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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
2
3			Vim 15.2%
4			Emacs 3.8%
5
6			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
7
8			Vim 26.1%
9			Emacs 5.2%
10			%
11	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
12
13			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
14
15			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
16
17			Poettering: "I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?"
18
19			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
20
21			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
22
23			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
24
25			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
26
27			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
28
29			Poettering: "Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence."
30
31			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
32
33			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
34			%
35			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
36
37			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
38			>>> their own servers.
39			>>
40			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
41			>
42			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
43
44			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
45			%
46	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
47
48			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
49			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
50			%
51	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
52			================================
53
54	root	1.449	November 2002
55
56			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
57			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
58			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
59
60			---
61
62			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
63			dehydration and fatigue.
64
65			---
66
67			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
68			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
69
70			---
71
72			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
73
74			November 19 2200 hrs
75			guard check - Rahman is alive.
76
77			2300 hrs
78			guard check - Rahman is alive.
79
80			November 20 0400 hrs
81			guard check - Rahman is alive.
82
83			0800 hrs
84			guard check - Rahman is alive.
85
86			1000 hrs
87			guard check - Rahman is dead.
88
89			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
90			%
91	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
92			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
93			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
94			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
95			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
96			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
97			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
98			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
99			be a better place.
100
101			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
102			%
103	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
104			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
105			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
106			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
107			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
108			> in technology.
109
110			-P
111			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
112
113			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
114			%
115			> Simon Cooke wrote:
116			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
117
118			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
119
120			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
121			%
122	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
123			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
124			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
125			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
126			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
127
128			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
129			%
130	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
131			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
132			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
133			hashtag #sexualassault.
134
135			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
136			%
137	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
138
139			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
140			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
141
142			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
143			%
144			> How is the old way a problem?
145
146			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
147			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
148			it's smarter than you.
149
150			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
151			%
152	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
153			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
154			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
155			less lethal.
156
157			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
158			%
159	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
160
161			[...]
162
163			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
164
165			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
166			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
167			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
168			%
169	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
170			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
171			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
172			"also now legal names for the UK.
173
174			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
175			%
176			From: Russ Allbery
177			To: tz@iana.org
178			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
179
180			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
181			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
182			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
183			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
184			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
185			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
186			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
187
188			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
189			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
190
191			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
192			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
193			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
194			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
195			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
196
197			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
198			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
199			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
200			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
201			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
202			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
203			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
204			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
205			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
206
207			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
208			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
209			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
210			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
211			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
212			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
213			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
214			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
215			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
216			maintainer.
217			%
218	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
219
220			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
221			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
222			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
223			"BST", but no:
224			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
225			%
226			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
227			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
228
229			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
230			> When can we expect the updated version
231
232			About three weeks ago.
233			%
234	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
235			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
236			%
237			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
238
239			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
240			%
241	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
242			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
243			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
244
245			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
246			%
247			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
248
249			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
250
251			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
252			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
253
254			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
255			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
256			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
257
258			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
259			full day per year.
260			%
261	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
262			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
263			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
264			%
265			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
266			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
267			%
268			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
269			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
270			me - lately?".
271			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
272			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
273
274			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
275			%
276			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
277			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
278			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
279			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
280
281			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
282			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
283			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
284			your lives be a living hell.
285
286			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
287			%
288	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
289			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
290			%
291			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
292			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
293			out with a problem I'm having?
294
295			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
296
297			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
298
299			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
300			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
301			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
302			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
303
304			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
305
306			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
307
308			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
309
310			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
311			[http://c2.com/]
312			%
313			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
314			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
315			right-parenthesis.
316			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
317			%
318			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
319			yourself?
320			Software development is the career for you!
321
322			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
323			%
324	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
325			-- Richard Dawkins
326			%
327			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
328			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
329			and security.
330
331			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
332			%
333			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
334
335			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
336			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
337			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
338			%
339			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
340			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
341			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
342			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
343			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
344			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
345
346			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
347			%
348			tiny hsv2rgb
349			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;}
350
351			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
352			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
353			}
354			%
355			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
356			Only Java makes it possible!
357
358			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
359			%
360			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
361			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
362			extremely poettering''
363			%
364			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
365			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
366			%
367			"I drank what?!"
368			-- Socrates
369			%
370			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
371			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
372			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
373
374			Jon Callas in
375			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
376			%
377			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
378			-- Conway's Law
379			%
380			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
381			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
382			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
383			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
384			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
385			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
386			untangling this mess right now so).
387
388			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
389			%
390			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
391			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
392			enabled on platforms that support it.
393			[xorg.conf(5)]
394			%
395			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
396			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
397			> would work on code.
398
399			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
400			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
401			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
402			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
403			%
404	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
405			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
406			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
407			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
408			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
409			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
410			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
411			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
412			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
413			%
414			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
415			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
416			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
417			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
418			very beginning.
419			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
420			%
421			systemd creates user session information in
422			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
423			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
424			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
425			allowed one session per user.
426			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
427			%
428	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
429			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
430			> about anything else.
431			>
432			> Why is it like that?
433
434			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
435
436			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
437			%
438			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
439
440			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
441			>>
442			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
443			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
444			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
445			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
446			>
447			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
448
449			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
450			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
451			%
452			(partial) Beaufort Table
453			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
454			Calm 0 0 0
455			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
456			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
457			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
458			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
459			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
460			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
461			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
462			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
463			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
464			%
465			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
466			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
467			%
468			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
469			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
470			%
471			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
472			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
473			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
474			on the cards.
475			%
476			[random comment from amule sources]
477			// trust noone ;-)
478			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
479			// wtf you guys are weird.
480			%
481	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
482			- Kin Hubbard
483			%
484			[random .sig]
485			I'm a muslim.
486
487			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
488			%
489			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
490			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
491			before.
492
493			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
494			%
495			<imho>
496
497			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
498			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
499			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
500			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
501
502			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
503			Java - public static void not fun.
504			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
505			C - usually not fun.
506
507			What about modern scripting languages?
508
509			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
510			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
511			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
512
513			</imho>
514
515			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
516			%
517			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
518			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
519			%
520
521			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
522			*
523			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
524
525			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
526			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
527			%
528			# The user is always right.
529			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
530			[autoconf]
531			%
532			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
533
534			/*
535			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
536			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
537			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
538			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
539			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
540			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
541			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
542			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
543			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
544			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
545			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
546			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
547			*/
548			%
549			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
550			was new to me:
551
552			switch(c)
553			{
554			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
555			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
556			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
557			case 'd': base=-10; }
558			switch(type)
559			{
560			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
561			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
562			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
563			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
564			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
565			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
566			default:val=0; break;
567			}
568			cp = __numout(val,base);
569			if(0) {
570			case 's':
571			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
572			}
573			%
574			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
575			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
576			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
577			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
578			extra second and see how far you get :-)
579			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
580			%
581			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
582			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
583			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
584			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
585			>
586			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
587			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
588
589			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
590			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
591
592			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
593			%
594			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
595			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
596			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
597
598			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
599
600			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
601			%
602			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
603			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
604			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
605			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
606			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
607			settings)
608
609			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
610			%
611			How do I deal with memory leaks?
612
613			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
614
615			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
616			%
617			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
618			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
619
620			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
621			%
622			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
623			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
624			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
625			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
626
627			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
628			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
629			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
630			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
631			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
632			rewarded for their creativity.
633
634			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
635			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
636			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
637			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
638			would never have made it in the first place.
639
640			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
641			%
642			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
643			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
644			%
645			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
646			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
647			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
648			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
649			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
650
651			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
652			%
653			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
654			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
655			- Mohandas Gandhi
656			%
657			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
658			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
659			handiwork of the Lord."
660			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
661			%
662			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
663
664			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
665			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
666			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
667
668			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
669			Scientist A publishes results.
670
671			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
672			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
673			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
674
675			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
676			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
677			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
678			A: ...
679			B: You fraud!
680
681			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
682
683			A publishes results.
684
685			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
686			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
687			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
688			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
689			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
690			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
691
692			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
693			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
694			%
695			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
696			them because they need the money to operate]
697
698			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
699			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
700			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
701			site or its bottom line."
702			%
703			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
704			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
705			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
706			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
707			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
708			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
709			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
710			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
711			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
712			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
713			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
714			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
715			%
716			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
717
718			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
719
720			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
721			%
722			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
723
724			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
725			>>>> and the beating of children?
726			>>>
727			>>> Subjugation of women...
728			>>
729			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
730			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
731			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
732			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
733			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
734			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
735			>> shake partner.
736			>
737			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
738			>
739			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
740			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
741			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
742			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
743			>
744
745			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
746			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
747			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
748			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
749			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
750			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
751			and your wife.
752			%
753			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
754			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
755			still kill you. - arestheblue
756			%
757			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
758			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
759			specifications for GSS-API.
760
761			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
762			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
763
764			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
765			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
766
767			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
768			%
769			[from the minix 3 users guide]
770
771			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
772			%
773			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
774
775			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
776			[...]
777			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
778			complaintant to guess this is true.
779			%
780			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
781			- Ken Thompson.
782			%
783			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
784
785			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
786
787			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
788			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
789			source code excerpt:
790
791			int sn()
792			{
793			char pwr;
794
795			int input1 = 0;
796			double output1 = 0;
797
798			system("clear");
799			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
800			cin>>input1;
801			output1 = (sin(input1));
802			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
803			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
804			cin>>pwr;
805			if(pwr == 'a')
806			sq();
807			if(pwr == 'm')
808			system("pause");
809
810			}
811			%
812			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
813			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
814
815			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
816
817			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
818			%
819			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
820			app for me" department:
821
822			From: Evan LeCompte
823
824			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
825			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
826			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
827			%
828			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
829			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
830			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
831
832			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
833			%
834			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
835			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
836			– Steve Jobs[47]
837
838			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
839			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
840			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
841			%
842			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
843			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
844			%
845			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
846			From: Patrick Horgan
847			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
848			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
849
850			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
851			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
852			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
853			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
854			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
855			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
856
857			[...]
858			%
859	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
860			— Peter Abelard
861			%
862			A man said to the universe:
863			"Sir I exist!"
864			"However," replied the universe,
865			"The fact has not created in me
866	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
867			- Steven Crane
868	root	1.431	%
869			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
870
871			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
872
873			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
874
875			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
876
877			– Sanskrit Saying
878			%
879			[anonymised discussion]
880			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
881			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
882			%
883			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
884
885	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
886	root	1.431
887			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
888			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
889			appear.
890			%
891			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
892			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
893			- Douglas Adams
894			%
895			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
896			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
897			%
898			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
899			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
900			%
901			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
902			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
903			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
904			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
905			%
906			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
907			%
908			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
909			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
910			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
911			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
912			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
913			%
914			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
915			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
916			or her career.
917			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
918			%
919			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
920			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
921			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
922			%
923			I LOVE YOU
924			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
925			%
926			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
927			the air impeller.
928
929			Alan Cox
930			%
931			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
932			with a minimum computer science background."
933			%
934			From: Eric Sosman
935			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
936			Subject: Re: about graphics
937
938			prince wrote:
939			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
940
941			#include <stdio.h>
942			int main(void) {
943			puts("graphics\rcommand");
944			return 0;
945			}
946			%
947			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
948			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
949			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
950			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
951			%
952			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
953
954			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
955			it still is a constant-time attack.
956			%
957			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
958			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
959			%
960			From: David Damerell
961
962			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
963			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
964			>caps to make it different.
965
966			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
967			painful but will take less typing.
968			%
969			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
970			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
971			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
972
973			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
974			%
975			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
976
977			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
978			> free than the BSD.
979			>
980			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
981
982			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
983			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
984			%
985			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
986
987			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
988			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
989			from incompatible pointer type
990			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
991			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
992			makes pointer from integer without a cast
993			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
994			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
995			%
996			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
997			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
998			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
999			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1000			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1001			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1002
1003			[Chandon Seldon]
1004			%
1005			[Wikipedia]
1006			Differences between vi and Emacs
1007
1008			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1009			%
1010			[lost the reference]
1011			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1012			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1013			%
1014			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1015			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1016			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1017			%
1018			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1019
1020			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1021			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1022			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1023			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1024			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1025
1026			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1027			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1028			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1029			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1030			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1031			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1032			piss on your leg.
1033
1034			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1035			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1036			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1037
1038			[then, a day later]
1039
1040			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1041			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1042			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1043			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1044			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1045
1046			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1047			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1048			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1049			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1050			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1051			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1052			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1053			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1054			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1055
1056
1057			-----Original Message-----
1058			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1059			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1060			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1061			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1062
1063
1064
1065			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1066	root	1.432	>
1067	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1068
1069			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1070
1071			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1072			I hope you don't object :)
1073			%
1074			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1075			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1076
1077			You made my day
1078			%
1079			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1080
1081			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1082			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1083			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1084
1085			Linus
1086			%
1087			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1088
1089			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1090
1091			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 ...
1092
1093			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1094
1095			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1096			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1097			when sending emails to other people:
1098			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1099
1100			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1101
1102			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1103			%
1104			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1105			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1106			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1107			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1108			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1109			%
1110			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1111			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1112
1113			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1114			%
1115			[on italy]
1116
1117			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1118
1119			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1120			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1121			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1122			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1123
1124			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1125			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1126			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1127			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1128			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1129			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1130
1131			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1132
1133			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1134			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1135			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1136			from fascism period.
1137
1138			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1139			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1140			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1141			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1142			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1143			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1144			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1145			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1146			SIAE.
1147
1148			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1149			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1150			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1151			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1152			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1153			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1154			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1155			electronic ones
1156
1157			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1158
1159			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1160			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1161			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1162			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1163			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1164			western country.
1165
1166			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1167			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1168			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1169			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1170			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1171			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1172			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1173			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1174			also the governments of "center-left".
1175
1176			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1177
1178			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1179			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1180			without any restriction.
1181
1182			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1183			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1184			world.
1185
1186			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1187			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1188			Thank you for reading.
1189			%
1190			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1191			>
1192			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1193
1194			How very ironic.
1195			%
1196			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1197			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1198			takes religion."
1199
1200			--Steve Weinberg
1201			%
1202			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1203			%
1204			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1205			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1206			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1207
1208			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1209			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1210			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1211			%
1212			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1213			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1214			the right tool for me.
1215			%
1216			[deliantra]
1217			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1218			%
1219			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1220			%
1221			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1222			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1223			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1224			%
1225			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1226
1227			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1228			%
1229			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1230			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1231
1232			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1233			actually tells you it's American.
1234			%
1235			[better do not hire this programmer]
1236			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1237			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1238			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1239
1240			Hi
1241
1242			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1243			someone here can advise me.
1244
1245			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1246			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1247			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1248			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1249			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1250
1251			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1252			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1253			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1254			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1255			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1256			corresponding thing in C?
1257
1258			Thanks!
1259			%
1260			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1261
1262			// See bug 53763.
1263			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1264			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1265			if (shell) {
1266			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1267			%
1268			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1269			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1270
1271			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1272			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1273			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1274			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1275			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1276			%
1277			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1278			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1279			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1280			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1281			“display quality too high”).
1282
1283			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1284			%
1285			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1286
1287	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1288	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1289
1290			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1291
1292			x / y * z
1293
1294			and
1295
1296			x / y * z
1297
1298			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1299
1300			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1301			design decisions.)
1302			%
1303			endergt:
1304			> snoofle:
1305			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1306			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1307			> > you understand what you are doing...
1308			>
1309	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1310	root	1.431
1311	root	1.432	debug
1312	root	1.431	%
1313			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%.
1314
1315			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1316			%
1317			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1318			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1319			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1320
1321			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1322			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1323			6 Decompilation
1324
1325			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1326			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1327			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1328			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1329			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1330			conditions are met: [...]"
1331			%
1332			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1333			%
1334			Why Linux Sux ?
1335
1336			Easy .
1337			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1338			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1339			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 .
1340			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1341			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1342			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1343			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! ) .
1344			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 .
1345			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1346
1347			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1348			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1349			working ones . Screw linux users .
1350			%
1351			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1352			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1353			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1354			%
1355			> The Dell 30"...
1356
1357			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1358			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1359			%
1360	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1361	root	1.431
1362			> > 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".
1363	root	1.432	>
1364	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!
1365	root	1.432	>
1366	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1367	root	1.432
1368	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1369
1370			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1371			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.
1372			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1373	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.
1374	root	1.431	%
1375			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1376			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1377			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1378			%
1379			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1380
1381			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1382			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1383			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1384
1385			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1386			anderen betriebssystemen.
1387
1388			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1389			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1390
1391			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1392			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1393			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1394			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1395			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1396
1397			Frage?
1398			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1399			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1400			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1401
1402			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1403			%
1404			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1405			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1406			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1407			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1408			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1409			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1410			%
1411			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1412			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1413			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1414			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1415			%
1416			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1417			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1418
1419			God bless the re-inventers
1420
1421			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1422			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1423
1424	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1425	root	1.431
1426			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1427			one.
1428			%
1429			[rfc2665]
1430			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1431			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1432			useful in theory than in practice.
1433			%
1434			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1435	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1436	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1437			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1438			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1439			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1440			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1441			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1442	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1443	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1444			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1445	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1446	root	1.431	15:30
1447			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1448			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1449			%
1450			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1451			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1452			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1453			%
1454			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1455
1456			Strictly for beginners
1457
1458			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1459			[...]
1460			%
1461			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1462			%
1463			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1464			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1465			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1466			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1467			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1468			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1469			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1470			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1471			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1472			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1473			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1474			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1475			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1476			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1477			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1478			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1479			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1480			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1481			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1482			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1483			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1484			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1485			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1486			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1487			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1488			%
1489			[A Gentoo User]
1490			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1491			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1492			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1493			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1494			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1495			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1496			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1497			%
1498			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1499			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1500			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1501			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1502			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1503	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1504			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1505	root	1.431	can do
1506			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1507			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1508			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1509			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1510			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1511			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1512			%
1513			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1514	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1515			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1516			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1517	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1518			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1519	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1520			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1521	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1522			%
1523			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1524			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1525			%
1526			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1527
1528			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1529			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1530			be slow in Windows 2000"
1531
1532			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1533			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1534			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1535			%
1536			[so much for type-safety]
1537			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1538			lst.add(null);
1539			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1540			%
1541			[just for reference]
1542			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1543			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1544			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1545			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1546			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1547			es nicht.
1548
1549			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1550			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1551			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1552			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1553			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1554			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1555
1556			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1557			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1558			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1559			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1560			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1561			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1562			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1563			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1564			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1565			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1566			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1567			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1568			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1569			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1570
1571			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1572			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1573			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1574			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1575			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1576			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1577			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1578
1579			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1580			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1581			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1582			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1583			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1584			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1585			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1586			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1587			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1588			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1589			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1590			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1591			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1592			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1593			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1594			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1595			alternativ' Idioten!
1596
1597			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1598			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1599			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1600			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1601			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1602			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1603			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1604			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1605			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1606			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1607			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1608			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1609			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1610			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1611
1612			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1613			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1614			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1615
1616			Ich will R A C H E !
1617
1618			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1619			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1620			Dinge zu sagen:
1621
1622			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1623
1624			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1625			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1626			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1627			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1628			anfange.
1629
1630			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1631			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1632			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1633			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1634			dieser verdammten schule!
1635
1636			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1637			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1638
1639			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1640
1641			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1642			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1643			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1644			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1645			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1646			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1647			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1648			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1649			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1650			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1651
1652			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1653			Einschulung.
1654
1655			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1656			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1657			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1658			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1659			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1660			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1661			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1662			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1663			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1664			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1665
1666			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1667			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1668
1669			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1670			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1671			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1672			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1673			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1674			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1675			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1676			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1677
1678			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1679			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1680			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1681			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1682			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1683			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1684			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1685			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1686
1687			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1688			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1689
1690			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1691			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1692			Hand genommen.
1693
1694			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1695			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1696
1697			Ich bin weg...
1698			%
1699			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1700			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1701			%
1702	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1703			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1704			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1705			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1706	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1707			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1708			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1709			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1710			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1711			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1712			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1713			%
1714			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1715			%
1716			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1717			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1718
1719			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1720			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1721			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1722			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1723			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1724			%
1725			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1726			%
1727			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1728			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1729			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1730			%
1731			[very funny read]
1732			Hack-a-Bike
1733			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1734			%
1735			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1736			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1737			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1738			still can.
