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8929			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8930			get really really pissed.
8931
8932			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8933			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8934	root	1.387	%
8935	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8936			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8937			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8938			> period.
8939			>
8940			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8941			> Nic
8942			>
8943
8944			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8945
8946			-hpa
8947	root	1.387	%
8948	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8949	root	1.387	%
8950	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8951			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8952			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8953			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8954			happy."
8955			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8956	root	1.387	%
8957	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8958			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8959			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8960
8961			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8962			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8963			I also forwarded the offending code.
8964
8965			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8966			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8967			service.
8968
8969			Daniel
8970	root	1.387	%
8971	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8972			...
8973			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8974	root	1.387	%
8975	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8976			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8977			[RJL]
8978	root	1.387	%
8979	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8980			right.''
8981	root	1.387	%
8982	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8983
8984			Amazing--they actually listened.
8985	root	1.387	%
8986	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8987			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8988			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8989
8990			# less foo
8991			sh: command not found
8992			# more foo
8993			sh: command not found
8994			# emacs foo
8995			sh: command not found
8996			# ed foo
8997			0
8998			help
8999			?
9000			quit
9001			?
9002			exit
9003			?
9004			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9005			?
9006
9007			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9008	root	1.387	%
9009	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9010			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9011			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9012
9013			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9014
9015			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9016
9017			tim> would be most correct in style.
9018
9019			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9020			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9021	root	1.387	%
9022	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9023			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9024			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9025			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9026			too bad --- ]
9027	root	1.387	%
9028	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9029	root	1.387	%
9030	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9031
9032			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9033			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9034
9035			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9036			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9037	root	1.387	%
9038	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9039			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9040			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9041			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9042			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9043	root	1.387	%
9044	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9045
9046			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9047			include wrong #include files in their source.
9048	root	1.387	%
9049	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9050
9051			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9052			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9053			Consider it a rite of passage.
9054	root	1.387	%
9055	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9056			"Oops."
9057			-- MST3K
9058	root	1.387	%
9059	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9060			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9061			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9062
9063			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9064			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9065			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9066			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9067			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9068			it. ;)
9069	root	1.387	%
9070	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9071			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9072			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9073			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9074			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9075
9076			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9077			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9078			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9079			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9080
9081			--tom
9082	root	1.387	%
9083	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9084
9085			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9086
9087			>Why does it end ?
9088
9089			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9090
9091			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9092			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9093
9094			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9095	root	1.387	%
9096	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9097			-- Tom Christiansen
9098	root	1.387	%
9099	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9100
9101			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9102			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9103			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9104			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9105			of Sputnik.
9106	root	1.387	%
9107	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9108			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9109			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9110			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9111			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9112	root	1.387	%
9113	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9114			- Hanlons razor -
9115	root	1.387	%
9116	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9117			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9118	root	1.387	%
9119	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9120			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9121			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9122			> offered no significant advantages.
9123
9124			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9125	root	1.387	%
9126	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9127			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9128			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9129			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9130			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9131			in front of me says so."
9132
9133			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9134	root	1.387	%
9135	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9136			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9137			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9138			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9139			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9140			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9141			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9142			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9143			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9144			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9145			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9146	root	1.387	%
9147	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9148			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9149			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9150			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9151			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9152	root	1.387	%
9153	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9154	root	1.387	%
9155	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9156	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9157			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9158			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9159			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9160	root	1.387	%
9161	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9162			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9163			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9164			>
9165			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9166			> and/or screen.
9167
9168			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9169	root	1.387	%
9170	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9171			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9172
9173			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9174			> use pedantic;
9175			> use strict 'code';
9176			>
9177			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9178
9179			use syntax 'python';
9180
9181			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9182
9183	root	1.387	%
9184	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9185			>
9186			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9187			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9188			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9189			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9190			>
9191			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9192	root	1.387	%
9193	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9194			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9195	root	1.387	%
9196	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9197			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9198			> be time-consuming.
9199
9200			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9201	root	1.387	%
9202	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9203			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9204			however, they do not handle C++...
9205			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9206	root	1.387	%
9207	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9208			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9209
9210			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9211
9212			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9213
9214			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9215
9216			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9217			already of old time, which was before us.
9218			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9219			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9220
9221			Regards,
9222			Tigran.
9223	root	1.387	%
9224	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9225	root	1.387	%
9226	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9227			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9228			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9229			main(){
9230			extrn hw;
9231			putchar(0[hw]);
9232			hw=+1;
9233			putchar(0[hw]);
9234			}
9235	root	1.387	%
9236	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9237
9238			The egg. Always. By definition.
9239	root	1.387	%
9240	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9241			>
9242			> Better check your scsi cables.
9243	root	1.387	%
9244	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9245			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9246	root	1.387	%
9247	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9248			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9249			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9250			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9251
9252	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9253	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9254			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9255
9256	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9257	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9258	root	1.387	%
9259	root	1.1	>James :\
9260			>
9261			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9262
9263			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9264	root	1.387	%
9265	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9266			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9267			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9268	root	1.387	%
9269	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9270			> is just asking for a black eye.
9271
9272			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9273
9274			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9275			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9276			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9277
9278			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9279			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9280			area.
