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1	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
2
3			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
4			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
5
6			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
7			%
8			> How is the old way a problem?
9
10			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
11			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
12			it's smarter than you.
13
14			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
15			%
16	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
17			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
18			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
19			less lethal.
20
21			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
22			%
23	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
24
25			[...]
26
27			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
28
29			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
30			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
31			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
32			%
33	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
34			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
35			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
36			"also now legal names for the UK.
37
38			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
39			%
40			From: Russ Allbery
41			To: tz@iana.org
42			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
43
44			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
45			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
46			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
47			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
48			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
49			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
50			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
51
52			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
53			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
54
55			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
56			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
57			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
58			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
59			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
60
61			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
62			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
63			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
64			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
65			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
66			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
67			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
68			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
69			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
70
71			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
72			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
73			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
74			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
75			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
76			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
77			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
78			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
79			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
80			maintainer.
81			%
82	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
83
84			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
85			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
86			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
87			"BST", but no:
88			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
89			%
90			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
91			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
92
93			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
94			> When can we expect the updated version
95
96			About three weeks ago.
97			%
98	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
99			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
100			%
101			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
102
103			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
104			%
105	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
106			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
107			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
108
109			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
110			%
111			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
112
113			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
114
115			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
116			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
117
118			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
119			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
120			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
121
122			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
123			full day per year.
124			%
125	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
126			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
127			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
128			%
129			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
130			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
131			%
132			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
133			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
134			me - lately?".
135			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
136			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
137
138			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
139			%
140			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
141			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
142			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
143			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
144
145			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
146			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
147			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
148			your lives be a living hell.
149
150			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
151			%
152	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
153			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
154			%
155			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
156			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
157			out with a problem I'm having?
158
159			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
160
161			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
162
163			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
164			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
165			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
166			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
167
168			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
169
170			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
171
172			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
173
174			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
175			[http://c2.com/]
176			%
177			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
178			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
179			right-parenthesis.
180			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
181			%
182			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
183			yourself?
184			Software development is the career for you!
185
186			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
187			%
188	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
189			-- Richard Dawkins
190			%
191			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
192			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
193			and security.
194
195			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
196			%
197			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
198
199			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
200			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
201			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
202			%
203			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
204			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
205			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
206			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
207			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
208			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
209
210			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
211			%
212			tiny hsv2rgb
213			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;}
214
215			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
216			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
217			}
218			%
219			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
220			Only Java makes it possible!
221
222			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
223			%
224			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
225			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
226			extremely poettering''
227			%
228			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
229			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
230			%
231			"I drank what?!"
232			-- Socrates
233			%
234			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
235			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
236			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
237
238			Jon Callas in
239			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
240			%
241			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
242			-- Conway's Law
243			%
244			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
245			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
246			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
247			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
248			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
249			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
250			untangling this mess right now so).
251
252			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
253			%
254			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
255			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
256			enabled on platforms that support it.
257			[xorg.conf(5)]
258			%
259			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
260			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
261			> would work on code.
262
263			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
264			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
265			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
266			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
267			%
268	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
269			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
270			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
271			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
272			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
273			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
274			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
275			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
276			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
277			%
278			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
279			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
280			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
281			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
282			very beginning.
283			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
284			%
285			systemd creates user session information in
286			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
287			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
288			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
289			allowed one session per user.
290			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
291			%
292	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
293			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
294			> about anything else.
295			>
296			> Why is it like that?
297
298			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
299
300			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
301			%
302			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
303
304			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
305			>>
306			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
307			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
308			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
309			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
310			>
311			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
312
313			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
314			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
315			%
316			(partial) Beaufort Table
317			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
318			Calm 0 0 0
319			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
320			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
321			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
322			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
323			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
324			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
325			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
326			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
327			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
328			%
329			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
330			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
331			%
332			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
333			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
334			%
335			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
336			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
337			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
338			on the cards.
339			%
340			[random comment from amule sources]
341			// trust noone ;-)
342			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
343			// wtf you guys are weird.
344			%
345	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
346			- Kin Hubbard
347			%
348			[random .sig]
349			I'm a muslim.
350
351			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
352			%
353			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
354			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
355			before.
356
357			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
358			%
359			<imho>
360
361			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
362			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
363			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
364			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
365
366			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
367			Java - public static void not fun.
368			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
369			C - usually not fun.
370
371			What about modern scripting languages?
372
373			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
374			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
375			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
376
377			</imho>
378
379			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
380			%
381			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
382			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
383			%
384
385			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
386			*
387			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
388
389			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
390			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
391			%
392			# The user is always right.
393			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
394			[autoconf]
395			%
396			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
397
398			/*
399			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
400			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
401			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
402			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
403			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
404			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
405			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
406			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
407			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
408			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
409			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
410			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
411			*/
412			%
413			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
414			was new to me:
415
416			switch(c)
417			{
418			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
419			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
420			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
421			case 'd': base=-10; }
422			switch(type)
423			{
424			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
425			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
426			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
427			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
428			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
429			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
430			default:val=0; break;
431			}
432			cp = __numout(val,base);
433			if(0) {
434			case 's':
435			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
436			}
437			%
438			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
439			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
440			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
441			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
442			extra second and see how far you get :-)
443			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
444			%
445			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
446			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
447			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
448			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
449			>
450			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
451			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
452
453			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
454			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
455
456			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
457			%
458			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
459			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
460			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
461
462			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
463
464			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
465			%
466			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
467			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
468			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
469			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
470			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
471			settings)
472
473			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
474			%
475			How do I deal with memory leaks?
476
477			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
478
479			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
480			%
481			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
482			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
483
484			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
485			%
486			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
487			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
488			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
489			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
490
491			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
492			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
493			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
494			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
495			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
496			rewarded for their creativity.
497
498			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
499			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
500			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
501			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
502			would never have made it in the first place.
503
504			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
505			%
506			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
507			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
508			%
509			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
510			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
511			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
512			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
513			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
514
515			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
516			%
517			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
518			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
519			- Mohandas Gandhi
520			%
521			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
522			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
523			handiwork of the Lord."
524			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
525			%
526			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
527
528			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
529			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
530			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
531
532			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
533			Scientist A publishes results.
534
535			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
536			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
537			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
538
539			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
540			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
541			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
542			A: ...
543			B: You fraud!
544
545			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
546
547			A publishes results.
548
549			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
550			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
551			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
552			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
553			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
554			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
555
556			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
557			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
558			%
559			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
560			them because they need the money to operate]
561
562			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
563			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
564			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
565			site or its bottom line."
566			%
567			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
568			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
569			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
570			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
571			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
572			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
573			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
574			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
575			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
576			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
577			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
578			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
579			%
580			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
581
582			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
583
584			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
585			%
586			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
587
588			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
589			>>>> and the beating of children?
590			>>>
591			>>> Subjugation of women...
592			>>
593			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
594			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
595			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
596			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
597			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
598			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
599			>> shake partner.
600			>
601			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
602			>
603			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
604			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
605			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
606			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
607			>
608
609			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
610			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
611			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
612			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
613			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
614			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
615			and your wife.
616			%
617			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
618			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
619			still kill you. - arestheblue
620			%
621			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
622			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
623			specifications for GSS-API.
624
625			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
626			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
627
628			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
629			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
630
631			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
632			%
633			[from the minix 3 users guide]
634
635			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
636			%
637			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
638
639			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
640			[...]
641			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
642			complaintant to guess this is true.
643			%
644			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
645			- Ken Thompson.
646			%
647			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
648
649			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
650
651			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
652			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
653			source code excerpt:
654
655			int sn()
656			{
657			char pwr;
658
659			int input1 = 0;
660			double output1 = 0;
661
662			system("clear");
663			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
664			cin>>input1;
665			output1 = (sin(input1));
666			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
667			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
668			cin>>pwr;
669			if(pwr == 'a')
670			sq();
671			if(pwr == 'm')
672			system("pause");
673
674			}
675			%
676			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
677			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
678
679			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
680
681			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
682			%
683			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
684			app for me" department:
685
686			From: Evan LeCompte
687
688			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
689			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
690			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
691			%
692			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
693			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
694			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
695
696			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
697			%
698			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
699			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
700			– Steve Jobs[47]
701
702			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
703			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
704			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
705			%
706			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
707			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
708			%
709			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
710			From: Patrick Horgan
711			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
712			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
713
714			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
715			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
716			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
717			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
718			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
719			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
720
721			[...]
722			%
723	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
724			— Peter Abelard
725			%
726			A man said to the universe:
727			"Sir I exist!"
728			"However," replied the universe,
729			"The fact has not created in me
730	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
731			- Steven Crane
732	root	1.431	%
733			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
734
735			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
736
737			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
738
739			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
740
741			– Sanskrit Saying
742			%
743			[anonymised discussion]
744			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
745			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
746			%
747			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
748
749	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
750	root	1.431
751			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
752			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
753			appear.
754			%
755			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
756			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
757			- Douglas Adams
758			%
759			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
760			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
761			%
762			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
763			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
764			%
765			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
766			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
767			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
768			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
769			%
770			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
771			%
772			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
773			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
774			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
775			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
776			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
777			%
778			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
779			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
780			or her career.
781			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
782			%
783			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
784			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
785			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
786			%
787			I LOVE YOU
788			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
789			%
790			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
791			the air impeller.
792
793			Alan Cox
794			%
795			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
796			with a minimum computer science background."
797			%
798			From: Eric Sosman
799			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
800			Subject: Re: about graphics
801
802			prince wrote:
803			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
804
805			#include <stdio.h>
806			int main(void) {
807			puts("graphics\rcommand");
808			return 0;
809			}
810			%
811			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
812			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
813			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
814			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
815			%
816			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
817
818			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
819			it still is a constant-time attack.
820			%
821			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
822			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
823			%
824			From: David Damerell
825
826			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
827			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
828			>caps to make it different.
829
830			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
831			painful but will take less typing.
832			%
833			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
834			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
835			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
836
837			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
838			%
839			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
840
841			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
842			> free than the BSD.
843			>
844			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
845
846			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
847			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
848			%
849			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
850
851			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
852			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
853			from incompatible pointer type
854			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
855			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
856			makes pointer from integer without a cast
857			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
858			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
859			%
860			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
861			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
862			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
863			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
864			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
865			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
866
867			[Chandon Seldon]
868			%
869			[Wikipedia]
870			Differences between vi and Emacs
871
872			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
873			%
874			[lost the reference]
875			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
876			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
877			%
878			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
879			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
880			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
881			%
882			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
883
884			Subject: Re: fcrack help
885			From: puezalb024@aol.com
886			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
887			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
888			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
889
890			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
891			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
892			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
893			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
894			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
895			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
896			piss on your leg.
897
898			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
899			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
900			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
901
902			[then, a day later]
903
904			Subject: Re: fcrack help
905			From: puezalb024@aol.com
906			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
907			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
908			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
909
910			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
911			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
912			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
913			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
914			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
915			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
916			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
917			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
918			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
919
920
921			-----Original Message-----
922			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
923			To: puezalb024@aol.com
924			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
925			Subject: Re: fcrack help
926
927
928
929			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
930	root	1.432	>
931	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
932
933			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
934
935			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
936			I hope you don't object :)
937			%
938			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
939			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
940
941			You made my day
942			%
943			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
944
945			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
946			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
947			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
948
949			Linus
950			%
951			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
952
953			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
954
955			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 ...
956
957			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
958
959			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
960			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
961			when sending emails to other people:
962			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
963
964			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
965
966			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
967			%
968			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
969			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
970			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
971			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
972			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
973			%
974			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
975			be used if run as administrator in windows.
976
977			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
978			%
979			[on italy]
980
981			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
982
983			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
984			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
985			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
986			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
987
988			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
989			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
990			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
991			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
992			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
993			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
994
995			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
996
997			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
998			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
999			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1000			from fascism period.
1001
1002			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1003			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1004			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1005			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1006			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1007			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1008			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1009			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1010			SIAE.
1011
1012			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1013			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1014			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1015			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1016			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1017			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1018			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1019			electronic ones
1020
1021			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1022
1023			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1024			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1025			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1026			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1027			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1028			western country.
1029
1030			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1031			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1032			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1033			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1034			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1035			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1036			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1037			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1038			also the governments of "center-left".
1039
1040			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1041
1042			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1043			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1044			without any restriction.
1045
1046			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1047			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1048			world.
1049
1050			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1051			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1052			Thank you for reading.
1053			%
1054			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1055			>
1056			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1057
1058			How very ironic.
1059			%
1060			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1061			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1062			takes religion."
1063
1064			--Steve Weinberg
1065			%
1066			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1067			%
1068			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1069			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1070			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1071
1072			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1073			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1074			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1075			%
1076			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1077			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1078			the right tool for me.
1079			%
1080			[deliantra]
1081			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1082			%
1083			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1084			%
1085			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1086			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1087			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1088			%
1089			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1090
1091			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1092			%
1093			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1094			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1095
1096			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1097			actually tells you it's American.
1098			%
1099			[better do not hire this programmer]
1100			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1101			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1102			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1103
1104			Hi
1105
1106			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1107			someone here can advise me.
1108
1109			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1110			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1111			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1112			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1113			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1114
1115			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1116			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1117			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1118			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1119			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1120			corresponding thing in C?
1121
1122			Thanks!
1123			%
1124			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1125
1126			// See bug 53763.
1127			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1128			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1129			if (shell) {
1130			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1131			%
1132			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1133			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1134
1135			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1136			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1137			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1138			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1139			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1140			%
1141			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1142			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1143			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1144			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1145			“display quality too high”).
1146
1147			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1148			%
1149			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1150
1151	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1152	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1153
1154			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1155
1156			x / y * z
1157
1158			and
1159
1160			x / y * z
1161
1162			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1163
1164			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1165			design decisions.)
1166			%
1167			endergt:
1168			> snoofle:
1169			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1170			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1171			> > you understand what you are doing...
1172			>
1173	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1174	root	1.431
1175	root	1.432	debug
1176	root	1.431	%
1177			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%.
1178
1179			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1180			%
1181			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1182			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1183			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1184
1185			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1186			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1187			6 Decompilation
1188
1189			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1190			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1191			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1192			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1193			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1194			conditions are met: [...]"
1195			%
1196			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1197			%
1198			Why Linux Sux ?
1199
1200			Easy .
1201			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1202			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1203			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 .
1204			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1205			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1206			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1207			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! ) .
1208			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 .
1209			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1210
1211			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1212			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1213			working ones . Screw linux users .
1214			%
1215			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1216			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1217			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1218			%
1219			> The Dell 30"...
1220
1221			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1222			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1223			%
1224	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1225	root	1.431
1226			> > 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".
1227	root	1.432	>
1228	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!
1229	root	1.432	>
1230	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1231	root	1.432
1232	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1233
1234			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1235			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.
1236			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1237	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.
1238	root	1.431	%
1239			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1240			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1241			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1242			%
1243			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1244
1245			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1246			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1247			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1248
1249			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1250			anderen betriebssystemen.
1251
1252			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1253			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1254
1255			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1256			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1257			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1258			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1259			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1260
1261			Frage?
1262			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1263			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1264			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1265
1266			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1267			%
1268			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1269			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1270			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1271			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1272			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1273			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1274			%
1275			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1276			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1277			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1278			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1279			%
1280			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1281			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1282
1283			God bless the re-inventers
1284
1285			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1286			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1287
1288	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1289	root	1.431
1290			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1291			one.
1292			%
1293			[rfc2665]
1294			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1295			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1296			useful in theory than in practice.
1297			%
1298			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1299	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1300	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1301			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1302			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1303			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1304			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1305			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1306	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1307	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1308			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1309	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1310	root	1.431	15:30
1311			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1312			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1313			%
1314			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1315			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1316			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1317			%
1318			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1319
1320			Strictly for beginners
1321
1322			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1323			[...]
1324			%
1325			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1326			%
1327			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1328			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1329			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1330			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1331			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1332			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1333			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1334			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1335			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1336			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1337			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1338			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1339			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1340			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1341			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1342			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1343			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1344			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1345			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1346			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1347			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1348			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1349			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1350			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1351			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1352			%
1353			[A Gentoo User]
1354			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1355			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1356			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1357			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1358			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1359			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1360			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1361			%
1362			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1363			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1364			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1365			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1366			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1367	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1368			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1369	root	1.431	can do
1370			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1371			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1372			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1373			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1374			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1375			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1376			%
1377			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1378	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1379			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1380			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1381	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1382			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1383	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1384			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1385	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1386			%
1387			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1388			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1389			%
1390			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1391
1392			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1393			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1394			be slow in Windows 2000"
1395
1396			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1397			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1398			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1399			%
1400			[so much for type-safety]
1401			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1402			lst.add(null);
1403			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1404			%
1405			[just for reference]
1406			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1407			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1408			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1409			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1410			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1411			es nicht.
1412
1413			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1414			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1415			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1416			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1417			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1418			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1419
1420			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1421			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1422			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1423			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1424			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1425			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1426			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1427			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1428			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1429			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1430			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1431			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1432			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1433			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1434
1435			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1436			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1437			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1438			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1439			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1440			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1441			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1442
1443			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1444			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1445			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1446			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1447			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1448			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1449			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1450			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1451			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1452			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1453			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1454			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1455			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1456			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1457			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1458			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1459			alternativ' Idioten!
1460
1461			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1462			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1463			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1464			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1465			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1466			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1467			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1468			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1469			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1470			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1471			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1472			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1473			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1474			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1475
1476			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1477			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1478			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1479
1480			Ich will R A C H E !
1481
1482			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1483			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1484			Dinge zu sagen:
1485
1486			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1487
1488			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1489			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1490			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1491			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1492			anfange.
1493
1494			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1495			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1496			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1497			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1498			dieser verdammten schule!
1499
1500			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1501			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1502
1503			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1504
1505			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1506			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1507			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1508			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1509			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1510			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1511			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1512			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1513			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1514			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1515
1516			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1517			Einschulung.
1518
1519			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1520			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1521			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1522			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1523			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1524			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1525			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1526			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1527			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1528			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1529
1530			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1531			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1532
1533			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1534			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1535			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1536			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1537			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1538			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1539			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1540			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1541
1542			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1543			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1544			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1545			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1546			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1547			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1548			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1549			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1550
1551			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1552			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1553
1554			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1555			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1556			Hand genommen.
1557
1558			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1559			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1560
1561			Ich bin weg...
1562			%
1563			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1564			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1565			%
1566	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1567			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1568			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1569			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1570	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1571			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1572			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1573			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1574			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1575			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1576			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1577			%
1578			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1579			%
1580			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1581			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1582
1583			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1584			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1585			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1586			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1587			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1588			%
1589			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1590			%
1591			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1592			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1593			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1594			%
1595			[very funny read]
1596			Hack-a-Bike
1597			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1598			%
1599			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1600			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1601			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1602			still can.
1603
1604			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1605			%
1606	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1607			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1608	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1609			%
1610			[without words]
1611			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1612			%
1613			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1614			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1615			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1616			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1617			actual kid in an actual bath.
1618			%
1619			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1620			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1621			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1622			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1623			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1624			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1625			what happened to you.
1626			%
1627	root	1.432	--
1628	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1629
1630			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1631			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1632			%
1633			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1634	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1635			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1636	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1637
1638			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1639			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1640			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1641			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1642			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1643
1644			- Ted
1645			%
1646			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1647			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1648			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1649			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1650			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1651			me, but we have the truth!"
1652			%
1653			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1654			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1655			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1656			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1657			%
1658			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1659			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1660			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1661			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1662			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1663			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1664			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1665			genociding every monster.
1666
1667			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1668			genocide them for good measure!
1669			%%
1670			[nethack instadeath faq]
1671
1672			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1673
1674			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1675			%
1676			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1677			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1678	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1679	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1680			17:58 <Murch> lol
1681			%
1682			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1683			%
1684			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1685			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1686			%
1687			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1688			%
1689			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1690
1691			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1692			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1693			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1694			%
1695			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1696
1697			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1698			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1699			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1700			the Eastern Time Zone.
1701			[...]