1739
1740			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1741			%
1742	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1743			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1744	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1745			%
1746			[without words]
1747			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1748			%
1749			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1750			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1751			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1752			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1753			actual kid in an actual bath.
1754			%
1755			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1756			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1757			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1758			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1759			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1760			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1761			what happened to you.
1762			%
1763	root	1.432	--
1764	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1765
1766			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1767			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1768			%
1769			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1770	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1771			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1772	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1773
1774			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1775			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1776			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1777			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1778			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1779
1780			- Ted
1781			%
1782			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1783			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1784			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1785			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1786			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1787			me, but we have the truth!"
1788			%
1789			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1790			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1791			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1792			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1793			%
1794			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1795			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1796			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1797			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1798			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1799			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1800			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1801			genociding every monster.
1802
1803			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1804			genocide them for good measure!
1805			%%
1806			[nethack instadeath faq]
1807
1808			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1809
1810			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1811			%
1812			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1813			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1814	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1815	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1816			17:58 <Murch> lol
1817			%
1818			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1819			%
1820			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1821			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1822			%
1823			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1824			%
1825			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1826
1827			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1828			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1829			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1830			%
1831			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1832
1833			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1834			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1835			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1836			the Eastern Time Zone.
1837			[...]
1838			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1839			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1840			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1841			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1842			%
1843			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1844
1845			_dl_profile_output
1846			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1847			%
1848			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1849			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1850			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1851			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1852			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1853			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1854			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1855
1856			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1857			%
1858			[famous last words]
1859			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1860			%
1861			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1862
1863			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1864
1865			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1866
1867			--
1868			Jay Hennigan
1869			%
1870			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1871			%
1872			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1873			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1874			of homeland security]
1875			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1876			%
1877			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1878	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1879	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1880			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1881			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1882			range of spyware available to us?"
1883
1884			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1885			%
1886			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1887			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1888			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1889			%
1890	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1891	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1892			%
1893			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1894			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1895			%
1896			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1897			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1898			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1899			shooter.
1900
1901			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1902			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1903			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1904			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1905			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1906			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1907
1908			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1909			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1910			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1911			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1912			way.
1913
1914			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1915			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1916			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1917
1918			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1919			%
1920			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1921			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1922			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1923			> above comment about Hitler).
1924
1925			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1926			mention Hitler loses.
1927			%
1928			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1929			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1930			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1931			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1932			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1933			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1934			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1935			including <windows.h>.
1936			[...]
1937			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1938			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1939			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1940			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1941			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1942			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1943			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1944			environments.
1945			%
1946			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1947			%
1948			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1949			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1950			%
1951			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1952			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1953			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1954			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1955			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1956			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1957			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1958			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1959			companies want to own your computer.
1960
1961			Some examples:
1962
1963			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1964			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1965			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1966			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1967			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1968			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1969			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1970			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1971			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1972	root	1.432
1973	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1974			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1975			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1976			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1977			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1978
1979			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1980			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1981			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1982			from Microsoft? You can't.
1983
1984			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1985			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1986			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1987			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1988			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1989			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1990			adversely affect its business partners.
1991
1992			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1993			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1994			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1995			about your behavior.
1996
1997			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1998			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1999			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2000			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2001			presumed infractions.
2002
2003			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2004			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2005			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2006
2007			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2008			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2009			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2010			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2011			user's device against him.
2012			[...]
2013			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2014			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2015			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2016			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2017			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2018			back-room marketing deals.
2019			%
2020			[John Carmack on Java]
2021			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2022			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2023			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2024			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2025			performance.
2026			%
2027			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2028
2029			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2030			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2031			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2032			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2033			%
2034			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2035			%
2036			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2037			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2038			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2039			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2040			%
2041			http://funroll-loops.org/
2042			%
2043			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2044			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2045			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2046			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2047			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2048			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2049			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2050			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2051			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2052			Fahrenheit documentation.
2053			%
2054			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2055			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2056			sure its much slower than CVS]
2057			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2058			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2059			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2060	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2061	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2062			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2063	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2064	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2065			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2066	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2067	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2068			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2069			%
2070	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2071
2072			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2073			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2074	root	1.431	%
2075	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2076
2077			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2078			> systems ?
2079
2080			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2081			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2082
2083			Jesper
2084			%
2085	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2086
2087			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2088			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2089
2090	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2091	root	1.429	%
2092	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2093			%
2094	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2095
2096			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2097			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2098			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2099			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2100			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2101			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2102			but that's the truth.
2103			%
2104	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2105
2106			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2107
2108	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2109			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2110			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2111			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2112	root	1.424
2113			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2114	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2115			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2116	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2117
2118			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2119			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2120	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2121	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2122			in Richtung Boden.
2123
2124			[...]
2125
2126	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2127	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2128	root	1.424
2129			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2130	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2131	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2132
2133			[...]
2134
2135			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2136	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2137	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2138	root	1.424
2139			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2140	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2141			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2142			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2143	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2144			sofort.
2145			%
2146	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2147			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2148			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2149			software from Microsoft.)
2150	root	1.424	%
2151	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2152	root	1.424	%
2153	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2154
2155			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2156			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2157			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2158			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2159	root	1.424	%
2160	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2161	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2162	root	1.424	%
2163	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2164			From: Rodrigo Severo
2165			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2166			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2167
2168			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2169
2170			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2171			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2172			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2173
2174			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2175			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2176			brazilian ;)
2177			Rodrigo Severo
2178	root	1.424	%
2179	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2180	root	1.417
2181			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2182	root	1.424	%
2183	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2184
2185			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2186
2187			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2188
2189			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2190			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2191
2192			sigh
2193	root	1.424	%
2194	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2195			By Bertrand Russell
2196
2197			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2198			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2199			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2200			might be set forth as follows:
2201
2202			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2203
2204			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2205			evidence is sure to come to light.
2206
2207			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2208
2209			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2210			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2211			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2212
2213			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2214			contrary authorities to be found.
2215
2216			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2217			do the opinions will suppress you.
2218
2219			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2220			was once eccentric.
2221
2222			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2223			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2224			agreement than the latter.
2225
2226			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2227			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2228
2229			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2230			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2231
2232			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2233			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2234	root	1.424	%
2235	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2236	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2237			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2238			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2239
2240			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2241			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2242			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2243			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2244			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2245			United States."
2246	root	1.413	---
2247			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2248			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2249			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2250	root	1.414	---
2251			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2252			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2253			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2254			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2255			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2256
2257			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2258			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2259	root	1.424	%
2260	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2261			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2262	root	1.424	%
2263	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2264
2265			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2266			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2267
2268			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2269			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2270
2271			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2272
2273			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2274			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2275	root	1.424	%
2276	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2277			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2278	root	1.424	%
2279	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2280			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2281			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2282			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2283			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2284			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2285	root	1.424	%
2286	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2287
2288			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2289			they care about it?"
2290			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2291	root	1.407
2292			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2293	root	1.424	%
2294	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2295			-- Gregory Chaitin
2296	root	1.424	%
2297	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2298	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2299			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2300			[...]
2301	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2302			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2303	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2304	root	1.424	%
2305	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2306			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2307			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2308			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2309			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2310			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2311	root	1.424	%
2312	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2313
2314			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2315	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2316			return 0;
2317	root	1.424	%
2318	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2319	root	1.401
2320			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2321			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2322			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2323			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2324			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2325			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2326			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2327			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2328			> transparent.
2329
2330			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2331			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2332			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2333			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2334	root	1.424	%
2335	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2336			aber falsche Lösungen.
2337	root	1.424	%
2338	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2339			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2340			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2341			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2342	root	1.424	%
2343	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2344			>
2345			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2346			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2347			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2348			> than useful to the user.
2349
2350			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2351
2352			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2353			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2354			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2355			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2356
2357			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2358
2359			Linus
2360	root	1.424	%
2361	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2362			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2363			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2364			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2365	root	1.424	%
2366	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2367			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2368
2369	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2370	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2371			--
2372			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2373
2374			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2375	root	1.424	%
2376	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2377			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2378
2379			Person: What do you do?
2380			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2381			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2382
2383			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2384			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2385			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2386	root	1.394
2387			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2388			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2389	root	1.424	%
2390	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2391			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2392			illegal downloaders."
2393
2394			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2395
2396			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2397			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2398			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2399			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2400			have to emerge."
2401
2402			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2403	root	1.424	%
2404	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2405	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2406
2407			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2408			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2409
2410			Bye, Andy
2411	root	1.424	%
2412	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2413	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2414	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2415	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2416	root	1.390
2417			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2418			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2419			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2420			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2421			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2422			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2423			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2424			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2425			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2426			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2427			alle Benutzer.
2428			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2429			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2430			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2431			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2432			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2433			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2434			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2435			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2436			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2437			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2438			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2439	root	1.424	%
2440	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2441
2442			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2443			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2444			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2445			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2446			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2447			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2448			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2449			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2450			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2451			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2452			unfinished operations, etc.
2453			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2454
2455			Valid options:
2456			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2457			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2458
2459			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2460	root	1.424	%
2461	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2462			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2463			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2464			to provide.
2465			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2466	root	1.424	%
2467	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2468
2469			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2470			alarm people more.
2471
2472			-Nate
2473
2474			[...]
2475
2476			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2477			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2478			image of the language that is created here.
2479
2480			Juerd
2481
2482			[...]
2483
2484			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2485			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2486			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2487
2488	root	1.432	--
2489	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2490	root	1.387	%
2491	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2492	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2493	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2494			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2495	root	1.387	%
2496	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2497			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2498	root	1.387	%
2499	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2500			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2501	root	1.387	%
2502	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2503			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2504			[...]
2505			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2506			"Windows is broken."
2507	root	1.387	%
2508	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2509			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2510			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2511	root	1.387	%
2512	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2513			on being able to kill their children legally]
2514			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2515	root	1.387	%
2516	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2517			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2518			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2519	root	1.387	%
2520	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2521			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2522			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2523			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2524			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2525			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2526	root	1.378	--
2527			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2528			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2529			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2530			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2531			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2532			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2533			wasteful government spending."
2534	root	1.387	%
2535	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2536			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2537	root	1.387	%
2538	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2539			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2540	root	1.387	%
2541	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2542			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2543	root	1.387	%
2544	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2545			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2546	root	1.387	%
2547	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2548	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2549	root	1.387	%
2550	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2551			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2552	root	1.387	%
2553	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2554			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2555	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2556	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2557			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2558	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2559	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
2560			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2561	root	1.387	%
2562	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2563			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2564	root	1.387	%
2565	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2566			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2567			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2568			their weapons over our heads."
2569			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2570	root	1.387	%
2571	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2572			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2573	root	1.387	%
2574	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2575			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2576			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2577			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2578			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2579	root	1.387	%
2580	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2581	root	1.387	%
2582	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2583			several requests for clarification.
2584
2585			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2586			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2587			unter TCG definitions.
2588	root	1.387	%
2589	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2590			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2591			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2592			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2593	root	1.387	%
2594	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2595			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2596			get people on board.
2597			%
2598	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2599			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2600			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2601			DRM.
2602
2603			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2604			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2605	root	1.387	%
2606	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2607			switch ($decade) {
2608			case "the 50's":
2609			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2610			break;
2611			case "the 60's":
2612			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2613			break;
2614			case "the 70's":
2615			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2616			break;
2617			case "the 80's":
2618			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2619			break;
2620			case "the 90's":
2621			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2622			break;
2623			case "the 00's":
2624			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2625			break;
2626			}
2627	root	1.387	%
2628	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2629
2630			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2631			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2632			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2633			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2634
2635			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2636			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2637			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2638
2639			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2640			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2641			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2642			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2643			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2644			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2645			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2646			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2647			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2648			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2649	root	1.387	%
2650	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2651			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2652			married or unmarried."
2653
2654			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2655			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2656			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2657			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2658			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2659	root	1.387	%
2660	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2661
2662			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2663			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2664			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2665			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2666			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2667			conditioning.
2668
2669			[And this is religion at its best:]
2670			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2671			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2672			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2673	root	1.387	%
2674	root	1.361	[Racism]
2675			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2676	root	1.387	%
2677	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2678			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2679	root	1.387	%
2680	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2681			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2682
2683			I apologise for this.
2684
2685			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2686			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2687	root	1.387	%
2688	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2689			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2690			el says: ich kenn da wen
2691			el says: bei dem wars so
2692			[...]
2693			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2694			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2695			el says: gehirntumor auch
2696			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2697	root	1.387	%
2698	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2699	root	1.387	%
2700	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2701			no sense in the kernel]
2702			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2703
2704			[...]
2705
2706			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2707			models.
2708
2709			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2710			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2711			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2712	root	1.387	%
2713	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2714			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2715			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2716			--
2717			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2718	root	1.355	--
2719			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2720			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2721			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2722			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2723	root	1.387	%
2724	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2725			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2726			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2727			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2728			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2729			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2730			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2731			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2732	root	1.387	%
2733	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2734			which you currently do not posess]
2735			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2736	root	1.387	%
2737	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2738			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2739	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2740	root	1.387	%
2741	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2742	root	1.387	%
2743	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2744			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2745	root	1.387	%
2746	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2747			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2748			paragraphs.
2749	root	1.387	%
2750	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2751			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2752			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2753	root	1.387	%
2754	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2755			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2756
2757			Most catholics aren't American.
2758	root	1.387	%
2759	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2760
2761			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2762			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2763			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2764			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2765			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2766
2767			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2768			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2769	root	1.387	%
2770	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2771			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2772			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2773			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2774			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2775			criminals."
2776	root	1.387	%
2777	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2778			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2779	root	1.387	%
2780	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2781			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2782	root	1.387	%
2783	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2784			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2785	root	1.387	%
2786	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2787			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2788			card (They went up in flames).
2789	root	1.387	%
2790	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2791			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2792			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2793			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2794	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2795	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2796	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2797	root	1.387	%
2798	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2799			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2800			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2801
2802			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2803
2804			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2805	root	1.387	%
2806	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2807			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2808			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2809			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2810			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2811			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2812			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2813			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2814			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2815			--
2816			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2817			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2818			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2819			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2820			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2821			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2822	root	1.387	%
2823	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2824			The Obfuscated V contest
2825	root	1.387	%
2826	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2827			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2828			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2829			cigarette lighters."
2830			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2831	root	1.387	%
2832	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2833			Does it run under Windows ?
2834			- Who cares?
2835	root	1.387	%
2836	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2837	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2838	root	1.387	%
2839	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2840			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2841			[...]
2842			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2843			[...]
2844			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2845			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2846			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2847	root	1.387	%
2848	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2849	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2850			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2851			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2852	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2853	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2854	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2855	root	1.330	> mehr!
2856			> richy.
2857
2858			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2859	root	1.387	%
2860	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2861	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2862			> zugetragen hat?
2863
2864			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2865			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2866	root	1.388	[später]
2867			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2868	root	1.329
2869			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2870			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2871			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2872			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2873			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2874
2875			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2876
2877			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2878			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2879			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2880	root	1.387	%
2881	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2882	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2883			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2884	root	1.387	%
2885	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2886			/* give the hook another try */
2887			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2888			break;
2889	root	1.387	%
2890	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2891	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2892	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2893			#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))
2894	root	1.387	%
2895	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2896	root	1.387	%
2897	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2898	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2899	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2900	root	1.432	>
2901			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2902			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2903	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2904	root	1.432	>
2905			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2906			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2907	root	1.324	> as TO).
2908	root	1.432	>
2909	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2910
2911			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2912			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2913			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2914			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2915			being discourteous to.
2916
2917			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2918			--
2919			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2920	root	1.387	%
2921	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2922	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2923	root	1.387	%
2924	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2925			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2926			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2927			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2928			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2929	root	1.387	%
2930	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2931			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2932			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2933			you don't have any'."
2934	root	1.323
2935			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2936			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2937			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2938			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2939	root	1.387	%
2940	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2941			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2942			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2943			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2944	root	1.387	%
2945	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2946			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2947			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2948			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2949			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2950			reason will not win many fans.
2951
2952			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2953			documents in the algorithm section]
2954	root	1.387	%
2955	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2956			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2957			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2958			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2959			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2960
2961			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2962	root	1.387	%
2963	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2964			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2965			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2966	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2967	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2968			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2969	root	1.387	%
2970	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2971	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2972	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2973	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2974			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2975	root	1.387	%
2976	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2977			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2978			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2979			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2980			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2981			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2982	root	1.387	%
2983	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2984			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2985	root	1.387	%
2986	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2987	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2988	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2989			* at their price list.
2990	root	1.387	%
2991	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2992			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2993			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2994			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2995			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2996			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2997			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3000			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3003			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3004			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3005			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3006	root	1.387	%
3007	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3008	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3009	root	1.387	%
3010	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3011			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3012	root	1.387	%
3013	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3014	root	1.387	%
3015	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3016			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3017			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3018			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3019			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3020			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3021			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3022			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3023	root	1.387	%
3024	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3025			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3026	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3027	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3028	root	1.387	%
3029	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3030	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3031	root	1.387	%
3032	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3033	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3034			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3035			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3036	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3037
3038			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3039
3040			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3041			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3042	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3043	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3044
3045			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3046
3047			[usw.]
3048
3049			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3050	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3051	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3052
3053			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3054			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3055			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3056			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3057			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3058	root	1.387	%
3059	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3060	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3061			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3062	root	1.387	%
3063	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3064			Which fanboy are you?
3065
3066			1. Windows
3067
3068			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3069			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3070			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3071			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3072			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3073			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3074			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3075			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3076			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3077
3078			2. Apple
3079
3080			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3081			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3082			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3083			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3084			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3085			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3086			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3087			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3088
3089			3. Linspire
3090
3091			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3092			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3093			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3094			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3095			installed Linspire on your machine.
3096
3097			4. Umbongo
3098
3099			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3100			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3101			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3102			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3103			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3104			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3105			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3106			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3107			themselves.
3108
3109			5. Gentoy
3110
3111			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3112			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3113			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3114			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3115			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3116			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3117			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3118			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3119
3120			6. Linux From Scratch
3121
3122			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3123			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3124			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3125			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3126			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3127			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3128			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3129	root	1.387	%
3130	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3131			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3132	root	1.387	%
3133	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3134
3135			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3136			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3137
3138			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3139	root	1.387	%
3140	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3141
3142			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3143	root	1.432	>
3144	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3145	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3146	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3147			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3148			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3149	root	1.432	>
3150			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3151	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3152	root	1.432	>
3153	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3154			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3155	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3156	root	1.387	%
3157	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3158	root	1.387	%
3159	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3160	root	1.387	%
3161	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3162	root	1.387	%
3163	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3164			show "Correspondent"]
3165	root	1.288
3166			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3167			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3168
3169			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3170			%
3171	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3172			cock sucking, blowjob
3173			=> fellatio, fellation
3174			=> oral sex, head
3175			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3176			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3177			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3178			=> organic process, biological process
3179			=> process
3180			=> phenomenon
3181	root	1.387	%
3182	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3183			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3184	root	1.387	%
3185	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3186			[slightly edited]
3187			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3188			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3189			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3190			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3191
3192			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3193			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3194			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3195
3196			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3197			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3198	root	1.387	%
3199	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3200			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3201	root	1.387	%
3202	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3203	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3204	root	1.387	%
3205	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3206	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3207			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3208	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3209	root	1.387	%
3210	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3211			- oesi
3212	root	1.387	%
3213	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3214			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3215	root	1.387	%
3216	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3217	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3218	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3219			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3220
3221			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3222			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3223			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3224			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3225			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3226			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3227			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3228			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3229			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3230			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3231			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3232			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3233			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3234			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3235			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3236			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3237			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3238			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3239			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3240			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3241			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3242			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3243			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3244			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3245
3246			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3247			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3248			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3249			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3250			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3251
3252			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3253			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3254			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3255			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3256			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3257			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3258			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3259			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3260			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3261			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3262			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3263
3264			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3265			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3266			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3267			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3268			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3269			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3270			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3271			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3272			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3273			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3274			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3275			sovereign nation.