9281	root	1.387	%
9282	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9283			[Lukas Grunwald]
9284	root	1.387	%
9285	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9286
9287			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9288			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9289			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9290			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9291			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9292	root	1.387	%
9293	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9294			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9295
9296			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9297	root	1.387	%
9298	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9299			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9300			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9301
9302			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9303
9304			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9305
9306			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9307
9308			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9309			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9310	root	1.387	%
9311	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9312	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9313	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9314	root	1.387	%
9315	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9316			longer...
9317	root	1.387	%
9318	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9319			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9320			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9321	root	1.387	%
9322	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9323			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9324			> > world :) I just love it...
9325			>
9326			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9327			>
9328			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9329			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9330			practical...
9331			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9332			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9333			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9334			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9335			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9336
9337			Jan Hubicka
9338	root	1.387	%
9339	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9340			[...]
9341			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9342
9343			No, it is not. What you meant is
9344
9345			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9346	root	1.387	%
9347	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9348			> A) perl-5.00553
9349			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9350			> cc = cl.exe
9351			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9352
9353			[...]
9354
9355			Ilya
9356	root	1.387	%
9357	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9358
9359			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9360
9361			p.
9362	root	1.387	%
9363	root	1.1	[tomc]
9364			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9365			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9366
9367			+------------------------------------------+
9368			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9369			+------------------------------------------+
9370
9371			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9372			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9373
9374			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9375			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9376			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9377			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9378			interesting way.
9379			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9380			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9381			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9382			interesting things.
9383			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9384			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9385			things.
9386	root	1.387	%
9387	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9388			--Dennis Ritchie
9389	root	1.387	%
9390	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9391	root	1.387	%
9392	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9393
9394			switch (x)
9395			default:
9396			if (prime(x))
9397			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9398			process_prime(x);
9399			else
9400			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9401			process_composite(x);
9402	root	1.387	%
9403	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9404			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9405			in megabytes, required for execution?
9406
9407			Craig Milo Rogers
9408	root	1.387	%
9409	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9410			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9411			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9412
9413			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9414			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9415
9416			Ilya
9417	root	1.387	%
9418	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9419			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9420
9421			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9422			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9423			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9424
9425			Nat
9426	root	1.387	%
9427	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9428			much steroids for a while. =)
9429
9430			--Albert Dvornik
9431			<bert@genscan.com>
9432	root	1.387	%
9433	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9434			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9435			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9436
9437			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9438
9439			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9440			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9441
9442			--tom
9443	root	1.387	%
9444	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9445
9446			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9447
9448			Linus
9449	root	1.387	%
9450	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9451			devil added HTML mail...
9452	root	1.387	%
9453	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9454			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9455			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9456	root	1.387	%
9457	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9458			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9459
9460			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9461			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9462			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9463
9464			Arm the gnus!
9465	root	1.387	%
9466	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9467
9468			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9469			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9470			gcc, so go away.
9471	root	1.387	%
9472	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9473			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9474
9475			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9476
9477			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9478			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9479	root	1.387	%
9480	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9481			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9482			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9483			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9484
9485			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9486			was released today" madness.
9487	root	1.387	%
9488	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9489			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9490			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9491			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9492			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9493			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9494			>
9495			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9496			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9497			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9498			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9499			> marketing name, anyway.
9500
9501			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9502			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9503			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9504
9505			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9506			violence..." :-)
9507	root	1.387	%
9508	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9509			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9510	root	1.387	%
9511	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9512			> >poor drivers
9513			>
9514			> No it doesn't.
9515
9516			Indeed. Its down to
9517
9518			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9519
9520			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9521			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9522			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9523			or binaries.
9524	root	1.387	%
9525	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9526	root	1.387	%
9527	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9528	root	1.387	%
9529	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9530
9531			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9532			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9533			\|>
9534			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9535
9536			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9537
9538			Andreas.
9539	root	1.387	%
9540	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9541			...
9542			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9543
9544			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9545			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9546			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9547			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9548			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9549			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9550	root	1.387	%
9551	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9552
9553			Paul Eggert writes:
9554			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9555
9556			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9557			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9560			however.
9561
9562			"We don't have the tools"
9563			"We can't support a non intel build"
9564			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9565			"Its not worth the time cost"
9566			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9567	root	1.387	%
9568	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9569
9570			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9571			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9572			>
9573			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9574			> <mailproc@fred>
9575			>
9576			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9577			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9578			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9579			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9580			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9581	root	1.387	%
9582	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9583			> No documented problem
9584			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9585			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9586			>
9587			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9588	root	1.387	%
9589	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9590			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9591	root	1.387	%
9592	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9593			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9594
9595			dave
9596	root	1.387	%
9597	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9598			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9599
9600			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9601	root	1.387	%
9602	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9603
9604			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9605			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9606
9607			Paul Eggert writes:
9608			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9609
9610			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9611			1 month before 29 March?
9612
9613			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9614
9615			1 month before 28 March?
9616
9617			28 February.
9618
9619			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9620			_before_ 27 February?
9621
9622			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9623	root	1.387	%
9624	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9625
9626			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9627			>> So make a security check first:
9628			>>
9629			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9630			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9631			>
9632			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9633			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9634			>
9635			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9636			> = instead of == error*/
9637			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9638			>
9639			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9640			>
9641			>--
9642			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9643
9644			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9645
9646			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9647			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9650			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9651
9652			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9653			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9654			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9655			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9656			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9657			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9658			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9659			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9660
9661			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9662			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9663			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9664			available for that hardware from any source.