1702			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1703			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1704			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1705			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1706			%
1707			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1708
1709			_dl_profile_output
1710			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1711			%
1712			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1713			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1714			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1715			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1716			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1717			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1718			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1719
1720			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1721			%
1722			[famous last words]
1723			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1724			%
1725			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1726
1727			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1728
1729			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1730
1731			--
1732			Jay Hennigan
1733			%
1734			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1735			%
1736			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1737			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1738			of homeland security]
1739			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1740			%
1741			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1742	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1743	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1744			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1745			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1746			range of spyware available to us?"
1747
1748			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1749			%
1750			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1751			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1752			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1753			%
1754	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1755	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1756			%
1757			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1758			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1759			%
1760			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1761			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1762			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1763			shooter.
1764
1765			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1766			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1767			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1768			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1769			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1770			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1771
1772			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1773			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1774			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1775			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1776			way.
1777
1778			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1779			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1780			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1781
1782			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1783			%
1784			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1785			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1786			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1787			> above comment about Hitler).
1788
1789			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1790			mention Hitler loses.
1791			%
1792			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1793			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1794			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1795			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1796			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1797			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1798			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1799			including <windows.h>.
1800			[...]
1801			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1802			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1803			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1804			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1805			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1806			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1807			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1808			environments.
1809			%
1810			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1811			%
1812			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1813			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1814			%
1815			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1816			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1817			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1818			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1819			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1820			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1821			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1822			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1823			companies want to own your computer.
1824
1825			Some examples:
1826
1827			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1828			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1829			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1830			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1831			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1832			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1833			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1834			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1835			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1836	root	1.432
1837	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1838			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1839			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1840			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1841			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1842
1843			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1844			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1845			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1846			from Microsoft? You can't.
1847
1848			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1849			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1850			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1851			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1852			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1853			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1854			adversely affect its business partners.
1855
1856			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1857			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1858			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1859			about your behavior.
1860
1861			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1862			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1863			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1864			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1865			presumed infractions.
1866
1867			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1868			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1869			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1870
1871			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1872			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1873			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1874			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1875			user's device against him.
1876			[...]
1877			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1878			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1879			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1880			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1881			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1882			back-room marketing deals.
1883			%
1884			[John Carmack on Java]
1885			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1886			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1887			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1888			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1889			performance.
1890			%
1891			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1892
1893			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1894			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1895			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1896			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1897			%
1898			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1899			%
1900			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1901			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1902			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1903			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1904			%
1905			http://funroll-loops.org/
1906			%
1907			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1908			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1909			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1910			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1911			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1912			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1913			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1914			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1915			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1916			Fahrenheit documentation.
1917			%
1918			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1919			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1920			sure its much slower than CVS]
1921			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1922			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1923			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1924	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1925	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1926			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1927	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1928	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1929			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1930	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1931	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1932			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1933			%
1934	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1935
1936			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1937			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1938	root	1.431	%
1939	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1940
1941			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1942			> systems ?
1943
1944			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1945			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1946
1947			Jesper
1948			%
1949	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1950
1951			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1952			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1953
1954	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1955	root	1.429	%
1956	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1957			%
1958	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1959
1960			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1961			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1962			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1963			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1964			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1965			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1966			but that's the truth.
1967			%
1968	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1969
1970			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1971
1972	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1973			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1974			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1975			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1976	root	1.424
1977			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1978	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1979			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1980	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1981
1982			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1983			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1984	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1985	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1986			in Richtung Boden.
1987
1988			[...]
1989
1990	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1991	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1992	root	1.424
1993			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1994	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1995	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1996
1997			[...]
1998
1999			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2000	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2001	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2002	root	1.424
2003			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2004	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2005			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2006			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2007	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2008			sofort.
2009			%
2010	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2011			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2012			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2013			software from Microsoft.)
2014	root	1.424	%
2015	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2016	root	1.424	%
2017	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2018
2019			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2020			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2021			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2022			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2023	root	1.424	%
2024	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2025	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2026	root	1.424	%
2027	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2028			From: Rodrigo Severo
2029			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2030			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2031
2032			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2033
2034			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2035			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2036			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2037
2038			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2039			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2040			brazilian ;)
2041			Rodrigo Severo
2042	root	1.424	%
2043	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2044	root	1.417
2045			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2046	root	1.424	%
2047	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2048
2049			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2050
2051			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2052
2053			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2054			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2055
2056			sigh
2057	root	1.424	%
2058	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2059			By Bertrand Russell
2060
2061			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2062			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2063			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2064			might be set forth as follows:
2065
2066			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2067
2068			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2069			evidence is sure to come to light.
2070
2071			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2072
2073			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2074			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2075			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2076
2077			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2078			contrary authorities to be found.
2079
2080			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2081			do the opinions will suppress you.
2082
2083			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2084			was once eccentric.
2085
2086			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2087			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2088			agreement than the latter.
2089
2090			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2091			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2092
2093			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2094			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2095
2096			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2097			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2098	root	1.424	%
2099	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2100	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2101			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2102			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2103
2104			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2105			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2106			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2107			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2108			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2109			United States."
2110	root	1.413	---
2111			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2112			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2113			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2114	root	1.414	---
2115			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2116			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2117			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2118			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2119			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2120
2121			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2122			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2123	root	1.424	%
2124	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2125			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2126	root	1.424	%
2127	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2128
2129			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2130			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2131
2132			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2133			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2134
2135			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2136
2137			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2138			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2139	root	1.424	%
2140	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2141			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2142	root	1.424	%
2143	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2144			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2145			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2146			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2147			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2148			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2149	root	1.424	%
2150	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2151
2152			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2153			they care about it?"
2154			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2155	root	1.407
2156			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2157	root	1.424	%
2158	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2159			-- Gregory Chaitin
2160	root	1.424	%
2161	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2162	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2163			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2164			[...]
2165	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2166			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2167	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2168	root	1.424	%
2169	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2170			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2171			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2172			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2173			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2174			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2175	root	1.424	%
2176	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2177
2178			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2179	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2180			return 0;
2181	root	1.424	%
2182	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2183	root	1.401
2184			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2185			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2186			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2187			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2188			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2189			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2190			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2191			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2192			> transparent.
2193
2194			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2195			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2196			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2197			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2198	root	1.424	%
2199	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2200			aber falsche Lösungen.
2201	root	1.424	%
2202	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2203			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2204			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2205			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2206	root	1.424	%
2207	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2208			>
2209			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2210			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2211			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2212			> than useful to the user.
2213
2214			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2215
2216			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2217			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2218			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2219			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2220
2221			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2222
2223			Linus
2224	root	1.424	%
2225	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2226			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2227			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2228			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2229	root	1.424	%
2230	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2231			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2232
2233	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2234	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2235			--
2236			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2237
2238			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2239	root	1.424	%
2240	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2241			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2242
2243			Person: What do you do?
2244			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2245			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2246
2247			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2248			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2249			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2250	root	1.394
2251			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2252			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2253	root	1.424	%
2254	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2255			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2256			illegal downloaders."
2257
2258			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2259
2260			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2261			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2262			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2263			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2264			have to emerge."
2265
2266			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2267	root	1.424	%
2268	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2269	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2270
2271			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2272			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2273
2274			Bye, Andy
2275	root	1.424	%
2276	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2277	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2278	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2279	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2280	root	1.390
2281			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2282			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2283			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2284			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2285			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2286			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2287			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2288			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2289			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2290			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2291			alle Benutzer.
2292			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2293			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2294			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2295			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2296			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2297			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2298			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2299			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2300			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2301			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2302			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2303	root	1.424	%
2304	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2305
2306			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2307			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2308			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2309			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2310			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2311			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2312			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2313			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2314			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2315			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2316			unfinished operations, etc.
2317			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2318
2319			Valid options:
2320			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2321			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2322
2323			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2324	root	1.424	%
2325	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2326			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2327			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2328			to provide.
2329			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2330	root	1.424	%
2331	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2332
2333			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2334			alarm people more.
2335
2336			-Nate
2337
2338			[...]
2339
2340			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2341			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2342			image of the language that is created here.
2343
2344			Juerd
2345
2346			[...]
2347
2348			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2349			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2350			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2351
2352	root	1.432	--
2353	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2354	root	1.387	%
2355	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2356	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2357	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2358			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2359	root	1.387	%
2360	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2361			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2362	root	1.387	%
2363	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2364			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2365	root	1.387	%
2366	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2367			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2368			[...]
2369			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2370			"Windows is broken."
2371	root	1.387	%
2372	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2373			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2374			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2375	root	1.387	%
2376	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2377			on being able to kill their children legally]
2378			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2379	root	1.387	%
2380	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2381			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2382			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2383	root	1.387	%
2384	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2385			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2386			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2387			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2388			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2389			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2390	root	1.378	--
2391			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2392			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2393			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2394			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2395			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2396			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2397			wasteful government spending."
2398	root	1.387	%
2399	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2400			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2401	root	1.387	%
2402	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2403			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2404	root	1.387	%
2405	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2406			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2407	root	1.387	%
2408	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2409			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2410	root	1.387	%
2411	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2412	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2413	root	1.387	%
2414	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2415			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2416	root	1.387	%
2417	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2418			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2419	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2420	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2421			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2422	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2423	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
2424			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2425	root	1.387	%
2426	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2427			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2428	root	1.387	%
2429	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2430			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2431			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2432			their weapons over our heads."
2433			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2434	root	1.387	%
2435	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2436			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2437	root	1.387	%
2438	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2439			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2440			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2441			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2442			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2443	root	1.387	%
2444	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2445	root	1.387	%
2446	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2447			several requests for clarification.
2448
2449			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2450			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2451			unter TCG definitions.
2452	root	1.387	%
2453	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2454			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2455			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2456			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2457	root	1.387	%
2458	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2459			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2460			get people on board.
2461			%
2462	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2463			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2464			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2465			DRM.
2466
2467			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2468			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2469	root	1.387	%
2470	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2471			switch ($decade) {
2472			case "the 50's":
2473			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2474			break;
2475			case "the 60's":
2476			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2477			break;
2478			case "the 70's":
2479			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2480			break;
2481			case "the 80's":
2482			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2483			break;
2484			case "the 90's":
2485			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2486			break;
2487			case "the 00's":
2488			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2489			break;
2490			}
2491	root	1.387	%
2492	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2493
2494			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2495			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2496			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2497			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2498
2499			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2500			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2501			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2502
2503			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2504			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2505			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2506			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2507			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2508			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2509			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2510			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2511			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2512			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2513	root	1.387	%
2514	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2515			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2516			married or unmarried."
2517
2518			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2519			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2520			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2521			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2522			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2523	root	1.387	%
2524	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2525
2526			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2527			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2528			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2529			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2530			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2531			conditioning.
2532
2533			[And this is religion at its best:]
2534			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2535			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2536			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2537	root	1.387	%
2538	root	1.361	[Racism]
2539			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2540	root	1.387	%
2541	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2542			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2543	root	1.387	%
2544	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2545			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2546
2547			I apologise for this.
2548
2549			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2550			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2551	root	1.387	%
2552	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2553			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2554			el says: ich kenn da wen
2555			el says: bei dem wars so
2556			[...]
2557			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2558			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2559			el says: gehirntumor auch
2560			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2561	root	1.387	%
2562	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2563	root	1.387	%
2564	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2565			no sense in the kernel]
2566			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2567
2568			[...]
2569
2570			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2571			models.
2572
2573			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2574			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2575			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2576	root	1.387	%
2577	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2578			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2579			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2580			--
2581			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2582	root	1.355	--
2583			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2584			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2585			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2586			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2587	root	1.387	%
2588	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2589			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2590			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2591			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2592			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2593			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2594			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2595			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2596	root	1.387	%
2597	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2598			which you currently do not posess]
2599			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2600	root	1.387	%
2601	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2602			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2603	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2604	root	1.387	%
2605	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2606	root	1.387	%
2607	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2608			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2609	root	1.387	%
2610	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2611			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2612			paragraphs.
2613	root	1.387	%
2614	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2615			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2616			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2617	root	1.387	%
2618	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2619			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2620
2621			Most catholics aren't American.
2622	root	1.387	%
2623	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2624
2625			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2626			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2627			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2628			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2629			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2630
2631			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2632			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2633	root	1.387	%
2634	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2635			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2636			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2637			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2638			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2639			criminals."
2640	root	1.387	%
2641	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2642			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2643	root	1.387	%
2644	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2645			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2646	root	1.387	%
2647	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2648			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2649	root	1.387	%
2650	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2651			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2652			card (They went up in flames).
2653	root	1.387	%
2654	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2655			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2656			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2657			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2658	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2659	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2660	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2661	root	1.387	%
2662	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2663			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2664			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2665
2666			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2667
2668			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2669	root	1.387	%
2670	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2671			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2672			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2673			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2674			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2675			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2676			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2677			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2678			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2679			--
2680			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2681			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2682			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2683			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2684			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2685			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2686	root	1.387	%
2687	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2688			The Obfuscated V contest
2689	root	1.387	%
2690	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2691			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2692			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2693			cigarette lighters."
2694			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2695	root	1.387	%
2696	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2697			Does it run under Windows ?
2698			- Who cares?
2699	root	1.387	%
2700	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2701	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2702	root	1.387	%
2703	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2704			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2705			[...]
2706			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2707			[...]
2708			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2709			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2710			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2711	root	1.387	%
2712	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2713	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2714			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2715			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2716	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2717	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2718	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2719	root	1.330	> mehr!
2720			> richy.
2721
2722			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2723	root	1.387	%
2724	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2725	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2726			> zugetragen hat?
2727
2728			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2729			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2730	root	1.388	[später]
2731			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2732	root	1.329
2733			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2734			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2735			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2736			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2737			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2738
2739			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2740
2741			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2742			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2743			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2744	root	1.387	%
2745	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2746	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2747			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2748	root	1.387	%
2749	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2750			/* give the hook another try */
2751			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2752			break;
2753	root	1.387	%
2754	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2755	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2756	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2757			#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))
2758	root	1.387	%
2759	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2760	root	1.387	%
2761	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2762	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2763	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2764	root	1.432	>
2765			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2766			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2767	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2768	root	1.432	>
2769			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2770			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2771	root	1.324	> as TO).
2772	root	1.432	>
2773	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2774
2775			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2776			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2777			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2778			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2779			being discourteous to.
2780
2781			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2782			--
2783			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2784	root	1.387	%
2785	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2786	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2787	root	1.387	%
2788	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2789			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2790			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2791			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2792			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2793	root	1.387	%
2794	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2795			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2796			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2797			you don't have any'."
2798	root	1.323
2799			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2800			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2801			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2802			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2803	root	1.387	%
2804	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2805			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2806			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2807			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2808	root	1.387	%
2809	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2810			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2811			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2812			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2813			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2814			reason will not win many fans.
2815
2816			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2817			documents in the algorithm section]
2818	root	1.387	%
2819	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2820			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2821			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2822			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2823			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2824
2825			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2826	root	1.387	%
2827	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2828			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2829			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2830	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2831	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2832			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2833	root	1.387	%
2834	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2835	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2836	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2837	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2838			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2839	root	1.387	%
2840	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2841			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2842			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2843			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2844			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2845			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2846	root	1.387	%
2847	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2848			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2849	root	1.387	%
2850	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2851	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2852	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2853			* at their price list.
2854	root	1.387	%
2855	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2856			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2857			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2858			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2859			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2860			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2861			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2862	root	1.387	%
2863	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2864			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2865	root	1.387	%
2866	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2867			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2868			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2869			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2870	root	1.387	%
2871	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2872	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2873	root	1.387	%
2874	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2875			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2876	root	1.387	%
2877	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2878	root	1.387	%
2879	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2880			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2881			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2882			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2883			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2884			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2885			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2886			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2887	root	1.387	%
2888	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2889			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2890	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2891	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2892	root	1.387	%
2893	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2894	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2895	root	1.387	%
2896	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2897	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2898			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2899			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2900	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2901
2902			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2903
2904			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2905			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2906	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2907	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2908
2909			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2910
2911			[usw.]
2912
2913			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2914	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2915	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2916
2917			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2918			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2919			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2920			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2921			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2922	root	1.387	%
2923	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2924	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2925			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2926	root	1.387	%
2927	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2928			Which fanboy are you?
2929
2930			1. Windows
2931
2932			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2933			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2934			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2935			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2936			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2937			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2938			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2939			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2940			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2941
2942			2. Apple
2943
2944			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2945			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2946			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2947			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2948			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2949			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2950			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2951			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2952
2953			3. Linspire
2954
2955			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2956			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2957			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2958			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2959			installed Linspire on your machine.
2960
2961			4. Umbongo
2962
2963			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2964			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2965			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2966			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2967			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2968			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2969			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2970			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2971			themselves.
2972
2973			5. Gentoy
2974
2975			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2976			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2977			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2978			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2979			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2980			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2981			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2982			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2983
2984			6. Linux From Scratch
2985
2986			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2987			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2988			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2989			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2990			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2991			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2992			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2993	root	1.387	%
2994	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2995			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2996	root	1.387	%
2997	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2998
2999			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3000			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3001
3002			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3003	root	1.387	%
3004	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3005
3006			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3007	root	1.432	>
3008	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3009	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3010	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3011			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3012			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3013	root	1.432	>
3014			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3015	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3016	root	1.432	>
3017	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3018			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3019	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3020	root	1.387	%
3021	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3022	root	1.387	%
3023	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3026	root	1.387	%
3027	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3028			show "Correspondent"]
3029	root	1.288
3030			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3031			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3032
3033			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3034			%
3035	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3036			cock sucking, blowjob
3037			=> fellatio, fellation
3038			=> oral sex, head
3039			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3040			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3041			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3042			=> organic process, biological process
3043			=> process
3044			=> phenomenon
3045	root	1.387	%
3046	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3047			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3048	root	1.387	%
3049	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3050			[slightly edited]
3051			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3052			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3053			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3054			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3055
3056			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3057			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3058			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3059
3060			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3061			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3062	root	1.387	%
3063	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3064			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3065	root	1.387	%
3066	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3067	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3068	root	1.387	%
3069	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3070	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3071			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3072	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3073	root	1.387	%
3074	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3075			- oesi
3076	root	1.387	%
3077	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3078			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3079	root	1.387	%
3080	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3081	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3082	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3083			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3084
3085			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3086			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3087			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3088			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3089			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3090			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3091			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3092			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3093			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3094			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3095			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3096			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3097			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3098			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3099			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3100			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3101			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3102			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3103			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3104			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3105			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3106			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3107			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3108			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3109
3110			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3111			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3112			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3113			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3114			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3115
3116			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3117			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3118			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3119			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3120			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3121			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3122			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3123			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3124			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3125			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3126			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3127
3128			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3129			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3130			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3131			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3132			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3133			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3134			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3135			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3136			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3137			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3138			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3139			sovereign nation.
3140
3141			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3142			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3143			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3144			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3145			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3146			CSPAN, don't post here.
3147
3148			-scott
3149	root	1.387	%
3150	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3151			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3152			capacity to feel pain.
3153
3154			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3155			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3156	root	1.387	%
3157	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3158			From: Sven Neumann
3159
3160			Hi,
3161
3162	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3163	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3164	root	1.273
3165			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3166			that
3167
3168			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3169
3170			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3171	root	1.387	%
3172	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3173	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3174			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3175			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3176	root	1.387	%
3177	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3178			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3179			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3180			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3181			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3182			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3183	root	1.387	%
3184	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3185	root	1.270	interesting read]
3186			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3187	root	1.387	%
3188	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3189			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3190			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3191	root	1.387	%
3192	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3193			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3194			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3195			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3196			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3197			locks can open the gate.
3198
3199			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3200			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3201			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3202	root	1.387	%
3203	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3204			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3205	root	1.387	%
3206	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3207
3208			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3209
3210			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3211			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3212			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3213			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3214			explanation of this.
3215
3216			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3217
3218			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3219			which explains why the hammer falls.
3220
3221			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3222			how a population's genome can change over time.
3223
3224	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3225			mathematical relationship between two values.