3276
3277			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3278			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3279			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3280			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3281			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3282			CSPAN, don't post here.
3283
3284			-scott
3285	root	1.387	%
3286	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3287			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3288			capacity to feel pain.
3289
3290			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3291			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3292	root	1.387	%
3293	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3294			From: Sven Neumann
3295
3296			Hi,
3297
3298	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3299	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3300	root	1.273
3301			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3302			that
3303
3304			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3305
3306			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3307	root	1.387	%
3308	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3309	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3310			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3311			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3314			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3315			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3316			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3317			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3318			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3319	root	1.387	%
3320	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3321	root	1.270	interesting read]
3322			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3323	root	1.387	%
3324	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3325			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3326			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3329			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3330			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3331			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3332			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3333			locks can open the gate.
3334
3335			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3336			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3337			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3340			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3341	root	1.387	%
3342	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3343
3344			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3345
3346			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3347			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3348			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3349			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3350			explanation of this.
3351
3352			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3353
3354			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3355			which explains why the hammer falls.
3356
3357			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3358			how a population's genome can change over time.
3359
3360	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3361			mathematical relationship between two values.
3362	root	1.265
3363			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3364			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3365
3366			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3367			acceleration.
3368
3369			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3370			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3371			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3372			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3373			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3374			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3375			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3376			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3377			false.
3378
3379			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3380	root	1.387	%
3381	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3382	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3383
3384			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3385			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3386	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3387			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3388			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3389	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3390
3391	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3392			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3393			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3394			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3395			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3396			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3397			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3398	root	1.264
3399			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3400	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3401			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3402			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3403			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3404	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3405	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3406	root	1.264	sportlich.
3407
3408	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3409			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3410			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3411			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3412			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3413	root	1.264
3414	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3415	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3416	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3417			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3418	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3419
3420			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3421			Forscher.
3422	root	1.387	%
3423	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3424			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3425			EULA-style license]
3426	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3427	root	1.387	%
3428	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3429			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3430			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3431			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3432			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3433			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3434			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3437	root	1.387	%
3438	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3439			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3440			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3441			00:24 <schmorp> re
3442	root	1.387	%
3443	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3444	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3445			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3446	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3447			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3448	root	1.387	%
3449	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3450			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3451			proponents of such theories.]
3452			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3453			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3454			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3455			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3456			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3457			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3458			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3459			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3460			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3461			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3462			(below, right)."
3463	root	1.387	%
3464	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3465			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3466			[useful info...]
3467			http://www.snopes.com/
3468	root	1.387	%
3469	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3470			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3471	root	1.387	%
3472	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3473			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3474	root	1.387	%
3475	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3476	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3477			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3478	root	1.387	%
3479	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3480			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3481			#!/usr/bin/sh
3482			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3483			# All Rights Reserved
3484
3485			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3486			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3487			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3488
3489			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3490	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3491	root	1.387	%
3492	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3493			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3494			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3497			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3498			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3499			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3500			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3501			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3502			#
3503			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3504	root	1.387	%
3505	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3506	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3507			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3508			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3509	root	1.387	%
3510	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3511	root	1.387	%
3512	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3513	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3514			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3515	root	1.387	%
3516	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3517			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3518			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3519	root	1.387	%
3520	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3521	root	1.387	%
3522	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3523			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3524			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3525			that you have a problem.)
3526			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3527	root	1.387	%
3528	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3529			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3530	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3531	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3532
3533			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3534			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3535	root	1.387	%
3536	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3537			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3538
3539			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3540			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3541			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3542			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3543			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3544			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3545			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3546			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3547			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3548			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3549			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3550			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3551			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3552			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3553
3554			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3555			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3556			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3557			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3558			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3559			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3560			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3561	root	1.387	%
3562	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3563	root	1.239
3564			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3565			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3566			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3567	root	1.387	%
3568	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3569			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3570			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3571	root	1.387	%
3572	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3573
3574			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3575			;)
3576	root	1.387	%
3577	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3578			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3579			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3580			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3581
3582			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3583
3584	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3585			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3586	root	1.387	%
3587	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3588			using so many abbreviations...]
3589
3590			Hi Volker -
3591
3592			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3593	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3594			spät ...
3595	root	1.234
3596			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3597
3598			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3599
3600	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3601			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3602	root	1.234
3603	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3604	root	1.234
3605			tom
3606	root	1.247
3607	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3608	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3609	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3610	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3611	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3612	root	1.387	%
3613	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3614			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3615			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3616
3617			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3618	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3619			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3620	root	1.233	> someone else?
3621
3622			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3623			===================================================================
3624			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3625			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3626			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3627			S: 79098 Freiburg
3628			S: Germany
3629
3630			+N: Hans Reiser
3631			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3632			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3633			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3634			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3635			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3636			+S: USA
3637			+
3638			N: Joerg Reuter
3639			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3640			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3641	root	1.387	%
3642	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3643			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3644	root	1.387	%
3645	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3646			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3647	root	1.387	%
3648	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3649			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3650	root	1.387	%
3651	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3652			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3653			[...]
3654			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3655			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3656			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3657			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3658			[...]
3659			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3660			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3661			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3662			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3665			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3666			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3667			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3668			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3669			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3670	root	1.387	%
3671	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3672	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3673			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3674			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3675			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3676			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3677			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3678			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3679			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3680	root	1.387	%
3681	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3682			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3683	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3684	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3685	root	1.387	%
3686	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3687			[yes, the whole thing]
3688	root	1.387	%
3689	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3690	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3691			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3692			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3693	root	1.221	>
3694			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3695
3696			We'll use a larger wall.
3697	root	1.387	%
3698	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3699			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3700			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3701			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3702
3703			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3704			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3705
3706			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3707			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3708
3709			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3710			cost.
3711			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3712	root	1.387	%
3713	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3714
3715	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3716	root	1.219
3717			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3718
3719	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3720	root	1.387	%
3721	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3722			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3723	root	1.387	%
3724	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3725			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3726	root	1.387	%
3727	root	1.215	[translated]
3728			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3729			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3730			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3731			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3732			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3733			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3734			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3735			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3736	root	1.387	%
3737	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3738			-- Lord Balfour
3739	root	1.387	%
3740	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3741	root	1.387	%
3742	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3743			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3744			him to forgive me.
3745	root	1.387	%
3746	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3747			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3748
3749			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3750	root	1.387	%
3751	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3752			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3753			get bored during the sex scenes.
3754	root	1.387	%
3755	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3756			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3757			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3758	root	1.387	%
3759	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3760			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3761			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3762			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3763			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3764			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3765	root	1.387	%
3766	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3767			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3768			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3769			HP-UX customer. [...]
3770	root	1.387	%
3771	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3772			>>
3773			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3774			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3775			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3776			>>spelled it in UC.
3777	root	1.247	>
3778			>
3779	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3780
3781			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3782	root	1.387	%
3783	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3784			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3785
3786			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3787			usage.
3788
3789			Richard
3790	root	1.387	%
3791	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3792			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3793			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3794			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3795			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3796			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3797	root	1.387	%
3798	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3799			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3800	root	1.387	%
3801	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3802	root	1.387	%
3803	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3804			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3805			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3806			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3807			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3808			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3809			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3810			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3811			existence means and implies.
3812
3813			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3814	root	1.387	%
3815	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3816			>
3817			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3818			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3819			>
3820			> You're WRONG!
3821
3822	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3823			and §7.20.3.1).
3824	root	1.387	%
3825	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3826			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3827			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3828	root	1.387	%
3829	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3830			A. It should be obvious.
3831			Q. How is it hard?
3832			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3833			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3834	root	1.387	%
3835	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3836			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3837
3838			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3839			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3840
3841			- works ok on linux
3842			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3843
3844			Any clues why?
3845			I am new to the non windows world.
3846
3847			Thanks
3848	root	1.387	%
3849	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3850			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3851			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3852			> this ?
3853
3854			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3855			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3856	root	1.387	%
3857	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3858			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3859			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3860
3861			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3862	root	1.247	>
3863			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3864			>
3865	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3866	root	1.387	%
3867	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3868			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3869
3870			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3871	root	1.387	%
3872	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3873			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3874	root	1.387	%
3875	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3876	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3877	root	1.194
3878			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3879			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3880	root	1.387	%
3881	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3882			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3887			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3888	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3889	root	1.387	%
3890	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3891			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3892			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3893	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3894
3895	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3896	root	1.190
3897	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3898	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3899			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3900			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3901	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3902			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3903			schützen können.
3904	root	1.387	%
3905	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3906			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3907	root	1.387	%
3908	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3909			[...]
3910	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3911	root	1.188	[...]
3912	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3913			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3914			never get your message.
3915	root	1.387	%
3916	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3917			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3918			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3919	root	1.387	%
3920	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3921			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3922			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3923	root	1.387	%
3924	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3925			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3926			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3927			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3928			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3929			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3930			01:15 <schmorp> g
3931			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3932	root	1.387	%
3933	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3934			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3935			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3936			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3937			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3938			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3939			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3940			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3941	root	1.387	%
3942	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3943			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3944			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3945	root	1.387	%
3946	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3947			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3948			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3949			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3950			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3951			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3952			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3953	root	1.387	%
3954	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3955			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3958			GNOME TERMINAL
3959			[...]
3960			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3961			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3962			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3963			[.. later]
3964			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3965			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3966			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3967	root	1.387	%
3968	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3969			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3970			/*
3971	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3972	root	1.179	*/
3973			void blip()
3974	root	1.247	{
3975	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3976			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3977			fflush(stderr);
3978	root	1.247	}
3979	root	1.387	%
3980	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3981			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3982
3983			Why not 666? :-).
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3986			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3987			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3988			users are clueless.
3989	root	1.387	%
3990	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3991			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3992	root	1.387	%
3993	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3994			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3995	root	1.387	%
3996	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3997			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3998	root	1.387	%
3999	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4000			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4001			and", and finally, ampersand.
4002	root	1.387	%
4003	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4004			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4005			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4006			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4007			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4008	root	1.387	%
4009	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4010			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4011			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4012			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4013			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4014	root	1.387	%
4015	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4016			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4017			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4018			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4019			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4020			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4021			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4022	root	1.387	%
4023	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4024	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4025			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4026	root	1.387	%
4027	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4028			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4029			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4030	root	1.387	%
4031	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4032	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4033	root	1.387	%
4034	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4035	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4036			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4037			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4038	root	1.167	%
4039	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4040	root	1.387	%
4041	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4042			<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
4043	root	1.387	%
4044	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4045			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4046	root	1.164	einfach :)
4047			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4048	root	1.387	%
4049	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4050			/*
4051			* Function compares two strings.
4052	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4053	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4054			*/
4055			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4056			{
4057			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4058			[...]
4059	root	1.387	%
4060	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4063	root	1.387	%
4064	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4065			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4066			Get_Colours ();
4067	root	1.387	%
4068	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4069	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4070			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4071			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4072			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4073			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4074			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4075			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4076			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4077	root	1.161	[...]
4078			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4079			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4080			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4081			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4082			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4083	root	1.387	%
4084	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4085			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4086	root	1.387	%
4087	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4088			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4089	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4090	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4091			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4092			#endif
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4095			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4096			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4097	root	1.387	%
4098	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4099			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4100			>
4101			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4102
4103			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4104			--
4105			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4106	root	1.387	%
4107	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4108			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4109			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4110			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4111			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4112			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4113			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4114	root	1.387	%
4115	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4116			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4117	root	1.387	%
4118	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4119	root	1.387	%
4120	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4121			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4122			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4123			-- Robert Fisk
4124	root	1.387	%
4125	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4126			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4127	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4128			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4129	root	1.387	%
4130	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4131			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4132			high-violence culture"
4133			[...]
4134			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4135			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4136			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4137			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4138			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4139			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4140			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4141			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4142
4143			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4144			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4145	root	1.387	%
4146	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4147			Subject: Re: [...]
4148
4149			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4150
4151			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4152			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4153			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4154			> saved it :)
4155
4156			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4157			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4158			[...]
4159	root	1.387	%
4160	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4161			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4162			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4163			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4164			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4165
4166			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4167			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4168			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4169			[...]
4170	root	1.387	%
4171	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4172	root	1.387	%
4173	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4174	root	1.387	%
4175	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4178			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4179			claim to have decades of java experience]
4180			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4181			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4182			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4183			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4184	root	1.387	%
4185	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4186	root	1.387	%
4187	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4190	root	1.387	%
4191	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4192			[mail not to be delivered]
4193			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4194	root	1.247	>
4195	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4196
4197			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4198			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4199	root	1.387	%
4200	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4201
4202			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4203			>
4204			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4205			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4206			> >
4207			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4208			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4209			> > language which does support this?
4210			>
4211
4212			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4213
4214			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4215			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4216			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4217			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4218			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4219			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4220	root	1.387	%
4221	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4222			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4223			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4224	root	1.387	%
4225	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4226			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4227			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4228
4229			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4230			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4231			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4232			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4233			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4234
4235			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4236			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4237			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4238			and thwart them that way.
4239	root	1.387	%
4240	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4241			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4242			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4243			unfortunate decision.
4244	root	1.387	%
4245	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4246	root	1.146	fest ;)
4247	root	1.387	%
4248	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4249
4250			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4253	root	1.387	%
4254	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4255			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4256	root	1.387	%
4257	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4258
4259			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4260			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4261			local object as a "he":
4262
4263			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4264			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4265			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4266			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4267			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4268			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4269			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4270			EX-PARROT!"
4271
4272			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4275			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4276	root	1.387	%
4277	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4278			The police will shoot you.
4279
4280			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4281			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4282
4283	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4284	root	1.387	%
4285	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4286			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4287			reply.
4288
4289			pls. cc my email address
4290
4291			tia
4292			pd
4293
4294
4295	root	1.247	--
4296	root	1.141	^X^C
4297			q
4298			quit
4299			:q
4300			^C
4301			end
4302			x
4303			exit
4304			ZZ
4305			^D
4306			?
4307			help
4308			shit
4309			.
4310	root	1.387	%
4311	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4312	root	1.387	%
4313	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4314			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4315			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4316			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.140	[I love it]
4319			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4320			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4321	root	1.387	%
4322	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4323			- Douglas Adams
4324	root	1.387	%
4325	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4326			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4327			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4328			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4329
4330	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4331			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4332			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4333			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4334			their software properly.
4335	root	1.138
4336			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4337			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4338			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4339			told the publication.
4340
4341	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4342			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4343			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4344			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4345			who want visibility and glory.
4346	root	1.387	%
4347	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4348
4349			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4350
4351			x Try not using it.
4352	root	1.387	%
4353	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4354			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4355			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4356			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4357			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4358			had given.
4359
4360			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4361			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4362			person as well."
4363	root	1.387	%
4364	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4365	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4366			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4367	root	1.387	%
4368	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4369	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4370	root	1.134
4371			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4372	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4373	root	1.135	[...]
4374	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4375	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4376	root	1.135	[...]
4377			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4378			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4379	root	1.387	%
4380	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4381	root	1.387	%
4382	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4383			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4384			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4385			-- Ulrich Drepper
4386	root	1.387	%
4387	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4388			-- Ulrich Drepper
4389	root	1.387	%
4390	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4391			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4392	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4393	root	1.387	%
4394	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4395			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4396			-- Ulrich Drepper
4397	root	1.387	%
4398	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4399			-- Ulrich Drepper
4400	root	1.387	%
4401	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4402	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4403			zuverlässiger
4404	root	1.387	%
4405	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4406			/*
4407			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4408			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4409			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4410			*/
4411	root	1.387	%
4412	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4413			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4414			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4415			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4416			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4417	root	1.387	%
4418	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4419			Pirating Movies
4420
4421			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4422			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4423			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4424	root	1.387	%
4425	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4426			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4427	root	1.387	%
4428	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4429			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4430	root	1.387	%
4431	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4432			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4433			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4434			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4435			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4436	root	1.387	%
4437	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4438			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4439			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4440			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4441			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4442
4443			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4444			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4445
4446			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4447			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4448			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4449			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4450			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4451			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4452			the first place!
4453	root	1.387	%
4454	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4455			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4456			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4457	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4458	root	1.387	%
4459	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4460			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4461	root	1.387	%
4462	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4463			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4464	root	1.387	%
4465	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4466			platform."
4467			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4468	root	1.387	%
4469	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4470			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4471			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4472			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4473			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4474	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4475	root	1.387	%
4476	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4477			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4478	root	1.387	%
4479	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4480			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4481			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4482			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4483			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4484			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4485			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4486			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4487			daily.
4488	root	1.387	%
4489	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4490	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4491			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4492	root	1.387	%
4493	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4494			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4495			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4496			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4497			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4498			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4499			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4502	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4505			[...so it must be good]
4506			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4509			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4510			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4511	root	1.387	%
4512	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4513			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4514			No idea why I announce it here...
4515	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4516	root	1.387	%
4517	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4518			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4519	root	1.387	%
4520	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4521	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4522	root	1.387	%
4523	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4524			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4525			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4526			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4527			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4528
4529			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4530			Sacha.
4531	root	1.387	%
4532	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4533			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4534			desk one morning:
4535
4536			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4537
4538			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4539
4540			Employee: 123456
4541
4542			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4543			photograph of the employee.]
4544
4545			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4546			identification which has your picture on it?
4547
4548			Employee: Why would you need that?
4549
4550			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4551
4552			Employee: A picture of my face?
4553
4554			Security Guard: Yes
4555
4556			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4557
4558			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4559			compare against this one.
4560	root	1.387	%
4561	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4562			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4563			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4564	root	1.387	%
4565	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4566			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4567			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4568
4569			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4570			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4571	root	1.387	%
4572	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4573	root	1.387	%
4574	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4575			"RV K-17"
4576	root	1.387	%
4577	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4578			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4579	root	1.387	%
4580	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4581			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4582			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4583			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4584	root	1.387	%
4585	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4586			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4587	root	1.387	%
4588	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4589	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4590			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4591	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4592	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4593			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4594	root	1.387	%
4595	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4596	root	1.387	%
4597	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4598			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4599	root	1.387	%
4600	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4601			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4602			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4603			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4604	root	1.387	%
4605	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4606			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4607			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4608			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4609			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4610			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4611			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4612			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4613			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4614			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4615			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4616			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4617			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4618			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4619			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4620			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4621			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4622			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4623			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4624	root	1.387	%
4625	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4626			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4627	root	1.387	%
4628	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4629			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4630	root	1.387	%
4631	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4632			Lester Moore,
4633			Shot in the head with a .44.
4634			No Les, no more.
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4637			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4638
4639			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4640			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4641	root	1.387	%
4642	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4643			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4644			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4645	root	1.387	%
4646	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4647			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4648			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4649			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4650			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4651	root	1.112	[...]
4652			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4653			[...]
4654			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4655			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4656			the result with SHA.
4657	root	1.387	%
4658	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4659	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4660			> ist!
4661	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4662			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4663	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4664	root	1.387	%
4665	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4666			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4669	root	1.387	%
4670	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4671			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4672			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4673			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4674			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4675			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4676	root	1.387	%
4677	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4678			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4679	root	1.387	%
4680	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4681			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4682	root	1.387	%
4683	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4684			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4685	root	1.387	%
4686	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4687
4688			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4689			* control history, is that we should at least
4690			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4691			* "initialisation"? */
4692			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4693	root	1.387	%
4694	root	1.105	[man pem]
4695			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4696	root	1.387	%
4697	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4698
4699			/* ``If you can't do it in
4700	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4701	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4702	root	1.387	%
4703	root	1.104	[subculture]
4704	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4705			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4706	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4707
4708			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4709	root	1.424	%
4710	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4711			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4712	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4713	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4714	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4715	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4716			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4717	root	1.387	%
4718	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4719	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4720			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4721			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4722	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4723	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4724			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4725			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4726	root	1.387	%
4727	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4728			aber wenig freude.
4729	root	1.387	%
4730	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4731			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4732			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4733			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4734			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4735			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4736			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4737			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4738			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4739			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4740	root	1.387	%
4741	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4742			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4743	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4744			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4745	root	1.387	%
4746	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4747			don't work well in practise.