9665			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9666			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9667			sniffing!
9668	root	1.387	%
9669	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9670			technical support line that isn't"
9671	root	1.387	%
9672	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9673			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9674	root	1.387	%
9675	root	1.1	[...]
9676			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9677			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9678
9679			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9680			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9681			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9682			"Nothing else"
9683			"Sorry"
9684			[Click]
9685
9686			Alan
9687	root	1.387	%
9688	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9689			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9690	root	1.387	%
9691	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9692			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9693			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9694			> users excepted, of course!).
9695
9696			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9697			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9698			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9699			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9700			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9701			is installed"
9702
9703			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9704	root	1.387	%
9705	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9706
9707			L. Harris wrote:
9708			>
9709			> Testing
9710
9711			you failed.
9712	root	1.387	%
9713	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9714			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9715	root	1.387	%
9716	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9717			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9718			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9719			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9720	root	1.387	%
9721	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9722			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9723			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9724
9725			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9726	root	1.387	%
9727	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9728			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9729			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9730			where else...
9731	root	1.387	%
9732	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9733			[...]
9734			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9735			: about a certain topic.
9736	root	1.387	%
9737	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9738			>
9739			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9740			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9741
9742			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9743			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9744
9745			void main (void)
9746			{
9747			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9748			printf ("\n");
9749			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9750			printf ("You have died.\n");
9751			printf ("\n");
9752			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9753			}
9754
9755			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9756
9757			--
9758			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9759	root	1.387	%
9760	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9761			mistake I ever made]
9762
9763			From: "Tom Miller"
9764			Subject: Can
9765			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9766
9767			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9768			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9769			my name is Tom Miller
9770
9771			From: "Tom Miller"
9772			Subject: Wait
9773			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9774
9775			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9776			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9777	root	1.387	%
9778	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9779
9780			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9781			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9782			so why bother? [...]
9783	root	1.387	%
9784	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9785	root	1.1
9786			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9787
9788			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9789			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9790			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9791			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9792			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9793			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9794			sich dann.
9795	root	1.387	%
9796	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9797			no fs
9798			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9799			Definitely hardware or software error.
9800
9801			Unix Version 7 Manual
9802	root	1.387	%
9803	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9804			>
9805			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9806			>
9807			> =for C
9808			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9809			> =end
9810			> =for C++
9811			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9812			> =end
9813			> =for Java
9814			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9815			> =end
9816			>
9817			> :-)
9818	root	1.387	%
9819	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9820	root	1.387	%
9821	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9822
9823			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9824			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9825			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9826			turn it on.
9827	root	1.387	%
9828	root	1.1	[...]
9829			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9830			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9831			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9832			[...]
9833	root	1.387	%
9834	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9835
9836			Chad C Giffin
9837	root	1.387	%
9838	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9839			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9840			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9841			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9842			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9843			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9844
9845			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9846			through the door.
9847			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9848			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9849			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9850			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9851			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9852			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9853			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9854			usually.)
9855
9856			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9857			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9858			your tire pressure..."
9859			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9860			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9861			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9862			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9863			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9864			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9865			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9866			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9867	root	1.387	%
9868	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9869
9870			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9871	root	1.387	%
9872	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9873
9874			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9875			:-(
9876	root	1.387	%
9877	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9878			>dies alles geschieht.
9879			>Und es verging nicht.
9880
9881			So what?
9882
9883			Ich dachte eher an:
9884
9885			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9886			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9887			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9888			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9889			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9890			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9891			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9892			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9893			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9894			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9895			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9896			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9897
9898			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9899
9900			Antje
9901	root	1.387	%
9902	root	1.1	[....]
9903
9904			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9905			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9906			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9907			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9908			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9909			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9910
9911			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9912
9913			Antje
9914	root	1.387	%
9915	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9916			lalala, I love you baby..."
9917			--
9918			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9919	root	1.387	%
9920	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9921			>
9922			> Kubys
9923
9924			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9925
9926			Linus
9927	root	1.387	%
9928	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9929
9930			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9931			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9932			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9933	root	1.387	%
9934	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9935
9936			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9937			out what it means.
9938			--
9939			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9940	root	1.387	%
9941	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9942			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9943	root	1.387	%
9944	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9945			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9946
9947			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9948
9949			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9950			> is being discussed.
9951
9952			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9955
9956			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9957
9958			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9959
9960			[and the button reads]
9961
9962			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9963	root	1.387	%
9964	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9965
9966			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9967
9968			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9969			certain amount of redundancy.
9970	root	1.387	%
9971	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9972			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9973
9974			...
9975
9976			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9977	root	1.387	%
9978	root	1.1	>Hello,
9979			>
9980			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9981			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9982			>
9983
9984			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9985			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9986			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9987			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9988	root	1.387	%
9989	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9990			on the country as a whole.
9991			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9992			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9993			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9994	root	1.387	%
9995	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9996			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9997	root	1.387	%
9998	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9999	root	1.387	%
10000	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10001			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10002			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10003
10004			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10005
10006			--tom
10007			--
10008			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10009			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10010	root	1.387	%
10011	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10012			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10013	root	1.387	%
10014	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10015
10016			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10017			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10018			> NO CARRIER
10019			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10020	root	1.387	%
10021	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10022			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10023			> better.