3226	root	1.265
3227			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3228			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3229
3230			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3231			acceleration.
3232
3233			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3234			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3235			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3236			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3237			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3238			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3239			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3240			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3241			false.
3242
3243			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3244	root	1.387	%
3245	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3246	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3247
3248			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3249			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3250	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3251			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3252			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3253	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3254
3255	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3256			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3257			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3258			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3259			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3260			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3261			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3262	root	1.264
3263			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3264	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3265			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3266			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3267			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3268	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3269	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3270	root	1.264	sportlich.
3271
3272	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3273			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3274			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3275			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3276			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3277	root	1.264
3278	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3279	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3280	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3281			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3282	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3283
3284			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3285			Forscher.
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3288			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3289			EULA-style license]
3290	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3291	root	1.387	%
3292	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3293			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3294			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3295			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3296			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3297			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3298			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3299	root	1.387	%
3300	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3301	root	1.387	%
3302	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3303			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3304			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3305			00:24 <schmorp> re
3306	root	1.387	%
3307	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3308	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3309			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3310	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3311			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3314			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3315			proponents of such theories.]
3316			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3317			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3318			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3319			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3320			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3321			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3322			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3323			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3324			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3325			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3326			(below, right)."
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3329			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3330			[useful info...]
3331			http://www.snopes.com/
3332	root	1.387	%
3333	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3334			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3335	root	1.387	%
3336	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3337			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3340	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3341			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3342	root	1.387	%
3343	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3344			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3345			#!/usr/bin/sh
3346			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3347			# All Rights Reserved
3348
3349			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3350			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3351			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3352
3353			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3354	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3355	root	1.387	%
3356	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3357			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3358			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3359	root	1.387	%
3360	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3361			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3362			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3363			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3364			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3365			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3366			#
3367			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3368	root	1.387	%
3369	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3370	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3371			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3372			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3373	root	1.387	%
3374	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3375	root	1.387	%
3376	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3377	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3378			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3379	root	1.387	%
3380	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3381			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3382			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3383	root	1.387	%
3384	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3385	root	1.387	%
3386	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3387			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3388			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3389			that you have a problem.)
3390			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3391	root	1.387	%
3392	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3393			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3394	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3395	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3396
3397			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3398			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3399	root	1.387	%
3400	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3401			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3402
3403			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3404			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3405			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3406			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3407			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3408			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3409			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3410			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3411			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3412			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3413			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3414			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3415			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3416			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3417
3418			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3419			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3420			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3421			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3422			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3423			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3424			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3427	root	1.239
3428			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3429			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3430			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3431	root	1.387	%
3432	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3433			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3434			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3437
3438			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3439			;)
3440	root	1.387	%
3441	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3442			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3443			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3444			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3445
3446			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3447
3448	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3449			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3450	root	1.387	%
3451	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3452			using so many abbreviations...]
3453
3454			Hi Volker -
3455
3456			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3457	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3458			spät ...
3459	root	1.234
3460			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3461
3462			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3463
3464	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3465			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3466	root	1.234
3467	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3468	root	1.234
3469			tom
3470	root	1.247
3471	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3472	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3473	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3474	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3475	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3476	root	1.387	%
3477	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3478			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3479			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3480
3481			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3482	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3483			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3484	root	1.233	> someone else?
3485
3486			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3487			===================================================================
3488			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3489			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3490			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3491			S: 79098 Freiburg
3492			S: Germany
3493
3494			+N: Hans Reiser
3495			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3496			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3497			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3498			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3499			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3500			+S: USA
3501			+
3502			N: Joerg Reuter
3503			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3504			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3505	root	1.387	%
3506	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3507			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3508	root	1.387	%
3509	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3510			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3511	root	1.387	%
3512	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3513			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3514	root	1.387	%
3515	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3516			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3517			[...]
3518			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3519			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3520			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3521			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3522			[...]
3523			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3524			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3525			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3526			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3527	root	1.387	%
3528	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3529			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3530			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3531			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3532			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3533			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3534	root	1.387	%
3535	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3536	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3537			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3538			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3539			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3540			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3541			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3542			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3543			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3544	root	1.387	%
3545	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3546			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3547	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3548	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3549	root	1.387	%
3550	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3551			[yes, the whole thing]
3552	root	1.387	%
3553	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3554	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3555			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3556			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3557	root	1.221	>
3558			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3559
3560			We'll use a larger wall.
3561	root	1.387	%
3562	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3563			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3564			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3565			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3566
3567			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3568			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3569
3570			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3571			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3572
3573			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3574			cost.
3575			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3576	root	1.387	%
3577	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3578
3579	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3580	root	1.219
3581			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3582
3583	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3584	root	1.387	%
3585	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3586			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3589			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3590	root	1.387	%
3591	root	1.215	[translated]
3592			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3593			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3594			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3595			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3596			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3597			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3598			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3599			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3600	root	1.387	%
3601	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3602			-- Lord Balfour
3603	root	1.387	%
3604	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3605	root	1.387	%
3606	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3607			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3608			him to forgive me.
3609	root	1.387	%
3610	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3611			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3612
3613			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3614	root	1.387	%
3615	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3616			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3617			get bored during the sex scenes.
3618	root	1.387	%
3619	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3620			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3621			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3622	root	1.387	%
3623	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3624			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3625			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3626			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3627			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3628			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3629	root	1.387	%
3630	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3631			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3632			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3633			HP-UX customer. [...]
3634	root	1.387	%
3635	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3636			>>
3637			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3638			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3639			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3640			>>spelled it in UC.
3641	root	1.247	>
3642			>
3643	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3644
3645			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3646	root	1.387	%
3647	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3648			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3649
3650			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3651			usage.
3652
3653			Richard
3654	root	1.387	%
3655	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3656			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3657			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3658			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3659			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3660			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3661	root	1.387	%
3662	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3663			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3664	root	1.387	%
3665	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3666	root	1.387	%
3667	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3668			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3669			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3670			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3671			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3672			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3673			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3674			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3675			existence means and implies.
3676
3677			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3678	root	1.387	%
3679	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3680			>
3681			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3682			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3683			>
3684			> You're WRONG!
3685
3686	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3687			and §7.20.3.1).
3688	root	1.387	%
3689	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3690			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3691			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3692	root	1.387	%
3693	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3694			A. It should be obvious.
3695			Q. How is it hard?
3696			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3697			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3698	root	1.387	%
3699	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3700			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3701
3702			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3703			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3704
3705			- works ok on linux
3706			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3707
3708			Any clues why?
3709			I am new to the non windows world.
3710
3711			Thanks
3712	root	1.387	%
3713	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3714			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3715			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3716			> this ?
3717
3718			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3719			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3720	root	1.387	%
3721	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3722			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3723			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3724
3725			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3726	root	1.247	>
3727			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3728			>
3729	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3730	root	1.387	%
3731	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3732			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3733
3734			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3735	root	1.387	%
3736	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3737			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3738	root	1.387	%
3739	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3740	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3741	root	1.194
3742			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3743			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3744	root	1.387	%
3745	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3746			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3747	root	1.387	%
3748	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3749	root	1.387	%
3750	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3751			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3752	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3753	root	1.387	%
3754	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3755			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3756			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3757	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3758
3759	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3760	root	1.190
3761	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3762	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3763			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3764			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3765	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3766			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3767			schützen können.
3768	root	1.387	%
3769	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3770			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3771	root	1.387	%
3772	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3773			[...]
3774	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3775	root	1.188	[...]
3776	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3777			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3778			never get your message.
3779	root	1.387	%
3780	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3781			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3782			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3783	root	1.387	%
3784	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3785			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3786			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3787	root	1.387	%
3788	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3789			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3790			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3791			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3792			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3793			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3794			01:15 <schmorp> g
3795			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3796	root	1.387	%
3797	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3798			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3799			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3800			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3801			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3802			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3803			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3804			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3805	root	1.387	%
3806	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3807			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3808			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3809	root	1.387	%
3810	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3811			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3812			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3813			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3814			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3815			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3816			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3817	root	1.387	%
3818	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3819			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3820	root	1.387	%
3821	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3822			GNOME TERMINAL
3823			[...]
3824			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3825			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3826			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3827			[.. later]
3828			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3829			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3830			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3831	root	1.387	%
3832	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3833			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3834			/*
3835	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3836	root	1.179	*/
3837			void blip()
3838	root	1.247	{
3839	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3840			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3841			fflush(stderr);
3842	root	1.247	}
3843	root	1.387	%
3844	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3845			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3846
3847			Why not 666? :-).
3848	root	1.387	%
3849	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3850			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3851			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3852			users are clueless.
3853	root	1.387	%
3854	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3855			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3856	root	1.387	%
3857	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3858			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3859	root	1.387	%
3860	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3861			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3862	root	1.387	%
3863	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3864			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3865			and", and finally, ampersand.
3866	root	1.387	%
3867	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3868			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3869			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3870			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3871			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3872	root	1.387	%
3873	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3874			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3875			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3876			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3877			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3878	root	1.387	%
3879	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3880			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3881			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3882			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3883			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3884			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3885			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3886	root	1.387	%
3887	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3888	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3889			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3890	root	1.387	%
3891	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3892			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3893			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3894	root	1.387	%
3895	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3896	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3899	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3900			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3901			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3902	root	1.167	%
3903	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3904	root	1.387	%
3905	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3906			<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
3907	root	1.387	%
3908	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3909			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3910	root	1.164	einfach :)
3911			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3914			/*
3915			* Function compares two strings.
3916	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3917	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3918			*/
3919			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3920			{
3921			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3922			[...]
3923	root	1.387	%
3924	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3925	root	1.387	%
3926	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3927	root	1.387	%
3928	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3929			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3930			Get_Colours ();
3931	root	1.387	%
3932	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3933	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3934			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3935			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3936			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3937			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3938			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3939			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3940			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3941	root	1.161	[...]
3942			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3943			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3944			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3945			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3946			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3947	root	1.387	%
3948	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3949			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3950	root	1.387	%
3951	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3952			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3953	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3954	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3955			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3956			#endif
3957	root	1.387	%
3958	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3959			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3960			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3961	root	1.387	%
3962	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3963			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3964			>
3965			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3966
3967			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3968			--
3969			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3970	root	1.387	%
3971	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3972			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3973			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3974			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3975			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3976			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3977			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3978	root	1.387	%
3979	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3980			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3981	root	1.387	%
3982	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3983	root	1.387	%
3984	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3985			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3986			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3987			-- Robert Fisk
3988	root	1.387	%
3989	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3990			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3991	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3992			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3993	root	1.387	%
3994	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3995			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3996			high-violence culture"
3997			[...]
3998			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3999			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4000			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4001			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4002			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4003			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4004			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4005			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4006
4007			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4008			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4009	root	1.387	%
4010	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4011			Subject: Re: [...]
4012
4013			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4014
4015			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4016			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4017			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4018			> saved it :)
4019
4020			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4021			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4022			[...]
4023	root	1.387	%
4024	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4025			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4026			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4027			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4028			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4029
4030			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4031			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4032			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4033			[...]
4034	root	1.387	%
4035	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4036	root	1.387	%
4037	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4038	root	1.387	%
4039	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4040	root	1.387	%
4041	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4042			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4043			claim to have decades of java experience]
4044			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4045			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4046			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4047			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4048	root	1.387	%
4049	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4050	root	1.387	%
4051	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4052	root	1.387	%
4053	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4054	root	1.387	%
4055	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4056			[mail not to be delivered]
4057			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4058	root	1.247	>
4059	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4060
4061			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4062			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4063	root	1.387	%
4064	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4065
4066			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4067			>
4068			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4069			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4070			> >
4071			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4072			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4073			> > language which does support this?
4074			>
4075
4076			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4077
4078			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4079			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4080			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4081			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4082			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4083			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4084	root	1.387	%
4085	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4086			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4087			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4088	root	1.387	%
4089	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4090			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4091			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4092
4093			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4094			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4095			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4096			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4097			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4098
4099			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4100			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4101			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4102			and thwart them that way.
4103	root	1.387	%
4104	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4105			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4106			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4107			unfortunate decision.
4108	root	1.387	%
4109	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4110	root	1.146	fest ;)
4111	root	1.387	%
4112	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4113
4114			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4115	root	1.387	%
4116	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4117	root	1.387	%
4118	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4119			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4120	root	1.387	%
4121	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4122
4123			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4124			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4125			local object as a "he":
4126
4127			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4128			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4129			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4130			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4131			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4132			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4133			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4134			EX-PARROT!"
4135
4136			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4137	root	1.387	%
4138	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4139			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4140	root	1.387	%
4141	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4142			The police will shoot you.
4143
4144			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4145			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4146
4147	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4148	root	1.387	%
4149	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4150			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4151			reply.
4152
4153			pls. cc my email address
4154
4155			tia
4156			pd
4157
4158
4159	root	1.247	--
4160	root	1.141	^X^C
4161			q
4162			quit
4163			:q
4164			^C
4165			end
4166			x
4167			exit
4168			ZZ
4169			^D
4170			?
4171			help
4172			shit
4173			.
4174	root	1.387	%
4175	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4178			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4179			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4180			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4181	root	1.387	%
4182	root	1.140	[I love it]
4183			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4184			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4185	root	1.387	%
4186	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4187			- Douglas Adams
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4190			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4191			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4192			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4193
4194	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4195			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4196			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4197			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4198			their software properly.
4199	root	1.138
4200			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4201			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4202			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4203			told the publication.
4204
4205	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4206			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4207			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4208			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4209			who want visibility and glory.
4210	root	1.387	%
4211	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4212
4213			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4214
4215			x Try not using it.
4216	root	1.387	%
4217	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4218			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4219			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4220			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4221			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4222			had given.
4223
4224			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4225			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4226			person as well."
4227	root	1.387	%
4228	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4229	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4230			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4233	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4234	root	1.134
4235			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4236	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4237	root	1.135	[...]
4238	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4239	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4240	root	1.135	[...]
4241			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4242			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4243	root	1.387	%
4244	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4245	root	1.387	%
4246	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4247			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4248			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4249			-- Ulrich Drepper
4250	root	1.387	%
4251	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4252			-- Ulrich Drepper
4253	root	1.387	%
4254	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4255			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4256	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4257	root	1.387	%
4258	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4259			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4260			-- Ulrich Drepper
4261	root	1.387	%
4262	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4263			-- Ulrich Drepper
4264	root	1.387	%
4265	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4266	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4267			zuverlässiger
4268	root	1.387	%
4269	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4270			/*
4271			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4272			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4273			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4274			*/
4275	root	1.387	%
4276	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4277			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4278			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4279			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4280			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4281	root	1.387	%
4282	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4283			Pirating Movies
4284
4285			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4286			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4287			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4288	root	1.387	%
4289	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4290			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4291	root	1.387	%
4292	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4293			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4294	root	1.387	%
4295	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4296			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4297			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4298			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4299			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4302			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4303			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4304			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4305			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4306
4307			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4308			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4309
4310			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4311			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4312			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4313			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4314			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4315			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4316			the first place!
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4319			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4320			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4321	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4322	root	1.387	%
4323	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4324			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4325	root	1.387	%
4326	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4327			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4328	root	1.387	%
4329	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4330			platform."
4331			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4332	root	1.387	%
4333	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4334			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4335			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4336			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4337			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4338	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4339	root	1.387	%
4340	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4341			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4342	root	1.387	%
4343	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4344			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4345			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4346			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4347			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4348			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4349			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4350			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4351			daily.
4352	root	1.387	%
4353	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4354	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4355			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4356	root	1.387	%
4357	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4358			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4359			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4360			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4361			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4362			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4363			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4364	root	1.387	%
4365	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4366	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4367	root	1.387	%
4368	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4369			[...so it must be good]
4370			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4371	root	1.387	%
4372	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4373			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4374			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4375	root	1.387	%
4376	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4377			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4378			No idea why I announce it here...
4379	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4380	root	1.387	%
4381	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4382			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4383	root	1.387	%
4384	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4385	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4386	root	1.387	%
4387	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4388			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4389			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4390			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4391			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4392
4393			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4394			Sacha.
4395	root	1.387	%
4396	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4397			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4398			desk one morning:
4399
4400			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4401
4402			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4403
4404			Employee: 123456
4405
4406			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4407			photograph of the employee.]
4408
4409			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4410			identification which has your picture on it?
4411
4412			Employee: Why would you need that?
4413
4414			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4415
4416			Employee: A picture of my face?
4417
4418			Security Guard: Yes
4419
4420			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4421
4422			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4423			compare against this one.
4424	root	1.387	%
4425	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4426			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4427			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4430			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4431			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4432
4433			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4434			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4435	root	1.387	%
4436	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4437	root	1.387	%
4438	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4439			"RV K-17"
4440	root	1.387	%
4441	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4442			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4443	root	1.387	%
4444	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4445			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4446			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4447			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4448	root	1.387	%
4449	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4450			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4451	root	1.387	%
4452	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4453	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4454			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4455	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4456	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4457			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4458	root	1.387	%
4459	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4460	root	1.387	%
4461	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4462			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4463	root	1.387	%
4464	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4465			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4466			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4467			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4468	root	1.387	%
4469	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4470			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4471			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4472			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4473			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4474			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4475			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4476			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4477			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4478			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4479			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4480			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4481			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4482			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4483			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4484			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4485			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4486			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4487			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4488	root	1.387	%
4489	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4490			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4491	root	1.387	%
4492	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4493			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4494	root	1.387	%
4495	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4496			Lester Moore,
4497			Shot in the head with a .44.
4498			No Les, no more.
4499	root	1.387	%
4500	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4501			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4502
4503			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4504			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4505	root	1.387	%
4506	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4507			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4508			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4511			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4512			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4513			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4514			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4515	root	1.112	[...]
4516			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4517			[...]
4518			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4519			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4520			the result with SHA.
4521	root	1.387	%
4522	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4523	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4524			> ist!
4525	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4526			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4527	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4528	root	1.387	%
4529	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4530			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4531	root	1.387	%
4532	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4533	root	1.387	%
4534	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4535			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4536			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4537			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4538			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4539			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4540	root	1.387	%
4541	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4542			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4543	root	1.387	%
4544	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4545			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4546	root	1.387	%
4547	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4548			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4549	root	1.387	%
4550	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4551
4552			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4553			* control history, is that we should at least
4554			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4555			* "initialisation"? */
4556			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4557	root	1.387	%
4558	root	1.105	[man pem]
4559			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4560	root	1.387	%
4561	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4562
4563			/* ``If you can't do it in
4564	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4565	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.104	[subculture]
4568	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4569			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4570	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4571
4572			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4573	root	1.424	%
4574	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4575			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4576	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4577	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4578	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4579	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4580			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4581	root	1.387	%
4582	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4583	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4584			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4585			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4586	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4587	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4588			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4589			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4590	root	1.387	%
4591	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4592			aber wenig freude.
4593	root	1.387	%
4594	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4595			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4596			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4597			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4598			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4599			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4600			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4601			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4602			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4603			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4604	root	1.387	%
4605	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4606			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4607	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4608			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4609	root	1.387	%
4610	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4611			don't work well in practise.
4612			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4613	root	1.387	%
4614	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4615			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4616			"ready, fire, aim."
4617	root	1.387	%
4618	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4619			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4620			free countries like Germany [1].
4621			[...]
4622			Regards
4623			Henning
4624
4625			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4626			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4627			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4628	root	1.387	%
4629	root	1.98	[...]
4630			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4631			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4632			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4633			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4634			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4635			[...]
4636			Wolfgang Walter
4637	root	1.387	%
4638	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4639			burro: it seemed very clever
4640			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4641			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4642			burro: oops
4643			burro: accidental poetry
4644	root	1.387	%
4645	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4646			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4647			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4648	root	1.387	%
4649	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4650			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4651	root	1.387	%
4652	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4653			-- Oscar Wilde
4654	root	1.387	%
4655	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4656			"guilty until proven innocent"
4657			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4658	root	1.387	%
4659	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4660			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4661			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4662			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4663			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4664			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4665			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4666			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4667			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4668			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4669			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4670			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4671			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4672			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4673			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4674	root	1.387	%
4675	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4676			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4677			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4678			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4679			// suit particular needs.