4748			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4749	root	1.387	%
4750	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4751			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4752			"ready, fire, aim."
4753	root	1.387	%
4754	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4755			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4756			free countries like Germany [1].
4757			[...]
4758			Regards
4759			Henning
4760
4761			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4762			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4763			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4764	root	1.387	%
4765	root	1.98	[...]
4766			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4767			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4768			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4769			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4770			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4771			[...]
4772			Wolfgang Walter
4773	root	1.387	%
4774	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4775			burro: it seemed very clever
4776			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4777			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4778			burro: oops
4779			burro: accidental poetry
4780	root	1.387	%
4781	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4782			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4783			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4784	root	1.387	%
4785	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4786			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4787	root	1.387	%
4788	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4789			-- Oscar Wilde
4790	root	1.387	%
4791	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4792			"guilty until proven innocent"
4793			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4794	root	1.387	%
4795	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4796			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4797			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4798			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4799			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4800			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4801			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4802			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4803			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4804			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4805			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4806			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4807			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4808			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4809			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4810	root	1.387	%
4811	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4812			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4813			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4814			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4815			// suit particular needs.
4816			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4817	root	1.387	%
4818	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4819			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4820			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4821	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4822	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4823	root	1.387	%
4824	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4825			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4826	root	1.387	%
4827	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4828			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4829	root	1.387	%
4830	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4831			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4832			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4833	root	1.387	%
4834	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4835			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4836	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4837			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4838	root	1.387	%
4839	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4840
4841			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4842			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4843			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4844			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4845			is not [...]
4846	root	1.387	%
4847	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4848	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4849			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4852			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4853
4854	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4855	root	1.94
4856			GUI
4857			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4858			Globale Variable
4859	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4860	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4861			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4862			strukturiert
4863			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4864			Multithreaded
4865	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4866	root	1.94	Windows 95
4867	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4868	root	1.94	Emacs
4869	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4870			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4871			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4872	root	1.94	IPv6
4873			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4874			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4875			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4876			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4877	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4878			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4879	root	1.247	PHP
4880	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4881	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4882	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4883			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4884	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4885	root	1.94	Bunt.
4886	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4887			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4888			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4889	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4890	root	1.387	%
4891	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4892			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4893	root	1.387	%
4894	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4895	root	1.387	%
4896	root	1.93	[nah]
4897			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4898			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4899			paint dry."
4900	root	1.387	%
4901	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4902			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4903			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4904	root	1.387	%
4905	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4906	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4907			importance.
4908	root	1.387	%
4909	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4910			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4911			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4912			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4913
4914			You have to trust Microsoft.
4915
4916			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4917			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4918			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4919			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4920			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4921			useless chrome.
4922
4923			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4924			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4925			I'd like to trust them with.
4926	root	1.93	[...]
4927	root	1.387	%
4928	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4929			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4930			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4931			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4932			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4933	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4934	root	1.91	--------------^
4935	root	1.387	%
4936	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4937			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4938			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4939			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4940			English grammar, I assure you.
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4943			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4944			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4945			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4946			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4947			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4948			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4949
4950			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4951			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4952			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4953			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4954			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4955			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4956			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4957			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4958			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4959			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4960
4961			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4962			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4963			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4964			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4965
4966			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4967			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4968	root	1.387	%
4969	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4970			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4971			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4972			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4973			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4974			work etc first:
4975
4976			#include <stdio.h>
4977
4978			int main (void) {
4979			while (1)
4980			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4981
4982			return 0;
4983			}
4984	root	1.387	%
4985	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4986			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4987	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4988	root	1.387	%
4989	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4990			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4991			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4992			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4993	root	1.387	%
4994	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4995			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4996			proprietary and patentend technology.
4997	root	1.387	%
4998	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4999	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5000	root	1.387	%
5001	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5002	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5003	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5004			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5005			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5006	root	1.387	%
5007	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5008			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5009	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5010	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5011			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5012	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5013	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5014	root	1.87
5015	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5016			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5017			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5018			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5019			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5020			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5021	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5022			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5023
5024	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5025			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5026			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5027			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5028			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5029			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5030			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5031			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5032			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5033			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5034	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5035	root	1.387	%
5036	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5037			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5038	root	1.387	%
5039	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5040			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5041			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5042	root	1.387	%
5043	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5044			"linux" thing will fail]
5045			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5046			[...]
5047	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5048	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5049			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5050			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5051
5052			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5053			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5054			life to the public good.
5055
5056			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5057			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5058			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5059			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5060			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5061
5062			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5063			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5064			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5065			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5066			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5067			software to work on the linux kernel!
5068
5069			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5070			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5071			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5072			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5073			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5074	root	1.387	%
5075	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5076	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5077			[...]
5078			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5079	root	1.387	%
5080	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5081			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5082			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5083			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5084	root	1.387	%
5085	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5086	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5087			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5088			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5089			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5090			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5091	root	1.387	%
5092	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5093			-- Leonard Brandwein
5094	root	1.387	%
5095	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5096	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5097			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5098			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5099			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5100			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5101			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5102			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5103			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5104			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5105			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5106			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5107	root	1.387	%
5108	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5109			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5110	root	1.387	%
5111	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5112			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5113			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5114			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5115			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5116			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5117			jurisprudence fun?
5118			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5119	root	1.387	%
5120	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5121			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5122			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5123	root	1.84	[...]
5124	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5125	root	1.387	%
5126	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5127			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5128			- Paul Ginsparg.
5129	root	1.387	%
5130	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5131			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5132			home.":))
5133			[erm...]
5134	root	1.387	%
5135	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5136
5137	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5138	root	1.387	%
5139	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5142
5143			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5144			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5145			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5146			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5147	root	1.387	%
5148	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5149			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5150			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5151	root	1.387	%
5152	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5153	root	1.83
5154			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5155	root	1.82
5156			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5157			to use in future emails?
5158	root	1.387	%
5159	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5160			please?
5161
5162			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5163			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5164
5165	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5166	root	1.387	%
5167	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5168			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5169			last until February 16th 2003.
5170
5171			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5172			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5173			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5174			end.
5175
5176			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5177
5178			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5179			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5180			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5181			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5182			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5183			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5184			take place on October 27th.
5185
5186			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5187			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5188			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5189			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5190			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5191			the clock)...
5192	root	1.387	%
5193	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5194			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5195			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5196			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5197			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5198
5199			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5200			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5201			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5202			RedHat and SuSE).
5203
5204			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5205
5206			Pavel
5207	root	1.387	%
5208	root	1.81	Rik
5209	root	1.247	--
5210	root	1.81	A: No.
5211			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5212	root	1.387	%
5213	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5214	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5215			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5216	root	1.81
5217			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5218			no useful data.
5219
5220	root	1.247	--
5221	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5222	root	1.387	%
5223	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5224			there was a long do..while construct,
5225			which contained a switch statement,
5226			which contained an if clause,
5227			which contained a break,
5228			which was intended for the if clause,
5229			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5230
5231			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5232			network January 15, 1990
5233	root	1.387	%
5234	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5235
5236	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5237			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5238			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5239			violation of network policies.
5240	root	1.80
5241			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5242
5243			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5244			The format is as follows:
5245
5246			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5247	root	1.387	%
5248	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5249			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5250			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5251	root	1.387	%
5252	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5253			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5254			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5255			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5256			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5257			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5258			...
5259			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5260			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5261			the effort."
5262	root	1.387	%
5263	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5264	root	1.387	%
5265	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5266			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5267	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5268	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5269			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5270	root	1.387	%
5271	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5272	root	1.387	%
5273	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5274	root	1.387	%
5275	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5276			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5277			[Albert Cahalan]
5278	root	1.387	%
5279	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5280			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5281			least as bad, but lesser known.
5282	root	1.387	%
5283	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5284			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5285			different.
5286	root	1.387	%
5287	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.
5288	root	1.387	%
5289	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5290			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5293			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5294			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5295			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5296			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5297			without a show.
5298	root	1.387	%
5299	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5300	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5301	root	1.387	%
5302	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5303	root	1.387	%
5304	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5305			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5306	root	1.387	%
5307	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5308			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5309			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5310	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5311	root	1.71	going on.
5312			[...]
5313	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5314			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5315			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5316	root	1.387	%
5317	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5318			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5319	root	1.387	%
5320	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5321	root	1.387	%
5322	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5323	root	1.387	%
5324	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5325			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5326			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5327	root	1.387	%
5328	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5329			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5330			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5331			returned data.
5332
5333	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5334			FindExInfoStandard
5335			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5336	root	1.387	%
5337	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5338	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5339			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5340	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5341	root	1.387	%
5342	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5343			it doesn't work:]
5344			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5345			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5346			this MIME type as the final determination.
5347	root	1.387	%
5348	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5349
5350			Recode 0.1.1
5351			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5352
5353			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5354			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5355
5356			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5357	root	1.387	%
5358	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5359	root	1.387	%
5360	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5361	root	1.387	%
5362	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5363
5364			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5365			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5366			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5367			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5368			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5369			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5370			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5371			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5372			century."
5373
5374			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5375			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5376			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5377			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5378			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5379			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5380			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5381			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5382			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5383			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5384			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5385			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5386			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5387			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5388
5389			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5390			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5391			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5392			hilarious in light of the above.
5393			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5394
5395			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5396			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5397			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5398			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5399			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5400			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5401			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5402
5403			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5404			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5405			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5406			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5407	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5408	root	1.387	%
5409	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5410	root	1.387	%
5411	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5412			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5413	root	1.387	%
5414	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5415			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5416			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5417
5418			Tony Hoare
5419	root	1.387	%
5420	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5421			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5422	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5423	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5424	root	1.387	%
5425	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5426
5427			[...]
5428			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5429			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5430			system. Basically its windows computer
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5433	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5434	root	1.387	%
5435	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5436
5437			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5438			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5439			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5440			> software developers...
5441
5442			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5443	root	1.387	%
5444	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5445			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5446			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5447			>
5448			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5449
5450			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5451			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5452
5453			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5454			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5455
5456			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5457			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5458			off by throwing away the patch.
5459
5460			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5461			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5462			patch any time soon.
5463
5464			--
5465			Daniel
5466	root	1.387	%
5467	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5468			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5469			[...]
5470			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5471			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5472			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5475
5476			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5477			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5478			Is it realy needed?
5479	root	1.387	%
5480	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5481
5482			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5483
5484			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5485			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5486			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5487	root	1.387	%
5488	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5489			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5490			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5491			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5492			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5493			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5494			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5495	root	1.387	%
5496	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5497
5498			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5499			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5500			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5501			>
5502			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5503
5504			This is an ex-parrot
5505	root	1.387	%
5506	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5507
5508			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5509			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5510			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5511			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5512			>
5513			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5514			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5515
5516			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5517
5518			while (!sorted(data))
5519			;
5520	root	1.387	%
5521	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5522			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5523
5524			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5525
5526			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5527			to computing
5528	root	1.387	%
5529	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5530
5531			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5532			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5533
5534			Common sense, one would hope.
5535	root	1.387	%
5536	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5537			[...]
5538
5539			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5540			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5541			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5542
5543			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5544
5545			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5546			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5547			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5548			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5549
5550			:-)
5551	root	1.387	%
5552	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5553			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5554			their C programs."
5555	root	1.60
5556			Robert Firth
5557	root	1.387	%
5558	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5559	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5560	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5561			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5562	root	1.387	%
5563	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5564	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5565	root	1.387	%
5566	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5567			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5568	root	1.387	%
5569	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5570	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5573	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5574			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5575	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5576			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5577	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5578			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5579
5580			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5581
5582			\Gisbert
5583	root	1.387	%
5584	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5585	root	1.387	%
5586	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5587			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5588			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5589	root	1.387	%
5590	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5591			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5592
5593			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5594			[...]
5595	root	1.387	%
5596	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5597			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5598			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5599
5600			ok 1
5601			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5602			not ok 2
5603			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5604	root	1.387	%
5605	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5606
5607			Cheers,
5608
5609			Andre Hedrick
5610			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5611	root	1.387	%
5612	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5613	root	1.247	>
5614	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5615
5616			Or mutabloat :-(
5617	root	1.387	%
5618	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5619			Outlook IS the solution.
5620	root	1.387	%
5621	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5622	root	1.387	%
5623	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5624
5625			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5626			never bought anything from UUNet.
5627	root	1.387	%
5628	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5629			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5630			by delving below its surface meaning)
5631	root	1.387	%
5632	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5633	root	1.387	%
5634	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5635
5636			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5637			> just go to court and say:
5638
5639			Oh glorious naivety.
5640
5641			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5642			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5643			> can do the work better than I).
5644
5645			You release the code
5646
5647			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5648
5649			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5650			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5651			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5652			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5653
5654			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5655			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5656
5657			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5658			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5659
5660			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5661
5662			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5663			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5664			or that the good guys win.
5665
5666			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5667			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5668	root	1.387	%
5669	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5670
5671			[...]
5672			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5673			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5674	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5675	root	1.51	year to kill.
5676	root	1.387	%
5677	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5678			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5679
5680			[...]
5681			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5682			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5683			of for Windows desktop systems."
5684			[...]
5685			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5686			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5687			[...]
5688			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5689			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5690			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5691			turned on by default.
5692			[...]
5693			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5694			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5695			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5696			[...]
5697			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5698			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5699			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5700			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5701			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5702			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5703			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5704			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5705			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5706	root	1.387	%
5707	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5708	root	1.387	%
5709	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5710	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5711	root	1.49
5712			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5713
5714			Monday, 06. November 2000
5715	root	1.387	%
5716	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5717			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5718	root	1.387	%
5719	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5720	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5721			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5722			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5725			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5726			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5727			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5728	root	1.387	%
5729	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5730			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5731
5732			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5733			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5734			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5735	root	1.387	%
5736	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5737			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5738
5739			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5740			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5741			> dropped patches.
5742
5743			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5744	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5745	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5746			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5747			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5748			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5749	root	1.387	%
5750	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5751			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5752			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5753	root	1.387	%
5754	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5755
5756			From: Bill Huey
5757			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5758
5759			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5760
5761			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5762	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5763	root	1.45	themselves.
5764
5765			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5766			certain.
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5769			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5770			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5771
5772			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5773			appropriate approach to a problem.
5774	root	1.387	%
5775	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5776	root	1.44	^^^^
5777			[...]
5778			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5779			[...]
5780			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5781			-15 Nice winter day
5782			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5783			-5 Nice warm winter day
5784			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5785	root	1.387	%
5786	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5787			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5788			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5789			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5792			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5793
5794			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5795
5796			-ben
5797	root	1.387	%
5798	root	1.43	[...]
5799	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5800			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5801			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5802			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5803			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5804			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5805			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5806			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5807			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5808			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5809			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5810	root	1.387	%
5811	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5812			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5813	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5814	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5815			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5816			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5817			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5818			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5819			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5820	root	1.43	statt...
5821	root	1.387	%
5822	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5823	root	1.387	%
5824	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5825			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5826			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5827			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5828			values." Who writes this stuff?
5829	root	1.387	%
5830	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5831	root	1.387	%
5832	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5833			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5834			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5835			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5836			> "Macao".
5837			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5838			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5839	root	1.387	%
5840	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5841	root	1.387	%
5842	root	1.40	Beitrag
5843	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5844	root	1.40
5845			fucklinux
5846
5847			IP: 217.83.123.198
5848
5849			1. FUCK LINUX
5850
5851	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5852	root	1.40
5853			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5854	root	1.387	%
5855	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5856	root	1.40
5857			[...]
5858			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5859			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5860			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5861			read...
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5864			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5865			depends on the unreasonable man.
5866
5867			-George Bernard Shaw
5868	root	1.387	%
5869	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5870
5871			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5872	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5873	root	1.387	%
5874	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:
5875	root	1.387	%
5876	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
5877			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5878			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5879			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5880			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5881	root	1.387	%
5882	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5883			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5884	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5885	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5886			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5887	root	1.387	%
5888	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5889			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5890			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5891			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5892			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5893			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5894			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5895			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).
5896			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5897			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5898	root	1.387	%
5899	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5900			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5901			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5902			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5903			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5904			removed in Windows XP.
5905
5906			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5907			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5908			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5909			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5910	root	1.387	%
5911	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5912			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5913			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5914			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5915			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5916			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5917			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5918			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5919			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5920			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5921
5922			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5923			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5924			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5925			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5926			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5927			you have no details?
5928			[...]
5929			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5930			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5931			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5932			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5933			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5934			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5935			the industrial terrorists want."
5936	root	1.387	%
5937	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5938			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5939	root	1.387	%
5940	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5941	root	1.387	%
5942	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5943			of each 50 days
5944	root	1.387	%
5945	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5946
5947			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5948			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5949			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5950	root	1.387	%
5951	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5952			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5953			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5954	root	1.387	%
5955	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5956			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5957	root	1.247	>
5958	root	1.35	> <...>
5959			>
5960			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5961			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5962			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5963	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5964	root	1.387	%
5965	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5966			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5967			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5968	root	1.387	%
5969	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5970			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5971			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5972
5973	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5974			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5975			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5976			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5977			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5978			changing run level, interactive boot.
5979	root	1.35
5980			Alan
5981	root	1.387	%
5982	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5983
5984			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5985			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5986
5987			First they came for the Communists,
5988			and I didn't speak up,
5989			because I wasn't a Communist.
5990			Then they came for the Jews,
5991			and I didn't speak up,
5992			because I wasn't a Jew.
5993			Then they came for the Catholics,
5994			and I didn't speak up,
5995			because I was a Protestant.
5996			Then they came for me,
5997			and by that time there was no one
5998			left to speak up for me.
5999
6000			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6001	root	1.387	%
6002	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6003	root	1.387	%
6004	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6005			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6006	root	1.387	%
6007	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6008			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6009			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6010			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6011
6012			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6013	root	1.387	%
6014	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6015
6016			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6017			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6018			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6019			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6020			used databases!"
6021	root	1.387	%
6022	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6023
6024			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6025
6026			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6027			change that was not?
6028			[...]
6029	root	1.387	%
6030	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6031
6032			[...]
6033
6034	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6035	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6036			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6037
6038	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6039	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6040			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6041			them anywhere else").
6042
6043			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6044			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6045	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6046	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6047			order..
6048
6049	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6050	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6051	root	1.387	%
6052	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6053			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6054			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6055
6056			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6057	root	1.387	%
6058	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6059	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6060			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6061			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6062			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6063	root	1.387	%
6064	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6065			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6066
6067			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6068			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6069			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6070			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6071			series.
6072
6073			[...]
6074	root	1.387	%
6075	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6076	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6077	root	1.387	%
6078	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6079			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6080			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6081
6082			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6083			then save." g
6084
6085			/* Steinar */
6086	root	1.387	%
6087	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6088			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6089
6090			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6091			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6092			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6093			a bill...
6094	root	1.387	%
6095	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6096			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6097			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6098
6099			Sorry. Mea culpa
6100
6101			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6102			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6103			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6104			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6105			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6106			*/
6107			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6108			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6109			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6110			int fpu_exception;
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6113
6114			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6115
6116			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6117			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6118			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6119			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6120			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6121	root	1.387	%
6122	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6123
6124			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6125			people.
6126	root	1.387	%
6127	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6128			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6129
6130			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6131			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6132			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6133			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6134			the question.
6135			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6136	root	1.387	%
6137	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6138			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6139			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6140			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6141			(September)
6142	root	1.387	%
6143	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6144	root	1.387	%
6145	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6146			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6147			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6148			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6149			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6150	root	1.387	%
6151	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6152			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6153	root	1.387	%
6154	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6155			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6156			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6157			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6158			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6159	root	1.387	%
6160	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6161	root	1.387	%
6162	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6163	root	1.387	%
6164	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6165			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6166			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6167			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6168			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6169			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6170			you tell them.
6171	root	1.387	%
6172	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6173			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6174			alcohol.
6175
6176			Regards
6177			Henning
6178	root	1.387	%
6179	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6180			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6181			> on a desktop system.