10024
10025			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10026			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10027	root	1.387	%
10028	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10029			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10030	root	1.387	%
10031	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10032			\|>
10033			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10034			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10035			\|>
10036			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10037			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10038
10039			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10040			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10041			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10042			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10043			build Bison, and then cook it.
10044
10045			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10046	root	1.387	%
10047	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10048			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10049			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10050			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10051			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10052	root	1.387	%
10053	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10054			-- lbxproxy(1)
10055	root	1.387	%
10056	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10057
10058			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10059
10060			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10061			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10062	root	1.387	%
10063	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10064
10065			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10066	root	1.387	%
10067	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10068			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10069			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10070			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10071			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10072
10073			\|> What does this mean.
10074
10075			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10076			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10077	root	1.387	%
10078	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10079
10080			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10081			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10082
10083			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10086			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10087			streams)."
10088			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10089	root	1.387	%
10090	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10091			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10092	root	1.387	%
10093	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10094
10095			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10096
10097			Klaro.
10098
10099			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10100			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10101			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10102			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10103
10104	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10105	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10106
10107			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10108			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10109			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10110			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10111			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10112			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10113			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10114
10115			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10116			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10117			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10118	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10119			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10120			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10121			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10122	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10123
10124			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10125	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10126			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10127			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10128			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10129			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10130			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10131			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10132	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10133			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10134
10135			cu in hell 2002
10136	root	1.387	%
10137	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10138	root	1.387	%
10139	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10140
10141			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10142			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10143			the man page for crypt(1).
10144
10145			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10146			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10147			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10148
10149			man -s3 crypt
10150
10151			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10152			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10153
10154			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10155			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10156			he can figure out to use the command
10157
10158			man -s3 Intro.3
10159
10160			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10161			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10162
10163			man -s3c crypt
10164
10165			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10166			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10167			any trouble.
10168			--
10169			Michael M Rubenstein
10170	root	1.387	%
10171	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10172
10173			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10174
10175			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10176
10177			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10178
10179			Regards,
10180			Tim Bunce.
10181
10182			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10183			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10184			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10185	root	1.387	%
10186	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10187
10188			...
10189
10190			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10191			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10192			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10193
10194			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10195			its unusable, believe me I do.
10196	root	1.387	%
10197	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10198
10199			Semour Cray
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10202
10203			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10204	root	1.387	%
10205	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10206			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10207
10208			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10209			it only supports parts of it
10210	root	1.387	%
10211	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10212			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10213	root	1.387	%
10214	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10215			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10216			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10217			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10218			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10219			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10220			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10221
10222			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10223			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10224			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10225			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10226			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10227			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10228			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10229			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10230			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10231			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10232
10233			tq vm, (burley)
10234	root	1.387	%
10235	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10236			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10237			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10238			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10239			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10240			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10241			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10242	root	1.387	%
10243	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10244			/*
10245			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10246			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10247			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10248			* files won't compile.
10249			*/
10250	root	1.387	%
10251	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10252			> great.
10253
10254			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10255
10256			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10257
10258			This rock is below water half of the time!
10259			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10260			on a regular basis! ;-)
10261	root	1.387	%
10262	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10263			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10264			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10265	root	1.387	%
10266	root	1.1	>
10267			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10268			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10269			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10270
10271			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10272	root	1.387	%
10273	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10274
10275			>Hello!
10276
10277			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10278			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10279			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10280
10281
10282			Perl.
10283
10284			regards
10285			jobst
10286	root	1.387	%
10287	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10288			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10289			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10290
10291			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10292			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10293
10294			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10295			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10296			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10297			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10298			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10299			the absolute pits.
10300	root	1.387	%
10301	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10302	root	1.387	%
10303	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10304			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10305
10306			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10307	root	1.387	%
10308	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10309			ketchup and mustard
10310	root	1.387	%
10311	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10312
10313			vimal gajjar wrote:
10314			>
10315			> Hi there,
10316			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10317			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10318			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10319			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10320			> 5% of cpu
10321			> 2 Mb of RAM
10322			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10323			>
10324			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10325
10326			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10327			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10328			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10329	root	1.387	%
10330	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10331			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10332			>
10333			> >s/usually/never/
10334			>
10335			> s/sometimes/never/
10336
10337			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10338	root	1.387	%
10339	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10340			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10341			:Perl, IMO.
10342
10343			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10344
10345			TC
10346	root	1.387	%
10347	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10348	root	1.387	%
10349	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10350
10351			Hi guys!
10352
10353			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10354	root	1.387	%
10355	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10356
10357			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10358			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10359			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10360			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10361			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10362			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10363	root	1.387	%
10364	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10365			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10366			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10367
10368			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10369			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10370			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10371			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10372
10373			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10374			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10375			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10376			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10377
10378			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10379
10380			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10381
10382			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10383			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10384			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10385
10386			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10387			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10388
10389			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10390			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10391
10392			Did I miss any? ;-)
10393
10394			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10395			Laugh. Please.