4680			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4681	root	1.387	%
4682	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4683			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4684			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4685	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4686	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4687	root	1.387	%
4688	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4689			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4690	root	1.387	%
4691	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4692			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4693	root	1.387	%
4694	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4695			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4696			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4697	root	1.387	%
4698	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4699			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4700	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4701			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4702	root	1.387	%
4703	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4704
4705			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4706			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4707			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4708			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4709			is not [...]
4710	root	1.387	%
4711	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4712	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4713			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4714	root	1.387	%
4715	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4716			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4717
4718	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4719	root	1.94
4720			GUI
4721			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4722			Globale Variable
4723	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4724	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4725			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4726			strukturiert
4727			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4728			Multithreaded
4729	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4730	root	1.94	Windows 95
4731	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4732	root	1.94	Emacs
4733	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4734			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4735			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4736	root	1.94	IPv6
4737			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4738			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4739			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4740			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4741	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4742			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4743	root	1.247	PHP
4744	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4745	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4746	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4747			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4748	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4749	root	1.94	Bunt.
4750	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4751			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4752			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4753	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4754	root	1.387	%
4755	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4756			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4757	root	1.387	%
4758	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4759	root	1.387	%
4760	root	1.93	[nah]
4761			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4762			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4763			paint dry."
4764	root	1.387	%
4765	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4766			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4767			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4768	root	1.387	%
4769	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4770	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4771			importance.
4772	root	1.387	%
4773	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4774			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4775			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4776			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4777
4778			You have to trust Microsoft.
4779
4780			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4781			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4782			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4783			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4784			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4785			useless chrome.
4786
4787			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4788			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4789			I'd like to trust them with.
4790	root	1.93	[...]
4791	root	1.387	%
4792	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4793			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4794			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4795			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4796			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4797	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4798	root	1.91	--------------^
4799	root	1.387	%
4800	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4801			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4802			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4803			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4804			English grammar, I assure you.
4805	root	1.387	%
4806	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4807			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4808			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4809			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4810			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4811			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4812			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4813
4814			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4815			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4816			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4817			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4818			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4819			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4820			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4821			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4822			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4823			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4824
4825			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4826			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4827			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4828			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4829
4830			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4831			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4832	root	1.387	%
4833	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4834			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4835			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4836			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4837			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4838			work etc first:
4839
4840			#include <stdio.h>
4841
4842			int main (void) {
4843			while (1)
4844			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4845
4846			return 0;
4847			}
4848	root	1.387	%
4849	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4850			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4851	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4852	root	1.387	%
4853	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4854			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4855			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4856			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4857	root	1.387	%
4858	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4859			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4860			proprietary and patentend technology.
4861	root	1.387	%
4862	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4863	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4864	root	1.387	%
4865	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4866	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4867	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4868			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4869			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4870	root	1.387	%
4871	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4872			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4873	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4874	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4875			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4876	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4877	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4878	root	1.87
4879	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4880			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4881			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4882			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4883			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4884			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4885	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4886			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4887
4888	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4889			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4890			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4891			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4892			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4893			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4894			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4895			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4896			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4897			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4898	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4899	root	1.387	%
4900	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4901			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4902	root	1.387	%
4903	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4904			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4905			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4906	root	1.387	%
4907	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4908			"linux" thing will fail]
4909			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4910			[...]
4911	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4912	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4913			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4914			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4915
4916			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4917			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4918			life to the public good.
4919
4920			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4921			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4922			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4923			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4924			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4925
4926			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4927			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4928			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4929			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4930			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4931			software to work on the linux kernel!
4932
4933			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4934			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4935			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4936			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4937			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4938	root	1.387	%
4939	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4940	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4941			[...]
4942			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4943	root	1.387	%
4944	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4945			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4946			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4947			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4948	root	1.387	%
4949	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4950	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4951			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4952			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4953			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4954			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4955	root	1.387	%
4956	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4957			-- Leonard Brandwein
4958	root	1.387	%
4959	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4960	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4961			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4962			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4963			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4964			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4965			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4966			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4967			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4968			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4969			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4970			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4971	root	1.387	%
4972	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4973			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4974	root	1.387	%
4975	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4976			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4977			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4978			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4979			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4980			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4981			jurisprudence fun?
4982			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4985			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4986			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4987	root	1.84	[...]
4988	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4989	root	1.387	%
4990	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4991			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4992			- Paul Ginsparg.
4993	root	1.387	%
4994	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4995			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4996			home.":))
4997			[erm...]
4998	root	1.387	%
4999	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5000
5001	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5002	root	1.387	%
5003	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5006
5007			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5008			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5009			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5010			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5011	root	1.387	%
5012	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5013			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5014			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5015	root	1.387	%
5016	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5017	root	1.83
5018			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5019	root	1.82
5020			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5021			to use in future emails?
5022	root	1.387	%
5023	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5024			please?
5025
5026			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5027			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5028
5029	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5030	root	1.387	%
5031	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5032			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5033			last until February 16th 2003.
5034
5035			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5036			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5037			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5038			end.
5039
5040			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5041
5042			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5043			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5044			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5045			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5046			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5047			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5048			take place on October 27th.
5049
5050			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5051			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5052			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5053			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5054			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5055			the clock)...
5056	root	1.387	%
5057	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5058			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5059			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5060			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5061			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5062
5063			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5064			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5065			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5066			RedHat and SuSE).
5067
5068			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5069
5070			Pavel
5071	root	1.387	%
5072	root	1.81	Rik
5073	root	1.247	--
5074	root	1.81	A: No.
5075			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5076	root	1.387	%
5077	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5078	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5079			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5080	root	1.81
5081			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5082			no useful data.
5083
5084	root	1.247	--
5085	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5086	root	1.387	%
5087	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5088			there was a long do..while construct,
5089			which contained a switch statement,
5090			which contained an if clause,
5091			which contained a break,
5092			which was intended for the if clause,
5093			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5094
5095			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5096			network January 15, 1990
5097	root	1.387	%
5098	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5099
5100	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5101			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5102			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5103			violation of network policies.
5104	root	1.80
5105			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5106
5107			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5108			The format is as follows:
5109
5110			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5111	root	1.387	%
5112	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5113			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5114			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5115	root	1.387	%
5116	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5117			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5118			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5119			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5120			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5121			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5122			...
5123			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5124			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5125			the effort."
5126	root	1.387	%
5127	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5128	root	1.387	%
5129	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5130			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5131	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5132	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5133			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5134	root	1.387	%
5135	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5136	root	1.387	%
5137	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5138	root	1.387	%
5139	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5140			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5141			[Albert Cahalan]
5142	root	1.387	%
5143	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5144			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5145			least as bad, but lesser known.
5146	root	1.387	%
5147	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5148			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5149			different.
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	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.
5152	root	1.387	%
5153	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5154			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5155	root	1.387	%
5156	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5157			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5158			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5159			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5160			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5161			without a show.
5162	root	1.387	%
5163	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5164	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5165	root	1.387	%
5166	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5167	root	1.387	%
5168	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5169			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5170	root	1.387	%
5171	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5172			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5173			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5174	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5175	root	1.71	going on.
5176			[...]
5177	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5178			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5179			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5180	root	1.387	%
5181	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5182			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5183	root	1.387	%
5184	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5185	root	1.387	%
5186	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5187	root	1.387	%
5188	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5189			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5190			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5191	root	1.387	%
5192	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5193			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5194			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5195			returned data.
5196
5197	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5198			FindExInfoStandard
5199			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5200	root	1.387	%
5201	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5202	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5203			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5204	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5205	root	1.387	%
5206	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5207			it doesn't work:]
5208			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5209			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5210			this MIME type as the final determination.
5211	root	1.387	%
5212	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5213
5214			Recode 0.1.1
5215			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5216
5217			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5218			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5219
5220			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5221	root	1.387	%
5222	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5223	root	1.387	%
5224	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5225	root	1.387	%
5226	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5227
5228			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5229			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5230			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5231			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5232			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5233			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5234			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5235			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5236			century."
5237
5238			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5239			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5240			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5241			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5242			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5243			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5244			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5245			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5246			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5247			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5248			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5249			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5250			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5251			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5252
5253			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5254			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5255			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5256			hilarious in light of the above.
5257			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5258
5259			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5260			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5261			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5262			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5263			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5264			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5265			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5266
5267			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5268			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5269			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5270			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5271	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5272	root	1.387	%
5273	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5274	root	1.387	%
5275	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5276			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5277	root	1.387	%
5278	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5279			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5280			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5281
5282			Tony Hoare
5283	root	1.387	%
5284	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5285			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5286	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5287	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5288	root	1.387	%
5289	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5290
5291			[...]
5292			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5293			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5294			system. Basically its windows computer
5295	root	1.387	%
5296	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5297	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5298	root	1.387	%
5299	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5300
5301			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5302			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5303			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5304			> software developers...
5305
5306			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5307	root	1.387	%
5308	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5309			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5310			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5311			>
5312			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5313
5314			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5315			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5316
5317			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5318			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5319
5320			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5321			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5322			off by throwing away the patch.
5323
5324			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5325			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5326			patch any time soon.
5327
5328			--
5329			Daniel
5330	root	1.387	%
5331	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5332			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5333			[...]
5334			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5335			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5336			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5337	root	1.387	%
5338	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5339
5340			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5341			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5342			Is it realy needed?
5343	root	1.387	%
5344	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5345
5346			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5347
5348			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5349			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5350			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5351	root	1.387	%
5352	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5353			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5354			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5355			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5356			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5357			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5358			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5359	root	1.387	%
5360	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5361
5362			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5363			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5364			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5365			>
5366			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5367
5368			This is an ex-parrot
5369	root	1.387	%
5370	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5371
5372			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5373			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5374			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5375			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5376			>
5377			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5378			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5379
5380			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5381
5382			while (!sorted(data))
5383			;
5384	root	1.387	%
5385	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5386			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5387
5388			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5389
5390			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5391			to computing
5392	root	1.387	%
5393	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5394
5395			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5396			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5397
5398			Common sense, one would hope.
5399	root	1.387	%
5400	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5401			[...]
5402
5403			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5404			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5405			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5406
5407			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5408
5409			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5410			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5411			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5412			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5413
5414			:-)
5415	root	1.387	%
5416	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5417			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5418			their C programs."
5419	root	1.60
5420			Robert Firth
5421	root	1.387	%
5422	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5423	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5424	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5425			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5426	root	1.387	%
5427	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5428	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5429	root	1.387	%
5430	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5431			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5432	root	1.387	%
5433	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5434	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5435	root	1.387	%
5436	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5437	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5438			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5439	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5440			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5441	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5442			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5443
5444			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5445
5446			\Gisbert
5447	root	1.387	%
5448	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5449	root	1.387	%
5450	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5451			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5452			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5453	root	1.387	%
5454	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5455			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5456
5457			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5458			[...]
5459	root	1.387	%
5460	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5461			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5462			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5463
5464			ok 1
5465			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5466			not ok 2
5467			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5468	root	1.387	%
5469	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5470
5471			Cheers,
5472
5473			Andre Hedrick
5474			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5475	root	1.387	%
5476	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5477	root	1.247	>
5478	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5479
5480			Or mutabloat :-(
5481	root	1.387	%
5482	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5483			Outlook IS the solution.
5484	root	1.387	%
5485	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5486	root	1.387	%
5487	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5488
5489			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5490			never bought anything from UUNet.
5491	root	1.387	%
5492	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5493			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5494			by delving below its surface meaning)
5495	root	1.387	%
5496	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5497	root	1.387	%
5498	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5499
5500			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5501			> just go to court and say:
5502
5503			Oh glorious naivety.
5504
5505			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5506			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5507			> can do the work better than I).
5508
5509			You release the code
5510
5511			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5512
5513			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5514			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5515			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5516			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5517
5518			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5519			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5520
5521			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5522			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5523
5524			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5525
5526			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5527			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5528			or that the good guys win.
5529
5530			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5531			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5532	root	1.387	%
5533	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5534
5535			[...]
5536			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5537			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5538	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5539	root	1.51	year to kill.
5540	root	1.387	%
5541	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5542			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5543
5544			[...]
5545			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5546			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5547			of for Windows desktop systems."
5548			[...]
5549			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5550			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5551			[...]
5552			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5553			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5554			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5555			turned on by default.
5556			[...]
5557			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5558			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5559			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5560			[...]
5561			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5562			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5563			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5564			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5565			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5566			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5567			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5568			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5569			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5570	root	1.387	%
5571	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5572	root	1.387	%
5573	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5574	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5575	root	1.49
5576			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5577
5578			Monday, 06. November 2000
5579	root	1.387	%
5580	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5581			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5582	root	1.387	%
5583	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5584	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5585			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5586			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5587	root	1.387	%
5588	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5589			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5590			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5591			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5592	root	1.387	%
5593	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5594			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5595
5596			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5597			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5598			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5599	root	1.387	%
5600	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5601			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5602
5603			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5604			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5605			> dropped patches.
5606
5607			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5608	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5609	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5610			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5611			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5612			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5613	root	1.387	%
5614	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5615			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5616			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5617	root	1.387	%
5618	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5619
5620			From: Bill Huey
5621			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5622
5623			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5624
5625			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5626	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5627	root	1.45	themselves.
5628
5629			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5630			certain.
5631	root	1.387	%
5632	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5633			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5634			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5635
5636			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5637			appropriate approach to a problem.
5638	root	1.387	%
5639	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5640	root	1.44	^^^^
5641			[...]
5642			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5643			[...]
5644			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5645			-15 Nice winter day
5646			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5647			-5 Nice warm winter day
5648			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5649	root	1.387	%
5650	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5651			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5652			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5653			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5654	root	1.387	%
5655	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5656			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5657
5658			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5659
5660			-ben
5661	root	1.387	%
5662	root	1.43	[...]
5663	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5664			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5665			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5666			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5667			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5668			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5669			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5670			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5671			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5672			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5673			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5674	root	1.387	%
5675	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5676			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5677	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5678	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5679			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5680			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5681			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5682			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5683			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5684	root	1.43	statt...
5685	root	1.387	%
5686	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5687	root	1.387	%
5688	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5689			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5690			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5691			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5692			values." Who writes this stuff?
5693	root	1.387	%
5694	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5695	root	1.387	%
5696	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5697			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5698			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5699			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5700			> "Macao".
5701			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5702			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5703	root	1.387	%
5704	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5705	root	1.387	%
5706	root	1.40	Beitrag
5707	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5708	root	1.40
5709			fucklinux
5710
5711			IP: 217.83.123.198
5712
5713			1. FUCK LINUX
5714
5715	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5716	root	1.40
5717			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5718	root	1.387	%
5719	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5720	root	1.40
5721			[...]
5722			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5723			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5724			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5725			read...
5726	root	1.387	%
5727	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5728			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5729			depends on the unreasonable man.
5730
5731			-George Bernard Shaw
5732	root	1.387	%
5733	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5734
5735			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5736	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5737	root	1.387	%
5738	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:
5739	root	1.387	%
5740	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
5741			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5742			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5743			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5744			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5745	root	1.387	%
5746	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5747			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5748	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5749	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5750			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5751	root	1.387	%
5752	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5753			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5754			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5755			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5756			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5757			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5758			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5759			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).
5760			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5761			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5762	root	1.387	%
5763	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5764			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5765			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5766			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5767			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5768			removed in Windows XP.
5769
5770			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5771			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5772			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5773			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5774	root	1.387	%
5775	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5776			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5777			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5778			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5779			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5780			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5781			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5782			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5783			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5784			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5785
5786			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5787			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5788			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5789			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5790			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5791			you have no details?
5792			[...]
5793			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5794			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5795			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5796			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5797			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5798			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5799			the industrial terrorists want."
5800	root	1.387	%
5801	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5802			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5803	root	1.387	%
5804	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5805	root	1.387	%
5806	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5807			of each 50 days
5808	root	1.387	%
5809	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5810
5811			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5812			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5813			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5814	root	1.387	%
5815	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5816			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5817			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5818	root	1.387	%
5819	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5820			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5821	root	1.247	>
5822	root	1.35	> <...>
5823			>
5824			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5825			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5826			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5827	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5828	root	1.387	%
5829	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5830			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5831			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5832	root	1.387	%
5833	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5834			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5835			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5836
5837	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5838			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5839			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5840			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5841			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5842			changing run level, interactive boot.
5843	root	1.35
5844			Alan
5845	root	1.387	%
5846	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5847
5848			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5849			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5850
5851			First they came for the Communists,
5852			and I didn't speak up,
5853			because I wasn't a Communist.
5854			Then they came for the Jews,
5855			and I didn't speak up,
5856			because I wasn't a Jew.
5857			Then they came for the Catholics,
5858			and I didn't speak up,
5859			because I was a Protestant.
5860			Then they came for me,
5861			and by that time there was no one
5862			left to speak up for me.
5863
5864			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5865	root	1.387	%
5866	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5867	root	1.387	%
5868	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5869			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5870	root	1.387	%
5871	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5872			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5873			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5874			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5875
5876			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5877	root	1.387	%
5878	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5879
5880			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5881			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5882			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5883			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5884			used databases!"
5885	root	1.387	%
5886	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5887
5888			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5889
5890			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5891			change that was not?
5892			[...]
5893	root	1.387	%
5894	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5895
5896			[...]
5897
5898	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5899	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5900			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5901
5902	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5903	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5904			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5905			them anywhere else").
5906
5907			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5908			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5909	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5910	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5911			order..
5912
5913	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5914	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5915	root	1.387	%
5916	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5917			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5918			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5919
5920			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5921	root	1.387	%
5922	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5923	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5924			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5925			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5926			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5927	root	1.387	%
5928	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5929			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5930
5931			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5932			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5933			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5934			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5935			series.
5936
5937			[...]
5938	root	1.387	%
5939	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5940	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5941	root	1.387	%
5942	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5943			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5944			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5945
5946			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5947			then save." g
5948
5949			/* Steinar */
5950	root	1.387	%
5951	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5952			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5953
5954			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5955			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5956			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5957			a bill...
5958	root	1.387	%
5959	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5960			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5961			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5962
5963			Sorry. Mea culpa
5964
5965			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5966			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5967			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5968			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5969			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5970			*/
5971			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5972			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5973			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5974			int fpu_exception;
5975	root	1.387	%
5976	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5977
5978			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5979
5980			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5981			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5982			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5983			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5984			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5985	root	1.387	%
5986	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5987
5988			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5989			people.
5990	root	1.387	%
5991	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5992			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5993
5994			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5995			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5996			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5997			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5998			the question.
5999			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6000	root	1.387	%
6001	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6002			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6003			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6004			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6005			(September)
6006	root	1.387	%
6007	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6008	root	1.387	%
6009	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6010			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6011			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6012			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6013			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6014	root	1.387	%
6015	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6016			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6017	root	1.387	%
6018	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6019			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6020			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6021			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6022			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6023	root	1.387	%
6024	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6025	root	1.387	%
6026	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6027	root	1.387	%
6028	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6029			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6030			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6031			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6032			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6033			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6034			you tell them.
6035	root	1.387	%
6036	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6037			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6038			alcohol.
6039
6040			Regards
6041			Henning
6042	root	1.387	%
6043	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6044			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6045			> on a desktop system.
6046
6047			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6048			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6049
6050			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6051			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6052
6053			Alan
6054	root	1.387	%
6055	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6056			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6057
6058			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6059			>
6060			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6061			> Use Welsh
6062
6063			Don't forget
6064
6065			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6066			Use Finnish
6067
6068			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6069
6070			And while we're at it,
6071
6072			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6073			Use German
6074
6075			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6076			Use English
6077
6078			MfG Kai
6079	root	1.387	%
6080	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6081
6082			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6083			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6084			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6085			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6086			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6087			there's no one thinking there.