6182
6183			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6184			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6185
6186			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6187			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6188
6189			Alan
6190	root	1.387	%
6191	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6192			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6193
6194			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6195			>
6196			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6197			> Use Welsh
6198
6199			Don't forget
6200
6201			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6202			Use Finnish
6203
6204			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6205
6206			And while we're at it,
6207
6208			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6209			Use German
6210
6211			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6212			Use English
6213
6214			MfG Kai
6215	root	1.387	%
6216	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6217
6218			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6219			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6220			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6221			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6222			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6223			there's no one thinking there.
6224			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6225	root	1.387	%
6226	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6227			scores the rules:
6228
6229			[*]
6230			Score:: =-9999
6231	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6232	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6233			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6234			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6235			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6236
6237			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6238			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6239			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6240			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6241			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6242
6243			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6244			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6245			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6246			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6247	root	1.387	%
6248	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6249			98 IIS servers online...
6250	root	1.387	%
6251	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6252			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6253			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6254			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6255
6256			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6257			it to be otherwise.
6258
6259			Abigail
6260	root	1.387	%
6261	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6262	root	1.387	%
6263	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6264	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6265	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6266	root	1.387	%
6267	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6268	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6269	root	1.387	%
6270	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6271			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6272			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6273			software people doing the same)
6274
6275			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6276			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6277			irrelevant
6278
6279			Alan
6280	root	1.387	%
6281	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6282			Comments may nest.
6283	root	1.387	%
6284	root	1.22	[from findas]
6285			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6286			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6287			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6288			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6289			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6290			# address distributino is... arin.
6291	root	1.387	%
6292	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6293			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6294	root	1.387	%
6295	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6296			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6297			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6298			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6299			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6300	root	1.247	>
6301	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6302
6303			$foot->insert($mouth);
6304
6305			# or is that
6306
6307			$mouth->insert($foot);
6308
6309			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6310			How utterly optimistic :-)
6311	root	1.387	%
6312	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6313			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6314			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6315			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6316			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6317			>can see why it happens)
6318			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6319
6320			Well, there's perl... :)
6321	root	1.387	%
6322	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6323			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6324			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6325			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6326			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6327	root	1.247	* boxes.
6328	root	1.387	%
6329	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6330			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6331			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6332	root	1.387	%
6333	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6334			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6335	root	1.387	%
6336	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6337			From: Juergen Christoffel
6338			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6339			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6340
6341			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6342
6343			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6344			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6345			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6346			schon;
6347
6348			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6349			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6350			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6351
6352			Danke, JC
6353	root	1.387	%
6354	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6355			#undef REASONABLE
6356	root	1.387	%
6357	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6358			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6359
6360			Alan
6361	root	1.387	%
6362	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6363			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6364			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6365			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6366	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6367	root	1.18	> anything.
6368
6369			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6370			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6371	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6372			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6373	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6374			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6375
6376			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6377			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6378			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6379			always a good idea.
6380	root	1.387	%
6381	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6382			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6383
6384	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6385	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6386	root	1.387	%
6387	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6388			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6389			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6390			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6391	root	1.387	%
6392	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6393	root	1.387	%
6394	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6395	root	1.18
6396			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6397			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6398	root	1.387	%
6399	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6400			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6401			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6402			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6403	root	1.387	%
6404	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6405	root	1.387	%
6406	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6407			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6408			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6409			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6410			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6411			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6412	root	1.387	%
6413	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6414
6415			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6416			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6417			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6418			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6419			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6420			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6421			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6424			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6425			future. Bleeeh]
6426
6427			From: Larry McVoy
6428
6429	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6430	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6431			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6432			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6433			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6434			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6435			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6436			not for the exceptional case.
6437	root	1.387	%
6438	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6439			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6440			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6441			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6442			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6443			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6444			stack.
6445
6446			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6447			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6448			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6449
6450			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6451			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6452	root	1.387	%
6453	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6454
6455	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6456			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6457			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6458			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6459	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6460	root	1.247	>
6461	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6462			> on the CPU?
6463
6464			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6465	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6466	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6467			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6468
6469			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6470			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6471			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6472			the point again".
6473	root	1.387	%
6474	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6475
6476	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6477			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6478	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6479	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6480	root	1.247	>
6481	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6482			> scenario.
6483
6484			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6485	root	1.387	%
6486	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6487	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6488			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6489			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6490	root	1.387	%
6491	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6492			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6493			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6494			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6495			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6496			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6497			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6498			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6499			anything.
6500	root	1.387	%
6501	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6502	root	1.387	%
6503	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6504			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6505	root	1.387	%
6506	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6507			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6508			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6509			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6510			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6511
6512			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6513	root	1.387	%
6514	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6515
6516			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6517
6518			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6519			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6520			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6521			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6522			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6523
6524			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6525			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6526			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6527			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6528			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6529			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6530			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6531			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6532			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6533			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6534			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6535			to work through the learning curve.
6536	root	1.387	%
6537	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6538	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6539	root	1.387	%
6540	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6541			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6542	root	1.387	%
6543	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6544			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6545	root	1.387	%
6546	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6547			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6548	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6549			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6550	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6551	root	1.387	%
6552	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6553	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6554	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6557			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6558	root	1.387	%
6559	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6560			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6561			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6562			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6563			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6564			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6565			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6566			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6567
6568	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6569	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6570	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6571	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6572			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6573
6574			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6575			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6576			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6577			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6578			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6579			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6580			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6581	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6582	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6583			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6584			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6585	root	1.387	%
6586	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6587			/*---.
6588			\| ? \|
6589			`---*/
6590	root	1.387	%
6591	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6592	root	1.387	%
6593	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6594			From: Joe Buck
6595			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6596			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6597	root	1.387	%
6598	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6599			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6600	root	1.387	%
6601	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6602	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6603	root	1.387	%
6604	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6605	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6606	root	1.387	%
6607	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6608	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6609	root	1.4	...
6610			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6611	root	1.387	%
6612	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6613	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6614			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6615			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6616
6617			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6618
6619			Alan
6620	root	1.387	%
6621	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6622	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6623			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6624			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6625			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6626	root	1.387	%
6627	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6628	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6629			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6630			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6631			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6632			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6633			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6634	root	1.387	%
6635	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6636			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6637			will find an easier way to do it.
6638	root	1.387	%
6639	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6640	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6641			Paul wrote:
6642			>Marc wrote:
6643	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6644			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6645			> den richtigen.
6646	root	1.387	%
6647	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6648			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6649	root	1.387	%
6650	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6651			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6652	root	1.387	%
6653	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6654			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6655	root	1.387	%
6656	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6657			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6658			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6659			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6660			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6661	root	1.387	%
6662	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6663			[...]
6664
6665			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6666
6667			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6668	root	1.387	%
6669	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6670			> constants.
6671
6672			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6673	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6674	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6675	root	1.387	%
6676	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6677	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6678
6679			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6680			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6681			much to do with IRC.
6682	root	1.387	%
6683	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6684			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6685
6686			[...]
6687			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6688
6689			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6690			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6691	root	1.387	%
6692	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6693	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6694	root	1.387	%
6695	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6696
6697			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6698			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6699			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6700
6701			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6702			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6703			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6704			shows how much you know, pal.
6705
6706			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6707	root	1.387	%
6708	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6709			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6710			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6711	root	1.387	%
6712	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6713			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6714			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6715			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6716	root	1.387	%
6717	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6718			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6719			Your version of perl sucks.
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6722			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6723			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6724			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6725			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6726			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6727			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6728			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6729	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6730	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6731			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6732	root	1.387	%
6733	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6734			before you can understand it :)
6735	root	1.387	%
6736	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6737			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6738			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6739	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6740	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6741			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6742			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6743
6744			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6745			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6746			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6747			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6748			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6749			be worth attempting).
6750
6751			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6752			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6753			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6754
6755			Nick.
6756	root	1.387	%
6757	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6758			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6759			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6760
6761	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6762	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6763			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6764			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6765			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6766	root	1.387	%
6767	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6768			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6769			> > > to work :-)
6770	root	1.247	> >
6771	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6772	root	1.247	>
6773	root	1.1	> Eh?
6774	root	1.247	>
6775	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6776			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6777
6778			He didn't say it worked. :)
6779	root	1.387	%
6780	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6781
6782			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6783			> I find it irksome that
6784	root	1.247	>
6785	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6786
6787			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6788	root	1.387	%
6789	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6790			From: Simon Cozens
6791
6792			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6793			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6794			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6795
6796			Looks like a feature to me.
6797	root	1.387	%
6798	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6799	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6800	root	1.387	%
6801	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6802			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6803
6804			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6805			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6806			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6807			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6808
6809			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6810			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6811			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6812			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6813			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6814			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6815	root	1.387	%
6816	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6817			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6818			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6819			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6820			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6821			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6822			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6823			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6824			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6825			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6826			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6827			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6828
6829			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6830			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6831			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6832
6833			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6834	root	1.387	%
6835	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6836			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6837			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6838			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6839			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6840			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6841			replication."
6842			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6843	root	1.387	%
6844	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6845			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6846
6847			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6848			shows.
6849
6850			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6851			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6852			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6853
6854			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6855			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6856			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6857			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6858			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6859
6860			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6861			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6862			up with a saner protocol.
6863	root	1.387	%
6864	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6865			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6866			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6867
6868			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6869			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6870			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6871	root	1.387	%
6872	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6873			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6874			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6875			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6876			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6877			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6878	root	1.387	%
6879	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6880			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6881	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6882			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6883			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6884			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6885	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6888	root	1.387	%
6889	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6890			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6891	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6892	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6893	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6894	root	1.387	%
6895	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6896			"ist mir egal"
6897	root	1.387	%
6898	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6899			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6900
6901			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6902	root	1.387	%
6903	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6904			hallole
6905	root	1.387	%
6906	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6907			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6908			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6909	root	1.387	%
6910	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6911			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6912			1929 The pause that refreshes
6913			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6914			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6915			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6916			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6917			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6918			1939 Thirst stops here
6919			1942 It's the real thing
6920			1947 Have a Coke
6921			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6922			1963 Things go better with Coke
6923			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6924			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6925			1982 Coke is it!
6926			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6927	root	1.387	%
6928	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6929			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6930	root	1.387	%
6931	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6932			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6933	root	1.387	%
6934	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6935	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6936			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6937			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6938			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6939			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6940			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6941			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6942			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6943			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6944			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6945			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6946			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6947			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6948			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6949
6950			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6951			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6952	root	1.387	%
6953	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6954			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6955
6956			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6957			uncool thing to do. [...]
6958	root	1.387	%
6959	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6960			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6961			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6962	root	1.387	%
6963	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6964	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6965	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6966	root	1.1
6967	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6968			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6969			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6970			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6971	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6972			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6973	root	1.387	%
6974	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6975			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6976			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6977			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6978			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6979			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6980			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6981
6982			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6983			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6984			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6985	root	1.387	%
6986	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6987
6988			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6989	root	1.387	%
6990	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6991			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6992			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6993			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6994			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6995	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6996	root	1.387	%
6997	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6998			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6999			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7000
7001			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7002			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7003
7004			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7005	root	1.387	%
7006	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7007	root	1.387	%
7008	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7009			From: Alan Cox
7010			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7011			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7012	root	1.247	>
7013			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7014	root	1.1
7015	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7016	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7017	root	1.387	%
7018	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7019			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7020			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7021
7022			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7023			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7024			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7025			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7026
7027			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7028
7029			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7030	root	1.387	%
7031	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7032	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7033			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7034	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7035	root	1.387	%
7036	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7037	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7038			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7039	root	1.387	%
7040	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7041			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7042	root	1.387	%
7043	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7044	root	1.387	%
7045	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7046			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7047			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7048	root	1.387	%
7049	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7050			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7051			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7052			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7053			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7054	root	1.387	%
7055	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7056	root	1.387	%
7057	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7058			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7059			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7060			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7061			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7062			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7063			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7064	root	1.387	%
7065	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7066			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7067	root	1.387	%
7068	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7069			perl:]
7070
7071			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7072
7073			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7074			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7075			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7076			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7077			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7078			disable the message and pray it works"]
7079	root	1.387	%
7080	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7081			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7082			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7083			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7084
7085			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7086			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7087			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7088			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7089			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7090	root	1.387	%
7091	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7092			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7093			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7094	root	1.387	%
7095	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7096			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7097			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7098			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7099			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7100	root	1.387	%
7101	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7102			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7103			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7104	root	1.387	%
7105	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7106			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7107	root	1.387	%
7108	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7109			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7110	root	1.387	%
7111	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7112			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7113			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7114			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7115			> it's a hard requirement.
7116
7117			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7118			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7119			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7120			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7121			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7122			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7123			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7124			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7125	root	1.387	%
7126	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7127			> Netscape?"
7128	root	1.247
7129	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7130			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7131	root	1.387	%
7132	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7133			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7134			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7135			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7136			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7137			the specified task step-by-step.
7138	root	1.387	%
7139	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7140
7141			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7142			be damned hard to understand."
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.1	[Linus]
7145			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7146			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7147			wrong. It's that simple.
7148	root	1.387	%
7149	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7150	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7151	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7152			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7153			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7154	root	1.247	Undernet>
7155	root	1.387	%
7156	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7157			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7158			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7159			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7160
7161			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7162			document that contains an element or attribute named
7163	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7164	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7165			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7166			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7167			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7168			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7169			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7170	root	1.387	%
7171	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7172			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7173			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7174			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7175			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7176			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7177	root	1.387	%
7178	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7179			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7180			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7181			[... snip ...]
7182			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7183			tragedy...
7184	root	1.387	%
7185	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7186	root	1.247
7187	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7188			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7189			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7190			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7191			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7192			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7193			>message plus attorney's fees.
7194			[SNIP long sig]
7195	root	1.247
7196	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7197			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7198			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7199	root	1.247
7200	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7201			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7202			procmailable address.
7203	root	1.247
7204	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7205			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7206			just a waste of bandwidth.
7207	root	1.387	%
7208	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7209	root	1.387	%
7210	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7211			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7212	root	1.387	%
7213	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7214	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7215	root	1.387	%
7216	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7217	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7218			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7219			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7220	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7221	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7222			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7223			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7224			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7225	root	1.387	%
7226	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7227	root	1.387	%
7228	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7229	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7230	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7231	root	1.387	%
7232	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7233			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7234			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7235			immediately and not block the calling process.
7236
7237			the man pages are wrong
7238
7239			--cw
7240	root	1.387	%
7241	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7242			...
7243			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7244	root	1.387	%
7245	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7246			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7247	root	1.387	%
7248	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7249			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7250			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7251
7252			How fast does it oops?
7253	root	1.387	%
7254	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7255
7256			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7257			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7258			> touch is 2Gig.
7259
7260			In theory, yes.
7261			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7262			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7263	root	1.387	%
7264	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7265			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7266			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7267			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7268			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7269			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7270			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7271			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7272			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7273			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7274			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7275			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7276			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7277			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7278			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7279			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7280	root	1.387	%
7281	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7282	root	1.387	%
7283	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7284			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7285			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7286			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7287			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7288	root	1.387	%
7289	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7290			[Lukas Grunwald]
7291	root	1.387	%
7292	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7293			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7294			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7295			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7296
7297			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7298			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7299			> > prompt.
7300			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7301			> /proc/info/authors?
7302	root	1.247
7303	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7304			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7305			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7306			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7307			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7308			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7309	root	1.247
7310	root	1.1	NOT.
7311			[...]
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7314			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7315			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7316	root	1.247
7317	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7318			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7319			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7320			> an interesting experiment.
7321	root	1.247
7322	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7323			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7324			to disagree...
7325	root	1.387	%
7326	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7327			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7328			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7329			[und Lukas sagt:]
7330			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7331	root	1.387	%
7332	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7333			report:]
7334			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7335			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7336			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7337			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7338	root	1.387	%
7339	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7340			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7341	root	1.387	%
7342	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7343			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7344			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7345
7346			Alexander Viro wrote:
7347			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7348			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7349			>
7350			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7351			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7352			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7353			> UNIX.
7354
7355			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7356			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7357			docs... ew!
7358	root	1.387	%
7359	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7360			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7361			> protected mode?
7362
7363			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7364			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7365			registers loaded ;)
7366	root	1.387	%
7367	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7368			[...]
7369			> backports hurt forward progress.
7370
7371			beware of content free dogma
7372	root	1.387	%
7373	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7374			> wondering.
7375
7376			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7377			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7378			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7379			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7380			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7381			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7382			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7383
7384			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7385	root	1.387	%
7386	root	1.1	>Keith,
7387	root	1.247	>
7388	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7389			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7390			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7391
7392			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7393			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7394			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7395			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7396			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7397			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7398			do the right thing.
7399
7400			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7401			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7402			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7403			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7404			and they have to fix it.
7405	root	1.387	%
7406	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7407			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7408			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7409			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7410	root	1.387	%
7411	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7412			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7413	root	1.387	%
7414	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7415			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7416			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7417			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7418
7419			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7420			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7421	root	1.387	%
7422	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7423			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7424	root	1.387	%
7425	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7426			glibc-2.2 was released]
7427			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7428	root	1.387	%
7429	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7430	root	1.387	%
7431	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7432			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7433			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7434	root	1.387	%
7435	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7436			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7437			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7438	root	1.387	%
7439	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7440
7441			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7442			standards-compliant.
7443			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7444			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7445			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7446			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7447			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7448			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7449	root	1.387	%
7450	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7451			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7452			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7453
7454			That's your problem.
7455
7456			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7457
7458			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7459			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7460	root	1.387	%
7461	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7462			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7463			> > out there) in the foot?
7464
7465			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7466
7467			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7468			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7469			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7470	root	1.387	%
7471	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7472			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7473			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7474
7475			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7476			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7477			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7478			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7479			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7480			--
7481			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7482	root	1.387	%
7483	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7484
7485			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7486			>
7487			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7488			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7489			>
7490			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7491
7492			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7493	root	1.387	%
7494	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7495			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7496			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7497	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7500			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7501			Bullschildt below ;)]
7502
7503			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7504			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7505	root	1.387	%
7506	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7507			>
7508			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7509			>
7510			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7511			>
7512			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7513	root	1.387	%
7514	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7515
7516			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7517			it did the same thing.
7518
7519			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7520			a week ago. :(
7521
7522			--Jack
7523	root	1.387	%
7524	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7525	root	1.387	%
7526	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7527			-- K&R
7528	root	1.387	%
7529	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7530	root	1.387	%
7531	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7532			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7533	root	1.387	%
7534	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7537			$modules => { "" => "" };
7538	root	1.387	%
7539	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7540	root	1.387	%
7541	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7542	root	1.387	%
7543	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7544			> --
7545			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7546			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7547	root	1.387	%
7548	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7549			From: "David Schwartz"
7550
7551			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7552			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7553			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7554			> pretty spiffy.
7555
7556			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7557			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7558			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7559			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7560	root	1.387	%
7561	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7562	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7563	root	1.387	%
7564	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7565			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7566			> of having bough one.
7567
7568			Not an uncommon thought :)
7569	root	1.387	%
7570	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7571
7572			Hi Marc !
7573
7574			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7575			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7576			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7577
7578			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7579	root	1.387	%
7580	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7581			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7582			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7583			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7584
7585			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7586			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7587			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7588
7589			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7590			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7591			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7592			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7593			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7594			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7595
7596			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7597			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7598
7599			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7600			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7601			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7602			right to left.
7603
7604			>But no culture
7605			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7606			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7607			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7608			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7609			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7610
7611			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7612
7613			--Alex
7614	root	1.387	%
7615	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7616			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7617			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7618
7619			[most of the reply snipped...]
7620
7621			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7622			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7623			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7624
7625			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7626
7627			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7628			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7629			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7630			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7631			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7632
7633			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7634			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7635			try to claim that they do?)
7636	root	1.387	%
7637	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7638
7639			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7640			> {
7641			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7642			> flush(load);
7643			> else
7644			> wear(load);
7645			> }
7646
7647			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7648			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7649
7650			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7651			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7652
7653			--
7654			dwmw2
7655	root	1.387	%
7656	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7657			are are overturned.