10396
10397			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10398			--Scott
10399	root	1.387	%
10400	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10401
10402			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10403			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10404			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10405			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10406	root	1.387	%
10407	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10408			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10409
10410			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10411
10412			This is not mail.
10413
10414			This is Usenet.
10415
10416			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10417	root	1.387	%
10418	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10419			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10420			--- ide1: reset: success
10421			-----------> I like Linux !
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10424			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10425
10426			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10427			do.
10428	root	1.387	%
10429	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10430			++ PLONK.
10431	root	1.387	%
10432	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10433			Re: Subraumfunk
10434
10435			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10436			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10437
10438			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10439			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10440			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10441			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10442			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10443	root	1.387	%
10444	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10445			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10446			>
10447			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10448
10449			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10450	root	1.387	%
10451	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10452			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10453	root	1.387	%
10454	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10455			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10456
10457			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10458			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10459
10460			Bill Jones
10461	root	1.387	%
10462	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10463
10464			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10465			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10466			#include <windows.h>
10467			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10468			#endif
10469	root	1.387	%
10470	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10471
10472			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10473			is, invoking the URL
10474
10475			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10476
10477			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10478	root	1.387	%
10479	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10480			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10481			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10482			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10483			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10484			"I am using CGI!"
10485
10486			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10487	root	1.387	%
10488	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10489			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10490			>
10491	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10492	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10493
10494			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10495	root	1.387	%
10496	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10497			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10498	root	1.387	%
10499	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10500			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10501			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10502			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10503	root	1.387	%
10504	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10505
10506			pcg@goof.com said:
10507			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10508
10509			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10510
10511			"It's broken."
10512			"What's wrong with it?."
10513			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10514			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10515			"It just doesn't work."
10516			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10517			"It gives an error message."
10518			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10519			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10520			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10521			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10522			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10523			letter for letter this time."
10524	root	1.387	%
10525	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10526
10527			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10528			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10529			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10530
10531			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10532			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10533			perms.
10534
10535			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10536	root	1.387	%
10537	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10538			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10539
10540			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10541
10542			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10543			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10544			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10545
10546			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10547			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10548	root	1.387	%
10549	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10550			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10551	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10552
10553			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10554			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10555			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10556			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10557			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10558			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10559			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10560			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10561			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10562			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10563			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10564
10565			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10566
10567			normarz@aol.com
10568	root	1.387	%
10569	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10570	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10571	root	1.1	>Legion
10572			>schlagen?
10573
10574			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10575
10576			Bye
10577			Andreas
10578	root	1.387	%
10579	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10580
10581			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10582			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10583
10584			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10585			companies.
10586
10587			Kind regards
10588			Henning
10589	root	1.387	%
10590	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10591			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10592			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10593
10594			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10595			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10596			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10597
10598			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10599			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10600			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10601			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10602			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10603			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10604			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10605			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10606			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10607			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10608	root	1.387	%
10609	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10610			We might support that sometime next year.
10611			-=- Microsoft
10612			(But I doubt it.)
10613			-=- Me
10614			-=- James Mastros
10615	root	1.387	%
10616	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10617			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10618			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10619			>lines.
10620
10621			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10622			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10623	root	1.387	%
10624	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10625	root	1.387	%
10626	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10627			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10628			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10629			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10630	root	1.387	%
10631	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10632
10633			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10634			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10635			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10636			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10637			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10638			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10639			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10640			it's not all his fault.
10641
10642			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10643			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10644			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10645			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10646			content.
10647
10648			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10649			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10650			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10651			learn (or pay for it;)
10652
10653			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10654			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10655			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10656			just for fun or to get the op.
10657
10658			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10659			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10660			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10661			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10662
10663			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10664
10665			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10666			course, Linux and Linux people.
10667	root	1.387	%
10668	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10669			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10670
10671			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10672			--
10673			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10674	root	1.387	%
10675	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10676
10677			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10678			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10679			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10680
10681			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10682			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10683			tradition.
10684	root	1.387	%
10685	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10686			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10687	root	1.387	%
10688	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10689			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10690	root	1.387	%
10691	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10692			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10693			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10694			Or GIRLS for short.
10695	root	1.387	%
10696	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10697	root	1.387	%
10698	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10699			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10700			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10701			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10702			5_004_03 to build!"
10703
10704			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10705			have no patience."
10706
10707			xoxo,
10708			Andy
10709	root	1.387	%
10710	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10711			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10712			We all have our cross to bear.
10713	root	1.387	%
10714	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10715
10716			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10717			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10718			Subject: Re: system() question
10719
10720			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10721			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10722			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10723			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10724			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10725			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10726			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10727			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10728			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10729			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10730			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10731			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10732			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10733			humiliating for me!)
10734
10735			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10736			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10737			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10738			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10739			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10740			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10741			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10742			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10743			really knows the answer.
10744
10745			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10746			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10747			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10748			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10749
10750			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10751			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10752			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10753			for that.
10754
10755			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10756			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10757			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10758			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10759			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10760			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10761			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10762
10763			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10764
10765			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10766			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10767			something for free.''
10768
10769			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10770
10771			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10772			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10773
10774			(Good question.)
10775
10776			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10777			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10778			once I have run it.''
10779			(Good question.)
10780
10781			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10782
10783			(Good question.)
10784
10785			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10786			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10787			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10788			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10789			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10790
10791			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10792			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10793			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10794			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10795			comp.lang.perl?