6088			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6089	root	1.387	%
6090	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6091			scores the rules:
6092
6093			[*]
6094			Score:: =-9999
6095	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6096	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6097			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6098			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6099			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6100
6101			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6102			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6103			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6104			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6105			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6106
6107			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6108			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6109			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6110			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6113			98 IIS servers online...
6114	root	1.387	%
6115	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6116			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6117			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6118			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6119
6120			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6121			it to be otherwise.
6122
6123			Abigail
6124	root	1.387	%
6125	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6126	root	1.387	%
6127	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6128	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6129	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6130	root	1.387	%
6131	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6132	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6133	root	1.387	%
6134	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6135			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6136			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6137			software people doing the same)
6138
6139			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6140			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6141			irrelevant
6142
6143			Alan
6144	root	1.387	%
6145	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6146			Comments may nest.
6147	root	1.387	%
6148	root	1.22	[from findas]
6149			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6150			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6151			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6152			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6153			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6154			# address distributino is... arin.
6155	root	1.387	%
6156	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6157			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6158	root	1.387	%
6159	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6160			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6161			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6162			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6163			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6164	root	1.247	>
6165	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6166
6167			$foot->insert($mouth);
6168
6169			# or is that
6170
6171			$mouth->insert($foot);
6172
6173			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6174			How utterly optimistic :-)
6175	root	1.387	%
6176	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6177			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6178			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6179			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6180			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6181			>can see why it happens)
6182			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6183
6184			Well, there's perl... :)
6185	root	1.387	%
6186	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6187			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6188			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6189			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6190			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6191	root	1.247	* boxes.
6192	root	1.387	%
6193	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6194			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6195			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6196	root	1.387	%
6197	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6198			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6199	root	1.387	%
6200	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6201			From: Juergen Christoffel
6202			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6203			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6204
6205			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6206
6207			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6208			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6209			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6210			schon;
6211
6212			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6213			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6214			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6215
6216			Danke, JC
6217	root	1.387	%
6218	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6219			#undef REASONABLE
6220	root	1.387	%
6221	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6222			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6223
6224			Alan
6225	root	1.387	%
6226	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6227			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6228			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6229			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6230	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6231	root	1.18	> anything.
6232
6233			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6234			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6235	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6236			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6237	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6238			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6239
6240			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6241			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6242			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6243			always a good idea.
6244	root	1.387	%
6245	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6246			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6247
6248	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6249	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6250	root	1.387	%
6251	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6252			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6253			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6254			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6255	root	1.387	%
6256	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6257	root	1.387	%
6258	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6259	root	1.18
6260			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6261			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6262	root	1.387	%
6263	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6264			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6265			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6266			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6267	root	1.387	%
6268	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6269	root	1.387	%
6270	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6271			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6272			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6273			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6274			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6275			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6276	root	1.387	%
6277	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6278
6279			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6280			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6281			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6282			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6283			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6284			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6285			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6286	root	1.387	%
6287	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6288			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6289			future. Bleeeh]
6290
6291			From: Larry McVoy
6292
6293	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6294	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6295			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6296			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6297			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6298			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6299			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6300			not for the exceptional case.
6301	root	1.387	%
6302	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6303			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6304			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6305			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6306			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6307			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6308			stack.
6309
6310			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6311			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6312			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6313
6314			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6315			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6316	root	1.387	%
6317	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6318
6319	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6320			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6321			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6322			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6323	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6324	root	1.247	>
6325	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6326			> on the CPU?
6327
6328			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6329	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6330	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6331			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6332
6333			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6334			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6335			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6336			the point again".
6337	root	1.387	%
6338	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6339
6340	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6341			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6342	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6343	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6344	root	1.247	>
6345	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6346			> scenario.
6347
6348			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6349	root	1.387	%
6350	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6351	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6352			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6353			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6354	root	1.387	%
6355	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6356			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6357			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6358			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6359			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6360			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6361			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6362			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6363			anything.
6364	root	1.387	%
6365	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6366	root	1.387	%
6367	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6368			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6369	root	1.387	%
6370	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6371			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6372			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6373			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6374			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6375
6376			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6377	root	1.387	%
6378	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6379
6380			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6381
6382			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6383			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6384			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6385			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6386			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6387
6388			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6389			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6390			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6391			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6392			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6393			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6394			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6395			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6396			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6397			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6398			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6399			to work through the learning curve.
6400	root	1.387	%
6401	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6402	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6403	root	1.387	%
6404	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6405			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6406	root	1.387	%
6407	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6408			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6409	root	1.387	%
6410	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6411			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6412	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6413			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6414	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6415	root	1.387	%
6416	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6417	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6418	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6419	root	1.387	%
6420	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6421			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6424			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6425			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6426			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6427			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6428			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6429			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6430			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6431
6432	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6433	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6434	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6435	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6436			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6437
6438			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6439			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6440			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6441			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6442			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6443			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6444			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6445	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6446	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6447			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6448			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6449	root	1.387	%
6450	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6451			/*---.
6452			\| ? \|
6453			`---*/
6454	root	1.387	%
6455	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6456	root	1.387	%
6457	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6458			From: Joe Buck
6459			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6460			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6461	root	1.387	%
6462	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6463			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6464	root	1.387	%
6465	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6466	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6467	root	1.387	%
6468	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6469	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6470	root	1.387	%
6471	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6472	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6473	root	1.4	...
6474			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6475	root	1.387	%
6476	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6477	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6478			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6479			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6480
6481			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6482
6483			Alan
6484	root	1.387	%
6485	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6486	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6487			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6488			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6489			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6490	root	1.387	%
6491	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6492	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6493			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6494			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6495			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6496			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6497			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6498	root	1.387	%
6499	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6500			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6501			will find an easier way to do it.
6502	root	1.387	%
6503	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6504	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6505			Paul wrote:
6506			>Marc wrote:
6507	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6508			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6509			> den richtigen.
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6512			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6513	root	1.387	%
6514	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6515			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6516	root	1.387	%
6517	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6518			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6519	root	1.387	%
6520	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6521			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6522			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6523			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6524			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6525	root	1.387	%
6526	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6527			[...]
6528
6529			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6530
6531			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6532	root	1.387	%
6533	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6534			> constants.
6535
6536			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6537	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6538	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6539	root	1.387	%
6540	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6541	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6542
6543			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6544			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6545			much to do with IRC.
6546	root	1.387	%
6547	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6548			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6549
6550			[...]
6551			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6552
6553			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6554			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6557	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6558	root	1.387	%
6559	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6560
6561			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6562			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6563			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6564
6565			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6566			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6567			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6568			shows how much you know, pal.
6569
6570			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6571	root	1.387	%
6572	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6573			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6574			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6575	root	1.387	%
6576	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6577			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6578			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6579			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6580	root	1.387	%
6581	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6582			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6583			Your version of perl sucks.
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6586			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6587			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6588			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6589			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6590			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6591			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6592			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6593	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6594	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6595			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6596	root	1.387	%
6597	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6598			before you can understand it :)
6599	root	1.387	%
6600	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6601			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6602			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6603	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6604	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6605			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6606			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6607
6608			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6609			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6610			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6611			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6612			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6613			be worth attempting).
6614
6615			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6616			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6617			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6618
6619			Nick.
6620	root	1.387	%
6621	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6622			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6623			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6624
6625	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6626	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6627			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6628			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6629			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6630	root	1.387	%
6631	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6632			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6633			> > > to work :-)
6634	root	1.247	> >
6635	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6636	root	1.247	>
6637	root	1.1	> Eh?
6638	root	1.247	>
6639	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6640			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6641
6642			He didn't say it worked. :)
6643	root	1.387	%
6644	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6645
6646			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6647			> I find it irksome that
6648	root	1.247	>
6649	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6650
6651			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6652	root	1.387	%
6653	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6654			From: Simon Cozens
6655
6656			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6657			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6658			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6659
6660			Looks like a feature to me.
6661	root	1.387	%
6662	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6663	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6664	root	1.387	%
6665	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6666			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6667
6668			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6669			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6670			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6671			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6672
6673			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6674			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6675			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6676			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6677			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6678			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6679	root	1.387	%
6680	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6681			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6682			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6683			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6684			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6685			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6686			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6687			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6688			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6689			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6690			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6691			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6692
6693			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6694			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6695			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6696
6697			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6698	root	1.387	%
6699	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6700			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6701			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6702			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6703			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6704			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6705			replication."
6706			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6707	root	1.387	%
6708	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6709			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6710
6711			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6712			shows.
6713
6714			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6715			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6716			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6717
6718			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6719			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6720			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6721			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6722			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6723
6724			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6725			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6726			up with a saner protocol.
6727	root	1.387	%
6728	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6729			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6730			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6731
6732			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6733			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6734			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6735	root	1.387	%
6736	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6737			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6738			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6739			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6740			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6741			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6742	root	1.387	%
6743	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6744			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6745	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6746			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6747			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6748			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6749	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6750	root	1.387	%
6751	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6752	root	1.387	%
6753	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6754			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6755	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6756	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6757	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6758	root	1.387	%
6759	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6760			"ist mir egal"
6761	root	1.387	%
6762	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6763			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6764
6765			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6766	root	1.387	%
6767	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6768			hallole
6769	root	1.387	%
6770	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6771			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6772			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6773	root	1.387	%
6774	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6775			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6776			1929 The pause that refreshes
6777			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6778			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6779			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6780			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6781			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6782			1939 Thirst stops here
6783			1942 It's the real thing
6784			1947 Have a Coke
6785			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6786			1963 Things go better with Coke
6787			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6788			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6789			1982 Coke is it!
6790			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6791	root	1.387	%
6792	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6793			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6794	root	1.387	%
6795	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6796			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6797	root	1.387	%
6798	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6799	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6800			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6801			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6802			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6803			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6804			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6805			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6806			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6807			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6808			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6809			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6810			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6811			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6812			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6813
6814			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6815			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6816	root	1.387	%
6817	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6818			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6819
6820			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6821			uncool thing to do. [...]
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6824			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6825			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6826	root	1.387	%
6827	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6828	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6829	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6830	root	1.1
6831	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6832			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6833			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6834			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6835	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6836			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6837	root	1.387	%
6838	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6839			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6840			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6841			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6842			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6843			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6844			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6845
6846			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6847			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6848			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6849	root	1.387	%
6850	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6851
6852			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6853	root	1.387	%
6854	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6855			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6856			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6857			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6858			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6859	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6860	root	1.387	%
6861	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6862			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6863			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6864
6865			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6866			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6867
6868			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6869	root	1.387	%
6870	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6871	root	1.387	%
6872	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6873			From: Alan Cox
6874			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6875			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6876	root	1.247	>
6877			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6878	root	1.1
6879	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6880	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6881	root	1.387	%
6882	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6883			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6884			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6885
6886			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6887			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6888			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6889			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6890
6891			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6892
6893			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6894	root	1.387	%
6895	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6896	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6897			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6898	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6899	root	1.387	%
6900	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6901	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6902			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6903	root	1.387	%
6904	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6905			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6906	root	1.387	%
6907	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6908	root	1.387	%
6909	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6910			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6911			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6912	root	1.387	%
6913	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6914			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6915			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6916			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6917			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6918	root	1.387	%
6919	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6920	root	1.387	%
6921	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6922			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6923			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6924			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6925			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6926			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6927			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6928	root	1.387	%
6929	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6930			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6931	root	1.387	%
6932	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6933			perl:]
6934
6935			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6936
6937			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6938			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6939			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6940			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6941			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6942			disable the message and pray it works"]
6943	root	1.387	%
6944	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6945			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6946			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6947			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6948
6949			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6950			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6951			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6952			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6953			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6956			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6957			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6958	root	1.387	%
6959	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6960			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6961			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6962			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6963			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6964	root	1.387	%
6965	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6966			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6967			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6968	root	1.387	%
6969	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6970			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6971	root	1.387	%
6972	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6973			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6974	root	1.387	%
6975	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6976			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6977			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6978			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6979			> it's a hard requirement.
6980
6981			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6982			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6983			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6984			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6985			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6986			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6987			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6988			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6989	root	1.387	%
6990	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6991			> Netscape?"
6992	root	1.247
6993	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6994			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6995	root	1.387	%
6996	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6997			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6998			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6999			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7000			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7001			the specified task step-by-step.
7002	root	1.387	%
7003	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7004
7005			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7006			be damned hard to understand."
7007	root	1.387	%
7008	root	1.1	[Linus]
7009			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7010			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7011			wrong. It's that simple.
7012	root	1.387	%
7013	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7014	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7015	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7016			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7017			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7018	root	1.247	Undernet>
7019	root	1.387	%
7020	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7021			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7022			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7023			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7024
7025			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7026			document that contains an element or attribute named
7027	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7028	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7029			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7030			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7031			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7032			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7033			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7034	root	1.387	%
7035	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7036			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7037			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7038			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7039			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7040			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7041	root	1.387	%
7042	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7043			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7044			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7045			[... snip ...]
7046			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7047			tragedy...
7048	root	1.387	%
7049	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7050	root	1.247
7051	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7052			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7053			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7054			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7055			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7056			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7057			>message plus attorney's fees.
7058			[SNIP long sig]
7059	root	1.247
7060	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7061			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7062			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7063	root	1.247
7064	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7065			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7066			procmailable address.
7067	root	1.247
7068	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7069			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7070			just a waste of bandwidth.
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7073	root	1.387	%
7074	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7075			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7076	root	1.387	%
7077	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7078	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7079	root	1.387	%
7080	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7081	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7082			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7083			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7084	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7085	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7086			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7087			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7088			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7089	root	1.387	%
7090	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7091	root	1.387	%
7092	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7093	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7094	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7095	root	1.387	%
7096	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7097			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7098			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7099			immediately and not block the calling process.
7100
7101			the man pages are wrong
7102
7103			--cw
7104	root	1.387	%
7105	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7106			...
7107			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7108	root	1.387	%
7109	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7110			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7111	root	1.387	%
7112	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7113			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7114			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7115
7116			How fast does it oops?
7117	root	1.387	%
7118	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7119
7120			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7121			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7122			> touch is 2Gig.
7123
7124			In theory, yes.
7125			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7126			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7127	root	1.387	%
7128	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7129			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7130			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7131			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7132			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7133			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7134			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7135			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7136			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7137			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7138			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7139			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7140			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7141			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7142			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7143			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7144	root	1.387	%
7145	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7146	root	1.387	%
7147	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7148			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7149			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7150			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7151			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7152	root	1.387	%
7153	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7154			[Lukas Grunwald]
7155	root	1.387	%
7156	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7157			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7158			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7159			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7160
7161			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7162			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7163			> > prompt.
7164			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7165			> /proc/info/authors?
7166	root	1.247
7167	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7168			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7169			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7170			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7171			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7172			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7173	root	1.247
7174	root	1.1	NOT.
7175			[...]
7176	root	1.387	%
7177	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7178			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7179			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7180	root	1.247
7181	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7182			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7183			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7184			> an interesting experiment.
7185	root	1.247
7186	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7187			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7188			to disagree...
7189	root	1.387	%
7190	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7191			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7192			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7193			[und Lukas sagt:]
7194			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7195	root	1.387	%
7196	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7197			report:]
7198			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7199			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7200			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7201			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7202	root	1.387	%
7203	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7204			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7205	root	1.387	%
7206	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7207			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7208			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7209
7210			Alexander Viro wrote:
7211			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7212			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7213			>
7214			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7215			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7216			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7217			> UNIX.
7218
7219			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7220			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7221			docs... ew!
7222	root	1.387	%
7223	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7224			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7225			> protected mode?
7226
7227			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7228			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7229			registers loaded ;)
7230	root	1.387	%
7231	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7232			[...]
7233			> backports hurt forward progress.
7234
7235			beware of content free dogma
7236	root	1.387	%
7237	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7238			> wondering.
7239
7240			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7241			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7242			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7243			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7244			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7245			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7246			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7247
7248			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7249	root	1.387	%
7250	root	1.1	>Keith,
7251	root	1.247	>
7252	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7253			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7254			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7255
7256			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7257			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7258			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7259			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7260			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7261			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7262			do the right thing.
7263
7264			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7265			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7266			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7267			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7268			and they have to fix it.
7269	root	1.387	%
7270	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7271			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7272			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7273			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7274	root	1.387	%
7275	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7276			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7277	root	1.387	%
7278	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7279			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7280			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7281			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7282
7283			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7284			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7285	root	1.387	%
7286	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7287			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7288	root	1.387	%
7289	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7290			glibc-2.2 was released]
7291			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7292	root	1.387	%
7293	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7294	root	1.387	%
7295	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7296			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7297			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7298	root	1.387	%
7299	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7300			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7301			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7302	root	1.387	%
7303	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7304
7305			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7306			standards-compliant.
7307			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7308			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7309			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7310			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7311			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7312			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7313	root	1.387	%
7314	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7315			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7316			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7317
7318			That's your problem.
7319
7320			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7321
7322			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7323			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7326			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7327			> > out there) in the foot?
7328
7329			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7330
7331			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7332			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7333			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7334	root	1.387	%
7335	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7336			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7337			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7338
7339			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7340			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7341			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7342			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7343			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7344			--
7345			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7346	root	1.387	%
7347	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7348
7349			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7350			>
7351			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7352			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7353			>
7354			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7355
7356			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7357	root	1.387	%
7358	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7359			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7360			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7361	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7362	root	1.387	%
7363	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7364			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7365			Bullschildt below ;)]
7366
7367			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7368			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7369	root	1.387	%
7370	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7371			>
7372			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7373			>
7374			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7375			>
7376			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7377	root	1.387	%
7378	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7379
7380			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7381			it did the same thing.
7382
7383			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7384			a week ago. :(
7385
7386			--Jack
7387	root	1.387	%
7388	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7389	root	1.387	%
7390	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7391			-- K&R
7392	root	1.387	%
7393	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7396			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7397	root	1.387	%
7398	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7399	root	1.387	%
7400	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7401			$modules => { "" => "" };
7402	root	1.387	%
7403	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7404	root	1.387	%
7405	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7406	root	1.387	%
7407	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7408			> --
7409			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7410			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7411	root	1.387	%
7412	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7413			From: "David Schwartz"
7414
7415			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7416			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7417			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7418			> pretty spiffy.
7419
7420			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7421			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7422			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7423			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7424	root	1.387	%
7425	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7426	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7427	root	1.387	%
7428	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7429			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7430			> of having bough one.
7431
7432			Not an uncommon thought :)
7433	root	1.387	%
7434	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7435
7436			Hi Marc !
7437
7438			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7439			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7440			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7441
7442			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7443	root	1.387	%
7444	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7445			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7446			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7447			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7448
7449			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7450			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7451			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7452
7453			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7454			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7455			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7456			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7457			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7458			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7459
7460			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7461			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7462
7463			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7464			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7465			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7466			right to left.
7467
7468			>But no culture
7469			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7470			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7471			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7472			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7473			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7474
7475			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7476
7477			--Alex
7478	root	1.387	%
7479	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7480			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7481			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7482
7483			[most of the reply snipped...]
7484
7485			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7486			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7487			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7488
7489			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7490
7491			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7492			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7493			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7494			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7495			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7496
7497			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7498			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7499			try to claim that they do?)
7500	root	1.387	%
7501	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7502
7503			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7504			> {
7505			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7506			> flush(load);
7507			> else
7508			> wear(load);
7509			> }
7510
7511			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7512			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7513
7514			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7515			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7516
7517			--
7518			dwmw2
7519	root	1.387	%
7520	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7521			are are overturned.
7522	root	1.387	%
7523	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7524	root	1.387	%
7525	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7526			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7527	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7528			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7529	root	1.387	%
7530	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7531			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7532			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7533			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7534			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7535			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7536			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7537	root	1.387	%
7538	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7539			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7540			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7541
7542			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7543			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7544			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7545	root	1.387	%
7546	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7547			Deadlock, n.:
7548			Deceased Rasterman.
7549	root	1.387	%
7550	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7551			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7552			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7553			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7554	root	1.387	%
7555	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7556			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7557	root	1.387	%
7558	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7559			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7560	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7561			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7562			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7563			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7564	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7565			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7566	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7567			Positionen für unwählbar.