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7660	root	1.387	%
7661	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7662			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7663	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7664			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7665	root	1.387	%
7666	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7667			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7668			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7669			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7670			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7671			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7672			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7673	root	1.387	%
7674	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7675			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7676			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7677
7678			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7679			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7680			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7681	root	1.387	%
7682	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7683			Deadlock, n.:
7684			Deceased Rasterman.
7685	root	1.387	%
7686	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7687			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7688			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7689			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7690	root	1.387	%
7691	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7692			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7693	root	1.387	%
7694	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7695			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7696	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7697			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7698			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7699			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7700	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7701			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7702	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7703			Positionen für unwählbar.
7704	root	1.1
7705			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7706	root	1.387	%
7707	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7708			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7709			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7710
7711			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7712
7713			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7714			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7715			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7716			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7717			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7718
7719			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7720			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7721			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7722			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7723			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7724			results simply because I make a mistake!
7725
7726			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7727			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7728			errors.
7729
7730			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7731			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7732			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7733			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7734	root	1.387	%
7735	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7736			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7737			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7738			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7739			>
7740			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7741	root	1.387	%
7742	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7743			of nothing."
7744	root	1.387	%
7745	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7746			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7747			>
7748			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7749			> CPU?
7750
7751			Root password? :)
7752
7753			John.Fulmer
7754	root	1.387	%
7755	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7756
7757			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7758	root	1.387	%
7759	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7760			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7761			> which I prefer...
7762
7763			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7764			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7765			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7766			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7767			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7768			--
7769			Horst von Brand
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7772
7773			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7774
7775			[...]
7776
7777			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7778	root	1.387	%
7779	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7780			at your problem:]
7781
7782			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7783			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7784			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7785	root	1.387	%
7786	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7787			cp is inherently inefficient.
7788	root	1.387	%
7789	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7790			>breaking seals on them.
7791
7792			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7793			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7794			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7795
7796			...
7797
7798			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7799			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7800			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7801			could be just an urban myth though.
7802
7803			Russell Coker
7804	root	1.387	%
7805	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7806			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7807
7808			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7809	root	1.387	%
7810	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7811			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7812			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7813			> > deleting.
7814			>
7815			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7816
7817			Wrong. Yury does.
7818			:(
7819
7820			--
7821			Stefan
7822	root	1.387	%
7823	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7824			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7825			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7826			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7827			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7828			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7829			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7830
7831			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7832
7833			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7834	root	1.387	%
7835	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7836	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7837	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7838	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7839			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7840	root	1.387	%
7841	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7842			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7843			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7844			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7845			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7846			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7847			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7848			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7849			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7850			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7851	root	1.387	%
7852	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7853			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7854			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7855	root	1.1	aus!
7856	root	1.387	%
7857	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7858			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7859	root	1.387	%
7860	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7861			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7862			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7863			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7864	root	1.387	%
7865	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7866			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7867	root	1.387	%
7868	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7869			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7870			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7871			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7872
7873			--tom
7874	root	1.387	%
7875	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7876			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7877
7878			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7879			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7880			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7881			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7882			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7883	root	1.387	%
7884	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7885			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7886			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7887			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7888			solutions.
7889
7890			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7891
7892			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7893			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7894			the background]
7895	root	1.387	%
7896	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7897			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7898			Security Response Center:
7899
7900			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7901			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7902
7903			[and later]
7904			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7905
7906			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7907
7908			[Phil closes]
7909			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7910
7911			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7912			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7913	root	1.387	%
7914	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7915			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7916			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7917			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7918			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7919			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7920			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7921	root	1.387	%
7922	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7923			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7924			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7925			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7926
7927			[Trashey / Quasars]
7928	root	1.387	%
7929	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7930			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7931			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7932
7933			Irony potential in
7934
7935			man perlrtfm
7936
7937			is left to the reader.
7938
7939			Nat
7940	root	1.387	%
7941	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7942			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7943
7944			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7945			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7946	root	1.387	%
7947	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7948			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7949			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7950	root	1.387	%
7951	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7952			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7953			Paul Tomblin
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7956			>I am morally
7957			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7958
7959			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7960			possibility...
7961
7962			Dan
7963	root	1.387	%
7964	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7965	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7966	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 :)
7967			<Mr> zugabe
7968	root	1.387	%
7969	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7970			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7971	root	1.387	%
7972	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7973			[cobol, sigh]
7974	root	1.387	%
7975	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7976			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7977			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7978			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7979			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7980			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7981			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7982			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7983
7984			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7985	root	1.387	%
7986	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7987
7988			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7989			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7990			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7991			after they regain their composure."
7992
7993			-- Paul Rinaldo
7994			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7995	root	1.387	%
7996	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7997			>
7998			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7999			>
8000			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8001
8002			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8003
8004			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8005
8006			;-}
8007
8008			--
8009
8010			ciao -
8011			Stefan
8012
8013	root	1.387	%
8014	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8015			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8016
8017			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8018			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8019			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8020			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8021			one' type remarks.
8022			[Alan Cox]
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8025
8026			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8027			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8028
8029			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8030	root	1.387	%
8031	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8032
8033			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8034			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8035			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8036	root	1.387	%
8037	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8038			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8039			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8040			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8041	root	1.387	%
8042	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8043			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8044
8045			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8046			is to me ok.
8047	root	1.387	%
8048	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8049
8050			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8051	root	1.387	%
8052	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8053			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8054	root	1.387	%
8055	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8056			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8057	root	1.387	%
8058	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8059			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8060			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8061
8062			Ralf
8063	root	1.387	%
8064	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8065			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8066			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8067
8068			david parsons
8069	root	1.387	%
8070	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8071			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8072
8073			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8074			>so that trick is not portable.
8075
8076			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8077			127.0.0.1 localhost
8078
8079			--tom
8080	root	1.387	%
8081	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8082			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8083			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8084			> >the question is moot.
8085			>
8086			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8087
8088			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8089
8090			Ilya
8091	root	1.387	%
8092	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8093			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8094			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8095			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8096			> trying.
8097
8098			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8099			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8100	root	1.387	%
8101	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8102			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8103			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8104			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8105	root	1.387	%
8106	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8107			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8108			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8109	root	1.387	%
8110	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8111			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8112			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8113			> blocking :-)
8114
8115			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8116			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8117			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8118			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8119			reasons.
8120
8121			DS
8122	root	1.387	%
8123	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8124	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8125	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8126	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8127	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8128
8129			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8130	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8131	root	1.387	%
8132	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8133			[...]
8134			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8135			[...]
8136
8137			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8138			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8139			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8140			with each other on the same channel.
8141
8142			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8143			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8144
8145			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8146	root	1.387	%
8147	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8148			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8149	root	1.387	%
8150	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8153			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8154			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8155			ok
8156	root	1.387	%
8157	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8158			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8159	root	1.387	%
8160	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8161			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8162			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8163			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8164			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8165			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8166			<Xach> burrito, focus
8167			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8168	root	1.387	%
8169	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8170			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8171			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8172			tested it." ...
8173	root	1.387	%
8174	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8175	root	1.387	%
8176	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8177
8178			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8179			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8180			>
8181			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8182			>
8183			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8184			>
8185			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8186			>
8187			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8188			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8189			>systems.
8190
8191
8192			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8193			had.
8194
8195			--
8196			Neal Bridges
8197	root	1.387	%
8198	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8199
8200			> Hi folks,
8201			> 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?
8202			> please reply to
8203			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8204			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8205
8206			Parse error.
8207
8208			---
8209			Alex
8210	root	1.387	%
8211	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8212
8213			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8214			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8215
8216			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8217			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8218			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8219
8220			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8221	root	1.387	%
8222	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8223	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8224	root	1.387	%
8225	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8226			ii = 44;
8227			p = &ii;
8228			p = ii/p;
8229			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8230			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8231	root	1.387	%
8232	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8233			> Linux time then.
8234
8235			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8236
8237			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8238			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8239
8240			Roger.
8241	root	1.387	%
8242	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8243	root	1.387	%
8244	root	1.1	auto accident;
8245			register voters;
8246			static electricity;
8247			struct by_lightning;
8248			void *where_prohibited;
8249			char broiled;
8250			short circuit;
8251			short changed;
8252			long johns;
8253			unsigned long letter;
8254			double entendre;
8255			double trouble;
8256			union organizer;
8257			float valve;
8258			short pants;
8259			union station;
8260			void check; unsigned check;
8261			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8262	root	1.387	%
8263	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8264			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8265			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8266	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8267	root	1.387	%
8268	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8269
8270			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8271			worstation.
8272	root	1.387	%
8273	root	1.1	I wrote
8274			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8275			$/
8276
8277			Damn shift key.
8278
8279
8280			Mike Guy
8281	root	1.387	%
8282	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8283			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8284			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8285			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8286			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8287			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8288			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8289			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8290			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8291	root	1.387	%
8292	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8293
8294			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8295
8296			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8297			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8298			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8299			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8300
8301			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8302	root	1.387	%
8303	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8304			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8305
8306			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8307			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8308			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8309			easy to bother.
8310
8311			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8312			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8313			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8314			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8315
8316			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8317
8318			Larry
8319	root	1.387	%
8320	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8321			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8322			Yeah. :-)
8323	root	1.387	%
8324	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8325			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8326			[...]
8327			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8328
8329			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8330			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8331			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8332			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8333
8334			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8335			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8336			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8337			receipts aren't used anymore.
8338	root	1.387	%
8339	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8340			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8341			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8342	root	1.387	%
8343	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8344			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8345			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8346			> versteht?"
8347	root	1.387	%
8348	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8349			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8350			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8351			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8352	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8353	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8354	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8355	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8356			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8357			ji!
8358	root	1.387	%
8359	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8360			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8361			[Larry Wall]
8362	root	1.387	%
8363	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8364			Altpreussen.
8365			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8366			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8367	root	1.387	%
8368	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8369			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8370			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8371			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8372			>
8373	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8374			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8375	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8376
8377	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8378	root	1.1	Norbert?
8379	root	1.387	%
8380	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8381	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8382			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8383	root	1.387	%
8384	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8385	root	1.387	%
8386	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8387	root	1.387	%
8388	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8389			From: "Steve"
8390			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8391			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8392			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8393
8394			[the following was a single line, of course]
8395			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8396			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8397			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8398			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8399			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8400
8401			Thanks,
8402
8403			Steve
8404	root	1.387	%
8405	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8406			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8407			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8408			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8409	root	1.387	%
8410	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8411			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8412			<tigert> ahem
8413	root	1.387	%
8414	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8415			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8416			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8417	root	1.387	%
8418	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8419			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8420			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8421			Subject: It's soup.
8422
8423			Okay, it's there.
8424
8425			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8426
8427			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8428
8429			Larry
8430	root	1.387	%
8431	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8432	root	1.387	%
8433	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8434			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8435			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8436			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8437			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8438	root	1.387	%
8439	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8440			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8441			>
8442			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8443			> And there's no mouse.
8444			>
8445			> Abigail
8446
8447			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8448
8449			Matt.
8450	root	1.387	%
8451	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8452			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8453
8454			- --tom
8455	root	1.387	%
8456	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8457			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8458
8459			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8460			>
8461			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8462			> 2.2.11 release?
8463
8464			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8465
8466			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8467
8468			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8469	root	1.387	%
8470	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8471	root	1.387	%
8472	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8473			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8474			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8475			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8476			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8477			> that much ;-)
8478
8479			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8480	root	1.387	%
8481	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8482			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8483	root	1.387	%
8484	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8485			<QUOTE>
8486			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8487
8488			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8489			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8490			</QUOTE>
8491	root	1.387	%
8492	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8493			and routes around it.
8494
8495			Roger Larsson
8496	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8497	root	1.387	%
8498	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8499			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8500	root	1.387	%
8501	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8502			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8503	root	1.387	%
8504	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8505
8506			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8507			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8508			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8509			on different JVMs.
8510
8511			[and later]
8512
8513			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8514			adventure gaming:
8515
8516			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8517			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8518	root	1.387	%
8519	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8520			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8521
8522			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8523
8524			NK> ?? -> huh?
8525
8526			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8527
8528			<chaim>
8529	root	1.387	%
8530	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8531			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8532			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8533			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8534			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8535			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8536	root	1.387	%
8537	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8538	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8539	root	1.387	%
8540	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8541			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8542			page]
8543			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8544			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8545			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8546			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8547			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8548			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8549			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8550			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8551			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8552			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8553	root	1.387	%
8554	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8555			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8556			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8557			don't actually get anything DONE.
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8560			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8561			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8562			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8563	root	1.387	%
8564	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8565			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8566			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8567			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8568
8569			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8570	root	1.387	%
8571	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8572			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8573			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8574	root	1.387	%
8575	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8576			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8577			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8578	root	1.387	%
8579	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8580
8581			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8582			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8583			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8584			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8585			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8586			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8587			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8588			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8589			got the T-shirt.
8590	root	1.387	%
8591	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8592			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8593			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8594			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8595			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8596			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8597			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8598
8599			Linus writes, to Craig:
8600
8601			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8602			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8603			> thus choices than gcc.
8604
8605			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8606			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8607			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8608			far more complex than the kernel.
8609
8610			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8611			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8612
8613			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8614	root	1.387	%
8615	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8616			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8617			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8618
8619			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8620			[...]
8621			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8622			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8623			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8624			>let the user be in control.
8625
8626			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8627			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8628			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8629			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8630			compilers?
8631	root	1.387	%
8632	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8633			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8634
8635			Linus writes:
8636			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8637			> gcc could do better?
8638
8639			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8640			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8641			before you had so many worshippers.
8642	root	1.387	%
8643	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8644			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8645			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8646			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8647			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8648
8649			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8650
8651			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8652			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8653			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8654			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8655
8656			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8657
8658			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8659
8660			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8661			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8662
8663			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8664
8665			>:->
8666
8667			Brane
8668
8669
8670			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8671			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8672			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8673			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8674			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8675
8676
8677			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8678	root	1.387	%
8679	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8682			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8683			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8684	root	1.387	%
8685	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8686			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8687			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8688	root	1.387	%
8689	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8690
8691			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8692
8693			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8694	root	1.387	%
8695	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8696			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8697			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8698			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8699
8700			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8701
8702			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8703			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8704			:
8705			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8706			:
8707			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8708			:
8709			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8710	root	1.387	%
8711	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8714			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8715			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8716			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8717			>
8718			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8719			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8720
8721			The classic example:
8722
8723			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8724			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8725	root	1.387	%
8726	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8727			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8728
8729			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8730			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8731			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8732
8733			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8734
8735			--tom
8736	root	1.387	%
8737	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8738			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8739			working on something for me
8740			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8741			to me nutting concerning y ok
8742			piece
8743			russ
8744	root	1.387	%
8745	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8746
8747			pico (text editor for beginners)
8748			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8749			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8750			ed (text editor for beginners)
8751	root	1.387	%
8752	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8753
8754			use Python;
8755
8756			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8757			Except maybe faster. :-)
8758
8759			Larry
8760	root	1.387	%
8761	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8762
8763			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8764			2010.
8765
8766			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8767	root	1.387	%
8768	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8769			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8770			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8771			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8772			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8773			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8774			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8775			been created.
8776	root	1.387	%
8777	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8778			>
8779			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8780			> $3.99.
8781			>
8782			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8783			>
8784			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8785			>
8786			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8787			>
8788			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8789			>
8790			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8791			>
8792			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8793			> got integrated Coke!
8794			>
8795			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8796			> to drink the Coke.
8797			>
8798			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8799			>
8800			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8801			>
8802			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8803			> inseparable.
8804			>
8805			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8806			>
8807			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8808			>
8809			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8810			>
8811			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8812			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8813			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8814	root	1.387	%
8815	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8816			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8817	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8818	root	1.387	%
8819	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8820
8821			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8822			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8823			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8824			for you to digest this book.
8825			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8826			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8827			Join The Trickle
8828			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8829			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8830			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8831	root	1.387	%
8832	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8833			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8834			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8835			complete and utter vapourware.
8836
8837			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8838	root	1.387	%
8839	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8840
8841			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8842			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8843	root	1.387	%
8844	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8845
8846			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8847			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8848			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8849			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8850			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8851			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8852			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8853			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8854			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8855			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8856			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8857			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8858			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8859			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8860			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8861			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8862			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8863			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8864			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8865			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8866			work.
8867			[...]
8868			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8869			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8870			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8871			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8872			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8873			search generically - then it has some potential.
8874			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8875			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8876			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8877			intellectual value whatsoever.
8878
8879			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8880			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8881			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8882	root	1.387	%
8883	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8884	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8885	root	1.387	%
8886	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8887			#!/usr/bin/sh
8888			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8889			# All Rights Reserved
8890
8891			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8892			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8893			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8894
8895			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8896			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8897	root	1.387	%
8898	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.
8899	root	1.387	%
8900	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8901			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8902			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8903	root	1.387	%
8904	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8905
8906			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8907			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8908
8909			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8910			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8911			machine]
8912
8913			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8914			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8915			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8916
8917			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8918	root	1.387	%
8919	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8920			spamming:]
8921
8922			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8923			>>
8924			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8925			>>------------------------------------------------------
8926			>>
8927			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8928			>>
8929			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8930
8931			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8932			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8933	root	1.387	%
8934	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8935			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8936	root	1.387	%
8937	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8938			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8939	root	1.387	%
8940	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8941			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8942
8943			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8944	root	1.387	%
8945	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8946
8947			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8948			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8949			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8950			he's full of.
8951
8952			Support BSD/Linux.
8953
8954			--tom
8955	root	1.387	%
8956	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8957	root	1.387	%
8958	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8959	root	1.387	%
8960	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8961			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8962
8963			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8964			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8965			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8966			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8967	root	1.387	%
8968	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8969
8970			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8971			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8972	root	1.387	%
8973	root	1.1	[the creation]
8974			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8975	root	1.387	%
8976	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8977
8978			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8979			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8980			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8981	root	1.387	%
8982	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8983			selbst schliesse.
8984			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8985			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8986	root	1.387	%
8987	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8988			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8989
8990			No:
8991
8992			use Borg;
8993			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8994
8995			--
8996			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8997	root	1.387	%
8998	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8999			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9000			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9001			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9002			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9003			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9004			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9005			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9006			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9007			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9008			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9009			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9010			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9011			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9012			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9013			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9014			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9015			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9016			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9017			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9018			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9019			dispensers."
9020
9021			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9022	root	1.387	%
9023	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9024			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9025			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9026			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9027	root	1.387	%
9028	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9029			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9030			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9031	root	1.387	%
9032	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9033	root	1.1
9034			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9035	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9036	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9037	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9038	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9039			Student: "..."
9040			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9041			Student: "..."
9042			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9043	root	1.387	%
9044	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9045
9046			> Just morbid curiosity,
9047			>
9048			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9049
9050			Yes. Broken ones.
9051
9052			dgris
9053	root	1.387	%
9054	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9055			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9056	root	1.387	%
9057	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9058			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9059	root	1.387	%
9060	root	1.1	...
9061
9062			<AOL>
9063
9064			Me too!
9065
9066			</AOL>
9067
9068			Tig
9069	root	1.387	%
9070	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9071	root	1.387	%
9072	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9073	root	1.387	%
9074	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9075
9076			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9077			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9078			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9079			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9080			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9081			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9082			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9083
9084			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9085
9086			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9087			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9088			get really really pissed.
9089
9090			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9091			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9092	root	1.387	%
9093	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9094			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9095			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9096			> period.
9097			>
9098			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9099			> Nic
9100			>
9101
9102			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9103
9104			-hpa
9105	root	1.387	%
9106	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9107	root	1.387	%
9108	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9109			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9110			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9111			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9112			happy."
9113			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9114	root	1.387	%
9115	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9116			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9117			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9118
9119			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9120			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9121			I also forwarded the offending code.
9122
9123			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9124			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9125			service.
9126
9127			Daniel
9128	root	1.387	%
9129	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9130			...
9131			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9132	root	1.387	%
9133	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9134			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9135			[RJL]
9136	root	1.387	%
9137	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9138			right.''
9139	root	1.387	%
9140	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9141
9142			Amazing--they actually listened.
9143	root	1.387	%
9144	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9145			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9146			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9147
9148			# less foo
9149			sh: command not found
9150			# more foo
9151			sh: command not found
9152			# emacs foo
9153			sh: command not found
9154			# ed foo
9155			0
9156			help
9157			?