10796			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10797			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10798			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10799			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10800			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10801			in comp.lang.perl?
10802
10803			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10804			you my rate card.
10805
10806			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10807			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10808			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10809			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10810			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10811			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10812			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10813			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10814			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10815			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10816
10817			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10818			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10819			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10820			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10821			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10822			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10823			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10824			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10825			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10826			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10827			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10828			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10829			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10830			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10831			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10832			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10833
10834			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10835			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10836			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10837			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10838			someone will. Maybe I will.
10839
10840			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10841			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10842			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10843			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10844			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10845			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10846			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10847			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10848
10849			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10850			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10851			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10852			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10853			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10854			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10855			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10856			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10857			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10858			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10859			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10860			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10861			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10862			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10863
10864			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10865			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10866			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10867			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10868
10869			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10870
10871			`I want to accomplish X.
10872
10873			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10874
10875			...
10876
10877			But instead it does Y.
10878
10879			Why is that?''
10880
10881			This one is also pretty good:
10882
10883			`I want to accomplish X.
10884			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10885
10886			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10887			because of Z.
10888
10889			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10890
10891			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10892			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10893
10894
10895			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10896			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10897
10898			--
10899			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10900			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10901	root	1.387	%
10902	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10903			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10904
10905			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10906			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10907			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10908
10909			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10910
10911			bye, Georg
10912	root	1.387	%
10913	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10914			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10915			convince me.
10916
10917			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10918
10919			Linus
10920	root	1.387	%
10921	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10922			++
10923
10924			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10925			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10926
10927	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10928	root	1.1
10929			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10930			understanding the above line.
10931
10932			Abigail
10933	root	1.387	%
10934	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10935			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10936	root	1.387	%
10937	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10938			++ button?
10939			Yes.
10940
10941			++ 100 pictures or so?
10942			Yes.
10943
10944			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10945			Yes.
10946
10947			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10948			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10949
10950			Abigail
10951	root	1.387	%
10952	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10953
10954			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10955
10956			Martien
10957	root	1.387	%
10958	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10959			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10960			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10961			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10962	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10963	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10964			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10965			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10966			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10967	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10968	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10969			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10970	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10971			nicht. ;)
10972
10973	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10974			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10975			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10976	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10977			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10978	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10979	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10980
10981	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10982			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10983	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10984	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10985	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10986
10987	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10988	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10989	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10990			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10991	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10992	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10993	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10994			"unvorstellbar".
10995
10996			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10997	root	1.387	%
10998	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
10999			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11000			^^^
11001			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11004			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11005	root	1.387	%
11006	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11007			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11008	root	1.387	%
11009	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11010			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11011			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11012
11013			An artificial pile of rocks.
11014	root	1.387	%
11015	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11016			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11017			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11018			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11019			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11020			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11021
11022			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11023			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11024			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11025			grosser Flipperautomat.
11026
11027			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11028	root	1.387	%
11029	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11030			>
11031			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11032			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11033			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11034			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11035			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11036	root	1.387	%
11037	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11038			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11039	root	1.1
11040			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11041	root	1.387	%
11042	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11043
11044			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11045
11046			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11047			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11048			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11049			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11050			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11051			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11052			Unix environment.
11053	root	1.387	%
11054	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11055			between these:
11056
11057			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11058			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11059
11060			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11061			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11062			;#", and the print gets executed!
11063
11064			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11065			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11066			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11067			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11068
11069			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11070			'perl'".
11071
11072			--
11073			Randal L. Schwartz
11074	root	1.387	%
11075	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11076
11077			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11078			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11079			>
11080			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11081
11082			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11083
11084			--
11085			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11086	root	1.387	%
11087	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11088	root	1.387	%
11089	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11090			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11091	root	1.387	%
11092	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11093			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11094	root	1.387	%
11095	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11096			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11097			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11098			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11099			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11100			example.
11101	root	1.387	%
11102	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11103			resemble a nail.
11104	root	1.387	%
11105	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11106			> I did wrong.
11107
11108			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11109			newsgroup.
11110	root	1.387	%
11111	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11112	root	1.387	%
11113	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11114			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11115	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11116
11117			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11118	root	1.387	%
11119	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11120	root	1.1
11121	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11122	root	1.387	%
11123	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11124			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11125			expired instantly!!!
11126	root	1.387	%
11127	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11128			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11129
11130			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11131			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11132			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11133
11134			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11135			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11136			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11137			than double Linus's programming experience?
11138
11139			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11140			> pretty straight forward.
11141
11142			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11143			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11144	root	1.387	%
11145	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11146			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11147			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11148			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11149			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11150			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11151	root	1.387	%
11152	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11153	root	1.387	%
11154	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11155			Example:
11156			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11157	root	1.387	%
11158	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11159			Randal gets his hands on it
11160	root	1.387	%
11161	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11162	root	1.387	%
11163	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11164
11165			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11166			first if you get it working.
11167	root	1.387	%
11168	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11169			> Think different.
11170
11171			Think Again.
11172	root	1.387	%
11173	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11174	root	1.387	%
11175	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11176			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11177			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11178
11179			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11180	root	1.387	%
11181	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11182			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11183	root	1.387	%
11184	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11185			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11186			\| top.
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11189			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11190	root	1.387	%
11191	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11192			^^^^^^^^^
11193			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11194
11195			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11196	root	1.387	%
11197	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11198			>gehen soll?