7568	root	1.1
7569			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7570	root	1.387	%
7571	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7572			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7573			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7574
7575			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7576
7577			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7578			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7579			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7580			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7581			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7582
7583			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7584			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7585			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7586			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7587			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7588			results simply because I make a mistake!
7589
7590			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7591			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7592			errors.
7593
7594			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7595			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7596			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7597			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7598	root	1.387	%
7599	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7600			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7601			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7602			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7603			>
7604			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7605	root	1.387	%
7606	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7607			of nothing."
7608	root	1.387	%
7609	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7610			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7611			>
7612			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7613			> CPU?
7614
7615			Root password? :)
7616
7617			John.Fulmer
7618	root	1.387	%
7619	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7620
7621			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7622	root	1.387	%
7623	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7624			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7625			> which I prefer...
7626
7627			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7628			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7629			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7630			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7631			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7632			--
7633			Horst von Brand
7634	root	1.387	%
7635	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7636
7637			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7638
7639			[...]
7640
7641			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7642	root	1.387	%
7643	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7644			at your problem:]
7645
7646			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7647			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7648			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7649	root	1.387	%
7650	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7651			cp is inherently inefficient.
7652	root	1.387	%
7653	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7654			>breaking seals on them.
7655
7656			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7657			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7658			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7659
7660			...
7661
7662			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7663			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7664			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7665			could be just an urban myth though.
7666
7667			Russell Coker
7668	root	1.387	%
7669	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7670			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7671
7672			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7673	root	1.387	%
7674	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7675			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7676			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7677			> > deleting.
7678			>
7679			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7680
7681			Wrong. Yury does.
7682			:(
7683
7684			--
7685			Stefan
7686	root	1.387	%
7687	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7688			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7689			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7690			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7691			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7692			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7693			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7694
7695			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7696
7697			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7698	root	1.387	%
7699	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7700	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7701	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7702	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7703			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7704	root	1.387	%
7705	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7706			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7707			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7708			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7709			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7710			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7711			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7712			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7713			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7714			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7715	root	1.387	%
7716	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7717			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7718			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7719	root	1.1	aus!
7720	root	1.387	%
7721	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7722			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7723	root	1.387	%
7724	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7725			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7726			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7727			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7728	root	1.387	%
7729	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7730			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7731	root	1.387	%
7732	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7733			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7734			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7735			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7736
7737			--tom
7738	root	1.387	%
7739	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7740			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7741
7742			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7743			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7744			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7745			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7746			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7747	root	1.387	%
7748	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7749			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7750			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7751			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7752			solutions.
7753
7754			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7755
7756			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7757			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7758			the background]
7759	root	1.387	%
7760	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7761			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7762			Security Response Center:
7763
7764			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7765			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7766
7767			[and later]
7768			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7769
7770			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7771
7772			[Phil closes]
7773			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7774
7775			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7776			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7777	root	1.387	%
7778	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7779			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7780			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7781			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7782			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7783			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7784			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7785	root	1.387	%
7786	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7787			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7788			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7789			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7790
7791			[Trashey / Quasars]
7792	root	1.387	%
7793	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7794			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7795			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7796
7797			Irony potential in
7798
7799			man perlrtfm
7800
7801			is left to the reader.
7802
7803			Nat
7804	root	1.387	%
7805	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7806			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7807
7808			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7809			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7810	root	1.387	%
7811	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7812			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7813			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7814	root	1.387	%
7815	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7816			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7817			Paul Tomblin
7818	root	1.387	%
7819	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7820			>I am morally
7821			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7822
7823			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7824			possibility...
7825
7826			Dan
7827	root	1.387	%
7828	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7829	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7830	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 :)
7831			<Mr> zugabe
7832	root	1.387	%
7833	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7834			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7835	root	1.387	%
7836	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7837			[cobol, sigh]
7838	root	1.387	%
7839	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7840			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7841			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7842			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7843			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7844			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7845			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7846			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7847
7848			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7849	root	1.387	%
7850	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7851
7852			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7853			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7854			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7855			after they regain their composure."
7856
7857			-- Paul Rinaldo
7858			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7859	root	1.387	%
7860	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7861			>
7862			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7863			>
7864			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7865
7866			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7867
7868			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7869
7870			;-}
7871
7872			--
7873
7874			ciao -
7875			Stefan
7876
7877	root	1.387	%
7878	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7879			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7880
7881			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7882			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7883			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7884			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7885			one' type remarks.
7886			[Alan Cox]
7887	root	1.387	%
7888	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7889
7890			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7891			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7892
7893			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7894	root	1.387	%
7895	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7896
7897			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7898			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7899			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7900	root	1.387	%
7901	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7902			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7903			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7904			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7905	root	1.387	%
7906	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7907			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7908
7909			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7910			is to me ok.
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7913
7914			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7917			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7918	root	1.387	%
7919	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7920			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7921	root	1.387	%
7922	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7923			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7924			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7925
7926			Ralf
7927	root	1.387	%
7928	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7929			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7930			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7931
7932			david parsons
7933	root	1.387	%
7934	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7935			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7936
7937			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7938			>so that trick is not portable.
7939
7940			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7941			127.0.0.1 localhost
7942
7943			--tom
7944	root	1.387	%
7945	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7946			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7947			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7948			> >the question is moot.
7949			>
7950			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7951
7952			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7953
7954			Ilya
7955	root	1.387	%
7956	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7957			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7958			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7959			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7960			> trying.
7961
7962			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7963			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7964	root	1.387	%
7965	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7966			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7967			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7968			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7969	root	1.387	%
7970	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7971			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7972			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7973	root	1.387	%
7974	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7975			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7976			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7977			> blocking :-)
7978
7979			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7980			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7981			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7982			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7983			reasons.
7984
7985			DS
7986	root	1.387	%
7987	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7988	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7989	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7990	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7991	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7992
7993			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7994	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7995	root	1.387	%
7996	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7997			[...]
7998			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7999			[...]
8000
8001			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8002			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8003			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8004			with each other on the same channel.
8005
8006			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8007			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8008
8009			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8012			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8013	root	1.387	%
8014	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8015	root	1.387	%
8016	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8017			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8018			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8019			ok
8020	root	1.387	%
8021	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8022			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8025			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8026			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8027			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8028			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8029			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8030			<Xach> burrito, focus
8031			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8032	root	1.387	%
8033	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8034			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8035			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8036			tested it." ...
8037	root	1.387	%
8038	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8039	root	1.387	%
8040	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8041
8042			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8043			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8044			>
8045			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8046			>
8047			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8048			>
8049			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8050			>
8051			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8052			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8053			>systems.
8054
8055
8056			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8057			had.
8058
8059			--
8060			Neal Bridges
8061	root	1.387	%
8062	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8063
8064			> Hi folks,
8065			> 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?
8066			> please reply to
8067			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8068			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8069
8070			Parse error.
8071
8072			---
8073			Alex
8074	root	1.387	%
8075	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8076
8077			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8078			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8079
8080			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8081			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8082			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8083
8084			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8085	root	1.387	%
8086	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8087	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8088	root	1.387	%
8089	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8090			ii = 44;
8091			p = &ii;
8092			p = ii/p;
8093			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8094			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8095	root	1.387	%
8096	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8097			> Linux time then.
8098
8099			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8100
8101			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8102			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8103
8104			Roger.
8105	root	1.387	%
8106	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8107	root	1.387	%
8108	root	1.1	auto accident;
8109			register voters;
8110			static electricity;
8111			struct by_lightning;
8112			void *where_prohibited;
8113			char broiled;
8114			short circuit;
8115			short changed;
8116			long johns;
8117			unsigned long letter;
8118			double entendre;
8119			double trouble;
8120			union organizer;
8121			float valve;
8122			short pants;
8123			union station;
8124			void check; unsigned check;
8125			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8126	root	1.387	%
8127	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8128			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8129			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8130	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8131	root	1.387	%
8132	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8133
8134			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8135			worstation.
8136	root	1.387	%
8137	root	1.1	I wrote
8138			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8139			$/
8140
8141			Damn shift key.
8142
8143
8144			Mike Guy
8145	root	1.387	%
8146	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8147			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8148			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8149			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8150			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8151			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8152			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8153			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8154			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8155	root	1.387	%
8156	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8157
8158			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8159
8160			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8161			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8162			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8163			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8164
8165			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8166	root	1.387	%
8167	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8168			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8169
8170			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8171			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8172			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8173			easy to bother.
8174
8175			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8176			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8177			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8178			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8179
8180			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8181
8182			Larry
8183	root	1.387	%
8184	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8185			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8186			Yeah. :-)
8187	root	1.387	%
8188	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8189			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8190			[...]
8191			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8192
8193			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8194			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8195			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8196			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8197
8198			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8199			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8200			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8201			receipts aren't used anymore.
8202	root	1.387	%
8203	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8204			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8205			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8206	root	1.387	%
8207	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8208			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8209			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8210			> versteht?"
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8213			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8214			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8215			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8216	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8217	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8218	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8219	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8220			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8221			ji!
8222	root	1.387	%
8223	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8224			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8225			[Larry Wall]
8226	root	1.387	%
8227	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8228			Altpreussen.
8229			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8230			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8231	root	1.387	%
8232	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8233			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8234			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8235			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8236			>
8237	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8238			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8239	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8240
8241	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8242	root	1.1	Norbert?
8243	root	1.387	%
8244	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8245	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8246			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8247	root	1.387	%
8248	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8249	root	1.387	%
8250	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8251	root	1.387	%
8252	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8253			From: "Steve"
8254			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8255			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8256			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8257
8258			[the following was a single line, of course]
8259			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8260			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8261			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8262			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8263			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8264
8265			Thanks,
8266
8267			Steve
8268	root	1.387	%
8269	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8270			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8271			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8272			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8273	root	1.387	%
8274	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8275			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8276			<tigert> ahem
8277	root	1.387	%
8278	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8279			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8280			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8281	root	1.387	%
8282	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8283			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8284			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8285			Subject: It's soup.
8286
8287			Okay, it's there.
8288
8289			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8290
8291			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8292
8293			Larry
8294	root	1.387	%
8295	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8296	root	1.387	%
8297	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8298			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8299			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8300			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8301			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8302	root	1.387	%
8303	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8304			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8305			>
8306			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8307			> And there's no mouse.
8308			>
8309			> Abigail
8310
8311			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8312
8313			Matt.
8314	root	1.387	%
8315	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8316			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8317
8318			- --tom
8319	root	1.387	%
8320	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8321			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8322
8323			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8324			>
8325			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8326			> 2.2.11 release?
8327
8328			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8329
8330			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8331
8332			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8333	root	1.387	%
8334	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8335	root	1.387	%
8336	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8337			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8338			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8339			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8340			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8341			> that much ;-)
8342
8343			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8344	root	1.387	%
8345	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8346			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8347	root	1.387	%
8348	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8349			<QUOTE>
8350			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8351
8352			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8353			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8354			</QUOTE>
8355	root	1.387	%
8356	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8357			and routes around it.
8358
8359			Roger Larsson
8360	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8361	root	1.387	%
8362	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8363			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8364	root	1.387	%
8365	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8366			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8367	root	1.387	%
8368	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8369
8370			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8371			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8372			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8373			on different JVMs.
8374
8375			[and later]
8376
8377			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8378			adventure gaming:
8379
8380			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8381			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8382	root	1.387	%
8383	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8384			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8385
8386			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8387
8388			NK> ?? -> huh?
8389
8390			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8391
8392			<chaim>
8393	root	1.387	%
8394	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8395			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8396			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8397			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8398			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8399			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8400	root	1.387	%
8401	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8402	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8403	root	1.387	%
8404	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8405			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8406			page]
8407			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8408			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8409			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8410			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8411			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8412			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8413			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8414			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8415			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8416			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8417	root	1.387	%
8418	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8419			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8420			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8421			don't actually get anything DONE.
8422	root	1.387	%
8423	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8424			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8425			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8426			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8427	root	1.387	%
8428	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8429			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8430			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8431			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8432
8433			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8434	root	1.387	%
8435	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8436			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8437			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8438	root	1.387	%
8439	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8440			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8441			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8442	root	1.387	%
8443	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8444
8445			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8446			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8447			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8448			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8449			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8450			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8451			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8452			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8453			got the T-shirt.
8454	root	1.387	%
8455	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8456			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8457			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8458			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8459			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8460			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8461			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8462
8463			Linus writes, to Craig:
8464
8465			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8466			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8467			> thus choices than gcc.
8468
8469			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8470			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8471			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8472			far more complex than the kernel.
8473
8474			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8475			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8476
8477			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8478	root	1.387	%
8479	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8480			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8481			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8482
8483			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8484			[...]
8485			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8486			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8487			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8488			>let the user be in control.
8489
8490			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8491			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8492			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8493			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8494			compilers?
8495	root	1.387	%
8496	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8497			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8498
8499			Linus writes:
8500			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8501			> gcc could do better?
8502
8503			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8504			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8505			before you had so many worshippers.
8506	root	1.387	%
8507	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8508			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8509			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8510			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8511			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8512
8513			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8514
8515			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8516			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8517			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8518			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8519
8520			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8521
8522			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8523
8524			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8525			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8526
8527			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8528
8529			>:->
8530
8531			Brane
8532
8533
8534			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8535			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8536			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8537			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8538			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8539
8540
8541			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8542	root	1.387	%
8543	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8544	root	1.387	%
8545	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8546			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8547			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8548	root	1.387	%
8549	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8550			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8551			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8552	root	1.387	%
8553	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8554
8555			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8556
8557			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8560			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8561			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8562			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8563
8564			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8565
8566			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8567			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8568			:
8569			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8570			:
8571			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8572			:
8573			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8574	root	1.387	%
8575	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8576	root	1.387	%
8577	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8578			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8579			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8580			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8581			>
8582			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8583			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8584
8585			The classic example:
8586
8587			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8588			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8589	root	1.387	%
8590	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8591			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8592
8593			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8594			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8595			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8596
8597			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8598
8599			--tom
8600	root	1.387	%
8601	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8602			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8603			working on something for me
8604			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8605			to me nutting concerning y ok
8606			piece
8607			russ
8608	root	1.387	%
8609	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8610
8611			pico (text editor for beginners)
8612			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8613			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8614			ed (text editor for beginners)
8615	root	1.387	%
8616	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8617
8618			use Python;
8619
8620			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8621			Except maybe faster. :-)
8622
8623			Larry
8624	root	1.387	%
8625	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8626
8627			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8628			2010.
8629
8630			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8631	root	1.387	%
8632	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8633			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8634			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8635			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8636			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8637			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8638			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8639			been created.
8640	root	1.387	%
8641	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8642			>
8643			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8644			> $3.99.
8645			>
8646			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8647			>
8648			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8649			>
8650			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8651			>
8652			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8653			>
8654			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8655			>
8656			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8657			> got integrated Coke!
8658			>
8659			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8660			> to drink the Coke.
8661			>
8662			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8663			>
8664			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8665			>
8666			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8667			> inseparable.
8668			>
8669			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8670			>
8671			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8672			>
8673			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8674			>
8675			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8676			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8677			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8678	root	1.387	%
8679	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8680			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8681	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8682	root	1.387	%
8683	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8684
8685			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8686			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8687			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8688			for you to digest this book.
8689			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8690			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8691			Join The Trickle
8692			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8693			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8694			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8695	root	1.387	%
8696	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8697			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8698			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8699			complete and utter vapourware.
8700
8701			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8702	root	1.387	%
8703	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8704
8705			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8706			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8707	root	1.387	%
8708	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8709
8710			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8711			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8712			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8713			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8714			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8715			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8716			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8717			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8718			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8719			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8720			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8721			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8722			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8723			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8724			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8725			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8726			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8727			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8728			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8729			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8730			work.
8731			[...]
8732			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8733			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8734			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8735			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8736			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8737			search generically - then it has some potential.
8738			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8739			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8740			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8741			intellectual value whatsoever.
8742
8743			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8744			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8745			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8746	root	1.387	%
8747	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8748	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8749	root	1.387	%
8750	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8751			#!/usr/bin/sh
8752			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8753			# All Rights Reserved
8754
8755			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8756			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8757			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8758
8759			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8760			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8761	root	1.387	%
8762	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.
8763	root	1.387	%
8764	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8765			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8766			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8767	root	1.387	%
8768	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8769
8770			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8771			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8772
8773			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8774			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8775			machine]
8776
8777			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8778			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8779			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8780
8781			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8782	root	1.387	%
8783	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8784			spamming:]
8785
8786			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8787			>>
8788			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8789			>>------------------------------------------------------
8790			>>
8791			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8792			>>
8793			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8794
8795			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8796			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8797	root	1.387	%
8798	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8799			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8800	root	1.387	%
8801	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8802			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8803	root	1.387	%
8804	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8805			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8806
8807			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8808	root	1.387	%
8809	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8810
8811			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8812			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8813			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8814			he's full of.
8815
8816			Support BSD/Linux.
8817
8818			--tom
8819	root	1.387	%
8820	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8821	root	1.387	%
8822	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8823	root	1.387	%
8824	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8825			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8826
8827			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8828			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8829			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8830			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8831	root	1.387	%
8832	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8833
8834			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8835			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8836	root	1.387	%
8837	root	1.1	[the creation]
8838			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8839	root	1.387	%
8840	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8841
8842			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8843			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8844			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8845	root	1.387	%
8846	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8847			selbst schliesse.
8848			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8849			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8850	root	1.387	%
8851	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8852			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8853
8854			No:
8855
8856			use Borg;
8857			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8858
8859			--
8860			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8861	root	1.387	%
8862	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8863			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8864			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8865			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8866			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8867			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8868			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8869			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8870			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8871			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8872			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8873			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8874			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8875			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8876			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8877			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8878			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8879			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8880			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8881			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8882			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8883			dispensers."
8884
8885			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8886	root	1.387	%
8887	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8888			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8889			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8890			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8891	root	1.387	%
8892	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8893			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8894			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8895	root	1.387	%
8896	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8897	root	1.1
8898			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8899	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8900	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8901	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8902	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8903			Student: "..."
8904			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8905			Student: "..."
8906			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8907	root	1.387	%
8908	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8909
8910			> Just morbid curiosity,
8911			>
8912			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8913
8914			Yes. Broken ones.
8915
8916			dgris
8917	root	1.387	%
8918	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8919			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8920	root	1.387	%
8921	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8922			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8923	root	1.387	%
8924	root	1.1	...
8925
8926			<AOL>
8927
8928			Me too!
8929
8930			</AOL>
8931
8932			Tig
8933	root	1.387	%
8934	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8935	root	1.387	%
8936	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8937	root	1.387	%
8938	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8939
8940			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8941			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8942			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8943			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8944			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8945			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8946			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8947
8948			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8949
8950			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8951			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8952			get really really pissed.
8953
8954			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8955			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8956	root	1.387	%
8957	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8958			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8959			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8960			> period.
8961			>
8962			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8963			> Nic
8964			>
8965
8966			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8967
8968			-hpa
8969	root	1.387	%
8970	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8971	root	1.387	%
8972	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8973			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8974			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8975			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8976			happy."
8977			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8978	root	1.387	%
8979	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8980			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8981			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8982
8983			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8984			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8985			I also forwarded the offending code.
8986
8987			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8988			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8989			service.
8990
8991			Daniel
8992	root	1.387	%
8993	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8994			...
8995			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8996	root	1.387	%
8997	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8998			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8999			[RJL]
9000	root	1.387	%
9001	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9002			right.''
9003	root	1.387	%
9004	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9005
9006			Amazing--they actually listened.
9007	root	1.387	%
9008	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9009			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9010			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9011
9012			# less foo
9013			sh: command not found
9014			# more foo
9015			sh: command not found
9016			# emacs foo
9017			sh: command not found
9018			# ed foo
9019			0
9020			help
9021			?
9022			quit
9023			?
9024			exit
9025			?
9026			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9027			?
9028
9029			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9030	root	1.387	%
9031	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9032			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9033			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9034
9035			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9036
9037			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9038
9039			tim> would be most correct in style.