9158			quit
9159			?
9160			exit
9161			?
9162			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9163			?
9164
9165			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9166	root	1.387	%
9167	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9168			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9169			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9170
9171			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9172
9173			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9174
9175			tim> would be most correct in style.
9176
9177			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9178			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9179	root	1.387	%
9180	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9181			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9182			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9183			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9184			too bad --- ]
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9187	root	1.387	%
9188	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9189
9190			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9191			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9192
9193			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9194			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9195	root	1.387	%
9196	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9197			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9198			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9199			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9200			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9201	root	1.387	%
9202	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9203
9204			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9205			include wrong #include files in their source.
9206	root	1.387	%
9207	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9208
9209			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9210			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9211			Consider it a rite of passage.
9212	root	1.387	%
9213	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9214			"Oops."
9215			-- MST3K
9216	root	1.387	%
9217	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9218			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9219			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9220
9221			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9222			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9223			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9224			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9225			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9226			it. ;)
9227	root	1.387	%
9228	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9229			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9230			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9231			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9232			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9233
9234			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9235			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9236			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9237			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9238
9239			--tom
9240	root	1.387	%
9241	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9242
9243			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9244
9245			>Why does it end ?
9246
9247			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9248
9249			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9250			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9251
9252			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9253	root	1.387	%
9254	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9255			-- Tom Christiansen
9256	root	1.387	%
9257	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9258
9259			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9260			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9261			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9262			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9263			of Sputnik.
9264	root	1.387	%
9265	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9266			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9267			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9268			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9269			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9270	root	1.387	%
9271	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9272			- Hanlons razor -
9273	root	1.387	%
9274	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9275			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9276	root	1.387	%
9277	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9278			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9279			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9280			> offered no significant advantages.
9281
9282			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9283	root	1.387	%
9284	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9285			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9286			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9287			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9288			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9289			in front of me says so."
9290
9291			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9292	root	1.387	%
9293	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9294			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9295			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9296			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9297			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9298			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9299			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9300			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9301			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9302			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9303			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9304	root	1.387	%
9305	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9306			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9307			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9308			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9309			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9310	root	1.387	%
9311	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9312	root	1.387	%
9313	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9314	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9315			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9316			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9317			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9318	root	1.387	%
9319	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9320			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9321			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9322			>
9323			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9324			> and/or screen.
9325
9326			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9327	root	1.387	%
9328	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9329			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9330
9331			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9332			> use pedantic;
9333			> use strict 'code';
9334			>
9335			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9336
9337			use syntax 'python';
9338
9339			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9340
9341	root	1.387	%
9342	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9343			>
9344			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9345			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9346			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9347			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9348			>
9349			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9350	root	1.387	%
9351	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9352			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9353	root	1.387	%
9354	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9355			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9356			> be time-consuming.
9357
9358			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9359	root	1.387	%
9360	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9361			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9362			however, they do not handle C++...
9363			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9364	root	1.387	%
9365	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9366			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9367
9368			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9369
9370			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9371
9372			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9373
9374			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9375			already of old time, which was before us.
9376			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9377			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9378
9379			Regards,
9380			Tigran.
9381	root	1.387	%
9382	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9383	root	1.387	%
9384	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9385			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9386			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9387			main(){
9388			extrn hw;
9389			putchar(0[hw]);
9390			hw=+1;
9391			putchar(0[hw]);
9392			}
9393	root	1.387	%
9394	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9395
9396			The egg. Always. By definition.
9397	root	1.387	%
9398	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9399			>
9400			> Better check your scsi cables.
9401	root	1.387	%
9402	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9403			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9404	root	1.387	%
9405	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9406			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9407			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9408			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9409
9410	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9411	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9412			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9413
9414	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9415	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9416	root	1.387	%
9417	root	1.1	>James :\
9418			>
9419			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9420
9421			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9422	root	1.387	%
9423	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9424			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9425			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9426	root	1.387	%
9427	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9428			> is just asking for a black eye.
9429
9430			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9431
9432			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9433			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9434			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9435
9436			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9437			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9438			area.
9439	root	1.387	%
9440	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9441			[Lukas Grunwald]
9442	root	1.387	%
9443	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9444
9445			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9446			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9447			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9448			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9449			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9450	root	1.387	%
9451	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9452			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9453
9454			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9455	root	1.387	%
9456	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9457			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9458			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9459
9460			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9461
9462			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9463
9464			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9465
9466			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9467			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9468	root	1.387	%
9469	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9470	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9471	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9474			longer...
9475	root	1.387	%
9476	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9477			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9478			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9479	root	1.387	%
9480	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9481			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9482			> > world :) I just love it...
9483			>
9484			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9485			>
9486			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9487			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9488			practical...
9489			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9490			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9491			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9492			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9493			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9494
9495			Jan Hubicka
9496	root	1.387	%
9497	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9498			[...]
9499			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9500
9501			No, it is not. What you meant is
9502
9503			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9504	root	1.387	%
9505	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9506			> A) perl-5.00553
9507			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9508			> cc = cl.exe
9509			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9510
9511			[...]
9512
9513			Ilya
9514	root	1.387	%
9515	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9516
9517			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9518
9519			p.
9520	root	1.387	%
9521	root	1.1	[tomc]
9522			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9523			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9524
9525			+------------------------------------------+
9526			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9527			+------------------------------------------+
9528
9529			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9530			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9531
9532			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9533			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9534			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9535			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9536			interesting way.
9537			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9538			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9539			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9540			interesting things.
9541			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9542			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9543			things.
9544	root	1.387	%
9545	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9546			--Dennis Ritchie
9547	root	1.387	%
9548	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9549	root	1.387	%
9550	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9551
9552			switch (x)
9553			default:
9554			if (prime(x))
9555			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9556			process_prime(x);
9557			else
9558			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9559			process_composite(x);
9560	root	1.387	%
9561	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9562			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9563			in megabytes, required for execution?
9564
9565			Craig Milo Rogers
9566	root	1.387	%
9567	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9568			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9569			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9570
9571			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9572			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9573
9574			Ilya
9575	root	1.387	%
9576	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9577			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9578
9579			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9580			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9581			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9582
9583			Nat
9584	root	1.387	%
9585	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9586			much steroids for a while. =)
9587
9588			--Albert Dvornik
9589			<bert@genscan.com>
9590	root	1.387	%
9591	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9592			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9593			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9594
9595			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9596
9597			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9598			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9599
9600			--tom
9601	root	1.387	%
9602	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9603
9604			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9605
9606			Linus
9607	root	1.387	%
9608	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9609			devil added HTML mail...
9610	root	1.387	%
9611	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9612			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9613			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9614	root	1.387	%
9615	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9616			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9617
9618			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9619			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9620			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9621
9622			Arm the gnus!
9623	root	1.387	%
9624	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9625
9626			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9627			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9628			gcc, so go away.
9629	root	1.387	%
9630	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9631			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9632
9633			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9634
9635			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9636			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9637	root	1.387	%
9638	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9639			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9640			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9641			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9642
9643			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9644			was released today" madness.
9645	root	1.387	%
9646	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9647			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9648			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9649			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9650			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9651			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9652			>
9653			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9654			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9655			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9656			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9657			> marketing name, anyway.
9658
9659			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9660			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9661			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9662
9663			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9664			violence..." :-)
9665	root	1.387	%
9666	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9667			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9668	root	1.387	%
9669	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9670			> >poor drivers
9671			>
9672			> No it doesn't.
9673
9674			Indeed. Its down to
9675
9676			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9677
9678			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9679			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9680			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9681			or binaries.
9682	root	1.387	%
9683	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9684	root	1.387	%
9685	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9686	root	1.387	%
9687	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9688
9689			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9690			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9691			\|>
9692			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9693
9694			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9695
9696			Andreas.
9697	root	1.387	%
9698	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9699			...
9700			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9701
9702			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9703			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9704			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9705			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9706			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9707			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9708	root	1.387	%
9709	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9710
9711			Paul Eggert writes:
9712			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9713
9714			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9715			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9716	root	1.387	%
9717	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9718			however.
9719
9720			"We don't have the tools"
9721			"We can't support a non intel build"
9722			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9723			"Its not worth the time cost"
9724			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9725	root	1.387	%
9726	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9727
9728			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9729			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9730			>
9731			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9732			> <mailproc@fred>
9733			>
9734			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9735			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9736			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9737			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9738			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9739	root	1.387	%
9740	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9741			> No documented problem
9742			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9743			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9744			>
9745			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9746	root	1.387	%
9747	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9748			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9749	root	1.387	%
9750	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9751			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9752
9753			dave
9754	root	1.387	%
9755	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9756			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9757
9758			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9759	root	1.387	%
9760	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9761
9762			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9763			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9764
9765			Paul Eggert writes:
9766			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9767
9768			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9769			1 month before 29 March?
9770
9771			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9772
9773			1 month before 28 March?
9774
9775			28 February.
9776
9777			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9778			_before_ 27 February?
9779
9780			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9781	root	1.387	%
9782	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9783
9784			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9785			>> So make a security check first:
9786			>>
9787			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9788			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9789			>
9790			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9791			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9792			>
9793			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9794			> = instead of == error*/
9795			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9796			>
9797			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9798			>
9799			>--
9800			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9801
9802			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9803
9804			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9805			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9806	root	1.387	%
9807	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9808			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9809
9810			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9811			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9812			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9813			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9814			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9815			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9816			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9817			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9818
9819			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9820			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9821			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9822			available for that hardware from any source.
9823			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9824			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9825			sniffing!
9826	root	1.387	%
9827	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9828			technical support line that isn't"
9829	root	1.387	%
9830	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9831			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9832	root	1.387	%
9833	root	1.1	[...]
9834			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9835			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9836
9837			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9838			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9839			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9840			"Nothing else"
9841			"Sorry"
9842			[Click]
9843
9844			Alan
9845	root	1.387	%
9846	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9847			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9848	root	1.387	%
9849	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9850			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9851			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9852			> users excepted, of course!).
9853
9854			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9855			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9856			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9857			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9858			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9859			is installed"
9860
9861			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9862	root	1.387	%
9863	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9864
9865			L. Harris wrote:
9866			>
9867			> Testing
9868
9869			you failed.
9870	root	1.387	%
9871	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9872			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9873	root	1.387	%
9874	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9875			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9876			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9877			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9878	root	1.387	%
9879	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9880			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9881			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9882
9883			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9884	root	1.387	%
9885	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9886			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9887			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9888			where else...
9889	root	1.387	%
9890	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9891			[...]
9892			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9893			: about a certain topic.
9894	root	1.387	%
9895	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9896			>
9897			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9898			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9899
9900			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9901			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9902
9903			void main (void)
9904			{
9905			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9906			printf ("\n");
9907			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9908			printf ("You have died.\n");
9909			printf ("\n");
9910			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9911			}
9912
9913			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9914
9915			--
9916			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9917	root	1.387	%
9918	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9919			mistake I ever made]
9920
9921			From: "Tom Miller"
9922			Subject: Can
9923			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9924
9925			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9926			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9927			my name is Tom Miller
9928
9929			From: "Tom Miller"
9930			Subject: Wait
9931			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9932
9933			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9934			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9935	root	1.387	%
9936	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9937
9938			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9939			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9940			so why bother? [...]
9941	root	1.387	%
9942	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9943	root	1.1
9944			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9945
9946			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9947			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9948			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9949			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9950			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9951			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9952			sich dann.
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9955			no fs
9956			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9957			Definitely hardware or software error.
9958
9959			Unix Version 7 Manual
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9962			>
9963			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9964			>
9965			> =for C
9966			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9967			> =end
9968			> =for C++
9969			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9970			> =end
9971			> =for Java
9972			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9973			> =end
9974			>
9975			> :-)
9976	root	1.387	%
9977	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9978	root	1.387	%
9979	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9980
9981			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9982			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9983			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9984			turn it on.
9985	root	1.387	%
9986	root	1.1	[...]
9987			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9988			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9989			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9990			[...]
9991	root	1.387	%
9992	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9993
9994			Chad C Giffin
9995	root	1.387	%
9996	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9997			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9998			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9999			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10000			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10001			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10002
10003			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10004			through the door.
10005			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10006			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10007			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10008			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10009			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10010			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10011			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10012			usually.)
10013
10014			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10015			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10016			your tire pressure..."
10017			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10018			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10019			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10020			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10021			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10022			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10023			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10024			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10025	root	1.387	%
10026	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10027
10028			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10029	root	1.387	%
10030	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10031
10032			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10033			:-(
10034	root	1.387	%
10035	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10036			>dies alles geschieht.
10037			>Und es verging nicht.
10038
10039			So what?
10040
10041			Ich dachte eher an:
10042
10043			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10044			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10045			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10046			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10047			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10048			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10049			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10050			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10051			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10052			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10053			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10054			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10055
10056			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10057
10058			Antje
10059	root	1.387	%
10060	root	1.1	[....]
10061
10062			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10063			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10064			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10065			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10066			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10067			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10068
10069			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10070
10071			Antje
10072	root	1.387	%
10073	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10074			lalala, I love you baby..."
10075			--
10076			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10077	root	1.387	%
10078	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10079			>
10080			> Kubys
10081
10082			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10083
10084			Linus
10085	root	1.387	%
10086	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10087
10088			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10089			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10090			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10091	root	1.387	%
10092	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10093
10094			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10095			out what it means.
10096			--
10097			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10098	root	1.387	%
10099	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10100			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10101	root	1.387	%
10102	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10103			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10104
10105			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10106
10107			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10108			> is being discussed.
10109
10110			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10111	root	1.387	%
10112	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10113
10114			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10115
10116			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10117
10118			[and the button reads]
10119
10120			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10121	root	1.387	%
10122	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10123
10124			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10125
10126			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10127			certain amount of redundancy.
10128	root	1.387	%
10129	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10130			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10131
10132			...
10133
10134			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10135	root	1.387	%
10136	root	1.1	>Hello,
10137			>
10138			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10139			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10140			>
10141
10142			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10143			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10144			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10145			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10146	root	1.387	%
10147	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10148			on the country as a whole.
10149			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10150			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10151			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10152	root	1.387	%
10153	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10154			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10155	root	1.387	%
10156	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10157	root	1.387	%
10158	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10159			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10160			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10161
10162			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10163
10164			--tom
10165			--
10166			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10167			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10168	root	1.387	%
10169	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10170			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10171	root	1.387	%
10172	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10173
10174			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10175			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10176			> NO CARRIER
10177			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10178	root	1.387	%
10179	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10180			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10181			> better.
10182
10183			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10184			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10185	root	1.387	%
10186	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10187			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10188	root	1.387	%
10189	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10190			\|>
10191			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10192			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10193			\|>
10194			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10195			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10196
10197			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10198			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10199			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10200			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10201			build Bison, and then cook it.
10202
10203			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10204	root	1.387	%
10205	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10206			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10207			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10208			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10209			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10210	root	1.387	%
10211	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10212			-- lbxproxy(1)
10213	root	1.387	%
10214	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10215
10216			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10217
10218			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10219			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10220	root	1.387	%
10221	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10222
10223			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10224	root	1.387	%
10225	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10226			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10227			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10228			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10229			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10230
10231			\|> What does this mean.
10232
10233			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10234			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10235	root	1.387	%
10236	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10237
10238			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10239			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10240
10241			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10242	root	1.387	%
10243	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10244			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10245			streams)."
10246			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10247	root	1.387	%
10248	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10249			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10250	root	1.387	%
10251	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10252
10253			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10254
10255			Klaro.
10256
10257			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10258			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10259			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10260			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10261
10262	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10263	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10264
10265			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10266			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10267			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10268			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10269			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10270			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10271			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10272
10273			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10274			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10275			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10276	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10277			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10278			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10279			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10280	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10281
10282			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10283	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10284			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10285			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10286			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10287			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10288			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10289			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10290	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10291			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10292
10293			cu in hell 2002
10294	root	1.387	%
10295	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10296	root	1.387	%
10297	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10298
10299			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10300			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10301			the man page for crypt(1).
10302
10303			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10304			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10305			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10306
10307			man -s3 crypt
10308
10309			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10310			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10311
10312			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10313			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10314			he can figure out to use the command
10315
10316			man -s3 Intro.3
10317
10318			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10319			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10320
10321			man -s3c crypt
10322
10323			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10324			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10325			any trouble.
10326			--
10327			Michael M Rubenstein
10328	root	1.387	%
10329	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10330
10331			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10332
10333			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10334
10335			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10336
10337			Regards,
10338			Tim Bunce.
10339
10340			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10341			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10342			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10343	root	1.387	%
10344	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10345
10346			...
10347
10348			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10349			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10350			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10351
10352			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10353			its unusable, believe me I do.
10354	root	1.387	%
10355	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10356
10357			Semour Cray
10358	root	1.387	%
10359	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10360
10361			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10362	root	1.387	%
10363	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10364			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10365
10366			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10367			it only supports parts of it
10368	root	1.387	%
10369	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10370			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10371	root	1.387	%
10372	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10373			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10374			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10375			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10376			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10377			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10378			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10379
10380			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10381			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10382			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10383			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10384			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10385			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10386			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10387			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10388			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10389			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10390
10391			tq vm, (burley)
10392	root	1.387	%
10393	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10394			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10395			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10396			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10397			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10398			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10399			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10400	root	1.387	%
10401	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10402			/*
10403			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10404			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10405			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10406			* files won't compile.
10407			*/
10408	root	1.387	%
10409	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10410			> great.
10411
10412			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10413
10414			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10415
10416			This rock is below water half of the time!
10417			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10418			on a regular basis! ;-)
10419	root	1.387	%
10420	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10421			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10422			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10423	root	1.387	%
10424	root	1.1	>
10425			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10426			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10427			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10428
10429			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10430	root	1.387	%
10431	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10432
10433			>Hello!
10434
10435			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10436			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10437			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10438
10439
10440			Perl.
10441
10442			regards
10443			jobst
10444	root	1.387	%
10445	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10446			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10447			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10448
10449			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10450			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10451
10452			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10453			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10454			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10455			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10456			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10457			the absolute pits.
10458	root	1.387	%
10459	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10460	root	1.387	%
10461	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10462			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10463
10464			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10465	root	1.387	%
10466	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10467			ketchup and mustard
10468	root	1.387	%
10469	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10470
10471			vimal gajjar wrote:
10472			>
10473			> Hi there,
10474			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10475			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10476			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10477			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10478			> 5% of cpu
10479			> 2 Mb of RAM
10480			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10481			>
10482			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10483
10484			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10485			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10486			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10487	root	1.387	%
10488	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10489			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10490			>
10491			> >s/usually/never/
10492			>
10493			> s/sometimes/never/
10494
10495			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10496	root	1.387	%
10497	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10498			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10499			:Perl, IMO.
10500
10501			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10502
10503			TC
10504	root	1.387	%
10505	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10506	root	1.387	%
10507	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10508
10509			Hi guys!
10510
10511			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10512	root	1.387	%
10513	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10514
10515			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10516			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10517			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10518			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10519			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10520			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10521	root	1.387	%
10522	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10523			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10524			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10525
10526			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10527			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10528			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10529			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10530
10531			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10532			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10533			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10534			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10535
10536			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10537
10538			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10539
10540			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10541			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10542			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10543
10544			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10545			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10546
10547			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10548			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10549
10550			Did I miss any? ;-)
10551
10552			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10553			Laugh. Please.
10554
10555			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10556			--Scott
10557	root	1.387	%
10558	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10559
10560			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10561			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10562			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10563			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10564	root	1.387	%
10565	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10566			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10567
10568			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10569
10570			This is not mail.
10571
10572			This is Usenet.
10573
10574			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10575	root	1.387	%
10576	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10577			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10578			--- ide1: reset: success
10579			-----------> I like Linux !
10580	root	1.387	%
10581	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10582			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10583
10584			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10585			do.
10586	root	1.387	%
10587	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10588			++ PLONK.