11199
11200	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11201	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11202			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11203	root	1.387	%
11204	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11205	root	1.387	%
11206	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11207			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11208	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11209			>
11210			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11211
11212			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11213			Schuh aus!
11214	root	1.387	%
11215	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11216
11217	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11218	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11219	root	1.387	%
11220	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11221
11222
11223			First opportunity
11224			Approximate
11225			Orbit Internet
11226			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11227
11228			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11229			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11230			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11231			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11232
11233			Second opportunity
11234			Approximate
11235			Orbit Internet
11236			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11237
11238			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11239			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11240			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11241			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11242
11243			Third opportunity
11244			Approximate
11245			Orbit Internet
11246			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11247
11248			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11249			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11250			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11251			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11252
11253	root	1.387	%
11254	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11255	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11256			> >würden.
11257	root	1.1	>
11258			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11259			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11260			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11261			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11262			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11263			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11264			implizierst.
11265	root	1.387	%
11266	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11267			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11268	root	1.387	%
11269	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11270			Big improvement.
11271	root	1.387	%
11272	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11273			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11274			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11275			-- "Why that one?"
11276			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11277			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11278	root	1.387	%
11279	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11280			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11281			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11282	root	1.387	%
11283	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11284			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11285			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11286
11287			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11288
11289			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11290			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11291			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11292
11293			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11294
11295			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11296			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11297			> er eigentlich ist?
11298
11299	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11300	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11301	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11302	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11303	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11304	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11305	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11306	root	1.1	Ciao
11307			Stefan
11308	root	1.387	%
11309	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11310			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11311			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11312			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11313	root	1.387	%
11314	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11315			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11316			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11317			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11318			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11319			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11320			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11321			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11322			off.
11323	root	1.387	%
11324	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11325			Meet interesting people,
11326			Kill them.
11327	root	1.387	%
11328	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11329			> umwandelbar ist.
11330
11331			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11332	root	1.387	%
11333	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11334	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11335	root	1.387	%
11336	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11337			>
11338			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11339			> >> ruckartig.
11340			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11341			>
11342	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11343	root	1.1
11344			:-)
11345	root	1.387	%
11346	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11347	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11348			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11349	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11350			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11351			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11352			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11353
11354			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11355			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11356	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11357			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11358	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11359	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11360			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11361			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11362	root	1.1	Union.
11363
11364	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11365			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11366	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11367	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11368			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11369			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11370	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11371	root	1.387	%
11372	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11373			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11374	root	1.387	%
11375	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11376	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11377	root	1.1	>>
11378			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11379	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11380			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11381	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11382			>
11383			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11384			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11385	root	1.387	%
11386	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11387	root	1.387	%
11388	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11389			> into a random order???
11390			>
11391
11392			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11393			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11394
11395			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11396			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11397			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11398			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11399			number less than 42.
11400	root	1.387	%
11401	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11402			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11403			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11404			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11405			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11406			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11407			eventually invent Unix.
11408	root	1.387	%
11409	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11410			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11411			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11412			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11413			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11414			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11415			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11416			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11417			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11418			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11419			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11420			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11421			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11422			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11423			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11424			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11425	root	1.387	%
11426	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11427			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11428			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11429	root	1.387	%
11430	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11431			using a Perl CGI script?
11432	root	1.387	%
11433	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11434
11435			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11436			week.
11437	root	1.387	%
11438	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11439			Brieweb> of PERL.
11440			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11441			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11442			[Randal Schwartz]
11443	root	1.387	%
11444	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11445			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11446			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11447			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11448	root	1.387	%
11449	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11450			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11451			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11452			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11453			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11454			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11455			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11456			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11457			system and restricting their options.
11458			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11459	root	1.387	%
11460	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11461			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11462			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11463	root	1.387	%
11464	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11465			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11466			Ernie Hai
11467			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11468	root	1.387	%
11469	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11470			: results" report from the users.
11471
11472			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11473			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11474			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11475			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11476	root	1.387	%
11477	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11478			They are all owned by cats.
11479	root	1.387	%
11480	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11481			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11482			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11483	root	1.387	%
11484	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11485			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11486
11487			Yesterday it worked
11488			Today it is not working
11489			Windows is like that
11490			- - -
11491			wind catches lily
11492			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11493			segmentation fault
11494			- - -
11495			Three things are certain:
11496			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11497			Guess which has occurred.
11498			- - -
11499			A file that big?
11500			It might be very useful.
11501			But now it is gone.
11502			- - -
11503			Windows NT crashed.
11504			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11505			No one hears your screams.
11506			- - -
11507			Errors have occurred.
11508			We won't tell you where or why.
11509			Lazy programmers.
11510			- - -
11511			Seeing my great fault
11512			Through darkening blue windows
11513			I begin again
11514			- - -
11515			The code was willing,
11516			It considered your request,
11517			But the chips were weak.
11518			- - -
11519			Printer not ready.
11520			Could be a fatal error.
11521			Have a pen handy?
11522			- - -
11523			Server's poor response
11524			Not quick enough for browser.
11525			Timed out, plum blossom.
11526			- - -
11527			Chaos reigns within.
11528			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11529			Order shall return.