9040
9041			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9042			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9043	root	1.387	%
9044	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9045			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9046			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9047			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9048			too bad --- ]
9049	root	1.387	%
9050	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9051	root	1.387	%
9052	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9053
9054			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9055			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9056
9057			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9058			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9059	root	1.387	%
9060	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9061			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9062			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9063			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9064			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9065	root	1.387	%
9066	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9067
9068			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9069			include wrong #include files in their source.
9070	root	1.387	%
9071	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9072
9073			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9074			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9075			Consider it a rite of passage.
9076	root	1.387	%
9077	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9078			"Oops."
9079			-- MST3K
9080	root	1.387	%
9081	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9082			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9083			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9084
9085			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9086			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9087			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9088			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9089			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9090			it. ;)
9091	root	1.387	%
9092	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9093			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9094			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9095			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9096			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9097
9098			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9099			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9100			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9101			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9102
9103			--tom
9104	root	1.387	%
9105	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9106
9107			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9108
9109			>Why does it end ?
9110
9111			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9112
9113			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9114			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9115
9116			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9117	root	1.387	%
9118	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9119			-- Tom Christiansen
9120	root	1.387	%
9121	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9122
9123			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9124			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9125			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9126			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9127			of Sputnik.
9128	root	1.387	%
9129	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9130			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9131			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9132			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9133			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9134	root	1.387	%
9135	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9136			- Hanlons razor -
9137	root	1.387	%
9138	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9139			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9140	root	1.387	%
9141	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9142			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9143			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9144			> offered no significant advantages.
9145
9146			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9147	root	1.387	%
9148	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9149			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9150			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9151			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9152			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9153			in front of me says so."
9154
9155			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9156	root	1.387	%
9157	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9158			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9159			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9160			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9161			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9162			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9163			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9164			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9165			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9166			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9167			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9168	root	1.387	%
9169	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9170			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9171			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9172			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9173			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9174	root	1.387	%
9175	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9176	root	1.387	%
9177	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9178	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9179			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9180			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9181			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9182	root	1.387	%
9183	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9184			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9185			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9186			>
9187			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9188			> and/or screen.
9189
9190			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9191	root	1.387	%
9192	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9193			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9194
9195			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9196			> use pedantic;
9197			> use strict 'code';
9198			>
9199			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9200
9201			use syntax 'python';
9202
9203			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9204
9205	root	1.387	%
9206	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9207			>
9208			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9209			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9210			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9211			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9212			>
9213			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9214	root	1.387	%
9215	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9216			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9217	root	1.387	%
9218	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9219			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9220			> be time-consuming.
9221
9222			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9223	root	1.387	%
9224	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9225			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9226			however, they do not handle C++...
9227			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9228	root	1.387	%
9229	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9230			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9231
9232			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9233
9234			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9235
9236			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9237
9238			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9239			already of old time, which was before us.
9240			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9241			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9242
9243			Regards,
9244			Tigran.
9245	root	1.387	%
9246	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9247	root	1.387	%
9248	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9249			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9250			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9251			main(){
9252			extrn hw;
9253			putchar(0[hw]);
9254			hw=+1;
9255			putchar(0[hw]);
9256			}
9257	root	1.387	%
9258	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9259
9260			The egg. Always. By definition.
9261	root	1.387	%
9262	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9263			>
9264			> Better check your scsi cables.
9265	root	1.387	%
9266	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9267			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9268	root	1.387	%
9269	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9270			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9271			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9272			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9273
9274	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9275	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9276			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9277
9278	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9279	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9280	root	1.387	%
9281	root	1.1	>James :\
9282			>
9283			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9284
9285			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9286	root	1.387	%
9287	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9288			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9289			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9290	root	1.387	%
9291	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9292			> is just asking for a black eye.
9293
9294			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9295
9296			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9297			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9298			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9299
9300			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9301			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9302			area.
9303	root	1.387	%
9304	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9305			[Lukas Grunwald]
9306	root	1.387	%
9307	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9308
9309			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9310			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9311			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9312			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9313			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9314	root	1.387	%
9315	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9316			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9317
9318			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9319	root	1.387	%
9320	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9321			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9322			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9323
9324			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9325
9326			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9327
9328			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9329
9330			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9331			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9332	root	1.387	%
9333	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9334	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9335	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9336	root	1.387	%
9337	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9338			longer...
9339	root	1.387	%
9340	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9341			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9342			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9343	root	1.387	%
9344	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9345			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9346			> > world :) I just love it...
9347			>
9348			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9349			>
9350			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9351			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9352			practical...
9353			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9354			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9355			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9356			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9357			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9358
9359			Jan Hubicka
9360	root	1.387	%
9361	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9362			[...]
9363			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9364
9365			No, it is not. What you meant is
9366
9367			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9368	root	1.387	%
9369	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9370			> A) perl-5.00553
9371			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9372			> cc = cl.exe
9373			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9374
9375			[...]
9376
9377			Ilya
9378	root	1.387	%
9379	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9380
9381			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9382
9383			p.
9384	root	1.387	%
9385	root	1.1	[tomc]
9386			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9387			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9388
9389			+------------------------------------------+
9390			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9391			+------------------------------------------+
9392
9393			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9394			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9395
9396			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9397			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9398			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9399			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9400			interesting way.
9401			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9402			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9403			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9404			interesting things.
9405			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9406			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9407			things.
9408	root	1.387	%
9409	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9410			--Dennis Ritchie
9411	root	1.387	%
9412	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9413	root	1.387	%
9414	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9415
9416			switch (x)
9417			default:
9418			if (prime(x))
9419			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9420			process_prime(x);
9421			else
9422			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9423			process_composite(x);
9424	root	1.387	%
9425	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9426			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9427			in megabytes, required for execution?
9428
9429			Craig Milo Rogers
9430	root	1.387	%
9431	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9432			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9433			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9434
9435			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9436			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9437
9438			Ilya
9439	root	1.387	%
9440	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9441			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9442
9443			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9444			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9445			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9446
9447			Nat
9448	root	1.387	%
9449	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9450			much steroids for a while. =)
9451
9452			--Albert Dvornik
9453			<bert@genscan.com>
9454	root	1.387	%
9455	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9456			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9457			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9458
9459			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9460
9461			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9462			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9463
9464			--tom
9465	root	1.387	%
9466	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9467
9468			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9469
9470			Linus
9471	root	1.387	%
9472	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9473			devil added HTML mail...
9474	root	1.387	%
9475	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9476			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9477			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9478	root	1.387	%
9479	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9480			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9481
9482			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9483			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9484			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9485
9486			Arm the gnus!
9487	root	1.387	%
9488	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9489
9490			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9491			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9492			gcc, so go away.
9493	root	1.387	%
9494	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9495			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9496
9497			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9498
9499			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9500			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9501	root	1.387	%
9502	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9503			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9504			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9505			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9506
9507			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9508			was released today" madness.
9509	root	1.387	%
9510	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9511			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9512			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9513			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9514			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9515			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9516			>
9517			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9518			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9519			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9520			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9521			> marketing name, anyway.
9522
9523			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9524			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9525			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9526
9527			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9528			violence..." :-)
9529	root	1.387	%
9530	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9531			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9532	root	1.387	%
9533	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9534			> >poor drivers
9535			>
9536			> No it doesn't.
9537
9538			Indeed. Its down to
9539
9540			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9541
9542			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9543			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9544			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9545			or binaries.
9546	root	1.387	%
9547	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9548	root	1.387	%
9549	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9550	root	1.387	%
9551	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9552
9553			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9554			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9555			\|>
9556			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9557
9558			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9559
9560			Andreas.
9561	root	1.387	%
9562	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9563			...
9564			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9565
9566			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9567			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9568			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9569			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9570			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9571			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9572	root	1.387	%
9573	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9574
9575			Paul Eggert writes:
9576			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9577
9578			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9579			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9580	root	1.387	%
9581	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9582			however.
9583
9584			"We don't have the tools"
9585			"We can't support a non intel build"
9586			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9587			"Its not worth the time cost"
9588			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9589	root	1.387	%
9590	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9591
9592			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9593			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9594			>
9595			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9596			> <mailproc@fred>
9597			>
9598			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9599			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9600			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9601			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9602			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9603	root	1.387	%
9604	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9605			> No documented problem
9606			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9607			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9608			>
9609			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9610	root	1.387	%
9611	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9612			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9613	root	1.387	%
9614	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9615			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9616
9617			dave
9618	root	1.387	%
9619	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9620			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9621
9622			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9623	root	1.387	%
9624	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9625
9626			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9627			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9628
9629			Paul Eggert writes:
9630			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9631
9632			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9633			1 month before 29 March?
9634
9635			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9636
9637			1 month before 28 March?
9638
9639			28 February.
9640
9641			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9642			_before_ 27 February?
9643
9644			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9645	root	1.387	%
9646	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9647
9648			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9649			>> So make a security check first:
9650			>>
9651			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9652			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9653			>
9654			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9655			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9656			>
9657			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9658			> = instead of == error*/
9659			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9660			>
9661			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9662			>
9663			>--
9664			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9665
9666			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9667
9668			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9669			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9670	root	1.387	%
9671	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9672			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9673
9674			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9675			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9676			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9677			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9678			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9679			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9680			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9681			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9682
9683			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9684			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9685			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9686			available for that hardware from any source.
9687			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9688			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9689			sniffing!
9690	root	1.387	%
9691	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9692			technical support line that isn't"
9693	root	1.387	%
9694	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9695			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9696	root	1.387	%
9697	root	1.1	[...]
9698			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9699			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9700
9701			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9702			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9703			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9704			"Nothing else"
9705			"Sorry"
9706			[Click]
9707
9708			Alan
9709	root	1.387	%
9710	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9711			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9712	root	1.387	%
9713	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9714			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9715			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9716			> users excepted, of course!).
9717
9718			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9719			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9720			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9721			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9722			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9723			is installed"
9724
9725			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9726	root	1.387	%
9727	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9728
9729			L. Harris wrote:
9730			>
9731			> Testing
9732
9733			you failed.
9734	root	1.387	%
9735	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9736			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9737	root	1.387	%
9738	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9739			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9740			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9741			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9742	root	1.387	%
9743	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9744			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9745			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9746
9747			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9748	root	1.387	%
9749	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9750			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9751			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9752			where else...
9753	root	1.387	%
9754	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9755			[...]
9756			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9757			: about a certain topic.
9758	root	1.387	%
9759	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9760			>
9761			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9762			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9763
9764			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9765			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9766
9767			void main (void)
9768			{
9769			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9770			printf ("\n");
9771			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9772			printf ("You have died.\n");
9773			printf ("\n");
9774			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9775			}
9776
9777			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9778
9779			--
9780			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9781	root	1.387	%
9782	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9783			mistake I ever made]
9784
9785			From: "Tom Miller"
9786			Subject: Can
9787			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9788
9789			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9790			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9791			my name is Tom Miller
9792
9793			From: "Tom Miller"
9794			Subject: Wait
9795			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9796
9797			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9798			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9799	root	1.387	%
9800	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9801
9802			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9803			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9804			so why bother? [...]
9805	root	1.387	%
9806	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9807	root	1.1
9808			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9809
9810			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9811			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9812			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9813			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9814			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9815			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9816			sich dann.
9817	root	1.387	%
9818	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9819			no fs
9820			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9821			Definitely hardware or software error.
9822
9823			Unix Version 7 Manual
9824	root	1.387	%
9825	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9826			>
9827			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9828			>
9829			> =for C
9830			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9831			> =end
9832			> =for C++
9833			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9834			> =end
9835			> =for Java
9836			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9837			> =end
9838			>
9839			> :-)
9840	root	1.387	%
9841	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9842	root	1.387	%
9843	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9844
9845			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9846			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9847			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9848			turn it on.
9849	root	1.387	%
9850	root	1.1	[...]
9851			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9852			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9853			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9854			[...]
9855	root	1.387	%
9856	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9857
9858			Chad C Giffin
9859	root	1.387	%
9860	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9861			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9862			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9863			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9864			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9865			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9866
9867			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9868			through the door.
9869			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9870			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9871			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9872			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9873			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9874			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9875			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9876			usually.)
9877
9878			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9879			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9880			your tire pressure..."
9881			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9882			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9883			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9884			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9885			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9886			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9887			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9888			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9889	root	1.387	%
9890	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9891
9892			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9893	root	1.387	%
9894	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9895
9896			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9897			:-(
9898	root	1.387	%
9899	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9900			>dies alles geschieht.
9901			>Und es verging nicht.
9902
9903			So what?
9904
9905			Ich dachte eher an:
9906
9907			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9908			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9909			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9910			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9911			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9912			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9913			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9914			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9915			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9916			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9917			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9918			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9919
9920			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9921
9922			Antje
9923	root	1.387	%
9924	root	1.1	[....]
9925
9926			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9927			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9928			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9929			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9930			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9931			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9932
9933			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9934
9935			Antje
9936	root	1.387	%
9937	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9938			lalala, I love you baby..."
9939			--
9940			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9941	root	1.387	%
9942	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9943			>
9944			> Kubys
9945
9946			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9947
9948			Linus
9949	root	1.387	%
9950	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9951
9952			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9953			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9954			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9955	root	1.387	%
9956	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9957
9958			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9959			out what it means.
9960			--
9961			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9962	root	1.387	%
9963	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9964			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9965	root	1.387	%
9966	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9967			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9968
9969			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9970
9971			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9972			> is being discussed.
9973
9974			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9975	root	1.387	%
9976	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9977
9978			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9979
9980			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9981
9982			[and the button reads]
9983
9984			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9985	root	1.387	%
9986	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9987
9988			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9989
9990			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9991			certain amount of redundancy.
9992	root	1.387	%
9993	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9994			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9995
9996			...
9997
9998			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9999	root	1.387	%
10000	root	1.1	>Hello,
10001			>
10002			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10003			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10004			>
10005
10006			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10007			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10008			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10009			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10010	root	1.387	%
10011	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10012			on the country as a whole.
10013			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10014			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10015			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10016	root	1.387	%
10017	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10018			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10019	root	1.387	%
10020	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10021	root	1.387	%
10022	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10023			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10024			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10025
10026			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10027
10028			--tom
10029			--
10030			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10031			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10032	root	1.387	%
10033	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10034			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10035	root	1.387	%
10036	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10037
10038			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10039			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10040			> NO CARRIER
10041			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10042	root	1.387	%
10043	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10044			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10045			> better.
10046
10047			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10048			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10049	root	1.387	%
10050	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10051			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10052	root	1.387	%
10053	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10054			\|>
10055			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10056			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10057			\|>
10058			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10059			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10060
10061			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10062			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10063			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10064			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10065			build Bison, and then cook it.
10066
10067			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10068	root	1.387	%
10069	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10070			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10071			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10072			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10073			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10074	root	1.387	%
10075	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10076			-- lbxproxy(1)
10077	root	1.387	%
10078	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10079
10080			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10081
10082			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10083			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10086
10087			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10088	root	1.387	%
10089	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10090			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10091			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10092			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10093			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10094
10095			\|> What does this mean.
10096
10097			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10098			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10099	root	1.387	%
10100	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10101
10102			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10103			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10104
10105			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10106	root	1.387	%
10107	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10108			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10109			streams)."
10110			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10111	root	1.387	%
10112	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10113			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10114	root	1.387	%
10115	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10116
10117			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10118
10119			Klaro.
10120
10121			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10122			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10123			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10124			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10125
10126	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10127	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10128
10129			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10130			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10131			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10132			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10133			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10134			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10135			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10136
10137			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10138			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10139			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10140	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10141			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10142			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10143			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10144	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10145
10146			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10147	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10148			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10149			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10150			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10151			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10152			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10153			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10154	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10155			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10156
10157			cu in hell 2002
10158	root	1.387	%
10159	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10160	root	1.387	%
10161	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10162
10163			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10164			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10165			the man page for crypt(1).
10166
10167			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10168			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10169			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10170
10171			man -s3 crypt
10172
10173			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10174			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10175
10176			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10177			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10178			he can figure out to use the command
10179
10180			man -s3 Intro.3
10181
10182			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10183			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10184
10185			man -s3c crypt
10186
10187			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10188			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10189			any trouble.
10190			--
10191			Michael M Rubenstein
10192	root	1.387	%
10193	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10194
10195			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10196
10197			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10198
10199			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10200
10201			Regards,
10202			Tim Bunce.
10203
10204			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10205			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10206			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10207	root	1.387	%
10208	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10209
10210			...
10211
10212			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10213			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10214			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10215
10216			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10217			its unusable, believe me I do.
10218	root	1.387	%
10219	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10220
10221			Semour Cray
10222	root	1.387	%
10223	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10224
10225			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10226	root	1.387	%
10227	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10228			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10229
10230			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10231			it only supports parts of it
10232	root	1.387	%
10233	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10234			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10235	root	1.387	%
10236	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10237			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10238			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10239			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10240			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10241			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10242			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10243
10244			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10245			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10246			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10247			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10248			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10249			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10250			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10251			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10252			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10253			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10254
10255			tq vm, (burley)
10256	root	1.387	%
10257	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10258			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10259			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10260			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10261			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10262			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10263			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10264	root	1.387	%
10265	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10266			/*
10267			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10268			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10269			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10270			* files won't compile.
10271			*/
10272	root	1.387	%
10273	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10274			> great.
10275
10276			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10277
10278			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10279
10280			This rock is below water half of the time!
10281			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10282			on a regular basis! ;-)
10283	root	1.387	%
10284	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10285			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10286			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10287	root	1.387	%
10288	root	1.1	>
10289			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10290			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10291			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10292
10293			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10294	root	1.387	%
10295	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10296
10297			>Hello!
10298
10299			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10300			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10301			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10302
10303
10304			Perl.
10305
10306			regards
10307			jobst
10308	root	1.387	%
10309	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10310			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10311			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10312
10313			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10314			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10315
10316			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10317			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10318			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10319			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10320			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10321			the absolute pits.
10322	root	1.387	%
10323	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10324	root	1.387	%
10325	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10326			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10327
10328			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10329	root	1.387	%
10330	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10331			ketchup and mustard
10332	root	1.387	%
10333	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10334
10335			vimal gajjar wrote:
10336			>
10337			> Hi there,
10338			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10339			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10340			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10341			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10342			> 5% of cpu
10343			> 2 Mb of RAM
10344			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10345			>
10346			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10347
10348			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10349			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10350			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10351	root	1.387	%
10352	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10353			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10354			>
10355			> >s/usually/never/
10356			>
10357			> s/sometimes/never/
10358
10359			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10360	root	1.387	%
10361	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10362			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10363			:Perl, IMO.
10364
10365			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10366
10367			TC
10368	root	1.387	%
10369	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10370	root	1.387	%
10371	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10372
10373			Hi guys!
10374
10375			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10376	root	1.387	%
10377	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10378
10379			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10380			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10381			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10382			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10383			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10384			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10385	root	1.387	%
10386	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10387			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10388			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10389
10390			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10391			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10392			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10393			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10394
10395			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10396			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10397			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10398			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10399
10400			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10401
10402			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10403
10404			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10405			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10406			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10407
10408			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10409			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10410
10411			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10412			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10413
10414			Did I miss any? ;-)
10415
10416			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10417			Laugh. Please.
10418
10419			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10420			--Scott
10421	root	1.387	%
10422	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10423
10424			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10425			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10426			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10427			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10428	root	1.387	%
10429	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10430			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10431
10432			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10433
10434			This is not mail.
10435
10436			This is Usenet.
10437
10438			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10439	root	1.387	%
10440	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10441			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10442			--- ide1: reset: success
10443			-----------> I like Linux !
10444	root	1.387	%
10445	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10446			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10447
10448			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10449			do.
10450	root	1.387	%
10451	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10452			++ PLONK.