10589	root	1.387	%
10590	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10591			Re: Subraumfunk
10592
10593			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10594			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10595
10596			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10597			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10598			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10599			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10600			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10601	root	1.387	%
10602	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10603			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10604			>
10605			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10606
10607			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10608	root	1.387	%
10609	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10610			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10611	root	1.387	%
10612	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10613			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10614
10615			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10616			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10617
10618			Bill Jones
10619	root	1.387	%
10620	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10621
10622			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10623			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10624			#include <windows.h>
10625			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10626			#endif
10627	root	1.387	%
10628	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10629
10630			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10631			is, invoking the URL
10632
10633			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10634
10635			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10636	root	1.387	%
10637	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10638			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10639			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10640			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10641			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10642			"I am using CGI!"
10643
10644			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10645	root	1.387	%
10646	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10647			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10648			>
10649	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10650	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10651
10652			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10653	root	1.387	%
10654	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10655			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10656	root	1.387	%
10657	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10658			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10659			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10660			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10661	root	1.387	%
10662	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10663
10664			pcg@goof.com said:
10665			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10666
10667			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10668
10669			"It's broken."
10670			"What's wrong with it?."
10671			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10672			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10673			"It just doesn't work."
10674			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10675			"It gives an error message."
10676			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10677			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10678			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10679			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10680			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10681			letter for letter this time."
10682	root	1.387	%
10683	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10684
10685			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10686			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10687			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10688
10689			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10690			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10691			perms.
10692
10693			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10694	root	1.387	%
10695	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10696			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10697
10698			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10699
10700			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10701			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10702			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10703
10704			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10705			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10706	root	1.387	%
10707	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10708			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10709	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10710
10711			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10712			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10713			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10714			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10715			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10716			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10717			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10718			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10719			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10720			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10721			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10722
10723			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10724
10725			normarz@aol.com
10726	root	1.387	%
10727	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10728	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10729	root	1.1	>Legion
10730			>schlagen?
10731
10732			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10733
10734			Bye
10735			Andreas
10736	root	1.387	%
10737	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10738
10739			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10740			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10741
10742			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10743			companies.
10744
10745			Kind regards
10746			Henning
10747	root	1.387	%
10748	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10749			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10750			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10751
10752			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10753			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10754			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10755
10756			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10757			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10758			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10759			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10760			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10761			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10762			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10763			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10764			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10765			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10766	root	1.387	%
10767	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10768			We might support that sometime next year.
10769			-=- Microsoft
10770			(But I doubt it.)
10771			-=- Me
10772			-=- James Mastros
10773	root	1.387	%
10774	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10775			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10776			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10777			>lines.
10778
10779			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10780			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10781	root	1.387	%
10782	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10783	root	1.387	%
10784	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10785			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10786			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10787			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10788	root	1.387	%
10789	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10790
10791			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10792			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10793			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10794			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10795			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10796			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10797			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10798			it's not all his fault.
10799
10800			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10801			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10802			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10803			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10804			content.
10805
10806			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10807			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10808			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10809			learn (or pay for it;)
10810
10811			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10812			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10813			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10814			just for fun or to get the op.
10815
10816			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10817			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10818			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10819			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10820
10821			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10822
10823			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10824			course, Linux and Linux people.
10825	root	1.387	%
10826	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10827			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10828
10829			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10830			--
10831			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10832	root	1.387	%
10833	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10834
10835			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10836			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10837			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10838
10839			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10840			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10841			tradition.
10842	root	1.387	%
10843	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10844			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10845	root	1.387	%
10846	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10847			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10848	root	1.387	%
10849	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10850			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10851			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10852			Or GIRLS for short.
10853	root	1.387	%
10854	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10855	root	1.387	%
10856	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10857			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10858			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10859			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10860			5_004_03 to build!"
10861
10862			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10863			have no patience."
10864
10865			xoxo,
10866			Andy
10867	root	1.387	%
10868	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10869			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10870			We all have our cross to bear.
10871	root	1.387	%
10872	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10873
10874			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10875			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10876			Subject: Re: system() question
10877
10878			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10879			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10880			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10881			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10882			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10883			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10884			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10885			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10886			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10887			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10888			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10889			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10890			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10891			humiliating for me!)
10892
10893			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10894			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10895			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10896			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10897			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10898			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10899			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10900			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10901			really knows the answer.
10902
10903			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10904			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10905			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10906			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10907
10908			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10909			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10910			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10911			for that.
10912
10913			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10914			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10915			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10916			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10917			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10918			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10919			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10920
10921			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10922
10923			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10924			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10925			something for free.''
10926
10927			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10928
10929			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10930			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10931
10932			(Good question.)
10933
10934			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10935			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10936			once I have run it.''
10937			(Good question.)
10938
10939			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10940
10941			(Good question.)
10942
10943			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10944			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10945			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10946			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10947			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10948
10949			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10950			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10951			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10952			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10953			comp.lang.perl?
10954			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10955			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10956			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10957			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10958			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10959			in comp.lang.perl?
10960
10961			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10962			you my rate card.
10963
10964			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10965			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10966			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10967			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10968			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10969			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10970			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10971			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10972			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10973			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10974
10975			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10976			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10977			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10978			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10979			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10980			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10981			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10982			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10983			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10984			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10985			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10986			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10987			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10988			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10989			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10990			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10991
10992			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10993			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10994			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10995			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10996			someone will. Maybe I will.
10997
10998			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10999			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11000			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11001			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11002			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11003			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11004			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11005			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11006
11007			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11008			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11009			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11010			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11011			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11012			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11013			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11014			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11015			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11016			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11017			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11018			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11019			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11020			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11021
11022			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11023			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11024			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11025			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11026
11027			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11028
11029			`I want to accomplish X.
11030
11031			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11032
11033			...
11034
11035			But instead it does Y.
11036
11037			Why is that?''
11038
11039			This one is also pretty good:
11040
11041			`I want to accomplish X.
11042			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11043
11044			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11045			because of Z.
11046
11047			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11048
11049			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11050			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11051
11052
11053			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11054			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11055
11056			--
11057			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11058			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11059	root	1.387	%
11060	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11061			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11062
11063			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11064			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11065			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11066
11067			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11068
11069			bye, Georg
11070	root	1.387	%
11071	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11072			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11073			convince me.
11074
11075			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11076
11077			Linus
11078	root	1.387	%
11079	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11080			++
11081
11082			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11083			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11084
11085	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11086	root	1.1
11087			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11088			understanding the above line.
11089
11090			Abigail
11091	root	1.387	%
11092	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11093			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11094	root	1.387	%
11095	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11096			++ button?
11097			Yes.
11098
11099			++ 100 pictures or so?
11100			Yes.
11101
11102			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11103			Yes.
11104
11105			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11106			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11107
11108			Abigail
11109	root	1.387	%
11110	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11111
11112			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11113
11114			Martien
11115	root	1.387	%
11116	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11117			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11118			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11119			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11120	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11121	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11122			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11123			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11124			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11125	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11126	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11127			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11128	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11129			nicht. ;)
11130
11131	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11132			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11133			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11134	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11135			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11136	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11137	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11138
11139	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11140			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11141	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11142	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11143	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11144
11145	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11146	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11147	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11148			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11149	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11150	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11151	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11152			"unvorstellbar".
11153
11154			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11155	root	1.387	%
11156	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11157			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11158			^^^
11159			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11160	root	1.387	%
11161	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11162			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11163	root	1.387	%
11164	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11165			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11166	root	1.387	%
11167	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11168			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11169			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11170
11171			An artificial pile of rocks.
11172	root	1.387	%
11173	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11174			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11175			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11176			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11177			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11178			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11179
11180			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11181			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11182			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11183			grosser Flipperautomat.
11184
11185			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11186	root	1.387	%
11187	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11188			>
11189			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11190			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11191			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11192			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11193			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11194	root	1.387	%
11195	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11196			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11197	root	1.1
11198			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11199	root	1.387	%
11200	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11201
11202			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11203
11204			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11205			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11206			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11207			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11208			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11209			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11210			Unix environment.
11211	root	1.387	%
11212	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11213			between these:
11214
11215			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11216			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11217
11218			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11219			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11220			;#", and the print gets executed!
11221
11222			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11223			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11224			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11225			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11226
11227			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11228			'perl'".
11229
11230			--
11231			Randal L. Schwartz
11232	root	1.387	%
11233	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11234
11235			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11236			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11237			>
11238			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11239
11240			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11241
11242			--
11243			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11244	root	1.387	%
11245	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11246	root	1.387	%
11247	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11248			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11249	root	1.387	%
11250	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11251			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11252	root	1.387	%
11253	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11254			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11255			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11256			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11257			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11258			example.
11259	root	1.387	%
11260	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11261			resemble a nail.
11262	root	1.387	%
11263	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11264			> I did wrong.
11265
11266			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11267			newsgroup.
11268	root	1.387	%
11269	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11270	root	1.387	%
11271	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11272			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11273	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11274
11275			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11276	root	1.387	%
11277	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11278	root	1.1
11279	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11280	root	1.387	%
11281	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11282			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11283			expired instantly!!!
11284	root	1.387	%
11285	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11286			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11287
11288			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11289			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11290			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11291
11292			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11293			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11294			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11295			than double Linus's programming experience?
11296
11297			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11298			> pretty straight forward.
11299
11300			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11301			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11302	root	1.387	%
11303	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11304			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11305			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11306			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11307			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11308			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11309	root	1.387	%
11310	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11311	root	1.387	%
11312	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11313			Example:
11314			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11315	root	1.387	%
11316	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11317			Randal gets his hands on it
11318	root	1.387	%
11319	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11320	root	1.387	%
11321	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11322
11323			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11324			first if you get it working.
11325	root	1.387	%
11326	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11327			> Think different.
11328
11329			Think Again.
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11332	root	1.387	%
11333	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11334			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11335			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11336
11337			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11338	root	1.387	%
11339	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11340			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11341	root	1.387	%
11342	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11343			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11344			\| top.
11345	root	1.387	%
11346	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11347			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11348	root	1.387	%
11349	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11350			^^^^^^^^^
11351			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11352
11353			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11354	root	1.387	%
11355	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11356			>gehen soll?
11357
11358	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11359	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11360			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11361	root	1.387	%
11362	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11363	root	1.387	%
11364	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11365			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11366	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11367			>
11368			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11369
11370			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11371			Schuh aus!
11372	root	1.387	%
11373	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11374
11375	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11376	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11377	root	1.387	%
11378	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11379
11380
11381			First opportunity
11382			Approximate
11383			Orbit Internet
11384			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11385
11386			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11387			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11388			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11389			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11390
11391			Second opportunity
11392			Approximate
11393			Orbit Internet
11394			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11395
11396			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11397			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11398			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11399			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11400
11401			Third opportunity
11402			Approximate
11403			Orbit Internet
11404			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11405
11406			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11407			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11408			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11409			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11410
11411	root	1.387	%
11412	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11413	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11414			> >würden.
11415	root	1.1	>
11416			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11417			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11418			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11419			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11420			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11421			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11422			implizierst.
11423	root	1.387	%
11424	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11425			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11426	root	1.387	%
11427	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11428			Big improvement.
11429	root	1.387	%
11430	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11431			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11432			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11433			-- "Why that one?"
11434			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11435			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11436	root	1.387	%
11437	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11438			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11439			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11440	root	1.387	%
11441	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11442			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11443			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11444
11445			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11446
11447			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11448			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11449			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11450
11451			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11452
11453			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11454			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11455			> er eigentlich ist?
11456
11457	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11458	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11459	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11460	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11461	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11462	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11463	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11464	root	1.1	Ciao
11465			Stefan
11466	root	1.387	%
11467	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11468			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11469			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11470			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11471	root	1.387	%
11472	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11473			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11474			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11475			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11476			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11477			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11478			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11479			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11480			off.
11481	root	1.387	%
11482	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11483			Meet interesting people,
11484			Kill them.
11485	root	1.387	%
11486	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11487			> umwandelbar ist.
11488
11489			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11490	root	1.387	%
11491	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11492	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11493	root	1.387	%
11494	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11495			>
11496			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11497			> >> ruckartig.
11498			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11499			>
11500	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11501	root	1.1
11502			:-)
11503	root	1.387	%
11504	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11505	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11506			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11507	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11508			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11509			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11510			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11511
11512			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11513			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11514	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11515			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11516	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11517	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11518			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11519			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11520	root	1.1	Union.
11521
11522	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11523			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11524	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11525	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11526			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11527			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11528	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11529	root	1.387	%
11530	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11531			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11532	root	1.387	%
11533	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11534	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11535	root	1.1	>>
11536			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11537	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11538			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11539	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11540			>
11541			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11542			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11543	root	1.387	%
11544	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11545	root	1.387	%
11546	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11547			> into a random order???
11548			>
11549
11550			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11551			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11552
11553			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11554			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11555			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11556			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11557			number less than 42.
11558	root	1.387	%
11559	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11560			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11561			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11562			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11563			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11564			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11565			eventually invent Unix.
11566	root	1.387	%
11567	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11568			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11569			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11570			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11571			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11572			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11573			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11574			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11575			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11576			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11577			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11578			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11579			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11580			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11581			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11582			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11583	root	1.387	%
11584	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11585			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11586			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11587	root	1.387	%
11588	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11589			using a Perl CGI script?
11590	root	1.387	%
11591	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11592
11593			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11594			week.
11595	root	1.387	%
11596	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11597			Brieweb> of PERL.
11598			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11599			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11600			[Randal Schwartz]
11601	root	1.387	%
11602	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11603			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11604			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11605			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11606	root	1.387	%
11607	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11608			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11609			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11610			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11611			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11612			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11613			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11614			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11615			system and restricting their options.
11616			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11617	root	1.387	%
11618	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11619			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11620			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11621	root	1.387	%
11622	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11623			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11624			Ernie Hai
11625			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11626	root	1.387	%
11627	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11628			: results" report from the users.
11629
11630			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11631			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11632			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11633			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11634	root	1.387	%
11635	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11636			They are all owned by cats.
11637	root	1.387	%
11638	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11639			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11640			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11641	root	1.387	%
11642	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11643			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11644
11645			Yesterday it worked
11646			Today it is not working
11647			Windows is like that
11648			- - -
11649			wind catches lily
11650			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11651			segmentation fault
11652			- - -
11653			Three things are certain:
11654			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11655			Guess which has occurred.
11656			- - -
11657			A file that big?
11658			It might be very useful.
11659			But now it is gone.
11660			- - -
11661			Windows NT crashed.
11662			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11663			No one hears your screams.
11664			- - -
11665			Errors have occurred.
11666			We won't tell you where or why.
11667			Lazy programmers.
11668			- - -
11669			Seeing my great fault
11670			Through darkening blue windows
11671			I begin again
11672			- - -
11673			The code was willing,
11674			It considered your request,
11675			But the chips were weak.
11676			- - -
11677			Printer not ready.
11678			Could be a fatal error.
11679			Have a pen handy?
11680			- - -
11681			Server's poor response
11682			Not quick enough for browser.
11683			Timed out, plum blossom.
11684			- - -
11685			Chaos reigns within.
11686			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11687			Order shall return.
11688			- - -
11689			Login incorrect.
11690			Only perfect spellers may
11691			enter this system.
11692			- - -
11693			This site has been moved.
11694			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11695			have to delete you.
11696			- - -
11697			ABORTED effort:
11698			Close all that you have.
11699			You ask way too much.
11700			- - -
11701			First snow, then silence.
11702			This thousand dollar screen dies
11703			so beautifully.
11704			- - -
11705			With searching comes loss
11706			and the presence of absence:
11707			"My Novel" not found.
11708			- - -
11709			The Tao that is seen
11710			Is not the true Tao, until
11711			You bring fresh toner.
11712			- - -
11713			The Web site you seek
11714			cannot be located but
11715			endless others exist
11716			- - -
11717			Stay the patient course
11718			Of little worth is your ire
11719			The network is down
11720			- - -
11721			A crash reduces
11722			your expensive computer
11723			to a simple stone.
11724			- - -
11725			There is a chasm
11726			of carbon and silicon
11727			the software can't bridge
11728			- - -
11729			To have no errors
11730			Would be life without meaning
11731			No struggle, no joy
11732			- - -
11733			You step in the stream,
11734			but the water has moved on.
11735			This page is not here.
11736			- - -
11737			No keyboard present
11738			Hit F1 to continue
11739			Zen engineering?
11740			- - -
11741			Hal, open the file
11742			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11743			open it, please Hal
11744			- - -
11745			Out of memory.
11746			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11747			But we never will.
11748			- - -
11749			Having been erased,
11750			The document you're seeking
11751			Must now be retyped.
11752			- - -
11753			The ten thousand things
11754			How long do any persist?
11755			Netscape, too, has gone.
11756			- - -
11757			Rather than a beep
11758			Or a rude error message,
11759			These words: "File not found."
11760			- - -
11761			Serious error.
11762			All shortcuts have disappeared
11763			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11764	root	1.387	%
11765	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11766			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11767	root	1.387	%
11768	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11769			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11770
11771			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11772			early 1980s.
11773	root	1.387	%
11774	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11775			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11776			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11777			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11778
11779			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11780			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11781			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11782			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11783			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11784			many new features that it just stops working.
11785
11786			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11787
11788			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11789			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11790
11791			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11792			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11793			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11794
11795			Hope this explains what's going on
11796			Martien Verbruggen
11797	root	1.387	%
11798	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11799	root	1.387	%
11800	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11801	root	1.387	%
11802	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11803	root	1.387	%
11804	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11805			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11806			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11807	root	1.387	%
11808	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11809			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11810			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11811			>
11812			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11813
11814			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11815			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11816	root	1.387	%
11817	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11818			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11819			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11820			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11821	root	1.387	%
11822	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11823			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11824			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11825			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11826			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11827			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11828			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11829			convienience store.")
11830	root	1.387	%
11831	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11832			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11833	root	1.387	%
11834	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11835	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11836	root	1.1
11837			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11838			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11839	root	1.387	%
11840	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11841			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11842			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11843			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11844	root	1.387	%
11845	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11846			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11847			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11848	root	1.387	%
11849	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11850			(A => B) => (B => A)
11851			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11852			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11853	root	1.387	%
11854	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11855	root	1.387	%
11856	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11857			-Barry Shein
11858	root	1.387	%
11859	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11860			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11861			read the manual.
11862	root	1.387	%
11863	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11864	root	1.387	%
11865	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11866			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11867			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11868			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11869			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11870			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11871			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11872			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11873			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11874	root	1.387	%
11875	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11876	root	1.387	%
11877	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11878			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11879			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11880	root	1.387	%
11881	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11882
11883			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11884			need.
11885	root	1.387	%
11886	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11887			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11888			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11889	root	1.387	%
11890	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11891			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11892			newsreaders. You know,
11893			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11894			back
11895			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11896			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11897			out what they're saying.
11898	root	1.387	%
11899	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11900			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11901	root	1.387	%
11902	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11903			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11904			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11905
11906			But the combination.... sutters
11907	root	1.387	%
11908	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11909			Darn it.
11910	root	1.387	%
11911	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11912	root	1.387	%
11913	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11914	root	1.387	%
11915	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11916			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11917			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11918			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11919			trying to use it.
11920	root	1.387	%
11921	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11922	root	1.387	%
11923	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11924			>
11925			> Is this group active?
11926			No.
11927
11928			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11929			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11930
11931			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11932			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11933	root	1.387	%
11934	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11935			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11936	root	1.387	%
11937	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11938			Press any key to continue..."
11939	root	1.387	%
11940	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11941			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11942			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11943	root	1.387	%
11944	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11945			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11946			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11947			adjust your travel plans.
11948	root	1.387	%
11949	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11950			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11951	root	1.387	%
11952	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11953			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11954
11955			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11956			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11957
11958			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11959
11960			tak 18 12 6
11961	root	1.387	%
11962	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11963			-- Bill Gates
11964			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11965			-- Bill Gates
11966			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11967			-- logical conclusion
11968	root	1.387	%
11969	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11970			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11971			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11972			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11973			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11974			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11975			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11976			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11977			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11978			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11979			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11980			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11981			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11982			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11983			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11984			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11985			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11986			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11987			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11988			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11989			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11990	root	1.387	%
11991	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11992			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11993			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11994			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11995	root	1.387	%
11996	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.