11530			- - -
11531			Login incorrect.
11532			Only perfect spellers may
11533			enter this system.
11534			- - -
11535			This site has been moved.
11536			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11537			have to delete you.
11538			- - -
11539			ABORTED effort:
11540			Close all that you have.
11541			You ask way too much.
11542			- - -
11543			First snow, then silence.
11544			This thousand dollar screen dies
11545			so beautifully.
11546			- - -
11547			With searching comes loss
11548			and the presence of absence:
11549			"My Novel" not found.
11550			- - -
11551			The Tao that is seen
11552			Is not the true Tao, until
11553			You bring fresh toner.
11554			- - -
11555			The Web site you seek
11556			cannot be located but
11557			endless others exist
11558			- - -
11559			Stay the patient course
11560			Of little worth is your ire
11561			The network is down
11562			- - -
11563			A crash reduces
11564			your expensive computer
11565			to a simple stone.
11566			- - -
11567			There is a chasm
11568			of carbon and silicon
11569			the software can't bridge
11570			- - -
11571			To have no errors
11572			Would be life without meaning
11573			No struggle, no joy
11574			- - -
11575			You step in the stream,
11576			but the water has moved on.
11577			This page is not here.
11578			- - -
11579			No keyboard present
11580			Hit F1 to continue
11581			Zen engineering?
11582			- - -
11583			Hal, open the file
11584			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11585			open it, please Hal
11586			- - -
11587			Out of memory.
11588			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11589			But we never will.
11590			- - -
11591			Having been erased,
11592			The document you're seeking
11593			Must now be retyped.
11594			- - -
11595			The ten thousand things
11596			How long do any persist?
11597			Netscape, too, has gone.
11598			- - -
11599			Rather than a beep
11600			Or a rude error message,
11601			These words: "File not found."
11602			- - -
11603			Serious error.
11604			All shortcuts have disappeared
11605			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11606	root	1.387	%
11607	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11608			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11609	root	1.387	%
11610	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11611			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11612
11613			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11614			early 1980s.
11615	root	1.387	%
11616	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11617			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11618			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11619			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11620
11621			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11622			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11623			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11624			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11625			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11626			many new features that it just stops working.
11627
11628			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11629
11630			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11631			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11632
11633			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11634			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11635			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11636
11637			Hope this explains what's going on
11638			Martien Verbruggen
11639	root	1.387	%
11640	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11641	root	1.387	%
11642	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11643	root	1.387	%
11644	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11645	root	1.387	%
11646	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11647			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11648			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11649	root	1.387	%
11650	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11651			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11652			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11653			>
11654			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11655
11656			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11657			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11658	root	1.387	%
11659	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11660			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11661			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11662			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11663	root	1.387	%
11664	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11665			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11666			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11667			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11668			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11669			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11670			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11671			convienience store.")
11672	root	1.387	%
11673	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11674			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11675	root	1.387	%
11676	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11677	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11678	root	1.1
11679			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11680			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11681	root	1.387	%
11682	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11683			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11684			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11685			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11686	root	1.387	%
11687	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11688			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11689			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11690	root	1.387	%
11691	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11692			(A => B) => (B => A)
11693			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11694			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11695	root	1.387	%
11696	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11697	root	1.387	%
11698	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11699			-Barry Shein
11700	root	1.387	%
11701	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11702			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11703			read the manual.
11704	root	1.387	%
11705	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11706	root	1.387	%
11707	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11708			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11709			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11710			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11711			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11712			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11713			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11714			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11715			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11716	root	1.387	%
11717	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11718	root	1.387	%
11719	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11720			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11721			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11722	root	1.387	%
11723	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11724
11725			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11726			need.
11727	root	1.387	%
11728	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11729			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11730			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11731	root	1.387	%
11732	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11733			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11734			newsreaders. You know,
11735			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11736			back
11737			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11738			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11739			out what they're saying.
11740	root	1.387	%
11741	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11742			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11743	root	1.387	%
11744	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11745			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11746			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11747
11748			But the combination.... sutters
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11751			Darn it.
11752	root	1.387	%
11753	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11754	root	1.387	%
11755	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11756	root	1.387	%
11757	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11758			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11759			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11760			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11761			trying to use it.
11762	root	1.387	%
11763	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11764	root	1.387	%
11765	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11766			>
11767			> Is this group active?
11768			No.
11769
11770			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11771			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11772
11773			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11774			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11775	root	1.387	%
11776	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11777			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11778	root	1.387	%
11779	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11780			Press any key to continue..."
11781	root	1.387	%
11782	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11783			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11784			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11785	root	1.387	%
11786	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11787			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11788			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11789			adjust your travel plans.
11790	root	1.387	%
11791	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11792			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11793	root	1.387	%
11794	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11795			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11796
11797			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11798			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11799
11800			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11801
11802			tak 18 12 6
11803	root	1.387	%
11804	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11805			-- Bill Gates
11806			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11807			-- Bill Gates
11808			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11809			-- logical conclusion
11810	root	1.387	%
11811	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11812			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11813			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11814			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11815			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11816			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11817			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11818			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11819			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11820			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11821			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11822			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11823			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11824			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11825			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11826			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11827			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11828			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11829			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11830			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11831			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11832	root	1.387	%
11833	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11834			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11835			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11836			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11837	root	1.387	%
11838	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.