10453	root	1.387	%
10454	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10455			Re: Subraumfunk
10456
10457			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10458			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10459
10460			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10461			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10462			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10463			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10464			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10465	root	1.387	%
10466	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10467			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10468			>
10469			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10470
10471			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10472	root	1.387	%
10473	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10474			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10475	root	1.387	%
10476	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10477			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10478
10479			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10480			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10481
10482			Bill Jones
10483	root	1.387	%
10484	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10485
10486			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10487			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10488			#include <windows.h>
10489			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10490			#endif
10491	root	1.387	%
10492	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10493
10494			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10495			is, invoking the URL
10496
10497			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10498
10499			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10500	root	1.387	%
10501	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10502			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10503			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10504			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10505			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10506			"I am using CGI!"
10507
10508			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10509	root	1.387	%
10510	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10511			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10512			>
10513	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10514	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10515
10516			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10517	root	1.387	%
10518	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10519			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10520	root	1.387	%
10521	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10522			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10523			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10524			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10525	root	1.387	%
10526	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10527
10528			pcg@goof.com said:
10529			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10530
10531			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10532
10533			"It's broken."
10534			"What's wrong with it?."
10535			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10536			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10537			"It just doesn't work."
10538			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10539			"It gives an error message."
10540			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10541			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10542			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10543			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10544			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10545			letter for letter this time."
10546	root	1.387	%
10547	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10548
10549			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10550			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10551			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10552
10553			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10554			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10555			perms.
10556
10557			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10558	root	1.387	%
10559	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10560			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10561
10562			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10563
10564			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10565			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10566			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10567
10568			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10569			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10570	root	1.387	%
10571	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10572			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10573	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10574
10575			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10576			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10577			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10578			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10579			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10580			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10581			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10582			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10583			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10584			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10585			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10586
10587			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10588
10589			normarz@aol.com
10590	root	1.387	%
10591	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10592	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10593	root	1.1	>Legion
10594			>schlagen?
10595
10596			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10597
10598			Bye
10599			Andreas
10600	root	1.387	%
10601	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10602
10603			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10604			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10605
10606			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10607			companies.
10608
10609			Kind regards
10610			Henning
10611	root	1.387	%
10612	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10613			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10614			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10615
10616			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10617			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10618			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10619
10620			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10621			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10622			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10623			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10624			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10625			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10626			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10627			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10628			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10629			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10630	root	1.387	%
10631	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10632			We might support that sometime next year.
10633			-=- Microsoft
10634			(But I doubt it.)
10635			-=- Me
10636			-=- James Mastros
10637	root	1.387	%
10638	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10639			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10640			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10641			>lines.
10642
10643			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10644			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10645	root	1.387	%
10646	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10647	root	1.387	%
10648	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10649			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10650			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10651			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10652	root	1.387	%
10653	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10654
10655			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10656			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10657			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10658			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10659			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10660			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10661			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10662			it's not all his fault.
10663
10664			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10665			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10666			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10667			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10668			content.
10669
10670			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10671			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10672			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10673			learn (or pay for it;)
10674
10675			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10676			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10677			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10678			just for fun or to get the op.
10679
10680			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10681			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10682			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10683			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10684
10685			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10686
10687			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10688			course, Linux and Linux people.
10689	root	1.387	%
10690	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10691			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10692
10693			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10694			--
10695			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10696	root	1.387	%
10697	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10698
10699			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10700			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10701			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10702
10703			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10704			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10705			tradition.
10706	root	1.387	%
10707	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10708			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10709	root	1.387	%
10710	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10711			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10712	root	1.387	%
10713	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10714			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10715			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10716			Or GIRLS for short.
10717	root	1.387	%
10718	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10719	root	1.387	%
10720	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10721			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10722			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10723			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10724			5_004_03 to build!"
10725
10726			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10727			have no patience."
10728
10729			xoxo,
10730			Andy
10731	root	1.387	%
10732	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10733			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10734			We all have our cross to bear.
10735	root	1.387	%
10736	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10737
10738			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10739			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10740			Subject: Re: system() question
10741
10742			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10743			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10744			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10745			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10746			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10747			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10748			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10749			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10750			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10751			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10752			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10753			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10754			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10755			humiliating for me!)
10756
10757			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10758			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10759			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10760			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10761			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10762			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10763			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10764			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10765			really knows the answer.
10766
10767			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10768			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10769			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10770			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10771
10772			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10773			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10774			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10775			for that.
10776
10777			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10778			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10779			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10780			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10781			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10782			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10783			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10784
10785			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10786
10787			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10788			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10789			something for free.''
10790
10791			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10792
10793			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10794			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10795
10796			(Good question.)
10797
10798			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10799			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10800			once I have run it.''
10801			(Good question.)
10802
10803			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10804
10805			(Good question.)
10806
10807			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10808			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10809			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10810			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10811			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10812
10813			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10814			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10815			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10816			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10817			comp.lang.perl?
10818			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10819			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10820			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10821			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10822			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10823			in comp.lang.perl?
10824
10825			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10826			you my rate card.
10827
10828			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10829			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10830			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10831			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10832			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10833			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10834			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10835			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10836			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10837			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10838
10839			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10840			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10841			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10842			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10843			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10844			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10845			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10846			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10847			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10848			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10849			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10850			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10851			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10852			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10853			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10854			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10855
10856			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10857			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10858			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10859			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10860			someone will. Maybe I will.
10861
10862			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10863			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10864			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10865			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10866			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10867			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10868			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10869			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10870
10871			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10872			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10873			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10874			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10875			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10876			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10877			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10878			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10879			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10880			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10881			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10882			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10883			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10884			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10885
10886			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10887			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10888			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10889			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10890
10891			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10892
10893			`I want to accomplish X.
10894
10895			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10896
10897			...
10898
10899			But instead it does Y.
10900
10901			Why is that?''
10902
10903			This one is also pretty good:
10904
10905			`I want to accomplish X.
10906			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10907
10908			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10909			because of Z.
10910
10911			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10912
10913			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10914			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10915
10916
10917			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10918			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10919
10920			--
10921			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10922			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10923	root	1.387	%
10924	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10925			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10926
10927			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10928			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10929			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10930
10931			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10932
10933			bye, Georg
10934	root	1.387	%
10935	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10936			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10937			convince me.
10938
10939			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10940
10941			Linus
10942	root	1.387	%
10943	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10944			++
10945
10946			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10947			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10948
10949	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10950	root	1.1
10951			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10952			understanding the above line.
10953
10954			Abigail
10955	root	1.387	%
10956	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10957			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10958	root	1.387	%
10959	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10960			++ button?
10961			Yes.
10962
10963			++ 100 pictures or so?
10964			Yes.
10965
10966			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10967			Yes.
10968
10969			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10970			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10971
10972			Abigail
10973	root	1.387	%
10974	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10975
10976			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10977
10978			Martien
10979	root	1.387	%
10980	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10981			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10982			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10983			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10984	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10985	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10986			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10987			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10988			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10989	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10990	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10991			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10992	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10993			nicht. ;)
10994
10995	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10996			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10997			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10998	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10999			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11000	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11001	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11002
11003	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11004			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11005	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11006	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11007	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11008
11009	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11010	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11011	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11012			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11013	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11014	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11015	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11016			"unvorstellbar".
11017
11018			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11019	root	1.387	%
11020	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11021			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11022			^^^
11023			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11024	root	1.387	%
11025	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11026			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11027	root	1.387	%
11028	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11029			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11030	root	1.387	%
11031	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11032			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11033			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11034
11035			An artificial pile of rocks.
11036	root	1.387	%
11037	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11038			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11039			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11040			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11041			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11042			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11043
11044			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11045			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11046			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11047			grosser Flipperautomat.
11048
11049			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11050	root	1.387	%
11051	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11052			>
11053			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11054			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11055			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11056			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11057			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11058	root	1.387	%
11059	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11060			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11061	root	1.1
11062			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11063	root	1.387	%
11064	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11065
11066			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11067
11068			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11069			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11070			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11071			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11072			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11073			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11074			Unix environment.
11075	root	1.387	%
11076	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11077			between these:
11078
11079			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11080			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11081
11082			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11083			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11084			;#", and the print gets executed!
11085
11086			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11087			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11088			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11089			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11090
11091			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11092			'perl'".
11093
11094			--
11095			Randal L. Schwartz
11096	root	1.387	%
11097	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11098
11099			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11100			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11101			>
11102			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11103
11104			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11105
11106			--
11107			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11108	root	1.387	%
11109	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11110	root	1.387	%
11111	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11112			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11113	root	1.387	%
11114	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11115			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11116	root	1.387	%
11117	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11118			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11119			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11120			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11121			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11122			example.
11123	root	1.387	%
11124	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11125			resemble a nail.
11126	root	1.387	%
11127	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11128			> I did wrong.
11129
11130			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11131			newsgroup.
11132	root	1.387	%
11133	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11134	root	1.387	%
11135	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11136			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11137	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11138
11139			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11140	root	1.387	%
11141	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11142	root	1.1
11143	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11144	root	1.387	%
11145	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11146			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11147			expired instantly!!!
11148	root	1.387	%
11149	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11150			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11151
11152			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11153			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11154			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11155
11156			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11157			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11158			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11159			than double Linus's programming experience?
11160
11161			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11162			> pretty straight forward.
11163
11164			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11165			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11166	root	1.387	%
11167	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11168			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11169			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11170			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11171			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11172			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11173	root	1.387	%
11174	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11175	root	1.387	%
11176	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11177			Example:
11178			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11179	root	1.387	%
11180	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11181			Randal gets his hands on it
11182	root	1.387	%
11183	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11184	root	1.387	%
11185	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11186
11187			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11188			first if you get it working.
11189	root	1.387	%
11190	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11191			> Think different.
11192
11193			Think Again.
11194	root	1.387	%
11195	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11196	root	1.387	%
11197	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11198			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11199			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11200
11201			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11202	root	1.387	%
11203	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11204			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11205	root	1.387	%
11206	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11207			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11208			\| top.
11209	root	1.387	%
11210	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11211			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11212	root	1.387	%
11213	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11214			^^^^^^^^^
11215			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11216
11217			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11218	root	1.387	%
11219	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11220			>gehen soll?
11221
11222	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11223	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11224			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11225	root	1.387	%
11226	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11227	root	1.387	%
11228	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11229			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11230	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11231			>
11232			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11233
11234			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11235			Schuh aus!
11236	root	1.387	%
11237	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11238
11239	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11240	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11241	root	1.387	%
11242	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11243
11244
11245			First opportunity
11246			Approximate
11247			Orbit Internet
11248			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11249
11250			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11251			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11252			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11253			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11254
11255			Second opportunity
11256			Approximate
11257			Orbit Internet
11258			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11259
11260			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11261			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11262			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11263			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11264
11265			Third opportunity
11266			Approximate
11267			Orbit Internet
11268			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11269
11270			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11271			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11272			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11273			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11274
11275	root	1.387	%
11276	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11277	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11278			> >würden.
11279	root	1.1	>
11280			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11281			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11282			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11283			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11284			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11285			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11286			implizierst.
11287	root	1.387	%
11288	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11289			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11290	root	1.387	%
11291	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11292			Big improvement.
11293	root	1.387	%
11294	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11295			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11296			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11297			-- "Why that one?"
11298			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11299			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11300	root	1.387	%
11301	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11302			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11303			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11304	root	1.387	%
11305	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11306			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11307			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11308
11309			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11310
11311			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11312			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11313			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11314
11315			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11316
11317			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11318			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11319			> er eigentlich ist?
11320
11321	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11322	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11323	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11324	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11325	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11326	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11327	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11328	root	1.1	Ciao
11329			Stefan
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11332			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11333			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11334			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11335	root	1.387	%
11336	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11337			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11338			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11339			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11340			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11341			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11342			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11343			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11344			off.
11345	root	1.387	%
11346	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11347			Meet interesting people,
11348			Kill them.
11349	root	1.387	%
11350	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11351			> umwandelbar ist.
11352
11353			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11354	root	1.387	%
11355	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11356	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11357	root	1.387	%
11358	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11359			>
11360			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11361			> >> ruckartig.
11362			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11363			>
11364	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11365	root	1.1
11366			:-)
11367	root	1.387	%
11368	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11369	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11370			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11371	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11372			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11373			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11374			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11375
11376			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11377			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11378	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11379			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11380	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11381	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11382			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11383			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11384	root	1.1	Union.
11385
11386	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11387			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11388	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11389	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11390			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11391			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11392	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11393	root	1.387	%
11394	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11395			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11396	root	1.387	%
11397	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11398	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11399	root	1.1	>>
11400			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11401	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11402			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11403	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11404			>
11405			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11406			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11407	root	1.387	%
11408	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11409	root	1.387	%
11410	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11411			> into a random order???
11412			>
11413
11414			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11415			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11416
11417			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11418			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11419			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11420			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11421			number less than 42.
11422	root	1.387	%
11423	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11424			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11425			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11426			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11427			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11428			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11429			eventually invent Unix.
11430	root	1.387	%
11431	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11432			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11433			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11434			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11435			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11436			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11437			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11438			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11439			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11440			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11441			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11442			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11443			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11444			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11445			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11446			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11447	root	1.387	%
11448	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11449			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11450			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11451	root	1.387	%
11452	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11453			using a Perl CGI script?
11454	root	1.387	%
11455	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11456
11457			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11458			week.
11459	root	1.387	%
11460	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11461			Brieweb> of PERL.
11462			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11463			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11464			[Randal Schwartz]
11465	root	1.387	%
11466	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11467			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11468			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11469			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11470	root	1.387	%
11471	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11472			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11473			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11474			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11475			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11476			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11477			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11478			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11479			system and restricting their options.
11480			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11481	root	1.387	%
11482	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11483			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11484			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11485	root	1.387	%
11486	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11487			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11488			Ernie Hai
11489			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11490	root	1.387	%
11491	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11492			: results" report from the users.
11493
11494			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11495			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11496			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11497			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11498	root	1.387	%
11499	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11500			They are all owned by cats.
11501	root	1.387	%
11502	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11503			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11504			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11505	root	1.387	%
11506	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11507			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11508
11509			Yesterday it worked
11510			Today it is not working
11511			Windows is like that
11512			- - -
11513			wind catches lily
11514			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11515			segmentation fault
11516			- - -
11517			Three things are certain:
11518			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11519			Guess which has occurred.
11520			- - -
11521			A file that big?
11522			It might be very useful.
11523			But now it is gone.
11524			- - -
11525			Windows NT crashed.
11526			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11527			No one hears your screams.
11528			- - -
11529			Errors have occurred.
11530			We won't tell you where or why.
11531			Lazy programmers.
11532			- - -
11533			Seeing my great fault
11534			Through darkening blue windows
11535			I begin again
11536			- - -
11537			The code was willing,
11538			It considered your request,
11539			But the chips were weak.
11540			- - -
11541			Printer not ready.
11542			Could be a fatal error.
11543			Have a pen handy?
11544			- - -
11545			Server's poor response
11546			Not quick enough for browser.
11547			Timed out, plum blossom.
11548			- - -
11549			Chaos reigns within.
11550			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11551			Order shall return.
11552			- - -
11553			Login incorrect.
11554			Only perfect spellers may
11555			enter this system.
11556			- - -
11557			This site has been moved.
11558			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11559			have to delete you.
11560			- - -
11561			ABORTED effort:
11562			Close all that you have.
11563			You ask way too much.
11564			- - -
11565			First snow, then silence.
11566			This thousand dollar screen dies
11567			so beautifully.
11568			- - -
11569			With searching comes loss
11570			and the presence of absence:
11571			"My Novel" not found.
11572			- - -
11573			The Tao that is seen
11574			Is not the true Tao, until
11575			You bring fresh toner.
11576			- - -
11577			The Web site you seek
11578			cannot be located but
11579			endless others exist
11580			- - -
11581			Stay the patient course
11582			Of little worth is your ire
11583			The network is down
11584			- - -
11585			A crash reduces
11586			your expensive computer
11587			to a simple stone.
11588			- - -
11589			There is a chasm
11590			of carbon and silicon
11591			the software can't bridge
11592			- - -
11593			To have no errors
11594			Would be life without meaning
11595			No struggle, no joy
11596			- - -
11597			You step in the stream,
11598			but the water has moved on.
11599			This page is not here.
11600			- - -
11601			No keyboard present
11602			Hit F1 to continue
11603			Zen engineering?
11604			- - -
11605			Hal, open the file
11606			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11607			open it, please Hal
11608			- - -
11609			Out of memory.
11610			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11611			But we never will.
11612			- - -
11613			Having been erased,
11614			The document you're seeking
11615			Must now be retyped.
11616			- - -
11617			The ten thousand things
11618			How long do any persist?
11619			Netscape, too, has gone.
11620			- - -
11621			Rather than a beep
11622			Or a rude error message,
11623			These words: "File not found."
11624			- - -
11625			Serious error.
11626			All shortcuts have disappeared
11627			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11628	root	1.387	%
11629	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11630			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11631	root	1.387	%
11632	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11633			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11634
11635			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11636			early 1980s.
11637	root	1.387	%
11638	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11639			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11640			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11641			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11642
11643			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11644			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11645			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11646			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11647			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11648			many new features that it just stops working.
11649
11650			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11651
11652			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11653			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11654
11655			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11656			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11657			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11658
11659			Hope this explains what's going on
11660			Martien Verbruggen
11661	root	1.387	%
11662	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11663	root	1.387	%
11664	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11665	root	1.387	%
11666	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11667	root	1.387	%
11668	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11669			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11670			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11671	root	1.387	%
11672	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11673			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11674			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11675			>
11676			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11677
11678			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11679			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11680	root	1.387	%
11681	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11682			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11683			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11684			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11685	root	1.387	%
11686	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11687			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11688			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11689			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11690			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11691			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11692			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11693			convienience store.")
11694	root	1.387	%
11695	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11696			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11697	root	1.387	%
11698	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11699	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11700	root	1.1
11701			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11702			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11703	root	1.387	%
11704	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11705			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11706			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11707			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11708	root	1.387	%
11709	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11710			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11711			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11712	root	1.387	%
11713	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11714			(A => B) => (B => A)
11715			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11716			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11717	root	1.387	%
11718	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11719	root	1.387	%
11720	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11721			-Barry Shein
11722	root	1.387	%
11723	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11724			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11725			read the manual.
11726	root	1.387	%
11727	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11728	root	1.387	%
11729	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11730			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11731			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11732			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11733			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11734			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11735			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11736			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11737			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11738	root	1.387	%
11739	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11740	root	1.387	%
11741	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11742			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11743			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11744	root	1.387	%
11745	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11746
11747			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11748			need.
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11751			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11752			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11753	root	1.387	%
11754	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11755			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11756			newsreaders. You know,
11757			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11758			back
11759			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11760			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11761			out what they're saying.
11762	root	1.387	%
11763	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11764			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11765	root	1.387	%
11766	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11767			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11768			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11769
11770			But the combination.... sutters
11771	root	1.387	%
11772	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11773			Darn it.
11774	root	1.387	%
11775	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11776	root	1.387	%
11777	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11778	root	1.387	%
11779	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11780			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11781			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11782			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11783			trying to use it.
11784	root	1.387	%
11785	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11786	root	1.387	%
11787	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11788			>
11789			> Is this group active?
11790			No.
11791
11792			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11793			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11794
11795			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11796			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11797	root	1.387	%
11798	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11799			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11800	root	1.387	%
11801	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11802			Press any key to continue..."
11803	root	1.387	%
11804	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11805			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11806			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11807	root	1.387	%
11808	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11809			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11810			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11811			adjust your travel plans.
11812	root	1.387	%
11813	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11814			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11815	root	1.387	%
11816	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11817			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11818
11819			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11820			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11821
11822			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11823
11824			tak 18 12 6
11825	root	1.387	%
11826	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11827			-- Bill Gates
11828			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11829			-- Bill Gates
11830			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11831			-- logical conclusion
11832	root	1.387	%
11833	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11834			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11835			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11836			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11837			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11838			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11839			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11840			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11841			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11842			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11843			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11844			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11845			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11846			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11847			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11848			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11849			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11850			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11851			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11852			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11853			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11854	root	1.387	%
11855	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11856			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11857			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11858			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11859	root	1.387	%
11860	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.